INVITATION

Students’ Seminar

On

REVISITING ETHNICITY AND NATION-BUILDING IN SOUTH, CENTRAL, SOUTH-EAST ASIA & SOUTH-WEST PACIFIC

28^th November 2006, Conference Room 203

10 AM till 4.30 PM

We invite submission of seminar papers that explore all aspects of ethnicity and nation-building from all disciplinary and interdisciplinary perspectives.

The objective of the students’ seminar is to assemble researchers from the area studies of the CSCSEASWPS and to discuss some of the latest scholarship, and chart a future programme of understanding and analysis on issues in ethnicity and nation-building. We are also planning to publish all the articles in the seminar proceedings, which can be used as reference by researchers and students on the issue of ethnicity and nation-building in the region. Among the topics covered will be:

• Theoretical perspectives of ethnicity and nation-building in the contemporary era,
• The legacy of colonialism and its impacts upon politics of ethnicity and nation-building,
• Government policies (economic, education, language, culture, law) which have helped or hindered multiethnic harmony,
• Citizen’s rights in multiethnic societies,
• Ethnonationalism and secessionist movements
• Migration / Diaspora
• The role of media and civil society
• Gender perspective
• Conflict Resolution

The organizers encourage the broadest interpretation of the topic, and the widest application to political phenomena.

Submit a one-page abstract of not more than 500 words, with author and title in heading by 5^th October, 2006. Send materials or inquiries to cscseaswps@gmail.com

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Important Dates

Deadline for paper abstracts submission	5 October 2006
Confirmation of selected abstracts/papers	10 October 2006
Deadline for submission of full length paper	22 November 2006
Seminar Presentation	28 November 2006

ALL ARE INVITED!