Fwd: ANNC Intra-Asian cultural traffic workshop

[Ono Seiko and Aaron Gerow]

This was posted on several other lists, so please forgive me if you have 
seen this somewhere else.  Some of you, however, may have not seen it.

I imagine there are a lot of potential papers about the popularity of 
Japanese films in Hong Kong, Taiwan and Korea, and what this means 
culturally.

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From: Koichi Iwabuchi <k.iwabuchi at uws.edu.au>

WORKSHOP ON INTRA-ASIAN CULTURAL TRAFFIC
<Call for expressions of interest>

The Research Centre in Intercommunal Studies at University of Western
Sydney, Nepean is exploring in conjunction with ConsmAsiaN Network the
possibility of holding an international workshop on 'Intra-Asian Cultural
Traffic' in 23-26 February 2000. The workshop aims to explore the hitherto
underexplored field of intra-regional cultural flows within Asia
(including Australia and Asian diasporas in other parts of the world). The
purpose of the workshop is to forge a theoretical shift in the study of
cultural globalisation from the dominant West-Rest paradigm, by attending
to globalisations' effect on the multiple crosscultural and crossborder
dialogues, exchanges and interactions within the Asia-Pacific region. We
invite expressions of interest from those innovatively exploring the
dynamics of Asian transnational cultural traffic and the articulation of
new Asian identities in themes such as (popular)  cultural hybridisation,
localisation and regionalisation, transnational media consumption, and
intra-Asian tourism (not exclusive):

-how intra-Asian cultural traffic of popular and consumer culture (such as
TV, music, film, advertising and commodities such as fashion and character
goods) has produced a new mode of cross-cultural fertilisation and Asian
modernities which cannot be a mere copy of Western counterparts

-how Asian and Western transnational cultural industries compete and
co-operate in marketing local popular/consumer culture in Asian markets

-how Asian transnational cultural industries have exploited 'Asianness'
and the sense of cultural commonality in marketing popular/consumer
cultural products in the region, and how it is similar and/or different
from the exploitation of popular cultural flows by nationalist discourses

-how such newly articulated 'Asianness' promotes the (re)construction of
Asian identity within Asia and reconfigures Asian diasporic identities in
Western countries through the consumption of Asian popular culture

-how asymmetrical power relations among Asian nations is articulated
through intra-Asian tourism and consumption of Asian popular/consumer
culture in terms of the organisation of the invention of traditions and
nostalgic longing for an Asian (tourist) gaze which points to an oriental
Orientalism against other Asian nations.

The collection of papers presented at the workshop will be published as an
edited volume from the ConsumAsiaN book series for Curzon Press/University
of Hawaii Press.

For further information please contact:
Koichi Iwabuchi  <k.Iwabuchi at nepean.uws.edu.au>
Mandy Thomas <ma.thomas at nepean.uws.edu.au>

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