www.differenceandsolidarity.org

Hosted by
Middle East Technical University-Northern Cyprus Campus
2nd – 5th July 2013

The main themes for which papers are sought are:
• Applying and critiquing theories of difference
• Dissembling and re-presenting gender: constructions of difference and/or solidarity
• Making solidarities in the context of difference
• Refugees, difference, law and media representations
• Culture and politics in representations of identity and difference
• Digital media and the making/dissembling of social movements
• Representing multilingualism in the linguistic landscape
• States, sectional interests and regulatory regimes: managing difference
• Culture, art, literature, film and the performance of difference
• The role of technologies in making representations of difference and solidarity
• Representations of difference or re-presentations of difference: The problem of representation
• Language hierarchies in social space
• Cultural products and the reinforcement or dissolution of differences – the problem of consumption
• Difference and the construction and deterioration of communities
• Difference and technology: the changing representation of identity and difference