Conference: Culture in Context, Taipei, Sept 2006

H-ASIA announces:

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H-ASIA
August 19, 2006

CONF Culture in Context, Taipei, Sept 2006

From: Allen Chun

Culture in Context: Pragmatics, Industries, Technologies, Geopolitics Institute of Ethnology, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan, Sept 16-17, 2006

Flows and Boundaries, Real or Imagined [September 16, 1:00-3:00pm]
George Ritzer, Sociology Department, University of Maryland
Outsourcing: Globalization and Beyond.
George Marcus, Anthropology Department, University of California,
Irvine
Collaborative Imaginaries in Globalizing Systems.

Spaces of Culture [September 16, 3:30-5:30pm]
Allen Chun, Institute of Ethnology, Academia Sinica, Taiwan
On the Geopolitics of Identity.
Paul James, Globalism Institute, Royal Melbourne Institute of
Technology
Cultures of Time and Space: Constituting Social Being.

The Culture Industry-in-State [September 17, 9:30-1:00pm]
Chua Beng Huat, Asia Research Institute, National University of
Singapore
Public Housing and the Making of a State.
Stephen Chan, Cultural Studies Department, Lingnan University, Hong
Kong
The Pragmatic Turn in Cultural Studies Research: Critical Pedagogy
and
Cultural Planning as Complex Processes in Post-colonial Hong Kong.
Nick Stanley, Birmingham Inst of Art and Design, Univ of Central
England
Out-door Ethnographic Museums, Tourism and Nation Building
in Southeast Asia and Taiwan.

Emergent Forms of Net-works [September 17, 2:00-5:30pm]
Ned Rossiter, Centre for Media Research, Univ of Ulster, Northern
Ireland
Organised Networks, New Institutions and the Legacy of Form.
Samuel Weber, German Dept and Critical Theory Program, Northwestern
Univ
Networks, Netwar and Narratives.
Michael M.J. Fischer, STS Program and Anthropology Department, MIT
Emergent Forms of (Un)Natural Life.

Allen Chun, Conference Organizer achun@gate.sinica.edu.tw 02-26523460
Registration:
http://www.ioe.sinica.edu.tw/chinese/r2711/060916/index.htm

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