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
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| 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) |
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| 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 | |
