Call for Papers

"Open Innovation, closed society"

39th World Congres of the International Institute of Sociology in Yerevan, Armenia. June 11-14th 2009. Deadline: March 31st.

For furher details please check: http://www.scasss.uu.se/iis/iis2009/pdf/Kaivooja-Roth.pdf
	
Contributions to the session will be published in the International Journal of Innovation and Sustainable Development after the conference. If you or your colleagues are tempted to join the session, then feel free to contact me.

Best regrds,

Steffen Roth
Senior Researcher

Berne School of Business and Administration, P.O. Box 305, CH-3000 Berne 22

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Le 16 févr. 09 à 20:28, Magdalena Nowicka a écrit :

> Call for Papers
>
> "Representations of diversity in official and popular models"
>
> EUROPE BEFORE AND AFTER 1989:
> Trans-national and comparative perspectives on Eastern & Western 
> Europe
> 10-12 June 2009, University of Padua, Italy
>
>
> Cultural diversity across Europe belongs to the topics which are on 
> the agenda of multiple European, national and local governments, 
> policy makers and scholars. They all contribute in some ways to the 
> production of scholarly knowledge on diversity and to how diversity is 
> represented in images, written official policy documents and popular 
> everyday models. While Western European states and their governments 
> draw on a long tradition of dealing with diversity on their 
> territories, Eastern European countries, often strongly influenced by 
> renewed nationalism, pick up the topic only since recently and 
> channeled through the supranational organizations (for example, 
> Council of Europe) or when confronted with the problems induced by the 
> new kinds of transit movements, asylum seekers and other immigrants 
> who increasing enter their national spaces. On the other hand, steady 
> commuting migration between the East and the West of Europe also 
> channels popular representations of diversity with which migrants are 
> confronted in their host countries. We can thus speak of an import of 
> representations of diversity from the West to the East and their 
> alteration in the migration process. Given the different channels of 
> how the representations of diversity enter the Eastern European space, 
> we can think of disjuncture of official and popular representations, 
> for example a positive perception of diversity in official models and 
> a negative perception of it in popular, demotic models, including 
> images in public space.
>
> Possible themes include but are not limited to:
> ·        Metaphors and categories of diversity in official and  
> demotic models
> ·        Images of diversity in public spaces (public discourses,  
> political campaigns, public opinion polls, printed and visual media,
> art)
> ·        Consumption of diversity (food, clothing, design)
> ·        Academic discourse on diversity
> ·        Representations of diversity in business and management
> ·        Return/commuting migrant representations of diversity
> ·        Eastern European migrants' experiences and representations  
> of diversity while they stay in Western European countries.
>
> The panel papers should apply a transnational perspective to track the 
> paths of representations of diversity between the West and the East.
>
> We invite abstracts of no more than 250 words by February 25, 2009.  
> Please include your short academic bio and contact details. The 
> deadline for notification of acceptance of abstracts is February 28, 
> 2009. Participants will be invited to consider book and journal 
> publication opportunities with the Research Network 1989.
>
> Please submit your abstract to and for inquiries contact:  Dr.  
> Magdalena Nowicka ([log in to unmask]),
> Institute of Sociology, Ludwig-Maximilian University, Munich, Germany.
>
> For further details please visit 
> http://www.cee-socialscience.net/1989/conference/anniverary.html
>
>
>
> Dr. Magdalena Nowicka
> Institute of Sociology, Ludwig Maximilian University Konradstr. 6, 
> 80801 Munich, Germany [log in to unmask]
>
> NEW!!!  Cosmopolitanism in Practice, M. Nowicka & M. Rovisco (eds), 
> www.ashgate.com/isbn/9780754670490
>
>