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Call for Papers
"Identities in Transition"
Enkidu Summer Conference 2007
Enkidu Magazine
International Society for Cultural History and Cultural
Studies (CHiCS)
Mexico City (Mexico)
1-5 June 2007
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The primary focus of this inclusive and interdisciplinary
conference organized by Enkidu Magazine and the
International Society for Cultural History and Cultural
Studies (CHiCS) in Mexico City is to interrogate
storytelling, memories and identity constructions from a
wide range of perspectives, definitions and in their
manifold cultural and social manifestations. This year the
conference will have a special focus on Identities in
Transition and spaces and narratives of identities. Papers
addressing remembering and forgetting of the past as well as
translations between cultures and re-negotiations and
re-constructions of cultural identities in one one way or
another are particularly welcome.
"Identities in Transition" continues the tradition
established by the previous held events in this conference
cycle which has developed into an annual academic tradition
in Mexico City, bringing together participants from all over
the world to share and exchange their research, experiences
and ideas in a truly multicultural, multilingual and
interdisciplinary academic environment: Masculinities: New
Perspectives (2004), Competing Diversities (2005), and
Testimonial Texts: Stories, Lives and Memories (2006).
We welcome submissions from all branches of the social
sciences, humanities, as well as the arts.
Graduate students are encouraged to participate.
The program will be organised in a large number of special
thematic sessions and subconferences covering a highly
diverse series of topics extending from "Conquest and
Political Memory in late colonial Nahuatl texts from Central
Mexico", "Migrations and Diasporas: Displacement Heritage,
Global Spaces and Cultural Memories", "Imaginary Homelands",
"Memory and Nostalgia in cultural texts" to
"Cyber-identities in movement" and "Slave Narratives from
the Archives of the Spanish Inquisition".
Papers will be considered on related themes and topics from
a wide range of perspectives. 500 word abstracts should be
submitted to the organising committee in English, Castilian,
German or French by 28th of February 2007. The conference
languages will be English and Castilian.
Interpretations of the conference theme ranging from the
predictable to the surprising are encouraged.
The conference aims at bringing together academics working
in all relevant disciplines as well as activists, artists
and other professionals, and promoting innovative
multidisciplinary and multicultural exchange and dialogue.
CHICS' academic conferences are characterized by traditional
paper presentations in panel sessions with three speakers
each, followed by lively exchange, dialogue and interaction
between speakers and audience in many small groups,
workshops and seminars rather than by formal plenary
sessions. Our conferences provide a forum for diverse voices
from all over the world, to come together and make
connections across linguistic, cultural and academic
barriers.
The conference sessions will be conducted in Spanish and
English. Some sessions will be bilingual and conducted in
both languages with interpreters. Other sessions will have
simultaneous translations. Many sessions will be conducted
with interpreters for sign language (on request).
Among the themes of interest are the following:
- Narrative and Linguistics
- Linguistic borders and translation
- Narrative and Myth
- Storytelling in rituals, customs, and fetishism
- Storytelling and Visual/Performing Arts and Music
- Oral Tradition and Contemporary Chronicle
- Postmodernity and its narratives
- Voice and reflexivity in oral and written texts
- Colonial and Postcolonial Narratives
- Globalization and indigenous cultures
- Story, Dialogue and Discourse
- Memory and truth-telling
- Testimonial Narratives
- Memory and Written Record
- Text, Context and Intertext in Storytelling and Performance
- Childrens Stories
- Language, Authority and Silence
Interdisciplinary perspectives are especially welcome since
all these topics in themselves stretch across several
disciplines: history, literary studies, linguistics,
psychology, political sciences, pedagogy, ethnology,
anthropology, sociology...
* Paper and panel proposals
500 word abstracts should be submitted to the organising
committee in English, Castilian, German or French by 28.
February 2007. The conference languages will be English and
Castilian.
Papers should be of approximately 20 - 30 minutes duration
(circa 8 - 10 pages). Other forms of presentation, for
instance workshops, panel debates and poster sessions will
be considered on request.
* Proposals for panel sessions
Typically, a panel of academic papers should include 3
(maximum 4) speakers and 1 moderator (session chair). Each
session will last for 2 hours allowing for 30 minutes for
each speaker and a further 30 minutes for questions and
discussion.
Proposers should submit:
(1) Session title and a session intro (ca 100 words),
(2) Paper titles,
(3) Abstracts for each paper (500 words),
(4) Short biography for each participant and the panel chair
(ca 100-150 words),
(5) Institutional affiliation and address for each participant,
(6) Audio-visual and other technical requirements.
If you would like to propose a panel session, and want
assistance in finding speakers and/or a session chair, we
can publish a call for papers for your panel session on the
conference web site and distribute it in our newsletter. If
you have an idea for a thematic panel session and would like
us to publish a call for papers on the conference website,
please send us a proposal by e-mail to:
[email protected]
* Proposals for individual papers
Abstracts are to be submitted by 28. February 2007, along
with the presenters name, short bio, address, telephone,
email, and institutional affiliation. When submitting an
abstract, it is recommended to use the form here:
http://www.enkidumagazine.com/eventos/identities07/registration.htm
However, abstracts will also be accepted as e-mail
attachments to: [email protected]
All correspondence for this conference will be conducted via
email. You will be notified by the 15th of March 2007
whether your proposal has been accepted or rejected.
* Disabled Participants
We are pleased to announce that printed conference materials
that will be distributed during the conference, also will be
available in large print or Braille on request. If you
require sign language interpretation during your session, or
you would like to distribute handouts or other materials in
Braille during your presentation, please indicate this in
the registration form.
Contact:
Dr. Lars Ivar Owesen-Lein Borge
Academic Coordinator
Enkidu Magazine
Dreieichstrasse 5
D-60594 Frankfurt am Main
Germany
Germany: +49 69 62491
Mexico: +52 55 5961 7629
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.enkidumagazine.com/eventos/identities07/intro_en.htm
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