[Reader-list] Fwd: ACTIVATING HUMAN RIGHTS AND DIVERSITY CONFERENCE (1-4 July 2003 in Byron Bay)

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ACTIVATING HUMAN RIGHTS AND DIVERSITY CONFERENCE 

BYRON BAY, AUSTRALIA 
1-4 July 2003 

Hosted by the Centre for Law, Politics and Culture 
Southern Cross University 

Confirmed Keynotes: Professor Monica McWilliams (Ireland), Professor
Raimon Gaita (Aust), Chee Soon Juan (Singapore) Professor Yash Ghai, (Hong
Kong), Dita Indah Sari (Indonesia), Professor Costas Douzinas (UK), Dr Sev
Ozdowsky (Aust), Charlene Smith (South Africa), Melinda Jones (Aust),
Professor Carl Stychin (UK), Dr Lillian Holt and Dr Irene Watson (Aust).
Planned opening with the Governor, Professor Marie Bashir and The
Honourable John Dowd. Planned Endnote Speech by Peter Garrett. 

Other invited speakers include:
- Basil Fernando, Executive Director, Asian Human Rights Commission, Hong
Kong. 
- Natasha Stott-Despoja, Australian Democrats Senator.
- Kerry Nettle, NSW Greens Senator. 

Rodney Croome, sexuality activist.

CALL FOR PAPERS: 
ACTIVATING HUMAN RIGHTS AND DIVERSITY CONFERENCE 

http://www.scu.edu.au/research/clpc/human_rights/index.html 

Local and Global Voices 

This international conference is for everyone who cares passionately about
human rights, and who wishes to activate/re-activate human rights and
their importance in the twenty-first century. 

We hope the conference will provide a crucial and critical learning space
for activating human rights and diversity in relation to the fields of
law, culture, politics and health. 
A major focus of the conference is to invite participants to exchange
ideas and experiences about human rights, questions of diversity and their
implications across these fields. The conference is interdisciplinary as
well as activist in approach. 

We especially welcome papers that engage with significant and often
disregarded and unregarded areas of human rights activism. 

We also invite papers which address relevant contemporary issues that have
a significant human rights dimension. 

CALL FOR PAPERS* 
Please send proposals for 20-25 minute papers, with a 200-word abstract 
by 3rd February 2003 to: 

Dr Baden Offord, 
Centre for Law, Politics and Culture, 
ROfford at scu.edu.au 

The conference will have a mix of plenary sessions with invited papers,
and panel sessions. The conference organisers welcome papers from
academics, researchers, activists, community groups and policy makers. 

Draft Panel Sessions So far include:


 Refugees and Human Rights

 Indigenous Rights 
- Culture and Human Rights

 Romany peoples and human rights 
- Women and Human Rights 

 Disability Rights

 Buddhism and Human Rights

 New Media and Human Rights 

 Journalism and Human Rights

 Amnesty International high school students presentation

 Sexuality and Human Rights

 Children's Rights

 Health and Human Rights 

 Asian Human Rights 

POSSIBLE CONFERENCE TOPICS 
The Conference welcomes contributions that are interdisciplinary in nature
and which are informed by the confluence of theory and practice. In
general, conference thematic matrix might include: 

1. Gender & sexuality
2. East Timor
3. Disability and rights
4. Refugees and diaspora
5. Indigenous approaches
6. Rights and globalisation
7. Culture and representation
8. Citizenships of belonging and participation
9. Asia/Pacific issues
10. Sexual slavery
11. Torture and exploitation
12. Human rights methodologies
13. Exclusion/inclusion
14. New technologies & citizenship
15. Health care and human rights
16. Diversity & legal discourse
17. Rethinking human rights activism
18. The politics of human rights
19. Monocultural/multicultural realities
20. Religion & social activism
21. Music & human rights
22. Reproductive rights
23. Moving beyond anguish & trauma
24. Reconciliation & Healing
25. Stories of breaking the silence
26. Activate/Re-activate 

-- 
Dr Baden Offord 
Senior Lecturer: Cultural Studies 
Researcher: Centre for Law, Politics & Culture
Convenor: Activating Human Rights & Diversity:local & global voices
International Conference, Byron Bay, 2003. 

http://www.scu.edu.au/research/clpc/
School of Arts
Southern Cross University
PO Box 157 Lismore 2480
Australia

Telephone: + 61 2 66203 162
Fax: + 61 2 66 221 683
email: ROfford at scu.edu.au

http://hmcs.scu.edu.au/
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experience is the best way to think accurately." 


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