Calendar for Conferences - 2007

  • Institute of Australian Geographers Conference
    1-6 July 2007, central Melbourne, VIC, Australia
  • The Biodiversity Extinction Crisis: An Australasian and Pacific Response, organised by the Australasian section of the Society for Conservation Biology, 10—13 July 2007, UNSW, Sydney.
  • IN THE PIPELINE: NEW DIRECTIONS IN CULTURAL RESEARCH ON WATER SYMPOSIUM 19-20 JULY, 2007 Parramatta Campus of the University of Western Sydney www.cccs.uq.edu.au

July

  1. Institute of Australian Geographers Conference
    1-6 July 2007, central Melbourne, VIC, Australia http://www.sages.unimelb.edu.au/IAGconference
  2. The Biodiversity Extinction Crisis: An Australasian and Pacific Response, organised by the Australasian section of the Society for Conservation Biology, 10—13 July 2007, UNSW, Sydney.
  3. IN THE PIPELINE: NEW DIRECTIONS IN CULTURAL RESEARCH ON WATER SYMPOSIUM 19-20 JULY, 2007 Parramatta Campus of the University of Western Sydney www.cccs.uq.edu.au

Details below or click on the conference date above

JULY

  1. Institute of Australian Geographers Conference
    1-6 July 2007, central Melbourne, VIC, Australia

    2. All the calls for papers, and the provisional program, are now
    available here
    http://www.sages.unimelb.edu.au/IAGconference

     

  2. The Biodiversity Extinction Crisis: An Australasian and Pacific Response, organised by the Australasian section of the Society for Conservation Biology, 10—13 July 2007, UNSW, Sydney.

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  3. IN THE PIPELINE: NEW DIRECTIONS IN CULTURAL RESEARCH ON WATER SYMPOSIUM

19-20 JULY, 2007

Parramatta Campus of the University of Western Sydney on Thursday July 19 and Friday July 20, 2007. The program will include a half-day workshop on methods and approaches.
Abstracts due - 28 FEBRUARY, 2007

CENTRE FOR CULTURAL RESEARCH & CULTURAL RESEARCH NETWORK

With drought and climate instability putting pressure on current and
future water supplies, there have been many calls for change in
water use cultures. Yet almost all Australian research on water
users has investigated the attitudes and socio-demographic
characteristics of individuals, not cultures, usually with a view to
changing or predicting individual behaviour.

Meanwhile, unknown numbers of researchers in Australia and overseas
are working on projects investigating water use and water-related
issues from cultural or sociotechnical perspectives, and/or with
strong concerns for cultural dimensions of water practices,
ownership, technologies, uses and values.

These researchers can be found in government and non-government
organisations, and across a variety of academic centres and
departments, ranging from media, communication and cultural studies;
history, anthropology and sociology; through to departments of rural
studies and geography or geo-spatial studies; as well as engineering
and earth sciences. Some of them are postgraduates and early career
researchers keen to make contact with others to discuss
methodologies.

IN THE PIPELINE will bring together for the first time these
dispersed researchers in a unique interdisciplinary gathering.
Convened by the Centre for Cultural Research and by
the 'naturecultures' sub-node of the ARC Cultural Research Network,
the Symposium will be held at the Parramatta Campus of the
University of Western Sydney on Thursday July 19 and Friday July 20,
2007. The program will include a half-day workshop on methods and
approaches.

The Symposium aims to explore such questions as:
* Who's doing what in cultural research on water in Australia?
* What is convergent and divergent in approach, theory,
method, research design?
* What kinds of networks and partnerships are being developed?
* What can be done to promote more cultural research on water?
* How might cultural research and culturally-oriented
strategies effectively contribute to water sustainability?

This CALL FOR PAPERS invites abstracts of 100-200 words for 10-
minute panel presentations or 20-minute papers outlining recent or
current projects, and/or identifying methodological, theoretical or
practical issues.

Deadline for submission of Abstracts (plus 150 words on you and your
research) is WEDNESDAY 28 FEBRUARY.

Please send via email to Dr Zoë Sofoulis, z.sofoulis@...
Abstracts and inquiries welcomed ahead of time. To assist with
timetabling, organisers reserve the right to offer proposers either
a 20 minute paper or a 10 minute panel slot.

FEES: 'University' rather than 'corporate' rates will be charged,
with the aim of affordability for ECRs. Please indicate the
likelihood of receiving institutional support for your travel and
attendance.

Thanks

Kitty

Dr Kitty van Vuuren
UQ Postdoctoral Fellow
Book Review Editor, Media International Australia
Centre for Critical and Cultural Studies
The University of Queensland
Brisbane QLD 4072 Australia
Tel: 61 7 334 67409
Fax: 61 7 336 57184
Email: K.vanvuuren@...
Internet: www.cccs.uq.edu.au