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<b><span lang="EN-NZ"><o style="font-weight: bold" p="#DEFAULT">
 </o style="font-weight: bold"><i>Cool New Asia: Asian Popular Culture in a Local Context<o p="#DEFAULT" style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic"></o style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic"></i></span></b> </p>
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<b><span lang="EN-NZ">Date: 25<sup>th</sup> and 26<sup>th</sup> November, 2011<o style="font-weight: bold" p="#DEFAULT"></o style="font-weight: bold"></span></b> </p>
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<b><span lang="EN-NZ">Location: Unitec Institute of Technology: Auckland, New Zealand.<o style="font-weight: bold" p="#DEFAULT"></o style="font-weight: bold"></span></b> </p>
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<b><span lang="EN-NZ">Abstract Submission Due Date: August 31<sup>st</sup>, 2011.<o style="font-weight: bold" p="#DEFAULT"></o style="font-weight: bold"></span></b> </p>
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<b><span lang="EN-NZ">Confirmed Keynote Speaker: </span></b><span lang="EN-NZ">Professor </span><span lang="EN-GB">Koichi Iwabuchi</span><span style="font-family: MS Gothic" lang="EN-GB"><font face="MS Gothic"> </font></span><span lang="EN-GB">(Waseda University, Tokyo)</span><span style="font-family: MS Gothic" lang="EN-GB"><font face="MS Gothic"><o style="font-family: MS Gothic" p="#DEFAULT"></o style="font-family: MS Gothic"></font></span> </p>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Koichi Iwabuchi is Professor of media and cultural studies at the School of International Liberal Studies of Waseda University in Tokyo. He has been worked on the issues of media and cultural globalization and transnational connections, multicultural questions and cultural citizenship in the Japanese and East Asian context. His English publications include: <i>Recentering Globalization: Popular culture and Japanese Transnationalism</i> (Duke University Press, 2002); <i>Feeling Asian Modernities: Transnational Consumption of Japanese TV Dramas</i> (ed. Hong Kong University Press, 2004); <i>East Asian Pop Culture: Analyzing the Korean Wave</i> (co-eds with Chua Beng Huat, Hong Kong University Press, 2008). He is an editor of a Hong Kong University Press book series, <i>TransAsia: Screen Cultures</i>.</span><b><span lang="EN-NZ"><o style="font-weight: bold" p="#DEFAULT"></o style="font-weight: bold"></span></b> </p>
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<b><span lang="EN-GB">Symposium Theme:<o style="font-weight: bold" p="#DEFAULT"></o style="font-weight: bold"></span></b> </p>
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<span lang="EN-GB">As popular culture flows and consumption opportunities become increasingly ubiquitous, what is often overlooked is the marked and local specificity of the popular culture texts themselves. In multicultural societies there is growing interest expressed by different agencies to utilise popular culture for their own purposes. We are particularly interested in the theme of the emerging conflict between different agencies performing popular culture, especially as popular culture texts are used, misused or abused in the pursuit of singularly local objectives and stable cultural identities. Questions of ownership, authenticity and the production/negotiating of identity are central when considering the role diasporic and immigrant communities play in any local environment. </span> </p>
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<span lang="EN-NZ">This symposium seeks to bring together scholars and practitioners from across the spectrum of popular culture production and theorisation, leading to new understandings of the ways in which international popular culture and particularly East Asian popular culture is produced and consumed in a local context.<o p="#DEFAULT"></o></span> </p>
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<span lang="EN-NZ">We invite proposals for individual paper presentations and panel proposals with up to 4 participants. Individual papers in the form of 250-word abstracts and panel proposals in the form of 200-word panel proposal and 250-word individual abstracts, to be sent to the conference organisers:<o p="#DEFAULT"></o></span> </p>
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<span lang="EN-NZ">Dr. Elena Kolesova: ekolesov@unitec.ac.nz<o p="#DEFAULT"></o></span> </p>
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<span lang="EN-NZ">Dr. Scott Wilson: swilson2@unitec.ac.nz<o p="#DEFAULT"></o></span> </p>
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<span lang="EN-NZ">Suggested Presentation Topics Include (but are not limited to):<o p="#DEFAULT"></o></span> </p>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Free papers are also most welcome.</span><span lang="EN-NZ"><o p="#DEFAULT"></o></span> </p>
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<b><span lang="EN-NZ">Key words: identity, ideology, nationalism, pop(ular) culture, agency, subaltern cultures, power struggle<o style="font-weight: bold" p="#DEFAULT"></o style="font-weight: bold"></span></b> </p>
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