My culture. Your culture. Our culture.
SIETAR Australasia’s Inaugural Conference
The James Cook Institute
McGregor Rd, Smithfield, Queensland – 16 – 18 October 2015 – Cairns, Queensland, Australia
Super Diversity and Multiculturalism. Managing and understanding diversity and culture at home and abroad.
This inter-disciplinary conference included theoretical and practical contributions questioning all forms of multiculturalism from dance and art to indigenous cultural sovereignty.
Our inaugural conference was about multiculturalism locally and globally. It’s aim was to encourage and promote a deeper dialogue about multitudes of cultures co-existing without one dominating any of them. This is the ideal of multiculturalism we are aiming to explore in our conference: How to share without being subsumed.
We encouraged all our participants to explore these ideas, to demonstrate and to find new ways to unite cultures in their presentations, workshops, films, and other performing art mediums. We explored the notion of how we can all co-exist and share our different cultures, but without being subsumed into one another’s culture.
Topics
- Community and national identity
- Multiculturalism in the workplace
- Multicultural art in all forms
- Hybrid culture
- Multiculturalism and local culture
- Indigenous culture and multiculturalism
- Constructing multicultural identity
- Religion and multiculturalism
- Cohabiting in a global world
- Denial of local culture into global culture
- Symbols and culture
- Multiculturalism in your country
- Peace and multiculturalism
- Superdiversity
- Interfaith community and multiculturalism
- Multiculturalism between nations
- Multiculturalism and diplomacy
- Multiculturalism international relations
- Your culture and Multiculturalism
- Australia and Multiculturalism
- Australia and Islam
- Multiculturalism and the Australasia region
- Multiculturalism and global corporations
- Multiculturalism and branding: place branding
- Multiculturalism, tangible culture, intangible culture