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<div align="center"><font size="+1" color="#000000"><b>Landscapes of
Exile: 'Once Perilous, Now Safe'</b></font></div>
<div align="center"><font size="+1" color="#000000"><b>26-28 July
2006</b></font></div>
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<div align="center"><font color="#000000">Deborah Bird
Rose</font></div>
<div align="center"><font color="#000000">Anna Haebich</font></div>
<div align="center"><font color="#000000">Peter Read</font></div>
<div align="center"><font color="#000000">Melissa
Lukashenko</font></div>
<div align="center"><font color="#000000">Vin D'Cruz</font></div>
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<div align="center"><font color="#000000">The Centre for Cultural
Diversity and Social Justice at Southern Cross University together
with the Centre for Public Culture and Ideas at Griffith University
will present a third part to the cross-disciplinary symposia<i>
Landscapes of Exile</i> held previously in 2004 at the University of
Barcelona's Centre for Australian Studies<i>,</i> and at the New
Norcia Monastery in 2005, hosted by the Institute of Advanced Studies,
University of Western Australia.</font></div>
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<div align="center"><font color="#000000">This third symposium will
extend earlier explorations on the theme of landscapes of exile into
questioning how space<i> becomes</i> place through cultural, media,
artistic, intellectual and ethical practices. Australia has been a
major focus of these symposia, from the convict experience in Tasmania
to the establishment of a Spanish monastery in Western Australia.
Exile has affected the human condition in complex and diverse ways. It
can be traumatic as well as transformative. What chiefly characterizes
the experience of exile is that the landscape becomes a crucial
feature of survival and meaning.</font></div>
<div align="center"><font color="#000000">Byron Bay's lighthouse
(where the conference will begin), built over a century ago, oversees
the bay, ironically etched with the Latin motif 'once perilous, now
safe.'</font></div>
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<div align="center"><font color="#000000">Following the 2004 &
2005 symposia, all papers in 2006 will address the experience of
'exile': understood in both the strictest sense of the word and also
in the widest metaphorical sense to include, for example, forced
migration, exile and tourism, experiences of internal exile and
incarceration, exile of animals, indigenous exile, place and the
ethics of belonging.</font></div>
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<div align="center"><font color="#000000">This symposium has been
scheduled to closely precede the Byron Bay Writers' Festival, which
occurs from 4-6 August.</font></div>
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<div align="center">Registration and details available at:</div>
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<div><font color="#0000FF">Associate Professor Baden
Offord</font></div>
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MACE</font></div>
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Director,<i> Centre for Cultural Diversity and Social
Justice</i></font></div>
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Committee</font></div>
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School of Arts & Social Sciences<br>
Southern Cross University<br>
PO Box 157 Lismore 2480<br>
Australia<br>
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Telephone: + 61 2 66203 162</font></div>
<div><font color="#000000">Fax: + 61 2 66 221 683</font></div>
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