Tuesday, June 5, 2007

CONF./CFP- Identities in a Changing World, July 2007, Yerevan, Armenia

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CONF./CFP- Identities in a Changing World, July 2007, Yerevan, Armenia

Posted by: Anna Harutyunyan <harutyunyan_anna@yahoo.com>

Please note, the initial deadline (June 1) for submission of abstracts
have been extended until June 15.

"Identities in a changing world" Conference
July 10-12, 2007

Organized by: Center for Research on Democracy and Civic Society,
Brusov Yerevan State Linguistic University, Yerevan, Armenia

Contact persons:
Mikael Zolyan, V. Brusov Yerevan State Linguistic University, Yerevan,
Armenia, democracy@brusov.am

Anna Harutyunyan, Free University Berlin, Institute of Ethnology,
Berlin, Germany, haruta@zedat.fu-berlin.de

Venue: V. Brusov Yerevan State Linguistic University, Yerevan, Armenia
42 Tumanyan Street, Yerevan 375002, Armenia, www.brusov.am

The Idea of the Conference
For a long time the organizers of this Conference have had an idea to
organize an academic debate forum for their fellow scholars, a place
which would gather young academics and provide them with a possibility
to meet and to have scholarly dialogues.

The Conference organizers wish that the Conference will enable opening
a space for an intellectual expression, (inter)disciplinary exchange
of innovative thoughts and practices among young scholars working in
different spheres of the social science. The format of the Conference
is quite broad: it allows and, moreover, welcomes a diversity of
approaches in presentation of scholarly interests, knowledge and
experiences. The Conference is supposed to encompass debates varying
from the global and the speculative to local and concrete case studies.

The conference will examine issues of identity transformations in a
rapidly changing contemporary world. The discussions will focus on
cultural, political, social, ethnic, religious, gender and other
identities. In this spirit we welcome submission of papers, which
engage with the following fields:

Anthropology
Cultural Studies
History
Sociology
Gender
Political Science
International Relations
Psychology

The working languages of the conference are Armenian and English.

Participants
The Participants are supposed to be a) PhD candidates in the above
mentioned fields who are in the process of doing research and writing
doctoral dissertation and b) scholars who have recently defended their
doctoral degree. Exceptions to include MA students and BA students in
final year of their studies may be possible. Unfortunately the
organizers do not have the financial resources to provide financial
support to participants from outside of Yerevan. Participants from
abroad and other regions of Armenia are themselves responsible for
arranging their travel.

Abstract Submission
The Conference welcomes submission of 300-word paper, accompanied with
a short CV, abstract by June 15, 2007. Presentations should be no
longer than 20 minutes. Full papers of proposed abstracts are due by
June 30, 2007.

Abstracts, as well as other conference related inquiries should be
sent to Anna Harutyunyan, haruta@zedat.fu-berlin.de and/or Mikayel
Zolyan democracy@brusov.am

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