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Call for Expressions of Interest to Contribute

The Conference Organising Group invites individuals, groups and organisations to indicate their interest in contributing to the conference streams. We particularly encourage contributions that reflect the perspectives and experiences of indigenous people, young and older persons, whakawahine, fa'afafine and trans, and intersex people.

Presentation Options

There are four options for presentations:

Papers	15 minute presentations (x3 per hour with 15 minutes for group discussion) on the findings of research, theoretical analysis of a topic or personal stories describing the impact of discrimination. Presenters are encouraged to submit presentations that will be stimulating, engaging, challenging, and fresh. Contributions can be oral presentations but other styles of presentation (visual / creative / cultural) are also welcome
Snapshots	15 minute innovative presentations (x3 per hour with 15 minutes for group discussion) that give examples of effective and innovative human rights campaigns, political advocacy, community action projects and programmes. Snapshots are encouraged to be fun, visual, engaging, inspirational and dynamic and demonstrate the outcomes, successes and learnings from the project.
Workshops	1 hour interactive sessions that allows for shared learning or more in-depth group discussion of a topic.
Panel Discussions	Joint panel presentations of up to three speakers (1 hour) where the presenters will share their perspectives or work on a related topic - e.g. homophobia in schools or the workplace.

 

The Conference Organising Group encourages cultural diversity and individual and group creativity in the form that contributions take. Please contact the organizers as early as possible to discuss your contribution if the format differs from the suggested presentation options.

While it is our hope to accommodate all contributions, programme timetable and space limitations may require us to undertake a selection process. The selection of contributions for the streams will take into account the diversity of presentations, originality of the presentation and relevance to conference themes and streams (See Conference Format). Please read the stream and presentation option descriptions closely to see that you meet the criteria for your chosen format (paper, snapshot, workshop, panel discussion). The Conference Organising Committee may work with you to help develop your content. We also reserve the right to place your presentation in another stream or to accept the presentation in a format different from that which you have indicated, e.g. accept as a paper rather than a workshop or place a presentation as part of a panel discussion.

Dates to Remember

30 September 2010 Last day for submission of Expressions of Interest
19 November 2010  Presenters notified if presentation accepted

A condition of acceptance of the presentation is that all presenters must register for the conference. There is no financial assistance available for presenters to attend the conference.

Submission Guidelines

Once you have read the criteria and requirements for the different presentation options you will need to write a description of your contribution. All descriptions are to be submitted using the Expression of Interest template. Maximum length of the description is 250 words. Your description will be printed in the Conference Programme.

Expressions of Interests should be submitted by email to the Conference Convenor by Thursday 30 September 2010 using this Word Document.

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