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(Organised by Department of Sociology, NUS, in partnership with Thesis Eleven Centre for Critical Theory, School of Social Sciences, La Trobe University)

June 9 – 11, 2005 Singapore

Call for Papers

The Department of Sociology, National University of Singapore in partnership with Latrobe University’s Thesis XI group and International Social Theory Consortium, is proud to host the conference of the 6th International Social Theory Consortium from June 9 – 11, 2005. The main objective of this annual conference is to provide a forum for interdisciplinary dialogue for social scientists and anyone else who is interested in social theory or to explore the interaction of theory with social milieu that has been a site of rapid economic development fuelled by a mixture of capital and political craftsmanship. Papers are invited from professional social scientists, historians, cultural critics – academics as well as graduate students, in fact, anyone with a predilection for theory. This conference also welcomes social activists who represent an intersection between critical theory and applied grounded theory in dealing with problems on the ground. For the 2005 conference the main theme is Alternative Modernities: Hope for Peace at a time of Turmoil which will be organized around the following sub-themes:

1. Pathways to Modernities
2. War and Peace: Redrawing the agenda of knowledge
3. Transnational diseases, transborder transactions
4. Poverty and inequality amidst high speed development: China and India
5. Ethnos and demos in Asia and beyond
6. Culture of consumption and representation
7. Diaspora and nationalism
8. Religious revitalization and postliberalism
9. Discourses on Inter-civilizational Dialogues
10. Politics, Terror, Territoriality
11. Gender, State and Critical Theory
12. Postcoloniality in an age of imperialism
13. Social Sciences and their limits
14. Reengineering Societies, Restructuring Economies
15. Global city and metropolitan consciousness
16. Global civil society and social movements
17. After Globalization

Keynote Speakers:

Bryan Turner - " Some Gaps in Sociological Theory: Justice, Law, Human Rights and New Wars "

and Clinton Walker - " Inner City Sound: An Antipodean View "

Other Speakers :

Beryl Langer, David Roberts, Filomeno Aguilar,  G lenda Ballantyne,  Ignas Kleden, Keith Tester, Lorraine Mortimer, Peter Beilharz, Peter Murphy, Stephen Turner, Trevor Hogan, Wang Ming Ming, Yeoh San Guan

Abstract

The following abstracts have been received so far. Papers are in PDF format and will require Adobe Acrobat Reader for viewing. Click here

Suggestions for panels and titles of proposed papers should be sent to the Conference Secretariat by 31 December 2004.

Abstracts (of about 150 words in length) should be submitted by 15 March 2005 to:

Email:

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6th ISTC Conference Secretariat
Department of Sociology
National University of Singapore
11 Arts Link, Singapore 117570
Fax: 65 – 6777 9579

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Registration

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