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<p class="MsoNormal"><tt><b style="">New conversations: gender,
race, religion and the making of communities <o:p></o:p></b></tt></p>
<tt><><b style=""><o:p></o:p></b>A national conference sponsored by
Trans/forming Cultures:
Key Centre for Communication and Culture, UTS</>
<><o:p> </o:p><br>
Sunday, 10 December 2006</><br>
University of Technology, <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Sydney</st1:place></st1:City>
<><o:p> </o:p><br>
<br>
Call for Papers</>:
<><o:p></o:p><br>
Despite a decade of ‘race debates’ in <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">Australia</st1:place></st1:country-region>,
analyses of the intersections between gender, race and religion remain
all but
absent in the public sphere. In recent years Muslim women in particular
have
been subjected to intense public scrutiny, yet these controversies have
largely
been limited to provocative comments on the hijab and sharia law. Such
narrow
debates have served to silence the experiences and the concerns of
Muslim women
and of scholars and community workers who engage the intersections of
gender,
race and religion. </><><o:p> </o:p><br>
<br>
This conference seeks to establish a space for constructive
dialogue around the perspectives which are marginalised in public
discussions, focusing
on how gender, race and religion shape notions of belonging and
exclusion in <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Australia</st1:place></st1:country-region>.
Ideas around gender, race and religion have long been deployed in the
construction of Australian national identity, and are particularly
evident in
current representations of ‘aggressive’ and ‘misogynistic’ Islam as the
ultimate alien other in ‘tolerant’ Judeo-Christian Australia. In
minority
communities, questions over community leadership, representation, and
responses
to racism have often revolved around constructions of culture, faith
and gender
roles. </><><o:p> </o:p><br>
<br>
The organisers seek papers and presentations from all
disciplinary perspectives in order to build a conversation across
spectra of
belief, scholarship and community.</></tt>
<p class="MsoNormal"><tt>Rather than another ‘hijab debate’, the
conference will
explore the intersections of gender, race and religion in regards to:</tt></p>
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</span></span>public space and public safety</tt><!--[endif]--></p>
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</span></span>health, housing and education</tt><!--[endif]--></p>
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</span></span>security and belonging</tt><!--[endif]--></p>
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</span></span>employment and unemployment</tt><!--[endif]--></p>
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</span></span>social inclusion and exclusion</tt><!--[endif]--></p>
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</span></span>media and public debate</tt><!--[endif]--></p>
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</span></span>the dynamics of community</tt><!--[endif]--></p>
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</span></span>the politics of representation</tt><!--[endif]--></p>
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</span></span>advocacy and activism</tt><!--[endif]--></p>
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</span></span>feminisms</tt><!--[endif]--></p>
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</span></span>nationalism and national identity</tt><!--[endif]--></p>
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</span></span>‘law and order’ and representations of crime</tt><!--[endif]--></p>
<tt><><o:p> </o:p><br>
Full papers may be submitted following the conference for
inclusion in a refereed publication.</>
<><o:p> </o:p><br>
<br>
Deadline for abstracts: Monday 31 July. Please send 200 word
abstracts and a brief biographical note to <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:tanja.dreher@uts.edu.au">tanja.dreher@uts.edu.au</a></>
<><o:p> </o:p><br>
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For more information, contact </></tt>
<ul style="margin-top: 0cm;" type="disc">
<li class="MsoNormal" style=""><tt>Dr Tanja Dreher: <a
href="mailto:tanja.dreher@uts.edu.au">tanja.dreher@uts.edu.au</a>,
02-9514-2757 or</tt></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style=""><tt>Dr Christina Ho: <a
href="mailto:christina.ho@uts.edu.au">christina.ho@uts.edu.au</a>,
02-9514-1946</tt></li>
</ul>
<p class="MsoNormal"><tt><o:p> </o:p></tt></p>
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