Co-organized with the TransCoop project Biography and Ethnicity and the Research Committee 38 Biography and Society of the International Sociological Association
The conference will take place in Goettingen, Germany and will focus on the subject of ethnicity and socio-cultural belongings. We will present our TransCoop project, an interdisciplinary and international biographical and ethnographic study, that draws on the disciplines of sociology, social-psychology, anthropology, and conflict resolution.
We invite participants to present papers on different theoretical conceptions and empirical studies on this topic.
In particular we would like to discuss how different life conditions and different societal settings influence the developing sense of collective belongings and their transformations among refugees and immigrants, different social and cultural groups, connections between socio-cultural belongings and gender, and intergenerational aspects of such belonging. In addition to the conference presentations, we will be holding workshops that focus on methods for collecting and analyzing data material relevant to ethnicity and socio-cultural belonging.
Colleagues who wish to present papers or bring data to be discussed in the workshops are asked to send the title of their proposed talk and an abstract of no more that 150 words to by March 1st, 2007.