14th Berlin Roundtables on Transnationality “Financialization and Everyday Life”. Date: 25-29.06.2011. Site: Berlin, Germany. Deadline: 27.03.2011
Organiser: Irmgard Coninx Stiftung, the Social Science Research Centre Berlin and Humboldt-University to Berlin
Topics: The 14th Berlin Roundtables seeks to address the financialization beyond a narrow economic framework as a social, political and cultural process in the advanced industrial countries, as well as in transitional societies and developing countries and at a variety of levels – local, national, and regional.
The conference will be divided into two workshops:
- Workshop I ‘Deconstructing Credit and Money in Neoliberalism: Power, Culture, and History’;
- Workshop II ‘Financialization and Corporate Social Responsibility: Consumers and Investors as the New Policymakers?’
The call for papers extends to scholars (max. up to 5 years after Ph.D.) and practitioners. Please submit your paper (maximum 3500 words including footnotes and bibliography), an abstract (max. 300 words), a narrative biography and a CV using the online submission form on the Foundation’s website. After the conference, a jury will award up to two three-month fellowships among the workshop participants to be used for research and academic networking in Berlin at the WZB.
Language: English Fee: Travel and accommodation expenses for participants will be covered by the Irmgard Coninx Foundation.
Deadline: March 27, 2011
Contact: Dr. Sabine Berking and Stefanie Schäfer; c/o Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung
(WZB), Reichpietschufer 50, D-10785 Berlin
E-mail: info@irmgard-coninx-stiftung.de
Internet: http://www.irmgard-coninx-stiftung.de/index.php?id=271