The Asian Australian Film Forum (AAFF) will be held in Melbourne immediately after “New Communities, New Racisms” (AAI 4: The 4th Biennial AASRN conference).
Asian Australian Film Forum (AAFF) 2011 12-13 November 2011
This event will showcase a collection of films (shorts and features) and panels that explore and define the identities and experiences of Asian Australians and Asian diasporic communities.
INVITED SPEAKERS include:
Jiao Chen
Dominic Golding
Somchay Phakonkham
Annette Shun Wah
Heng Tang
Maria Tran
Andy Trieu, and
Kieran Tully
Planned panels include:
‘The Screen Scene – Getting AA Stories Seen’: With a focus on the directors, scriptwriters, producers and marketers, this panel aims to look behind the scenes at how Asian Australian stories make it to the screen as well as Australian audiences relationship with films from Asia and Asian diasporas.
‘Asian Faces and Cultural Spaces’: Actors & TV Presenters discuss the contributions that Asian Australians, Asian diasporas and international films have made to film and TV including their own work.
Cross Cultural Perspectives: Explores insights on issues of identity and belonging found in international films and films by Asian transnational adoptees.
‘Why Do They Call Us Names?’: This panel aims to reflect on issues of racism, stereotypes and competing understandings of identity, with a special interest in video activism and fresh perspectives on Internet mediums such as YouTube.
AAFF is convened by:
Dr Indigo Willing (University of Queensland), who also convened ‘An Asian Australian Occasion’ (AAAO), a mini-Asian Australian film festival including academic panels, in 2007; and
Mr Amadeo Marquez-Perez, who is the Executive Director of the international 15/15 Film Festival.
Ms Mikala Tai, who is a co-founder of Asia Pacific Contemporary.
Dr Tseen Khoo, founding convenor of the Asian Australian Studies Research Network.
The 5th International Conference of Institutes and Libraries for Chinese Overseas Studies
Sponsorship Opportunities
For the past decade, the Dr. You-Bao Shao Overseas Chinese Documentation Center in Ohio University Library has been co-organizing the International Conferences of Institutes and Libraries for Chinese Overseas Studies with different host institutions in Hong Kong (2003), Singapore (2005), and most recently China, in Jinan University in Guangzhou, China (2009). They have been very successful in bringing librarians, institutes, and scholars in Chinese Overseas Studies together, not only in providing a platform for librarians and curators to interact and exchange ideas with scholars and collectors from Asia, the Americas and Europe, but also a platform for tackling issues in collection development, access, preservation, and information-sharing in the field of Chinese overseas.
The University of British Columbia and the Ohio University Libraries will be jointly hosting the 5th WCILCOS International Conference of Institutes and Libraries on Chinese Overseas Studies in Vancouver, B.C. Canada, May 16th-18th 2012. The Asian Library of the University of British Columbia is prestigiously placed and equipped to host the next WCILCOS Conference in North America. The return of the Conference to North America is also a recognition of the rapid expansion of Chinese American studies and its related fields in the region.
The WCILCOS (World Confederation of institutes and libraries in Chinese Overseas Studies) is a federation established by participating institutes and libraries in a Chinese Overseas Studies conference in Athens, Ohio, in 2000, to facilitate co-operation between scholarship and documentation, and between institutes, libraries, and archives in different parts of the world. Registered in Ohio, it is non-profit and non-political. No membership dues are collected. Since the inception of WCILCOS in 2000, the Shao Center has served as its secretariat, and devoting its resources to the Confederation’s goals and visions. (For more information, please see www.overseaschineseconfederation.org).
Keynote Speakers:
Dr. Henry Yu University of British Columbia
Dr. GuoTu Zhuang Xiamen University
Conference Schedule:
Wednesday May 16th, 2012 Opening Ceremony
Thursday May 17th, 2012 Conference Sessions
Friday May 18th, 2012 Conference Sessions & Closing Ceremony
Saturday May 19th, 2012 City Tour (Optional)
Since the first WCILCOS Conference held in Athens, USA in 2000, the meeting has built an impressive reputation over the years in the field of Overseas Chinese research and librarianship. Previous conferences have attracted participants from the Americas, Asia, Europe, and Australia. With three sponsors already committed, we are offering the following packages to more organizations / vendors / individuals who are interested to be part of this exciting event. If you would like to discuss other parameters of sponsorship, please contact Eleanor Yuen at eleanor.yuen@ubc.ca or 604-822-5905 to discuss further.
Gold Sponsors | One-time contribution of CAD $2,000
One (1) exhibition booth at the main venue of the conference
Two (2) complimentary registration (includes 2 dinners (opening/closing) and 2 lunches (17th & 18th) for each of the two representatives)
Acknowledgement of Gold Sponsorship at the opening ceremony
Top logo placement on conference banner
Top logo placement on conference program package
Top logo placement on conference website
Silver Sponsors | One-time contribution of CAD $1,000
Two (2) complimentary registration (includes 2 dinners (opening/closing) and 2 lunches (17th & 18th) for each of the two representatives)
Second rank logo placement on conference banner
Second rank logo placement on conference program package
Second rank logo placement on conference website
Bronze Sponsors | One-time contribution of CAD $500
The new book by Michelle Aung Thin, The Monsoon Bride, was recently published by Text.
Praise for The Monsoon Bride:
“[Michelle Aung Thin’s original voice] evokes a viscerally beautiful world and
a heady journey into the consequences of love. A wonderful read.”
— Alice Pung
Book blurb:
Winsome is just married and filled with anticipation. Her new husband is a stranger—one of the suitors chosen for her and the other mixed-race girls from the men who apply to the orphanage. But as the night train rattles towards her new home she sees possibility in this uncertain destiny. She knows she is headed for a new life in the metropolis.
She does not know about Rangoon, this city cradled in the arms of rivers. That it is about to be torn apart in the struggle between its ancient owners and new masters. That it will seduce her, possess her senses and change utterly her notion of what kind of woman she can be. When she meets Jonathan—when the monsoon comes—she begins to find out.
The Museum will be the final stop in a walking tour, Melbourne’s Hidden Dragons, which Carole Wilkinson. Walkers will have their eyes opened to the many dragons hidden in Melbourne’s public spaces, from stone guardians to festive silken mascots. Along the way, Carole will explore the mythology of these fantastic beasts and their abiding presence in storytelling.
Tour price includes entry to the Chinese Museum.
Sat 27, Sun 28 Aug. 11 am‐12.30 pm, Sat 3 Sept 1pm‐2.30 pm. www.mwf.com.au
Rediscovered Past: Chinese Tropical Australia || The fourth “no fuss” Conference
11-12 February 2012
Organised by Chinese Heritage in Northern Australia Inc. (CHINA Inc), at the Hotel Sheridan Plaza, 295 Sheridan Street, Cairns, QLD, 4870.
Following on from the successful previous three Rediscovered Past conferences held in Cairns, the organisers are pleased to announce a fourth conference to be held in 2012. Again this will be a “no fuss” multidisciplinary event run over two days and will be open to contributions from all fields of Chinese Australian studies – including history, archaeology, heritage management, law, literature, linguistics, art, and library science. The conference will maintain the previous casual, friendly atmosphere that everybody has enjoyed.
The theme of the conference, ‘Chinese Tropical Australia’, aims to focus attention on the historic emergence of Chinese Australian communities in the Far North. Chinese have been part of the region for several centuries, starting with sporadic visits by traders and fishermen and culminating in the large scale immigration of miners, workers and business people during the 19th century. Yet these people have usually not been considered settlers, but rather transient visitors who remained separate from other communities and did not alter their cultural practices or identity. Research in recent years challenges this view, showing that early Chinese immigrants interacted, adapted and transformed themselves in diverse ways. They became part of the social fabric of their new land, established new ways of life, and founded families and communities.
The conference will comprise for a full day on the Saturday and a half-day on the Sunday. The program is yet to be finalised but the event will be run in consecutive sessions. As before, the popular Saturday night conference dinner and concluding yumcha lunch will be continued.
The fees are: Full Conference attendance of AUD $45; Single Day (Saturday) attendance of AUD $30; and Half-day attendance of $15. The Conference Dinner and Yumcha will be pay as you go.
The city of Cairns has been a major regional historical site of Chinese Australian life since the 1870s. Researchers of Chinese history and heritage may investigate the Cairns Historical Society collections as well as the Pioneer and Martyn Street cemeteries. From Cairns, visitors may travel to Aloomba –a site of extensive Chinese sugarcane farming – to Innisfail (Geraldton) – a site of Chinese banana growing, and to Atherton – the site of the Hou Wang Chinese temple. Those who have the time could venture further afield to Croydon, where the remains of the former ‘Chinatown’ precinct exists as a significant Chinese Australian archaeological site, and to Cooktown, the site of early Chinese immigration associated with the Palmer River Gold Rush.
Cairns is a well-known holiday destination for domestic and international visitors. Information about travel and accommodation can be found through a Google search. Accommodation is available at the conference venue, the Hotel Sheridan Plaza, at a rate of $110 per night. February is a relatively quiet period for Cairns and as a consequence flights and accommodation tend to be cheaper and more readily available.
If you think you would like to present at or attend the conference, please email an expression of interest and/or abstract to: china_nth@yahoo.com.au.
The deadline for presentation proposals on the conference theme is 30 November 2011.
Conference registration will run from December 2011, and full registration details will be issued soon.
For general enquiries and correspondence please contact:
Secretary, Chinese Heritage in Northern Australia Inc, Dr Kevin Rains, 5 Railway Street, EAST IPSWICH, QLD, Australia 4305 || email: krains@goldcoast.qld.gov.au
The 5th International Conference of Institutes and Libraries for Chinese Overseas Studies
Chinese through the Americas
May 16-19, 2012; University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C., Canada
University of British Columbia’s Asian Library is pleased to announce that, in cooperation with the Ohio University Libraries, it will host the 5th WCILCOS International Conference of Institutes and Libraries for Chinese Overseas Studies on Chinese through the Americas. The event will be held May 16th to 19th, 2012 at the University of British Columbia (Point Grey Campus) in Vancouver, Canada.
It is fitting that Vancouver, Canada will be the venue for the 5th WCILCOS conference as this beautiful city has been a hub of transnational flows of Chinese migrants since the 18th century. As the host institution, the UBC Asian Library is prestigiously placed and equipped to orchestrate the upcoming conference. The return of the WCILCOS Conference to North America also serves to recognize the rapid expansion of Chinese overseas studies and its related fields in the region. As with previous WCILCOS conferences, the organizers hope to utilize this event to promote the nexus between research and documentation on Chinese overseas studies and to facilitate greater interaction between scholars and librarians around the world.
The conference now seeks roundtable, panel and paper proposals as well as poster presentations revolving around, but not limited to, the following topics:
New Patterns of Migration
Chinese Overseas Heritage Treasures: Transnational Discovery & Delivery
Comparative Studies of Chinatowns in Asia, Europe, Australia and the Americas
Overseas Chinese Rare Collections
Emerging Communities and Descendants of Pioneers
Ethnic Relations
Identity Issues, Values and Culture
Organizations, Documentations, Archives and Networks
Immigration and Emigration Policies
Chinese Overseas Literature
Proposals are welcome from academics, librarians, graduate students and undergraduate students. Continuing with the WCILCOS tradition, the conference will accept papers in both English and Chinese. For individual papers/ posters please submit a 300-500 word abstract, a 150 word personal bio and a CV of no more than 2 pages. Abstracts should include a phone number and email address. For panel presentations, please submit a panel abstract of 450 words or less, along with the names and paper titles of each presenter, contact information [phone and email] for the primary contact person, and a CV of no more than 2 pages for each presenter. Panels should include 3-4 presenters. We will provide moderators for each panel session.
Please email the abstract and proposal to wcilcos.2012@ubc.ca. All abstracts, bio and CV should be sent in one single attachment in either Microsoft Word document (.doc or .docx) or Rich Text File (.rtf) format. Name the attachment with your last name and the words “paper proposal” (for individual paper) or the panel organizer’s last name and the words “panel proposal” (for panel presentation). The text should be prepared on letter/A4 size paper (8.5”x11”), single-spaced, and in 12-point font.
Planning activities will be guided by an organizing committee of library and academic leaders from educational, research and cultural institutes as well as university and public libraries. A UBC workgroup including Eleanor Yuen, Denise Fong, Lilly Li and Phoebe Chow will oversee the organization and launch of the event.
Co-chairs:
FERRIER, Jeffrey, Curator, Centre for International Collections, Ohio University Libraries
YUEN, Eleanor, Head, Asian Library, University of British Columbia
Organizing Committee Members:
FONG, Denise, Project Manager, Chinese Canadian Stories – A UBC-SFU Project
HU-DEHART, Evelyn, Professor of History and Ethnic Studies, Brown University
KO, Angela, Assistant Fung Ping Shan Librarian, University of Hong Kong Libraries
LEE, Hwa-Wei, Former Chief, Asian Division, Library of Congress
LEONG, Jack Hang-Tat, Director, Richard Charles Lee Canada-Hong Kong Library, University of Toronto Libraries
SEAMAN, Scott, Dean, Ohio University Libraries
XU Yun, Director, Associate Professor Librarian, Department of Overseas Chinese Documents Studies, Jinan University Library
YU, Henry, Associate Professor, Department of History and Principal Pro tem, St. John’s College, University of British Columbia / Project Lead, Chinese Canadian Stories – A UBC-SFU Project
ZHANG, Xiuming, Senior Editor, Chinese Institute for Overseas Chinese History Studies and Chief Editor of Overseas Chinese History Studies
ZHENG, Liren, Curator, Charles W. Wason Collection on East Asia, Cornell University Library
ZHUANG Guotu, Dean, Faculty of International Relations & Research School of SE Asian Studies, Xiamen University
“Once Upon A Time…” thực hiện một loạt tài liệu truyền hình về Cabramatta cho chương trình SBS. Chúng tôi muốn phỏng vấn các thành viên của cộng đồng người Việt Nam đến Úc mà không có cha mẹ hoặc gia đình của họ.
Nếu bạn muốn chia sẻ câu chuyện của bạn với chúng tôi, xin vui lòng gọi (02) 9818 1855 hoặc email stephanie@ouat.net.au.
Once Upon a Time Productions is making a television documentary series about Cabramatta for SBS. We are interested in hearing from members of the Vietnamese community who came to Australia without their parents or family. If you would like to share your story with us, please call (02) 9818 1855 or email stephanie@ouat.net.au
AUSTRALIAN GENERATIONS ORAL HISTORY PROJECT is currently seeking participants across Victoria, Queensland, South Australia and Western Australia.
In a new national project, historians at Monash (Professor Al Thomson, Associate Professor Christina Twomey and Dr Seamus O'Hanlon) and La Trobe Universities, in partnership with ABC Radio National and the National Library of Australia, are collecting life story interviews with generations of Australians born from the 1920s to the 1980s.
We are interested in the life stories of all Australians – rural and urban, male and female, the recently arrived and people whose families have lived in Australia for generations.
Please help us promote this call out by circulating this email with attachment to your networks.
Performance 4a’s website keeps you in touch with Asian Australian performance through news, links and an exciting resource: the Asian-Australian Performance Directory. Its aim is to become the definitive source of information about all contemporary performance exploring Asian-Australian themes, and to foster an online community interested in these themes.
Visited Performance 4A’s NEWS page lately? Do it! Check out the range of Asian Australian talent, projects, and initiatives!
The new book by Michelle Aung Thin, 
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