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<DIV><STRONG>The REGISTRATION + WEBSITE for the 4th Biennial AASRN conference "New Communities, New Racisms" is now open! </STRONG></DIV>
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<DIV><A href="http://asianaustralianidentities.org/">http://asianaustralianidentities.org</A> </DIV>
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<DIV><STRONG>DATES: 10-11 November 2011</STRONG></DIV>
<DIV><STRONG>Venue: University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia.</STRONG></DIV>
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<DIV>Join us for the 4th Asian Australian Studies Research Network (AASRN) conference, also known as 'AAI 4', which will be held in Melbourne this November. </DIV>
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<DIV>As well as internationally renowned academic keynotes and a national celebrity, the event features invited panels focused on food-blogging, diversity and political representation, cinema and the film industry, emerging Asian Australian communities, and a second novel's literary expectations.</DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10.5pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'inherit','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU"><FONT face=Arial size=2><STRONG>CONFIRMED KEYNOTES</STRONG></FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<LI class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; VERTICAL-ALIGN: baseline; LINE-HEIGHT: 13.5pt"></SPAN></FONT><FONT face=Arial><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial"><FONT size=2><STRONG>“The Second Novel”</STRONG> || Convened by <SPAN style="BORDER-RIGHT: windowtext 1pt; PADDING-RIGHT: 0cm; BORDER-TOP: windowtext 1pt; PADDING-LEFT: 0cm; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0cm; BORDER-LEFT: windowtext 1pt; PADDING-TOP: 0cm; BORDER-BOTTOM: windowtext 1pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm">Tseen Khoo</SPAN> || Featuring: <SPAN style="BORDER-RIGHT: windowtext 1pt; PADDING-RIGHT: 0cm; BORDER-TOP: windowtext 1pt; PADDING-LEFT: 0cm; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0cm; BORDER-LEFT: windowtext 1pt; PADDING-TOP: 0cm; BORDER-BOTTOM: windowtext 1pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm">Benjamin Law</SPAN> (<I><SPAN style="BORDER-RIGHT: windowtext 1pt; PADDING-RIGHT: 0cm; BORDER-TOP: windowtext 1pt; PADDING-LEFT: 0cm; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0cm; BORDER-LEFT: windowtext 1pt; PADDING-TOP: 0cm; BORDER-BOTTOM: windowtext 1pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm">The Family Law</SPAN></I>, <I><SPAN style="BORDER-RIGHT: windowtext 1pt; PADDING-RIGHT: 0cm; BORDER-TOP: windowtext 1pt; PADDING-LEFT: 0cm; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0cm; BORDER-LEFT: windowtext 1pt; PADDING-TOP: 0cm; BORDER-BOTTOM: windowtext 1pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm">Frankie</SPAN></I> magazine), <SPAN style="BORDER-RIGHT: windowtext 1pt; PADDING-RIGHT: 0cm; BORDER-TOP: windowtext 1pt; PADDING-LEFT: 0cm; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0cm; BORDER-LEFT: windowtext 1pt; PADDING-TOP: 0cm; BORDER-BOTTOM: windowtext 1pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm">Tom Cho </SPAN>(<I><SPAN style="BORDER-RIGHT: windowtext 1pt; PADDING-RIGHT: 0cm; BORDER-TOP: windowtext 1pt; PADDING-LEFT: 0cm; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0cm; BORDER-LEFT: windowtext 1pt; PADDING-TOP: 0cm; BORDER-BOTTOM: windowtext 1pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm">Look Who’s Morphing</SPAN></I>), <SPAN style="BORDER-RIGHT: windowtext 1pt; PADDING-RIGHT: 0cm; BORDER-TOP: windowtext 1pt; PADDING-LEFT: 0cm; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0cm; BORDER-LEFT: windowtext 1pt; PADDING-TOP: 0cm; BORDER-BOTTOM: windowtext 1pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm">Alice Pung</SPAN> (<I><SPAN style="BORDER-RIGHT: windowtext 1pt; PADDING-RIGHT: 0cm; BORDER-TOP: windowtext 1pt; PADDING-LEFT: 0cm; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0cm; BORDER-LEFT: windowtext 1pt; PADDING-TOP: 0cm; BORDER-BOTTOM: windowtext 1pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm">Unpolished Gem</SPAN></I>, <I><SPAN style="BORDER-RIGHT: windowtext 1pt; PADDING-RIGHT: 0cm; BORDER-TOP: windowtext 1pt; PADDING-LEFT: 0cm; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0cm; BORDER-LEFT: windowtext 1pt; PADDING-TOP: 0cm; BORDER-BOTTOM: windowtext 1pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm">Growing Up Asian in Australia</SPAN></I>).</FONT></SPAN></FONT></LI>
<LI class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; VERTICAL-ALIGN: baseline; LINE-HEIGHT: 13.5pt"><FONT face=Arial><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial"></SPAN></FONT><FONT face=Arial><SPAN><FONT size=2><STRONG>“Food-blogging: Culture, Identity, Consumption”</STRONG> || Convened by <I><SPAN style="BORDER-RIGHT: windowtext 1pt; PADDING-RIGHT: 0cm; BORDER-TOP: windowtext 1pt; PADDING-LEFT: 0cm; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0cm; BORDER-LEFT: windowtext 1pt; PADDING-TOP: 0cm; BORDER-BOTTOM: windowtext 1pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm">Tammi Jonas</SPAN></I> || Featuring Melbourne bloggers Phil Lees (</FONT><A href="http://www.lastappetite.com/"><SPAN style="BORDER-RIGHT: windowtext 1pt; PADDING-RIGHT: 0cm; BORDER-TOP: windowtext 1pt; PADDING-LEFT: 0cm; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0cm; BORDER-LEFT: windowtext 1pt; COLOR: #944c64; PADDING-TOP: 0cm; BORDER-BOTTOM: windowtext 1pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm"><FONT size=2>Last Appetite</FONT></SPAN></A><FONT size=2>), Billy Lee (</FONT><A href="http://half-eaten.com/"><SPAN style="BORDER-RIGHT: windowtext 1pt; PADDING-RIGHT: 0cm; BORDER-TOP: windowtext 1pt; PADDING-LEFT: 0cm; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0cm; BORDER-LEFT: windowtext 1pt; COLOR: #944c64; PADDING-TOP: 0cm; BORDER-BOTTOM: windowtext 1pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm"><FONT size=2>Half-Eaten</FONT></SPAN></A><FONT size=2>), and Jane Wong (</FONT><A href="http://www.deepdishdreams.blogspot.com/"><SPAN style="BORDER-RIGHT: windowtext 1pt; PADDING-RIGHT: 0cm; BORDER-TOP: windowtext 1pt; PADDING-LEFT: 0cm; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0cm; BORDER-LEFT: windowtext 1pt; COLOR: #944c64; PADDING-TOP: 0cm; BORDER-BOTTOM: windowtext 1pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm"><FONT size=2>Deep Dish Dreams</FONT></SPAN></A><FONT size=2>).</FONT></SPAN></FONT></LI>
<LI class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; VERTICAL-ALIGN: baseline; LINE-HEIGHT: 13.5pt"><FONT face=Arial><SPAN></SPAN></FONT><FONT face=Arial><SPAN><FONT size=2><STRONG>“Is Australian Politics becoming less diverse?”</STRONG> || Convened by <I><SPAN style="BORDER-RIGHT: windowtext 1pt; PADDING-RIGHT: 0cm; BORDER-TOP: windowtext 1pt; PADDING-LEFT: 0cm; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0cm; BORDER-LEFT: windowtext 1pt; PADDING-TOP: 0cm; BORDER-BOTTOM: windowtext 1pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm">Jen Tsen Kwok</SPAN></I> || Featuring: Adam Bandt, Dai Le, Lisa Singh, Tsebin Tchen, and Maria Vamvakinou || Chaired by <SPAN style="BORDER-RIGHT: windowtext 1pt; PADDING-RIGHT: 0cm; BORDER-TOP: windowtext 1pt; PADDING-LEFT: 0cm; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0cm; BORDER-LEFT: windowtext 1pt; PADDING-TOP: 0cm; BORDER-BOTTOM: windowtext 1pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm">Peta-Jane Madam</SPAN> ||</FONT></SPAN></FONT></LI>
<LI class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; VERTICAL-ALIGN: baseline; LINE-HEIGHT: 13.5pt"><FONT face=Arial><SPAN><FONT size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><STRONG>"Emerging Asian Australian Communities" || </STRONG>Convened by Audrey Yue || </SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Featuring: Shabbr Wahid (Australia Counsel General to India), Cam Nguyen (CEO, Australian Vietnamese Women’s Association), Soo-lin Quek (Policy and Research Manager, Centre for Multicultural Youth), Vincent Chow (President of the Federation of Chinese Association of Victoria) || Chaired by Kee Pookong.</SPAN></FONT></SPAN></FONT></LI>
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<DIV><A href="http://www.trybooking.com/11809"><STRONG>REGISTER NOW</STRONG></A><STRONG>. NOTE: </STRONG>Earlybird discounted registration closes <STRONG><FONT color=#ff0000>30 September</FONT></STRONG>.</DIV>
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<DIV><STRONG>Conference convenor:</STRONG> Dr Audrey Yue (University of Melbourne, Australia). </DIV>
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<DIV><EM><STRONG>Direct any conference queries <A href="http://asianaustralianidentities.org/contact">HERE</A>.</STRONG></EM><FONT face=Arial><SPAN><FONT size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV>Preceding the conference will be an ECR workshop day, and following the conference will be the inaugural <A href="http://asianaustralianfilmforum.wordpress.com/">Asian Australian Film Forum</A>.</DIV></FONT></SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial"><o:p><FONT size=2><STRONG></STRONG></FONT></o:p></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial"><o:p><FONT size=2>Dr Tseen Khoo (RMIT University, Melbourne)</FONT></o:p></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial"><o:p><FONT size=2>* Convenor, AASRN - </FONT></o:p></SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial"><o:p><FONT size=2>asianaustralianstudies.org</FONT></o:p></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial"><o:p><FONT size=2>* Conference committee, AAI 4 - asianaustralianidentities.org</FONT></o:p></SPAN></DIV>
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