Fwd: Re: POCO Call For Papers

From: Peter Smagorinsky (psmagorinsky@home.com)
Date: Tue May 08 2001 - 02:42:28 PDT


>>Disrupting Preconceptions: Postcolonialism and Education Conference
>>
>>Brisbane, 17 - 19th August 2001
>>School of Education, The University of Queensland
>>
>>This interdisciplinary conference aims to initiate debate and discussion
>>about the broad significance of postcolonial thinking for national and
>>international education practice and policy. It seeks to bring together
>>researchers, academics, postgraduate students and teacher educators for a
>>dialogue about how we might harness and use the insights of postcolonialism
>>for teaching and learning, for curriculum, and for research.
>>
>>Themes
>>Educational canons: curricula, disciplines, knowledges, pedagogies
>>Multiculturalism, interculturalism, antiracism
>>Indigenous knowledges
>>Identities: race, ethnicity, sex, sexualities
>>Mobilities: diaspora, migrants, refugees, travel
>>Colonial histories and resistances
>>Crossovers: theoretical, cultural, political
>>
>>Speakers and Panelists
>>
>>Associate Professor Linda Tuhiwai Smith - Director of the International
>>Research Institute for Maori and Indigenous Education, The University of
>>Auckland.
>>
>>Professor Helen Tiffin - School of English, Media Studies and Art History,
>>The University of Queensland.
>>
>>In addition, the following speakers been invited to chair the following
>>panels:
>>
>>Hybrid Identities: Professor Allan Luke - Dean and Head of School of
>>Education, The University of Queensland.
>>
>>Antiracism and Multiculturalism: Professor Michael Singh - Head of
>>Department of Language and International Studies, RMIT University.
>>
>>Indigenous Intellectual Traditions: Michael Williams - Director of
>>Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies, The University of Queensland.
>>
>>Postcolonial Education Systems: Dr Anne Hickling-Hudson - Post-Doctoral
>>Research Fellow, School of Education, The University of Queensland.
>>
>>Decolonising the Curriculum: Associate Professor Parlo Singh - Director of
>>the Centre for Language,
>>
>>Literacy and Diversity, Queensland University of Technology.
>>
>>For Full Details Visit :
>>http://www.uq.edu.au/education/news/postcol-conference-aug-2001/index.htm
>>
>>Abstracts can be submitted to:
>>Annette Woods
>>School of Education
>>The University of Queensland
>>Brisbane QLD 4072 Australia
>>Phone: +617 3365 6428 or +61 7 3365 6550
>>Fax: +61 7 3365 7199
>>Email: a.woods@mailbox.uq.edu.au
>>
>>Other enquiries may be directed to:
>>Dr Julie Matthews or Dr Anne Hickling Hudson
>>Phone +61 7 3365 6496
>>Email: julie.matthews@mailbox.uq.edu.au or anne.hudson@mailbox.uq.edu.au
>
>
>Allan Luke
>Professor & Head of School
>Graduate School of Education
>Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
>Social Sciences Building
>The University of Queensland
>Brisbane, Queensland
>Australia 4072
>Phone +61 7 33656227
>FAX +61 7 33657199
>a.luke@mailbox.uq.edu.au



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