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As the new year approaches, I wanted to repost this CFA for our undergraduate conference in Bratislava. The deadline for abstracts is September 15.<\/p>\n
James Griffith
\nAssistant Professor of Political Thought and Philosophy
\nBratislava International School of Liberal Arts<\/p>\n
http:\/\/www.bisla.sk\/english\/?headlines=call-for-abstracts-discontinuous-identities-globalization-trauma-and-reconciliation<\/a><\/p>\n CALL FOR ABSTRACTS Deadline for Abstracts: September 15, 2017 From November 30 to December 1, 2017, The Liberal Herald, an interdisciplinary academic platform based at the Bratislava International School of Liberal Arts (BISLA), will hold its 4th academic conference for undergraduate students and faculty. The theme of this year\u2019s event is (Dis)continuous Identities \u2013 Globalisation, Trauma, and Reconciliation.<\/p>\n Cultural identities, as we know them today, evolved in the era of nation-state formation. Forged within an international system of modern states, they have been cemented by domestic and international norms and institutions and ritualized in invented traditions, nationalized history accounts, archives, museums, rhetoric of political leaders and parties.<\/p>\n The Big History of international relations and domestic historical turning points reshape the discourses of cultural identities, at times fundamentally. Since 1989, there have been several such events that reverberated across the globe. The end of the Cold War resulted in a collapse of oppressive regimes followed by transitions to democracy in Central and Eastern Europe, South Africa, Latin America, and East Asia. The turbulence of these times led to massive conflicts and violence in the Balkans, central Africa and elsewhere. Much of this past is still being addressed in the processes of political transition, with greater or lesser emphasis. Is there an institutional recipe for success?<\/p>\n How is globalisation impacting these processes and cultural identities within the impacted societies? How are the economic crises, the refugee crisis, and the rise of identity politics on the right and the left reshaping the discourses of who belongs? GENERAL TOPIC SUGGESTIONS 2. Institutional mechanisms for addressing the past 3. Globalisation and its impact on identity politics 4. European Union and European identity CRITERIA FOR ABSTRACTS COMPLETE PAPER CRITERIA In case you are interested… As the new year approaches, I wanted to repost this CFA for our undergraduate conference in Bratislava. The deadline for abstracts is September 15. James Griffith Assistant Professor of Political Thought and Philosophy Bratislava International School of Liberal Arts http:\/\/www.bisla.sk\/english\/?headlines=call-for-abstracts-discontinuous-identities-globalization-trauma-and-reconciliation CALL FOR ABSTRACTS Conference Presentation & Journal Contribution (Dis)continuous … Continue reading Interdisciplinary Undergraduate Conference CFA – (Dis)Continuous Identities: Globalisation, Trauma, and Reconciliation<\/span>
\nConference Presentation & Journal Contribution
\n(Dis)continuous Identities: Globalisation, Trauma, and Reconciliation<\/p>\n
\nAssociated Institutions: BISLA, the Bratislava International
\nSchool of Liberal Arts
\nContact: theliberalherald@bisla.sk
\nWebsite: tlherald.wordpress.com
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\nEDITORS
\nJakub Tlolka, MSc.
\nMgr. Dagmar Kus\u00e1, PhD.
\nJames Griffith, PhD.<\/p>\n
\nAt The Liberal Herald\u2019s 4th academic conference, we hope to explore these issues from a broad variety of perspectives, as their interconnections can be found within political science, international relations, cultural anthropology, political economics, philosophy, ethics, theology, or psychology. We therefore encourage contributors to adopt an interdisciplinary approach in addressing the problem.<\/p>\n
\n1. Identity and cultural trauma
\nWhat role do political regimes play in the formation of collective identities?
\nHow does historical trauma shape current political discourses?
\nPersistence and resolution of cultural trauma in societies
\nHow is collective identity impacted by a dominant discourse of cultural trauma?
\nWhat other concepts can be used to address identity and culture (e.g., primary vulnerability)?<\/p>\n
\nAcknowledgment, apology, forgiveness \u2013 which are legitimate goals of transition on a political level?
\nTruth, peace, and justice \u2013 institutional balancing of core principles of societal reconciliation.
\nEthical and economic questions of reparations
\nDo societies have a duty to remember? Consequences of remembering and of forgetting on the quality of democracy.<\/p>\n
\nWinners and losers of the globalization process
\nOntology of anxiety \u2013 populist responses to cultural identities in flux
\nSocial insecurity and rise of identity politics<\/p>\n
\nBREXIT, the refugee crisis, and European identity or identities
\nHow are the latest crises influencing the discourse about European identity?<\/p>\n
\nContributors must submit abstracts which are
\n– pertinent to the subject matter
\n– scholarly
\n– in English
\n– max. 300 words long
\nAuthors of selected abstracts will be informed by September 30, 2017. Authors will be required to submit their complete entries, revised and edited, by November 25, 2017. All papers should be submitted via online form (https:\/\/goo.gl\/forms\/wd91gaqvyfjLrHtp2<\/a>).<\/p>\n
\nSelected papers will be published in 2018 in the special issue of the peer-reviewed journal of critical thinking Kritika & Kontext, affiliated with BISLA.
\n– 2000 \u2013 3500 words long
\n– revised and edited
\n– in the APA format<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"