Pluralism, Inclusion and Citizenship

Tid: 6 - 8 november 2009
Plats: Salzburg, Austria
Arrangör: Inter-Disciplinary.Net,Barcelona, Catalonia,Spain. Network Founder & Leader Inter-Disciplinary.Net, Freeland, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom.

" This multi-disciplinary project seeks to explore the new developments and changes of the idea of pluralism and their implications for social and political processes of inclusion and citizenship in contemporary societies. The project will also assess the larger context of major world transformations, such as new forms of migration and the massive movements of people across the globe, as well as the impact of the multiple dynamics of globalisation on rootedness and membership (including their tensions and conflicts) and on a general sense of social acceptance and recognition. Looking to encourage innovative trans-disciplinary dialogues, the organizers warmly welcome papers from all disciplines, professions and vocations which struggle to understand what it means for people, the world over, to be citizens in rapidly changing national, social and political landscapes.

In particular papers, workshops and presentations are invited on any of the following themes:

1. Challenging Old Concepts of Citizen and Alien

2. Nations, Fluid Boundaries and Citizenship

3. Institutions, Organizations and Social Movements

4. Persons, Personhood and the Inter-Personal

5. Media and Artistic Representations

6. Transnational Political Interlacing of Contemporary Life

7. New Concepts, New Forms of Inclusion

Papers will be considered on any related theme.
300 word abstracts should be submitted by Friday 19th June 2009. If your paper is accepted for presentation at the conference, an 8 page draft paper should be submitted by Friday 9th October 2009.

Joint Organising Chairs:

Alejandro Cervantes-Carson
Director of Research
Inter-Disciplinary.Net,
Barcelona, Catalonia,
Spain
E-Mail: acc@inter-disciplinary.net

Rob Fisher
Network Founder & Leader
Inter-Disciplinary.Net,
Freeland, Oxfordshire,
United Kingdom
E-Mail: pic5@inter-disciplinary.net

The conference is part of the Diversity and Recognition research projects, which in turn belong to the 'At the Interface' programmes of ID.Net. The programme aim to bring together people from different areas and interests to share ideas and explore innovative and challenging routes of intellectual and academic exploration.

Further information on the conference themes and how to submit a paper on Inter-Diciplinary.Net "