13 October 2009 – 14 October 2009 (Doors Open 10:00 AM)
Travel back through time when various aspects of life in Chinatown are described by speakers who lived in, worked in or were regular visitors to this part of Sydney. Please note that content may differ between the two talks. Supported by the Chinese Heritage Association Australia.
English Speakers:
Sally Pang - her family and their Chinese restaurant, 1950s - 1970s
Allen Yip - growing up in Chinatown, 1940s
Daphne Lowe - Chinese organisations including her clan association premises in Dixon Street built in 1917
Chinese Speakers:
Angeline Oyang OAM - advocating for services to the Chinese community in the 1970s
Yick Chong Louie MBE - Chinese grocery shopkeeper in Dixon Street, 1950s - 1970s
Arthur Gar-Lock Chang - Community leader since 1930s
Tuesday 13 October (English) Wednesday 14 October (Cantonese and Mandarin)
10:30 am - 11:30am
Haymarket Library
Telephone: 8019 6477
Free event - Bookings essential
Venue
Haymarket Library
744 George Street
Sydney 2000
Phone: 02 9265 9977
Fax: 02 9265 9979
The H.C. Coombs Creative Arts Fellowship was established in 1965 at the instigation of Dr H.C. Coombs, ANU Pro-Chancellor at the time, to encourage creative work in the arts in Australia. To ensure that each area of the arts is equally represented by the Fellowship, a three-year cycle has been nominated. In 2010 the selected discipline is Performance (including theatre, music and dance).
For more information about the HC Coombs Fellowship, including a list of previous recipients, please follow this link:
CALL FOR PAPERS - Post/colonial Film: Imaging Identity, Culture and Resistance
This proposed seminar for the American Comparative Literature Association meeting to be held in New Orleans, Louisiana (US) on April 1-4, 2010, seeks to further interdisciplinary and cross-cultural discussion of film in colonial and postcolonial cultures. The session organizer is especially interested in essays that explore film from a cultural studies perspective, examining how cinema interacts with (as well as reflects) culture. Especially welcome are cross-cultural comparisons and studies that read more than one film in order to understand a larger trend or movement and analyze how this particular medium—which developed alongside colonization and decolonization—participated in those processes. Readings of single films that were particularly influential in colonization/decolonization or underdiscussed film traditions are also welcome.
The ACLA format of three linked sessions over three days (twelve papers total) creates a venue for a sustained, interactive discussion of the seminar topic that fosters collaboration between participants. I aim for this seminar to provide the first stage in a workshopping process culminating in an edited collection. For that reason (and also by encouragement of the ACLA), participants need to agree in advance to attend all of the three two-hour sessions of the seminar.
Please submit (to be received by September 30, 2009) a 350-500 word abstract with CV, list, or explanation of work relevant to the topic to Rebecca Weaver-Hightower via email at rwh@und.edu or snail mail or fax to the address below. Because this session is being organized with an eye towards developing an edited collection, I ask that pieces not be already accepted for publication elsewhere.
Rebecca Weaver-Hightower
Dept of English
276 Centennial Drive, Stop 7209
University of North Dakota
Grand Forks, ND 58202
Fax: 701-777-2373
Guest Lecture at the Australian National University
2009 has been a fully hectic year for both social media tag team Joseph Hieu Dinh and Maria Tran as they endeavoured into the world of online social content via the online world of you.tube, twitter, facebook etc… creating a number of “random” video clips.
At times, these have been described as somewhat “dodgey” and “unconventional”, but nonetheless fun to watch. So fun, that these two, have been invited to the prestigious Australian National University in Canberra as guest lecturers.
These two will be conducting a 60 minute presentation on the topic of Internet 2: Alternative Media for University course ANTH1003 2009 Global and Local.
“The traditional world of media has been eroding. Everything is becoming multimedified & online”.
“Identity explorations and expressions have taken on a different platform through digital media, forums, blogsites, v-logging and it seems that everything can accrue an audience” says Australian-Vietnamese of the Year 2009, Joseph Hieu Dinh.
“Generation 2.0 in the Vietnamese diaspora to an extent have disengaged with the highly monopolised, narrow creative industry to cross connect with other diasporic communities. Identity is about being yourself.” Adds martial arts comedic actress Maria Tran.
Lecture: Internet 2: Alternative Media Time: 12-1pm Date: Wednesday 9 September 2009 Location: COP T Building, Australian National University, Canberra
'Transcultural mappings: emerging issues in comparative, transnational and area studies'
University of Sydney, 9-11 April 2010
The conference on "Transcultural mapping" aims to track prominent debates in transnational, area and comparative cultural studies, as well as to consider the methodological and ideological implications of such theoretical reworkings. Specific themes might include:
Locating culture in the glocalised third millennium: can it be done?
Mapping and culture: complementary or mutually exclusive terms?
Cultural identity, hybridity and border(zones)
'Trans-', 'post' 'inter-' and academic discourse
Postcoloniality and postmodernity: is the discussion over?
The geopolitics of culture / culture and globalisation / hegemonic cultures
Culture, translation and the production, trafficking and negotiation of meanings
Ethics, power and the challenges of conceptualising culture
The South/North debate and the West/East debate
Diasporas and comparative cultural studies
Identity politics and area studies
Interdisciplinarity, pluridisciplinarity and transdisciplinarity: definitions and demarcations
We invite scholars to submit 200 word abstracts for individual presentations (20 minutes) or panel proposals (90-120 minutes) that address these issues either theoretically or through case studies. Abstracts, along with your affiliation, contact information and a short biography should be sent as an email attachment in Microsoft Word by 30 November, 2009 to tcm.10@usyd.edu.au. Enquiries should also be sent to the TCM.10 email address.
Please see attached call for papers for complete details.
Asian and Asian diasporic writers, new or established, are invited to send short stories in English for a volume of NEW ASIAN SHORT STORIES to be published by Marshall Cavendish (Malaysia). The book will be edited by Prof. Mohammad A. Quayum whose details are given below. We invite short stories not exceeding 6000 words and NOT published or submitted for publication elsewhere to be submitted to the editor electronically at mquayum@gmail.com, by 15 February 2010. The book will be released in September 2010, and all successful contributors will be sent a complimentary copy of the book upon publication.
About the Editor
Mohammad A. Quayumhas taught at universities in Singapore, Malaysia, Bangladesh, and the US, and is currently professor of English at International Islamic University Malaysia. He is the author or editor of nineteen books (published by Penguin, Pearson Education, Peter Lang, Prentice-Hall, Marshall Cavendish etc), and his scholarly articles have appeared in distinguished literary journals in the UK, the USA, Australia, Canada, South Africa, Singapore, Taiwan, India, and Malaysia.
Please circulate this information to any writer in English of Asian origin you know
A Symposium for Students and Teachers of English Language Creative Writing 9-10th March 2010 at the City University of Hong Kong. In conjunction with The Man Hong Kong Literary Festival (9-20 March).
Organised by The Department of English of The City University of Hong Kong and The Asia-Pacific Writing Partnership
Registration HK$250 (US$33)
(Discounted to HK$100 for members of the Asia-Pacific Writing Partnership www.apwriters.com)
We hope that you'll be interested in joining us. All institutions funding overseas participants will be acknowledged.
Selected papers from the symposium will be published by TEXT: Journal of Writing and Writing Courses. (An international electronic refereed journal. www.textjournal.com.au).
Program Outline
9 March 2010 --Day One Theme: 'Teaching Creative Writing in the Academy'
8:30 am - Coffee & Registration
9:00 am - Welcome by Kingsley Bolton, Chair Professor of English & English Department Head at The City University of Hong Kong.
9: 15 am - Keynote address: Robin Hemley (University of Iowa's writing program)
10.00 am-12:00am - Roundtable led by 3-4 teachers of creative writing each of whom will give short provocative papers (10 mins) leading into interactive discussion with participants. Provocateurs include Catherine Cole (RMIT), Jose Dalisay (University of the Philippines) and Page Richards (University of Hong Kong)- moderated by Xu Xi.
2:00 pm -- 4:30 pm: Featured Writers who teach in the academy. Each will speak briefly (5 - 7 minutes) about different aspects of their creative writing process, followed by brief illustrative readings of their work (5-7 mins max). Feature writers include: Xu Xi; Robin Hemley; Jose Dalisay; Catherine Cole.
10 March 2010 --Day Two Theme: 'Teaching Creative Writing in the Asia'
9:00 am - Keynote address: tba
9.45 am-11:45 am Roundtable led by 3-4 teachers of creative writing who will each give short provocative papers (10 min max) leading into interactive discussion with participants. Provocateurs include Brian Castro, Ouyang Yu and Rukmini Bhaya Nair (tbc) - moderated by Jane Camens.
2:30 pm -- 4:30 pm: Featured Writers include: Ouyang Yu; Rukmini Bhaya Nair; and (TBC) Ken Chen and Shirley Lim.
Evening 11th March: Opening & 10th Anniversary Celebration of the Man Hong Kong International Literary Festival.
An additional day on 12th March at Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, PRC, will be arranged on request for international creative writing teachers with students at that campus.
Organising Committee:
Chair, Asia-Pacific Writing Partnership & Faculty Chair - MFA in Writing, Vermont College of Fine Arts.
Jane Camens - Director, Asia-Pacific Writing Partnership/University of Adelaide
Kingsley Bolton - Chair Professor of English & English Department Head at The City University of Hong Kong.
Dr Rodney Jones - Associate Head, Dept of English, The City University of Hong Kong.
Susannah Chow & Roxanne Ha, The City University of Hong Kong.
AASRN Member Tom Cho is appearing at several events for the Brisbane Writers Festival between Wednesday 9 September and Saturday 12 September.
Reading and Q&A for The Young and the Restless Bookclub
Join The Young and the Restless bookclub as they meet with author Tom Cho and discuss his book Look Who's Morphing. All welcome.
Readings in the Bar
Readings by festival guests Christian Lander (Stuff White People Like), Tom Cho (Look Who's Morphing), Carl Cleves (Tarab: Travels with my Guitar) and Marie Munkara (Every Secret Thing).
Thursday 10 September, 8:30pm - 9:30pm
Greystone Bar and Cellar
FREE
The Fine Art of Writing Arts Funding Submissions
Got an idea for an arts project that needs funding? Bring it to this unique workshop. You will gain an overview of applying for arts funding: learn about the essentials for writing funding proposals, developing budgets and more. You then get to test your arts project idea via one or two exercises in proposal-writing.
Friday 11 September, 2.00pm - 5.00pm
SLQ Meeting Room 4A, Level 4, State Library of Queensland
$63.00/$53.00 (book via QTix - phone 136 246 or book online)
My Big Fat Eccentric Family
Families provide the fodder, ammunition and a sometimes painful catalyst for creation. With Gary Bryson (Turtle), Tom Cho (Look Who's Morphing) and Catherine Therese (The Weight of Silence). Chaired by Cate Kennedy (The World Beneath; Dark Roots).
Saturday 12 September, 12:45pm - 1:45pm
SLQ Auditorium 2, Level 2, State Library of Queensland
FREE
With disarming sensuality and commanding screen presence, Anna May Wong (1905-1961) defined the role of the “Dragon Lady.” She defied cultural and legal barriers to achieve success in silent and talking pictures. She was the first Asian American woman to reach international stardom and no other actress has yet to rival her acclaim.
Join us at the Chinese Museum to gain a rare insight into Anna May Wong’s life, her visit to Australia and the community she mixed with in the 30s. Jointly presented by Elaine Mae Woo, director/producer of Anna May Wong - Frosted Yellow Willows: Her Life, Time and Legend, historian Derham Groves and Sophie Couchman, curator of the Chinese Museum.
Beforehand, you can become immersed in a Heritage Walk in the Chinatown of the times. After, join us for a 9-course Chinese meal, then see Anna May starring in Shanghai Express screening at ACMI Cinemas, Australian Centre for the Moving Image, Federation Square, Melbourne.
The Chinese Museum
22 Cohen Place
Chinatown Melbourne
