FW: International Social Sciences Conference, Pakistan

[Sunderland, Jane]

Samina

I'm forwarding this to the International Gender and Language Association (IGALA) List. Good luck with the Conference.

Best wishes

Jane

-----Original Message-----
From: Samina Qadir [mailto:dr_qadir at yahoo.com]
Sent: 23 August 2004 11:29
To: Ivanic, Roz
Cc: Sunderland, Jane
Subject: International Social Sciences Conference, Pakistan








 Ref.: FJWU/ISSC/04/1				Dated: July 31, 2004

Fatima Jinnah Women University
International Social Sciences Conference 
'Social Sciences: Endangered and Engendered'  

Call for Papers

The Fatima Jinnah Women University (FJWU) is providing
quality education to the women of Pakistan. The vision
of the University is to advance learning to the
highest level attainable through research, teaching
and dissemination of knowledge for the benefit of
women in particular and society in general.

FJWU is planning an International Social Sciences
Conference on December 10-12, 2004. The broad theme of
the Conference is Social Sciences: Endangered and
Engendered.

The purpose of the Conference is to share and discuss
latest research insights and deliberate upon the
seminal role of social sciences in the rapidly
changing world of the 21st century. We are inviting
national and international professionals/researchers
to present research papers and/or posters related to
the following sub-themes of the conference:

*	Gender Studies
Gender in management
Gender and asset ownership
Gender and social structures 
Gender in anthropological perspectives

*	Institutional Change and Sustainable Development
Gender and institutional development
Education and institutional change
Imperatives of institutional integration
Politics of institutional hierarchy 

*	Universality and Contextualization of Social
Sciences
Gender domination
Local focus in development paradigms
Relevance of philosophical underpinnings
Antiquity and modernization
 

*	Challenges for Change
Gender roles in 21st century
Revisiting the obsolete
Art and society in the age of IT
Creativity and neo-liberalism


*	Dynamics of Education and Research
Gender and research paradigms
Motivation, external factors and quality
Strategies and gimmicks 
Idealism, positivism and civic society

A 300-word abstract of paper/poster should reach the
undersigned by September 10, 2004. 
The final date for the receipt of paper is September
30, 2004.
The Screening Committee will select papers for
presentation. The information on the status of the
paper will be sent by October 30, 2004.

For further information contact the following:

1. Dr. Samina Amin Qadir
Phone: 051-9272612
e-mail: fjwueng at comsats.net.pk
	dr_qadir at yahoo.com

2. Dr. Naheed Zia Khan
Phone: 9270050-4 Ext. 139
e-mail: fjwueco at comsats.net.pk
	zfk2000 at meganet.com.pk

Limited funding for travel and stay is available for
paper presenters.


Yours truly,




Dr. Samina Amin Qadir
Coordinator for International Social Sciences
Conference



		
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