[csaa-forum] Extended Deadline to 1 August: "Re-Imagining Australia"

[Baden Offord]

Dear CSAA colleagues,

we recommend submissions should be as soon as possible as demand has been very strong.

Best wishes,

Baden


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We would like to invite you to consider the following call for papers, to present a paper or form a themed panel.

CALL FOR PAPERS: DEADLINE 1 AUGUST


"Re-Imagining Australia: Encounter, Recognition, Responsibility"

Venue: Maritime Museum of WA, Fremantle

Dates: 7-9 December 2016



Website: http://humanrights.curtin.edu.au/events/inasa-conference-2016/


Addressing the urgent and compelling need to re-imagine Australia as inclusive, conscious of its landscape and contexts, locale, history, myths and memory, amnesia, politics, cultures and futures.


Re-imagined through story, critique, reflection, art, human rights and education.


The conference will offer the opportunity of responding to the intensification of overlapping, interpenetrating and mixing of cultures and peoples in everyday life in Australia – and how its public culture has become increasingly re-imagined through intense conversations and inter-epistemic dialogue.


Re-imagining different ways of knowing, belonging and doing.



The conference aims to showcase contemporary research and creativity in understanding Australia through interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary approaches.


For the first time, the International Association of Australian Studies conference will take place in Western Australia (WA), following on the zeitgeist of  ‘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. Griffith Review’s


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.



Keynote Speakers Include:

Randa Abdel-Fattah (Macquarie):  ‘Racial Australianisation’ and the affective registers and emotional practices of Islamophobia



Tony Birch (Victoria): ‘Climate Change is Crap’: The Frontier in the Age of Global warming


Anna Haebich (Curtin): Past Tense: Reimagining Nyungar history through performance


Vinay Lal (UCLA): Indigeneity, Immigration, and the Global South: The Psychogeography of Australia



Suvendrini Perera (Curtin): Reimagining the Borderscape



Kim Scott (Curtin): Circles and Sand


Ariel Heryanto (ANU)



The conference encourages postgraduates, early career and senior scholars to present new and innovative work cognate to our theme.



We welcome the submission of abstracts from the following disciplines and fields:

African Studies

Australian Studies

Asian Studies

Creative Arts

Creative Writing

Critical Disability Studies

Critical Race and Whiteness Studies

Cultural Studies

Ethnography

Environmental Studies

Gender and Sexuality

Heritage

History

Human rights

Indian Ocean Studies

Indigenous Studies

Literature

Law and Justice

Media and Film Studies

Multicultural Studies

Performance studies

Postcolonial Studies

Settler Colonial Studies

Sociology & Anthropology



Website: http://humanrights.curtin.edu.au/events/inasa-conference-2016/


best wishes

Baden Offord, Suvendrini Perera, Anna Haebich, Dean Chan and Thor Kerr

Conference Steering Committee

Professor Baden Offord
Director | Dr Haruhisa Handa Chair of Human Rights Education
Professor of Cultural Studies and Human Rights
Centre for Human Rights Education | Faculty of Humanities

Curtin University
T: | +61 8 9266 7186
E: | baden.offord at curtin.edu.au
W|http://humanrights.curtin.edu.au
CRICOS Provider Code 00301J (WA).






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