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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><b style=""><span style="font-size: 22pt;" lang="EN-AU">Sydney, Australia,</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><b style=""><span style="font-size: 22pt;" lang="EN-AU">4-5 October 2007</span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU">An interdisciplinary group of academics
from the University of Technology, Sydney (UTS) from the Faculties of Business,
Humanities, Education, Law, Engineering, the Institute for International
Studies (IIS), UTS Shopfront and <i style="">Jumbunna</i>,
the UTS Indigenous centre will convene an international conference, the <b style="">UTS Conference on <i style="">Cosmopolitan Civil Societies</i>, </b>in Sydney on the<b style=""> </b>4-5 October 2007. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU">The Conference has a number of themes:</span></p>
<ul style="margin-top: 0cm;" type="disc"><li class="MsoNormal" style=""><span lang="EN-AU">Migration and Civil Societies</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style=""><span lang="EN-AU">Cosmopolitan Cities and Communities</span>
</li><li class="MsoNormal" style=""><span lang="EN-AU">Cross Cultural Dialogues</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style=""><span lang="EN-AU">Civil Societies and the Third Sector</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style=""><span lang="EN-AU">
Community Activism and Social Movements</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style=""><span lang="EN-AU">Cosmopolitan Diversity and Civil Societies in Developing Nations</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style=""><span lang="EN-AU">
Challenges and Opportunities facing Contemporary Cosmopolitan
Societies</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style=""><span lang="EN-AU">Cultural Differences and Creative Practices</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style=""><span lang="EN-AU">Popular Education and Cosmopolitan Societies
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU">International and Comparative Perspectives
are invited. We also invite submissions of <i style="">workshop
proposals</i> (1 ½ hours) for the Conference.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU">Plenary speakers for the Migration strand
of the conference include:</span></p>
<ul style="margin-top: 0cm;" type="disc"><li class="MsoNormal" style=""><span lang="EN-AU">Jan Rath, Professor of Urban Sociology, Director, Institute of
Migration and Ethnic Studies, University of Amsterdam<i style=""></i></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style=""><span lang="EN-AU">Dan Hiebert, Professor of Geography, Director RIIM centre,
Canadian Metropolis, UBC, Canada<i style=""></i></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style=""><span lang="EN-AU">Paul Spoonley, Professor of Sociology, Massey University, NZ<i style=""></i></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="">
<span lang="EN-AU">David McEvoy, Emeritus Professor of Geography, John Moores Uni,
Liverpool UK<i style=""></i></span></li></ul>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU">We will also have a plenary session on <i style="">Women, Community and Action in Cosmopolitan
Societies</i>. Invited speakers for this plenary session will be announced
shortly.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU">This is the first <i style="">Call for Papers f</i>or the <b style="">2007</b>
<b style="">UTS Conference on <i style="">Cosmopolitan Civil Societies. </i></b>Please send us an email with the <b style="">Title of the paper; an Abstract (200 words)
and the Institutional details of presenter(s) </b></span><b style=""><i style=""><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-AU">by 30 May 2007</span></i></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-AU">One stream of
the <i style="">UTS Conference on Cosmopolitan Civil
Societies</i> will be devoted to <b style="">post-graduate
student research papers.</b> We aim to publish refereed postgraduate student
papers following the conference.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU">We will also publish the general refereed
proceedings of the conference and we are currently negotiating with the
following journals (<i style="">Portal Journal of
Multidisciplinary International Studies</i>, <i style="">Transforming Cultures </i>and <i style="">UTS
e-press</i>) for special issues on themes emerging from the conference.
Negotiations are also underway for the publication of a book of an edited
collection of conferences </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU">In the first instance communication should
be directed to <a href="mailto:ccs@uts.edu.au">ccs@uts.edu.au</a></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU">A website is being developed for the
conference to provide details of registration fees and procedures,
accommodation options and other conference information.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><i style=""><span lang="EN-AU">Professor
Jock Collins, School of Finance and Economics, Faculty of Business, <b style="">Convenor of the</b> <b style="">UTS Conference on Cosmopolitan Civil Societies, 2007</b></span></i><span lang="EN-AU"> <a href="mailto:jock.collins@uts.edu.au">
jock.collins@uts.edu.au</a></span></p>