[Commlist] EASA Conference France: Alter/Native Spaces

/Call for papers EASA (European Association for Studies of Australia) 
Biennial Conference/
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*/Alter/Native Spaces/*
*18-20^th September 2019*
*Conference venue : Université de Toulon, France*
Recent events in Australia remind us that Australia is still caught in 
discourses on “nation”, “belonging” and “identity” in an environment 
that fails to produce new alternatives inthisso-called “postcolonial”, 
“multicultural” country. By proposing/Alter/Native Spaces/the 2019 EASA 
conference intends to go beyond the postcolonial to examine how the 
prefix “alter” is linked both to the notion of an alternative and to the 
notion of multiplicity, and how Indigenous and non-Indigenous knowledges 
may interact and form new spacesto reframe the relationship between 
settler nation and Indigenous peoples by instating their presence in 
place of their absence. The conference also seeks to examine the ways in 
whichthe interaction of Indigenous and non-indigenous geographies may 
construct alter/native spaces, imaginaries or models of inhabitance that 
can provide new modes of rethinking difference and belonging.Among the 
new spaces, global spaces of Indigeneity can be scrutinized as a new 
decentered vision — an alter/native movement of identities.
The conference will examineidentity fragmentation, intersectional 
identities, floating movements in the creation of identities, between 
coercion and resistance/ reaffirmation, as well as shifting concepts and 
definitions, between the imposed and the chosen.The blurriness of 
representation from the perceived to the represented can also be studied 
with an exploration of the interpretation, the use and aim of images. 
Virtual identities can be investigated as well.The 2019 EASA 
“Alter/Native Spaces” conference, will thus focus on the flexibility of 
boundaries, on “in-betweenness”.
This conference aims to explore the following questions:
·Inter/transcultural understandings
·Knowledges/knowledge
·Reinventing the past/ Re-visions of histories
·Hybrid aesthetics
·Cultural reconfigurations and nationalist discourses
·Colonialism/Multiculturalism/decolonization/neo-colonialism
·Alterpolitics
·Altermodernism
·Environmental sustainability and the anthropocene
·Geographies of alter-globalization
·Geographical aesthetics
·Regionalism and localism
·Colonial exploration/postcolonial exploitation
·Recognition and Reconciliation
·Nostalgia
·Heritage and ideals
·Post-conflict and reconciliation
·Convivial cultures
Please send your 250-word abstracts for 20 minute papers and 100-word 
bio notes toSalhia Ben-Messahel and Vanessa 
Castejon:_salhia.benmessahel@univ-tln.fr_and_castejon@univ-paris13.fr_by 
March 15^th , 2019. We do encourage panel proposals. Notification of 
acceptance/rejection of abstracts will be sent by 15 April 2019.
All accepted participants will be expected to become members of the EASA 
as a precondition to presenting their papers. Details of EASA membership 
are available on the association’s website at this 
address:http://www.easa-australianstudies.net/easa/office.
A call for full-academic-length papers derived from conference 
presentations will be issued after the conference for publication in the 
Association’s online journal JEASA.

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