Re: Fw: Critical Suicide Studies Network Conference (Perth, Western Australia 12-13 December 2018).

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> Dear colleagues,
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> It is with enormous excitement that we invite you to participate in the
> 3rd Conference of the Critical Suicide Studies Network (a.k.a. CritSui3),
> to be held in Perth WA at the University of Western Australia 12-13
> December.
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> *About the Critical Suicide Studies Network*
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> The Critical Suicide Studies Network presents an approach to
> understanding, theorising and intervening in suicide from alternative
> perspectives. Such perspectives have sought to find renewed, more critical
> ways of thinking about suicide to address and respond to suicide where
> traditional approaches have failed.
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> Such a beginning could not be more timely.  Many working within
> suicidology have become frustrated by the limitations of dominant
> pathologising and medicalised approaches to suicide research and prevention
> practices. Believing that suicide research is in need of an ongoing
> critical re-thinking of its subject matter and a broadening of it
> disciplinary basis, Critical Suicide Studies investigates the social,
> philosophic, psychological, literary and cultural practices of making sense
> of suicide, taking into account how suicide is shaped by history, politics,
> identity, culture, media and power.  As an approach, it works with
> service providers, communities and publics to develop nuanced but useful
> accounts of suicide that can help build bridges across theory and practice
> and affected communities.
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> *Invitation for participation in roundtables*
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> This conference, the first to be held in the southern hemisphere, builds
> on prior Critical Suicide Studies conferences in Prague, Czech Republic
> (2016) and Canterbury, UK (2017), turning the attention to networking,
> impact and engagement of critical approaches with service providers,
> advocates, policy-makers and everyday people affected by suicide.
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> We would like to invite scholars, relevant service providers,
> policy-makers and advocates to participate in roundtable discussions that
> provoke dialogue across a range of topics explore exploring critical
> approaches to suicide and how these can foster changes in policy and
> provision with real impact, real consultation and real engagement.
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> We are particularly interested in short presentations (c. 15 minutes) that
> can join one or more of the following roundtables:
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> -- Lived Experience of Suicide
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> -- Critical Methodologies
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> -- Indigenous knowledges
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> -- Migrants, refugees, asylum seekers and socio-political conditions of
> suicidality
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> -- Gender and sexually-diverse persons, subjects and communities
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> -- Critical suicide approaches in practice (marginal and alternative
> approaches)
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> We welcome proposals relevant to any of the above roundtables as well as
> others that fit within the field of Critical Suicide Studies (see
> https://criticalsuicidology.net/what-is-critical-suicidology/ for
> guidance).
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> *To submit, please send a 250-word proposal, title, and short biography to
> **[email protected]* <[email protected]>* by no later than 30 June
> 2018.*
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> We look forward to hearing from you soon.
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> Cheers,
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> Rob Cover and Katrina Jaworski (on behalf of the Critical Suicide Studies
> Network and the CritSui3 Conference Organising Committee).
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> ____________________________________________
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> Assoc Professor Rob Cover
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> School of Social Sciences
> The University of Western Australia
> Crawley WA 6009
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> Rm 1.16, Social Sciences Building
> +61 8 6488 4305 wk
> 0437 902 967 sms
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> [email protected]
> Profile:    http://www.uwa.edu.au/people/rob.cover
> ____________________________________________
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> *ROB's RECENT BOOKS: *Queer Youth Suicide, Culture and Identity:
> Unliveable Lives? - http://bit.ly/qys2012
> Vulnerability and Exposure: Footballer Scandals, Masculine Identity and
> Ethics - http://bit.ly/VulnExp
> Digital Identities: Creating and Communicating the Online Self -
> http://bit.ly/DigIdentities
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