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Friday 5th and Saturday 6th June 2009.
The conference invites specialists from the fields of politics, international relations, international political economy and sociology to build
on their experience of applying historical materialist theories in empirical settings related to global governance and regional integration,
with an emphasis on the European Union (EU). Working papers designed to stimulate dialogue between invited speakers, Warwick research staff and
postgraduate students will introduce workshops in this two-day event.
The conference aims to stimulate interdisciplinary exchange on the historical materialist frameworks used to investigate the relationship
between global governance, regional integration and the national state, with special reference to the European Union. It will also seek to
stimulate a constructive engagement, in one of its panels, between historical materialist, constructivist and post-structuralist approaches to
European integration.
The conference will showcase and challenge the most promising critical theories of regionalisation and globalisation, including neo-Gramscian,
Open Marxist, Regulation and World-System approaches, with the purpose of generating useful connections and intellectual exchange. It will bring
together researchers thinking about the creation and reproduction of social and political authority in a variety of settings. Truly
interdisciplinary in approach, it aims to break down institutional barriers by forging interpersonal relations, and searching for commonality
between fields and approaches which are traditionally considered incompatible.
The participation of eminent speakers in a conference addressing issues and phenomena which are highly relevant to the social sciences, not to
mention contemporary applied socio-political practice, will attract a strong inter-disciplinary academic audience from European and American
universities.
Confirmed participants
Claes Belfrage; Andreas Bieler; Hans-Jürgen Bieling; Werner Bonefeld; Peter Burnham; José Caballero; Alan Cafruny; Guglielmo Carchedi;
Ben Clift; Jan Drahokoupil; Otto Holman; Bob Jessop; Huw Macartney; Henk Overbeek; Magnus Ryner; Vivien A. Schmidt; Stuart Shields;
Kees Van Der Pijl.
We are inviting abstracts addressing one of the conference's key themes:
Global governance, the EU and the national state:
• Sustaining or transcending international competition?
• The EU as a building-block or obstacle for global governance?
The EU and the global economy:
• The global monetary system and the single currency.
• Aid, trade and the relationship with the global South.
Social agency and European integration:
• Labour, migration and the EU: ideas, interests, and institutions in the regulation of the social question in Europe.
• Global capital and the EU: transnational elite agency and the European project.
Regionalisation beyond the EU:
• The EU in global perspective: comparative analyses of the EU and other forms of regionalisation.
• Explaining regionalism and regionalisation in America, Africa and Asia.
Engaging Critical approaches to European integration: constructivism, post-structuralism and other alternatives.
Abstracts should:
• Be no more than 250 words for a 20 minute presentation.
• Include your name, institution, level of study, department and paper title
• Be for an interdisciplinary audience
• Be submitted by March 15th electronically to globeuropeconferencejune2009@googlemail.com This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it
Other deadlines:
Registration: 15 April 2009.
Submission of paper: 25 May 2009.
Registration fee (Friday and Saturday): £27 per delegate.
Includes refreshments, buffet lunch, and wine reception on Saturday.
Co-organisers: Andreas Tsolakis (A.A.Tsolakis@warwick.ac.uk This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it
) and Petros Nousios (P.Nousios@warwick.ac.uk This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it
).
This project is kindly funded by the American Study and Student Exchange Committee and the PAIS department at Warwick.
For more information: http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/pais/ss/beast
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