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<p><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black">Åbo Akademi University, as part of its Centennial celebrations, in collaboration with the COIMBRA Group, will be hosting an interdisciplinary conference – ‘Interfacing Minorities:
Creative Hybridity and Unexpected Environments’ – on March 8-9th 2018. </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black">The Conference has been conceived within the remit of Minority Studies as one of the University’s
four designated focal areas of research. Thematically, its emphasis will be on positive outcomes, innovations, and solutions arising from the creative friction experienced by minority groups coming into contact with similarly positioned and larger communities.
Confirmed keynote speakers include </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black">Juan Manuel Amaya Castro, Universidad de los Andes and Nicos Trimikliniotis, University of Nicosia.</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black">We invite abstracts for individual papers for the two thematic streams taking place on 9<sup>th</sup> of March 2018: <b>Minorities and New Narratives of Belonging </b>and<b> Minorities
and Commons. </b>For more information about the call, the thematic streams and the submission details see: <a href="http://www.abo.fi/forskning/en/2018" id="LPlnk170467">www.abo.fi/forskning/en/2018</a> </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black">Please circulate the call among your contacts.</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black">Magdalena Kmak & Pamela Slotte</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Magdalena Kmak<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Associate Professor in Minority Studies (tenure track)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Åbo Akademi University<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"><a href="mailto:magdalena.kmak@abo.fi">magdalena.kmak@abo.fi</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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