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Sunday 24 June 2007

9.30 - 11.00

Registration / Refreshments / Visual installation: Through young people's eyes: Images from displaced youth in Timor Leste.

11.00 - 11.30

Welcome to country and place: Indigenous Elder to be confirmed

Welcome to Monash & Conference, Melbourne: Grahame Coleman, SPPPM, Monash University Caulfield Campus

ARC APFRN background: Louise Edwards, Convenor APFRN, ANU

Mapping out the Themes: A Landscape of the 21st Century. Lenore Manderson, Social Sciences & Health Research Unit, Monash

11.30 - 12.30

 

DISASTER AND VIOLENCE: FLIGHT AND FORCED MOVEMENT

CHAIR: Amarjit Kaur

Through young people's eyes: Images from displaced youth in Timor Leste.  Mr Ian Wishart CEO, Plan International Australia

Researching in situations of violence and adversity: the challenge of promoting visibility and voice, and adding value. Anthony Zwi

12.30 – 1.30

Lunch

1.30 - 3.00

 

 

CHAIRS:

Disaster and Violence: Flight and Forced Movement

Mobile Bodies: Shifts in Health and Illness

Changing Patterns of Infection, Disease and Health Status

Health Care, Wellbeing and Identity: Global and Local Meanings

Emergent Identities and Social Movements

Violence and its Meaning in

Timor Leste I

The economic imperative in East and Southeast Asia

Shifting contexts of HIV

Community identities in Bali since the 2002 bombings

Cultural beliefs, definitions and understandings

Suzanne Belton

Milica Markovic

Mark Nichter

Megan Jennaway

Liz Cartwright

3.00 - 3.30

Afternoon tea

3.30 - 4.30

Something to Declare. Actors for Refugees                                                                                                           CHAIR: Liz Hoban

4.30 - 5.30

Foodbody: Validating our shifted place. Merlinda Bobis                                                                           CHAIR: Lenore Manderson


Monday 25 June 2007

9.00 - 10.30

MOBILE BODIES: SHIFTS IN HEALTH AND ILLNESS                                                                                    CHAIR: Andrea Whittaker

Bugis women migrants, transition, citizenship status and access to reproductive health care in Malaysia.   Ilmi Idrus

Health and well-being of adolescent women and families living in slums in Dhaka, Bangladesh.   Sabina Faiz Rashid

10.30 - 11.00

Morning Tea

11.00 - 12.30

 

 

CHAIRS:

Disaster and Violence: Flight and Forced Movement

Mobile Bodies: Shifts in Health and Illness

Changing Patterns of Infection, Disease and Health Status

Health Care, Well Being and Identity: Global and Local Meanings

Emergent Identities and Social Movements

Disaster and its aftershocks

Gender, migration and work

Social change and emerging epidemics

Indigenous health in Australia and new Zealand

Coping with chronicity and disablement

Robert Power

Lakshmi Lingam

Clare Thetford

Liz Hoban

Siriporn Chirawatkul

12.30 - 1.30

Lunch / Screening:  A kind of childhood - working children in Bangladesh. Susan Bissell

1.30 - 3.00

CHANGING PATTERNS OF INFECTION, DISEASE AND HEALTH STATUS                                                         CHAIR: Margaret Jolly

Fear and loathing of Hansen’s disease on Guam, 1899-1941.   Anne Perez-Hattori

Community response to Avian flu in Central Java, Indonesia.   Mark Nichter

3.00 – 3.30

Afternoon tea

3.30 - 5.00

 

 

CHAIRS:

Disaster and Violence: Flight and Forced Movement

Mobile Bodies: Shifts in Health and Illness

Changing Patterns of Infection, Disease and Health Status

Health Care, Well Being and Identity: Global and Local Meanings

Emergent Identities and Social Movements

Violence and its meaning in

Timor Leste II

Rural mobility and migration

Producing inequities

Transnational and trans-cultural health provision

Disability and identity

Anthony Zwi

Katie Vasey

Louise Edwards

Anita Ghai

Bhensri Naemiratch

5.00 – 7.30

River River Traditional chant. Merlinda Bobis  /  Transitions Visual Installation. Wendy Woodson  /  Cocktail Reception


 

 

Tuesday 26 June 2007

9.00 – 10.30

HEALTH CARE, WELL BEING AND IDENTITY: GLOBAL AND LOCAL MEANINGS                                CHAIR:  Siriporn Chirawatkul

Assisted reproductive technologies and ‘globalizing’ surrogacy.   Lakshmi Lingam

Travelling for medical care in a global world: Experiences of patients from Yemen and beyond.   Beth Kangas

10.30 - 11.00

Morning Tea / Marketplace

11.00 - 12.30

 

 

CHAIRS:

Disaster and Violence: Flight and Forced Movement

Mobile Bodies: Shifts in Health and Illness

Changing Patterns of Infection, Disease and Health Status

Health Care, Well Being and Identity: Global and Local Meanings

Emergent Identities and Social Movements

Responding to suffering: Recreating identity

Moving bodies, modern technologies

Historical footings of changing health

Negotiating identity in contexts of resistance

Culture and identity through image and narrative

Narelle Warren

Beth Kangas

Anne Perez-Hattori

RoseAnne Misajon

Lesley Stirling

12.30 – 2.00

Lunch / Marketplace

2.00 - 3.30

EMERGENT IDENTITIES AND SOCIAL MOVEMENTS

CHAIR: Mary Anne Burke

Equitable health care for the disabled. Will the dream become a reality? Anita Ghai

The intricate web of community health and wellbeing in Kwaio, Solomon Islands. Esau Kekeubata

3.30 – 4.00

Close of conference: Stephanie Fahey, DVC Research, Monash University

Closing performance: A Maori dance. Katerina Teaiwa - to be confirmed