Empires and Cultures of the Pacific

The 21^st annual conference of the

New Zealand Studies Association (NZSA),

together with the Institute for Social

and Cultural Anthropology, University of Vienna,

supported by the University of South Australia

Vienna, Austria, 1-4 July 2015

 

A 4-day international conference,

with a reception at the Natural History Museum,

boat trip on the Danube, and conference dinner at the

Kunst Haus Wien, the Hundertwasser Museum.

The conference venue is the University of Vienna,

located in the centre and very close to the city's museum district.

 

Keynotes:

Professor Dominic Alessio

Associate Professor Leonard Bell

Professor Rainer Buschmann

Sia Figiel

Associate Professor Sei Kosugi

Professor Matt Matsuda

Professor Hermann Mueckler

Associate Professor Susan Najita

Professor Erik Olssen, ONZM

Dr Max Quanchi

Professor Eva Rueschmann

Professor Paul Tapsell

John F. Wilson

 

The New Zealand Studies Association has a long and strong history in promoting New Zealand Studies, which now extends within the region through its twice-yearly Journal of New Zealand and Pacific Studies. Building on the successes of the conferences in Oslo (2014), Nijmegen (2013), Gdansk (2012), Frankfurt (2009), Florence (2008), London (2007), and Paris (2006), this major event will be held at the University of Vienna.

Proposals for 20 minute papers to be sent by 11 January to Associate Professor Ian Conrich (ian@ianconrich.co.uk). Submissions need to be a 250-300 word abstract and a 100-150 word bio. Papers can consider all themes within any of the following strands [1] Empires of the Pacific, to include German, French, British, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Japanese, American and New Zealand empire building [2] The Pacific Ocean and Pacific Island States [3] Polynesia and Pasifika [4] New Zealand culture [5] New Zealand as a Pacific nation [6] Maori culture [7] Ocean and coastal cultures. Definitions within these parameters are broad. The conference fee will include annual membership to the NZSA, which for 2015 includes a twice-yearly journal. A selection of papers from the conference will be published in the refereed Journal of New Zealand and Pacific Studies, published by Intellect.

The conference will accept proposals on a range of subjects including the following: literature, history, film, music, art, cultural studies, sociology, geography, tourism, war studies, politics, international relations, identity and multiculturalism, anthropology, Maori Studies, Pacific Studies, archaeology and museum studies.