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Network Migration in Europe, Bahçeşehir University (Istanbul), Jewish Museum (Berlin), Zentrum für Türkeistudien und Integrationsforschung (Essen) lancent un appel à contribution pour un colloque international: Bringing Migration and History into the Equation: Re-Imagining Nationhood and Belonging, 5-7 octobre 2011, Jewish Museum, Berlin.Migration poses challenges to European societies as we know them today;indeed, the inclusion of immigrants in these societies has become acontroversial issue in most European countries.Both of these statements are reflected in ongoing debates in numerousEuropean countries. All too often, immigrants are seen as "Others" when itcomes to constructing national cohesion and patterns of belonging andidentity. The "Othering" of immigrants, perhaps best seen as a process ofsocial construction and engineering, is closely interrelated with social,economic, linguistic and, increasingly, religious questions.However, immigrant inclusion and exclusion cannot be regarded withoutreference to historical, cultural and symbolic questions. Thus the analysisof identity formation and collective identities in multiethnic societiesbrings the political scope of identity politics, historical representationsand national narratives to the fore. It entails theoretical and practicalquestions of (newly) constituting nationhood and transcultural belonging, aswell as re-positioning ethnic/migrant minorities in the public sphere.This conference, Bringing Migration and History into the Equation:Re-Imagining Nationhood and Belonging, will address this intersection ofmigration, identity formation and belonging from comparative and historicalperspectives. The emphasis will be on the intersection of history, politicsand commemorative practices/strategies. Case studies as well as theoreticalcontributions are welcome. We invite the submission of papers on thefollowing topics:- Migrant inclusion and political/historical representation;- (Re)formation of nationhood and identities under conditions of diversity;- Writing, teaching and displaying history in immigrant societies;- Social and cultural practices/strategies of institutions, organisationsand communities to represent migrants and their cultures/histories;- Transnational and mediated public spheres;- Borders and belongings: From guest workers and refugees to post-migrants;- Methodological and theoretical contributions with regard to identityformation, identity politics and historical representation of migration;The conference will be composed of:- an opening panel for a larger audience, including invited spokespeoplefrom politics and art;- a keynote opening lecture;- panels based on academic papers;- roundtables with short statements to generate new questions and ideas;Contributions may be either (longer) academic papers or (shorter) inputstatements for roundtables, focused on innovative and relevant topics. Theconference will be framed by the 50th anniversary of the German-Turkishlabor recruitment contract in October 2011. Its commemoration raises anumber of questions which will be contextualized in a comparative andinternational framework. The conference will take up the case of fifty yearsof German-Turkish labor agreements to shed light on more general issuesstated above. A follow-up conference will be held in Essen in spring 2012,focussing on Lieux de mémoire [places/sites of memory] of migration history.The October 2011 conference is open to scholars in the Humanities and theSocial Sciences in the widest sense (anthropology, ethnology, geography,history, law, political sciences, sociology etc.). Abstracts for papers orcontributions to roundtables will be considered on a competitive basis. Thenumber of speakers for panels will be limited to 25. Limited financialsupport for participants to subsidize expenses for accommodation isavailable upon request.Submissions of abstracts (max. 600 words) and a short biographical note (notmore than two pages) including a list of (selected) publications arewelcomed until June 30, 2011. Papers and contributions will be circulated inadvance and must be received by September 25, 2011. Please indicate if youintend to give a full paper or wish to participate in a roundtable.For further information please visithttp://www.network-migration.org/workshop2011 (accessible from June 1, 2011)or contact ohliger@network-migration.org.Submission deadline: June 30, 2011Please send your application to ohliger@network-migration.orgThe selection committee will select and notify the participants by earlyJuly 2011.Rainer Ohliger, Netzwerk Migration in Europa e.V., Limonenstr. 24, 12203 Berlin, ohliger@network-migration.org.