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Centre for Asia Pacific Social Transformation Studies (CAPSTRANS)

2009 CAPSTRANS Conferences and Workshops

• 12 & 13 February
  Self, Place, and Broadband Connectivity: Making and Making Do Workshop
• 13 February
  Overseas Volunteering Futures Workshop
• 8 & 9 June
  Asia Pacific Transculturalisms: New Theoretical Perspectives
• 25 September
  Expertise, Skill and Pedagogy Workshop
• 23 & 24 November
  The Big Island: Promoting Contemporary Pacific Art and Craft in Australia: A Development Workshop (closed workshop)
  Workshop Program
• 30 November & 1 December
  Internet Regulation and Filtering in Australia and the Asia-Pacific
• 10 & 11 December
  Gender and occupations and interventions in the Asia Pacific, 1945-2009
• 12 & 13 December
  Trade Liberalisation, Economic Reform and Displacement: Comparative Research from the Asia Pacific

»"Self, Place, and Broadband Connectivity: 
Making and Making Do”

February 12 – 13 2009, in 20.5.
Sponsored by the University of Wollongong, the ARC Cultural Research Network, the Innovations in Cultural Research Group, and CAPSTRANS.

The project is designed to develop research networks in the study of the interrelation among self, connectivity, community and place.  To develop a coherent research direction the project will build towards a collaborative and information gathering 2 day workshop that brings together academics, policy practitioners and community representatives to investigate the way in which various communities work through their uses of the Internet. In order to develop a constructive and comparative understanding of the development of ‘broadband’ culture in regional Australia and to intersect with proposed rollout of broadband more expansively in Australia, key international researchers will be invited to share their work with how both self and connectivity are constituted in different environs and cultures.

CAPSTRANS has sponsored Korean academic Kwang Suk Lee from Sungkonghoe University to speak on the building of a national broadband infrastructure in Korea and how it has transformed Korean culture. Lee’s research areas include the political economy of communication, the social construction of technology, surveillance, and alternative media in the Internet age and is a widely published columnist and editor of the magazine The Networker.

»The Centre for Asia Pacific Social Transformation Studies  (CAPSTRANS) and PALMS Australia

Presents

Overseas Volunteering Futures Workshop

Friday 13th February 2009, 9:30am – 3:00pm.
Unicentre Function Centre Four, University of Wollongong.

This important forum emerges from research conducted by a team from the University of Wollongong Centre for Asia Pacific Social Transformation (CAPSTRANS) and Palms Australia. Palms Australia is a volunteer sending agency and has volunteers in developing communities in East Timor, Kiribati, New Guinea, Bougainville as well as in Indigenous communities in Australia. The research was funded through the Australian Research Council in 2005 and this is the second forum conducted at UoW on issues in volunteering. The forum suggests that volunteering will be reshaped by changing global conditions, climate change, new technologies and changing perceptions about volunteering and seeks to explore new opportunities and challenges in volunteering.

The election of the Rudd government in 2007 also offers an opportunity of the relationship between overseas volunteering and the Australian government to be explored to account for these new directions.

Panelists and Speakers

The forum will be opened by Hon. Bob McMullan, MP, Parliamentary Secretary for International Development Assistance.

Panelists include Mr Roger O’Halloran, Mr Brendan Joyce, Ms Nichole Georgiou, Assoc Prof Peter Kell, Assoc Prof Tim Scrase, Dr Ruchira Ganguly-Scrase, Dr Georgia Lysaght, and Dr Susan Engel.

RSVP and Enquiries to Georgia Lysaght: mailto:georgial@uow.edu.au