The Centre for the Study of Ethnicity and Citizenship at the University of Bristol organizes an int. conference with the topic „Multiculturalism, Nationalism, Religions and Secularism“ from 8th-12th November.
For twenty years researchers at the University of Bristol’s Centre for the Study of Ethnicity and Citizenship have led debates about Muslims, racisms, multiculturalism, different forms of minority identity, and the place of religion in public life. Its research has spanned the social sciences and this conference will mark the twentieth anniversary of the Centre’s work.
Conference papers can come from sociology, political theory, political science, anthropology and other social sciences as well as disciplines in the humanities such as history and philosophy. Papers can focus on a range of themes such as multiculturalism, national identity, superdiversity, interculturalism, conviviality and everyday multiculturalism, neo-nationalism and populism, ethno-religious
identities, racism and Islamophobia, secular governance and accommodation of religious diversity.
Please submit an abstract of no more than 250 words by 12th August
2019. Abstracts should be submitted to: thomas.sealy@bristol.ac.uk
Decisions will be announced by 19th August 2019. The attendance fee is £35 in total. There are no extra costs for dinner on the evening of the 9 November 2019 and lunch, tea and coffee on both days, as the conference will provide these. Participants will be sent options for accommodation after their paper has been accepted.
Places for speakers are limited. Please direct queries to the conference organisers who are:
Tariq Modood (University of Bristol):
t.modood@Bristol.ac.uk
Varun Uberoi (Brunel University):
Varun.Uberoi@Brunel.ac.uk
Simon Thompson (University of the West of England):
Simon.Thompson@uwe.ac.uk
Further information about the Centre is available at:
http://www.bristol.ac.uk/ethnicity/
