ACS Crossroad 2010

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		Day 1 (17 June)
9:30 - 11:00	Opening & Keynote 1
	Katherine Gibson , University of Western Sydney: After ‘the end of capitalism’: what’s next? Chair: Ching-kiu Stephen Chan, Lingnan University
11:00 - 11:30	Coffee Break
11:30 - 1:00	Panels 1
	Panel 1.01 *Rethinking Suburban Cultures I* Organizer: Mark Gibson, Monash University Chair: Mark Gibson, Monash University Panelists: Fiona Allon, University of Sydney: Australian Dream Terry Flew, Queensland University of Technology: Challenges of Suburban Cultural Research: Can we Generalize from the Australian Case? Catherine A. Lawrence, The University of Queensland: Suburban Spaces: ‘Shown’ as Unique Places?
	Panel 1.02 *Ecology and Livelihood: Alternative Perspectives and Practices for Peace* Organizer: Kin-chi Lau, Lingnan University Chair: Kin-chi Lau, Lingnan University Panelists: Hsiu-mei Chung, National Cheng Kung University: Asian Peasant Women’s Network for Alternatives: Asian Peasant Women Rewrite Politics of Livelihood and Ecology Jie Du, Hong Kong Polytechnic University: Development or Devastation? -- The View of Home from a Young Female Migrant Worker’s Perspective Kin-chi Lau, Lingnan University: Peace and Ecology: Alternative Perspectives Ling Zhao, PeaceWomen Across the Globe-Beijing Office: Action Research of Women, Ecology, Livelihood and Grassroots Movements in China
	Panel 1.03 *Asia 2.0: Blogs as Public Media - Blogs as Public Media* Organizers: Younghan Cho, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies; Nakho Kim , University of Wisconsin-Madison Chair: Shih-diing Liu, University of Macao Discussant: Larissa Hjorth, RMIT University Panelists: Younghan Cho, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies: Mobilizing an Online Community during the Protests against U.S. Beef Imports in South Korea Kaori Hayashi, University of Tokyo; Tetsuo Hatanaka, University of Tokyo: A Future of the Local Press?: The Potential of Social Networking Websites run by Japanese Local Newspaper Nakho Kim, University of Wisconsin-Madison: Social Mythicization of Anonymous Pundits - The Case of South Korean Blogger Minerva Dong-hoo Lee, University of Incheon: Micro-politics of Wifeloggers in Korea: In-between Consumers and Cultural Producers
	Panel 1.04 *Geopolitics and Contemporary Art of the* *Polar Regions* Organizers: Lisa Bloom, University of California, San Diego; Elena Glasberg, Princeton University Chairs: Lisa Bloom, University of California, San Diego; Elena Glasberg, Princeton University Discussant: Jasbir Puar, Rutgers University Panelists: Lisa Bloom, University of California, San Diego: Climate Change in the Visual Culture of the Arctic Region Elena Glasberg, Princeton University: The Anthropogenic Landscape and Feminist Art Practice Judit Hersko, California State University San Marcos: Pages from the Book of the Unknown Explorer Connie Samaras, University of California, Irvine: Tales of Tomorrow: Comparing Speculative Landscapes in the South Pole, Dubai, and in the Writings of Octavia Butler
	Panel 1.05 *Animation Fandom and Costume Play as Transnational Queer Performativity* Organizer: Katrien Jacobs, City University of Hong Kong Chair: Katrien Jacobs, City University of Hong Kong Panelists: Ming-hsiu Mia Chen, University of Leeds: I Am That: Cosplay Katrien Jacobs, City University of Hong Kong; Anne Peirson-Smith, City University of Hong Kong: Doll Love and Silicone Satisfaction: Adapting and Articulating Identity, Gender and Sexuality Siu-yan Xavier Tam, The University of Hong Kong: Transnationalizing Yaoi: Tracing Boys Love across Asian Cinema(s)
	Panel 1.06 *Refugee States: Reconfigurations of Citizenship in the Asian Diaspora* Organizer: Thy Phu, The University of Western Ontario Chair: Thy Phu, The University of Western Ontario Panelists: Iyko Day, Mt. Holyoke College: Brave New Borders: NAFTA and the Aesthetics of Multicultural Citizenship Donald Goellnicht, McMaster University: Paul Wong and the Question of Refugee Citizenship Thy Phu, The University of Western Ontario: Adrift at Sea: The Vietnamese Boat People and the Subject of Asylum Suk-mun Sophia Law, Lingnan University: Visible Voices of the Asylum Seekers - Art of the Vietnamese Refugees in Hong Kong
	Panel 1.07 Christian Fundamentalism in East Asia Organizer: Wing-sang Law, Lingnan University Chair: Wing-sang Law, Lingnan University Panelists: Wing-sang Law, Lingnan University: What Make the Church Welcomed by the State? - Mapping the Trails of Christian Fundamentalism in Hong Kong Wai-ching Angela Wong, Chinese University of Hong Kong: The Value/De-valuation of Family in Christian Right Politics and Hong Kong Evangelical Activism Chi-keung Yam, Chinese University of Hong Kong: Resurgence of Refugee Theology? - Hong Kong Evangelistic Films as Expressions of Fundamentalist Christian Values Ching Yau, Lingnan University: Who Is This Wonderful Battle Really Fighting? (Or, What The Hong Kong Christian Fundamentalists Didn’t Tell You)
	Panel 1.08 Intellectuals and Historical Change Chair: Meng Li, The University of Sydney Panelists: Mynjung Kim, Seoul National University; Myungkoo Kang, Seoul National University; Ahreum Kim, Seoul National University: Formation of Korean Intellectual Community in 1950s and Role of the Magazine Meng Li, The University of Sydney: Life is Elsewhere: Representations of 1980s Intellectuals in Huang Beijia's Nine Novellas Alinaghian Shiva, University of Tehran: Genealogy of Persian Intellectual Failure: With Case Study on the Iranian Constitutional Revolution (1904-1911)
	Panel 1.09 Narrative, Cultural Practice and Place Chair: Yu-lin Lee, National Chung Hsing University Panelists: Chia-sui Crystal Sun, National Dong Hwa University: Publishing, Place and Cultural Imagination: Media Spaces and Cultural Landsapce of "The Lord of the Rings" Ying-fang Wang, National Cheng Kung University; Pei Hsing Chen, Gentaku Interior Design Studio; Shan-hui Hsu, National Cheng Kung University; Yu-lin Lee, National Chung Hsing University: Habitus Change in Current Taiwanese Society: A Study of the Sense of Place in the Reproduction of Culrural Goods Patricia Wise, Griffith University: Life, Style and the Capture of Code
	Panel 1.10 Universities after Corporatisation: Issues in Higher Education Chair: Ingrid M. Hoofd, National University of Singapore Panelists: Kylie Brass, The Australian Academy of the Humanities: Knowing the Humanities in Australia Chantal Cornut-Gentille, Zaragoza University: Quality as Deficit: A Critical Analysis of Bologna-Imposed, Quality Assurance Dynamics in Higher Education in Spain Ingrid M. Hoofd, National University of Singapore: The Acceleration of 'Critical Thinking' in the Asian Global Knowledge Enterprise
	Panel 1.11 Sexuality and Social Perceptions 　 Chairs: Kelly-Ann Dixon Hamil, University of the West Indies; Wendy C. McLean , University of the West Indies Panelists: Kelly-Ann Dixon Hamil, University of the West Indies; Wendy C. McLean , University of the West Indies; Kimberly Hinds , University of the West Indies: Caribbean Social Work Professionals and the LGBTq Community: An Examination of Attitudes and Behaviours Pay-ling Harn, National Taiwan Normal University; Sam Winter, University of Hong Kong; Pei-li Wu, National Taiwan University: An Exploration on Taiwanese Undergraduates' Gender Cognitions and Attitude toward Male to Female Transsexuals Alenka Švab, University of Ljubljana: Perceptions on Sexuality among Female University Students in Slovenia
	Panel 1.12 Experiments in Autobiography Chair: Tim Milfull, Queensland University of Technology Panelists: Yue-zi Joy Cheng, National Taiwan Normal University: Pain and Trauma in Persepolis Christian Kühner, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg & Ecole des hautes études en sciences sociales: Writing One's Nobility. An Inquiry into Aristocratic Autobiographies from Early Modern France Tim Milfull, Queensland University of Technology: Unravelling Whaley's Folly: The Perils of Writing Autobiographical Fiction and Fictionalised Memoir
	Panel 1.13 Perspectives on Rights and Being "Rightless" Chair: Manav Ratti, Warwick University Panelists: Gerard W. Johnson, New School for Social Research: Entertaining Camp Baraka: Oscillating Between Authoritarian Liberalism and “Niggerization” Maria Conceição Lopes, Aveiro University: Playing with the Meanings of Human Rights - The Gincana Games Manav Ratti, Warwick University: Cultural Studies and the 'New' Human Rights: Between Law and Literature
	Panel 1.14 World Cinema on the Border: Reconfiguring Human Bodies in Films of Global Migration Organizer: Jiwon Ahn, Keene State College Chair: Jiwon Ahn, Keene State College Panelists: Jiwon Ahn, Keene State College: Moving Women: Narrating Female Mobility in Films of Transnational Border-Crossing Sumita Chakravarty, The New School: Framing the (New) Cinema of Immigration Martin Roberts, The New School: Ghostworlds: Transnational Documentary and the Politics of Re-Enactment
	Panel 1.15 Youth and Media Organizer: Daniel Marshall, Deakin University Chair: 　　　Daniel Marshall, Deakin University Panelists: Catherine Anne Driscoll, University of Sydney: Learning from Teen Film: Governance, Guidance and the Limit Experience Kristina Marie Gottschall, Charles Sturt University: Youth, Masculinity and Popular Film: Ben Mendelsohn as Spectacular Pedagogue? Anna Catherine Hickey-Moody, University of Sydney: Youth Arts Practice: A Media of Subjectification Daniel Marshall, Deakin University: Beautiful People and Queer Youth Developmentalism
	Panel 1.16 Logistics of Creative Labour: Borders, Subjectivity, Governance Organizers: Brett Neilson, University of Western Sydney; Ned Rossiter, University of Nottingham Ningbo Chair: Stefano Harney, University of London Panelists: Anja Kanngieser, Independent Researcher: Navigating Ambivalence: Experiments in Creative Labour and Self-Organisation Laikwan Pang, Chinese University of Hong Kong: Artists as Creative Laborers? Dynamics between Art and Space Ned Rossiter, University of Nottingham: Logistics of Creative Labour: Regions, Translation and the Organization of Capacities
	Panel 1.17 *Articulations of National Identity in Popular Culture* Organizer: Melanie Mareike Schiller, University of Amsterdam Chair: Leonie Schmidt, University of Amsterdam Panelists: Sammy Basu, Willamette University: Nazism as an Operatic Performance: Wagner’s Die Meistersinger as Hitler’s Inspiration Aylin Kuryel, University of Amsterdam: Bio-Images and National Identity: Nationalist Tattoos in Turkey Melanie Mareike Schiller, University of Amsterdam: “We are the natives of Trizonesia!” - German Pop Music and Nationalism
	Panel 1.18 *(Re)Presenting the "Black' Diaspora: Identity, Space and Historical Re-enactment* Organizers: Boulou Ebanda de B'beri, University of Ottawa; Handel Wright, University of British Columbia　　 Chairs: Boulou Ebanda de B'beri, University of Ottawa; Handel Wright, University of British Columbia　 Panelists: Boulou Ebanda de B'beri, University of Ottawa: The Promised Land Project: What's my Name Glenn Jordan, University of Glamorgan: The Middle Passage and the Birth of the Black Subject Tim Laurie, University of Sydney: Edutainment: Sampling Histories and Writing Music in the United States Chris Weedon, Cardiff University: Re-configuring Cultural Memory in the UK: Colonialism, Slavery and the Slave Trade Handel Wright, University of British Columbia: Multiculturality Before Multiculturalism: Troubling Black Identity Beyond the Last Stop on the Underground Railroad
	Panel 1.19 *Representing Labour: Workers in Media Discourse* Chair: Pepi Leistyna, University of Massachusetts Panelists: Tsung-yi Michelle Huang, National Taiwan University; Chi-she Li, National Taiwan University: Like a Family but Not Quite: Cinematic Politics of Intimacy in Documentary Foreign Domestic Labours Helen Heran Jun, University of Illinois: “Enslaved”: Critical Discourses of the U.S. Prison Industrial Complex and Asian MigrantLabor Pepi Leistyna, University of Massachusetts: Global Media: Representations of Labor in the Age of Neoliberalism
	Panel 1.20 *Histories of Broadcasting* Chair: John Tebbutt, La Trobe University Panelists: Maureen Burns, University of Queensland; Niels Brugger, University of Aarhus: Histories of Public Service Broadcasters Online Ho-jung Kim, Seoul National University; Misook Baek, Seoul National University: The Conflict between Politics and the Market: The Case of Korean Color TV Broadcasting in 1970s John Tebbutt, La Trobe University: Listening to Australia: Radio Australia in East and Southeast Asia, 1950-1960
	Panel 1.21 *Creative Sweatshops: Cultural Workers in the New Economy* Organizer: George Morgan, University of Western Sydney Chair: George Morgan, University of Western Sydney Panelists: Melissa Gregg, University of Sydney: ‘People don't really care’: Working at the Margins of the Organization George Morgan, University of Western Sydney: Eyes on the Prize: Young Women, ‘Flexible Ambition’ and the Creative Industries Pariece Nelligan, University of Western Sydney: Works of Art: Narratives of Aspiration and the Identity Formation of Creative Workers
	Panel 1.22 *Queer/Genre/Psychogeography* Organizer: Melissa Hardie, University of Sydney Chair: Anna Gibbs, University of Western Sydney Panelists: Anna Gibbs, University of Western Sydney: In Search of Synchrony: Attunement and Disjunction in Epistemologies of Queer Space Melissa Hardie, University of Sydney: No More Drama: Guiding Light’s Al Fresco Queer Kate Lilley, University of Sydney: Ginsberg’s ‘Kaddish’ and the Psychogeography of Mourning
	Panel 1.23 *Going Beyond Boundaries: Women and Girls in Hong Kong* Chair: Ming-yan Lai, Chinese University of Hong Kong Panelists: Fung-yi Chan, Hong Kong Polytechnic University: Quilting Women’s Power: The Practice of Community Arts in Hong Kong Chui-ping Iris Kam, Cardiff University: Go beyond Gender Boundaries: The Girl in Contemporary Hong Kong Ming-yan Lai, Chinese University of Hong Kong: Small Dragon Dancer, or, Tale of a Migrant Domestic Worker’s Transnational Morphing
	Panel 1.24 *Un-Hinged: The Question of Blackness in/to the Global Present* Organizer: Denise Ferreira de Silva, University of California, San Diego Chair: Denise Ferreira de Silva, University of California, San Diego Panelists: Nahum D. Chandler, Tama University / University of California, Berkeley: "Beyond the Narrow Now": Another Elaboration of the Example -- W. E. B. Du Bois at the Limit of World Denise Ferreira de Silva, University of California, San Diego: Fledgling: Octavia Butler and the Gifts of Black Thinking Kara Keeling, University of Southern California: Becoming Black
	Panel 1.25 *Cultural Studies and the Research of (Digital) Games: The Theory of Games* Organizer: Markus Wiemker, University of Technology RWTH Aachen Chair: Markus Wiemker, University of Technology RWTH Aachen Panelists: Gundolf S. Freyermuth, International Film School & Cologne Game Lab: Games & Movies. Convergence vs. Complementarity: Towards a Theory of Audiovisuality in the Digital Age Jani Kinnunen, University of Tampere: Playful Money and Games in the Internet Fabian Simon Schaefer, University of Leipzig : “Ludic Philosophy”. Subjectivity, Choice and Virtual Death in Video Games
	Panel 1.26 *The New Media of Securitization* Organizer: James Hay, University of Illinois-Champaign-Urbana Chair: James Hay, University of Illinois-Champaign-Urbana Panelists: Jack Bratich, Rutgers University: Security Mutants: Youth Movements and Social Media James Hay, University of Illinois: Too Good to Fail: Managing Financial Crisis through TV’s Moral Economy
1:00 - 2:30	Lunch Break
2:30 - 4:00	Spotlights A
	Spotlight A1 *The Culture of Money and Finance* Organizers: Helen Grace, Chinese University of Hong Kong; Po-keung Hui, Lingnan University Chair: Po-keung Hui, Lingnan University Introduction: Helen Grace, Chinese University of Hong Kong Discussant: Sandro Mezzadra, University of Bologna Panelists: Dana DeSoto, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill: From Profit to Prediction: Labor and Social Relations in the Iowa Electronic Markets Satoshi Ikeda, Concordia University: Time Bank: A Social Economy for Post-Corporate Futures Wing Kin Puk, Chinese University of Hong Kong: Rational Riot? Flood, Food and Fury in Jiading in 1849
	Spotlight A2 *On the Streets of* *Tehran* Organizer: Mehdi Semati, Northern Illinois University Chair: Mehdi Semati, Northern Illinois University Panelists: Abbas Varij Kazemi, University of Tehran: Walking in the Street of My City, Tehran Nager Mottahedeh, Duke University: Women Protesting in the Streets of Tehran: 1953, 1979, 2009 Mehdi Semati, Northern Illinois University: Where the Streets Have Two Names (Tehran’s Aesthetic Rejoinder)
	Spotlight A3 ‘It’s complicated’: Mobile Intimacy in an Age of Social Media and Affective Technology Organizer: Larissa Hjorth, RMIT University Chair: Larissa Hjorth, RMIT University Panelists: Dong-hoo Lee, University of Incheon: Smartphones, Mobile Social Space, and Cultural Anxiety in Korea Sun-sun Lim, National University of Singapore: Mediating Intimacies, Bridging Distances – The Uses of ICTs in Intra-family Communication Mei-yi Angel Lin , University of Hong Kong: Self-Presentation in On-line Dating Personals: A Critical Analysis of Scam Artists’ Persuasive Discourse Lin Proitz, University of Oslo: Intimacy and Mobility in Male-stream Sexuality. A Norwegian Study of Men’s Personal Ads Online
4:00 - 4:30	Coffee Break
4:30 - 6:00	Panels 2
	Panel 2.01 *Rethinking Suburban Cultures II* Organizer: Mark Gibson, Monash University Chair: 　 Mark Gibson, Monash University Panelists: Christy Collis, Queensland University of Technology: Not just Sprawl: Re-evaluating Australia’s Outer Suburbs Mark Gibson, Monash University: The Schillers of the Suburbs: Creativity and Mediated Sociality Rob Shields, University of Alberta: The Affect of Suburbanisms in the Global North and South
	Panel 2.02 *Ecology and Peace : The Case of Sustainable Livelihood and Gender in Mainland* *China* Organizer: Shun-hing Chan, Lingnan University Chair: Shun-hing Chan, Lingnan University Panelists: Shun-hing Chan, Lingnan University: Sustainable Peace and Knowledge Production: The Case of Shanxi Peacewomen Wai-fong Chan, Partnership for Community Development: The Rural Community Building and Ecology: The Case of Jiangxi Peacewomen Qun Zhao, Yunnan Academy of Social Sciences: Negotiating Modernity and Gender: The Case of the Chinese Aini Ethnic Minority Women's Peace Action
	Panel 2.03 *Logistics of the Global University: Conflicts and Transformations in Higher Education* Organizers: Brett Neilson, University of Western Sydney; Ned Rossiter, University of Nottingham Ningbo Chair: Brett Neilson, University of Western Sydney Panelists: Paolo Do, University of London: Knowledge Production and Cognitive Labour: Higher Education in the Age of Financial Capitalism Stefano Harney, University of London: Extreme Neoliberalism and the Business School
	Panel 2.04 *Fantastic Facilitations of Popular Culture:Queer Affect, Queer Female Forum, and Queer Nationalism* Organizer: Wei-cheng Chu, National Taiwan University Chair: Wei-cheng Chu, National Taiwan University Panelists: Jui-an Chao, Duke University; Wei-cheng Chu, National Taiwan University: “Politics is Like BL to Me”: Queering National Politics and Boy’s Love Fantasy in Hetalia Akiko Mizoguchi, Hosei University: Towards Activism of Pleasure: Possibilities of Yaoi As a Productive Queer Forum Amie Parry, National Central University: Fantastic Obsessions: The Queer Fascination of Televised Female Empowerment
	Panel 2.05 *Constructing Images of the ‘Other’: Media and Society in* *Japan* Organizers: Alexandra Homma, University of Tokyo; Wataru Netsu, University of Tokyo; Eliza Seki, University of Tokyo Chair: Alexandra Homma, University of Tokyo Discussant: Kaori Hayashi, University of Tokyo Panelists: Alexandra Homma, University of Tokyo: Clubs, Dolls and Entertainment: Representation of Japan in Popular English-language Magazines Wataru Netsu, University of Tokyo: The Discourse of Poverty in Japan: Frame Analysis of Recent Alternative Magazines Eliza Seki, University of Tokyo: ‘Hafu’ in Japanese Society: Name Shifts as an Indicator of Changes in the Image of ‘Hafu’ in Japanese Society
	Panel 2.06 *Technologies of Listening & Listening Across Difference* Organizer: Catherine Thill, University of Notre Dame Chair: Justine Lloyd, Macquarie University Panelists: Kate Crawford, University of New South Wales: The Limits of Listening Tanja Dreher, University of Technology, Sydney: Listening and Recognition Catherine Thill, University of Notre Dame: Disability, Democracy & Listening
	Panel 2.07 *The Re-structural Transformation of the Meaning of ‘Public’: Media, Technology and Politics* Organizer: Hiroki Ogasawara, Kobe University Chair: Hiroki Ogasawara, Kobe University Panelists: Shih-shuan Lee, Kobe University: How to Share Music (in private) Hiroko Nakagawa, Kobe University: Responsible Subject in Global Society: Neo-liberal Turn in the Post-9/11 Japanese Political Discourses Mandy M. Wang, Kobe University: Advertising Council Japan: The Limits of ‘Public’
	Panel 2.08 *Media Expression in Transition: Dialect Local News, Weekly Magazine, College BBS and Online Video in China* Organizer: Xing Ge, University of Tokyo Chair: Xing Ge, University of Tokyo Panelists: Xing Ge, University of Tokyo: Analysis of Discourse about Five-Jiao-Gang in Chinese BBS Deliberation Xiaoyun Gong, University of Tokyo: The Cause for the Formation of Shanzhai in China – Take Online Shanzhai Video as Example Rong Zhang, University of Tokyo: Innovation of Dialect News Broadcasting in Chinese Local TV Stations: Examining J. Habermas’s Concept of ‘Equivalent Political Public Spheres’ Qian Zhou, University of Tokyo: On the Symbiotic Relationship between Chinese Intellectuals and the Media: A Discourse Analysis of the Process of "Middle Cass" Image Construction
	Panel 2.09 *Ethnographies: Agency and Social Change* Chair: Linda Duits, University of Amsterdam Panelists: Ho-chia Chueh, National Taiwan University; Kuan-ming Su, National Taiwan University: Beyond the Gaze: The Autonomous Smangus Tribal Tourism Linda Duits, University of Amsterdam: Researching the Other: Issues of Agency and Voice in Ethnographic Fieldwork with Young Muslims Girls Aleksandra Wierucka, University of Gdansk: New Ways of Maintaining Power as a Result of the Contact with Other Cultures - The Huaorani Case
	Panel 2.10 *' Telephone': Mobile Phone Polices and Practices* Chair: Osee Kamga, University of Sudbury Panelists: Osee Kamga, University of Sudbury: The Mobile Phone Boom in Developing Countries: How They Are Shaping the Cultural Landscape Chankyung Park, Seoul National University: Breakdown of Corporative Relation between the State and the Industry?: i-Phone and Limitations of Mobile Internet Network Policy in Korea Cecilia Uy-Tioco, George Mason University: DIY Phone Plan: Individuation, Flexible Accumulation and Mobile Phone Use in the Philippines
	Panel 2.11 *Beyond Capital Flow?: Environmentalism and Consumption* Chair: Guy Francis Redden, University of Sydney Panelists: Michelle Coyne, York University / Ryerson University: Eating Garbage: Freegans versus Consumer Culture Susan Luckman, University of South Australia: Environmentalism and Cultural Industries: Moving Beyond 'Green Consumerism' Chingling Wo, Sonoma State University: No Longer Profitable but Still Alive: Global Capital Flow in The Case of Apple Snails
	Panel 2.12 *Networks of Illness, Medicine and Healing* Organizer: Helen Keane, Australian National University Chair: Helen Keane, Australian National University Panelists: Helen Keane, Australian National University: Being and Becoming with ADHD Nitida Sangsingkeo, University of Surrey: Constructing Mental Health in Everyday Life: A Comparative Analysis from Women's Lives and Thai Women's Magazines Vicky Yau, Australian National University: Spaces of Healing: The Topology of Private / Social Space
	Panel 2.13 *Neoliberalism and Contemporary Chinese Cinema* Chair: Collin Chua, University of New South Wales Panelists: Erik Bordeleau, McGill University: What Remains of Tiananmen? Postpolitical Reduction to Bare Life in Emily Tang's Conjugation (2001) Collin Chua, University of New South Wales: Red Cliff and the Expediency of Culture Hongjian Wang , University of California, Riverside: A Futile Battle against Cliché? The Role of Media in Jia Zhangke’s Still Life
	Panel 2.14 *Deeply Superficial: Asian Popular Culture and Contemporary Art* Organizer: Norman Ford, Hong Kong Polytechnic University / City University of Hong Kong Chairs: Norman Ford, Hong Kong Polytechnic University / City University of Hong Kong; Ming-wai Alice JIM, Concordia University Panelists: Norman Ford, Hong Kong Polytechnic University / City University of Hong Kong: An Unenviable Obsession: The Failure of Superficiality in Southern Chinese Contemporary Art Ming-wai Alice Jim, Concordia University: Endgames in Chinese New Media Art: Feng Mengbo’s “Long March Restart” Francis Maravillas, University of Technology, Sydney: Re-imagining the South: Austral/Asian Horizons in Contemporary Art
	Panel 2.15 *Asia Pacific Intersections: Digital Media, Transnational Space and Cultural Identities* Organizer: Stephanie DeBoer, Indiana University Chair: Stephanie DeBoer, Indiana University Discussant: Anne Balsamo, University of Southern California Panelists: Stephanie DeBoer, Indiana University: Framing AsiaGraph and the Interface between the New Region and New Media Vincenzo De Masi, University of Zurich; Eleonora Benecchi, University of Lugano; Chwen-chwen Chen, University of Lugano: Animated Canons: The Canons of Animation between the East and the West Kristy H.A. Kang, University of Southern California: The Seoul of Los Angeles: Korean Diaspora and the Construction of Transnational Identity and Memory in Digital Space
	Panel 2.16 *Intimate Practices: Bodies, Affects and Agencies* Chair: Elspeth Probyn, University of South Australia Panelists: Hongwei Bao, University of Sydney: On Not to Be Gay: Writing the Body and Affect in Reparative Therapy Hau-ying Chan, Chinese University of Hong Kong: To Wear or Not to Wear? - How Women Negotiate Heterosexual Gaze in the City by Different Bra-wearing Strategies Clifton Evers, University of New South Wales: Intimacy, Sport and Young Refugee Men
	Panel 2.17 *Global Hegemony and Intellectual Crisis* Organizer: Siu-keung Cheung, Hong Kong Shue Yan University Chair: Siu-keung Cheung, Hong Kong Shue Yan University Panelists: Siu-keung Cheung, Hong Kong Shue Yan University: Hong Kong: Geopolitics and Intellectual Practice Satish Kolluri, Pace University: Liberal Education in the Age of Neoliberal Capitalism: The Case of Hyderabad, India Chak-wing Lam, Hong Kong Shue Yan University: Knowledge-Based Economy and Urban Development in Hong Kong
	Panel 2.18 *HIV, Sexuality, Community: New Biosocial Practices and Analyses* Organizer: Kane Race, University of Sydney Chair: Kane Race, University of Sydney Panelists: David Caron, University of Michigan: Compatible Discordance: On Truth, Facts, and Other Things That Are Not Necessarily All That Helpful When Thinking About HIV Jeanne Ellard, University of New South Wales: Viral Families: Exploring the Salience of Viral Genealogy for HIV-positive Gay Men Kane Race, University of Sydney: Queer Affect and Protease Community
	Panel 2.19 *"Youth" Today: Contexts, Stories, Practices* Chair:　　　 Jane Park, University of Sydney Panelists: Chung-kin Tsang, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill: Being 'Stuck'? - A Story of Hong Kong Young People Fang Wang, University of Sydney: "Youth" in Contemporary China and Intra-East Asia Cultural Transnationlism Melike Aktaş Yamanoğlu, Ankara University; Eser Köker, Ankara University: “Choosing the right word for the right occasion”: Language Practices of Poor Youth in Turkey
	Panel 2.20 *Technologies of the Family* Chair:　　　 JongMi Kim, Coventry University Panelists: Riikka Homanen, University of Tampere: Fetal Representations in the Internet: Scientific Results, Political Subjects and Fetish Objects JongMi Kim, Coventry University: Transnational Korean Family and Digital Life in UK Karen Hvidtfeldt Madsen, University of Southern Denmark: ‘Made in Mumbai’: Fertility Tourism - (Re)forming the Family
	Panel 2.21 *Culinary Negotiations: The Cultural Politics of Food* Chair:　　　 Paul James O'Connor, University of Queensland Panelists: Lina Nope-Williams, University of Sydney: Food Consumption: Consumer Culture and Gender Identity in Indonesia Paul James O'Connor, University of Queensland: The Ambiguity of Halal Food in Hong Kong: Young Muslims and Everyday Multiculturalsim Peter Stanković, University of Ljubljana: Culinary Practices In Nove Fužine: Food And Processes Of Cultural Exchange in a Slovenian Multi- Ethnic Neighbourhood
	Panel 2.22 *Power Politics in Arts, Dance and Architecture* Organizer: Ai Fujimoto, Tokyo University of the Arts Chair:　　　 Ai Fujimoto, Tokyo University of the Arts Discussant: Yoshitaka Mori, Tokyo University of the Arts Panelists: Yuya Suzuki, Russian National Institution for Art: The Role of the Architectural Competitions for “the Palace of Soviets” in the 1930s in the USSR totalitarian Regime Ai Fujimoto, Tokyo University of the Arts: Power and Practice in Japanese “Traditional” Dance Culture Motohiro Koizumi, Tokyo University of the Arts: Transformation in the Connections between Art and the Local Community in 1990s - 2000s:With Reference to Social Engaged Art in Community Arts Projects
	Panel 2.23 *Migration Policies in South and Southeast and East Asia Deficiency and Efficiency Discourse* Organizer: Akm Ahsan Ullah, American University in Cairo Chair:　　　 Akm Ahsan Ullah, American University in Cairo Panelists: Alice Maria Nah, National University of Singapore: Ambivalent Accommodation: Temporary Labour Migration and in its Impacts in Malaysia Amy Sim, University of Hong Kong: Uncertain Routes, Uncertain Futures: Undocumented Communities in Hong Kong Akm Ahsan Ullah, American University in Cairo: Changing Immigration Policies and Migration Flow: Bangladeshi Migrants in Hong Kong
	Panel 2.24 *Global Noir: Reading the Transnational City* Organizer: Gray Kochhar-Lindgren, University of Hong Kong / University of Washington-Bothell Chair: Gray Kochhar-Lindgren, University of Hong Kong / University of Washington-Bothell Panelists: Rick Dolphijn, University of Utrecht : “I get a sub city”: Murakami’s Nakata Feels Urbanity Robert Peckham, University of Hong Kong: Colonial Noir: Diseasing the City Timothy A. Simpson, University of Macau: Macau: Cafés, Noir, and the Capital of the 21st Century
	Panel 2.25 *Re-Imagining the City* Organizer: Markha Valenta, University of Amsterdam Chair: Markha Valenta, University of Amsterdam Panelists: Jeroen de Kloet, University of Amsterdam: Fantasies of a Disappearing and Reappearing Chinese City Helen Hok-sze Leung, Simon Fraser University: The City’s Ins and Outs: Queer Locations on Screen Markha Valenta, University of Amsterdam: Eros in TransUrbia
	Panel 2.26 *Cultural Studies and the Research of (Digital) Games: Ideology in Games* Organizer:　　Markus Wiemker, University of Technology RWTH Aachen Chair:　　　　Sebastian Nestler, University of Klagenfurt Panelists: Steven Conway, University of Bedfordshire: Ludic Ideologies: Perspectives on Play Masoud Kowsari, University of Tehran: Phobia as History. A Critical Discourse Analysis of Kuma\War Games Philip Lin, University of Westminster: Engaging the Global Conflict Culture - The Imagined Battlefield and the War/Military Gamers Markus Wiemker, University of Technology RWTH Aachen: "Power to the People" or the Role of Ideology in Persuasive Games
	Panel 2.27 *Ethnicity in Media Practices* Chair: Panelists: Stephanie Luanne Rabia, University of the Philippines Diliman: The Igorot in the World Wide Web: Exploring the Igorot Ethnic Identity Through the Communicative Act of Blogging Miia Maria Rantala, University of Lapland: Diversity in Advertising
7:00 - 9:000	Welcome Reception