Abstract submissions and panel proposals open until 31 August 2020.

Please direct any questions to Paula Muruca (paula.muraca@deakin.edu.au).

Interculturalism in a Polarised World

In a decade characterised by continual and growing anxieties over diversity and inclusion, there is an ever greater need to discuss the salience and limitations of the conceptual frames that we use when thinking about contemporary forms of mobility and difference: especially, multiculturalism, transculturalism, interculturalism, cosmopolitanism and transnationalism.

Guiding Questions:

1. At a time where migration and diversity remain one of the most visible faces of social change and inequality, how are these, or other frames able to explain and respond to the increased polarisation of contemporary societies? 

2. Can existing frameworks allow us to build creative analyses and understandings that highlight both the particularities of the migrant experience, but also their shared experiences or commonalties with non-migrants?

3. Examining the salience and limitations of existing frames, what new concepts and methods are needed to deepen our understandings of contemporary forms of mobility and difference at multiple levels of social life?

4. What critical insights can be gained from existing primary research to advance an academic and policy agenda that deepens the inclusion of migrants and other minorities across scales?

Following the conference, selected presentations shall be shortlisted for submission to the Journal of Intercultural Studies.

Keynote Speakers

Prof Anita Harris

Anita Harris is a Research Professor in the Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation. She is a youth sociologist undertaking a series of projects on youth and citizenship, including the completion of an Australian Research Council Future Fellowship. Prior to joining the Institute, she was a Future Fellow in the Sociology program at Monash University (2011-2015), and a Mid-Career Research Fellow and Deputy Director at the Centre for Critical and Cultural Studies at the University of Queensland (2007-2011).

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Interculturalism in a Polarised World

In a decade characterised by continual and growing anxieties over diversity and inclusion, there is an ever greater need to discuss the salience and limitations of the conceptual frames that we use when thinking about contemporary forms of mobility and difference: especially, multiculturalism, transculturalism, interculturalism, cosmopolitanism and transnationalism.

Guiding Questions:

1. At a time where migration and diversity remain one of the most visible faces of social change and inequality, how are these, or other frames able to explain and respond to the increased polarisation of contemporary societies? 

2. Can existing frameworks allow us to build creative analyses and understandings that highlight both the particularities of the migrant experience, but also their shared experiences or commonalties with non-migrants?

3. Examining the salience and limitations of existing frames, what new concepts and methods are needed to deepen our understandings of contemporary forms of mobility and difference at multiple levels of social life?

4. What critical insights can be gained from existing primary research to advance an academic and policy agenda that deepens the inclusion of migrants and other minorities across scales?

Following the conference, selected presentations shall be shortlisted for submission to the Journal of Intercultural Studies.

Keynote Speakers

Prof Anita Harris

Anita Harris is a Research Professor in the Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation. She is a youth sociologist undertaking a series of projects on youth and citizenship, including the completion of an Australian Research Council Future Fellowship. Prior to joining the Institute, she was a Future Fellow in the Sociology program at Monash University (2011-2015), and a Mid-Career Research Fellow and Deputy Director at the Centre for Critical and Cultural Studies at the University of Queensland (2007-2011).

Prof Amanda Keaney

Proposed paper title: Keeping company and the praxis of relating

Current Role: Matthew Flinders Fellow, Professor of Australian and Indigenous Studies, Flinders University

Amanda’s research is distinguished by a two-decade long commitment to collaboration and ethnographic fieldwork with Indigenous families and their communities in Australia. Her research specialty is cultural wounding, healing, land security and interculturalism in Australia. Her research has developed with the kind support of Yanyuwa families, the Indigenous owners of land and sea in the southwest Gulf of Carpentaria, Australia.

 Amanda is currently a Matthew Flinders Fellow and Professor at Flinders University. She leads the University’s ‘Ethical Futures’ research theme. Previously, she was the Kidman Chair of Australian Studies at the University of Adelaide, after a decade in the Sociology and Anthropology Program at the University of New South Wales. Her career has included teaching and research roles in the Monash Indigenous Centre, the Institute for Research in Humanities at Kyoto University, and at the University of Melbourne. She holds honorary research positions at the Federal University of Bahia, and the University of Brasilia, Brazil. Since 2008 Amanda has undertaken ethnography and research in Brazil on the rise of affirmative action movements, racial quotas and African Brazilian cultural expressions.

Prof Ricard Zapata Barrero

Ricard is Full Professor at the Department of Political and Social Sciences, Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona-Spain). Director of GRITIM-UPF (Interdisciplinary Research Group on Immigration) and the Master Program in Migration Studies. He is also a member of the Board of Directors the European Network IMISCOE (International Migration and Social Cohesion in Europe)and Chair the External Affairs Committee. Co-Coordinator of IMISCOE Standing Committee on Methodological Approaches and tools in Migration Research. Current Coordinator of EuroMedMig (Euro-Mediterranean Research Network on Migration) and EUMedMi Jean Monnet Network “Mapping European Mediterranean Migration Studies”.

His lines of research deal with contemporary issues of liberal democracy in contexts of diversity, especially the relationship between democracy, citizenship and immigration. He promotes interdisciplinary knowledge on immigration, combine theory and case studies, and follow contextual, conceptual and interpretive approaches. His findings always try to contribute to social and political changes, and to the European and Mediterranean approach in migration studies. He is currently working on Mediterranean Migration, Cities of Migration and developing the Intercultural Citizenship Paradigm.

For more information about the Journal of Intercultural Studies please visit our webpage.

Information about the UNESCO Chair on Cultural Diversity and Social Justice can be found here.

REGISTRATION DETAILS

Registrations will open later in 2020 or early 2021.

Anticipated cost:

Early bird registration fees (two days): $50 for students, $140 for academics.

General registrations (two days): $60 for students, $160 for academics.

ORGANISING COMMITTEE

Professor Fethi Mansouri, A/Prof Vince Marotta, Dr Magdalena Arias Cubas, Paula Muraca.

CONFERENCE PARTNERS

Taylor & Francis

Prof Amanda Keaney

Proposed paper title: Keeping company and the praxis of relating

Current Role: Matthew Flinders Fellow, Professor of Australian and Indigenous Studies, Flinders University

Amanda’s research is distinguished by a two-decade long commitment to collaboration and ethnographic fieldwork with Indigenous families and their communities in Australia. Her research specialty is cultural wounding, healing, land security and interculturalism in Australia. Her research has developed with the kind support of Yanyuwa families, the Indigenous owners of land and sea in the southwest Gulf of Carpentaria, Australia.

 Amanda is currently a Matthew Flinders Fellow and Professor at Flinders University. She leads the University’s ‘Ethical Futures’ research theme. Previously, she was the Kidman Chair of Australian Studies at the University of Adelaide, after a decade in the Sociology and Anthropology Program at the University of New South Wales. Her career has included teaching and research roles in the Monash Indigenous Centre, the Institute for Research in Humanities at Kyoto University, and at the University of Melbourne. She holds honorary research positions at the Federal University of Bahia, and the University of Brasilia, Brazil. Since 2008 Amanda has undertaken ethnography and research in Brazil on the rise of affirmative action movements, racial quotas and African Brazilian cultural expressions.

Prof Ricard Zapata Barrero

Ricard is Full Professor at the Department of Political and Social Sciences, Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona-Spain). Director of GRITIM-UPF (Interdisciplinary Research Group on Immigration) and the Master Program in Migration Studies. He is also a member of the Board of Directors the European Network IMISCOE (International Migration and Social Cohesion in Europe)and Chair the External Affairs Committee. Co-Coordinator of IMISCOE Standing Committee on Methodological Approaches and tools in Migration Research. Current Coordinator of EuroMedMig (Euro-Mediterranean Research Network on Migration) and EUMedMi Jean Monnet Network “Mapping European Mediterranean Migration Studies”.

His lines of research deal with contemporary issues of liberal democracy in contexts of diversity, especially the relationship between democracy, citizenship and immigration. He promotes interdisciplinary knowledge on immigration, combine theory and case studies, and follow contextual, conceptual and interpretive approaches. His findings always try to contribute to social and political changes, and to the European and Mediterranean approach in migration studies. He is currently working on Mediterranean Migration, Cities of Migration and developing the Intercultural Citizenship Paradigm.

For more information about the Journal of Intercultural Studies please visit our webpage.

Information about the UNESCO Chair on Cultural Diversity and Social Justice can be found here.