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<TITLE>CFP: International Australian Studies Association (InASA) Conference November 26-28</TITLE>
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Please see contact details and conference website below.<BR>
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Contact: </SPAN></FONT><SPAN STYLE='font-size:12.0px'><FONT COLOR="#0000FE"><FONT FACE="Arial"><B>Dr Keith Moore, Conference Coordinator, Humanities Program - QUT: k.moore@qut.edu.au<BR>
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</FONT></SPAN><BLOCKQUOTE><SPAN STYLE='font-size:12.0px'><FONT COLOR="#0000FF"><FONT FACE="Arial">To interested academics (including postgraduate students) <BR>
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</FONT><FONT COLOR="#0000FF"><FONT FACE="Arial">The <B>International Australian Studies Association (InASA) Conference</B> will be held in Central Brisbane from 26 to 28 November 2008. Sponsored by Humanities Program at Queensland University of Technology, the conference, titled <B><I>New Voices, New Visions: Challenging Australian Identities and Legacies</I></B> will be held at the Gardens Point campus. <BR>
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</FONT><FONT FACE="Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"> </FONT><FONT FACE="Arial">This conference invites interdisciplinary explorations of the ways in which ideas, representations, narratives of Australia, Australians and Australian experiences have been challenged in the new millennium. <BR>
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</FONT><FONT FACE="Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"> </FONT><FONT FACE="Arial">This can include: <BR>
* Popular cultures: Australia in literature, film, television, art and music <BR>
* Attitudes to the environment <BR>
* Changing political cultures <BR>
* Reconsiderations of citizenship and identity <BR>
* Australia in the region <BR>
* Making and remaking borders <BR>
* Constructions and challenges to the national past <BR>
* Myths and memories <BR>
* Racial power and privilege <BR>
* Indigenous sovereignties <BR>
* Social Exclusion and Human Rights <BR>
* Materialism and consumerism <BR>
* Knowledge, Power and Privilege <BR>
* Education and Schooling <BR>
* Globalization and diaspora <BR>
* National, regional, local perspectives of Australia <BR>
* Cultures of everyday life <BR>
* Bodies, space and place: outback, country towns, cities. <BR>
* Culture and technology <BR>
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We are especially interested in including the work of emerging scholars, and work that is being undertaken in new fields of contemporary interest. </FONT><FONT FACE="Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"> <BR>
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</FONT><FONT FACE="Arial">The conference website is at: <B><a href="http://asc.uq.edu.au/inasa/conference/">http://asc.uq.edu.au/inasa/conference/</a></B></FONT></FONT><FONT FACE="Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"> <a href="http://asc.uq.edu.au/inasa/conference/"><http://asc.uq.edu.au/inasa/conference/></a> <BR>
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</FONT><FONT COLOR="#0000FF"><FONT FACE="Arial">Send a paper title and abstract or get together and think up a panel for late November at the Gardens Point Campus.<BR>
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