Cultural Flows with(in) a Globalizing Asia
Midday Friday 29 November to Sunday 1 December, 2002
'Cultural Flows'
centres on movements - following Appadurai's 'scapes' - across and between borders within the Asia-Pacific region. Such 'flowmations' (Tuathail 1998) between the local, national, and global levels raise questions of how categories are constructed and the boundaries between them configured. In this respect, the relationship between identity - which is traditionally located at a particular site - and time-space compression (globalization) - which sees the annihilation of space through time - is of particular interest. Indeed, the identity, location, and future of 'Asian Studies' itself, is of key importance.
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About the Conference
The Cultural Flows Conference was held at Monash University's Clayton Campus, Melbourne, from Friday November 29th until Sunday December 1st, 2002. Papers addressed:
Discourses of Identity and Transformation
Inter national (B)orders and Glocalisation
Cultural Transmutation/Translation and Power
Diasporic and Hybrid texts
The Globalization of Education: Student Diasporas
Asian Cultural Studies?
Speakers included:
Koichi
Iwabuchi (International Christian University),
Kuan-Hsing
Chen (National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan),
Jiri Neustupny (Obirin University),
Kosaku Yoshino (Tokyo University),
Mandy Thomas (Australian National University), and
Tessa Morris-Suzuki (Australian
National University).
Professor Makarand Paranjape (Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi), who has published extensively on hybridity in South Asian Diasporas and migration, also attended in collaboration with the newly opened Centre for Postcolonial Writing in the School of Literary, Visual, and Performance Studies.
Book launch:
Koichi Iwabuchi's new book Recentering Globalization: Popular Culture and Japanese Transnationalism (Duke University Press) was launched at the conference. A final attraction was the launch of a Japanese-style manga-kissa (internet caf) which will form the basis of a research project concerning the consumption and reception of Japanese popular culture in Australia.
Organising Committee
Dr Alison Tokita
Dr Gloria Davies
Assoc Prof Helen Marriott
Dr Miriam Lang
Chris Burgess
Steven Kelleher
Brad Williams