Subject: SPOON-ANN: CFP, Second Annual Conference of the International Social Theory Consortium
Date: Sun, 19 Nov 2000 16:17:38 -0500


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Colleagues:

    As with the first meeting of the Consortium held in May, 2000 in Lexington, KY, may I request that you post this CFP to the general spoon list? The call and the conference promise to be of interest to many of the individual lists Spoon maintains (Foucault, Habermas, Frankfurt School, Deleuze, Postcolonial, Derrida, etc).

                    With best regards,
                                        Wolfgang Natter
  Director, University of Kentucky  Social Theory Program


International Social Theory Consortium

Second Annual Conference, July 5-8, 2001, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK

Call for Papers

The purpose of this Consortium and its annual conferences is to organize the international social theory community. This call on behalf of the Consortium is addressed to scholars, faculty and students who work in the various areas and traditions which social theory embraces (e.g. sociological theory, identity theory, cultural theory, political theory, social epistemologies, political economy, critical race studies, science studies, feminist theory, postcolonial theory). Since this is the first time the Consortium has held a conference outside the United States, we particularly invite papers addressing the differences between European, American and 'other' perspectives on social theory.

The conference organizers invite 350 word abstracts of papers, as well as proposals for panels and sessions that promise to address the concerns of this community, including the future of social theoretic research and other issues that bear on the present and future of social theory as a non-disciplinary or post-disciplinary endeavour.

Please send abstracts or queries by January 31 to Centre for Critical Social Theory, c/o William Outhwaite, School of European Studies, University of Sussex, Brighton,

BN1 9QN , UK, (R.W.Outhwaite-AT-sussex.ac.uk) or fax + 44 1273 623246.

Travel and Accommodation

London Gatwick Airport is mid-way between London and the seaside resort of Brighton, which is also easily accessible from Heathrow and the other London airports.

Accommodation will be available on Sussex University's campus, superbly situated on the beautiful South Downs. Details and booking procedures will follow in subsequent mailings, as will information about hotels in Brighton.

Streams proposed so far include:

  a.. Social Theory and its Publics: Making Spaces for Social Theory
  Panels on

  Social Spaces of Social Theory

  Social Theory as Resistance (Deleuze, Guattari et al.)

  'Whatever Happened to Values? The Value Debate in the 19th Century & since'. Christopher Adair-Toteff (American University, Bulgaria)

  b.. Between Science and Literature: Modalities of Social Theory
  Realism and social theory, evolutionary epistemology, memetics, etc.

  c.. Solidarities Beyond Borders
  (normative international social theory, notions of global citizenship) 

  d.. Democracy, Governance and Regulation in a Global Age


  e.. Theorizing Culture and Identity
(Historical and current theories of nationalism, ethnicity etc.)

Organizing Committee

Ipek Demir

John Holmwood

Maureen O'Malley

Anastasia Marinopoulou

William Outhwaite

Christien van den Anker

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