Ethnic Communities in Democratic Societies -
Call for Papers May 20 - 23, 2004, Thessaloniki, Greece
Application deadline: December 20, 2003
Proposals for workshops and papers may engage the following topics, among
others:
Negotiation of culture, language, religion within (non-)territorial communities
/ Parochialism and globalization / Community and fragmentation in global cities
/ Communitarianism vs. rights / Literary and artistic productions within
transnational democracies / Aesthetic concerns of ethnic subjects in democratic
societies / How literature reflects democratic concerns / Negotiating ethnic
exceptionalism and participation in a larger collectivity / Nation states and
imagined communities / Nationalism and transnational loyalties / Nativism and
racism in democratic contexts / Ethnic Press and transnationalism / Ethnic
community vs. local law / (Il)legal immigration / Transnational identities /
Fragmented identities / Political agency, political choices / Balkanization of
mentality / Bastions of ethnic tolerance / Citizenship and ethnopolitics / Civis
and civility / Ethnic anxieties / Ethnic discrimination and affirmative actions
/ Ethnogenesis and ethnostasis / From Confrontation! to cooperation / Internal
colonialisms / Mythologized nationalisms / Xenophobia/xenophilia. Send a
one-page proposal and a one-paragraph bio on the same page as e-mail submission
to:
More information: http://www.mesea.org raphael-hernandez@mesea.org,
Dr. Heike Raphael-Hernandez
University of Maryland in Europe
Im Bosseldorn 30
69126 Heidelberg
Germany