The Asian Edge: 2012 Inter-Asia Cultural Studies Society Summer School
The 2nd Biannual Inter Asia Cultural Studies (IACS) Summer School will be hosted in Bangalore, India by the Centre for the Study of Culture and Society (CSCS) and the Centre for Internet and Society (CIS) with the Inter Asia Cultural Studies Consortium. The event will be held in the first and second week of August 2012.
The IACS Summer School brings together South and East Asian experts from different disciplines as faculty for graduate and advanced research students to engage with key issues of larger social, cultural and political concerns in Cultural Studies in Asia. Any student registered in a post-graduate degree program is eligible for the IACS Summer School. There are limited seats and students will be selected based on their applications. Students registered at universities participating in the Consortium of Inter Asia Cultural Studies Institutions will be given first preference.
The Summer School 2012 proposes to integrate the teaching with core IACS faculty with the larger realities of change in South and East Asia. It proposes a 10 + 4 day structure.
Core Course: Methodologies for Cultural Studies in Asia: The Summer School offers a 10 day core course that works through seminars, taught classrooms, tutorials, open spaces, field trips and workshops. The core course shall address questions of Cultural Identity, Modernity, Nationalism, Gender, Class, Revolution and Asianism to frame an argument about relocating methods, concepts and ideas in contemporary Cultural Studies in Asia.
| Day/Date | Time | Session | Instructors | Readings |
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| Aug 02 (Thu) |
09:30-10:00 | Introduction to Course/Orientation | ||
| 10:00-1:00 | Session 1: The Question of Knowledge |
Instructors: Daniel PS Goh Nithin Manayath |
The Epistemological Value of East Asian Perspective – Sun Ge Knowledge Production in the Era of Neo-Liberal Globalisation – Kuan-Hsing Chen Teaching versus Research? – Meaghan Morris |
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| 3:00-5:00 |
Student Presentations | Choi, Ji Yeon Ajinkya Shenava Khetrimayum M Singh Vincent Chung Jaime Fang-Tze Hsu |
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| Aug 03 (Fri) |
Culture Industries workshop | |||
| Workshop party | ||||
| Aug 04 (Sat) |
10:00-1:00 |
Session 2: The Question of Culture |
Instructors: Asha Achuthan Ratheesh Radhakrishnan |
Hind Swaraj – Chs IV, VI, XII, XIII – MK Gandhi Value Typology of Chinese Peasants and Its Transformation in Contemporary China – He Xuefeng An Elaborative Argumentation of a Nong-Country – Zhang Shi Zhao |
| 3:00-5:00 |
Student Presentations | Annisa Beta Ying-Tzu, Liu (Eva) Li, Yen-Chieh Sharib Aqleem Ali Li, Cho Kiu (Joseph) |
Venue: 1 Shanti Road | |
| 6:00-8:00 | EVENING SALON | Tejaswini Niranjana and Kuan-Hsing Chen | Venue: 1 Shanti Road | |
| Aug 05 (Sun) |
HOLIDAY | |||
| Aug 06 (Mon) |
10:00-1:00 | Session 3: Nationalism and Modernity |
Instructor: Milind Wakankar Student Presentations: |
On Nation – Zhang Tai Yan A National Culture for Pakistan: the political economy of a debate – Saadia Toor |
| 3:00-5:00 | Instructor: Madhuja M Student Presentations: Pan Yifan Zhang Zhihui Se Young Oh |
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| EVENING SALON | Stephen Chah and Ashish Rajadhyaksha | Venue: Centre for Internet and Society | ||
| Aug 07 (Tue) |
10:00-1:00 | Session 4: Culture and Economy | Instructors: Radhika P Raghu Tenkayala |
In the Margin of the Capital: From ‘Tjerita Boedjang Bingoeng’ to ‘Si Doel anak sekolahan’ The Emergent Culture of Consumption – Chua Beng Huat ‘Bollywood’ 2004; When Was Bollywood – Ashish Rajadhyaksha Peasant Cultures of the 21st Century – Partha Chatterjee |
| 3:00-5:00 | Student Presentations | Chan Ka Yi Kim Yoon Young Tanna Shilpa Shirishkumar Ruchi Jaggi Haesook Yong |
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| Aug 08 (Wed) |
10:00-1:00 | Session 5: Gender and Culture | Instructors: Navaneetha Mokkil Nitya Vasudevan |
Why Culture Matters – Tejaswini Niranjana Prostitutes Parasites and the house of state feminism – Naifei Ding Women and Freedom – Firdous Azim Letters to the Editor: The domestic violence act and conflict Spectralization of the Rural: Reinterpreting the labour mobility of rural young women in post-Mao China – Yan Hairong |
| 3:00-5:00 | Student Presentations | Elmo I-Che Hsu Pang Ka Wei (Janet) Li-Fang Lai Kris Yu-Shiuan Chi Samia Vasa Shwetha D Ryu M-Rye Sabreena Ahmed |
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| 6:00-8:00 | EVENING SALON | Firdous Azim and Naifei Ding/Siddharth/Arvind in conversation | Venue: Alternative Law Forum | |
| Aug 09 (Thurs) |
10:00-1:00 | FIELD TRIP | SURESH JAYARAM – Pettai Tour | |
| Aug 10 (Fri) |
10:00-1:00 | Session 6: Understanding Popular Cultural Practice | Instructors: Namita Malhotra Nishant Shah |
Hong Kong Action film in the Indian B Circuit – SV Srinivas Inter-Asia Comparative Framework: Postcolonial Film Historiography in Taiwan and South Korea Kim Soyoung Fan Bhakti and Subaltern Sovereignty – Madhava Prasad |
| 3:00-5:00 | Student Presentations | Samhita Sunya Khatija Sana Khader Ayesha Maria Mualla Antoreep Sengupta |
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| Aug 11 (Sat) |
UNWORKSHOP DAY (Writing) | Evening: Final Party |
Optional Courses: 2 Additional 4-days parallel Courses shall be offered to participants interested in specialised inquiries of their research practice.
Course A. The Digital Subject: Science, Technology and Society in Asia
- Course Coordinator: Nishant Shah
- Course Instructors: Nishant Shah, Lawrence Liang and Ashish Rajadhyaksha
Course B. Research Seminar on Technology, Culture & the Body
- Course Coordinator: Nitya Vasudevan
- Course Instructors: Tejaswini Niranjana, DING Naifei, Audrey Yue, Wing-Kwong Wong, Hsing-Wen Chang, Nitya Vasudevan
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A National Culture for Pakistan: the political economy of a debate – Saadia Toor
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A National Culture for Pakistan: the political economy of a debate – Saadia Toor
