{"id":142,"date":"2011-11-17T12:55:17","date_gmt":"2011-11-17T16:55:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/ctca\/?p=142"},"modified":"2011-11-17T12:55:17","modified_gmt":"2011-11-17T16:55:17","slug":"call-for-papers-welcoming-strangers-an-interdisciplinary-postgraduate-conference-april-27-2012-london-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/ctca\/2011\/call-for-papers-welcoming-strangers-an-interdisciplinary-postgraduate-conference-april-27-2012-london-uk\/","title":{"rendered":"CALL FOR PAPERS: Welcoming Strangers, an interdisciplinary postgraduate conference, April 27, 2012, London, UK"},"content":{"rendered":"

Call for papers:\u00a0WELCOMING STRANGERS (Download .pdf<\/a>)<\/strong><\/p>\n

An international, interdisciplinary postgraduate conference, 27 April 2012<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Humanities and Arts Research Centre, Royal Holloway, University of London<\/em><\/p>\n

Keynote speakers:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Professor Robin Cohen (Emeritus Professor and Principal Investigator of the Leverhulme-funded Oxford Diasporas Programme, University of Oxford<\/p>\n

Professor John Hill (Department of Media Arts, Royal Holloway, University of London)<\/p>\n

With accelerated inter- and intra-national mobility, the concepts of place and displacement, and their impact on individual and collective identities, have received unprecedented scholarly attention in disciplines as diverse as Modern Languages, Geography, Politics, Music, Film and Media Studies, English, Postcolonial Studies and Migration and Diaspora Studies. The growing importance of multi-locality, transnational (and ‘post-national’) communities, cosmopolitanism and various forms of flexible citizenship call binarisms which posit \u2018the stranger\u2019 as \u2018the Other\u2019 of the indigenous community, as the \u2018guest\u2019 who is welcomed by the hegemonic host society, into question. Contests around notions of ethnic essentialism and cultural purity have given way to a widespread acceptance of diversity and the celebration of hybridity. In music, literature, and film, the contributions of artists with transnationally mobile and\/or ethnic minority backgrounds to the aesthetic traditions of western hegemonic cultural productions have resulted in innovative creative synergies of the local and the global and have enjoyed considerable cross-over appeal. On the other hand, many \u2018strangers\u2019 have not been welcomed, their voices have been silenced, and their artistic expressions have been marginalized. The exponential growth in informational technologies and the mobility of global capital, which once promised to fulfil McLuhan\u2019s vision of a global village, has been accompanied by many unforeseen challenges. Restricted mobility of labour, asylum legislation, and new security challenges pose a threat to the ideal of global identities and a cosmopolitan society.<\/p>\n

The conference committee invites proposals for papers from postgraduate students working in or (in)between the fields of Geography, Politics, Music, Film and Media Studies, English, Postcolonial Studies and Migration and Diaspora Studies. In particular, we are interested in papers addressing the following issues:<\/p>\n