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Conference Notification

 

Moving Cultures, Shifting Identities:

a conference about migration, connection, heritage and cultural memory.

 

Flinders University

Adelaide, South 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. We would welcome you as a conference participant, and would be grateful if you could pass this notice to colleagues and co-researchers who would be interested.

 

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 …

 

This conference is organised by the Flinders Humanities Research Centre for Cultural Heritage and Cultural Exchange (FHRC), the Centre for Research into New Literatures in English (CRNLE) and Flinders International Asia Pacific (FIAP). The conference organisers gratefully acknowledge the support of the European Commission's Delegation to Australia, and the Innovative Universities European Union Centre.

 

For further details and contact information, please see http://fhrc.flinders.edu.au/events/movingcultures.html