[ecrea] CFP - mobilities (AAI5) conference - 26-27 Nov 2015 (Immigration Museum, Melbourne)

CFP - mobilities (AAI5) conference - 26-27 Nov 2015 (Immigration Museum, 
Melbourne) - aai5conference.wordpress.com

>> This conference is hosted by the Asian Australian Studies Research 
Network (AASRN) in partnership with the Immigration Museum, Melbourne. <<

Research in Asian Australian Studies is marked consistently by critiques 
of static contexts and hermetic conceptualisations of sociocultural 
communities.

With the heightened – some might say hyper – mobility of people, 
capital, and information in the past couple of decades comes the 
necessity of new interrogations of community, nation, diaspora, and 
unbelonging.

What does this porousness of boundaries (whether geopolitical, 
community, or digital) mean for Asian Australian groups and their 
critical politics? Has the strategic essentialism of ‘Asian Australian’ 
lost its efficacy? Where is the crucial work that still needs to be done?

The ‘mobilities’ (aka AAI 5) conference focuses on the disparate, 
dispersed trajectories of Asian Australian subjects and communities, as 
well as the movement of its political and cultural boundaries.

It brings together academics, community and cultural workers, educators, 
creative artists, and industry speakers. At its core, the conference 
critically examines Asian Australian Studies today.

CONFERENCE KEYNOTES

    * Professor Ien Ang (Institute for Culture and Society, University 
of Western Sydney)
    * Dr Tim Soutphommasane (Race Discrimination Commissioner, 
Australian Human Rights Commission)

PRIORITY THEMES:

    * Critical views on Asia literacy
    * Educating about Asian Australia
    * Political subjectivities, public life
    * Creative cultural activism
    * Rural + regional Asian Australia
    * Asian Australian health
    * Diaspora + Asian identities
    * Digital activism
    * Screen cultures + mobile subjects
    * Histories of mobility + migration

CONFERENCE TIMELINES + SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

    * Call for Papers deadline: 1 March, 2015. Please send submissions 
to (aai5conference /at/ gmail.com), with “mobilities – <LAST NAMES>” in the 
email subject heading (e.g. mobilities – De Silva, Wang, Bloggs). You 
are encouraged to submit:

          o Themed panel groups: Panel title and 100 word panel theme 
summary, 150 word abstracts and 100 word bios for each presenter.
          o Roundtable groups: Roundtable title and 200 word roundtable 
theme summary, 100 word bios for each participant.
          o Individual papers: 250 word abstracts and 100 word bios.

    * 1 May – Accepted speakers will be notified / Registrations open
    * 25 July – Last day for early-bird registration

We welcome interdisciplinary approaches, and presentations from a broad 
range of humanities and social sciences fields (including political 
science, public health, cultural studies, education, critical race 
studies, cultural geography, history, and sociology).

The conference encourages a wide range of presentation format 
submissions, including themed panels, individual papers, round-tables, 
and Q&A-style sessions.

CONFERENCE COMMITTEE: Dr Tseen Khoo (La Trobe U), Dr Dean Chan (Curtin 
U), Dr Sukhmani Khorana (U of Wollongong) Professor Jacqueline Lo (ANU). 
All conference enquiries can be directed to (aai5conference /at/ gmail.com)

PARTNER EVENT: Following the 'mobilities' conference, the Asian 
Australian Film Forum and Network (AAFFN) will be holding a special 
event called “Lights On: Asian Australian Screen & Community 
Connections” featuring a Friday evening (27 Nov) film screening from 
5pm, and Saturday (28 Nov) event 10am to 5pm to be held at the Kaleide 
Theatre, RMIT. This event will feature various films and panels 
showcasing Asian Australian screen and community arts, and is free and 
open to everyone. For more information, visit the AAFFN website or 
Facebook page.

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