Papers are invited for the 9th Annual Conference of the Sir Arthur Lewis Institute of Social and Economic Studies (SALISES) to be held under the theme: “Reinventing the Political Economy Tradition of the Caribbean.” The Conference is in honour of Norman Girvan and is scheduled to take place on March 26–28, 2008. Through the Conference SALISES proposes to take the work of Norman Girvan and his generation of intellectual thinkers as a point of departure for rethinking the political economy of the Caribbean. Norman Girvan holds pride of place because of the breadth and originality of his work, as well as his association with SALISES. He remains one of a small group of academics from that period who continue an intellectual engagement with the current international paradigm, seeking to find spaces for the articulation of the development challenges of countries of the South, particularly the Caribbean region and its small states.
The deadline for submission of abstracts is October 29. Abstracts should be submitted to Sonia Amos-Davis by e-mail at sonia.amosdavis@uwimona.edu.jm. For further information regarding conference sub themes and guidelines interested persons may visit the Conference website at: http://salises.uwimona.edu.jm:1104/salisesconf/salisesconf.html.