[csaa-forum] Final Call for Papers and Updated Speakers: Re-Imagining Australia, Fremantle 2016

[Baden Offord]

We would like to invite you to consider the following call for papers, to present a paper or form a themed panel.
FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS: DEADLINE 1 AUGUST
EARLY BIRD FOR REGISTRATIONS ENDS 1 SEPTEMBER

"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/

Featured Speaker 8 December:
Stan Grant, Indigenous affairs editor for Guardian Australia. Winner of the 2015 Walkley award for coverage of Indigenous affairs. NITV/SBS Presenter.

Keynoye Speakers:
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)

Featured Plenary Panels:
Museum of Western Australia: 'Re-imagining the Museum', Chaired by Dean Chan
Researchers Against Pacific Black Sites, Chaired by Suvendrini Perera
Special Kimberley Panel, Chaired by Steve Kinnane

Music: Eastwinds http://www.eastwindsmusic.com

THEMES:
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.

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

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
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E: | baden.offord at curtin.edu.au
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