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Upcoming Conference: “Minorities in Armies: Ethnicity, Race, Alienage”

June 30, 2015, 10.00-17.30

University of Warwich, The Institute of Advanced Study (Seminar Room)

Against the backdrop of a perceived national uniformity in the armed forces, in the Modern and Contemporary Age the military has been characterized by a sizeable presence of ethnic and racial minorities, as well as of aliens. The topic has been widely overlooked by scholarship; yet it seems necessary to investigate further an issue that could eventually lead to contesting the widespread perception of the military as an agent of cultural homogenisation and nationalisation. The conference will therefore seek to pose theoretical questions through papers by scholars who have studied specific cases, focusing in particular (but not exclusively) on WWII. Specifically, the one-day conference will be based on a morning and an afternoon session, each composed of three speakers and one respondent, followed by time dedicated to debate.

The first session will take into account experiences related to Italians or Italian ethnics in the Allied armed forces in WWII, or people of Italian descent enrolled in the Italian armed forces. The second will analyse the experience of ethnic and racial minorities in the British armed forces from WWII to recent times.

The conference is free and lunch is provided, but since numbers are limited registration is required. The deadline for registration is 20th June.

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Call for Papers: “The Social Reproductive Worlds of Migrants”

3rd ISA Forum of Sociology, July 2016, Vienna

While research highlights the role inward migration plays in meeting the social reproductive needs of migrant-receiving societies, less attention is paid to the social reproductive aspects of migrants’ lives. In the context of the increasing volume in international migration and its feminisation, and the increasingly instrumentalist and economistic approach to migration-entry regimes, it is critical that migration and family policies begin to acknowledge that a production system cannot operate without a reproduction system (Truong, 1996).

This joint (RC06 and RC31) paper presentation session, invites papers that contribute to developing a research agenda on the social reproductive worlds of migrants. Social reproduction incorporates family building through relationship formation and procreation, and the ongoing care required in the maintenance of people on a daily basis across the life-course. Thus, we seek contributions that examine how during processes of migration, families are formed, procreate and care.

Possible areas include:

  • spatial and temporal configurations of how migrants organise their social reproductive worlds, and how these relate to the patterning of opportunities and constraints rendered by public policies
  • in both countries of origin and of destination;
    the role of managed migration strategies in the development of patterns of ‘stratified social reproduction’ (Kraler, 2010) among migrants;
  • how, to what extent and under which conditions transnational family dynamics and solidarities provide kin members with a safety net and greater opportunities to access and claim rights to social protection;
  • the gendered nature of migrants’ social reproductive worlds, including male as well as female migrants.

The deadline for submitting proposals of max 300 words is 30 September 2015. Please upload your proposals through this link:http://www.isa-sociology.org/forum-2016/

 

Call for Contributions: “Migrants in the City: New Dynamics of Migration in Urban Settings”

Culter’s Hall, Sheffield, 12-13 October 2015

Rapid urbanisation is radically changing the economic, financial, social, and ecological landscape of our planet. It has been identified as the single greatest development challenge and opportunity for the 21st century. International migration has been, is and will continue to be a key route both shaping and being shaped by urbanisation.

As the UN-Habitat Manifesto for Cities notes, the world has entered an urban era where cities have taken centre stage, inevitably shaping the social and spatial structures and trajectories of cities. The international conference Migrants in the City will provide a forum for the examination of key questions related to contemporary international migration in the context of urban development, residential segregation and diversity. The conference is designed to be global in focus. Contributions are welcomed that reflect on the causes and consequences of all forms of international migration (for example, for employment, for family reasons, to seek refuge, to study) in urban settings, but that also explore intersections between migration, urban development and key related issues, including:

  • effects of economic restructuring;
  • rising income inequality within and between host/destination countries;
  • the growth of megacities and the implications for segregation and migration;
  • settlement patterns, diversity, and spatial persistence;
  • development and wellbeing implications of migration and segregation;
  • effects of climate and environmental change;
  • gender and family life of migrant communities and issues of identity;
  • the meaning and practice of security;
  • migration and urban governance;
  • methodological challenges/innovations for migration and segregation

The organizers are currently calling for submissions of abstracts, panel session and poster proposals. All proposals and papers should be sent to migrantsconference@sheffield.ac.ukby Friday 29th May.

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Call for Papers and Panel Proposals

Call for Papers and Panel Proposals: “Pluralism and Community: Social Science History Perspectives”

40th Annual Meeting of the Social Science History Association

Baltimore, MD November 12-15, 2015

Submission Deadline: February 14, 2015

Ethnic strife in the Middle East, Africa, and Asia; anti-immigrant politics in Europe, the Americas, and Australia; and separatist movements around the world are daily reminders of the challenges in building tolerant, civil societies among ethnically, racially, religiously, linguistically, and culturally diverse peoples. At the same time, improvements in transportation and communications and growing economic interdependencies have brought diverse peoples into more regular contact and made pluralism more advantageous than ever before.

In recognition of the long-standing interest of social science historians in the ways in which communities regulate “difference” among their members, the 2015 Program Committee seeks panel proposals that consider the myriad ways that history, culture, law, economy, demography, education, knowledge production, geography, migration, religion, sexuality, and politics shape pluralism as well as the ways in which community shapes these factors in return.

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Call for Papers: The Intersection of Diplomacy, Development and Defense: Faith and Ethnicity at the Crossroads

The Second Annual International Conference on Ethnic and Religious Conflict Resolution and Peacebuilding

Venue: The Riverfront Library Auditorium, Yonkers Public Library

1 Larkin Center Yonkers, New York 10701

Date: October 9, 10, and 11, 2015

ICERM (International Center for Ethno-Religious Mediation) invites papers for presentation and publication from anyone who has an interest in sharing their research, ideas, and experiences with the practical application of the three D’s (Diplomacy, Development and Defense) on building peace between peoples, or among ethnic, religious or sectarian groups both within and across borders. Organizers also welcome those interested in learning about the 3D approach and its intended role in advancing interfaith and interethnic relations. Preferred papers will include modern examples with an emphasis on practical application.

Proposals should include an abstract not to exceed 800 words in length, which describes the substance of the paper in relation to conference theme, the title of the paper, biographies of the author(s), and any affiliated agency, organization, or institution. All proposals should be sent to the Conference Review Committee by email: conference@icermediation.org. Abstracts will undergo a double blind peer review. Accepted proposals will be notified by Friday, May 29, 2015. Accepted authors should submit complete papers, biographies and photo images on or before Friday, September 18, 2015. Papers must be between 3,500 and 4,000 words, submitted with a biography of no more than 50 words.

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Courses, Ph.D. Programs, Fellowships:

Postgraduate Summer Course: “Performing Romani Identities”

Central European University (CEU) in Budapest, Hungary

June 29-July 10, 2015

Application Deadline: February 14, 2015

The Summer School will focus on the nexus between Romani studies and performance, with special attention paid to questions of visual culture and representation. The disquiet around increasing violence against and marginalization of Roma across Europe lends this course a special urgency. The course will focus particularly on the enduring hierarchies, exclusions and stereotypes that Romani communities and individual citizens face in everyday life and in multiple sites and structures of the nation-state. It will explore artistic practice—particularly in the area of performance—with any eye toward openings for disruption and contestation, and will analyze the Romani histories across Europe and globally through the prism of post-colonial critique and the possibilities of decolonization.

For more information: http://summer.ceu.hu/sites/default/files/course_files/Romani-flyer-2015.pdf .

Financial aid is available.

 Ph.D. Studentships at the University of Edinburgh

The Graduate School of Social and Political Science is offering up to 11 funded Ph.D. studentships including in the discipline of Social Policy.

We welcome applicants with a 2.1 equivalent or higher in their first degree and/or a Master’s degree.

Deadline for receipt of applications: Tuesday 3rd February 2015 at 5pm (GMT) (an application to study must have been submitted prior to this date)

Apply for the PhD here:
http://www.sps.ed.ac.uk/gradschool/prospective/phd_programmes

And apply for the Studentships here:
http://www.sps.ed.ac.uk/gradschool/applicants/funding/school_scholarships

 

Ph.D. Studentships in Politics, International Studies & Philosophy, Queens University Belfast 

The School of Politics, International Studies & Philosophy at Queen’s University Belfast is pleased to announce a number of funding opportunities for PhD students beginning September 2015. We welcome student proposals in a wide range of scholarly areas, with particular emphasis on the following: Comparative Ethnic Conflict; Governance and Public Policy; International Relations; Contemporary Irish History; Political Theory; Philosophy. Funding opportunities are as follows:

FACULTY OF ARTS, HUMANITIES & SOCIAL SCIENCE PhD STUDENTSHIP AWARDS: Applications are invited from potential doctoral students seeking to undertake projects within the remit of the following thematic areas:

o   Security, Rights and Conflict Transformation

o   Governance and Public Policy

o   Life Course Studies

o   Innovation and Economic Performance

The deadline for applications in these 4 areas is 5pm on 5 February 2015. Applicants must specify within their applications which of the 4 thematic research themes their project will address and must not specify more than one area.

DEL STRATEGIC AWARD “Citizen-Based Post-Conflict Democracy”: The School is offering a PhD studentship to work on an interdisciplinary project in conjunction with the School of Psychology entitled: “Citizen-based post-conflict democracy: Experimentally investigating public support for the resolution of contentious issues by randomly chosen citizens. Students wishing to be considered for these studentships should contact the principle supervisor Dr. John Garry (j.garry@qub.ac.uk), and are required to have submitted a completed application, including research proposals and references, on or before the deadline of 5pm, 5th February 2015.

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Call for Papers and Panels: Rethinking Territoriality – Between Independence and Interdependence

University of Edinburgh, 16-18 September 2015

This conference will bring together, for the first time, the three IPSA research committees to examine different aspects of territoriality evident in the world today. The conference, convened in Edinburgh one year after Scotland’s historic independence referendum, will provide an opportunity to examine the politics of territorial, ethnic and linguistic identity, state traditions and language regimes, the dynamics of federalism and multi-level government, and relations between power and territory in the context of regional integration.

Organizers invite proposals for individual paper contributions or for panels engaging these issues. We welcome case studies and comparison of issues of territoriality evident in any part of the world, as well as papers adopting a theoretical perspective on territorial or identity and language politics. We aim to feature the best of contemporary research on territoriality, including new research by established academics as well as early career scholars.

Proposals for papers should include full contact details (including an email address, mailing address, and affiliation) of the author(s) and an abstract of up to 200 words.

Panel proposals must include:

– a minimum of three papers and a maximum of five.

–  contact details of paper-givers, and (if you have them) the discussant and chair

– Panel title and individual paper titles

– Short description of panel (max 200 words)

Conference languages are English and French. The final deadline for electronic submission of proposals for papers or panels will be 28 February 2015. Proposals should be submitted to: http://form.jotformeu.com/form/42413501455344

 

Call for Submissions: “Nations, history and comparison: a conference on historical sociology and the study of nationalism”

University of Edinburgh, 14-15th of May, 2015.

The University of Edinburgh’s Ethnicity, Nationalism and National Identity Network (ENNIN), in association with the Historical and Comparative Sociology Study Group of the British Sociological Association invite abstracts for a two-day conference entitled “Nations, history and comparison: a conference on historical sociology and the study of nationalism”. This conference is part of the 50-year anniversary of Sociology at the University of Edinburgh, and will be held Thursday and Friday, May 14-15, 2015.

The conference aims at providing a stimulating environment to exchange ideas and build networks in a welcoming setting that encourages interdisciplinary dialogue and approaches. One of the great strengths of historical sociology and the study of nationalism is the breadth of the fields and perspectives that they encompass, and we encourage submissions from all angles and topics which might fall within the frame of historical sociology or the study of nationalism.

Topics might include but are not limited to:

  • Nationalism and Power
  • Nationalism and Violence
  • Why History matters
  • Methodology
  • Regional sections: Latin America, Middle East, South East Asia
  • Describing and Explaining Social Processes
  • New Directions in Historical Sociology
  • Bridging the gap between the Macro and Micro in Historical Sociology

Confirmed speakers include:

  • Professor Donald Bloxham, School of History, Classics and Anthropology, University of Edinburgh
  • Professor Lindsay Paterson, Department of Social Policy, University of Edinburgh
  • Professor Roland Dannreuther, Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, University of Westminster
  • Professor Jonathan Hearn, Department of Sociology, University of Edinburgh

Abstracts of 250-300 words to be e-mailed to ennin.rg@ed.ac.uk by Thursday, January 30th 2015. The proposals should include your name, contact details and institutional affiliation.

Final decisions and general registration for the conference will begin in February.

 

Call for Papers: Modes and forms of insurgency in the contemporary world: an inquiry into the causes and consequences of non-state governance and their relevance to current world affairs

Section of the Conference / The Worlds of Violence / 9th Pan-European Conference on International Relations

Wednesday 23-Saturday 26 September 2015, Giardini Naxos, Sicily, Italy

Organised by the European International Studies Association and the University of Catania

Chairs:  Abel Polese (Tallinn University), ap@tlu.ee Donnacha Ó Beacháin (Dublin City University) donnacha.obeachain@dcu.ie

Recent events in Ukraine and Syria are only the ultimate expression of a tendency that we have observed, with regularity and in very different regions of the world. Although under-researched thus far insurgency has emerged as a major phenomenon of recent years. In this panel we understand insurgency in a dynamic manner and as a name for several points on a spectrum. The most visible expressions of insurgency are, in our view, the more or less successful attempts to separate administratively from a state as has occurred in Georgia, Sudan and more recently in Ukraine. There are, however, intermediate situations leading to more autonomy, the emergence of local or sub-national forces claiming control over either a territory, a sector, or challenging the competence of a state in a given field (economy, police, judiciary) that this section seeks to explore.

The aim of this section is to explore economic, political and judicial aspects of insurgency, here intended as a multi-faceted phenomenon affecting one or more competencies of a state. The goal is to establish a dialogue based not only on a variety of geographically diverse case studies but also to concentrate on a particular aspect of insurgency and, equally important, to study pre-insurgency situation or situations that might, or might not, lead to insurgency such as insubordination in a particular field (informal governance, security or networks progressively, but still marginally, taking over state competencies in a given region)

Organizers welcome submissions that relate to the following themes:

-Insurgent governance in the former USSR and the role of Russia in the region: Although insurgency is a worldwide phenomenon, the frequency and intensity observed in the former USSR in recent years sheds light on new tendencies. By examining the various forms of insurgency we plan to explore also the role of Russian foreign policy and its capacity to stabilize/destabilize the region.

-Informality and forms of pre and micro insurgency: Underneath the widely reported insurgency that claims control over a portion of a state or a territory there is a myriad of micro opportunities for small-scale insurgency that could, but also could not, evolve into macro insurgency. We refer here to private militia, criminal networks but also less visible phenomena such as informal local governance or informality (in economic activities, judicial courts, informal connections and networks growing to become a major voice in the politics and policies of a given territory without formally taking control of it)

-Winners and losers of insurgency: warlords and fear-based organizations: In spite of the general understanding that war and violence bring more damage than benefits there are categories of people and sectors benefiting from insurgency, especially when this escalates into violence. This panel would explore phenomena such as warlords and the political and power advantages for certain groups, or even countries, in insurgency situations

Other possible topics for papers might include, but are not confined to:

– Business development and the economic policy of insurgency

-Proxy militias, non-traditional warfare and their role in foreign policy

-The relationship between social capital, civil society and insurgency

Please send an abstract, indicating which panel you intend to participate in, and a short bio to:

Abel Polese (Tallinn University), ap@tlu.ee Donnacha Ó Beacháin (Dublin City University) donnacha.obeachain@dcu.ie

For more information, please visit http://www.paneuropeanconference.org/2015/

The deadline for receiving abstracts is January 15th, 2015.

 

Upcoming Conference: Images of Identity: International Symposium at the University of Zurich

30-31 January 2015, Switzerland

Words and images have always been used to fashion, refashion and challenge identities. In the age of discovery, written and visual texts combined to negotiate identities of self and other; the nineteenth and twentieth centuries saw an explosion of visual technologies. In the early twenty-first century, our lives have become more permeated by multimedial texts and images than ever before.

This two-day symposium hosted by the English Department at the University of Zurich aims to explore the constitution of personal, national and cultural identities at the intersection of the verbal and the visual. It will focus on the multiple relations between identities, words and images, addressing issues such as visual culture, transmediality, iconicity, and the materialities of words and images.

Keynote speakers

Prof. Dr. Kath Woodward (Milton Keynes)

Prof. Dr. Chris Morash (Dublin)

“Nationalism: Diversity and Security”: ASEN Conference 2015

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ASENConference201521st-23rd April 2015 at the London School of Economics and Political Science

This call for papers is also available to download as a PDF, as is a poster advertising the conference.

Nationalists are concerned that the nation should be secure from both external and internal threats. When the state is regarded as a nation-state, these threats are turned into issues of national security and integrity. On the one hand, there are perceived external threats from other states and non-state entities such as international criminal groups and international terrorism. On the other hand, minorities and immigrants may be perceived as internal threats, which do not recognise the legitimacy of the nation-state or are not regarded as truly belonging the nation. Further, in an age of global migration and porous borders it becomes increasingly important to define both who belongs to the nation and from whom they should be protected. This conference considers how both internal and external threats are becoming ever more connected and changing the nature of national security and diversity in nation-states.

Each of the three days of the conference will be punctuated by plenary sessions consisting of presentations from two distinguished academics. The first plenary usually has a theoretical and general focus; the second an historical one; and the third is concerned with contemporary and policy issues. Each provide different perspectives on the conference’s central theme of the relationship between nationalism, security and diversity.

Those wishing to take part in the conference are encouraged to reflect on the many different forms that nationalism, diversity and security interact. Below we outline a range of possible themes and questions which might be addressed by those wishing to give a paper to the conference.

Please submit your abstract online by 15 Decemeber at asen.ac.uk/submit-an-abstract/.

Your abstract should be no longer than 250 words and include your name, institutional affiliation and title, when appropriate. Please ensure that you highlight how your paper relates to the conference theme and the central questions it asks.

The nation-state, national minorities and citizenship

  • Is diversity a problem for nation-states? If so, how new is this? What changes have resulted in diversity being framed as a problem?
  • How have majority/minority relationships been established before and within the nation-state?
  • Are national minorities inherently a security concern?
  • Do national minorities generate new forms of nationalism?
  • What role does citizenship play when it comes to security and/or national minorities?
  • Do national minority policies help or hinder security?
  • Is multiculturalism necessary for security in diverse nation-states?
  • What role does integration play in the relationship between the nation-state and the citizen?
  • What role do national institutions play in securing the state?
  • How do political parties respond to questions of minority and security?
  • Do far-right groups represent an attempt to return to the essence of nation-states?

 Immigration and security

  • How and why does mass migration come to be regarded as a cultural or an economic or a political threat?
  • What is the relationship between nationalism and immigration?
  • Why do particular immigrant groups come to be regarded as a cultural or an economic or a political threat?
  • Does the concern with immigration and immigrants generate new kinds of nationalism?
  • Do refugees and asylum-seekers pose challenges for nationalism?
  • Is statelessness the ultimate form of insecurity?
  • What is the relationship between statelessness and nationalism?
  • Is immigration policy a manifestation of nationalism?
  • Do diaspora communities reinforce nationalism in both ‘host’ and ‘origin’ communities?

International relations and transnational dimensions

  • How do theories of securitization and of nationalism relate to each other?
  • When it comes to self-determination, is nationalism itself securitized?
  • How do transnational organizations such as the UN and the EU affect nationalism? How do they affect perceptions of and strategies for national security?
  • What impact does the international human rights framework have on nationalism?
  • Are human rights compatible with nationalism?
  • Is sovereignty still a valid concept? How does it relate to the concept of national security?
  • How do nation-states claim responsibility for co-nationals in other states? Can this create problems of national security?
  • Is international terrorism a threat to national security? Is it itself a new form of nationalism?
  • What is the relationship between globalization, nationalism and security?
  • How do non-state entities (criminal groups, diasporas, radical Islamists, etc.) make claims upon national minorities or immigrant groups? How do nation-states respond to such claims?
  • Can nationalism ever be truly international?
  • Must the security of one nation-state be secured at the cost of the security of others?

Please email conference@asen.ac.uk if you have any queries.

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Call for Papers

Identity, Ethnicity and Nationhood before Modernity: Old Debates and New Perspectives

Date: 24–26 April, 2015

Location: The Oxford Centre for Research in the Humanities, UK

The organizing committee of the conference ‘Identity, Ethnicity and Nationhood before Modernity: Old Debates and New Perspectives’ invites paper proposals from prospective speakers.

In spite of the flow of publications over the last thirty years on ancient and medieval ethnicity and national identity, modernism—the view that nationhood is an essentially modern phenomenon and was non-existent or peculiarly unimportant before the eighteenth century remains the dominant paradigm in ethnicity and nationalism studies. We believe it is time to reopen this debate. Scholars working on pre-modern collective identities too often avoid the challenge of modernism, either by using allegedly unproblematic terminology of ethnicity or by employing the vocabulary of nationhood uncritically. This conference, therefore, aims at tackling these difficult theoretical issues head on. This can only truly be achieved by bringing together a range of researchers working on ancient, late antique, early medieval, high medieval, late medieval, and early modern ethnicity and nationhood. Thus we hope to reinvigorate discussion of pre-modern ethnicity and nationhood as well as to go beyond the unhelpful chronological divisions which have emerged through surprisingly fragmented research on pre-modern collective identities. Overall, our conference’s goal is to encourage systemic conceptual thinking about pre-modern identity and nationhood and to consider the similarities and differences between the construction and use of ethnic and national categories both within those periods and in comparison with modernity.

The conference welcomes papers from classics of all periods of ancient, medieval and early modern history, including also oriental, sociology, social anthropology, and literary studies. The organizing committee also invites papers from modernists that aim to compare pre-modern and modern ethnicity and nationhood. Priority will be given to papers that situate their particular studies within the broader conceptual debate on pre-modern and modern identity.

The keynote lectures will be given by Caspar Hirschi, Len Scales, Walter Pohl, Susan Reynolds and Tim Whitmarsh. To stimulate the discussion our keynote lectures will be responded to by the leading experts on modern national identity and nationalism Monica Baár, Stefan Berger, John Breuilly and Oliver Zimmer, as well as Azar Gat, the author of a recent book on the long history of ethnicity entitled Nations: The Long History and Deep Roots of Political Ethnicity and Nationalism.

Prospective speakers are invited to submit abstracts of approximately 300 words. Submissions should include name, affiliation and contact details. The deadline for submissions is 1 November 2014. For more information about the conference or to submit an abstract, please email the committee at: ilya.afanasyev@history.ox.ac.uk; nicholas.matheou@pmb.ox.ac.uk

The conference organizers intend to publish selected papers from the conference as a special journal edition.

The conference is supported by the Oxford Research Centre for the Humanities (TORCH) and Oxford’s Faculty of History.

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Upcoming Conference

Identities and Identifications: Politicized Uses of Collective Identities

The Second Euroacademia International Conference

Location: Villa Vittoria – Palazzo dei Congressi, Florence, Italy

Conference Date: 17–18 October 2014

Conference description:

Identity is one of the crown jewels in the kingdom of ‘contested concepts’. The idea of identity is conceived to provide some unity and recognition while it also exists by separation and differentiation. Few concepts were used as much as identity for contradictory purposes. From the fragile individual identities as self-solidifying frameworks to layered in-group identifications in families, orders, organizations, religions, ethnic groups, regions, nation-states, supra-national entities or any other social entities, the idea of identity always shows up in the core of debates and makes everything either too dangerously simple or too complicated. Constructivist and de-constructivist strategies have led to the same result: the eternal return of the topic. Some say we should drop the concept, some say we should keep it and refine it, some say we should look at it in a dynamic fashion while some say it’s the reason for resistance to change.

If identities are socially constructed and not genuine formations, they still hold some responsibility for inclusion/exclusion – self/other nexuses. Looking at identities in a research oriented manner provides explanatory tools for a wide variety of events and social dynamics. Identities reflect the complex nature of human societies and generate reasonable comprehension for processes that cannot be explained by tracing pure rational driven pursuit of interests. The feelings of attachment, belonging, recognition, the social processes of values formation and norms integration, the logics of appropriateness generated in social organizations are all factors relying on a certain type of identity or identification. Multiple identifications overlap, interact, include or exclude, conflict or enhance cooperation. Identities create boundaries and borders; define the in-group and the out-group, the similar and the excluded, the friend and the threatening, the insider and the ‘other’.

The Second Euroacademia International Conference ‘Identities and Identifications: Politicized Uses of Collective Identities’ aims to scrutinize the state of the art in collective identities research, to bring once more into debate the processes of identity making, identity building in both constructivist or de-constructivist dimensions. It is the aim of the conference to open the floor to dynamic multi-dimensional and inter-disciplinary understanding of identities today.

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