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From: "Louise Murray" <LOUISE-AT-zedbooks.demon.co.uk>
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1998 17:03:35 +0000
Subject: SPOON-ANN: conference on nationalism, identity and minority rights


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NATIONALISM, IDENTITY AND MINORITY RIGHTS:
Sociological and Political Perspectives

16-19 September, 1999

University of Bristol, UK

There is currently a marked increase in the claims of a wide range of
minority groups for greater representation and inclusion in modern
nation-states, not least in western liberal democracies.  Moreover,
these claims have brought into question the very assumptions of
individual autonomy, equality, national culture and citizenship, and
universalism upon which modern nation-states have historically been
based.

This conference is concerned to examine the social and political
legitimacy of such identity claims, and the affiliated notion of
minority group rights.  It aims to provide an international and
interdisciplinary forum in which assertions of social, cultural,
ethnic and religious identity and difference, their varied political
mobilisation, and the potential consequences for the present and
future organisation of nation-states may be fully explored.

Confirmed Key Note Speakers:

Craig Calhoun, Thomas Hylland Eriksen, Stuart Hall, Will Kymlicka, Ali
Mazrui, Bhikhu Parekh, Jan Nederveen Pieterse, Iris Marion Young, Nira
Yuval-Davis

Call for Papers

Offers of papers, accompanied by an abstract of 300-500 words, should
be sent to the Conference Organisers (Dr Stephen May, Professor Tariq
Modood, Dr Judith Squires) at the address, or email below.

The final deadline for paper abstracts is 31 March, 1999.  Notice of
acceptance will be no later than 31 May, 1999.  Closing date for
registration to the conference will be 31 July, 1999.

For further details, contact us at:

Mailing Address:
Nationalism, Identity and Minority Rights (NIMR) Conference,
Sociology Department, University of Bristol, 12 Woodland Road, Bristol
BS8 1UQ, UK

Email: nat-conf-AT-bris.ac.uk
Fax: (0117) 9706022
Website: http://www.bris.ac.uk/Depts/Sociology

- Louise Murray, Zed Books.
murray-AT-zedbooks.demon.co.uk
http://www.zedbooks.demon.co.uk/
Zed Books, 7 Cynthia Street, London N1 9JF. 
Editorial tel.: +44 (0)171 837 0384. 
FAX: +44 (0)171 833 3960

   

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