[csaa-forum] Call for Papers: Deadline 30 June 2016 "Re-Imagining Australia: Encounter, Recognition, Responsibility"

[Baden Offord]

Call for Papers: Deadline 30 June 2016.

Dear Colleague,

we would like to invite you to consider participating in this year's InASA 2016 International Conference.

At a time when contemporary cultural, political and social struggles in Australia pivot on urgent questions of Indigenous recognition, multicultural citizenship, justice for refugees and asylum seekers, and action on gender, sexuality and disability, among other things, there is much to investigate, understand and reimagine.

The theme this year focuses on how we might 're-imagine Australia,' in terms of principled exposure, ethical intervention and critique, through encounter, recognition and responsibility. Please join us for this convivial gathering of critical conversations.

"Re-Imagining Australia: Encounter, Recognition, Responsibility"
7 - 9 December 2016
Western Australia Maritime Museum
Fremantle

Keynote Speakers so far Include:
Randa Abdel-Fattah (Macquarie)
Tony Birch (Victoria)
Anna Haebich (Curtin)
Ariel Heryanto (ANU)
Vinay Lal (UCLA)
Suvendrini Perera (Curtin)
Kim Scott (Curtin)

Special Panels so far include:
Researchers Against Black Sites Panel: "Damage by Design"
This panel, featuring writers imprisoned on Manus Island and Nauru and members of Researchers Against Pacific Black Sites (RAPBS), examines the violent reimagining and remaking of Australian sovereignty through the regime of offshore detention

Music
East Wind

For the first time, the International Association of Australian Studies (InASA) conference will take place in Western Australia (WA), following on the zeitgeist of Griffith Review’s ‘Looking West’ (2014), the end of the mining boom and vigorous national protests against the closure of remote Aboriginal communities based on a racial and cultural politics of ‘lifestyle’ that bear the hallmarks of European Enlightenment triumph.

WA offers a rich context to explore the creative, cultural and critical dynamics of Australian society. Its proximity to the Indian Ocean, to Indonesia, Southeast Asia, India, China and Africa make WA an ideal place from which to look at Australia, as well as a place to understand how others see it.

This year's InASA 2016 conference will offer the opportunity of addressing the intensification of overlapping, interpenetrating and mixing of cultures and peoples in everyday life in Australia – and how its public culture and experience has become increasingly re-imagined through intense conversations and inter-epistemic dialogue. Within this conversation there is a compelling need to acknowledge the divisive and violent effects of securitisation, xenophobia, racism, Islamophobia, misogyny, ablism, homophobia among other things.

The purpose of this conference is to understand, document, invoke, listen to, learn about and enquire into the conversations, discussions, histories, stories and creative production that have happened and are happening that help or hinder a re-imagining of Australia, one that is conscious of the limitations, paradoxes, possibilities and nuances of culture and therefore framed through questions of cultural encounter, social and political recognition and responsibility.

The conference will showcase research about how Australia is being re-imagined through interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary approaches that are critical, creative and artistic.

Conference Website: http://info.humanrights.curtin.edu.au/events/index-inasa.cfm
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/759889724144220/

Contact us
Please direct all enquiries to reimagining at curtin.edu.au

Conference travel bursary

To all postgraduate students: InASA is offering a conference travel Bursary to HDR candidates to assist attendance at the 2016 conference. These bursaries are up to $700 per applicant and provide financial assistance to cover travel and accommodation to attend the conference. To find out more please refer to the website registration page: http://info.humanrights.curtin.edu.au/events/about-inasa.cfm

We look forward to seeing you at the conference!

Sincerely,
Conference Steering Committee, InASA 2016
Baden Offord, Suvendrini Perera, Anna Haebich, Thor Kerr and Dean Chan
Email:  reimagining at curtin.edu.au



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