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

                                      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_at_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 £100.

Registration Fees:
Staff - £50 fee only / £60 including lunches
Students / unwaged - £20 fee only / £30 including lunches

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

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

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