CFP: Moving Cultures, Shifting Identities: a conference about migration, connection, heritage and cultural memory

CFP: Moving Cultures, Shifting Identities: a conference about migration, connection, heritage and cultural memory.
Location: Australia
Call for Papers Date: March 12, 2007

Flinders University, Adelaide, South Australia
3-5 December 2007
Visit the website at http://fhrc.flinders.edu.au/events/movingcultures.html

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 emigrant’s search for new opportunities, the gastarbeiter’s self-imposed exile, the refugee’s forced flight and the settler’s 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 topics:
• 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 …

Flinders University, Adelaide, South Australia
3-5 December 2007

Nena Bierbaum
School of Humanities
Flinders University
Adelaide
South Australia
+61 8 82012257
Email: nena.bierbaum@flinders.edu.au

CFP: 5th International Indigenous Librarians’ Forum 2007

CFP: 5th International Indigenous Librarians’ Forum 2007
4-7 June,2007
State Library of Queensland, South Brisbane, Australia

CFP Deadline: February 5, 2007

CFP URL: http://www.5iilf.org/home/call

Call for papers
Abstracts should address the broad issues of:
-Protocols/ethics/copyright
-Developing knowledge places
-Repatriation
-Developing Indigenous library workers
-Success stories
-Hurdles and blockages
-Myths and legends
-Education/literacy
-History/heritage

The theme for the 2007 Forum is 'Culture, Knowledge, Future’, with each day reflecting a part of the theme:

Day one will cover Knowledge, with sessions on ways of knowledge, including protocols, ethics, copyright, repatriation and developing knowledge places.

Day two will centre on Culture, which will include history, heritage, as well as visiting an Aboriginal community/group in south east Queensland.

Day three will be a day of sharing by inviting non-Indigenous people to attend the forum to discuss different perspectives.

Day four will focus on Future and will be an opportunity to workshop the future directions for the Forum.

Join us for presentations and discussions of the current issues that impact Indigenous librarianship and the opportunity to learn more about the cultures of Australian Aboriginal people and Torres Strait Islanders, as well as Indigenous people from across the globe.

The Forum vision
“We, as unified Indigenous peoples who work with libraries and information, will ensure the appropriate care, development and management of the Indigenous knowledge of generations past, present and future.”

The Forum objectives
To identify ways to improve library services for Indigenous peoples

To discuss best practices for library services for diverse Indigenous populations

To affirm the history, knowledge and values of Indigenous populations

To promote partnerships to create a global network for sharing information, ideas and practices

To promote Aboriginal culture and heritage as an important foundation for promoting and protecting cultural lifestyles and values

To incorporate strategies to encourage participation for the Aboriginal community in their libraries

Dates: Abstracts to be lodged by 5 February 2007
Notice to successful abstracts 14 February 2007

Final papers close on 11 May 2007

Details:
Abstracts to be lodged via email to ils@slq.qld.gov.au