[csaa-forum] Consumption, Lifestyle & Asian Modernities Symposium: Call for PG respondents

[Fran Martin]

Call for Expressions of Interest:
Postgraduate respondents for the
Consumption, Lifestyle and Asian Modernities Symposium
The Consumption, Lifestyle and Asian Modernities Symposium, which will be held at RMIT from 4-6 November this year, will bring together key thinkers in the field of lifestyle, consumption, media and modernity in Asia. Funded from the collaborative research project ‘The role of lifestyle television in transforming culture, citizenship and selfhood in Asia’, funded by the Australian Research Council, the goal of this symposium is to examine current developments in contemporary Asian societies in relation to identity, culture and citizenship through the prism of lifestyle.
This is shaping up to be a very exciting event, with keynote papers by Prof. Eric Kit-wai Ma and Prof. Chua Beng Huat, and speakers and respondents including Bart Barendregt, Chris Hudson, Heather Horst, Larissa Hjorth, Koichi Iwabuchi, Sun Jung, Wu Jing, Yue Gao, Tania Lewis, Fran Martin, Meaghan Morris, Wanning Sun and Audrey Yue.
We are inviting postgraduates who are currently undertaking work in the broad area of lifestyle, consumption, media and modernity in Asia to act as respondents at this symposium. This will be an excellent opportunity for emerging scholars to meet with academics who are immersed in the study of Asian lifestyle cultures, consumption and media and to be a part of the creation of innovative approaches and conceptual frameworks that will be shape future research in the field. A postgraduate respondent’s role will be to undertake a close reading of a particular speaker’s paper, identify key concepts, and lead an extensive and in depth conversation with the both the speaker and with other participants about the issues raised in the paper. Draft papers will be provided to the selected postgraduates by early October, so that they will have a good amount of time to thoroughly prepare for the symposium. To apply to be a Postgraduate respondent, please send the following by 31 August: • a 250 word outline of your current research interests and how they are relevant to the themes and concerns of this symposium • a one page CV Please nominate a paper you would interested in responding to. You can find the abstracts for these papers at http://www.telemodernities.org/symposium Email any enquiries, and your final application to telemodernities at gmail.com.

You can read more about the project at:http://www.telemodernities.org.

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Dr Fran Martin
Senior Lecturer in Cultural Studies
School of Culture and Communication
University of Melbourne
Victoria 3010
Australia

+613 8344 5486

f.martin at unimelb.edu.au
http://www.culture-communication.unimelb.edu.au/about/people/academic/fran-martin


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