Conference on 'Global Issues and Local Challenges to Development' 23-24 April 2010
CALL FOR PAPERS
Central University of Kerala
Department of Economics, School of Global Studies
Vidyanagar P.O., Kasaragod – 671
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We are today faced with a number of global issues, impacts of which
are felt acutely at the national, regional and local levels. The worldwide
financial and economic crisis and the threats to food security and climate
change have, in recent times, revealed the various dimensions of the
global-local challenges to development. Tackling these challenges require
action at the international, national and local levels. For a better
understanding of such problems, researchers need to combine insights
from detailed micro-level studies with macro-level perspectives. Also,
research needs to be carried out within a multidisciplinary framework,
using a variety of methodologies.
The Department of Economics, School of Global Studies, Central
University of Kerala will be organizing a conference on 'Global Issues
and Local Challenges to Development' on April 23 and 24, 2010. The School
of Global Studies, established within the Central University of Kerala
in 2009, focuses on teaching and research in Economics, Political Economy,
International Studies, and Law in an inter-disciplinary framework.
The following broad themes have been identified for scholarly discussion
at the Conference: 1. Macroeconomic and global governance issues; 2.
Agriculture and Food Security; 3. Industry, Trade and Investment; 4.
Labour and Migration; and 5. Environment. In addition, there will be
a special session on the Kerala economy.
The Conference will include invited lectures by leading scholars as
well as paper presentations by selected authors. We invite submissions
from interested scholars for papers on the themes noted above. Submissions
by young researchers and PhD scholars are highly welcomed. The last
date for submission of abstracts or (preferably) completed papers is
28 February 2010. The completed papers should reach us by 15 March 2010.
Please send your submissions to cukecoconference@gmail.com
For further information, please contact: Tel: +91 4997 257036
Website: www.cuk-edu.in