[URBANTH-L]Extension of Deadline: Citizenship and Reform of the State:Democracy and its Discontents in the Americas

[Alyshia F Galvez]

UACM International Seminar
Universidad Autónoma de la Ciudad de Mexico
Nada Humano me es ajeno

Citizenship and Reform of the State:
Democracy and its Discontents in the Americas

We would like to invite you to participate in the international seminar entitled Citizenship and Reform of the State: Democracy and its Discontents in the Americas. The purpose of this event is to generate a multidisciplinary space to examine and discuss the relationship between democracy and related themes of interest to academics and citizens alike. We refer to democracy not only as a political system, but also to a broader concept that encompasses political culture and as the essential device that regulates relationships between states and societies. Migration, climate change and globalization have become phenomena that transform states and societies. In doing so, they rearticulate and redefine mainstream political and social theoretical concepts, including citizenship, representation and sovereignty.

We have organized the following thematic panels to address these issues:

State reform and citizenship 
Democracy, citizenship and migration in the Americas 
Democracy and the environment 
Citizenship and democracy: diverse realities and theoretical challenges 
Democracy, education, migration and intercultural processes 
Citizenship and democracy 
The seminar will take place on the campus of the Autonomous University of Mexico City (la Universidad Autónoma de la Ciudad de México) November 5, 6, and 7, 2008.Academics from the Americas and Europe will participate:

Universidad de Chile. Dr. Loreto Rebolledo and Dr. Bernardo Navarrete 
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. Dr. Benjamín Arditti and Mtra.Cristina Amescua 
City University of New York. Dr. Patricia Ruiz-Navarro. 
Instituto Mora. Dr. Leticia Calderón Chelius 
Flacso - Costa Rica. Ilka Treminio. 
Universidad Alberto Hurtado de Chile. Dr. Carolina Stefoni 
Universidad del Salvador de Buenos Aires. Romina Kasman 
Guidelines for Developing and Proposing Papers

Deadlines for receipt of abstracts are the following: September 15, 2008. The format specifications are: 25-30 lines, 1.5 spacing, font: Arial 12 point, Harvard citation and bibliographic style. All papers should be submitted with an abstract in English and Spanish of no more than 300 words. Receipt of abstracts and papers will be via email to the following addresses:

jose.luque at uacm.edu.mx
seminario.uacm.descontentos at gmail.com

With respect to the papers, we are grateful for submissions within the dates outlined since submissions will be peer-reviewed in August and September.

Organizing Committee

Carola Mick
Professor-Researcher
Luxembourg University
carola.mick at uni.lu

José Carlos Luque Brazán
Professor-Researcher
Universidad Autónoma de la Ciudad de México
jose.luque at uacm.edu.mx

Alyshia Gálvez
Professor-Researcher
Lehman College/CUNY
alyshia.galvez at lehman.cuny.edu

Rebeca Reza
Professor-Researcher
Universidad Autónoma de la Ciudad de México
rebecareza0270 at yahoo.com.mx

Raúl Zamorano Farias
Professor-Researcher
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
rzamorano61 at yahoo.it

Cristina Amescua
Professor-Researcher
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
cristina.amescua at gmail.com

Ilka Tremino
Profesora-Investigadora
Flacso, Costa Rica
ilka at flacso.or.cr