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Program

Friday August 4, 2006, 1 - 6 pm, followed by dinner
Saturday August 5, 2006, 9 am - 5 pm

FRIDAY 4th AUGUST 1 - 6 pm

1:00-2:00 KEYNOTE SPEECH (open to public)

Kang, Myung-koo (Seoul National University)
Disciplining Morally Sound Citizens and Regulating Sexual Expression in Television Dramas in South Korea

2:00-3:00 Netizens and politics in Korea

Jaz Choi (Queensland University of Technology)
Mixing Self with Media: Online Audience Participation in Consuming Media and Self in Korea
Abstract (pdf format)

Mohita Roman (Monash University)
Media, nationalism and the Comfort Women issue

3:00-3:30 Break

3:30-4:30 HALLYU - Korean (popular cultural) Wave on Asian Shores

Kim, Sujeong (Chungnam National University)
Hallyu and Asian cultural flows.
Abstract (pdf format)

Rhee, Joonwoong (Seoul National University)
An empirical study on the Chinese reception of Hallyu
Abstract (pdf format)

4:30-6:00 Politics and Culture

Michael Keane (Queensland University of Technology)
Redesigning China's future: the new East Asian Cultural Co-prosperity Zone
Abstract (pdf format)

Wu Guanjun (Monash University)
The Anti-Japan protest movement in China
Abstract (pdf format)

Beatrice Trefalt (Monash University)
Kobayashi Yoshinori's Sensron: manga in Japan's battlefields of history
Abstract (pdf format)

Lauren Richardson (Monash University)
Japanese history text book controversy

7:00 CONFERENCE DINNER (Fedeles Italian Restaurant)

SATURDAY

9:00-10:30 Transnational flows of media and texts (1)

Yamanaka, Chie (Osaka University)
The penetration of cross-cultural understanding through television format: Did the Korean Wave itself generate the manga "Ken-kanry (We hate Korean Wave)"?
Abstract (pdf format)

Brian Yecies (University of Wollongong)
Floodgates for Transnational Cultural Flows Are Open! Hollywood Accidentally Breeds Tiger in South Korea, 1985-2006
Abstract (pdf format)

Roald Maliangkay (Australian National University)
Korean animation: How Do Korean Animators Survive in an Industry Marked by Clichs?
Abstract (pdf format)

10:30-11:00 Break

11:00-12:30 Transnational flows of media and texts (2)

Hyangjin Lee (University of Sheffield/Rikky University)
Korean Wave in Japan: Disturbing a Global Identity?

Gloria Davies, Michael Davies and Younga Cho (Monash University)
Marketing and Representing Gender Variance: The Case of Hari Su
Abstract (pdf format)

Stephen Epstein (University of Wellington, New Zealand)
Drinking Beer in Sapporo: Changing Images of Japan in South Korea
Abstract (pdf format)

12:30-1:30 LUNCH

1:30-3:30 Translation as cultural negotiation

Judy Wakabayashi (Kent State University)
Chinese Vernacular Novels in Edo Japan: Some Contemporary Implications
Abstract (pdf format)

Ross Mouer (Monash University)
Translation of Japanese popular novels

Minako O'Hagan (Dublin City University)
Free Labour for Love? - Fan-Subs and Scanlation Networks
Abstract (pdf format)

James Rampant (Monash University)
The Monash manga translation workshop: Lost in scanlation
Abstract (pdf format)

Injung Cho (Monash University)
Lost in Subtitles: Korean Films and TV Dramas
Abstract (pdf format)

3:30-4:00 Break

4:00-6:00 Soft power and popular culture

Peter Murphy (Monash University)
Soft Power and Hard Power in the East Asian Portal Ecumene: The Reach and Limits of Aesthetic Authority
Abstract (pdf format)

Alison Tokita (Monash University)
Korea and Japan's struggle over soft power

Craig Norris (University of Tasmania)
Soft power discourses in Japan

Dan Black (Monash University)
Cultural Export and National Specificity

Kim, SungMin (Seoul National University)
The configuration of discourses on opening Japanese popular culture in Korea, 1987-1994 : the open-'revolving' door of a ban

Media and
Popular Cultural Flows
in East Asia