The 3rd International Conference, Cultural Difference and Social Solidarity Conference on “Making, Re-presenting and Dissembling Differences and Identities in Contemporary Societies” will be held on the campus of Middle East Technical University – Northern Cyprus Campus. The conference will be held July 2-Friday, July 5, 2013.
The main themes for which papers are sought are:
-Applying and critiquing theories of difference
-Dissembling and re-presenting gender: constructions of difference and/or solidarity
-Making solidarities in the context of difference
-Refugees, difference, law and media representations
-Culture and politics in representations of identity and difference
-Digital media and the making/dissembling of social movements
-Representing multilingualism in the linguistic landscape
-States, sectional interests and regulatory regimes: managing difference
-Culture, art, literature, film and the performance of difference
-The role of technologies in making representations of difference and solidarity
-Representations of difference or re-presentations of difference: The problem of representation
-Language hierarchies in social space
-Cultural products and the reinforcement or dissolution of differences – the problem of consumption
-Difference and the construction and deterioration of communities
-Difference and technology: the changing representation of identity and difference
More information about the conference can be found at the website.