CALL FOR PAPERS

GEsIPI International Conference

IDENTITY: REPRESENTATION & PRACTICES

11 - 12 September 2014

Faculty of Humanities - University of Lisbon, Portugal

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We are glad to announce that the IDENTITY: REPRESENTATION & PRACTICES conference will take place on the 11 ^th and 12 ^th of September 2014. The conference will be hosted by the University of Lisbon, Portugal.

Identity has been a popular topic in academia and has been reviewed from many different theoretical and methodological angles. The main purpose of this conference will be to assess identities ( i.e.: national; gender; cultural; professional; religious; socio economic etc.) within and across different disciplines (social science, political science, psychology, linguistics, literature, medicine, jurisprudence, and more) and to bring together researchers from different fields of study to establish a dialogue and further advance the state of the art.

We welcome proposals for paper presentations addressing identity across a wide spectrum of expertise/subjects. The topics for paper proposals can include but are by no means limited to the following:

I.            Technologies, literacies and identities

II.            Power, media and governability

III.            Migration, globalization and inequalities

IV.            Communities of practices, knowledge and intercomprehension

V.            Exposure, ostentation and otherness

VI.            Social networks, mobilization and ideologies

VII.            Identity politics, regulation, enforcement and control

VIII.            Arts, performances and consumerism

IX.            Social relations, power and equalities

X.            Ethics, public space and civil rights

XI.            Identities of self, group and interpersonal relationships

Plenary Speakers

Adrian Holliday, Professor of Applied Linguistics at Canterbury Christ Church University, United Kingdom.

Fernando Ramallo, Professor of Linguistics at the University of Vigo, Galicia, Spain. 

Jackie Leach Scully, Professor of Social Ethics & Bioethics at Newcastle University, United Kingdom.

Lia Pappámikail, Professor at the Superior School of Education of the Polytechnic Institute of Santarém and at the Superior School of Education of the Polytechnic Institute of Lisbon, Portugal.

Abstracts Submission

Abstracts of no more than 350 words (including references, if absolutely necessary) are invited. The deadline for submission of abstracts is the 9 ^th June 2014.

Abstracts should not include the name and affiliation of the author(s).

To submit an abstract please use the following web-service:

www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=irp2014

Notifications of acceptance will be communicated by  23 ^rd June 2014. All papers will be allocated 20 minutes.

The language of the conference is English.

Registration Fee

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About GEsIPI

GEsIPI is an interdisciplinary study group interested in promoting the discussion on issues regarding identities and identitary practices. The group organizes workshops and meetings open to the academic community and general public. To follow the latest activities and events of our group, please send an email to gesipilisboa@gmail.com asking to be included in our mailing list.

Organizing committee

Alcina Pereira de Sousa

Ana Raquel Fernandes

Anamarija Marinovic

Carlos A. M. Gouveia

Dulce Martins

Margarita Correia

Maria Krebber

Marta Tagarro

Silvia Frota

Su Ting

Zuzanna Sanches