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The Imagined Australia Project
Imagined Australia is an ongoing project that AILAE will develop and carry out over a period of 6 years between 2007 and 2011( for details of upcoming events see : http://www.ailae.org/programs-events.html ).
The Imagined Australia Project has so far benefited of the partnership with the following organizations :
The Monash University Prato Centre in Italy (www.ita.monash.edu/ ), The CNRS and the Reseau Asie IMASIE in France ( http://www.msh-paris.fr/sp/; http://www.reseau-asie.com/ ), The CRIDAF, France ( http://www.univ-paris13.fr/CRIDAF.htm); PLAT at The University of Bari, Italy.(http://www.lingue.uniba.it/plat/)
The Imagined Australia project wishes to investigate the unexplored territories that the relationship between Australia and Europe, in its reciprocity, has traced over the centuries.
In an interdisciplinary fashion the Imagined Australia Project invites reflection on the reciprocal and self-imagining process of the two regions.
From Terra Nullius to land of opportunities and last frontier, the European dream has constructed and deconstructed Australia to feed its imagination of new societies.
At the same time Australia has over the last two centuries forged and re-invented its own liaisons with Europe arguably to carve out its identity.
From the arts to social sciences, to society itself a complex dynamics has grown between the two continents in ways that invite study and discussion.
The Imagined Australia project wishes to promote and carry out research in that direction.
The first act of the Imagined Australia project has encompassed the :
-1st IAIRF 2007( academic symposium http://www.ailae.org/pe-imaginedaustralia-events.html );
-Two art exhibitions: Mates (link) Installations (link) .
-A multidisciplinary event in Paris, France, Australie Mythe et Realites ( see: http://www.ailae.org/pe-australia-myth-and-reality-fr.htm ).
- A scholarly publication: Renata Summo-O’Connell (ed.)
Imagined Australia
Reflections around the reciprocal construction of identity between Australia and Europe
Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt am Main, New York, Oxford, Wien, 2009. Approx. 440 pp.
ISBN 978-3-0343-0008-7 pb.
Approx. sFr. 96.– / €* 66.20 / ** 68.10 / 61.90 / £ 61.90 / US-$ 95.95
For further information about the themes at the heart of the imagined Australia Project please consult the TRAIls ( link to TRAILS).
 AILAE
The Imagined Australia Project
The Mates Collection
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