Organisers: Chris Diamond & Stephanie Majcher

The scholars that call CHL home are unique in the variety and depth of the research on Asia & the Pacific. This flagship is dedicated to answering several questions: How can we harness our unique intellectual ecosystem and drive Australian conversations on our region forward? How does this environment shape us as individual educators and researchers? How can we think about language (in research and teaching) as a method of deeper engagement with culture?

These questions engage many of our disparate fields and regions of study together on the theme of Identity & Ways of Knowing. We are hoping for this extended conversation to engage members of the CHL community that might got regularly get the chance to work with their colleagues outside of their individual disciplines or regional areas of study. We are keen for CHL to lead the national Australian conversation on this topic and position itself as the intellectual home for this conversation.

Dr Shameem Black (ANU)

Dr Shameem Black is the deputy director for education in the School of Culture, History and Language in the College of Asia and the Pacific at the Australian National University. Her research and teaching focus on the social significance of transcultural encounters in literary, gender and cultural studies, with particular focus on India and its diaspora. She is also the deputy director for the South Asia Research Institute at the ANU.

Schedule

• Identity & Ways of Knowing – CHL Flagship Project 2021 
• Plenary Conversation
• Digital Humanities, Digital Communities
• The Unheard Voices of Language & Culture Research and Education
• Knowledge Systems in Time