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<p><span class=heading1><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><font size=3
color="#660000" face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-weight:
normal'><a
href="http://www.anu.edu.au/culture/n_activities/vsp/challenges/challenges04.htm"><font
color="#660000"><span style='color:#660000;text-decoration:none;text-underline:
none'>Challenges to Perform</span></font></a><br>
</span></font></b>Seeing/Feeling, Hearing/Dancing, Presenting/Writing,
Reflecting/Remembering</span><font size=1 color="#9c795a" face=Verdana><span
style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:#9C795A;mso-bidi-font-weight:
bold'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=text><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><font size=1 color=black
face=Verdana><span style='font-size:8.5pt;font-weight:bold;mso-bidi-font-weight:
normal'>6-17 September<br>
Old </span></font></b><st1:City><st1:place><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span
style='font-weight:bold;mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>Canberra</span></b></st1:place></st1:City><b
style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-weight:bold;mso-bidi-font-weight:
normal'> House, </span></b><st1:place><st1:PlaceName><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:
normal'><span style='font-weight:bold;mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>Australian</span></b></st1:PlaceName><b
style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-weight:bold;mso-bidi-font-weight:
normal'> </span></b><st1:PlaceName><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span
style='font-weight:bold;mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>National</span></b></st1:PlaceName><b
style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-weight:bold;mso-bidi-font-weight:
normal'> </span></b><st1:PlaceType><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span
style='font-weight:bold;mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>University</span></b></st1:PlaceType></st1:place><b
style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-weight:bold;mso-bidi-font-weight:
normal'><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=text><font size=1 color=black face=Verdana><span style='font-size:
8.5pt;color:windowtext'>We believe that some people are frightened by their own
creativity. There are too many rules to obey to be creative, they say. Wrong!
We promise you that you will discover how wonderfully creative your peers and
you are and still be able to do everything correctly. Don't waste these years
of research and writing. Change the world with them in some way. At least a
little bit!<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=text><font size=1 color=black face=Verdana><span style='font-size:
8.5pt;color:windowtext'>Nearly two hundred scholars from all disciplines and
professions - literature, medicine, geography, anthropology, history,
engineering, music, art, dancing, <span class=GramE>archaeology</span> - have
taken our C<i><span style='font-style:italic'>hallenges to Perform</span></i>
over the past eight years. They have told us that it is "a life-changing
experience".<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=text><font size=1 color=black face=Verdana><span style='font-size:
8.5pt'>So, join us here in </span></font><st1:City><st1:place>Canberra</st1:place></st1:City>
at the Centre for Cross-Cultural Research, ANU between September 6 and <st1:date
Month="9" Day="17" Year="2004">September 17 2004</st1:date> for:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span class=subheading1><b><font size=1 color=black face=Verdana><span
style='font-size:9.0pt;color:windowtext'>The closing date for applications is </span></font></b></span><st1:date
Month="6" Day="31" Year="2004"><span class=2subheading1><b><font size=1
color=black face=Verdana><span style='font-size:8.5pt;color:windowtext;
font-weight:bold'>June 31 2004</span></font></b></span></st1:date><span
class=subheading1><b><font size=1 color=black face=Verdana><span
style='font-size:9.0pt;color:windowtext'>.</span></font></b></span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span class=text1><font size=1 color=black face=Verdana><span
style='font-size:8.5pt'>From Monday 6 September to Friday 17 September, 2004
Professor Greg <span class=SpellE><span class=GramE>Dening</span></span><span
class=GramE> ,</span> and a team of experienced scholars, including Professor <span
class=SpellE>Dipesh</span> <span class=SpellE>Chakrabarty</span>, Professor
Iain <span class=SpellE>McCalman</span>, Dr Tom Griffiths, Associate Professor
Donna <span class=SpellE>Merwick</span>, Prof Bill <span class=SpellE>Gammage</span>,
Kim McKenzie, Dr Adam Chapman, Dr Amanda Wise, Dr Peter Read, and Kerry Casey
will conduct a ten-day workshop on the performative element in cross-cultural
research and writing. The academic resources of the </span></font></span><st1:City><st1:place><span
class=text1><font size=1 color=black face=Verdana><span style='font-size:
8.5pt'>Canberra</span></font></span></st1:place></st1:City><span class=text1><font
size=1 color=black face=Verdana><span style='font-size:8.5pt'> region will be
tapped to provide the broadest disciplinary experience possible.</span></font></span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=text><font size=1 color=black face=Verdana><span style='font-size:
8.5pt'>The program is available for postgraduate scholars of any faculty or
discipline engaged in cross-cultural research, so long as they have the support
of their supervisor. Students who are beyond the first steps of research and
who are beginning to reflect on the presentation of their work are expected to
benefit most from the workshop. While the program is skill and experience
oriented, it is hoped that the following issues will receive attention: the
theatricality of observing and being observed, freedoms in the presentation of
research, the art of persuasion, authorial presence, multi-media presentations,
writing as a performing art, the researcher's conscience.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=text><font size=1 color=black face=Verdana><span style='font-size:
8.5pt'>The successful format of the previous <i><span style='font-style:italic'>Challenges
to Perform</span></i> series will be followed. Two days each will be devoted to
the four themes of Seeing/Feeling, Hearing/Dancing, Presenting/Writing, <span
class=GramE>Reflecting</span>/Remembering. Day One will be given to
performances on the theme by scholars of experience and renown in the field.
Day Two will be given to performances by students attending the program.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=text><font size=1 color=black face=Verdana><span style='font-size:
8.5pt'>Students on notification of their selection will be expected to prepare
three pages of writing from their research - one page of Narrative, one on a
Keyword, one on a Statement.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=text><b><font size=1 color=black face=Verdana><span style='font-size:
8.5pt;font-weight:bold'>1. Narrative:</span></font></b> Narrate in one full
page some event or place or idea or person that is so critical to your research
or part of it that it could be said to say in story form what the whole thesis
says. Write it with the directness of a novelist or a filmmaker. Conceive of it
as prologue to your thesis or a chapter of it. Format it with the carefulness
that you would like your publisher to give it.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=text><b><font size=1 color=black face=Verdana><span style='font-size:
8.5pt;font-weight:bold'>2. Keyword:</span></font></b> In one page describe a
keyword of your research and writing. Make sure you embellish this description
with the semiotic sensitivity that we expect of any humanistic or social
science language discourse. Discover its <span class=SpellE>multivalency</span>
in meaning and use. Give some sense of its development and usage over time and
in the writing of others. Consult Raymond Williams (<i><span style='font-style:
italic'>Keywords</span></i>), the full <i><span style='font-style:italic'>Oxford
English Dictionary</span></i> and various <i><span style='font-style:italic'>Encyclopaedias</span></i>
for ideas on how this might be done.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=text><b><font size=1 color=black face=Verdana><span style='font-size:
8.5pt;font-weight:bold'>3. Statement:</span></font></b> In one page state what
it is you really and passionately <span class=GramE>are</span> going to say in
your work. Present the reflective underpinnings of your thinking. Don't make it
a summary of your topic. Make it the sort of blurb that an excited reader might
write when she/he realises how creative a sentence you have contributed to the
conversation of your discipline. <br>
When you have completed the page, reduce it all to one perfect sentence and add
it to the page as <span class=GramE>a footer</span>.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=text><b><font size=1 color=black face=Verdana><span style='font-size:
8.5pt;font-weight:bold'>Location:</span></font></b> Centre for Cross-Cultural
Research, Old <st1:City><st1:place>Canberra</st1:place></st1:City> House, ANU.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=text><b><font size=1 color=black face=Verdana><span style='font-size:
8.5pt;font-weight:bold'>Times/Dates:</span></font></b> Introduction and
Welcome: Monday 6 September, 9.00 <span class=GramE>am</span>. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=text><b><font size=1 color=black face=Verdana><span style='font-size:
8.5pt;font-weight:bold'>Sessions:</span></font></b> Introduction and Welcome:
Monday 6 September, 9.00 <span class=GramE>am</span>. Sessions: <st1:time
Hour="9" Minute="0">9.30</st1:time> to <st1:time Hour="13" Minute="0">1.00 pm</st1:time>,
Mondays to Fridays 6 September to 17 September.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=text><b><font size=1 color=black face=Verdana><span style='font-size:
8.5pt;font-weight:bold'>Applications:</span></font></b> <b><span
style='font-weight:bold'>Close 30 June 2004.</span></b>Complete the attached
PDF <a
href="http://www.anu.edu.au/culture/n_activities/vsp/challenges/form_04.pdf">form</a>
and send it, together with the required attachment, to Suzanne Groves,
Assistant Administrator, Centre for Cross-Cultural Research, <st1:place><st1:PlaceName>Australian</st1:PlaceName>
<st1:PlaceName>National</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType>University</st1:PlaceType></st1:place>,
<span class=GramE>Canberra</span> ACT 0200. Applicants accepted into the
Program will be advised by mid-July.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=text><b><font size=1 color=black face=Verdana><span style='font-size:
8.5pt;font-weight:bold'>Fee:</span></font></b> $400 for Australian students,
$800 for international students.<br>
Successful applicants will be required to pay the fee at the time they accept
an offer of a place in the Program.<br>
Participants will be responsible for their own travel, accommodation and living
expenses.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span class=text1><b><font size=1 color=black face=Verdana><span
style='font-size:8.5pt;font-weight:bold'>Conditions:</span></font></b></span><span
class=text1><font size=1 color=black face=Verdana><span style='font-size:8.5pt'>
Limit of 24 students; support of supervisor; commitment to attendance at all
sessions; writing the three pages of Narrative, Keyword and Statement; one
public performance of 15 minutes in a theme.</span></font></span> <o:p></o:p></p>
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face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold;
mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>For more information email <a
href="mailto:%20admin.ccr@anu.edu.au">admin.ccr@anu.edu.au</a></span></font></b><b
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<p><font size=2 color=olive face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
color:olive;mso-no-proof:yes'>_________________________________________________<br>
<br>
Dr Amanda Wise<br>
Postdoctoral Research Fellow<br>
Centre for Cross-Cultural Research, <br>
</span></font><st1:place><st1:PlaceName><font size=2 color=olive><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;color:olive;mso-no-proof:yes'>Australian</span></font></st1:PlaceName><font
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size=2 color=olive><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:olive;mso-no-proof:yes'>,
0200<br>
Office Phone:+61(0)2 6125-0090 </span></font><st1:City><st1:place><font size=2
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mso-no-proof:yes'> __________________________________________________</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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