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Call for Papers
"Diversity in Globalised Society:
The Role of Africa and Asia for a Sustainable World"
International Seminar
Bandung Spirit Network
Pusat Studi Kebudayaan, Universitas Gadjah Mada
Groupe de recherche identités et cultures, Université du Havre
Yogyakarta (Indonesia)
25-27 October 2010
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AREAS OF REFLECTION
Culture - Ecology - Economy - Politics - Religion/Spirituality
REQUIREMENTS FOR SPEAKER CANDIDATES
The objective of the seminars is twofold, to collect papers at one
side, to prepare a final declaration or a charter at the other side.
The seminars are therefore not organised as a simple succession of
paper presentations, but as a collective work on common concerns. All
the speakers are supposed to participate fully in the seminars.
FINANCING
The speakers are supposed to find the necessary fund for their own
participation (visa, transport, accommodation). A full sponsorship is
available on request for a number of speakers from the economically
least developed countries of Africa and Asia.
SELECTION OF SPEAKERS
The selection of speakers is organised by the Steering Committee and
is based on the abstract and the CV of the speaker candidates in
respect to the following dates:
1. Deadline for the Proposed Abstract: July 31, 2010
2. Announce of the Selected Speakers: September 6, 2010
3. Seminars: October 25-27, 2010
4. Deadline for the Proposed Complete Text: January 3, 2011
5. Launching of the Printed Book of Proceedings or Selected
Papers: April 2011
The abstract is to be written in approximately 300 words, accompanied
by a basic personal data of the speaker candidate (not the CV that
has to be written separately) consisting of the following items:
* Complete name
* Sexual category (male/female)
* University title (if there any)
* Discipline of study (if there any)
* Professional category (lecturer/researcher or
activist/practitioner or both)
* Institution/organisation/company
* Function in institution/organisation/company
* Complete address (physical/postal address, phone and fax
numbers, e-mail)
* Area of interest
(Culture/Ecology/Economy/Politics/Religion/Spirituality)
The abstract and the CV are to be sent by e-mail to:
[email protected]
TERMS OF REFERENCE (TOR)
In order to assure that every seminar is focused on a common
problematic, every area working group proposes terms of reference to
be respected by all the speaker candidates in their choice of topic
and their preparation of paper.
GENERAL TOR
The year 2010 has been declared by the UN as the Year of
Biodiversity. Diversity has been recognised largely as a fundamental
condition for the survival of the planet. However, this diversity has
been suffering from impoverishment, as indicated among others by the
continuous disappearance of rare species, languages and
civilisations. The world society has come to be aware of this
situation especially since the end of the 20th century, thanks to the
progress of science and technology accompanied by the rise of global
civil society movements. For thinkers and activists of social and
solidarity movements, the main reason of this impoverishment is a
type of globalisation, which is dominated by economical and
materialist interests, which has appeared to be a single model of
development, which puts on the top of priorities material
productivity and profit, which transforms nature into commercial
commodities, which pushes people to be greedy consumers. This
globalisation is led by a small number of economically rich
countries, but which take the major part of natural resources of the
planet for their own comfort, pleasure and security. It is this
single model of development that threatens the survival of the
planet, because it would need natural resources of several planets if
the whole world follows the model. That is why an alternative model
of development is needed if human beings wish a sustainable world.
This alternative model would certainly not be the one that threatens
the diversity of life. In the contrary, it should be the one that
supports it, that allows to live and develop nature and human beings
whatever their skin colour, conviction, ethnic belonging, or mode of
life. This model would certainly not be based on the worldview that
perceives the diversity of civilisation as successive steps from
lower to higher, from less to more, from misery to nobility, but as a
continuous process in which diverse modes of life take place, meet,
interfere and mix up. Today, all societies in the world are divided
by five civilisations following the modes of life of their
inhabitants, either inside a country or among the nations. These five
modes of life are nomadism, agriculture, trade, industry and digital.
The problem starts when one perceives that one civilisation is
inferior to another, and that one civilisation pretending to be
superior tries to dominate, eliminate or change by force the other.
The challenge of globalisation for a sustainable world is therefore
how to deal with diversity of life so that it becomes source of
happiness and prosperity, and not source of conflicts and calamities.
And Africa and Asia are the huge pool of diversity, either in term of
culture, ecology, economy, politics, or religion and spirituality.
Within the context of globalisation dominated by short term
economical and materialist interests leading to a single model of
development and threatening the survival of the earth, Africa and
Asia, as the source and as the pool of diversity, must be
theoretically able to contribute in directing globalisation towards a
sustainable world. How is it possible? Let us try to find together
the answers through 55 BANDUNG 55 SUMMIT.
Contact:
Pusat Studi Kebudayaan
Universitas Gadjah Mada
Jalan Lingkungan Budaya
Sekip Utara Yogyakarta 55281
Indonesia
Phone/Fax: +62-274-521317
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.bandungspirit.org
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