[URBANTH-L]CFP: Bridging Disciplines, Spanning the World: Approaches to Identities, Institutions and Inequalities

[Angela Jancius]

CALL FOR PAPERS
Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies
Student Conference
April 8-9, 2005
Princeton University
http://www.princeton.edu/~gradconf/

Bridging Disciplines, Spanning the World: Approaches to Identities,
Institutions and Inequalities

Keynote Speaker: Charles Tilly
Joseph L. Buttenwieser Professor of Social Sciences at Columbia
University

This conference offers an opportunity for graduate students pursuing
scholarship in international and regional studies to move beyond the
disciplinary boundaries that structure our approaches and thoughts,
and to engage in inter-disciplinary interaction and conversation on a
range of salient political, social and epistemological issues.

The panels will focus on the following topics:

Inequalities through Time
· Social inequalities
· Welfare state development
· Economic justice - global and domestic pursuits

Transitions and Institutions
· What is an institution?
· Institutional change and challenges
· States and societies in transition - regime change, rapid social
change

Identity, Ideas & History
· Idea diffusion
· Re-thinking identity
· Use and mis-use of historical examples
· Conceptualizing boundaries

Please submit abstracts of 400-500 words online at
www.princeton.edu/~gradconf by December 16.  Abstracts should specify
methodological approach, with the goal of communicating to
inter-disciplinary audiences, and include a short bibliography (not
included in word count). Questions can be sent to
gradconf at princeton.edu.

-- Soliciting papers from graduate students in anthropology,
economics, international law, history, sociology, political science,
and philosophy

-- Limited number of travel grants offered

-- Publication of papers will be considered by the Princeton Institute
for International and Regional Studies