Day 4 (20 June)

Plenary Speakers:

• Vinod Raina, Delhi University:      Cultural Diversity and Universal Knowledge: Education in Multicultural Contexts

Chair: Kin-chi Lau, Lingnan University

Organizer:     Andrew Hill, The Open University

Chair:            Andrew Hill, The Open University

Panelists:

• Andrew Hill, The Open University:    War and Beauty

• Magdalena Howorus-Czajka, University of Gdansk:    The Art and the Stigma of History on the Example of the Sculptures of Wiktor Tolkin (Viktor Tolkin)

• Andrew White, University of Nottingham:    Painting Peace? Belfast Murals and the Northern Ireland Peace Process

Panel 6.02     Wong Kar-wai, Hong Kong Cinema and Cultural Studies I    

Organizers:    Sebastian Nestler, Klagenfurt University; Rainer Winter, Klagenfurt University

Chair:            Rainer Winter, Klagenfurt University

Panelists:

Panel 6.03     The Alevi Social Movement¡¦s Contribution to Democracy in Turkey I  

Organizer:     Bedriye Poyraz, Ankara University

Chair:            Bedriye Poyraz, Ankara University

Panelists:

• Ahmet Murat Aytaç, Ankara University:    Difficult Freedom: Politics of Emancipation and the Alevis in Turkey

• Reşide Adal Dündar, Ankara University; Ayhan Yalçınkaya, Ankara University:    Between Theology and Power: Karbala 'Battles"

• Zeliha Etöz, Ankara University:    Can Discrimination and Domination Produce Democratic Implications? If Answer is ¡¥yes¡¦, in What Context? Life-world of Alevis and Kızılbaşs.

Panel 6.04     Public Screen I: Theorizing Screens and Screen Technologies in Public Spaces    

Organizers:   Christopher Allen Berry, University of London; Audrey Yue, The University of Melbourne

Chair:           Audrey Yue, The University of Melbourne

Panelists:

• Christopher Allen Berry, University of London:    Secular Enchantment and Public Screens in Shanghai

• Helen Grace, Chinese University of Hong Kong:    Screens, Presence and Memory in 'Virtual' Public Space

• Scott McQuire, University of Melbourne:    Public Screens and Participatory Public Space

Panel 6.05     Mediating Disaster     

Organizer:    Jean Burgess, Queensland University of Technology

Chair:          Jean Burgess, Queensland University of Technology

Panelists:

• Jean Burgess, Queensland University of Technology:    Remembering Black Saturday: The Role of Personal Communicative Ecologies in the Mediation of the 2009 Australian Bushfires

• Yu-chung Cheng, National Chengchi University:    Communicating Uncertainty during a Disaster Event in the Social Media Age

• Kate Crawford, University of New South Wales:    Apocalypse Media Now: Disaster, Death and Disease in Social Media

Panel 6.06     On the Cultural Fronts: Youth Sex Education, LGBT Cultural Productions and Independent Media in Hong Kong and Mainland China     

Organizer:    Tse-shang Denise Tang, Shih Hsin University

Chair:           Man-kit Cho, Chinese University of Hong Kong

Panelists:

• Man-kit Cho, Chinese University of Hong Kong:    Mapping the Sexual Landscape: The Case of the Family Planning Association of Hong Kong

• Yip-lo Lucetta Kam, Shantou University:    Emerging Lala Cultural Activism in China

• Ka-wei Pang, Hong Kong Shue Yan University:    The Pink Dollar Myth: The Hong Kong Lesbian & Gay Film Festival

• Tse-shang Denise Tang, Shih Hsin University:    Branding Satire: Queer Representation in the Works of Yuen Pui-Man

Panel 6.07     Imagining a New China     

Organizer:     Jeroen de Kloet, University of Amsterdam

Chair:           Jeroen de Kloet, University of Amsterdam

Panelists:

• Pak-lei Gladys Chong, University of Amsterdam:    Beijing ¡P Hong Kong: Sharing the Olympic Spirit? Learning to be Patriotic Chinese Citizens

• Jeroen de Kloet, University of Amsterdam:    Creativity, Governmentality and the Rise of a New China: A Study of the Art Zones 798 in Beijing and Cattle Depot in Hong Kong

• Michael Keane, Queensland University of Technology Brisbane:    ¡¥The Ten Thousand Things¡¦: Adaptation, Innovation and Creativity in China

• Guohua Zeng, University of Amsterdam:    Constructing Chineseness as a Spectacle: An Analysis of the Opening Ceremony of the Beijing Olympic Games

Panel 6.08     The Aesthetics of the Global     

Organizer:     Bishnupriya Ghosh, University of California, Santa Barbara

Chair:            Bishnupriya Ghosh, University of California, Santa Barbara

Panelists:

• Conerly Casey, Rochester Institute of Technology:    Vigilant Attunements: Danger and the 'Magic-art' of Global Media

• Bishnupriya Ghosh, University of California, Santa Barbara:    Life as Style: Global HIV/AIDS Speculative Media

• Bhaskar Sarkar, University of California, Santa Barbara:    Grounding the Global: Malegaon Video Aesthetics

Panel 6.09     Philosophy, Self-Creation and the Good Life     

Chair:            Yuet-mei Sharon Leung, University of Hong Kong

Panelists:

• Li-fang Fu, National Taiwan Normal University:    Thoreau and China

• Yuet-mei Sharon Leung, University of Hong Kong:    Can We Create Our ¡¥Self¡¦?- A Philospphical Enquiry on Creativity for Personal Development

• Lei Yang, L'University Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris III :    Best Preparation Welcomes the Manufactured Life Century

Panel 6.10     Pop-rock Histories and Narratives: Global, National, Local I - Mixing the National     

Organizers:    Motti Regev, The Open University of Israel;  Hyunjoon Shin, Sungkonghoe University

Chair:            Hyunjoon Shin, Sungkonghoe University

Panelists:

• Jung-yup Lee, University of Massachusetts Amherst:    Negotiating the Space of the Cultural Economy of Indie Music in South Korea

• Yoshitaka Mori, Tokyo University of the Arts:    Other Stories and Postcolonial Nostagia in Japanese Popular Music: Agnes Chan, Teresa Teng and Yong Pil Cho and their Acceptance in Japan

• Motti Regev, The Open University of Israel:    Pop-rock Music as World Phenomenon

Panel 6.11     Subjects in History: Cinema in Chinese Contexts     

Chair:            Meaghan Morris, Lingnan University

Panelists:

• Ran Ma, University of Hong Kong:    Programming China ― The Politics of Programming Mainland Chinese Films at the Hong Kong International Film Festival Since 1997

• Bérénice Roseline Reynaud, California Institute of the Arts:    Construction of the Subject though the Representation of Ruins in Recent Chinese Independent Film

• Yizheng Zou, Lingnan University:    South China Morning Post Movie Advertisements and Hong Kong Identity in 1930s

Panel 6.12     Transnational Experiments and Solidarities     

Chair:            Christopher Connery, University of California, Santa Cruz

Panelists:

• Christopher Connery, University of California, Santa Cruz:    Student Movements: The Sixties and Today

• Hayashi Kaori, University of Tokyo; Makoto Inoue, Hitotsubashi University; Misook Lee, University of Tokyo; Manabe Yuko, University of Tokyo:    The Transnational Advocacy Networks in Japan-Korea relations: the case of Gwangju uprising in South Korea

• Rob Wilson, University of California, Santa Cruz:    Towards an Ecopoetics of Oceania: Thinking With, and Beyond, Epeli Hau'ofa's Asian Pacific Imaginary

Panel 6.13     Questioning Human Rights, the Media and Power     

Organizer:     John Erni, Lingnan University

Chair:           John Erni, Lingnan University

Panelists:

• Genevieve Berrick, University of Melbourne:    Mediating Bodies and Critical (Mis) Recognitions: Reporting the 'Van Nguyen' Case

• Rosemary J. Coombe, York University:    Honing A Critical Cultural Study of Human Rights

• John Erni, Lingnan University:    Who Needs Human Rights?: Cultural Studies and Public Institutions

• Wansin Melissa Wong, City University of New York:    The Mediatization of ¡§Bare life¡¨: Negotiating the Mediation of the ¡§Voiceless¡¨ through Robert Lepage¡¦s Lipsynch and Nicholas D. Kristof¡¦s Investigative Column

Panel 6.14      'Wild Things': The Human and Non-Human in Media

Chair:             Rebecca Bishop, Massey University
Panelists:

• Jason Bainbridge, Swinburne University of Technology:    Gotta Catch 'Em All!: Pokemon, Enviornmentalism and Youth Media as Vernaculat Theory

• Rebecca Bishop, Massey University:    Still Dreaming of Dogs: Animal Natures, Wild Children and Global Media

• Shu-hui Emily Tsai , National Chung Hsing University:    The Food, The Pets, The Sacred Object: On the Negative Balance of Being

Panel 6.15      Museum Practice and Cultural Citizenship   

Chair:             Martin Fredriksson, Linköping University
Panelists:

• Egle Rindzeviciute, Linköping University:    Negotiating Identity in the Soviet Museum: Assembling National and Regional Spaces in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania

• Louise Ryan, University of Western Sydney:    Building Bridges: ¡§The Arts of Islam¡¨ Exhibition, Nasser Khalili Collection, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Australia, 2007

• Andrea Witcomb, Deakin University / Australian National University:    ¡§Come and enjoy a billy of tea and damper, have a yarn with a Wedjela or Nyungar¡¨: The Practice of Listening and the Emergence of Active Citizenship at Kodja Place, Western Australia

Panel 6.16     ¡§Society of Security,¡¨ A Collective Presentation by the Working Group on Globalization and Culture I: Genealogies of Security     

Organizer:     Michael Denning, Yale University

Chair:           Michael Denning, Yale University

Panelists:

• Rossen Liianov Djagalov, Yale University:    Postsocialist Longing for Security, or Appropriating Polanyi against Nostalgia

• Henriette Magdalene Rytz, Free University of Berlin / Yale University:    Security and Governance: The Discursive Power of "National Security"

• Raisa Sidenova, Yale University:    Disturbing Movies: Narrative Security in Post-9/11 Documentary Film

Panel 6.17     Desperately Seeking Theoretical Debate: Interrogating the Post-Theory State of Cultural Studies     

Organizer:     Markus Stauff, University of Amsterdam

Chair:           Markus Stauff, University of Amsterdam

Panelists:

• Markus Stauff, University of Amsterdam:    Television as Theory

• Jan Teurlings, University of Amsterdam:    The Hard Road to Renewal: A Proposal for Cultural Studies in a New Decade

• Ferruh Yilmaz, Tulane University:    Cultural Studies: A (still) Progressive Project to Challenge Power or an Anachronistic Project Unwittingly in the Service of Power?

Panel 6.18     Problematizing National Borders ¡V East-Asian Cinema     

Organizer:     Yoshiharu Tezuka, Komazawa University

Chair:           Yoshiharu Tezuka, Komazawa University

Panelists:

• Mika Ko, University of Sheffield:    Borderless Japan? - Representation of Foreigners in Japanese Cinema

• Hyangjin Lee, Rikkyo University:    Glamorizing Shame: National Memories of War in the Transnational Cinema

• Tomoko Shimizu, University of Tsukuba:    Momotaro Syndrome or the Politics of War in Japanese Animation: From Momotaro to Grave of Fireflies

• Yoshiharu Tezuka, Komazawa University:    The Trouble with Chinese Filmmakers in Japan/ Japanese Filmmakers in China

Panel 6.19      Reality Formats as Biographical Narrative      

Organizer:      Ursula Ganz-Blaettler, University of Hildesheim

Chair:             Ursula Ganz-Blaettler, University of Hildesheim

Panelists:

• Ursula Ganz-Blaettler, University of Hildesheim:    The Format always Casts Twice.The Idol Career as Multi-authored Long-term Narrative

• Anne-Kristin Langner, University of Hildesheim:    Casting Shows and Culture: How Different National Cultures Define Who Wins or Loses Pop Idol

• Gaynor Nichols, Macquarie University:   ¡§Produced Reality¡¨: Whose Story Is It?

Panel 6.20      Identity Representations Across the Taiwan Strait in Film and the Internet

Organizer:      Brenda Chan, Nanyang Technological University

Chair:             Brenda Chan, Nanyang Technological University

Discussant:     Allen Chun, Academia Sinica

Panelists:

• Brenda Chan, Nanyang Technological University:    Between the Two Chinas: The Politics of Identity in Hong Kong Gambling Films

• Yow-jiun Wang, National Cheng Kung University:    Exploring the 'Ideal Wife' Images in Internet Dating Sites: Taiwan VS. China

• Fang-chih Irene Yang, National Cheng Kung University:    What's Love Got to Do with it? Cape No. 7 and Split Nationalisms in Taiwan and China

Panel 6.21      Between the Acts?: Intersections of Cultural and Literary Studies

Organizers:     Carina Garland, University of Sydney; Estelle Yvette Noonan, University of Sydney

Chair:             Tony Bennett, University of Western Sydney

Panelists:

• Carina Garland, University of Sydney:    Reading the Undead: Literary and Cultural Studies at the 'Twilight' of Youth Consumption

• Paul Magee, University of Canberra:    Cultural Studies as Creative Arts Practice

• Estelle Yvette Noonan, University of Sydney:    ¡¥Keeping it Real¡¦? Doing Literature in Cultural Studies

Panel 6.22      Jakarta as Utopia and Dystopia: A Continuous Struggle

Organizer:      Asri Sarawati , University of Indonesia

Chair:             Bayu Kristianto, University of Indonesia

Panelists:

• Bayu Kristianto, University of Indonesia:    Pintu Terlarang: A Disconcerting Spatial Interpretation of Urban Dystopia

• Asri Sarawati , University of Indonesia:    The Imaginary Room as a Coping Mechanism in the Gendered Urban Jakarta:Observing the Writings of Indonesian Female Authors

• S.M. Gietty Tambunan, University of Indonesia:    Slum Tourism: (De)Constructing the Urban Dystopia of Jakarta

Panel 6.23      Popular Music, Cultural Practices and Social Creativity

Chair:             Hon-lun Yang, Hong Kong Baptist University

Panelists:

• Antti-Ville Kärjä, University of Turku:    The Time and Manner of ¡¦Postcolonial Finland¡¦ in the Context of Popular Music

• Joshua Schmidt, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev:    Trance Functionality: Comparing and Contrasting Secular and Religious Israeli Trance-Dance Parties

• Hon-lun Yang, Hong Kong Baptist University; Michael Saffle, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University:    Utopian Spectacles: Hong Kong Pop Concerts as Personal and Communal Fantasies

Panel 6.24      Of Hong Kong Cinema and Elsewhere: ¡§Chineseness¡¨, Refraction, Exploitation

Organizer:       Man Tat Terence Leung, Hong Kong Baptist University

Chair:              Man Tat Terence Leung, Hong Kong Baptist University              

Panelists:

• Benjamin Freudenberg, Hong Kong Baptist University:    Re-/Dis-¡¨Connected¡¨: Linguistic Identity and Ideologic Bifurcation in Hong Kong Cinema

• Man Tat Terence Leung, Hong Kong Baptist University :    Enjoy Without Restraints!: The Impossible Sublation of French May ¡¦68 and ¡§China¡¨ in Renˆm Viˆmnet¡¦s Can Dialectics Break Bricks? (1973) and Olivier Assayas¡¦ Irma Vep (1996)

• Chun Kelly Yeung, Hong Kong Baptist University:    Race and Nationalism: Tsui Hark¡¦s Once Upon a Time in China

Panel 6.25      Queering Space: Between Different Mediums

Organizers:     Adam Chambers, University of Amsterdam; Erin Louise La Cour, University of Amsterdam; Birkan Tas, University of Amsterdam

Chair:             Birkan Tas, University of Amsterdam              

Panelists:

• Adam Chambers, University of Amsterdam:    Queer Temporalities in Catherine Breillat¡¦s Anatomie de l¡¦Enfer

• Erin Louise La Cour, University of Amsterdam:    Queering the Medium

• Birkan Tas, University of Amsterdam:    Sexualized Spaces, Spatialized Sexualities

Panel 6.26      Performance, Community and Cultural Politics

Chair:             Mario Wenning, University of Macau               

Panelists:

• Ana Margarida Nunes, University of Macau; Mario Wenning, University of Macau:    Recognizing Emotions across Cultures

• Chuan Yean Soon, Universiti Sains Malaysia:    Cultural Participation and Practices in Politics: A Rethinking of the Role of Political Party in the Post 2008 Malaysian Politics

• Hui-yun Susan Yang, Minghsin University of Science and Technology:    Hakka Women Constructing Selfhood in Revivalist Communities in Taiwan

Panel 6.27      Critical Takes on Creative Industries: II 

Panel 6.28      Performing the Caribbean (Popular)

Organizer:      Sonjah Nadine Stanley-Niaah, University of the West Indies

Chair:             Sonjah Nadine Stanley-Niaah, University of the West Indies                      

Panelists:

• Aduke Nneka Williams, University of the West Indies:    ¡§Not one love¡¨: Rastafari Commercialized

• Sonjah Nadine Stanley-Niaah, University of the West Indies:    Performing Geography, Ritual and Power

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Spotlight C1     Cultural Studies and Institution Building

Organizer:       Meaghan Morris, Lingnan University

Chair:              Beng-huat Chua, National University of Singapore

Panelists:

• Firdous Azim, BRAC University:    Institutionlising Cultural Studies in Bangladesh

• Mikko Lehtonen, University of Tampere:    Spaces and Places of Cultural Studies

• Graeme Turner, University of Queensland:    Teaching Cultural Studies: Curriculum Design, Training and the Myth of ¡¥Undiscipinarity¡¦

Spotlight C2    Production Cultures: New Studies of Work and Labour

Organizer:      Melissa Gregg, University of Sydney

Chair:             Melissa Gregg, University of Sydney

Panelists:

• David Hesmondhalgh, University of Leeds:    Cultural Workers and Social Class

• Jack Linchuan Qiu, Chinese University of Hong Kong:    Class Formation in IT Industry: Notes from South China

• Viriya Sawangchot, Wathanasala Centre for Cultural Studies:    Creative Class Subculture in Bangkok

Spotlight C3    Constructing Modernity, Diagnosing the Present

Organizer:      Lawrence Grossberg, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Chair:             Lawrence Grossberg, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Panelists:

• Kuan-hsing Chen, National Chiao Tung University:    In the Name of Modern¡K

• Catherine Driscoll, University of Sydney:    Learning from Disneyland: The Age of the World Picture

• Dilip Gaonkar, Northwestern University:    Whose Present? Which Critique?

• Lawrence Grossberg, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill:    Modernities in the Future Tense

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Panel 7.01     Visuality and Conflict II    

Organizer:     Andrew Hill, The Open University

Chair:            Andrew Hill, The Open University

Panelists:

• Julie K.L. Bouchet, Aalborg University:    Art and Ammunition

• Jessica Schwartz, New York University:    The Secrecy System: Silencing Life and Sounding Death in the Atomic Age

• Sanna Nissinen, The Open University:    The Production of Humanitarian Images and Portraying the Child in Need

Panel 7.02     Wong Kar-wai, Hong Kong Cinema and Cultural Studies II    

Organizers:   Sebastian Nestler, Klagenfurt University; Rainer Winter, Klagenfurt University

Chair:           Rainer Winter, Klagenfurt University

Panelists:

• Sebastian Nestler, Klagenfurt University:    Minor Movies? On the Cinematic Language of Wong Kar-wai

• Simon Alexander Passmore, University of Westminster:    When Time Stops and Time is Never Ending. In The Mood For Love and Four Quartets

• Yui-kuen Wong, University of Hong Kong:    Deleuzean Time-Image in Wong Kar-wai's 2046.The Labyrinth of Time and Schizophrenic Hong Kong

Panel 7.03     Public Screens II: Large Screens and the Transnational Public Sphere - From Urban Regeneration to Cultural Citizenship, Cultural Participation and Transcultural Consumption    

Organizers:    Christopher Allen Berry, University of London; Audrey Yue, The University of Melbourne

Chair:            Christopher Allen Berry, University of London

Panelists:

• Meredith Martin, The University of Melbourne:   Cultural Participation and Collaborative Research : A Case Study

• Nikos Papastergiadis, University of Melbourne:    Cultural Citizenship and Transnational Exchange

• Sun Jung, Victoria University; Audrey Yue, The University of Melbourne:   Urban Screens and Transcultural Consumption between South Korea and Australia

Panel 7.04     Cultural Studies and their Theoretical Currencies under the Neo-liberal Humanities Education: Institution, Appropriation and Translation    

Organizer:      Ted Motohashi, Tokyo University of Economics

Introduction:   Yuji Nishiyama, Metropolitan University of Tokyo

Chair:             Ted Motohashi, Tokyo University of Economics

Panelists:

• Dennitza Gabrakova, City University of Hong Kong:   Pedagogies of Translation: Critical Theory in Japan(ese)

• Ted Motohashi, Tokyo University of Economics:    Provincializing Non-Europe: The Re-Articulation and Non-Institutionalization of Cultural Studies under Neo-liberalism in Japan

• Richard Reitan, Franklin and Marshall College:    Cultural Studies and the Terms of Neo-liberal Discourse: Responding to the Neo-liberal Critique

Panel 7.05     Women and Popular Media    

Organizers:    Firdous Azim, BRAC University; Samia Afroz Rahim, BRAC Development Institute

Chair:            Firdous Azim, BRAC University

Panelists:

• Akosua Adomako Ampofo, University of Ghana; Awo Asiedu, University of Ghana:    Pathways to an Empowering Song: Marrying Research and Advocacy

• Neelam Hussain, Simorgh Women's Resource and Publication Centre:   Modernity, Tradition and Desire

• Samia Afroz Rahim, BRAC Development Institute:    Watching Women Watching TV: Challenges of Research

Panel 7.06     Nations in the (Re)Making: Trans/East Asian Media and Cultural Policies     

Organizer:     Kukhee Choo, National University of Singapore

Chair:            Laikwan Pang, Chinese University of Hong Kong

Discussant:    Yoshiharu Tezuka , Komazawa University

Panelists:

• Kai-man Chang, University of Tulsa:    Globalizing Nation on Screen: Taiwan¡¦s Film Policy in the Past Twenty Years

• Kukhee Choo, National University of Singapore:    Gendered Dynamics in Japan¡¦s Global Promotion of Popular Culture

• Laikwan Pang, Chinese University of Hong Kong:    Cultural Politics vs. Cultural Policy: PRC's Cultural Governance

Panel 7.07     Sexual Subjectivities     

Organizer:     Clarissa Smith, University of Sunderland

Chair:           Clarissa Smith, University of Sunderland

Panelists:

• Feona Attwood, Sheffield Hallam University:    Girls Gone Skank: The Monstrous Body of the ¡¥Sexualized¡¦ Girl

• Katrien Jacobs, City University of Hong Kong:    Lizzy Kinsey and the Adult FriendFinders: An Ethnographic Case Study about Internet Sex and Pornographic Self-Display in Hong Kong

• Fiona Peters, Bath Spa University:   Contemporary Representations of Female Sexuality: Liberation or Culturally Acceptable Pornography?

• Clarissa Smith, University of Sunderland:   Filled with Excitement: Eva and Her Pornographic Performances

Panel 7.08     Theories in Cross-Cultural Uptake: Transformations     

Chair:            Jingyuan Zhang, Georgetown University

Panelists:

• Myungkoo Kang, Seoul National University; Sangkyu Lee, Seoul National University:    Appropriating Bourdieu¡¦s Social Theories into Foreign Social Contexts   

• Satofumi Kawamura, The Australian National University:   A Bizarre Conspiracy between Modernity and Post-Modernity in Philosophical Discourse of Japanese Cultural Identity

• Jingyuan Zhang, Georgetown University:    Situating Mind and Body in Culture: Dai Bingham's Psychoanalysis

Panel 7.09     Language Matters: Transnationalism, Translation and Transformation

Chair:           Michael Hadzantonis, RMIT University   

Panelists:

• Michael Hadzantonis, RMIT University:   Sociolinguistic Siblinghoods of English and Popular Music: Drawing the Global Linguo-Melodic Parallels 

• Niina Kovalainen, Laurea University of Applied Sciences / University of Tampere:    Transnational Competence: Understanding Occupational Demands  

• Giselinde kuipers, University of Amsterdam:    The Task of the Translation Industry: Audiovisual Translation and the Limits of the Flow Metaphor of Cultural Globalization

Panel 7.10     Ways of Remembering: Textual Practices, Social Contexts  

Chair:            Danju Claire Yu, University of California

Panelists:

• Chui-yu Cheung, Chinese University of Hong Kong:    Traumatic (post)memory in Photography: Tiananmen 1989

• Danju Claire Yu, University of California, Riverside:   Lost Generation in the City: Spatial Subjectivity in Chen Huo's Made in Hong Kong

• Chenshu Zhou, University of California, Riverside:    The Way We Weren¡¦t: Re-presenting the Past in Wang Shuo¡¦s Dongwu xiongmeng (Wild Beasts, 1992)   

Panel 7.11     Technology, Immateriality and Labour  

Chair:            Sabine LeBel, York University

Panelists:

• Suk-jin Chae, University of Sussex:    Dis/connecting the Outer World: The New Poor and the Internet

• Sabine LeBel, York University:    Cyberspace as Immaterial Containment: Theorizing Technology and the Environment

• Bingqing Xia, University of Macau:   Political Economy of Immaterial Labor in China's Internet Advertising Production

Panel 7.12     Politics and Performance: Between Social Justice and Cultural Citizenship  

Chair:            Patty Sotirin, Michigan Technological University

Panelists:

• Marjo Kolehmainen, University of Tampere:   Approaches to Political Humour and Citizenship  

• Patty Sotirin, Michigan Technological University:    Mediated Moral Populism: What's Left of Social Justice?

• Kalle Westerling, Stockholm University / City University of New York:    'I know we're not in Kansas': The Meaning of Space as a Radical Democratic Drag Intervention for Cultural Citizenship

Panel 7.13     Pop-rock Histories and Narratives: Global, National, Local II - Historical Perspective 

Organizers:     Motti Regev, The Open University of Israel;  Hyunjoon Shin, Sungkonghoe University

Chair:           Motti Regev, The Open University of Israel

Panelists:

• Andy Bennett, Griffith University:   Between the Old Grey WhistleTest and Top of the Pops: British Pop-rock in the Early 1970s

• Madhuja Mukherjee, Jadavpur University:    'It's Time to Disco': The Changing Soundsacpe of Hindi Cinema in the 1970s and 1980s

• Hyunjoon Shin, Sungkonghoe University:    Struggles, Negotiations and Love Songs 1976 -1992: Korean Popular Music before K-pop

Panel 7.14     Reflecting on Cultural Localization 

Chair:           Siao-yun Chen, National Cheng Kung University

Panelists:

• Siao-yun Chen, National Cheng Kung University:   A Way of Seeing Taiwan and Hong Kong: An Analysis of Local Cultural in Shi Shu-Qing's Passing Through Luo Jin and Xi Xi's Flying Felt

• Wing-sze Viola Cheung , Chinese University of Hong Kong:    The Remake between Local and Hollywood Film: Urge and Disjuncture on Cultural Globalization

• Ying-fang Wang, National Cheng Kung University; Shian-far Kung, National Cheng Kung University; Ding-bang Luh, National Cheng Kung University:    Representing Localization in 'Cape No. 7'

Panel 7.15     The Conduct of Conduct: Affect, Aesthetics and Activism 

Chair:           Justine Lloyd, Macquarie University

Panelists:

• William Bogard, Whitman College:   Message, Rhythm, Affect, Resistance: A Social Science Fiction of Control Societies

• Britta Timm Knudsen, Aarhus University; Carsten Stage, Aarhus University:    The Contagious Body: An Investigation of Affective Strategies in Contemporary Political Activism

• Juan Carlos Valencia, Macquarie University:    Around the day in 80 Worlds. Commercial Radio Formats, Biopower and Everyday Life

Panel 7.16     Ethnicities in Transnational Social Spaces 

Chair:           Kar-see Jenny Yuen, Independent Writer

Panelists:

• Sansanee Chanarnupap, La Trobe University:    Thai Ethnic Community in a Globalized World

• Anna Virkama, University of Tampere:    Constructing Transnational Social Space through Everyday Life Practices: Case of Moroccans in France

• Kar-see Jenny Yuen, Independent Writer:   Bi-cultural Identity of Chinese Women Immigrants Living in Bristol ¡V A Narrative Inquiry

Panel 7.17     Revitalizing U.S. Cultural Studies: Meaning and Materiality

Organizer:     Jennifer Daryl Slack, Michigan Technological University

Chair:           Jennifer Daryl Slack, Michigan Technological University

Panelists:

• Sue Collins, Michigan Technological University:    Towards a Cultural Studies Historiography

• David R. Shumway, Carnegie Mellon University:    When Institutions Haven't Been Built: Cultural Studies in the U. S.

• Jennifer Daryl Slack, Michigan Technological University:    Edging Technology "a little further on down the road"

Panel 7.18     ¡§Society of Security,¡¨ A Collective Presentation by the Working Group on Globalization and Culture II: Apparatuses of Security     

Organizer:     Michael Denning, Yale University

Chair:            Michael Denning, Yale University

Panelists:

• Michael Denning, Yale University:    Striking Security

• Monica Martinez, Yale University:    Between Rhetoric and Barbed Wire: Regimes of Violence to Secure the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands

• Yenisey Rodríguez, Yale University:    Securing Miami International: The Airport as Borderland

Panel 7.19     Science Fiction: Biopolitics, Becoming and the Image    

Chair:            Markus Stauff, University of Amsterdam

Panelists:

• Henriette Gunkel, University of Fort Hare; Christiane Köenig, University of Cologne:    Global Images, Local Politics? Tensions between Apartheid and Post-apartheid Politics in a Pop Cultural, Genre-killing Artefact: Neill Blomkamp's District 9

• Kristen Maree Phillips, Curtin University of Technology:    Sacred Bodies in Exceptional Times: Women, Camps, Dystopias

• Nomusa Makhubu, Rhodes University:    Notions of the ¡¥Foreign¡¦ in Pieter Hugo¡¦s Nollywood

Panel 7.20     Transnational Practice of Celebrities and Fandom in East Asia     

Organizer:     Weizi Huang, Lingnan University

Chair:            Weizi Huang, Lingnan University      

Panelists:

• Jeroen Groenewegen, Leiden Institute of Area Studies:    Song Zuying and Official Pop Stardom in the PRC

• Weizi Huang, Lingnan University:    Han Han and the Making of Chinese Alternative Cultural Celebrity

Panel 7.21     Rural Cultural Studies in Chinese Contexts     

Chair:            Cynthia Yuen, Renmin University      

Panelists:

• Ho-chia Chueh, National Taiwan University:    The Post-rural Discourse of the In-land Immigrants in Taiwan

• Jiaen Pan, Lingnan University:    The Limitation and Space of Rural Reconstruction Movement in Modern China

• Cynthia Yuen, Renmin University:    A Cultural Transformation through an Ecological Toliet and an Alternative Trade

Panel 7.22     The Implications of Image and the Obama Presidency     

Organizer:     Natasha Himmelman, University of Cape Town; Christopher Johnson, New School University

Chair:            Christopher Johnson, New School University     

Panelists:

• Natasha Himmelman, University of CapeTown:    Lessons from Africa: Reading Obama¡¦s Rainbow Nation(s)

• Christopher Johnson, New School University:    Barack Obama and Liberation Identity

• Matthew Jordan, Pennsylvania State University:    Obama¡¦s iPod and the We Are One Concert: The Perils of ¡§Postpolitical¡¨ Aesthetic Populism

Panel 7.23       Questioning Engagement: Invoking Ethics In and Through Cinema

Panel 7.24     The Alevi Social Movement¡¦s Contribution to Democracy in Turkey II  

Organizer:     Bedriye Poyraz, Ankara University

Chair:            Bedriye Poyraz, Ankara University

Panelists:

• Ali Murat Irat, Ankara University:    The PKK, the Alevis and the State in Turkey after the 1980 Military Coup

• Kerem Karaosmanoğlu, Yildiz Technical University:    Beyond the Realm of Essentialism: Towards a New Alevi Identity in the City?

Panel 7.25     Asian Pop Culture Fandom in Europe   

Organizer:     Seok-Kyeong Hong-Mercier, University of Bordeaux 3

Chair:            Paul Bowman, Cardiff University

Discussant:    Leon Hunt, Brunel University

Panelists:

• Seok-Kyeong Hong-Mercier, University of Bordeaux 3:    Discovering East Asian Drama in Europe : A Study on kdrama Fandom in France

• Eric Maigret, University Paris 3 Sorbonne Nouvelle:    Manga World Arts : Mediaculture, Sub, Counter or Geek Culture ?

Panel 7.26     Ethnography and Fiction: Creative Intersections   

Organizer:     Anu Hirsiaho, University of Tampere

Chair:            Anu Hirsiaho, University of Tampere

Panelists:

• Anu Hirsiaho, University of Tampere:    Paperland: Ethnographic Fiction at a Suburban Doorstep

• BJarke Liboriussen, University of Southern Denmark:    Vampire, Dog, Gay: Uses of "Fiction" in Collective, Online, Creative Practice

Panel 7.27     Cultural Infrastructures of Crime, Fear and Trauma       

Chair:            Lisa Helen Henderson, University of Massachusetts

Panelists:

• Lisa Helen Henderson, University of Massachusetts:    Recognizing Violence

• Christopher Howard, University of London:    Repositioning Akihabara: Networks and Antagonisms 

• Jason S Polley, Hong Kong Baptist University:    Watching the Watchmen, Mediating the Mediators

Panel 7.28     Consuming Participation: Conversational New Media, User Created Content and Popular Imaginaries in Asia-Pacific Region

Organizers:     Larissa Hjorth, RMIT University; Shinji Oyama, University of London

Chairs:            Larissa Hjorth, RMIT University; Shinji Oyama, University of London

Panelists:

• Larissa Hjorth, RMIT University:    Intimate Publics: Intimacy and Politics of SNS in Manila

• Yeran Kim, Kwangwoon University:    The Construction of ¡¥Participation¡¦ in Digital Culture Industries: Study on UGC Cultural Workers

• Shinji Oyama, University of London:    We¡¦re all in this together: Brand 2.0 or Branding¡¦s Co-creation Paradigm

Panel 7.29      Nostalgic Cities and the Present