ISSCO VII 7th Conference of The International Society for the Study of Chinese Overseas 7 – 9 May 2010 Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
CONFERENCE THEME: Migration, Indigenization and Exchange: Chinese Overseas from Global Perspective Recent globalization which began at the end of the last century has had a tremendous impact on Chinese overseas; the conventional notions on Chinese migration, indigenization and exchange between ethnic Chinese and their host or adopted countries as well as between ethnic Chinese and China require re-examination.The major objectives of the 7th International conference of ISSCO are to re-look from regional as well as global perspectives at these issues, in particular the challenges faced by Chinese overseas in the political, economic, linguistic, cultural, educational and religious areas. These challenges may also be compared with the historical experiences of the Chinese overseas for a better understanding of their present situation, and possibly a prognosis of the future. For more information about sub-themes and conference venue, see attachment.
ABOUT ISSCO: the International Society for the Study of Chinese Overseas, was established in 1992 as a scholarly, non-political and non-profit professional society of individuals and institutions interested in and committed to the study of Chinese overseas. The primary purposes of the society are to advance research and scholarly exchange in the study for Chinese overseas, to provide means for research and publications, and to organize and support national and international conferences.
The 1st Asian Women's Film Festival was successfully launched in October 2007 at the Cinema Arsenal, Berlin. More than 40 films representing diverse genres from Korea, Japan, China, Taiwan, Vietnam, Malaysia and Hong Kong were screened. International guests attended the festival which also encompassed Q&A sessions, a symposium "The Women's Survival Guide to Filmmaking in Asia", and networking activities. The festival is scheduled to be held once every two years. The AWFF welcomes film and video works directed, written, shot, edited and produced by Asian women. We are looking for works which question and challenge rules of normalcy regarding gender and ethnicity. The 2009 program will be divided into five sections: New Currents, Asian-Diaspora, Short Films, Experimental and Documentary. Does it all have to be about identity politics? While this issue does play a significant role in our program, it is really not intended to be an exclusive criterion for selection. Rather, the festival is conceived as a platform where categories, genres and subjects themselves can be proposed, opposed, declined and negotiated; different ways of re/presentation performed.
Asian Women's Film Festival Berlin
c/o Sun-ju Choi
Oranienstr. 49
10969 Berlin
Germany sunjuchoi@web.de http://www.asianwomensfilm.de/
The Centre for Pacific and American Studies (CPAS) at the University of Tokyo hosts an annual Visiting Professor in Australian Studies at their Komaba Campus, Tokyo. Professor Gay Hawkins has been appointed to the position for 2009-10, and will take up the Visiting Professorship in October.
Professor Kate Darian-Smith (University of Melbourne), Chair of the selection panel, says the position plays a ‘vital role’ in strengthening academic relations between Australia and Japan, ‘but also,’ she argues, ‘it contributes more broadly to the exchange of ideas and understanding between our two cultures.’
Professor Hawkins is a leading cultural studies academic based at UNSW in the School of English, Media and Performing Arts. Her most recent books are The Ethics of Waste: How we Relate to Rubbish (2006) which was on the Gleebooks non-fiction bestseller list for two months in 2007, and, co-authored with Ien Ang and Lamia Dabboussy, The SBS Story: The Challenge of Cultural Diversity (2008).
Professor Hawkins says that the position offers a wonderful opportunity to include Japan in her current study of bottled water, by analysing changing dynamics of water use and their impacts on domestic practices. In Japan Professor Hawkins also plans to extend her research into the media and cultural diversity, and the relationship between environment and everyday life.
InASA, the peak global Australian Studies organisation, manages the selection process for the Visiting Professor on behalf of the Australia-Japan Foundation. The Australia-Japan Foundation has been
crucial in offering financial and administrative support for the position. Applications for the 2010-11 Professorship will open later this year.
Further details about the position can be found at:
Professor Kate Darian-Smith
The Australian Centre
School of Historical Studies
The University of Melbourne
T: +61 3 8344 7232
E: k.darian-smith@unimelb.edu.au
Professor Gay Hawkins
School of English, Media and Performing Arts
UNSW
T: +61 2 9385 6800
E: g.hawkins@unsw.edu.au
Twentieth Century Chinese Auto/Biography International ConferenceJuly 22-24, 2009
Organized by the Literacy Group of Hong Kong Arts Development Council, co-presented by the School of Chinese of the University of Hong Kong and supported by the Hong Kong Public Libraries of Leisure and Cultural Services Department, Twentieth Century Chinese Auto/Biography International Conference will be hosted at the Theatre of the Hong Kong Central Library and the St. John's College of the University of Hong Kong on the 22-24 July 2009.
The conference will aim to conclude the current state and characteristics of Chinese auto/biography, and identify its major recent developments in theory as well as practice. The Conference will be conducted in Chinese and last for three days. Scholars and general public are invited to attend the 'Twentieth Century Chinese Auto/Biography International Conference'.
For enquiries, please contact our Arts Support Manager, Ms. Jacqueline Lo at 852-2820 1098 (Tel. no.) / jacqueline_lo@hkadc.org.hk (email) / 852-2824 0585 (Fax no.).
Australian Studies Copenhagen, Distinguished Visiting Chair, 2010
The University of Copenhagen Centre for Australian Studies invites applications for a Visiting Professorship in 2010. The Distinguished Visiting Chair in Australian Studies is kindly sponsored by the Australian Government Department of Education, Employment, and Workplace Relations, and is rotated annually. The appointment is for the European spring semester of each year (five months from February to June), and the next position is available from 1 February 2010. The post comes with a stipend of AUD 16 500 towards travel and accommodation expenses. Office and computer facilities will also be provided by the University.
The Chair holder is required to teach one course at postgraduate level in a subject area of his or her choice. This entails the delivery of one two-hour per week seminar over a period of 12 weeks (February to May). The Chair holder will also be responsible for examining the course in June. Additionally, the Chair holder will be expected to take part in the activities of the Centre, and present a research paper at an appropriate time at one of our departmental seminars.
The position is open to:
scholars currently serving at an Australian University
at Professorial or Associate Professorial level (levels D and E)
in one or more disciplines of relevance to Australian Studies, including but not limited to Literature, History, Politics, International Relations, Film and Media Studies.
Applicants are invited to submit the following documentation in support of their application:
A curriculum vitae, including list of publications
A brief description of at least one postgraduate level course in Australian Studies that they propose to offer at Copenhagen University (approx. 1 A4 page)
The names of at least two referees who might be contacted in support of their application.
Applications will be assessed in June by a committee consisting of representatives of the University of Copenhagen and the Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations. The Chair will be appointed according to the following selection criteria:
Research and teaching excellence in one or more disciplines of relevance to Australian Studies
Suitability of the proposed course of postgraduate study for Copenhagen University students
Experience in teaching Australian Studies to non-Australian students
A capacity to forge enduring scholarly links between Australia and Europe
Please note that this is a non-salaried post, and that it is the applicants’ own responsibility to obtain the necessary leave to take up the position. The deadline for applications is Monday 1 June 2009 at 5pm (GMT + 2). Applications and enquiries should be e-mailed (with supporting documentation in the form of Word attachments) to:
Thue Sebastian Winkler
Department of English, Germanic and Romance Studies
University of Copenhagen
e-mail: australianstudies@hum.ku.dk
The University of Copenhagen acknowledges the financial and other support it has received from the Australian Government Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations.
Academy of Arts and Humanities Publications Subsidy Scheme
This scheme provides modest financial support of up to AU$3,000 for the publication of scholarly works of high quality in the Humanities. The closing date for applications is Friday 31st July 2009.
The Meyer Foundation Arts and Humanities Small Grants Program
The current priority areas for this scheme include:
To build capacity of the individual through ensuring that professional artists gain access to training, development and mentoring.
Develop new works by individual Australian artists and small and medium-sized organisations in the following areas: Indigenous arts; Regional areas; and Experimental and emerging art forms.
Projects that support the Humanities, particularly those that contribute to a broad understanding of and engagement with the Humanities.
The closing dates for applications are Wednesday 8th April 2009 and Wednesday 16th July 2009.
Schemes for projects relating to: Arts; Education; Community Wellbeing; and Community Wellbeing International Travel, as well as the Travel and Conference scheme are now open. Closing date for applications is Monday 1st June 2009.
'Writers and their World' Seminar - Rosemary Cameron, Director, Melbourne Writers Festival
'Literary festivals and the publishing industry: friends or foe?’
BY ROSEMARY CAMERON
Rosemary Cameron has been director of the Melbourne Writers Festival since November 2005. Before Melbourne, Rosemary directed the Brisbane Writers Festival for 3 years.
For 2 years she was a judge of the Victorian Premier’s Literary Prize for Fiction and, when in Brisbane, she was a judge of One Book, Many Brisbanes for Brisbane City Council & on the selection panel for the John Oxley Fellowship at the State Library of QLD.
Before being involved in literary festivals Rosemary worked mostly in performing arts management in Sydney, Brisbane and London. This included working for The Queensland Conservatorium Griffith University, Stage X Festival at QPAC, English National Opera & the Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Marrickville Festival, Oslo Early Music Festival, Performing Lines and the Australian Elizabethan Theatre Trust.
She currently lives in Glen Iris with her two sons, George (15) and Daniel (12).
ALL WELCOME
Inquiries: Dr Chandani Lokuge; English Section, School of English, Communications and Performance Studies; 9905 2136
China Abroad: Travels, Subjects, Spaces (Hong Kong UP, 2009)
China Abroad: Travels, Subjects, Spaces is a pioneering work which brings together accounts of the journey and cross-cultural experiences of Chinese travelers in the late nineteenth century with those of more recent migrants and diasporic Chinese subjects in a number of global locations including twentieth-century Hong Kong. The book seeks to address how movements across cultures shape the different ways in which China and Chineseness have been imagined and represented since the beginning of the last century. In so doing, it aims to offer an overview of the debate about Chineseness as it has emerged in different global locations.
Through a variety of primary sources in different media, the individual essays discuss different approaches to the nation-diaspora paradigm. Set against the representations of this paradigm is the broader backdrop of the history of an "abroad" shaped by the actual encounter between Chinese and non-Chinese forces, by the transplantation of people, money, labor, and ideas, by frustration and exploitation, and by the ever present attempt to transcend a hierarchy of unequal ethnicities, cultures, and languages to full participatory, polyphonic equality. The collection coheres through its focus on the common interest in "China Abroad" but it is also of particular interest through the variety of critical approaches it adopts.
The collection will be of interest to literary and cultural studies scholars, historians, and sociologists with an interest in twentieth-century and current cross-cultural issues and, specifically, China-West Studies. It features a Foreword by Rey Chow, and essays by AASRN members Deborah Madsen and Tseen Khoo.
Elaine Yee Lin Ho is associate professor in the School of English at the University of Hong Kong. She has published book monographs on Timothy Mo (2000) and Anita Desai (2006), and many articles on anglophone world literatures and Hong Kong film, literature, and culture. Her current research interest is in literature and literary cultures at the intersections of Hong Kong, mainland China, and the West.
Julia Kuehn is assistant professor in English at the University of Hong Kong, where her research and teaching interests are in nineteenth-century literature and travel writing. Her publications include Glorious Vulgarity: Marie Corelli's Feminine Sublime in a Popular Context (2004), and the co-edited collections A Century of Travels in China: Critical Essays on Travel Writing from the 1840s to the 1940s (2007) and Travel Writing, Form and Empire: The Poetics and Politics of Mobility (2008).
Beyond the Hijab Debates: New Conversations on Gender, Race and Religion
Editors: Tanja Dreher and Christina Ho
Date Of Publication: Feb 2009
Isbn13: 978-1-4438-0169-0
Isbn: 1-4438-0169-0
Headscarves in schools. Ethnic gang rapists. Domestic violence in Indigenous communities. Polygamy. Sharia law. It seems that in public debates around the world, concerns about marginalised communities often revolve around issues of gender and women’s rights. Yet all too often, discussions about complex matters are reduced to simplistic debates such as “hijab: to ban or not to ban?” or “Muslim women: oppressed or liberated?”.
This collection provides a space for in-depth analyses on the politics of gender, race and religion. As well as critical reflections on images and experiences of Muslim women, chapters also explore the relationships between gender, violence and protection, and offer innovative possibilities for intellectual and practical understandings at the intersection of gender, race and religion.
Essential reading for scholars and students of gender and women’s studies, cultural studies, racial and ethnic studies, religious studies and an educated public interested in understanding the challenges and possibilities of tackling both racism and the oppression of women.
Tanja Dreher is ARC Postdoctoral Fellow in the Transforming Cultures Research Centre at the University of Technology, Sydney and researches media and multiculturalism with a particular interest in changing journalism cultures, whiteness and gender. Her current project explores the productive possibilities of a politics of ‘listening’ to address some of the dilemmas of the more conventional politics of voice and representation.
Christina Ho is a Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at the University of Technology, Sydney. She researches migration, cultural diversity and gender. Her current projects examine sanctuary and security in Muslim women’s lives, cultural citizenship in Western Sydney, and models of community relations projects in Australia.
“Tanja Dreher and Christina Ho have intelligently and sensitively opened up a space for a number of authors who call on readers to develop a complex, but at the same time, simply human, appreciation of the intricate negotiations that Muslim women have to engage in to preserve the viability of their lives in a terrain rife with contradictions” – Ghassan Hage, author of White Nation: Fantasies of White Supremacy in a Multicultural Society and Against Paranoid Nationalism: Searching for Hope in a Shrinking Society.
Jiu: Commemoration and Celebration in the Chinese-speaking World
(CSAA conference)
The Women's College, University of Sydney
9-11 July 2009
The CSAA 2009 Conference adopts the theme of ‘jiu’, and thus takes up the challenge of both celebrating and commemorating the achievements and hardships of the past century 1909-2009 in the Chinese-speaking world. We encourage papers and panels that develop this theme by revisiting old paradigms in the spirit of new research ideas, and by bringing historical perspective to the issues of the present day.
Puns and wordplay, where they allow for complex ideas to be fluently transmitted to an expert audience, are very welcome and apposite.
For more information about the theme, events and keynote speakers of the CSAA 2009 Conference, visit its official website HERE.
