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<b>Sent:</b> Sunday, 27 May 2018 10:55 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:CRITSUI@LISTS.WAYNE.EDU" target="_blank">CRITSUI@LISTS.WAYNE.EDU</a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> CFP: Critical Suicide Studies Network Conference (Perth, Western Australia 12-13 December 2018).</font>
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<p class="m_-7080499814344292590x_MsoNormal" style="margin-left:0cm;text-indent:0cm"><span>It is with enormous excitement that we invite you to participate in the 3rd Conference of the Critical Suicide Studies Network (a.k.a. CritSui3), to be held in Perth WA at the University
 of Western Australia 12-13 December.<span>  </span></span></p>
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<p class="m_-7080499814344292590x_MsoNormal" style="margin-left:0cm;text-indent:0cm"><b><span>About the Critical Suicide Studies Network</span></b></p>
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<span>The Critical Suicide Studies Network presents an approach to understanding, theorising and intervening in suicide from alternative perspectives. Such perspectives have sought to find renewed, more critical ways of thinking about suicide to address
 and respond to suicide where traditional approaches have failed.</span></p>
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<span>Such a beginning could not be more timely.<span>  </span>
Many working within suicidology have become frustrated by the limitations of dominant pathologising and medicalised approaches to suicide research and prevention practices. Believing that suicide research is in need of an ongoing critical re-thinking of its
 subject matter and a broadening of it disciplinary basis, Critical Suicide Studies investigates the social, philosophic, psychological, literary and cultural practices of making sense of suicide, taking into account how suicide is shaped by history, politics,
 identity, culture, media and power.<span>  </span>As an approach, it works with service providers, communities and publics to develop nuanced but useful accounts of suicide that can help build bridges across theory and practice and affected communities.
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<b><span>Invitation for participation in roundtables</span></b></p>
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<span>This conference, the first to be held in the southern hemisphere, builds on prior Critical Suicide Studies conferences in Prague, Czech Republic (2016) and Canterbury, UK (2017), turning the attention to networking, impact and engagement of critical
 approaches with service providers, advocates, policy-makers and everyday people affected by suicide.<span> 
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<span>We would like to invite scholars, relevant service providers, policy-makers and advocates to participate in roundtable discussions that provoke dialogue across a range of topics explore exploring critical approaches to suicide and how these can
 foster changes in policy and provision with real impact, real consultation and real engagement.<span> 
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<span>We are particularly interested in short presentations (c. 15 minutes) that can join one or more of the following roundtables:</span></p>
<p class="m_-7080499814344292590x_MsoNormal">-- Lived Experience of Suicide</p>
<p class="m_-7080499814344292590x_MsoNormal">-- Critical Methodologies </p>
<p class="m_-7080499814344292590x_MsoNormal">-- Indigenous knowledges</p>
<p class="m_-7080499814344292590x_MsoNormal">-- Migrants, refugees, asylum seekers and socio-political conditions of suicidality</p>
<p class="m_-7080499814344292590x_MsoNormal">-- Gender and sexually-diverse persons, subjects and communities</p>
<p class="m_-7080499814344292590x_MsoNormal">-- Critical suicide approaches in practice (marginal and alternative approaches)</p>
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<p class="m_-7080499814344292590x_MsoNormal" style="margin-left:0cm;text-indent:0cm"><span>We welcome proposals relevant to any of the above roundtables as well as others that fit within the field of Critical Suicide Studies (see
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<span style="color:windowtext">https://criticalsuicidology.<wbr>net/what-is-critical-<wbr>suicidology/</span></a> for guidance).<span> 
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<p class="m_-7080499814344292590x_MsoNormal" style="margin-left:0cm;text-indent:0cm"><b><span>To submit, please send a 250-word proposal, title, and short biography to
</span></b><span><a href="mailto:critsui3@gmail.com" id="m_-7080499814344292590LPlnk968248" class="m_-7080499814344292590x_OWAAutoLink" target="_blank"><b><span style="color:windowtext">critsui3@gmail.com</span></b></a><b> by no later than 30 June 2018.</b></span></p>
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<p class="m_-7080499814344292590x_MsoNormal" style="margin-left:0cm;text-indent:0cm"><span>We look forward to hearing from you soon.<span> 
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<p class="m_-7080499814344292590x_MsoNormal" style="margin-left:0cm;text-indent:0cm"><span>Cheers,</span></p>
<p class="m_-7080499814344292590x_MsoNormal" style="margin-left:0cm;text-indent:0cm"><span>Rob Cover and Katrina Jaworski (on behalf of the Critical Suicide Studies Network and the CritSui3 Conference Organising Committee).<span> 
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Assoc Professor Rob Cover<br>
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School of Social Sciences<br>
The University of Western Australia<br>
Crawley WA 6009<br>
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Rm 1.16, Social Sciences Building<br>
+61 8 6488 4305 wk<br>
0437 902 967 sms<br>
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<a href="mailto:rob.cover@uwa.edu.au" target="_blank">rob.cover@uwa.edu.au</a><br>
Profile:    <a href="http://www.uwa.edu.au/people/rob.cover" target="_blank">http://www.uwa.edu.au/people/<wbr>rob.cover</a> <br>
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<b><span style="background-image:initial">ROB&#39;s RECENT BOOKS:</span><br>
</b><span style="background-image:initial">Queer Youth Suicide, Culture and Identity: Unliveable Lives? -
<a href="http://bit.ly/qys2012" class="m_-7080499814344292590x_OWAAutoLink" id="m_-7080499814344292590LPNoLP" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/qys2012</a> </span><br>
<span style="background-image:initial">Vulnerability and Exposure: Footballer Scandals, Masculine Identity and Ethics -
<a href="http://bit.ly/VulnExp" class="m_-7080499814344292590x_OWAAutoLink" id="m_-7080499814344292590LPNoLP" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/VulnExp</a> </span><br>
<span style="background-image:initial">Digital Identities: Creating and Communicating the Online Self -
<a href="http://bit.ly/DigIdentities" class="m_-7080499814344292590x_OWAAutoLink" id="m_-7080499814344292590LPNoLP" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/DigIdentities</a> </span><br>
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