<html xmlns:v="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml" xmlns:o="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" xmlns:w="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word" xmlns:m="http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/2004/12/omml" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40"><head><meta http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"><meta name=Generator content="Microsoft Word 12 (filtered medium)"><!--[if !mso]><style>v\:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);}
o\:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);}
w\:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);}
.shape {behavior:url(#default#VML);}
</style><![endif]--><style><!--
/* Font Definitions */
@font-face
{font-family:"Cambria Math";
panose-1:2 4 5 3 5 4 6 3 2 4;}
@font-face
{font-family:Calibri;
panose-1:2 15 5 2 2 2 4 3 2 4;}
@font-face
{font-family:Tahoma;
panose-1:2 11 6 4 3 5 4 4 2 4;}
@font-face
{font-family:Garamond;
panose-1:2 2 4 4 3 3 1 1 8 3;}
@font-face
{font-family:"Bodoni MT Black";
panose-1:2 7 10 3 8 6 6 2 2 3;}
/* Style Definitions */
p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal
{margin:0cm;
margin-bottom:.0001pt;
text-align:justify;
line-height:150%;
font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Garamond","serif";
color:black;}
a:link, span.MsoHyperlink
{mso-style-priority:99;
color:blue;
text-decoration:underline;}
a:visited, span.MsoHyperlinkFollowed
{mso-style-priority:99;
color:purple;
text-decoration:underline;}
p.MsoAcetate, li.MsoAcetate, div.MsoAcetate
{mso-style-priority:99;
mso-style-link:"Balloon Text Char";
margin:0cm;
margin-bottom:.0001pt;
font-size:8.0pt;
font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";}
p.MsoListParagraph, li.MsoListParagraph, div.MsoListParagraph
{mso-style-priority:34;
margin-top:0cm;
margin-right:0cm;
margin-bottom:0cm;
margin-left:36.0pt;
margin-bottom:.0001pt;
text-align:justify;
line-height:150%;
font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Garamond","serif";
color:black;}
p.MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst, li.MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst, div.MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst
{mso-style-priority:34;
mso-style-type:export-only;
margin-top:0cm;
margin-right:0cm;
margin-bottom:0cm;
margin-left:36.0pt;
margin-bottom:.0001pt;
text-align:justify;
line-height:150%;
font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Garamond","serif";
color:black;}
p.MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle, li.MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle, div.MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle
{mso-style-priority:34;
mso-style-type:export-only;
margin-top:0cm;
margin-right:0cm;
margin-bottom:0cm;
margin-left:36.0pt;
margin-bottom:.0001pt;
text-align:justify;
line-height:150%;
font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Garamond","serif";
color:black;}
p.MsoListParagraphCxSpLast, li.MsoListParagraphCxSpLast, div.MsoListParagraphCxSpLast
{mso-style-priority:34;
mso-style-type:export-only;
margin-top:0cm;
margin-right:0cm;
margin-bottom:0cm;
margin-left:36.0pt;
margin-bottom:.0001pt;
text-align:justify;
line-height:150%;
font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Garamond","serif";
color:black;}
span.EmailStyle17
{mso-style-type:personal-compose;
font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:windowtext;}
span.BalloonTextChar
{mso-style-name:"Balloon Text Char";
mso-style-priority:99;
mso-style-link:"Balloon Text";
font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";}
.MsoChpDefault
{mso-style-type:export-only;}
@page WordSection1
{size:612.0pt 792.0pt;
margin:72.0pt 72.0pt 72.0pt 72.0pt;}
div.WordSection1
{page:WordSection1;}
--></style><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
<o:shapedefaults v:ext="edit" spidmax="2050" />
</xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
<o:shapelayout v:ext="edit">
<o:idmap v:ext="edit" data="1" />
</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-GB link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;line-height:normal'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:windowtext'><img width=126 height=38 id="_x0000_i1025" src="cid:image001.jpg@01CD43F6.48962E30"></span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;line-height:normal'><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;line-height:normal'>Institute for Social Transformation Research, in cooperation with <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;line-height:normal'>The School of History & Politics, Faculty of Arts<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><span style='font-size:22.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Bodoni MT Black","serif";font-variant:small-caps'>‘Collaborative Struggle’ Conference<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='font-size:13.0pt;line-height:150%'>University of Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;line-height:150%'>24 September, 2012<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><span style='font-size:15.0pt;line-height:150%'>Keynote address:<span style='font-variant:small-caps'> Ilan Pappé, University of Exeter<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;line-height:normal'><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>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></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;line-height:normal'><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>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></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=left style='text-align:left'><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-AU style='color:windowtext'>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></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:normal'><span lang=EN-AU style='color:windowtext'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:normal'><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;line-height:normal'><b><span style='font-size:14.5pt;font-variant:small-caps'>Invited Speakers: Henry Reynolds – University of Tasmania; Chris Weedon – Cardiff University; Lorenzo Veracini – Swinburne University of Technology; Matt Allen – University of Wollongong; Simone Bignall – </span></b><b><span lang=EN-AU style='font-size:14.5pt;font-variant:small-caps'>University of New South Wales<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal align=left style='text-align:left'><!--[if gte vml 1]><v:shapetype id="_x0000_t202" coordsize="21600,21600" o:spt="202" path="m,l,21600r21600,l21600,xe">
<v:stroke joinstyle="miter" />
<v:path gradientshapeok="t" o:connecttype="rect" />
</v:shapetype><v:shape id="_x0000_s1027" type="#_x0000_t202" style='position:absolute;margin-left:386.35pt;margin-top:8.45pt;width:106.4pt;height:36.65pt;z-index:2;mso-width-relative:margin;mso-height-relative:margin' strokecolor="white [3212]">
<v:textbox style='mso-next-textbox:#_x0000_s1027' />
</v:shape><![endif]--><![if !vml]><span style='mso-ignore:vglayout'><table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 align=left><tr><td width=514 height=10></td></tr><tr><td></td><td width=148 height=55 bgcolor=white style='border:.75pt solid white;vertical-align:top;background:white'><![endif]><![if !mso]><span style='position:absolute;mso-ignore:vglayout;z-index:2'><table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 width="100%"><tr><td><![endif]><div v:shape="_x0000_s1027" style='padding:4.35pt 7.95pt 4.35pt 7.95pt' class=shape><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><![if !mso]></td></tr></table></span><![endif]><![if !mso & !vml]> <![endif]><![if !vml]></td></tr></table></span><![endif]><b><span style='line-height:150%'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><br style='mso-ignore:vglayout' clear=ALL><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><span style='font-size:13.0pt;line-height:150%;color:windowtext'>Convened by Ian Buchanan and Marcelo Svirsky<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><!--[if gte vml 1]><v:shape id="Text_x0020_Box_x0020_2" o:spid="_x0000_s1026" type="#_x0000_t202" style='position:absolute;left:0;text-align:left;margin-left:478.2pt;margin-top:15.75pt;width:519.35pt;height:130.2pt;z-index:1;visibility:visible' o:gfxdata="UEsDBBQABgAIAAAAIQC2gziS/gAAAOEBAAATAAAAW0NvbnRlbnRfVHlwZXNdLnhtbJSRQU7DMBBF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" strokeweight="1.5pt" /><![endif]--><![if !vml]><span style='mso-ignore:vglayout'><table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 align=left><tr><td width=636 height=20></td></tr><tr><td></td><td width=700 height=180 bgcolor=white style='border:1.5pt solid black;vertical-align:top;background:white'><![endif]><![if !mso]><span style='position:absolute;mso-ignore:vglayout;left:0pt;z-index:1'><table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 width="100%"><tr><td><![endif]><div v:shape="Text_x0020_Box_x0020_2" style='padding:5.1pt 8.7pt 5.1pt 8.7pt' class=shape><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;line-height:150%;text-transform:uppercase'>Call for Papers<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormalCxSpLast align=center style='margin-right:20.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='line-height:150%'>The conference invites 20 minute papers on</span><span style='line-height:150%'> different aspects of ‘collaborative struggle’:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraph align=center style='margin-right:20.0pt;text-align:center;line-height:normal'>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 align=center style='text-align:center'><b><span style='line-height:150%;font-variant:small-caps'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><span style='line-height:150%;font-variant:small-caps'>Send 200 word proposals to Marcelo Svirsky by June 15th to: </span></b><a href="mailto:msvirsky@uow.edu.au"><b><span style='line-height:150%'>msvirsky@uow.edu.au</span></b></a><b><span style='line-height:150%'> <o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='line-height:150%'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><![if !mso]></td></tr></table></span><![endif]><![if !mso & !vml]> <![endif]><![if !vml]></td></tr></table></span><![endif]><span style='font-size:11.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:windowtext'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></body></html>