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B Y E M A I L : ----------------- ACTIVATING HUMAN RIGHTS AND DIVERSITY CONFERENCE BYRON BAY, AUSTRALIA 1-4 July 2003 Hosted by the Centre for Law, Politics and Culture Southern Cross University Confirmed Keynotes: Professor Monica McWilliams (Ireland), Professor Raimon Gaita (Aust), Chee Soon Juan (Singapore) Professor Yash Ghai, (Hong Kong), Dita Indah Sari (Indonesia), Professor Costas Douzinas (UK), Dr Sev Ozdowsky (Aust), Charlene Smith (South Africa), Melinda Jones (Aust), Professor Carl Stychin (UK), Dr Lillian Holt and Dr Irene Watson (Aust). Planned opening with the Governor, Professor Marie Bashir and The Honourable John Dowd. Planned Endnote Speech by Peter Garrett. Other invited speakers include: - Basil Fernando, Executive Director, Asian Human Rights Commission, Hong Kong. - Natasha Stott-Despoja, Australian Democrats Senator. - Kerry Nettle, NSW Greens Senator. Rodney Croome, sexuality activist. CALL FOR PAPERS: ACTIVATING HUMAN RIGHTS AND DIVERSITY CONFERENCE http://www.scu.edu.au/research/clpc/human_rights/index.html Local and Global Voices This international conference is for everyone who cares passionately about human rights, and who wishes to activate/re-activate human rights and their importance in the twenty-first century. We hope the conference will provide a crucial and critical learning space for activating human rights and diversity in relation to the fields of law, culture, politics and health. A major focus of the conference is to invite participants to exchange ideas and experiences about human rights, questions of diversity and their implications across these fields. The conference is interdisciplinary as well as activist in approach. We especially welcome papers that engage with significant and often disregarded and unregarded areas of human rights activism. We also invite papers which address relevant contemporary issues that have a significant human rights dimension. CALL FOR PAPERS* Please send proposals for 20-25 minute papers, with a 200-word abstract by 3rd February 2003 to: Dr Baden Offord, Centre for Law, Politics and Culture, [EMAIL PROTECTED] The conference will have a mix of plenary sessions with invited papers, and panel sessions. The conference organisers welcome papers from academics, researchers, activists, community groups and policy makers. Draft Panel Sessions So far include: … Refugees and Human Rights … Indigenous Rights - Culture and Human Rights … Romany peoples and human rights - Women and Human Rights … Disability Rights … Buddhism and Human Rights … New Media and Human Rights … Journalism and Human Rights … Amnesty International high school students presentation … Sexuality and Human Rights … Children's Rights … Health and Human Rights … Asian Human Rights POSSIBLE CONFERENCE TOPICS The Conference welcomes contributions that are interdisciplinary in nature and which are informed by the confluence of theory and practice. In general, conference thematic matrix might include: 1. Gender & sexuality 2. East Timor 3. Disability and rights 4. Refugees and diaspora 5. Indigenous approaches 6. Rights and globalisation 7. Culture and representation 8. Citizenships of belonging and participation 9. Asia/Pacific issues 10. Sexual slavery 11. Torture and exploitation 12. Human rights methodologies 13. Exclusion/inclusion 14. New technologies & citizenship 15. Health care and human rights 16. Diversity & legal discourse 17. Rethinking human rights activism 18. The politics of human rights 19. Monocultural/multicultural realities 20. Religion & social activism 21. Music & human rights 22. Reproductive rights 23. Moving beyond anguish & trauma 24. Reconciliation & Healing 25. Stories of breaking the silence 26. Activate/Re-activate -- Dr Baden Offord Senior Lecturer: Cultural Studies Researcher: Centre for Law, Politics & Culture Convenor: Activating Human Rights & Diversity:local & global voices International Conference, Byron Bay, 2003. http://www.scu.edu.au/research/clpc/ School of Arts Southern Cross University PO Box 157 Lismore 2480 Australia Telephone: + 61 2 66203 162 Fax: + 61 2 66 221 683 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://hmcs.scu.edu.au/ Paulo Friere: "studying is above all thinking about experience, and thinking about experience is the best way to think accurately." -- -- Leftlink - Australia's Broad Left Mailing List mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archived at http://www.cat.org.au/lists/leftlink/ Sponsored by Melbourne's New International Bookshop Sub: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Body=subscribe%20leftlink Unsub: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Body=unsubscribe%20leftlink
