MCLC: East Asian (Pop) Culture workshop

[Denton, Kirk]

MCLC LIST
From: Ying Zhu <yingzhu95014 at gmail.com>
Subject: East Asian (Pop) Culture workshop
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On China¹s Margin? The Emergence of an ³East Asian² (Pop) Culture
 
A Workshop Sponsored by the American Council of Learned Societies
(May 10-11, 2013; College of Staten Island & CUNY Graduate Center)

 
This workshop focuses on different cities in East Asia, and investigates
the flow, circulation and consumption of popular culture among these
cities.  We aim to illustrate the regional differences as well as the
functional differences of different cities in their unique relationships
among each other.  The issue of popular culture will be examined not
simply based on broad national exchanges, but also exchanges among the
different cities and the people in their daily lives, daily interactions
and imaginations.  We believe that a discussion like this will help us to
avoid falling into the trap of national or ethnic essentialism, and that a
more complicated picture of Asia will be articulated.

 
Issues that will be examined in this workshop include:
 

1. How do the cultural and economic exchanges affect the relationships
among the East Asian polities, and how do these affect national identities?

 

2. With urban centers becoming centers of economic and political power and
arbiters of cultural standards, how is national or cultural identity
defined?

 

3. How do the economic relationships with each other shape the cultural
(especially popular cultural) characteristics of these polities?

 

4. How does China's influence on the polities in the area, and vice versa,
affect the everyday and cultural reality these different polities?

 
 
 
Workshop Schedule

 
May 9, Thursday-- Arrival and check into the Hilton Hotel on Staten Island

 
May 10, Friday-- First session 10:00-1:00.  Lunch Break.  Afternoon
session: 2:00-5
Location: College of Staten Island East Asian Studies Program.

 
May 11, Saturday‹Session Three: 10:30-1:00.  Lunch Break.  Session Four:
2:30-5.
Location: CUNY Graduate Center

 
May 12, Sunday.  Check Out.

 
List of Participants

 
Jungbong Choi (Assist. Prof., Dept. of Cinema Studies, New York University)
Samuel Collins, (Prof. Dept of Sociology, Towson University)
Michael Curtin  (Duncan and Suzanne Mellichamp Professor of Global Media,
UC Santa Barbara)
Janet Dudley (Professor of English, CUNY CSI)
David Gordon (Professor of History @ CUNY Grad Center)
Koichi Iwabuchi (Prof. Dept of Media Culture and Studies, Monash
University, Australia)
Fabio Lanza, (Assoc Prof. East-Asian Studies, U of Arizona, Tucson)
Anru Lee (Associate Professor of Anthropology, CUNY CSI) 
Thomas Looser (Assoc. Prof. Dept. of East Asian Studies, New York
University)
Alan Smart, (Prof. Dept. of Anthropology, U of Calgary)
Josephine Smart (Prof. Dept. of Anthropology, U of Calgary)
Shigeru Suzuki, (Assist. Prof., Modern Languages and Comparative
Literature, Baruch College, CUNY)
Yan Sun (Professor of Political Science @ CUNY Grad Center)
Ying Zhu (Professor of Media Culture, CUNY CSI)