Pacific Futures - Digital Undergraduate Students Research Workshop
Preparing our shared region for the next pandemic : Perspectives from Australia , New Zealand and the Francophone Pacific
Friday 26 March 2021 – 9am-2pm AEDT 9h00-14h00 Noumea | 10h00-15h00 Port Vila | 11h00-16h00 Mata-Utu 12pm-5pm Auckland | 13h00 – 18h00 Papeete ( Jeudi , 25 mars 2021 )
How should the countries and territories of the Southwest Pacific respond to the “ next wave ” or the next pandemic ? How are the wider economic disruption , processes of social transformation , climate change , and geopolitical realignment playing out in the lived realities of young people from across the region ?
• Grapple with some of the truly big questions of our time at a research workshop specifically for undergraduate students .
• Present your paper and engage with peers from Australia , New Zealand and from across the francophone Pacific .
• Grow presentation skills and obtain peer feedback as well as senior experts ’ advice .
• Build network of collaborators and meet new friends from across the region
• Paper contributions ( in French , English or Pacific languages ) will be published as conference proceedings by UNC University Press .
Submitting a paper
The workshop will be a highly interdisciplinary format , and papers will be organised in a series of thematic roundtable discussions around interdisciplinary themes such as
• Evolving Inequalities
• Scientific Enquiry
• Civil Society and the Quest for Justice
• Cultural and Linguistic Diversity
• Language , Literature and Media
• Minority & Diaspora communities
• Asia-Pacific / Pacific Asia
• Race and the Colonial Legacy
Proposals for papers ( in English , French or Pacific languages ) open on 1 November 2020 . The deadline for submissions is 1 February 2021 .
Prepare a 200 word abstract summarising your proposed paper / presentation and email to pacific . futures @ nic . nsw . edu . au .
This project is made possible by funding from the Australian-French Association for Research and Innovation .
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