Social Sciences
2nd Global Conference
Strangers, Aliens and Foreigners
Monday 20th September ? Wednesday 22nd September 2010
Oriel College, Oxford
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
Papers will be considered which deal with related
areas and themes.
The 2010 meeting of Strangers, Aliens and
Foreigners will run alongside a second of our
projects on Monsters and Monstrous and we
anticipate holding sessions in common between the
two projects. We welcome any papers considering
the problems or addressing issues of, for example,
Monstrous Strangers, Foreigners as Monsters, Alien
Monstrosities.
Papers will be considered on any related theme.
300 word abstracts should be submitted by Friday
26th March 2010. If an abstract is accepted for
the conference, a full draft paper should be
submitted by Friday 13th August 2010.
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
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). 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
Alejandro Cervantes-Carson
Research Director,
Inter-Disciplinary.Net,
Barcelona, Catalunya, Spain
E-Mail: [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 about the project please visit:
http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/at-the-interface/diversity-recognition/strangers-aliens-and-foreigners/
For further details about 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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2nd Global Conference
Strangers, Aliens and Foreigners
Monday 20th September ? Wednesday 22nd September 2010
Oriel College, Oxford
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
Papers will be considered which deal with related
areas and themes.
The 2010 meeting of Strangers, Aliens and
Foreigners will run alongside a second of our
projects on Monsters and Monstrous and we
anticipate holding sessions in common between the
two projects. We welcome any papers considering
the problems or addressing issues of, for example,
Monstrous Strangers, Foreigners as Monsters, Alien
Monstrosities.
Papers will be considered on any related theme.
300 word abstracts should be submitted by Friday
26th March 2010. If an abstract is accepted for
the conference, a full draft paper should be
submitted by Friday 13th August 2010.
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
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). 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
Alejandro Cervantes-Carson
Research Director,
Inter-Disciplinary.Net,
Barcelona, Catalunya, Spain
E-Mail: [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 about the project please visit:
http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/at-the-interface/diversity-recognition/strangers-aliens-and-foreigners/
For further details about 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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