[csaa-forum] FW: Moving Cultures, Shifting Identities Conference 2007

[Paul Magee]

Moving Cultures, Shifting Identities Conference 2007

CALL FOR PAPERS


Moving Cultures, Shifting Identities: a conference about migration,
connection, heritage and cultural memory



Flinders University

Adelaide, South Australia

3 - 5 December 2007



This conference will examine issues of migration, transnational connection,
displacement heritage, global space and cultural memory created by the
movements of peoples between cultures in the modern world.

In the mass migrations of the last 200 years, millions of people have left
their homelands and home cultures to settle in new places. Their motives
have been many: the emigrant's search for new opportunities, the
gastarbeiter's self-imposed exile, the refugee's forced flight and the
settler's quest for trade, military advantage or fresh fields and pastures
new have all shaped the great migrations of the modern period.

Moving Cultures, Shifting Identities will explore the cultural connections
between homelands and new lands, and the complexities of reshaping cultural
identities and shifting allegiances between cultures of departure and
cultures of arrival.

The conference will have three main streams:

The public policy stream will cover issues of economics, population, forced
migration, security, 'core values', education and the managing of cultural
impacts of migration.

The history of migration stream will include sessions on pre- and
post-World War Two migration, recent arrivals and diasporic communities.

The Cultural Migration stream will include sessions on memory, writing,
language, cultural maintenance and sustainability, and the plurality of
migrant identities.

Conference themes

Papers are invited on the following:

·        The demographics of people flow: who moves where? and why?

·        Forced migration in the Asia Pacific

·        Cultural, political and economic factors shaping migration. How
are connections made?

·        Bordering the nation: migration and national security

·        Transnationalism, citizenship and sovereignty

·        Gender and generational issues in the migration experience

·        Linguistics, diaspora and migration

·        Settling down, settlement patterns and return migration

·        Can multi-cultures and multi-ethnicities produce one nation?

·        Multiculturalism

·        Language maintenance in the new culture

·        Foodways

·        Migration, place and situated identities

·        Connections with the new place and (re)negotiating with the old

·        Home and Away: What is transferred from the home culture to the
new culture? What cannot fit in the baggage?

·        Imaginary homelands: life-writing, creative writing and film
responses to the migration experience

·        Unsettlement: the idea of the settler colony

·        Cultural memory: heritage and exchange

·        Transplanted cultures as tourist attractions

·        Fusion, 'cultural hybridity', cosmopolitanism & ....



Guest speakers - The conference will feature plenary session addresses by
leading international scholars in the field, as well as parallel
presentations by researchers and policy-makers.

Proposals for panel sessions will be considered as well as abstracts for
individual papers. Panel proposals should include a theme for the session,
the names of all speakers, the titles of their papers, and a session
summary of 250-300 words.

Abstracts of 250-300 words should be submitted for each paper, whether they
are included in a panel session proposal or not. Where abstracts are
intended for a proposed panel session, this should be indicated on the
abstract.

Abstracts and session proposals should be sent to Nena Bierbaum, School of
Humanities, Flinders University, GPO Box 2100, Adelaide, South Australian
5001, or by email to nena.bierbaum at flinders.edu.au by 31 March 2007.

All abstracts will be refereed.



Further information may be obtained from the Flinders Humanities Research
Centre for Cultural Heritage and Cultural Exchange website at
<http://fhrc.flinders.edu.au/events.html>http://fhrc.flinders.edu.au/events/
movingcultures.html



Moving Cultures, Shifting Identities is a conference organised by the
Flinders Humanities Research Centre for Cultural Heritage and Cultural
Exchange, the Centre for Research into New Literatures in English (CRNLE)
and Flinders International Asia Pacific (FIAP).



CONFERENCE CONTACT

Nena Bierbaum

Tel: (+61 8) 8201 2578 or (+61 8) 8201 5137

Fax: (+61 8) 8201 3635



Nena Bierbaum

School of Humanities
Faculty of Education, Humanities, Law & Theology
Flinders University
Carpark 5
Room: 252 Humanities
Ph: (+61 8) 8201 2578 or 82012257
Fax: (+61 8) 8201 3635


GPO Box 2100
ADELAIDE  SA  5001
1996-2006
Flinders 40th Anniversary


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