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<div style="text-align:center"><b>CALL FOR PAPERS </b><br>
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<p class="" style="text-align:center"><b>Tides of Transformation: Pacific Pasts, Pacific Futures </b></p>
<p class="" style="text-align:center"><b>The 6th Biennial Conference of the Australian Association for Pacific Studies </b></p>
<p class="" style="text-align:center">The Cairns Institute, James Cook University </p>
<p class="" style="text-align:center">Cairns, North Queensland, Australia </p>
<p class="" style="text-align:center">1-3 April, 2016 </p>
<p class="" style="text-align:center">Through this interdisciplinary conference the Australian Association for Pacific Studies, in collaboration with the Cairns Institute, seeks to bring researchers together to share their knowledge and experience about critical
dimensions of social and environmental transformation in the Pacific. The following panels have been submitted and accepted by the conference organising committee: </p>
<p class="" style="text-align:center"> Pan-Pacific Music of Protest </p>
<p class="" style="text-align:center"> Shifting Cultures, Shifting Languages: A Pacific Perspective </p>
<p class="" style="text-align:center"> Transference: Continuity in Time, Time in Continuity </p>
<p class="" style="text-align:center"> Possessing Paradise: Commodification and Desire in the Pacific </p>
<p class="" style="text-align:center"> Tourism, Culture and Heritage in the Pacific: Transformation or Marginalisation? </p>
<p class="" style="text-align:center"> Transforming Gender Relations in the Pacific </p>
<p class="" style="text-align:center"> Adaptation, Resilience and Changing Land and Marine-based Livelihood Systems in the Pacific </p>
<p class="" style="text-align:center"> Digital Transformations: Shifting Communication Spaces in the Pacific </p>
<p class="" style="text-align:center"> Pacific Legal Systems, Past, Present and Future </p>
<p class="" style="text-align:center"> Joining the Dots – Abandoned Histories </p>
<p class="" style="text-align:center"> Managing and Understanding the Role of Archaeological and Cultural Heritage in the Pacific </p>
<p class="" style="text-align:center"> The Interdisciplinary Panel on Climate Change </p>
<p class="" style="text-align:center"> Mobile Labour, Mobile Lives </p>
<p class="" style="text-align:center"> Aging in the Pacific: Intergenerational and Transnational Care </p>
<p class="" style="text-align:center"> TransOceanik: Creole Connections across the Pacific, the Indian and the Atlantic Oceans </p>
<p class="" style="text-align:center"> Through the Lens: Visualising Pacific Lives </p>
<p class="" style="text-align:center"> Emerging Research: Postgraduate Student Panel </p>
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<p class="" style="text-align:center">We now warmly invite papers for these panels. </p>
<p class="" style="text-align:center">Paper abstracts should be 300 words or less and should be accompanied by the contact details of the presenters. Please email paper abstracts directly to the panel convenors (see list of panel abstracts and convenors) </p>
<p class="" style="text-align:center"><b>Deadline for submission: 1</b><span class=""><b>st
</b></span><b>December 2015. </b>For general enquiries regarding the conference, please contact: </p>
<p class="" style="text-align:center"><span class=""><b>Kalissa Alexeyeff </b></span><a href="mailto:k.alexeyeff@unimelb.edu.au">k.alexeyeff@unimelb.edu.au</a> </p>
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<div style="text-align:center">See for further information:</div>
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<div style="text-align:center"><a href="http://pacificstudies.org.au/?page_id=43">http://pacificstudies.org.au/?page_id=43</a></div>
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