* Date: Dec.9.2022(Fri) 10:10 AM-17:30 PM
* Venue: 711 Conference Room, 7th Floor, Humanities Building, National Chung-Hsing University.
* Google Meet: https://reurl.cc/oZLgGM
* Registration link: https://forms.gle/1vwD8yTeSFUnFi4W6
* Registration deadline: Dec.6.2022 23:59 PM
*Organizer: College of Liberal Arts、International PhD Program in Taiwan and Transcultural Studies
* This workshop will be held both in-site and online. Due to limited in-site seats, prior online registration is required. The in-site is limited 17 people to register and on first-come first-served basis.
This graduate student workshop, organized by the International PhD Program in Taiwan and Transcultural Studies, examines Southeast Asia and the Sinophone world through the lens of migration and culture. Scheduled to be held on December 9, 2022 in National Chung Hsing University, it is part of a special month-long module for the class “World Literature and Theories of the World,” and follows a series of four talks on “Migrating Worlds,” which will take place throughout the months of November and December. These talks discuss the global perspectives of writers, filmmakers, and other cultural producers who migrate from their countries of origin such as Malaysia, Singapore, and Indonesia. They also examine the role of Taiwan, Hong Kong, and mainland China in Southeast Asian literary and cultural production.
The workshop aims to reconceptualize the way we view Asia beyond the nation-state, emphasizing transnational and mobile connections across places, through cultural productions. It also serves the goal of introducing students and the wider public in Taiwan to Southeast Asia, and its rich traditions of cultural production that go beyond borders. Finally, it will demonstrate how we might contribute to international discussions about the shape and form of the globe, from the vantage point of Southeast Asia and its ethnic Chinese communities.
We are interested in papers that address the following topics:
• Transnational cultural connections between places in Southeast Asia, historically or in the present
• The relationship between literary worlds and migration
• The transmission of media and its accompanying infrastructures (e.g. film and music festivals)
• Intellectual histories and cultural productions of Chinese communities in Southeast Asia
• The Cold War in Asia from a migratory and cultural perspective
• Other related topics
