[ecrea] Call for Papers: Deadline 30 June 2016. "Re-Imagining Australia: Encounter, Recognition, Responsibility"

*Call for Papers: Deadline 30 June 2016.*


we would like to invite you to consider participating in this year's
InASA 2016 International Conference.

At a time when contemporary cultural, political and social struggles in
Australia pivot on urgent questions of Indigenous recognition,
multicultural citizenship, justice for refugees and asylum seekers, and
action on gender, sexuality and disability, among other things, there is
much to investigate, understand and reimagine.

The theme this year focuses on how we might 're-imagine Australia,' in
terms of principled exposure, ethical intervention and critique, through
encounter, recognition and responsibility. Please join us for this
convivial gathering of critical conversations.

*"Re-Imagining Australia: Encounter, Recognition, Responsibility"*
*7 - 9 December 2016*
*Western Australian Maritime Museum*
*Fremantle *

*Keynote Speakers so far Include:*
Randa Abdel-Fattah (Macquarie)
Tony Birch (Victoria)
Anna Haebich (Curtin)
Ariel Heryanto (ANU)
Vinay Lal (UCLA)
Suvendrini Perera (Curtin)
Kim Scott (Curtin)
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*Special Panels so far include:*
Researchers Against Black Sites Panel: "Damage by Design"
This panel, featuring writers imprisoned on Manus Island and Nauru and
members of Researchers Against Pacific Black Sites (RAPBS), examines the
violent reimagining and remaking of Australian sovereignty through the
regime of offshore detention

*Music*
East Wind

For the first time, the /International Association of Australian
Studies/ (InASA) conference will take place in Western Australia (WA),
following on the zeitgeist of /Griffith Review’s /‘Looking West’ (2015),
the end of the mining boom and vigorous national protests against the
closure of remote Aboriginal communities based on a racial and cultural
politics of ‘lifestyle’ that bear the hallmarks of European
Enlightenment triumph.

WA offers a rich context to explore the creative, cultural and critical
dynamics of Australian society. Its proximity to the Indian Ocean, to
Indonesia, Southeast Asia, India, China and Africa make WA an ideal
place from which to look at Australia, as well as a place to understand
how others see it.

This year's InASA 2016 conference will offer the opportunity of
addressing the intensification of overlapping, interpenetrating and
mixing of cultures and peoples in everyday life in Australia – and how
its public culture and experience has become increasingly re-imagined
through intense conversations and inter-epistemic dialogue. Within this
conversation there is a compelling need to acknowledge the divisive and
violent effects of securitisation, xenophobia, racism, Islamophobia,
misogyny, ablism, homophobia among other things.
The purpose of this conference is to understand, document, invoke,
listen to, learn about and enquire into the conversations, discussions,
histories, stories and creative production that have happened and are
happening that help or hinder a re-imagining of Australia, one that is
conscious of the limitations, paradoxes, possibilities and nuances of
culture and therefore framed through questions of cultural encounter,
social and political recognition and responsibility.

The conference will showcase research about how Australia is being
re-imagined through interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary approaches
that are critical, creative and artistic.

*Conference
Website:*http://info.humanrights.curtin.edu.au/events/index-inasa.cfm
*Facebook: *https://www.facebook.com/events/759889724144220/

*Contact us*
Please direct all enquiries to (reimagining /at/ curtin.edu.au)

*Conference Travel Bursary *
To all postgraduate students: InASA is offering a conference travel
Bursary to HDR candidates to assist attendance at the 2016 conference.
These bursaries are up to $700 per applicant and provide financial
assistance to cover travel and accommodation to attend the conference.
To find out more please refer to the website registration page:
http://info.humanrights.curtin.edu.au/events/about-inasa.cfm

We look forward to seeing you at the conference!
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*Sincerely,*
*Conference Steering Committee, InASA 2016*
*Baden Offord, Suvendrini Perera, Anna Haebich, Thor Kerr and Dean Chan*
Email:  (reimagining /at/ curtin.edu.au)


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*Professor Baden Offord*
*Director** | Dr Haruhisa Handa Chair of Human Rights Education*
*Professor of Cultural Studies and Human Rights*
*Centre for Human Rights Education | Faculty of Humanities
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*Curtin University
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*T: |*+61 8 9266 7186
***E:** |*(baden.offord /at/ curtin.edu.au)
**W|http://oasisapps.curtin.edu.au/staff/profile/view/Baden.Offord
_CRICOS Provider Code 00301J (WA)._

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