Dear Colleagues We are very excited to announce the conference: Isolation: Disconnection, solitude and seclusion in a connected world This will be held in Hobart, Tasmania from the 14th to 16th of December this year. The conference fee will include a river cruise to the penal settlement at Port Arthur (http://www.portarthur.org.au/), evening cruise to the conference dinner at Moorilla Winery (http://www.moorilla.com.au/) as well as an evening of contemporary musical compositions at the School of Art on Hobart's harbourside. For further details please see: http://www.utas.edu.au/sociology/HACRU/news.htm Please do send this on to any colleagues you feel might be interested, kind regards Rowland ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Dr Rowland Atkinson Senior Researcher Housing and Community Research Unit School of Sociology and Social Work University of Tasmania Private Bag 17 Hobart Tas 7001 Australia T: 00 61 3 6226 7604 F: 00 61 3 6226 2279 W: http://www.utas.edu.au/sociology/HACRU/index.htm Isolation conference: http://www.utas.edu.au/sociology/HACRU/Isolation%20Conf%20Flyer.pdf