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The Mahanirban Calcutta Research Group (CRG or the Calcutta Research Group) in
collaboration with various other institutions has held in the in the last six years three critical
studies conferences.The Fourth Critical Studies Conference will be on “Development, Logistics, and
Governance”. It will be held on 8-10 September in Kolkata. The University of Western
Sydney and the University of Bologna will collaborate with CRG in holding the conference.
The conference will be preceded by a special workshop on “Transit Labour”, which will
engage in a comparative study of labour in transit, emergence of new forms of labour, and
labour involved in logistical activities.
The conference proposes to be an occasion for exchanges on studies on logistical
governance. We invite panels / papers on related themes such as:
• The logistics of population mobilisation, control, management, and the phenomenon
of transit labour
• Developmental logistics
• Logistics of elections
• The development of border roads
• Disaster Management
• Impact of military administration on civilian governance
• Control regimes of mobile diseases
• The economy of logistics
The last date for sending proposals and abstracts is 31 March 2011, and the last date for
receiving papers will be 31 July 2011. Please send proposals or abstracts to suhit@mcrg.ac.in
CRG will have no fund for travel assistance to participants. However it will provide
accommodation for 3 nights. The registration fee for the conference will be Rs. 500 (Five
hundred rupees) only.
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