[ecrea] Collaborative Struggle Conference

Institute for Social Transformation Research, in cooperation with

The School of History & Politics, Faculty of Arts



‘Collaborative Struggle’ Conference



University of Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia

24 September, 2012



Keynote address: Ilan Pappé, University of Exeter

Author of The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine (2006), The Modern Middle 
East (2005), A History of Modern Palestine: One Land, Two Peoples 
(2003), and Britain and the Arab-Israeli Conflict (1988)

Director of the European Centre for Palestine Studies, co-director of 
the Exeter Centre for Ethno-Political Studies, and political activist



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.





Invited Speakers: Henry Reynolds – University of Tasmania; Chris Weedon 
– Cardiff University; Lorenzo Veracini – Swinburne University of 
Technology; Matt Allen – University of Wollongong; Simone Bignall – 
University of New South Wales









Convened by Ian Buchanan and Marcelo Svirsky





Call for Papers

The conference invites 20 minute papers on different aspects of 
‘collaborative struggle’:

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 *



Send 200 word proposals to Marcelo Svirsky by June 15th to: 
(msvirsky /at/ uow.edu.au)





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