Symposiums

Research symposium, June 25-26 2026, The University of Melbourne, Woodward Conference Centre

Societies across Asia are undergoing significant shifts in the social organization of space, time, and gender. Geographic mobility is an increasingly common experience, radical uncertainty is making people’s futures more difficult to predict, and gendered life courses are diversifying. What do these processes feel like, at the micro-scale emotional level of people’s everyday experience? What transformations in gendered subjectivities are occurring as a result of these developments, across classes, geo-cultural regions and diverse mobility types? What new challenges do such changes create for intersubjective relations and negotiations? This symposium will explore these questions by gathering together a transdisciplinary group of scholars working on themes of mobility, gender, and emotion in contemporary Asia-related cultural research.

Aug 20, 2025 Read more...

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.

Jul 24, 2019 Read more...