Dear Colleague,
I am writing on behalf of the Organising Committee of the Diversity Conference 2004 to announce:
THE FOURTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON DIVERSITY IN ORGANISATIONS, COMMUNITIES AND NATIONS
University of California, Los Angeles
6-9 July 2004
http://www.Diversity-Conference.com
The conference will traverse in a multidisciplinary way a broad range of themes relating to diversity and difference, including:
DIVERSITY OF CULTURES
* Critical examination of existing theories of diversity and culture.
* Diversity and homogeneity in theory and practice.
* The limits of diversity.
* Defining the dimensions of diversity - ethnicity, gender, race, socio-economic, indigenous, gender, sexual preference, disability.
* Locating diversity - individuals, groups, intersections, identity layers, notions of place.
* Identifying the dynamics of diversity - exclusion or inclusion, assimilation or pluralism.
* Points of intensity - where disability meets ethnos meets gender.
* Developing multicultural policies and practices.
REPRESENTING DIVERSITY - THE GLOBALISING MEDIA
* Media representations of diversity and globalisation.
* Representing the terror wars.
* Non-English media: from Al Jazeera to Zee TV.
* The media monoliths: from Hollywood to Bollywood.
* Local media, community media, national media, transnational media.
* Indigenous (and non-indigenous) representations of the Indigenous.
* Media, language and identity.
GOVERNING DIVERSITY IN A GLOBALISING WORLD
* Responding to global human movement and its consequences - immigration, asylum seekers, refugees, diasporic communities and settlement.
* Responding to racism - its representation, causes, effects and remedies.
* Developing a public service for a diverse community - towards a civic pluralism.
* First nations and indigenous peoples - strategies for community development.
* The politics of community leadership - challenges for local government.
* Truth and reconciliation - examining the past for the sake of the future.
* International human rights and local sovereignty.
The conference will include both major keynote addresses by internationally renowned speakers and numerous small-group workshop and paper presentation sessions. Papers submitted for the conference proceedings will be fully peer-refereed and published in print and electronic formats in the International Journal of Diversity in Organisations, Communities and Nations. If you are unable to attend the conference, virtual registrations are also available allowing access to the electronic versions of the conference proceedings, as well as virtual presentations which mean that your paper can be included in the refereeing process and published with the conference proceedings.
The deadline for the first round in the call for papers is 15 December 2003. Visit the conference website for the closing dates of subsequent rounds. We do hope you will be able to attend this important and timely international conference.
Yours Sincerely,
Prof. Paul James
Director, Globalism Institute
RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia
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