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CAPSTRANS CONFERENCES AND WORKSHOPS 2006
This workshop organized by CAPSTRANS Senior Visiting Fellow was convened by Dr Lakshmi Subramaniam (Senior Fellow in History, Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Kolkata, India).
We wish to gather together a distinctive collection of participants/contributors who can illuminate the key features of the Internet's internationalization, surveying exemplary Internet language groups and cultures. We wish to encourage explorations of the distinctive features of the consumption and use of the Internet by various language groups, and how this expands and questions taken-for granted notions of Internet studies.
The purpose of this one-and-a-half-day ECR seminar on “Understanding the Internet in the Asia/Pacific” was to acknowledge that Internet use and Internet studies take place “elsewhere” in various national and international contexts. Through bringing together researchers whose daily experience of the Internet is mediated through Asian languages and cultures as well as researchers situated within the Anglophone academy whose work focuses on cultures in our region, it was hoped to promote the visibility of work already being done outside the Anglophone world. The aim was also to encourage new work that critically engages with Anglophone Internet scholarship that is based on research into diverse locales and draws upon a range of intellectual traditions.
The purpose of the workshop was to address seminal and timely issues of the middle class in Asia by examining the dynamic relationship between the middle class and the state in the face of modernization, privatization, and globalization. Assembling two distinctive groups of experts together, the workshop reviewed existing literature, shared new findings and insights, and develop common themes for meaningful comparison. The participants focused on such questions as how the middle classes develop (or not so) in response to the state policies and what impacts their relationship with the state has on political and economic reforms. Issues for discussion include those concerning the middle classes themselves – i.e. their origins, their interests and value systems, conflict of subgroup interests and conflict of identities – as well as those related to redistributive politics, resource allocation, civil society, globalization and regional cooperation. The workshop anticipates development of solid research papers for a collected volume or special issue of a journal. News Article >>
CAPSTRANS held its' second Winter Workshop for doctoral students and early career researchers from 30 June - 1 July 2006. The Winter Workshop wass supported by CAPSTRANS and the Asia Pacific Futures Research Network (APFRN).
Follow-up workshop to the earlier (November 2005) successful workshop on: Human Security and Development in Marginal Communities: A National Workshop on Volunteering Abroad in the Asia-Pacific. Selected postgraduate papers and presenters were chosen to refine their topic and papers, and prepare them for publication.
The political, cultural and technological importance of Asia to Australia was under the spotlight when the University of Wollongong hosted for the first time the premier Asian studies event in the Southern Hemisphere.
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