The conference will provide a crucial and critical learning space for activating human rights and peace in relation to the fields of law, justice, culture, humanities, education, politics, spirituality and health. A major focus of the conference is to invite participants to exchange ideas and experiences about human rights, questions of peace and their implications across these fields.

Hoy nosotros somos testigos del renacimiento de la controversia entre el universalismo y el relativismo. El relativismo niega que la ética pueda decirnos la verdad sobre lo que debemos hacer o cómo debemos vivir y niega que pueda haber principios de conducta universales que deban recomendarse a todos los seres humanos racionales. El universalismo absolutista afirma que existen valores universales con independencia de las culturas particulares. Contra la pretensión del universalismo absolutista se ha aducido que los valores universales son no solamente un concepto occidental específico, sino también, un instrumento de dominación política y cultural. Esta crítica al universalismo puede ser justa y puede ser cierto que la retórica de los valores universales sirve a veces para ocultar las pretensiones de una cultura de dominar a otras. Pero es posible que esa crítica sea injustificada y que la acusación de dominio colonial sea empleada ideológicamente para ocultar los intentos de las culturas particulares para conseguir una dominación y opresión sin límites de grupos de la propia población. Frente a esta situación, una de las preguntas filosóficas básicas es la de si puede haber una base mínima de criterios comunes para que dos o más culturas se comuniquen.

• Political theory
• Ethnography
• Sociology of religions
• International relations theory
• History
• Post-colonial studies
• Political economics
• Political science

• Rituals of arrival and contact
• Crossings, the art of the crossroads
• Spirituality and identity
• Language rituals
• Globalization and the spirit
• Indigenous spiritualities
• Rituals of conflict, rites of rebellion
• Virtual realities, virtual spiritualities
• (Spiritual) Tourism
• Rituals, substances and sacred geographies
• The spirit of music
• Cultures of reconciliation
• Storytelling
• Crossroad deities and divination
• Geographies of the body and spirit

The primary focus of the conference is to interrogate storytelling, memories and identity constructions from a wide range of perspectives, and in their manifold cultural and social manifestations. There will be a special focus on »Border Cultures, Multi-Culturalism, Diasporas and Cosmopolitanism«. Papers representing interpretative approaches in the humanities and social sciences, as well as papers addressing creative historical and political memory, remembering and forgetting of the past, as well as translations between cultures and re-negotiations and re-constructions of cultural identities in one one way or another are particularly welcome.

Researching violence and conflict can be challenging for a variety of reasons, including security risks to researchers and informants, restricted or lack of access to informants and field sites, deterioration of the reliability of official data, and the unpredictability of the level of security in the research environment. Traditional methodological approaches (participant observation, surveys, random sampling, etc.) may not be usable without significant adaptation, and new methods may be called for. In addition, such research carries ethical challenges about how informants and information should be represented so as to protect the confidentiality of sources and to minimize the risks that the research may be used for ends which could ultimately bring harm to subjects.

• Emotions and Feelings (in memoriam Robert C. Solomon)
• Heidegger, Nietzsche and Asian Philosophy
• Comparative Hermeneutics
• Variations on the Middle Way
• Indian Philosophy
• Chinese Philosophy

1. Defining and Grasping the Concept of Diasporas
2. Migration, Settlement and Identity
3. Culture, Belonging and Collective Imaginations
4. Institutions and Diasporas

• Understanding
• Work, Labor, Creation
• Religious and Secular Institutions in the Contemporary World
• Discourse and Dissent
• Work, Technology and Family
• Revisioning Technology
• Tradition and Memory
• Multiculturalism and Philosophy
• Human Nature and Human Habitats
• Philosophy and Everyday Life
• Authenticity, Autonomy, and Authority: Problems of Authority in the Contemporary World
• Intersubjectivity: Self, Other, and Lifeworld
• Time, History, and Social Change
• Philosophical Issues in the Contemporary World
• Philosophy and Humanistic Studies
• Culture and Ethics
• Power, Law and the Possibility of Peace
• Applying the Virtues
• The Relevance of Philosophy
• Justice and Identity in a Global Context

1. Teoría, enfoques y métodos de la religión
2. Las dimensiones del hecho religioso
3. Las dimensiones simbólicas de las religiones y las etnicidades
4. Los cambios religiosos
5. La evangelización de América Latina
6. La herencia de la evangelización: el catolicismo latinoamericano
7. El pluralismo católico
8. El complejo mundo evangélico
9. Viejas y nuevas religiónes autóctonas
10. Religiones tradicionales no cristianas en América Latina
11. Las religiónes surgidas en el contexto norteamericano
12. Movimientos religiosos contemporáneos en América Latina
13. Historia de las organizaciones religiosas y paraeclesiásticas en América Latina
14. Religiones, oralidades y »literaturas«
15. Políticas públicas, derechos y libertades religiosas
16. Religión y política
17. Religión y cuestiones de género
18. Religión y educación
19. Religión y medios de comunicación de masa
20. Religión, conflicto y trasformaciones culturales

The conference intends to promote a broader, comparative approach to the themes of justifying war and the ›just war‹, drawing on social, political, military, cultural and economic studies from the Napoleonic Wars of the 19th century through to the current war in Iraq. While the conference is mainly historical in focus, there is naturally a contemporary resonance between the experience of past efforts to justify war and more recent activities, notably in the Middle East and Eastern Europe.

1. GM
2. Cooperative and Sustainable Development
3. Environmental Education and Intellectual Health
4. Citizenship, Technological Innovation and Sustainability

Terrorism is becoming the major national and international security threat. Security threats, organized crimes, terrorism and cyberterrorism have all crossed boarders without natural permission. Hence no single state can encounter all of these threats alone. Individuals, more than states threaten national security, whereas state power and control have been delimited. Threats to security can be internal, external and transnational. International wars, and conflict, terrorism, weapons of mass destruction, organized crimes, cyberterroism, informational crime, are some example. The conference intends to assist in deriving a common global agenda for encountering terrorism and the protection of the human rights in the world.

• Cultural Diversity (multiculturalism), integration and democracy: (re)interpreting human rights in a multicultural society
• National identities, minorities and democracies: (re)defining collective decision-making areas in the European context

• Meaning and Communication
• Frames of Reference for the Humanities
• Agendas for the Humanities
• The Humanities in Practice

• Human Security and Development
• African Peace Building
• Peace Research in Latin America
• Listening to the Middle East
• Peace and Intellectual Solidarity
• Effective Nonviolent Policy-Making
• Youth and Conflict/Peace
• Celebrating the Founders of Peace Research
• Faith in Peace

The congress is being designed to address multidisciplinary issues within the broadly defined fields of anthropology and ethnology. On the short and long term, the organizers expect to promote academic and personal contacts between scholars from all over the world who have little opportunity to meet elsewhere. They are making an effort to invite and promote the interaction of colleagues and students from Third Word countries, especially those from South East Asia.

Im Zentrum von Martin Bubers Konzeption einer Dialogphilosophie, die vom Ich des Einzelnen ausgeht, steht die Anerkennung der anderen Person als Gegenüber und als unmittelbares Du. Wissenschaftler aus den Bereichen der Geistes- und Kulturgeschichte verzeichnen für die letzten Jahrzehnte ein wachsendes Interesse an den verschiedensten Formen von dialogischem Denken. Aktuelle theoretische Debatten in unterschiedlichen Disziplinen zeugen von einem wachsenden Stellenwert des dialogischen Denkens. Wie diese Debatten zeigen, genießt die Dialogik eine beherrschende Relevanz in der Philosophie und kritischen Theorie, aber auch im weiten Bereich von Literatur, Kultur und Sozialwissenschaften sowie in den Rechtswissenschaften, der Religionswissenschaft und der Theologie.

• Nuclear terrorism
• Cosmic threats such as supernova, comets and asteroids
• The long term fate of the universe
• Pandemics
• Nanotechnology
• Ecological disasters which drastically reduce biodiversity
• Climate change
• Biotechnology and biosecurity
• The cognitive biases associated with making judgements in the context of global catastrophic risk
• Social collapse
• The role of the insurance industry in mitigating and quantifying risk

• Islam and the challenges of globalization
• Philosophy and the dialogue among East, Islam, and the West
• Philosophy and the intercultural conflict
• Philosophy and theories that established nations
• Philosophy and the claims of liberty and democracy
• Philosophy and terms promoted by the West but had not been applied to the East
• Philosophy: its role in Imperial Hegemony
• Man in Eastern thought and Western thought
• Islamic mysticism and peace

• Why have diasporas happened?
• What happens to social and cultural practices (textual, visual, linguistic, musical) when they are displaced (examples might include francophone cultures in America, and musical cultures in the Caribbean)?
• What happens to local cultures when external social and cultural practices confront them?
• What happens to cultures which have experienced extensive emigration?
• Related questions which focus on the central themes of historical processes of hybridisation/metissage, intertextuality and cultural fusion brought about by migrations of people, ideas and practices, the impact of globalization on the production, consumption, diffusion and reception of cultures and cultural practices, pre-modern nomadism and post-modern nomadologies

Roundtables

• International Order
• Global Justice
• Global Values

Panels

• Contemporary balance(s) of power: material and ideational power
• New wars, conflicts and soft security issues
• Human rights, duties and needs
• Regional integration: formal and informal processes
• Contending perspectives on environmental threats
• Global civil society
• International organizations: the politics of reform and effectiveness
• Geopolitics, geoeconomics and geocultures
• Identity issues and fundamentalism
• Theorizing International Relations: the function and dysfunction of biases and simplicity
• Global patterns of illicit flows: people, money and commodities
• New trends in diplomacy and foreign policy
• The values and pathologies of global pluralism
• Power and Ethics in International Relations
• Contemporary Foreign Policy Strategies of the G6: the USA, the EU, China, India, Brazil and Russia
• Global capitalism, globalization and neoliberal strategies
• Politics of Migration
• Teaching International Relations – techniques and priorities

• The Dynamics of Change: What remains of modernity and why is it no longer adequate for philosophy?
• in defense of modernity: its lasting heritage
• the critique of modernity
• the philosophical dynamics of the transition to a global era
• The Nature of Culture and its Potential as a Philosophical Source
• the subjective turn
• the new awareness of values and virtues, of cultures and civilizations
• the emergence of philosophy from culture
• The Challenge to Philosophy from the Global Interaction of Cultures and Civilizations
• philosophy expanded to global horizons
• philosophy deepened to basic meaning and values
• philosophy and the integration of radical diversity: again, the one and the many

• Examination of the self-understandings of women in diverse culture and societies today
• Critical reflection on the role forms of the family play within women's lives
• Examination of how the perpetuation of tradition and processes of modernization – and tensions between them – affect women's lives within diverse social and historical contexts
• Examination of processes of globalization, their intersections with particularistic forms of inequality for women, and the dilemmas thus faced by emergent global or trans-national feminist movements
• Discussion of biomedical practices, and other uses of science and technology, that may threaten women's rights to bodily integrity and social autonomy
• Analysis of the diversity of cultural norms that give rise to images of women in various forms of representation and self-expression, ranging from art, to religion, to the media

• Identity, land and ways of living
• Demographics
• Indigenous rights to and perspectives on development
• Untapped potential of indigenous peoples

Plenary Sessions

• Rethinking Moral, Social and Political Philosophy: Democracy, Justice and Global Responsibility
• Rethinking Metaphysics and Aesthetics: Reality, Beauty and the Meaning of Life
• Rethinking Epistemology, Philosophy of Science and Technology: Knowledge and Culture
• Rethinking History of Philosophy and Comparative Philosophy: Traditions, Critique and Dialogue

Symposia

• Conflict and Tolerance
• Globalization and Cosmopolitanism
• Bioethics, Environmental Ethics and Future Generations
• Tradition, Modernity and Post-modernity: Eastern and Western Perspectives
• Philosophy in Korea

Sections for Contributed Papers

• Aesthetics and Philosophy of Arts
• Ancient Philosophy
• Applied Ethics
• Approaches to Philosophy
• Bioethics and Medical Ethics
• Buddhist Philosophy
• Business Ethics
• Comparative Philosophy
• Confucian Philosophy
• Ethics
• Human Rights
• Images and Symbols
• Logic and Philosophy of Logic
• Medieval Philosophy
• Metaphysics
• Modern Philosophy
• Ontology
• Persons and Identity
• Phenomenology
• Philosophical Anthropology
• Philosophical Hermeneutics
• Philosophy of Cognitive Science
• Philosophy of Communication and Information
• Philosophy and Economics
• Philosophy and Environment
• Philosophy and Future Generations
• Philosophy and Gender
• Philosophy and Literature
• Philosophy for Children
• Philosophy in Africa: Contemporary Issues
• Philosophy in Asia and the Pacific: Contemporary Issues
• Philosophy in Europe: Contemporary Issues
• Philosophy in Latin America: Contemporary Issues
• Philosophy in North America: Contemporary Issues
• Philosophy of Action
• Philosophy of Culture
• Philosophy of Education
• Philosophy of History
• Philosophy of Language
• Philosophy of Law
• Philosophy of Mathematics
• Philosophy of Mind
• Philosophy of Natural Sciences
• Philosophy of Nature
• Philosophy of Religion
• Philosophy of Social Sciences
• Philosophy of Sport
• Philosophy of Technology
• Philosophy of Values
• Social and Political Philosophy
• Taoist Philosophy
• Teaching Philosophy
• Theory of Knowledge
• Time and Memory

• The diversified nature of Izutsu's legacy (linguistic, philosophy, mysticism etc.)
• Linguistics, hermeneutics and religious discourses
• Contemporary approaches to the study of the Qur'an
• Semantics and conceptual analysis of the Qur'anic discourse
• Toshihiko Izutsu's thesis of meta-philosophical foundations of dialogue between civilizations and cultures
• Convergence and divergence between Izutsu's Islamic scholarship and tradition of Orientalism
• Impact of Izutsu's legacy on Qur'anic and Islamic studies
• Izutsu and beyond, toward a new research program in the study of Qur'an and Islam

• Otherness in Cultural Representation
• Hybridity, Creolization, and the Global other
• Memory, History, Trauma, and Otherness
• Ethics, Responsibility, and the Other
• Sexuality, Gender, the Body and the Other
• M/other / Sm/other: Engendering Otherness
• Ambivalence and Otherness: Mimicry and Menace
• Absolute Otherness vs. Self-Same Other
• Monstrosity, Spectrality and Terror of the Other
• Uncanny or Abject Others; or The Familiar Other
• The Sublime or the Unimaginable Other
• Malignant Otherness: Madness/Sadness
• Healing Otherness: Sanity and Suffering
• Pathography: Voicing the Otherness of Pain

Borders define the imaginative territories of the mind, the nation state and the cultural text at the very moment that they reveal their porosity. The figure of the border suggests a world of related metaphors with which literature and other arts approach the boundaries of texts, discourses and disciplines. We encourage papers that freely interpret the border and the figure of the border, including explorations of sovereignty, power, self and other. Proposals for papers might address the poetry and politics of frontiers, watchtowers, border conflict, and encounters with the foreign; or thresholds, the »rough edges« of maps, »cartographic silence« and No Man's Land. We also encourage explorations of »invisible geographies«, of the concealed and the spectral.

• Economy and Ecology
• Environmental Ethics
• Risk Societies and Social Philosophy
• Globalization Ethics
• Human Activity and Political Philosophy
• Education and Health

Diversity is a global phenomenon and its challenges to justice and fairness are wide-spread, whether these derive from a history of colonisation, increased movement and migration, or a renewed sectarianism, racism and nationalism. The conference will provide a variety of perspectives on this issue. Contributions to any issue of justice and fairness will be welcome.

• Esotericism
• Mysticism
• Alternative expressions of major religions
• Religions of re-enchantment
• Popular culture religions
• Indigenous religions
• Paganism and Neo-Paganism
• New Religious Movements
• Personalised religion
• Alternative methodologies

• Conflict Analysis: Reflections on Methods and Theories
• Causes and Reasons of Conflict (in cross-cultural perspective)
• Conflict Transformation (in cross-cultural perspective)
• Conflict and Culture
• Conflict and Religion

• Geographical peripheries
• Social peripheries
• Institutional peripheries
• Temporal peripheries

Medical treatment · Animal slaughter · Marriage · Euthanasia · Criminal justice systems · Employment rights · Parental choice · Education · Public use of religious symbols · Adoption · Conscientious objection · Genital mutilation · Narcotics use · Civil disobedience · Environmental policy

The conference shall have two approaches. First, it will comprise papers that explore the nature and significance of Reynolds' intellectual, literary and political legacy by critically assessing his work as a historian of race and nation in both a national and an international context during a period of enormous social and cultural change from the 1960s to the present day. Second, it will comprise papers which are informed by the latest research and which address anew historical questions and historiographical problems regarding the consideration of subjects which Reynolds helped to pioneer, such as the colonial frontier, settler racism, and sovereignty, property and the law.

• Cultural Diversity / After Multiculturalism
• Cities and citizenship
• The politics of citizenship
• Liberal government and the citizen: histories and trajectories
• Arts and cultural policies and citizenship
• Cultures of collecting and citizenship
• Science, technology and citizenship
• Europe and the citizen
• The relationships between religious and secular conceptions of citizenship
• Culture, citizenship and transnationalism
• The media and citizenship
• Post-colonialism and citizenship
• Sexual citizenship

• conceptualising global cultures
• space, place and culture
• borderlands
• patterns of world and »glocal« identities
• global multicultures
• various facets of global transformations of culture, e.g. in consumption, art, music, sport and literary forms
• culture and empire/new imperialism
• cultural economies of globalization

1. Challenging Old Concepts of Self and Other
2. Nations, Nationhood and Nationalisms
3. Institutions, Organizations and Social Movements
4. Persons, Personhood and the Inter-Personal
5. Media and Artistic Representations
6. Transnational Cultural Interlacing of Contemporary Life
7. New Concepts, New Forms of Inclusion

Purpose of the conference is to raise the level, depth, and breadth of public dialogue and awareness on core issues. Explore dimensions and dynamics of »The Other« on both individual and group levels, and consider how enemy identity is formed, perpetuated, and manipulated, including fear-based belief systems, negative stereotypes, projection, prejudice, and scapegoating.

Representations of ›Islam‹ have a profound influence on political cultures and national identities, as well as on attitudes to immigration, security and multiculturalism. The complexity of the notion of ›Islam‹ and the heterogeneous responses that it elicits are such that there is no uniform approach to its representation and social construction. The conference addresses this complexity by treating the comparative dimension of recent representations of Islam, encompassing different nations, political institutions, media institutions, and cultures.

• Philosophical Ideas
• Restoration versus Adaptation
• Flourishing of Non-Human Life
• Equity and Global Justice
• Future Generations

The conference will provide the forum for a critical state of the art exchange between those who work historically and/or systematically on dialogical thought to showcase how a theoretically sharpened understanding provides a critical concept of dialogue as ethical and political commitment that goes far beyond the popular view of dialogue as token affair. Comprehending the historical and theoretical specificity of the contexts in which modern dialogical thought has been developed in the last hundred years provides the critical parameters to attend to the promise made by offering dialogue but that has at the same time too often been betrayed by a practice that erodes the very ethics of dialogue.

• Are institutional reforms on a global scale necessary?
• How far can those reforms reach?
• What risks do those reforms imply?
• What risks does a global state involve?
• What is the link between global justice and a world state?
• Does a world state necessarily result in a global Leviathan or absolute despotism?
• How do global state and democracy relate to each other?
• What is the alternative to a world state?
• To what extent must a world state be federal or confederate, supranational or intergovernmental?
• Can a possible world state be grafted onto existing political models?
• What is the link between the traditional nation state and a world state?

• the meaning of and relationship between »the universality of human rights« and the »primacy of the political«
• the social, political and legal transformations that these meanings articulate
• the extent to which law eschews the political and the political subsumes law
• the ability of law and legal institutions to question and resist such conflations
• the place and responsibility of socio-legal and critical legal scholarship and practice within these transitions

This workshop aims to compare and contrast substantivist and proceduralist approaches to the problem of cultural diversity, and to explore the possibility of synergies between them. What are the relative advantages and disadvantages of each approach, from a theoretical, historical and/or policy-oriented perspective? Is pure proceduralism the only alternative to substantivism, or would it be possible/desirable to endorse more »nuanced« approaches?

• Dimensions of equality that go beyond income equality
• Relationship between (in)equality, inclusion (or exclusion) and human development
• Formal and informal institutions impacting equality and human development, while also mediating to promote inclusion or mitigate/sharpen social conflicts
• Economic inequality and political inequality
• Democracy and Equality
• Locus of equality and inequality: gender, caste, race, religion, ethnicity, etc.
• Policies that aggravate or mitigate the equalities and exclusion

• Constructing Conflict
• Experiencing Conflict
• Managing and Resolving Conflict

• cultural border practices and sociological concepts of cultural belonging
• historical processes of cultural border-marking and negotiation
• economic and political importance of cultural borderings and border zone culture
• discursive, narrative, and symbolic strategies in border culture and border poetics
• the cultural turn in sociogeographical border studies
• cultural practice and social agency in border regions
• border ethics and Kantian »borderology« in a cultural frame
• culture as a source of critical perspectives on borders, justice and exclusion
• psychoanalytic understandings of cultural articulation of border subjectivity
• reflexivity in cultural border discourses and policy
• gender in the cultural production of borders
• the role of media as place of border dialogue
• external and internal borders in culturally mediated migration narratives
• new forms of art in the cultural negotiation of borders
• cultural borderscapes and historical memory
• border festivals, border art projects, border museums and border tourism
• Arctic and Sub-Arctic borders
• the cultural history of the Norwegian-Russian-Finnish borderland

• Dynamism of nation-formation
• ›Canonization‹ of national cultures
• Historical myths and representations
• Overlapping spaces and historical memories
• Shared spaces and everyday life
• Economic interaction, nationalism, and challenges
• Political thought and practice

The conference aims to explore contemporary definitions, meanings and expressions of hope. In particular, it will seek to examine the individual, social, national and international contexts within which hope emerges as well as its counterpart, hopelessness.

Das Fremde kann zum einen als Abstraktum, Idee oder auch als Realität (die Fremde) betrachtet werden. Zugleich findet es immer auch auf die personelle Ebene statt. Die Konferenz soll ein Podium bieten, um die Rolle der Liebe im Kontext von Kontakt und Austausch zwischen fremden Kulturen und ihren Repräsentanten aus der Sicht unterschiedlicher geistes- und sozialwissenschaftlicher Disziplinen zu beleuchten.

• Muslim travellers in Europe and European travellers in the Muslim world
• The role of intermediary groups and minorities
• Cultural, intellectual and technical borrowings
• Global trade and consumption
• Exchange in mixed and border societies
• Print culture and the public sphere
• The coffee house and secular urban culture
• Leisure gardens and the culture of urban recreation
• Postal systems and the culture of correspondence
• Gender issues in transforming urbanity
• Philosophical challenges and continuities
• Religious challenges and continuities
• Shared and parallel modernities

• discourses and debates on migration and social diversity
• reviews of theoretical, social and political approaches to migration and diversity in Asian contexts and development of new approaches
• class, cultural and religious diversity issues
• national and local governance responses to migration and social diversity
• role of cities as nodal points in migratory circulation
• influence of migration and diversity on the material and symbolic landscapes of cities and other localities
• roles of spatial planning and urban/housing policy and design
• labour market segmentation and integration
• sites of encounter – zones between citizens and foreigners
• events and incidents of tension and conflict and of dialogue, civic participation and collaboration
• everyday life experiences of migrants
• media portrayals and discussions of migration and diversity
• integration approaches, pathways and mechanisms
• roles of education, dialogue and collaboration
• civil society, NGOs and civic participation
• rights and responsibilities of migrants and locals
• inter-generational issues of migration, settlement and citizenship/belonging
• imagined communities and senses of being and belonging

• Encounters with the stranger/the Other
• Racism/inter-ethnic solidarity
• Diaspora and diasporic formations/homeland
• ›Contact zone‹ in the postcolonial context
• Tourism and ›contact zones‹
• How do new media and technologies facilitate/inhibit contact?
• Relationships between contact and conflict
• Methodological concerns for the researcher in establishing trust and ›breaking in‹
• Asia Pacific Cultural Studies contact with globalisation

The seminar is one of the final events in the ESRC Research Seminar Series, which has adopted an interdisciplinary approach to ethical dimensions of the war on terror. The seminar will cover the three main themes of the series: politics, multiculturalism and media. The seminar is open to policy-related and practitioner participants as well as academics and research students.

• Emergence and transformation of ethnicity
• Globalization, ethnicity and ethnic strife
• Ethnicity and the state
• Ethnicity and public goods
• Ethnic fragmentation and economic growth
• Privileged and marginalised identities
• Decentering ethnicity
• Factors promoting, or dampening, ethnic violence
• Ethnic strife and identity formation
• Religion versus ethnicity in politics

The symposium will bring into focus Said's politics of reading in diverse fields, from his literary criticism in English to his political columns in Arabic. Analyses of Said's attention to historical displacement, political iniquity alongside issues such as canonicity, memory, and representation, or the interactions between narrative and authority, are especially welcome.

• East-West divide
• Culture and politics
• Longue durée

• Ethnicity-based and race-based stereotyping
• Human rights and ethnic diversity
• Transnational citizenship: fact and fiction
• Multicultural ideals and reality
• Ethnic representations: films, literature, and other mediums
• Comparative analysis: ethnic acceptance in international context
• Ethnicity and the body
• Space/place and ethnicity
• Teaching ethnically
• Gendered ethnicities
• Ethnicity and life writing

• Universality of human rights
• Human rights as politics
• Human rights culture
• Human rights, independence of judiciary, and rule of law
• Implementation of human rights at the international and domestic level
• New challenges to the existing human rights law
• Developing rights (minority rights, humanitarian law, right to water etc.)