CALL FOR PAPERS
Proposed Session for the 21st Pacific Science Congress: Globalization and Human Dynamics
Theme 1: Livelihood and Cultural Preservation
Theme 2: Human Challenges and Survival Strategies
The Pacific Science Association was created in 1920 at the First Pan-Pacific Scientific Conference, held in Honolulu, Hawaii. The Objectives of the Pacific Science Association include …“to initiate and promote cooperation in the study of scientific problems relating to the Pacific region, more particularly those affecting the prosperity and well-being of Pacific peoples”. In light of contemporary geographical, economic, social, and cultural challenges, and the like, for successful living within the contemporary Pacific Region, our Session seeks to address and engage meaningful issues concerning the physical and social world that Pacific/Asia peoples inhabit. Paper topics may be proposed within either of the two themes below, and may include, but are not limited to, issues such as:
- Geographical/Social/Cultural Impact(s) of the Tsunami of December 26, 2004
- Intensification of Changes Linked to the New Global Economies/Scarcity/Poverty
- Information Technology (IT) in the Age of Globalization/Development
- Migration/Diaspora/Transnationalism/Refugees
- Impact(s) of Tourism
- Altered Philosophical and Religious Perspectives, Including Fundamentalism
- Paradigm Shifts Within Indigenous Languages and Cultures of Pacific/Asia
- Identity/Ethnicity/Indigeneity
- Diversity/Multiculturalism
- Nationalities/Imagined Communities
- Ethnocentrism/Cultural Relativism/Human Rights
- Gender Variation
- Art/Society/Cultural Exchange
Please send Paper Proposals to:
Lan-Hung Nora Chiang, Ph.D. Rebecca A. Stephenson, Ph.D.
Professor of Geography Professor of Anthropology
National Taiwan University University of Guam
Taipei, Taiwan, R.O.C. Mangilao, Guam 96923
nora@ccms.ntu.edu.tw stephera@uog9.uog.edu
PSA Task Force on Globalization and Human Dynamics
Co-Chairs:
Dr. Lan-hung Chiang
Department of Geography
National Taiwan University
Taipei , Taiwan 106
FAX 886-2-2362-2911
nora@ccms.ntu.edu.tw
AND
Dr. Rebecca A. Stephenson
Department of Anthropology
University of Guam
UOG Station
Mangilao, Guam 96923, USA
FAX 671-734-7930
stephera@uog9.uog.edu