Conferences

AN INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON

IDENTITY POLITICS ON THE INTERNET

Kenya June 7-10

Call for papers:

CALL FOR PAPERS
AN INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON
IDENTITY POLITICS ON THE INTERNET
The Institute of Identity Research (IDmap) is an institute dedicated to acquire comparative data and build qualitative and quantitative analysis on the topic of Identity. Its projects are especially interested in how the ideas of multilevel identities and their structural manifestations impact and shape people’s daily lives. Thus, the aim of the Conference is an examination of processes of becoming an ethnic entity. Central to the projects is the acknowledgement that ethnicity intersect with other primary identities such as gender, class, sexuality and nationality, necessitates the exploration of social and identity cleavages within ethnically defined communities.
Once launched on-line these identities change their nature becoming inclusive, transparent, amorphous and fluid. There are no more national borders of the modernity, old tribes and connections replace them instead. There are no communists, capitalists, socialists but old religious believes take their place. Computer software and ideas build and demolish human-built new associations as in Facebook or MySpace. System administrator and site-manager are given power of the judge when by their will they decide whether a certain message will be shown to the public or whether it be deleted. The power and freedom granted by the Internet are so overwhelming, that the governors and politicians strive to restrict these freedoms by the rules, censorship and laws for browsing the Internet.
In light of the foregoing, IDmap wishes to invite your participation and personal contribution at an international conference on Identity Politics on the Internet to be held in Kenya on the 5th to 10th of June 2009. The aim of the Conference is to create discourse in the area of Identity politics on the Internet and other related topics.
The Conference will be graced by several leading scholars who have written and researched extensively on issues of Identity. We hope that this conference will result in solutions and better understanding of the problems facing issues of identity in the contemporary context.
We thus open the Call for Papers for this Conference:
You can submit your papers on the following format: Go to our website and go through the Theme Statement
Make sure that you read and understand the Participation Rules
Review the Submission Guidelines. Then, follow the submission instructions below:

Submission Instructions

System Requirements	Email address, MyIDMap login, and Internet access.
How to Submit	1. Login to IDmap using the login boxes found at the top of all site pages. 2. Scroll to the 2009 Annual Meeting area of the page 3. Click on the "Submit a Proposal" link Each submission requires a brief abstract. We recommend that you compose your abstract in Word or other word processing software and then cut and paste it into the submission form. Panel Organizers: See Additional Requirements for Panel Submissions, below.
Email Confirmation	All proposals will receive a unique ID number and email confirmation within 24 hours. Please contact the IDMap office at (email) if you do not receive an email confirmation of your submission within 24 hours. *You can also login to MyIDMAP to review submission and status.*
Deadline	March 15, 2008, midnight EST
Notification	APSA will email all proposal authors in March 2009 regarding the status of their submissions.

Please review call then submit
The dead-line for submission is 20 of February 2009.
The panels of the Conference are:
Kenyan 2007 Presidential elections and the Internet
Traditions and Identity in Kenyan politics: Barak Obama as a Lou representative of Kenyan identity politics
Facebook and Identity: do old ethnicity definitions still matter?
Parties and recruitment in the digital world
Gender, ethnicity and empowerment: what is better to be a white man or a black woman?
When religion comes to the Internet: the new ways to build religious identity
Government on the Internet: ways to preserve nation-state identity on the Net
Participants can also submit a proposition for a panel to the Conference committee.
Kindly confirm your availability to attend the conference using the address listed above.
The exact venue and charges shall be communicated in due course.
We look forward to your participation.
Yours faithfully

Dr. Marina Shorer-Zeltser, PhD
Principal
Institute of Identity Research (IDmap)