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For local information, click here. Out-of-town guests will stay at Lowell Hall. Conference events will be held at the University of Wisconsin-Madison's Pyle Center. |
The conference will explore media practice and performance as sites
of
social, political, and cultural struggles over the significance and
meaning
of mediated images and texts. To approach an understanding of
these complex
processes in the contemporary world, 15 international
scholars representing
10 countries will consider media practice and
performance from a variety of
perspectives including:
- Local, regional, national, and transnational production, circulation
and
reception of media texts and images - Contextual and conceptual frameworks such as Diaspora, virtual
space,
hypertextual space, cultural anxiety, and policy making - The hierarchies of social and cultural power manifested in
resistance,
censorship, and formation of communities.
Wednesday, March 13
Overseas and out-of-town participants arrive
Check-in
at Lowell Center Guest House
Thursday, March
14
Ameritech Lounge, Pyle Center
5:00 Welcome and Orientation
6:00 Banquet and Initial Discussion for Local and
Guest Participants
B101 Lathrop Hall
8:00 Peggy Choy, Dance Performance, “Night
Bombing”
Friday, March 15
Room 313,
Pyle Center
8:30 Coffee
9:00 Welcome: Gilles Bousquet, Dean of
International Studies
Introductory Remarks: Hemant Shah and R. Anderson
Sutton
9:30-11:30 Paper Session 1: New Media and
Communities
Moderator: Hemant Shah, University of
Wisconsin-Madison
“Voices of
South Asian Diaspora on the Internet”
Ananda Mitra, Wake Forest
University
"Virtual Security from Gulf War to Afghanistan."
Aida
Hozic, University of Florida
“From Site to Satellite Television: Memory and Biography
in an Indian Village”
Biswajit Das, Jamia Millia University, New
Delhi
11:30 Lunch on your own
1:00-3:00 Paper Session 2: Cinema in the
Global Age
Moderator, Toma Longinovic, University of
Wisconsin-Madison
“The Cinematic Family and the Virtual City After
Globalization:
Ranjani Mazumdar, independent filmmaker, New Delhi
“Hollywood at Nathan Road: Globalization of the Chinese
Film Industry”
Michael Curtin, University of Wisconsin
"Media and the City: The Cultural Geography of Ramoji
Film City"
Shanti Kumar, University of Wisconsin-Madison
3:00 Coffee Break
3:30-5:30 Paper Session 3: Cultural
Production, Piracy, and Translation
Moderator: Al Gunther,
University of Wisconsin-Madison
“Towards a
Political Economy of the ‘Real’: Music Piracy and the Philippine Cultural
Imaginary”
Jonas Baes, University of the Philippines
“Domains of Culture and Suspicion: The State’s
Relationship to New Media in India”
Ravi Sundaram, Sarai New Media
Initiative, Center for the Study of Developing
Societies (CSDS), New
Delhi
“On
Weapons and Their Others”
Ksenija Bilbija, University of
Wisconsin-Madison
Doug Rosenberg, University of Wisconsin-Madison
6:00 Dinner on your own
Saturday, March 16
Room
313, Pyle Center
9:00 Coffee
9:30-11:30 Paper Session 4: Music,
Performing Arts, and Identity
Moderator: Shanti Kumar, University
of Wisconsin-Madison
“Dissonanat
Voices: Contesting Control Through Alternative Media in
Malaysia”
Sooi Beng Tan, Universiti Sains Malaysia
“Mediating
Tradition: Issues in the Broadcasting of Korean 'Traditional' Music”
Inhwa So, National Center for Korean Traditional Performing
Arts
“Killing me Softly? Music Video Representations of Love
and Death in
Indonesia and Korea”
R. Anderson Sutton, University of
Wisconsin-Madison
11:30 Lunch on your own
1:00-3:00 Paper Session 5: Imagining
the “Nation”
Moderator: Ksenija Bilbija, University of
Wisconsin-Madison
“Yugoslav
Wars: Between Myth and Reality”
Nevena Dakovic, University of
Belgrade
“Cepot, Television, and the Discourse of
Indonesian Nation”
Andrew Weintraub, University of Pittsburgh
“National
Literature in an Internet Age”
Alejandro Margulis, Buenos Aires,
Argentina
3:00 Coffee Break
3:30-5:30 Paper Session 6: Language and
Representation
Moderator: R. Anderson Sutton, University of
Wisconsin-Madison
“Conversation as Curiosity: Performing Autochtonous talk
in the media of
Banyuwangi, Indonesia”
Bernard Arps, Netherlands
Institute for Advanced Studies
“The Mixing of English and Thai in Thai Television
Programs”
Prathana Kannaovakun, Prince of Songkala University and
Al
Gunther, University of Wisconsin-Madison
“Alter-Action as the Fascination with the Other: Media
and the NATO
Bombing of Serbia”
Branka Arsic, State University of
New York
6:30 Banquet with Continued
Discussion
Ameritech Lounge, Pyle Center
Sunday, March 17
Room
313, Pyle Center
8:30 Coffee
9:00 Workshop: Discussion of future plans
12:00 Closing Remarks
The UW-Madison Media, Performance and Identity
Research Circle was founded in 1997 as an interdisciplinary team of
scholars working on issues relating to media representations and their
impact on human culture worldwide, past and present. The core faculty
members of the circle are: Hemant Shah and R. Anderson Sutton, Co-chairs;
Ksenija Bilbija, Peggy Choy, Jo Ellen Fair, Al Gunther, Shanti Kumar, Toma
Longinovic, and Michael Curtin.