Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2001 17:26:50 +1000
Subject: FINAL REMINDER: CFP - Transforming Cultures/Shifting


(Please circulate to interested lists/people! Thanks)

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** TRANSFORMING CULTURES / SHIFTING BOUNDARIES **
Asian Diasporas and Identities in Australia and Beyond
http://www.arts.uq.edu.au/slccs/diasporas/default.html
30 November-2 December 2001
The University of Queensland, Brisbane

===  ONE MORE WEEK TILL CFP CLOSES! (27 JULY 2001) ==
This interdisciplinary conference focuses on the state of Asian diasporic 
studies in Australia and elsewhere. "Asian diasporic studies" is becoming a 
more complex configuration of racial issues, cultural flows, and identity 
politics, inflected by the continuing impacts of globalised cultures and 
new technologies.

One of the aims of the conference is to understand the construction of 
'Australia' both as a site for migration of peoples from the Asian/Pacific 
region and beyond and also as an already hybridised location whose popular 
and intellectual cultures increasingly trouble the notion of an 'authentic' 
majority culture against which immigrant identities can be understood as 
Other. Global advances in media and communications technologies have 
ensured that, not just peoples but cultures are on the move, challenging 
the notion of a clash of authentic, original ethnic or cultural identities.

CONFIRMED KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:
* Ien Ang (University of Western Sydney)
* Karen Kelsky (University of Oregon)
* David Parker (University of Birmingham)

CONFIRMED SPECIAL GUEST SPEAKER:
* RICHARD FUNG (UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO)

PLEASE VISIT THE WEBSITE FOR MORE INFORMATION:
http://www.arts.uq.edu.au/slccs/diasporas/default.html

^ÓTransforming Cultures/Shifting Boundaries^Ô welcomes abstracts for papers 
in any discipline addressing the following themes and topics:
­ issues for Asian diasporic studies as a discipline
­ contemporary transcultural and/or multicultural politics
­ Asian/Indigenous issues
­ sexuality, eroticism, and interracial relationships
­ textual representations and cultural profiles of Asian communities 
(literature, visual arts, film, popular culture, etc)
­ effects of ^Ñvirtual^Ò communities and new technologies
­ minority-minority contentions and connections
­ transgender and queer issues in diasporic communities
­ diasporic community histories (eg. genealogies, clans, associations)
­ issues surrounding the ^Ñethnic vote^Ò
­ analyses of Asian diasporic cultural sites (eg. Chinatowns, restaurants, 
^Ñenclaves^Ò)

Please send abstracts (250 words max) by 27 JULY to:
Anne Platt (Asian Studies Centre), Gordon Greenwood Building, University of 
Queensland, AUSTRALIA, 4072
Phone: 61-7-3365-6763 / Fax: 61-7-3365-6811

Other enquiries to: Dr. Helen Creese (Department of Asian Languages and 
Studies), University of Queensland, AUSTRALIA, 4072   Phone: 61-7-3365 6413 
/ Fax:61-7-3365 6799

"Transforming Cultures/Shifting Boundaries" is back-to-back with 
AsiaPacifiQueer II (3-4 December):
http://wwwsshe.murdoch.edu.au/intersections/apq/apqhomepage.html


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