Faculty of Arts Research Concentration in Asian Identities, University
of Queensland
CALL FOR PAPERS
Transforming Cultures/Shifting Boundaries:
Asian Diasporas and Identities in Australia and Beyond
30 November-2 December 2001
This international conference focuses on the state of Asian diasporic
studies in Australia and elsewhere. "Asian diasporic studies" is
becoming a more complex configuration of racial issues, cultural flows,
and identity politics, inflected by the continuing impacts of globalised
cultures and new technologies.
One of the aims of the conference is to understand the construction of
'Australia' both as a site for migration of peoples from the
Asian/Pacific region and beyond and also as an already hybridised
location whose popular and intellectual cultures increasingly trouble
the notion of an 'authentic' majority culture against which immigrant
identities can be understood as Other. Global advances in media and
communications technologies have ensured that, not just peoples but
cultures are on the move, challenging the notion of a clash of
authentic, original ethnic or cultural identities.
CONFIRMED KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:
a.. Ien Ang (University of Western Sydney)
b.. Karen Kelsky (University of Oregon)
c.. David Parker (University of Birmingham)
"Transforming Cultures/Shifting Boundaries" welcomes abstracts for
papers in any discipline addressing the following themes and topics:
a.. issues for Asian diasporic studies as a discipline
b.. contemporary transcultural and/or multicultural politics
c.. Asian/Indigenous issues
d.. sexuality, eroticism, and interracial relationships
e.. textual representations and cultural profiles of Asian communities
(literature, visual arts, film, popular culture, etc)
f.. effects of 'virtual' communities and new technologies
g.. minority-minority contentions and connections
h.. transgender and queer issues in diasporic communities
a.. diasporic community histories (eg. genealogies, clans,
associations)
b.. issues surrounding the 'ethnic vote'
c.. analyses of Asian diasporic cultural sites (eg. Chinatowns,
restaurants, 'enclaves')
WEBPAGE: http://www.arts.uq.edu.au/slccs/Noticeboard
Please send abstracts (250 words max) by 27 July to:
Anne Platt (Asian Studies Centre), Gordon Greenwood Building
University of Queensland AUSTRALIA 4072
Phone: 61-7-3365-6763 / Fax: 61-7-3365-6811 / a.platt@mailbox.uq.edu.au
Other enquiries to:
Dr Helen Creese (Department of Asian Languages and Studies),
University of Queensland 4072
Phone: 61-7-3365 6413 / Fax:61-7-3365 6799 / h.creese@mailbox.uq.edu.au
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
Prof IEN ANG is Professor of Cultural Studies and Director of the
Institute for Cultural Research. She is the author of Living Room Wars:
Rethinking Media Audiences for a Postmodern World (Routledge 1996), and
DesperatelySeeking the Audience (Routledge 1991). She is currently
collaborating with Mandy Thomas on three inter-related projects: a
research project investigating youth, interethnic relations and public
space in Parramatta, a television documentary in the SBS series 'Hybrid
Life,' and a project on Middle-Eastern and Asian youth and popular
culture. She has a forthcoming book, Together in Difference: Living
Between East and West (provisional title; Routledge). Ien also edited
the essay collection Alter/Asians: Asian Identities in Art, Media, and
Popular Culture with Sharon Chalmers, Lisa Law, and Mandy Thomas (Pluto
Press, 2000).
Dr KAREN KELSKY (University of Oregon) is a cultural anthropologist
whose work has reconfigured the study of Japan from transnational and
postcolonial perspectives. Her book, Japanese Women, Western Dreams: The
Erotics of the International in Japan, examines Japanese women as
transnational agents, who increasingly align themselves with an idea of
a liberatory West against what they perceive as a backward and
oppressive Japan (Duke University Press, 2001). She has published in
Public Culture and Cultural Anthropology, and has an essay forthcoming
in the collection Theme Parks and Cultural Centers: Logics, Economies,
and Identities (Tamar Gordon, ed; Duke University Press). Her new
research focuses on an alternative 'back-to-the-land' movement in Japan
from the 1960s through the present day. It will be published as
"Alternative Japan: The (Global) Life and Times of the Japanese New Age
Counterculture," (University of California Press).
Dr DAVID PARKER has been teaching at Birmingham since 1994. His main
teaching and research interests span social theory, social identities,
British Chinese issues, and "mixed race." His publications include
Rethinking "Mixed Race" (Pluto; with M. Song, forthcoming 2001), The
Formation of Identity (Sage; under contract), and Through Different
Eyes: The Cultural Identities of Young Chinese People in Britain
(Avebury, 1995).
"Transforming Cultures/Shifting Boundaries" is followed immediately by:
AsiaPacifiQueer: Media, Technology and Queer
Cultures:http://wwwsshe.murdoch.edu.au/intersections/apq/apqhomepage.html
(Also held at Emmanuel College, University of Queensland)
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