ASANA 1997 Conference Program
Georgetown University
21-22 February 1997
"Australia, North America, the Pacific Basin: In the Same Boat?"
FRIDAY, 21 FEBRUARY
- 9:00
- Welcome
- Bob Williams-President, ASANA
- 9:15
- Australia: Is it a Clever Enough Country? Communications Policy
Mass Media and Public Discourse in a Globalized Information Environment
- Session Chair - John Keller, Associate Director, ANZ Studies Center, Penn State University
- Presenters:
- Amanda Buckley - Counsellor for Public Affairs, Embassy of Australia, Washington, DC
- Bill Henderson - Counsellor for Comunications, the Arts and Transportation Embassy of Australia
- Colleen Ryan - Washington Correspondent, The Australian Financial Review
- 10:45
- Coffee Break
- 11:15
- Australia Today: Contributed Papers Session I
- "Giving Birth to the New: What Model of Policy Reform Yields Fiscal Balance?"
Herman Schwartz, University of Virginia - (article online at his homepage)
- TBA
Joy Esbery, University of Toronto
- 12:45
- Lunch (provided with conference registration)
- 13:30
- KEYNOTE ADDRESS
- "Changes in Immigration, Ethnic Immigration and Ethnic Policy Under the Howard Government"
James Jupp, Director, Center for Immigration and Multicultural Studies, Australian National University
- 14:30
- Coffee Break
- 14:45
- Multiculturalism, Immigration and Citizenship
- "Fish and Chips on Her Shoulder"
Angelika Sauer, University of Winnipeg
- "Australia, Immigration and Cultural Regions"
Alyson Greiner, Oklahoma State University
- "Multiculturalism, Immigration and Australian Literature"
Sonia Mycak, Uni of New South Wales
- 17:00
- Sessions End
- 17:30
- Reception hosted by Georgetown University
SATURDAY, 22 FEBRUARY
- 8:30
- Welcome
- Bob Williams-President, ASANA
- 8:45
- Australian Republicanism
- "Defining the Head of State in a Republican Australia"
Alan Ward, College of William and Mary
- "In Menzies' Long Shadow? The Liberal Party of Australia and the Republic"
David Rovinsky, Bloomsburg University
- 10:15
- Coffee Break
- 10:30
- Environmentalism and Aboriginal Reconciliation
- "The Rise of the Australian Environmental Movement: Values, Cognitive Mobilization and Media Awareness."
Don Studlar, West Virginia University and Ian McAllister, University of New South Wales
- "The Torres Strait Islanders: Ten Years Since Their Cry for Independence - Has Anything Happened?"
Sandra Kehoe-Forutan, Bloomsburg University
- 12:00
- Taking Stock of Australian Studies in North America
Robert HT Smith, Australian Education Office
- 12:45
- ASANA Annual Business Meeting
- 13:30
- Conference Adjourns
- 18:00
- Reception hosted by Australian Education Office
Embassy of Australia, 1601 Massachusetts Ave, NW, Washington, DC 20036
If you have questions, you may direct them to John M. Keller, ASANA
Secretary-Treasurer, Australia-New Zealand Studies Center, 427 Boucke, Penn
State University, University Park PA 16802; tel: 814 863 1603; email: [email protected].
Registration information available soon.
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