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Conference Announcement
Transformations: Researching Asia

York Centre for Asian Research Graduate Student Conference
York University, Toronto, Canada
September 26-27, 2008
Keynote speaker: Dr. Rey Chow (Brown University)
Film as Heterolingual Address: Some Remarks about Studying Asia in Postwar North America
5 PM, Friday, Sept. 26 at Price Family Cinema, Accolade East Building

York Center for Asian Research hosts the first International Graduate Student Conference on Asian Studies. Students from 16 universities in Canada, United States, Asia and Europe will present their on-going research projects in various fields such as politics of representations, gender and modernity, colonialism, globalization and regionalism, the arts of resistance, and education across Asia and the Asian Diasporas. Topics will be discussed in historical and theoretical contexts as a way of understanding the dynamics of social and cultural transformations in Asia and beyond. This multi-disciplinary conference will be a stimulating channel for scholars and academic communities from around the world to share knowledge and methodologies in researching Asia.

Dr. Rey Chow, Andrew W. Mellon Professor of the Humanities at Brown University, will deliver the keynote speech entitled “Film as Heterolingual Address: Some Remarks about Studying Asia in Postwar North America.” This talk will explore some of the possibilities of Asian Studies in a global context in which the United States has been occupying the status of super power. Among the issues it will discuss are the utopian notion of the heterolingual address, the legacy of war, mourning, and the ways of engaging with the specifics of film language.

This conference is sponsored by the Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office (Canada), Office of the Vice-President Research and Innovation at York University, Faculty of Graduate Studies, Department of Film Norman Jewison Series, Graduate Program in Geography, Graduate Program in Women’s Studies, Graduate Program in Social and Political Thought, and York Centre for Asian Research.

Please visit the conference website at http://www.yorku.ca/ycar/Events/graduate_conference.html or email: <transformationsasiaconference at gmail.com> for further information.  Registration for the conference is free. To register, email: <transformationsasiaconference at gmail.com> with subject line “Conference Registration”, please indicate your institutional affiliation in the email. All are welcome to attend.

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Dr. Justin McDaniel
Dept. of Religious Studies
3046 INTN
University of California, Riverside
Riverside, CA 92521
951-827-4530
justinm at ucr.edu