[Discussion] Bridging Disciplines, Spanning the World: Approaches to Identities

[Sule Tarakcioglu]

Bridging Disciplines, Spanning the World: Approaches to Identities,
Institutions and Inequalities

Keynote Speaker: Charles Tilly, Joseph L. Buttenwieser Professor of
Social Sciences at Columbia University

This conference offers an opportunity for graduate students pursuing
scholarship in international and regional studies to move beyond the
disciplinary boundaries that structure our approaches and thoughts, and
to engage in inter-disciplinary interaction and conversation on a range
of salient political, social and epistemological issues.

The panels will focus on the following topics:
Inequalities through time

    * Social inequalities
    * Welfare state development
    * Economic Justice - global and domestic pursuits

Transitions and Institutions

    * What is an institution?
    * Institutional change and challenges
    * States and Societies in Transition - regime change, rapid social
      change

Identity, Ideas & History

    * Idea Diffusion
    * Re-thinking Identity
    * Use and mis-use of Historical Examples
    * Conceptualizing Boundaries

Please submit abstracts of 400-500 words online at the e-mail address
given below by *January 28, 2005.* Abstracts should specify
methodological approach, with the goal of communicating to
inter-disciplinary audiences, and include a short bibliography (not
included in word count). Questions can be sent to the following e-mail
address.

	PIIRS Graduate Student Conference Committee
Princeton University
Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies
Bendheim Hall
Princeton University
Princeton, New Jersey
08544-1022

Email: gradconf@princeton.edu <mailto:gradconf@princeton.edu>
Visit the website at http://www.princeton.edu/~gradconf
<http://www.princeton.edu/%7Egradconf>