Could you please distribute the following information to anyone who may be interested. Thank you ******************* Adelaide Research Centre for Humanities and Social Sciences GLOBALISATION <LIVE & ONLINE> 13 JULY - 10 AUGUST Please forward to anyone interested (apologies if you receive this more than once) ONLINE CONFERENCE -- CALL FOR PAPERS Key participants include Michael Hardt & Antonio Negri, Slavoj Zizek and JK Gibson-Graham. Key speakers in the live series -- a conference (26-29 July) and a symposium on globalising art (4 August) -- will also participate in the online conference. These include Dipesh Chakrabarty, Doug Henwood, Paul Smith, Marian Pastor Roces and Stephen Muecke. The live series will also incorporate lectures and discussion panels featuring Vandana Shiva and Saskia Sassen at the Adelaide Festival of Ideas (12-15 July) and exhibitions at the Art Gallery of South Australia and the Experimental Art Foundation. <call for online papers> Abstracts of 300-500words due May 1 2001. Refereed clusters will include the following topics: global economies - global culture - globalising art protest movements - local, regional, global dynamics international aid and human rights - global ecologies - the www world administration (WTO, UN, World Bank) mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] or fax to: (+61) 8 8303 4882 <how the online conference works> --Online keynote papers will be available to all registered delegates, and authors will be respond to questions in delegate discussion forums. --Each cluster will be addressed by a 'panel' of refereed papers and an attached discussion forum. --A public discussion forum will also go online July 16 =96 registration for this is not required. --All participants need a working email address and access to the internet. --Key papers and delegate discussion surrounding key papers will be available in both English and French. --Proposals for online art are still welcome. --The conference will be hosted at http://arts.adelaide.edu.au/ARCHSS/ - more information available there now. Registration information online from May 1 2001. <more information and sponsorship enquiries> for questions about the online or live series contact the ARCHSS administrative officer Judy Barlow phone: (+61) 8 8303 4817 fax: (+61) 8 8303 4882 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] web: http://arts.adelaide.edu.au/ARCHSS/ ********* -- Leftlink - Australia's Broad Left Mailing List mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archived at http://www.cat.org.au/lists/leftlink/ Sponsored by Melbourne's New International Bookshop Subscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Body=subscribe%20leftlink Unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Body=unsubscribe%20leftlink