Adam AITKEN
University of Technology Sydney, NSW

Chin Geok ANG
University of Queensland, QLD

"A Space for ‘Asian-Australian’ Art: Gallery 4a at The Asia-Australia Arts Centre"

"Situated Play: Negotiating Place and Identity in Global Gaming Networks"

Michelle BAKAR
University of Technology Sydney, NSW

Merlinda BOBIS
University of Wollongong, NSW

Speaker, Marketing Asian Australian-ness Literature Studies Panel

Speaker, Children's Literature Panel:
"Cross-Generational Negotiations: Asian-Australian Picture Books"

"Underground and Offside: Private Parties in Tehran and in Melbourne’s Iranian Migrant Communities"

"After the cosmomulticulturalists(!): The Finished People"

Ashely CARRUTHERS
The Australian National University, ACT

Cosmopolitan Subjects, Parochial Categories: Indochinese Experiences of Australian Multiculturalism

Tom CHO
Artist and Writer

Invited Speaker - TBA

Speaker, Children's Literature Panel:
"Female Ghosts and Family Ghouls: Alienation and Belonging in Hoa Pham's No One Like Me and Quicksilver"

Speaker, Chinese Australian Family Historians of Victoria Panel:
"Secret Circus Identities"

Regina GANTER and
Eman SOLIMAN
Griffith University, QLD

"Culture, Identity and Performance: Diaspora south Asians"

"The plural and partial identities of Sri Lankan diaspora in Australia"

Bree HADLEY
Queensland University of Technology, QLD

Alan HAN
University of Queensland, QLD

Parodying Asian Australian Masculinities in We Can Be Heroes

Lars JENSEN
Roskilde University, Denmark

"The search for alternative Asian-Australian Cultural Histories"

"Asian-Australian Muslim Girls’ Negotiation of Identity in Private and Public Domains"

"The Diaspora 'Embrace': Diasporic Chinese identity construction in the context of multilevel transnational political practice"

"Becoming Japanese to be the local: reconstruction of cultural identity as Japanese among members of an ethnic Japanese group in western Sydney"

Greg LEONG
Visual Artist

Owen LEONG
Visual Artist

Simone LAZAROO
Murdoch University, WA

"Reading Culinary Hybridity in David McMahon’s Vegemite Vindaloo"

Francis MARAVILLAS
University of Technology Sydney, NSW

Robyn MORRIS
University of Wollongong, NSW

Don NAKANISHI
UCLA, California, USA

Speaker, Chinese Australian Family Historians of Victoria Panel:
"What's really on the menu? -  Early Chinese Restaurants and the reconfiguring of  'Chineseness'"

"Japanese popular-culture spin-offs: The new identifications and economics of Madman Entertainment’s Otaku Wear"

Speaker, Children's Literature Panel:
"Alien Encounters: Cultural Negotiation in Suneeta Peres da Costa’s Homework and Alice Pung’s Unpolished Gem"

Key Note
Suvendi PERERA
Curtin University, WA

"Border Politics"

Speaker, Chinese Australian Family Historians of Victoria Panel:
"Jimmy Ah Foo and the Chinese Publicans of 19th Century Queensland"

"Ah Xian: Writing ‘Chineseness’ on the Diasporic Body"

‘Becoming their story’: The Creative Intermediary in Indigenous-Asian Cultural Production"

" ‘Daring to be Different’: Chinese-Australian Identities Strike Back"

Speaker, Exhibiting Asian Australian-ness Visual Arts Panel

Speaker, Chinese Australian Family Historians of Victoria Panel:
"Bad dog! Bad dog! Australian government indifference to Chinese Australians-in-need between 1901 and 1973"

"Social Justice in Australia?"

Key Note
William YANG

"Identity and Place"

"The Ethics of Identity in Asian Australian Cinema: Heng Teng's The Last Chip" 

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