Border Crossings - Popular, Mass and Global Culture
A Symposium
Thursday 2 October - Friday 3 October, 2003
Sponsored and organised by the:
Centre for Intercultural Studies, SLCL
Language
and Society Centre, SLCL
Popular Culture and Ethics Research
Group, SLCL
Program Summary
Program in pdf (Acrobat) format.
Location:
Japanese Studies Centre, Clayton Campus, Monash University
Thursday Afternoon, October 2
| 2.00-2.30 | Registration/ Tea and Coffee in the Foyer |
| 2.30-2.45 | Opening
(Auditorium): Professor Kate Burridge Ana Deumert and Millicent Vladiv Glover Crossings, Transcultures and Hybridity: Interdisciplinary Perspectives |
Opening the Stage: Language - Heterogeneity - CultureChair: TBA | |
| 2.45-3.30 | Keith Allan Taboo and the Censorship of Language |
| 3.30-4.00 | Kate Burridge Grammatical Cleanliness is next to Goodliness: Popular Perceptions about Language |
| 4.00-4.30 |
Break (refreshments in the Foyer) |
| 4.30-5.00 | David Roberts Topic TBA |
| 5.00-5.45 |
Ken Gelder Fantasy and Terrorism |
| 5.45-6.15 | Kevin Foster Dreams of Liberty |
| 7.00- |
Conference Dinner at Wellingtons |
Friday, October 3
| 9.00-9.30 | Tea/Coffee in the Foyer | |
|
Auditorium Popular Culture and Media Culture IChair: TBA | Board Room Migration, Hybridity and GlobalisationChair: TBA | |
| 9.30-10.00 | Alison Tokita Narratives of Nostalgia: Naniwa-bushi in Postwar Japan | Christopher Burgess Language and Identity in the Context of Migration and Globalisation: International Migrants in Japan |
| 10.00-10.30 | Daniel Black Wearing Out Racial Discourse: Tokyo Street Fashion and Race as Style | Ruth Arber Cultural Marginality and Alterity and the Effects of Globalisation |
| 10.30-11.00 |
Atsuko Handa Housewife, New Family and the Home of Japanese Modern Society | Puvaneswari Arumugam Cultural Hybridity in Singapore |
| 11.00-11.30 | Tea /Coffee in the Foyer | |
| 11.30-12.00 |
Christine Sun "Noodles not Potatoes": Media Localisation in Taiwan |
Annette van den Bosch Art in Singapore: Gateway to Asia and Marketplace of Ideas |
| 12.00-12.30 | Tim Moore Cars, Bands, Films: Towards a Local Grammar of Popular Culture Nomenclature | John Sinclair From Latin Americans to Latinos: Spanish-language Television in the US and its Audiences |
| 12.30-13.00 |
Rebecca-Anne Do Rozario It's All Greek | Konrad Guensch Transcultures: A New Model of Discourse or and Effect of the Shift to Global Culture? |
| 13.00-14.00 | Lunch at Monash University Club | |
Popular Culture and Media Culture IIChair: TBA | Linguistic Perspectives: Crossings in Academic DiscourseChair: TBA | |
| 14.-14.30 | Khalil Hegarty The Nomad and the State in Eminem's 8 Mile | Kara Gilbert Argumentation in Students' Academic Discourse |
| 14.30-15.00 | Millicent Vladiv-Glover The Insane Clown Posse: Are Gigs Ethical? |
Hiroko Hashimoto Internationalisation of Universities: The Impact of Global Expansion of English on Japanese Universities |
| 15.00-15.30 | Rob Baum Mother Dick: Phallic Splitting in "Long Kiss Goodnight" | Simone Allen The Integration of Sources into Text |
| 15.30-16.00 | Mathias Stevens Speaking Selves and Subjective Spaces: Nanni Moretti and Cinematic Diary |
Zosia Golebiowski The Relationship between the Globalization of Academic Disciplinary Communities and the Rhetorical Style of Research Reporting |
| 16.00 | Closing of the Conference: Professor Brian Nelson | |
Further Information
Ana Deumert
(Ana.Deumert@arts.monash.edu.au
)
Millicent Vladiv-Glover
(Millicent.Vladivglover@arts.monash.edu
)