Scholars
at the University of Maryland have decided to initiate a
workshop for the study of "contentious politics":
repression, human rights, protest, civil war, genocide,
politicide, everyday resistance as well as interstate conflict.
Directly
borrowing from a similar workshop at Columbia University,
organized by Charles Tilly, the objectives and format
are rather straightforward:
- to
improve our understanding of contention all over the world;
- to
sharpen our theoretical and methodological tools to understand
the phenomenon; and,
- to
promote interdisciplinary communication among researchers
from various fields who are interested in many parts of
the globe.
The
format for the workshop is as follows:
- one
paper (with a one-page memo outlining what specifically
is desired from the reading audience plus a maximum of 50
pages, including notes and end matter) is distributed one
week prior to each session;
- two
critics and a moderator are selected;
- at
the designated session, critics open with ten-minute critiques
of the paper, the author then replies briefly, followed
by a period of question-and-answer
Workshop
Organization Committee: Christian Davenport, Mark Lichbach, Jillian Schwedler,
Jack Goldstone, and Paul Huth |
