conference - Australia

[I.Dawes at latrobe.edu.au]

Apologies for cross-postings

RELIGIOUS/CULTURE NATIONALISM AND FUNDAMENTALISM IN SOUTH ASIA AND SOUTHEAST 
ASIA

A conference co-hosted by Faculty of Arts, Deakin University,
Monash Asia Institute, National Centre for South Asian Studies,
Asian Law Centre University of Melbourne.

The conference will explore the recent fracturing of established
societiesinto disparate communal and fervently religious or
cultural groupings - an issue that comes out of the wider discourse
of 'fundamentalism'.

Significantly, the papers presented will examine the relationship
between religious/cultural self-assertion and emergent nationalism
or claims to ethnic-based nation-state particularities, generally
against the challenges of globisation in the region.  Critique of
fundamentalism as a socio-cultural phenomenon, its historical and
philosophical roots, and the interface of society and state and
their implications for secularism, minority rights and the
democratic process will be examined.  There will be a comparitive
focus on South Asia and South-East Asia.  Issues related to the
broad theme of Western responses to the phenomenon of
fundamentalism against the horizon of Orientalism will also be
addressed.

Date:    Friday 21 October - Saturday 22 October 1994

Venue:   Toorak Campus, Deakin University,
Melbourne, Australia.

Costs:   2 days $Aus 95 (Concession $50)
            1 day  $Aus 50 (Concession $20)

For further information, please contact:
Dr Purushottama Bilimoria
Conference Convenor

Ph. 61 3 272688
or
Ph. 61 3 2445250
Fax 61 3 244 5454
Email pbilmo at deakin.edu.au


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Ian Dawes
Information Officer
National Centre for South Asian Studies
4th floor, 20 Queen St
Melbourne, 3000
Victoria,
Australia

ph.   + 61 3 629 1844
Fax  +61 3  629 1001
e-mail:
ncsas at latrobe.edu.au 
              or 
I.Dawes at latrobe.edu.au