IDEA Exchange Conference - October 15 deadline for abstracts

[Jurate Motiejunaite]

IDEA, Vytautas Magnus University (Institute of Political Sciences and
Diplomacy), and University of Amsterdam hereby
INVITE You to IDEA EXCHANGE 
 
Where: Kaunas, Lithuania.
When: November 7-8, 2007.
Topic: Debate in the Neighborhood 
Deadline: October 15, 2007
 
Call for abstracts/proposals:
Your abstract should be around 250 words and include the title of your
paper.  Be sure to include your name, affiliation, and a short
description of yourself with your abstract submission.  
 
Call for papers:
If your paper is complete, you may also submit your paper, along with
information about yourself.
 
Theme: Debate in the Neighborhood.  We welcome diverse proposals on a
wide variety of topics related to this interdisciplinary area.  In
addition to academic papers, we also welcome reports about your
club/school debate activities/achievement, reports about community
building projects, as well as creative presentations.
 
More Information of Styles of Accepted Submissions:
 
You may submit an abstract/proposal for a paper, report, or creative
presentation.  Or, you may submit the full paper, report, or
presentation.  Please note, each author has 15-20 minutes to present
their paper/report/presentation.
 
Paper: A topic-centered academic paper with a clear central
thesis/argument and appropriate references (MLA citation style is
preferred).  A great networking opportunity for scholars, the aim here
is to present your research to interested peers and to help generate
discussion related to your interest area. 
 
Report: A descriptive report about a club’s or a school’s activities and
achievements.  The aim is to not only share the successes of your
club/school, but to also create a forum for
club-building/community-building, where participants can learn from one
another’s successes, weaknesses, and overall experiences.
 
Creative Presentation: This may be a dramatic performance, the reading
of poetry/a short story, or another sort of artistic display.  The aim
here is to artistically express the general theme of debate in the
neighborhood, or any of its sub-areas.  For instance, a high school
drama club is welcome to put on a short play about youth empowerment.  
 
 
Conference topics are related to many fields, therefore, conference
papers can be on any of the topics below, but are not limited to them: 
 
Educational Neighborhoods:
*	Using Debate to Create a Classroom/School Neighbourhood 
*	Debate as a Tool for Youth Empowerment 
*	Debate for language learning
*	Learning Critical Analysis through Debate and Debate-related
Activities 
 
Youth, Ethnic, and Gender Relations and the Neighbourhood:
*	The Postcolonial European Neighbourhood 
*	Community Building for a Diverse (Age, Ethnicity, Gender,
Language) Neighbourhood
*	Women in the Neighbourhood The Queer Neighbourhood 
 
The International Neighbourhood:
*	The Notion of the Neighbour in an International Context 
*	The EU as (or not as) a Neighbourhood 
*	I Don’t Know My Neighbours: Is Intercultural Awareness
important? 
*	Leaving the Neighbourhood: Migration and Movement 
*	Ethnic Minorities and Neighbourhood 
*	The Post-Soviet Neighbourhood 
*	The Nation as an Imagined Neighbourhood 
 
Community, Family, and Social Groups:
*	The Role of the Neighbourhood in Contemporary Society 
*	Conflict Resolution in Neighbourhoods, Families, and the
Workplace 
*	Bridging the Generation Gap 
*	Improving Intercultural Communication 
*	The Sociology of the Neighbourhood 
*	Sociological Studies into Neighbourhoods 
*	The Psychology of a Neighbor
 
Youth, Ethnic, and Gender Relations and the Neighbourhood:
*	The Postcolonial European Neighbourhood
*	Community Building for a Diverse (Age, Ethnicity, Gender,
Language) Neighbourhood 
*	Women in the Neighbourhood 
*	The Queer Neighbourhood 
 
Mass Media and the Neighbourhood:
 
*	Representations of the Neighbourhood and Neighbourhood Problems
in the Mass Media 
*	Neighbourhood Building through Media (Newspapers, Radio, and
Television)
 
 
Literature/Art/Music and the Neighbourhood:
*	Fictional/Artistic/Musical representations of Neighbours and the
Neighbourhood 
*	Authors/Artists as Folk from the Neighbourhood 
*	The Fragmented/Unified Neighbourhood in Literature/Art/Music
 
The language of the conference is English, but separate panels will be
in Russian or Lithuanian. 
Send the paper abstracts to Jūratei Motiejūnaitei
<mailto:jmotiejunaite at idebate.org> jmotiejunaite at idebate.org by October
15, 2005
 
More information at:  <http://www.idebate.org/exchange>
www.idebate.org/exchange 
 
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