Calling for papers – History of Labour Relations in Queensland 1859-2009 Conference

History of Labour Relations in Queensland from 1859 to 2009 Conference
Friday, 11 December 2009, Brisbane
Papers are invited on all aspects of labour relations in Queensland. For more information and submission details, go to http://www.deir.qld.gov.au/industrial/labourrelations/index.htm

 

Curtin Humanities Tenth Graduate Research Conference

From the Faculty of Humanities at Curtin:

‘Creative margins’ Call for papers
As researchers we often find ourselves working at the edges of our disciplinary fields as we search for new ways of approaching knowledge or an understanding of the world around us. The visual artist may be engaged in creating a public art work while simultaneously reflecting upon deep ecology; the education specialist may be reappraising conventional classroom interactions and in the process offer insights into behavioural psychology; the anthropologist may illuminate women’s revolutionary practices while undertaking field work in suburban Perth or the architect may develop innovative forms of shelter for natural disaster relief as a result of studies into sustainability. We recognise that these creative leaps at the margins of the field, the slippages between one discursive framework and another, the liminal zones of practice, that enrich and enliven scholarship, producing the edgy, the groundbreaking, the stimulating, that pushes creative intellectual boundaries, often are sited in the first-stage research community: the honours, postgraduate and early career researchers. So, in this interdisciplinary conference we want to hear and see the creative re-visioning that honours, postgraduate and early career researchers are imagining, working through, and experimenting with. How are you interrogating the fields of knowledge you encounter? What issues do you face as you negotiate the various voices from the ‘scholarly’ to those of the ‘other’ in order to find your own position? What delights are you finding in blurred boundaries and subtle nuances? How are you creating shifts in the terrain? What are the challenges or moments of serendipity that you have encountered?

We welcome oral presentations, posters or creative production, individual or collaborative, that articulate and visualise the research you are undertaking as you work in the creative margins. Your proposal/abstract should be no more than 200 words in length. It should be accompanied by a sentence describing the degree and discipline in which you are enrolled, as well as your year of (equivalent) fulltime PGR study, and an indication of the technical requirements needed for your presentation (data processor, DVD, PowerPoint, overhead projector etc).

Please send your proposal/abstract to creative.margins@curtin.edu.au by 3 July 2009

For further information go to the Conference website at: http://hgsoconference.curtin.edu.au/ Graduate Studies Office