Call for Papers "Toward Social Justice: Illusions, Realities, Possibilities" 18th Biennial Conference Canadian Ethnic Studies Association Ottawa, Ont. (Canada) October 13-16, 2005
Conference organizers welcome proposals for papers, sessions/ panels/ presentations that address the topics of ethnicity, immigration, diversity, and multiculturalism in Canada, particularly in relation to social justice. Organizers welcome submissions from a variety of perspectives, academic disciplines, and areas of study, including the humanities and the arts, as well as the social sciences. Abstracts should be approximately 250 words. Individual conference presentations will normally be 20 minutes in length, and conference sessions will be 90 minutes. Graduate students are encouraged to make submissions. The deadline for submission is March 31, 2005. Topics under discussion will include, but not be limited to the following: Intersections of Diversity: - Ethnicity and Race - Ethnicity and Class - Ethnicity and Gender - Ethnicity and Sexual Orientation - Ethnicity and Region - Ethnicity and Immigrant status - Identity/Identities: Negotiating multiplicity Sites of Struggle: - Racialized encounters - Ethnicity and the Rural/Urban Divide - Unequal Relations: Case Studies Past and Present - Diversity and Homelessness - Cultural Representation: Competing Visions in Literature and the Arts - Immigration: the Ongoing Debate - Refugees: Who gets in? - Frameworks for Understanding Diversity: Competing paradigms Visions: - Toward inclusive institutions - Re-thinking Canada: Aboriginal peoples - Re-thinking Canada: Multicultural Minorities - Re-thinking Canada: Charter groups - Re-thinking Canada: Tackling Homelessness - Unequal Relations: Policy Alternatives - Multiculturalism: State Policy or Critical Discourse For more information contact: Canadian Ethnic Studies Association Email: [email protected] Website: http://www.confmanager.com _________________________________ InterPhil List Administration: http://interphil.polylog.org/ Intercultural Philosophy Calendar: http://agd.polylog.org/cal/
