[csaa-forum] Landscapes of Exile @ Byron Bay 2006

[Baden Offord]

Landscapes of Exile: 'Once Perilous, Now Safe'
26-28 July 2006

Speakers include:

Deborah Bird Rose
Anna Haebich
Peter Read
Melissa Lukashenko
Vin D'Cruz


The Centre for Cultural Diversity and Social Justice at Southern 
Cross University together with the Centre for Public Culture and 
Ideas at Griffith University will present a third part to the 
cross-disciplinary symposia Landscapes of Exile held previously in 
2004 at the University of Barcelona's Centre for Australian Studies, 
and at the New Norcia Monastery in 2005, hosted by the Institute of 
Advanced Studies, University of Western Australia.

This third symposium will extend earlier explorations on the theme of 
landscapes of exile into questioning how space becomes place through 
cultural, media, artistic, intellectual and ethical practices. 
Australia has been a major focus of these symposia, from the convict 
experience in Tasmania to the establishment of a Spanish monastery in 
Western Australia. Exile has affected the human condition in complex 
and diverse ways. It can be traumatic as well as transformative. What 
chiefly characterizes the experience of exile is that the landscape 
becomes a crucial feature of survival and meaning.
Byron Bay's  lighthouse (where the conference will begin), built over 
a century ago, oversees the bay, ironically etched with the Latin 
motif 'once perilous, now safe.'

Following the 2004 & 2005 symposia, all papers in 2006 will address 
the experience of 'exile': understood in both the strictest sense of 
the word and also in the widest metaphorical sense to include, for 
example, forced migration, exile and tourism, experiences of internal 
exile and incarceration, exile of animals, indigenous exile, place 
and the ethics of belonging.

This symposium has been scheduled to closely precede the Byron Bay 
Writers' Festival, which occurs from 4-6 August.

Registration and details available at:
http://www.scu.edu.au/research/ccdsj/events.html

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Associate Professor Baden Offord
BA (Syd) BA (Hons) PhD (SCU) MACE

Director, Centre for Cultural Diversity and Social Justice
Chair, Human Research Ethics Committee
BA Course Coordinator

School of Arts & Social Sciences
Southern Cross University
PO Box 157 Lismore 2480
Australia

Telephone: + 61 2 66203 162
Fax: + 61 2 66 221 683


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