[URBANTH-L]Call for submissions - New blog on migration

Lauren Wagner ucfalbw at ucl.ac.uk
Tue Apr 17 18:43:11 EDT 2007


apologies for cross postings.
ANNOUNCING:

INTER-SECTIONS
intersections.wordpress.com

a new blog on migration, past and present, in all its forms -  
refugee, diaspora, exile, return, temporary, labour, tourist - and  
related issues of identity and community organisation

Our mission: to provide a moderated forum for sharing ideas,  
impressions, commentaries, reactions, and announcements from scholars  
alongside community voices. Submissions to Inter-sections might  
include text, sound, images or video and can be any length from one  
paragraph to a working paper (suggested length: 1000-1500 words). The  
site is intended not as a peer-reviewed journal, but as a community  
resource and space for dialogue.

For our inaugural edition, we are inviting Submissions that offer  
reflections on and reactions to Recent Public Events on migration.  
Subjects might include:

RECENT:

- 'Belonging: Voices of London's Refugees', exhibition at the Museum  
of London, 26 October 2006 - 25 February 2007 http:// 
www.museumoflondon.org.uk/English/EventsExhibitions/Special/Belonging/

- 'Diaspora, Migration and Identities' postgraduate conference in  
Leeds, 13-14 December 2006 http://www.diasporas.ac.uk/Postgrad% 
20Page.htm

- Exhibitions about the slave trade and its abolition (eg. Slave  
Britain Exhibition at St Paul's Cathedral, 'Uncomfortable Truths' at  
the V&A, Re-opening of the Wilberforce House Museum in Hull) http:// 
www.slavebritain.org.uk/

http://www.vam.ac.uk/uncomfortable_truths/index.html

http://www.hull.ac.uk/wise/wilberforce_house.html

- 'Neo-colonial Mentalities in Contemporary Europe? Language and  
Discourse in the Construction of Identities' conference, 23-24  
February 2007, University of London http://igrs.sas.ac.uk/events/ 
conf_neocolonial1.htm

- Refugee Council conference on the future of asylum in the UK, 7  
March 2007 http://www.refugeecouncil.org.uk/news/press/2007/march/ 
20070307.htm

- 'Identity Formation', postgraduate conference, 4 April 2007, School  
of Languages, Linguistics and Cultures, University of Manchester  
http://www.llc.manchester.ac.uk/Research/Conferences/Identityformation/

FORTHCOMING:

- Symposium on Refugee Narratives, 20 April 2007 http://www.uel.ac.uk/ 
cnr/documents/SymposiumonRefugeeNarratives.doc



Please send all work to intersectionsblog at gmail.com no later than  
Friday 4 May 2007.
If you are submitting larger media files, please compress as much as  
possible or provide a link for viewing.



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