The Conference will be hosted by the Centre for Global and Transnational Politics
Royal Holloway, University of London, Egham, Surry, TW20 0EX, Uk
Deadline for submission of abstracts: 30 April 2009
Confirmed keynote speakers include:
* Faisal Devji (New School, New York)
* Stuart Elden (University of Durham)
* Jonathan Friedman (Lund University)
* Robert Holton (Trinity College, Dublin)
* Ronnie D. Lipschutz (University of California, Santa Cruz)
* Walter D. Mignolo (Duke University)
Key themes:
* alternative/multiple modernities and globalization
* anti-globalization: bottom-up challenges?
* the rise of the global non-West
* teaching globalization: challenging students
* global fragments/fragmented globalizations
* the challenge of Transnational Studies
* my global self: globalization and subjectivity
* the limits of globalization theory
*one world/multiple worlds
* globalization in one country
* the challenge of cosmopolitanism
* rethinking global/local relations
* towards a more critical global studies
Find further information at:
http://cgtp.rhul.ac.uk/gsa-annual-conference-2-4-sept/
