[csaa-forum] CFP: Adapt & Remix: academic integrity in action

[Ruth Walker]

ADAPT & REMIX: ACADEMIC INTEGRITY IN ACTION 
A MULTIDISCIPLINARY SYMPOSIUM ON PLAGIARISM

Friday 16th November 2012, University of Wollongong 
Hosted by the Sydney Business School UOW at Circular Quay Sydney

Adapt & Remix is a one-day symposium that will consider discipline or subject-specific approaches to the teaching and learning of academic integrity. The focus of the symposium is on: 

•	innovative approaches to academic integrity 
•	the impact of plagiarism on different disciplines
•	reframing the teaching of academic integrity 
•	the relevance of academic integrity to professional practices 
•	making sense of plagiarism in light of contemporary cultural and creative practices

Plagiarism is generally considered a ‘bad subject’, an illegitimate textual practice that involves students or scholars claiming authorship of other peoples’ writing. But what if plagiarism is not such a black and white topic, but instead a flashpoint issue sparked by the growing confusion about academic expectations, new collaborative media cultures, and transnational understandings of ethical research and writing practice?  How can students be expected to understand the seriousness of plagiarism in their studies when they get mixed messages from their own everyday practices, where peer-to-peer exchange of copied material has been normalized by Web 2.0 media and the reproduction, remixing or transforming of original sources is openly celebrated in music, fashion, literature, art and design? 

The symposium will be of interest to scholars keen to engage in conversations about academic integrity -  about their own expectations of students as well as the history and contemporary contexts of plagiarism to their fields of study or professional practice. For instance, a law students’ rigorous approach to ethics and textual precedent makes less sense to a student in creative arts, who might remix a range of unacknowledged sources to transformative effect.  But if contextualized, academic integrity can be a powerful lens to consider issues relating to different disciplinary approaches to ethics, authenticity and responsibility.   Participants are invited to submit proposals to present on a range of disciplinary panels that might discuss academic integrity and plagiarism in the context of Business & Commerce, Creative Arts, Law, Medicine, Architecture or Computer Science. 

Deadline for proposals: 31st August 2012. 
Proposals (for academic papers presentations, panels or workshop activities) should be accompanied by the following:
-	250 word abstract
-	full name of the author
-	institutional affiliation
-	individual email address 
-	brief biography (approx 5 lines)  from different disciplinary perspectives are invited. 

After the symposium, selected papers will be invited for inclusion as chapters in a book publication.

Presentation and paper proposals should be submitted to Dr Ruth Walker at rwalker at uow.edu.au 
More information about the symposium location and registration is available at: www.apfei.edu.au
Participants are asked to register for the Symposium before the 15th October 2012. 



Ruth Walker, PhD
Lecturer, Learning Development
University of Wollongong
Wollongong 2522 Australia
Co-chair of Asia Pacific Forum on Educational Integrity (APFEI) www.apfei.edu.au
Co-editor of Zombies in the Academy: Living Death in Higher Education (forthcoming 2012)