Type: Conference
Date: April 15, 2017
Location: New York, United States
Subject Fields: Political Science, Social Sciences, Sociology, World History / Studies, Anthropology
Cornell
University’s 2016-2017 Judith Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict
Studies Graduate Fellows are pleased to announce their second annual
graduate student conference, Interdisciplinary Approaches to Peace and
Conflict to be held on Saturday, April 15, 2017. In selecting this
theme, the Fellows hope to elicit submissions from graduate students
whose work seeks to answer questions pertaining to global peace and
conflict using innovative methods, novel theoretical applications, and
creative interdisciplinary approaches.
This conference invites submission of abstracts from graduate students from fields including, but not limited to, government, sociology, history, science and technology studies, anthropology, philosophy, law, and communications. Topics should be related to the Reppy Institute’s interest in the problems of war and peace, arms control and disarmament, and instances of collective violence.
Questions that we expect to be useful for developing abstracts for this conference are, for example:
This conference invites submission of abstracts from graduate students from fields including, but not limited to, government, sociology, history, science and technology studies, anthropology, philosophy, law, and communications. Topics should be related to the Reppy Institute’s interest in the problems of war and peace, arms control and disarmament, and instances of collective violence.
Questions that we expect to be useful for developing abstracts for this conference are, for example:
- How do law, technology, peace, and conflict intersect, both conceptually and in historical or contemporary contexts?
- How have national/international legal structures been used to mediate conflicts and define peace?
- How have technologies been deployed in peace/conflict scenarios? How do specific technological artifacts or systems embody the politics of peace or conflict?
Contact Info: Debak Das, Director's Fellow, Judith Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies, Cornell University
Contact Email: reppyfellows@gmail.com