About the AASRN
The Asian Australian Studies Research Network (AASRN) was created in 2006 as a joint project between The Australian National University and Monash University.
AASRN Mission Statement
To build research capacity and profile, and sustain momentum, in the field of Asian Australian Studies.
Aims:
- To build capacity for further academic and public events, collaborative projects, and grant applications.
- To enhance and formalise critical research resources in this field.
- To mentor and professionalise early career researchers (postgraduate and postdoctoral) involved in Asian Australian Studies.
Objectives:
- To create a collaborative, engaged network of Asian Australian Studies scholars and cultural practitioners.
- To coordinate panels/sessions focused on Asian Australian Studies at a range of peak inter/national conferences.
- To generate grant applications as a result of cluster activities.
- To convene major Asian Australian Studies conferences (most recently AAI 2 [28-30 June 2007]).
- To improve and update web resources for Asian Australian Studies.
AASRN Structure
The network focuses on cultural production in three major clusters.
AASRN clusters initiate and assist in cognate research activities including exhibitions, symposiums, workshops, and project grant applications. They support and encourage the work of postgraduates and early career researchers, including practitioner-scholars engaged in creative practice-led research.
Cluster Conveners facilitate these exchanges between members, and also provide mentoring and support to postgraduates and early career researchers.
| 1. Cultural Heritage + Community |
| The aim of this cluster is to initiate interdisciplinary exchange within and between the fields of research on Asian Australian cultural heritage and community. This broad and interdisciplinary grouping includes those working on aspects of cultural heritage, community identities and politics, and cultural history projects. |
| 2. Film, Literature + Performance |
| The aim of this cluster is to initiate interdisciplinary exchange within and between the fields of research on Asian Australian literature, film and performance. |
| 3. Visual Arts + New Media |
| The aim of this cluster is to facilitate individual, collaborative, and interdisciplinary research in Asian Australian visual arts and new media, including cyber cultures and related popular culture studies. |
AASRN Executive
CHAIR: |
CONVENOR: |
CLUSTER CONVENOR: 1. Cultural Heritage + Community |
CLUSTER CONVENOR: 2. Film, Literature + Performance |
CLUSTER CONVENOR: 3. Visual Arts + New Media |
CHAIR:
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Jacqueline Lo is Head of the School of Humanities at the Australian National University. Her research and teaching is strongly interdisciplinary, drawing from postcolonial studies, performance studies, cultural studies and literary analysis. Recent publications include Performance and Cosmopolitics: Cross-cultural Transactions in Australasia (Palgrave Macmillan, 2007, co-written with Helen Gilbert), Staging Nation: English Language Theatre in Malaysia and Singapore (HKUP, 2004) and a guest-edited special issue on mixed-race for Journal of Intercultural Studies (28.1-2, 2007). Jacquie has published extensively in leading journals and has coedited a number of books including Diaspora: Negotiating Asian-Australia (2001), and Resistance and Reconciliation: Writing in the Commonwealth (2003). She is completing an ARC project focused on Asian Australian cultural production.
For more information about Jacquie, visit her ANU staff page
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CONVENOR and Cluster Convenor - Cultural Heritage + Community:
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Tseen Khoo is a Monash University Research Fellow (2004-2009), based in Sociology, School of Political and Social Inquiry. She has published on Asian Australian cultural production and politics, multicultural/race issues in Australia, and Asian diasporic studies. Tseen's monograph Banana Bending: Asian Australian and Asian Canadian Literatures was published by McGill-Queens and Hong Kong University Presses in 2003, and she has also co-edited Culture, Identity, Commodity: Diasporic Chinese Literatures in English (2005; with Kam Louie) and Diaspora: Negotiating Asian Australia (2000; with Helen Gilbert and Jacqueline Lo). She has also edited Locating Asian Australian Cultures (Routledge 2008). Tseen's current fellowship project is titled "Siting Differences: The Politics of Representing Asian Australian Public Narratives," and she also researches minority representations in multicultural societies, diasporic Asian cultures, and the politics of ethnic festivals.
For more information about Tseen, visit her Monash staff page.
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Cluster Convenor: Olivia Khoo
(Curtin U)
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Olivia Khoo begins a three-year research fellowship at Curtin University (WA) in July 2008. Previously, she was a Lecturer in Film and Media at the University of New South Wales. Her research areas includes the cinemas of Hong Kong, China, Taiwan and Singapore, and Asian-Australian film and cultural production. Her book, The Chinese Exotic: Modern Diasporic Femininity was published by Hong Kong University Press in 2007 and she is currently co-editing a volume entitled Time Signatures: Technologies and Temporalities in Chinese Screen Cultures. She is also collaborating on a project on Asian-Australian Cinema with Audrey Yue and Belinda Smaill. Olivia has previously taught film and cultural studies at the University of Technology, Sydney, and Melbourne University, and has also worked on a number of film and arts festivals within Australia.
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Cluster Convenor: Dean Chan
(Edith Cowan U)
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Dean Chan teaches in the honours and postgraduate programmes at the School of Communications and Arts, Edith Cowan University, in Perth, Western Australia. His research and publication interests mainly focus on Asian Australian cultural production and East Asian digital games. At present, he is working on a number of projects focusing on Asian Australian and Asian American visual arts, as well as completing a book manuscript titled “Play Asia: Politics, Practices, and Play in Asian Digital Game Cultures.” Dean has been invited to speak at several national conferences and arts symposia including the 2007 Arc Biennial Symposium; and he is regularly commissioned to write for art journals, monographs, and exhibition catalogues. He has previously served on the boards of Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts, Artists Regional Exchange (ARX), and Art Association of Australia and New Zealand.
For more information about Dean, visit his ECU staff page. |
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