[csaa-forum] CFP: Dialogue Across Cultures

[Melissa Gregg]

Apologies for any cross posting.

Call For Papers

“Dialogue Across Cultures: Identity, Place, Culture”

November 12-14, Melbourne (hosted by the Centre for
Australian Indigenous Studies at Monash University)

Keynote and Plenary Speakers:

Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak (confirmed)
Sneja Gunew (confirmed)
Dipesh Chakrabarty (confirmed)
Jonathan Friedman (confirmed)
Rob Jahnke (confirmed)
Arohia Durie (confirmed)
Mick Dodson (confirmed)
Martin Nakata (confirmed)
Ghassan Hage (to be confirmed)
Paul Patton (confirmed)
Patrick Wolfe (confirmed)
Lynette Russell (confirmed)
Marcia Langton (confirmed)
Nikos Papastergiadis (to be confirmed)

Despite the fact that Indigenous, migrant, diasporic and minority
cultures and identities can be taken to conceived in similar ways, in
terms of a relation to an assumed ‘proper’ place, form, state
or ‘home’, for example, the assumption of their alike-ness itself has a
cultural politics that prompt a range of questions: What is the basis
for comparisons, similarities or differentiation? The notion
of ‘culture-in-general’, some ‘proper’ state, place or form, rather
than offering a foundation or basis for generalization across these
contexts, is often a point of contestation and debate.

The challenges offered to conceptualizations of culture and cultural
identity by notions of hybridity, mimicry and recent theorizations of
the politics of representation, identity and difference, have had
enormous influence over a broad range of disciplines, and in relation
to greatly varied social and cultural contexts. Yet, the significance
of these works has differed considerably due to the way they have
intersected with specific local issues and concerns. Part of their
significance seems to be due to ways they have resonated with various
locally specific concerns, approaches and issues. In some ways, this
points to a type of cultural translation, or localizing reception that
has re-inscribed and re-articulated these insights in terms that are
often very different from those intended by the authors.

We are inviting abstracts for this exciting international conference on
the following topics or related themes:

The relationship between identity, culture, representation and place

The construction of identity and culture

Cultures and rights

The place of identity

Indigeneity and multiculturalism

Diversity and difference

Indigenous and multicultural education

Representing and performing difference

History, Knowledge and Indigenous culture

Indigenous and minority nationalisms

Globalisation and culture

Hybridity and culture

Race and culture

Art and cultural difference

Migration, identity and culture

Please end your abstract of 500 words or less to:
“Dialogues Across Cultures” organising committee
Centre for Australian Indigenous Studies
Monash University
VIC 3800
Australia

Or by email to Stephen.Pritchard at arts.monash.edu.au

Abstract must be received by April 30th. They will then be reviewed by
the organisation committee. Unfortunately, due to the scale of the
conference, only a limited number of papers can be accepted.



Dr Stephen Pritchard
Lecturer
Centre for Australian Indigenous Studies
Monash University