CALL FOR PAPERS:
DIASPORAS AND HOMELANDS SESSION AT THE ISA RC05 ON RACE AND ETHNICITY.
The ISA RC05 on Race and Ethnicity, which will take place in Israel on 7-8
July, 1999. The The first day of the conference will take place in
Tel-Aviv University and the second in Al-Kutz University. This would enable
both Israeli and Palestinian scholars easy access to the conference.
The main theme of the conference would be on general
issues of racism and ethnicity but that are particularly
pertinent in the Israeli/Palestinian situation. During
the meeting of the RC Executive in Montreal last summer it was
agreed that the conference would be composed of six
panles:
- Issues of Racism and Ethnicity in Israel and Palestine.
- Military Divided Societies
- Indigenous People
- Mutliculturalism in Settler Societies
- Diasporas and Homelands
- Gender, Ethnicity and Nationalism.
I am convening the session on Diasporas and Homelands. Anyone interested in
giving a paper in this session should email or fax a title and a 200 words
abstract to Ronit Lentin, Department of Sociology, Trinity College Dublin
2, Ireland. Email and fax at the bottom of this message.
Anybody interested in giving a paper in the
any of the other sessions should email or fax a title and a 200 words
abstract to the Vice-President of the RC, Prof. Nira Yuval-Davis at
the University of Greenwich, London [[log in to unmask] ;
fax:+44-181-331-8905]. Non RC members are also welcome.
In case we recxeive more acceptable papers than there are
places on the panels, there would also be opportunity
for poster posting and paper circulations. As much as
possible we would like to keep the conference running in
one plenary mode.
The dates of the conference were fixed a few days
earlier than the 34 World Congress of the International Institute of
Sociology organized by Prof. Eliezer Ben-Raphael at the
University of Tel-Aviv, Ramat-Aviv, Israel. Anybody who is interested
in taking place in that conference should get in touch with him.
Unlike a few other ISA RCs, however, we decided to organize our
conference separately so as to enable those who cannot afford
the fee of the large conference to take part.
We are still investigating how much it would cost to transfer
the delegates for the day from Tel-Aviv to Abu-Dis, a
suburb of East Jerusalem, where Al-Kutz university is
and to produce an abstracts booklet. We can only promise
to organize the conference on a minimum budget and will
give you details on relattvely cheap accommodation
in Tel-Aviv as well. We are also hoping to organize
'alternative tours' during the 2 days between the end of
our conference and the IIS conference.
In the [unlikely?] case that due to the political situation it
would not be possible to hold the conference in
Israel/Palestine we'll make a contingency plan to hold
it at the University of Greenwich, London, UK.
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Dr Ronit Lentin
Course coordinator, MPhil in Ethnic and Racial Studies, Dept of Sociology
University of Dublin, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland.
Tel: 353 1 6082766 Fax: 353 1 6771300 Email: [log in to unmask]
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