EUROPE   AND   THE   ASIA-PACIFIC:
CULTURE,   IDENTITY   AND   REPRESENTATIONS   OF   REGION
University of East Anglia (UEA), Norwich, UK, 10-11 May 2001

The Centre for Research in European Studies (CREST) is holding its 4th annual conference in association with the UEA Asia-Pacific Group on Thursday and Friday, 10th and 11th May, 2001. The venue is the Elizabeth Fry building on the University of East Anglia campus in Norwich.

The preliminary programme includes papers dealing with a significant range of issues including the ASEM process, security cultures and security communities, property rights, cultural reproduction, postcolonialism, interraciality, Islamic identity in Europe, media representations, the role of law in identity formation, issues in political economy. The broad comparative dimensions of the papers include perspectives ranging from regionalist constructions of 'European' identity to more specific studies of relational identity construction in countries as diverse as Japan, Sweden, Russia, Australia, France, Malaysia and New Zealand, Thailand, India, Britain, China, and Indonesia.

The disciplines represented at the conference include art history, politics and international relations, law, economics, sociology, development studies, history, gender studies, literary studies and architecture and urban planning and paper presenters will be travelling from Australia, the US, India, Italy, China, Taiwan, Sweden, Japan, Hong Kong, and Germany. The conference will therefore be truly international and interdisciplinary while retaining a special focus on comparative inter-regional studies between Europe and the Asia-Pacific.

Programme
Those who pre-register will receive a formal programme approximately ten days before the conference. Programmes will otherwise be available on the day.
NB: The conference will open at 10 a.m. on Thursday 10th May.

Conference Organisation
The conference organiser is Professor Stephanie Lawson (S.Lawson@uea.ac.uk), Director of European and International Studies in the School of Economic and Social Studies. The conference secretary is Dr Michael Drake.
All enquiries concerning registration should be directed to:
Dr M. Drake
School of Economic and Social Studies
University of East Anglia
Norwich NR4 7TJ

M.Drake@uea.ac.uk
Tel: 01603 593415 / Fax: 01603 250434.

 
ANNUAL   MEETING   OF   THE   PACIFIC   ARTS   ASSOCIATION   -   EUROPE
Linden-Museum, Stuttgart, June 15-17, 2001

The Pacific Arts Association Europe will hold its annual meeting for 2001 from Friday, June 15 to Sunday, June 17 in the Linden-Museum, Stuttgart, at the occasion of the exhibition on the art of New Britain (Nuebritannien - Farbe, Form, Fantasie), organised by Ingrid Heermann.

The General Assembly will be held on Saturday, June 16, 9.30. The sessions on Saturday afternoon and Sunday morning shall be open to a wider audience. There will be a study session on the topic of the exhibition and a session on other subjects. Elections for the Administrative Council and the Board shall be called for at the General Assembly.

For information/inscription please contact:
Linden Museum, Staatliches Museum für V&0uml;lkerkunde
Attention: Dr. I. Heermann, Hegelplatz 1
70174 Stuttgart, Germany
Fax: +49 711 20 22 590, or e-mail to Frau Knöpfle: sekretariat@lindenmuseum.de

 
PACIFIC   ARTS   ASSOCIATION'S   SIXTH   INTERNATIONAL   SYMPOSIUM
Nouméa (New Caledonia) and Lifou (Loyalty Islands), July 23-28, 2001

Working Theme: Creative Arts in the Pacific Today: Expression of Continuity or Rupture?

Programme:
From Monday 23rd to Tuesday 24th July: Nouméa
From Wednesday 25th to Saturday 28th July: Lifou (Loyalty Islands)

Tentative schedule:
Sunday, July 22: arrival of participants in Nouméa
Monday, July 23: Centre Culturel Tjibaou, opening session: Contemporary Art of the Pacific
Tuesday, July 24: Musée de Nouvelle-Calédonie: Kanak material culture
Wednesday, July 25: fly to We on Lifou island (Loyalty Islands)
Thursday, July 26: sessions held in Lifou (themes to be announced)
Friday, July 27: sessions held in Lifou continue
Saturday, July 28: closing session

CALL FOR PAPERS
An official call for paper abstracts, along with the specific theme and session titles, will be sent out immediately after the Executive Committee meets Feb. 28th in Chicago. In the meantime, all interested in attending should contact symposium organiser, Emmanuel Kasarhérou, as soon as possible indicating:
1) interest in attending the symposium, and
2) interest in presenting a paper (and possible topic).

Please contact him by email, with follow up by airmail:
Emmanuel Kasarhérou, Cultural Director
Tjibaou Cultural Centre
B.P. 378
98846 Nouméa
New Caledonia
emmanuel.kasarhérou@adck.nc
Tel: (687) 41 45 55 / Fax: (687) 41 45 56

More information on the symposium is available from the Pacific Arts Association web site: http://pacificarts.org

For more information on Tjibaou Cultural Centre, check out their web site: http://www.adck.nc