• violence
• justice
• (il)legalities
• the state
• subjects of local or international rights
• identity

For nearly twenty years now, a debate has raged over the best way to respond to people's desire to have their cultural particularities recognized. A number of important political theories of recognition have therefore emerged, and these have invited a range of further critiques. Yet there have been less direct focus on its logical and necessary opposite: misrecognition. How can it motivate political struggle? Is it necessarily unjust? Does it necessarily inflict psychic harm? And more broadly how might misrecognition impact upon such things as citizenship, intercultural dialogue and gender relations? We also welcome papers reflecting on a wide range of types of social, political and personal experience, and investigating cleavages of nationality, religion, race, gender, ethnicity, class identity, disability, and criminality.

• Minority exclusion and discrimination
• Gender violence: woman as subject and object of totalitarian regimes
• Peace movements and pacifism
• Identity and politics: gender, ethnic and social class
• New conflict opposition forms after Auschwitz and Hiroshima
• Conflicts in the contemporary world
• Biopolitics of field

• Case studies on groups, nations or tribes who agree or refuse to provide samples of their DNA for testing
• The clash between supposedly »hard« science and belief systems opposed to research on the human body
• The fear that genetic testing might uncover mixed origins and thus lead to the loss of identification as an indigenous person or group
• The refusal of genetic determinism
• The belief that identity goes beyond the merely scientific fact of DNA and is not to be questioned by outsiders
• The use of scientific knowledge for the purpose of subjugation or domination throughout modern history
• The relationship between scientific or institutional bodies themselves and the indigenous populations being studied in order to determine how dialogue is established, impaired or even severed

• new directions/new paradigms in trauma studies
• testimony studies
• new media
• new technologies of historical documentation and archivization
• memory as performed and embodied
• memory and the senses
• conceptions of race
• citizenship
• ›bare life‹
• postwar, post-event, post-epochal ›structures of feeling‹ (e.g., post-1918, -1945, -1968, -1989 and -9/11)
• the recent interest in the perspective of perpetrators
• memory and gender
• memory and religion
• colonial, postcolonial, and transatlantic studies
• the study of museums, monuments, and memorials, as well as the practical implications for heritage industries, memorialization and urban planning
• issues of law, justice and reparations
• legal definitions of genocide
• slavery
• the relationship between genocides and other modern atrocities
• memory and terrorism
• the social implications of natural catastrophes and disasters

The convention will explore the theory-vs.–practice division across the various issues. To what extent do academic ideas lead to policy changes? To what extent do human rights, human development, and human security norms matter? Does social science have a role in humanitarian action and intervention? What role do academics have in combating global terrorism? In peacekeeping, peace-building, and peace-enforcement? In foreign-policy decision making? In regulating international trade, investment, and finance? How useful are extant theories of revolution and contentious politics in understanding contemporary local and transnational resistances to the neoliberal order? What are the practical and normative implications of research that suggests democracies do not go to war with one another? Are existing theories of democracy relevant to constitutional design and state-building in democratizing and post-conflict societies? Are there theoretical and practical lessons that regional groupings in Asia, Africa, Latin America, and the Middle East can learn from the regional integration experience of Europe? What are the implications for the study and practice of international politics from the rises in economic power and international influence of China and India? Can alternative theories of international affairs be developed out of non-Western trends and practices?

• Multiculturalisme et tolérance religieuse
• Multiculturalisme et justice
• Multiculturalisme et solidarité

• Globalization, Secularization and Religion – Different States, Same Trajectories?
• Sustainable Waste Management in the Mediterranean Region: Impacts of Socio-economical and Political Factors
• Ottoman Legacies in the Contemporary Mediterranean: the Middle East and the Balkans Compared
• ›Provincializing Europe‹? Towards a Local History of Maghribi Modernity
• Re-examining Federalism and Consociationalism as Constitutional and Political Arrangements for Community Conflicts in Post-Ottoman Lands
• Who is Who in the Balkans Today: Mythmaking and Identity Mutations, 1989-2009
• Socio-economic Dilemma, Cultural Challenges and their International Dimensions
• E-Business: Implications for the North and South of the Mediterranean
• Alternative Publics in the Middle East and North Africa
• EU Democracy Promotion and Electoral Politics in the Arab Mediterranean
• Adriatic Frontiers: Communications Across Cultures, Space and Time
• Gender-Based Violence (GBV) in the MENA Region
• Superpower Rivalry and the Third Way(s) in the Mediterranean
• Rethinking Interethnic Reconciliation in the Western Balkans: Minorities, Borders, Governance
• The Evolving International Role of the GCC Economics
• Governance of the Mediterranean Sea: Meeting the Needs of the Future Today
• Integrating the Western Balkans into the European Union: Overcoming the Political and Economic Constraints