6 February 2012

The First Symposium: Citizenship after Orientalism

Location: Faculty of Social Sciences, The Open University, Milton Keynes

The Open University is pleased to invite you to the first six-day Symposium 'Citizenship after Orientalism' that will include the Conference 'Opening the Boundaries of Citizenship', an International PhD School 'Tracing Colonialism and Orientalism in Social and Political Thought', and a series of workshops addressing specific topics on critical new ways of conceptualising citizenship.

Keynote speakers: Judith Butler (University of California, Berkeley), Paul Gilroy (LSE); Bryan Turner (CUNY), Engin Isin (The Open University)

International PhD School Conveners: Ian Almond (Georgia State University), Roberto Dainotto (Duke University)

The first Symposium traces contesting political subjectivities aiming to discuss what are deemed appropriate political forms of struggles. This question seems most relevant today, in light of the contemporary re-articulation of orientalist and colonial projects, the increasing popular discontent towards renewed exclusionary logics, and the contested meanings of democratic politics beyond territorial and territorialising states and nations.

3 July 2013

Economics for a Better World

Location: OECD Headquarters Paris, France

OECD-Universities Joint Conference

The third international conference of economists interested in welfare economics and public policy broadly defined. This conference will follow those organised in Oxford (July 2009) and Paris (July 2011). The 2013 OECD-Universities Joint Conference will be informed by the work done over the past decade by economists, statisticians and social analysts to develop broad measures of well-being, and touch on some of the well-being dimensions included in recent OECD reports on the subject. The conference will feature roundtables, plenary sessions and contributed research papers on the wide range of issues that matter to the economics of human well-being. It will include three major strands: policy and empirical economics; economic theory; and econometrics. The conference may also include sessions on other relevant social sciences.

The conference is organised by the OECD, Oxford University and The Open University.