National identity

The 2018 Annual Meeting of the Society for Values in Higher Education will explore how personal identities shape and are shaped by the realities of pluralism together with different sorts of, and imbalances of, power. In particular, we ask: Can the formation of a rich plurality of personal identities be consistent with the existence of a collective or national identity?

Language in the Online and Offline World (LOOW) is a signature biennial conference conducted by the English Department of Petra Christian University. This coming LOOW 6 conference selects the theme: The Fortitude. The objective of the conference is challenging people to have mental and emotional strength in confronting the hazards and struggles of the online and offline languages (verbal and/or visual) used in education, business communication, media, and cultural studies. Please visit our website for further information: http://inggris.petra.ac.id/loow/loow_conference/

This year's Lucerne Master Class will take place May 28th to June 1st with Prof. Wendy Brown (University of California, Berkeley) on the topic of "Where Liberal Democracy Once Was: Liberal Authoritarianism in the Twenty-First Century". The Master Class addresses doctoral students from political science, philosophy, sociology, cultural studies and economics as well as other fields from within the humanities and social sciences. Junior scholars are invited to submit their application by March 31st. Please have a look at the call to learn more about the Lucerne Master Class as well as the application process.