The Postcolonial State: Decolonization and After Interventions
International Conference 2005
Nottingham Trent University
26-27 May 2005
Key Speakers: Leela Gandhi, Achille Mbembe, Parita Mukta, Sarah Nuttall

The 2005 Interventions conference aims to interrogate the role of the state in
the contemporary postcolonial world and, in particular, to address issues
related to continuing underdevelopment.

The conference seeks to draw together recent, pioneering explorations
of the postcolonial state from a wide range of locations and disciplines.

Panels will address
- the politics of rule
- the developmental state
- disaster and the postcolonial state
- postcolonial leaders
- scandals of the state (corruption, fundamentalism etc)
- women and the state
- the role and function of civil society

Call for papers:
Proposals of no more than 250 words relating to the topics listed above
(but not necessarily confined to them) are invited for twenty-minute papers. The
deadline for proposals is March 31.
Speakers will be notified within 3 weeks of this deadline.
Please send proposals to interventions@ntu.ac.uk, or the address below.

Interventions is planning to publish a special issue of the journal from a
selection of the conference papers.
Postgraduate bursaries:
Postgraduate students are invited to bid for 3 student bursaries. Each bursary
includes free registration and lunches, as well as travel and accommodation
costs of up to Ј100.

Registration Fees:
Staff - Ј50 fee only / Ј60 including lunches
Students / unwaged - Ј20 fee only / Ј30 including lunches

Registration form: http://english.ntu.ac.uk/Ints_conf2005/default.htm
Convenor:
Alison Donnell (AJDONNELL@aol.com)
Centre for Colonial and Postcolonial Studies,
Nottingham Trent University,
Clifton Lane,
Nottingham NG11 8NS
UK