Suggested areas:
- The role of collectives in challenging economic inequality and fostering economic autonomy
- Strategies for addressing regional and global conflicts on legal, environmental, and policy issues
- The role of forgiveness in creating peace in newly-independent nation-states
- Possibilities and pathways to creating peaceful and just relations between the state and a diversity of citizens
- An analysis of kinds of power that promote or impede peace
- An analysis of systems of domination or exploitation in today's world that impede movements towards peace
- The role of spirituality in seeking global peace
- An analysis and examination of the relative values and problems of "outsiders" providing assistance (economic, disaster aid, famine relief)
- Moral frameworks that promote peaceful relations (rights-based? Care and compassion-based? Virtue-based?)
- The place of international law and the law of individual nation-states in bringing about more or less peace and justice
- The role of enforceable world law and/or world government in the creation of peace
- An examination of the role that discursive practices play in constructing knowledge/power relations that are more or less conducive to peace
- Methods of peaceful contestations of the dominant categories and boundaries of the political and economic domains

Temas:
1. La universalidad usurpada: El Sistema de Dominación Múltiple
Contenido y categorías centrales:
- Explotación/exclusión: Las nuevas estrategias globales del capital
- Opresión política y legitimación democrática
- Formas de discriminación sociocultural (género, etnia/raza, edades, diferencias regionales y culturales)
- La "injusticia" ecológica: ¿A quién pertenece la naturaleza?
2. Las trampas de la cultura del poder. Sus referentes de significación
3. Crisis civilizatoria y nuevas visiones paradigmáticas
4. América Latina en el nuevo siglo. Realidad neoliberal, discursos de recambio y alternativas emancipatorias
5. Viabilidad de la reforma cubana (mercado, cooperación, democracia y socialismo)
6. Investigación, acción participativa y pensamiento emancipatorio en América Latina: el dilema de la bifurcación de lo micro y lo macro en la construcción popular
7. El sistema de sujetos y actores sociales. Hacia un nuevo paradigma de articulación de las demandas emancipatorias

Description:
  The stark contrast between liberalism and nationalism has been questionned in the 90's by several authors (Yael Tamir, Will Kymlicka, David Miller, Jocelyne Couture et al.) who have persuasively argued that both terms can be conjoined. The conference follows in the wake of these various attempts which have renewed our approach to nationalism.
  By liberal nationalism, we mean the defense of a national identification which defines membership in a nation as the sharing of an encompassing culture. Thus, liberal nationalism should not be confused with "civic nationalism".
  Liberal nationalism faces a real challenge. Contested by those who think that nationalism is necessarily illiberal, it has to overcome an inherent tension. Indeed, it seeks a principle of unity which is "thicker" than citizenship while remaining liberal i.e. recognizing the rights of minority cultures. To explore the various facets of liberal nationalism, we will organize the conference around four interrelated themes which will be approached from two perspectives (political philosophy and political sociology).

Themes:
- Philosophical basis
- What principles of unity?
- Recognition of diversity
- Tentative models

Kurzbeschreibung:
Im Zuge der ökonomischen Globalisierung zeichnet sich in der jüngsten Zeit eine Tendenz zur "Kulturalisierung" sozio-politischer Probleme ab. Die theoretischen Debatten über Prozesse von Selbst- und Fremdzuschreibung kultureller Identitäten knüpft an die traditionellen Problemfelder ethnologischer Methoden an, wobei dem Begriff des Verstehens eine Schlüsselrolle zukommt. Doch was heute angesichts der erneut zunehmenden ethnischen und kulturellen Konflikte darüber hinaus gefordert werden muß, ist eine grundsätzliche Analyse und strukturelle Auseinandersetzung mit Formen und Strategien interkultureller Verständigung. In der Konferenz sollen gerade jene Wissenschaften zu einem gemeinsamen Diskurs zusammengeführt werden, die sich in besonderer Weise mit Problemen der Interkulturalität auseinandersetzten, um die grundlegenden Möglichkeiten und Grenzen sowie die Aufgaben und Perspektiven kulturellen Verstehens und kultureller Verständigung gemeinsam zu erörtern.

Themes:
Papers dealing with the different aspects of African Philosophy, particularly as related to current African issues and problems are welcome.

Description:
The conference invites its participants to rethink the idea, scope and influence of the exotic in the long eighteenth century (1680s - 1830s). The term 'exotic' can be construed broadly. Papers can therefore address topics related to the 'exotic' in a non-geographical sense, as well as those which traverse exoticism's more familiar associations with far-flung geographical, imperial and Oriental domains.

Suggested topics:
- Teaching and learning through a multicultural lens
- High-stakes testing
- Science and race
- Tracking
- Race, ethnicity and the scholastic gap
- The multiethnic classroom
- Diversity initiatives on college campuses and in K-12 schools
- The impact of class rank plans on ethnic diversity on campuses
- School funding
- Ethnic studies in the general education classroom
- Assessing ethnic studies and diversity courses
- University, community, and school relations
- Affirmative action
- Ethnicity and teacher training
- Representing the historical record: origins, migrations, immigrations
- New curriculum models for ethnic studies in the twenty-first century