Deadline: 15 September 2010
Geographical coverage: New Zealand
Reading Fee: n/a
Accepts (genre): presentation papers
Prize/Payment: undisclosed
Contact: gautam.ghosh@otago.ac.nz
A One-day Symposium hosted by the Asia-NZ Research Cluster at Otago University
When: 19 February 2011
Where: University of Otago, Dunedin
Abstract submission deadline: Wednesday 15 September 2010
New Zealand history and culture is an admixture of indigenous, settler and immigrant interrelations. Yet debates about multiculturalism have emerged here only of late. Why so, and in what ways?
At one level, a certain “multiculturalism” is visible through, e.g., celebrations to mark the Chinese New Year or the Diwali Festival of Lights as well as through new commodities (food) and activities (the martial arts). At another level, ideas about multiculturalism are receiving greater attention in government, community and popular discourse. Both levels call for investigation.
Questions to be explored include – but are not limited to:
1) What roles do religion, language, education, government, sports, food, fashion, art or architecture play in Kiwi multiculturalism?
2) What, if anything, is unique about multiculturalism in NZ? Is there a dominant form of multiculturalism in NZ? What is the place of Maori and Pakeha representations – taken together or respectively – in multicultural discourse?
3) How is multiculturalism in NZ linked to debates about nation, ethnicity, pluralism or cosmopolitanism?
As in the past, the research cluster’s symposium will culminate in a quality peer-reviewed publication.
Please send paper title, 200-word abstract and contact details to Dr Gautam Ghosh at gautam.ghosh@otago.ac.nz.
The symposium is free of charge and open to the public.
More information here.
Geographical coverage: New Zealand
Reading Fee: n/a
Accepts (genre): presentation papers
Prize/Payment: undisclosed
Contact: gautam.ghosh@otago.ac.nz
A One-day Symposium hosted by the Asia-NZ Research Cluster at Otago University
When: 19 February 2011
Where: University of Otago, Dunedin
Abstract submission deadline: Wednesday 15 September 2010
New Zealand history and culture is an admixture of indigenous, settler and immigrant interrelations. Yet debates about multiculturalism have emerged here only of late. Why so, and in what ways?
At one level, a certain “multiculturalism” is visible through, e.g., celebrations to mark the Chinese New Year or the Diwali Festival of Lights as well as through new commodities (food) and activities (the martial arts). At another level, ideas about multiculturalism are receiving greater attention in government, community and popular discourse. Both levels call for investigation.
Questions to be explored include – but are not limited to:
1) What roles do religion, language, education, government, sports, food, fashion, art or architecture play in Kiwi multiculturalism?
2) What, if anything, is unique about multiculturalism in NZ? Is there a dominant form of multiculturalism in NZ? What is the place of Maori and Pakeha representations – taken together or respectively – in multicultural discourse?
3) How is multiculturalism in NZ linked to debates about nation, ethnicity, pluralism or cosmopolitanism?
As in the past, the research cluster’s symposium will culminate in a quality peer-reviewed publication.
Please send paper title, 200-word abstract and contact details to Dr Gautam Ghosh at gautam.ghosh@otago.ac.nz.
The symposium is free of charge and open to the public.
More information here.
