GEsIPI International Conference

IDENTITY: REPRESENTATION & PRACTICES

11 – 12 September 2014

Faculty of Humanities – University of Lisbon, Portugal

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We are glad to announce that the IDENTITY: REPRESENTATION & PRACTICES conference will take place on the 11th and 12th of September 2014. The conference will be hosted by the University of Lisbon, Portugal.

Identity has been a popular topic in academia and has been reviewed from many different theoretical and methodological angles. The main purpose of this conference will be to assess identities (i.e.: national; gender; cultural; professional; religious; socio economic etc.) within and across different disciplines (social science, political science, psychology, linguistics, literature, medicine, jurisprudence, and more) and to bring together researchers from different fields of study to establish a dialogue and further advance the state of the art.

We welcome proposals for paper presentations addressing identity across a wide spectrum of expertise/subjects. The topics for paper proposals can include but are by no means limited to the following:

I.Technologies, literacies and identities

II.Power, media and governability

III.Migration, globalization and inequalities

IV.Communities of practices, knowledge and intercomprehension

V.Exposure, ostentation and otherness

VI.Social networks, mobilization and ideologies

VII.Identity politics, regulation, enforcement and control

VIII.Arts, performances and consumerism

IX.Social relations, power and equalities

X.Ethics, public space and civil rights


XI.Identities of self, group and interpersonal relationships

Plenary Speakers


Adrian Holliday, Professor of Applied Linguistics at Canterbury Christ Church University, United Kingdom

Fernando Ramallo, Professor of Linguistics at the University of Vigo, Galicia, Spain.

Jackie Leach Scully, Professor of Social Ethics & Bioethics at Newcastle University, United Kingdom.

Lia Pappámikail, Professor at the Superior School of Education of the Polytechnic Institute of Santarém and at the Superior School of Education of the Polytechnic Institute of Lisbon, Portugal.

Abstracts Submission


Abstracts of no more than 350 words (including references, if absolutely necessary) are invited. The deadline for submission of abstracts is the 9th June 2014.
Abstracts should not include the name and affiliation of the author(s).
To submit an abstract please use the following web-service:

https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=irp2014

Notifications of acceptance will be communicated by 23rd June 2014. All papers will be allocated 20 minutes.
The language of the conference is English.

Registration Fee


Early Bird Registration (Until 4th July 2014)


Researchers: €160,00


Post-Graduate Students: €130,00


Standard Registration (Until 1st August 2014)


Researchers: €200,00


Post-Graduate Students: €160,00

Important Dates (Deadlines)


Abstract submission: 9th June 2014


Notification of acceptance: 23rd June 2014


Early bird registration: 4th July 2014


Standard registration: 1st August 2014

Updates on the Conference
Access irp2014lisbon.wordpress.com or send an e-mail to irp2014lisbon@gmail.com.

About GEsIPI

GEsIPI is an interdisciplinary study group interested in promoting the discussion on issues regarding identities and identitary practices. The group organizes workshops and meetings open to the academic community and general public. To follow the latest activities and events of our group, please send an email to gesipilisboa@gmail.com asking to be included in our mailing list.

Organizing committee


Alcina Pereira de Sousa


Ana Raquel Fernandes


Anamarija Marinovic


Carlos A. M. Gouveia


Dulce Martins


Margarita Correia


Maria Krebber


Marta Tagarro


Silvia Frota


Su Ting


Zuzanna Sanches