SYMPOSIUM - Migration and Multiculturalism Today: Australian and European Perspectives [17.11.2011]
A symposium jointly organised by the Embassy of the Republic of Poland, Monash European and EU Centre and the Australian Institute of Polish Affairs (AIPA)
Wednesday 30 November 2011 9.30am – 3.00pm
VENUE: Monash Caulfield campus, Lecture theatre H235, Level 2, Building H, 900 Dandenong Road
This symposium addresses key challenges and questions facing both Australia and Europe: How to respond to increasing (and not always controllable) migrations? How to deal, on the national level, with widening ethno-cultural diversity? How to prevent this diversification from becoming the force of social fragmentation, ethnic fracturing and segmentation? How successful, in these respects, have been multicultural policies in Australia? What is the political future of multiculturalism in Australia and Europe?
Invited Australian speakers include prominent scholars Andrew Markus and Bob Birrell from Monash University, Jan Pakulski from the University of Tasmania, Alex Naraniecki from Deakin University, Dr Stefan Auer from La Trobe University as well as government officials and community leaders, such as Jose Alvarez and Hakan Akyol from Victorian Multicultural Commission.
The invited guest speakers from Europe include:
- Pawel Kaczmarczyk (University of Warsaw, and Head of the Central and East European Economic Research Centre)
- Magdalena Lesinska (Deputy Director of Centre of Migration Research, member of International Migration Integration and Social Cohesion (IMISCOE) Research Network)
Admission free – RSVP for catering purposes by 25 November to europecentre@monash.edu