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Call for Papers "The Anxiety of Belonging: Partitions, Reunifications, Modernity" Interdisciplinary Conference Centre for Critical and Cultural Theory, Cardiff University Cardiff, Wales (UK) 15-17 July 2009 __________________________________________________ The Centre for Critical and Cultural Theory at Cardiff University, Cardiff, will host an interdisciplinary conference to explore the social, cultural, and historical dimensions of Partitions and Reunifications and relate historically located Partitions and Reunifications within contemporary discourses of nationalism, the postnational and the global. The broad themes of the conference will include: - Comparative partitions and reunifications - The importance of partition study in the face of the declining nation-state and the postnational - The reshaping of knowledge in the wake of a partition or a reunification (for instance, what impact does the loss of archives at partition have on a new nations knowledge production?) - The impact of partitions and reunifications on the discourse of diaspora - The meaning of reunifications in the face of globalization - The re-imagination of the nation-state and reunifications - Race, ethnicity and religion in partitions and reunifications - Gender, sexuality, identity and partitions and reunifications - Indigenous populations and their relation to a segregated nation-space - Memory, Trauma, and Forgetting The Conference invites 20-minute papers from the following disciplinary areas: Critical theory, history, sociology, cultural studies, literary and media studies, politics, visual culture, and religious studies. This list is not exhaustive. Send 250-word proposals by 30 October 2008 to: [email protected] Contact: Dr Radhika Mohanram Centre for Critical and Cultural Theory School of English, Communication and Philosophy Cardiff University Humanities Building Colum Drive Cardiff, CF10 3EU UK Tel: +44 (0)29 208 76151 Fax: +44 (0)29 208 74502 Email: [email protected] Web: http://www.cardiff.ac.uk/encap/newsandevents/events/conferences/partitions.html __________________________________________________ InterPhil List Administration: http://interphil.polylog.org Intercultural Philosophy Calendar: http://cal.polylog.org
