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Diversities

Hefter Center
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
April 20-21, 2017

We will be exploring “diversity” not as an ideal but an unavoidable feature of the global age. Our diverse world finds itself disrupted by violence, yet violence inherent in dreams of purity ends up only accelerating the dispersion of lives, perspectives, experiences, and representations. Diversities, for our conference, should be understood in the word’s most interdisciplinary sense: alternative forms of social integration conducive to diverse lives; diverse identity formations and struggles for autonomy; emergent demographic and social patterns around the world; the dynamic interplay of multiple-origin, transnationally connected, socially, economically and legally differentiated immigrants; emergent forms of non-exclusive citizenships; nativism and its consequences; and the universal language of human rights to fight for particular social, sexual and religious minorities.

Conference Organizer:
A. Aneesh, Director, International Academic & Outreach Programs and Professor of Sociology.

For more information about the conference, please contact Mark Brand at brandmr@uwm.edu.
For more information about the Center for International Education, its annual conferences, and related CIE-sponsored events please visit the CIE Website.

Image Credit: Lane Hall and Lisa Moline