Seminar program 2012 announced

The Cosmopolitan Civil Societies Seminar Program for 2012 has been announced and can be found under the Events listing on the lefthand side of this page.

Call for Papers: Life and Debt conference

CALL FOR PAPERS

Life and Debt:

Living through the Financialisation of the Biosphere

A conference to be hosted by:

Cosmopolitan Civil Societies Research Centre (University of Technology, Sydney)

In partnership with 

Australian Working Group on Financialisation (University of Sydney)

Keynote Address:                   Professor Philip Mirowksi

Author of More Heat Than Light (1989), Markets Read in Tooth and Claw (ed.,1994), Machine Dreams (2002), The Road From Mt Pelerin (with Dieter Plewhe, 2009) and Science-Mart (2011).

Venue:                                    University of Technology, Sydney (UTS), Australia.

Conference Dates:                  Tues 24th and Wed 25th July, 2012

Funding:                                 No conference fees charged.  No travel funds available, with the exception of one equity scholarship (**).

Deadline for Abstracts:           17 April, 2012.

Paper proposals of 600 words are sought which address the conference themes.

For more details, see the listing under “Events” on this site.

Contact: Dr Jeremy Walker

Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences

University of Technology, Sydney

PO Box 123, Broadway 2007, NSW Australia

e) jeremy.walker@uts.edu.au

ph) +61 2 9514 2330

CCS Journal Issue on Measuring Social Impact

A quick reminder that for those who took part in the CCS Conference on Social Impact and who expressed an interest in submitting a paper for the themed issue of Cosmopolitan Civil Societies Journal, the deadline for the full version of the paper is 28 February 2012. Please will you load the submission to the journal site at

http://utsescholarship.lib.uts.edu.au/epress/journals/index.php/mcs

For others who may be interested in submitting a paper for this issue, please will you send an expression of interest, including a brief abstract, by 28 February to ccsjournal@uts.edu.au