North-Net Conference

The Northern Network of Critical Global Scholars (North-Net) in conjunction with the School of Geography, Politics, and Sociology (Newcastle University) and the British Academy present:

From Dissidence to Defiance: Resisting the Disciplines of Global Politics

April 19-20th, 2007
Newcastle University, Newcastle Upon Tyne UK
Rm. 2.29, The Research Beehive, Old Library Building

From perspectives that transcend disciplines, this conference will consider how dissidence, defiance, and resistance are being conceptualized and materialized within the theories and practices of contemporary global politics.

This will be our third instalment in the North-Net series. The mission of North-Net is to offer an open forum to showcase the diversity of critical research in the UK, give an opportunity to network across disciplines, foster interdisciplinary and inter-paradigmatic dialogues, and provide a venue for the presentation of innovative research that is concerned with relationships between theory and practice in the study of global political dynamics

Day I: Critical Reflections on the Work of Professor Richard K. Ashley

Professor Ashley’s innovative and groundbreaking critiques have become seminal reading for three generations of scholars unsatisfied with the traditional limits placed on theorizing global politics. Using his work as a catalyst, speakers will analyze Prof. Ashley’s contributions to the critical turn in global political scholarship, lessons learned about practicing intellectual dissidence, and the links between critical research, transformation, and political practice.

Participants to include:

Richard K. Ashley (Department of Political Science, Arizona State University)
Cynthia Weber (Department of Politics and International Relations, Lancaster University)
Kate Manzo (Geography, Newcastle University)
Christine Sylvester (Department of Politics and International Relations, Lancaster University)
Mark Laffey (Politics and International Studies, SOAS, University of London)
Kyle Grayson (Politics, Newcastle University)
Rob Walker (School of Politics, International Relations, and Philosophy Keele University/UVIC)
Mustapha Pasha (Politics and International Relations, University of Aberdeen)

Day II: Resisting the Disciplines of Global Politics

From positions primarily concerned with practical policy and the difficulties of putting progressive agendas into practice within contemporary global political dynamics, these sessions will draw upon the conceptual work of the first day to identify how specific changes in individual and collective political imaginations could expand the space for political debate and action in everyday life.

Panel I: Myth, Ideology, and the Production of Contingent World Views

Panel II: Architectures of (In)security

Participants on these roundtables to include:
Richard K. Ashley (Department of Political Science, Arizona State University)
Mark Bailey (Politics, Newcastle University)
Lee Barron (Media and Communication, Northumbria University)
John Gibson (Politics, Newcastle University)
Steve Hall (Sociology and Criminology, Northumbria University)


Conference Fee

Flat fee for both days including lunches and refreshments £35
Flat fee for one day only £25
There will be a limited number of concession placements at £25 for registered post-graduates.
Please note that registration will close as of April 9th and that no refunds will be given after this time.

For further information on registration, please contact Kyle Grayson at
k.a.(at)ncl.ac.uk

For accommodation information, please see http://www.ncl.ac.uk/accommodation/about/2006%20City%20Accommodation.pdf

For information on how to get to Newcastle, please see
http://www.ncl.ac.uk/travel/info/

For a campus map, please see
http://www.ncl.ac.uk/travel/info/

Attractions and Events in Newcastle 18-22 April, 2007:

31st Annual Newcastle Beer Festival sponsored by the Campaign for Real Ale (April 18-21 in the Newcastle Student Union)
http://www.cannybevvy.co.uk/Beer_Festival/Dates/dates.html

The Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art: Exhibitions by Sora Kim, Marcus Coates, Subodh Gupta, Vik Muniz, and Joseph Havel
http://www.balticmill.com/whatsOn/present/index.php

The Henry Rothchild Collection of 20th century ceramics at the Shipley Gallery http://www.twmuseums.org.uk/shipley/

Segedunum Roman Fort, Baths, and Museum
http://www.twmuseums.org.uk/segedunum/

The Northern Stage
http://www.northernstage.co.uk/

The Sage (Gateshead)
http://www.thesagegateshead.org/index.aspx

For Attractions Events in the Northeast Region

http://www.visitnortheastengland.com/