About OCIS
The Oceanic Conference on International Studies (OCIS) is an initiative to facilitate the coming together of the growing community of international studies researchers in Australia, New Zealand, the Pacific and beyond. The inaugural OCIS conference was held at the Australian National University in 2004 and it has subsequently been hosted by the University of Melbourne (2006) and the University of Queensland (2008).
The fourth OCIS conference will engage with a wide range of themes, true to the original objectives of OCIS of advancing a pluralistic regional community of international studies scholars. They include:
• Aid and Development
• America and the World
• Asia-Pacific and East Asian Politics and IR
• Europe and the World
• Gender and Feminism
• Global Crises, Peacekeeping and Peacebuilding
• Global Governance
• Indigenous Politics
• International History
• International Relations Theory
• Justice and Rights
• The Future of Multilateralism
• Postcolonialism
• Regions and Regionalism
• Scholarship, Policy-making, and Activism
• Sovereignty and Security Issues
Although the organisers have selected the above themes for special emphasis, OCIS IV will be an open, multidisciplinary conference. Therefore participants are also invited to submit panel or paper proposals presenting original research on any topic in International Studies.
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