28.232, Calls: Applied Ling, Disc Analysis, Socioling/Finland

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Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2017 21:01:57
From: Kaius Sinnemäki [kaius.sinnemaki at helsinki.fi]
Subject: Protestantism and Negotiating Identities

 
Full Title: Protestantism and Negotiating Identities 

Date: 24-Aug-2017 - 26-Aug-2017
Location: Helsinki, Finland 
Contact Person: Sanna Supponen
Meeting Email: negotiatingidentities at gmail.com
Web Site: http://blogs.helsinki.fi/negotiatingidentities/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; Discourse Analysis; Sociolinguistics 

Call Deadline: 20-Feb-2017 

Meeting Description:

The year 2017 marks the 100th anniversary of Finland’s independence, but also
500 years since the beginning of the Reformation at Wittenberg. Historically
Protestantism and national identity have been closely intertwined in Finland,
first as a part of the Lutheran Swedish sphere until 1809 and then as a
religious frontier under Orthodox Russia in the 19th and early 20th centuries
and next to the atheistic Soviet Union since the independence until the 1990s.
While the majority of Finns are members of the Finnish Evangelical-Lutheran
Church, contemporary Finnish society is largely secular and increasingly
pluralist both culturally and religiously.

But how is national identity negotiated in a contemporary secular and
pluralist society such as Finland or in other North European countries? Or is
national identity – in the singular – a misleading construct that should give
way to understanding how different ethnic, religious and other minorities
experience, understand and negotiate national identity from their
perspectives?

Nationalism, on the other hand, has been on the rise in Northern Europe in the
recent decade. But if nationalism is to be understood as a secularizing
process, which goes hand in hand with privatization of religion and increasing
pluralism in society, it is somewhat puzzling why nationalistic sentiments
have been on the rise in secular pluralist societies. Is religiosity newly on
the rise or does secularism breed new religious frontiers between traditional
religion (e.g. Islam) and non-religious people? Since religion and nationalism
have been researched largely in different scholarly domains, there is a new
need for a more integrating and interdisciplinary approach to understand how
national identity is negotiated in the context of religious pluralism, on the
one hand, and in the context of the rising role of religion in public
discussion, on the other.

Confirmed Keynote Speakers:

- Peter A. Kraus, University of Augsburg
- Philip W. Barker, Keene State College
- Katja Valaskivi, University of Tampere
- Jarkko Hautamäki, University of Helsinki

Organizers:

The conference is co-organized by The Finnish Society of Church History, The
Finnish Psychological Society, The Westermarck Society, the Turku Centre for
Medieval and Early Modern Studies, and members of the ProFini 2017 -research
network.

Conference Venue:

The conference takes place at the House of Sciences (Tieteiden talo), a short
walking distance from the Centre Campus of the University of Helsinki.

The Organizing Committee:

Jarkko Hautamäki
Andreas Häger
Anna-Maija Pirttilä-Backman
Anneli Portman
Kirsi Salonen
Kaius Sinnemäki
Sanna Supponen
Jouni Tilli


Call for Papers:

We envision the conference as a forum for encouraging academic research on how
religion, especially Protestant Lutheran faith, and national identities may be
intertwined and how their relationship may be negotiated in contemporary
secular societies beyond mere historical accounts. To achieve these ends we
convene together scientists from the social sciences, humanities, law,
education, theology, and arts to discuss Protestantism and the negotiation of
identities in 21st century North European countries.

Possible questions may be related but not confined to the following:

- What rhetorical, linguistic and other means are used to build national
identity in the 2010s?
- New perspectives on the role of the arts, and literature in particular, in
bridging (secular) Lutheranism and national identities.
- How has national identity been negotiated (and is being renegotiated) in
Protestant Lutheranism context in Finland and in North Europe?
- How has national identity influenced and kept on influencing Protestantism
in Finland and in North Europe?
- What are and have been the main channels and agents that have tied together
religion and national identity in North Europe?
- What role do scientific institutions play in the negotiation of national
identity?
- Minorities and national identity: who is allowed to and on which conditions
to participate in building national identity? For instance, the Sami, Roma,
Orthodox and Swedish-speaking people in Finland?
- Integration of asylum seekers and immigrants: what are they integrating to
and what role (subtle or overt) does religion play in the demands? How are
(secular) Lutheranism and Muslims being brought together?

Proposals:

We call for three types of proposals: 1. oral presentations, 2. poster
presentations, and 3. workshops. Oral presentations will be for 30 minutes: 20
minutes for presentation and 10 minutes for discussion. A separate poster
session will be arranged during the second day of the conference. Please
indicate in your abstract whether you would like to have your abstract
reviewed primarily as an oral or as a poster presentation. Papers not accepted
as oral presentations will be automatically evaluated as poster presentations.
Workshops will be allotted one or more 90 minute sessions. The language of the
conference is English, but a few sessions or a workshop can be in Finnish
and/or Swedish.

Anonymous proposals of maximum 500 words should be submitted by 20 February
2017 through EasyChair (see instructions on the conference website). Abstracts
will be evaluated by the organizing committee. Notification of acceptance will
be sent by 20 March 2017.

Correspondence

For all correspondence concerning the symposium, please contact the conference
organizers through the conference’s email address
negotiatingidentities at gmail.com.




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