SEMINAR SCHEDULE - WOLLONGONG - 2007
Seminar Series
The seminar series usually runs on Wednesdays from 12:30
to around 2 pm. The venue is usually the Arts Faculty Building number
19, room 1003, University of Wollongong.
If you are interested in presenting, please contact Dr Christine de Matos.
If you would like to receive notices regarding upcoming
seminars, please contact us.
All interested are very welcome.
| Dates |
Title |
Presenter |
Home Institute |
Wednesday
5 December |
Everyday human-robot interaction in Japan |
Dr Yuji Sone |
Macquarie University |
Wednesday 21 November |
Globalisation and Development: An Inter-state Analysis of India |
Rashmi Umesh Arora |
CAPSTRANS Research Fellow |
Wednesday
7 Nov |
New Burden Korean Cinema: Outside Looking in at the Latest Golden Age, 1996-? |
Dr Brian Yecies |
School of Social Sciences, Media and Communication, Faculty of Arts, University of Wollongong |
Wednesday 17 Oct |
'Comedy in Japan and the United States: An analysis of Japanese manzai and American stand up' |
Dr Hanae Katayama |
CAPSTRANS Research Fellow |
Friday 5 Oct |
'Hybridized Whiteness in ‘Rosé’: the displacement of colonial racial/gender discourse in a Japanese queer magazine in the 1970s' |
Katsuhiko Suganuma |
School of Culture and Communication, University of Melbourne |
Wednesday
19 Sept |
'Ghosts, headhunters and neighbours: the uncanny faces of social pluralism in Kepulauan Riau, Indonesia' |
Nick Long |
Cambridge University |
Wednesday
5 Sept |
'Rural poverty reduction in the era of globalisation: Lessons from the experience of a Bangladesh NGO' |
Dr Rie Makita |
CAPSTRANS
Writing Fellow |
Wednesday
15 Aug |
‘In the Name of the Father: Incest and kinship, Pedophilia and foreignness (Relations and relationships in a Philippines sex tourist community)’ |
Dr Rosemary Wiss |
Macquarie University |
Wednesday
8 August |
Alternatives to "Race-to-the-Bottom": Responses of Labor Press, Labor Unions, and the State of Vietnamese Migrant Workers' Minimum-Wage Strikes and Beyond |
Professor Angie Tran |
California State University |
Wednesday
25 July |
‘Flying Pigs, Political Hostages and Revolution: Exploring the Cultural Imperative in International Affairs’ |
Professor Stephen Hill |
Honorary Professorial Fellow CAPSTRANS University of Wollongong |
Friday
20 July |
The Rise of the Multiplex Cinema in India |
Dr Adrian Mabbott Athique |
University of Queensland Postdoctoral Fellow, Centre for Critical and Cultural Studies |
Wednesday
11 July |
‘Indians with boats’: Spanish commentary about the Chinese in the colonial Philippines |
Dr William McCarthy |
University of North Carolina, Wilmington |
Wednesday
20 June |
The University Riots of 1968-69: the interrogation of progressivism in postwar Japan |
Professor Rikki Kersten |
Dean, Faculty of Asian Studies & College of Asia, ANU |
Wednesday
23 May |
Dragon and the Elephant: Re-Emergence of China and India in the World-Economy |
Professor Ravi Palat |
Senior Visiting Fellow, CAPSTRANS, home institution: State University of New York, Binghamton |
Tuesday
22 May |
Using New Media: Exploring research methods in the study of new media |
Professor David Marshall |
School of Social Sciences, Media and Communication, Faculty of Arts, University of Wollongong |
Monday
14 May
1:30 - 3:00 |
Ethnicity Unbound: Reflecting on transnational influences on ethnicity |
Bandana Purkayastha |
Associate Professor of Sociology and Asian American Studies, University of Connecticut |
Wednesday
2 May |
Peripheries, corridors and heartlands: re-mapping and contesting the Kalimantan-Malaysia borderlands |
Dr Lesley Potter |
Visiting Fellow, ANU |
Friday
2 March
12:30-2:30
(Venue: Bldg 19.1003) |
LGBTIQ in Contemporary Indonesia: Progress or Regress? |
Dédé Oetomo |
GAYa NUSANTARA Foundation, Surabaya |

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