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CONFIRMED SESSIONS AND PAPERS As announced, the Academic Committee has assembled all individual papers into sessions. Complete sessions remain as they were proposed. Those sessions containing more than 4 papers will be reexamined at a further notice to take into account absentee presenters. We will publish the time slots assigned to sessions very soon. Please note that they will be held exclusively from Tuesday Afternoon (the first series of sessions starting at 2:30 pm) to Friday Morning (the last series ending at 1 pm). Please remember that presentations will be held in English. Also, all presentations are scheduled in 90-minute sessions. To facilitate discussion during the sessions, organizers may wish to encourage the exchange of papers among participants before the conference. The Organizing Committee will connect the individual participants that have been regrouped so they can organize their session very soon. We will do so by sending the information individually: your Email address will not be published on our website. Contact: [email protected] Organizer(s): Ian Gordon, National University Of Singapore The Transmedia Game: Authorship, Play, and Knowledge Ian Gordon, National University of Singapore Comics, Creators, and Copyright: Authorship and Serial Narratives Angela Ndalianis, University of Melbourne Playing with the Batman… And his Friends: Viral Marketing and Transmedia Storytelling Jim Collins, University of Notre Dame Who Gets to Play? From Cinephilia to Transmediaphilia Jean-Paul Gabilliet, Department of English, Université Michel de Montaigne Bordeaux 3 Organizer(s): Teresita (Tere) Garza, St. Edward's University Style Matters: Rhetoric, Cultural Studies, and Politics Barry Brummett, The University of Texas at Austin Rhetorical Style as a Site of Political Struggle in Culture Bradford Vivian, Syracuse University The Style of Political Futures: Rhetoric, Time, and Revolution Teresita (Tere) Garza, St. Edward's University Hair, Style and Cultural Politics Organizer(s): Marcela Alejandra País Andrade, Uba-Conicet Cultural Studies and Development: the Reconstruction of the Stress-Negotiations between Culture and Development in Latin America Ahtziri Molina Roldán, Programa de Investigación en Artes Universidad Veracruzana Models of Cultural Management in Veracruz: Origins, Practices and Goals. Rodrigo Araya, Escuela de Periodismo, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso Cultural Centers: Spaces of Democratization of Recognition for a Local Development Quiña Guillermo Martín , Gino Germani Research Institute Universidad de Buenos Aires Artistic Freedom, Market and Local Development. The Emergence of Independent Music in Buenos Aires City and the Advance of the s Marcela A. País Andrade, Universidad de Buenos Aires/ Investigadora de CONICET/Coordinadora del Área de Investigación UADER- Concordia Candombe. Integration and Resistance Between Argentina and Uruguay Yolanda Pineda, Universidad Autónoma de la Ciudad de México 2 Organizer(s): Sally R Munt, Sussex Centre For Cultural Studies The Residuum Sue Currell, School of English/Sussex Centre for Cultural Studies Removal of the White Trash: Housing Policy as Eugenic National Housekeeping Ben Highmore, Sussex Centre for Cultural Studies Playing in the Wasteland: On Picturing Children in the Ruined City Ben Litherland, SCCS A Load of Old Rubbish: Litter, Advertising and Public Bins in London, 1880 – 1930 Sally R Munt, Sussex Centre for Cultural Studies Organizer(s): Kate O'Riordan , University Of Sussex Digital Cultures, Networked Identities and Political Fields Pollyanna Ruiz, LSE Activist Identities: Mapping, Surveillance and Mobilization Aristea Fotopoulou, University of Sussex Feminist Identities and Network Narratives Caroline Basset , University of Sussex A Most Political Performance: Treachery, the Archive and the Database Kate O'Riordan, University of Sussex Network Cultures and the Biodigital Life of Politics Organizer(s): Phil Benson, Hong Kong Institute Of Education Moving beyond the Local: Langage, Identity, ans Hong-Kong Popular Music Alice Chik, City University of Hong Kong Dimensions of Identity in Fans’ Comments on Multilingual Versions of Jacky Cheung’s Wen Bie Antony Fung, Chinese University of Hong Kong Chinese Identities and Cultural Hero: A Study of Fandom of Andy Lau in China Angel Lin, The University of Hong Kong “Do you Know Me” (Diu Neih Louh-Mei): Entanglement of English and Cantonese Identities in a Hip Hop Group in Hong Kong—24 Herbs 3 Organizer(s): Stephen Muecke, University Of Nsw Writing the Politics of Multiple Realities Ghassan Hage, University of Melbourne The Politics of Multiple Realities Stephen Muecke, University of NSW Writing Different Modes of Existence Meaghan Morris, Univesity of Sydney; Lingnan, HK Organizer(s): Ben Pitcher, University Of Westminster, London, Uk Ties that Blind Sarah Baker, Middlesex University, London, UK The Housewife, the Feminist and the Tea Trolley Ben Pitcher, University of Westminster, London, UK Race Theory and the Politics of Betrayal Rebecca Bramall, University of Brighton, UK Figurations of the Postwar Settlement: Re-imagining the Welfare State in the New Age of Austerity Karen Cross, University of Roehampton, London, UK Visual Culture: Objects and Others Organizer(s): Anjali Vats, University Of Washington, Department Of Communication Exoticism in Fashion: Colonialism and Race in Contemporary Fashion Design Leilani Nishime, University of Washington, Department of Communication Anjali Vats, University of Washington, Department of Communication Containment as Neocolonial Visual Rhetoric: Fashion, Yellowface, and Karl Lagerfeld’s “Idea of China” Sarah Guthu, University of Washington, School of Drama Performing Ideology: The Image of Empire in Alexander McQueen’s Highland Rape and The Girl Who Lived in a Tree Tabitha Bronsema, University of Washington, Department of Communication “Beautiful in Her African Way”: Alek Wek and Online Discourses of Race and Beauty Dorinne Kondo, University of Southern California, Department of Anthropology 4 Organizer(s): Gay Hawkins , University Of Queensland The Biopolitics of Bottled Water: Organising New Drinking Practices Gay Hawkins, Centre for Critical and Cultural Studies, University of Queensland Assembling a Branded Water Market: the Case of Evian Kane Race , Gender and Cultural Studies, University of Sydney Frequent Sipping: Assembling the Subject of Hydration Emily Potter , School of Communication and Creative Arts, Deakin University Bottled Water as an Emergency Technology: Governing Remote Indigenous Communities in Australia Organizer(s): Laurie Ouellette, University Of Minnesota Affective Economies of Mediated Citizenship Laurie Ouellette, University of Minnesota Citizen Palin: Affective Economics and Political Celebrity Victoria E Johnson, University of California, Irvine “The Decision”: Sport, Affective Economy and Civic Identity Diane Negra, University College Dublin Narratives of Female Entrepreneurialism in Recessionary Popular Culture Organizer(s): Alexandra Sauvage, Autonomous University Of Baja California Sur, Research Centre On Regional Studies And The Pacific Shifting Boundaries: Globalization and the Readjusting of Minority and Regional Rdentities in the Californian Peninsula Alba Gamez Vazquez, [email protected] Frederick Conway, San Diego State University Identities under Challenge: Effects of U.S. Migration in the Baja California Peninsula Alexandra Sauvage, Autonomous University of Baja California Sur Alejandra Navarro Smith, Autonomous UNiversity of Baja California, CIC Museo The Racial Boundaries of Baja Californian and Mexican Cultural Identities Rosa Elba Rodriguez Tomp, Autonomous University of Baja California Sur Origins of the Cultural Identities of the Baja Peninsula 5 Organizer(s): Nicki Hitchcott, University Of Nottingham Dominic Thomas, UCLA Afropeanism Dominic Thomas, UCLA Afropeans and/in the New Europe Nicki Hitchcott, University of Nottingham Sex and the Afropean City: Leonora Miano’s Blues pour Elise Alessandra Di Maio, University of Palermo Burning the Borders: Libya, Italy and the Politics of Mediterranean Migration Organizer(s): Priscilla Walton, Carleton University Sartorial Signification and Cable Television Priscilla Walton, Carleton University A Tale of Two Countries: Sartorial Rules and National Displays Chris Vanderwees, Carleton University Clothes Make the Man: Blue Collar Fantasy in HBO's Hung Robert Mousseau, Carleton University Subliminal Desire: Revised Tactics of Product Placement in AMC’s Mad Men Organizer(s): David Palumbo-Liu, Stanford University Multicultralism and Its Failures Fatima El-Tayeb, University of California, San Diego Liberal multiculturalism, Postsecularity, and the Racing of Religion Etienne Balibar, Univ Paris X, Nanterre, Columbia University Cosmopolitanism and Secularism David Palumbo-Liu, Stanford Multiculturlaism Fails: As Always Paul Gilroy, London School of Economics 6 Organizer(s): Gary Holcomb, Ohio University Black Cosmopolitanism and Cultural Studies: Transnational Intersections Michael Gillespie, School of Interdisciplinary Arts, School of Film, Department of African American Studies MoAD, Mama. Not MoMA: Film, Melancholy, and Black San Francisco Ayesha Hardison, Ohio University From Native Daughter to International Ebony: The Life and Times of Era Bell Thompson Gary Holcomb, Ohio Universtiy From Bad Nationalist to Bad Subject: Claude McKay and Cultural Studies Amritjit Singh, Ohio University Organizer(s): Talmadge Wright, Loyola University Chicago Producing the Political/Social in Digital Play: Pleasure, Play and Electronic Fantasies Talmadge Wright, Loyola University Chicago David Embrick, Loyola University Chicago Intersections of Sociology and Cultural Studies Games Research: Negotiating Virtual Conflict, Cooperation and Social Identity Vincent Berry, University of Paris North Manuel Boutet, Styles and Careers in World of Warcraft: Outline of a Theory of Video Game Practice Jordi Sanchez-Navarro, Open University of Catalonia Tools for Knowledge and Guilty Pleasures: Cultural Consumption and Social Use of Digital Games David L. J. Gerber, Dpartement de Sociologie, Université de Genève Explaining gaming – Players’ Perceptions and Discourses on the Meaning and Implications of Digital Games Organizer(s): Paul Bowman, Cardiff University Translating: Jacques Rancière - Cultural Studies Paul Bowman, Cardiff University Rancière and the Disciplines Samuel Chambers, Johns Hopkins University Critical Theory without Stultification: Towards a Rancièrean Cultural Studies Richard Stamp, Bath Spa University College La Volonté de Deviner: or, what Might the Ignorant Schoolmaster Teach Cultural Studies about Teaching? Michael O'Rourke , Independent Colleges Dublin 7 Organizer(s): Kirsten Mcallister, Simon Fraser University Global Geographies: Displacement, Dehumanization and Humanitarian Narratives Smaro Kamboureli, University of Guelph Narrating Humanitarianism: Its Tropes, Affective Instrumentality, and Politics Jenny Burman, McGill University Meat, Oil and Refugee Labour Kirsten Mcallister, Simon Fraser University Visualizing Spaces of Exclusion: from the Dead Spaces of Modernity to the Degenerate Spaces of Transnationalism Yasmin Jiwani, Department of Communication Studies, Concordia University Organizer(s): Younghan Cho, Hankuk University Of Foreign Studies, Graduate School Of International And Area Studies Tsung-Yi Michelle Huang, National Taiwan University, Department of Geography East Asia Revisited: Conceptualizing a Region for Our Time Shinji Oyama, Birkbeck College-University of London, Department of Media and Cultural Studies, New topology of East Asian Brandscape Chih-Ming Wang, Academia Sinica, Institute of European and American Studies Feeling Asia Cho Younghan, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, Graduate School of International and Area Studies Articulating Cultural Geography of East Asia Koichi Iwabuchi, Waseda University, School of International Liberal Studies Organizer(s): James Daniel Elam, Northwestern University, Program In Rhetoric And Public Cuture Dilip Gaonkar, Northwestern University, Program in Rhetoric and Public Culture Rethinking South Asian Transnationalisms James Daniel Elam, Northwestern University, Program in Rhetoric and Public Culture Representation Hesitant: Dhan Gopal Mukerji, W.E.B. DuBois, and the Politics of Aesthetics Barton Scott, Montana State University, Department of History, Philosophy, and Religious Studies L.A., City of Gurus: Isherwood and Adorno on Religious Obedience Outar Lisa, St. John's University, English Department Crossing Genres: Chutney Soca on the Move Dilip Gaonkar, Northwestern University, Program in Rhetoric and Public Culture 8 Organizer(s): Kerry Moore, Cardiff University School Of Journalism, Media And Cultural Studies The Postcolonial versus the Multicultural Kerry Moore, Cardiff University School of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies Deconstructing Racialised Crises Bernhard Gross, University of the West of England, Department of Screen, Media and Journalism Controlled Conditions - The Positioning of Migration during the Prime Ministerial Debates for the 2010 UK General Election Nasheli Jiménez Del Val, Instituto de Investigaciones Estéticas, UNAM; Programa de Becas Posdoctorales en la UNAM. Aesthetics, Multiculturalism and Decoloniality Paul Bowman, Cardiff School of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies Organizer(s): Susan Pell, Department Of Sociology, Goldsmiths College, University Of London Public Crises, Future Publics Nick Mahony, Centre for Citizenship, Identities and Governance, Open University Creating Publics Janet Newman, Centre for Citizenship, Identities and Governance, Open University Lost for Words? Public Solidarities and ‘Post Identity’ Politics Susan Pell, Department of Sociology, Goldsmiths College, University of London In-citing Publics: Exploring a Conceptual Crisis in the Analysis of Collective Action John Clark, Centre for Citizenship, Identities and Governance, The Open University Organizer(s): Kenneth Saltman, Depaul University Knowledge and Economy Alex Means, University of Toronto Creativity and the Immaterial Commons within Secondary and Higher Education Robin Goodman, Florida State University Gender, Knowledge, and Economy: Greg Mortenson, Turning Schools Into Stones Pepi Leistyna, UMass-Boston Reality TV’s Spin on Class Consciousness: Let the Games Begin Kenneth Saltman, DePaul University Smart Drugs, Smart Toys: Public and Anti-Public Pedagogies of Intelligence 9 Organizer(s): Tony Bennett, Institute For Culture And Society, University Of Wesern Sydney Museum, Field, Colony, Metropolis 1: Ethnography, Surrealism, Governance, Population Rodney Harrison, The Open University An ‘Anthropology of Ourselves’: Ethnographic Surrealism, Social Class and Governmental Rationalities in Mass Observation Nelia Dias, ISCTE/IUL, Departamento de Antropologia,Avenida das Forcas Armadas, 1649-026 Lisboa Fieldwork, Collecting, Colonialisms: Epistemic Procedures of French Ethnological Expeditions Tony Bennett, Institute for Culture and Society, University of Western Sydney Contest of the Faculties: Relations of Knowledge and Governance at the Musée de l’Homme Benoît De L' Estoile, CNRS, IRIS (Institut de recherche interdisciplinaire sur les enjeux sociaux), UMR 8156 Organizer(s): Conal Mccarthy, Museum & Heritage Studies, Victoria University Of Wellington Museum, Field, Colony, Metropolis 2: Assembling Cultures, Governing Others Ben Dibley, Centre for Cultural Research, University of Western Sydney Assembling an Anthropological Actor: Fieldwork Agencement and Colonial Government Fiona Cameron, Institute for Culture and Society, University of Western Sydney Assembling an Anthropological Actor: Fieldwork Agencement and Colonial Government Conal Mccarthy, Museum & heritage studies, Victoria University of Wellington Scholars and Savages? The Dominion Museum Ethnographic Expeditions Benoît De L' Estoile, ( UNIVERSITY & LABORATORY) CNRS, IRIS (Institut de recherche interdisciplinaire Organizer(s): Hyunjung Lee, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore “Modern Theatre” in East Asia: The Question of Translation and Adaptation in the Context of Globalization Hyunjung Lee, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Conceptualizing Korean Shakespeare in the Era of Globalization: Lee Yun-taek’s Hamlet Ken Takiguchi, National University of Singapore ‘Anti-Shingeki’ Theatre as a Project of ‘Overcoming Modernity’ Iris Hsin-chun Tuan, National Chiao Tung University Intercultural Theatre in Taiwan: Measure for Measure and 108 Heroes Leo Ching, Duke University 10 Organizer(s): Fiona Handyside, University Of Exeter Food, Women and Song: Oral Potential in Representations of Cross-Cultural Challenge Ruth Cruickshank, Royal Holloway, University of London Cross-cultural Challenge: Eating and Re-thinking in Post-War French Women’s Narrative Helen Vassallo, University of Exeter Singing for Survival: Cultural Crossings in Darina Al-Joundi’s - The Day Nina Simone Stopped Singing Fiona Handyside, University of Exeter The Kitchen as Crossroads: Reading, Writing and Eating in the Julie and Julia Texts Organizer(s): Anne Heith, Department Of Culture And Media Studies, Umeå University Nordic Critical Race and Whiteness Studies: Norcraws Rikke Andreassen, Communication Studies, Roskilde University The White in the Nordic and the Nordic in the White Kristín Loftsdóttir, University of Iceland Women who Needs to Be Rescued: Whiteness, Global Discourses and Mobility in Iceland Olli Löytty, School of History, Culture and Art, University of Turku Setting the Limits of the Familiar: Immigrant Characters in Contemporary Finnish Fiction Organizer(s): Claire Maree, University Of Melbourne Returning to Queer Readings of Japan Akiko Shimizu, University of Tokyo “Queer as Critique” in post 3.11 Japan Yuka Kanno, University of Kyoto Hermeneutic Field: Queer Intimacy in Sound of the Mountain (1954) Makiko Iseri, University of Tokyo The Rethinking of Flexible Femininities: Japanese “Gyaru” Culture and Neoliberalism/Neonationalism Claire Maree, University of Melbourne 11 Organizer(s): Meaghan Morris, University Of Sydney Games People Play: Gender, Style and Temporality in the Zynga Community-Building Elaine Lally, University of Technology, Sydney (UTS) Stitching Pixels: Cityville, Craft and Collaboration Catherine Driscoll, University of Sydney The Style of Play: Economy, Community, and Social Gaming Meaghan Morris, University of Sydney ‘Get a life!’: Social Gaming and the Proper Uses of Time Organizer(s): Laura Norén, New York University, Department Of Sociology Authoring Food: Blogs and the Gendering of Global Culinary Communities Laura Norén, New York University, Department of Sociology Professionalizing Leisure: Gender, Class, and Commercialization on Food Blogs Radha Hegde, New York University, Department of Media, Culture and Communication Food blogs and the Gendered Configurations of South Asian Culinary Publics Klara Seddon, Institute of Cultural Research, NY The Well Traveled Lunchbox: Women’s Bento Blogs in the United States, France and Indonesia Organizer(s): Sandra Ponzanesi, Utrecht University, The Netherlands Marguerite Waller, University of California, Riverside Postcolonial Cinema(s): Crossroads, Contaminations, Relations Sandra Ponzanesi, Utrecht University, the Netherlands Literature and Cinema: Postcolonial Adaptations Marguerite Waller, University of California, Riverside, USA Postcolonial Political Cinema Mariam Beevi Lam, University of California, Riverside, USA Asian Regionalism, Southeast Asian Cinema and l’Annamité Katarzyna Marciniak, Ohio University, USA 12 Organizer(s): Alison Harvey, Joint Graduate Programme In Communication And Culture At York And Ryerson Universities Discipline and Discourse: (Re)Producing Gender in Gaming Culture Jaigris Hodson, Joint Graduate Programme in Communication and Culture at York and Ryerson Universities Trouble at the Drag: Gender Swapping, Performance and Performativity in World of Warcraft Felan Parker, Joint Graduate Programme in Communication and Culture at York and Ryerson Universities Another Velvet Revolution Eva Nesselroth-Woyzbun, Joint Graduate Programme in Communication and Culture at York and Ryerson Universities Gone not Dead: Deliverance and the Dysfunctional Matriarch in Portal 2 Alison Harvey, Joint Graduate Programme in Communication and Culture at York and Ryerson Universities Organizer(s): Eoin Devereux, University Of Limerick Martin J. Power , University of Limerick "I Know It's Only Rock'N'Roll"… Rock Music and Fandom # 1 Eoin Devereux , University of Limerick Martin J. Power , University of Limerick "You're Gonna Need Someone On Your Side" - Morrissey's Latino Fans Gary Sinclair , DIT, Dublin. De-civilising Technologies: Online Identities in the Heavy Metal Scene Mark Duffett, University Paula Hearsum, University of Brighton Re-imagining Richey: Celebrity Disappearance, Manic Street Preacher Fandom and Ben Myer’s Richard Aileen Dillane , University of Limerick Organizer(s): Chris Berry, Dept. Of Media & Communications, Goldsmiths, University Of London Queer Asia I: Border Crossing Perspectives Helen Leung, Department of Gender, Sexuality & Women's, Studies Simon Fraser University Inter-Asian Perspectives on Trans Cinema Studies Katsuhiro Suganuma, Center for International Education and Research, Oita University Not Looking at My Penis: Thoughts on Japanese Viewing Practice of North American Gay Pornography Audrey Yue, School of Culture and Communication, University of Melbourne Governing Mobility in Queer Asia Denise Tang, Department of Sociology, University of Hong Kong Spatial Imaginations and Being “Chinese”: A Comparative Ethnography of Lesbians, Bisexual Women and Transgender Persons Living in the Cities of Taipei and Hong Kong Peter Jackson, College of Asia and the Pacific, Australian National University, 13 Organizer(s): John Erni, Dept. For Cultural Studies, Lingnan University Queer Asia II: Rethinking Queer from Asian Perspectives Peter Jackson, College of Asia and the Pacific, Australian National University, Putting Transgenderism into the Transnational History of Sexuality Chris Berry, Dept. Media & Comms, Goldsmiths, University of London Gained in Translation? How Queer Studies in a Chinese Context Extends and Challenges Our Basic Paradigms Wenqing Kang, Dept of History, Clevelent State University, Ohio Queering Socialist China Lucetta Kam, Department of Sociology, Hong Kong Baptist University Reading Les +: The Politics of “Plus” and Emerging Forms of Homonormativity in Tongzhi Communities in China Helen Leung, Department of Gender, Sexuality & Women's Studies Simon Fraser University Organizer(s): Sindhu Zagoren, Unc - Chapel Hill "Affective (Re)formations": Materialities and Temporalities of Resistance Guadalupe García, Tulane University Black Criollos: Race, Place, and Belonging in Colonial Havana Lisa Calvente, DuPaul University ‘Can’t Stop, Won’t Stop’: A Return to the Political Potential of Hip Hop Culture Sindhu Zagoren, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Producing the Commons: Infrastructure and Excess Josh Smicker, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Playing With Your Life: Therapeutic War Gaming and Technological Formations of Trauma Organizer(s): Feng-Mei Heberer, University Of Southern California, Critical Studies Hoang Tan Nguyen, Bryn Mawr College, English and Film Studies All in the Family?: Affect and Kinship in Asian Cinemas Hoang Tan Nguyen, Bryn Mawr College, English and Film Studies Dredge Byung'chu Kang, Emory University, Anthropology "She's my Sister AND my Father!": Bad (Family) Romance in New Thai Queer Cinema Sun-Ju Choi, University of Tübingen, Institute for Chinese and Korean Studies Shame as a Means of Social and Ideological Inclusion in the North Korean Film, The School Girl's Diary Anja Michaelsen, Ruhr-University Bochum, Institute for Media Studies Seeing/Not Seeing Difference: Visual Representations of Racial Passing in the Adoptive Family Mariam Beevi Lam, University of California, Riverside, Comparative Literature, Media & Cultural Studies, and Southeast Asian Studies 14 Organizer(s): Marc-Alexandre Reinhardt, Université De Montréal (Department Of Comparative Literature) Translation and Forms of Life Bronwyn Bragg, Independant Scholar, Oral Historian Transcription as Translation: Critical Reflections on Oral History and Knowledge Production Vincent Couture, Université de Sherbrooke (Division of Genetics, Department of Pediatrics, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences) Paralexical and Paradoxical Uses of the Concepts of “Transcription” and “Translation” in Genetics André Habib, Department of Art History and Film Studies, Université de Montréal Pascale-Anne Lavallée, Université de Montréal Translating Testimony. Speaking about Lanzmann’s Shoah (1985) Anne Lardeux, The Barcode: a Translation Apparatus Clément de Gaulejac, Université du Québec à Montréal Is Erasing Translating? Reflections on An Artistic Gesture Organizer(s): Rimi Khan, University Of Melbourne Rethinking Cultural Diversity and Cultural Participation Rimi Khan, University of Melbourne Catherine Rinaudo, City of Whittlesea Institutionalised Cultural Activity and the Everyday Audrey Yue, University of Melbourne Frank Panucci, Australia Council Cultural Indicators: Making Cultural Participation Accountable Nikos Papastergiadis, University of Melbourne Framing Cultural Diversity in the Arts Organizer(s): Sue-Han Ueng, Foreign Languages & Applied Linguistics, National Taipei University Peilin Liang, University of Texas at Austin/independent Researcher (Re)emerging Memories of East Asia: Transnational Performances, Media, and Collective Identity in Taiwan Peilin Liang, University of Texas at Austin/Independent Researcher Puppets, Colonization, and the Cold War: Innovation in the Palm Puppetry of Taiwan Sue-Han Ueng, Foreign Languages & Applied Linguistics, National Taipei University Imagining Collective Memories in Taiwanese Folk Processional Performances Tien-wen Lin, Asian Cultures and Languages, Department of Asian Studies, University of Texas at Austin Network Nationalism on Facebook: Anti-Korea and Nationalist Movement in Taiwan during the Yang Shuchun Incident 15 Organizer(s): Cristyn Davies, The University Of Sydney Governing the Neoliberal Sexual Subject Cristyn Davies, The University of Sydney Constructing “Decency”: Regulating Government-Subsidized Cultural Production during the Culture Wars in NEA v. Finley Robert Payne, American University of Paris "Better sharing": norms of digital promiscuity Kerry Robinson, Children’s Access to Sexual Knowledge: Governing Childhood and Regulating the Adult Sexual Citizen Subject Geoff Gilbert, American University of Paris Organizer(s): Alev Adil , University Of Greenwich Politics and Culture During and After Social Media Steve Kennedy, University of Greenwich The “New Media” Technology Agenda Kostas Maronitis , Lancaster University The New Spirit of Communication: Sociality, Austerity and Populism in Europe Adil Alev , University of Greenwich Contested Recollections in a Digital Landscape Organizer(s): Rodrigo Araya, Pontificia Universidad Católica De Valparaíso Cultural Management and Cultural Studies: from the Conceptual Supports to the Cultural Intervention Marcela País Andrade, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Instituto de Antropología Social Cultural Development and Management in Latin America: the Case of Argentina Ahtziri Molina, Universidad Veracruzana, Programa de Investigación en Artes Development and Cultural Management Questioned on the Light of Cultural Studies Pineda López Yolanda, Universidad Autónoma de la Ciudad de México New Generations, New Practices? The Case of Cultural Managers in Mexico 16 Organizer(s): Angela Failler, Departments Of Sociology And Women'S & Gender Studies, University Of Winnipeg Unfinished Past: Public and Counterpublic Witnessing of the 1985 Air India Bombings Angela Failler, Departments of Sociology and Women's & Gender Studies, University of Winnipeg Appropriations and Counter-appropriations of the 1985 Air India Bombings: Forming Public Memory of an Unfinished Past Milan Singh, School of Communication, Simon Fraser University Politicizing Grief: Understanding Testimony for the Air India Inquiry Cassell Busse, McMaster University Re-presenting, not Reconciling, Violence: The Production of Moderate White Nationhood and Terrorist Others in Stephen Harper's 2010 Air India Address Renée Sarojini Saklikar, Poet, The Writer's Studio, Writing and Publishing Program, Simon Fraser University Organizer(s): Hiroki Ogasawara, Kobe University Cultural Typhoon: A Reflection upon the Unique Site and Movement of Cultural Studies in Japan Tohko Tanaka, Jumonji University Atsuhisa Yamamoto, Tsukuba Univrsity Cultural Typhoon as An Intellectual Movement Seigo Kayanoki, Kobe University “Rock the Boat”: Some Thoughts on Cultural Typhoon 2011 Kobe Jun Yokoyama, Freelance “Move Beyond, Move In”: Cultural Typhoon and Social Movements Organizer(s): Kukhee Choo, Tulane University The Politics of Europe in the Development of Asian Cinema Yoshiharu Tezuka, Univeristy of London Goldsmiths, Komazawa University The Construction of Japanese National Cinema in the Context of the Cold War Kukhee Choo, Tulane University French Connection: Cinema du Look and Korean Cinema Kai-man Chang, Tulane University Discovering Paris in Taiwan New Cinema 17 Organizer(s): Irina Mihalache, American University Of Paris, Global Communications Playful Foods, Cooking for Fun, and the Pleasures of Eating Charlene Elliott, University of Calgary, Communication and Culture From Easy Bake to Kool-Aid: Food Play and the Rise of Child-targeted Packaged Foods Irina Mihalache, American University of Paris, Global Communications Play with your Food, Please: Negotiating Identities in the New Kitchen Christy Shields-Argeles, American University of Paris (Global Communications) and The Centre Edgar Morin Play and Plaisir: Comparative Perspectives on Food Pleasures in the United States and France Organizer(s): Eva Mackey, Carleton University Avril Bell, Massey University Unsettling Settler Cultures: Recognition, Reconciliation and the Problematics of Liberalism #1 Jennifer Henderson, Carleton University Melodrama, Statistics: Indigenous Families in Settler-State "Postdemocracies" Avril Bell, Massey University Liberalism and Recognition in Settler Discourse Robyn Green, Carleton University Unsettling Cures: Exploring the Limits of the Indian Residential School Settlement Agreement Jennifer Lawn, Massey University Reconciliation Discourses and Transgenerational Settler Memory Organizer(s): Markus Wiemker, Game Design & Game Studies/University Of Technology Rwth Aachen Censorship and Regulation in Digital Games Malte Elson, Ghent University Parental Advisory, Explicit Content: Digital Game Rating Systems and Their Scientific Justification Ergin Bulut, University of Illinois Politics of Video Labelling: Experience of Mature Video Game Producers Ricardo Albuquerque, New University of Lisbon Violence and Gore in Video Games. An Uncontrollable Urge? Guillaume De Fondaumiere, Quantic Dream, Paris, France 18 Organizer(s): Markus Wiemker, Game Design & Game Studies/University Of Technology Rwth Aachen The Role of Ethics in Digital Games Markus Wiemker, Game Design & Game Studies/University of Technology RWTH Aachen Markus , Sex, Drugs and Violence Rock or the Role of Ethics in Digital Games Karl Babij, Rutgers, State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, USA The Good, the Bad, and the Neutral: Solving the problem of Ethical Choice-making within Video and Computer Games Christoph Bareither, University of Tübingen The Meanings of Killing. An Ethnographic Approach to the Gaming Culture of Counter-Strike. Martin Lorber, Electronic Arts, Cologne, Germany Organizer(s): Markus Wiemker, Game Design & Game Studies/University Of Technology Rwth Aachen Cultural Contexts and Digital Games Stephan Schwingeler, Trier University Markus , The Digital Game as Artistic Material – An Art History of the Video Game as an Art Form Freyermuth Gundolf S., theater, film, games, humanness, image of man, humanoids Theater, Film, Games - New Media, New Men: Perceptions and Conceptions of Humanness in Mechanical, Industrial and Digital Culture Mauro Salvador, Catholic University of Sacred Heart, Milan / GAME journal (www.gamejournal.it) Game/Genre/Player: The Game Noir Tobias Kopka, Next Level Conference Cologne, Germany Organizer(s): Younghan Cho, Hankuk University Of Foreign Studies, Graduate School Of International And Area Studies Shih-Diing Liu, University of Macau, Department of Communication The Neoliberalism Mutations in South Korea, Taiwan and Hong Kong Younghan Cho, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, Graduate School of International and Area Studies “Neoliberal Mask and Developmental Skin”: The State Neoliberalism of South Korean governments Shih-Diing Liu , University of Macau, Deaprtment of Communication Wei Shi, University of Macau, Department of Communication Reunification by Neoliberalism? Taiwan’s Dilemma Hsiao Yang Hsieh, Université de Saint Denis, Department of Philosophy (Paris 8, France) A New Type of Neoliberalism in Hong Kong after 1997 Beng Huat Chua (Discutant), National University of Singapore, Asia Research Institute Lawrence Grossberg, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Department of Communication Studies 19 Organizer(s): Pei-Yun Chen, Department Of English, Tamkang University Decomposing Cultural Experiences: Sensitive Image and Politics of Affect Pei-Yun Chen, Department of English, Tamkang University Surface, Image, and Literal Translation Wan-Shuan Lin, Department of Applied English, Yuanpei University The Affective Phenomena Surrounding Ringu’s Well: The Dynamic of Affect in Contemporary Japanese Horror Films Chia-chen Kuo, Department of English, Tamkang University The Crossroad between Virginia Woolf and Gilles Deleuze: on Cinema and Time Organizer(s): Anouk Guiné, Université Du Havre, Groupe De Recherches Identités Et Cultures (Gric) Violence I: The Anatomy of Violence Paula Vasquez Lezama, Cergy-Pontoise (UFR Lettres) , Centre d'études sociologiques et politiques Raymond Aron (CESPRA)-EHESS Neopopulist Bodies ? The Embodiment of the (non)Violent Radical Protest in Venezuela César Gutiérrez, Writer The Exploration of Global Violence in the Novel Bombardero Anouk Guiné, Université du Havre, Groupe de Recherches Identités et Cultures (GRIC) Gender and the Politics of Humiliation: Revolutionary Movements in Peru Organizer(s): Helga Druxes, Williams College Gender in Transnational Migration Narratives Katarzyna Pieprzak, Williams College Labor Deferred: Pregnancy and the Migrant Body in "L’enfant Endormi" and "Les Clandestins" Alexandar Mihailovic, Hofstra University Migrancy and Narrative Dislocation in Gertten and Jönsson’s Long Distance Love (2007) Helga Druxes, Williams College The Panic Over Motherhood: Transnational Labor Migrants in Illégal (2010) and Die Fremde (2010) 20 Organizer(s): Robert Brookey, Northern Illinois University/Dept. Of Communication Spring Fever: Mediating Civil Unrest Mehdi Semati, Northern Illinois University/Dept. of Communication Robert Brookey, Northern Illinois University/Dept. of Communication Not for Neda: The Making of a Post-feminist Martyr Marwan Kraidy, University of Pennsylvania/The Annenberg School for Communication Plato's Digital Cave: The Arab Spring as a Representational Challenge Thomas Nakayama, Northeastern University/Dept. of Communication Mediated multiculturalism: Riots, Official Discourse and Everyday Life John Downing, Southern Illinois University/Dept. of Radio-Television Organizer(s): Juan-Carlos Valencia, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana Decolonial Options: The Construction of Contemporary Popular Culture in Latin America and Africa Ana-Lucia Sa, Affiliation Centre of African Studies ISCTE-IUL What Anonymous Artists ? West African Vocal Performers and their Challenge to Coloniality Christian Muleka Mwewa, University of the South of Santa Catarina Dialectical Tensions: Capoeira, the Control Society and Cultural Dissent Juan-Carlos Valencia, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana “El ritmo no perdona”: Latin American Popular Music, Commercial Media and Aesthetic Coloniality Walter Mignolo, Duke University Organizer(s): Inga Untiks, York University Fluxus International: Reception, Interpretation, Appropriation Bojana Videkanic, University of Waterloo Between the Rock and the Hard Place: Flux Art in the Socialist Yugoslavia Klara Kemp-Welch, Courtauld Institute of Art Diplomatic Ping-Pong: Cold War Cultural Politics and the Illegitimate Children of “Fluxus East” Jung-Ah Woo, Postech University, Division of Humanities and Social Sciences Phenomenological Turn from Zen Aesthetics: La Monte Young within and without Fluxus 21 Organizer(s): Jin Haritaworn, Helsinki Collegium For Advanced Studies, University Of Finland Sandeep Bakshi, University of Leicester Decolonizing Queer: Towards a Queer of Colour Critique Suhraiya Jivraj, Oxford Brookes University Religion and Sexuality – Towards a Decolonial Approach Jin Haritaworn, Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies, University of Finland Queer Regenerations: Gentrification, Criminalization and Queer of Colour Critique Sandeep Bakshi, University of Leicester Vexed Subjects: Queer Nationalism in Multicultural Times Organizer(s): Su-Lin Yu, Dept. Of Foreign Languages And Literature, National Cheng Kung University Toward an Affective Relation between Women and Place Shan-Hui Hsu, Office of Physical Education & Institute of Physical Education, Health & Leisure Studies, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan “The Leisure Mental Landscape of Anping Women ” Ching-Shu Lee , Institute of Allied Health Sciences, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan Bih-Ching Shu, Institute of Allied Health Sciences, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan Health and Place: Experiences of Anping Women Kai-ling Liu, Foreign Languages and Literature Department, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan “Women in-between the Place: A Study of Two Local Women in Southern Taiwan” Su-Lin Yu, Foreign Languages and Literature Department, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan From Cultural Taboo to City Image: the Transformation of Miss Jin” Organizer(s): Robert Mcruer, George Washington University Shocking Bodies Susan Schweik, University of California at Berkeley Kicked to the Curb: Ugly Law Then and Now Robert Mcruer, George Washington University Cripping Austerity Rachel Riedner, George Washington University Spectacles of Gender: Reading Caster Semenya in Neoliberalism 22 Organizer(s): Inderpal Grewal, Yale University Intimate Governmentalities: Neoliberal Subjects and Desires Purnima Mankekar, University of California, Los Angeles We Are Like This Only: Enterprise Culture and the Eroticization of Capital Rachel Miyung Joo , Middlebury College Living with Silent Strangers: Female Migrants to Seoul Inderpal Grewal, Yale University "Honor Killings": Urban/Rural Imaginaries and Media Intimacies Akhil Gupta, University of California, Los Angeles Organizer(s): Daniel Laforest, University Of Alberta, Modern Languages & Cultural Studies Department Living Together in the Digital City Maureen Engel, University of Alberta, Humanities Computing Ryan Beauvais, University of Alberta, English & Film Studies Department Vertical Suburbia: Affective Storytelling for a Barely Visible City Russell Cobb, University of Alberta, Modern languages & cultural studies department Erika Luckert, University of Alberta, English & film studies department Past Futures in the Contemporary City Heather Zwicker, University of Alberta, English & film studies department Uncovering the Queer History of Edmonton Organizer(s): Jason Bainbridge, Swinburne University Of Technology - Media Studies Transmedia Cities: Making and Remaking the City in Print, Practice and Film Carolyn Beasley, Swinburne University of Technology - Writing It’s a Jungle Out There: Melbourne’s Gangland Wars, Underbelly and the Phantasmagoric City Craig Mcintosh , Swinburne University of Technology - Sociology The Politics of Imagination: Branding Melbourne as the City of Play Jason Bainbridge, Swinburne University of Technology The City as Found Object: Representations of the Phantasmagoric City in Popular Culture 23 Organizer(s): Alisa Freedman, University Of Oregon, Department Of East Asian Languages And Literatures Japanese Fashion: Representation and Reality in Precarious Times Anneke Beerkens, Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research, University of Amsterdam Dressing Life: Creating a Future in Japan’s Fashion Industry Masafumi Monden, University of Technology, Sydney In Praise of Slenderness: Images of Masculinity in Japanese Men’s Fashion Magazines Toby Slade, University of Tokyo, College of Arts and Sciences Super Cool Biz: Regulation and Practicality in Japanese Fashion Alisa Freedman, University of Oregon, Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures Organizer(s): Eunwoo Joo, Chung-Ang University (Seoul) New Trends in Spatio-Temporal Politics in East Asia Nae-Hui Kang, Chung-Ang University (Seoul) The Rise of Project Finance and New Urbanscapes in South Korea Xiaoming Wang, Program in Cultural Studies of Shanghai University Ju-jia-sheng-huo(居 家 生 活 , home living） and the Social Reproduction in Today’s China Seo Dong-Jin, Kaywon School of Art and Design Credit Haven: Temporal Fluctuation of Domestic Money under Neoliberal Attack in South Korea Valérie Gelezeau, Ecole des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS), Paris Organizer(s): Avril Bell, Massey University Eva Mackey, Carleton University Unsettling Settler Cultures: Civil Contestations #2 Avril Bell, Massey University Eva Mackey, Carleton University How Does the Treaty Speak ? Anne Trépanier, Carleton University From White Negroes of America to Interculturalism: Quebec as an Accommodating Host Society Samah Sabra, Carleton University (Non)Citizens of the World: Agency and the Politics of Asylum Kelly Black, Carleton University Decolonising Place: (Re)Naming, National Identity and the Settler Imaginings of Vancouver’s Stanley Park Jennifer Henderson, Carleton University 24 Organizer(s): Eva Mackey, Carleton University Avril Bell, Massey University Unsettling Settler Cultures: Decolonizing the Media Jo Smith, Victoria University of Wellington Settler-Native-Migrant Media Davinia Thornley, University of Otago "Instrument of Change": Cinematic Cross-Cultural Collaboration in ISUMA's Before Tomorrow Sue Abel, University of Auckland Māori Television: a Case Study in the Role of Indigenous Media in the Decolonisation of the Majority Culture Avril Bell, Massey University Organizer(s): Marie Berchoud, Burgundy University Til (Ea - Texte, Image, Langage) Mobility, Migration, Memory Marie Berchoud, Burgundy university (EA TIL, Texte, imagve, langage) Europe to North - America and Transgenerational Phenomena (from 1930 to 2011....and Probably Before) Helène Girard, University Technologi Petronas A Bit of Us, a Bit of Them: Alterity in French Expatriates Blogs in South-East Asia between Ethnography and Autobiography Anabela Valente Simões, University of Aveiro - ESTGA|CLC The Notions of Origin and Belonging in Doron Rabinovici’s Novel Andernorts Magnus Öhlander, Södertörn University Katarzyna Wolanik Boström, Umeå University A Transnational Occupation with National Subcultures - Polish Doctors Migrating to Sweden, England and France AbdelJelil Eliman, University of SFAX (Tunisia) About migration and mobility: Pr ELIMAM can give a , Organizer(s): Alison Harvey, Joint Graduate Programme In Communication And Culture, York And Ryerson Universities Intersectional Technological Subjectivities: At the Crossroads of Identity and Digital Space Alison Harvey, Joint Graduate Programme in Communication and Culture, York and Ryerson Universities “Just Kiddy Games”: Gender, Age, and Technological Subjectivities from Halo to Wii Fit Tamara Shepherd, Concordia University, Communication Studies Gender and Generational Politics in Digital Literacy Policies Koen Leurs, Utrecht University, Graduate Gender Programme GGeP Space Invaders? Internetworked Identifications of Migrant Youth Sandra Ponzanesi, Department of Media and Culture Studies, Utrecht University 25 Organizer(s): James Arvanitakis, Centre For Culture Research, University Of Western Sydney Piracy: Leakages from Late Modernity James Arvanitakis, Centre for Culture Research, University of Western Sydney Piracy and the Cultural Commons: the Leakages and Blockages of Capitalist Relations in late Modernity Martin Fredriksson, Linköping University Global Copyright and the Ideology of Piracy Sonja Schillings, : Free University of Berlin The Rich, the Poor and the Pirate: New Elites and the Utilization of Social Criticism. Merijn Oudenampsen, Tilburg University Organizer(s): Martin Zierold, Justus-Liebig-University Giessen, International Graduate Centre For The Study Of Culture (Gcsc) “Here be Dragons”? Unknown Territories of New Media Research. Martin Zierold, Justus-Liebig-University Giessen, International Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture (GCSC) “Nothing new under the screen ?” Forgotten Continuities in the History of New Media Richard Grusin, University of Wisconsin Milwaukee, Center for 21st Century Studies Mediashock Colin Harvey, London South Bank University The Language of No Media Anna Reading, University of Western Sydney/Visiting Professor Loughborough University/Research Associate University of Glasgow/Visiting Profe Organizer(s): Giacomo Bottà, Deutsches Volksliedarchiv (German Archive For Popular Music) Popular Music and Crisis Michael Drewett, Rhodes University - Dept. of Sociology Popular Musicians and the Economic Crisis in South Africa post-1994 Thomas Burkhalter, Zürcher Hochschule der Künste - Institute for Cultural Studies in the Arts Performing War and Violence in Beirut and beyond: Between Local Responses and International Opportunism. Giacomo Bottà, Deutsches Volksliedarchiv (German archive for popular music) Dramatizing the Crisis in Industrial Settings: Hardcore Punk in 1980s European Towns 26 Organizer(s): Erin Wunker, Dalhousie University, Department Of English, Canadian Studies Programme Toward a Commoner Praxis: Art, Space, Publics Carrie Dawson, Dalhousie University, Department of English, Canadian Studies Programme Bodies of Knowledge Erin Wunker, Dalhousie University, Department of English, Canadian Studies Programme Rebuild: Sachiko Murakami’s Public Poetics Laura Moss, University of British Columbia, Department of English Public Art and the Ethics of Rendering Found Texts Travis Mason, Dalhousie University, Canadian Studies Programme Commoner Praxis through Public Poetics: An Early Canadian Example Organizer(s): José Antonio Mazzotti, Tufts University Violence II: Cultural Representations of Political Violence Paolo De Lima, Universidad de Lima; Universidad Nacional de San Marcos The Role of Mass-Media in Peruvian Fiction on Political Violence José Antonio Mazzotti, Tufts University Social Violence and Discursive Re-generation: Peruvian Neo-Baroque through the Lens of Poetry José Luis Rénique, The Graduate Center, CUNY The Impetuous Resurgence of “the Ethnic Factor” in the South-Andean Struggles Against Globalization Anouk Guiné, University of Le Havre, International Affairs Department, Groupe de Recherche Identités et Cultures (GRIC) Organizer(s): Mary Desjardins, Dartmouth College, Dept Of Film And Media Studies Local, National, Global Mediations: Television's Regimes of Space and Time Alexander Thimons, Northwestern University, Dept of Radio/TV/Film The Televised Museum: Global Space in 1950s Public Service Television Mark Williams, Dartmouth College, Dept. of Film and Media Studies The History of Now: Genealogies of Liveness in Television News Mimi White, Northwestern University, Dept. of Radio/TV/Film House Hunters International: The (Global) Real Estate Market as Seen on (American) TV 27 Organizer(s): Marc-Alexandre Reinhardt, Université De Montréal (Department Of Comparative Literature) Materiality and Modes of Translation Marc-Alexandre Reinhardt, Université de Montréal, Centre de Recherche sur l'Intermédialité Embodiment and Afterlife of Inscriptions of Law: Kafka’s Machine and the Archived Face Clément De Gaulejac, Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM) Is Erasing Translating? Reflections on an Artistic Gesture Anne Lardeux, Université de Montréal The Barcode. A Translation Apparatus Organizer(s): Roberto Strongman, Ucsb Black Studies Eric Heuser, New Directions in Creolization Studies Roberto Strongman, UCSB Black Studies Transcorporeality in Afro-Cuban Diasporic Religion Eric Heuser, Free University, Berlin Islamic Insularisms and Creolization: Trinidad and Java Lucy Wilson, Loyola Marymount University Creolization and the Canon Nicole Morris, Loyola Marymount University Organizer(s): Ranbir Banwait, English Department, Simon Fraser University Ayaka Yoshimizu, School of Communication, Simon Fraser University Rereading Cultural Studies: Grounding Bodies of History Marcos Daniel Moldes, School of Communication, Simon Fraser University Contingent Belonging ? Reconceptualizing Second-Generation Citizens and the Question of Belonging Ranbir Banwait, English Department, Simon Fraser University Of Asian Canadians and Citizenship: A Vignette of Canadian Biomedicine Lucia Lorenzi, English Department, University of British Columbia Conceiving Nationality: Violated Indigenous Bodies and Colonial Anxiety Ayaka Yoshimizu, School of Communication, Simon Fraser University Following the Ghost: Reconstructing a Memory Landscape of Yokohama through the Absent Presence of Migrant Sex Workers 28 Organizer(s): Ted Striphas, Indiana University Publishing Cultural Studies, Now and in the Future Clare Birchall, University of Kent Liquid Theory TV: Publishing, Publicity and Secrecy Ted Striphas, Indiana University Mark Hayward, Wilfred Laurier University Working Papers in Cultural Studies or the Virtues of Gray Literature Adema Janneke, Coventry University Why Experiment? A Critical Analysis of the Values Behind Digital Scholarly Publishing Organizer(s): Sudeep Dasgupta, Department Of Media And Culture, University Of Amsterdam The Disciplinary and Theoretical Challenges of Contemporary Cultural Studies Sudeep Dasgupta, Department of Media and Culture, University of Amsterdam Institutionalizing the Popular in Cultural Studies Patricia Caillé, Université de Strasbourg From Doing Research to Introducing CS in French University Curricula Markus Stauff, University of Amsterdam Cultural Studies and the Water Cooler Organizer(s): Chris Lee, Department Of English, University Of British Columbia Rethinking “Global” Culture through the Aesthetic Jacqueline Lo, ANU Centre for European Studies Performing Minor Transnational Histories Christine Kim, Simon Fraser University, Department of English Minor Aesthetics and Underwhelming Transnationalisms Chris Lee, University of British Columbia, Department of English Finding Poetry at the White Emperor’s Citadel Dean Chan, School of Social Sciences, Media and Communication University of Wollongong 29 Organizer(s): Kiran Grewal, University Of Sydney, Department Of Sociology And Social Policy Close Encounters of the (Post)colonial Kind: European Cinema and Narratives of Ethnicity and Belonging Kiran Grewal, University of Sydney, Department of Sociology and Social Policy Making Aloo Gobi' or 'Producing a Bastard Race'? - Memories of Empire in British and French Popular Cinema Antonella Biscaro, University of Technology, Sydney, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (International Studies) The (Post?) Colonial Gaze in Italian Cinematic Encounter Nicholas Manganas, Independent researcher Flowers from Another World: Navigating Spain's Post-colonial Narratives Organizer(s): J. Macgregor Wise, Arizona State University Deleuze/Guattari and the Somewhere Else of Social Media Jennifer Slack, Michigan Technological University When Media Becomes Assemblage Gregory Seigworth, Millersville University Secretions of Social Media J. Macgregor Wise, Arizona State University Against the Clickable World: The Case for Noncommunication Organizer(s): Heidi Brevik-Zender, University Of California, Riverside Fashion, Space and Media Heidi Brevik-Zender, University of California, Riverside Narrating Non - Places of Modernity in Nineteenth-Century Parisian Fashion Plates Julie Thomas, American University of Paris Digital Fashion Sites: Paradox of Place Wessie Ling, University of the Arts London, London College of Fashion Space of Production: Oriental Fashion Designers in Paris 30 Organizer(s): Anna Cristina Pertierra, Centre For Critical & Cultural Studies, University Of Queensland Heather Horst, School of Media and Communication, RMIT University Ethnography: at the Crossroads of Anthropology and Cultural Studies. Anna Cristina Pertierra, Centre for Critical & Cultural Studies, University of Queensland Beyond the “ethnographic turn”: Locating Television in Mexico (and elsewhere). Heather Horst, Design Research Institute, RMIT University Ethnographic Perspectives on Participatory Culture Wallis Cara, Department of Communication, Texas A&M University Ethnography and New Media Studies in China Graeme Turner, Centre for Critical & Cultural Studies, University of Queensland Organizer(s): Christoph Lindner, University Of Amsterdam Inert Cities: Globalization, Mobility, and Interruption Bill Marshall, University of London Parkour and the Stilled Image Stephanie Hemelryk Donald, RMIT University China, Film and the Compulsion to Stop Christoph Lindner, University of Amsterdam Decelerating Amsterdam Organizer(s): Ming Hung (Alex) Tu, Department Of English, Tamkang University “Foreigners Among Us”: National Body and Politics of Affects in Asian Comics Ming Hung (Alex) Tu, Department of English, Tamkang University Sounds and Furies: Politics of Affects in Summer's End, 1945 Fusami Ogi, Department of English, Chikushi Jogakuen University How a Shoujo (a Japanese Girl) Transcends National Borders through an Incestuous Body Since the 1970s Sheuo Hui Gan, Manga Faculty, Kyoto Seika University The Politics of International Styles in Malaysian Comics 31 Organizer(s): Susan Thomas, University Of Georgia, Institute For Women'S Studies Enacting Cubaness: Popular Music, National Belonging and Diaspora Susan Thomas, University of Georgia, Institute for Women's Studies Liminal Architectures: Musical Reconstructions of Havana in the Transnational Age Nora Gámez, City University (London), School of Social Sciences ‘Havana is everywhere’: Younger Musicians and the Symbolic Redefinition of the Cuban Nation Iñigo Sánchez, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Instituto de Etnomusicologia (INET-MD), Faculdade de Ciencias Sociais e Humanas Cubaneando in Barcelona: Music, Migration and Urban Experience Organizer(s): Wladimir Fischer, Department Of History, University Of Vienna Raluca Nagy, Centre for Tourism and Cultural Change, Leeds Metropolitan University / Laboratoire d’Anthropologie des Mondes Contemporains, Un Mundane Music on the Move. Interactions of Balkan Folklore and Electronic Music Ljerka Rasmussen, Department of Music, Tennessee State University Orientalizing the Balkans: From Folk to Ethnopop Raluca Nagy, Centre for Tourism and Cultural Change, Leeds Metropolitan University / Laboratoire d’Anthropologie des Mondes Contemporains, Un No Balkan Beats in the Balkans Victor A. StoichițĂ, CREM (Centre de recherches en ethnomusicologie) - LESC (Laboratoire d'ethnologie et sociologie comparative) / CNRS Who’s the Big Boss?? Musical Agency in Live Manele Performances Ana Hofman, Scientific Research Centre of Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Center for Interdisciplinary Research Balkan Music Industries between “Already Europe” and “Europe-to-be” Markus Reisenleitner, Department of Humanities, York University Organizer(s): Cornelia Möser, Maître Assistante Suppléante, Université De Lausanne, Ceg-Liege Rosa Eidelpes, Doctoral candidate, Zentrum für Literatur- und Kulturforschung Berlin Cultural Studies and Traveling Theories between France and Germany Cornelia Möser, Maître assistante suppléante, Université de Lausanne, CEG-Liege The Traveling in French Gender Studies and Cultural Studies Rosa Eidelpes, Doctoral Candidate, Zentrum für Literatur und Kulturforschung Berlin "Études culturelles" in the 1930ies: The Collège de Sociologie Anne Chalard-Fillaudeau, University Paris 8 - Vincennes Saint Denis From Crisis to Culture of Responsibility? 32 Organizer(s): Geoffrey White, University Of Hawaii War Tourism: World War II at the Crossroads of Memory Eveline Buchheim, NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies Envisioned Belonging: Japanese-Indisch Descendants Travelling to Japan Esther Captain, NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies Memory and Counter Memory within War Tourism: Foreign and Domestic Heritage Tourism in Indonesia Geoffrey White, University of Hawaii Is Paris Burning?: Touring America’s “Good War” in France Lisa Yoneyama, University of Toronto Organizer(s): Carol Stabile, School Of Journalism And Communication, University Of Oregon American Culture and the Long Shadow of the Red Scare Carol Mason, Gender and Women's Studies, University of Kentucky Queer Designs: Bruce Goff and Cold War Homophobia Daniel Pope, History Department, University of Oregon The Cold War in the Pulpit: The Case of Rev. William Howard Melish Carol Stabile, Journalism and Communication, University of Oregon Red Lassie: Anti-Communism, Women Writers and the Stories That Might Have Been Carol Stabile, Journalism and Communication, University of Oregon Organizer(s): Marco Scalvini, London School Of Economics & Political Science, Department Of Media And Communications Tal Morse, London School of Economics & Political Science, Department of Media and Communications Representations of Death and Dying in Contemporary Culture Tal Morse, London School of Economics & Political Science, Department of Media and Communications Shooting the Dead: Representation of Death in Israeli Media Marco Scalvini, London School of Economics & Political Science, Department of Media and Communications Glamorizing Sick Bodies: How Commercial Advertising Has Changed the Representation of HIV/AIDS Leen Van Brussel, Free University of Brussels, Department of Communication Sciences Discourses on the Good Death and the Dignified Death: Media Representations on End-of-life Decision Making in North-Belgium Nico Carpentier Reifova, Loughborough University, Department of Social Sciences & Free University of Brussels, Department of Communication Sciences 33 Organizer(s): Oscar Campomanes, Ateneo De Manila University The Politics of Visibility and the Distribution of Affect: Reconfiguring the NarrativeDiscourses of the Global South Jose Mari Cuartero, Ateneo de Manila University, University of the Philippines The Postsocialist Global South: The Politics of Affect and Historiography in the Works of Roy, Firmeza, and Yami Anne Christine Ensomo, Ateneo de Manila University The Scandal of the Unspeaking Subject and the Impropriety of Illegitimate Speech Zitong Qiu, University of Sydney The Affective-aesthetic Sentiments of Chinese Socialist Modernity: Socialist Revolutionary Youth Revisited Chris Hudson, RMIT University Fear and Fun in Singapore: The Politics of Affect in a City-State Organizer(s): Graham Meikle, University Of Stirling, Division Of Communications, Media & Culture Visibility, Activism and Social Media: The Case of WikiLeaks Athina Karatzogianni, University of Hull, Department of Media, Culture & Society Manufacturing Dissent: the Impromptu Impact of WikiLeaks on the Mediascape and Geopolitics Graham Meikle, University of Stirling, Division of Communications, Media & Culture Visibility, Anonymity and Electronic Civil Disobedience Mathieu O'Neil, Université Paris Sorbonne (Paris 4), American Civilisation The Ideology of Transparency Johanna Sumiala, University of Helsinki Organizer(s): Lily Cho, York University Archival Returns and Chinese Immigration Photographs Laura Madokoro, University of British Columbia Archival Legacy or Future ? The Mystery of early 20th century Chinese Portraits in New Zealand Tina Chen, University of Manitoba The Traces of Selection: Cultural Layers in the Documentation of Chinese ‘Return Migration’ from Burma to China Lily Cho, York University Chinese Canadian Head Tax Photographs and the Alterity of Citizenship Thy Phu, University of Western Ontario 34 Organizer(s): Ilya Parkins, Gender And Women'S Studies, University Of British Columbia Okanagan The Politics of Knowledge in Feminist and Queer Cultural Studies T.L. Cowan, Eugene Lang College, The New School From Le Chat Noir to Meow Mix: Considering a Translocal Cabaret Consciousness Jasmine Rault, Culture and Media, Eugene Lang College, The New School What Does Hope Know? Melancholic Modernities and Queering Positive Affect in the Hemispheric Americas Ilya Parkins, Gender and Women's Studies, University of British Columbia Okanagan The Cultural Politics of Feminine Unknowability, 1910-39 Organizer(s): Reynaldo Anderson, Harris Stowe State University Cultural Studies or Afrofuturism ? From Hegemony to Culture Reynaldo Anderson, Harris Stowe State University Cultural Studies or Critical Afrofuturism: A Case Study in Visual Rhetoric, Sequential Art, and PostApocalyptic Black Identity John Jennings, SUNY-Buffalo Forms of Future Past: Afrofuturism and the Visual Aesthetics of Resistance Tekla Johnson, Salem College The Paradox of Liberalism: Cultural Studies or Africology in the New World Order Organizer(s): Lucienne Loh, University Of Liverpool, Uk Towards an African Transnationalism Mark Mathuray, Royal Holloway, University of London Global Modernism: Joyce, Soyinka, Marechera Lucienne Loh, University of Liverpool, UK Resisting Colonial England: King Khama and Rural African Transnationalism Helene Strauss, University of the Free State (SA) and McMaster University (Canada) Spectacles of Promise and Disappointment: Reframing the Post-Transitional South African Everyday 35 Organizer(s): Talmadge Wright, Loyola University Chicago Producing the Political-Social in Digital Play: Pleasure, Play and Electronic Fantasies Talmadge Wright, Loyola University Chicago David Embrick, Loyola University Chicago Intersections of Sociology and Cultural Studies Games Research: Negotiating Virtual Conflict, Cooperation and Social Identity. Jordi Sanchey-Navarro, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya David Aranda, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya Tools for Knowledge and Guilty Pleasures: Cultural Consumption and Social Use of Digital Games Vincent Berry, University of Paris North Styles and Careers in World of Warcraft: Outline of a Theory of Video Game Practice. David Gerber, Departement de Sociologie Explaining gaming – Players’ Perceptions and Discourses on the Meaning and Implications of Digital Games Organizer(s): Phyllis Taoua, University Of Arizona African Modernity Nick Nesbitt, Princeton University Nesbitt, Resolutely Modern: Politics and Human Rights in the Mandingue Charter / L'absolument moderne: Politique et droits humains dans la charte du Mandingue Abiola Irele, Kwasu State University Cultura Encounters in the Modern World - An African Perspective Phyllis Taoua, University of Arizona African Modernity: Introspection and Freedom after 1960 Organizer(s): Emily Beausoleil, University Of British Columbia The Movements of Attention: Politics, Receptivity, Affect Davide Panagia, Trent University Ten Theses for an Aesthetics of Politics Carrie Noland, University of California, Irvine What is the 'Sensible' in the Distribution of the Sensible? Emily Beausoleil, University of British Columbia Coming to Our Senses: The Neuroscience and Politics of Embodied Receptivity 36 Organizer(s): Yudhishthir Raj Isar, Department Of Global Communications Yudhishthir Isar, "Diasporas" or Transnational Ethnic Communities: Global and Local Relations of Belonging Ien Ang, Institution for Culture and Society (Un)binding Chinese-ness: Diasporic Identities after the Rise of China Yudhishthir Isar, Department of Global Communications Multiple Indian-ness, globalization and cultural expression Gregory Noble, The Institute for Culture and Society Articulations of Lebanese-ness: the Complexities of Transnationality Ghassan Hage, School of Social and Political Science Organizer(s): Florian Voros, Iris, Ehess Pornographic Affects Florian Voros, IRIS, EHESS The Frenzy of “Raw” Sex. The Everyday Life Receptions of Condomless Pornographies Kristina Pia Hofer, Institute for Gender Studies, Johannes Kepler University Porning Intimacy: Homemade Pornography on SellYourSexTape Fred Pailler, freelance researcher, OMNSH administrator Politics of Access and Politics of Affects: Documents, Knowledge and Online Intimacy Susanna Paasonen, University of Turku Organizer(s): Doris Leibetseder, Universität Klagenfurt Rebecca Carbery, University of Durham, UK Queer Gender in the Arts: Representations across History Charlotte Norton, University of Durham, UK The Weird and the Wonderful: Gender and Monstrosity in the Middle Ages Rebecca Carbery, University of Durham, UK GenderQueer: The Gender Attribution Process at a Crossroads Doris Leibetseder, Universität Klagenfurt Express Yourself! Queer Gender in Rock and Pop Music. 37 Organizer(s): Mark Banks, The Open University After the Creative Industries: Reflections on Cultural Work, Policy and Practice Kate Oakley, City University Creating the Conditions of Creative Industries: a Look Back at Actors in the Policymaking Process Mark Banks, The Open University Cultural Work in the Rear View Mirror Keith Randle , University of Hertfordshire Of Barriers and Business Cases: The Long March towards(?) Diversity in UK Film and Television Labour Markets David Hesmondhalgh, Leeds University Organizer(s): Helen Kennedy, University Of Leeds, Institute Of Communications Studies Structuring Feeling: Issues in Sentiment Analysis Mark Andrejevic, University of Queensland, Centre for Critical & Cultural Studies Affective Economics: Mining the Social Web Alison Hearn, University of Western Ontario, Faculty of Information & Media Studies Hedging the ‘Human’ and Gaming the ‘Subject’: Social Media, Sentiment Analysis, and Mechanical Turks Helen Kennedy, University of Leeds, Institute of Communications Studies The Ethics of Sentiment Analysers Organizer(s): Jane Tolmie, Queen'S University, Canada Human Suffering and Human Rights in Comics: Sequential Art Activism? Marie Thorsten, Doshisha University, Japan "Bhimayana" in the Global Public Sphere Jane Tolmie, Queen's University, Canada Affect and Alzheimers: Sarah Leavitt’s 'Tangles' and the Medical Memoir Shige (CJ) Suzuki, Baruch College (CUNY), USA Ethics and Politics of Representations of the Disabled: on Keiko Tobe's With the Light Organizer(s): Martin J Power , University Aileen Dillane , UNIVERSITY OF LIMERICK "I Know It's Only Rock'N'Roll (and Jazz)": Fandom and Rock Music #2 Stephanie Piotrowski , Teeside University Mark Fremaux , Edge Hill University “My Name’s Ringo and I Play the Drums”: Being a Beatles’ Fan in the Age of Interactivity Jedediah Sklower , Independent Researcher The Government of Senses: Ethics and Politics of Fandom Richard Mills, St. Mary's University College Strawberry Hill ‘I Play the Part So Well’: Beatles Tribute Bands Eoin Devereux, University of Limerick 38 Organizer(s): Amparo Lasén, Universidad Complutense De Madrid, School Of Sociology And Political Science Digital Mediations and Inscriptions: Sense of Place, Sense of Love, Sense of Self Larissa Hjorth, RMIT University, School of Media and Communication Locating the Mobile Antonio García, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, School of Sociology and Political Science Technologies of Love. New Media and Sex-Affective Bonds Amparo Lasén, Digitally Attached Selves: an Example of the Shared Agency Between People and Technologies Organizer(s): Markus Reisenleitner, York University Susan Ingram, University of Auckland Imagining a Sense of Place: The City, the Region, the Border, Part 1 – Cities and their Fashions Kathryn Franklyn, York University In the Skin of a Laing: The Evolution of Toronto Chic Felicity Perry, University of Auckland Black Wool and Vintage Shoes: The Wellington Look D'Angelo Francesca, York University The Habitus of Heels Organizer(s): Markus Reisenleitner, York University Susan Ingram, University of Auckland Imagining a Sense of Place: The City, the Region, the Border, Part II – Transplanting Modern Urban Imaginaries to the Margins Natasha Barykina, University of Toronto Modernity and "Uneven Development": German Modernist Architects and Planners in the USSR Susan Ingram, University of Auckland Filmstadt in der Vorstadt: Locating Michael Kertesz’s Sodom und Gomorrha Elena Siemens, University of Alberta Zhivago in the Suburbs 39 Organizer(s): Markus Reisenleitner, York University Susan Ingram, University of Auckland Imagining a Sense of Place: The City, the Region, the Border, Part III – Translating Pacific Regional Imaginaries Ellen Carter, University of Auckland Places of Reading and Readings of Place: Empirical Differences in the Reception of Two French ‘Māori’ Thrillers Angela Kölling, University of Auckland The Locality of New Zealand Literature: Is the Place of Business Getting Lost in Translation? Raylene Ramsay, University of Auckland Kanak Writers Rethinking Gender Relations: Indigenous Power, Knowledge and Postcoloniality Organizer(s): Markus Reisenleitner, York University Susan Ingram, University of Auckland Imagining a Sense of Place: The City, the Region, the Border, Part IV – The Literal Fluidity of Border Regions Art Redding, York University ust Never Sleeps: Contemporary Cultures of the Great Lakes Markus Reisenleitner, York University Policing Murky Depths: "SOKO Donau" and "The Border" Deborah Walker-Morrison, University of Auckland A Place to Stand: Land and Water in Māori Film Organizer(s): Isabel Molina-Guzmán, University Of Illinois Urbana Champaign Ethnoracial Identity and the Global Media in a Postnational Era Isabel Molina, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Globalizing Blackness through Latin American Bodies in the Media Mary Beltran, University of Texas Austin Latina/os that Only Latina/os Can See: Disney’s Construction of the (Semi)Latina Star Camilla Fojas, DePaul University Asians in the Americas: Interracial Alliances and the Post-national State Angharad Valdivia, University of Illinois Urbana Champaign 40 Organizer(s): Kathalene Razzano, George Mason University Cultural Studies Program Leah Perry, SUNY-Empire State College Cultural Studies Take On Parenting: Neoliberalism's Construction of Mom(s) and Dad(s) Leah Perry, State University of New York-Empire State College Exiled Mothers and Mothers of Exiles: The Reagan Revolution and Neoliberalizing Immigrant Motherhood Lene Myong, Department of Education, Aarhus University Karen Hvidtfeldt Madsen, Department of Cultural Studies, University of Southern Denmark (Trans)formations of Kinship: Representations of Fertility Consumerism Kathalene Razzano, Department of Cultural Studies, George Mason University How to Be a Neoliberal Dad: Paternity Testing and the Logic of Paternity Christine Quail, Department of Communication Studies and Multimedia Real Familes: The Crisis of Parenting on Reality TV Organizer(s): Kristina Gottschall, Charles Sturt University, Faculty Of Education Girlhood Imag(in)ings: Multiplicities, Bodies and Popular Culture Marnina Gonick, Mount Saint Vincent University Sue Gannon Joe Lambert, University of Western Sydney & Queensland University of Technology Old-fashioned and forward looking: Neoliberalism and Nostalgia in The Daring Books for Girls Kristina Gottschall, Charles Sturt University 2. Sue 3. Jo 4. Kellie 1. Gannon 2. Lampert 3. McGraw, 1. University of Western Sydney 2. Queensland University of Technology 3. Queensland University of Technology The Cyndi Lauper Affect: Bodies, Girlhood and Popular Culture Trough the Collective Biography Process Janice Hladki, McMaster Univeristy Disability and Girlhood: Anomalous Embodiment in Critical Video and Installation Organizer(s): Prudence Black, University Of Sydney "Girls" of the Jet Age and Beyond: Race, Retro-aesthetics and the Airline Industry Prudence Black, University of Sydney Marx, Hegel and Pan Am: Why History Won’t Save the Airlines Melissa Tyler, University of Essex Still Red Hot: Retro-marketing, Aestheticization and Post-feminism in the Airline Industry Catriona Moore, University of Sydney “You're a Great Way to Fly”: Asian Flight Hostesses and the Jet Age Catherine Driscoll, University of Sydney 41 Organizer(s): Chan Ching Mario Liong, Community College Of City University Lih Shing Alex Chan, Community College of City University Representations of East Asian Masculinities in Spaces of Consumption Culture Chan Ching Mario Liong, Community College of City University Lih Shing Alex Chan, Community College of City University Walking a Tightrope: Performing Chinese Young Masculinities in Hong Kong Romit Dasgupta, School of Social & Cultural Studies, The University of Western Australia Men, Cakes and Kitchens: Interrogating Heteronormative Hegemonic Masculinity in East Asian Visual Culture Chikako Nihei, University of Sydney The Evolution of Cooking Men in Japan: the “Herbivores” and Haruki Murakami’s Protagonists Organizer(s): Clarissa Smith, University Of Sunderland Everyday Engagements with Porn: Findings from the Pornresearch.org Project Feona Attwood, Sheffield Hallam University Women and Pornography Martin Barker, University of Aberystwyth Pornography's Patterns of Enjoyment Clarissa Smith, University of Sunderland Young People and Pornography Organizer(s): Robert Wosnitzer, New York University | Media, Culture And Communication Money in Time: Bringing Finance into History Noam Yuran, Tel Aviv University | Minerva Humanities Center Money's Absence of Past Bridget Kustin, Johns Hopkins Univeristy | Anthropology Stitching Islamic Finance Robert Wosnitzer, New York University | Media, Culture and Communication Speculative Ethos in/of Financial Culture 42 Organizer(s): Leslie Robinson, Departments Of Secondary Education And Art And Design, University Of Alberta Artivist interventions in Uganda: Co-creating Pedagogies for Youth-Led Community Messaging Carolina Cambre, King’s University College at the University of Western Ontario Andrew Jackson Obol, 'artivists 4 life' Uganda Alternative Representations in Research Lindsay Ruth Hunt, University of Alberta Cathy Mashakalugo, 'artivists 4 life' Uganda and Makerere University Walter Reed Project (MUWRP) Community Performance: Participatory Theatre with Youth Artivists Leslie Robinson, Departments of Secondary Education and Art and Design, University of Alberta Artivist Interactions: at the Crossroads of Acadamia, Art and Activism Paul Ugor, Centre of West African Studies, University of Birmingham Organizer(s): Melanie Bourdaa, Bordeaux 3, Laboratoire Mica Convergence Culture and Transmedia Strategies Melanie Bourdaa, Bordeaux 3, Laboratoire MICA Exploring new Universes. Transmedia Strategies and Immersive Storytelling Matt Hills, University of Cardiff, JOMEC “You Can't Tweet while You're Watching”: Steven Moffat's Doctor Who and Convergence Culture as the Discursive Management of TV Sharon Marie Ross, Television Department, Columbia College Chicago "I Don't Watch TV, Except When I Watch it Online": Teen Meanings and Practices of Convergence in the Post-Millennial Era Organizer(s): Tania Lewis, School Of Media And Communication, Rmit University Rowan Wilken, Swinburne University of Technology Green Cultural Studies Tania Lewis, SCHOOL OF MEDIA AND COMMUNICATION, RMIT UNIVERSITY Rowan Wilken, Melbourne Gleaners: Cultural Economies of Hard Rubbish Collecting Toby Miller, Department of Media and Cultural Studies, University of California, Riverside Green Gaming and its Obstacles Jo Littler, Media and Cultural Studies, Middlesex University Green Parenting: Childhood as Eco-fetish Andrew Ross, Professor of social and cultural analysis at New York University 43 Organizer(s): Larissa Hjorth, School Of Media And Communication, Rmit University Heather Horst, School of Media and Communication, RMIT University Mobile Lifestyles: Contemporary Mobile Consumption and Lifestyle Practices #1 Heather Horst, SCHOOL OF MEDIA AND COMMUNICATION, RMIT UNIVERSITY Erin B. Taylor, Universidade de Lisboa Mobile Securities: Technology and Livelihood in Haiti Jo Tacchi, School of Media and Communication, RMIT University Technologies of Attachment Larissa Hjorth, School of Media and Communication, RMIT University Heather Horst, School of Media and Communication, RMIT University Locating the Mobile: an Ethnographic Investigation into Locative Media Stephanie Hemelryk Donald, School of Media and Communication, RMIT University Organizer(s): Stephen Jacobs, University Of Wolverhampton Help Your Self: Therapeutic Solutions and Self-Empowerment Alan Apperley, University of Wolverhampton Le Monde C’est Moi: Education and the Development of The Self Stephen Jacobs, University of Wolverhampton Inner Peace and Global Harmony: Individual Therapy and Global Solutions in the Art of Living Foundation Mark Jones, University of Wolverhampton Potentially (Un)tapped: Exploiting the Unused Brain Organizer(s): Deirdre Murphy, Bachelor'S Program, Culinary Institute Of America Exotic Pasts and Repasts: Culinary Orientalism in the Nineteenth Century Kristin Bayer, Marist College Fear of Trade or Fearful Trade: China as Vector of Contagious Tea in the 19th Century and it Role in Globalization Today Beth Forrest, Bachelor's Program, Culinary Institute of America Corps de réserve: History, Cuisine and National Leftovers in 19th-Century Spain Deirdre Murphy, Bachelor's Program, Culinary Institute of America Food Fighting and Chinese Exclusion in the 19th Century United States Christy Shields-Argeles, American University of Paris and Centre Edgar Morin 44 Organizer(s): Elena Razlogova, Concordia University (Montreal), History Jonathan Sterne, McGill University, Art History and Communication Studies Vocal Technologies Carlotta Darò, École d'Architecture de Paris-Malaquais, France Telephone Art Jonathan Sterne, McGill University, Art History and Communication Studies Grounding Auto-Tune Nina Sun Eidsheim , University of California, Los Angeles, Herb Alpert School of Music Body-Voice Technologies: Contemporary U.S. Opera as Multi-sensory Practice Elena Razlogova, Concordia University, Montreal, History Simultaneous Translators and the Soviet Experience of Foreign Cinema Organizer(s): Mónica Szurmuk, University Of Buenos Aires-Conicet-Institute Of Latin American Literature What Can We Learn From Latin American Cultural Studies ? Robert Mckee Irwin, University of California, Davis, Graduate Group in Cultural Studies The Idiosyncratic Trajectories of Cultural Studies in the Americas Marta Cabrera, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Department of Cultural Studies Cultural Studies in the Andean Region: Challenges to "la Práctica" Ana Wortman, University of Buenos Aires-Gino Germani Institute-Facultad de Ciencias Sociales Graduate Programs in Cultural Management in Mercosur Countries: Cultural Studies as Knowledge Mónica Szurmuk, University of Buenos Aires-Conicet-Institute of Latin American Literature Organizer(s): Larissa Hjorth, School Of Media And Communication, Rmit University Tania Lewis, School of Media and Communication, RMIT University Mobile Lifestyles: Contemporary Mobile Consumption and Lifestyle Practices #2 Gerard Goggin, Department of Media and Communication, University of Sydney Smartphone Life: Youth and Mobile Media in Australia Rowan Wilken , Swinburne University of Technology The Situated Mobile Self: Mobile Phones, Lifestyle Consumption and the Importance of Locatability Monty Aska, Colombus Consulting Mobility on the Field: what Mobility Yields for Organisations Kate Crawford, University of New South Wales 45 Organizer(s): Felicity Collins, La Trobe University, Melbourne. The Humane Affect Lilie Chouliaraki, London School of Economics Contemporary Politics of Solidarity Felicity Collins, La Trobe University The Moral Voice and the Ethical Eye Susannah Radstone, University of East London Ethical Spectatorship & the Politics of Care Organizer(s): Handel Wright, University Of British Columbia Youth Today! (1) Troubling Identity Formation and Place Making Robert Helfenbien, Indiana University - Purdue University Spaces of Possibility for Urban Youth Anoop Nayak, Newcastle University Visceral Racism: Skinhead Youth, ‘Weighty Emotions’ and ‘Fleshy Encounters’ in the Postcolonial Suburbs Handel Wright, University of British Columbia Borderland Identities: Queering the Edges of the American Multicultural Nation Organizer(s): Handel Wright, University Of British Columbia Youth Today! (2) Agency and Activism, Media Production and Education Bronwen Low, MdGill University Reading the “Youth” of Community Media Projects and Products Michael Hoechsmann, Lakehead University Producing Youth: Sites and Scenes of Possibility Marie-Therese Atsena-Abogo, University of Laval Are we all Quebecers? Limoilou Starz Black Identity and Hip-Hop Music’s Reception in Quebec City Pepi Leistyna, University of Massachusetts Youth Activism: The Role of Critical Pedagogy in the 21st Century 46 Organizer(s): Sofia Sampaio, Centre For Research In Anthropology (Cria), Instituto Universitário De Lisboa Cultural Studies in Portugal: Researching Culture, Nation and Memory Maria João Ramos, Beja Polytechnic Higher Institute, Arts Humanities and Sport Department Opening up the Archive: Untold, Forgotten Histories and Memories of the São Domingos Mine Marcos Cardão, CEHC, Instituto Universitário de Lisboa Allegories of the Nation. Histories of Luso-tropicalism in Mass Culture Sofia Sampaio, Centre for Research in Anthropology (CRIA), Instituto Universitário de Lisboa Image-making and National Identity in Portuguese Touristic Films Organizer(s): Lara Campbell, Simon Fraser University Warriors, Cowards, Heroes: Reading Masculinity Across Borders and Margins Willeen Keough, Simon Fraser University Warriors, Rogues, and Murderers: Cultural Production of Knowledge about Masculinities in the Canadian Seal Hunt Lara Campbell, Simon Fraser University ‘American Impotence, American Tragedy’: Shame, Bravery and, Masculinity during the Vietnam War Marie Hammond-Callaghan, Mount Allison University Cold Warriors and Militant Mothers: Voice of Women, Canada, under the Gaze of the Canadian Security State in the 1960s Colette Colligan, Department of English Literature The Picture of Dorian Gray in Paris and Expatriate Literary Culture Kirsten McAllister, School of Communication, Simon Fraser University Organizer(s): Sheila Lynn, York University, Sexuality Studies Program The Queer Bathroom Monologues Sheila Cavanagh, York University, Sexuality Studies Program. Queer Performance Ethnography Bobby Noble, York University, English and Women's Studies Critical Commentary on the Queer Bathroom Monologues 47 Organizer(s): Rafico Ruiz, Mcgill University, Communication Studies Time Discipline Rafico Ruiz, McGill University, Communication Studies Living Iceberg Alley: The New Media of Natural Resources Emily Raine, McGill University, Communication Studies "Good Service": Time, Surplus Value, and Service Workers Dylan Mulvin, McGill University, Communication Studies Videotape and Temporal Displacement: The Postwar Workplace as Media Environment Organizer(s): Marie-Thérèse Atséna Abogo, Laval University / Department Of Anthropology Violence and Insecurity in the City: the Creation of Imaginary and Real Strategies to Fight Violence and Insecurity Marie-Thérèse Atséna Abogo, Laval University / Department of anthropology Hip-hop as an Imaginary Space: the Fight Against Violence within Immigrant Youth of Limoilou Starz Annie Bélizaire, Laval University / Hautes Etudes Internationales Haitian Behavior Facing Insecurity in the Political Context of a Failed State Pierre Boris N'Nde Takukam, Laval University / Department of anthropology Security and Governmentality around Vernacular Local Practices Abderrahmane Moussaoui , Maison Méditerranéenne des Sciences de l’Homme / Université de Provence AixMarseille Organizer(s): Fabrice Desmarais, The University Of Waikato, Department Of Management Communication Discursive Constructions of National Identity, Ethnicity, Gender and Consumerism through Mediasport Fabrice Desmarais, The University of Waikato, Department of Management Communication The Construction of the French as ‘Others’ in the New Zealand Media During the 2011 Rugby World Cup. Lawrence A Wenner, Loyola Marymount University, College of Communication & Fine Arts and the School of Film & Television The Mediasport Interpellation: Gender, Fanship, and Consumer Culture Toni Bruce, The University of Auckland, Faculty of Education Discursive Constructions of ‘Real’ New Zealanders: the Opening up of Forms of Ethnic Identity during the 2011 Rugby World Cup 48 Organizer(s): Joanna Radwanska-Williams, Macao Polytechnic Institute Isabel Morais, University of Saint Joseph Cultural Spaces of Contemporary Macao Sihui Mao, Macao Polytechnic Institute Hybridising Cultural Spaces of Macao: Transformations of a 'Sin City' to 'Sim City' Isabel Morais, University of Saint Joseph Resurgence and Reinvention of Macanese Creole Theatre Zi-yu Lin, Macao Polytechnic Institute When Cultures Meet in an Academic Library Joanna Radwanska-Williams, Macao Polytechnic Institute Macao: Virtual or Real? Organizer(s): S.M.Gietty Tambunan, Lingnan University Social, Cultural and Political Issues in the Indonesian Mediascapes Asri Saraswati, University of Indonesia Talking Back to the Authority: An Analysis on Indonesian Documentaries after the New Order Ully Putri, University of Colorado at Boulder What Has Changed since the 1980s? HIV/AIDS and News Production in Indonesia S.M.Gietty Tambunan, University of Indonesia The Multiple Dimensions of Audience Engagement: East Asian Television Dramas in Indonesia Organizer(s): John Tebbutt, La Trobe University, Centre For Creative Arts Auditory imagination John Tebbutt, La Trobe University, Centre for Creative Arts Found Sound, Crafting Archival Audio Amy Tsilemanis, La Trobe University; Centre for Creative Arts Audio-led Performance and the Re-imagining of Space: A Consideration of Recent Work in Victoria, Australia Eurydice Aroney, University of technology Sydney, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Social and Political Change Group Disorderly Voices: Sex Workers and Sex Work on the Radio Virginia Madesen Madsen, Macquarie University, Dept of Media, Music, Communication & Cultural Studies New Acoustic Documentary Online, Emerging Pod-ecologies and The Memory of Radi 49 Organizer(s): Rikke Schubart, University Of Southern Denmark, Dept. Of Literature, Media And Cultural Studies Bad Sex, Women, and the Art of Sexual Transgression Part I: Mixed Emotions Rikke Schubart, University of Southern Denmark, Dept. of literature, Media and Cultural Studies Women and the Bio-Logic of Vengeance in The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (2009) and Antichrist (2009) Angela Tumini, Chapman University, Languages Department Feminine Transgression, Sexuality, and Depressive Decline in Lars von Trier’s Breaking the Waves (1996) and Melancholia (2011) Deborah Walker-Morrison, University of Auckland, French Bad Sex in the Films of Catherine Breillat: A Bio-Cultural Reading Ann-Catrine Eriksson, Umeå university, Department of Culture and Media Studies Do You Think I’m Sexy? The Female Nude Kicks Back Organizer(s): Amy Niang, University Of The Witwatersrand Contestation Art and Democratised Imaginations among African Youths Amy Niang, University of the Witwatersrand From Youth Resistance to Counterculture Activism: Case Studies from Burkina Faso and Senegal Maria Suriano, University of the Witwatersrand Political Commitment and ‘Polite’ Dissent among Bongo Flava Artists in Tanzania Jenny Fatou Mbaye, London School of Economics Hip Hop Transcultural Politics: Reflexive Notes on the Senegalese Biopolity Anne Schumann, School of Literature and Language Studies (SLLS), University of the Witwatersrand Music at War: Reggae Musicians as Political Actors in the Ivoirian Crisis Achille Mbembe, Organizer(s): Paul Smith, George Mason University Cultural Studies as/and Critical Sociology Nick Couldry, Goldsmiths, University of London Cultural Studies and the Sociology of Voice Paul Smith, George Mason University The Voice of Reason: Marcuse, Sociology, and Cultural Studies Imre Szeman, University of Alberta Conscience and the Common Avery Gordon, University of California, Santa Barbara 50 Organizer(s): Zoe Sofoulis, University Of Western Sydney - Institute For Culture And Society Ien Ang, University of Western Sydney - Institute for Culture and Society Knowledge Translation for Change: the Good, the Bad and the Immeasurable Zoe Sofoulis, University of Western Sydney - Institute for Culture and Society The Trickle Up Effect: Translating Sociocultural Research into an Urban Water Context T.V. Reed, Washington State University - Department of English Translating Direct Action for Neo-liberalized Audiences Gay Hawkins, University of Queensland - Centre for Critical and Cultural Studies Marketing Activist Knowledge: Translation, Publics and Publicity Organizer(s): Adam Rottinghaus, University Of North Carolina At Chapel Hill - Department Of Communication Studies Sarah Sharma, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill - Department of Communication Studies Future Imaginaries and the Temporality of the Immediate Chung Kin Tsang, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill - Department of Communication Studies Living through Flexible Capitalism: Young People and their Ways of Life-Planning in Hong Kong Carolyn Hardin, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill - Department of Communication Studies The Temporal Imaginaries of Finance Adam Rottinghaus, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill - Department of Communication Studies Commodity Futures: Consumer Electronic Advertisements and Politics of the Future Sarah Sharma, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill - Department of Communication Studies Organizer(s): Steve Collins, Macquarie University, Department Of Media, Music, Communication & Cultural Studies OK Computer?: Music and the Internet beyond “Piracy” Graham Meikle, University of Stirling, School of Arts and Humanities “It’s Nice to Share”: Cultural Motivations for Online Music Sharing Steve Collins, Macquarie University, Department of Media, Music, Communication & Cultural Studies Sherman Young, Macquarie University, Department of Media, Music, Communication & Cultural Studies Music 2.0? Disintermediation or Just Global Busking? Philipp Peltz, Macquarie University, Department of Media, Music, Communication & Cultural Studies The Economics of Music Competitions on the Internet 51 Organizer(s): Maxime Cervulle, Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne University, Leta-Cricc Uncovering Whiteness. Race Relations in the Contemporary French Public Sphere Nelly Quemener, King's College, CIM “I myself have no origins”: Laughing at Whites in French TV Stand-Up Comedy Maxime Cervulle, Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University, LETA-CRICC Fade to White. Film Audiences and Racial Subjectification Marion Dalibert, Charles-de-Gaulle Lille 3 University GERIICO (Re)production of Whiteness and Antiracist Social Movements in the French Public Sphere Franck Freitas, Paris 8 Saint-Denis University, GTM-Lab Top/CNRS Organizer(s): Craig Robertson, Northeastern University Articulating Technology and Labour in the Workplace: Office Technologies and/as Technologies of the Self. Craig Robertson, Northeastern University Learning to File: Efficiency, Information, and the Modern Office Melissa Gregg, University of Sydney Becoming Professional: Technologies of the Self in Office Culture Mark Andrejevic, University of Queensland/University of Iowa Mining Employee Data: the Workplace Productivity of Social Networking Organizer(s): Intan Paramaditha, New York University, Department Of Cinema Studies A Decade After Authoritarianism: Spaces, Apertures, and Friction in Indonesia Nuraini Juliastuti, Leiden University Institute for Area Studies & KUNCI Cultural Studies, Yogyakarta Knowledge Production of Alternative Spaces Intan Paramaditha, New York University, Department of Cinema Studies Film, Sexuality, and the Construction of the Secular Space Ugoran Prasad, Universiteit van Amsterdam & Teater Garasi: Laboratory of Theater Creation, Yogyakarta Reclaiming the Body as Space 52 Organizer(s): Allison Schlobohm, University Of North Carolina- Chapel Hill Embodying Control: Reading US Discourses of Health as Biopolitical Regimes of Truth Allison Schlobohm, University of North Carolina- Chapel Hill “A Plan as Simple as ABC”: Domestic Discourses of Race and Their Inflection in International AIDS Legislation Bryce Bartlett, Washington University in St. Louis Social Media and Performing Anonymity: Why does the Privacy Principle Create Structural Deficiencies in Protecting Health Information? Josh Smicker, UNC-Chapel Hill Notes on Biomilitarization: Resilient Subjects, Flexible Violence and Contemporary Military Embodiment Organizer(s): Scott Mcquire, University Of Melbourne, School Of Culture And Communication, Media And Communications Networked Public Space Scott Mcquire, University of Melbourne, School of Culture and Communication, Media and Communications The Right to the Networked City Amelia Barikin, University of Melbourne, School of Culture and Communication, Spatial Aesthetics Program Networked Performance in the Transnational Public Sphere: A Case Study Sean Cubitt, Winchester Centre for Global Futures in Art Design and Media, Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton Ecocritique, Mediation, the 'Public' and Public Space Nikos Papastergiadis, University of Melbourne, School of Culture and Communication Organizer(s): Roberto Strongman, Ucsb Black Studies Eric Anton Heuser, Frei Universität Caribbean Religions at the Crossroads Roberto Strongman, UCSB Black Studies Transcorporeality in Cuban Lucumí Religion Eric Anton Heuser, Frei Universität The Politics of Friendship in Transoceanic Islamic Insularisms Claudine Michel, Vodou Responses to the Haitian 2010 Earthquake Lucy Wilson, 53 Organizer(s): Kris Rutten, Ghent University Ronald Soetaert, Ghent University Cultural Studies & Rhetoric Kris Rutten, Ghent University Ronald Soetaert, Cultural Studies in/as Pedagogy. Rhetorical Perspectives on Education Dilip Parameshwar Gaonkar, Northwestern University From Representation to Circulation: Changing Nexus between Rhetoric and Cultural Studies Ronald Greene, University of Minnesota Rhetoric in/as Cultural Policy Ted Striphas , Indiana University Organizer(s): Kris Rutten, Ghent University Gilbert Rodman , ACS Summer Institute - Round table Mahdis Azarmandi, Universitat Jaume I Participant at ACS SI 2011 Mikko Lehtonen , University of Tampere Faculty Staff at ACS SI 2011 Chantal Cornut-Gentille D'Arcy, University of Zaragoza Faculty Staff at ACS SI 2011, ACS representative Organizer(s): Susanna Paasonen, University Of Turku, Media Studies Affect, Media and Methodology Annette Markham, University of Arizona, Department of Communication Play in the Field: Methods for Breaking Frame and Getting Closer to Affect in Mediatized Social Contexts Jenny Sundén, Södertörn University, School of Gender, Culture & History Passionate Technologies Katariina Kyrölä, Stockholm University, Department of Film Studies Heavy Feeling? Precious (2009) and Affective Spectatorship Susanna Paasonen, University of Turku, Media Studies On (not) Feeling it 54 Organizer(s): Joke Hermes, Inholland University, Media, Culture And Citizenship Research Group Ann Gray, University of Lincoln, Dept. of Media and Cultural Studies Rationality and Authenticity. Jon Cruz, University of California, Department of Sociology Music's Antinomies After the Digital Turn Pertti Alasuutari, University of Tampere Karin (2nd presenter); Ali (3) Creutz-Kämppi; Qadir, U of Helsinki; U of Tampere The Domestication of Global News: The Case of the Arab Spring Jan Teurlings, U of Amsterdam, Dept. of Media and Culture Studies after Populism: Gramsci, Post-operaismo and the Contemporary Culture Industries Joke Hermes, The Mattering of Television Organizer(s): Dorota Golanska, University Of Lodz, Department Of Transatlantic And Media Studies & Women'S Studies Center (Re)constructing Nationalism: The Politics of Terror and Memory in Popular Culture Aleksandra Rozalska, University of Lodz, Department of Transatlantic and Media Studies & Women's Studies Center Narrating the Experiences of the War on Terror in American Television Series Heather Hadar Wright, Wittenberg University Consuming the War on Terror: the Politics of Popular versus “Highbrow” Representations in the United States Dorota Golanska, University of Lodz, Department of Transatlantic and Media Studies & Women's Studies Center Emotions, Affect and Memory: Remarks on the 9/11 Memorial in New York City Organizer(s): Valérie Billaudeau, Université D'Angers - Laboratoire Eso-Carta - Umr Cnrs 6590 Personnal Indebtedness in France – Pays de la Loire : Easy money, trapped money Richard Gaillard, Université d'Angers - laboratoire ESO-CARTA - UMR CNRS 6590 Predictable Failure of the Fight Against "Personnal Over-indebtedness" in France: Sociological Study of a Form of Assistance Emmanuel Bioteau, Université d'Angers - laboratoire ESO-CARTA - UMR CNRS 6590 Territories and Territoriality of Over-indebtedness Billaudeau Valérie, Université d'Angers - laboratoire ESO-CARTA - UMR CNRS 6590 When Television Talks about Overindebtedness Pascal Glémain, Université d'Angers - laboratoire ESO-CARTA - UMR CNRS 6590 55 Organizer(s): Aude Dieudé, Duke University Culture, Knowledge and Power in the Nineteenth Century in Paris: French Fascinations with Africa and Haiti Aude Dieudé, Duke University An Haitian Anthropologist in Paris: The Resistance and Significance of Firmin’s "De l’Egalité des Races Humaines" (1885) Tara Menon, Yale University A God’s Eye View: Aerial Perspective and the 'Mission Civilisatrice' in Jules Verne’s "Cinq semaines en ballon" (1863) Kristin Adele Graves, Yale University Mummies and the French Mission Civilisatrice: Egypt as Spectacular Synecdoche of Africa(ns), 1828-1829 Organizer(s): Greg Hainge, University Of Queensland Rethinking Noise Greg Hainge, University of Queensland. Resistant Noise Paul Hegarty, University College Cork. Economies of Noise Elizabeth Stephens, Centre for the History of European Discourses, University of Queensland. Brilliant Noise Organizer(s): Nengeh Maria Mensah, Université Du Québec À Montréal, École De Travail Social Comparing the Testimonial Cultures of Sexual and Gender Minorities: Uses, Challenges and Crossroads Impact Thomas Haig, Université du Québec à Montréal, École de travail social Engaging With Visibility and Voice: A Participatory Methodology for Multi-sectoral Research on Testimonial Cultures Janik Bastien-Charlebois, Université du QUébec à Montréal, Département de sociologie LGBTQ Testimonial Practices: Discrepancies and the Challenge of Inner Inclusion Martine Delvaux, Université du Québec à Montréal, Département d'études littéraires Testimonials and Women’s Survival, or when Cultural Studies Intersects with Creativity Nengeh Maria Mensah, Université du Québec à Montréal, École de travail social and Institut de recherches et d'études féministes “Testimonial Cultures" and Crossroads? 56 Organizer(s): Alexandre Baril, University Of Ottawa, Institute Of Women'S Studies Kathryn Trevenen, University of Ottawa, Institute of Women's Studies Standardizing the Normal: Pathologization, Regulation and Surveillance of Bodies and Identities Alexandre Baril, University of Ottawa, Institute of Women's Studies Kathryn Trevenen, University of Ottawa, Institute of Women's Studies Exploring Ableism and Cisnormativity in the Conceptualization of Identity and Sexuality «Disorders» Janik Bastien Charlebois, Université du Québec à Montréal, Département de sociologie The Politics of Naming the «In-Between»: Intersex People and Disorders of Sex Development Monique Lanoix, Appalachian State University, Department of Philosophy and Religion Aging Women and Faulty Bodies Claire Grino, Philosophies contemporaines (PhiCo) Université Paris 1 - Panthéon-Sorbonne, France / Université Laval, Québec, Philosophie Organizer(s): Simone Bignall, University Of New South Wales, School Of History And Philosophy Zones of Postcolonial Contact: Ngarrindjeri Negotiations in Australia Robin Boast, Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Cambridge. Steve Hemming, Flinders University, South Australia Autoethnography: The Forgotten Feature of the Contact Zone Julie Matthews, University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Australia Robert Hattam, University of South Australia Ngarrindjeri Weaving: Silence, Secrets and Politics Daryle Rigney, Yunggorendi, First Nations Centre for Higher Education and Research, Flinders University, South Australia Simone Bignall, University of New South Wales, School of History and Philosophy Letters Patent: the Postcolonial Time that Remains Organizer(s): Jaap Kooijman, University Of Amsterdam, Media Studies Astrid Fellner, Saarland University American Celebrities and Global Pop Culture Susanne Hamscha, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen / FU Berlin Bad Romance with America ? Approaching America Through Pop Culture Astrid Fellner, Saarland University, Department of North American Literatures and Cultures Cool Gaga: Lady Gaga as an Icon of Americanness Jaap Kooijman, University of Amsterdam At Last: Beyoncé, Michael Jackson, Obama and the Utopia of a Post-Racial World 57 Organizer(s): Ana Cruz, St. Louis Community College-Meramec Aspects of Deaf Culture Viewed through the Lenses of Cultural Studies and Critical Pedagogy Haggith Gor, Kibbutzim College of Education Inclusion of Deaf Students in Higher Education Galia Zalamanson Levi , Kibbutzim College of Education Deaf Students in the Discourse of Hegemony in Israeli Society Ana Cruz, St. Louis Community College-Meramec Re-Imagining the Education of the Deaf: Music, Critical Pedagogy and Radical Literacy Organizer(s): Tamara Vukov, Drexel University, Center For Mobilities Research And Policy Ayesha Hameed, Goldsmiths, University of London - Centre for Research Architecture Visual Economies of the Border Ayesha Hameed, Goldsmiths, University of London - Center for Research Architecture Temporal Borders: The Jungle and the Ordering of Nature Tamara Vukov, Drexel University, Center for Mobilities Research and Policy Drone Visions, Drone Sensing: The Visual Politics of UAV Technologies in Border Surveillance Charles Heller, Goldsmiths, University of London - Center for Research Architecture Perception Management - The International Organization for Migration’s Information Campaigns Lorenzo Pezzani, Goldsmiths, University of London - Center for Research Architecture Surveillance Technologies Against the Grain: The Productive Ambivalence of Visible Evidence in a Lawsuit over State Non-Assistance with respect to Migrant Marine Deaths Organizer(s): Handel Wright, University Of British Columbia Chantal Cornut-Gentille D’Arcy, University of Saragoza Difference at the End of Multiculturalism #1: Putting Waning Multiculturalism, Cosmopolitanism and Biopolitics to Work Joke Hermes, InHolland University of Applied Sciences Past Multicultural Populism: Rethinking Cultural Studies as a Political Project Mary Bryson, University of British Columbia Mapping Affect & Nomadic Mobilities: The Queer Biopolitics of Feeling Cancer Mica Nava, University of East London Visceral Cosmopolitanism: from Alterity to Mere Difference Handel Kashope Wright, University of British Columbia, Faculty of Education Waning Multiculturalism and its Ascending Alternatives 58 Organizer(s): Graham Meikle, University Of Stirling Surrendering the Space ?: Possible Futures for Cultural Studies Curricula Graeme Turner, University of Queensland Cultural Studies, Digital Media and the Future of the Curriculum Melissa Gregg, University of Sydney Teaching Cultural Studies to Rich Kids Sherman Young, Macquarie University Whither Media Studies: Maintaining Research-led Teaching in a New Media Environment Graham Meikle, University of Stirling Organizer(s): Noémi Michel, University Of Geneva, Department Of Political Science And International Relations Raceless Racisms in Switzerland Sushila Mesquita , University of Vienna, Gender Research Office (Referat Genderforschung) Patricia Purtschert, Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich, Professur für Philosophie Saving Those Queers from the Homophobic Other – Switzerland and Homonationalism Noémi Michel, University of Geneva, Department of Political Science and International Relations (Un-)naming racism in Switzerland - A Critical Study of the Swiss Controversy over the “Black Sheep” Poster Manuela Honegger, University of Lausanne, Institute of Political & International Studies The Production of Raceless Racism in Swiss Social Welfare Institutions Manuela Honegger, University of Lausanne, Institute of Political & International Studies Organizer(s): Huma Dar, University Of California, Berkeley Performing/Protesting The Nation: Feces, Food, Figure, Film Deepti Misri, University of Colorado, Boulder The Politics of Shamelessness Sunera Thobani, University of British Columbia, Vancouver Performing Muslims, Presenting Gujarat: Indian Cinema and the Politics of 'Communal' Violence Huma Dar, University of California, Berkeley Return of the Abject: Shitting/Stripping/Eating the Empire 59 Organizer(s): Ramon Lobato, Swinburne University Of Technology Parallel cinemas: Circuits of Cultural Exchange in the Global South Ramon Lobato, Swinburne University of Technology Connecting the Formal and Informal Media Economies Alessandro Jedlowski, Dept. of Studies and Research on African and Arab Countries, University of Naples "L'Orientale" Hegemonies and Complementarities: The Ghanaian and Nigerian Video Industries in Comparative Perspective Alice Burgin, University of Melbourne/Université de Paris Ouest Miracle or Monopoly? South Africa's M-Net and the Changing Landscape of Sub-Saharan Film Distribution Chair: Meaghan Morris, Univesity of Sydney; Lingnan, HK Organizer(s): Edgar Roberto Kirchof, Ulbra - Universidade Luterana Do Brasil Cultural Studies and Education in Brazil – Main Contributions in the Last Twenty Years Marisa Vorraber Costa, ULBRA - UNIVERSIDADE LUTERANA DO BRASIL On the Contributions of Cultural Analysis to Teacher's Work and Teacher's Education in the Beginning of the XXIth Century Edgar Roberto Kirchof, ULBRA - Universidade Luterana Do Brasil Iara Bonin, ULBRA - Universidade Luterana Do Brasil Children´s fiction and Cultural Studies in Brazil Rosa Hessel Silveira, ULBRA - Universidade Luterana Do Brasil Identity and Difference – Approaches in the Field of Education in Brazil Organizer(s): Erin Morton, University Of New Brunswick, Department Of History The Political Economy of Affects and Belonging I Susan Cahill, Nipissing University, Department of Fine and Performing Arts Visualizing the Affective Terrains of War Alexandre Emboaba Da Costa, Queen's University, Cultural Studies Program and Department of Global Development Studies Being and Belonging in Brazil: Divergent Perspectives on Difference and the Politics of Race Dia Da Costa, Queen's University, Department of Global Development Studies Cruel Optimism Among a Surplus Population of "Born Criminals" 60 Organizer(s): Erin Morton, University Of New Brunswick, Department Of History The Political Economy of Affects and Belonging II Jeffrey Barbeau, Queen's University, Cultural Studies Program Virtual Reality Erin Morton, University of New Brunswick, Department of History Affecting the Historical Present, Unsettling the Historical Past Organizer(s): Suzanne Bergeron, University Of Michigan, Dearborn Jyoti Puri, Simmons College Sexuality Between State and Class S. Charusheela, University of Washington, Bothell Sexing Economy: Gender and Desire between Labor/Exploitation and Consumption/Choice Drucilla Barker, University of South Carolina Rethinking/Queering the Paradox of Caring Labor Colin Danby, University of Washington, Bothell Postwar Norm Jyoti Puri, Simmons College The Sexual State: Governance, Sexuality, and State-effect Organizer(s): Chantal Cornut-Gentille D'Arcy , University Of Zaragoza Handel Wright , University of British Columbia, Faculty of Education Difference at the End of Multiculturalism #2: Visual Representations of Identity, Identification and the Politics of Difference Juan Tarancón, University of Zaragoza Fluid Borders: Contemporary Representations of Latino/a Culture in the United States Chris Weedon, Cardiff University Encountering Difference in Contemporary British Film Glenn Jordan, Cardiff School of Creative and Cultural Industries, Photography as Empathetic Cultural Politics: Life Portraits of People from Diverse Ethnic Backgrounds in Wales and Ireland Chantal Cornut-Gentille D'Arcy, University of Zaragoza 61 Organizer(s): Caroline Bainbridge, University Of Roehampton Mediatization, Emotion and Popular Culture Caroline Bainbridge, University of Roehampton Media Objects, Emotion and Identity Candida Yates, University of East London Fatherhood, UK Political Culture and the New Politics Organizer(s): Matthew Unger, University Of Alberta Social Conditions of Aesthetic Judgment in Extreme Music Cultures Daniel Brophy, University of Alberta Sonic Repulsion: The Technique of Inflicting Noise in Extreme Musics Ruth Guechtal, University of Alberta The Use and Purpose of Noise in Acoustic Contemporary Composition Matthew Unger, University of Alberta The Dialectic of Transgression and Authenticity in Extreme Metal Music Gérôme Guibert, University of Sorbonne Nouvelle “Marche ou Crève”. Trust and the singular birth of French heavy metal in the late 70’s Organizer(s): Osée Kamga, University Of Sudbury African Future: Beyond Postcolonial Perspectives ? Boulou Ebanda De B’Béri, University of Ottawa Beyond the “Post-colony” What Seems to be at Stake ? Christian Agbobli, Université du Québec à Montréal Between Self-disclosure and the Knowing of the Other: African’s Future Osée Kamga, University of Sudbury The Quest for Africaness in an Era of Fleeting Identity Osée Kamga, University of Sudbury Organizer(s): Birkan Tas, Amsterdam School For Cultural Analysis, University Of Amsterdam For Better of For Worse: Queer Theory and "the Good Life" Will Gibbens, University of Amsterdam "Other-ly Love": The New Queer Optimism Birkan Tas, Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis, University of Amsterdam Queer Future: Between Death and Life 62 Organizer(s): Liudmila Voronova, Baltic And East European Graduate School (Beegs), Södertörn University Ekaterina Kalinina, Baltic and East European Graduate School (BEEGS), Södertörn University P5: Prang of Power, Past, and Present in Post-Soviet discourses Ilkin Mehrabov, Department of Media and Communication Studies (MKV), Karlstad University Surveillance, Gender and Social Media: New Politics of Opposition in Azerbaijan Nadezda Petrusenko, Baltic and East European Graduate School (BEEGS), Södertörn University Holy Virgin Mary: Gender Stereotypes in Historical Representations of Maria Spiridonova Yuliya Yurchuk, Baltic and East European Graduate School (BEEGS), Södertörn University Memorial Representation of the Experiences of WWII in Post-soviet Ukraine: Past vs. Present, Tradition vs. Innovation, Global vs Liudmila Voronova, Baltic and East European Graduate School (BEEGS), Södertörn University Women Politicians Under Construction: Russian Journalists and Editors about Gendered Representations of Politicians and their Production Ekaterina Kalinina, Baltic and East European Graduate School (BEEGS), Södertörn University New Russian Cultural Identity Built Upon Emotionality and Selective Remembering: Case Study of Russian Designer Brand Shapovalova Organizer(s): Antoine Rodriguez, Universite Charles De Gaulle - Lille3 Homo: Sexualities Made in Mexico Pauline Rousseau, ENS DE LYON Homophobic crime on the Mexican scene: Taking out from Backstage to the Forgotten by Justice Antoine Rodriguez, Université Charles de Gaulle - Lille 3 Enjoy the Myths: When the Mexican Gay Porn Revisited Macho Culture Karine Tinat, El Colegio de Mexico Let’s Stroll in the Woods While the Gay is There... Organizer(s): Geetha Ganapathy-Doré, Université Paris 13 And Cree (Crea, Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense) Objects and Subjects of Desire in Colonial Photography and Postcolonial Cinema Yannick Le Boulicaut, Université Catholique d'Angers, CIRHILL & Université d'Angers Through Western Lenses Nalin Jeyasena, Miami University The Economy of Desire and the Avant-Garde: Asoka Handagama’s This is My Moon Geetha Ganapathy-Doré, Université Paris 13:CREE (CREA, Université Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense) In the Mood for Peace: Vimukthi Jeyasundara's Enu Pinisa (The Forsaken Land, 2005) 63 Wendy Cutler, Université Catholique d'Angers Women as Objects of Desire in Bollywood Cinema: the Role of the Cabaret Dancer Organizer(s): Sophie Mccall, English Department, Simon Fraser University Christine Kim, English department - Simon Fraser University Cultural Grammars of Nation, Diaspora, and Indigeneity in Canada Christine Kim, English Department, Simon Fraser University Future Imperfect: Racialized Diasporas, Entangled Postmemories, and Kyo Maclear’s "The Letter Opener" Sophie Mccall, English Department - Simon Fraser University Present Tense: Diaspora and Nation in Métis Writing Melina Baum Singer, English Department, University of Western Ontario Past Participles, Unhomely Moves: A.M. Klein, Jewish Diasporic Difference, Racialization, and Coercive Whiteness David Chariandy, English Department, Simon Fraser University Organizer(s): Cynthia Wright, York University, Toronto, Canada Deportation, Illegality and the Making of the Racial-National Imaginary in Canada: Rethinking the 1960s and 1970s Mary-Jo Nadeau, University of Toronto Eve Haque, York University Re-inventing Canada as a Dual White Settler Nation in the Golden era of Royal Commissions Cynthia Wright, York University A Pre-history of “No Borders” Sean Mills, University of Toronto Quebec, Haiti, and Echoes of Empire: The Deportation Crisis of 1974 Organizer(s): Simone Bignall, University Of New South Wales, School Of History And Philosophy Pedagogical Cultures of Friendship Rob Hattam, University of South Australia, School of Education Critical Pedagogies of Friendship Sam Sellar, University of Queensland, School of Education Fear and Friendship: Potential Politics in Education Michalinos Zembylas, Open University of Cyprus, School of Education Pedagogies of Strategic Empathy: Navigating through the Emotional Complexities of Anti-racism in Higher Education 64 Organizer(s): Patrick Farges, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle - Paris 3; E.A. 4223 Cereg Anne Isabelle Francois, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle - Paris 3; E.A. 172 - CERC Representing Exoticized Masculinities Part I Marguerite Chabrol, Université Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense Marlene and the « Boys in the Back Room »: Playing with Pasculinity in Classic Hollywood Pierre-Olivier Toulza, Université Paris Diderot Vampires in Transit: the “Incoherent” Masculinity in Today’s Vampire Series Charles-Antoine Courcoux, University of Lausanne, History & Aesthetic of Cinema Decentering as Recentering: the Case of Viktor Navorski’s Masculinity in The Terminal Maxime Cervulle, Université Paris I - Panthéon Sorbonne, Etudes culturelles Organizer(s): Patrick Farges, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle - Paris 3; E.A. 4223 Cereg Anne Isabelle Francois, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle - Paris 3; E.A. 172 - CERC Representing Exoticized Masculinities Part II Anne Isabelle Francois, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle - Paris 3 Travels with my Uncle. Exoticized Masculinity in W. G. Sebald’s "The Emigrants" Raphael Costambeys-Kempczynski, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle - Paris 3 “Jesus Saves” John Sears, Manchester Metropolitan University, Department of English Wild Masculinities: William S. Burroughs’ The Wild Boys Patrick Farges, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle - Paris 3, German Studies Organizer(s): Tony Mitchell, Transforming Cultures Centre, University Of Technology, Sydney Global and Multilingual Hip-Hop Emmanuel Parent, IIAC, UMR 8177 CNRS The bounce rap scene in the musical continuum of New Orleans Bronwen Low, Integrated Studies in Education, McGill University Rethinking French: The Vernacular Poetics and Pedagogy of Hip-Hop Translanguaging in Montreal Tony Mitchell, Transforming Cultures Centre, University of Technology, Sydney Rimur and Rap in Iceland: Turning Tradition Into Hip Hop 65 Organizer(s): Jacqueline Hayden, Institute Of Early Childhood, Macquarie University, Australia The Other Side of the Mirror: Children’s Participation in Moving beyond Prevailing Discourses of Children and Childhood. Zinnia Mevawalla, Institute of Early Childhood, Macquarie University, Australia (In)vested Interests: Examining Multiple Perspectives of Social Justice for Young Children in a Rural Australian Context. Clare Britt, Institute of Early Childhood, Macquarie University, Children Re-imagining (Im)possible Childhood Subjectivities in a Diverse, Inner-urban Context in Australia Sanobia Palkhiwala, Institute of Early Childhood, Macquarie University, Australia Belonging in my Community: Exploring Children's Voices in Porus, Jamaica Jacqueline Hayden, Institute of Early Childhood, Macquarie University HIV/AIDS and the Young Child: A Case Study from Namibia Organizer(s): Miyase Christensen, Karlstad University; And, Royal Institute Of Technology (Kth) Borders, Methodologies and Popular Communication Research: Everyday Experiences of the Geopolitical Miyase Christensen, Karlstad University; Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) Popular Communication Tools and Spaces of Belonging in Migrant Contexts Mehdi Semati, Northern Illinois University Geopolitics, the Middle East and the Popular Imagination Nabeel Zuberi, University of Auckland The Muslim in Contemporary Western Popular Music Patrick Burkart, Texas A&M University Organizer(s): Sandra Gabriele, Concordia University Translating Print Culture William Straw, McGill University Material Degradation and Canadian Print Culture Darren Wershler, Concordia University The Pirate as Archivist: Reading Digital Comic Book Scans Scott Rodgers, Birbeck, University of London The Living Dead: Accounting for Print Obduracy in the Digitized Newsroom Space Sandra Gabriele, Concordia University 66 The Historical Newspaper Database and the Monopolization of Knowledge Organizer(s): Jacqueline Wallace, Concordia University: Department Of Communication Studies Mary Elizabeth Luka, Concordia University: Department of Communication Studies Digging In, Digging Out: Media Archeologies and Doing it Yourself Jacqueline Wallace, Concordia University: Department of Communication Studies DIY: Digital Ethnography and Design-thinking as Method for Studying Maker Communties Mél Hogan, Concordia University: Department of Communication Studies Dig it: Media Archeology as Feminist Archival Intervention Mary Elizabeth Luka, Concordia University: Department of Communication Studies Two Degrees of Separation: a Feminist Approach to the Extreme Personal Networking of Crowdfunding Organizer(s): Éric Maigret, Sorbonne Nouvelle University Beyond the Sociology of Tastes: Power and Postlegitimacy Hervé Glévarec, CNRS, Laboratoire Communication et Politique After Distinction: The Model of Tablature of Cultural Tastes Éric Maigret, Sorbonne Nouvelle University Neither “the end of legitimacy” nor the “renewal of legitimacy” but the advent of postlegitimacy Mark Hayward, Wilfred Laurier University Organizer(s): Yarimar Bonilla, Rutgers University Mayanthi Fernando, University of California-Santa Cruz Remaking Postcolonial Sovereignty Mayanthi Fernando, University of California-Santa Cruz, Department of Anthropology Indifference, or the Right to Citizenship Yarimar Bonilla, Rutgers University Guadeloupe is Ours: Redefining Sovereignty in the French Antilles Michael Ralph, New York University Sovereignty, Political Legitimacy & Credit-Debt Todd Shepard, Johns Hopkins University Organizer(s): Eva Tsai, National Taiwan Normal University Fashion Industries Workers in East Asia: Place and Practices in Question 67 Hiroshi Narumi, Kyoto University of Art and Design Rise and Fall of Street Fashion Hyunjoon Shin, Institute for East Asian Studies, Sungkonghoe University National Fashion Produced in Unfashionable Place: The Case of Dongdaemun Eva Tsai, Graduate Institute of Mass Communication, National Taiwan Normal University The Uses of Korean Fashion: Border-Crossing Clothing Buyers and Shop Owners in Taiwan Organizer(s): Anna Hickey-Moody, University Of Sydney Daniel Marshall, Deakin University Cultural Studies and Pedagogy Anna Hickey-Moody, University of Sydney Little Publics Gilbert Rodman, University of Minnesota Whose Education Is It?: Experiments in Classroom Democracy Daniel Marshall, Deakin University Growing Queer: Queer Youth and Public Pedagogies Meaghan Morris, Lingnan University Organizer(s): Sukhmani Khorana, University Of Queensland Crossover Cinema: Cross-cultural Film from Production to Reception Sukhmani Khorana, University of Queensland Crossover Cinema: Conceptual Jargon or a Cultural Shift ? Emanuelle Wessels, Augsburg College Control Room: Film and Website Organizer(s): Rosario Radakovich, Universidad De La Republica - Uruguay Ana Wortman, Universidad de Buenos Aires Cultural Consumption and Social Inequalities in Latin America I Rosario Radakovich, UNIVERSIDAD DE LA REPUBLICA - URUGUAY Cinema in Uruguay: Local Identities and Global Consumption Ana Wortman, Universidad de Buenos Aires 68 Middle Class Cultural Transformation: Literacy Culture, Cinema and TIC'S Ana Rosas Mantecon, Departamento de Antropologia - Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana-Iztapalapa Cinemagoing in Mexico City. Inclusion, Anonymity, Sociability and Differentiation Martin Barker, Aberystwyth University Organizer(s): Winnie L. M. Yee, Department Of Comparative Literature, School Of Humanities, University Of Hong Kong Towards a Global Perspective: Imagining Nonhuman, Animal and River in Literary and Filmic Space Winnie L. M. Yee, Department of Comparative Literature, School of Humanities, University of Hong Kong Writing the Riverscape: The Representation of Body and Nature in Su Tong’s "The Boat to Redemption" Fiona Yuk-Wa Law, Department of Comparative Literature, School of Humanities, University of Hong Kong Fabulating Animals: Journey to an Affective Sphere in Asian Film Scene Kiu-wai Chu, Department of Comparative Literature, School of Humanities, University of Hong Kong Beyond Human World: Eco-Cultural Studies in Global Art Cinema Organizer(s): Randy Nichols, Department Of English And Media Studies, Bentley University Beyond the Player, Beyond the Game: Broadening the Question of Video Game Meaning Robert Mejia, Institute for Communications Research, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Electronic Engines of Economic Transformation: Video Games and the Logistics of Anxiety and Desire Ben Aslinger, Department of English and Media Studies, Bentley University Game Consoles and Global/Local Play Randall Nichols, Department of English and Media Studies, Bentley University Bourdieu, Cultural Capital, and the Field of Video Game Studies Kumarini Silva, Department of Communication Studies, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Organizer(s): Jason Jacobs, University Of Queensland Public Broadcasting in Asia: Adapting National and Transnational Intimacies 69 Jason Jacobs, University of Queensland Commercial Intimacy and Brand Heritage: BBC Worldwide in Asia John Tebbutt, Media Arts: Screen + Sound Program, La Trobe University Australian Network Television: a Study Transnational Cultural Diplomacy Jinna Tay, National Centre for Australian Studies, School of Journalism, Australian & Indigenous Studies, Monash University Reconstructing National Dramas: Re-Locating Television and the National in Singapore Organizer(s): Tony Mitchell, Transforming Cultures Centre, University Of Technology, Sydney Hip-Hop in Australia Akesha Horton, Transformign Cultures, University of Technology, Sydney Hip-Hop Who R U ?: An Exploration of Global Citizenship and Digital Literacies via Hip-Hop Chiara Ministrelli, Aboriginal Studies, Monash University “Are We There Yet?” Identity, Politics and culture in Australian Aboriginal Hip Hop Tony Mitchell, Transforming Cultures Centre, University of Technology, Sydney Koolism, Trey, & Maya Jupiter: Second Generation Transmigrants, In-betweenness and Multicultural Hip Hop in Sydney Organizer(s): Rosario Radakovich, Universidad De La Republica - Uruguay Ana Wortman, Universidad de Buenos Aires Cultural Consumption and Social Inequalities in Latin America II Joel Stillerman, Grand Valley State University Cultural Capital and Home Decoration in Chile Rosario Radakovich, Universidad de la Republica Montevideo, Social Classes and Distinction’s Strategies Mariana Mont' Alverne Barreto, Universidade Federal do Maranhão Majors and Hegemony in the Brazilian Music Industry Monica Lacarrieu, Universidad de Buenos Aires (UBA) Organizer(s): Derek Merrill, University Of California At Merced Contemporary Forms of Necropolitics 70 Patricia Ventura, Spelman College Hyperlegality and Bureaucratic Necropolitics Beth Mauldin, Georgia Gwinnett College Colonial Space and Global War: The Extermination of the Other in Michael Haneke’s Caché Derek Merrill, University of California at Merced The Necropolitical Citizen: America’s Right-Wing Nationalism Natasa Kovacevic, Eastern Michigan University Organizer(s): Kath Albury, University Of Nsw The Internet, Mobiles and 'Knowingness': Considering Sex, Gender and Ethnicity in Young People's Mediated Cultures Kate Crawford, University of NSW Kath Albury, University of NSW The Panics of Sexting: Culture, Law and Policy Clifton Evers, University of Nottingham, Ning Bo Mobile Masculinity in the African Diaspora Paul Byron, University of NSW Friends, Porn and the Internet: Young People Knowing Sexual Health Organizer(s): Hongling Liang, City University Of Hong Kong Meera Ashar, City University of Hong Kong Colonial Difference and Dynamics of Knowledge Hongling Liang, City University of Hong Kong A Modern Journey to the West: Knowledge, Subject and Cultural Coloniality Meera Ashar, City University of Hong kong Has the Old Debate in an Old Bottle Finally Come of Age?: Ramanujan and Postcolonial Knowledge Enoch Yee-Lok Tam, City University of Hong Kong Knowledge Appropriation in Hong Kong Cultural-Political Discussions Organizer(s): Chris Perkins, Asian Studies, University Of Edinburgh Interrogating Transnational Memory Cultures Chris Perkins, Asian Studies, University of Edinburgh Inheriting the Legacy of the Souls of the War Dead: Linking Past, Present and Future at the Yūshūkan Srdjan Radovic, Institute of Ethnography SASA, Belgrade University – Faculty of Philosophy Re-Creation of Memories in Former Yugoslavia: Heritage and Nostalgia in Two Museums 71 Katrien Klep, Cultural Anthropology, Utrecht University The Production of Memory: Political Discourse and Social Action in Santiago de Chile Organizer(s): Falquet Jules, Cedref-Csprp, University Of Paris Diderot How to do Post and De-colonial Studies without Minorities ? Moujoud Nasima, LAHRA, IUT Pierre Mendes France, Grenoble As Some Discover Post-colonialism, Others are Erased Curiel Ochy, Escuela de Género, Universidad nacional de Colombia (Bogotá) Decolonial feminism in Latin America and the Caribbean Falquet Jules Organizer(s): Lyn Mccredden, Deakin University, Faculty Of Arts And Education Edwin Ng, Deakin University, Faculty of Arts and Education Hospitality: Sacred and Secular Limits Lyn Mccredden, Deakin University, Faculty of Arts and Education Sacred and Secular Hospitalities Sophie Sunderland, University of Western Australia Secular Mourning: Outback Hospitality and the Politics of Grief Holly Randell-Moon, Macquarie University The Secular Contract: Bodies, Boundaries and Sovereignties Edwine Ng, Deakin University Encounters Between Religion and Academia: a Postcolonial 'Western Buddhist' Perspective Organizer(s): Patricia Haseltine, Providence University, Department Of English Language, Literature And Linguistics Indigenous Films of Taiwan: Re-Storying the Relation to the Land and the Ocean Jessie Ming-May Chen, Providence University, Department of Mass Communication Culture and Interpretation: A Reception Study of Orchid Island Films Yi-Wei Chin, Providence University, Department of Language, Literature and Linguistics Finding the Other and the Lost Self in Losing Sea Horizon Patricia Haseltine, Providence University, Dept. of English Language, Literature and Linguistics The Transrelational Semiotics of Storytelling Events in Indigenous Films from Taiwan Organizer(s): Sun-Hee Lee, Wellesley College, Ma, Usa 72 Change and Dilemma in Women’s Power and Political Positions in Asia Myoung-A Kwon, Donga University, Pusan, Korea (South) Im/possible Single Life: Life and Death Between Translatability and Untranslatability Key-Sook Choe, Yonsei University Institute of Korean Studies, Seoul, Korea (South) The Illusion of the Multifaceted Persona: Representation of Historical Heroines in Korea Media and Fiction Ae-Kyung Park, Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea (South) Goddesses of Hongdae-ap: Focusing on the Narratives Surrounding Female Singer-Songwriters Angel Lin, Hong Kong University, Hong Kong Organizer(s): Vanessa Agard-Jones, New York University, Department Of Anthropology And Institute Of French Studies Redi Koobak, Linköping University, Department of Gender Studies (Tema Genus) Queer Histories, Queer Times Beatrice Michaelis, Giessen Graduate School for the Humanities, International Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture, Justus Liebig University On the Untimeliness of Race in the Middle Ages Redi Koobak, Linköping University, Department of Gender Studies (Tema Genus) Vanessa Agard-Jones, New York University, Department of Anthropology and Institute of French Studies How to Do Things With (Queer) Time Dominique Grisard, Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality, The University of Chicago, Zentrum Gender Studies, University of Basel/Switzerland Prison in Pink: Coloring LGBT Historiography’s Backward and Sideways Glance Organizer(s): Liam Grealy, University Of Sydney Kane Race, Department of Gender and Cultural Studies Regulating Child Sex: Punishment, Classification and the Age of Consent Catherine Driscoll, Department of Gender and Cultural Studies, The University of Sydney The Plastic Adolescent: Classification and Minority Liam Grealy, Department of Gender and Cultural Studies, The University of Sydney What is a Paedophilic Sex Offender? Considering the Legal and Policy Effects of an Ontological Ambivalence Steven Angelides, Australian Research Centre in Sex, Health & Society, La Trobe University Teenage Sexting: Between Punishment and Protection Kane Race, Department of Gender and Cultural Studies, The University of Sydney Organizer(s): Britta Timm Knudsen , Aarhus University 73 Christian Borch , The University of Sydney Mobilizing Bodies: Affect, Vulnerability, Power Britta Timm Knudsen , Aarhus University ‘Live’ Experiences - The Eventness of the Past as Potentiality in the Present Christoffer Kølvraa , Aarhus University Enjoying Crowds: Affective Contagion and Ideological Interpellation Carsten Stage, Research Centre, La Trobe University The Victim-Warrior Organizer(s): Josh Carney, Indiana University, Department Of Communication And Culture Mediating the Nation in Turkey: Discourses of National Identity from the Crossroads of Civilization Suncem Koçer, Indiana University, Department of Communication and Culture Kurdish Cinema Genre as a Discourse of Nation-making in Transnational Space Josh Carney, Indiana University, Department of Communication and Culture Nostalgia for the Present: Struggle for the Nation in The Magnificent Century (Muhteşem Yüzyıl) Ozan Asik, University of Cambridge, Sociology Mediating Erdoğan to the Islamic nation(s): the Arab Spring Speech and Turkey’s Islamic Media Eylem Yanardağoğlu, Bahçeşehir University, Faculty of Communication Organizer(s): Antti-Ville Kärjä, University Of Turku Sacred Pop Antti-Ville Kärjä, University of Turku Beatified Beats - Intersections of the Popular and the Sacred in Music Nabeel Zuberi, University of Auckland Muslim Elements in ‘Western’ Electronic Music and DJ Culture Jonas Otterbeck, Lund University Halal-pop and the Order of Islamic Theologies Organizer(s): Jirina Smejkalova, Univesity Of Lincoln Redefining Culture and Cultural Studies in Post-Cold War Europe Ksenija Vidmar Horvat, Univerza v Ljubljani 74 Can there be Post-socialist Cultural Studies ?: The Challenges of an (E)merging Paradigm Manuela Ribeiro Sanches, University of Lisboa Cultural Studies in Postcolonial Portugal. Appropriation, Translation and the Visual Jirina Smejkalova, University of Lincoln Legacies of Kulturologie and Redefining Culture in Post-Cold War Czech Academia Peter Csigo, Budapest University of Polytechnics "De-Westernizing” Media Studies? Cristina Beretta, AAU Klagenfurt, Institut für Slawistik Representing Difference in Contemporary Bosnian, Croatian & Serbian Literatures Organizer(s): Lene Bull Christiansen, Roskilde University Whiteness in Africa: Interrogating the Global Interconnectivity of White Racialised Imaginaries Ashleigh Harris, Uppsala University Close Encounters with Global Whiteness in Apartheid Southern Africa Lene Bull Christiansen, Roskilde University ‘The White Man’sLlove’ – Narratives ofAaffectiv Connectivity and Racial Difference Wendy Willems , University of the Witwatersrand Postcolonial Nostalgia and the Figure of the White Settler: the Place of Zimbabwe in British National Imaginaries Birgitta Frello, Roskilde University Roots Tourism, Documentarism and Representations of Race Lene Bull Christiansen, Roskilde University Organizer(s): Alberto Da Silva, Sorbonne University, Laboratory Crimic Gwénaëlle Legras, Michel de Montaigne-Bordeaux 3 University, laboratory MICA (Médiation, Information, Communication, Art) Drawing the Map of Audiovisual Culture: Methodological Challenges in French Film and Media Studies Nelly Quemener, King's College of London, Laboratory Communication, Information, Media (Sorbonne Nouvelle University) The Performative Power of Comedy. A Methodological Proposal for the Study of Comic Devices and Identity Gwénaëlle Legras, Michel de Montaigne-Bordeaux 3 University, laboratory MICA Star: An Irreducible Gauloise on the Land of Author Politics Alberto Da Silva, Sorbonne University, Laboratory CRIMIC History, Film and Gender Studies of Brazilian Cinema: A Methodological Proposal for the Use of Film Analysis in History Pierre-Olivier Toulza, Paris-Diderot University 75 Organizer(s): Roshini Kempadoo, University Of East London, School Of Arts And Digital Industries Ashwani Sharma, University of East London, School of Arts and Digital Industries Cartographies of Decolonialisation 3: Revisioning the Global Roshini Kempadoo, University of East London, School of Arts and Digital Industries State of Play: Visualising Contradictory Moments of Protest and Authority Sunil Gupta, National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad, India. Globalising Photography Layal Ftouni, University of Westminster The Belatedness of Contemporary Arab Art or… Whatever Happened to Identity Politics? Ashwani Sharma, University of East London, School of Arts and Digital Industries Organizer(s): Ana Cruz, St. Louis Community College-Meramec Higher Education and Democracy: The Role of Cultural Studies and Critical Pedagogy Tricia Kress, University of Massachusetts-Boston Critical Pedagogy and Democratic Education in a U.S. Urban Leadership Doctoral Program Donna Degennaro, University of Massachusetts-Boston Cultural Collisions: Possibilities vs Practice in Technology-Mediated Teaching Innovations Ana Cruz, St. Louis Community College-Meramec Fostering a Democratically Conscious Citizenry: Critical Pedagogy in an Undergraduate-Level Foundations of Education Course Handel Wright, University of British Columbia Organizer(s): Nadine Attewell, Mcmaster University Sarah Trimble, McMaster University “Half devil and half child”: Reproduction, Race, Tropability Sarah Trimble, McMaster University “Blacker than black”: On Feral Children and Alien Invaders Nadine Attewell, McMaster University Reduce, Recycle, Reuse: The British National Party Goes Native Phanuel Antwi, Saint Mary's University The Year of the Gun Sarah Ahmed, Goldsmiths College Organizer(s): Matthias Wieser, University Of Klagenfurt Andreas Hudelist, University of Klagenfurt 76 The New Sound Of German Cultural Studies I Rainer Winter, University of Klagenfurt The Production of Rap Culture in Mali Christoph Jacke, University of Paderborn, Germany German Popular Music Studies as Part of (International) Media Cultural Studies. Approaches and Discourses on Popular Music and Media. Udo Göttlich, Zeppelin University Friedrichshafen, Germany Media Event Culture and the development of a Cultural Public Sphere Gerald Knapp, University of Klagenfurt, Austria Culture, Poverty and Social exclusion Tanja Thomas, University of Lueneburg Organizer(s): Matthias Wieser, University Of Klagenfurt Andreas Hudelist, University of Klagenfurt The New Sound Of German Cultural Studies II Brigitte Hipfl, University of Klagenfurt Dancing Star - exploring the post-hegemonic power of affect Elena Fillipets, University of Klagenfurt, Austria Be stupid for successful living - Between Popular Consumerism And Affective Empowerment Tanja Thomas, Leuphana University Lüneburg, Germany Fabian Virchow, University of Applied Sciences, Düsseldorf Defining the Acceptable in Migration Matthias Wieser, University Of Klagenfurt Exploring the other Carinthia - rural counter-culture Udo Göttlich, Zeppelin University Friedrichshafen, Germany Organizer(s): Joost Van Loon, Sociology, Ku Eichstaett Space and Culture: Virtualities and Actualities of Everyday Life Rob Shields, Region Studies Centre, Faculty of Extension Depts. of Sociology / Art and Design University of Alberta. Cultural Topologies - Reflecting on the Politicization of Space-time Joost Van Loon, Sociology, KU Eichstaett Researching Virtualities and Actualities: a Phenomenology and Monadology of the Turin Shroud Justine Lloyd, Department of Sociology, Macquarie University, Sidney Practicing Spaces: the Persistence of Situation in Contemporary Media Michael Schillmeier, Institut für Soziologie, LMU Munich The Cosmopolitical Space of Flowing Objects 77 Organizer(s): Chantal Nadeau, University Of Illinois At Urbana-Champaign Queer Immunities and Crisis Currencies Julian Awwad, Concordia University Queer Interventions, Immune Subjects, and the Homosexualizing of Normativities Paul Amar, University of California, Santa Barbara Queer Immunities and Currencies of Uprising in Greece and Egypt Chantal Nadeau, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign The Queer and the Sovereign Organizer(s): Joshua Newman, Florida State University, Center For Physical Cultural Studies Physical Cultural Studies: Political Imperatives Michael Friedman, University of Maryland, School of Public Health Amber Wiest, University of Maryland, School of Public Health "I'm here": Baltimore's Forgotten Residents and the Grand Prix John Sugden, University of Brighton, Chelsea School Alan Tomlinson, University of Brighton, Chelsea School Joining the Dialogue: Challenging the PCS (Physical Cultural Studies) Positioning within the Sociology of Sport Michael Giardina, Florida State University, Center for Physical Cultural Studies Normalizing War: Sport, Political Consumerism, and the Militarization of Everyday Life Belinda Wheaton (Third Author Secon Paper), University of Brighton, Chelsea School Organizer(s): Sirma Bilge, Université De Montréal, Department Of Sociology Confronting the Racial Habitus of Multi-Issue Politics and of Being "White Allies" Jennifer Petzen, Humboldt University of Berlin, Center for Transdisciplinary Gender Studies Postracial Posturing: Queer Theory and the Staging of Racial Inclusion Gianfranco Rebucini, EHESS-Paris, Laboratory LAIOS-iiAC “We Are All Anti-racist!”. The French Republicanism and the White Allies Marco Dell'Omodarme, Université Paris 1 Execo PHICO Thinking Alliances: What is Allied in Alliance’s Politics? Sirma Bilge, Université de Montréal Organizer(s): Waddick Doyle, American University Of Paris 78 Brands and Belief Waddick Doyle, American University of Paris Semiotic Brand Drag Deirdre Gilfedder, Université Paris-Dauphine Australia Unlimited Limited jayson Harsin , American University of Paris Paper Title: Rumor Bombs, Branding and Spectacular Democracy Andréa Semprini , Université Lumière Lyon 2 Organizer(s): Roshini Kempadoo, University Of East London, School Of Arts And Digital Industries Ashwani Sharma, University of East London, School of Arts and Digital Industries Cartographies of Decolonialisation 4: Re-thinking Race and Racism Saër Maty Bâ , Bangor University, School of Creative Studies and Media "Black" Enfolding Symptoms and Questioning Frameworks in a "Moment" of Crises Brett St Louis, Goldsmiths College, University of London, Department of Sociology The Postracial Predicament: Racial Being and Becoming Human Shamser Sinha , Goldsmiths College, University of London, Department of Sociology The Ethics and Politics of Making Knowledge: Dorothy photographs Buckingham Palace Françoise Vergès, Center for Cultural Studies, Goldsmiths College, University of London. Organizer(s): Bruno Cornellier, Centre For Globalization And Cultural Studies, University Of Manitoba Matthew Croombs, Carleton University Cinema and the Colonial Imaginary: Theory, Discourses, Practices Bruno Cornellier, Centre for Globalization and Cultural Studies, University of Manitoba The “Indian Thing”: Theoretical Considerations on Representation and Reality in the Liberal Settler Colony Aboubakar Sanogo, Carleton University Film Festivals and Colonialism Croombs Matthew, Carleton University An Opposition in Search of Itself: The Police, Politics, and French Cinema in the Era of Decolonization 79 Organizer(s): Michael Denning, Yale University Working Group On Globalization And Culture The Intimacies of Information #1: Cold Wars David Minto, Yale University Working Group on Globalization and Culture Intimate Matters: Cybernetics, Sexuality, Secrets, and Spies Andrew Seal, Yale University Working Group on Globalization and Culture Mutually Assured Distraction: The Bomb and Information Technology Tau Leigh Goffe, Yale University Working Group on Globalization and Culture Intimate, Criminal Identification, the Body, and Archive in Jean-Pierre Melville’s Le Samourai Eli Jelly-Schapiro, Yale University Working Group on Globalization and Culture Engineering Consent in the Neoliberal Age: Information War and Primitive Accumulation Organizer(s): Kab-Woo Koo, Kyungnam University Soo-Jung Lee, University of North Korean Studies The Topology of the (Post) Division of the Korean Peninsula Hokyu Lee, Dongguk University The Epistemological Meaning of Cellular Phone in the China-DPRK Border Region from the Perspective of Actor-Network Theory Woo-Young Lee, University of North Korean Studie Moon-Soo Yang, University of North Korean Studie Kaesong Industrial Complex: A Contact Zone in North Korea Based on the Movement of the Capital Soo-Jung Lee, University of North Korean Studies Cheol-Gee Yoon, Chung-Ang University North Korean Migrants, New Networks, and the Transformation of the Division Topology Byoungsun Kim, Keimyung Univ Organizer(s): David Murphy, University Of Stirling Pan-African Cultural Festivals 1966-2010: Culture, Development and the African Renaissance Aedín Ní Loingsigh, University of Stirling The Performance of Pan-Africanism at the "Festival Mondial des Arts Nègres de Dakar (1966)" Andrew Hussey, University of London Institute in Paris Algiers, capital of Third World-ism: the Algiers pan-African Festival (July 1969) David Murphy, University of Stirling Renaissance Men? Culture and Development at the Festival Mondial des Arts Nègres (Dakar, 10–31 December 2010) 80 Organizer(s): Michael Denning, Yale University Working Group On Globalization And Culture The Intimacies of Information #2: Representing Information Michael Denning, Yale University Working Group on Globalization and Culture The Value of Information: Labor, Skill and Knowledge Drew Hannon, Yale Univerity Working Group on Globalization and Culture Informing Technology: The Panopticon in Your Pocket Andrew Dowe, Yale University Working Group on Globalization and Culture Informing/the State: Dissident LGBT Representational Practices in South Africa Sigma Colon, Yale University Working Group on Globalization and Culture Organizer(s): Nilay Ozlu, Université Paris 1 Pantéon Sorbonne - Bosphorus University Cross-Cultural Visual Representations in Late Ottoman Context Cafer Sarıkaya, Bosphorus University Ottoman Participation in the 1900 Paris Universal Exposition Aylin Kartal, Yıldız Technical University Late-Ottoman Architectural Interactions: European Art Nouveau in Ottoman Context Nilay Ozlu, Université Paris 1 Pantéon Sorbonne - Bosphorus University Displaying the Changing Self: Ottoman Practices of Collecting and Display in the Imperial Treasury Organizer(s): Leonie Schmidt, University Of Amsterdam, Department Of Media Studies & Amsterdam School Of Cultural Analysis Religion, Mediation and the Public Sphere: Case Studies from Indonesia and the Netherlands Leonie Schmidt, University of Amsterdam, Department of Media Studies & Amsterdam School of Cultural Analysis Urban Islamic Spectacles: Transforming the Space of the Shopping Mall during Ramadan in Indonesia Bram Hendrawan, Utrecht University, Research Institute for History and Culture Televising Religious Rituals: Local Television, Religion and the Construction of Local Identity in Bali Lonneke Van Heugten, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis and Department of Theatre Studies The Cancellation of ‘Aïsha and the Women of Madina’: From an Empty Stage to a Spectacle of the Dutch Multicultural Drama 81 Organizer(s): Tal Dor, Université Paris Nord/13, Département De Sciences De L’Éducation, École Doctorale Érasme Christine Delory-Momberger, Université Paris 13/Nord – UFR LSHS – École doctorale Érasme Changing Awareness Within Israeli Wociety – from Practice to Praxis Marcelo Weksler, Université Paris Nord/13, Département de Sciences de l’Éducation, École doctorale Érasme. Changing Awareness among Teachers - Critiquing Paradigms of Critical Pedagogy Tal Dor, Université Paris Nord/13, Département de Sciences de l’Éducation, École doctorale Érasme Queering Zionism: A Liberating Educational Process Johayna Saife, From Politics of Silencing to Feminist Praxis of Action: Palestinian Society in Israel Nacira Guénif-Souilamas, Université Paris Nord/13, Département de Sciences de l’Éducation, École doctorale Érasme. Organizer(s): Valérie Amiraux, University Of Montreal Academic Witches: Is ‘Religion’ a Valid Working Category to Think about Others? Naomi Goldenberg, University of Ottawa Religion as a Vestigial State Maria Birnbaum, European University Institute Bound by Recognition: The Politics of Religion in International Relations Mayanthi Fernando, University of California, Santa Cruz Regulating Culte and Culture in France Nadia Marzouki, European University Institute/Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies Organizer(s): Fabiana Marcello, Unversidade Luterana Do Brasil - Programa De Pós-Graduação Em Educação The Cultural Production of Children by the Media: Pedagogical Practices in Debate Maria Isabel Bujes, Unversidade Luterana do Brasil - Programa de Pós-graduação em Educação Governing Childhood Through Play Karla Saraiva, Universidade Luterana do Brasil - Programa de Pós-Graduação em Educação Club Penguin and the Government of Children Fabiana Marcello, Universidade Luterana do Brasil - Programa de Pós-Graduação em Educação The Powers of Super Nanny Organizer(s): Ricky Varghese, University Of Toronto Gaze and Affect: The Afterlife and Aftermath of Visual Culture Ricky Varghese, University of Toronto 82 What Remains ?: After the Ashes, in David Maisel’s "Library of Dust" Joshua Synenko, York University The Pit of Affect: Burning Books in the Aftermath of Tradition Chris Richardson, The University of Western Ontario The Politics of Affect and Empathy in French and Canadian Artistic Interventions Organizer(s): Ashwani Sharma, University Of East London Roshini Kempadoo, University of East London Cartographies of Decolonialisation 1: Re-mapping Cultural Politics Julian Henriques , Goldmiths, University of London Tracing Social Transformation through Acoustic Space and Time Sonia Hope , Goldsmiths, University of London and Institute of International Visual Arts (Iniva) Beyond the Barricades: Black British Women Authors and ‘Space-Time’ Sonjah Stanley Niaah , University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica Organizer(s): Miyase Christensen, Royal Institute Of Technology (Kth); And Karlstad University Cosmopolitanism from the Margins: Mediations of Expressivity, Social Space and Cultural Citizenship Miyase Christensen, Karlstad University; Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) Cosmopolitanism, Embodied Expressivity and Morality of Proximity Myria Georgiou, London School of Economics Cities within Cities, Cities against Cities: Conflict and the Urban Street Lilie Chouliaraki, London School of Economics Organizer(s): Viola Lasmana, University Of Southern California, Department Of English Alison Sperling, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Department of English Crossing Boundaries: Knowledge and the Question of Democracy Viola Lasmana, University of Southern California, Department of English Knowledge, Democracy, and the Aesthetics of New Media Alison Sperling, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Department of English Photographic (Pre)Mediation: Pleasure and the Production of Voyeuristic Knowledge Megan Reilly, Columbia College, Chicago No Longer Hidden: Poetry of the Body Organizer(s): Jayson Harsin, The American University Of Paris 83 Guy Debord and Cultural Studies: New Considerations Jack Bratich, Rutgers University, School of Communication and Information Seeing a Public Secret Sphere: Debord’s Comments on the Society of the Spectacle Erika Biddle-Stavrakos, York University, Communication and Culture Program Integrated Spectacular Cultural Forms Philip Barnard, University of Kansas, Department of English Negation, Consumption, and Transformation in the Cultural Sphere; Neoliberalism and the End of Art Organizer(s): Leon Gurevitch, Victoria University Of Wellington Transmedia Pasts, Transmedia Presents Leon Gurevitch, Victoria Univeristy of Wellington Digital Workshops of the World: The Transactional Cultures of Digital Imaging Industries and their Workforce Miriam Ross, Victoria University of Wellington Stereoscopic Visuality: Experiments in 3D Filmmaking Mark Bartlett, The University for the Creative Arts and Animation Journal The Documentary Effect: Figural Realism and the Rhetoric of "Truth” Organizer(s): Ashwani Sharma, University Of East London Roshini Kempadoo , University of East London Cartographies of Decolonialisation 2: Re-narrating Histories Deborah Willis , New York University, Tisch School of the Arts Black Venus: They Called Her “Hottentot” Anindya Raychaudhuri, University College London Lines of Control?: Trains and Railway Lines in Narratives of the Indian Partition Ashwani Sharma, University of East London After the West: Post-apocalyptic science – Fiction as Postcolonial Critique Kalia Brooks, New York University and MoCADA (Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts), NY Organizer(s): Kathleen Coll, Stanford University 84 Treacherous Inquiries: Reconsidering the Politics of Affiliation and Interdependence Ann Holder, Pratt Institute Fraught Kinships, Ambivalent Affiliations and the Challenge to Racial Demarcation Catherine Neveu, IIAC-LAIOS (CNRS-EHESS) Being Close, Being Apart: Dealing with “Cultural Difference” in a Political Festival Kathleen Coll, Stanford University “Todo trabajo es digno”: Care, Dependence, and Intimacy in U.S. Citizenship John Clarke, The Open Univeristy Organizer(s): Christy Spackman, New York University, Department Of Nutrition, Food Studies And Public Health Pulling Back the Curtain: the Micro, Molecular and Scientific Remaking of Visibility Fiona Rose-Greenland, University of MIchigan Department of Sociology What does color do ? Polychromy, Science and Society in Ancient Statues Lee Elizabeth Douglas, New York University Department of Anthropology From Human Form to Anatomical Illusion: Photographing Forensics in Post-Franco Spain Christy Spackman, New York University Visible Misbehavior: The Microbiopolitics of the Malfunctioning Functional Beverage Organizer(s): James Hay, University Of Illinois--Urbana-Champaign New Perspectives on the Militarization of Daily Life Jeremy Packer, North Carolina State University Screen Technology for the Citizen-soldier: A Counter-history of Policing for the Present Peter Asaro, New School Domesticating the New Military Networks of Command & Control: Watching Over Civilian Airspace James Hay, University of Illinois Reinventing & Remediating the Citizen-soldier Organizer(s): Anna Gibbs, University Of Western Sydney Maria Angel, University of Western Sydney Digital Aesthetics and the Co-creation of Sense 85 Maria Angel, University of Western Sydney Sensory Ecologies in Digital Writing: Touch, Scale, Sensation Anna Gibbs, University of Western Sydney What Matter Who Is Reading/Writing? The Transformative Poetics of Google' Benjamen Judd, University of Western Sydney At A Touch – The Gesturo-Haptic and Digital Literary Writing Organizer(s): Christopher Smith, Oise/University Of Toronto Conversations in Black Queer Diaspora Theory Christopher Smith, University of Toronto Apprehending Black Queer Diasporas: Towards A Cinematic Ethnography Sarah Stephana Smith, University of Toronto Dissin’ Identification: Psychic re/arrangements of the Door of No Return Trystan Cotten, California State University, Stanislaus Snatch My Blackness! Race, Space, and Materiality in Trans Migrations of the Africa Diaspora Organizer(s): Stephen Chan, Lingnan University Public Culture on Reflective Display: Pedagogic-Performative Space & Visitor-Learner Experience in Contemporary Chinese Practice Stephen Chan, Lingnan University Museum Visitors as Real-Estate Buyers: Transgressing Curatorial and Performative Practices for Counterhegemonic Cultural Action Muriel Law, Lingnan University Drama and the Performative: Towards a Transformative Practice in Social Inquiry Shu Meng, Macau University. of Science & Technology War and History in Display: The Possibilities of Public Art in Memorial Museums Today Organizer(s): Seok-Kyeong Hong-Mercier, University Of Bordeaux 3, Mica 86 Colored Citizenship in the European Television Fiction Seok-Kyeong Hong-Mercier, University of Bordeuax3, MICA Henri, Julie (presenter 3) Larski, Laffont(presenter3), University of Nancy 2, University of Bordeau x3(presenter3) The Veiled girl, the Beurette and the Arabian Boy: an Analysis of the Representations of Arab-Muslim Youth in European Television Laetitia Biscarrat, University of Bordeaux 3, MICA Natalia Mélendez Malavé, University of Malaga Evolution of Racial Stereotypes in the Spanish Community Soap "Aida" from 2005 to 2011 Mélanie Bourdaa, University of Bordeuax3, MICA "Welcome to my Country". The Representation of Immigration in Proof and The Wire Eric Macé, University of Bordeaux2 Organizer(s): Seok-Kyeong Hong-Mercier, University Of Bordeaux 3, Mica Crossroad: East Asian Popular Culture in the West. Locating “Korean Wave” in Europe & the Orientalism Revisited Sunny Yoon, Hanyang University Reception of New Korean Wave and Youth Culture In Europe Valentina Marinescu, University of Bucharest Balica Ecaterina, Casa Academiei The “New” Export of Meaning – The “Korean Wave” in Romania Paul Bowman, Cardiff University When Orientalism is a Good Thing Wook-Inn Paik, Seoul Nation University of Science & Technology Korean Wave(Hallyu) as a Desire to Be Recognized in Advanced Countries Organizer(s): Seok-Kyeong Hong-Mercier, University Of Bordeaux 3 Convergence Culture and Creative Industry in the East Asia Yeran Kim , Kwangwoon University A Culture of Production: Affection, Aender, and Technology in the Transregional Practice of Korean Popular Culture Dongwon Jo, , ChungAng University User-Generated Culture: An Analysis of Early PC User’s Participatory Culture in 潓 敲 W✁ Jin-Woo Park, Korea Press Foundation Double Face of Labor in Contemporary Korean Film Industry: Creativity and Precarity Organizer(s): Anne-Sophie Beliard, Sorbonne Nouvelle University. 87 The Bad, the Good and the Medias: How do Medias produce Norms? Anne-Sophie Beliard, Nouvelle Sorbonne University, CIM “Bad” TV Series and “good” Critics. How to Evaluate TV Series? Sarah Lecossais, Sorbonne Nouelle University, CIM ''Good” Mother vs “Bad” Mother. How Do Television Serials Construct Motherhood Today? Etienne Mouhot, Sorbonne Nouvelle University The 2005 Riot and the Police Interpellation: Whiteness and Media Giuseppina Sapio, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle (Paris 3), Lab: IRCAV "Meta-family": a crossroads between Family and Film Studies Organizer(s): Luc Shankland, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, Institut De La Communication Et Des Médias Power, Politics and Pleasure in the Fictions of James Bond Luc Shankland, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle James Bond and the Great Game Fabien Boully, Université Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense (ex-Paris 10) James Bond: Strength and Weakness of the Power of Money Loic Artiaga, Université de Limoges The Pleasures of Bond Organizer(s): Mélanie Lallet, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris 3 Transgender Figures 'à la française': Blurring the Boundaries Between Masculinity and Femininity in the Media Mélanie Lallet, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris 3 Exploring the Feminine in French Animated Television Series: Is this Really “a Boy's World”? Natacha Lapeyroux, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris 3 Women’s Boxing: A Negotiation between Femininity and Masculinity Nina Miletti, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris 3 French Masculinity Through GQ Magazine: the Style of the Playman? Organizer(s): Céline Morin, Sorbonne Nouvelle University Taking the Liberty to Love. Romances and Emancipations in Popular Culture Céline Morin, Sorbonne Nouvelle University 88 ‘Poetry is easy. Give me a plan.’ Marriage and Pure Relationship in The Good Wife Aurore Gallarino, Sorbonne Nouvelle University From Fan Fictions to Fan Realities: The Indistinct Promises of Slashing Harry Potter Olivia Bernard, Sorbonne Nouvelle University Loving on the Internet: Studying Expressions of Love on Blogs Aging Cultural Studies Jodie Taylor, Griffith Centre for Cultural Research GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY Queer Challenges to Ageing in a Post-youth (Sub)cultural Context Murray Forman, Northeastern University Lines of Battle, Lines of Respect: Age Ideology and Generational Dissonance in Hip-Hop Line Grenier, Département Communication, Université de Montréal Senior Stars : Celebrity culture and the Ageing Apparatus Kim Sawchuk, Concordia University Organizer(s): Yoshitaka Mori, Tokyo University Of The Arts Transmitting Tradition, Ritual and Memory in Performative Forms Yoshitaka Mori, Tokyo University of the Arts The Life and Art of a Coal Minor, Sakubei Yamamoto: Memory, Politics and Art in the Modern Industrialization in Japan Takeaki Sato, Toho College of Music Sound of Memory, Song by Oral Tradition, Music through the Body… Between/beyond the Globalization of Musical Cultures Ai Fujimoto, Tokyo University of the Arts Is "Traditional" Possible? A Study of Prehispanical Dance in Mexico City Organizer(s): Sebastian Nestler, Klagenfurt University, Department Of Media And Communication Forget Foucault? Martina Rauter, Klagenfurt University, Department of Educational Science The Uses of Foucault: Empowering the “Theatre of the Oppressed” with Theory A. Freya Thimsen, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Department of Communication The Politics of Truth in Foucault Kenneth Werbin, Wilfrid Laurier University's Brantford Campus, Contemporary Studies & Journalism Foucault on Facebook: Social Media Meets Biopolitics Sebastian Nestler, Klagenfurt University, Department of Media and Communication Quasi-Subjectivity as Anti-Governmentality 89 Organizer(s): Nathan Taylor, University Of North Carolina At Chapel Hill, Department Of Communication Studies Movement, Fixity and Politics Kurt Zemlicka, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Department of Communication Studies Challenging the Fixity of Truth: Locating Affect in the Movement of Langage Andrew Davis, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Department of Communication Studies Revoevolution: Toward a Progressive Politics of Movement Nathan Taylor, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Department of Communication Studies Movement, Fixity, and the Politics of Becoming-Imperceptible Organizer(s): Giovanna Maina, Università Di Pisa, Dipartimento Di Storia Delle Arti Porn and its Double Federico Zecca, Università di Udine, DAMS Gorizia Mapping Contemporary Corporate Pornography Rachele Borghi, Université de Rennes 2 Post Porn or this Porn that Is Porn Giovanna Maina, Università di Pisa, Dipartimento di Storia delle Arti Crossing the (Porn) Borders: Intersections Between Mainstream and Alternative Organizer(s): Nico Carpentier, Media studies and communication sciences - Intellectual dialogues transgressing a banal conflict Andreas Hepp, Researching Media Culture between Communication Sciences, Media and Cultural Studies: The potential of Communication Claudia Alvares, Putting Culture back into Lusophone Communicaton Studies: An Attempt to Negotiate between Technological Determinism and Critical Theory Irena Carpentier Reifova, Post-socialist tug-of-war: studying media structures or cultures? Jan Teurlings, Why I will never find true happiness in communication studies - nor media studies, for that matter Lothar Mikos, The history of film and television research in Germany between Communication and Media Studies or Why there's no Cultural Studies in Germany. Sonjah Stanley Niaah, University of the West Indies, Mona Campus Deborah Thomas, University of Pennsylvania 90 Pilgrims, Publics, Communities and Counter-Cultures Jahlani Niaah, University of the West Indies, Mona Campus Ras Tafari Masculinity as Counter-Hegemonic Praxis: The Case of Rastafari Engendering a Methodology John L. Jackson Jr., University of Pennsylvania Emigrationism, Afrocentrism, and Hebrew Israelites in the Promised Land Deborah Thomas, University of Pennsylvania New World Natives: Rastafarians at the Cutting Edge of Indigeneity Sonjah Stanley Niaah, University of the West Indies, Mona Campus The Politics of Pilgrimage: Reggae, Revolution and the ‘Movement of Jah People’ Matthias Wieser, University Of Klagenfurt Andreas Hudelist, University Of Klagenfurt The New Sound Of German Cultural Studies II Brigitte Hipfl, University Of Klagenfurt Dancing Star - exploring the post-hegemonic power of affect Elena Philipets, University of Klagenfurt Be stupid for successful living - Between Popular Consumerism And Affective Empowerment Tanja Thomas, Leuphana University Lüneburg, Germany Defining the Acceptable in Migration Matthias Wieser, University of Klagenfurt Exploring the other Carinthia - rural counter-culture Udo Göttlich Jane Wilhelm, Sorbonne Nouvelle University Isabelle Génin, Sorbonne Nouvelle University Culture as Translation Bella Brodzki, Sarah Lawrence College Translators Prefaces as Global Intercultural Texts Christine Raguet, Sorbonne Nouvelle University Translating as an Experiment in Intercultural Dialogue Jane Wilhelm, Sorbonne Nouvelle University Self-translation as a Paradigm for Translation Sport, Nations and The Media (1) David Rowe, University of Western Sydney, Centre for Cultural Researach Imagining Post-National Sport Rowan Wilken, Media & Communication, Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia Mediated Circuits of ‘Liveness’: Television Coverage of the Tour de France 91 Jerome Beauchez, Université de Lyon, Centre Max Weber UMR 5283 CNRS/ENS/Lyon II/Saint-Etienne In the Sparkle of the Other: Boxing as a Feeling of Strangeness Wanda Fenimore, Florida State University The Spectacle of Danica Patrick Migration and the Media Marie Beauchamps, Universityn of Amsterdam, ASCA Mechanisms of Framing and the Re-drawing of Borders, Non-spaces in the Age of Securitization Olivia Hamilton And Katherine Hepworth, Macquarie University, Department of Sociology Let Me Stay Home: Belonging, Place and Second-generation Migrant Youth in Italy Viktorija Ratkovic, Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt, Center for Women's and Gender Studies The Culture of Migration: Challenging existing Notions Dmitry Chechkin, The Institute of Latin America of the Russian Academy of Sciences Migration Process in Spain and Russia: Similarities and Differences Islamic Identities Alper Bilgili, Süleyman Şah University Post-Secular Society and the Multi-vocal Religious Sphere in Turkey Nazlı Çağın Bilgili, Istanbul Kultur University Islam and Civic Culture: The Impact of Religiosity on Tolerance among Muslims in Turkey Dilyana Mincheva, Trent University Islamic Intellectual Discourses in the West: Between the Academic and the Public Duties Louise Ryan, Centre for Cultural Research, University of Western Sydney Negotiating Difference: “Islam” on Display Memory and the Postcolonial Imagination Stephanie Benson, Université Michel de Montaigne, Bordeaux III, EA CLIMAS The Metaphor of House and Home in the Post-colonial Imagination: Conrad, Burgess, Rushdie... and Lacan Tonya Davidson, University of Alberta Imperial Nostalgia and Canada’s National War Memorial Wanda Little Fenimore, Florida State University Memorials to the Empire in a Postcolonial Age 92 Fannie Valois-Nadeau, Université de Montréal Practices of Memory in a Quebecer Hockey Team’s Centenary: Articulations of Manners of Belonging, Feeling and Remembering The Rhetoric of Space and Power Carlos Cunha, Universidade do Minho (Braga) Spatial identities: the world is not enough Marcienne Martin, Laboratoire ORACLE [Observatoire Réunionnais des Arts, des Civilisations et des Littératures dans leur Environnement] - Universi The Concept of Power Analyzed in Terms of the Sacredness and its Taboo Territories Chamee Yang, Seoul National University Deepening Time and Paradox of Mobility: A Critical Inquiry into Urban Subway Space as a Non-Place Aurora Wallace, New York University Streets and Capital After Empire: Cinema and Memory Belinda Smaill, Film ad Television Studies, Monash University Asianness and Aboriginality: Postnational Australian Cinema Daniela Ricci, Université Jean Moulin-Lyon 3, (Lyon, France)- Ecole Doctorale Lettres, Langues, Linguistique et Arts- Etudes Transculturelles Cinema and the Contemporary African Diasporas: The Challenge of Cultural Métissage Sarah De Mul, Leuven University Parody and Colonial Memory in the Contemporary Documentary. 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Katharina Vester, American University, Washington, D.C. ‘I Yam What I Yam’ - Soul Food, Diasporic Cuisines and Contested African American Identities The Politics of Trauma Anuja Jain, Department of Cinema Studies, New York University, NY, USA "The Lightning Testimonies": Historical Trauma in Indian Documentary Cinema Irena Carpentier Reifova, Charles University in Prague “The Way We Applauded”: Post-socialist Cultural Trauma in the Memories Elicited by the Czech Television Serial "Vyprávěj" Dimitri Prandner, University of Salzburg / Department for Communications 96 The Emergence of Cultural Traumata in Center and Periphery – The Example of 9/11 We Jung Yi, Cornell University Gendering National Trauma: Park Wan-Suh’s Autobiographical Narratives of the Korean War Pandemics: Affects, Emotions and Narratives Sheryl Hamilton, Carleton University, Communication and Law Neil Gerlach, Carleton University, Sociology Ambient Anxiety: Mapping Pandemic Narratives in Popular Culture Mark Davis, Monash University Davina Lohm, Monash University ‘Post-pandemic’ Affect and Outbreak Narrative Hans Huang, Centre for the Study of Sexualities, National Central University Preventive Assemblage, Affective Climates and AIDS Organising in 1990s Taiwan Emily Johansen, Texas A&M University Risk, Safety and Global Responsibility: The Case of The Constant Gardener Affective Technologies Maude Gauthier, University of Montreal, Dep. of Communication, lab. 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Ana Lucia Araujo, Howard University Capital of Joy and Former Slave Port: Slavery and Tourism in Salvador (Bahia) Thierry Jutel, School of English, Film, Theatre and Media Studies 97 Settler Imaginary and Mediascapes: Inscribing the Tourist Gaze onto Aotearoa’s “Desert Road” Rohan Stritch, McGill University (BA) & Royal Roads University (MA) Be Sugar in Milk: Local Perspectives on Volunteer Tourism in India and Uganda Popular Culture and the Politics of Affect Hollis Griffin, Colby College Stiff Upper Lip: The Politics of Affect and the Melodramas of Neoliberalism Laliv Melamed, New York University To Remember by Heart: Sense, Affect and Ideology in Domestic Videos Andrew Cornell, Université Stendhal Grenoble 3, Etudes Anglophone Reality Television and Accumulation through the Enclosure of Affect Jedediah B. Sklower, No academic affiliation. 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Empirical Study of Taiwan Case Design and Globalization in China Jeroen De Kloet, Mediastudies, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands Yiu Fai Chow, Humanities programme, Baptist University, Hong Kong Theorising the Fake: Shanzhai Culture in China Nick Rees-Roberts, University of Bristol Hermès in China: Shang Xia, Heritage and New Look Luxury Maurizio Marinelli, University of Technology, Sydney The ‘New I-Town’ in Tianjin: Design/ing China with an Italian flavour Kelly Hu, The Graduate Institute of Mass Communication, National Taiwan Normal University Video Websites as Platforms of Globalizing China: Collaboration and Struggle between Online Grassroots Networks and the State Challenged and Renewed Journalism Mervi Pantti, University of Helsinki Kari, Stuart Andén-Papadopoulos, Allan, Stockholm University, Bournemouth University Crisis Reporting and Citizen Camera Witnessing Megan Le Masurier, Department of Media and Communications, University of Sydney Delayed Gratification: the Politics of Slow Journalism Brian Michael Goss, Saint Louis University - Madrid, Spain Campus A Twenty-First Century Look at Herman & Chomsky's Sourcing Filter Maria José Brites, Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT), Research Center for Media and Journalism (CIMJ) and ULP Speaking of Another New Journalism Instead of the Death of Journalism Spaces of Gender-Variance Na-Young Lee, Sociology Department at Chung-Ang University Min-Woo Jung, Ab/Normalization of Heteronormativity: Im/Moral Geographies of Motel ("Love Hotel" in South Korea) Igor Siddiqui, University of Texas at Austin - School of Architecture TransWC: Gender-variance and the Public Restroom Sheila Cavanagh, York University, Sexuality Studies Program. 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Queer Palindromes in John Greyson’s Fig Trees and Miranda July’s "Me and You and Everyone We Know" Erin Durban-Albrecht, University of Arizona, Department of Gender & Women's Studies Zonbi, Zonbi: Queer Responses to State Discourses of Sexuality in Haiti in the Shadow of U.S. Imperialism Che Gossett, Independent Scholar Black Radicalism, Queer Resistance and Prevention Justice in Age of Mass Incarceration Jessie Travis, McMaster University Eating Out: Queering Disorderly Consumption Queer Resistance II Shoshana Magnet, University of Ottawa, Institute of Women's Studies Queering Mixed Societies: Robots, Insects and New Family Groupings David Gerstner, City University of New York (GC and CSI) Queer Cinema Au Bain Nengeh Maria Mensah, École de travail social, Université du Québec à Montréal The Contemporary Production of Sex Worker Culture: Using First-person Accounts, Creating a Community of Listeners and Advocating Posthumanity and Posthumanism Sónia Pereira, Catholic University of Portugal Living with Posthumanity: Are We There Yet? 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