29.395, Calls: Anthro Ling, Applied Ling, Historical Ling, Lang Documentation, Ling & Lit/Germany

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Subject: 29.395, Calls: Anthro Ling, Applied Ling, Historical Ling, Lang Documentation, Ling & Lit/Germany

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Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2018 17:58:28
From: Christina Ringel [cmurman1 at uni-koeln.de]
Subject: Australian Perspectives on Migration

Full Title: Australian Perspectives on Migration 
Short Title: GASt Biennial Conference 

Date: 04-Oct-2018 - 06-Oct-2018
Location: Dusseldorf, NRW, Germany 
Contact Person: Katrin Althans
Meeting Email: GASt2018 at hhu.de

Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics; Applied Linguistics; Historical Linguistics; Language Documentation; Ling & Literature 

Call Deadline: 18-May-2018 

Meeting Description:

The 2018 biennial GASt conference will address cultural, social, historical,
legal, and (geo)political issues related to the contemporary global challenge
of migration and displacement - with more than 60 million displaced persons
world-wide - from an Australian perspective. GASt 2018 is an interdisciplinary
conference and invites abstracts from all academic fields including applied,
anthropological, historical linguistics as well as the interfaces between
literary studies and linguistics and law and linguistics.

Call for Papers:

Association for Australian Studies / Gesellschaft für Australienstudien (GASt)
Biennial Conference
4 October 2018 - 6 October 2018

Australian Perspectives on Migration

The 2018 biennial GASt conference will address cultural, social, historical,
legal, and (geo)political issues related to the contemporary global challenge
of migration and displacement - with more than 60 million displaced persons
world-wide - from an Australian perspective. The interrelation of these issues
is apparent in the long history of migration on the Australian continent, from
its earliest settlement to the colonial period, to the 20th and the 21st
centuries. From its colonial beginnings the political, legal, social and
cultural implications of migration have featured prominently in the formation
of the Australian nation and its cultural ''imaginary'' (Anderson). This is
evident in exclusionary politics during  different periods of a White
Australia Policy, and the forced detention of aliens from 1992 onwards. More
recently, campaigns like the ''Pacific Solution'' or ''Operation Sovereign
Borders'' foreground the necessity to reflect the situation of immigrants and
refugees in Australia in a global context causing migrations for political,
economic and climate-related reasons on an unprecedented increasing and
accelerating scale. We are, no doubt, living in an ''Age of Migration''
(Castles, de Haas, Miller), and the ''long summer of migration'' (Kasparek and
Speer) in 2015 has made the importance of comparative views on migration in a
globalized world apparent. Can we still speak of ''another cosmopolitanism''
(Benhabib) or do we rather have to think of ''neo-cosmopolitan mediators''
(Gunew)? How do we deal with ''indefinite detention'' (Butler) and how do we
define ''bare life'' (Agamben)? What are the ''paradoxes of human rights''
(Douzinas) in imperial and colonial contexts? 

Based on these questions, GASt 2018 invites papers and panel proposals from
all academic fields to engage in topics that include but are not limited
to:

- Policies and histories of migration
- Issues of nationalism and national sovereignty
- The legal status and governance of refugees, asylum seekers, IDPs etc.
- Biopolitics and the de-humanization of migrants
- The acknowledgement of climate refugees
- Isssues of displacement, resettlement, home, and diaspora
- Questions of precarity in the context of migration
- Issues of gender
- Migrant and refugee stories in life writing, novels, drama, performance, 
and other artistic expressions and negotiations
- The use and impact of digital and social media
…

The conference will be hosted by Heinrich Heine Universität Düsseldorf and
organized by GASt and the Section for Anglophone Literatures and Literary
Translation of Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf (chair: Prof. Dr. Birgit
Neumann).

Please send paper and panel proposals (20 minutes + 10 minutes discussion per
paper) in English or German (200-300 words per paper) by 31 March 2018.

We also invite proposals for posters as well as work in progress presentations
of undergraduate and graduate students in our new format ''Forthcoming''.
Please submit abstracts for project presentations (200 words) by 18 May 2018.
Contact: Dr. Katrin Althans (e-mail: GASt2018 at hhu.de)

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