4th Global Conference: Strangers, Aliens and Foreigners (September 2012: Oxford, United Kingdom)
4th Global Conference
Strangers, Aliens and Foreigners
Friday 21st September 2012 ? Sunday 23rd September
2012
Mansfield College, Oxford, United Kingdom
Call for Papers
This multi-disciplinary project seeks to explore
the crucial place that strangers, aliens and
foreigners have for the constitution of self,
communities and societies. In particular the
project will assess world transformations, like
phenomena we associate with the term
'globalisation', new forms of migration and the
massive movements of people across the globe, as
well as the impact they have on the conceptions we
hold of self and other. Looking to encourage
innovative trans-disciplinary dialogues, we warmly
welcome papers from all disciplines, professions
and vocations which struggle to understand what it
means for people, the world over, to forge a sense
of self in rapidly changing contexts where it is
no longer possible to ignore the importance of
strangers, aliens and foreigners for our
contemporary nations, societies and cultures.
Papers, workshops and presentations are invited on
any of the following themes:
1. Transformations of Self
~ How is Self interweaved with Other? And the many
ways in which Self depends on Other
~ Acknowledging the importance of strangers for
our lives, for our sense of well-being
~ Recognising our dependence on aliens and
foreigners for our communities, cities and towns,
for our countries and nations
~ The decline of the value of sameness and
homogeneity, the rise of diversity and plurality
~ Opposing the construction of self by othering,
excluding and stigmatising
2. Boundaries, Communities and Nations
~ Who is a stranger? Aliens and foreigners to whom?
~ New migrants, new migratory flows and massive
movements from peripheral to central countries
~ Trans-national networks and the blurring of
boundaries; are we living trans-national and
post-national realities?
~ Assimilation, integration, adaptation and other
forms of placing the responsibility of change on
foreigners
~ What has happened to ideas like acceptance,
hospitality and cosmopolitanism
3. Economies, Institutions and Migrants
~ Labour migration as key for economic growth and
prosperity
~ The politics of making aliens, foreigners and
migratory labour 'invisible'
~ Global politics of money over people; new forms
of global exclusion
~ Social movements, new rebellion and alternative
globalisations
~ Trans-cultural connections that escape
institutional and political control
4. Art and Representations
~ Production and reproduction of cultural typing
and stereotyping
~ The contested space of representing self and
other, native and foreigner
~ Art, media and how to challenge the rigid
constructions of art and culture
~ Fictions of strangers, stories of aliens, fables
of foreigners
~ The artistic constructions of otherness
5. Self (inevitably) linked to Other
~ De-centering selves; who am I if not the
relation with others?
~ Thinking and acting with others in mind;
orienting life inter-subjectively
~ Tensions, contradictions and conflicts of living
recognising aliens and foreigners
~ Bonds of care across boundaries of inequality
and exclusion, ideologies and religions, politics
and power, nations and geography
~ Non-recognition as social and cultural violence
The 2012 meeting of Strangers, Aliens and
Foreigners will run alongside a second of our
projects on Beauty and we anticipate holding
sessions in common between the two projects. We
welcome any papers or panels considering the
problems or addressing issues that cross both
projects. Papers will be considered on any related
theme. 300 word abstracts should be submitted by
Friday 16th March 2012. If an abstract is accepted
for the conference, a full draft paper should be
submitted by Friday 22nd June 2012. 300 word
abstracts should be submitted to the Organising
Chairs; abstracts may be in Word, WordPerfect, or
RTF formats, following this order:
a) author(s), b) affiliation, c) email address, d)
title of abstract, e) body of abstract, f) up to
10 keywords
E-mails should be entitled: Strangers Abstract
Submission
Please use plain text (Times Roman 12) and abstain
from using any special formatting, characters or
emphasis (such as bold, italics or underline).
Please note that a Book of Abstracts is planned
for the end of the year. All accepted abstracts
will be included in this publication We
acknowledge receipt and answer to all paper
proposals submitted. If you do not receive a reply
from us in a week you should assume we did not
receive your proposal; it might be lost in
cyberspace! We suggest, then, to look for an
alternative electronic route or resend.
Organising Chairs
Dr S. Ram Vemuri
School of Law and Business, Faculty of Law,
Business and Arts
Charles Darwin University
Darwin NT0909, Australia
Email: [email protected]
Rob Fisher
Network Leader, Inter-Disciplinary.Net,
Freeland, Oxfordshire,
United Kingdom
E-Mail: [email protected]
The conference is part of the Diversity and
Recognition research projects, which in turn
belong to the At the Interface programmes of
Inter-Disciplinary.Net. It aims to bring together
people from different areas and interests to share
ideas and explore discussions which are innovative
and challenging. All papers accepted for and
presented at this conference are eligible for
publication in an ISBN eBook. Selected papers may
be invited to go forward for development into a
themed ISBN hard copy volume.
For further details of the project, please visit:
http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/at-the-interface/diversity-
recognition/strangers-aliens-and-foreigners/
For further details of the conference, please visit:
http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/at-the-interface/diversity-
recognition/strangers-aliens-and-foreigners/call-for-papers/
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