2007 Events
Date |
Event |
Tuesday, 20 February 2007 |
CACR hosts a forum for Ship for World Youth - ‘Education in a Globalizing World’ |
Wednesday 21 February 2007 |
Rediscovering the Spiritual Essence of Confucianism for the modern world (Public lecture) |
Wednesday, 21 February 2007 |
Preparing for Diversity; measuring your organisation’s climate; |
22-23 |
BRCSS New Settler Researchers Network National Conference 22-23 February 2007 at the Fale Pasifika of the University of Auckland. This will be an excellent opportunity for postgraduate students and both emergent and established researchers to interact and engage with each other in the fields of migration and settlement studies. For more information and registration details go to the BRCSS homepage or select the following links; |
Tuesday, 20 March 2007 |
Youth Mentoring Workshop |
Thursday, 14 June 2007 |
Public Lecture: Islam – Interfaith activities and the pursuit of peace in the Middle East |
Monday, 18 June 2007 |
Auckland Employment Symposium The Office of Ethnic Affairs in conjunction with the Auckland Chamber of Commerce and the Equal Employment Commissioner of the Human Rights Commission, co-ordinated an Employment Symposium that seeks actions for change to ensure that New Zealand businesses capture the opportunities that a diverse workforce brings economically, culturally and socially. |
Thursday, 26 July 2007 |
Migrant Employment Presentation to HRINZ |
Monday, 27 August 2007 |
National Forum for Diversity Research In August last year the Centre for Applied Cross-cultural Research in association with the Office of Ethnic Affairs, conducted a needs assessment workshop as part of the 2006 Diversity Conference. The aim of this forum was to: • broadly examine diversity research needs The forum was attended by academics, Govt agencies, NGOs and community groups. Participants were asked to address one main question: “What issues must be addressed to maximize benefits and minimize risks of cultural diversity in New Zealand? Participants identified a range of issues that were then prioritised and grouped into the following themes: health, family, identity, world view, education and work. The Centre for Applied Cross-cultural Research has developed programmes of work around those issues and themes that relate to our research interests. These programmes of work include all aspects of academic and applied activity: * Building a Culturally Diverse Workforce in Aotearoa/New Zealand: project leader, Dr Astrid Podsiadlowski CACR has been invited to lead another National Forum for Diversity Research at the 2007 Diversity Conference. This will be an opportunity for participants to further develop these and other themes, make recommendations for research activity and identify opportunities for collaborative research. A report of proceedings will be prepared for the Foundation for Science Research and Technology. |
Monday, 27 August 2007 |
Intercultural Awareness - Community and Workplace Development Symposium When: 2-5pm Where: Reception Lounge, Town Hall For more details, see the event invitation. |
Thursday, 30 August 2007 |
Using psychometric tests in multicultural context Presenter: Ype H. Poortinga (Emeritus Professor) - Tilburg University, Netherlands & University of Leuven, Belgium (hosted by the Centre for Applied Cross-cultural Research, Victoria University of Wellington) Date: Thursday 30 August 2007 Time: 5:30-7pm Venue: HRINZ National Office, level 7, 35 Victoria Street, Wellington The cultural and ethnic fairness of selection and placement practices is entrenched in professional codes of conduct, administrative regulations and, in some countries, even in the law. Psychometric testing is often at the focus of such rulings. I will argue that test use is superior to other selection procedures, because tests and test scores are transparent, allowing public scrutiny of the score distributions of various groups. Accountability serves to counteract discrimination and the suspicion of discrimination. I will review the scope for test transfer across cultural groups and for fair testing when testees are drawn from distinct culturally or ethnically defined groups. The methodology of culture-comparative research as it has been developed over several decades will be at the basis of this review. Concepts like equivalence and cultural bias will be defined, and procedures will be discussed to analyze several forms of equivalence and sources of cultural bias. However, the emphasis will be on practices of fair testing, and their limitations, rather than on psychometric technology. Register here. |
Thursday, 13 September 2007 |
NZFEC Migrant and Refugee Community Seminars - Seminar 5: Interactions with the dominant society When: 5-7pm Where: Committee Room No 1, Wellington City Council, 101 Wakefield Street, Wellington For more details, see the event invitation. |
Monday, 15 October 2007 |
Following the 12th International Metropolis Conference, Metropolis, the Department of Labour and the Office of Ethnic Affairs will host an international one-day forum at Te Papa in Wellington, New Zealand. Metropolis Plus: Perspectives from New Zealand will take place on 15 October 2007. Registration for participants of the Metropolis Conference is free of charge. The event will engage North American, European and Pacific experts in a dialogue about immigration with New Zealand as the key frame of reference and its profile as an innovative player in the field of international immigration policy. The themes of the forum are: There will be a mixture of plenary speakers, panels and presentations. |
29 November - 2 December 2007 |
Australian and New Zealand Comparative and International Education Society (ANZCIES) Conference ANZCIES 2007 will be hosted by The University of Auckland at the beautiful Fale Pasifika from 29 November to 2 December 2007. ANZCIES is one of over 40 scholarly societies that represent the World Congress of Comparative Education Societies (WCCES). It is an independent organisation comprised of members who promote the scholarly study of comparative education in all its various forms. The theme for the conference, 'International Co-operation through Education', is designed to showcase various educational approaches that foster international co-operation through education while promoting an understanding of the complexities and sensitivities of less developed countries. The challenge is to identify, explore, and analyse the plethora of human agency involved in transforming comparative perspectives of and about the world. A long history of research in comparative education has confirmed that education is a pivotal arena in which identities are forged, geographical imaginaries built, and national development projects mobilised; but that cultural, economic and political difference has generated very different national education systems. Today, national education formations are being increasingly cross-cut and reworked by forces of globalisation and policy promulgated in its name. The rapid internationalisation of education establishes new intellectual and policy framings and new conditions of possibility for many of the established interests in comparative education. These include international co-operation through education, cultural difference in education, and edu3 March, 2009It makes comparative education more relevant than ever before, but invites a new, dynamic and vital tradition of work. The ANZCIES conference brings together scholars from different disciplines, educators, policy makers, and administrators to discuss the changing forms and opportunities for international connectivity through education and the newly emerging social and knowledge spaces, and to debate the need in these conditions for a revitalised comparative education. The work of policy makers, practitioners and researchers is unusually interwoven in these emergent spaces. The conference aims to trace the emergence in these weaves of new knowledge of the forms, extent and process of internationalisation in education, issues in international development, and changing relationships between education and identity. It will seek to highlight opportunities to foster new progressive forms of international connectivity through education. The position of marginalised groups and less developed countries, especially those in the South Pacific, will be a particular concern. Against the backdrop of internationalisation and the production of new global élite classes, enduring questions to do with the relevance of Western education in non-Western cultures, the demand for such education, the roles played by multilateral agencies and foreign governments in shaping education policy, and international cooperation through education take on new meanings. The call for papers for this conference is now open. Proposals are welcome for papers, posters and panels/symposia from scholars working in areas related to three streams:
Proposals for papers, posters and panels/symposia are due shortly, so please consider submitting an abstract online by this deadline. Comparative research on individual nations, provinces, states, systems or regions within the Asia-Pacific and South Pacific regions are particularly welcome. Other related topics will be considered on a case-by-case basis. No more than two papers from the same author will be accepted for the programme. IMPORTANT DATES TO CONSIDER For more information about the conference, or to register and/or submit a proposal please visit www.anzcies.org. |
6-7 December 2007 |
2nd International Conference on Racisms in the New World Order: Realities of Culture, Colour and Identity Ramada Pelican Waters, Queensland, Australia |
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