CFP: Becoming a Citizen

Submission deadline: May 22, 2015

Conference date(s):
July 11, 2015 - July 13, 2015

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Conference Venue:

Mansfield College, Oxford
Oxford, United Kingdom

Details

Call for Papers

Theme: Becoming a Citizen
Subtitle: The Citizenship Project
Type: 3rd Global Meeting
Institution: Inter-Disciplinary.Net
   Mansfield College, University of Oxford
Location: Oxford (United Kingdom)
Date: 11.–13.7.2015
Deadline: 22.5.2015

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What does it mean to be a citizen? Ceremonies, traditions, and border
crossings are all part of becoming a citizen. But becoming a citizen
entails more than just getting a piece of paper. Citizenship is a
complex phenomenon that affects everyone in the world. How
individuals as citizens relate to the larger, often inhuman-seeming,
political structures of the world is of vital importance. This
inter-disciplinary conference will explore the origins and
complexities of citizenship, its importance in peace and war, in
personal identity, in global culture, and in shaping our future.

This inter-disciplinary and multi-disciplinary conference invites
clinical/medical practitioners, legal professionals, government
representatives, social workers, representatives of NGOs, educators,
researchers from across the spectrum of academic disciplines,
artists, scientists and others with an interest in issues related to
citizenship. Scholars may come from the areas of Anthropology,
Sociology, History, Psychology, Refugee Studies, Literature,
Economics, and Communication to name just a few. Others interested in
citizenship and its global impact may be scientists with an interest
in mobilizing global citizens to address issues like climate change.
Or they may be artists creating new global cultures different from,
but mixed with, old traditions. Others with an interest in
citizenship may be refugees, immigrants, border agents, or those who
create laws concerning citizenship.

We seek presentations about the nature of citizenship, its
complexities, and its meaning. We seek presentations, papers,
performances, reports, works-in-progress and workshops which consider
citizenship, its philosophical, historical, or psychological meaning,
its representation, and its impact upon immigrants, refugees, and
others.

Papers, performances, presentations, reports, works-in-progress, and
workshops are invited on issues related to any of the following
themes:

1) History / Representation of Citizenship
- Origins of the modern conception of citizenship
- Traditions and ceremonies concerning citizenship
- Cultural expressions of citizenship via Literature, Art, Media,
  Music, etc.
- Critical approaches to citizenship (Feminist, Marxist, Capitalist,
  etc.)
- Critiques of the legitimacy / power structure of citizenship

2) What it Means to (not) be a Citizen
- Challenges to / rejection of citizenship
- Paths to citizenship
- Citizenship and personal identity
- Invented citizenships
- Economies of citizenship
- Rights and responsibilities of global citizens
- Asylum seekers, illegal immigrants and others

3) Border Crossings
- Art, literature, media about citizenship
- Citizenship and human rights as it applies to refugees, immigrants,
  and the stateless
- Digital citizenship
- Global citizenship
- Science and scientific debate as affects / includes / requires
  citizens

The Steering Group welcomes the submission of proposals for short
workshops, practitioner-based activities, performances, and
pre-formed panels. We particularly welcome short film screenings;
photographic essays; installations; interactive talks and alternative
presentation styles that encourage engagement.

What to Send:
Proposals will also be considered on any related theme. 300 word
proposals should be submitted by Friday 13th March 2015. If a
proposal is accepted for the conference, a full draft paper of no
more than 3000 words should be submitted by Friday 22nd May 2015.
Proposals should be submitted simultaneously to both Organising
Chairs; proposals may be in Word or RTF formats with the following
information and in this order:

a) author(s), b) affiliation, c) email address, d) title of abstract,
e) body of abstract. E-mails should be entitled: Citizen3 Abstract
Submission.

Please use plain text (Times Roman 12) and abstain from using
footnotes and 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:
Jonathan Gourlay: [email protected]
Rob Fisher and Ram Vemuri: [email protected]

The conference is part of the Probing the Boundaries domain which
aims to bring together people from different areas and interests to
share ideas and explore innovative and challenging routes of
intellectual and academic exploration. All proposals accepted for and
presented at the conference must be in English and will be eligible
for publication in an ISBN eBook. Selected proposals may be developed
for publication in a themed hard copy volume(s). All publications
from the conference will require editors, to be chosen from
interested delegates from the conference.

Inter-Disciplinary.Net believes it is a mark of personal courtesy and
professional respect to your colleagues that all delegates should
attend for the full duration of the meeting. If you are unable to
make this commitment, please do not submit an abstract for
presentation.

Inter-Disciplinary.Net is a not-for-profit network and we are not in
a position to be able to assist with conference travel or subsistence.

For further details of the conference, please visit:
http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/probing-the-boundaries/hostility-and-violence/the-citizen-in-the-21st-century/call-for-presentations/

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