‘Ethics and Postcolonialism’
10-11 April 2006, Newcastle University
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Call for Papers
The deadline for proposals was the 1st October, and has now passed. Please see text of the original call for papers below.
We welcome proposals on any of the following topics, or others which are related to the theme of the conference:
• the ethics of intervention
• Communitarianism versus individualism
• Ethics and development
• locality and globality in contemporary ethics
• “xenophilia”, or adopting a cause that is not your own
• ethics and the multicultural public sphere
• Secular versus religious ethics
• Ethics and gender
• De-coding human rights
• Truth and Reconciliation Commissions
• Violence and liberation struggles
• A history of ethics and colonialism/postcolonialism: similarities and
differences in conceptual approaches
Please send a 250-word abstract of your proposed paper by October 1st, to Neelam Srivastava at the following email address: neelam.srivastava@ncl.ac.uk.
Neelam Srivastava and Gemma Robinson
School of English Literature, Language
and Linguistics
University of Newcastle
Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 7RU