THE SANTA BARBARA GLOBAL STUDIES CONFERENCE
"CRISIS"
February 24 – 25, 2012
University of California, Santa Barbara
Conference registration at
the University Center Building.
The University of California, Santa Barbara is holding an interdisciplinary global studies conference on a wide range of topics for scholars, both established and in the graduate stage, from the West Coast and beyond, under the general theme of crisis as salient feature of current global conditions. Crisis may thus be understood at every level, from the economic and financial to the environmental to problems of legitimacy and human security, to name a few. The conference invites papers and panels that engage with crisis from diverse theoretical and methodological perspectives from across the humanities and social sciences. Possible topics include (but are not limited to):
• Legitimacy crises of global/national institutions; crises of governance, the role of civil society
• Crises of hegemony, global rebalancing
• Whose/which crisis? Crisis and perspective (West and East, Global North and Global South)
• Crises of economic globalization/financialization/labor
• Immigration/human rights/security crises
• Biorisks and pandemics
• Energy/environmental crisis
• Forgetting/remembering histories of crisis
• The rhetorical and narrative dimensions of crisis
• Crises of religion/secularism/religious nationalism
• Identity(ies) crisis/cultures of crisis
Keynotes and plenary
Keynotes and other presentations by: Saskia Sassen, William I. Robinson, Craig Calhoun, Manfred Steger, Roland Robertson, Chris Chase-Dunn, Richard Falk, Jan Nederveen Pieterse, Alison Brysk, Mark Juergensmeyer and others.
The conference will also hold a Graduate Professionalization Workshop and faculty panel run by Dr. Eve Darian-Smith, which will help acclimate a limited number of graduate students to the requirements of publication and finding employment in Global Studies and related fields. This workshop will run during the lunch period on February 24 where boxed lunches will be provided. (Please be sure to note interest on the registration form.)
Proposals should include a 200-300 word abstract for a 15-20 minute presentation along with a completed registration form (attached) by Thursday, DECEMBER 15th to the address: sbgsc@orfaleacenter.ucsb.edu
Presenters will be notified of acceptance by Tuesday, JANUARY 3, 2012.
A limited amount of student travel funds are available. Accepted student papers will be eligible for the funds based on a determination of need. A list of local accommodations will be posted on the conference website.
DOWNLOAD REGISTRATION FORM:
Conference planning committee:
Mark Juergensmeyer (Director, Orfalea Center)
Eve Darian-Smith (G&IS)
Jan Nederveen Pieterse (Mellichamp Professor, G&IS)
Paul Amar (G&IS)
Bhaskar Sarkar (Film and Media Studies)
More information and updates at the conference website:
http://www.global.ucsb.edu/orfaleacenter/sbgsc
Hosted by the Orfalea Center and the faculty of
Global & International Studies at UCSB.
Co-sponsored by the University of California Education Abroad Program.
