[BlackGreen)] Fwd: Sovereignty conference call for participants (not a call for papers).

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> Jackie Lasky <jbpl at hawaii.edu> wrote:
> 


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> From: "newworlds at newsovereignties.org"  
> <newworlds at newsovereignties.org>
> Date: August 3, 2007 3:00:07 PM HST
> To: patrick.wolfe at vu.edu.au
> Subject: Sovereignty conference call for participants (not a call  
> for papers).
>
>
> NEW WORLDS, NEW SOVEREIGNTIES CONFERENCE.
> Melbourne, Australia.
> December 10th to 14th 2007.
>
> CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS
> (not a call for papers)
>
> We've had a wonderful response to our call for papers. A  
> distinguished and varied group of international speakers will  
> address the conference on a range of conceptual, theoretical and  
> practical issues concerning sovereignty in the new global order  
> (see below). We are now calling for expressions of interest from  
> people who would like to participate in the conference without  
> making a formal presentation. All participants will be invited to  
> submit an abstract for inclusion in the publication(s) that come  
> out of the conference. We have received expressions of interest  
> from a number of leading international publishers.
>
> The conference's standpoint is from below. We will be focusing on  
> sovereignty's consequences for those whom the current world order  
> excludes or diminishes. We will be exploring the possibilities for  
> change and redress. For further information, please visit  
> www.newsovereignties.org.
>
> All the sessions are plenary, so all of us will participate in the  
> whole conference. We intend our conversation to develop over the  
> four days so that the difference between presenter and participant  
> will break down.
>
> Participants will be selected on the basis of a brief statement of  
> why the conference interests them (this may be helpful for those  
> who need to apply for funding to attend). To apply, please go to  
> the 'participation statements' section under  'proposals' on the  
> conference website.
>
> We look forward to welcoming you.
>
>
> Topics we will be discussing include:
>
> Thematic:
>
>    1. Indigenous concepts and practices of sovereignty.
>    2. Historical genealogies of Western concepts of sovereignty.
>    3. Limits and contradictions of sovereignty.
>    4. Sovereign subjecthoods – individuals, human rights and the  
> nation-state.
>    5. Overlapping and coexistent sovereignties – Natives,  
> minorities, and the nation-state.
>    6. Sovereignty and the new global order.
>    7. Sovereignty, land and nation.
>    8. Refugees, asylum seekers and national borders.
>    9. Sovereignty and the internet
>   10. Sovereignty regained
>
> Peoples/Homelands:
>
>    1. Aboriginal Australia/Torres Strait Islands.
>    2. Native North America.
>    3. Palestine.
>    4. Timor Leste.
>    5. Hawai'i.
>    6. Post-Soviet Europe.
>
> Speakers
>
> Mrs Joy Murphy-Wandin (Wurundjeri/Australia, welcome to country),  
> the Hon. Fred Chaney (Australia, opening address), Ezrah Aharone,  
> Ghana/USA, Anthony Anghie, Australia/USA, Tracey Banivanua-Mar,  
> Fiji/Australia, Larissa Behrendt, Eualeyai-Kamilaroi/Australia,  
> Tony Birch, Koori/Australia, Julian Burnside, Australia, Jessica  
> Cattelino, USA, Williamson Chang, Hawai'i, Hilary Charlesworth,  
> Australia, John Collins, USA, Monisha Das Gupta, Hawai'i, Ravi de  
> Costa, Canada, Luis Eslava, Colombia/Australia, Peter Fitzpatrick,  
> Australia/UK, Lisa Ford, USA, Andrea Geiger, Canada, Ann Genovese,  
> Australia, Hariz Halilovich, Bosnia/Australia, Robert Horvath,  
> Australia, Paul James, Australia, Richard Joyce, UK, Marilyn Lake,  
> Australia, Marcia Langton, Yiman/Australia, Jackie Lasky, Hawai'i,  
> Smadar Lavie, Israel/USA, Sydney Lehua iaukea, Hawai'i, Saree  
> Makdisi, Palestine/USA, Gordon Matthews, Australia, Kent McNeil,  
> Canada, Bob Miller, Eastern Shawnee/USA, Maher Mughrabi, Palestine/ 
> Australia, Alexander Pershai, Belarus/USA, Janna Promislow, Canada,  
> Henry Reynolds, Australia, Lynette Russell, Australia, Audra  
> Simpson, Mohawk/USA, Nin Thomas, Aotearoa/New Zealand, Ganesh  
> Trichur, India/USA, Lorenzo Veracini, Australia, Robert A.  
> Williams, Jr., Lumbee/USA, David Yarrow, Australia.
>
>
> Deadline for Applications
>
> The deadline for the submission of participant statements is  
> September 10th.
>
> Convenors:
>
>     * Julie Evans (University of Melbourne)
>     * Patrick Wolfe (Victoria University)
>
> Host organizations:
>
>     * Victorian Aboriginal Legal Service
>     * Victoria University
>     * The University of Melbourne
>
>
> This conference is taking place on Wurundjeri land. We pay our  
> respects to Wurundjeri elders past and present.
>
>
>
>
> -- 
>
> New Worlds, New Sovereignties.
> A cross-community interdisciplinary international conference.
> Melbourne, 10th - 14th December 2007.
>
> www.newsovereignties.org
>
> email:newworlds at newsovereignties.org

As Indigenous peoples, the way to recovering freedom
and power and happiness is clear: it is time for each
one of us to make the commitment
to transcend colonialism as people, and for us to work
together as peoples to become forces of Indigenous
truth against the lie of colonialism.
Taiaiake Alfred

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