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MESEA
The Society for Multi-Ethnic Studies: Europe and the Americas
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.
Only members of MESEA or MELUS may present papers at this conference.
For membership information please check our website.
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