Contact Person : Kiyoshi Mana ; Last Date for the submission of abstract : 24/07/2018; We have reached a moment in international history that is one of potential paradigm shift. It is a moment when a problematic, but at least blandly progressivist, pro-multiculturalist movement toward cosmopolitanism (as Kwame Anthony Appiah might use the term) is being threatened by a far more destructive and potentially genocidal ethno-nationalism