Critical Globalisation Conference

Critical Globalisation Conference
"Towards a Critical Globalisation Studies:
Continued Debates, New Directions, and Neglected Topics"
1-4 May 2003, Santa Barbara, California, US.

Co-sponsored by UCSB and the Global Studies Association.

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Summary and Objectives

The objective of the conference is to re-examine and recast the emerging fields of global studies in the social sciences, environmental sciences, and humanities, looking at the research as well as pedagogical and policy implications and potential impact on the larger society. Participants will examine global studies as it is emerging in different disciplines and becoming institutionalized in the academy; review the principal theoretical frameworks, key issues and debates, and future directions.

Through a mixture of plenary sessions and focused panel discussions, the conference will address such diverse issues as: Globalisation and Ethnic Studies; Globalisation and Marxism/ Post-Structural Thought; Globalisation and Development Studies; Globalisation and Culture, Literature and the Arts; Globalisation: For Whom? By Whom?; Globalisation and World-Systems Theory; Asia in the Global System; Mexico and Latin America in the Global System; The Global and the Local: Global Ethnographies; Globalisation, Resistance and Alternative Globalisations; Globalisation and Diasporas; Hidden Dimensions of Globalisation: Intimacy, the Family and Sexuality; Globalisation and Worldwide Anti-Racist Struggles; Globalisation and Labor; Global Feminisms: Gender and Global Society; Globalisation, Military Conflict and Terrorism; The Global Crisis;
Globalisation and International Law; Transnational State, Transnational Classes, Transnational Social Movements.

A second, and related, objective, is to explore the relationship, including existing and potential bridges, between global studies in the academy, on the one hand, and the process of Globalisation as it is approached in diverse polities, including national and international policymaking communities, the global justice movement, and other social and advocacy movements. To these ends there will be several cultural activities, public debates, and media events as part of the conference proceedings.

Prominent scholars from social sciences, humanities, and environmental sciences, along with social and cultural critics and activists concerned with Globalisation issues have been invited to deliver keynote and plenary addresses and to present key session papers.

TNI Fellows Walden Bello, Susan George and Boris Kagarlitsky will speak.