ACS Crossroad 2010

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Date Posted	Spotlight Sessions	Status		Paper Proposals Included	Status

15-Mar-10	Engaging the Rural Organizer: LAU, Kin Chi, Lingnan University, Hong Kong	Confirmed	1	Ecological Civilization, Indigenous Knowledges and Rural Reconstruction WEN, Tiejun, Renmin University of China, China	Confirmed
			2	Livelihood & Ecology, or Peace Praxis among Women Farmers BARLOW Tani, Rice University, United States	Confirmed
			3	Peasantry, Livelihood, Ecology, Peace: Diversity and Convergence of the Latin American Popular Struggles HERRERA Remy, University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, France	Confirmed
9-Mar-10	Constructing Modernity, Diagnosing the Present Organizer: GROSSBERG, Lawrence, University of North Carolina, United States	Confirmed	1	In the Name of the Modern... CHEN, Kuan, Hsing, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan	Confirmed
			2	Learning from Disneyland: The Age of the World Picture DRISCOLL,Catherine, University of Sydney, Australia	Confirmed
			3	Whose Present? Which Critique? GAONKAR, Dilip, Northwestern University, United States	Confirmed
			4	Modernities in the Future Tense GROSSBERG, Lawrence, University of North Carolina, United States	Confirmed
25-Feb-10	The Culture of Money and Finance Organizers: GRACE, Helen, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong; HUI, Po Keung, Lingnan University, Hong Kong Respondent: MEZZADRA, Sandro, University of Bologna, Italy	Confirmed	1	Time Bank: A Social Economy for Post-Corporate Futures IKEDA, Satoshi, Concordia University, Canada	Confirmed
			2	Rational Riot? Flood, Food and Fury in Jiading in 1849 PUK, Wing Kin, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong	Confirmed
			3	From Profit to Prediction: Labor and Social Relations in the Iowa Electronic Markets Desoto, Dana, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, United States	Confirmed
8-Feb-10	Cantonese Opera in Diaspora Organizer: LI, Siu Leung, Lingnan University, Hong Kong	Confirmed	1	Transnational Theater and its Local Niche: Cantonese Opera in Early 20th Century North America NG, Wing Chung, University of Texas at San Antonio, United States	Confirmed
			2	Cantonese Opera Clubs as Pake Culture in Honolulu LAU, Frederick, University of Hawai‘i at Manoa, United States	Confirmed
			3	Selling Cantonese Opera to Southeast Asia: Institution and Network, 1925-1955 YUNG, Sai Shing, National University of Singapore, Singapore	Confirmed
			4	Hong Kong Cantonese Opera at Cultural Crossroads YU, Siu Wah, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong	Confirmed
21-Dec-09	On the Streets of Tehran Organizer: SEMATI, Mehdi, Northern Illinois University, United States	Confirmed	1	Walking in the Street of my City, Tehran KAZEMI, Abbas Varij, University of Tehran, Iran	Confirmed
			2	Women Protesting in the Streets of Tehran: 1953, 1979, 2009 MOTTAHEDEH, Negar, Duke University, United States	Confirmed
			3	Where the Streets Have Two Names (Tehran's Aesthetic Rejoinder) SEMATI, MEHDI, Northern Illinois University, United States	Confirmed
3-Nov-09	Affect & Cultural Studies Organizer: SEIGWORTH,Gregory J. Millersville University of Pennsylvania, United States Chair: GREGG, Melissa, University of Sydney, Australia	Confirmed	1	Affect Bleed: The Immanent Politics of the Everyday SEIGWORTH, Gregory J. Millersville University of Pennsylvania, United States	Confirmed
			2	Passion Play: Affect, Aesthetics and Cultural Studies HIGHMORE, Ben, University of Sussex, United Kingdom	Confirmed
			3	Affective Sphere: Women's Living-politics in South Korea KIM, Yeran, Kwangwoon University, Korea	Confirmed
2-Nov-09	Cultural Studies and Institution-Building Organizer: MORRIS, Meaghan, Lingnan University, Hong Kong Chair: CHUA, Beng Huat, National University of Singapore, Singapore	Confirmed	1	Teaching Cultural Studies: Curriculum Design, Training and the Myth of ‘Undiscipinarity’ TURNER, Graeme, University of Queensland, Australia	Confirmed
			2	Spaces and Places of Cultural Studies LEHTONEN, Mikko, University of Tampere, Finland	Confirmed
			3	Institutionlising Cultural Studies in Bangladesh AZIM, Firdous, BRAC University, Bangladesh	Confirmed
2-Nov-09	Production Cultures: New Studies of Work and Labour Organizer and Chair: GREGG, Melissa, University of Sydney, Australia	Confirmed	1	Class Formation in IT Industry: Notes from South China QIU, Jack Linchuan, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong	Confirmed
			2	Cultural Workers and Social Class HESMONDHALGH, David, University of Leeds, United Kingdom	Confirmed
			3	Creative Class Subculture in Bangkok SAWANGCHOT, Viriya, Wathanasala Centre for Cultural Studies, Thailand	Confirmed
4-Oct-09	'It's complicated': Mobile Intimacy in an Age of Social Media and Affective Technology Organizer and Chair: HJORTH, Larissa, RMIT University, Australia	Confirmed	1	Intimacy and Mobility in Male-stream Sexuality. A Norwegian Study of Men's personal Ads Online PROITZ, Lin, University of Oslo, Norway	Confirmed
			2	Mediating Intimacies, Bridging Distances - The Use of ICTs in Intra-family Communication LIM, Sun Sun, National University of Singapore, Singapore	Confirmed
			3	Self-Presentation in On-line dating Personals: A Criticial Analysis of Scam Artists' Persuasive Discourse LIN, Mei Yi Angel, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong	Confirmed
			4	Smartphones, Mobile Social Space, and Cultural Anxiety in Korea LEE, Dong Hoo, University of Incheon, Korea	Confirmed