Call For Paper: Difference and Equality in the Americas (12 mars, Angleterre)

Postgraduate conference 1st announcement and call for abstracts, Americas Research Group, Newcastle University, UK :  “Difference and Equality in the Americas: Contemporary and Historical Processes of Inclusion/ Exclusion”

Venue: Room 2.22, Research Beehive, Old Library Building, Newcastle University, UK.  Tuesday, 12th March 2013. Keynote: TBC

Call for Papers :
In the recent history of the Americas, and through to the present, multiple discourses of identity have been employed to construct an idea of the region as inclusive, integrated and multicultural, with varying levels of success. Despite these attempts, historical and contemporary exclusions persist based on race, ethnicity, gender, class, generation and religion, as well as intersections of these. This multidisciplinary postgraduate conference will explore manifestations and processes of inclusion and exclusion, and the ways in which these are expressed, addressed and resisted. It will consider the social, political and cultural contexts and implications of these dynamics of difference and equality, in North America, Latin America, and the Caribbean, throughout history and to the present-day.
Following an extremely successful and thought-provoking conference in 2012, the Americas Research Group invites abstracts from Masters and PhD students of all disciplines on any topics related to this year’s broad theme. This is an ideal opportunity to present work in a friendly and stimulating environment, as well as to engage with the ideas of others working on similar themes. Topics for presentation could include, but are not limited to, issues of inclusion/exclusion within:

State and Society:
– Policy and public services – health, education, housing
– Land distribution and resource management
– Non-state organisation – grassroots organisations, NGOs, collectives, religious groups, minority groups

Media and Cultural Representation:
– Art, music, literature
– Expressions of hybridity and syncretism
– Lack of representation – the issue of voice

Ideologies:
– Paradigms of modernity/modernization and globalization
– Colonial/post-colonial/de-colonial experience
– The idea of the “nation” – multicultural, plurinational, racial democracy etc.

Please submit abstracts of up to 250 words to: Natalie Hoskin, n.l.hoskin@newcastle.ac.uk
Deadline: 20th January 2013
For further information about the Americas Research Group at Newcastle University, please visit our website at: http://www.ncl.ac.uk/niassh/americas/