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MESEA
The Society for Multi-Ethnic Studies: Europe and the Americas


Call for Papers
Fourth MESEA Conference
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
May 20 - 23, 2004

Ethnic Communities in Democratic Societies

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.


-  Deadline for proposals: December 20, 2003. Send a one-page proposal
and
a one-paragraph bio on the same page as e-mail submission to:

raphael-hernandez@mesea.org

Dr. Heike Raphael-Hernandez
University of Maryland in Europe
Im Bosseldorn 30
69126 Heidelberg
Germany


- Only members of MESEA or MELUS may present papers at this conference.
For membership information please check:
www.mesea.org