[csaa-forum] EASA Biennial 2018 early-bird rates

[Baden Offord]

EASA Biennial Conference, Barcelona

Nationalism Old and New, Europe, Australia and their Others

17 to 19 January 2018

The University of Barcelona


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Dear all,

We would like to remind you that the early-bird rates for the EASA conference finalise on Thursday 30 November, the complete abstract book is available now at https://easa2018barcelona.wordpress.com/<https://easa2018barcelona.wordpress.com/>, and the complete programme will be up by Christmas.

Our plenary speakers have all confirmed their participation. They are, in alphabetical order:

Nerida Blair & Kristina Everett (Australian Catholic University)
Dolores Herrero (University of Zaragoza, Spain)
Tabish Khair (Leeds University, UK)
Baden Offord (Curtin University, Australia)
Suvendrini Perera (Curtin University, Australia)
Shirley Steinberg (University of Calgary, Canada)

Nerida Blair and Kristina Everett (Australian Catholic University) will present a paper entitled “Embedding Indigenous Knowings into Curricula: the difference between bolting on and bedding in”. Nerida is the National Director of Indigenous Education for the Faculty of Education and Arts, the Australian Catholic University.  She has spent three decades working in higher education institutions in NSW and Victoria and over one decade in the Public Service Canberra; Department of Education and Department of Foreign Affairs and with the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission in Sydney. Her research interests include Indigenous Knowings and Indigenous research methodologies. Kristina has enjoyed a long research career as an anthropologist working with urban Aboriginal people in Sydney. Her focus has been on cultural revival and on developing and refining a sustained critique of contemporary models of ‘authenticity’. Much of Kristina’s early career was situated in teaching and writing about Indigenous Studies and she remains a member of the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS). Over the last six years Kristina has developed her interests in pedagogy, particularly in assessment and curriculum design, development and delivery at the institutional level in her role at the Australian Catholic University (ACU).

Dolores Herrero  (University of Zaragoza, Spain) will present a paper entitled “Australian Literature in the Face of the Global Refugee Crisis”. Dolores is Senior Lecturer of English Literature and Head of the English Department of the University of Zaragoza, and currently works on transmodern paradigm in contemporary fiction in English. She has published articles and book chapters on Victorian and postcolonial literature--in particular Australian and Indian authors, such as Mudrooroo, David Malouf, Peter Carey, Merlinda Bobis, Roberta Sykes, J. Turner Hospital, Gail Jones, Satendra Nandan, Meena Alexander and Jhumpa Lahiri, to name but a few--and film and cultural studies. She has been Visiting Professor at the University of Hyderabad, India, at the Universities of Wollongong and ANU (Australian National University, Canberra), Australia, and at the University of Tezpur (Assam, India).

Tabish Khair (Leeds University, UK) will present a paper entitled “Nation, State, Capital – and Xenophobia”. Tabish is the author of various books, including novels and poetry. He works at Aarhus University, Denmark, as an Associate Professor and he is the current Leverhulme-funded guest professor at Leeds University, UK.  His studies include Babu Fictions: Alienation in Contemporary Indian English Novels, and The Gothic, Postcolonialism and Otherness and his novels include The Thing About Thugs and How to Fight Islamist Terror from the Missionary Position. In 2016, he published a study, The New Xenophobia and a novel, Just Another Jihadi Jane, to critical acclaim. Winner of the All India Poetry Prize, his fiction has been shortlisted for the Man Asian Prize, the DSC Prize, the Hindu Fiction Prize, Encore Award, etc.

Baden Offord (Curtin University, Australia) will present a paper entitled “The Civilising State, Its Entanglements and Hardening of the Heart”. Baden holds the Dr Haruhisa Handa Chair of Human Rights Education and is Professor of Cultural Studies and Human Rights. He took up the position as Director of Curtin University's Centre for Human Rights Education in January 2015. Born in Aotearoa/NZ of Maori and Pakeha heritage, Baden has lived most of his life in Sydney and Byron Bay, as well as several years in Aotearoa/NZ, South India and Japan. He was educated at The University of Sydney, Australian National University, Satya Wacana University and Southern Cross University. Prior to Curtin University, he has held positions at Southern Cross University (1999-2014); in the Centre for Pacific and American Studies, The University of Tokyo (2010-2011;) and in the Facultad de Filología at The University of Barcelona. He remains an Adjunct Professor in the School of Arts and Social Sciences at Southern Cross University. . A recipient of several national teaching awards, he has an abiding passion for the purpose of higher education and its transformative potential. An internationally recognized specialist in human rights, sexuality, culture and education, he is part of a scholarly and activist community that works collectively to decolonize and destabilize the study of sexuality in Southeast Asia.

Suvendrini Perera (Curtin university, Australia) will present a paper entitled “In an Impaired State: From the Uluru Statement to Manus Prison Camp". Suvendrini is John Curtin Distinguished Professor and Research Professor of Cultural Studies in the School of Media, Culture & Creative Arts. She completed her BA at the University of Sri Lanka and her PhD at Columbia University, New York. Since migrating to Australia she has published widely on issues of social justice, including decolonization, race, ethnicity and multiculturalism, refugee topics, critical whiteness studies and Asian-Australian studies. She has combined her academic career with participation in policymaking, public life and activism. Perera is the author/editor of seven books, including Reaches of Empire; Australia and the Insular Imagination: Beaches, Borders, Boats and Bodies (2009); and Survival Media: The Politics and Poetics of Mobility and the War in Sri Lanka (2016, nominated for the ISA’s Distinguished Book Award). She is coeditor, with Sherene Razack, of the anthology, At the Limits of Justice: Women of Colour on Terror.  She is currently the lead investigator on two ARC funded projects "Old Atrocities, New Media" and "Deathscapes." She is a founding member of Researchers Against Pacific Black Sites. Suvendi's research interests are: State violence and racialised deaths in custody; Borders and junctions in Asia and the Pacific; diaspora cultural studies; race, ethnicity and multiculturalism; refugees and asylum seekers; histories of coexistence in multiethnic societies; critical whiteness studies; feminism and womanism; migrant and Aboriginal interconnections in Australia.

Shirley Steinberg is a Research Professor of Critical Youth Studies at the University of Calgary. She is the author and editor of many books in critical pedagogy, urban and youth culture, and cultural studies. Originally a social/improvisational theatre creator, she has facilitate happenings and flashmobs globally. A regular contributor to CBC Radio One, CTV, The Toronto Globe and Mail, The Montreal Gazette, and Canadian Press, she is an internationally known speaker and teacher. She is also the founding editor of "Taboo: The Journal of Culture and Education", "The International Journal of Youth Studies", and the Managing Editor of "The International Journal of Critical Pedagogy". The co-founder of The Paulo and Nita Freire International Project for Critical Pedagogy, she is the co-organizer of International Institute of Critical Pedagogy and Transformative Leadership, she is committed to a global community of transformative educators and community workers engaged in radical love, social justice, and the situating of power within social and cultural contexts, specifically involving youth.

We look forward to an exciting and inspiring meeting in January!

Best wishes,

The convenors,

Martin Renes (U of Barcelona),
Susan Ballyn (U of Barcelona),
Baden Offord (Curtin U).

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