Conference
Conference on Contemporary Critical Theories
Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
13 December 2008
Conference Programme
A draft of the conference programme is available here.(CCCTdraftprogramme9-12-08_4.pdf, 58kb)
Call for Papers
There is a growing interest across a range of disciplines in alternative ways of describing, explaining, interpreting, understanding, and prescribing for social, economic, and political affairs. Since 2003, the annual Discourse Theory Summer School held at Victoria University (now renamed the Summer School in Contemporary
Critical Theories) has been a forum for postgraduates and academic staff in Australasia
to learn from international scholars in the field. Building on the success of the summer school, this one-day conference is an opportunity for graduate students, academics and practitioners to share their work.
We invite submissions that are both theoretical and empirical, from a wide range of disciplinary perspectives, including but not limited to, the following topics:
- Deconstruction and Politics
- Poststructuralist Political Theory
- Perspectives in Discourse Analysis
- Philosophy of Social Science
- Hermeneutics
- Phenomenology
- Critical Theory
- Psychoanalysis
- Rhetorical Analysis
- Postcolonialism
- Feminist Theories and Practice
The following formats for submissions are a guide only:
- Research proposals using contemporary critical theories
- How your work engages with contemporary critical theories
- A critical review of literature on your analytical or theoretical framework
- A discussion of the methodologies you draw on in empirical work
- An exploration of the issues around the (re-)presentation of empirical work
- How you write up your research from a post-essentialist perspective
Submissions should take the form of an abstract, however full papers are welcome also. Submissions have closed. This page is from the 2008 conference.
Keynote speakers will be Dr David Howarth and Dr Aletta Norval (University of Essex, United Kingdom). Dr Norval�s most recent publication, Aversive Democracy
(2008, Cambridge University Press), has been described as �a profoundly thoughtful work that establishes Aletta Norval in the front rank of contemporary political theorists� (David Owen, University of Southampton). Dr Howarth is author of Logics of Critical Explanation in Social and Political Thought (Routledge, 2007) and Discourse (Open University Press, 2000).
Conference Details
Saturday 13 December 2008, 9am - 5pm
Victoria University of Wellington
Mezzanine Floor, Rutherford House, Bunny Street, Wellington, New Zealand
Timeline
28 November Deadline for registrations
6 December Finalised submissions for proceedings due
Fees
$45(incl. GST). Includes morning and afternoon teas, lunch and conference proceedings.
Registration
Registration has closed. This page is from the 2008 conference.
Conference Coordinators
Dr Todd Bridgman and Bruce Edman, Victoria University of Wellington
2008 Conference Proceedings
Click here to download the 2008 conference proceedings. (pdf, 2,279KB)
