The Land Dialogues Conference will take place April 2021 at Charles Sturt University on it’s Wagga Wagga Campus. The conference will be spread across the campus utilising a number of existing facilities. Full details will be provided to attendees closer to the date of the conference in a full conference program.

We are expecting that there will be four-six keynote presentations with details to be announced closer to the event.

The main concurrent conference sessions will be one and a half hours in length, three speakers thematically grouped, each speaker allotted a strict 20mins to present with 10mins question time at the end of each speaker. Speakers will have access to digital projectors with computers running PowerPoint software. The 20 minute time frame expects that speakers will expand upon their presentations in their full papers submitted for journal review.

We are expecting the audience to be principally academic but interdisciplinary with individuals covering a wide gamut of research backgrounds across the humanities, social sciences, natural & formal sciences, agriculture, architecture and design, business, theology, education, journalism, media studies, communication, law, library & museum/curatorial studies and the creative/fine arts and creative or cultural industries.

Early career, research higher degree students and emerging researchers are especially encouraged to contribute and attend.

The Land Dialogues Conference will have extended works published as a special issue of Fusion Journal.  As part of your abstract submission process you should indicate whether your publishable work will take the form of a short-paper (2000-3000 words), long-paper (3000-8000 words), creative-work/s or other review format to accompany your conference presentation.

Fusion is an international, open access online scholarly journal co-founded by the Faculty of Arts, Charles Sturt University (Australia) and the College of Arts, University of Lincoln (UK), fusion will publish refereed articles, creative works and other practice-led forms of output.

Fusion aims to:

• provide a space where the blurring of different disciplinary, cultural, local, national and global ideas and creative practices can flourish;
• increase scholarly appreciation of transdiscplinarity, transculturalism and transnationalism in the communication, media and creative arts industries;
• encourage early career researchers by offering the opportunity to work alongside established researchers in the editorial, peer reviewing and writing processes;
• share the benefits of transnational collaboration and discussion of issues seen through the lens of fusion and hybridisation.
• foster critical awareness of the dialogic fusion produced between globalisation and regionalism.

Fusion Journal is an online & open access journal published (at least) twice yearly, with occasional special issues tied to major conferences or symposiums. When submitting an abstract for the conference you will be required to indicate in your submission the type of object; short paper, long paper, creative work/s or review that you intend to submit for the journal. The journal requests final papers, regardless of discipline specificity to submit in MLA style to achieve a consistent style across all the written submissions.

The journal target audience is academic.