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Watershed 13th - 17th January 2014
The Australian Studies Centre (ASC) at the University of Barcelona, Spain, and The Centre for Peace and Social Justice(CPSJ) of Southern Cross University, Australia, coordinate this international science seminar. The Australian Studies Centre has been committed to organising congresses in Spain and Australia together with a range of Australian academic institutions since 2000. The Centre for Peace and Social Justice hosted the 2006 international congress Landscapes of Exile: Australia Once Perilous Now Safe at Southern Cross University together with the Australian Studies Centre, and the international congresses Food for Thought (2010), Pacific Solutions (2011) Looking Back to Look Forwards (2012) at the University of Barcelona. |
About a hundred professionals, mostly scholars and some literary authors and visual artists, are personally invited by the organizing team to participate in Watershed, catering for contributions that look with a critical eye to the past to draw lessons for the future within the widest scope of Australian or other subject matter. The primary objective of the event is to exchange and share research by Spanish, Australian and other international scholars and teams in the field of Australian Studies, especially from a Postcolonial and Cultural Studies perspective. We also encourage topic-related contributions from outside these confining parameters so as to cater for academic plurality. The theme Watershed aims to group together a variety of related lines of research, emphasise the interdisciplinarity of Cultural and Postcolonial Studies, and cater for scholars and professionals in the fields of Humanities, Social Sciences and Sciences. |
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The 2014 event aims for interdisciplinary communication with a programme ranging from Environmental and Sustainability Studies to Creative Writing. In previous congresses, in which the Australian Studies Centre actively participated, the following subjects were addressed: |
As is usual with the congresses organised by the ASC and CPSJ Watershed is devised as a small but serious and select event without parallel sessions so that a maximum audience is guaranteed for each single session within a continuous interdisciplinary context. The Aula Magna of the university building is therefore the venue chosen for all sessions. Contributors are kindly asked to compose their own panels and round tables and present their abstracts in a coordinated way. A more detailed theme sheet will be made available in mid March 2013 and put up on the web site. |
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African Studies
However, the field is wide open for proposals |
All panel papers will be 20 minutes maximum in length in order to allow for discussion afterwards.
The convenors: Dr Susan Ballyn (UB) Dr Martin Renes (UB) Prof. Baden Offord (SCU)
Conference Secretary: Dra Isabel Alonso (UB)
The Centre of Australian Studies University of Barcelona Barcelona Spain The Centre for Peace and Social Justice, Southern Cross University Australia |
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| COMMENTS TO: sueballyn@ub.edu | ||
| UPDATED: 29/11/2013 | ||
