[csaa-forum] CCR Seminar Series 08: Sharon Chalmers & Amanda Rosso-Buckton and Cameron McAuliffe - 13 March

[Reena Dobson]

Apologies for cross-postings

 Centre for Cultural Research

University of Western Sydney

 

invites all to attend

the CCR Seminar Series 2008

featuring

Dr Sharon Chalmers & Dr Amanda Rosso-Buckton (CCR)

and 

Dr Cameron McAuliffe (CCR)

Date: Thursday, 13 March

Time: 2.00pm - 4.00pm

Venue: Gallery Floor, Female Orphan School (Building EZ), Parramatta
Campus

Afternoon tea and cakes provided 

RSVP: Ania Ajiri a.ajiri at uws.edu.au or 9685 9600

Apologies: Kay Anderson k.anderson at uws.edu.au 

 

 

'Are you talking to me?' Negotiating the Challenge of Cultural Diversity
in Children's Health Care

Sharon Chalmers and Amanda Rosso-Buckton

This paper brings together the culmination of several projects that have
examined the way paediatric tertiary hospitals in Sydney have addressed
issues around cultural diversity and health care service provision. The
title of the paper 'Are you talking to me?' encapsulates the significant
themes that emerged at the intersection of several cultural formations,
all with their respective world views, values and hierarchies.  That is,
culture is not limited to ethnicity but includes cultural knowledge,
cultural institutions and cultural practices. These include
organisational, professional, children & young peoples' cultures,
cultural, linguistic and religious diversity, gender & sexuality,
socio-economic position, intergenerational issues and the dominance of
the bio-medical culture. We then discuss how the quantitative and
qualitative findings have the potential to influence and impact on local
and systemic, practical and policy changes that reach beyond this
particular research project.

 

 

Negotiating Nation and Religion in the Iranian Diaspora: A Multicultural
Question?

Cameron McAuliffe

The politics of multiculturalism in diverse societies such as Australia,
Canada and Britain have produced truncated understandings of the
politics of difference, limiting multiculturalism primarily to the
recognition of national discourses of belonging. The rise to prominence
of questions about the appropriate incorporation of religious difference
in multicultural societies has challenged the exclusive focus on
national ethnic difference. For the children of Iranian migrants living
in the 'Iranian diaspora' the negotiation of national and religious
identities are played out against this context. The reflections of
'second generation Iranians' on media representations, formal and
informal communal forms, and the desire to 'return' to the homeland,
point to the need to consider a more comprehensive politics of
difference. In particular, I will discuss how the internal religious
diversity of the Iranian diaspora challenges monolithic understandings
of national cultural belonging, and offers a potentially productive path
for post-multicultural engagement. 

 

 

Dr Sharon Chalmers is a CCR Research Fellow on the ARC Linkage project,
Negotiating the Challenge of Cultural Diversity in Children's Health
Care: The Australian Context.  She has worked extensively on
health-related projects and has expertise in the areas of health care,
cultural diversity, gender and sexuality. 

 

Dr Amanda Rosso-Buckton is a CCR Research Associate working on the ARC
Linkage project, Negotiating the Challenge of Cultural Diversity in
Children's Health Care: The Australian Context. Amanda completed her
PhD, Feed a Cold and Starve a Demon: The Poetics of Madness in
Kefalonia, in 2006. Her research interests include women, madness and
the church, folk healing, and folk biologies. 

 

Dr Cameron McAuliffe is a CCR Postdoctoral Research Fellow on the
Informal Pathways to Belonging project researching in the area of youth
and the arts in Western Sydney. Cameron's PhD investigated the potential
for multiculturalism to include religious identities and involved work
with Baha'is and Muslims in the Iranian communities in Sydney, London
and Vancouver. 

 

 

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