Student Speaker Conference Call For Submissions IPID Is

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*Student Speaker Conference Call for Submissions*
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IPID is a student-led initiative that brings together graduate
students from across the University who are actively engaged in
development studies. On the afternoon of Friday, April 22, 2011 IPID
will host its second Student Speaker Conference. The theme for this
semester’s event is:
“Power, Participation, and Development: Who’s In Control?”
We are soliciting papers and visual art (such as photo essays) from
graduate students across all departments in the University that
demonstrate an advanced level of critical and creative thinking, up to
five of which will be selected for presentation. At the event, each
selected student will give a 15-20 minute presentation based on his or
her paper or artistic piece, followed by a brief Q&A. After all
speakers have made their presentations, there will be a moderated
panel session with all presenters and open discussion to tie together
the ideas presented. The conference will be recorded and the papers
and artistic pieces will be published on IPID’s website (http://blog.lib.umn.edu/ipid/ipid/).
The event’s theme is intentionally broadly defined. IPID seeks
submissions from a diversity of theoretical and practical perspectives
and disciplines, regarding any relevant issue, event, population, or
geographic area to the theme. The moderated panel will explore
linkages between papers and works based on theoretical questions such
as the following; however, when considering topics to submit, please
do not feel limited by these ideas:
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How does an interdisciplinary perspective, and your particular
disciplinary perspective, affect our conceptualization of who
holds power, how power is wielded, and who can participate in the
discourse or practice of international development?
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What role do particular groups of participants have in
international development, and how can they be identified,
studied, aided, contested or otherwise engaged via specific
disciplinary and interdisciplinary perspectives?
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What are the trends and issues affecting current approaches to
power and participation in international development?
Please submit abstracts of up to 500 words (including paper title), or
a link to your photo(s) and an accompanying written piece of up to 500
words (either as an attached essay or as captions to each photo) along
with a short bio, to Peter Ehresmann ([email protected]) with the
subject line: “IPID Submission.”
Deadline: noon on Sunday March 27th, 2011