10-11 December 2018, Australian Centre, Faculty of Arts, The University of Melbourne: Call for Papers.
Please submit an abstract of no more than 200 words by Friday 6 July, 2018. Papers should be no more than 20 mins. Suggestions for panel discussions are welcome.
This conference aims to bring together new approaches to colonial Australia across the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences. Colonialism puts a range of practices and discourses into play: violent encounters, dispossession, trauma, ‘development’, ‘civilisation’, governance, trade, and so on. It produces endless narratives about what it is, what it does and the lives it radically changes. It is both immensely destructive and energetically productive: recording its various practices and discourses through a rapidly growing range of media and visual technologies.
The narratives of colonialism worked to reinvent Australia in colonialism’s image, leaving us with legacies and frameworks that continue to shape who we are and how we identify to the world around us. Sometimes we try to ‘forget’ colonialism, but it constantly claims us and returns to us; we continue to live in its aftermath.
Please submit an abstract of no more than 200 words by Friday 6 July, 2018. Papers should be no more than 20 mins. Suggestions for panel discussions are welcome.
All submissions to Ken Gelder: kdgelder@unimelb.edu.au.