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Multiple events have been organized featuring speakers and participants from around the world to exchange ideas about the interactions and convergences of Southeast Asian cultures within the region and with other regions.
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Inter-Asia Intermediality: A Two-Part International Workshop
Part I: 20-21 May 2022; Part II: 10-11 June 2022
Over the past two decades, intermediality and inter-Asia have emerged as key buzzwords in the humanities whose increasing presence as the theme and focus of scholarly conferences, journals, and monographs has followed a remarkably similar timeline and trajectory.
Discussions of intermediality grew at the turn of the millennium in response to technological innovations to the platforms and networks for media circulation and consumption. Almost concurrently with the rise of intermediality, inter-Asia emerged as a subfield of—as well as a challenge and response to the inadequacies of—the field of Asian area studies with the aim of connecting scholars at different institutions across the region while encouraging scholarship that would avoid the trap of East-West bilateralism by instead interrogating processes of regionalization in Asia in all their unevenness and variation.
Inter-Asia Intermediality: A Two-Part International Workshop intends to highlight the intersections between these two emergent fields by bringing them into a productive scholarly conversation. Beyond the continuity and smoothness of encounter and passage within and between different forms of media (as well as between Asian subregions), we are interested in intermediality’s contradictions and frictions amid the tenuous relationships within Asia. We seek to explore in this conference how intermediality can intervene in similar, multiple ways in the dynamic and elusive cross-cultural, intraregional, and trans-border exchanges between East, Southeast, and South Asia.
Convened by Brian Bernards (USC) and Elmo Gonzaga (CUHK)
Part I (Los Angeles) sponsored by USC Center for Transpacific Studies (with funds from the Luce Foundation), USC Department of East Asian Languages & Cultures
Part II (Hong Kong) sponsored by CUHK Centre for Cultural Studies, CUHK MA in Intercultural Studies Programme, CUHK Department of Religious & Cultural Studies
Doing Theory in Southeast Asia
27-29 May 2021
The goal of this virtual workshop is to map theoretical frameworks and keywords from the diverse, archipelagic cultures of greater Southeast Asia, including Indonesia, Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia, Myanmar, Laos, Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei, the Philippines, and Timor Leste. It builds on recent initiatives around the world to decolonize the scope and vocabulary of theory away from dominant sites of knowledge production in North America, Western Europe, Australia, and Northeast Asia by turning to other locations as frames of reference for inquiry, speculation, and analysis. The workshop aims to uncover the different methods, objects, conditions, and terminologies for critical knowledge production that use Southeast Asia as a discursive and symbolic lens.
Convened by Elmo Gonzaga (The Chinese University of Hong Kong) and Nazry Bahrawi (University of Washington, Seattle)
Organized by CUHK’s Centre for Cultural Studies and MA in Intercultural Studies Programme, with support from the Hong Kong Research Grants Council’s (RGC) General Research Fund (GRF).
Archipelagic Imaginaries in Philippine and ASEAN Literary Production
29 October 2018
In response to Cha: The Asian Literary Journal’s special issue on ‘Writing the Philippines’, this forum aims to foreground and reframe for inquiry the geographic, economic, institutional, environmental, and aesthetic conditions surrounding the cultural production of creative writing in the Philippines and Southeast Asia. The different speakers will discuss the contingencies and resistances in generating texts, anthologies, and pedagogies that would represent the plurality of an archipelagic and diasporic community, which stretches across island systems and beyond territorial boundaries.
Convened by Elmo Gonzaga (Department of Cultural and Religious Studies, CUHK)
Organized by CUHK’s Centre for Cultural Studies and MA in Intercultural Studies Programme, Department of Cultural and Religious Studies
Asia Intermedialities Workshop:
New Objects, Themes, and Methods at the Convergence of East and Southeast Asian Cultural and Media Studies
25-26 May 2018
In the past decade, increased scholarly focus has been devoted to Asian media flows under the rubrics of ‘Inter-Asia,’ ‘TransAsia,’ and ‘Global Asia.’ This new emphasis on the study of cultural affinities and interactions within the Asian region has accompanied the shift of the world market toward economies like South Korea and the People’s Republic of China, and the emergence of new trade blocs such as the Association of Southeast Asian Nations or ASEAN.
Convened by Elmo Gonzaga (Department of Cultural and Religious Studies, CUHK)
Organized by The Centre for Cultural Studies, Department of Cultural and Religious Studies, CUHK
Sponsored by Faculty of Arts and Lee Woo Sing College, CUHK