Thursday, September 3rd, 2015...11:49 am
Center for Conflict Studies invites proposals for its 2015 annual conference
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The Center for Conflict Studies is happy to announce its 2015 annual conference:
Breaking Down Shades of Color: Power, Privilege and Potential in Race Conflict
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This conference aims to highlight the sources, nature and growing incidence of race-based conflicts and the efforts being made to manage, resist and transform these conflicts.
Proposals are invited from graduate students, along with academics and practitioners in conflict studies, peace studies and other related disciplines who can offer perspectives from their empirical research particularly on but not limited to the following conference sub-themes:
1. Race and Ethnicity
2. Race and Religion
3. Race and Immigration
4. Race and Class
5. Race and Gender/Sexuality
6. Race and Academia/Education
7. Race and Culture
8. Race and Arts
9. Race and Language
10. Race and Media
11. Race and Criminal Justice System (Law, Law Enforcement, Prisons)
12. Race and Democracy
13. Race and Slavery
For more information visit: go.miis.edu/race
Guidelines & Deadlines
All proposals, of 400-500 words, together with a bio of 100-150 words, should be submitted using this online form. Please also include your contact details (email and telephone). Proposals must include the specific dates of when empirical research was or will be conducted. All proposals must be received by midnight (PST) on September 30, 2015. Selection of participants will be based on scholarly merit, depth of empirical research and relevance to conference topics. At this time there are no travel scholarships available. All queries should be sent to ccs@miis.edu.
