Nationalism, Ethnicity and Citizenship: Whose Citizens? Whose Rights?

Dates: 30 June - 1 July 2008
Location: University of Surrey, United Kingdom
Call for Papers Date: 2008-02-01

CRONEM's 2008 conference will address issues bound up with nationalism, ethnicity and citizenship from a multi-disciplinary perspective. Multicultural societies raise crucial challenges for traditional conceptions of nations and citizenship. Ethnic diversity can mean that significant numbers of people are excluded from national projects, while the 'melting pot' metaphor belies the complexities of societies in which minority communities seek to protect their heritages and resist incorporation into the nation or state. Themes:

· Conceptualising citizenship in ethnically diverse societies
· Comparisons of old and new forms of citizenship
· Political versus civic engagement and participation
· Incorporating marginalised groups into democratic processes
· The concepts of intercultural, multicultural and cosmopolitan citizenship
· Citizenship and religion
· Citizenship and migrants
· The role of civic/citizenship education in multicultural societies
· National citizenship and universal human rights
· Ethnic conflict regulation and the roles of international actors

Centre for Research on Nationalism, Ethnicity and Multiculturalism (CRONEM)
Faculty of Arts and Human Sciences
21 AC 05
Post Box I4
University of Surrey
Guildford, Surrey GU2 7XH
Tel: +44 (0) 1483 682365

Email: m.dumic@surrey.ac.uk
Visit the website at http://www.surrey.ac.uk/Arts/CRONEM/