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Monday 6 July 2020

	PRE-CONFERENCE WORKSHOPS
0900 – 1300	Postgraduate Workshop Arts West Building Registrations now open in Eventbrite Monday, 6 July 2020 at Arts West (North Wing), University of Melbourne
1000 – 1200	‘Legal and Political Ethnography’ Workshop Convenors: Melissa Crouch and Nick Cheesman Arts West Building
1300 – 1500	‘State of the Field’ ASAA Workshop Convenors: Edward Aspinall and Melissa Crouch Arts West Building
Evening	ASSOCIATED EVENTS

Tuesday 7 July 2020

0800	Registration open
0830	Arrival tea and coffee
OPENING PLENARY SESSION
0900-0915	Welcome to Country \| Indigenous Representative, Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung Cultural Heritage Aboriginal Corporation Welcome to Delegates \| Professor Michael Wesley, DVCI, University of Melbourne
0915-1015	Plenary Speaker: Dr. Samia Khatun, Senior Lecturer, Centre for Gender Studies, SOAS, University of London Ecological Crises and Asian Knowledge Systems: Lessons for the Future from the British Destruction of Cotton Crops in 19th C Bengal Samia Khatun is Senior Lecturer at the Centre for Gender Studies at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London. She is a feminist historian of the British Empire, focussing on the life worlds and experiences of colonised peoples. Tackling the central role of the discipline of modern history in constructing myths of the superiority of white man, her research and writing develops methodologies to engage colonised peoples’ intellectual traditions to tackle gender, race and class oppressions and their intersections with environmental destruction in the colonial modern era. [full biography]
1015-1040	Morning Tea
1040-1200	Panel Sessions 1.1
1040-1200	Mobility, adaptation and belonging: migrant experiences Chair: Dr Paul Green Cross-Cultural Adaptation in the Context of Maternal Involvement in Children’s Education: A Study on Indonesian Mothers in Turkey Durrotul Mas’udah Vietnamese Irregular Migrants in Moscow: Mobility, Consumption and Belonging Lan Anh Hoang Beyond the Cross-Cultural Border: Returned Migrants’ Lives from Japan to Bangladesh Tetsuo Mizukami
1040-1200	Future Food in Future Asias (1/3) Chair: Dr Graeme McRae Sustainable Food Futures: Strategies and Risks for Indonesia’s Food Systems Prof. Thomas Reuter Agricultural extension and food security in Indonesia: Opportunities and problems in the era of regional autonomy A/Prof. Subejo Nutritional Insecurity and Climate Change: Evaluating Adaptation Pathways in Indonesia A/Prof. John McCarthy Food for Future: Is it Possible without Farmers’ Climate Literacy and Responsive Farming Culture? Prof. Yunia Winarto
1040-1200	Crossing Seas of Ancient Connectivity: Disability Diffusion, Diversity & Development Chair: A/Prof. Karen Soldatic Disability Embodied Connectivities: Ancient Imaginings, Contemporary Navigations A/Prof. Karen Soldatic ‘Being’ the Change: From Transactional to Relational and Mutually Transformative Disability Inclusion Dr Alexandra Gartrell Local Indonesian Newspapers Representations of Disability in Asian Para Games 2018 Slamet Thohari Constructing Life Stories of Gendered-Disability Experiences Through Agency and Structure: Case Studies from Post-Armed Conflict Sri Lanka Dr Niro Kandasamy
1040-1200	Housing Future Asias (1/2) Chair: A/Prof. David Beynon Of Resilience and Assimilation; Contesting Spatial Dynamics of the Cocos Malay Dwelling Culture in Malaysia Dr Md Mizanur Rashid & A/Prof. Noor Aziah Mohd Arfiffin Cultural Identity and the New Homestead: A Case Study of a Resettlement Village in Sri Lanka. Nirodha K M Dissanayake Hand in Hand with Crossed Top Plates: Mapping the Contribution of Chinese Carpenters to the Production and Installation of Prefabricated ‘Singapore Cottages’ in Melbourne Dr John Ting
1040-1200	The Spiritual Foundations of Southeast Asian Arts (1/2) Illuminations: To See Art in Singapore Chloe Ho Apichatpongian Film Style as Meditative Practice: Form, Drift and Contemplation Duncan Caillard A Tale of Two Boulders: A Paridrayan Perspective on Pragmatic Spirituality Jarrod Sim Shaping Authenticity: Architecture, Art and Commercial Space in Bangkok Trude Renwick
1040-1200	East Asian Market Integration Chair: Yuma Osaki China and the Global Edible Bird’s Nest Industry Kasem Jandam The Roles of Australia and Japan in Institutionalising Regional Economic Integration in Asia: The case of TPP and RCEP Yuma Osaki Degree of State Intervention in the Convergence of Oligarchic Spatial Activities and Neoliberalism Agenda in the Indonesia-China High-Speed Rail (HSR) Project Deda Rizky Rainditya
1040-1200	The Transnational Experiences of Asian Students Partnerships of care over distance; thinking though the experiences of transnational educators and support staff. Dr Jonathan Burrow Study Tour for Mutual Understanding between Japan and Australia: A Tour in an Australian Aboriginal Community in South East Australia A.Prof. Yugo Tomonaga Perspectives of Mainland Chinese Postgraduate Students (MCPS) on Their Study in an Australian University at the End of Their First Year of Study Jian Zhao
1040-1200	Transnationalism, Migration and Development: Asian Perspectives Chair: Prof. Andrew Rosser Transnational Linkages, Political Settlements, and the Migration-Development Nexus: The Case of the Indonesian Diaspora Network Prof. Andrew Rosser Transnational Serial Migrants and the Cultural Politics of Moving and Belonging Prof. Brenda Yeoh Towards a Methodology for Defining and Measuring Diaspora: Examples from the Australian-based Chinese Diaspora A/Prof. Yan Tan Daigou Business Between Australia and China: A New Form of Transnational Economic and Social Linkage Dr Xuchun Liu
1040-1200	Opportunities and challenges for achieving greater equity in sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) in contemporary Indonesia (1/3). Chair: Belinda Spagnoletti Issues of Ethics and Equity in Cervical Cancer Prevention, Screening and Treatment in Indonesia Linda Rae Bennett An Exploratory Study of Drug Sellers’ Knowledge of Misoprostol Use for Medical Abortion in Yogyakarta Indonesia, 2019 Dr Meiwita Budiharsana & A/Prof. Wiji Wahyuningsih Paper Title TBC Ariane Utomo
1040-1200	Reimagining Masculinities in East Asia Chair: Carman K.M Fung The Phantom of Hegemonic Masculinity in Emergent Lesbian Discourses: Sexual Modernity in Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Mainland China Carman K.M. Fung Are Men Wolves? – Non-Conforming Masculinities In Japanese Love Advice Books Michaela Luschmann Queer Japanese masculinities: Ideologies at work in Japanese MSM erotic manga Patrick Murphy
1040-1200	Urban assemblage and new inequalities: liminal spaces and marginalization in Mandalay, Myanmar. (Myanmar Series 1/4) Chair: Michael Griffiths Castaways? A Critical Ethnography of Garbage Collectors in Kyawk Kyi Kone, Mandalay Daw Htu Ra Is it working? Factors Sustaining Child Labour in Mandalay Dr Shin Thynn Tun Delayed or Derailed? Life Trajectories of Child Waiters in Mandalay Dr Nyunt Nyunt Win Liminal Spaces: A Critical Geography of Working Children in Mandalay Railway Station Dr Zin Mar Latt
1040-1200	Modern Art and Visual Culture in Southeast Asia: De-Canonical Impulses Chair: Dr. Roger Nelson Meeting of the Worlds: Reframing Singapore’s Early History with ‘An Old New World’ Daniel Tham In Search of Modern Photography in Singapore: Tan Lip Seng, Lee Lim, Lim Kwong Ling and Lee Sow Lim Charmaine Toh Visual Accounts of the ‘Secret War’ in Laos Dr Roger Nelson Panel Discussion Dr Kyla McFarlane
1040-1200	Cultural Mobility and Creative Exchange in Asia and the Pacific What Was Revealed When Yoga Came to Malaysia?: Untangling the Concept of “Asian Spiritual” Culture Miki Kurihara Sedentary Life, Nomadic Texts: A Study of the Chinese Intertexts in the Japanese Heian Women’s Writings Dr Jindan Ni Cultural Exchange and Agency in Two Australian Artist Collaborative Projects with Indonesian Alternative Pop Acts Dr Aline Scott-Maxwell Cultural Crossroads: Asian-Australian Programming in Contemporary Sydney Dr Nicholas Ng
1040-1200	Histories of Foreign Trade, Travel and Collecting Across Asia Preserving Heritage into the Future: Grassroots Movements for the Yokohama Foreign General Cemetery Toshiki Asakura-Ward Mary Strong Clemens (1873-1968): A Collector-Emissary of Colonial Flora Kathleen Gutierrez The Curious Double-Life of Putuoshan as Monastic Centre and Commercial Emporium, 1600 to 1750 Dr Ryan Holroyd Emotion, Race and China Threat: Two Australians in China, 1894 – 1914 Juan Juan Wu
1040-1200	Utopias on the Ground: Everyday Life in the Making of Mao’s “New China” Chair: Shan Windscript Leaping Forward in Nanjing: Urban Communes and productive peddlers, 1958-1960 Katherine Molyneux Cultural Revolution in Time: Diaries and the Making of Socialist Subjects, 1966-1969 Shan Windscript “Fragrant Flowers” and “Poisonous Weeds”: Censoring Personal Readings during the Cultural Revolution, 1966-1976 Peidong Sun Revolution or Work Points? Troubles in the Everyday Life of an “Educated Youth” in the Countryside. 1968-1978 Zhang Ning
1040-1200	The Political Performance of Orality: Voice, Speech, Language and their (Dis)Contents in Duterte’s Philippines Chair: Oscar Jr Serquiña Acts of Speech, Bites of Sound: Rodrigro Duterte’s Oral Flexing and its Discontents Oscar Tantoco Serquiña, Jr. The Duterte Presidency as Selective Subversion: Repudiating Some Practices, Reaffirming Others Gene Segarra Navera [Insert Expletive Here]: The Poetics of Vulgarity, The Spectacle of the Ordinary, And the Construction of Affective-Political Space in Dutertean Speech Performances Alwin C. Aguirre Duterte’s Words are His Followers’: Imitations and (Re)Articulations of President Rodrigo Duterte’s Rhetoric in Online Discourses about Human Rights in Mindanao under Martial Rule Charles Erize P. Ladia
1040-1200	Law, Democracy and Governance: Challenges and Opportunities Chair: Jianlin Chen Uncivil Disobedience Versus the Police State: The End of Hong Kong’s Rule of Law? Brendan Clift Development of Chinese Legal Language and Legal Awakening in Hong Kong Ho Yan Chan Indonesia’s Criminal Code Bill: Between Legal Reform and Democratic Setback Rafiqa Qurrata Ayun
1040-1200	Whither Regionalism in Asia? Chair: Professor Baogang He Is Regional Multilateral Institutions Underpinning Regional Security? Prof. Baogang He The Prospect of Regionalism and Multilateralism in Asia Prof. Kai Do Regional Multilateral Institutions Underpin Regional Security? Prof. Mark Beeson
1040-1200	Geopolitics and the Nature of Australia’s Relations with the Region Antarctica in the future of Australia-China Relations Dr Nengye Liu Debating China’s Influence in Indonesia and Australia – A Comparison Dr Dave McRae Understanding the Dynamics of Geopolitics in the Indian Ocean Region Prof. Derek McDougall Rethinking the Role of the Indian Diaspora in India-Australia Relations Dr Alexander Davis
1200-1330	Lunch and Interest Group Meetings (1230-1330)
1330-1450	Panel Sessions 1.2
1330-1450	Rituals, rites, reflexivity and practice Chair: Paul Green Cross-cultural Narratives of the Australian Engagement with East Asian Tea Culture Dr Jinghong Zhang The Radhasoami Tradition in Canada and Its Future: Cultural Mobility and Ritual Practice Prof. Diana Dimitrova New life – and death – From the Ruins of Japanese Death Rites Hannah Gould Graduate Attributes, Public Reflexivity and Geographies of Islamic Learning Prof. Julian Millie
1330-1450	Future Food in Future Asias (2/2) Chair: Thomas Reuter Is There a New Food Movement in Timor-Leste? Dr Sara Niner Transnational Labour Migration and Food Security in Rural Asia: Patterns of Livelihood and Agrarian Change Ramesh Sunam War and Peace of the Newari Food Paola Tine Is Land Acquisition Posing a Threat to Food Security? A Case Study From the Punjab Sarbjeet Singh
1330-1450	Housing Future Asias (2/2) Chair: David Beynon Housing Future Asian Australia A/Prof. David Beynon Experiments and the ‘Smart’ City: Governing sustainable and ‘smart’ infrastructures in Singapore’s high rise housing estates Nurul Amillin Hussain “Collective Domestic” – Reconfiguring patterns of shared inhabitation and occupation in contemporary Japan Prof. Julian Worrall
1330-1450	Creative industries Imagining ‘Orang Kreatif’: Creative Subjectivity in Contemporary Indonesia Dr Annisa R. Beta Publishing and Translating Indonesian Literary Works: Funding, Cultural Politics and Arts Networks Dr Andy Fuller The Future of the Past: Exploring the Implications of Authenticity and Multiplicity for Beijing Opera Today Matthew Haywood Mobilities, Diversities and Identities: Contemporary Interpretations of a Canonical Chinese Play in Singapore A/Prof. Ann-Marie Hsiung
1330-1450	Translation and Transculturality Hamlet in the New Era of China Dr Yongying Jiang Dealing with the West: Political Changes in Thailand and the Transition of King Vajiravudh’s Translation Practices Faris Yothasamuth Jinja Shintō and Japanese Religions in the Pre-Colonial Joseon History Dr David W. Kim
1330-1450	Precarity and Populism as Neo-liberal Contradictions: Failed Promises of the “Demographic Bonus” Chair: Dr Ariane Utomo Precarity and Piety: Preliminary Findings from Jakarta Millennial Survey 2019 Dr Inaya Rakhmani Reproducing Precarity: Neoliberal Reconfiguration of Work Practices in Indonesian Apps-Enabled Ride-Hailing Service Diatyka Widya Permata Yasih Precariat without Proletariat? Something Strange Happens Along the Way to Class-Formation among Creative Urbanites Dr Hizkia Yosias Polimpung Precarity, Populism and Intra-Oligarchic Conflicts Abdil Mughis Mudhoffir
1330-1450	Mobility and education in Asia (1/2): Movements and flows Chair: A/Prof. Zhenjie Yuan Theorizing Emerging Educational Mobilities in Asia: Peripheral Spaces, ‘Unlikely’ Actors, Fragmented and Uncertain flows Dr Peidong Yang “It could be the longest train trip in the world…”: Mobility and Subjectivity Transformations of Uyghur Educational Elites on a Train Journey Across China Dr Zhenjie Yuan (Not) Returning Tibet: Identity, Morality, and Future Projectivity among Tibetan and Han Mobile Youth in China Dr Miaoyan Yang Bruneian Students on Discovery Year: Reworking of Mobilities Aspirations and Mobilities Decision-Making Dr Siti Mazidah Mohamad
1330-1450	Chinese Diaspora and Development in Asia: A Transnational Perspective Chair: A/Prof.Yan Tan Overseas Chinese’s Engagement in Beijing’s Soft Power Program: Dynamics, Institutions and Transnational Outcomes A/Prof. Ying Zhou Opportunistic Transnationalism: The New Generation of Malaysian Chinese Entrepreneurs Amidst a Rising China A/Prof. Na Ren An Anthropological Analysis of Revitalizing Chinese Business and Economy in Cambodia Post-Khmer Rouge from a Transnational Perspective A/Prof. Yang Luo Chinese Muslims’ Transnationalism and Development in Southeast Asia – Transnational Business Network and Post-Chineseness A/Prof. Yun Zhang
1330-1450	Opportunities and Challenges for Achieving Greater Equity in Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR) in Contemporary Indonesia (2/3) Chair: A/Prof. Belinda Spagnoletti The Immorality of Morality-Based Sexual Health Care: Populist Morality and Universal Health Coverage in Indonesia Sharyn Davies Critiquing the Feminization of the HPV Vaccine: Global and Indonesian Perspectives Setiyani Martha Dewi Adoption of Postpartum Family Planning (PPFP): Knowledge, Attitudes and Practices of Women in Banyumas, Central Java, Indonesia Dr Sandra Frans & Dr Ariane Utomo Panel Discussion A/Prof. Linda Rae Bennett
1330-1450	Performing Transculturality and Chineseness in Australasian Contemporary Art Chair: Dr Yu-Chieh Li Visual Culture in a Diasporic World, The Desire to Know and Understand Visual Forms from China Dr Justine Poplin Wu/Shamanism in Contemporary Performance Art from Asia Dr Yu-Chieh Li Art Museum E-Learning Resources Designed for Education Purposes: Current Approaches and User’s Responses Dr Tiffany Shuang-Ching Lee Articulating Alternative Cultural Identities: Kuo Pao Kun’s Multilingual Theatre Praxis in Singapore Dr Wah Guan Lim
1330-1450	White elephants and sacred rivers: Locating populism in contemporary Myanmar (Myanmar Series 2/4) Chair: Dr Michael Griffiths Glass or Mirrors? The Political \Cconstruction of the Byamaso Organization in Mandalay Dr Lei Shwe Sin Myint Whose R2P? The Politics of Banana Planting in Waingmaw Township Daw Nan War War Hto Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf? Gendered Narratives of Human Security in Mandalay Dr Kyi Mar Poverty, populism and the ever-present ‘other’: analyzing a century of media discourses on inequality in Myanmar Dr Htet Htet Khaing
1330-1450	Histories of Religious Renewal in East Asia To Republish or Not to Republish: The Reproduction of Chinese Christian Texts in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries Dr Hsin-Fang Wu Pyone Cho and his New Buddhist Songs – An intellectual of ‘YMBA’ Burmese Nationalism in the 1920s Dr Yuri Takahashi
1330-1450	Visions of the Future in 20th Century Indonesia (1/2) Chair: Paula Hendrikx Re-Sinicizing Tales: Sin Po’s Cultural Vision for the Creolized Chinese of Indonesia Ravando Lie Mapping the Alam: West Sumatran Girls Envisioning the World (1920-1921) Bronwyn Anne Beech Jones Decolonisation and citizenship in the new future Prof. Heather Goodall Collective Memory and Post-colonial Narratives of the Indonesian Labour Movement Prof. John Ingleson
1330-1450	Crafting the Historical Narrative of Modern India and Its Future Chair: Dr Sandria Freitag Pride and Curiosity: Encounters with Textile Products in the Second Punjab Exhibition 1881-1882 Dr Hussain Ahmad Khan The Prison Industrial Complex: Fabricating Lives, Fabricating Products in Colonial India Dr Anand A Yang Indian matchbox labels and the translocal over the 20th century Dr Jim Masselos Social Uplift and Cultural Preservation: Crafting the Future in the Informal Economy Dr Sandria Freitag
1330-1450	Languages in contact in the Sinosphere Practical Effect of Endangered Manchu on the 21st Century Chinese Language Learning: Reading Wutiqingwenjian五体清文鑑, a Qing (1636-1911) Dictionary of Five Languages Dr Ning Chia From Transcription to Translation: The Replacement of Phonetic Loanwords within the Chinese Community in the Dutch East Indies Dr Hung-Yi Chien Voluntary Monotone: How Nationalism Impedes Linguistic Diversity in Modern-Day China Zhuangsi Xu
1330-1450	Human Rights and the City in Asia and Oceania: Urban Actors and Opportunities and Challenges for Localising Rights Chair: Dr Ken Setiawan Human Rights Cities: A New Frontier for Human Rights in Asia? Dr Ken Setiawan Contesting Water Urbanism(s) in Goa, India Dr Maya Costa-Pinto Do Cities Really Need Human Rights? A Socio-Legal Inquiry of Governance Performance in Decentralised Indonesia Dr Herlambang P. Wiratraman Promoting the Right to Water: a Case Study of Port Moresby Dr Naomi Francis
1300-1450	The Future of Indonesian Democracy: Views from Within Chair: Dr Agus Suwignyo Musyawarah-Mufakat and the Taming of a Political Mass Dr Agus Suwignyo Reconsidering Consociational Democracy: Twenty Years of Indonesian Democracy Dr Nanang Indra Kurniawan & Dr Wawan Mas’udi The Phantom of Rent-Seeking in Democratic Indonesia: Resource Governance at Sub-National Level Dr Poppy S. Winanti & Muhammad Djindan Unveiled in Public: Religiosity and Democracy Dr Suzie Handajani
1300-1450	Election Politics and Power Relations in the Theravadasphere and Beyond Factional Politics and the 2019 Election in Thailand Dr Punchada Sirivunnabood After the Electoral Defeat: The Study of General Elections in Myanmar Kihong Mun Disability and Elections: The Experience of Disabled Candidates in Indonesia’s 2019 Legislative Elections Dr Elisabeth Kramer
1450-1530	Afternoon Tea and Book Launches
1530-1650	Panel Sessions 1.3
1530-1650	Migrant recognition, activism, and voices of the diaspora Chair: Lan Anh Hoang Comparing Migrants, Comparing States: Reflections on Lao and Myanmar State Governance and Migrant Activism Dr Sverre Molland Diasporic Voices: Political Engagement Among the Indonesian Diaspora Dr Charlotte Setijadi A Kinship of Spectralities: Korean Transnational Adoptees and the Korean Diaspora Dr Ryan Gustafsson Career Development of Japan’s Business Women Overseas A/Prof. Nobuko Hosogaya
1530-1650	Sociology, education and economy: Disciplinary debates The ‘Economic’ in Indian Sociology: Genealogies, Disjunctions and Agenda Prof. Manish Kumar Thakur Space, Power and Society: Imagined Centre and Evolution of Chinese Psyche A/Prof. Paweł Zygadło Using Theory of Planned Behaviour to Predict Adult Engagement in Science in Taiwan A/Prof. Chun-Yen Tsai
1530-1650	Future Food in Future Asias (3/3) Chair: Dr Graeme MacRae Diverse Foods, Diverse Hungers: An Ethnonutritional Approach to Insecure Food Futures in a West Papuan Plantation Zone Dr Sophie Chao Sustaining Heritage: Parsi Food Tales Past and Present Dr Alison Booth Renewing Asian-Derived Foods for Pacific Futures Dr Nancy Pollock Local Knowledge, the Right to Food and Sustainability in India Jagjit Plahe
1530-1650	Archiving Asian Cities Amidst Time in Motion Chair: Prof. Hyunjung Lee The Old Seoul Station as a Performative Space: The Archive and the City Prof. Hyunjung Lee (Re)Constructing History: Alfian Sa’at’s Merdeka and the Bicentennial Dilemma Dr Jane Yeang Chui Wong Urban Stratification: An Inclusive Urban Cultural Landscape of Hsinchu City Dr Shu-yi Wang Writing the Historical Self— Fiction, Artifacts and the Making of History in Dung Kai-cheung’s Works and Creation: Vivid and Lifelike Dr Chao Long
1530-1650	Geopolitics and media Political Friction Counterpoised by Pop Culture-Japan, China and South Korea Dr Seiko Yasumoto Truth or Falsity: How Do Ignorance and Mass Media Forge the Image of India in the Eyes of Chinese Students in Australia Yuhang Yu Unauthorized Local Media Practices and the Paradox of Cold War Democracy in U.S.-Occupied Hokkaido Prof. Ji Hee Jung
1530-1650	Making and Unmaking Sustainability: Storying Asia’s Eco-modernities and Environmental Futures Chair: Dr Kiu-Wai Chu Aesthetics of a Dystopia: Representation of Cityscapes and Environmental Crisis in the web series ‘Leila’ Dr Shubhda Arora Resurrecting Wooly Mammoth: Speculative Aesthetics in the Anthropocene Dr Kiu-Wai Chu Imagining Hong Kong’s Ecological Futures in Speculative Fiction Kelly Yin Nga Tse In the Shadow of Sustainability Jamie Wang
1530-1650	Collective Practices of Contemporary Art, Architecture, and Cultural Studies in Indonesia Roundtable Presentation Presenters: Arham Rahman, Maria Adriani, Yoshi Fajar Kresno Murti, Wilson Yeung Chun Wai
1530-1650	Indian Economic and Social Policy Chair: A/Prof. David Hundt Does Health-Related Aid Really Matter? Evidence from South Asia Dr Salma Ahmed Democracy, Development and Dispossession: A Bottom-Up Perspective on Capitalism in India A/Prof. David Hundt Class Cultures, Market Forces and the Desegregation of Indian Schools Dr Amanda Gilbertson Caste, Jobs and Scheduled Castes Dr Jayabrata Sarkar
1530-1650	Mobility and Education in Asia (2/2): Discourses and Encounters Chair: A/Prof Zhenjie Yuan Altered Aspirations and Frictional Encounters at a Mainland Chinese University Branch Campus in Malaysia Dr Sin Yee Koh Singapore International Education Hub and Its Dilemmas: The Challenges and Makings for Cosmopolitan Learning Dr Hannah Soong Poetics and Politics: Transformation of Learning Space of Cantonese in Guangzhou, China Prof. Wenling Li Why Go Home to China? Voices of Chinese Alumni from an Australian University Dr Jasvir Nachatar Singh
1530-1650	Making Room and Finding Place: Diasporas in Political Arenas and Discourses of New Homes Chair: Nathan Gardner & Dr Catherine Chan Strategic Noncitizenship: Mainland Chinese Immigrants as Noncitizens in Australia Qiuping Pan Views of ‘89ers’ and of Home: How Chinese Australian Communities Responded to ‘June 4’ and the Students who Sought Asylum in Australia Nathan Gardner Transnational LGBT Activism: Migrants’ Pride in Hong Kong Dr Francisca Yuen-Ki Lai Confronting Post-War Crisis: Humanitarian Sojourners in 1940s ‘Far East’ Jiayi Tao
1530-1650	Opportunities and Challenges for Achieving Greater Equity in Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR) in contemporary Indonesia (3/3) Chair: Dr Belinda Spagnoletti Lost to follow up: Limits to accessing HIV care among young men who have sex with men (MSM) in Jakarta Dr Ben Hegarty Co-locating Art and Health to Explore the Cultural Contexts of Sexual Health, Wellbeing and Sociality in Indonesia Dr Jamee Newland Indonesian Muslim Women’s Activists Deconstructing Women’s Biological Experiences Through Religious Texts Dr Eva Nisa Panel Discussion Prof. Lenore Manderson
1530-1650	Economic Development and the Politics of Culture in Asia and the Pacific Cow Entrepreneurship for a ‘Strong and New India’: Marketised Hindutva meets Casteised Speciesism Dr Priya Chacko Diverse Foods, Diverse Hungers: An Ethnonutritional Approach to Insecure Food Futures in a West Papuan Plantation Zone Dr Sophie Chao Examining Baihang Credit in China, Chinese New Surveillance Infrastructure: Discipline and Control Boyi Cheng Comparing Frameworks and Cultural Influences of Sustainable Fashion Governance for the Textile Supply Chain in China and Australia Dr Dashi Zhang
1530-1650	Myanmar Stream, Panel 3: Local-global networks for Myanmar’s development (Myanmar Series 3/4) Chair: Dr Tamas Wells New Yangon City: Chinese Investment, Urban Planning and ‘Suturing’ of the Political Dr Tamas Wells The Radical Potential of Neoliberal Development? Implications of the Shifting Aid Agenda for Social Transformation in Myanmar Bethia Burgess Mediating Local-Global Partnerships for Development and Peace in Kayin State: A Case Study on the Role of Brokers in Myanmar’s Evolving ‘Aid Encounter’ Dr Anne Décobert
1530-1650	New Voices in Japanese Studies Perceptions of Refugees and their Communities in Japan Atsushi Yamagata Tracing Media Dynamics of Post-3.11 Japan: Towards an Inter-media Society Sonja Petrovic Governor Takeshi Onaga and the US Bases in Okinawa: The Role of Okinawan Identity in Local Politics Monica Flint Sponsored by Japanese Foundation
1530-1650	Visions of the Future in 20th Century Indonesia (2/2) Chair: Paula Hendrikx Pillars of the Nation and Stalwarts of Development: Students and Youth Imagine an Independent Indonesia (1945-1949) Jonathan Peter “Revolutionary Emancipation”: The Struggle for “All Women’s Rights” in Post-Independence Indonesia Paula Hendrikx Creating an “Indonesian New Man”: The Thoughts of Njoto on Education Rhoma Dwi Aria Yuliantri Merdeka: Why a Centralized Democracy was a Revolutionary Indonesian Idea in 1945 Prof. Gerry van Klinken
1530-1650	Technologies of Seeing in Southeast Asian History Chair: A/Prof. Samson Lim The Negative Presence: Gender and (In)visibility in John Thomson’s Photographs of the Siamese Court Dr Clare Veal Bangkok Panorama A/Prof. Samson Lim Seeing Machine: Industrial Photography in Colonial Java Dr Alexander Supartono Early Cinematic Visualization of Umma: A 1928 film on the Hajj Dr Sandeep Ray
1530-1650	Language and creative practice Chronotopic Euphoric Misanthropia: Transforming & Indexing Brutality in Asian Contexts Dr Jessica Birnie-Smith As If Poetry: Algorithmic Authorship and Participant Readership in Contemporary Japanese Verse Prof. Scott Mehl Language Diversities, Food and Cultural Exchange on the Silk Road Dr Sunyoung Oh Intertextuality in Japanese Post-3.11 Fantastical Manga Megumo Yamaguchi
1530-1650	Vulnerable(?) Workers: Law, Rights, Politics Chair: A/Prof. Michael Gillan Foreign Domestic Helpers and Reasons for Sentence in Hong Kong Daniel Pascoe Labour Dispute Resolution and the Media in Indonesia, the Philippines and Vietnam Dr Petra Mahy Take Me Home: The Role of Smugglers in Return Migration and Clandestine Border Crossings in Batam, Indonesia Dr Wayne Palmer Politics and Trade Unions in Myanmar: New Alignments and Misalignments in the Context of Democratic Transition A/Prof. Michael Gillan
1530-1650	Sojourners in New Environments: Transnational Collaboration, Non-Government Organizations, and Territorial Governance in East and Southeast Asia How Does Transnational Environmental NGO Reconstruct Westphalian Sovereignty? Ade Wirasenjaya Negotiating Collaboration in the Community: NGOs’ Community Embeddedness in China Dr Shirley Yang Spatial Conflict and Territorial Governance in Tourism Development: A Case Study of Mandalika and Labuan Bajo, Indonesia Ucu Martanto Constituency Visits in Indonesia: Clarity of Responsibility and Credit Claiming Jennifer Frentasia
PLENARY SESSION
1700-1745	Sub-Regional Keynotes (All Lectures will be Open to the Public)

	South Asian Studies Association of Australia	Society of Architecture Urban Historians of Asia	Malaysia and Singapore Society of Australia
1700-1745	Ayesha Jalal, Tufts University Past presentism in a “post-truth” world Sponsored by Asia Institute, University of Melbourne	Jeffrey Hou, University of Washington In the Global Streets (and Alleyways) of Asia	Michael Barr, Flinders University Seeking the invisible Malays: The politics of national myth making in Singapore
	Japanese Studies Association of Australia	Indonesia Council	Association of Mainland Southeast Asia Studies
1700-1745	Swee-Lin Ho, National University of Singapore	Garin Nugroho, Independent Filmmaker Reading Indonesia	Philip Hirsch, University of Sydney The Past, Present, and Future of the Mekong River
	Korean Studies Association of Australasia sub-regional	China Studies Association of Australia	Myanmar Keynote Lecture
1700-1745	Stephen Epstein, Victoria University of Wellington North Korean Men in South Korean Popular Culture of the 2010s	Kam Louie, Honorary Professor at UNSW and HKU The Modern Junzi and His Future Prospects	Prof. Myo Kywe, University of Queensland Higher Education Reforms in Myanmar: Re-orientating Tertiary Research for Democratic Transition

1745-1830	Sub-Regional Association Meetings
1930-2130	Sub-Regional Association Dinners (TBC by the Associations)

0830	Registration open
0830-0900	Arrival tea and coffee
0900-1020	Panel Sessions 2.1
0900-1020	Civil society and refugee care in Indonesia: Creating protection space? (Panel 1) Chair: Max Walden Civil Society and Norm Entrepreneurship in the National and Regional Context Prof. Susan Kneebone The UNHCR and its Local Implementing Partners: How to Expand the Protection Space for Refugees in a Non-Protective Host Country? Dr Antje Missbach The Politics of Civil Society in Indonesia: Where Do Refugees Fit? Max Walden
0900-1020	Urban landscapes Chair: Dr Sidh Sintusingha Public Works Department and Architectural Modernism in Hong Kong Carmen C. Tsui Greening Bangkok from Elsewhere: A Citizens’ Inter-Urban Referencing Network Chieh-Ming Lai Imagining Manila’s Future: Capital, Media and Post-war Reconstruction Dr Paul Hogben
0900-1020	Built environments, Identity construction Chair: Dr Amanda Achmadi Circles and Squares: Understanding the Azuchi Castle Tenshu within Japanese Warring-States Ideology Dr Mark Erdmann Holy City or Sin City?: The History of the Two-sided image of Macao Venus Viana Spaces of Ethnic Consumption in Sydney Yingfei Wang Nusantaran Architecture: A ‘Forced’ Traditionalisation of Indonesia’s National Identity? Diah Asih Purwaningrum
0900-1020	Art in Northeast Asia Collecting the Contemporary: From Mega Gallery to Box Store, Paintings to Toys, the Evolution of Millennial Art Collectors in North East Asia Raymond Rohne Changing Interpretation of Shanshui: Contemporary Art in Hong Kong Dr Hung Sheng The Transnational Cultural Affiliations of Hong Kong Genevieve Trail The Popularization of Utsuho Monogatari Xiaojing Zhao
0900-1020	Media pasts and presents The Voice of Bruce Lee Prof. Jessica Ka Yee Chan Yao Feng-Pan’s Modern Horror Film: Space and Gender in The Ghost Lover (1974) Mei-Hsuan Chiang From Folk Songs to Rap: How Young Vietnamese Generations Preserve and Redefine Traditional Cultural Values Through the Studying Cases of Folk Songs and Rap Tiến Nguyễn The Future of Japan-China Film Negotiation History Research: Li Xianglan in the Trans-war Period Prof. Kenko Kawasaki
0900-1020	Contemporary Art Censorship & Strategies of Resistance and Dissent in Singapore Chair: Dr Michelle Antoinette OB Marker: Strategies of Dissent in Contemporary Art Practices in Singapore Jeffrey Say Meeting the Funding Conditions: Forms of Control in the Singapore Art Scene Anca Rujoi Anti-Yellow: Forms of Performative Dissensus in Singapore Art Dr Yu Jin SENG Censored: 5th Passage and the [Public] Making of Singapore’s Contemporary Art History Dr Michelle Antoinette
0900-1020	Digital Futures in Southeast Asia Chair: Dr Aim Singpeng Digital Campaigning Futures in Island Southeast Asia Dr Ross Tapsell Election Campaign on Facebook: The Case of the Philippines YoungJoon Koh Digital Labor in the Philippines: Three Forms of Brokerage Dr Cheryll Ruth Soriano Comparing ‘Hate’ on Facebook: Evidence from Southeast Asia Dr Aim Sinpeng
0900-1020	The state, livelihoods and (in)security in place Chair: Dr Vanessa Lamb The mess of mafias? Regulating State Support in Rural Indonesia Colum Graham Nutritional Insecurity and Climate Change: Evaluating Adaptation Pathways in Indonesia A/Prof. John F McCarthy Roadmaps: Pathways to Adulthood of Street and Working Children in Mandalay, Myanmar Mya Thida Soe The Spatial Organization of Coercive Institutions in Autocracy: Evidence from China Dr Adam Yao Liu
0900-1020	Women in Politics in Asia: Rethinking participation, (under) representation and exclusion (1/2) Chair: A/Prof. Tanya Jakimow Political representation and women in Vietnam: A Feminist Institutionalist analysis Prof. Louise Chappell The Woman President – Asian leaders and their legislative footprints Dr Ramona Vijeyarasa Beauty and the Barrier: Constraining Women’s Political Participation in China Prof. Louise Edwards Women’s political representation in Timor Leste Sara Niner
0900-1020	Health, Gender and Mobility in Asia Embodiment as a Conceptual Framework for Studying the Intersection of Aging and Migration in Asia Michelle Ong Good, Bad or Worst? Reproductive Health Challenges for Indian Migrant Women in Japan Dr Megha Wadhwa Home Is What Mother Makes: The Impact of Housing in Hong Kong on Chinese Migrant Mothers, 1940s-1980s Shuang Wu Enabling Access: Disability, Mobility and Inclusion in Contemporary Singapore Kuansong Zhuang
0900-1020	Of Earthly Elements: Changing Environment and Civil Society in Thailand and Southeast Asia Chair: Dr Janit Feangfu Ad-hoc community: Instagram’s Posts about Hazy Air Condition in Southeast Asia Dr Pasoot Lasuka Human-Fish Relations: Interspecies Diet and Disease around a Hydropower Project in Northeast Thailand Dr Visisya Pinthongvijayakul Family on the Road: Food, Journey and Disparity in the Thai novel Nerathet (Exile) Dr Janit Feangfu
0900-1020	Resource Politics in Myanmar: Rivers and Land in Transition (Myanmar Series 4/4) Large-Scale Farmland Rental and Absentee Investors: A study of Local People’s Participation in the Face of Rapid Change in Myanmar Soe Soe Htway Fisheries and Socio-economic Change in the Thanlwin River Estuary in Mon and Kayin State, Myanmar Prof. Cherry Aung Repositioning the Salween Basin: Local-National-Regional-Global Connections Dr Carl Middleton & Alec Scott
0900-1020	Histories of subversion and protest in Asia Imperial Transgressions, Sexual Violence, and Diasporic Boycotts Connecting Interwar China and Colonial Indonesia Dr Kris Alexanderson Shen Anna: A Communist Agent in Republican China Patrick Nugent Mishima Yukio, the Japanese Police, and the Sovereign Crisis that Never Came Max Ward “We never complain against your fair and just decision:” the Chusan Labor Camp Trial and Contested Justice Dr Erik Ropers
0900-1020	Race and Class Mobilities in Asia (1/2) Chair: Bernard Keo Global Lives, Cosmopolitan Futures: Peranakan Chinese Communities in Colonial Southeast Asia Bernard Z. Keo Macanese, Portuguese or British? Tracing the Lives of Manuel and Eduardo Pereira in Macau, Hong Kong and Britain Dr Catherine S. Chan Gomastahs, Peons, and Chowdranies: The Role of Indian Subordinates in the functioning of the lock hospitals and the Indian Contagious Diseases Act, Madras Presidency (1805-1880s) Divya Gopalakrishnan Pragmatic Confucian Patriarchs: Marriage and Divorce among the Chinese in Nineteenth Century Urban Java Dr Guo-Quan Seng
0900-1020	Histories of the Future in Modern China – 17th to 21st Centuries Chair: Dr Lewis Mayo Civil Wars, Rival Futures and the Trope of Liberation in Modern Chinese and Modern American History Dr Lewis Mayo Empire, Settlement and Dynastic Change in the 17th Century Chinese and British Worlds: Narratives of the Future in The Dominion of New England and Zheng-era Taiwan Jack Moloney Liang Qichao, Chinese Settler Cultures and the History of the Chinese Future Justin Tighe Fictional History and Post Mao Zhishifenzi: Visions of the Past and Future Richard Lee
0900-1020	Rethinking the Scope of Sinitic Literacy in Japan: Conceptualization and Composition Chairs: Ye Yuan & Yoshitaka Yamamoto Re-evaluating Hentai Kanbun in Heian/Kamakura Japan Han Song Imagined Tests: Imitations of Chinese Imperial Examinations in Tokugawa Japan Yoshitaka Yamamoto Composing Vernacular Chinese Literature: An Early-Modern Japanese Effort Ye Yuan Modernizing Sinitic Poetry in 19th-Century Japan: Sinitic Poets’ Reactions to Western Literature Rintato Goyama
0900-1020	Law and Religion: Religious Freedom in Peril? Chair: A/Prof. Jianlin Chen Asia Bibi v. The State: Blasphemy, Religion and Law in Pakistan Dr Imran Ahmed Duping Religious Freedom: Law, Politics and Economics of Regulating Religious Fraud in China, Taiwan and Hong Kong A/Prof. Jianlin Chen Freedom of Religion and Beliefs in Indonesia: How The Indonesian Constitutional Court Ruled? Luthfi Widagdo Eddyono
0900-1020	Whither Democracy? The Rise of the Far Right in South and Southeast Asian Politics ‘Anti-Radicalisation’ and the Resurgence of The Far-Right in Indonesia: The case of Pemuda Pancasila Dr Ian Wilson Political Crisis and The Rise of the Far Right: Southeast Asian Politics after the Global Economic Crisis Prof. Kanishka Jayasuriya Causes of Democratic Backsliding in South Asia Medha Majumdar Wars, Wrongs, and Revenge: What is to be done? A/Prof. Jane Munro
0900-1020	Public health in Asia The Situation of People with Disabilities in the Laos PDR Dr Manjula Marella Coordination Between Health and Rehabilitation Services in Bangladesh Dr Wesley Pryor God’s Gift or Karma’s Curse? The Influence of Social Status on Social Constructs of Autism Daw Aye Aye Pyone Epistemic Communities in Health System Strengthening: Place-Based Research in Bali Province, Indonesia I Nyoman Sutarsa
1020-1100	Morning Tea
1100-1220	Panel Sessions 2.2
1100-1220	Power, politics and the impacts of development Chair: Anne Decobert Land Rights in Peacebuilding Discourse: Domination and Resistance in Timor Leste’s Ita Nia Rai Programme Dr Srinjoy Bose Development Paradigms in Practice: The Influence of Large-Scale Dam Building in India’s North-East on the Consolidation of Power Inequalities Klara Feldes The Micro-Politics of Community-Driven Development: Ethnographic Insights from a Slum in the Megacity of Dhaka Kazi Nazrul Fattah
1100-1220	Power, politics and resistance Chair: Rachael Diprose The Roots of Conservative Radicalism in Southern Thailand’s Buddhist Heartland Dr Patrick Jory Bali’s Local Politics in Indonesian Post-Authoritarian Era: Between Local Gangsters and Local Aristocrats Sandry Saraswati The Arabisation of the Z generation and its Possible Influence on the Democratisation Processes in Indonesia Monika Piosik People’s Movement in Transition: Case of Jagatsinghpur, Odisha Souvik Lal Chakraborty
1100-1220	Civil Society and Refugee Care in Indonesia: Creating Protection Space? (2/2) Chair: Max Walden Local Communities, Emotions, and the Everyday Construction of Protection Space for Refugees and Asylum Seekers in Indonesia Atin Prabandari Improving Refugee Protection in Asia-Pacific: How Civil Society and the Australian Government Can Make a Practical Difference Asher Hirsch & Dr Daniel Ghezelbash Islamic Civil Society Responses to Rohingya Refugees in Indonesia and Bangladesh Dr Heru Susetyo
1100-1220	Ways of knowing the future: perspectives on four Asian cities: Manila, Delhi, Kathmandu and Dhaka Chair: Tanzil Shafique What is Khori Gaon’s Future? A Case of Multiple, Competing and Shifting Imaginations of the City Ishita Chatterjee Whose Vision, Which City? Urban Planning and Informality in Manila Reden Recio Future of the Non-Citizens in Making the Future of the Kathmandu city? Neeraj Dangol Clean, Green Dreams: Whose Heritage Counts in Urban Revitalization? Dr Stephanie Butcher
1100-1220	The Politics of Culture (1/2) Chinese Environmental Photography as Socially Engaged Art Dr Thomas Chase Commercializing ‘Rebellious’ Culture in the Debate Reality Show of Qipashuo: China’s New Television Positioning between the Party and the Market Wan-Chun Huang Film as a Cathartic Response to Political, Economic and Educational Alienation in Singapore Dr Yeow-Tong Chia
1100-1220	The Spiritual Foundations of Southeast Asian Arts (2/2) Faithful Radicals in Philippine Political Cinema Laurence Marvin S. Castillo Forms of Islam: Minangkabau Metaphor and the Work of Handiwirman Saputra Katherine Bruhn Charging the Boundaries of “Islamic” in Islamic Art: Arahmaiani and the Interplay of Jawi Anissa Rahadiningtyas Spirituality in Modern Art – The Case of Malay/ Muslim Artists in Singapore Syed Muhammad Hafiz
1100-1220	Southeast Asian Services and Production Networks Chair: Adam Fforde Prospects for a ‘New Approach’ to Understanding Contemporary Socio-Economic Change in Mainland SEA – Servicisation in the Vietnamese Economic Miracle in Local Perspective A/Prof. Adam Fforde How to Embrace SMEs in Global Market: The Role of E-Commerce in Industrial Upgrading in the Indonesian Apparel Value Chain Muhammad Ilham Nugroho Regional Production Networks of Palm Oil: The Roles of Malaysian Enterprises in Indonesian Palm Oil Industry Bonifasius Endo Gauh Perdana An Examination of Ridehailing Travel Behaviour in Ho Chi Minh City Amongst the Young to Middle-Aged Life Stages Dr Abraham Leung
1100-1220	Asia literacy in Australian schools and universities Alternative Asias and Australian school curriculum Rebecca Cairns Journey of Japanese Language Learners in Queensland: Global citizenship and the Role of Language Studies in Australia Dr Kayoko Hashimoto Teaching “Many Asias” as Experiential Learning at the Undergraduate Level Dr Evan Ward The significance of China as Method in Australia-China Relations in Today’s Globalised Multicultural Society Chunyan Zhang
1100-1220	Women in Politics in Asia: Rethinking participation, (under) representation and exclusion (2/2) Chair: A/Prof. Tanya Jakimow Patronized and Mansplained: The relationship between progressive female city assembly members and their male supporters in Tokyo Dr Tomoko Seto Mediated Misogyny in Japanese Politics Dr Sally McLaren ‘It’s not easy for women to be a politician’: Women’s political participation in post-conflict Nepal Sarah Hewitt Exploited yet Loyal: The (Affective) Political Labour of Women Party Cadre in India A/Prof. Tanya Jakimow
1100-1220	Digital Media, Discourse and Subjectivity in Asia The Uses and Meanings of the Japanese Word Ekkyō in the Age of the Anthropocene Alexander Ginnan Chauvinist Discourse in Japanese Internet Cyberspace and the (non-) Subjectivity Constituted by Digital Media Technology Dr Satofumi Kawamura Animal Influencers as Idols of Consumption at Present and in the Future: Animal Subjectivity and the Cult of Cuteness on China’s New Media Platforms in the 21st Century Dr Meng Li
1100-1220	Confronting Precarious Futures: Multidisciplinary re-constructions of the Yolanda Disaster Chair: Dr Marie Rose Arong Ghosts of History from the Ruins of Disaster: Narrative Strategies in Post-Haiyan Filipino Novels Dr Marie Rose Arong The Archaeology of Yolanda: Foucault and Reconstructing the Disaster Wendyl Luna Governing through Women: Ethics and Politics of Disaster Reconstruction in the Philippines Kaira Zoe Alburo Canete
1100-1220	The Future for Asian Libraries in Australia: Surviving Changes and Challenges Chair: Dr Rheny Pulungan Monash University Library Asian collections: Changes and Challenges to Support Teaching and Research Dr Rheny Pulungan Influences on Decision Making in University Libraries: A Diversity Issue? (Video Presentation) Friederike Schimmelpfennig Chinese Language Collections at Monash University and The University of Melbourne Xiaoju Liu Panel Discussion Dr Hui Huang
1100-1220	Imagining and making nations in Asia From Warriors to Pioneers: Veterans and State-Building in Early Postcolonial Indonesia Woonkyung Yeo Beyond China, Within the Nation: Nationalist Tours of the Nanyang during Republican China Dr Antonio Barrento Thoughts and Practices of “Malayanisation” in Nanyang University in the 1950s and 1960s Dr Ying Xin Show Citizenship and National Identity in Chinese higher education, 1919-1937 Zhihang Li
1100-1220	Race and Class Mobilities in Asia (2/2) Chair: Catherine Chan Citizens at the End of Empire: Navigating “Citizenship” in Postwar Malaya and Singapore, 1946-1963 Dr John Solomon Migrant Soldiers on the Move: ‘Martial Races’ and the Transnational Lives of Gurkha families in the Far East (1940s-1960s) Hema Kiruppalini Negotiating for a Second Life: Indian Migration and Tailoring Businesses in Cold War Hong Kong (1950s-1970s) Katon Lee
1100-1220	Citizenship and Violence in Asia Chair: Prof. Sandra Wilson Sook Ching 1942: Mass execution and national identity in Singapore Prof. Robert Cribb Executions of Allied Flyers in Wartime Japan Prof. Sandra Wilson Political Murder in Post-War Thailand Dr Arjun Subrahmanyan Collecting the Remains of the War Dead: Japanese Missions to Papua New Guinea A/Prof. Beatrice Trefalt
1100-1220	Language attitudes, ideologies and choices Konnichwa! Namaste! A Comparative Study of Parental Motivations and Strategies in A Marathi and Japanese Heritage Language School in Melbourne Pallavi Atre Multilinguals’ Language Attitude and the Effect of Socio-Political History: The Case of Taiwan Ivy Chen Making Sense of Intra And Inter-Speaker Variations in Kobe Women’s Interview Discourse over 30 Years Dr Lidia Tanaka Vietnam War, Vietnamese Diaspora, And the Politics of Vietnamese Language Quang Van
1100-1220	Local Community in Action: Success and Failure Chair: Dr Mariko Urano Community based Deradicalization: A Case Study of Lingkar Perdamaian Foundation Jasmine Kusumawardani Local Impacts of Competition Between Transnational Initiatives to Govern Palm Oil Supply Chain and State Sovereignty: Case Studies from West Sumatra and East Kalimantan, Indonesia Dr Mariko Urano Contested Consent: Untangling the Tensions between the State and Customary Indigenous Law in the Kaliwa Dam Project in the Philippines Jore-Annie Rico
1100-1220	True Cadres and Xiaoxu Minzu: The Politics of Ethnicity and the Future of Communism in Contemporary China Cadre System in China’s Ethnic Minority Regions: A Contributor to Tensions in Local Public Relations? Dr Taotao Zhao The Treatment of the Uyghurs in China: International Responses Dr Deborah Mayersen The Role of the Communist Youth League in the Xi Jinping Era Adrian Brona
1100-1220	The Politics of Trade Policy in Asia: Gender, State-Building, and Economic Diplomacy under the Yoke of Late Stage Capitalism Gendering Trade Policy in Asia Dr Rabi ah Aminudin State-Owned Enterprises in New-Generation Free Trade Agreements: Carveouts Chiselled for China’s Legal, Economic and Political Backbones Francine Déliane Hug Oiling the Rigs of State-Building: A Political Settlements Analysis of Fiscal Governance in Timor-Leste Dr Dahlia Simangan
1220-1350	Lunch and Interest Group Meetings (1230-1330)
	ROUNDTABLES
1350-1450	Asian Australian studies as a subject for future Research and teaching Chair: Dr Monika Winarta Presenter: Dr Samia Khatun, Ms Chunyan Zhang, Dr Amrita Malhi, Ms Farzana Yesmen Chowdhury SPONSORED BY AASRN (ASIAN AUSTRALIAN STUDIES RESEARCH NETWORK)
1350-1450	Student mobility: new paradigms and outcomes for future Asia Chair: A/Prof. Beatrice Trefalt Presenters: A/Prof. Beatrice Trefalt, Dr Bodean Hedwards, Dr Jeremy Breaden, A/Prof Andy Jackson, Dr Hui Huang, Ms Natassia Bell, Ms Elicia O’Reilly SPONSORED BY THE JAPAN FOUNDATION
1350-1450	Politics of the unseen: visual practice, spirituality and resistance in contemporary Indonesia Chairs: Dr Edwin Jurriens and Dr Wulan Dirgantoro Presenters: Dr Intan Paramadhita, Dr Wulan Dirgantoro, Dr Edwin Jurriëns, Ms Naomi Srikandi, Mr Garin Nugroho, Ms Arahmaiani, Mr Gustaff Hariman Iskandar SPONSORED BY THE UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE FACULTY OF ARTS INDONESIA STRATEGY GROUP
1350-1450	The uncertain future of highland Asia: the cultural, environmental and political transformation of the Himalaya Chair: Dr Alexander Davis Presenters: Dr Alexander Davis, Dr Ruth Gamble, Professor Duncan McDuie-Ra, Dr Georgina Drew, Dr Mona Chettri, Dr Stephen Morey, Dr Lauren Gawne, Dr James Leibold SPONSORED BY THE NEWLY LAUNCHED AUSTRALIAN HIMALAYA RESEARCH NETWORK
1350-1450	The future of historical justice in Southeast Asia Chair: A/Prof. Katharine McGregor Presenters: Dr Rachel Hughes, Dr Lia Kent, Dr Ken Setiawan, Dr Lisandro Claudio
1350-1450	Asia Society Sponsored Roundtable Speakers tbc
1350-1450	The Future of #MeToo in Asia, A conversation with Youngmi Choi Chair: Dr Jay Song SPONSORED BY THE KOREA FOUNDATION
1350-1450	Australia-Asia relations Chair: Melissa Conley-Tyler Presenters: Dr Pradeep Taneja and others tbc SPONSORED BY ASIALINK
1350-1450	New Spatio-Political-Economies of Asia Chair: Prof. Anoma Pieris Presenters: Dr. Amanda Achmadi, Dr. Sidh Sintusingha, Karina Putri, Jayde Roberts Discussant: Prof. Jeff Hou
1350-1450	Interdisciplinary Curriculum and International Collaboration in Liberal Arts Education for Future Asias Chair: Prof. Jie Zheng Presenters: Dr. Haili Kong, Dr. Jin Feng, Dr. David Ribble, Dr. Katharina Yu
1450-1530	Afternoon Tea and Book Launches
1530-1650	Panel Sessions 2.3
1530-1650	Rural identities, governance and security Village Deliberation in Managing Village Natural Resources in Indonesia Katiman Katiman ‘Jai Jawan Jai Kisan’ (Hail the soldie, Hail the Farmer): National security, food security, and state-led narratives of small family farmers in India Monika Barthwal-Datta The Mess of Mafias? Regulating State Support in Rural Indonesia Colum Graham
1530-1650	Reconciliation revisited: New developments in the Grassroots’ Search for Reconciliation and Peace in Indonesia Chair: Dr Najib Azca Grassroots Reconciliation in Indonesia’s Illiberal Democracy Revisited Dr Priyambudi Sulistiyanto A Detour or Trojan Horse? Social Inclusion Initiatives and Reconciliation of the 1965 Violence in Indonesia Ade Siti Barokah, Maulida Raviola & Ayu Diasti Rahmawati From Peacebuilding to Social Justice Dr Birgit Bräuchler Revisiting Peacebuilding in the Land of Jihad: Comparing Ambon and Poso, Eastern Indonesia Dr Najib Azca
1530-1650	Negotiating identities and languages in multicultural Australia Chair: Dr Nicholas Herriman Language and Culture Maintenance and Cultural Identity among Asian Migrants in Multicultural Australia Dr Farzana Yesmen Chowdhury English, Indonesian, and Cocos Malay: Language, Power, and Identity on a (Post)colonial tropical atoll Dr Nicholas Herriman The Relationship Between Attitudes to Freedom, Individualism and Gender Equality and Perceptions regarding Family Name Selection among Japanese “Lifestyle Migrants” in Australia Dr Etsuko Toyoda
1530-1650	Interdisciplinarity, Critique and Risk: New directions in Urban and Architectural Histories in and of Asia Chair: Dr Kah-wee Lee The Troubled Heritage of the Secretariat: Murdered Dreams and Fragile Hopes in Myanmar Dr Jayde Lin Roberts Singapore’s Coasts, the Whale and the Museum Zihao Wong & Dr Lilian Chee Architecture as Evidence: Reflections on Doing Architectural History in the Legal Archive Dr Kah-Wee Lee Historicising the Domestic: New Sites, New Epistemologies, and a New Educational Program Dr Gauri Bharat
1530-1650	The Politics of Culture (2/2) “Vietnam Rides a Dragon, China Rides a Dog:” Sovereign Crisis and the Resurgence of Vietnamese Visual Communication John Michael Swinbank Indonesian Civil Society and Data Activism: Online Identity, Relationship, and Protection Dr Fiona Suwana Deaf Advocacy through Theatre Performance: The Case of “Ding, Ang Bato!” Neslie Carol Tan
1530-1650	Museums, Artistic Expressions, and the Promotion of Diversity in Japan Chair: Prof. Koichi Iwabuchi Nurturing a Diversity-oriented Mind through Curatorial Courses Prof. Mariko Murata From a Design Perspective: How Can Sign Design Contribute to Promoting Diversity in Museums? Prof. Masako Miyata The Possibilities of Educational Programs in Museum Practice to Realize Social Inclusion: The Forest of Expression of Arts Maebashi Tomo Imai Migrant Diplomacy: Japan-Australia Collaboration to Enhance Cultural Diversity Prof. Koichi Iwabuchi
1530-1650	Migrant Labor and the Rural Economy Chair: Dr Karita Kan Transnational Temping: Exploitation of Asian Working Holiday Makers in Australian Abattoirs Dr Hyeseon Jeong Rural Cooperation, Villager Empowerment, and China’s Agrarian Futures: Insights from A Women’s Cooperative in Guangzhou Dr Karita Kan How Rural Out-Migration Drive Land-Use Change: A Case Study from the Middle Hills of Nepal Bhwana KC Subaltern Agency and the Political Economy of Rural Social Change Rebecca Meckelburg
1530-1650	Australia-China relations: education and culture Are Australian Universities under Threat from China? Diarmuid Cooney-O’Donoghue Future Asias in Australia: ‘Foreign interference’ and International Student Mobility Dr Avery Poole Chinese Communist Party Posters at The National Gallery of Australia and Ephemeral Counter-Narratives in the Future Direction of Australia-Asia Relations Dr Alex Burchmore
1530-1650	(Re)constructing ageing futures in/of Asia through migration Chair: Dr Elaine Lynn-Ee-Ho Re-visiting Retirement through a Transnational Lens: A Case Study of Older Singaporeans Working in China Dr Leng Leng Thang & Dr Elaine Lynn-Ee Ho In Search of Project Marigold: Bespoke Fantasies of Independence and Dependent Sociality in Ubud, Bali Dr Paul Green “Relational life course” and Spatio-Temporal Negotiations toward Futures: Mainland Chinese Grandparenting Migrants in Sydney Dr Elaine Lynn-Ee Ho Older Female Migrants and their Kin in the Homeland: Transnational Caregiving Practices among Filipinas in Japan Dr Johanna O. Zulueta
1530-1650	Gender, power and morality in Indonesia Grass Roots Collective Action and Women’s Empowerment: Gender, Power and Influence in Indonesian Villages Dr Rachael Diprose Islamisation and its Impact on Feminism in Indonesia Ayu Mariska Unity, Diversity, and “An Exercise in Futility”: An Exploration of the Moral Experiences of Indonesians of Diverse Sexualities During the 2019 General Election Kade Newell
1530-1650	Circulation of Knowledge, Texts, and Discourses between China and the West Chair: Dr Wendong Cui Inventing “the Great Inventions”: China and the Early-Modern European Scientific Imagination Prof. Dongqing Wang A Displaced Western Heroine in China: Laura M. White’s Chinese Translation of Romola Dr Tin Kei Wong A Woman’s Disease?: Hysteria, Cultural Appropriation, and Female Mental Hygiene in Republican China Dr Yun Zhang Garibaldi as a Xia (Chinese Knight-errant): On the Transformation of Heroic Narratives in Late Qing China Dr Wendong Cui
1530-1650	Shōjo of Oz: Japanese literature, shōjo culture and Australia Chair: Dr Emerald King A Shower of Cats – Reading Tansy Rayner Robert’s Creature Court Series as a Shōjo Text Dr Emerald King Witnesses to War: Depictions of Featherston and Cowra POW camps as Depicted in Australian and New Zealand Children’s Literature Rebecca Hausler What Shōjo Did Next: Japanese Women’s Fiction in the 21st Century Dr Masafumi Monden Reading the Modern Boy in Interwar Japan Debbie Chan
1530-1650	Memory and the effects of contested historical justice Remembrance and Reception: Narrative Transmissions and the “Postmemory” of Children of Martial Law Survivors Dr Mary Grace Concepcion Transitional Justice, DDR (Demobilization, Disarmament and Reintegration), and Deforestation in Cambodia since the 2000s Yoshifumi Azuma Transitional Justice and the Delineation of Indigenous Peoples’ Traditional Territory in Taiwan Dr Shu-Yuan Yang Intergenerational Transmission of Memories and Narratives of May 1998 Among Chinese Indonesians in Jakarta Dr Stefani Nugroho
1530-1650	Environmental Histories Connecting Asia and Australasia Chair: Dr Susie Protschky Chinese Farming, Rural Enterprise and Environmental Change in Aotearoa New Zealand, 1870s-1950s A/Prof. James Beattie Controlling Land, Culture, and Identity in the Malay Agricultural Settlement of Kuala Lumpur, 1899–1920s Joanna Lee Fuel for Empire: Australian trees in Southern India, 1850s to 1890s Dr Ruth Morgan Indonesia’s volcanoes as Sites of Knowledge Production: A History Dr Susie Protschky
1530-1650	Governance and Civil Society in Contemporary South and Southeast Asia Rule of Law for Political Gain: Trends in Civil Society in Lao PDR Dr Andrea Haefner Governing Civil Society in Cambodia: ‘Societal Incorporation’ in INGO/NGO Partnerships with the State Dr Melissa Curley Religious Extremism (Sectarianism) and Civil Society in Pakistan, Post 9/11 Dr Naumana Kiran The Analytical is Liberal: Liberal Biases in the Analysis of Populism in Indonesia and the Philippines Dr Rommel Curaming
1530-1650	Student Mobility as ‘Public Diplomacy’? Examining The New Colombo Plan’s impact on deepening Asia-Australia relations Chair: Elena Williams Understanding how Australian Government International Scholarship Programs are Valued: The New Colombo Plan in the Broad Context Joanne Barker Australian New Colombo Plan Scholars in Asia: Settlement, Academic Learning and Connecting Dr Mark Rahimi Making an Impact? Measuring the New Colombo Plan’s Influence on the Australia-Indonesia Bilateral Relationship Elena Williams To What Extent Does International Student Mobility Enhance Employability and Intercultural Intelligence? Viewpoints of Indonesian and Australian Students studying in Indonesia Alam Ikhlas
1530-1650	Fascist Government Structures and Ideology in China’s Political System Chair: Prof. Dr. John Fitzgerald Democracy or Dictatorship? Debates for a China in Crisis, 1930-1945 Egas Moniz Bandeira Regime Crises and the Constraints of Ideology: China’s Fascist Turns in the 1930s and 2010s Clemens Büttner The Global Implications of China’s Dual State Revival Eva Pils
1700-1800	Reviewing the State of Asian Studies in Australia , Professor Edward Aspinall, ASAA President and A/Professor Melissa Crouch, ASAA Secretary
1830-2130	CONFERENCE DINNER \| The Brunswick Mess Hall The Brunswick Mess Hall, 400 Sydney Rd, Brunswick Optional social function $75 per ticket while seats last. Arrive 6.30pm for 7pm start.

0830	Registration open
0830-0900	Arrival tea and coffee
0900-1020	Panel Sessions 3.1
0900-1020	Climate and environmental degradation, activism, and global futures Chair: Dr Rachael Diprose Plastic Nations: Transnational Networks of Plastic Waste Disposal from Japan to Malaysia Dr Shiori Shakuto Framing Discourses and Mobilizing Towards Collective Action: Environmental Movements’ Resistance Against Extractive Industries in the Philippines Alegado Joseph Edward Global Climate Activism in Hong Kong: Status Quo and Prospect Wendi Li Ambient Air: Kolkata’s Bicycle Politics and Post-Carbon Futures Dr Mailini Sur
0900-1020	The Making of a Good Meal: How Asian diets reflect shifting political and commercial priorities Chair: A/Prof. Michael Ng Cultivating a Taste for Affordable Health: Blue Seal Milk and the Popularization of Milk Beverage in Post-war Hong Kong John D Wong Coming to Like Foreign Beef: The Cultural Politics of Beef Production and Consumption in Modern Japan Tatsuya Mitsuda “Reds Starving Hong Kong”: Geopolitics of Vegetable Supply in British Hong Kong (1940s – 1960s) Michael Ng Soy sauce and industrial food production in Singapore A/Prof. Hallam Stevens
0900-1020	Towards Re-Envisioning Asia – Contested Urbanisms, Geographies and Choreographies (1/2) Chair: Dr Manu Sobti Transforming Craft Traditions: Past, Present and Future Relevance of Vernacular Craft and Craftsmanship in the Trans- Himalayan Region of India Deldan Angmo The Monumental Past – A Celebration or a Suppression Azin Saeedi Reading the Past, Writing the Future: Analysing Persian Miniature Paintings as Documentations of Social History Sareh Abooali Spatial Impacts of Networks on the Urban Morphologies of Iranian Cities in the Medieval Period Ali Rad Yousefnia
0900-1020	Trans-Asia culture circuits K-Pop, K-Dramas, and the Mobility across Asias Dr JaeYoon Park Consuming the K in Sydney: Cover dancing, Emplacement, and the Production of “K-pop Spaces” Kathryn Phillips The ‘Global Malaysian Novel’: Asian Form or Global Commodity? Brandon Liew Selling Insurance across Cultures: Cross-Cultural Communication in Advertising Dr Chavalin Svetanant
0900-1020	Civic Interventions in the Age of Digital Asia Chair: Dr Li-Chia Lo Incubating Democracy with Civic Technology: The Case of G0V Community in Taiwan Dr Li-chia Lo Creative Intervention and Media in the Cultural Public Sphere Dr Shiau Ching Wong Protecting Community Heritage through Civic Engagement in Singapore Dr Selina Ho
0900-1020	Understanding Inequalities in Southeast Asia from Various Perspectives: Are We in a “Proper” Trajectory? Chair: Adiasri Putri Purbantina The ASEAN Economic Community and A Technology-Driven Industrial Catch-Up: Three ASEAN Country Cases Adiasri Putri Purbantina Indigenous Peoples’ Worldview and Inequalities: Voices from Southeast Asia’s Indigenous Media Mona Sihombing Religious Inequalities and Inclusive Development in Southeast Asian Communities Maria Indira Aryani Women, Workloads, and Gender Equality in Indonesia Ade Kusuma
0900-1020	Asian International Students, Temporary Graduates and Skilled Migrants in Australia: Settlement, Well-being and Employment Chair: Prof. Ly Tran Employment Outcomes of International Graduates on Post-Study Work Visa in Australia A/Prof. Ly Tran From University to Workplace: A Complex Pathway for International Students Prof. Jill Blackmore Improving Employment Outcomes for Professionally Skilled Migrants John van Kooy The Influence of Social Values and Differing Socio-Cultural Norms on the Mental Health of Asian international students in Australia Dr Helen Forbes-Mewett
0900-1020	Mobile Lives: migration, travel and transport Chair: Dr Ariane Utomo On the Other Side of the Tracks: Infrastructural borders in Guwahati, India Prerona Das Brain Drain from Japan: A New Demographic Challenge? A/Prof. Nana Oishi Gungtong: An Initial Assessment of the Implication of Abandoned Houses in Bhutan Sangay Wangchuk Temporary Workers and Unlikely Settlers: The Thwarted Returns and Future Imaginaries of Trade Skilled Migrants from China Living in Perth Catriona Stevens
0900-1020	Marriage and inequality revisited: Chinese and Sino-foreign perspectives (1/2) Chair: Prof. Antonia Finnane ‘Arranged’ marriages in China: past and present Dr Pan Wang Chinese Australian brides, photography and the white wedding Sophie Couchman Sewing machines as dowry gifts in the Mao and Deng years Prof. Antonia Finnane “It’s hard to be a man”: navigating ‘involuntary bachelorhood’ as a migrant man in urban China Sarah Gosper
0900-1020	Femininity, bodies and work Adult femininity and (non)reproductivity in urban Japan Dr Laura Dales The Biopolitics of Beauty in the Age of Precarious Aesthetic Economies in South Korea A/Prof. Jo Elfving-Hwang Rural Women, Agrarian Capitalism and the Environment in Monaragala Buddhima Padmasiri Gender Identity and Unpaid Carework: An Ethnography of The Lives of Female Indonesian Postgraduate Students and Their Families in Australia Valentina Yulita Dyah Utari
0900-1020	Malaysia’s Trans-Asian Futures Chair: A/Prof. Emma Baulch Slouching towards Beijing?: WhatsApp Family Groups and Chineseness in Malaysia A/Prof. Emma Baulch & Dr Ting-Fai Yu Articulating Queer Sinophone Malaysia: LGBT Chinese Malaysians’ Educational Mobility to Taiwan Dr Ting-Fai Yu The Pontianak strikes back: visions of Malaysian feminism in digital spaces Ana Grgić
0900-1020	Monash University Library’s Indonesian Collections: Engagement and Support for Teaching-learning and Research activities Chair: Dr Anita Dewi Monash University Library engagement with stakeholders in teaching and learning space Dr Anita Dewi Monash University Library’s Indonesian collections and support for researchers Dr Rheny Pulungan
0900-1020	Reconsiderations of the historiography of Asia British in the Battle of Surabaya: A Discourse Analysis of Indonesian History Textbooks Indah Wahyu Puji Utami The Divergent Evolution of Javanese Historiography Wayan Jarrah Sastrawan Loving China from Distance: The Reconsidered Significance of Hong Kong’s Colonial Exceptionalism Katy Chan Colonial Histories in the Construction of Malaya as a Nation within the British Empire in the Twentieth Century and its Implications Wei Wan Wong
0900-1020	Nuclear disaster and environmental mobilities Roundtable Presentation Presenters: Akina Mikami, Ryota Wakamatsu & Ryoko Kose
0900-1020	Authority, Politics, and Commemoration in Transpacific Japan, 1854-1945 Chair: Dr Janet Borland Fragmentation of Political Vision: Power and Intellectuals in the Ansei and Taisho Earthquakes Prof. Koichiro Matsuda Statue of Sadness: Commemoration and Controversy Surrounding Tokyo’s 1923 Earthquake Children A/Prof. Janet Borland Expressing Gratitude and Memorializing Transpacific Humanitarianism following the Great Kantō Earthquake of 1923 Prof. J. Charles Schencking Anglo-American Influence on the Japanese Police Administration in the Interwar Period A/Prof. Tadahiko Miyachi
0900-1020	Citizenship and Statelessness in and from Myanmar and Cambodia Chair: Dr Christoph Sperfeldt Banal Statelessness in and from Myanmar: A Comparative Study of Non-Rohingya Muslims Dr Nyi Nyi Kyaw & Dr Vanessa Lamb Practices of Citizenship and Politics of Irregular Movements Ashraful Azad Colonial Jurisdictions and the Definition of Khmerness Sally Low The Perpetual ‘Foreigner’: The Production of Statelessness among Cambodia’s Vietnamese Minority Christoph Sperfeldt
0900-1020	Citizenship and Politics in Crises in Contemporary Southeast Asia Future of Wild Boar Academy: Political Implications of Granting Thai Citizenship to Stateless Tham Luang Cave Survivors Ladawan Khaikham Londo Blankon as Power Brokers: Village Politics and Land Deals Program in the Lapindo Mudflow Disaster Fathum Karib Australia’s Response to the Rohingya Crisis: An Analysis in the Context of the Responsibility-Sharing Norm Ishrar Habib
0900-1020	China’s Urban Future – Policy, People and Social Change Chair: Dr Lei Yu Dwelling, labour, and Enclosure in China’s poverty Resettlements Dr Sarah Rogers Urbanizing Tibet’s Minoritized Languages Dr Gerald Roche Housing Safety-net Expansion in the Era of New-type Urbanisation: Case Studies from Shandong Dr Lei Yu Extending Pension Coverage to Migrant Workers in China: Challenges from a Fragmented Social Security System Randong Yuan
1020-1100	Morning Tea
1100-1220	Panel Sessions 3.2
1100-1220	Gender and sexuality norms: understanding self and other Chair: Dr Lan Ahn Hoang Playing Bideshi (Western) by a Deshi (Local) Ethnographer in the Field: Ambiguities in the ‘Insider-Outsider’ Relationship Suborna Camellia Becoming and Being a Young Father in the Context of Poverty and Disaster: An Ethnographic Study of Early Fatherhood in a North Lombok Village Lisa Colquhoun Performing Waria: Genre as a Technology for shaping Trans-Identity in Indonesia Paige Johnson The ‘Feminisation’ of Local Communities in Rural Nepal: Opportunities and Constraints for Women Sujata Tamang
1100-1220	Peacebuilding and the dead in Independent Timor-Leste Chair: Dr Lia Kent A Mortal Peace: Death and Community in the Pursuit of a Good Life in Timor-Leste Dr Damian Grenfell Ontological Security Anchored in Death & the Afterlife: Shared Frameworks of Meaning and the Ramifications for Senses of Peace & Security Bronwyn Winch Post-Conflict Trauma and the Remain(der)s of Violence in Timor-Leste Emily Toome Gathering the Dead, Imagining the State? Examining the Practices of Commissions for Recovering Human Remains Dr Lia Kent
1100-1220	Asia in Australia and Australian in Asia Chair: Angela Lee Putting Australia in Future Asia Entertainment Landscape Angela Lee The Kpop Rerrarium: A Growing Culture of Self-Supplied Content in Australia Anne Lu K-Wave and the rise of “K-related” activities in Australia Fresha Mardia
1100-1220	Towards Re-Envisioning Asia – Contested Urbanisms, Geographies and Choreographies (2/2) Chair: Dr Manu Sobti Nineteenth-Century Photography, Indian Minorities, and The Question of a Secular Future Sushma Griffin The Space for a New Architectural Knowledge? Ayman Alanssary Re-Imagining Rurality; An Alternative Perspective on Rural Transformation in Iran and Beyond Maryam Shafiei The Legacy of the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Contemporary Iran: An Opportunity or a Drawback Peyman Akhgar
1100-1220	Transcultural manga and anime The Shifting Gender Norms in Contemporary China: A Case Study of Gay Fun Arts in Ne Zha Xiaofei Yang Revisiting Japanese Fan Culture Theory A/Prof. Zilia Zara-Papp Towards a Vacuumlike Empathy: Reconfiguring Hot-Blooded Aesthetics of Japanese Animation with Chinese Qinggan Chen Jin Chinese Comics in the Age of Globalization: The Influence of Japanese Manga and the Exploration of “Chinese Flavor” in Chinese Girls’ Comics Ying Huang
1100-1220	Women’s Religious Belief and Writing Chair: Qiu Chunquan Murasaki Shikibu’s Renunciation Heart and Her Literary Creation Prof. Longmei Zhang The Description of Buddhist Dreams in Kagerō Nikki and Sarashina nikki A/Prof. Yan Chen The Purpose and Significance of Lady Nijō’s Pilgrimages A/Prof. Chunquan Qiu The Significance of Visiting the Temples or Shrines and Practicing as a Lay Believer in the Second Volume of Takemukigaki Ruhui Ma
1100-1220	Literature and the social Indian Visions of The Future: Rahul Sankrityayan’s 1924 Science-Fiction Novel – Twenty-Second Century Peter Friedlander Murakami Haruki and Tawada Yōko: Narrativising Cultural Traumas in A Transcultural Space Laura Clark Writing Pramoedya: A Creative Response to the Writings of Pramoedya Ananta Toer Jennifer Mackenzie
1100-1220	Women in Japan’s man-made world of work Chair: Dr Caroline Norma Corporate Hostess-isation of Women in Japanese White Collar Work Dr Caroline Norma Sexual Harassment Grey Zone: What Goes on in the ‘Workplace’ of Japan’s Politicians Dr Emma Dalton Narratives on Women’s Irregular Employment and Work-Family Balance in Japan Prof. Kaori Okano Analysing Women in Work in Earthquake Recovery Measures on the North-Eastern Coast of Japan Dr Reina Ichii
1100-1220	Marriage and inequality revisited: Chinese and Sino-foreign perspectives (2/2) Chinese Wives, Migration Law and White Australia Dr Kate Bignall Transnational Bigamy: gender, marriage, and law in treaty port Shanghai Luke Yin Eugenics and the changing of view of marriage in Republic of China Nan Wang Panel Discussion Antonia Finnane
1100-1220	Gender and sexuality: advocacy and activism Rights Assertion and Experience of Young Poor LGBTs in a Philippine Rural Area Athena Charanne Presto The Role of Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) in Women Empowerment in the Deep South of Thailand Anna Christi Suwardi Global Pride, Local Parades – Tokyo Rainbow Pride and LGBT advocacy in Japan Shu Min Yuen
1100-1220	Indonesian Visual Arts: Early Foundations and Contemporary Forms of Creative Activism (1/2): Pioneers of art education and experimentation The Roles of the Forgotten: Simon Admiraal and the Rise of the Art Academy in Indonesia Aminudin TH Siregar The Togetherness of Visual Art and Ludruk Theatre Moelyono Sukarno’s Art Activities in the Presidential Palace Dr Mikke Susanto Protecting The Tibet Plateau Ms Arahmaiani Sponsored by the Indonesia Strategy Group, Faculty of Arts, University of Melbourne
1100-1220	Transpacific Visions: Connecting Pacific Histories Between North and South Chair: Dr Alexander Brown Lives of Japanese Prisoners of War in New Guinea after WWII A/Prof. Yasuko Hassall Kobayashi A Journey to the Archipelago: Shimao Toshio and the Transnational Imagination of Place in Cold War Japan Dr Shinnosuke Yang Takahashi Uniting or dividing? Christianity and its Role for Relationships between Enemies during the Pacific War A/Prof. Christine Winter The Hiroshima Panels and Australia Dr Alexander Brown
1100-1220	Millennials’ Rewriting of Indonesia’s History of the Left Chair: Sri Wahyuningroem Harian Rakjat as Indonesian Communist Party Campaign Tool for 1955 National Election Bimo Bagas Basworo Labor’s Parliament: The Political Dynamics of the Dewan Perusahaan in Indonesia 1961-1966 Appridzani Syahfrullah The Politicization of Psychology: The Role of Psychologists in Indonesia’s Detention Camps during the New Order Era Dyah Ayu Kartika Under the Banner of Reformation: Reviewing the 1965 G30S Historiography through the Millenial Hidsotiography Perpective Fileksius Gulo
1100-1220	Emerging Legal Thoughts and Practices: Past, Present, Future Chair: Dr Helen Pausacker Rohingya Persecution: Opportunities for Transitional Justice Mohammad Pizuar Hossain Lawyer, ‘Refugee Alien’, Intelligence Officer and Advocate of Indonesian Studies: Johannes (Hans) Arndt Leyser Dr Helen Pausacker AI Impact on Asian Law: A Comparison of the Southern and Northern Hemisphere Leader Countries (China, Singapore and Indonesia) Prof. Irina Filipova
1100-1220	An Illiberal Future: Politics under Joko Widodo Localizing the National, Nationalizing the Local: The Political Trajectory of Duterte and Widodo from Mayoralty to Presidency Lermie Shayne Garcia Pro-Democracy Activists and the State: The Destruction of Indonesia’s Anti-Graft Agency under Jokowi Administration Abdil Mughis Mudhoffir The Indonesia Consolidation of Illiberal Democracy under Jokowi Administration Airlangga Pribadi Kusman A Tale of Two Chinese Indonesian Politicians: The Political Glass Ceiling for Chinese Indonesians Dr Wu Ling Chong
1100-1220	Diplomacy, Nation-Building, and Contestation in/between East and Central Asia Challenging China in Central Asia Dr Jonathan Ludwig Encounters of the Incarnations in Mongolia: Relations between Mongolia, Tibet, and China in the Twentieth Century Dr Makoto Tachibana Religions and China’s Diplomatic Endeavours (1949-2019) Dr Yu Tao Re-Examining Chinese Nation-Building in Offshore Hong Kong: When Chinese National Education Curriculums Meet with Contested Media Xingxing Wang
1100-1220	Religion and Resistance in Southeast Asia Chair: Elvin Ong Is It Worth It? Building Opposition Alliances in Electoral Autocracies Elvin Ong Piety and Protest A/Prof. Risa J. Toha Navigating Islam in a Secular State: Muslim Activism in Singapore A/Prof. Walid Jumblatt Abdullah Pathways to Power: Opposition Strategies of Expansion in Malaysia, 1999-2018 A/Prof. Sebastian Dettman
1100-1220	The Future of Mental Health Care in Indonesia Chair: Prof. Hans Pols The Future of Mental Health Care in Indonesia: A Collaborative Project Prof. Hans Pol Consumer Associations, Patient Advocates, and the Future of Mental Health Care in Indonesia Agus Sugianto From Paternalism to Empowering Patients: A New Approach to Mental Health in Indonesia Santi Yuliani Human Rights Protections for Persons with Mental Illness in Indonesia: The Response of the Kebumen District to Pasung in Mbah Marsiyo’s House Harry Minas
1220-1350	Lunch, Films and Interest Group Meetings (1230-1330)
1350-1510	Panel Sessions 3.3
1350-1510	Identity, ideology, and recognition: the struggle in Asian states Chair: Damian Grenfell Civil Society and the Quest of Taiwan Identity I Hao Ben Liu The Turn to Benevolence: Buddhicisation in Post Conflict Sri Lanka Catherine West The Enjoyment of Being a Leader: Fantasy and Misrecognition in Korea’s Saemaul (New Village) Movement Christian Caiconte Struggling for Recognition of Sacrifice: A Case of the Older and Politically Conservative in South Korea A/Prof. Gil-Soo Han
1350-1510	Rethinking Agricultural Extension in South and Southeast Asia Chair: Dr Trent Brown Extension’s Imagined Beneficiary and the Challenge of Practical Agricultural Pedagogies Dr Trent Brown Extension in Indonesia: Past, Present, and Future. Dr Graeme MacRae The Changing Face of Livestock Extension: Experiences from Pakistan Dr David McGill Agricultural extension in conflict vulnerable areas: A partnership-based approach Dr Mary Johnson
1350-1510	Disability, identity, and barriers to wellbeing Chair: Hannah Gould Trading Places: A Gendered Assessment of Barriers to Livelihood for People with Disabilities in Rural Myanmar Aye Aye Myo Beyond Beliefs: Exploring Disability and Identity in Myanmar Tawng Mai Khum Including People with Disability in Education: A Persistent for Future India A/Prof. Nathan Grills The Elderly Person and the Liveable Asian City Dr Katrina Moore
1350-1510	Spaces of Unnationalism Chair: A/Prof. Farhan Karim From Pickering to Pinnacle: Ghosts of Public Housing Dr Eunice Seng The Subversion of Spaces of Nationalism: The Violence of the Innocent Mall Dr Manu P. Sobti The Propensity of Things: Cultural Relics and the Reconstruction of Histories Dr Cecilia Chu Hotels as Spaces of ‘Unnationalism’ in Bombay, Bali and Beijing: The Design Practice of Alan Gilbert and Sarah Lo in the 1970s and 80s Dr Amit Srivastava & Dr Peter Scriver
1350-1510	Media, Mobility, Identity A Kaleidoscope of Stories? Marketing an Indonesian Film Festival in Melbourne Dr Meghan Downes The Non-Global Past of Alleyway Nostalgia in Japan’s Travel Media for Asia Prof. Shinsuke Iwata The East as a Career: The Portrayals of Chinese people and their Chineseness Dr Chi Sum Garfield Lau Representations of ‘Leftover Women’ in the Chinese English-language News Media Yating Yu
1350-1510	Urban mobilities and digitisation of urban life Chair: Dr Catherine Earl Improvised Infrastructure: The Motorbike-Taxi Economy in Indonesia Dr Robbie Peters Going Places: Digitisation of Spatial and Social Mobilities in Ho Chi Minh City Dr Catherine Earl Informalisation of the Online-Based Motorbike Taxi Drivers In Indonesia Victoria Fanggidae Strategies of Opacity: Evading the Algorithm as an Indonesian Motorcycle Taxi Driver Henry Chim
1350-1510	East Asian Labor Market Policies Chair: Prof. Sam Soo Kim International Entrepreneurial Migration in Asia Diane Bouleau Recent Changes and Characteristics of the Wage System in Japan Prof. Sam Soo Kim Chinese Mergers & Acquisitions-Type Outward Foreign Direct Investment: A Potential Impact on Labor Conditions in China? Wanlin Ren
1350-1510	Governing China’s water Chair: Dr Sarah Rogers Which Way Forward? Building Up A Water Security System for China’s City of The Future Wenjing Zhang Producing the New Water Margin: Fixing the Buffer Zone of China’s Largest Drinking Water Reservoir Dr Sarah Rogers & Dr Vanessa Lamb Managing the Unseen: Information Transparency and China’s Groundwater Crisis A/Prof. Matthew J. Currell Is the River Chief System the Ultimate Solution to China’s Water Governance Problems? Prof. Mark Wang
1350-1510	Transnational Marriages, Families and Gender in Asia Chair: Dr Bernice Loh Negotiating Work and the Future: Aspirations and Autonomy of Migrant Wives in Singapore Dr Theodora Lam Transnational Marriage and Women’s Situated Agency in Singapore Dr Bernice Loh Gendered Motherwork of Transnational Coorg Families in the Asia-Pacific Dr Chand Somaiah Transnational Care and Kinship in Australia: Perspectives from Sinhalese Migrants In Later Life A/Prof. Raelene Wilding & Dr Shashini Gamage
1350-1510	Storytelling, Trauma and Memory in Asia Cultural Studies Rewrite Together a Rare Autoethnography of Auschwitz Survivor within the Modernizing South Korea Gyu Chan Jeon Japanese ‘Job’, a Family Tree and its Annihilation Dr Gwyn McClenlland Reconceptualizing the Postcolonial Cold War in Southeast Asia: The Works of Pramoedya Ananta Toer and F. Sionil Jose Sandeep Singh
1350-1510	Indigenizing the Cold War in Mainland Southeast Asia Chairs: Dr Sinae Hyun & Dr Simon Creak Missionaries of the Cold War: The Thai Border Patrol Police and Its Nation-Building, 1947-1980 Dr Sinae Hyun “No Ordinary Friendship”: China’s Red Evangelism and Hu Nim’s Becoming Maoist, 1949-1977 Dr Matthew Galway Anti-Vietnamese Sentiment as Vernacular Ideology in Cold War Laos Dr Simon Creak Panel Discussion Patrick Jory
1350-1510	The Filipino 1950s Chair: Dr Lisandro Claudio The Ideology of Austerity in 1950s Philippine Economics Dr Lisandro E. Claudio Redbaiting Rizal: The House Committee on Anti-Filipino Activities (CAFA) and the Noli-Fili debate of the mid 1950s Joseph Scalice The Dengue Epidemics in 1954 and 1956: Public Health and Popular Medicine in Postwar Philippines Gideon Lasco A History of a History Course: Appraising the Beginnings of the University of the Philippines’ General Education Philippine History course in the late 1950s A/Prof. Aaron Mallari
1350-1510	Histories of sex and the family in Asia Tainted by Name: The Moral and Social Perils of Associating with Concubines in Republican China Dr Xia Shi Imagining Interethnic Families in Colonial Taiwan Alison Darby Rethinking Concepts of Colonialism Through Histories of Forced Child Removal in North India Dr Jessica Hinchy
1350-1510	The People Speak Out: Popular Movements for Democracy and Liberalization in China’s Reform Era Chair: Prof. Anne McLaren Capital Complex: Photography and Art in Beijing during the 1970s and 80s A/Prof. Claire Roberts Democracy Wall: Beijing Winter, Beijing Spring Dr Susette Cooke Slow Train to Democracy, the Shanghai Campaign of 1978 to 1979 Anne McLaren ‘Culture fever’ as the setting for 1989 Nicholas Jose
1350-1510	Indonesian Visual Arts: Early Foundations and Contemporary Forms of Creative Activism (Panel 2): Contemporary networks of art and social inclusion Chairs: Dr Wulan Dirgantoro & Dr Edwin Jurriens Disability-led Creative Economy – A possibility for Indonesia? Samantha Mintio Inclusive Dance Practice as Disability and Empowerment in Creative Practices in Indonesia Yoana Wida Kristiawati Urban/Rural Collaboration Platform: Common Room Networks Foundation Gustaff H. Iskandar Feminist Cultural Activism in Indonesia Dr Intan Paramaditha Sponsored by the Indonesia Strategy Group, Faculty of Arts, University of Melbourne
1530-1630	ASAA AGM
1630-1745	CLOSING RECEPTION

Provisional Program

Book of Abstracts available for download

Monday 6 July 2020

Tuesday 7 July 2020

Wednesday 8 July 2020

Thursday 9 July 2020