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This site is designed to showcase the work of staff and students in the School of Humanities, Flinders University.The goal of the site is to promote the research and creative activities of the School of Humanities and the Flinders Humanities Research Centre for Cultural Heritage and Cultural Exchange.

Flinders Humanities Research Centre
for Cultural Heritage and Cultural Exchange

FHRC Seminar Series. Semester Two, 2006. Call for Presenters.

As the mid-year break approaches, the Centre is seeking presenters for the Seminar Series for semester two. Seminars are held between 3.00 and 4.30 p.m. on Wednesdays throughout teaching time, in Humanities 234. The time and space may be used for the presentation and discussion of conference papers or articles in preparation, for discussion of group projects or symposia, for whatever will be useful. Available dates are as follows:

26 July; 2 August; 9 August; 16 August; 30 August; 13 September; 4 October; 11 October; 18 October; 25 October.

If you would like to present during the series, please contact Rebecca.

Flinders International Asia Pacific

Professor A. B. Shamsul
BA,MA(Malaya) PhD(Monash)
Professor of Social Anthropology
National University of Malaysia (UKM)

From Plurality to Plural Society:
The Embedization of Islam in Southeast Asia and its Contemporary Implications

In addition to holding the chair of Anthropology, Professor Shamsul is Director, Institute of the Malay World & Civilization (ATMA) and the Institute of Occidental Studies (IKON) at the National University of Malaysia (UKM). His research over the last two decades has spanned politics, culture and economic development in Southeast Asia, with a focus on Malaysia. He holds positions on the peak research bodies of several Asian and European countries, editorial boards of leading international refereed journals and is very much the public intellectual frequently heard commenting on contemporary issues on the BBC London, Radio Australia, Radio Netherlands, Radio Singapore International and in such periodic journals as the Far Eastern Economic Review and Asian Wall Street Journal.

RSVP: Please reply to Julie Gardner 8201-5115 or by email: Julie.gardner@flinders.edu.au

Seminar Series
Semester One, 2006.

Past Seminars - This term

Katie Cavanagh - DSpace, Flinders' Institutional Repository

1. Prof Sheng Ning, Visiting Fellow under the Exchange Agreement between the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and Flinders University. "Identification or Fabrication? -- Re-Visioning De/Constructionist China Dreams"

2. A/Prof Francis Regan, Head of Legal Studies, Flinders University. "How and why does China help manhole cover thieves?"

5 April:
Mike Gulliver (University of Bristol, UK), "Cultural Landscapes of the Deaf".
Geography and Deaf Studies
Bristol University, UK
Gazing upon the Deaf: Tourism into the Deaf community

In the mid 1980s, Deaf gazettes such as See Hear and V T.V. appeared upon prime time British television screens making sign language visible to most hearing people for the first time. Whilst Deaf people welcomed these programmes, the greatest enthusiasm was from hearing audiences who quickly signed up for BSL evening classes. To date, over 100,000 hearing people have followed this route, passing the stage 1 BSL exam. At first glance, this appears to be an unprecedented wave of support for Deaf people and their language. However, a more in-depth investigation reveals a more problematic series of motivations, best described through tourism and development frameworks in which the reality of a situation is set aside in preference for the imagined.
This paper explores the nature and motivations of Deafworld ‘tourism’ and begins to address the question of what it might
mean to be a ‘responsible tourist’ within the Deaf world. It begins by exploring Deaf people’s own discourses of the Deaf world and Deaf
knowledge spaces. Bringing in language ownership theory, it develops a Deaf-centred argument for the preservation of a Deaf ‘ecology’ that links Deaf language and community together, preserving both through an ongoing and fragile Deaf metaphysics. The paper then briefly examines the behaviour of hearing tourists to the Deaf world, and the development of the discursive systems that have made it possible. Pointing to the fundamental tensions between Deaf and hearing viewpoints, the paper questions whether any kind of responsible tourism is possible into the Deaf community and, in the light of this, how Deaf people might safeguard the Deafworld ecosystem. Finally, the paper examines the notion of proportional impact, and questions whether this kind of issue is also a deep-seated tension at the heart of other cultural tourism.

Quodlibet Ejourna l is out.
Quodlibet, formerly the CRNLE Reviews Journal, is a freely accessible, fully refereed international e-journal published twice a year by the Department of English, Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia.

The journal aims to publish high-quality academic work produced by scholars associated with tertiary institutions who are conducting research in the areas of

Postcolonial literatures
New Literatures in English
International Writing

Unpublished papers are invited from researchers in both Australian and overseas universities. Postgraduate and Honours students are encouraged to submit papers.

As the Research Centres meet to write their definition documents, we have put together a Research Centre Links Page to make life a little easier.

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This site is kept up-to-date by the Flinders Humanities Research Centre. The site is for all Humanities staff, with a focus on creating links between the various departments by publicising current events and news in a central space. This site will be updated at least weekly (if not more often) . We invite content to be sent through directly to katie.cavanagh@flinders.edu.au.

Exclaim!

Life Writing Symposium
13 – 16 June, 2006, Conference Room, Function Centre, Flinders University

Sidonie Smith and Kay Schaffer Public Lecture, June 14, 2006

Experience!

School of Humanities Style Guide
If you want information about preparing an essay, referencing correctly and avoiding common errors, consult the Style Guide.

CCI—Life Writing Group
2006 Reading Groups Sessions:
Session 1: Reading the Work of Professor Sidonie Smith

The Constructing Cultural Identities: Life Writing Group will be holding four reading group sessions in 2006 (two during semester one and two during semester two). The aim of these reading group sessions is to provide a get-together for those in the School who are working on projects in the broad field of Life Writing (for instance, theoretical projects on auto/biography, creative life writing projects, travel writing projects, projects on first-person media, the study of everyday life, or other projects in allied non-fiction disciplines). In the reading group sessions, participants will discuss a reading (or readings) set for that particular week. The sessions will also provide a supportive environment for participants to raise issues/dilemmas they are facing in their work. We hope that it will become a productive round-table discussion, and will create opportunities for staff and postgraduates to meet others working in allied areas.

The first reading group was held on Wednesday 12th April (this is during mid-semester break), at 3.00 p.m. in Humanities 234 (the usual time and place of the FHRC seminar series), and the theme of the seminar will be the work of eminent life narrative theorist Professor Sidonie Smith (The University of Michigan) who is the co-author of works including Reading Autobiography: A Guide for Interpreting Life Narratives (University of Minnesota Press, 2001), Getting a Life: Everyday Uses of Autobiography (University of Minnesota Press, 1996) and Human Rights and Narrated Lives: The Ethics of Recognition (Palgrave 2004). Professor Smith will be our international guest at the Life Writing Symposium in June. So, this reading group session will be especially beneficial for those participating in the upcoming symposia, and/or possible postgraduate Masterclass. However, the session will be relevant for anyone interested in learning more about life writing.

Copies of the readings will be available in a marked envelope outside Kate Douglas’s office (Humanities 246) from early April. So, if you are interested in attending the reading group, please take a copy of the readings and read it before the session.

All welcome; refreshments will be provided.

A second reading group session (on “The Ethics of Life Writing”) will be organised for late semester one (date TBA).

Please direct any inquiries to Kate Douglas:
e-mail: kate.douglas@flinders.edu.au
ph: 82012292

Resources!

School of Humanities Style Guide
If you want information about preparing an essay, referencing correctly and avoiding common errors, consult the style guide.

Topics covered include:

essay preparation
appropriate language use
MHRA referencing guidelines.

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