«Coimbra C – state of siege, displaced States» is the motto of the third edition of the Graduate Student Conference that will take place on the 9th and 10th November 2012 in Coimbra (exact location to be confirmed) at the School of Economics, which follows the path inaugurated in 2010.

Determined by a special «state of siege» within our academic and social contexts, the third edition of the Conference of Doctoral Students of the Center for Social Studies (CES) of the University of Coimbra invites you to present reflections anchored in the  huge present  transformations which give continuity to the worldwide reconfigurations that took place in the last century. We challenge you to deepen the analysis on contemporary social reality, through interdisciplinary approaches about the phenomena under study.
Our conference thus presents a new and motivating boarding station to the presentation of papers and posters by graduate students, researchers, as well as other students of varied universities and institutions. The discussion opened by these works and researches will help to promote both reflection and dialogue about a new world in the making, as well as the debate around « displaced states» on national and global scales.

Conference topics:

Cultural studies, literature and arts
Cities, patrimony and urban conservation
Social structures, institutions and inequalities
Social participation, changes and emancipation
International politics
Cultural representations and patrimony
Law, justice and democracy
Work in change

Registration for papers and posters

Registration for papers and posters is open to all doctoral students and researchers of the Center for Social Studies (CES), as well as to students and researchers from other universities and institutions, and it should be done until the 31st May 2012 to the following address: coloquiodoutorandos2012@ces.uc.pt (please mention «Conference Call» in the subject).

The approved papers, max. 7000 words (Times New Roman, 12) including footnotes, should be sent until the 10th October 2012.
Each participant can only present one paper, as we cannot accept all proposals. Priority will be given to PhD students who haven’t presented their projects in the 1st and 2nd conferences and who have been enrolled the longest in PhD programmes.

Working languages: Portuguese, English, Spanish.


Presentations:  

Papers
Abstracts should be less than 300 words and include author’s name, institutional affiliation, short biographical note (100 words maximum), conference topic and e-mail address. These should be sent untill the 31st May 2012 to the following address: coloquiodoutorandos2012@ces.uc.pt (please mention “Abstract” in the e-mail subject).

Posters
Poster proposals should be less than 2000 words, and come accompanied by author’s name, institution, a short biographical note (100 words maximum), conference topic and e-mail contact. They should be sent until 31st May 2012 to the following address: coloquiodoutorandos2012@ces.uc.pt . Please write «Conference Poster» on the subject.

The proponents of approved works will be contacted by the 15th June 2012.

For more information please contact coloquiodoutorandos2012@ces.uc.pt