Conferences

American Sociological Association Annual Meeting

Graduate Student Conference on Transitional Justice

Columbia University · Dept. of Political Science · Sept 26-27, 2002

CALL FOR PAPERS

Transitional justice has come to signify the range of processes undertaken in societies following the demise of authoritarian regimes or military dictatorships as they attempt to democratize and re-institute the rule of law. This includes: truth commissions, criminal prosecutions for violations committed under the former regime, property restitution, screening officials for collaboration with the authoritarian secret police, compensation and reparation, apologies and projects of symbolic commemoration.

In recent years, scholarly interest in transitional justice and historical justice has exploded. Because, however, the field is relatively new and interdisciplinary in nature, graduate students are rarely connected with each other and are currently scattered across different departments – politics, law, economics, sociology and anthropology.

The goals of this conference are to:

1.     Provide a forum in  which graduate students working on subjects under the general heading of transitional and historical justice can present, discuss and get feedback on their work;

2.     Create an ongoing academic network among students working in this area;

3.     Assist students in different disciplines to familiarize themselves with other approaches being taken in the field.

Suggested topics include, but are not limited to, the following:

1)      Truth Commissions and Screening/Lustration laws;

2)      Restitution of property rights;

3)      Reparations and compensation schemes;

4)      Criminal prosecutions for human rights violations;

5)     Symbolic commemoration and Apologies;

The conference will comprise five panel sessions, each of three papers. Experts in the field, including Jon Elster, Stephen Holmes, Ruti Teitel, Pable de Grieff (of the International Center for Transitional Justice) and Dumisa Ntsebza (of the TRC) will act as respondents.

For consideration, please email a paper title and very brief one paragraph outline to the address below by March 31, 2002. You should also include your contact information and estimated cost of travel to New York (a limited amount of funding will be available to support travel and accommodation)  1-2 page abstracts describing the aim of a proposed 15-20 page workshop paper should follow. The deadline for abstract submissions is April 30, 2002.

Decisions regarding participation will be made by May 15, 2002. Participants will be required to submit completed papers by August 26, 2002.  Please send all submissions and any inquiries to:

Danielle Celermajer      dandc@bway.net            Monika Nalepa                man70@columbia.edu

Hawaii International Conference on Social Sciences

June 11-15, 2002                                                     Sheraton Waikiki Hotel, Honolulu, Hawaii

For more information visit: http://www.tapacom.net/hcsocial/cfp_ss.htm

 Pacific Sociological Association Annual Meeting

The deadline for submitting papers has passed, but more information on the conference can be found at: http://www.csus.edu/psa/vancouver02.html

Globalizations: Cultural, Economic, Democratic

The conference, like it's theme, will be interdisciplinary and international in character and we hope to have as many different perspectives presented as possible.  This includes persons both on the academic and activists fronts.

Fourth Annual UC Dance Conference

*Call For Papers*

DANCE UNDER CONSTRUCTION: “Performing Scholarship Moving Theory”

The University of California, Riverside Department of Dance invites you to participate in a University of California wide interdisciplinary forum. We encourage scholars from all fields to present and perform theoretical work on embodiment, the body as subject, and issues of performitivity. We hope this year’s theme will enhance the conference’s original goal of combining dance and critical theory. Proposals are welcome for panel sessions as well as individual papers.

The initiative for this conference stems from graduate students in the UCLA Department of World Arts and Cultures. In 1999, the first Dance Under Construction conference was held at UCLA, with the hope that changing the location of the conference from year to year, would create a platform for communication and exchange among all UC campuses and other graduate departments across the country. The following year, the University of California, Dance History and Theory Department hosted the event, and in 2001, it was sponsored by the University of California, Davis’ Department of Theatre and Dance.

Proposals: Format for 15-20 minute presentations: papers, CD-roms, videos, and films. (Please note that we are not seeking dance performances or proposals for workshops without a scholarly component.) Please send your 200-400 word abstract or panel proposals, with names of the presenters, by 5 January to:

Please include your e-mail address, any technical needs you may have, and department affiliation. For further questions, please e-mail balletjill@aol.com.

Notification will be made by 31 January.