Annual conference 2012 - registration now open

The Global Studies Association – Eleventh Annual Conference,

July 5^th – 7^th  2012.

Globalizing cultures and identities: sport, lifestyle, heritage

http://www.globalstudiesassociation.org/11th-gsa-conference-2012/

The conference will be held at Manchester Metropolitan University in conjunction with the Department of Sociology.

The association has invited three keynote speakers who have an internationally recognized expertise in fields relating to our main theme. All have agreed to come. These are as follows:

Professor Richard Giulianotti, The University of Loughborough

Professor David Inglis, The University of Aberdeen

Professor Sharon MacDonald, The University of Manchester

We are also please to announce that Robert Holton will discuss his new book 'Global Finance' in a meet-the-author session.

We are also organizing panels led by other leading scholars in this area.

We invite scholars, postgraduates and other interested lay-persons to submit abstracts by March 31st at the latest. We are approaching a publisher with a view to producing at least one reader incorporating the most interesting papers from the conference.  

Please send your abstracts to Paul Kennedy: p.kennedy@mmu.ac.uk