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Date Posted	Panel Session Proposals	Status		Paper Proposals Included	Status

9-Feb-10	Desperately Seeking Theoretical Debate: Interrogating the Post-Theory State of Cultural Studies	Proposed	1	The Hard Road to Renewal: A Proposal for Cultural Studies in a New Decade	Proposed
			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	Proposed
9-Feb-10	Nations in the (Re)Making: Trans/East Asian Media and Cultural Policies	Proposed	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	Proposed
			3	Ambitious Resistance: South Korea’s Film Policy in the Global Era	Proposed
			4	Gendered Dynamics in Japan’s Global Promotion of Popular Culture	Proposed
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	Proposed
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-Feb-10	Global Noir: Reading the Transnational City	Proposed	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-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
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	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
			5	Striking Security	Proposed
			6	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	Proposed
			2	Manga as a Political Battlefield: Mizuki Shigeru's Graphic Narratives of the War	Confirmed
			3	Drawing Moral Spaces: Comic Memory after 9/11	Proposed
27-Jan-10	The Alevi Social Movement’s Contribution to Democracy in Turkey	Proposed	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
25-Jan-10	Manila, Our Manila: Reimagining Urban Landscapes and Temporalities	Proposed	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	Proposed
			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	Negotiating Identities: Media and Diasporic Pro/con-sumption	Proposed
21-Jan-10	Creative Sweatshops: Cultural Workers in the New Economy	Proposed	1	Eyes on the Prize: Young Women, ‘Flexible Ambition’ and the Creative Industries	Proposed
21-Jan-10	Logistics of the Border: Migration, Control and Subjectivity	Confirmed	1	The International Organisation for Migration (IOM) and the International Government of Borders	Proposed
			2	Between Governance and Sovereignty: On the Borders of Politics	Confirmed
			3	Differential Inclusion and the Multiplication of Labour	Confirmed
21-Jan-10	Logistics of the Global University: Conflicts and Transformations in Higher Education	Confirmed	1	Knowledge Production and Cognitive Labour: Higher Education in the Age of Financial Capitalism	Proposed
			2	Extreme Neoliberalism and the Business School	Proposed
			3	Logistics of the Global University versus the Connection of Struggles: Producing Living Knowledge	Proposed
21-Jan-10	Logistics of Creative Labour: Borders, Subjectivity, Governance	Confirmed	1	Logistics of Creative Labour: Regions, Translation and the Organization of Capacities	Proposed
			2	“Not In Our Name”: Creative Labour and Political Self-Organisation	Proposed
			3	Artists as Creative Laborers? Dynamics between Art and Space	Proposed
21-Jan-10	Transnational Sexualities and Intimacies: Exploring Politics, Labour and Emotions	Proposed	1	Activism, Age and Life-Course: Inter-Generational Relations in Transnational Lesbian, Gay Bisexual and Transgender Activist Networks	Proposed
			2	Alienating Affect: The Cultural Politics of Hate Crimes	Proposed
			3	Transient Queer Labour: The Challenges and Negotiation of Urban Citizenshipamong Rural-to-urban Migrant Male Sex Workers in China	Proposed
21-Jan-10	Drama Education and Teacher Development	Proposed	1	Experiencing for a Change: Implications of Drama Pedagogy for Liberal Studies Teacher Development	Proposed
			2	The Double Character in Search of Authority	Proposed
			3	Reflecting on a Teacher Professional Development Programme on learning English through Process Drama	Proposed
21-Jan-10	Storytelling, and What-not -- Dialogues in Lives and Dialogues in Words	Proposed	1	What a story tells and what it doesn’t –– Myths around the Silenced Life of Ruth and Oscar Lewis and the Resounding Tales they’ve being telling !	Proposed
			2	Self Reflections on pan-zhu-chi-lao-hu (performing a pig to eat tigers): Autobiography as an Organizing Strategy	Proposed
			3	The Empty Space Never Is: The Living Synthesis of Self/Community Performances-in-the-making	Proposed
21-Jan-10	Mediating Disaster	Proposed	1	Communicating Uncertainty during a Disaster Event in the Social Media Age	Proposed
			2	Remembering Black Saturday: The Role of Personal Communicative Ecologies in the Mediation of the 2009 Australian Bushfires	Proposed
			3	Apocalypse Media Now: Disaster, Death and Disease in Social Media	Proposed
			4	Just Like a Movie: The Art History of the Catastrophe	Proposed
20-Jan-10	Learning about Us and Them: Participation and Practice	Proposed	1	Internationalism Revisited: Hegemonic Practices, Reification, Reproduction and Resistance	Confirmed
			2	Internationalism and Transnational Literacy	Proposed
			3	Living Room Internationalism Delimited	Proposed
20-Jan-10	Between the Acts?: Intersections of Cultural and Literary Studies	Proposed	1	‘Keeping it Real’? Doing Literature in Cultural Studies	Proposed
			2	Reading the Undead: Literary and Cultural Studies at the 'Twilight' of Youth Consumption	Proposed
20-Jan-10	Problematizing National Borders – East-Asian Cinema	Confirmed	1	Borderless Japan? - Representation of foreigners in Japanese Cinema	Proposed
			2	Glamorizing Shame: National Memories of War in the Transnational Cinema	Confirmed
			3	Momotaro Syndrome or the Politics of War in Japanese Animation: From Momotaro to Grave of Fireflies	Confirmed
			4	The Trouble with Chinese Filmmakers in Japan/ Japanese Filmmakers in China	Proposed
20-Jan-10	Cultural Reception: Spaces	Proposed	1	Song Dong: Waste Not	Proposed
			2	The Landscapes of MJ	Proposed
			3	Sweating Bone China	Proposed
20-Jan-10	The Re-structural Transformation of the Meaning of ‘Public’: Media, Technology and Politics	Proposed	1	Advertising Council Japan: The Limits of ‘Public’	Proposed
			2	How to Share Music (in private)	Confirmed
			3	Responsible Subject in Global Society: Neo-liberal Turn in the Post-9/11 Japanese Political Discourses	Proposed
20-Jan-10	The Aesthetics of the Global	Proposed	1	Grounding the Global: Malegaon Video Aesthetics	Proposed
			2	Vigilant Attunements: Danger and the 'Magic-art' of Global Media	Proposed
			3	Life as Style: Global HIV/AIDS Speculative Media	Proposed
20-Jan-10	Patterns and Polemics of Visibility: Negotiating Gender and Sexuality across Media Sites	Proposed	1	Privacy, Depression and Facebook Photos as Visual Evidence: Gendering the Public Diagnosis of Natalie Blanchard	Proposed
			2	Portal of Proclivities: No More Potlucks and the Politics of Online Publishing	Proposed
			3	Queer Transnational Marriage Films: Negotiating Kinship, Sexuality and Culture	Proposed
20-Jan-10	Constructing Images of the ‘Other’: Media and Society in Japan	Confirmed	1	Hafu’ in Japanese Society: Name Shifts as an Indicator of Changes in the Image of ‘Hafu’ in Japanese Society	Proposed
			2	The Discourse of Poverty in Japan: Frame Analysis of Recent Alternative Magazines	Confirmed
			3	Clubs, Dolls and Entertainment: Representation of Japan in Popular English-language Magazines	Proposed
18-Jan-10	“Bad” Emotions, “Bad” Media, and “Bad” Audiences	Proposed
18-Jan-10	Fantastic Facilitations of Popular Culture:Queer Affect, Queer Female Forum, and Queer Nationalism	Confirmed	1	Fantastic Obsessions: The Queer Fascination of Televised Female Empowerment	Confirmed
			2	Towards Activism of Pleasure: Possibilities of Yaoi As a Productive Queer Forum	Confirmed
			3	“Politics is Like BL to Me”: Queering National Politics and Boy’s Love Fantasy in Hetalia	Confirmed
18-Jan-10	Media Expression in Transition: Dialect Local News, Weekly Magazine, College BBS and Online Video in China	Proposed	1	Analysis of Discourse about Five-Jiao-Gang in Chinese BBS Deliberation	Proposed
			2	Innovation of Dialect News Broadcasting in Chinese Local TV Stations:	Proposed
				Examining J. Habermas’s concept of ‘Equivalent Political Public Spheres’	Proposed
			3	On the symbiotic relationship between Chinese intellectuals and the media: A discourse analysis of the process of "middle class" image construction	Confirmed
			4	The Cause for the Formation of Shanzhai in China – Take Online Shanzhai Video as example	Confirmed
18-Jan-10	Reconsidering Japan as a Post-Postwar Society: Transformation of Universality	Proposed	1	Universality of the Negative: Reconsidering the Spirit of Fujita Shozo	Proposed
			2	Restaging Violence: Kim Hiro Incident and the Cultural Citizenship of Imagination	Proposed
			3	The Energy of Growth in Post-Postwar Japan: Nuclear and Local Community Development	Proposed
			4	Considering Public Relations through Social Movements in 1960–70s Japan	Proposed
18-Jan-10	Good Place for Living? Land, Dirt and Mudslides	Proposed	1	Choi Yuen Village as Heterotopia: A Study of its Change of Function in the Process of the Protest Against the Demolition of Choi Yuen Village	Proposed
			2	Dehiscence: Case of the Historical Fishing Village of Tai O	Proposed
			3	Dirt We Need – How Purity Chases Away the Rural	Proposed
18-Jan-10	Of Hong Kong Cinema and Elsewhere: “Chineseness”, Refraction, Exploitation	Proposed	1	Re-/Dis-”Connected”: Linguistic Identity and Ideologic Bifurcation in Hong Kong Cinema	Proposed
			2	Enjoy Without Restraints!: The Impossible Sublation of French May ’68 and “China” in René Viénet’s Can Dialectics Break Bricks? (1973) and Olivier Assayas’ Irma Vep (1996)	Proposed
			3	Race and Nationalism: Tsui Hark’s Once Upon a Time in China	Proposed
18-Jan-10	Networked Video Culture	Proposed	1	Redactional Truth, Public Memory, and Spoof Videos	Proposed
			2	Con-ducer: Towards a New Understanding of New Media Consumers’ Role on YouTube	Proposed
18-Jan-10	Nostalgic Cities and the Present	Proposed	1	Temporality in the Nostalgic City	Proposed
			2	Málaga, City without Citizens?	Proposed
			3	Reality Check for Xalapa, the Athens of Veracruz	Proposed
15-Jan-10	On the Cultural Fronts: Youth Sex Education, LGBT Cultural Productions and Independent Media in Hong Kong and Mainland China	Proposed	1	Mapping the Sexual Landscape: The Case of the Family Planning Association of Hong Kong	Proposed
			2	The Pink Dollar Myth: The Hong Kong Lesbian & Gay Film Festival	Proposed
			3	Branding Satire: Queer Representation in the works of Yuen Pui-Man	Proposed
			4	Emerging Lala Cultural Activism in China	Proposed
15-Jan-10	Consuming Participation: Conversational New media, User Created Content and Popular Imaginaries in Asia-Pacific Region	Proposed	1	Intimate Publics: Intimacy and Politics of SNS in Manila	Proposed
			2	The Construction of ‘Participation’ in Digital Culture Industries: Study on UGC Cultural Workers	Proposed
			3	We’re all in this together: Brand 2.0 or Branding’s Co-creation Paradigm	Proposed
15-Jan-10	Community Arts & Cultural Citizenship	Proposed	1	Negotiating Social Participation: Cultural Citizenship, CALD Communities, and Arts Practice	Confirmed
			2	Community Media Practices as Resonant Acts	Proposed
			3	Going Public: The Politics of Recognition at Digital Storytelling Launch Events	Proposed
15-Jan-10	Contemporary Asia: Art as Public Intervention	Proposed	1	Rethinking Democracy in South Korea: The Political in Art since 2008	Proposed
			2	Creating Publicness in China	Proposed
			3	Global Art Publics – Who Reads Criticism Today, and Who will Read the Future World Art History? Some Preliminary Observations from Southeast Asia	Proposed
			4	Publicizing Migratory Histories and Contemporary Art	Proposed
15-Jan-10	What is in a 'Talking Head'? – A Visual Ethnography on Performativity, Reflexivity and Social Interactionism.	Confirmed	1	Narrated Selves and Event Structures: A Phenomenological View on Glocal Connectivities	Confirmed
			2	Retelling Cinderella: How the Local Performs the Global	Proposed
15-Jan-10	Cinema as “Heterotopia”: Contesting Society’s Past, Present, and Future	Proposed	1	Personalizing History:The Postsocialist Aesthetics of Lou Ye’s Summer Palace	Proposed
			2	Reflecting “Geographies of Capital”: Realism and Class Differences in Latin American Cinema	Confirmed
			3	Dreams and Nightmares:Simulation and Heterotopias in East Asian Sci-Fi	Proposed
14-Jan-10	Comedy Close to the Edge: Race, Gender, Class and Nation	Proposed	1	The Mail-order Bride as a Figure of Fun	Proposed
			2	Blackface in 1930s and 40s Japan: Ambivalence of Mimicry in Enomoto Kenichi’s Performance	Proposed
			3	Celebrating the Unruly Body: Race, Sexuality and the Politics of Pleasure in Margaret Cho’s Stand-up Performances	Proposed
14-Jan-10	Islamizing Popular Culture in Post-Suharto Indonesia	Proposed	1	Visions of the Future: Imagining Islamic Modernities in Post Suharto Popular Culture	Proposed
			2	The Spectacle of Gossip: Homosexuality, Infotainment Programs and Religion	Proposed
			3	Islam and Intimacy. Comparing Identity Politics in Multi-Ethnic and Arab Indonesian Chat Rooms	Proposed
14-Jan-10	Technologies of Listening & Listening Across Difference	Proposed	1	Digital Audio: A Feline History	Proposed
			2	The Limits of Listening	Proposed
			3	Listening and Recognition	Proposed
			4	Disability, Democracy & Listening	Proposed
14-Jan-10	Cultural Infrastructures of Crime, Fear and Trauma	Proposed	1	1964: The Kitty Genovese Murder and New York City	Proposed
			2	Recognizing Violence	Proposed
			3	Watching the Watchmen, Mediating the Mediators	Proposed
14-Jan-10	Cultural Practices and Youth in Latin America	Confirmed	1	Cumbia Chicha among Young Miners of Huanuni	Proposed
			2	The Taste of Others: Production and Consumption among Young People in the Popular Class of Brazil	Proposed
			3	From a Rock Music Concert to Claim Justice. Ethnographic Analysis of the Meanings of Youth Mobilized in a Political Fight	Proposed
			4	Cultural Consumption. Practices and Meanings. Rethinking the Theoretical and Methodological Issues.	Confirmed
14-Jan-10	Issues in Digital Labour	Proposed	1	Of Technologies and Trajectories: Montreal New Media Artists	Proposed
			2	Web Design and the Curation of User-generated Content	Proposed
			3	‘We don’t need no education’: Preparing Precariats for the Digital Creative Industries	Proposed
			4	Usability as Labour	Proposed
13-Jan-10	The Science-Fictionalization of Cultural Studies	Confirmed	1	New Wave Science Fiction and the Critique of Technocracy	Proposed
			2	Encounters with Difference: The Cultural Analytics of Alien(nes)s	Confirmed