What should be a fascinating conference on De-Parochializing Political Theory will be held next week at the University of Victoria in British Columbia. The lastest conference program is here; for more information, see the conference website. David Elstein and I are among the participants, so we’ll try to report back.
Category Archives: Comparative Political Theory
Daniel Bell on Meritocracy
Jiang Qing and Daniel Bell’s op-ed in the New York Times attracted a great deal of interest. Bell published another op-ed in the Christian Science Monitor a couple of days ago on the broader subject of meritocracy. This can illustrate how he differs from Jiang. I’m assuming he didn’t choose the headline (“What America’s flawed democracy could learn from China’s one-party rule”). The comments are also quite interesting.
New book on contemporary Chinese political thought
Contemporary Chinese Political Thought: Debates and Perspectives, edited by Fred Dallmayr and Zhao Tingyang, is a collection of essays, most of them by contemporary Chinese philosophers (some in China, some outside China) that has just been published. It looks fascinating. I plan to write a review of it sometime in the next few months, but first I need to read it! (Amazon will give you a look at the Table of Contents.)
CFP: Graduate Student Papers on "De-Parochializing Political Theory"
[Note from Steve: This is very last minute, but I just heard about it; if you need a few extra days, that might be possible to arrange.]
Graduate students are invited to submit papers for the upcoming conference “De-Parochializing Political Theory,” August 2-4, 2012 at the University of Victoria. A workshop dedicated to scholarship by postdoctoral, doctoral andM.A. candidates will be held on the last day of the conference. To apply, send a paper title, abstract of no more than 300 words, and a current curriculum vitae to demcon@uvic.ca no later than 15 June 2012. Successful candidates will be notified by email within two weeks of that date. Continue reading →
