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Panel Session Proposals

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Paper Proposals Included

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Animation Fandom and Costume Play as Transnational Queer Performativity

Confirmed

Doll Love and Silicone Satisfaction: Adapting and Articulating Identity, Gender and Sexuality

Transnationalizing Yaoi: Tracing Boys Love across Asian Cinema(s)

I Am That: Cosplay

Perspectives from Hong Kong: East Asian Cinema and its Dynamics

Confirmed

Bonding in Flux: The Sons, their Parents, and Traditions Renewed

Re-/Imagining the Self and the City: A Look at Jianghu and its Recontextualizations in Urban Space

A Cinema of Attachment: Individuality, Community and Authenticity

Ecology and Livelihood: Alternative Perspectives and Practices for Peace

Peace and Ecology: Alternative Perspectives

Asian Peasant Women¡¦s Network for Alternatives: Asian Peasant Women Rewrite Politics of Livelihood and Ecology

Action Research of Women, Ecology, Livelihood and Grassroots Movements in China

Development or Devastation? -- The View of Home from a Young Female Migrant Worker¡¦s Perspective

Performing the Caribbean (Popular): Part I & II

When the Empire Bites Back: Food Fun and F**king for Discerning Tourists

¡§Not one love¡¨: Rastafari Commercialized

Taking on the Pop(e) : Rastafari Redeeming the Sacred

Video-Light: Performing Visibility in Jamaica¡¦s Dancehalls

Performing Geography, Ritual and Power

So What is Caribbean Daaance? Daaance, Sacred Space and the Anglophone¡VCaribbean Canon

Studying Cultural Studies in Asia

Cultural Studies as Praxis, An Extramural Experience

Locating Cultural Studies

Curating Culture

Cultural Mobilities: Citizenship and Participation

Hong Kong¡¦s Changing Urban Landscape as a Catalyst against Official Decision-making

Hong Kong Waterworks: Artistic Research and Cultural Mobilities

Placing Sound ¡V Making Sound Art in Hong Kong

Power Politics in Arts, Dance and Architecture

The Role of the Architectural Competitions for ¡§the Palace of Soviets¡¨ in the 1930s in the USSR totalitarian Regime

Power and Practice in Japanese ¡§Traditional¡¨ Dance Culture

Transformation in the Connections between Art and the Local Community in 1990s - 2000s:With Reference to Social Engaged Art in Community Arts Projects

Researching the Moving Image in Southeast Asia: Candour and Contingency

Animate Cinema: Permeability and Radical Candour

Ghostly Crowds in Peripheral Film History: Thailand¡¦s 16mm ¡¥versioned¡¦ Quickies

Asia Pacific Intersections: Digital Media, Transnational Space and Cultural Identities

Framing AsiaGraph and the Interface between the New Region and New Media

The Seoul of Los Angeles: Korean Diaspora and the Construction of Transnational Identity and Memory in Digital Space

Animated Canons: The Canons of Animation between the East and the West

Pedagogy, Education and Cultural Studies

Southern Pedagogy: Challenging Eurocentric Teaching in Cultural Studies

Cultural Studies Pedagogy as a Cosmopolitan Educational Space

Of All Possible Wor[l]d[s]: Cultural Studies, Cultural Literacy and Education

Beyond Representation: Affective/Affirmative Feminist Approaches to the Visual

Desubjectification of Seeing: Towards an Affirmative Understanding of Perception

A Pain in the Eye: Visuality, Art, and (the) Un/becoming

Queer/Genre/Psychogeography

In Search of Synchrony: Attunement and Disjunction in Epistemologies of Queer Space

No More Drama: Guiding Light¡¦s Al Fresco Queer

Ginsberg¡¦s ¡¥Kaddish¡¦ and the Psychogeography of Mourning

World Cinema on the Border: Reconfiguring Human Bodies in Films of Global Migration

Moving Women: Narrating Female Mobility in Films of Transnational Border-Crossing

Ghostworlds: Transnational Documentary and the Politics of Re-Enactment

Framing the (New) Cinema of Immigration

The Implications of Image and the Obama Presidency

Barack Obama and Liberation Identity

Lessons from Africa: Reading Obama¡¦s Rainbow Nation(s)

Obama¡¦s Ipod and the We Are One Concert: The Perils of ¡§Postpolitical¡¨ Aesthetic Populism

Asian Gay Circuits: Rerouting Media, Mobilities, and Intimacies

The Middle Path: Reorientations of Desire among Middle Class Gay Men in Thailand

Bright Lights, Fast Bodies: Gay Life in Postcolonial Manila

Dolls, Dreams, and Drives: Sexual Subjectivity in the Films of Kim Kyung-Mook

Banned in BKK: The Gay Sex Videos of Thunska Pansittiworakul

Queer Bodies, Toxic Bodies

Art, Radioactivity, and Queerness

Double Vision: Transnational/Transgender Parables in Asian Horror

The Queer Animacy of Lead

The New Media of Securitization

Too Good to Fail: Managing Financial Crisis through TV¡¦s Moral Economy

The Securitization of Everyday Life

Security Mutants: Youth Movements and Social Media

Chinese Spaces in Unstable Cultural Moments

Fear and Desire: The Opium Den in the Asian Diaspora Constructed as Chinese Space

The Limits of Sympathy: Anti-Chinese Riots as Racialized Space on the American Frontier

Chinese Socialist World or Soviet Communist Camp? FBI Surveillance and Spaces of Chinese Socialism in the Black Power Movement

Un-Hinged: The Question of Blackness in/to the Global Present

"Beyond the Narrow Now": Another Elaboration of the Example -- W. E. B. Du Bois at the Limit of World

Fledgling: Octavia Butler and the Gifts of Black Thinking

Blackness and the Baroque

Becoming Black

Queering Space: Between Different Mediums

Queer Temporalities in Catherine Breillat¡¦s Anatomie de l¡¦Enfer

Queering the Medium

Sexualized Spaces, Spatialized Sexualities

Biopolitics and Governance of Life in East-Asia: Power, Polices, Crime and the ¡¥Mad Man¡¦

The Insightful Power

Crime Industry as the Governance of Life in the Contemporary Taiwan Society

The Cultural History of Madness in China around 1937-1949

Deeply Superficial: Asian Popular Culture and Contemporary Art

Endgames in Chinese New Media Art: Feng Mengbo¡¦s ¡§Long March Restart¡¨

An Unenviable Obsession: The Failure of Superficiality in Southern Chinese Contemporary Art

Re-imagining the South: Austral/Asian Horizons in Contemporary Art

Jakarta as Utopia and Dystopia: A Continuous Struggle

Pintu Terlarang: A Disconcerting Spatial Interpretation of Urban Dystopia

The Imaginary Room as a Coping Mechanism in the Gendered Urban Jakarta:Observing the Writings of Indonesian Female Authors

Slum Tourism: (De)Constructing the Urban Dystopia of Jakarta

Positioning Taiwanese Popular Culture in the Inter-Asia Crossroads of Nationalism, Postcolonialty and Globalization

Hating Korea, loving Japan: Taiwanese Sports Nationalism towards the East Asia in the age of globalization

The Postcolonial Encounters between Taiwan and Japan through Popular Culture: Confessions in Ainori and Cape No. 7

Japanese and Korean Factors in Taiwanese ¡¥Idol Drama¡¦: Cultural Imperialism, Transnationalism, and Capitalism

Relocating Desire: Historical Fantasy in Transnational Films

The Promise: Chen Kai-ge¡¦s Intercultural Translation

An Audience Reception Study of Chen Kaige¡¦s the Promise

The Mahabharata (1989 Film): Peter Brook¡¦s Intercultural Translation

Remembering: A Cross-cultural Dialogue on Cinematic Remembrances in the Asian Cinema

Haunted History and Everyday Surrealism in Apichatpong Weerasethakul¡¦s Primitive (2009)

The Neutral Form of 24 City: A Different Way To Go Back in History

Historicizing Memories/ Memorializing History: Ann Hui¡¦s Song of the Exile and As Time Goes By: Personal Memoir of Hong Kong

Excavating Risk Culture in Korea

BSE Fears and Candlelight Demonstrations in South Korea: Political or Scientific?

Visualizing Risk in Korea

Risk and Contentious Politics: American Beef and the Korean Candlelight Protest

Scientific Justification and Differentiated Construction of Risk Discourse:An Exemplary Case of South Korean Protests against U.S. Meat Imports

The Uncertainty and Risk Communication of GMOs ‐ With a Focus on Response to the Concept of ¡§Substantial Equivalence¡¨ in South Korea

Writing Inter-Asia Cultural History Today

World Film History Reoriented through Indian Cinema

Collaboration as a Frame for Understanding Politics

Deimperialization ¡V How Would I Understand That?

A Logic of Excessive

Cultural Consumption and Social Inequalities in Latin America

South America´s Cultural Distinction Ways...Uruguay from Opera to ÆØCumbiaÆØ

Consuming Modern Mexico: Television and Consumer Culture on the Mexico-Belize Border

Cultural Consumption. Practices and Meanings. Rethinking the Theoretical and Methodological Issues.

A Story of a Slum: Representing Conflict and Audience Reception in a Brazilian favela

Reality Formats as Biographical Narrative

¡§Produced Reality¡¨: Whose Story Is It?

Casting Shows and Culture: How Different National Cultures Define Who Wins or Loses Pop Idol

The Format always Casts Twice.The Idol Career as Multi-authored Long-term Narrative

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

Provincializing Non-Europe: The Re-Articulation and Non-Institutionalization of Cultural Studies under Neo-liberalism in Japan

Cultural Studies and the Terms of Neo-liberal Discourse: Responding to the Neo-liberal Critique

Pedagogies of Translation: Critical Theory in Japan(ese)

HIV, Sexuality, Community: New Biosocial Practices and Analyses

Queer Affect and Protease Community

Viral Families: Exploring the Salience of Viral Genealogy for HIV-positive Gay Men

Compatible Discordance: On Truth, Facts, and Other Things That Are Not Necessarily All That Helpful When Thinking About HIV

Re-Imagining the City

Eros in TransUrbia

Fantasies of a Disappearing and Reappearing Chinese City

The City¡¦s Ins and Outs: Queer Locations on Screen

Geopolitics and Contemporary Art of the Polar Regions

Climate Change in the Visual Culture of the Arctic Region

Tales of Tomorrow: Comparing Speculative Landscapes in the South Pole, Dubai, and in the Writings of Octavia Butler

The Anthropogenic Landscape and Feminist Art Practice

Pages from the Book of the Unknown Explorer

Revitalizing U.S. Cultural Studies: Meaning and Materiality"

Towards a Cultural Studies Historiography

Edging Technology ¡§A Little Further on Down the Road¡¨

When Institutions Haven't Been Built: Cultural Studies in the U. S.

Asian Pop Culture Fandom in Europe

Discovering East Asian Drama in Europe : A study on kdrama Fandom in France

Manga World Arts : Mediaculture, Sub, Counter or Geek Culture ?

Unthinking the Nation-State: Towards a Critical Ethnic Studies Project

Many Hundred Thousand Bodies Later: An Analysis of the ¡¥Legacy¡¦ of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda

Disposable Lives, Scarce Bodies: Race, Organ Trafficking, and the Threshold of the Human

Race, the Citizen and the LA Human: Race Relations and State Violence in Globalized Los Angeles

The Claim of Blackness

Cultural Studies and the Research of (Digital) Games: The Theory of Games

¡§Ludic Philosophy¡¨. Subjectivity, Choice and Virtual Death in Video Games

Games & Movies. Convergence vs. Complementarity: Towards a Theory of Audiovisuality in the Digital Age

Ludic Ideologies: Perspectives on Play

Cultural Studies and the Research of (Digital) Games: Gender in Games/Games of Chance & The Creativity of Play

Freed or Trapped: Gaming Pleasures and Mobility of Gender Identities

Negotiations on Player Identities: The Sims 2 Skinning as a Gendered Practice

Playful Money and Games in the Internet

Fantasy vs. Reality. The Construction of a ¡§Real World¡§ in Pen & Paper Role Playing Games

Fans, Gamers and Creative Communities. Productivity and Creative Labour in Game Appropriations

Cultural Studies and the Research of (Digital) Games: Performativity, Identity & Embodiment in Games

Layers of Performativity in the Videogame Spore

The Advancing Avatar. Projections of the Self in Literature, Film and Videogames

¡¥There is a Dire Wolf in my Neighbourhood¡¦: Subjectivity and Embodiment in Location-Based and Augmented-Reality Mobile Gaming

A Culturalist Approach to the Dissection of the Gangster Image in the Turkish Facebook Application Çete Savaşları

Cultural Studies and the Research of (Digital) Games: Ideology in Games

"Power to the People" or the Role of Ideology in Persuasive Games

Phobia as History. A Critical Discourse Analysis of Kuma\War Games

Engaging the Global Conflict Culture - The Imagined Battlefield and the War/Military Gamers

Women and Popular Media

Watching Women Watching TV: Challenges of Research

Pathways to an Empowering Song: Marrying Research and Advocacy

Modernity, Tradition and Desire

Alternative South Asian Cultural Studies

Discussant: Gupta, Arun, Pokhara University, Nepal

Discussant: Sharma, Anand, Pokhara University, Nepal

Global Hegemony and Intellectual Crisis

Managerialism, Academic Globalism and the Shaping of Sociology: Comparison of Taiwan, Hong Kong and Singapore

Hong Kong: Geopolitics and Intellectual Practice

Liberal Education in the Age of Neoliberal Capitalism: The Case of Hyderabad, India

Knowledge-Based Economy and Urban Development in Hong Kong

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

The Hard Road to Renewal: A Proposal for Cultural Studies in a New Decade

Cultural Studies: A (still) Progressive Project to Challenge Power or an Anachronistic Project Unwittingly in the Service of Power?

Television as Theory

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

Cultural Politics vs. Cultural Policy: PRC's Cultural Governance

Globalizing Nation on Screen: Taiwan¡¦s Film Policy in the Past Twenty Years

Gendered Dynamics in Japan¡¦s Global Promotion of Popular Culture

The Construction and Management of Crises

What Crisis is this? Constructing Business as Usual in Recession

Experiencing Crisis: Constructing Sequence in Series of Crises

Articulations of National Identity in Popular Culture

¡§We are the natives of Trizonesia!¡¨ - German Pop Music and Nationalism

Bio-Images and National Identity: Nationalist Tattoos in Turkey

Nazism as an Operatic Performance: Wagner¡¦s Die Meistersinger as Hitler¡¦s Inspiration

Global Noir: Reading the Transnational City

¡§I get a sub city¡¨: Murakami¡¦s Nakata Feels Urbanity

Colonial Noir: Diseasing the City

Macau: Cafˆms, Noir, and the Capital of the 21st Century

The Global City from Below

Informal Media Economies in Aspiring Global Cities

Monsters from Below, Technology from Above: Mapping the Asian Metropolis

Social Economy of Thrift

Ethnography and Fiction: Creative Intersections

Paperland: Ethnographic Fiction at a Suburban Doorstep

Afro-Finnish Performative Belongings

Vampire, Dog, Gay: Uses of "Fiction" in Collective, Online, Creative Practice

Re-inventing Western Theatre: From Caucasian Chalk Circle to Lingkaran Kapur

¡§The drunk monk will have to go,¡¨ Transforming the Caucasian Chalk Circle to Lingkaran Kapur: Cultural Challenges and the local context.

Re-inventing the Circle: Translating, Adapting, and Constructing Lingkaran Kapur

Completing the Circle: Bahasa Melayu, Brecht, and Malaysian Music

Cultural Studies Takes On Policy: (Re)forming the Nation, the Corporation and the Family

¡§From ¡¥Made in China¡¦ to ¡¥Created in China¡¦¡¨: Nation Branding as Policy, Discourse, and Cultural Production