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Subject: Call for Participants - New Worlds, New Sovereignties
Conference, Melbourne 10th-14th December

 

NEW WORLDS, NEW SOVEREIGNTIES CONFERENCE.
Melbourne, Australia.
December 10th to 14th 2007.
www.newsovereignties.org <http://www.newsovereignties.org/> 

CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS
(not a call for papers)

We've had a wonderful response to our call for papers. A distinguished
and varied group of international speakers will address the conference
on a range of conceptual, theoretical and practical issues concerning
sovereignty in the new global order (see below).

We are now calling for expressions of interest from people who would
like to participate in the conference without making a formal
presentation. All participants will be invited to submit an abstract for
inclusion in the publication(s) that come out of the conference. We have
received expressions of interest from a number of leading international
publishers.

The conference's standpoint is from below. We will be focusing on
sovereignty's consequences for those whom the current world order
excludes or diminishes. We will be exploring the possibilities for
change and redress. For further information, please visit
www.newsovereignties.org <http://www.newsovereignties.org/> .

All the sessions are plenary, so all of us will participate in the whole
conference. We intend our conversation to develop over the four days so
that the difference between presenter and participant will break down. 

Participants will be selected on the basis of a brief statement of why
the conference interests them (this may be helpful for those who need to
apply for funding to attend). To apply, please go to the 'Apply' section
on the conference website.

We look forward to welcoming you.

 
Topics we will be discussing include:

Thematic:

   1. Indigenous concepts and practices of sovereignty.
   2. Historical genealogies of Western concepts of sovereignty.
   3. Limits and contradictions of sovereignty.
   4. Sovereign subjecthoods - individuals, human rights and the
nation-state.
   5. Overlapping and coexistent sovereignties - Natives, minorities,
and the nation-state.
   6. Sovereignty and the new global order.
   7. Sovereignty, land and nation.
   8. Refugees, asylum seekers and national borders.
   9. Sovereignty and the internet
  10. Sovereignty regained

Peoples/Homelands:

   1. Aboriginal Australia/Torres Strait Islands.
   2. Native North America.
   3. Palestine.
   4. Timor Leste.
   5. Hawai'i.
   6. Post-Soviet Europe.

Speakers

Mrs Joy Murphy-Wandin (Wurundjeri/Australia, welcome to country), the
Hon. Fred Chaney (Australia, opening address), Ezrah Aharone, Ghana/USA,
Anthony Anghie, Australia/USA, Tracey Banivanua-Mar, Fiji/Australia,
Larissa Behrendt, Eualeyai-Kamilaroi/Australia, Tony Birch,
Koori/Australia, Julian Burnside, Australia, Jessica Cattelino, USA,
Williamson Chang, Hawai'i, Hilary Charlesworth, Australia, John Collins,
USA, Monisha Das Gupta, Hawai'i, Ravi de Costa, Canada, Luis Eslava,
Colombia/Australia, Peter Fitzpatrick, Australia/UK, Lisa Ford, USA,
Andrea Geiger, Canada, Ann Genovese, Australia, Hariz Halilovich,
Bosnia/Australia, Robert Horvath, Australia, Paul James, Australia,
Richard Joyce, UK, Marilyn Lake, Australia, Marcia Langton,
Yiman/Australia, Jackie Lasky, Hawai'i, Smadar Lavie, Israel/USA, Sydney
Lehua iaukea, Hawai'i, Saree Makdisi, Palestine/USA, Gordon Matthews,
Australia, Kent McNeil, Canada, Bob Miller, Eastern Shawnee/USA, Maher
Mughrabi, Palestine/Australia, Alexander Pershai, Belarus/USA, Janna
Promislow, Canada, Henry Reynolds, Australia, Lynette Russell,
Australia, Audra Simpson, Mohawk/USA, Nin Thomas, Aotearoa/New Zealand,
Ganesh Trichur, India/USA, Lorenzo Veracini, Australia, Robert A.
Williams, Jr., Lumbee/USA, David Yarrow, Australia.


Deadline for Applications

The deadline for the submission of participant applications is September
10th.

Convenors:

    * Julie Evans (University of Melbourne)
    * Patrick Wolfe (Victoria University)

Host organizations:

    * Victorian Aboriginal Legal Service
    * Victoria University
    * The University of Melbourne


This conference is taking place on Wurundjeri land. We pay our respects
to Wurundjeri elders past and present.



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New Worlds, New Sovereignties. 
A cross-community interdisciplinary international conference.
Melbourne, 10th - 14th December 2007.

www.newsovereignties.org

email: newworlds at newsovereignties.org