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Call for Papers "Moving Cultures, Shifting Identities: Migration, Connection, Heritage and Cultural Memory" Interdisciplinary Conference Flinders University Adelaide (Australia) 3-5 December 2007 __________________________________________________ This conference will examine issues of migration, transnational connection, displacement heritage, global space and cultural memory created by the movements of peoples between cultures in the modern world. In the mass migrations of the last 200 years, millions of people have left their homelands and home cultures to settle in new places. Their motives have been many: the emigrants search for new opportunities, the gastarbeiters self-imposed exile, the refugees forced flight and the settlers quest for trade, military advantage or fresh fields and pastures new have all shaped the great migrations of the modern period. Moving Cultures, Shifting Identities will explore the cultural connections between homelands and new lands, and the complexities of reshaping cultural identities and shifting allegiances between cultures of departure and cultures of arrival. The conference will have three main streams: The public policy stream will cover issues of economics, population, forced migration, security, core values, education and the managing of cultural impacts of migration. The history of migration stream will include sessions on pre- and post-World War Two migration, recent arrivals and diasporic communities. The Cultural Migration stream will include sessions on memory, writing, language, cultural maintenance and sustainability, and the plurality of migrant identities. Papers are invited on the following: - The demographics of people flow: who moves where? and why? - Forced migration in the Asia Pacific - Cultural, political and economic factors shaping migration. How are connections made? - Bordering the nation: migration and national security - Transnationalism, citizenship and sovereignty - Gender and generational issues in the migration experience - Linguistics, diaspora and migration - Settling down, settlement patterns and return migration - Can multi-cultures and multi-ethnicities produce one nation? - Multiculturalism - Language maintenance in the new culture - Foodways - Migration, place and situated identities - Connections with the new place and (re)negotiating with the old - Home and Away: What is transferred from the home culture to the new culture? What cannot fit in the baggage? - Imaginary homelands: life-writing, creative writing and film responses to the migration experience - Unsettlement: the idea of the settler colony - Cultural memory: heritage and exchange - Transplanted cultures as tourist attractions - Fusion, cultural hybridity, cosmopolitanism ... Guest speakers The conference will feature plenary session addresses by leading international scholars in the field, as well as parallel presentations by researchers and policy-makers. Proposals for panel sessions will be considered as well as abstracts for individual papers. Panel proposals should include a theme for the session, the names of all speakers, the titles of their papers, and a session summary of 250300 words. Abstracts of 250300 words should be submitted for each paper, whether they are included in a panel session proposal or not. Where abstracts are intended for a proposed panel session, this should be indicated on the abstract. Abstracts and session proposals should be sent to Nena Bierbaum by 31 March 2007. All abstracts will be refereed. Moving Cultures, Shifting Identities is a conference organised by the Flinders Humanities Research Centre for Cultural Heritage and Cultural Exchange, the Centre for Research into New Literatures in English (CRNLE) and Flinders International Asia Pacific (FIAP). Contact: Nena Bierbaum School of Humanities Flinders University GPO Box 2100 Adelaide, SA 5001 Australia Tel: +61 8 8201 2578 or 8201 5137 Fax: +61 8 8201 3635 Email: [email protected] Web: http://fhrc.flinders.edu.au/events/movingcultures.html __________________________________________________ InterPhil List Administration: http://interphil.polylog.org Intercultural Philosophy Calendar: http://cal.polylog.org
