The 1998 INTER-ASIA CULTURAL STUDIES CONFERENCE:

PROBLEMATISING ASIA


Conference Site

Yue-Han Hall, Tsing Hua University, #110 Jing-Hua Road, Taipei.

 

Day I :  July 13, 1998

 8:00-

     Registration  

 

 8:45

  |

 9:00

 

 

  Opening Address   

   Prof. C. L. Liu, President, National Tsing Hua University

  

 

 Time

             presentation

Moderator

 

 

 

 

 9:00

  |

11:00

 

Panel 1: Historical-Discursive Formation of "Asia"

 

1.SUN Ge (Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing)

 

2.Rumi SAKAMOTO (Auckland U, New Zealand),

 Creating 'Asia' in 19th Century Japan

 

3.C.J.W.-L. WEE (Institute of Southeast Asia Studies, Singapore)

 'Culturalism', Cultural Identity and New Asia: The Case of

 Singapore

 

 

 

 

 

Kuan-Hsing Chen

 (Tsing Hua U)

 

 

 

 11:15

   |

 12:30

 

Plenary 1

 

CHO Hae-Joan (Yonsei U, Seoul)

 "Making a Powerful Nation": A Feminist Analysis of Segyhwa, Confucian Capitalism and Family in the 1990's South Korea

(The Formation of Subjectivity within Uneven Development

 "You Exist within an Imaginary Well"}

 

Wan-wen CHU (Taiwan: A Radical Quarterly in Social Studies, and Academia Sinica)

    

                           Lunch

 Time

                    presentation

Moderator

 

 

 

 

 13:30

   |

 15:30

 

 

Panel 2:Cultural Effects of Capital Flow, Labour Movement and Labour Migration

1.TOMIYAMA Ichiro (Osaka U) The Sea of Utopia, the Sea of Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity

 Sphere

 

2.Radha D'SOUZA (Auckland U, New Zealand)

 Linking Worker Rights to World Trade: Class and Anti-Imperialist  Perspectives

 

3.MATSUI Yayori (Asia-Japan Woman's Resource Center, Tokyo)

Feminization of Migration in Asia in the Era of Globalization

 

4.Yi-min KO (Information Center for Labor Education, Taipei),

 

 

 

 

 

 

P.K. HUI

(Ling-nan College, Hong Kong)

  

 

 

 

 

 

 16:00

   |

 17:15

 

Plenary 2

 

KIM Jin-kyoon (Seoul National University)

The National and International Politics of Korean Progressive Labor Movement during the 1980's and 1990's

 

 

 

Ling-Tsing HSIA

(Fu Jen U, Taipei)

 

 

 

Day II : July 14, 1998

 Time

             presentation

Moderator

 

 

 

 

 

 9:00

  |

11:00

 

Panel 3 :Local Responses to the "Rise" and "Fall" of Asia

1.  Myung-koo KANG (Seoul National U)

  A Reconsideration of Cultural Imperialism Theories:  Globalization and Nationalism

 

2.  Melani BUDIANTA (U of Indonesia)

Globalization and the Discourse of Cultural Identity: The Case of  Indonesia during the 1997-1998 Monetary Crisis

 

3.  Ghassan HAGE (Sydney U)

Hansonism and the Discourse of White Decline: On the Role of 'Asia' in the destruction of the White 'race'

 

 

 

 

 

OTA Yoshinobu

  (Kyushu U)

 

 

 

 11:15

   |

 12:30

 

Plenary 3CHUA Beng Huat (National U of Singapore)

Unmaking Asia: Revenge of the Real on the Discursive

 

 

 Rob WILSON

  (U of Hawaii)

Lunch

 Time

             presentation

Moderator

 

 

 

 

 13:30

   |

 15:30

 

 

Panel 4 : Problematising the City

 

 

1.DAI Jinghua (Peking U, Beijing)

 Invisible Writing: The Politics of Mass Culture in the Nineties

 Fred CHIU (Hong Kong Baptist U)

 Statist Urban Politics and (Post)modernist City-bias

 

2.Suthy PRASARTSET (Chulalongkorn U, Bangkok)

 The Rural-Urban Complex in Thai Economic Crises

 

3.Sandra BUCKLEY (Australian National U)

City Stutter: Hydraulics of Japanese Urbanscapes

 

 

 

 

 

Karl Yin-bin NING

  (CentralU,

Chungli, Taiwan)

 

 

 

 16:00

   |

 17:15

 

Plenary 4

 

Masao MIYOSHI ( UC San Diego)

 Cheshire Cat in the 90s: Higher Education in the Global Economy

 

CHEN Yingzhen

 (Ren-chian

Publisher,Taipei)

  

 

Day III : July 15, 1998

 Time

           presentation

Moderator

 

 

 

 

 9:00

  |

11:00

 

Panel: Colonialism, Nationalism and Cultural Identities

 

 

1.Sebastian Hsien-Hao LIAO (National Taiwan U)

 Isle without Margin: Cultural Politics in Post-Martial Law Taiwan

 

2.WANG Hui (Chinese Academy of Social Sciences)

 

Individualistic Nationalism and Nationalistic Individualism in Late Qing

 

3.Maram EPSTEIN (U of Oregon)

Confucian Imperialism and Masculine Chinese Identity in the Novel Yesou puyan

 

 

 

  Kang CHAO

  (Tunghai U,

Taichung, Taiwan)

 

 

 

 11:15

   |

 12:30

 

Plenary 5

 

Meaghan MORRIS (UTS, Sydney)

"Please Explain?" Ignorance, Poverty, and the Past

 

 

Briankle P.CHANG

        (U of

Massachusetts)

Lunch

 Time

             presentation

Moderator

 

 

 

 

 

 

 13:30

   |

 15:30

 

 

Panel 6 :Politics of Sexuality

 

 

1.  Audrey YUE (Melbourne U)

 What's so queer about Happy Together?

 

2.  Neil GARCIA (U of Philippines)

Philippine Gay Culture

 

3.WU Ka-Ming (Chinese U of Hong Kong)

Discourse on "Bau Yi Nai" (Renting Concubines): National Imaginary of Bourgeois Self and Chinese Other in the Post-Colonial Hong Kong

4. Antonio CHAO (Tunghai U, Taichung, Taiwan)

  State Power, Representation and Representability

 

 

 Wei-cheng CHU

   (Taiwan U)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 16:00

   |

 17:15

 

Plenary 6Politics of sexuality I I

 

 Urvashi BUTALIA (Kali for Women, India)

 Politics of Sexuality

 

LAU Kin-chi

 (Ling-nan College

 Hong Kong)

 

 

 

Day IV : July 16, 1998

 Time

            presentation

Moderator

 

 

 

 

 9:00

  |

11:00

 

Panel 7: Rethinking social movements Roundtable

 

1.  Daniel MATO ( Central U of Venezula)

Global and Local Agents, and the Transnational: Social Making of Representations that Inform the Agendas of Social Movements: A View from Latin America

2.  Vinod RAINA (EKLAVYA; Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, New Delhi)

Unraveling the Cultural in Social Movements: The anti-Narmada Dams Struggle

3.  YI Dae-hoon (PSPD, Seoul)

4.  Ping WANG (Queer and Class, Taipei)

 

 

 Jeannie Manipon

   (ARENA)

 

 

 11:15

   |

 12:30

 

Plenary 7

 

1.Fransisco NEMENZO (U of the Philippines)

 The Filipino Quest for Democracy

2. Tsuen-chi CHENG (ICLE)

 Social Movements Reconsidered

 

 

 

SHIMIZU Hiromu

 (Kyushu U)

  

 

Lunch

 Time

                   presentation

Moderator

 

 

 

 13:30

   |

 15:30

 

 

Plenary 8Politics of Sexuality II

 

1.Josephine HO (Central U, Chungli, Taiwan)

The Good, the Bad, and the Perverted: Recent Debates within Taiwan's Feminist Movement

2.Naifei DING (Central U, Chungli, Taiwan)

Prostitutes, Parasites and the House of State Feminism in Nineties Taiwan

 

 

 

 Amie Parry

 (Chiao-Tung U,

 Hsinchu, Taiwan)

 

 

 

 16:00

   |

 17:15

 

Panel 8:Alternatives cultures Roundtable

 

1.LAU Kin Chi (Ling-nan College, Hong Kong; ARENA)

2.Jeannie MARTIN(Shopfront, UTS, Sydney)

3.MUTO Ichiyo (Institute of People's Plan, Tokyo)

4.Kuan-Hsing CHEN(Tsing Hua U)

 

 

 

 Chih-chung Yu

 (Tsing Hua U)

  

 



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