Call for Papers

Conference ‘Citizenship in the 21^st Century: Sociological, Political and Cultural Perspectives’

BSA Sponsored Postgraduate Conference

Hosted by the Postgraduate Research Forum (PGR) at the School of Human and Health Sciences of the University of Huddersfield

On Wednesday the 18^th of June 2014

Citizenship Studies has developed exponentially since the emergence of the two traditional models of citizenship, which emphasized either civil or legal rights, political rights and social rights (following Marshall) or the participation of citizens in civil society (the ‘town hall’ model). More recently, terms such as ‘global citizenship’, ‘media citizenship’, ‘cultural citizenship’, ‘intimate citizenship’, ‘cosmopolitan citizenship’, ‘ecological citizenship’ or ‘transnational citizenship’ have provided contemporary examples of new forms and dimensions of individual and collective citizenship experiences. In this context, a new set of rights, duties and responsibilities have emerged within social, political and cultural communities. Phenomena like migration, new technologies of communication, globalization and transnational experiences have an enormous impact in the creation of these new social categories. This conference seeks to explore some of the key aspects of these new developments in both applied and theoretical citizenship.

Keynote Speakers:

Dr Nick Stevenson (University of Nottingham).

Dr Darren Langdridge (The Open University).

Dr Chris Gifford (University of Huddersfield).

Call for Papers

We are calling for postgraduate students and early career researchers interested in and researching a broad range of issues related to the academic field of citizenship. We are happy to receive abstracts from those who can best demonstrate a critical engagement with these following key themes from a citizenship perspective:

• Race and ethnicity
• Gender and sexuality
• Communication, Democracy and Recognition
• Disability and Health Rights

Abstracts should be no longer than 250 words. We invite papers in the form of 20 minute oral presentations or a poster presentation (the format should be clearly stated in the abstract).  All submissions must include the author/speaker(s) name, title of paper, university or organizational affiliation, and contact information.

The deadline for submission of abstract is Wednesday 23^rd of April 2014. Please email your abstract to the conference organizers at: PGRNetwork@hud.ac.uk with ‘conference abstract’ in the subject line.

There will be two Best Paper Awards to those who show the highest level of excellence in their work. It is intended that this conference may be used as a basis for the development of an edited collection to be published by the University of Huddersfield Press.

You will be notified about whether your paper has been accepted soon after Thursday 1^st of May 2014.

For all informal enquiries please contact: PGRNetwork@hud.ac.uk

Registration costs £10 for BSA members and £25 for non-members and is handled by the BSA events team http://portal.britsoc.co.uk/public/event/eventBooking.aspx?id=EVT10340; early registration is advised as there are a very limited amount of places.