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Remaking Asia Pacific Studies: Knowledge, Power, and Pedagogy
An international conference hosted by School of Hawaiian, Asian and Pacific Studies University of Hawai'i at Manoa
2-5 December 2002
This four-day conference seeks to remake Asia Pacific studies around curriculum that better reflects movements of people and ideas across boundaries, as well as the complexities of global-local relations. It considers the changing relationship between knowledge and power in Asia Pacific scholarship, and explores exciting new interactive pedagogies that establish more equitable relations with studied communities. Remaking Asia Pacific Studies features analysis of the student-centered Asia Pacific learning communities recently created at the University of Hawai'i in collaboration with partner campuses in Japan, the Philippines, Singapore, Fiji, and New Zealand.
Keynote Speaker: Neil Smith, Director Center for Place, Culture, and Politics, City University of New York
In addition to invited speakers, the conference will include panel presentations. We welcome proposals for papers that address one or more of the following broad themes:
Asia Pacific studies for the new millennium:
Critical discussion of the geopolitical and cultural categories informing Asia Pacific studies programs and the search for alternatives.Moving Cultures: curriculum issues:
Developing courses and programs that reflect the dynamics of transnational and transregional flows of capital, people, and ideas.Institutional collaboration:
Cultural and other issues in building collaborative, equitable, and viable relationships between institutions engaged in Asia Pacific studies.Students crossing borders:
Developing student-centered learning in Asia Pacific studies programs, international interactions and exchanges, and building web-based regional learning communities.One-page abstracts are due on 30 August 2002, and letter of acceptance will be sent via e-mail by 16 September 2002. Papers must be received by 31 October, and may be considered for publication in an edited volume.
Remaking Asia Pacific Studies is the capstone conference of the Moving Cultures project, funded by Ford Foundation's Crossing Borders initiative. Further details about the conference, as well as registration materials, will be made available on the Moving Cultures website http://www.hawaii.edu/movingcultures/. Inquiries to Terence Wesley-Smith, Conference Convener twsmith@hawaii.edu.
