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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=1 color=gray face=Corbel><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:Corbel;color:gray'>Apologies for
cross-postings<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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color=blue face=Calibri><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:
Calibri;color:blue'> </span></font><b><font size=5 face="High Tower Text"><span
lang=EN-GB style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"High Tower Text";letter-spacing:
2.0pt;font-weight:bold'>Centre for Cultural Research</span></font></b><b><font
size=5><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-weight:bold'><o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceType
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size=4 face="High Tower Text"><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:13.0pt;
font-family:"High Tower Text";letter-spacing:2.0pt;font-weight:bold'> of <st1:PlaceName
w:st="on">Western Sydney</st1:PlaceName></span></font></b></st1:place><font
size=4><span style='font-size:13.0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><font size=3
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:center'><font
size=2 face="High Tower Text"><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:"High Tower Text";letter-spacing:2.0pt'>invites all to attend</span></font><font
size=2><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-top:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b><font
size=5 face=Rockwell><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:Rockwell;
font-weight:bold'>the CCR Seminar Series 2008</span></font></b><font size=5
face=Rockwell><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:Rockwell'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><font
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font-family:"High Tower Text"'>featuring<font color=navy><span
style='color:navy'><o:p></o:p></span></font></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><font size=5
color=navy face="Californian FB"><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:16.0pt;
font-family:"Californian FB";color:navy;font-weight:bold'>Dr Sharon Chalmers
& Dr Amanda Rosso-Buckton (CCR)<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><font size=3
color=navy face="Californian FB"><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Californian FB";color:navy'>and <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><font size=5
color=navy face="Californian FB"><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:16.0pt;
font-family:"Californian FB";color:navy;font-weight:bold'>Dr Cameron McAuliffe
(CCR)</span></font></b><font size=5 color=navy face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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size=3 face=Calibri><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Calibri;
letter-spacing:1.0pt;font-weight:bold'>Date: </span></font></b><font
face=Calibri><span lang=EN-GB style='font-family:Calibri;letter-spacing:1.0pt'>Thursday,
13 March</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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face=Calibri><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Calibri;
letter-spacing:1.0pt;font-weight:bold'>Time: </span></font></b><font
face=Calibri><span lang=EN-GB style='font-family:Calibri;letter-spacing:1.0pt'>2.00pm
– 4.00pm</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><font size=3
face=Calibri><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Calibri;
letter-spacing:1.0pt;font-weight:bold'>Venue: Gallery Floor, <st1:PlaceName
w:st="on">Female</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Orphan</st1:PlaceName>
<st1:PlaceType w:st="on">School</st1:PlaceType> (</span></font></b><font
face=Calibri><span lang=EN-GB style='font-family:Calibri;letter-spacing:1.0pt'>Building
EZ), <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Parramatta</st1:City></st1:place>
Campus</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><font size=3
face=Calibri><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Calibri'>Afternoon tea
and cakes provided <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><font size=3
face=Calibri><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Calibri;
letter-spacing:1.0pt;font-weight:bold'>RSVP: </span></font></b><font
face=Calibri><span lang=EN-GB style='font-family:Calibri;letter-spacing:1.0pt'>Ania
Ajiri <a href="mailto:a.ajiri@uws.edu.au">a.ajiri@uws.edu.au</a> or 9685 9600<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><font size=3
face=Calibri><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Calibri;font-weight:
bold'>Apologies</span></font></b><font face=Calibri><span style='font-family:
Calibri'>: Kay Anderson <a href="mailto:k.anderson@uws.edu.au">k.anderson@uws.edu.au</a>
<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><font size=3
face=Calibri><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Calibri'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'> <font color=navy><span style='color:navy'><o:p></o:p></span></font></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-left:18.0pt;text-align:center'><b><font
size=4 color=maroon face="Californian FB"><span style='font-size:14.0pt;
font-family:"Californian FB";color:maroon;font-weight:bold'>‘Are you
talking to me?’ Negotiating the Challenge of Cultural Diversity in
Children’s Health Care<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-left:18.0pt;text-align:center'><font
size=3 color=maroon face=Calibri><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:
Calibri;color:maroon'>Sharon Chalmers and Amanda Rosso-Buckton<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face=Calibri><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Calibri'>This paper brings together the culmination of several
projects that have examined the way paediatric tertiary hospitals in <st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Sydney</st1:City></st1:place> have addressed issues
around cultural diversity and health care service provision. The title of the
paper ‘Are you talking to me?’ encapsulates the significant themes
that emerged at the intersection of several cultural formations, all with their
respective world views, values and hierarchies. That is, culture is not
limited to ethnicity but includes cultural knowledge, cultural institutions and
cultural practices. These include organisational, professional, children &
young peoples’ cultures, cultural, linguistic and religious diversity,
gender & sexuality, socio-economic position, intergenerational issues and
the dominance of the bio-medical culture. We then discuss how the quantitative
and qualitative findings have the potential to influence and impact on local and
systemic, practical and policy changes that reach beyond this particular
research project.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><font size=4
color=maroon face="Californian FB"><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:
"Californian FB";color:maroon;font-weight:bold'>Negotiating Nation and Religion
in the Iranian Diaspora: A Multicultural Question?<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><font size=3
color=maroon face=Calibri><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Calibri;
color:maroon'>Cameron McAuliffe<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face=Calibri><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Calibri'>The politics of multiculturalism in diverse societies such
as <st1:country-region w:st="on">Australia</st1:country-region>, <st1:country-region
w:st="on">Canada</st1:country-region> and <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region
w:st="on">Britain</st1:country-region></st1:place> have produced truncated
understandings of the politics of difference, limiting multiculturalism
primarily to the recognition of national discourses of belonging. The rise to
prominence of questions about the appropriate incorporation of religious
difference in multicultural societies has challenged the exclusive focus on
national ethnic difference. For the children of Iranian migrants living in the
‘Iranian diaspora’ the negotiation of national and religious
identities are played out against this context. The reflections of
‘second generation Iranians’ on media representations, formal and
informal communal forms, and the desire to ‘return’ to the
homeland, point to the need to consider a more comprehensive politics of
difference. In particular, I will discuss how the internal religious diversity
of the Iranian diaspora challenges monolithic understandings of national
cultural belonging, and offers a potentially productive path for
post-multicultural engagement. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 face=Calibri><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Calibri;font-weight:bold'>Dr Sharon Chalmers</span></font></b><font
size=2 face=Calibri><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Calibri'> is a
CCR Research Fellow on the ARC Linkage project, <i><span style='font-style:
italic'>Negotiating the Challenge of Cultural Diversity in Children's Health
Care: The Australian Context</span></i>. She has worked extensively on
health-related projects and has expertise in the areas of health care, cultural
diversity, gender and sexuality. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 face=Calibri><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Calibri;font-weight:bold'>Dr Amanda Rosso-Buckton </span></font></b><font
size=2 face=Calibri><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Calibri'>is a CCR
Research Associate working on the ARC Linkage project, <i><span
style='font-style:italic'>Negotiating the Challenge of Cultural Diversity in
Children's Health Care: The Australian Context</span></i>. Amanda completed her
PhD, <i><span style='font-style:italic'>Feed a Cold and Starve a Demon: The
Poetics of Madness in Kefalonia</span></i>, in 2006. Her research interests
include women, madness and the church, folk healing, and folk biologies. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 face=Calibri><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Calibri;font-weight:bold'>Dr Cameron McAuliffe</span></font></b><font
size=2 face=Calibri><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Calibri'> is a
CCR Postdoctoral Research Fellow on the <i><span style='font-style:italic'>Informal
Pathways to Belonging</span></i> project researching in the area of youth and
the arts in <st1:place w:st="on">Western Sydney</st1:place>. Cameron’s
PhD investigated the potential for multiculturalism to include religious
identities and involved work with Baha’is and Muslims in the Iranian
communities in <st1:City w:st="on">Sydney</st1:City>, <st1:City w:st="on">London</st1:City>
and <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Vancouver</st1:City></st1:place>. </span></font><font
size=2><span style='font-size:10.0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Calibri;letter-spacing:1.0pt;font-weight:
bold'>Parramatta Campus Map and Directions </span></font></b><font size=1
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letter-spacing:1.0pt'><a
href="http://www.uws.edu.au/about/locations/maps/parramattamap">http://www.uws.edu.au/about/locations/maps/parramattamap</a><font
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