{"id":1272,"date":"2024-09-11T16:47:16","date_gmt":"2024-09-11T13:47:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.uef.fi\/bomocult-conference\/?page_id=1272"},"modified":"2026-06-04T13:05:24","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T10:05:24","slug":"call-for-abstracts","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.uef.fi\/bomocult-conference\/call-for-abstracts\/","title":{"rendered":"Call for Papers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">BOMOCULT&nbsp;Conference&nbsp;2026<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Unpacking Ideologies, Challenging Divisions <\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>1-2&nbsp;October 2026, University of Eastern Finland, Joensuu&nbsp;campus<\/p>\n\n\n\t<div id=\"accordion-block_79030fba23c90a1ba2a7dc6b18aa744a\" class=\"accordions\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"accordion accordion-js\">\n\t\t\t\t<button class=\"accordion__button\" aria-controls=\"content-4248\" aria-expanded=\"false\" id=\"accordion-control-4248\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"accordion__heading\" >\n\t\t\t\t\t\tCall for Papers 2026\t\t\t\t\t<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t<\/button>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"accordion__content\" role=\"region\" aria-labelledby=\"accordion-control-4248\" aria-hidden=\"true\" id=\"content-4248\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<p>Around the world, the achievement of more open societies is being fundamentally challenged by right-wing populist narratives and politics of division. While specific social and political content differs according to local contexts, we are confronted with ideological assemblages made up of fixed ideas about national identity, pre-defined notions of gender roles, belief in natural hierarchies and racial superiority and supported by evocations of threat \u2013 both from outside and within national societies. Such ideologies reveal a strong anti-science as well as anti-liberal bias. Although these ideologies offer a drastically reduced and often distorted picture of reality, their political impact is beyond doubt. For example, the UK\u2019s drift to the right is driven by popular perceptions that migration is \u201cout of control\u201d even when factual evidence confirms the opposite, revealing a dramatic drop of over 75 % since 2023. \u00a0Similarly, various fundamentalisms and nationalisms promote ideological messages all over the world including the Global South.<\/p>\n<p>Mobility and cultural encounters are major factors in social change and innovation, but how can they be mobilised in response to sentiments that would \u201cfreeze\u201d borders and denigrate diversity? Scholars and activists from a variety of backgrounds have been deeply invested in understanding the emergence of populist and nationalist ideologies as well as countering their messages of exclusion and division. \u00a0This involves, for example, the investigation of how specific ontologies, different ways of understanding reality, are formed, contested, and reshaped as part of everyday life. How do political discourses and media messaging but also social backgrounds and environments influence senses of reality? What explains the \u201cgeographies of discontent\u201d that are reflected in urban-rural ideological divides and political polarization in metropolitan centres? How do the arts respond to and challenge existing discourses?<\/p>\n<p>This year\u2019s Borders, Mobilities and Cultural Encounters (BoMoCult) conference takes place under increasingly uncertain (geo)political conditions and mounting existential threats against democratic societies. \u00a0Given this sense of urgency, \u201cUnpacking Ideologies, Challenging Divisions\u201d provides a forum for addressing questions that are relevant to the ongoing struggle over truth, meaning and competing narratives of identity and national belonging. We welcome special sessions and individual paper proposals that offer cross-cutting perspectives on questions regarding the interpretation and countering of divisive ideologies. However, potential topics are not limited to this specific focus, and contributions that broadly address issues associated with borders, mobilities and cultural encounters are also welcome. We particularly encourage submissions that elaborate interdisciplinary approaches from diverse perspectives as well as methodological and geographical vantage points. We also invite members of the BOMOCULT research community to propose workshops devoted to developing collaboration and joint research projects.<\/p>\n<p>Abstracts (max. 200 words and a short bionote) should be sent by email to the organizers by 31 August 2026.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Email:\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:uef-bomocult@uef.fi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">uef-bomocult@uef.fi<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p>The conference will be an <strong>on-site event at the University of Eastern Finland, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.uef.fi\/en\/joensuu-campus\">Joensuu campus<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p>More information about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.uef.fi\/en\/research-community\/borders-mobilities-and-cultural-encounters-bomocult\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.uef.fi\/en\/research-community\/borders-mobilities-and-cultural-encounters-bomocult\">BOMOCULT Research Community<\/a>.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BOMOCULT&nbsp;Conference&nbsp;2026 Unpacking Ideologies, Challenging Divisions 1-2&nbsp;October 2026, University of Eastern Finland, Joensuu&nbsp;campus<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":600,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1272","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - 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