[Air-l] Graduate student globalization conference

[Daniel Menchik]

I've attached the Call for Abstracts for a conference a workshop I'm associated 
with is hosting. Sorry for the late notice (we'll be reviewing submissions 
soon,) but I some AoIRers might still be interested. The papers from last year 
were generally quite strong, and feedback from the invited scholars is 
plentiful and constructive. Feel free to forward. Dan

>>CALL FOR ABSTRACTS 
The Workshop on the Sociology and Cultures of Globalization at the   
University of Chicago proudly presents its sixth annual graduate student 
conference to be held at the University of Chicago on April 30th and May 
1st. This year’s conference, entitled “Mediating Scale: Localizing 
Transnational Processes,” will address the issue of the geographical scales 
at which global processes manifest and instantiate.     
     
The conference is soliciting graduate student papers on topics related to 
globalization, broadly defined. 
   
The annual conference represents a larger effort to build an 
interdisciplinary focus on critical globalization studies by facilitating a 
dialogue between graduate students and established scholars in a variety of 
academic fields. The conference will consist of an opening session on Friday 
afternoon with a panel discussion with some of the leading scholars on 
issues of globalization.  The primary focus of the conference, however, will 
be the Saturday presentations of graduate student papers, with the invited 
scholars serving as discussants for the students’ papers.   
  
INSTRUCTIONS FOR AUTHORS 
Please submit a one-page proposal by Monday, February 23, 2004.  The 
proposal should include the title of paper; abstract of the paper 
(approximately 300 words in length); name of the author; institutional 
affiliation; and contact information (e-mail address, address, and telephone 
number). 
   
Please e-mail the abstract to: lizaw at uchicago.edu 
Receipt of all abstracts will be acknowledged. 
   
DEADLINES 
The closing date for submission of abstracts is Monday, February 23rd, 2004. 
Accepted papers will be notified on Monday, March 15th and a full draft of 
accepted papers will be due on Monday, March 29th. 
   
QUESTIONS should be directed to: 
Liza Weinstein at <lizaw at uchicago.edu> 
http://cas.uchicago.edu/workshops/scg/scg.html 

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Daniel Menchik 
University of Chicago Sociology 
http://www.ssrc.org/programs/itic/ 
http://drdc.uchicago.edu/