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Call for Papers "Challenges of Ethnicity: The Local and the Global" International Conference Centre for International Programmes, Osmania University Hyderabad, AP (India) 25-27 November 2009 __________________________________________________ The proposed conference will focus on the changing notions of ethnicity and the challenges they pose to nations and states in a world of economic and political uncertainties. It will examine the directions in which ethnicity is likely to move and affect the affairs of the state, both at the local and at the global level, and in theory and practice. Papers dealing with any of the following or related themes are invited: 1) New Directions in the Theories of Ethnicity 2) Ethnicity, Identity and the State: Global Perspectives 3) Ethnicity, Identity and the State in South Asia 4) India and its Ethnic Challenges Abstracts of 250 words and a short bio-note of 50 words should be emailed to Prof Kousar J. Azam, Conference Director ([email protected] / [email protected]) or Prof T. Vijay Kumar, Conference Coordinator ([email protected]) by 15 June 2009. Contact: Prof Kousar J. Azam Conference Director Centre for International Programmes Osmania University Hyderabad 500 007 Andhra Pradesh India Tel: +91-40-27098609 Fax: +91-40-27097114 Email: [email protected] Web: http://www.osmania.ac.in/oucip __________________________________________________ InterPhil List Administration: http://interphil.polylog.org Intercultural Philosophy Calendar: http://cal.polylog.org

