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Cosmopolitanism and
Cultural Flows in East Asia
An International
Conference
Organised and Hosted
by the Research Institute for Cosmopolitan Cultures (RICC), the Centre for
Chinese Studies, and the Department for East Asian Studies at
The University of Manchester
21-22 May 2009
Conference
Venue and Accommodation:
Chancellors
Hotel
77 Moseley
Road
Fallowfield
Manchester, M14 6NN
0161
907 7414
www.conference.manchester.ac.uk/chancellorshotelconferencecentre/
Wednesday
20 May (pre-programme)
19.30 Pre-film talk by Ming-Yeh Rawnsley
(Corener House, 70 Oxford Street)
19.45 Cape No 7
Corner House
70 Oxford Street
Manchester, M1
5NH
0161
200 1500
(free ticket enclosed in
conference pack at check-in)
Thursday
21 May
9.15 Welcome and Opening
9.30-11.00 Session 1: Chaired by Nina Glick-Schiller (Manchester)
Rey Chow (Brown University): How to Make Diaspora
Visible on Film: Intimations from Contemporary East Asian Directors
William
Callahan (The University of Manchester): Patriotic Cosmopolitanism: China’s
Non-official Intellectuals Dream of the Future
11.00-11.15Coffee
11.15-12.45Session 2: Chaired by Galin
Tihanov (Manchester)
Natasha Gentz
(The University
of Edinburgh): Cosmopolitanism’s Debut
on the Chinese Stage: the Wenmingxi (civilised drama)
Ulrich Heinze
(University of East
Anglia):
Media and Migration: Ishihara Shintaro as the Mask of Tokyo
12.45-14.15Lunch at Chancellors
14.15-15.45Session 3: Chaired by
William Callahan (Manchester)
Chris
Goto-Jones (Leiden University): The Strange Cosmopolitanism of the Kyoto School:
Modernity and the Idea of Cosmopolitan Ethics in Wartime Japan
Elena
Barabantseva (The University of Manchester): Change vs.Order – shijie
meets tianxia in China’s
Interactions with the World
15.45-16.00 Coffee
16.00-17.30Session 4: Chaired by Rey
Chow (Brown)
Takayuki
Yokota-Murakami (Osaka
University): Cosmopolitanism and the
Sociology of Japanese Comics
Felicia Chan (The University of Manchester):
The International Film Festival and the Making of a (Chinese) National Cinema
19.30 Conference dinner at Yang Sing
Restaurant
Friday 22 May
9.30-11.00 Session 5: Chaired by Hong Liu (Manchester)
Aya
Homei (University of Cambridge): Cosmopolitanism and ‘International
Health’ in East Asia: Japanese family planning initiatives in Taiwan during the 1970s
Denggao
Long (Tsinghua University,
Beijing):Global
Chinese Christian Networks and the Making of New Cultural Identity in the
Asia-Pacific
11.00-11.15Coffee
11.15-12.45Session 6: Chaired by
Jeremy Tambling (Manchester)
Lin Wei-hsin
(The University
of Manchester): Jay Chou’s Music and the
Shaping of Popular Culture in the Contemporary Chinese Speaking World
Ming-Yeh
Rawnsley (University
of Leeds): Cultural Representation
of Identities, Values and Food in Korean TV Drama
12.45-14.0
Lunch at Chancellors
14.00-16.15Session 7: Chaired by Ian
Reader
Sharon
Kinsella (The University of Manchester): The Influence of Transracial and
Fabulist Post-1960s Girl’s Culture in Japan on the Style of Neo-pop Art
in Global Institutions
John
Maher (International Christian University, Tokyo and
St Antony's College, Oxford): Metroethnicity and
Metrolanguage in Japan:
from landfill loyalities to cultural jouissance
Adrian Favell
(UCLA and University of Arhus): Creative East-West
Cosmopolitanism: the changing role of international mobility for young Japanese
contemporary artists
16.15-16.30Coffee
16.30-17.00 Concluding Discussion and Close of the
Workshop
The
Conference is generously supported by the Research Institute for Cosmopolitan
Cultures (RICC), the Centre for Chinese Studies, Japanese Studies, School of Languages,
Linguistics and Cultures (SLLC) at the University of Manchester,
and by the British Inter-University China Centre (BICC) and the Japan
Foundation.