PANELS FOR THE ASAA CONFERENCE –

1.    Regional Autonomies & Local Societites in Indonesia No 1. Local identities and regional resources

Minako Sakai: Introduction to the panel: Regional autonomy in Indonesia

Acciaioli, Greg: "Indigenity and Resource Management in Indonesia Today: The Reformulation of Adat among the Lindu People of Central Sulawesi"

McCarthy, John: Local Environmental Regimes in the Leuser Ecosystem, Northern Sumatra: Implications of Decentralisation for Environmental Management

Winarto, Yunita: From Farmers to Farmers: the Seeds of Empowerment, the case of a farmers’ NGO’s self governance in Central Lampung

2.    Regional Autonomies & Local Societites in Indonesia No 2. Ethnic conflicts and local identities no. 2

Harple, Todd: "Kami masih ada: Kamoro perspectives on political administration in Irian Jaya"

Vickers, Adrian: "Bali Merdeka? Internal Migration, Tourism and Hindu Revivalism"

Ondawame, John: "Problems and Prospects for the future of West Papua

Widen, Kumpiady, Ethnic conflict and regional autonomy: A Dayak case in Central Kalimantan

3.    Regional Autonomies & Local Societites in Indonesia No 3Ethnic conflicts and local identities

Robinson, Kathy: Inter-Ethnic violence, the Bugis and the problem of explanation

Winn, Phillip: "Relations of Place, Relations of Difference: Violence and Community in Maluku Tengah"

 Amir, Iwan: "The Religious Acehnese: A factual or imagined community?"

4.    Regional Autonomies & Local Societites in Indonesia No 4. Empowering local institutions

Maley, William: "Institutional design and Regional Autonomy"

Sakai, Minako: Strengthening community rights: the birth of Aliansi Masyarakat Adat Nusantra (AMAN) and regional responses

Amzulian Rifai, Regional Autonomy: the Implications on Legal Systems

5.    Regional Autonomies & Local Societites in Indonesia No 5. Towards further understanding of regional autonomy in Indonesia

Fox, James J. Regional Autonomy and Its Impact on Local Societies

Doyle, Jeff: The New World Order’s Deputy, or a New Theory of Dominoes: Australian popular media perceptions of regional autonomy following the Indonesian crises of the late 1990s

Kirana, Wahana: Fiscal decentralisation and its impacts on local budget in Indonesia

6.    Centre-Periphery Relations in Indonesia: rethinking the state

Tod Jones, Organisation and Culture:  the 1999 Indonesian Autonomy Legislation

Kingsbury, Damien: [Jakarta-East Timor prior to 30 August 1999]

Levy, Stuart: "Centralised construction of the State"

Tarmidi, Lepi T.: Centre-Periphery Integration in Indonesia’s Regional Economic Development: Food for Thoughts

7.    Centre-Periphery Relations in Indonesia: some case studies

Chauvel, Richard: "North Sumatra-Jakarta relations"

Mary Fearnley-Sander, Perceptions of citizenship in Indonesia before and during Reformasi

8.    Central Asia – Issues of Modernisation

Rafis Abazov, Latrobe: The Changing Pattern of Identities in Central Asia: The Evidence from the Field

Faridullah  Bezhan, Monash: The translation of Western literature and the emergence of modern fiction in Afghanistan

Dr. Nurbek Omuraliev: The Changing perception of identities and loyalties in post-Soviet Central Asia

Kit Collier, New Patterns of Opposition Politics in Southeast Asia

Peter Polomka, Creating 'Asia' in a globalising world

Gavan McCormack, Water & the Crisis of Sustainability in 21st Century Asia

10. Globalisation and Southeast Asia - 2

Ball, Rochelle and Piper, Nicola: "Globalisation of Asian migrant labour: Implications for citizenship and human rights"

Charney, Mike: "Surviving the global(izing) City: Burmese Transnational Migrants and Community Formation in Bangkok and Singapore"

Dr Zaniah Marshallsay, Gobalisation and intra-regional labour mobility in Southeast Asia: trends and issues in the new millennium

11. Globalisation and Southeast Asia - 3

Morrell, Elizabeth: Addressing the global in time of crisis: An Eastern Indonesian approach

Lesley Potter & Simon Badcock, Globalisation and decentralisation: constraint or opportunity in rural Riau?"

Margaret Kartomi, "The Effects of Globalisation on Music in Asia, with Reference to the Political/Economic Crisis"

12. Globalisation and Southeast Asia - 4

Michael Connors, Civic Education and the ends of Liberalism in Thailand

Kevin Hewison, Localism and globalism: the World Bank and Thailand

Ungapakorn, Ji Giles: "Assessing the rise of Left Nationalism and Community economics in Thailand"

13. Globalisation and Southeast Asia - 5

de Araujo,  Fernando: The Problem of Language and Cultural Insensitivity in an Era of Globalization

Weekley, Kathleen: Populism for a Global Age? Filipino political responses to the financial crisis

Pearson, Ross: Communal Irrigation in the Chiang Mai Valley, Northern Thailand; Responses to Globalisation and Agricultural Restructuring

14. Globalisation and Southeast Asia - 6

Gunter Heiduk and Nicol Pohl - The 21st Century as a Pacific Age. Phantom or realistic outcome ?

Mark Beeson, Taming the wild beasts: Globalisation and economic policy in Malaysia

Chalmers, Ian: Patrimonialism under Pressure: the Internationalisation of Indonesia’s Automotive Industry

15.Globalisation and Women Workers

Ruchira Ganguly-Scrase; Gender, Liberalisation and Empowerment: Responses of Lower-Middle Class Women in West Bengal, India

Ruth Barraclough, 'The Lost Workplace: Literature by Women Workers in South Korea'

Lata Rana, University of Melbourne: Globalisation and gender specific education in India - issues for the New Millennium

16. Globalisation and Change in South Asia: 1

Bob Pokrant  & Peter Reeves, The imperatives of globalisation: the development of export-oriented shrimp production in Southeast Bangladesh.

Marika Vicziany, Monash: GLOBALISATION, ECONOMIC LIBERALISATION AND EMPLOYMENT: THE PROSPECTS FOR SCHEDULED CASTES STUDENTS

Dr.A.Galla, Heritage, Indigenous Peoples and Globalisation Sacred Groves - An Indian Response

Tim Scrase Discourses of Global Efficiency and the Dynamics of New Workplace Culture in West Bengal

17. Globalisation and Change in South Asia: 2

Bill Damachis, Michael Gillan and John McGuire, Australia in India: A Case Study of the Commodification and Internationalisation of Higher Education

Jan Sinclair-Jones, The International Relocation of Work in the Global Knowledge Economy: Case studies of  Information Production in Southern India

Oliver Mendelsohn, From precolonial to postcolonial law in India

18. Political Change in Southeast Asia - 1

Peter Hansen, [relationship between the Catholic Church and the State in Vietnam]

DR Alfred L. Oehlers, From Father to Son: Political Succession in Singapore

Guillon, Patrick: Vietnam: Business and Culture in the New Millenium

19. Political Change in Southeast Asia - 2

Deborah Johnson, “The Quest for Intellectual Agency and Autonomy: Reflections on the Malaysian Experience”

Patricia A. Martinez, The 10th Malaysian general elections and its portend for the millennium? Untangling the new configurations of race and religion in Malaysia

In-Won Hwang, The UMNO Factional Conflicts and Political Liberalization in Malaysia

Tony Shome, Going forward, looking backwards: Globalizing leadership and the nostalgia of tradition

20. Political Change in Southeast Asia - 3

Angus McIntyre, Modern Fears, Ancient Traditions: President Sukarno in the Guided Democracy Years

Greg Barton, Assessing President Wahid

Dr Steven Drakeley, Presidential Succession in Indonesia: Parody and precedent in the construction of political culture

21. Business in Southeast Asia

Alisdair Bowie, Democratization and Government-Business Relations in Indonesia: the Case of the Small and Medium Scale Enterprises

Mudrajad Kuncoro, Distribution of manufacturing activities: The Trends in Indonesia’s Regional Manufacturing, 1976-1995

Sin Hui Ng, A Contingency Approach to the Study of Entry Order in Asian Emerging Markets

Hiroshi Shimizu, 'Japanese Firms in Singapore since the early 1970s: Tomy Co. Ltd and Minebea Co. Ltd'

22. Violence in Asia: The Wider Picture

Coppel, Charles, “Introduction to the Panel (and the Workshop)”

Kiernan, Ben (Yale University): "Genocide in Asia and Beyond: Armenia, Cambodia, the Holocaust, Rwanda and Timor"

Read, Peter (Australian National University): Violence Against Aboriginal Australians

Tan Kheng Boon, Eugene (National University of Singapore): "Violence in regulating ethnic conflict: Posturing, fear and threats"

23. Violence against Women in Asia

Kyungja Jung, University of New South Wales - The women's movement and the development of sexual assault centres in South Korea

Tan, Mely (Universitas Katolik Atmajaya, Jakarta): The Indonesian commission on violence against women

24. State-Sponsored Violence, Mass Killing and Torture in Indonesia

Coppel, Charles, The Indonesian Mass Killings, 1965-66: A Survey of the Literature”

Dick, Howard (University of Melbourne): "From van Heutsz to Soeharto: Repression and the Failure of Institutional Development"

Tanter, Richard (Kyoto Seika University) : The Indonesian Intelligence State

Purwadi, Budiawan (National University of Singapore): Tortured body, betrayed heart: State violence in the narratives of ex-“Communist” Indonesian political prisoners

25. Recent Violence in Java

Herriman, Nick (University of Sydney): Violence and ideology in the murder of sorcerers in east java’s malang regency: the people, the state and the press.

Tay, Elaine (Murdoch University): Violations on line; transnational activism on the internet and the Indonesia rape issue.

Purdey, Jemma (University of Melbourne): The Other May Riots: Anti-Chinese Violence in Solo, May 1998

Sai, Siew-Min (University of Michigan): "Interpreting the May 1998 'Riots': The role of NGOs".

26.Violence in West Kalimantan and Ambon

Chauvel, Richard (Victoria University): 'Violent Disintegration in Ambon: Ethnicity, Religion and Autonomy'
 

Peluso, Nancy Lee (University of California, Berkeley): Territorializing Ethnicity through Violence: The Case of West Kalimantan

Van Klinken, Gerry (Editor, Inside Indonesia) The Maluku wars of 1999 - bringing society back in

Young, Ken (with Anne Loveband) (Swinburne University of Technology): "Migration, Provocateurs and Communal Violence: The Cases of Ambon and West Kalimantan"

27. Violence in Aceh, East Timor and West Papua

Drexler, Beth (University of Washington): "Engineering violence-Authenticating Separatism:  Separating the Indonesian Armed Forces (TNI) from The Free Aceh Movement (GAM)"

Fox, James. Ceremonies of reconciliation as prelude to violence in Suai, East Timor

Siapno, Jacqueline (Australian National University and University Of Melbourne): Graffiti for a Truer Kind of Politics: Death, Revenge, and Building in East Timor

Sangkoyo, Hendro (RMIT University): Chance for a peaceful path to freedom; reading the use of violence in West Papua

28. Responses to and Resolution of Violence in Indonesia

Lindsey, Tim (University of Melbourne): "Violence, Human Rights and Law Reform in Indonesia"

Sue Downie - After the Violence: Lessons from Cambodia for East Timor

29.The State, Economic Crisis and the Renegotiation of Civil Society in Southeast Asia

Cooke, Fadzilah Majid & Lily Rahim: " Civil Society, The State and Economic Crisis: Some Theoretical Considerations "

Weiss, Meredith: "Civil society and political coalitions: A new era for Malaysian politics?"

Cooke, Fadzilah Majid: "What does Reformasi in the Peninsula have to do with Sarawak?"

30. Renegotiating Civil Society

Marshall Clark, 'Rama Tambak' and 'President Dosomuko': Foreshadowing the Fall of Suharto

Rahim, Lily: "Civil Society and the Recalcitrant Authoritarian State in Singapore"

31. Colonial Southeast Asia - 1

Ian Campbell, Het Indonesisch décor – a Critique of the poetry of the Dutch East Indies and Indonesia in the 20^th Century

Diana Carroll, The Changing Face of the Real Malay 1890-1930: -- evolution of racial stereotypes in British Malaya and their role as an adjunct to policy formation.

Roger Wiseman, Assimilation Out: Europeans, Indo-Europeans and Indonesians seen through Sugar from the 1880s to the 1950s

Panel Chair: Joost Cote`

32. Colonial Southeast Asia - 2

Joost Coté, “Whose city? Imagining the slum: sanitising the kampung.  Semarang, 1900-1925”

Andrew Goss, University of Michigan: A Gentleman’s Fair: Science, Colonialism and Exhibition in Batavia during the 1850s

Panel Chair: Hellwig

33. Colonial Southeast Asia - 3

Alyssa Phillips, Looking for Burma: A textual reading of the Journal of the Burma Research Society

Davisakti Puaksomn, “The death of King Anand”

Mark Rerceretnam, 'The renegotiation of gender under British colonialism: A case study of Indian Christian communities in colonial Malaya and Singapore, c. 1870s to c. 1950s

Panel Chair: Andrew Goss

34. Tourism in Southeast Asia

Dana Collins, Tourism, sexuality, and development: Gay sex tourism and the philippines in the new millennium

Fleur Fallon, University of New England: Globalisation, Diversity  and Tourism on Lombok: Indigenous Employment in the Hotel Sector

Sarah Tooth, Indonesian Discovery:  Travelling through the Field

35. Islam in Southeast Asia

Julie Howell, “Sufism and Indonesia’s Islamic Revival”

Mike Laffan, Australian National University : When did Agoes Salim change sides?:  notes on a Meccan conversion

Patricia A Martinez, Expedient for the nation, Subverting themselves: theorizing the strategy of women in modernising Islam

Syafii Anwar, Islam, State and Civil Society in Indonesia: History, Theory and Praxis

36.Education Reform in China

Andrew Kipnis, Implementing Suzhi Jiaoyu: Some Levers for Forcing Education Reform in Rural China and their Consequences

Louise Simon, The `Diploma Disease' as Viewed in Contemporary High Schools in Kunming

Dr C Montgomery (Monte) Broaded,  The Political Economy of Educational Opportunity in Urban China and Taiwan

37. The Politics of Education in East and Southeast Asia

Hiu-hong Lee (Michael) Globalization and Higher Education Reforms in Hong Kong and Singapore

Hung-ting Ku, "The Chinese education in the federation of Malaya, 1947-63"

Barbara Leigh, Visions for the Future - Competence to Creativity: Indonesians examine their system of education

38.Labour Relations in Southeast Asia

Dr Jan Elliot,  Building international and regional labour networks during the Cold War period: Indonesia and the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions.

Miyako Nakamura, Women and Industrialisation: the case of Singapore

Noorashikin Abdul Rahman, Impacts of social networks among Indonesian domestic workers in Singapore: implications on welfare and policy

Michele Ford, “Challenges to NGOs’ domination of the Indonesian labour movement during the Habibie interregnum”

39. International Relations in Southeast Asia

Tobias Nischalke, An Identity Perspective on ASEAN Security: The Role of Perceptions and Identity Categories

Nicholas Tarling, Friends, allies, kin: British policy on the West New Guinea/West Irian dispute, 1951-2

Dr Paul Jones, Diplomatic Fronts:  ‘Asian’ Legations in Australia, 1900 to 1940

Hwa-Seon Kwak, The Development of Bilateral Relations between Australia and South Korea in the Post-Cold War Era

41. Arts in Asia

Jennifer Dudley, documentary on the work of Indonesian surrealist painter, Lucia Hartini and discussion of themes

Yiyang Shao, Chinese art institutions and modernist art in the 1980s and 1990s.

Eiichi Tosaki, The Oriental Line: Piet Mondrian and The East

Pamela Zeplin, Recent Art Exchange between Australia and the Asia-Pacific: A Biopsy

42. Performing Arts in Asia

Hugh DeFerranti, Japanese Music" Can Be Popular

Jingrui, Guo, Peking Opera in the later Qing dynasty

43. Environment & Resources in Asia

Aileen Hoath, Keepers or Consumers of the Forest?  Buffer zone communities and Meru Betiri National Park, East Java

Richard Tanter, Death by sashimi - the survival of the southern bluefin tuna

Greg Bankoff,  “Asia’s Hazardous Future? Natural Disasters and Societies in the 21^st Century”

Soon-Yawl Park Conflicts around the Yongwol Dam Construction in Korea

44. English in Asia

Brian Ridge, “How to communicate in new Millennium - An analysis of English language policies in Singapore, Malaysia and Hong Kong in the light of globalisation”

David Williams, Lexical Changes in  the Indonesian Mainstream Print Media 1966-1996 - The Influence of  English

45.Security in Asia

Dr Mohammed Badrul Alam, India's Nuclear Policy: Past History and  Future Prospects

Andrew Martin, Chinese Military Strateg

Ulf Sundhaussen, “Howards’ War”

Colin Mackerras, Ethnonationalism in Xinjiang in the 1900s: Religious, ethnic, social or what?

46. The Mahabharata

Chair: Peter Friedlander

Greg Bailey, 'Contrasting Ideologies in the Mahabharata'

Adam Bowles, 'Dharmic Pragmatism in the Apaddharmaparvan of the Mahabharata'

Anita Ray, 'Lexicographical Analysis of Ideological terms in the Mahabharata.  Methodological Insights'

47. Contemporary Pakistan

Adeel Khan, University of Wollongong: Ethnic Conflict and the State in Pakistan

Samina Yasmeen, Pakistan's Nuclear Policy: Emerging Debates

Imran Ali, “Business and Power in Pakistan” and “Equity, Exclusion and Liberalisation: or Pakistan and the Threats to National Sustainability

48. Finance, Capitalism and Empire: India

John McGuire, Exchange Banks: India and the World Economy

Katherine Prior, Robin Haines & Lance Brennan - Charles Trevelyan and Indian Finance

Dr Lakshmi Subramanian, Arms and the Merchant : the Making of the bania raj in the eighteenth century

49. Colonial South Asia

Tim Allender, Raj Education and the Punjabi Missions 1860-77: A Reluctant Collaboration With Government

Kate Brittlebank, Monash: Death and Betrayal: The Final Years of Tipu Sultan of Mysore

Auriol Weigold,Cripp’s offer, ‘Quit India’ and British Propoganda in America in 1942

Deva Koumarane Villeroy (Chairman of Tamijakam-Amitie Franco -Pondicherienne (Association), PONDICHERRY: French Territory from 1673 to 1954 in India

50. Burma

Penny Edwards, Missionaries, Mothers and the making of Little Miss Mandalay

Yuri Takahashi, 'Theikpan Maung Wa' Sein Tin - A novelist in the Burmese Late colonial period

51. Cultural Wars in India: Contemporary Culture and Communication

Geoff Reeves, Hindutva: Struggle for Control of State Cultural Institutions

Scott Fitzgerald, Star TV and Zee Telefilms: Videshi and Swadeshi Media Empires?

Brian Shoesmith, Patrolling the Boundaries: Film, Satellite and the Distribution of Images

Michael Gillan, Bengal’s Past and Present: Hindu Nationalist Contestation of History and Identity in a Regional Context

Chair: Frank Conlon

52.The East Timor Crisis and the media

Alison Broinowski : THROUGH GREEN AND KHAKI FILTERS: INTERFET ON THE INTERNET

Denise Woods: "Good Guys, Bad Guys: Constructing the image of the Australian soldier in East Timor"

Di Martin - A journalist's perspective on reporting from East Timor.

53.A Dream Come True? Indonesia's "open" media

Dr Angela Romano, 'Democratisation and Journalism in Post-Soeharto Indonesia

Steve Sharp: The Politics of Reporting Distant Violence: the case of Maluku and succession in Indonesia

Wimar Witoelar – Discussant

Damian Kingsbury, The Media in Post Suharto Indonesia

54.Issues in the Thai Media

Patrick  Jory:  Thai Troops in East Timor: Reactions in the Thai Muslim Press

Chalinee  Hirano: 'Asian TV journalism: A comparative study of Thai and Japanese TV news programmes'

 Dr Mike Hayes, (Mahidol University, Bangkok): "Constructing public opinion: Thai media's opinion polls and the invention of political issues

Chair: Sue Downie

55.Television in China: commercialisation, nationalism and cultural flows.

Michael Keane (Griffith) Whose property? Whose rights? Television formats and global trade 

Wanning Sun, Why bashing Americans is good business: nationalism, Best-sellers and media war

56.Television regulation and civil society in Asia

David Birch, Civil Society and Media Regulation in Singapore

Glen Lewis, Civil Society, Corruption, and Television Regulation in Thailand

Michael Keane, Creative compliance, 'edge-ball' or regulatory capture? Television regulation and the myth of civil society in China

Philip Kitley (USQ) TV Rules Ok: a comparative analysis of recent approaches to regulating television in Indonesia and Malaysia

57.Asian diasporas and the mediation of cultural memory in Australia

John Sinclair & Stuart Cunningham: Go with the Flow: Diasporas and
the Media

Stephi Donald: 'Children and publicness in the media sphere'

Walter Burgess: The Media coverage of Cambodia between 1975 and 1991

58.Media citizenship, identity, and the state

David Birch: Civil Society and Cultural Identity in Singapore

Lisa Drummond: Nostalgia in Vietnamese television drama

59.Political development and the media in Cambodia

Sue Downie, Political development and the media in Cambodia

Judith Clarke: News and democracy: Foreign assistance to the news media in Cambodia

Sek Barisoth, Cambodian Media in the last 20 years: A young plant growing on eroded soil

60.Convergence (The  Digital Era)

Brian Shoesmith: Controlling Desire: the politics of communication in China

Terence Lee: Freedom to regulate: strategies of internet policy/ing in singapore

Kay Hearn: Convergence and the internet in China

Lizhong Zhang, Electronic Commerce in Asia Pacific: Trends and Policy Issues

Nisar Keshvani, The integrated newsroom - a digital snapshot of singapore's  communications and information  technology (cit) climate

61.Bali (and Java)

Mary Ida Bagus: "Between a birdhouse and a 'hot' place: interethnic relations in a Jembrana village"

Thomas Reuter: Great Expectations: Hindu Revival Movements in Java, Indonesia

MacRae, Graeme : Art and Peace in the safest place in the world: a century of apoliticism in Bali.

62.Literature, Sex and Politics in the New Indonesia: A Woman's Text ' Writes Back'

Barbara Hatley: Subverting violent, masculinist political models in Indonesia - some thoughts from "Saman"

Dr Pam Allen: 'Girl-power or she-devils?: Unravelling the potential for a feminised reform movement in Ayu Utami's "Saman"

Mr Marshall Clark: Indonesian Women Writers and the Wayang: Myths, Heroines and Femininities.

Ms Helen Curnow: 'Speech and silence: Secret languages of the oppressed'

63.Eastern Indonesia

Patrick Sullivan, “The KTNSians”

Yoshi Abe, The Shark Fin Industry in Aru Islands, Southeast Maluku, Indonesia

Manon Osseweijer, Harvests on request: conceptions of the marine environment in Aru (Indonesia)

65.The South Korean economy after the 1997 economic crisis: Restructuring or reshuffling?

Moon Joong Tcha, University of Western Australia - Recent Developments in the Korean Steel Market

Kim, Hyung-Min & Byung-Seong Min, Monash University - The development of knowledge-based economy: the cases between Korea and Australia

Seung-Ho Kwon & Dr Chung-Sok Suh:  Globalisation Strategies of Korean Large Corporations – recent changes and prospects

Jung-Soo Seo & Deok-Ki Kim: Foreign Direct Investment Inflow and Domestic Investment in Korea

66.Race and the predicament of Identity - 1

Sanjay Seth: The Birth of the “Backward Muslim”: Politics and Pedagogy in Colonial India

Frank Conlon: Understanding Indian Society in 19th Century Bombay: Colonial and Indigenous Interpretations of Caste and Community

Geoff Oddie: Imaging and Ordering: Popular Religion in the Making of "Hinduism" in the late C19th

V Nithi  Nithiyanandam: 'Ethnic Politics and Political Failure in Sri Lanka

67.Race and the predicament of Identity - 2

Katy Nebhan: Reconceptualising Identity: The role of ‘Asians’ in the construction of an Australian Muslim nationalism

Sekhar Bandyopadhyay: 'Mobilizing for a Hindu Homeland: Dalits, Adivasis and the Hindu Mahasabha in Bengal, 1924-47'

68.Bodies in question: questions in bodies

Peter Mayer: "Bodies in Question: The Political Economy of Violent Death in India".

Jim Masselos: “The life of dead bodies: coporality and presence in 19th century Bombay”

Jayant Bapat: A Vanished Identity -The case of the lost Kalamukhas of Karnataka?

Panel Chair: Reis flora

69.The Philippines: Identities, Development and Activism - 1

Greg Bankoff: Selective Memory and Collective Forgetting: Historiography and the Philippine Centennial of 1898'

Julius Bautista: On Magellan, His Cross and Lapulapu's Wrath: Remembering the Past in Cebu

Michael Pinches: Class and National Identity: the case of Filipino Migrant Workers

Robert Cramb: Community-based land resource management activities ('landcare') in the Philippine uplands, with particular reference to Mindanao

70.The Philippines: Identities, Development and Activism - 2

Ariel S. Betan: Philippine Information Technology Perspectives

Cheryl McCrea: Philippine NGOs: Past, Present and Future - an overview

Lorraine C. Salazar:  Market Roles, State Rules: Telecom Reforms in the Philippines and Malaysia

Dr Donovan Storey, Whatever Happened to the 'City of Man'? Poverty and Prosperity in Quezon('s) City

71.Language, Missionaries and Cross-cultural Translation in late Qing China

Kai-wing Chow: Chinese Language as an Obstacle to Christian Evangelicalism and the Introduction of Western Scientific Learning in the Nineteenth Century

Lauren Pfister: The mengzian matrix for accomodationist missionary apologetics: Identifying the Cross-Cultural Linkage in Evangelical Protestant Discourse within the Chinese Writings of James Legge (1815-1897), He Jinshan (1817-1871), and Ernst Faber (1839-1899)

Ian Welch: Chinese Christian Tracts in Australia

72.Constructing Modernities in China

Anne McLaren: Shanghai, Civil Society, and the Ethnographic Imagination

Ken Staples: Hong Kong Culture: hybrid, bicultural, multicultural or an expanded culture?

Clodagh Wylie: Women Entrepreneurs and the Print Media in China

Peter Pugsley: Neither here nor there: Chinese Modernity and a Cultural Vacuum.

73.Chinese Film

Kam Louie: Internationalising Bruce Lee and Jackie Chan

Louisa Wei: Chinese Film of the New Century

74.Traditional Chinese Culture

Lijun Bi: Doctrine of Filial Piety and the Traditional Chinese Society: An Analysis from the Case of Concealing the Misconduct of the Father

Xiaoqing Ye, Cultural policies of the qing court in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries

75.Rural China

Elizabeth Billard: Female illiteracy in rural China

Him Chung: China's rural market development in the post-reform era: Has the traditional market system been revived?

Fei Guo: Rural migrants in Chinese Cities: Integration or Alienation?

Dr Pak Kuen Lee: The Role of the State in China's Rural Industrialization: A Developmental or Predatory State?

Charles C L Kwong: Emerging Issues of China's Rural Industrialisation at the Turn of the Century

77.Chinese Democracy

Edmund Fung: Chinese Conceptions of Democracy in the Republican Period: A Non-Marxist Perspective

Staburova, Yelena - Democratic challenge: politics in China during the first years of the Republic (1911-1913)

Dr Rozanna Lilley:  'The Hong Kong Handover'

Dr Nick Thomas: Hong Kong's New Elections: Whither Democracy?

78.Taiwan

Jou-jou Chu,The Rise of a New Working Class in Taiwan at the beginning of a New Millennium The Rise of a New ng n aiwan at the beginning of a New Millennium

Mark Harrison: Treasure Island: Contesting ideas of Taiwan in the decade after Retrocession

79.Diasporic Identities

Jia Gao: Identity formation among Chinese students in Australia in 1989 and 1990

Morris Low: Chinese Science, Technology and Medicine: View from the Diaspora

Peta Stephenson: Two Wongs don't make a white": Changing Notions of Race and Ethnicity in Australian Nationalism

Thi Dieu Ahn Vu: Job satisfaction levels of western and Asian expatriate managers in businesses in Vietnam: concerns and issues

80.Letters, telegrams and the constitution of public and private order in the Chinese-speaking world

Lewis Mayo: Birds, Letters and Spatial Power in post-imperial Dunhuang

Miriam Lang: San Mao, readers, agony columns and the illusion of intimacy

Robyn Hamilton: The power of technology: The telegram as Chinese official correspondence in the criminal cases of Xu Xilin and Qiu Jin, 1907

81.Cross Cultural Issues & Education - 1

Dr Deborah Henderson: 'The Rudd Report and the pursuit of Asia literacy'

Mike Poole, 'Living Blissfully Apart: Asia and the Paradox of Australian Imaginings'

Dr Thai Duy Bao:  Special cross-cultural issues of Speech etiquette and language education: A case study on English vs.Vietnamese Speech Etiquettes

82.Cross Cultural Issues & Education - 2

Alison Carroll: Asia and Cultural life in Australia – will the twain ever meet?

Susan King: Intellectual space or the market place ? Some thoughts on re-constructing the university in Cambodia

Bernd Rohrmann: Risk perception in China and Australia: An exploratory  cross-cultural study

Kayoko Hashimoto: Australia's Multiculturism and Japan's Internationalisation: Contradictions and Problems in the Surroundings of Japanese Native Teachers in Victoria

84.Are Conservatives 'conservative'?: language, history and culture in early twentieth-century China

Peter Zarrow: The 1911 Revolution and the origins of Chinese conservatism: “National Essence”, Kang, Youwei and the Confucian Society

Axel Schneider: The Disintegration of meaning?: Conservative Reflections on Language

Brian Moloughney: Writing cultural history: Liu Yizheng (1880-1956) and the question of narrative coherence

Panel Chair: John Fitzgerald

85.Contested Values 1: National Belonging, and Identity

Wendy Mee: Some Reflections on Information Technologies and Gendered Representations of the Nation in Malaysia

Lucy Healey: 'Gender, Aliens and the National Imaginary in Contemporary Malaysia

Nicki Tarulevicz: Behaving Like the Good Singapore Citizen

Sallie Yea: Defending the National Interest? Filipina Entertainers in Korean Military Camptowns: community, identity and (national) belonging

86.Contested Values 2: Mothers, Families and the Nation

Pauline Keating: Mothers of the nation?  Rural reconstruction and the 'modernising' of rural women in republican China

Lenore Lyons: 'Women as Mothers: Gender and the State in Singapore

Than Than Nwe: Gendered Spaces: Women in Burmese Society

Phi Phuong Tran: Economic Transition and  Female Intellectuals in Ho Chi Minh city

89.Gender, Health and Sexuality in Asia

Linda Bennett: Women’s health and virgin identities: providing reproductive health care for unmarried women in Eastern Indonesia

Chris Lyttleton & Paul Cohen, Macquarie University - Opium reduction programs and gender in northern Laos

Pranee Liamputtong Rice: Women as mothers into the Millennium:The case of Thai women from Northern Thailand

Andrea Whittaker: Situational ethics surrounding decisions to abort in rural Thailand

90.Transnational Feminisms and Women's Activism

Panel Chair: Ruchira Ganguly-Scrase

Vera Mackie: Japan, Southeast Asia and the Possibilities of a Transnational Feminism

Hideko Nakamura: Feminist Peace Activism

A.K.Ramakrishnan:  Feminism, Nation-State and New Social Movements: Reflections from India

91.Contemporary Feminisms in Indonesisa and Malaysia

Panel Chair: Sue Blackburn

Kathryn Robinson: Women and Islam: Politics in Indonesia’

Norma Sullivan: Is this a new deal for Indonesian women?

Rebecca Foley: Islamic Feminism in Malaysia: A Global Perspective

92.Women’s Activism in the Early Twentieth Century

Panel Chair: Jan Elliot

Sue Blackburn: The Polygamy Debate in Indonesia

Mina Roces: Negotiating Space in the Public Sphere:  Filipino Women in the American Colonial Period:  1902-1946

Louise Edwards: Narratives of race and nation: Women’s suffrage in early twentieth century China

93.      Gender and Work in Globalising Economies

Kaye Broadbent, Griffith University - Short-changed? Part-time workers iKaye Broadbent, Griffith University - Short-changed? Part-time workers in Japan

Vicki Crinis: 'Women Workers in Malaysia: Globalisation and Identity'

Binh Ngo Thi Ngan: "Women's education in the Context of changing Gender Structure in Vietnam - 1960s & 1990s"

Chieko Klerkx, Gender Discrimination At Workplace In Japan

Panel Chair: Ludmilla Kwitko

94.      Gender and Labour Migration in Globalising Economies

Hew Cheng Sim: Wage work and rural-urban migration:  the experiences of single women migrants in Kuching.

Margaret Florey & Chris Healey: Work well and guard your honour?: exploring temporary labour migration and the Role of adolescent women in eastern Indonesia

Panel Chair: Louise Edwards

95.      Gender, and Textual Constructions of the Nation: Memory and Legends

Antonia Finnane: Can we speak of fashion in early nineteenth-century China? Reflections on dress and modernity

Jon Kowallis: Prostitute, Procuress or Protectress of the Nation: Fan Zengxiong’s “Caiyun qu” and the Poplar legend of Sai Jinhua: Cross Cultural Courtesan of the late-Qing

Cuncun Wu - Homosexuality and the Rise of Beijing Opera

Panel Chair: Kam Louie

96.      Creating Women, Gender, and Textual Constructions of the Nation

Dr Pam Allen: From Virgin to Whore: The Development of the Nation in Mangunwijaya’s “Durga Umayi”

Nerida Cook: Gender or Sexuality: Alternative Sources of Identity among Bangkok Lesbians

98.      Nationalism in Japan

Ryoko Otomo: What’s wrong with nationalism?’ ­ the 1960' Japan

Peter Kelman: Relocating Nation in 1960s Japan: The University Struggles

Miyume Tanji: Anti-Base Collective Action in Okinawa in the 1960s

99.      Local Governance in Japan

Masashi Kasuga: Japan  The Change of Local Councillors' Support System in 90s' Japan

Hideko Takeyasu: Changing situation of women participation in the local politics

Purnendra Jain: The People Have Spoken!  Jumin Tohyo and the Tokushima Anti-Dam Movement in Japan

100.       Japan's Foreign Relations

Ben Tipton, Sydney University - Whose Millennium? The Role of Japanese Investment in China

David Walton: Indonesia on the mind: Konfrontasi and regional dialogue between Australia and Japan, 1963-1966

Purnendra Jain: Beyond the Nation-State: Emerging Actors in Japan's Foreign Affairs

Bill Coaldrake, University of Melbourne - The Sounds of Silence: Japan as presented in ABC Television News and the 7.30

101.   Inside and Outside: Working Women in Japan

Janet Hunter: Women and Wages: the Institutions of Wage Payment in the Japanese Textile Industries in the Early Twentieth Century

Elise Tipton: Pink Collar Work: From the Café Waitress to the Bar Hostess

Kazumi Ishii and Nerida Jarkey: Re-inventing the ‘Professional Housewife

Panel Chair: Nannette Gottlieb

102.   Australia & Japan

Chris Coney: Hal Porter in Occupied Japan

Chris Coney: The potential for philosophical hermeneutics to clarify problems in Australian perceptions of Asia: the case of Japan

Iwane  Shibuya: Gen: A Journal of the Australian British Commonwealth Occupation Force

103.  Japanese Food

Michelle Hall: The evolution of the Japanese diet over the 20^th Century and prospects for the new millennium

Michelle Hall: The gurume (gourmet) boom of the late 80s - early 90s in Japan as seen through television media

David Kelly: Nutritional nihonjinron - propounding a Japan-style diet through the 1970s and 1980s

Chair: Michelle Hall

104. Problems of Identity in Japan

David Chapman: Intellectuals, Identities and the Japan of the New Millenium

Chris King: For love or money: inheritance patterns and the changing Japanese lifecourse

105.  Japanese Education

Chun-Fen Shao: Adaptation models--in the case of overseas Chinese students in Japan

Hiroko Hashimoto: Policies towards international students: A comparative study of Japanese and Australian universities

Toshio Ikeda: Insights into Education in Japan: Towards the New Millenium

107.   Japanese Literature and Legends

Barbara Hartley: Nomad identities and the writings of Ariyoshi Sawako

Todd Squires: Folklore, Nationalism and the Yuriwaka Legend in Sixteenth Century Japan

Noriko Matsunaga-Watson: Bestsellers – A window into the nature of high-profile translations in postwar Japan

108.     Anime, Aesthetics and Economics

Raj Pandey: Reinscribing the medieval into contemporary Japanese manga and animation

Freda Freiberg: The internationalisation of Japanese culture? – the case of anime.

Romit Dasgupta, Salaryman Kintaro" as the Perfect Male? The 'Manga' Guide to Performing Masculinity in Japan'

109. Social Issues in Japan

Atsuko Naono: The Interaction Between the Japanese 'Traditional' View of the Body and German Medical Science: Issues of Penetration in the Development of Dissection Studies in Meiji Japan

Ikuo Kawakami: Global Network and Diasporic Life of Vietnamese living in Japan

Noriko Dethlefs: Options for Aged Care in Japan

Masako Gavin: Shiga shigetaka's nan'yô jiji (current affairs in the south seas)

111.   Japanese Linguistics and Sociolinguistics

Nanette Gotlieb: Linguistic stereotyping and the disabled in Japan

Kiyoharu Ono: Polysemy of the Auxiliary Verb rare in Japanese

Sayuki Machida: Reading comprehnsion of Japanese text by the learners

112.    Business in the Asia- Pacific 

Suchin Virabhak: "The Impact of Regionalism in Developing Countries: The Case of AFTA"

Russel Smyth and Ergun Dogan: Board compensation, performance, and corporate governance in publicly-listed Malaysian companies

Vicki Thein, Negotiating international trade in a 'pariah' state: importation of consumer goods in Myanmar

Panel Chair: Anita Dooraisami

113.  Government of Life

Michael Dutton

Michael Schoenhals - Worker's Persoanl Files from Mao's China

Borge Bakken - Strategies and simulation. The fading of exemplary Society

116.     Educating teachers about Asia

Professor Colin Brown, Asian Studies, Flinders University, Dr Mary Fearnley-Sander, Education, University of Tasmania, Ms Kathe Kirby, Manager, Asia Education Foundation - The Asia Education Foundation has worked with 16 universities, professional associations and education jurisdictions across Australia to develop and trial the National Asian Languages and Studies in Australian Schools (NALSAS) Studies of Asia Professional Development Modules. These Modules are designed to improve teachers' knowledge and understanding of Asia and their ability to develop related curriculum for Australian primary and secondary students. Six universities trialed the post-graduate course during 1999 involving 190 teachers. This panel will explore some of the challenges faced by the organisations in developing and delivering a course involving staff from Asian Studies and Education disciplines and examine some of the outcomes of the trials

117. Access Asia Resources

Pam Macklin, Curriculum Corporation, Jill Wilson, AEF, Greg Harper, Hamilton Senior High School, Dr Jane Orton, University or Melbourne - This panel will present a range of materials from the Asia Education Foundation's Access Asia Series, published by Curriculum Corporation. 39 titles have been published for primary and secondary teachers together with 10 integrated web sites. These texts and web resources encompass countries such as India, Vietnam, Thailand, China, Indonesia and Korea. Participants will gain insights on how the studies of Asia is being approached in Australian primary and secondary schools, particularly through the use of texts. In addition, this panel will examine one of the programs developed by the The University of Melbourne for the NALSAS Taskforce to train teachers in Mandarin, Bridges to China.

118.      Defining Asia:  Addressing the Inadequacies in Defining and Conceptualising Asia and the Implications for Curriculum Design.

Margaret White: The Agenda of the Researcher Who Formulates Knowledge about Asia and particularly China, is a Critical Factor in Research.

Discussion with participation from the Asia Teachers Association (AETA) and possible participation of Shahram Arkbarzadeh - ASAA regional Councillor, David Christian - President of ASIAS.

141. Book Presentation

Sally Warhaft - Survival in the City: The Kolis in Mumbai

Assa Doron - Cleaning Mother Ganga: A Case Study of Varnasi

Sue Chaplin - Segmented Cities: How the Poor are Excluded from Urban Services in India

Esta Ungar: Sex and marriage in Vietnam before and after Confucianisation Ingrid Schraner: Paper title to be advised.

This panel will be followed by a less formal round where all present introduce their current research, followed by an exchange on how we could support each other, and in particular the postgraduate students. - And then, may be, on to the priorities for the VSAA.

Dr Supachai Panitchpakdi, Deputy PM of Thailand and Director Designate of the WTO will speak on "Global Trade Liberalisation: Coordination and Coherence."This is a presentation organized by the Faculty of Economics and Commerce, University of Melbourne