**Postgraduate conference announcement and call for papers**
Americas Research Group, Newcastle University
Title: “Citizenship and collective subjectivities in the Americas”
Venue: Alnwick Room, Kings Road Centre; Newcastle University, Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK
Date: Thursday, 17th March 2011 (12-6 pm)
Keynote: Prof. Jenny Pearce - Professor of Latin American Politics, Director of International Centre for Participation Studies, University of Bradford http://www.brad.ac.uk/peace/staff/academic/ProfessorJennyPearce/
Call for Papers
This conference aims to explore debates around the processes of formation, transformation and expression of citizenship and collective subjectivities in the Americas, from the remote past to the present. In particular, the tensions and paradoxes that emerge in the configuration of these processes around issues of race, ethnicity, gender, use of resources and space, political, religious and cultural allegiance.
This conference invites postgraduate students to share their research on these debates in a friendly and informal environment. We welcome papers from students across diverse fields of study and disciplines in the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences that focus on the Americas (North America, Latin America and the Caribbean). The use of audio-visual material is especially encouraged.
The papers could address, but are not limited to, the following themes:
- Interweaving of individual and collective subjectivities
- Social, economic, political and cultural participatory forms
- Localities and spatial change
- New technologies of citizenship/collective action
- Local, national and transnational identities
- Historical and new discourses and reconfigurations of the notion of citizenship
- Civil rights and civil disobedience
- Indigenous and African American social and political movements
Please submit abstracts of up to 250 words to both: Silvia Espelt Bombín
[log in to unmask] and Gisela Zapata, [log in to unmask]
Deadline: 16th January 2011
For further information about the Americas Research Group, please visit our website at:
http://www.ncl.ac.uk/niassh/americas/
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