[csaa-forum] Re-Worlding Chinese Transnationalisms online symposium

[Fran Martin]

Hello all,

 I’m excited to announce this upcoming online symposium, with keynotes from Prof Pun Ngai and Prof Pál Nyíri.
See the full program here and clock through to register to attend: https://mobileselves.org/symposium/

Please help spread the word—thanks!

Re-Worlding Chinese Transnationalisms Symposium
Online, August 26 – August 27 2021
In the final decade of the twentieth century, along with intensifying cross-border movements of capital, people, and media attendant on the rise of the Asia-Pacific regional economy, Chinese transnationalism became a focus of study across a range of disciplines. Researchers addressed evolving phenomena including the geographies and politics of Chinese migration and diasporas; the transnationalization of Chinese families, religions, business, and education; the rise of Chinese Internet worlds; the histories of transnational Chinese cinema and transnational imaginaries in contemporary Chinese-language media; and the characteristics of a transnational Sinophone cultural sphere that was understood as both peripheral to and divergent from the type of Chinese identity promoted by the PRC state.
Twenty-five years after the emergence of the conceptual rubric of Chinese transnationalism, the human and cultural mobilities that inspired it have both intensified and transformed as the economic, political, and military “rise of China” decisively reshapes global geopolitics. The time is ripe to revisit the cultural politics of Chinese transnationalisms. What forms do transnational movements of Chinese media, people and culture take in today’s world? How are these mobilities transformed by the growing global power of the PRC? What does it mean to think, live, feel, and imagine Chinese transnationalisms in the context of President Xi’s promotion of the “Chinese dream,” economists’ recognition of the present time as the “Chinese century,” and unease about “Chinese influence” on the part of western governments, security agencies, and media? Re-Worlding Chinese Transnationalisms will address these questions.
The Re-Worlding Chinese Transnationalisms Symposium will run online over two full days, 26th August – 27th August. It will take the form of a small, focussed, highly interactive research workshop rather than a conventional conference, with discussants assigned and papers pre-circulated to attendants.
In attendance will be two of the world’s leading figures in the study of Chinese transnationalism: Pun Ngai, Professor at Department of Sociology, The University of Hong Kong, and Pál Nyíri, Professor of Global History from an Anthropological Perspective, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. Professors Pun and Nyíri will present keynote lectures open to the public (please note that registration is essential).



Fran Martin 馬嘉蘭| Reader in Cultural Studies & ARC Future Fellow
Screen & Cultural Studies Program, School of Culture & Communication | Faculty of Arts
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The University of Melbourne, Victoria 3010 Australia
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