The Xth International Symposium of the Pacific Arts Association is pleased to call for papers on ‘Pacific Art in the 21st Century – Museums, New Global Communities And Future Trends.’
The symposium seeks to highlight issues surrounding the creation, dispersal, possession, repatriation, stewardship and interpretation of Pacific art in the 21st century
Focus of [...]
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Pacific Art in the 21st Century – Museums, New Global Communities And Future Trends
Oceanic Transformations conference
3rd Conference ‘Oceanic Transformations’ Victoria University Conference Centre, 300 Flinders Street, Melbourne, 8th – 11th April 2010
Call for abstracts by 8th February 2010
The Australian Association for the Advancement of Pacific Studies (AAAPS) holds a biennial conference. The first one, "Australia in the Pacific – the Pacific in Australia" was held in January 2006 at the [...]
Other Views: Art History in (South) Africa and the Global South – Call for papers
South African Visual Arts Historians (SAVAH) Comité International d’Histoire de l’Art (CIHA)
Colloquium
Organised by SAVAH under the aegis of CIHA, to take place at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, 12 – 15 January 2011
FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS
Other Views: Art History in (South) Africa and the Global South
CIHA has recently been [...]
To reform or to start again? An argument across the south
In Kuala Lumpur 24-26 January 2009 there was a south-south event titled The International Conference on Hegemony, Counter Hegemony and Alternatives to Hegemony: Implications for the South. This event was part of a ’scholarly collaboration program’ between three major academic networks across the South – CODESRIA, APISA and CLACSO. The participants represented a tri-continental range [...]
Interview with Raewyn Connell
Professor Raewyn Connell explains the thinking behind her book Southern Theory.
What were your aims in writing "Southern Theory"?
Fourteen years ago, when I began this work, I aimed simply to correct a historical error – the textbook belief that sociology was invented to explain the new industrial society of Europe. I found that the creation [...]
Indian Ocean themes
Workshop themes have been released for Intercolonial Networks; Oceanic Circulations: Re-Thinking The Indian Ocean, University Of Technology Sydney 11 – 13 March 2009
Subaltern and creole connections across imperial boundaries
Islands in the ocean as sites of heightened connectivity
The dissemination of knowledges, especially via printing presses using vernacular languages
Comparisons and insights from Atlantic studies
The [...]
Papers for Southern Connection Congress
Information about papers for the upcoming VI Southern Connection Congress have been released. The conference will be held in Bariloche, Argentina form 15-19 February 2010. Confirmed speakers include:
William Bond, University of Cape Town, South Africa “Reinterpreting plant traits and the geography of vegetation with fire”
Richard Hobbs, School of Environmental [...]
Re-thinking the Indian Ocean
INTERCOLONIAL NETWORKS; OCEANIC CIRCULATIONS:RE-THINKING THE INDIAN OCEAN
UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY11th – 13th March 2009
This workshop will mark the inauguration of a new Indian Ocean research network supported by the University of Technology Sydney. It will aim to work collaboratively with the major Indian Ocean centres of research based in India and South Africa, but it [...]
Sur, sur, sur, sur
7th International Symposium on Contemporary Art Theory in Mexico embraces south as a problematic for art theory. Full details here.
