A Stranger Here Myself

Humbled + honoured to have been a group panel participant at the 11th Nishan Forum on World Civilizations on 2025/07/09 in Confucius' birthplace / hometown: Qufu, Shandong, China.  This epiphanic experience initiated a longitudinal trans-media auto-ethnographic project: "A Stranger Here Myself".

Premising a methodology in this way during my Forum panel contribution, however, made me reflect on my own cultural story, in the context of contemporary Australian multiculturalism.  Indeed, participating in the 11th Nishan Forum culminated a journey of self-cultivation that began when I left Australia and first arrived in China, in Xinjiang [XUAR], in 2011/09.  It's this reflective narrativization, a trans-cultural story, that I begin to tell (and share) as "A Stranger Here Myself", anchored in the website linked to in my X profile description, and commencing with reflections inspired by epiphanic participation in the 11th Nishan Forum.