Cultural Studies in Asia Symposium

Posted on | October 12, 2006 | No Comments

Featuring Professors Ien Ang, Chua Beng Huat, Meaghan Morris, and Krishna Sen

Sponsored by the Centre for Critical and Cultural Studies and the ARC Cultural Research Network

Thursday 23 November 2006, 2-5pm
Seminar Room 1, E356
3rd Floor Forgan Smith Building, East Wing, St Lucia Campus, University of Queensland

This symposium will explore the current state of cultural studies in Asia, and how Australian cultural studies might engage in Asia, and what difficulties might emerge from this engagement. A panel discussion will follow short presentations by four prominent academics in the field.

About the presenters
Professor Ien Ang is ARC Professorial Fellow and former Director of the Centre for Cultural Research, University of Western Sydney. She is one of the leaders in cultural studies worldwide, with interdisciplinary work spanning many areas of the humanities and social sciences. Her work focuses especially on media and cultural consumption, including the study of media audiences, identity politics, nationalism and globalisation, migration and ethnicity, and issues of representation in contemporary cultural institutions. Her publications include On Not Speaking Chinese: Living Between Asia and the West, Routledge, 2001 and Living Room Wars: Rethinking Media Audiences for a Postmodern World, Routledge, 1996.

Professor Chua Beng Huat is Professor of Sociology at the National University of Singapore and editor of Singapore Studies II: Critical Surveys of the Humanities and Social Sciences, Singapore University Press, 1999 and Consumption In Asia: Lifestyles And Identities, Routledge, 2000.

Professor Meaghan Morris is Chair of Cultural Studies at Lingnan University, Hong Kong and visiting professor at the Centre for Cultural Research, University of Western Sydney. She is internationally renowned for her work on the role of cinema and the media in forming national and transnational cultures, and she has published extensively in the fields of cultural studies, feminism, and migration. She is author of Identity Anecdotes: Translation and Media Culture, Sage Publications, 2006, Hong Kong Connections: Transnational Imagination in Action Cinema, (with Siu-Leung Liand Stephen Chan Ching-kiu) Hong Kong University Press, 2005, and New Keywords: A Revised Vocabulary of Culture and Society (with Tony Bennett and Lawrence Grossberg) Blackwell, 2005.

Professor Krishna Sen is Professor of Asian Media in the Department of Media and Information Studies at Curtin University of Technology. While her work is interdisciplinary, she is best known for her research into Asian, particularly Indonesian, media.

The symposium will be chaired by Prof Graeme Turner, Director of the Centre for Critical and Cultural Studies, and Convenor of the ARC Cultural Research Network. Light refreshments will be served after the symposium.

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