Conferences
Research Workshop on the Regulation of Multinational Corporations
4 May, Law Common Room, 5S.7.24.
The Department of Government, Essex Business School, and
Law School of the University are jointly organising a research workshop which
will address the question, "How should multinational corporations be regulated?
Places at the workshop will be allocated on a first-come-first-serve basis and
the workshop is open to everyone. For further information about the workshop,
please contact pbou@essex.ac.uk.
A concept note summarising the sub-themes that will be
explored at the workshop is available at this link
- 09:00 Registration and Coffee
- 09:30 Introduction
- 09:35 First session: The Ethical Dimension
- 11:00 Tea/coffee break
- 11:15 Second session: The Business Dimension
- 12:45 Lunch, The Dining Room
- 14:00 Third session: The Legal Dimension
- 15:30 Close
Dr Paul Bou-Habib, Lecturer,
department of Government, University of
Essex
Tenth Essex Conference in Critical Political Theory
Call for Papers
Theory in the Face of Global Challenges: Capitalism & Ecology, Community &
Citizenship. 16-18 June 2010
The Department of Government, in
collaboration with the Centre for Theoretical Studies and the Doctoral Programme
in Ideology and Discourse Analysis, is pleased to invite you to the Tenth Essex
Conference in Critical Political Theory, to be held at the University of Essex
between the 16th and 18th June 2010. The conference has achieved renown for the
quality of the papers presented and the large number of International
participants. Previous guest speakers have included Wendy Brown, Judith Squires,
Quentin Skinner, Joan Copjec, James Tully, Fred Dallmayr, Bonnie Honig, David
Owen, David Campbell, Simon Critchley, Michael Hardt, Ernesto Laclau, Chantall
Mouffe, William E. Connolly and Jane Bennett, among others. The conference
provides an important opportunity to engage with the contemporary challenges and
possibilities of social and political theory and to exchange views on ongoing
research. We welcome papers from young scholars, postdoctoral researchers, and
postgraduates from a wide variety of backgrounds in the fields of social and
political theory. Broad themes include:
Rethinking
Community and Citizenship
Critical Political Economy
Discourse & the Media
Politics of Immanence and Transcendence
Ecology and Capitalism
Politics and Technology
Latin American Politics
Universalism and Particularism
Democracy and Representation
Capitalism, Multiculturalism,
Globalization
Identity Politics and Mobilization
Subjectivity and Psychoanalysis
Religion, Faith and Pluralism
Discourse and Affect
Fundamentalisms
New
Ecologies
Philosophies of Nature
Discourse, Governance &
Public Policy
Culture and Political Economy
Reworking Identity/Difference
Rolling Deadline for Abstracts ends: 30 April 2010
General information, contact Khairil Ahmad and Graham Walker e-mail
polcon@essex.ac.uk
Department of
Government
University of Essex
Wivenhoe Park
Colchester, Essex CO4 3SQ
For
further information please visit the conference website:
http://www.essex.ac.uk/idaworld/10th_Essex_Conference_in_Critical_Political_Theory.html
Last modified on 13 May 2010