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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 attendees2:00 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
Links
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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