[USA] International Studies Association - ISA-WEST
ISA-WEST 2007 will be held in San Francisco, California on the last weekend in September, 2007. The 2007 conference has many new features, including a pre-conference workshop: “Old Approaches to New Security Dilemmas”, a structured graduate student professional development curriculum, a new proposal deadline of May 1, 2007 (which will help both you and the program chairs prepare), and the institutionalization of “Author Meets Critics” panels and lunchtime ethics seminars.
The 2007 conference will continue ISA-West’s work with the Carnegie Institute for Ethics and International Affairs, the International Ethics Section of the ISA, the Active Learning in International Studies Section of the ISA, and Women in International Security to bring in exciting roundtables, knowledgeable speakers, and practical applications of International Relations scholarship.
As always, ISA-West welcomes submissions from all areas within international relations and comparative politics across disciplines. ISA-West also welcomes pedagogical proposals, roundtables, and full panel proposals. Panel proposals should have 3-4 papers, a chair and a discussant. The 2007 conference will also continue ISA-West’s scholarly and activist exploration of questions of ethics in International Relations.
It is in that spirit that we introduce the ISA-West 2007 conference theme: “Diverse Ethics in a Pluralistic World”. The theme calls for papers which analyze diversity and value conflicts in the 21st century world. Since Samuel Huntington revived the term “clash of civilizations” a decade ago, global politics has been littered with talk of cultural clash and value conflict in a diverse world. “Civilizational lines” become delineators in global political negotiations on issues as diverse as trade relations, the environment, and security concerns.
While the field of International Relations has been exploring the issue of globalization since the end of the Cold War, the new focus on value conflict and cultural difference in global politics has bee referred to as “glolocalization” or “splintering” in a global world. Cultural differences have important impacts in global politics, as do manifestations of cultural bias or prejudice. In the era of the “clash of civilizations”, scholars of global politics are obligated to understand and analyze the ethics of communication, negotiation, and action in a diverse world. The ISA-West theme seeks to explore the ethics of these interactions, as well as their application to manifestations of cultural conflict in military conflicts, ethnic cleansing, media battles, and other forums.
We invite proposals for papers and panels that seek both to shed light on the challenges and to explore just resolutions to them, and look forward to continuing ISA-West’s forum for discussions of ethics in global politics. Please submit proposals to isawest@gmail.com.
Deadline: May 1, 2007
Website: http://www.isawest.org
