THURSDAY 28 June 2007
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Time |
Event
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9:00-10:00 |
Registration
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10:00-10:15 |
Conference Welcome
Jacqueline Lo and Tseen Khoo
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10.15-12.00
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KEYNOTE ADDRESS:
Suvendrini PERERA –Girt by Sea: Australia’s Island Imaginary and the Unmaking of ‘Malay Road’
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1200-13.30 |
Lunch
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| 13:30-15:00 |
COMMUNUNAL IDENTITIES
EMAD
SOLIMAN – Four Centuries of Muslim
Australians – A Retrospective
NAHID KABIR - Asian-Australian
Muslim Girls’ Negotiation of Identity
in Private and Public Domains
TAKESHI HAMANO - Becoming
Japanese To Be the Local:
Reconstruction of Cultural Identity as
Japanese among Members of an
Ethnic Japanese Group in Western
Sydney
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AA PERFORMANCE
BREE HADLEY - Staging Asian-
Australian Identities
PETA STEPHENSON - ‘Becoming
their story’: The Creative
Intermediary in Indigenous-Asian
Cultural Production
ALAN HAN - Parodying Asian
Australian Masculinities in We Can
Be Heroes |
15:00-15:30 |
AFTERNOON TEA
LAUNCH of Peril Issue #3
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15:30-1700
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COSMOPOLITICS
SCOTT BROOK - After the
Cosmomulticulturalists (!): The
Finished People
AUDREY YUE - The Ethics of Identity in
Asian Australian Cinema: Heng
Teng's The Last Chip
ASHLEY CARRUTHERS - Cosmopolitan
Subjects, Parochial Categories:
Indochinese Experiences of
Australian Multiculturalism |
AA VISUAL ARTS
SOM SENGMANY - Ah Xian: Writing
‘Chineseness’ on the Diasporic
Body
MICHELLE ANTOINETTE - A Space
for ‘Asian-Australian’ Art: Gallery
4a at The Asia-Australia Arts
Centre
FRANCIS MARAVILLAS –
Constellations of the
Contemporary: Art / Asia /
Australia
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From 18:00 |
AA CABARET
Show starts at 7.30pm
Venue: Prince Alfred Hotel (Upstairs), 191 Grattan Street, Carlton
Note: Food/drink at this event is NOT INCLUDED in your conference registration. Meals and drinks will be available for purchase.
The cabaret will be in the upstairs bar at the Prince Alfred Hotel and open to conferees and their friends. It's an informal evening event that gives delegates the chance to grab a meal, catch up, and watch the cabaret. The program so far includes readings by Tom Cho and Shalini Akhil, opera and chanting from Merlinda Bobis, and performances by Greg Leong and 'Mr Hung Lo'.
> No need to RSVP for this event – just turn up |
FRIDAY 29 June 2007
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Time |
Event
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| 8:30-9:00 |
Registration
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| 9:00-10:00 |
KEYNOTE ADDRESS:
PENNY WONG – Social Justice in Australia
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10:00-10:30 |
BOOK LAUNCHES
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10:30-11:00 |
MORNING TEA
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| 11:00-12:30 |
"MARKETING ASIAN AUSTRALIANESS" PLENARY LITERATURE PANEL
(Chair: OLIVIA KHOO)
MICHELLE BAKAR – MERLINDA BOBIS – TOM CHO – SIMONE
LAZAROO
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12:00-13.30 |
Lunch
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13:30-15:30
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PANEL OF CHINESE AUSTRALIAN FAMILY HISTORIANS OF VICTORIA (CAFHOV)
KEVIN WONG-HOY - Bad Dog! Bad
Dog! Australian Government
Indifference to Chinese Australians in-
need between 1901 and 1973
BARBARA NICHOL - What's Really on
the Menu? Early Chinese Restaurants
and the Reconfiguring of
'Chineseness'
KEVIN RAINS - Jimmy Ah Foo and the
Chinese Publicans of 19th Century
Queensland
ROSEMARY FARRELL - Secret Circus
Identities
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AA LITERATURE
ANITA MANNUR - Reading Culinary
Hybridity in David McMahon’s
Vegemite Vindaloo
ROBYN MORRIS - Food, Race and
the Politics of Recuperative Power
ADAM AITKEN - “Third Culture Kids”
and Migrant Diaspora Narratives
ANG CHIN GEOK - They've Killed
Suzie: The New Woman in Asian
Australian Fiction |
15:30-16:00 |
AFTERNOON TEA
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16:00-17:30 |
AA CHILDREN'S LITERATURE PANEL
CLARE BRADFORD - Cross-
Generational Negotiations: Asian-
Australian Picture Books
DEB DUDEK - Female Ghosts and
Family Ghouls: Alienation and
Belonging in Hoa Pham's No One
Like Me and Quicksilver
WENCHE OMMUNDSEN - Alien
Encounters: Cultural Negotiation in
Suneeta Peres da Costa’s Homework
and Alice Pung’s Unpolished Gem
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DIASPORIC POP CULTURE POLITICS
TOM APPERLEY - Situated Play:
Negotiating Place and Identity in
Global Gaming Networks
CRAIG NORRIS - Japanese popularculture
spin-offs: The new
identifications and economics of
Madman Entertainment’s Otaku
Wear
EMILY BLAYNEY - Underground and
Offside: Private Parties in Tehran and
in Melbourne’s Iranian Migrant
Communities |
| 18:30 |
Melbourne Asian Australian Meetup
Venue: Nonya Malaysian, 191 Lygon Street, Carlton
Not: Food/drink at this event is NOT INCLUDED in your conference registration. Meals and drinks will be available for purchase.
The Asian Australian Meetups are held semi-regularly in Melbourne, and give Asian Australians a chance to meet and chat with their collaborators, friends, partners and other associated bods. The meetups often coincide with visitors to town or certain events. The meetups have a very casual vibe – everyone's welcome!
> TO RSVP for this event, add yourself to the sign up sheet at the registration desk on Thursday 28 June (Day 1 of the conference).
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SATURDAY 30 June 2007
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Time |
Event
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| 8:30-9:00 |
Registration
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| 9:00-10:30 |
KEYNOTE ADDRESS:
WILLIAM YANG – Identity and Place
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10:30-11:00 |
MORNING TEA
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| 11:00-12:00 |
Asian Australian Studies Research Network (AASRN)
Meeting
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| 12:00-13:30 |
"EXHIBITING ASIAN AUSTRALIANESS" PLENARY VISUAL ARTS PANEL
(Chair: CHRISTINE CLARK)
OWEN LEONG – SAVANHDARY VONGPOOTHORN - GREG LEONG
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13:30-14:30
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LUNCH
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14:30-16:00 |
CHINESE AUSTRALIAN IDENTITIES
JEN TSEN KWOK - The Diaspora
'Embrace': Diasporic Chinese
Identity Construction in the Context
of Multilevel Transnational Political
Practice
CAROLE TAN - ‘Daring To Be
Different’: Chinese-Australian
Identities Strike Back
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AA DIASPORIC FORMATIONS
DEVLEENA GHOSH - Culture,
Identity and Performance:
Diaspora South Asians
LARS JENSEN - The Search for
Alternative Asian-Australian
Cultural Histories
SUNIL GOVINNAGE - The Plural
and Partial Identities of Sri
Lankan Diaspora in Australia
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1600-1700 |
PREVIEW of Home Song Story & discussion with Tony Ayres
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1700-1800 |
CLOSING RECEPTION
Venue: Prime Bar, Rydges Carlton
Note: This event is INCLUDED in your conference registration.
All good things come to an end and the conference would like to farewell its delegates at this closing reception. We hope that you'll join us for a final drink!
> No need to RSVP for this event – just turn up!
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