Call for Papers "Mobile Boundaries / Rigid Worlds: The Contemporary Paradox" 2nd Annual Conference Centre for Research on Social Inclusion, Macquarie University Sydney (Australia) 27-28 September 2004
'Mobile Boundaries/Rigid Worlds' is a two-day conference dedicated to the examination of our mobile world, and how it intersects with new and continuing forms of inclusion/exclusion. Presenters will address this theme from a variety of disciplinary and interdisciplinary perspectives, covering topics such as global and local media, new economies and global exchange, transnationality and identity, postcolony, biotechnics and bodies. We live in a world of change and movement. People, money and things are in a constant state of flux. There is movement from place to place. Our identities are ever-changing. Nothing seems fixed. As Manuel Castells has observed, we live in a 'space of flows'. Despite the fluidity of things, the world order is marked by segregations and forms of exclusion, both new and old, global and local. The contemporary condition is one of paradox, torn between and general trend towards increased fluidity and the disappearance of boundaries, and the opposing trend that sees the thriving of old orders and the emergence of new boundaries of containment and exclusion. Parallel presentations are arranged into the following streams: - Changing Bodies, Changing Worlds - Identities: Race, Community, Citizenship - Poverty Amid Affluence - Social Justice and Spaces of Containment - Imagining Globalisation: Media, Culture, Information and Exchange - Biotechnics, Bodies and Belonging Registration: $100 (waged), $50 (student, includes lunch), $10 (student, excludes lunch) Registration form and further info at the web address below. Contact: Obelia Modjeska Centre for Research on Social Inclusion Division of Society, Culture, Media and Philosophy Macquarie University NSW 2109 Australia Phone: +61 02 9850 9171 Email: [email protected] Website: http://www.crsi.mq.edu.au _________________________________ InterPhil List Administration: http://interphil.polylog.org/ Intercultural Philosophy Calendar: http://agd.polylog.org/cal/
