The 2005 Inter-Asia Cultural Studies Conference:

Emerging Subjectivies, Cultures and Movements

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Korean National University of Arts, Seoul, July 22-4

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Day 0 /July 21

Pre-conference  for Graduate Students, Graduate program in Gender and Cultural Studies,  Yonsei University, Seoul

 

18:00-20:00 Editorial meeting

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Day One

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July 22 /9:30-12:30

Panel 1: The Long March of 50 year People¡¦s Movement: The works of Muto Ichiyo

 

Organizers: Francis Lee Daehoon and Kuan-Hsing Chen

Moderator: Cho Heeyeon (Sungunghoe University)

 

Respondent: Muto Ichiyo (PPSG)

 

Panelists:

 

¡§From making the invisible visible to making the visible invisible: Where has three decades of transborder activism taken us?¡¨

Lawrence Surendra

 

¡§Alternatives from Social Movements - Myth or Reality?¡¨

Vinod Raina (ARENA)

 

 ¡§Reflections through a local lens on Muto¡¦s Ideas of Alternative Practices: A Hong Kong Perspective¡¨

Po-keung Hui and Kinchi Lau (Ling-nan University, Hong Kong)

 

¡§Transborder Participatory Democracy: Problems and Prospects¡¨

Jeremy Brecher

 

¡§On internationalism and transnationality: Some reflections on meanings in transborder civil activism¡¨

Jai Sen, independent researcher, CA/CIM, New Delhi, India

 

Towards ¡§Numberless International¡¨: Rethinking our solidarity works in 80s and 90s

Ohashi Seiko (the Philippines)

 

Amono Yasukazu (PPSG/IMPACTIONS, Tokyo)

 

Francis Lee Daehoon (People¡¦s Solidarity for Participatory Democracy, Seoul)

 

Jeannie Manipon (ARENA; Asia Peace Alliance)

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13:30-15:30

Panel 2: Trans/Asian Trans/Gender: New Approaches to Transgender Cultures in Asia

 

Organized by Fran Martin (University of Melbourne) and Josephine Ho (National Central University, Taiwan)

 

Moderator: Fran Martin (University of Melbourne)

 

Respondent:

 

Panelists:

 

Lee Kyong

 

¡§Gender Embodiment and Trans Subjectivity in Taiwan¡¨

Josephine Ho (Center for the Study of Sexualities, National Central University, Taiwan)  

 

¡§Transgender World in Modern Japan¡¨

Junko Mitsuhashi (International Research Center for Japanese Studies)

 

 

16:00-18:00

Panel 3: Cross-bordering Asian Pop and (Post-)National Identity

 

Organizer: Shin Hyunjoon (Sungkonghoe University, Seoul)

 

Moderator: Lee Kee Hyung (Kyunghee University, Seoul)

 

Discussant: Iwabuchi Koichi (Waseda University, Tokyo)

 

Presenters:

¡§Nationalism in J-pop¡¨

Ogura Toshimaru (Toyama University, Tokyo/Japan)

 

¡§The Emerging (National) Popular Music Culture in China¡¨

Anthony Fung (Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong/HKSAR):


¡§Taiwan¡¦s Alternative Popular Music Scenes and Their Localizing Anglo-American Practices¡¨

Ho Tunghung (Fo-Guang University, Ilan/Taiwan)

 

¡§Problematizing the Popular: The Dynamics between: Pinoy Pop Music and Popular Protest Music¡¨

Terestia Maceda (University of Philippines, Quezon City/Philippines)


¡§Mainstreaming Asian Pop: Thai youth and K-pop consumption¡¨

Ubonrat Siryuvasak (Chulalogkorn University, Bangkok/Thailand) & Shin Hyunjoon (Sungkonghoe University/Seoul)

 

 

18:30-20:30 Welcome Party

 

 

Day Two

July 23

09:30-12:30

Panel 4: A Roundtable on Changing Cultural Imaginary of ¡§China¡¨

 

Organizers: Sun Ge (Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing), Baik Youngseo Yonsei University, Seoul)

 

Moderator: Sun Ge/Baik Yooungseo

 

Panelists:

Baik Youngseo (History, Yonsei University, Seoul)

Lei Qili (Communication, Eastern Chinese Normal University, Shanghai)

Zheng Hongsheng (Writer, Taipei)

Hemant Adlakha (History, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi)

Eric Ma (Media, Chinese University of Social Sciences)

Josh Hong (Center for Strategic Information, Malaysia)

 

 

13:30-15:30

Panel 5: A Roundtable on Critical Legacies for Feminism

 

Organizer: Tejaswini Niranjana (Centre for the Study of Culture & Society, Bangalore)

 

Moderator: Tejaswini Niranjana (Centre for the Study of Culture & Society, Bangalore)

 

Panelists:

Kim Eunshil (Ewha Women¡¦s University, Seoul

Ding Naifei (National Central University, Taiwan)

Ko Gaphee (Hanshin University, Korea)

Melani Budianta (University of Indonesia)

Firdous Azim (University of Dhaka, Bangladesh)

 

 

16:00-18:00

Panel 6: New Media

 

Organizer:

Ashish Rajadhyaksha (Centre for the Study of Culture & Society, Bangalore)

 

Moderator:

Ashish Rajadhyaksha (Centre for the Study of Culture & Society, Bangalore)

 

Discussant:

Shunya Yoshimi (University of Tokyo)

 

Panelists:

Yoshitaka Mori (Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music, Tokyo)

¡§New technology, New Art and DiY Culture¡¨

 

Audrey Yue (English and Cultural Studies, Melbourne University, Australia)

¡§Hawking in the Creative City: Cultural Citizenship and The Politics of the Creative Class in Singapore¡¨

 

Shi-ding Liu (Media Studies, Macau University)

¡§History as legacy and project against neocolonialism: A discussion of anti-Japan cyberculture in China¡¨

 

Jeon Gyuhan (KNUA)

¡§The Contradiction of Capital and Culture in New Media/Technology Development¡¨

 

 

18:30-20:30

Panel 7: East Asian Cinema Spectatorship

 

Organizer: Kim Soyoung (KNUA)

 

Moderator: Paik Wondam (Sung Gung Hoe University)

 

Discussant: Rob Wilson (UCSC)

 

Panelists:

 

¡§Theorizing Subaltern Spectatorship in East Asia¡¨

Ju Changkyu (KNUA, Korean Cinema)

 

¡§Poetry, Peking Opera, Wu Xia: aesthetic perspective and imagined State-Images in Chinese films¡¨

Park Pyongwon (KNUA, Chinese Cinema)

 

¡§The A-semiotics and the A-history of Dictatorship¡¨

Kim Kyung Hyun (University of California, Irvine)

 

 

Day Three

 

July 24

09:30-12:30

Panel 8: Transformation of knowledge production in the era of neo-liberal globalization

 

Organizer: Hee-Yeon Cho (SungGungHoe University, Seoul), Kang Myung-Koo (Seoul National University) and Kuan-hsing Chen (National Tsing Hua Unviersity, Taiwan; National University of Singapore)

 

Moderator: Paik Nakchung (Seoul National University); in contact

 

Discussant: Kim Yong-Sung (Korean Research Council); in contact

                   Shim Kwang-Hyun (KNUA)

 

Presenters:

Hiroaki Ozawa (Chiba University, Tokyo)

¡§Japanese National Universities in the Age of Neoliberalism¡¨

 

Wan-wen Chu (Academia Sinica, Taipei)

¡§­Knowledge production in a latecomer: Reproducing economics in Taiwan¡¨

 

Hou-ming Huang (National Chenchi University, Taipei)

¡§Science as an Ideology: SSCI, TSSCI and the evaluation system of Social Sciences in Taiwan¡¨

 

Angel Lin (City University of Hong Kong)

¡§Postcolonial view of University Reform in Hong Kong¡¨

 

Myungkoo Kang (Seoul National University),

¡§Toward Globally Top, Locally Third-Ranked Universities¡¨

 

Deok-Ryul Hong (Daegu University, Seoul)

¡§A Critical Analysis on the University and Academy Accreditation System in Korea¡¨

 

Kwang-Yeon Shin (Chungang Univ)

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13:30-15:30

Panel 9: Sex and mobility in Asia

 

Organizer: Hyunmee Kim (Yonsei University, Seoul)

 

Moderator: Nah, Yoonkyeong (Yonsei University, Seoul)

 

Discussant: Chua Beng Huat (National University of Singapore)

 

Presenters:

"Migrant Workers in the Entertainment Sector of Korea"

Kim Hyun Mee (the Graduate Program in Culture and GenderStudies and the Dept. of Sociology, Yonsei University),

"Becoming someone else: Migrant Thai Women from ¡¥Sex Workers¡¦ to ¡¥Sexual Slaves¡¦ in Changing Social Structures"

Aoyama  Kaoru  (PPSG, Tokyo)

"Migrant Worker's Rights and Good Anti-Trafficking Campaign: the Experiences of Asian Sex Workers in Taiwan"

Wang Fang-Ping (Collective of Sex Workers and Supporters, Coswas)

 

 

16:00-18:30

Panel 10: ¡¥New Woman¡¦ : Colonialism , Globalization and  Inter-Asia Feminism

Organizer: Kim Soyoung (KNUA)
Moderator: Kim Soyoung (Korean National University of the Arts, Seoul, Korea)

Respondents:

Meghan Morris  (Cultural Studies ,Lingnan University, Hong Kong)

Ayako Saito (Meiji Gakuin, Japan)

Dai Jinhua (Beijing University, China)

 

Presenters:

Kim Soojin (Seoul National University)

¡§The New Woman, the Modern Girl, and their Histories in Modern Japan¡¨

Ahn Minhwa ( Meiji Gakuin University , Japan)

¡§Fantasies that Matter: The Counterhistories of Bertha Pappenheim and Ito Noe¡¨

Earl Jackson, Jr. (University of California, Santa Cruz/ Visiting Professor Korean National University of the Arts)

 

18:30-21:00

 

Closing party

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