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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.