[Discussion] CFP: Deracinations: Bedouin, Gypsy, Nomadic, Immigrant and Indigenous Spaces (Cyprus) (2/11/05; Inscriptions, 5/12/05-5/13/05)

[Sule Tarakcioglu]

CALL FOR PAPERS

Deracinations: Bedouin, Gypsy, Nomadic, Immigrant and Indigenous Spaces

A Panel Discussion at the
Eighth International Literature and Humanities Conference,
INSCRIPTIONS '05=20
An arts and culture conference and festival at
Eastern Mediterranean University in
Famagusta, on the island of Cyprus
May 12th - 13th, 2005

Submissions are invited for a wide-ranging Panel Discussion on the
geographical and cultural implications--historical, legal, political,
social, etc.--of spaces inhabited by displaced or deracinated
individuals and populations, broadly defined. We welcome presentations
dealing with specific sites and circumstances as well as broader
theoretical/philosophical engagements.

Some possible topic areas (others are welcome):

-indigenous languages and literatures: memory and tradition
-translation and assimilation: naming, forgetting, and linguistic rights
-rights and empowerment: immigrants, refugees, labor migrants, illegals,
asylum seekers
-gender persecution, sexual orientation, and marginalization
-constructions of class, religion, race and ethnicity in displaced
populations
-nomadologies, subaltern discourses, and modes of transgression/ resistance
-the economics of displacement: capital flow, social contracts,labor
regulations
-indigenous populations and issues of territory and natural/cultural
resources
-naturalization/immigration: citizenship and the construction of legal
subjects
-cultural diffusion: globalization and identity loss/construction
-problems of belonging: racism, ghettoization, stereotyping, exclusion,
assimilation
-social policy in the context of cosmopolitanism/ multiculturalism/
diversity
-deracinated/diasporic spaces and social welfare
-political and legal identity: representation, rights, and civic
participation
- the "outlaw": narratives of the "inside," border policies, and legal
violence
-the university, the Internet, and the social role of the intellectual/
activist
-postmodern/other subjects: autonomy, hybridity, virtuality


Prospective panelists are invited to send 250-word abstracts/proposals
for 15-20 minute presentations on any aspect of these areas to
rodney.sharkey@emu.edu.tr by 11th February, 2005.
I look forward to learning about your research,and to a provocative
discussion.

For more information about INSCRIPTIONS '05,=20 please visit our website
at http://www.emu.edu.tr/elh/inscriptions



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