Call for Presentations!
GOA Project, the global postgraduate-led think tank for connecting students, scholars, and practitioners of intelligence, counter-terrorism, international relations and other related fields announces…
A CALL FOR PRESENTATIONS
GOA graduate lunchtime seminar in MICHAELMAS TERM 2011 on Monday December 1, 2011
Deadline for submission November 4, 2011
Convenors: Adam Svendsen (Dept of Political Science, University of Copenhagen), Roy Giles (St Antony’s), Fiona Gatty (Somerville), Antonia Santalova (St Cross)
Sandwich lunch will be served
The GOA Project will host a series of lunchtime seminars in 2011-12 for doctoral and master students interested in and working in the field of international relations. In MT 2011 we invite presentations by students at all stages of research on any topics related to ‘Identity’ for feedback and discussion.
If you are interested in presenting, please, send an abstract of 200-300 words of your proposed presentation to antonina.santalova@stx.ox.ac.uk.
Topics on ‘Identity’ may include the following:
- What does it mean to be British/Australian/a ‘national’ or ‘citizen’ of a particular country?
- What does it mean to be ‘Western’?
- A liberal democratic state in an era of globalisation?
- Can we possess ‘multiple identities’?
- What is the relationship between ‘identity’ and other expansive concepts, such as ‘culture’?
- Can ‘multiple identities’ be discussed in the same terms as other hard-to-define concepts such as ‘multiculturalism’?
- Are there any ‘clear answers’ regarding questions to do with ‘identity’, or is the issue of ‘identity’ beyond being subject to effective generalisation?
- To what extent are questions concerning identity ‘abstract’, and should we care?
- How concerned should we be about ‘constructed phenomena’ such as ‘identity’?
for further information, see also the GOA FOCAL POINT on Identity >>>
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