Races, Ethnicities and Nationalisms (North Cyprus) (10/30/02; 5/30/03-6/1/03)

Call for Papers
Races, Ethnicities and Nationalisms
A Panel Discussion at the Sixth International Literature and Humanities Conference,

Inscriptions in the Sand: an arts and culture conference and festival

at Eastern Mediterranean University

in Famagusta, on the island of Cyprus

May 30-June 1, 2003

We invite submissions for a Panel Discussion exploring how conceptions of race, ethnicity and nationalism enter into social, cultural, economic, political, and legal constructions/deconstructions of identity at our turn of the century. We welcome presentations dealing with specific sites and circumstances as well as broader theoretical/philosophical engagements.

Some possible topic areas (others are welcome):

-imagined communities (Anderson) and the clash of civilizations (Huntington)
-irredentism, secession, and the boundaries of the nation-state
-representative democracies and the problems of political/legal representation
-The Politics of Friendship (Derrida) and The Inclusion of the Other (Habermas)
-group differences, individualism, and discourses of patriotism
-class structure, labor regulations, and race/ethnicity
-Critical Race Theory and rights talk
-gender, race, ethnicity and violence; the problems of the margin
-genocide, population transfer, and the international legal status of the refugee
-Orientalism, cultural imperialism (Said), and globalization
-minority rights and the concept of political equality
-ethno-linguistic or religious nationalisms and modes of assimilation/exclusion
-white mythologies (Derrida, Young) and dissemiNations (Bhabha)
-centered discourses, stereotyping, profiling, xenophobia
-progress vs. preservation: the problems of ethnology and museumization
-citizenship, and questions of local/international power and resource sharing
-NGOs, quangos, and national/international policy-making
-myths and symbols of race, ethnicity and nationalism
-globalization and national identity: ideologies of origin and destiny
-subaltern discourses (Spivak) and cultures of resistance
-ethnic conflict and the logic of self-determination/sovereignty
-the efficacy of military/economic sanctions, humanitarian intervention, and peacekeeping
-international law, sanctions, and obligations: problems of enforcement and compliance
-the role of intellectuals and/or institutions in shaping race, ethnicity, and nationalism

Prospective panelists are invited to send 250-word abstracts/proposals for 15-20 minute presentations on any aspect of these areas to johann.pillai@emu.edu.tr or rodney.sharkey@emu.edu.tr by 30 October, 2002. We look forward to learning about your research, and to a provocative discussion. For more information about Inscriptions in the Sand, please visit our website at http://www.emu.edu.tr/elh/index_confer.html Please also check out our links to Individual Research Presentations and Creative/Performance Work.