Host: Department of Politics and Public Administration, University of Limerick, Owen Worth & Joanna McDarby
Dates: 13 – 14 September, 2013

PhD presenters’ costs funded through IPEG.

Call for papers: As the global financial crisis and the Euro Sovereign debt crisis continues to take hold of the global political economy, the social consequences of the fall-out has reached new heights. The relentless pursuit of 'austerity' measures in the developed world coupled by the slowing down of growth in the developing world and in the so-called emerging powers have led to new social inequalities that have led to new instabilities and new areas of research in IPE.

The 2013 BISA International Political Economy Group conference thus intends to bring together scholars working on research that looks at the politics of austerity, the global financial and social crisis, and the issues involved, and calls for papers that look at a broad range of topics and issue-areas, including:

•        The global financial crisis and the politics of austerity  
•        Globalisation and new areas of exclusion
•        Austerity and the impact on the workplace
•        Relations of production in the new economic climate
•        The financial crisis and the developing world
•        The financial crisis and the rise of the BRICS
•        Neoliberalism and social welfare
•        Neoliberalism and social policy
•        Neoliberalism and the politics of resistance
•        Global political economy and the emergence of regionalism

This will be a one-day workshop, with keynote talks and plenary session the evening before. Keynote speaker will be Peadar Kirby Professor Emeritus of International Politics and Public Policy, University of Limerick and UNESCO Chair, University of Valencia, Spain, autumn 2012.

Please send 300 word abstracts by 31st March to owen.worth@ul.ie or joanna.mcdarby@ul.ie