CAPSTRANS CONFERENCES AND WORKSHOPS 2004

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• INTERNATIONAL KOREAN STUDIES CONFERENCE 2004

The conference theme, “The Park Era: A Reassessment After 25 Years”, reflects some of the key questions about how Korean culture, psychology, democracy and national infrastructure has come to be what it is today.

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• SINGAPORE STUDIES WORKSHOP 22 OCTOBER 2004

Conference theme: Handing over the rei(g)ns: Civil society under Lee Hsien Loong

The workshop brought together academics and postgraduate students from across Australia with an interest in civil society in Singapore. Prior to his recent appointment as Singapore's third Prime Minister, Lee Hsien Loong signalled a number of changes to the ways in which he would govern. Participants in the workshop examined recent developments among non-government organisations and other civil society actors and the prospects for increasing liberalisation of the political sphere under PM Lee. (View photos)

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• ASIAN STUDIES ASSOCIATION OF AUSTRALIA (ASAA) CONFERENCE

On 29 June—2 July CAPSTRANS staff attended the 15th Biennial Conference of the Asian Studies Association of Australia (ASAA). The following panels were convened by CAPSTRANS:

• Controlling Labour (Jim Hagan)
• Anomalous Women in Asia (Anne-Marie Hilsdon and Santi Rozario)
• The Two Bengals: Recent Social Scientific Research on Class, Culture and Inequality (Tim Scrase)
• Globalizing English and Its Impact of Society and Culture in Asia (Tim Scrase)
• Bali after the Bombings (Adrian Vickers)
• The Classics in Asian Studies (Adrian Vickers)

The following papers were presented by CAPSTRANS staff and students:

• On a Wing and a Prayer: Making the Transition from Rural Village to the Foreign Labour Market (Caroline Campbell)
• Bali as a risk society after 12th October (Linda Connor)
• Sexuality and Work: A History of Migrant Women in Malaysia (Vicki Crinis)
• Gendered Exclusion: Women's Experiences of Internal Displacement in West Bengal and Cross-Border Forced Migration from Bangladesh (Ruchira Ganguly-Scrase)
• Labour control in the cattle industry of northern Australia (Jim Hagan)
• Politics, Uneven Development and Liberalisation: The Limits to Poverty Alleviation in West Bengal (Douglas Hill)
• Sexy Mothers in Asia: the case of migrant Filipino women in Sabah (Anne-Marie Hilsdon)
• Denying Social Justice: The Problem of Inequality in Bangladeshi Laws (Shaikhul Islam)
• Appropriating English: The Global Business of Teaching English (Peter Kell)
• The English Craze: Today's Korean “Goose Daddy” Phenomenon (Hyung-a Kim)
• The Ruler is not Siamese, but Songkhlanese: Beyond Siamese and Malay in the Central Malay Peninsula (Phil King)
• The Water Frontier: An Introduction (Li Tana)
• Organizing for Domestic Worker Rights in Southeast Asia: Feminist Responses to Globalisation (Lenore Lyons)
• Trafficking in Women and Children: French Reports on Chinese Activities in Haiphong, 1880s-1930s (Julia Martínez)
• Hindu and Islam Youth (Pam Nilan)
• Outside the Moral Economy? Single Bangladeshi Female Migrants (Santi Rozario)
• Liberalizing Bengal: Middle Class Experiences and Interpretations of Workplace Change in West Bengal (Tim Scrase)
• The Hegemony of English in India (Tim Scrase)
• The Classics in Indonesian Studies (Adrian Vickers)
• Labour control in the rubber industry of colonial Vietnam (Andrew Wells)
• The Asia Socialist Conference in 1953 as a precursor to the Bandung Conference in 1955 (Kyaw Zaw Win)