30 Mar 2004

Cultures, Nations, Identities and Migrations [in Asia-Pacific], Apr 2004
The Humanities Research Centre, The Australian National University Canberra, Australia
Supplied note: "2004 Humanities Research Centre Conference. Sponsored by NISSL (National Institute for Social Sciences and Law) 'Cultures, Nations, Identities and Migrations', Venue: Humanities Research Centre, Old Canberra House #73, Lennox Crossing, The Australian National University, Canberra ACT, Australia 15-16 April 2004
Much of the rhetoric of identity and difference carries implicit assumptions of ontological distinctions. Identities, however, involve recognition, imagining as well as processes of construction and contestation. The Asia Pacific region is a site of old forms of cosmopolitanism (in parts of Asia) as well as sites of localized and particularistic identities. How are (relatively new) national identities expressed in the context of regionalism, localism and new forms of personal identity? How are identities reworked in the process of migration? The conference will bring together discussion of Asia, Australia and the Pacific in order to understand the ways in which identities are recognized, contested, dislodged and reconstituted in the contemporary world. [...]
Registration Form: http://www.anu.edu.au/hrc/activities/conferences_2004/CNIM_regsform.pdf - kr."
URL http://www.anu.edu.au/hrc/activities/conferences_2004/Asia_Pacific.html
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