One Size Fits All? Contemporary Challenges of Integration and Fragmentation

Social worlds are abounded by forces of fragmentation and integration, but what kinds of activities are integrating, and which are fragmenting? This conference explores strategies that might bring these issues together?

One Size Fits All? Contemporary Challenges of Integration and Fragmentation

Faculty of Humanitites, University of Manchester

June 16 th and 17 th, 2005

Integration and Fragmentation affect every aspect of contemporary life and academic activity. Are our worlds of communication, business, law, art and community, being integrated or increasingly fragmented and resisted? Is the idea of integration marked by conflict and contradiction? What kinds of activities are integrating, which are fragmenting; and what manner of strategies might bring these issues together? These are some of the vital and ambitious questions this conference seeks to explore.

Is it possible that: One size fits all?

Themes of integration/fragmentation will be explored through:

Development
Knowledge
Technology
Harmonisation
Identity
Communication
Societies and Organisations

To submit session or paper proposals, please email personal details and abstracts (no longer than 500 words) to the conference organisers by 29 th April, 2005, at: pgconf@fs1.ec.man.ac.uk

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