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From: Vivienne Bozalek [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 03 November 2010 22:39
Subject: Diversity Conference, Cape Town, South Africa, 20-22 June, 2011 - Call for Papers
Dear Colleague,
On behalf of the Advisory Board, we would like to inform you of the:
ELEVENTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON DIVERSITY IN ORGANISATIONS, COMMUNITIES AND NATIONS
University of the Western Cape, Cape Town, South Africa
20-22 June 2010
http://www.Diversity-Conference.com
The Diversity Conference has a history of bringing together scholarly, government and practice-based participants with an interest in the issues of diversity and community. The conference examines the concept of diversity as a positive aspect of a global world and globalised society. Diversity is in many ways reflective of our present world order, but there are ways of taking this further without necessary engendering its alternatives: racism, conflict, discrimination and inequity. Diversity as a mode of social existence can be projected in ways that deepen the range of human experience.
The conference will seek to explore the full range of what diversity means and explore modes of diversity in real-life situations of living together in community. The conference supports a move away from simple affirmations that 'diversity is good' to a much more nuanced account of the effects and uses of diversity on differently situated communities in the context of our current epoch of globalization.
The Eleventh International Diversity Conference will take place in Cape Town, a city both with a past marked by racial conflict and a rich heritage of diversity. Cape Town, like many cities, continues to work to overcome old divisions.
As well as impressive line-up of international plenary speakers, the conference will also include numerous paper, workshop and colloquium presentations by practitioners, teachers and researchers. We would particularly like to invite you to respond to the conference Call-for-Papers. Presenters may choose to submit written papers for publication in The International Journal of Diversity in Organizations, Communities and Nations. If you are unable to attend the conference in person, virtual registrations are also available which allow you to submit a paper for refereeing and possible publication.
In addition to organizing the Diversity Conference, Common Ground publishes papers from the conference at http://www.Diversity-Journal.com, and we do encourage all conference participants to submit a paper based on their conference presentation for peer review and possible publication in the journal. Whether you are a virtual or in-person presenter at this conference, we also encourage you to present on the conference YouTube Channel. In addition, we publish books at http://www.ondiversity.com in both print and electronic formats. We would like to invite conference participants to develop publishing proposals for original works, or for edited collections of papers drawn from the journal which address an identified theme. Finally, please join our online conversation by subscribing to our monthly email newsletter, and subscribe to our Facebook, RSS, or Twitter feeds at http://www.ondiversity.com .
The deadline for the next round in the call for papers (a title and short abstract) is 2 December 2010. Future deadlines will be announced on the conference website after this date. Proposals are reviewed within two weeks of submission. Full details of the Conference, including an online proposal submission form, are to be found at the Conference website - http://www.Diversity-Conference.com/.
We look forward to receiving your proposal and hope you will be able to join us in Cape Town in June 2011.
Yours Sincerely,
Prof. Vivienne Bozalek
University of the Western Cape, Cape Town
For the Advisory Board, International Conference on Diversity in Organizations, Communities and Nations and The International Journal of Diversity in Organizations, Communities and Nations
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