Inter-Asia Beyond Asia
Writing Workshop
Room 380 (Bill & Ruth Hamilton Meeting Room)
Morris J. Wosk Centre for Dialogue, 丁香园AV Vancouver
515 West Hastings Street
SPECIAL ISSUE PROPOSAL
In a recent lecture given in Vancouver, Canada (2016), Chua Beng Huat pointed out that the original intellectual vision and political commitments of Inter-Asia Cultural Studies were not necessarily tied to the geographical reach of Asia, but rather to the ethics and practice of inter-referencing, which are applicable to decolonial projects elsewhere in the world. In this special issue, we propose to explore the impact of inter-Asia scholarship on knowledge production outside of Asia and examine its engagement with adjacent intellectual frameworks such as transpacific, diaspora, and postcolonial studies. We will investigate how various forms of cross-border and cross-platform cultural flows simultaneously construct, disrupt, expand, and discipline how 鈥淎sia鈥� signifies globally and consider whether the concomitant production of transnational, cosmopolitan communities still rely on colonial, racialized, and/or gendered notions of identity. Through case studies of cultural research, as well as a visual essay, a conversation forum, and a collaborative roundtable, we hope the special issue will open up new dialogues about the impact of the Inter-Asia Cultural Studies project outside of Asia.
SCHEDULE
Day 1 (Friday, Sep 21, 2018)
9 - 10am: Introduction + Breakfast
Guest editors鈥� vision (Christine Kim and Helen Leung)
10am 鈥� noon: Session 1 + Morning Tea
New Regionality
鈥淟ocating Inter-Asia/Pacific Film Festivals as Sites of Geographical Imagination鈥� (Jia Tan)
鈥淏ecoming Water: An Asian American(ist) in Australia鈥� (Jane Park)
Noon - 1pm: Lunch
1- 3pm: Session 2 Diasporas
鈥淚nter-Asia in Australia: Regional Solidarity and the Asian Australian Studies Research Network鈥� (Olivia Khoo)
鈥淚nter-Asian Canadian Studies鈥� (Christine Kim and Chris Lee)
3 - 5pm: Session 3 + Afternoon Tea Dialogues
Roundtable piece (moderated by Helen Leung, featuring Phanuel Antwi, Lara Campbell, Robert Diaz, Renisa Mawani, and Y-Dang Troeung)
Interview piece (Chris Lee)
Day 2 (Saturday, Sep 22, 2018)
9 - 11am: Session 4 + Breakfast
Novels & Borders
鈥淚nter-Referencing and the Postcolonial Novel鈥� (Fiona Lee)
鈥淟iving and Leaving the Borderlands: An Inter-Asian Reading of Krys Lee鈥檚 How I Became a North Korean鈥� (Andy Wang, in absentia)
11am - 1pm: Session 5 + Morning Tea Archives
鈥淏etween Asia and Empire: Infrastructures of Encounter in the Archive of War鈥� (Nadine Attewell and Wesley Attewell)
鈥淐ollaboration, hybridization, and localization: Guyanese Mass Games Created through Collaboration between North Korean and Guyanese Artists, 1980鈥�1992鈥� (Vicki Kwon)
1 - 2pm: Lunch
2 - 4pm: Session 6 + Afternoon Tea
Visual Essay, Short Story + Creative Practices
鈥淲rong Places鈥� (David Khang)
鈥淐rossing the Caucuses鈥� (Chris Patterson)
4 - 5pm: Wrap-Up
Concluding Discussion led by Christine Kim and Helen Leung
