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Call for Papers Theme: Interculturalism, Meaning and Identity Type: 6th Global Conference Institution: Inter-Disciplinary.Net Location: Lisbon (Portugal) Date: 19.–22.3.2013 Deadline: 12.10.2012 __________________________________________________ This multi-disciplinary project aims to bring together researchers from different disciplines to discuss, explore, understand and develop new aspects of culture and identity. This project will explore the impact of cultures moving from one context to another as well as question identity within the global world. In order to encourage multi-disciplinary dialogues, we welcome papers from all disciplines, professions and vocations which struggle to understand what it means for people, the world over, to forge identities in a rapidly changing national, social and cultural contexts. Presentations, papers, workshops and pre-formed panels are invited on any of the following themes: 1. Contemporary ways of identifying cultures - Multiple, polyvalent and contradictory conceptions of culture - Meaning and identity, of membership and exclusion, of privileging and stygmatising, of worth and misery, of place and history, of violence and destruction - Cultural remaking of self and the other; recasting of links, bonds and relations - The contradictory forces of culture: diversity versus homogeneity: the ‘melting pot’ versus multiculturalism, multiplicity versus sameness, recognition versus misrecognition - Textures of cultures: fixed, fluid, porous, hermetic, rigid and flexible 2. Cultural Boundaries, Peoples and Nations - Dislocation and decoupling of culture and nation, of culture and place, of culture and history - Resurgence of the local, the diminishing importance of the national and the forces of the global - What does it mean, today, to be part of a culture, to be part of multiple cultures? - Massive and new forms of global migration and the new hybridity of cultures - Assimilation, integration, adaptation and other forms of ‘forcing’ cultures on migrants 3. The ‘Third Culture Kids’ - What are the impacts of being uprooted children and grand children? - Mechanism people use to keep roots for their children 4. Religion as a culture - The place religion takes when migrating - Religion as a source of comfort in a changing world 5. Individuals, Identity and the Inter-Subjective - Identifying ‘the others’ identifying myself: ‘Who am I if not in Relation to Others?’ - The importance of social membership and the creation of social identity - New sources and forms of belonging; new tribalism, localism, parochialism and communitarianism - Inequality and exclusion, ideologies and religions, politics and power, nations and geography - Cultural violence 6. Cultural Formations - Definition of cultures: how are cultures defined and redefined? Who participates in the social and political task of defining and redefining culture? - What are the dynamics and processes that define the central tenets of a culture? - Sharing of cultures: what is shared from cultures? How are cultures shared? Who has access to the sharing of cultures? - Symbols and significations that connect people to cultures other than ‘their own’ 7. Politicising Culture - Citizenship versus multiculturalism - Political battles over the principles and core values of a culture, of many cultures - The dynamics of cultural recognition and misrecognition - What is the place of cultural claims in today’s forms of social and political membership? - Trans-cultural connections that escape institutional and political control - Cultural claims and human rights - Equalising cultures; recognition and respect across cultures 8. Art and Cultural Representations - Media and the construction of cultures and identities - Social cyber networks like Facebook, Skype, emails and its’ impact on social change and redefinition of identity - Production and reproduction of cultural recognition and misrecognition - Representing meaning and identity, culture and belonging through art 9. Crossing Cultural Boundaries - Interpenetration, overlapping, crossovers, interlacing, hybridisation and interdependence - Languages, idioms and new emerging forms of bridging the ‘invisible’ divide of cultures - The non- verbal language and the impact on cultural separation: clothing, body languages, ‘mentality’, relation to space and time - Conceptualisations that foster the breaking down of rigid cultural boundaries - How to revamp historically old concepts like tolerance, acceptance and hospitality? - An ethics for cultural relations Presentations will also be considered which deal with related themes. What to Send 300 word abstracts should be submitted by Friday 12th October 2012. All submissions are minimally double blind peer reviewed where appropriate. If an abstract is accepted for the conference, a full draft paper should be submitted by Friday 18th January 2013. Abstracts should be submitted simultaneously to the Organising Chairs; abstracts may be in Word, WordPerfect, or RTF formats with the following information and in this order: a) author(s), b) affiliation, c) email address, d) title of abstract, e) body of abstract E-mails should be titled: Interculturalism 6 Abstract Submission Please use plain text (Times Roman 12) and abstain from using footnotes and any special formatting, characters or emphasis (such as bold, italics or underline). We acknowledge receipt and answer to all paper proposals submitted. If you do not receive a reply from us in a week you should assume we did not receive your proposal; it might be lost in cyberspace! We suggest, then, to look for an alternative electronic route or resend. Joint Organising Chairs: Efrat Tzadik: [email protected] Ram Vemuri and Rob Fisher: [email protected] The conference is part of the ‘Diversity and Recognition’ research projects, which in turn belong to the ‘At the Interface’ programmes of Inter-Disciplinary.Net. It aims to bring together people from different areas and interests to share ideas and explore discussions which are innovative and challenging. Contact: Priory House 149B Wroslyn Road Freeland, Oxfordshire OX29 8HR United Kingdom Tel: +44 (0)1993 882087 Fax: +44 (0)870 4601132 Email: [email protected] Web: http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/at-the-interface/diversity-recognition/interculturalism/call-for-papers/ __________________________________________________ InterPhil List Administration: http://interphil.polylog.org Intercultural Philosophy Calendar: http://cal.polylog.org __________________________________________________
