TECHNOLOGIES OF MIGRATION
Asian American Study
Program
  • Day1: Thursday

    10:00 am: Keynote by Dr. Cara Wallis, "Migrant workers, Mobile Technologies, and the Possibilities for Social Change in China"

    11:30 am:

    Panel A:  Migration, Asia, and the Internet

    Chair --- Mike Black
    Dai Kojima, “Migrant Intimacies: Queer Migrations and Technologies of Imagination in the Asia-Pacific World”
    John Cho, “No Future? ‘Cool’ Meetings and the ‘Cold’ Internet in South Korea”
    Madhavi Mallapragada, “Home Networks: Gender, Space, Technology”
    Pallavi Banerjee, “Indian High Tech Workers in the United States and the Problem of Dependence”


    1:00 pm:   Lunch - for registered attendees

    2:00 pm:  

    Panel B: Media Platforms for Asian/American Migration: Literature, Film, and Television

    Chair --- Miriam Sweeney
    Michael Black, “Life Outside the Vault”
    Mina Shin, “Challenges of Multiculturalism: Representation of South ASian Migrant Workers in Korean Cinema”
    Anne Cong-Huyen, “E-Mail Order Brides: The Transnational Mediation of Love, Sex, and Mobility in Linh Dinh’s Love Like Hate
    Jo Lee, "Robot Dances"


    3:30 pm:    Coffee Break

    4:00 pm:   Keynote: Dr. Rhacel Parreñas, Discussant -Julie Chu, "Filipino Migrant Families and Gender Inequalities in Transnational Communication"

    Dinner TBA

    Day 2:  Friday

    10:00 am: Keynote: Dr. A. Aneesh, "Virtual Global Citizenship"

    11:30 am:

    Panel C: Technologies of Labor Migration

    Chair --- Ergin Bulut

    Ryuta Komaki, “The Media Ecosystem of Self-Presentation: a Cross-Media Analysis of Japanese-Brazilian (Web) presence in Japan”

    Yujie/Julie Chen, “Bodies and Embodied Space in Virtual Migration Practices”
    Julie Chu, "Remediating Mobility: Paperwork and the Techno-Aesthetics of Belonging"


    1:00 pm: lunch - for registered attendees

    2:00 pm:

    Panel D: Virtual Migration, Asia, and Digital Games

    Chair --- Safiya Noble
    Marcella Szablewicz, “Defending Azeroth: The War of Internet Addiction waged by Chinese WoWers”
    Eun Joo Kim, “Emoticons as Cultural Performance”
    Ergin Bulut, “Ambivalence of Creativity and Commerce: Labor Processes in Video Game Programming and Outsourced Art”


    3:30 pm:    Coffee Break

  • 4:00 pm: film screening and discussion with Alex Rivera: "The Sleep Dealer."
    Response by Lisa Nakamura

     

Sponsors

sponsors

The conference is cosponsored by

Committee on Institutional Cooperation

College of Liberal Arts & Sciences

Center for Advanced Study

Illinois Informatics Institute

Center for East Asian And Pacific Studies

Department of Anthropology

Department of English

Asian American Cultural Center

Center for Global Studies

Department of Gender and Women's Studies

Women & Gender in Global Perspectives

Department of Media and Cinema Studies

Institute of Communication Research


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