[csaa-forum] FW: CRSI annual conference

[Amanda Wise]

Monday 27th - Tuesday 28th September, 2004

Mobile Boundaries / Rigid Worlds : The Contemporary Paradox

Second Annual Conference of the Centre for Research on Social
Inclusion
Macquarie University 

We live in a world of change and movement. People, money and things are
in a constant state of flux. There is movement from place to place. Our
identities are ever-changing. Nothing seems fixed. As Manuel Castells
has observed, we live in a 'space of flows'. Despite the fluidity of
things, the world order is marked by segregations and forms of
exclusion, both new and old, global and local. The contemporary
condition is one of paradox, torn between and general trend towards
increased fluidity and the disappearance of boundaries, and the opposing
trend that sees the thriving of old orders and the emergence of new
boundaries of containment and exclusion. 

'Mobile Boundaries/Rigid Worlds' is a two-day conference dedicated
to the examination of our mobile world, and how it intersects with new
and continuing forms of inclusion/exclusion. Presenters will address
this theme from a variety of disciplinary and interdisciplinary
perspectives, covering topics such as global and local media, new
economies and global exchange, transnationality and identity,
postcolony, biotechnics and bodies.

Plenary presenters

Dr Annie Potts (American Studies, Gender Studies and Cultural Studies
Programs, University of Canterbury, Christchurch NZ) on the body:
`Viagra Cyborgs and the New Retro Sex'.

Marge Reitsma-Street (Professor in Studies in Policy and Practice in
Health and Social Services, University of Victoria, British Columbia,
Canada) on poverty: 'Foundations of Campaigns against Poverty Amid
Affluence'
With respondents Megan Mitchell, Executive Director ACOSS (Australian
Council of Social Services) and Julia Perry, University of Western
Sydney, Independent Researcher and Policy Consultant.

Dr Ned Rossiter (Digital Media Studies, Centre for Media Research,
University of Ulster, Northern Ireland) on digital media and
globalisation: 'Organised Networks as New Civil Society Movements'

Bevan Cassady (Warawara, Department of Indigenous Studies, Macquarie
University) on racism and indigenous Australia: 'The Chains Just Get
Longer'

Themed sessions

Parallel presentations are arranged into the following streams:

* Changing Bodies, Changing Worlds 
* Identities: Race, Community, Citizenship 
* Poverty Amid Affluence 
* Social Justice and Spaces of Containment 
* Imagining Globalisation: Media, Culture, Information and Exchange 
* Biotechnics, Bodies and Belonging 

Registration details and further information available at the Centre's
website
www.crsi.mq.edu.au 



Obelia Modjeska
Administrative Manager
Centre for Research on Social Inclusion
+61 9850 9171