<% Dim aPath Dim sPath Dim fs Dim ts aPath = Request.ServerVariables("PATH_TRANSLATED") aPath = Left(aPath, instrRev(aPath, "\")) sPath = aPath & "_private\index.html.cnt" Set fs = Server.CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject") Set ts = fs.OpenTextFile(sPath) count = CLng(Right(ts.ReadLine,11))' used temporarelly in order to read frontpage generated file ts.Close 'had to use frontpage counter since in order to run the following code write permissions are needed ' If Request.Cookies("www.essex.ac.uk/idaworld")("recentvisitor") <> "yes" Then ' count = Int(count) + 1 ' Set ts = fs.OpenTextFile(sPath,2,true) ' ts.WriteLine(count) ' ts.Close ' Response.Cookies("www.essex.ac.uk/idaworld")("recentvisitor") = "yes" ' twohrs = DateAdd("h", 2, Now) ' Response.Cookies("www.essex.ac.uk/idaworld").Expires = twohrs 'End If %>

Tenth Essex Conference in Critical Political Theory

  

Guest speakers

Romand Coles

Diana Coole

Stephen K. White

 

Call for papers

Guidelines for Paper Proposals

Registration

Programme

Abstracts

Methodology Workshop

Accommodation

Getting to Colchester Campus
 Transportation
Map
 

Colchester Campus
 Access
Map
 

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
 

 

 

 

Conference Fees:

Fees for Staff: £140
Fees for Early Career Researchers: £80

 

 

 

 

   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

        * The Politics of Space, Time and Territoriality

        * Reworking Identity/Difference

 

 
   

University of Essex

Course enquiries: undergraduate, postgraduate, research degrees, request a prospectus

Department of Government, University of Essex, Wivenhoe Park, Colchester, CO4 3SQ, UK
 

© Copyright 1999-2007 University of Essex. All rights reserved.