Program

The final program for the conference is now available! PDF version of the conference program: Embodiments and inhabitations final program.pdf (PDF)

DAY 1
8:00am ~ 8:30am	Registration
8:30am ~ 8:45am	Welcome	Dr Mridula Nath Chakraborty Dr Jessica Walton
8:45am ~ 9:30am	Paper Session: Hyphen-Nation/Hyper-Family Chair: Dr Jessica Walton	Dominic Nguyen Hong Duc Golding Christine Ko
9:30am ~ 10:15am	Keynote: Habit, Embodiment, and the Lived Experience of Racism	Dr Helen Ngo (Chair: Dr Jessica Walton)
10:15am ~ 10:45am	Morning tea
10:45am ~ 11:45pm	Paper Session: Racial(ised) Re-presentations Chair: Nadia Rhook	Adam ZQ Seet Dr Caroline Mahoney A/Prof Joanna Elfving-Hwang

11:45pm ~ 12:00pm	Book Launch	Dr Amir Jaima launching Helen Ngo’s book, The Habits of Racism: A Phenomenology of Racism and Racialized Embodiment (2017), Lexington Books.
12:00pm ~ 1:00pm	Lunch
1:00pm ~ 2:00pm	Panel Session: The homogeneity of being Asian Australians: Am I Asian enough for you? Chair: Kevin Bathman	Kevin Bathman Joon Kwok Sheila Ngoc Pham Dr Arjun Rajkhowa
2:00pm ~ 3:00pm	Paper Session: Border crossings/Shifting contexts Chair: Professor Ariel Heryanto	Dr Jason Christopher Jones
		Nancy Lin
		John Zubrzycki
3:00pm ~ 3:30pm	Afternoon tea (including a book signing with Julie Koh)
3:30pm ~ 4:00pm	Talk/Q&A: The Fictional Julie Koh Chair: Mridula Nath Chakraborty	Julie Koh
4:00pm ~ 5:00pm	Paper Session: Performing belonging Chair: Jan Molloy	Dr Monika Winarnita Dr Reagan Maiquez Prakash Subedi

DAY 2
8:00am ~ 8:30am	Registration
8:30am ~ 9:30am	Paper Session: Intimate Labour/Gendered Bodies Chair: Dr Mridula Nath Chakraborty	Vasudha Mohanka Dr Nadia Rhook Dr Ashwinee Pendharkar
9:30am ~ 10:15am	Keynote Carceral archipelago: confinement architectures of the Pacific War	A/Prof Anoma Pieris (Chair: Dr Mridula Nath Chakraborty)
10:15am ~ 10:45am	Morning tea
10:45am ~ 11:45am	Invited paper: An Asian American(ist) in Australia: The Limits and Possibilities of Cultural Proximity	Dr Jane Chi Hyun Park (Chair: Dr Olivia Khoo)
	Invited paper: Constructions of Asian American and Asian Australian Identities in the Lifestyle Sport and Subculture of Skateboarding	Dr Indigo Wiling, OAM (Chair: Dr Olivia Khoo)
11:45am ~ 1245pm	Paper Session: Imagi-Nations Chair: Tseen Khoo	Hoa Pham Dr Rosalind Macfarlane Dr Sukhmani Khorana
12:45pm ~ 1:00pm	Journal of Australian Studies – Special Issue Launch
1:00pm ~ 1:45pm	Lunch
1:45pm ~ 2:45pm	Paper Session: Memory Work Chair: Assoc Professor Gil-Soo Han	Jennifer Anderson Dr Michelle Aung Thin Maria Hach
2:45pm ~ 3:15pm	Afternoon tea
3:15pm ~ 3:45pm	Invited paper: Think globally, act locally: Sustaining Asian Australian Scholarly Activism Online	Dr Tseen Khoo (Chair: Prof Jacqueline Lo)
3:45pm ~ 4:45pm	Panel session: What does AASRN mean to me? Chair: Dr Timothy Kazuo Steains	Mayu Kanamori Masako Fukui Dr Timothy Kazuo Steains
4:45pm ~ 5:00pm	Closing remarks