From Marginality To Resurgence
European Island and Regional Cultures in the late 20th and early 21st Centuries.
A month-long event including a conference, HDR student colloquium, exhibition and concert components being held at Macquarie University (City and North Ryde campuses) between March 20th – April 19th 2008.
Organised by The Island Cultures Research Centre and the Innovative Universities Union Centre – Macquarie University, Sydney – with additional support and sponsorship from the Macquarie University Departments of Contemporary Music Studies and Media Studies and Macquarie University Art Gallery.
Event Co-ordinator and Conference Chair:
Professor Philip Hayward
(Division of Humanities, Macquarie University)
phayward [at] humanities.mq.edu.au
The event will address three principal – and linked – aspects:
- Cultural policy, identity and production in European sub-national regions and the opportunities and challenges these locations have encountered since the advent of the European Union (EU);
- How non-EU European island regions have fared by comparison;
- The nature of the European island and regional migrant communities overseas and their engagements and disjunctures with developments in their areas of origin.
(Also see Event Background)
FMTR Conference
Friday April 18th and Saturday April 19th
At Macquarie University city campus, Level 2, 11 York St (adjacent to Wynyard station) map.
Friday April 18th 4.30-7pm: 'Social and cultural policy in European sub-national regions' (admission $15/$10 student).
Keynote: Associate Professor Stephen Royle (Queens University Belfast) 'Culture and heritage in the survival of the Irish islands' +
- Dr Peter Gerrand (La Trobe University)
'The global reach of Spain's regional diasporas, and their modern reframing as supranational identities
- Professor Henry Johnson (Otago University)
'Cultural Policy in Jersey'
- Dr Christian Fleury (Caen Basse-Normandie University)
‘Jersey and Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon: the influence of geographical marginalities and cultural resurgences on the economic development of islands’ borders’.
Saturday April 19th 2.00-6.15pm: ‘Music culture in European sub-national regions’ (admission $15/$10 student)
Keynote: Professor Girolamo Garofalo (University of Palermo, Italy) ‘The music culture of Sicily’s Albanian minority’ +
- Associate Professor Henry Johnson (Otago University, Dunedin)
‘Anthem for Jersey: The Cultural Politics of Island Identity in a European Setting’
- Dr Donna Weston (Queensland Conservatorium of Music, Gold Coast)
‘Basque rock and regional identity’
- Professor Philip Hayward and Mr Alex Mesker (Macquarie University, Sydney)
‘Cornish Language and its perpetuation in Electro music’
- Dr Helen O’Shea (Monash University, Melbourne)
‘Islands of musical style: Regionalism in Irish traditional music’
- Mr Cristoforo Garigliano (Macquarie University, Sydney)
‘Angelo Merlino and Aeolian Island Music’
(Followed by the concert)
Concert
Saturday April 19th 7.30pm-9.30pm (admission $15/$10 student – free for conference attendees)
At Macquarie University city campus, Level 2, 11 York St (adjacent to Wynyard station) map
THE SYDNEY CALABRIAN ENSEMBLE
supported by an Irish music ensemble led by Helen O’Shea
FMTR Postgraduate student and supervisor colloquium
Friday April 18th 1.30-4pm
At Macquarie University City campus, Level 2, 11 York St (adjacent to Wynyard station) map
(admission $15/$10 student *includes admission to subsequent conference sessions)
The colloquium will comprise a number of presentations around the theme of ‘International aspects and opportunities for Australian Higher Degree Researchers’ by Australian and European academics. While the focus is particularly on Humanities/Social Science HDR, students and supervisors from other disciplines are also welcome.
Speakers:
- Professor Christina Slade Macquarie University) – Introduction
- Professor Ernest Jordan (Macquarie University) – International Co-tutelle study
- Dr Christian Fleury Caen Basse-Normandie University): PhD study in France: systems and opportunities
- Associate Professor Stephen Royle (Queens University, Belfast): National and International research projects
- Dr Peter Gerrand (La Trobe University, Melbourne): Issues in international research projects
Chair – Associate Professor Marea Mitchell (Macquarie University)
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This colloquium will be followed by two conference panel sessions on Cultural Policy Research
Exhibition ‘Transitions’ – Macquarie University Gallery, North Ryde map
March 20th – April 19th 2008
(launch Wednesday March 19th – 6-8pm)
The exhibition, curated by Rhonda Davis and Philip Hayward, will feature:
- Tthe premiere of ‘Through a glass darkly’, a new digital video work on the Lofoten islands + accompanying still images by Professor Jeremy Welsh (Bergen National Academy of Arts, Norway) – artist’s talk April 17th 5-7pm
- Photographs of European island and regional subjects by Effy Alexakis, Nathalie Hartog-Gautier, Fernando Gil Pereira, Axel Poignant and Claudia Terstrappen
- Paintings by Calabrian-Australian artists Salvatore Zofrea and Angela Cavalieri
Details at: http://www.artgallery.mq.edu.au/
Event Background:
Europe’s islands and regions have been affected by a series of developments following the establishment and recent expansions of the EU. Along with the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) - set up in 1975 to boost the economies and infrastructures of the EU’s less prosperous regions - a series of other EU initiatives have also contributed to the revitalisation of cultural ‘margins’ (to differing extents in different locations). Along with EU interventions, a series of other resurgences in local culture and identity have occurred.
Another major factor affecting Europe’s island and regional communities has been migration to other continents. Overseas diasporic communities have negotiated conflicting pressures to assimilate and inclinations to retain their heritage. In the 1990s, in countries such as Canada and Australia, national ‘multi-culturalist’ policies supported the latter, but the situation is currently in flux.
FMTR addresses various aspects of this geo-political and cultural situation through conference sessions, an art exhibition and concerts.
Contact:
Dr Philip Hayward (event co-ordinator and conference chair)
phayward [at] humanities.mq.edu.au
Division of Humanities
Macquarie University
NSW 2109
Australia
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