Fifth International Conference of the

Indian Association for the Study of Australia (IASA)

18 - 21 January, 2010

IGNOU

Fifth International Conference

Indian Association for the Study of Australia (IASA)

"India and Australia: Negotiating Change"

I wish to Present a Paper Participate in the Conference Conference Registration Fee : Foreign participant (Member) Foreign participant (Non-Member) Indian participant (Member) Indian participant (Non-Member) Aus $ 150.00 Aus $ 180.00 Rs. 1000/Rs. 1500/-

Goa 18 - 21, January 2010

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Goa University

Fifth International Conference

Indian Association for the Study of Australia (IASA)

"India and Australia: Negotiating Change"

18-21, January, 2010 at Goa University, Goa
At the dawn of the 21st century, the world appeared at the threshold of a new era encapsulated in the term 'globalisation' proffering as many new opportunities as it posed new challenges to the comity of nations. However, an incipient global financial crisis currently under way has introduced a series of uncertainties, the dimensions and depths of which are as yet unfathomed and un-assessed. Alongside, issues of climate change and high incidence of international terrorism are calling for the imperative need for transformative changes through negotiations within and between nations for reordering the world system. Admittedly, the exigencies of the current global crisis necessitate new ways of imagining and imaging. However daunting, the role of scholars in social sciences and humanities to help assist the policy makers in evolving new strategies based on fresh approaches and ideas is no less important. For, after all, issues of economics, politics, security, science and arts connect to human needs in this fast-changing world. At the same time the world of scholarship has to address a series of searching questions: whether the needed changes can be globalised; whether fundamental standards can be ensured for all human life and forms of society; whether there is a common problematic so that common solutions applicable to all humanity can be evolved. In these endeavours what and how can India and Australia, two democratic and strategically important countries, contribute to meet the new challenges of the emerging world? Do shared values like rule of law, social justice, social solidarity and economic efficiency help bring bilateral concerns together? Keeping these questions in perspective the Fifth Biennial International Conference of the Indian Association for the Study of Australia scheduled to be held in Goa in January 2010 will focus on the overarching theme: 'India and Australia: Negotiating Change'. Papers are invited on the sub-themes as identified below:

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Contemporary Australia Literature and the Arts Globalisation and the State Foreign Policy National Security Science, Society and Development Environment and Sustainable Development Australia in International Relations and Politics

Calendar for submission of papers: Last date for submission of abstracts: September 30, 2009 Communication of acceptance: October 20, 2009 Final papers to be submitted by November 30, 2009 Communications may be addressed on e-mail: santoshsareen@yahoo.co.in to Prof. Santosh Sareen, President, IASA, Centre for English Studies, School of Language, Literature and Culture Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi110067, India. Please e-mail: dgopal@ignou.ac.in - a copy to Prof. D. Gopal, General Secretary, IASA, Faculty of Political Science, School of Social Sciences, Indira Gandhi National Open University, New Delhi and Adjunct Professor, Institute of Hawke Research Studies, University of South Australia, Adelaide. AIC will provide 5 awards of AUD 3000/- each for Australian participants. Visit: http://www.dfat.gov.au/aic/iasagoa.html Accommodation options: 1. The International Centre Goa Rs. 2200/- double per day (To be booked through IASA) Rs. 1100/- shared per day 2. Goa University Guest House Rs. 200/- per day Taleigao Plateau, Goa (To be booked through IASA) Rs. 5000/- per day app. 3. Prainha Resort by the Sea Near SBI Bank, Dona Paula, Goa-403004 Tel: 091-832-2453881/82/83 Fax: 091-832-2453884 E-mail: prainha@bsnl.in (To be booked directly) 4. Cidade de Goa Rs. 10,000/- per day app. Vainguinim Beach, Goa-403004 Tel: 091-832-2454045 Fax: 091-832-2454541/42 E-mail: cidadedegoa@cidadedegoa.com (To be booked directly)