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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-AU link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>Please circulate widely<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> Institute for Social Transformation Research, in cooperation with <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>The School of History & Politics, Faculty of Arts <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><o:p> </o:p></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b>‘COLLABORATIVE STRUGGLES’ CONFERENCE </b><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>University of Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><b>24 September, 2012 </b><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><o:p> </o:p></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b>Keynote address: ILAN PAPPÉ, UNIVERSITY OF EXETER </b><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Author of <i>The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine </i>(2006), <i>The Modern Middle East </i>(2005), <i>A History of Modern Palestine: One Land, Two Peoples </i>(2003), and <i>Britain and the Arab-Israeli Conflict </i>(1988) <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Director of the European Centre for Palestine Studies, co-director of the Exeter Centre for Ethno-Political Studies, and political activist <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>The ‘Arab Spring’ and the ‘Occupy Wall Street’ movements have both, in their very different ways, brought to life the idea that ‘the people’, long thought to be missing, can and do make a difference. This conference is interested in the possibilities these kinds of ‘collaborative struggles’ are opening up for new ways of thinking about politics, citizenship, identity and indeed life itself. What happens when Palestinians and Jews struggle together to defeat the segregation that nourishes the continuation of their conflict? What if a society of white privilege were to give way to an integrative way of life in Australia? This conference discusses different aspects of joint action – or ‘collaborative struggles’ – as the way to exit colonial divisions and oppressive relations in contemporary societies. We assume that the way we choose to struggle is the way we choose to create the new. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><o:p> </o:p></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b>Invited Speakers: </b>Lorenzo Veracini – Swinburne University of Technology; Chris Weedon – Cardiff University; Matt Allen – University of Wollongong; Simone Bignall – University of New South Wales <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><b>Convened by Ian Buchanan and Marcelo Svirsky </b><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><o:p> </o:p></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b>CALL FOR PAPERS </b><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>The conference invites 20 minute papers on different aspects of ‘collaborative struggles’: <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>joint activism and decolonisation in settler-colonial societies * radical activism and capitalism * civil society and collaborative action * ‘shared history’ and critical narratives * collaborative struggles and cultural studies * transversal activism * bilingualism and interculturalism * <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><b>SEND 200 WORD PROPOSALS TO MARCELO SVIRSKY BY JUNE 15TH TO: msvirsky@uow.edu.au</b><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Professor Ian Buchanan<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Director, Institute for Social Transformation Research<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>University of Wollongong<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>ibuchana@uow.edu.au<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>+61 2 4221 4882<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>