[Air-L] Call for Papers: 3rd Island Dynamics Conference

[Adam Grydehoj]

Call for Papers: 3rd Island Dynamics Conference
Famagusta, North Cyprus, 14-18 May 2013
Website: www.islanddynamics.org/3idc.html

The 3rd Island Dynamics Conference is an interdisciplinary academic 
conference exploring island and maritime issues worldwide. Previous Island 
Dynamics Conferences have featured presentations by  researchers from a 
variety of disciplines, ranging from Business Studies to Sociology, 
Political Science to Media & Communication, Economics to Anthropology.

Abstracts are welcome on any island or maritime topic, but we particularly 
encourage presentations concerning the conference theme, “Islands of Culture 
and Practice”: Islands are often home to unique cultural, economic, and 
political traditions. They both preserve traditions that have been lost on 
the mainland and function as meeting places for traditions, the mingling of 
which result in new traditional forms. We can even speak of archipelagos of 
culture and practice, where traditions flourish in dispersed geographical 
areas. How do traditions develop in such circumstances, and what can island 
and mainland communities tell us about one another?

Keynote speakers at the conference are Philip Hayward, Alan Jabbour, Owe 
Ronström, and Stephen A. Royle. This Island Dynamics event is a 
collaboration of Eastern Mediterranean University’s Center for Cyprus 
Studies, the Institute for Anthropological Research’s Center for Island 
Studies (Croatia), and the University of the Highlands & Islands’ Centre for 
Nordic Studies.

The deadline for abstracts is 1 December 2012. Submit an abstract early to 
take advantage of early registration rates, which also end on 1 December.

For more information, please visit the conference website 
(www.islanddynamics.org/3idc.html) or contact the convenor Adam Grydehøj 
(agrydehoj at islanddynamics.org).

Best regards,
Adam Grydehøj,
Director of Island Dynamics

E-mail: agrydehoj at islanddynamics.org
Tel.: +45 53401982
Island Dynamics Web: www.islanddynamics.org
Personal Web: www.island-studies.org