AHRC Diasporas, Migration and Identities Programme / CRONEM Conference 2009

Diasporas, Migration and Identities: Crossing Boundaries, New Directions
University of Surrey, 11-12 June 2009

'Diasporas, migration and identities' has been the subject of a major national research programme funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) in the UK since 2005. Its central concerns have also been at the heart of the work of the Centre for Research on Nationalism, Ethnicity and Multiculturalism (CRONEM). The aim of this collaborative and multi-disciplinary conference (CRONEM’s 5th annual conference) is to examine the past and present impact of diasporas and migration on nation, community, identity and subjectivity, culture and the imagination, place and space, emotion, politics, law and values. We invite abstracts that address the following themes:

- Migration, settlement and diaspora: modes, stages and forms
- Representation, performance, discourse and language
- Subjectivity, emotion and identity
- Objects, practices and places
- Beliefs, values and laws
- The role of youth in relationship to diasporas, migration and
identities
- Diasporic economics and labour markets
- The recognition of multiple origins and mixedness
- The politics of immigration and integration
- Public opinion and public policy
- Ethnic identity politics

This year, in addition to individual papers and poster presentations, we are also calling for proposals for convened symposia. A symposium may consist either of a panel discussion or a set of individual paper presentations which provide a range of perspectives on a particular issue or set of related issues. It is useful for the final presentation in a symposium to be made by a discussant, who provides a summary set of reflections on the preceding presentations and on the symposium as a whole. A symposium normally lasts 90 minutes, with each paper being allocated 15-20 minutes. The convenor of the symposium is responsible for submitting the overall abstract for the symposium as a whole together with the abstracts of the individual contributing papers (on behalf of their authors). The convenor will introduce and chair the symposium, and the discussant should be named when submitting the symposium proposal. The convenor will be responsible for communicating with the symposium contributors and with the conference organisers about the symposium proposal. We would particularly like to encourage the submission of symposia which draw upon a range of different disciplinary perspectives.

Please send abstracts for papers and posters (not more than 200 words) and abstracts for convened symposia (in which the symposium abstract should consist of not more than 200 words, and the individual paper abstracts should consist of not more than 200 words each) by completing one of the following forms: Individual papers and posters - submission form; Symposium proposal - submission form; both for download online.

The closing date for abstracts is 2 February 2009.
Notification of paper acceptance will be 2 March 2009.