Seating is strictly limited. Please book early to reserve your seat.
Neighbourhood parking near the gallery is limited. Taxis are a thoughtful
alternative.
Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation
16–20 Goodhope Street, Paddington
Sydney NSW 2021 Australia
Phone +61 (0)2 9331 1112
Fax +61 (0)2 9331 1051
AASRN member Jen Tsen Kwok has reported on the “Chinese in Australian Politics” colloquium that was held recently at UTS, Sydney.
Jen participated in the colloquium and presented on his PhD research (undertaken through Sociology at the University of Queensland), which focuses on the political cultures and subcultures of diasporic Chinese communities in multicultural Australia.
You can find out more about the colloquium by visiting their site.
Call for Papers: Special Issue of The Journal of Commonwealth and Postcolonial Studies edited by Rebecca Weaver-Hightower and Nathanael O’Reilly
Proposals are invited for a special issue of The Journal of Commonwealth and Postcolonial Studies on Australian literature. The editors will consider papers on any aspect of Australian literature, but papers must have a postcolonial theoretical orientation. The editors are particularly interested in papers addressing work by Indigenous and emerging authors, and papers dealing with issues such as transnationalism, settler colonialism and immigration.
Please do not send completed papers at this time. After reviewing the abstracts, the editors will invite contributors to submit completed 5000-word papers, which must conform to the latest MLA style. The deadline for completed papers will be provided at a later date. The special issue is schedule to be published in late 2011.
Please include the following with your abstract:
Name and Institutional Affiliation
Email address
Postal address
A brief CV
CONTEMPORARY ASIAN ART AND AUSTRALIA: 25 YEARS TO NOW
Du Chonggang, Stamp 1, 2009, C-Print, ed. 1/10, 118.9 x 84.1 cm
Australia’s engagement with contemporary Asian art has exploded over the past 25 years. Queensland Art Gallery’s Asia Pacific Triennal has been fundamental to this engagement and positioned Australia as a leading exhibiting platform for cutting edge contemporary Asian art.
Please join us to hear Doug Hall discuss Australia’s engagement with contemporary Asian art and the road taken to get to where we are now.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER:
Doug Hall is Australian Commissioner for the Venice Biennale, 2011; he was director of the Queensland Art Gallery (1987-2007) and was the initiator of the Asia Pacific Triennials which began in 1993; he conceived the idea and oversaw the development and opening of the
Gallery of Modern Art; he now lives in Melbourne.
WHEN
Wednesday 17 November, 6pm
WHERE
MiFA
Level 1, 278 Collins Street,
Melbourne, 3000.
EXHIBITION – China Obscura: August 27 – September 17 2010
ONLINE CATALOGUE NOW AVAILABLE – http://bit.ly/ckYzIG
Click to see all images along with the current pricelist.
Spring sees MiFA exploring photographs of contemporary China. With cutting edge artists examining China from a diverse range of perspectives China Obscura invites the viewer into intimate views of China today.
From Quentin Shih’s dramatic black and white series ‘Citizen of the State’ which beautifully muses on the state of the Chinese health care system to Rodney Evan’s candidly casual shots of young swimmers frolicking in a local pool, these images promise to engage, excite and challenge you’re your view on contemporary China.
Artists: Rodney Evans (Australia), Quentin Shih (China), Chen Nong (China), Jiao Jian (China), Yang Yongliang (China), Pia Johnson (Australia) and, courtesy of Place Gallery, Du Chonggang (Australia/China).
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PECHA KUCHA
MiFA hosts our first Pecha Kucha night. With a focus on ‘The Asian in Australian Culture’ it promises to be a dynamic night of discussions.
A professional update on the issues and challenges in creating and using oral histories at heritage places and museums. The event is hosted jointly by the National Library of Australia and the Institute for Professional Practice in Heritage and the Arts.
Date: Monday 18 October 2010
Venue: National Library of Australia
Time: 9.30 am ‐ 4.30 pm
Cost: The event cost is $90/person or $45/student ‐ bookings are essential
Details: Learn from the experts how museum and heritage place curators and researchers create and use oral histories for public programs and exhibitions. Go ‘behind the scenes’ with the Forgotten Australians and Former Child Migrants Oral history Project, with insights provided by National Library staff. Presented with the National museum of Australia.
Themes to be covered in the professional update workshop include: creating content, working critically and ethically; cultural sensitivities and protocols; oral histories and public memories; preserving oral histories; challenges of using oral histories in interpretation, including misuse; educational potential; auditory, non‐textual qualities.
The International Society for the Study of Chinese Overseas (ISSCO) and the Department of Anthropology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong are organizing an international conference on Chinese Overseas: Religions and Worldview. Scholars and researchers interested in presenting papers or organizing conference panels on religions, worldview and philosophy in relation to the Chinese overseas are welcome to participate in this conference. Details are as follows.
Conference theme: Chinese Overseas: Religions and Worldview
Rationale: While various aspects of the history and cultural life of the Chinese overseas (Chinese diasporas) have been well studied, their religious life and worldview have not been systematically studied. For instance, we know very little about the religious life of the Chinese in Latin America, and for that matter in North America and Europe. Living in multicultural environments, the Chinese overseas are participants of many religions: Chinese popular religion, Buddhism, Christianity, Islam, Bahai and others. In fact some aspects of the Chinese popular religions as practiced in different societies have also been localized as a result of interacting with the non-Chinese cultural and religious practices. This conference will provide a forum for discussing the religious life and worldview (including, for example, Confucianism) of the Chinese overseas.
Conference organizers: ISSCO and the Department of Anthropology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong [Co-sponsors will be invited]
Venue: The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), Shatin, NT, Hong Kong
Date: June 21-22, 2011
Title and abstract deadline: 31 December 2010
Panel proposals deadline: 31 December 2010. [For panel presentations, paper titles and abstracts should be sent via the panel chair]
Registration fee: US $90 for ISSCO members, US $100 for non-members
Accommodation: Two types of accommodation will be arranged: (a) student hostels; (b) hotels near CUHK (depending on hotels, the price per night ranges from USD $80 to $130 per night). Details will be supplied later.
It is an unique event in the world. Global Viet Film Network presents 9 short films each under thirty minutes in duration. These films explore the life choices and life changes of Vietnamese.
The screenings will be holding at three different venues.
SYDNEYDate: Sunday 10th October
Time: 07.00pm
Venue Riverside Theatre, Corner of Chruch and Market Streets Parramatta, Sydney
Bookings: (02) 8839 3399 or
www.riversideparramatta.com.au
MELBOURNE
Date: Wednesday 20th October
Time: 06.30pm
Venue: Prince Phillip Theatre, University of Melbourne
Date: 10th November
Time: 07.00pm
Venue: Kino Cinema
Venue: 45 Collins Street, Melbourne
Bookings: 0421 125 431 or info@globalvietfilmnetwork.com
Seats are limited, please make a bookings before you arrived.
Australian Critical Race and Whiteness Studies ejournal CFP
Special Issue: Future Stories/ Intimate Histories/
The ejournal is currently calling for submissions for a special issue on the theme of /Future Stories/Intimate Histories /to be published in 2011. Papers may either come from, extend upon, or relate to, the 2010 ACRAWSA symposium, which explored how the meanings of race and whiteness are constantly under re/construction in the stories we tell about the past and the future, all the more so in times of flux where economies, national borders and political leadership are under redefinition every day. As yesterday becomes history and tomorrow ever more volatile, story becomes a means of understanding where we are in terms of both where we have come from and where we might be going. Story has also long been a means of understanding relations between history and personal experience, and hence a site where the inextricability of racialised structures and lived experience can be explored, albeit often in the context of racialised struggles over knowledge and speaking positions.
In this issue we seek to talk about what such times of change mean for the critical race and whiteness studies project of trans- forming the racialised structures within which we live, and what role stories can play in our imaginings. What potentials can we find in our stories of the past and the future? What is old or new about current stories of race? What stories are heard and what should be heard? What still can’t be told?
Topics might include:
Futures of race and whiteness
The future of whiteness studies
Changing definitions of race & racism
Borders and the future
Family history and race
Race and relationships
Race, whiteness and life narrative
Relations between ‘story’ and ‘theory’
The positioning of Indigenous and/or white stories & storytellers
The e-journal also publishes general articles with each issue and welcomes submissions from any discipline related to the field of critical race and whiteness studies.
Deadline for submissions is March 30th 2011. Articles should be between 4,000- 8,000 words in length including tables, notes and references. An abstract of 200- 300 words should accompany the article.
The ejournal is also extending its call for submissions for a special issue on the theme: Post-Racial States.
Post-Racial States /takes as its focus the term, “post-racial”, used to describe the media and political environment in the United States following the election of Barack Obama. The Post-Racial States issue asks whether we can say there is such a thing as a “post-racial” state,
media or political environment. Does the idea of a “post-racial” state overlook the continuing occurrences of racial discrimination, the negation of Indigenous sovereignties, and the importance of anti-racism projects in exposing and challenging institutional and social racisms? Submissions need not be limited to Obama’s election. The issue is also interested in the relevance, if any, of this event to race relations in other cultural, political and geographical contexts.
Submissions for the special issue are welcomed from now until November 1st 2010. Submissions and enquiries about the issue should be sent to Dr. Holly Randell-Moon:
holly.randell-moon@mq.edu.au
Taking Social Development Seriously: The Experience of Sri Lanka
AASRN member, Emeritus Professor, Laksiri Jayasuriya The University of Western Australia School of Social and Cultural Studies
Laksiri Jayasuriya’s work documents the shift from a country with a unique social welfare structure to one marked by warfare.
A former president of the World Bank, James Wolfensohn, has praised the new book:
“Professor Jayasuriya has combined great analytical skills with deep scholarship and has brought home to us the particular circumstances of his country’s development as a colony to its current independence”.
“This is a fascinating history of an island country,” Mr Wolfensohn continues. “This work is valuable for its analysis of Sri Lanka but is unique in the way it takes a scholarly view of the experiences of (Professor Jayasuriya’s) own country to provide us with an overview of global social development in the last two centuries, while outlining the challenges which face us in the decades ahead. This is indeed a remarkable work.”
Honorary Senior Research Fellow in UWA’s Discipline of Social Work and Social Policy, Professor Jayasuriya graduated from the University of Sydney in 1954 and obtained his PhD from the University of London’s School of Economics and Political Science.
In his new book, published by Sage, he identifies three phases of development of social policy in Sri Lanka – early, late and post-colonial state. And he argues that social development in the country has been reframed by a combination of neo-liberalism and a protracted civil war.
