[Bilimsel Haber] Call for Papers: Cultural Difference and Social Solidarity

[Onur Inal]

CULTURAL DIFFERENCE AND SOCIAL SOLIDARITY:

DIVIDING AND UNITING COMMUNITIES BEYOND MULTICULTURALISM

Middle East Technical University-Northern Cyprus Campus

4th-8thJuly 2011

The issues of social solidarity and preservation of cultural rights,
works and values within divided communities and acrosscommunities of
difference is one of the defining features of contemporarypolitics.
Across the globe, communities are struggling to overcome
culturaldifferences, reflecting religious, political, ideological and
identity-basedroots. It has been argued that faith in multiculturalism
as a philosophical andconceptual basis for promoting social solidarity
and communities that arepluralist and cosmopolitanism, has become
exhausted by failures, giving rise tonew forms of reconciling
difference with solidarity. Equally, new discourses ofmonoculturalism,
polyculturalism, or dominant cultural hegemonies have beenoffered as
alternatives to multi-cultural communities beset by tensions
andcompeting demands by different constituents.

The main themes forwhich papers are sought are:

· Reconciling diverse communities and fragmented communities

· Analysis of effects, uses, failures, or successes of cultural
products (literature, filmand the arts)

· Therole of states, NGOs and international structures in exacerbating
oralleviating difference and fragmentation in communities

· Ideologicalpolitics and the theorizing of difference, diversity and solidarity

· Language,media and propaganda

· After Multiculturalism?: Monoculturalism, Polyculturalism,
Cosmopolitanism and theTheory and Practice of Difference within common
space

· Migration,Borders, Diasporas and Solidarity in Changing Communities

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

There will be three keynote plenary sessions withspeakers to be announced.

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

The Conference language is English and all papers andpresentations
should be in English.

Deadline for submission of Abstracts by: Friday, January28, 2011

Notification of Acceptance and Rejection by: Monday,February 7, 2011

ABSTRACTS OF NO MORE THAN 350 WORDS,WITH NAME AND AFFILIATION, SHOULD
BE SENT BY EMAIL TO: SBOYD at METU.EDU.TR.PLEASE WRITE ?CONFERENCE
ABSTRACT? IN THE SUBJECT OF THE EMAIL. PRE-ARRANGEDPANELS MAY ALSO BE
SUGGESTED.

Questions should be directed to the conference organisers:

Scott H. Boyd, MiddleEast Technical University-Northern Cyprus Campus

sboyd at metu.edu.tr

Paul Reynolds, Edge Hill University

reynoldp at edgehill.ac.uk

Receipt of abstracts will be acknowledged within 48hours.

UPDATED INFORMATION CAN BE FOUND ON THE CONFERENCEWEBSITE:

HTTP://DIFFERENCEANDSOLIDARITY.ORG