ASIAN CITIES AND CULTURAL CHANGE


Friday, 1 July 2005

DRAFT PROGRAM

(Please note that the program will be subject to change)


Venue: Humanities Research Centre, Old Canberra House, The Australian National University

Friday 1 JULY 2005

8.45am - 9.00am Registration
9.00am - 9.15am Indigenous Welcome & HRC Welcome by Ian Donaldson, Director HRC
9.15am - 10.15am

Session 1
Chair: Iain McCalman

 

Meaghan Morris, Lingnan University
Vacant Possession/Koryu: Women and Culture in Transition

10.15am - 10.45am Morning Tea, Coffee
10.45am - 12.15pm

Session 2
Chair: Adam Shoemaker

 

Aneerudha Paul, Kamla Raheja Vidyanidhi Institute for Architecture, Mumbai, Indian and Shekhar Krishnan, CRIT, India
Geographies of Resistance

12.15pm - 1.00pm Lunch
1.00pm - 1.45pm

Session 3
Chair: Jonathan Mane Wheoki

 

Graeme Turner, University of Queensland
The Cosmopolitan City and its Other: the ethnicising of the Australian suburb

1.45pm - 2.30pm

Session 4
Chair: Caroline Turner

  Geremie Barmé, ANU
Beijing, a Garden of Violence
2.30pm - 3.00pm

Afternoon Tea, Coffee

3.00pm - 5.00pm

Session 5
Chair: David Williams, ANU

 

Oscar Ho, Kong Kong Arts Centre
Creation of Mythology as a Social Critique
Wang Xiaoming, Shanghai University
Real Estate Market: the New State Ideological Apparatus in Today’s Shanghai
Stephen Chan, Lingnan University
Commentary

5.15pm - 6.45pm Function
7.30pm

Dinner at Lemon Grass Thai Restaurant
65 London Cct, Canberra City 2601

Enquiries

Leena Messina, Programs Manager, Humanities Research Centre, ANU
Email: Leena.Messina@anu.edu.au