SOCIAL MOVEMENTS CONFERENCE - CALL FOR PAPERS

SOCIAL MOVE­MENTS CONFER­ENCE  – CALL FOR PAPERS

abstracts due by Monday 25^th Febru­ary 2013

 

From 1995 to 2012, Manchester Metro­pol­itan Univer­sity hosted a series of very success­ful annual inter­na­tional confer­ences on 'ALTERN­AT­IVE FUTURES and POPU­LAR PROTEST’.

 

We’re very happy to announce that the Eight­eenth AF&PP Confer­ence will be held, between Monday 25^th March and Wednes­day 27^th March 2013.

 

The Confer­ence rubric remains as in previ­ous years. The aim is to explore the dynam­ics of popu­lar move­ments, along with the ideas which anim­ate their activ­ists and support­ers and which contrib­ute to shap­ing their fate.

 

Reflect­ing the inher­ent cross-discip­lin­ary nature of the issues, previ­ous parti­cipants (from over 60 coun­tries) have come from such special­isms as soci­ology, polit­ics, cultural stud­ies, social psycho­logy, econom­ics, history and geography.  The Manchester confer­ences have also been notable for discov­er­ing a fruit­ful and friendly meet­ing ground between activ­ism and academia.

 

CALL FOR PAPERS

 

We invite offers of papers relev­ant to the confer­ence themes.  Papers should address such matters as: 

 

* contem­por­ary and histor­ical social move­ments and popu­lar protests

 

* social move­ment theory

 

* utopias and exper­i­ments

 

* ideo­lo­gies of collect­ive action

 

* etc.

 

To offer a paper, please contact either of the confer­ence conven­ors with a brief abstract:  

 

EITHER Colin Barker, Dept. of Soci­ology  

OR Mike Tyldes­ley, Dept. of Polit­ics and Philo­sophy  

Manchester Metro­pol­itan Univer­sity  

Geof­frey Manton Build­ing, Rosam­ond Street West  

Manchester M15 6LL, England  

email: c [ punto ] barkermmu [ punto ] ac [ punto ] uk (c[dot]barker[at]mmu[dot]ac[dot]uk)  

Tel: M. Tyldes­ley  0161 247 3460  

email: m [ punto ] tyldes­leymmu [ punto ] ac [ punto ] uk (m[dot]tyldes­ley[at]mmu[dot]ac[dot]uk)  

Fax: 0161 247 6769 (+44 161 247 6769)  

(Wherever possible, please use email, espe­cially as Colin Barker is a retired gent. Surface mail and faxes should only be addressed to Mike Tyldes­ley)  

 

CONFER­ENCE PAPERS

 

Those giving papers are asked to supply them in advance, for inclu­sion on a CD of the complete papers which will be avail­able from the confer­ence open­ing.

 

* Preferred method: send the paper to Colin Barker as an email attach­ment in MS Word. Any separ­ate illus­tra­tions etc. should be placed at the end of the paper, in .jpg format.

 

* if this is impossible, post a copy of the text to Mike Tyldes­ley on a CD disk in MS Word format

 

* Final date for receipt of abstracts: Monday 27^th Febru­ary 2012

 

* Final date for receipt of actual papers: Monday 12^th March 2012

 

 

CONFER­ENCE ARRANGE­MENTS AND COSTS

 

The confer­ence will run from lunch-time Monday 25^th March until after lunch on Wednes­day 27^th March. 

 

Cost, inclus­ive of three lunches, teas/coffees and copies of the Proceed­ings on CD, will be £140 (students and unwaged £80).    

 

Hotels and hostels

 

Two relat­ively cheap hotels are avail­able, only a few minutes’ walk from the confer­ence venue on Oxford Road. They are Ibis, Charles Street, Manchester. www.ibishotel.com/gb/book­ing/hotels-list.shtml

and

Holi­day Inn Express, 2 Oxford Road, Manchester.

www.hotel.info/en.hotels/Manchester_112854/Holi­day_Inn_Express_Manchester_CC-Oxford_Road_272041/hotel.aspx

 

There is inform­a­tion about Manchester hotels at www.hotelscom­bined.com/City/Manchester.htm.

We’re told that deleg­ates can request a 10 per cent reduc­tion in hotel bills if they visit www.hotelscom­bined.com/Educa­tion_Support, and we’ll be inter­ested to gather people’s exper­i­ences with this.

 

There are two hostels only slightly further away, and still with walk­ing distance of the confer­ence venue:

 

Hatters, Newton Street, Manchester

Hilton Cham­bers, Steven­son Square, Manchester.

 

These are both part of the same chain, with Hilton Cham­bers being slightly more upmar­ket and thus slightly more expens­ive (but still pretty cheap). Both can be accessed via www.hattersgroup.com.

 

We cannot do hotel or hostel book­ings for you.

 

Confer­ence parti­cipants will be invited to dine together at two local (and not too expens­ive) restaur­ants on the two confer­ence even­ings. Payment for dinners should not be made in advance, but directly to the restaur­ants on the night.  

 

BOOK­ING FORM 

 

ALTERN­AT­IVE FUTURES and POPU­LAR PROTEST XVIII

25^th March to 27^th March 2013

 

Name __________________________________  

 

Address _________________________________  

 

                   ___________________________________  

 

__________________ post­code_________  

 

Tel No.            _____________________________  

 

Email  _____________________________  

 

Confer­ence fee                     140.00 …  

Student fee   

(post- & under-grad)              80.00 …  

                   

            TOTAL       £ stlg                      …  

 

Cheques should be made payable to “Manchester Metro­pol­itan Univer­sity”  

 

Credit or Debit Card payment (Visa and Master­card only)  

 

Card Number  …   …  …  …  

 

Expiry Date         … / …     

 

Three-digit secur­ity code (on back of card)  ….

 

Please let us know of any diet­ary or other require­ments.  

 

Please return the Book­ing Form by email to Colin Barker (c [ punto ] barkermmu [ punto ] ac [ punto ] uk (c[dot]barker[at]mmu[dot]ac[dot]uk)), or by email, fax or post to Mike Tyldes­ley (m [ punto ] tyldes­leymmu [ punto ] ac [ punto ] uk (m[dot]tyldes­ley[at]mmu[dot]ac[dot]uk); fax +44 161 247 6769; Dept of Philo­sophy and Polit­ics, Manchester Metro­pol­itan Univer­sity, Geof­frey Manton Build­ing, Rosam­ond Street West, Manchester M15 6LL, England)