Research Conference: "Society and Free Trade in a Global World"
IBEI (Institut Barcelona d' Estudis Internacionals) invites paper submissions for the Conference entitled "Society and Free Trade in a Global World" that will take place in Barcelona on February 21-22, 2008. The conference will address from a theoretical and empirical perspectives how polities, intermediate social actors, and the population at large react to free trade policies.
The conference program shall include invited speakers with complementary expertises on the different dimensions of the free trade policy social equation and a selection of the papers submitted in answer to this call. The
format of the conference will consist of public presentations by each of the participants, followed by a round-table in which the participants will discuss points of convergence and divergence in their conclusions, present their views on gaps in the literature on
society's response to free trade policy, and speculate about the continuation of trends toward more open markets and about the institutional changes this would imply.
Those interested in contributing a paper can submit a 2-page proposal to the address indicated below by Dec. 31, 2007. The final program will be announced on January 15th, 2008. IBEI will cover transportation and hotel costs for all conference participants.
Paper submissions to:
Prof. Dr. Juan D?ez Medrano
Conference Organizer ( jdiez@ibei.org)
Coordinator of the Research Program "Networks and Institutions in a Global Economy"
IBEI
C/ Elisabets 10
08001 Barcelona
Spain
The Institut Barcelona d'Estudis Internacionals is a graduate teaching and research institution recently created through the initiative of the CIDOB Foundation and five universities in Barcelona (the University of Barcelona, the Autonomous University of Barcelona, Pompeu Fabra University, the Open University of Catalonia, and the
Technical University of Catalonia) and is financed through public funding. The Barcelona Institute for International Studies supports research in all fields of international political economics, international relations, international security, foreign policy and comparative politics.
