[Bilimsel Haber] CONF. /CFP: Cultural Difference and Social Solidarity: Dividing and Uniting Communities Beyond Multiculturalism, 4th-8th July 2011, METU Northern Cyprus Campus

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*CFP: Cultural Difference and Social Solidarity: Dividing and Uniting 
Communities Beyond Multiculturalism*


	

	

	

	

Middle East Technical University-Northern Cyprus Campus

www.differenceandsolidarity.org

Deadline 28 January 2011


The issues of social solidarity and preservation of cultural rights, 
works and values within divided communities and across communities of 
difference is one of the defining features of contemporary politics. 
Across the globe, communities are struggling to overcome cultural 
differences, reflecting religious, political, ideological and 
identity-based roots. It has been argued that faith in multiculturalism 
as a philosophical and conceptual basis for promoting social solidarity 
and communities that are pluralist and cosmopolitanism, has become 
exhausted by failures, giving rise to new forms of reconciling 
difference with solidarity. Equally, new discourses of monoculturalism, 
polyculturalism, or dominant cultural hegemonies have been offered as 
alternatives to multi-cultural communities beset by tensions and 
competing demands by different constituents.
The main themes for which papers are sought are:
. Reconciling diverse communities and fragmented communities
. Analysis of effects, uses, failures, or successes of cultural products 
(literature, film and the arts)
. The role of states, NGOs and international structures in exacerbating 
or alleviating difference and fragmentation in communities
. Ideological politics and the theorizing of difference, diversity and 
solidarity
. Language, media and propaganda
. After Multiculturalism?: Monoculturalism, Polyculturalism, 
Cosmopolitanism and the Theory and Practice of Difference within common 
space
. Migration, Borders, Diasporas and Solidarity in Changing Communities

These themes are not exhaustive and the organizers will consider other 
papers relevant to the conference subject. We expect to publish a 
post-conference edited book, derived from the papers presented and 
organized around themes that reveal themselves during the conference.

This conference seeks to provide a space for scholars to take stock of 
the present context and share knowledge -- specific or general, 
empirical or theoretical, with a view to develop and explore the 
possible ways forward to minimizing violence, discrimination, exclusion 
and oppression as the means by which difference is managed by political 
structures. The conference is intended to be cross disciplinary and 
welcomes papers from scholars whose research crosses traditional 
disciplinary boundaries. Papers and panels are sought for presentation 
at parallel sessions where each paper will have a strict maximum of 20 
minutes presentation time on panels of 2 papers with 50 minutes of 
discussion time per session.

	Scott Boyd
Middle East Technical University
Northern Cyprus Campus
sboyd at metu.edu.tr
Email: differenceandsolidarity at gmail.com 
<mailto:differenceandsolidarity at gmail.com>
Visit the website at http://www.differenceandsolidarity.org

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