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*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 <http://www.delaus.ec.europa.eu/home.htm>, and the Innovative
Universities European Union Centre <http://www.iueu.edu.au/>.
For further details and contact information, please see
http://fhrc.flinders.edu.au/events/movingcultures.html
All enquiries to Nena Bierbaum: [log in to unmask]
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