[Discussion] CFP: The Postcolonial State: Decolonization and After (UK) (3/31/05; 5/26/05-5/27/05)

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The Postcolonial State: Decolonization and After

Interventions International Conference 2005
Nottingham Trent University
26-27 May 2005


Key Speakers:
Leela Gandhi
Achille Mbembe
Parita Mukta
Sarah Nuttall

The 2005 Interventions conference aims to interrogate the role of the
state in the contemporary postcolonial world and, in particular, to
address issues related to continuing underdevelopment.

The conference seeks to draw together recent, pioneering explorations of
the postcolonial state from a wide range of locations and disciplines.

Panels will address
   - the politics of rule
   - the developmental state
   - disaster and the postcolonial state
   - postcolonial leaders
   - scandals of the state (corruption, fundamentalism etc)
   - women and the state
   - the role and function of civil society

Call for papers:
Proposals of no more than 250 words relating to the topics listed above
(but not necessarily confined to them) are invited for twenty-minute
papers. The deadline for proposals is March 31. Speakers will be
notified within 3 weeks of this deadline. Please send proposals to
interventions@ntu.ac.uk, or the address below.

Interventions is planning to publish a special issue of the journal from
a selection of the conference papers.

Postgraduate bursaries:
Postgraduate students are invited to bid for 3 student bursaries. Each
bursary includes free registration and lunches, as well as travel and
accommodation costs of up to =A3100.

Registration Fees:
Staff - =A350 fee only / =A360 including lunches
Students / unwaged - =A320 fee only / =A330 including lunches

Registration form: http://english.ntu.ac.uk/Ints_conf2005/default.htm

Convenor:
Alison Donnell  (AJDONNELL@aol.com)
Centre for Colonial and Postcolonial Studies,
Nottingham Trent University,
Clifton Lane,
Nottingham NG11 8NS
UK



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