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Aviv Cohen
Jan 15, 2014, 2:05:55 AM1/15/14
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Hi,
Just wanted to bring to your attention this opportunity.
Aviv
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Aviv Cohen, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow
The Melton Center for Jewish Education
School of Education
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
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From: Eksner, Helen Julia <julia....@fu-berlin.de>
Date: Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 9:03 AM
Subject: PhD Student Slots and Stipends for Symposium "Religious 'Others,' Schooling, and the Negotiation of Civic Identities"
To: Zvi Bekerman <zvi.be...@mail.huji.ac.il>
Dear Colleagues:
From June 25-28, 2014 we will be holding an interdisciplinary symposium on the topic "Religious 'Others,' Schooling, and the Negotiation of Civic Identities" in Hanover, Germany.
We have by now assembled an interesting and distinguished group of international senior and junior scholars, and are at this point looking for PHD students (doctoral students or recent PhDs) who would be interested in participating.
Though we cannot promise in advance your participation, we invite interested students to submit until January 22, 2014 an abstract (approx. 300 words) of a possible paper presentation. We will be able to offer a final answer by January 25.
If your paper will be accepted, your travel and accommodation expenses will be covered by the organizers.
If you are interested please see following description and send to us your abstract at soon as possible.
http://frontieres.hypotheses.org/1158
Sincerely,
Julia Eksner & Zvi Bekerman
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Julia Eksner, Ph.D.
Adjunct, Program in Intercultural Education
Freie Universität Berlin
Habelschwerdter Allee 45
Room KL 23/236
14195 Berlin
Zvi Bekerman, Ph.D. School of Education, Melton Center
Hebrew University
Jerusalem
Israel, 91905
Fax + 972 2 5322211
Tel + 972 2 5882120
e-mail: zvi.be...@mail.huji.ac.il
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Religious 'Others,' Schooling, and the Negotiation of Civic Identities
Interdisciplinary Symposium
25.06. – 28.06.2014
Summary
The symposium will explore the relationship between hegemonic discourses of citizenship, religio-cultural belonging, and the negotiation of civic identities among religio-cultural minority youths in educational settings. The question of how non-dominant youths negotiate their civic identities as citizens in light of their coexisting religio-cultural identities has been at the center of a heated debate in many modern societies. The ongoing public concern about the resurgence of the religious - and here especially the religious ‘other’ - in the public sphere has led to the emergence of a public debate over how to handle the ‘religious’ in the institutions, civic society, and public sphere of ‘postsecular’ society. The symposium will explore how societal master narratives about secularity, religion/ the religious ‘other,’ and citizenship are instantiated in the everyday practices of schools and classrooms, and how students from religious minority groups in turn come to navigate their identities as citizens.
These questions will be theorized and explored empirically in presentations, round tables, and discussion workshops focused on 1) the macro-level of hegemonic formations of citizenship and belonging, with attention to the role of the religious 'other' in these formations, 2) the micro-level of everyday practices through which these formations are enacted in curricula and in the classroom, 3) the personal experience of moments of inclusion, exclusion, and silencing, and 4) the policy level of ongoing transformations and mutual openings.
50 researchers –half each senior faculty and junior researchers – from four continents and from a wide range of disciplines will participate and explore the interdisciplinary topic. Two events for junior researchers will be organized: a pre-symposium workshop as well as a 'meeting point' to facilitate networking between senior and junior researchers. Conference proceedings will be published with open access.
From: Eksner, Helen Julia <julia....@fu-berlin.de>
Date: Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 9:03 AM
Subject: PhD Student Slots and Stipends for Symposium "Religious 'Others,' Schooling, and the Negotiation of Civic Identities"
To: Zvi Bekerman <zvi.be...@mail.huji.ac.il>
Dear Colleagues:
From June 25-28, 2014 we will be holding an interdisciplinary symposium on the topic "Religious 'Others,' Schooling, and the Negotiation of Civic Identities" in Hanover, Germany.
We have by now assembled an interesting and distinguished group of international senior and junior scholars, and are at this point looking for PHD students (doctoral students or recent PhDs) who would be interested in participating.
Though we cannot promise in advance your participation, we invite interested students to submit until January 22, 2014 an abstract (approx. 300 words) of a possible paper presentation. We will be able to offer a final answer by January 25.
If your paper will be accepted, your travel and accommodation expenses will be covered by the organizers.
If you are interested please see following description and send to us your abstract at soon as possible.
http://frontieres.hypotheses.org/1158
Sincerely,
Julia Eksner & Zvi Bekerman
----
Julia Eksner, Ph.D.
Adjunct, Program in Intercultural Education
Freie Universität Berlin
Habelschwerdter Allee 45
Room KL 23/236
14195 Berlin
Zvi Bekerman, Ph.D. School of Education, Melton Center
Hebrew University
Jerusalem
Israel, 91905
Fax + 972 2 5322211
Tel + 972 2 5882120
e-mail: zvi.be...@mail.huji.ac.il
----
Religious 'Others,' Schooling, and the Negotiation of Civic Identities
Interdisciplinary Symposium
25.06. – 28.06.2014
Summary
The symposium will explore the relationship between hegemonic discourses of citizenship, religio-cultural belonging, and the negotiation of civic identities among religio-cultural minority youths in educational settings. The question of how non-dominant youths negotiate their civic identities as citizens in light of their coexisting religio-cultural identities has been at the center of a heated debate in many modern societies. The ongoing public concern about the resurgence of the religious - and here especially the religious ‘other’ - in the public sphere has led to the emergence of a public debate over how to handle the ‘religious’ in the institutions, civic society, and public sphere of ‘postsecular’ society. The symposium will explore how societal master narratives about secularity, religion/ the religious ‘other,’ and citizenship are instantiated in the everyday practices of schools and classrooms, and how students from religious minority groups in turn come to navigate their identities as citizens.
These questions will be theorized and explored empirically in presentations, round tables, and discussion workshops focused on 1) the macro-level of hegemonic formations of citizenship and belonging, with attention to the role of the religious 'other' in these formations, 2) the micro-level of everyday practices through which these formations are enacted in curricula and in the classroom, 3) the personal experience of moments of inclusion, exclusion, and silencing, and 4) the policy level of ongoing transformations and mutual openings.
50 researchers –half each senior faculty and junior researchers – from four continents and from a wide range of disciplines will participate and explore the interdisciplinary topic. Two events for junior researchers will be organized: a pre-symposium workshop as well as a 'meeting point' to facilitate networking between senior and junior researchers. Conference proceedings will be published with open access.
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