Centre for the Study of Ethnicity and Citizenship’s Twentieth Anniversary Conference

Call for papers

Date: November 8-10, 2019

Venue: University of Bristol, Senate House, Tyndall Ave, Bristol BS8 1TH, UK

Abstract Submission Deadline: August 12, 2019

Plenary speakers include: Bhikhu Parekh, Craig Calhoun, Geoffrey Brahm Levey, Grace Davie, Nira Yuval Davis, Pnina Werbner, Rainer Bauböck, Therese O’Toole, Yael Tamir; and Anna Triandafyllidou (TBC), Baroness Sayeeda Warsi (TBC), Yvette Cooper, MP (TBC).

For twenty years researchers at the University of Bristol’s Centre for the Study of Ethnicity and Citizenship have led debates about Muslims, racisms, multiculturalism, different forms of minority identity, and the place of religion in public life. Its research has spanned the social sciences and this conference will mark the twentieth anniversary of the Centre’s work.

Conference papers can come from sociology, political theory, political science, anthropology and other social sciences as well as disciplines in the humanities such as history and philosophy. Papers can focus on a range of themes such as multiculturalism, national identity, super diversity, interculturalism, conviviality and everyday multiculturalism, neo-nationalism and populism, ethno-religious identities, racism and Islamophobia, secular governance and accommodation of religious diversity.

Please submit an abstract of no more than 250 words by 12 August 2019. Abstracts should be submitted to Thomas.sealy@bristol.ac.uk. Decisions will be announced by 19 August 2019. Participants will be sent options for accommodation after their paper has been accepted.

Source: Bristol University