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Date Posted	Panel Session Proposals	Status		Paper Proposals Included	Status

10-Mar-10	Asian Gay Circuits: Rerouting Media, Mobilities, and Intimacies	Confirmed	1	The Middle Path: Reorientations of Desire among Middle Class Gay Men in Thailand	Confirmed
			2	Bright Lights, Fast Bodies: Gay Life in Postcolonial Manila	Proposed
			3	Dolls, Dreams, and Drives: Sexual Subjectivity in the Films of Kim Kyung-Mook	Confirmed
			4	Banned in BKK: The Gay Sex Videos of Thunska Pansittiworakul	Confirmed
10-Mar-10	Queer Bodies, Toxic Bodies	Proposed	1	Art, Radioactivity, and Queerness	Proposed
			2	Double Vision: Transnational/Transgender Parables in Asian Horror	Proposed
			3	The Queer Animacy of Lead	Proposed
10-Mar-10	The New Media of Securitization	Proposed	1	Too Good to Fail: Managing Financial Crisis through TV’s Moral Economy	Proposed
			2	The Securitization of Everyday Life	Proposed
			3	Security Mutants: Youth Movements and Social Media	Proposed
10-Mar-10	Chinese Spaces in Unstable Cultural Moments	Proposed	1	Fear and Desire: The Opium Den in the Asian Diaspora Constructed as Chinese Space	Proposed
			2	The Limits of Sympathy: Anti-Chinese Riots as Racialized Space on the American Frontier	Proposed
			3	Chinese Socialist World or Soviet Communist Camp? FBI Surveillance and Spaces of Chinese Socialism in the Black Power Movement	Proposed
10-Mar-10	Un-Hinged: The Question of Blackness in/to the Global Present	Proposed	1	Beyond the Narrow Now”: Another Elaboration of the Example -- W. E. B. Du Bois at the Limit of World	Proposed
			2	Fledgling: Octavia Butler and the Gifts of Black Thinking	Proposed
			3	Blackness and the Baroque	Proposed
			4	Becoming Black	Confirmed
10-Mar-10	Queering Space: Between Different Mediums	Proposed	1	Queer Temporalities in Catherine Breillat’s Anatomie de l’Enfer	Proposed
			2	Queering the Medium	Proposed
			3	Sexualized Spaces, Spatialized Sexualities	Proposed
10-Mar-10	Biopolitics and Governance of Life in East-Asia: Power, Polices, Crime and the ‘Mad Man’	Proposed	1	The Insightful Power	Proposed
			2	Crime Industry as the Governance of Life in the Contemporary Taiwan Society	Proposed
			3	The Cultural History of Madness in China around 1937-1949	Proposed
10-Mar-10	Deeply Superficial: Asian Popular Culture and Contemporary Art	Proposed	1	Endgames in Chinese New Media Art: Feng Mengbo’s “Long March Restart”	Proposed
			2	An Unenviable Obsession: The Failure of Superficiality in Southern Chinese Contemporary Art	Proposed
10-Mar-10	Roundtable Discussion of Gayatri Spivak’s Other Asias	Proposed	1	Other” Principles for the Study of Asia: Activating Structures Defective for Capitalism	Proposed
			2	Gayatri Spivak’s Other Asias	Proposed
			3	Knowledge Production and the Impossibility of ‘Asia’ and ‘Inter-Asia’	Proposed
			4	Spectral Asia(s): Thinking Other Asias without the Other of Asia	Proposed
			5	A Time/Space Tapestry of Violence against Women in Asia	Proposed
			6	Othering Asia, Othering Identity	Proposed
10-Mar-10	Land and Exploitation of Environment: Agrarianism, Public Participation in Policy-Making and Representation in Grass-Root Culture	Proposed	1	The Decadence of Agrarianism: A Historical Institution Analysis of Taiwan Agriculture Land Release Policy (1990-2007)	Proposed
			2	Possibility and Limitation of Ppublic Participation in Environmental Management: Some Case Studies in Project Assessment, Land Expropriation and Related Campaigns	Proposed
			3	Chen Ying-Zhen’s Writings about ‘Countryside’	Proposed
			4	The Sound Flows between Native-Soil and Concrete: The Connection and its Possibility between the Independent Music Creators and the Rural Villages	Proposed
8-Mar-10	Jakarta as Utopia and Dystopia: A Continuous Struggle	Proposed	1	Pintu Terlarang: A Disconcerting Spatial Interpretation of Urban Dystopia	Proposed
			2	The Imaginary Room as a Coping Mechanism in the Gendered Urban Jakarta:Observing the Writings of Indonesian Female Authors	Proposed
			3	Slum Tourism: (De)Constructing the Urban Dystopia of Jakarta	Proposed
8-Mar-10	Positioning Taiwanese Popular Culture in the Inter-Asia Crossroads of Nationalism, Postcolonialty and Globalization	Proposed	1	Hating Korea, loving Japan: Taiwanese Sports Nationalism towards the East Asia in the age of globalization	Proposed
			2	The Postcolonial Encounters between Taiwan and Japan through Popular Culture: Confessions in Ainori and Cape No. 7	Proposed
			3	Japanese and Korean Factors in Taiwanese ‘Idol Drama’: Cultural Imperialism, Transnationalism, and Capitalism	Proposed
8-Mar-10	Relocating Desire: Historical Fantasy in Transnational Films	Confirmed	1	The Promise: Chen Kai-ge’s Intercultural Translation	Confirmed
			2	An Audience Reception Study of Chen Kaige’s the Promise	Confirmed
			3	The Mahabharata (1989 Film): Peter Brook’s Intercultural Translation	Proposed
8-Mar-10	Remembering: A Cross-cultural Dialogue on Cinematic Remembrances in the Asian Cinema	Confirmed	1	Haunted History and Everyday Surrealism in Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s Primitive (2009)	Proposed
			2	The Neutral Form of 24 City: A Different Way To Go Back in History	Proposed
			3	Historicizing Memories/ Memorializing History: Ann Hui’s Song of the Exile and As Time Goes By: Personal Memoir of Hong Kong	Confirmed
5-Mar-10	Excavating Risk Culture in Korea	Proposed	1	BSE Fears and Candlelight Demonstrations in South Korea: Political or Scientific?	Proposed
			2	Visualizing Risk in Korea	Proposed
			3	Risk and Contentious Politics: American Beef and the Korean Candlelight Protest	Proposed
			4	Scientific Justification and Differentiated Construction of Risk Discourse:An Exemplary Case of South Korean Protests against U.S. Meat Imports	Proposed
			5	The Uncertainty and Risk Communication of GMOs ‐ With a Focus on Response to the Concept of “Substantial Equivalence” in South Korea	Proposed
5-Mar-10	Writing Inter-Asia Cultural History Today	Confirmed	1	World Film History Reoriented through Indian Cinema	Confirmed
			2	Collaboration as a Frame for Understanding Politics	Proposed
5-Mar-10	Cultural Consumption and Social Inequalities in Latin America	Proposed	1	Cultural Inequality and occupational Structure. Chile in the Post-industrialization	Proposed
			2	South America´s Cultural Distinction Ways...Uruguay from Opera to ¨Cumbia¨	Proposed
			3	Cine and Music Consumption in Middle Class. New Ways of Cultural legitimacy	Confirmed
			4	Cinema and the City: A Century of Cinemagoing in Mexico City	Proposed
			5	Consuming Modern Mexico: Television and Consumer Culture on the Mexico-Belize Border	Proposed
5-Mar-10	Reality Formats as Biographical Narrative	Proposed	1	“Produced Reality”: Whose Story Is It?	Proposed
5-Mar-10	Cultural Studies and their Theoretical Currencies under the Neo-liberal Humanities Education: Institution, Appropriation and Translation	Confirmed	1	Provincializing Non-Europe: The Re-Articulation and Non-Institutionalization of Cultural Studies under Neo-liberalism in Japan	Confirmed
			2	Cultural Studies and the Terms of Neo-liberal Discourse: Responding to the Neo-liberal Critique	Confirmed
			3	Pedagogies of Translation: Critical Theory in Japan(ese)	Proposed
5-Mar-10	HIV, Sexuality, Community: New Biosocial Practices and Analyses	Proposed	1	Queer Affect and Protease Community	Proposed
			2	Viral Families: Exploring the Salience of Viral Genealogy for HIV-positive Gay Men	Proposed
			3	Compatible Discordance: On Truth, Facts, and Other Things That Are Not Necessarily All That Helpful When Thinking About HIV	Confirmed
3-Mar-10	Re-Imagining the City	Proposed	1	Eros in TransUrbia	Proposed
			2	Fantasies of a Disappearing and Reappearing Chinese City	Proposed
			3	The City’s Ins and Outs: Queer Locations on Screen	Proposed
3-Mar-10	Geopolitics and Contemporary Art of the Polar Regions	Confirmed	1	Climate Change in the Visual Culture of the Arctic Region	Confirmed
			2	Tales of Tomorrow: Comparing Speculative Landscapes in the South Pole, Dubai, and in the Writings of Octavia Butler	Confirmed
			3	Going Off World: Science, Fiction, Empire	Proposed
			4	Pages from the Book of the Unknown Explorer	Confirmed
2-Mar-10	Theorizing Meaning and Materiality	Confirmed	1	Towards a Cultural Studies Historiography	Confirmed
			2	Edging Technology “A Little Further on Down the Road”	Confirmed
2-Mar-10	Asian Pop Culture Fandom in Europe	Proposed	1	Discovering East Asian Drama in Europe : A study on kdrama Fandom in France	Proposed
			2	Manga World Arts : Mediaculture, Sub, Counter or Geek Culture ?	Proposed
2-Mar-10	Unthinking the Nation-State: Towards a Critical Ethnic Studies Project	Proposed	1	Many Hundred Thousand Bodies Later: An Analysis of the ‘Legacy’ of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda	Proposed
			2	Disposable Lives, Scarce Bodies: Race, Organ Trafficking, and the Threshold of the Human	Proposed
			3	Race, the Citizen and the LA Human: Race Relations and State Violence in Globalized Los Angeles	Proposed
			4	The Claim of Blackness	Proposed
24-Feb-10	Cultural Studies and the Research of (Digital) Games: The Theory of Games	Confirmed	1	“Ludic Philosophy”. Subjectivity, Choice and Virtual Death in Video Games	Proposed
			2	Ludic Constructivism. An Epistemological Approach to Computer Games	Proposed
			3	Games & Movies. Convergence vs. Complementarity: Towards a Theory of Audiovisuality in the Digital Age	Proposed
24-Feb-10	Cultural Studies and the Research of (Digital) Games: The Creativity of Play	Confirmed	1	Ludic Ideologies: Perspectives on Play	Proposed
			2	Fantasy vs. Reality. The Construction of a “Real World“ in Pen & Paper Role Playing Games	Proposed
			3	We Play in Public: Shifts in Contemporary Game Design	Proposed
			4	Fans, Gamers and Creative Communities. Productivity and Creative Labour in Game Appropiations	Proposed
24-Feb-10	Cultural Studies and the Research of (Digital) Games: Gender in Games/Games of Chance	Confirmed	1	Freed or Trapped: Gaming Pleasures and Mobility of Gender Identities	Confirmed
			2	Negotiations on Player Identities: The Sims 2 Skinning as a Gendered Practice.	Confirmed
			3	A Player’s Web of Significance. A Microethonographical Study about Online Poker Culture	Proposed
			4	Playful Money and Games in the Internet	Proposed
24-Feb-10	Cultural Studies and the Research of (Digital) Games: Performativity, Identity & Embodiment in Games	Confirmed	1	Layers of Performativity in the Videogame Spore	Proposed
			2	The Advancing Avatar. Projections of the Self in Literature, Film and Videogames	Proposed
			3	‘There is a Dire Wolf in my Neighbourhood’: Subjectivity and Embodiment in Location-Based and Augmented-Reality Mobile Gaming	Proposed
			4	A Culturalist Approach to the Dissection of the Gangster Image in the Turkish Facebook Application Çete Savaşları	Proposed
24-Feb-10	Cultural Studies and the Research of (Digital) Games: Ideology in Games	Confirmed	1	"Power to the People" or the Role of Ideology in Persuasive Games	Confirmed
			2	Phobia as History. A Critical Discourse Analysis of Kuma\War Games	Proposed
			3	Engaging the Global Conflict Culture - The Imagined Battlefield and the War/Military Gamers	Proposed
			4	“Ius ad Bellum”– About the Partisan, the Guirellero and the Martyr in Digital Games	Proposed
24-Feb-10	Women and Popular Media	Confirmed	1	Watching Women Watching TV: Challenges of Research	Confirmed
			2	Pathways to an Empowering Song: Marrying Research and Advocacy	Confirmed
			3	Modernity, Tradition and Desire	Proposed
12-Feb-10	Alternative South Asian Cultural Studies	Proposed	1	Discussant: Gupta, Arun, Pokhara University, Nepal	Proposed
			2	Discussant: Sharma, Anand, Pokhara University, Nepal	Proposed
10-Feb-10	Global Hegemony and Intellectual Crisis	Confirmed	1	Managerialism, Academic Globalism and the Shaping of Sociology: Comparison of Taiwan, Hong Kong and Singapore	Proposed
			2	Hong Kong: Geopolitics and Intellectual Practice	Confirmed
			3	Liberal Education in the Age of Neoliberal Capitalism: The Case of Hyderabad, India	Proposed
			4	Knowledge-Based Economy and Urban Development in Hong Kong	Confirmed
9-Feb-10	Desperately Seeking Theoretical Debate: Interrogating the Post-Theory State of Cultural Studies	Confirmed	1	The Hard Road to Renewal: A Proposal for Cultural Studies in a New Decade	Confirmed
			2	Cultural Studies: A (still) Progressive Project to Challenge Power or an Anachronistic Project Unwittingly in the Service of Power?	Proposed
			3	Television as Theory	Confirmed
9-Feb-10	Nations in the (Re)Making: Trans/East Asian Media and Cultural Policies	Confirmed	1	Cultural Politics vs. Cultural Policy: PRC's Cultural Governance	Proposed
			2	Globalizing Nation on Screen: Taiwan’s Film Policy in the Past Twenty Years	Confirmed
			3	Ambitious Resistance: South Korea’s Film Policy in the Global Era	Confirmed
			4	Gendered Dynamics in Japan’s Global Promotion of Popular Culture	Confirmed
9-Feb-10	The Construction and Management of Crises	Proposed	1	What Crisis is this? Constructing Business as Usual in Recession	Proposed
			2	Experiencing Crisis: Constructing Sequence in Series of Crises	Confirmed
9-Feb-10	Articulations of National Identity in Popular Culture	Proposed	1	“We are the natives of Trizonesia!” - German Pop Music and Nationalism	Proposed
			2	Bio-Images and National Identity: Nationalist Tattoos in Turkey	Proposed
			3	Nazism as an Operatic Performance: Wagner’s Die Meistersinger as Hitler’s Inspiration	Confirmed
3-Feb-10	Global Noir: Reading the Transnational City	Confirmed	1	When Noir Turns Black: Trafficking in Beijing and Taiwan	Proposed
			2	“I get a sub city”: Murakami’s Nakata Feels Urbanity	Proposed
			3	Colonial Noir: Diseasing the City	Proposed
			4	Macau: Cafés, Noir, and the Capital of the 21st Century	Proposed
3-Feb-10	The Global City from Below	Proposed	1	Informal Media Economies in Aspiring Global Cities	Proposed
			2	Monsters from Below, Technology from Above: Mapping the Asian Metropolis	Proposed
			3	Social Economy of Thrift	Proposed
3-Feb-10	Ethnography and Fiction: Creative Intersections	Proposed	1	Paperland: Ethnographic Fiction at a Suburban Doorstep	Proposed
			2	Afro-Finnish Performative Belongings	Proposed
			3	Vampire, Dog, Gay: Uses of "Fiction" in Collective, Online, Creative Practice	Confirmed
3-Feb-10	Queer Fandoms	Proposed	1	“I Heart Lady Gay Gay”: Exploring the Construction and Reception of Lady Gaga	Proposed
			2	Deliberative Democracy and Feminism in Lesbian Fan Fiction Communities	Proposed
3-Feb-10	Re-inventing Western Theatre: From Caucasian Chalk Circle to Lingkaran Kapur	Proposed	1	“The drunk monk will have to go,” Transforming the Caucasian Chalk Circle to Lingkaran Kapur: Cultural Challenges and the local context.”	Proposed
			2	Re-inventing the Circle: Translating, Adapting, and Constructing Lingkaran Kapur	Proposed
			3	Completing the Circle: Bahasa Melayu, Brecht, and Malaysian Music	Proposed
2-Feb-10	Cultural Studies Takes On Policy: (Re)forming the Nation, the Corporation and the Family	Proposed	1	“From ‘Made in China’ to ‘Created in China’”: Nation Branding as Policy, Discourse, and Cultural Production	Proposed
			2	The Politics of Pardoning: Immigrant Amnesty and the (Re)formation of Nation in the United States	Proposed
			3	Cultural Resistance or Corporate Assistance: Disenchanting the Anti-Capitalist Myth of Digital Piracy	Proposed
			4	Dead-beat Dads and Paternity Fraud: Paternity Policies and Family Formation	Proposed
			5	Traditional Festival Revival and the Rise of the Discourses of the 'Folk' (minjian) - A Critical Cultural Policy Analysis	Proposed
2-Feb-10	Love what you do: Cultural Studies of Online Work	Confirmed	1	Know your Product: Online Branding and the Evacuation of Friendship	Confirmed
			2	Best Practices in Banana Time	Proposed
			3	Gift, Game, Work and Labor	Proposed
2-Feb-10	“Society of Security,” A Collective Presentation by the Working Group on Globalization and Culture I: Genealodies of Security	Proposed	1	“Homeland Security”: A Genealogy	Proposed
			2	Security and Governance: The Discursive Power of "National Security"	Proposed
			3	Postsocialist Longing for Security, or Appropriating Polanyi against Nostalgia	Proposed
			4	Disturbing Movies: Narrative Security in Post-9/11 Documentary Film	Proposed
2-Feb-10	“Society of Security,” A Collective Presentation by the Working Group on Globalization and Culture II: Apparatuses of Security	Proposed	1	Between Rhetoric and Barbed Wire: Regimes of Violence to Secure the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands	Proposed
			2	Striking Security	Proposed
			3	Securing Miami International: The Airport as Borderland	Proposed
29-Jan-10	Gender, Revolution and Labour in Early Socialist China (1950s to 1970s): Fiction or Fact, a Dialogue between Writers and Sociologists	Proposed	1	Woman, Labor and Subjectivity: An Investigation to Zhao Shuli’s Novels	Proposed
			2	Aggrieved Ghost and Revolution: The Ghost Opera “Li Hui Niang” and the New Chinese Play (Theatre?) Reform Movement	Proposed
27-Jan-10	Graphic on Graphic: The Ethics of Serious Cartooning in Japan and the World	Confirmed	1	Reactivated Trauma: Visual Performance of Nakazawa Keiji’s Barefoot Gen	Confirmed
			2	Manga as a Political Battlefield: Mizuki Shigeru's Graphic Narratives of the War	Confirmed
			3	Drawing Moral Spaces: Comic Memory after 9/11	Confirmed
27-Jan-10	The Alevi Social Movement’s Contribution to Democracy in Turkey	Confirmed	1	Between Theology and Power: Karbala “Battles”	Proposed
			2	Can Discrimination and Domination Produce Democratic Implications? If Answer is ‘yes’, in What Context? Life-world of Alevis and Kızılbaşs.	Proposed
			3	Difficult Freedom: Politics of Emancipation and the Alevis in Turkey	Proposed
			4	The PKK, the Alevis and the State in Turkey after the 1980 Military Coup	Proposed
			5	Turkish Nationalisms and the Ambivalance Status of Alevi Citizens	Proposed
			6	Beyond the Realm of Essentialism: Towards a New Alevi Identity in the City?	Proposed
25-Jan-10	Manila, Our Manila: Reimagining Urban Landscapes and Temporalities	Confirmed	1	City Limits and Time Lines: Montage in Nick Joaquin’s Almanac for Manileños	Proposed
			2	From Street Bazaars to Shopping Malls: A Genealogy of Consumer Capitalism in Singapore and Manila	Confirmed
			3	‘These fragments I have shored against my ruins’: The city in first books of Philippine poetry in English, 1998-2008	Proposed
25-Jan-10	New Media and Subcultural Changes in Contemporary China	Proposed	1	Can Depoliticized Politics Explain Social Struggles?	Proposed
			2	'Human Flesh Search Engines': As a Sign of Social Crisis	Proposed
			3	TV: The Tool of Mediation and Education? - A Case Study on TV Program of SMG Entertainment Channel	Proposed
			4	New Media and the Youth Subculture U-turn: An Analysis on Events after 2008	Proposed
21-Jan-10