Bridging Disciplines, Spanning the World:
Approaches to  Identities, Institutions and Inequalities,
Princeton, 8-9.4.2005


CALL FOR PAPERS

Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies
Graduate Student
Conference

April 8-9, 2005

Princeton University


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
www.princeton.edu/~gradconf by December 16.  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 gradconf@princeton.edu.

  www.princeton.edu/~gradconf

gradconf@princeton.edu


- - Soliciting papers from graduate students in anthropology,
economics,
international law, history, sociology, political science, and
philosophy


- - Limited number of travel grants offered


- - Publication of papers will be considered by the Princeton
Institute for
International and Regional Studies