[csaa-forum] Solidarities: 20th Anniversary Asian Australian Studies Research Network Conference, 29-30 May

[Sukhmani Khorana]

Dear CSAA colleagues,

Please see a call for abstracts for the Asian Australian Studies Research Network (AASRN) conference (on behalf of the AASRN convenors) that will take place in Gadigal Land/Sydney, 29-30 May 2025.

‘Solidarities’: 20th Anniversary Asian Australian Studies Research Network Conference  29-30 May 2025, University of Technology Sydney, Gadigal Land/Sydney
 Since it was established in 1999, the Asian Australian Studies Research Network (AASRN) has brought together people of different professional and personal backgrounds in a collective project of imagining and co-creating what ‘Asian Australian Studies’ can be. In creating this space, the network has forged connections across academic disciplines, activism, community, and cultural sectors. And, as the last (2023) AASRN conference theme ‘Past, Present, Future’ explored, these connections have also increasingly extended across generations of evolving ‘Asian Australian’ identities, and indeed versions of ‘Australia’, across different contexts in place and time.
Seeking to explore these connections and where they might take our (re)imaginings of Asian Australian Studies in the world today, the 2025 AASRN conference takes the theme ‘Solidarities’.
This inquiry takes place at a critical period, where discussion of racism and marginalisation in Australia have been foregrounded by the Voice to Parliament, renewed public discourse on migration fuelled by the cost-of-living crisis and Higher Education reforms, and growing inequality in the wake of COVID-19. Moreover, key global events including the Gaza genocide, the re-election of Trump, and the global rise of alt-right agendas require us to situate discussions of racism, justice, free speech and allyship with attention to diasporic and transnational contexts.
Thus, we invite papers and panels reflecting on Asian Australian experiences in relation to (but not limited to) the theme ‘Solidarities’, including the following topics:  - Diasporic and transnational connections - Settler colonialism, decolonisation, and critical race theory  - Shifting (re)constructions of Asian Australian identities over time and generations  - Tensions and dis/connections in Asian Australian identities  - Racism and intersectional forms of marginalisation  - Gendered perspectives  - Asian Australian media and popular culture  - Legal frameworks and policies that impact Asian Australians  - Asian Australian engagement with different social institutions
AASRN is open to people of all backgrounds, academic, professional, and otherwise, who are interested in critically interrogating how and why 'Asian Australian' identities are constructed, mobilised, and taken up, and ultimately exploring how Asian Australian knowledges and experiences can be recognised (without subjugation beneath either ‘Australian’ or ‘Asian’ categories). Thus, in the spirit of the conference theme, we also invite presenters and attendees to critically reflect on the nature of their own personal connection to Asian Australian Studies. In doing so, we seek to ensure that presentations and discussion honour these intellectual endeavours of Asian Australian studies, and further to foster a social space in which Asian Australian perspectives and experiences are centred.
This conference will be held on Gadigal land at the University of Technology Sydney, City Campus, on Thursday 29 and Friday 30 May 2025.
For any questions, please contact Dr. Tisha Dejmanee at tisha.dejmanee at uts.edu.au<mailto:tisha.dejmanee at uts.edu.au> or Dr. Alexandra Lee at leealex at deakin.edu.au<mailto:leealex at deakin.edu.au>

Submissions are due by 17 March 2025 via this Google Form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScH5JRic-rLtLq4XGu4HiNewR09f_yzPqjN-k4g64SwDPYlpw/viewform

Best,
Sukhmani


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Scientia Associate Professor Sukhmani Khorana
School of the Arts and Media
Faculty of Arts, Design and Architecture
University of New South Wales

Editor-in-Chief, Food, Culture & Society
External Co-lead, ‘Migration, Im/mobility and Belonging’, Sydney Centre for Healthy Societies

Recent Publications:

  *   ​Khorana, S., DeSouza, R. and Chitranshi, B. (2024) ‘Using Pregnancy and Parenting Apps and Social Media During COVID-19: Absence and Sociality, Agency and Cultural Negotiations for South Asian–Origin Women in Australia’, Social Media + Society, vol. 10, no. 4, DOI:10.1177/20563051241293484
  *   Baganz, E., McMahon, T., Khorana, S., Magee, L. and Culos, I. (2024). ‘Life would have been harder, harder and more in chaos, if there wasn’t internet’: digital inclusion among newly arrived refugees in Australia during the COVID-19 pandemic', Communication Research and Practice, pp. 1–20, DOI:10.1080/22041451.2024.2345000
  *   Yang, F. and Khorana, S. (2024) Submission to the inquiry into civics education, engagement and participation in Australia. ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society and University of New South Wales. DOI: 10.60836/rqth-tc20
  *   Khorana, S. (2024) ‘Running in the Family: Australian Migrants’ Environmental Care as Inter-generational and Domestic Civic Practice’, Journal of Intercultural Studies, DOI: 10.1080/07256868.2024.2325954
  *   Khorana, S. (2024) ‘Diversity’ in Bridget Griffin-Foley and Sue Turnbull (ed.), The Media and Communications in Australia. London and New York: Routledge.



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