Not much lead time for this, but if you happen to be in Sydney in early december this year please think about it. call for papers The Cosmopolitan Civil Societies Research Centre at UTS invites you to attend a two day conference entitled “Crisis? Networks, Resilience, Disorder”. When: 9am-5pm Monday 7th & Tuesday 8th December, 2009 Where: Room 230, Level 1, Building 10, UTS (B10.01.230), Jones Street, Ultimo (a short walk from Central Railway Station) “Crisis is ubiquitous: state failure, global insurgency, financial collapse, climate emergency. Systemic disorder prevails. What are its dynamics and drivers? What is the role of disorderly networks? Who wins from crisis, who loses? Who is resilient, who is vulnerable? This conference aims to explore global crisis as a normal state-of-play, deeply stratified and embedded.” The conference forms part of a broader project, ‘Chaos, Information Technology, Global Administration and Daily Life’ at CCS: http://cosmopolitancivilsocieties.com Please send paper proposals, up to 150 words, by 30 October to: jon.marshall@uts.edu.au Registration: Please RSVP via email: ccs@uts.edu.au. This is a free event, but places are limited. Wheelchair accessible. Contact: Cosmopolitan Civil Societies Research Centre, University of Technology, Sydney, PO Box 123, Broadway, NSW 2000. Tel: 9514 9647 UTS CRICOS Provider Code: 00099F DISCLAIMER: This email message and any accompanying attachments may contain confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient, do not read, use, disseminate, distribute or copy this message or attachments. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender immediately and delete this message. Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender, except where the sender expressly, and with authority, states them to be the views of the University of Technology Sydney. Before opening any attachments, please check them for viruses and defects. Think. Green. Do. Please consider the environment before printing this email.