Schedule

Conference Locations

  • The Women’s College

    The Women’s College, the University of Sydney
    15 Carillon Avenue
    Newtown, NSW 2042

    The following rooms will host presentations and events in the course of the conference:

    • Menzies Common Room

      The Menzies Common Room seats up to 250 people. It will host the plenary sessions and publishers' desks.

    • Main Common Room

      The Main Common Room seats 100 people. It features high vaulted roof, Australian cedar paneling and a carved mantle-piece.

    • Library Room
    • Meeting Room 1
    • Meeting Room 2
    • Dining Hall
    • Women's College Foyer

Conference Schedule

Below is a preliminary schedule of conference events and presentations. The program will be updated regularly.

2009-07-09

08:45 AM - 09:00 AM

  • Meet and Greet 

    Tea and coffee provided

09:00 AM - 04:00 PM

  • Postgraduate Workshop 

    Venue: Library Room

11:00 AM - 11:15 AM

  • Morning Tea

12:00 PM - 01:00 PM

  • Lunch

02:00 PM - 06:00 PM

  • Conference Registration 

    Venue: Foyer

02:30 PM - 02:45 PM

  • Afternoon Tea

06:00 PM - 07:00 PM

  • Welcome 

    Venue: Menzies Common Room

    Stephanie Hemelryk Donald
    CSAA President

    Acknowledgement of country
    Welcome to CSAA 2009

    Jill Trewhella
    Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research), USyd

    Welcome to the University

    Mabel Lee
    Founding CSAA President and Honorary Professor, Department of Chinese Studies, the University of Sydney

    The first CSAA Conference

    Louise Edwards
    Convenor, APFRN and Sponsor

    Introducing the APFRN

    Jeffrey Riegel
    Head of School of Languages and Culture, USyd and Sponsor

06:30 PM - 07:20 PM

  • Keynote Address: Jeffrey Wasserstrom 

    Venue: Menzies Common Room

    Jeffrey Wasserstrom is a Professor of History at UC Irvine and is the author of Student Protests in Twentieth-Century China (1991), China's Brave New World (2007) and Global Shanghai, 1850-2010 (2008).  He has also edited, co-edited, or co-authored several other books, including Popular Protest and Political Culture in Modern China (1992 and 1994) and China in 2008: A Year of Great Significance (due out in March). 

    In addition to contributing to academic journals, he's written for many general interest publications, including the Australian Financial Review.  He edits the Journal of Asian Studies, has consulted on two Long Bow films ("The Gate of Heavenly Peace" and "Morning Sun," and blogs at "China Beat" (http://thechinabeat.blogspot.com).

07:30 PM - 08:20 PM

  • Keynote Address: Harriet Evans 

    Venue: Menzies Common Room

    Harriet Evans is Professor of Chinese Cultural Studies, and Co-ordinator of Asian Studies Research at the Centre for the Study of Democracy, University of Westminster. She has written extensively on the politics of gender and sexuality in China in journals and edited volumes, and is author ofWomen and Sexuality in China: Dominant Discourses of Female Sexuality and Gender since 1949 (Polity Press, 1997), and The Subject of Gender: Daughters and Mothers in Urban China (Rowman and Littlefield, 2007). She co-edited (with Stephanie Donald) Picturing Power in the People's Republic of China; Posters of the Cultural Revolution (1999). She is currently working on an oral and photographic history of revolution and urban transformation in central Beijing over the past fifty years. Evans was President of the British Association for Chinese Studies (2002-2005).

08:30 PM - 09:15 PM

  • Cocktails and music 

    Live music will be provided by the Sydney Conservatorium. Drinks and finger food will be provided during the evening.

2009-07-10

08:00 AM - 11:00 AM

  • Conference registration 

    Venue: Foyer

09:00 AM - 09:50 AM

  • Keynote Address: Mary Farquhar 

    Venue: Menzies Common Room

    Mary Farquhar is Professor of Asian Studies at Griffith University in Brisbane, Australia. She was the founding director of the Australia-wide China Law Network and a former President of the Chinese Studies Association of Australia. As President, she convened the biennial Chinese Studies Association of Australia conference in 2007, which celebrated Australians' China scholarship. She is also a member of the Australian Research Council's College of Experts. Her publications include the international award-winning book, Children's Literature in China: From Lu Xun to Mao Zedong (1999). Her recent work on Chinese cinema includes a book (with Chris Berry) China Onscreen: Cinema and Nation (2006), a journal special issue on Chinese stars (2008) and a forthcoming edited book (with Yingjin Zhang) on the same topic.

10:00 AM - 10:50 AM

  • Keynote Address: Stephen Teo 

    Venue: Menzies Common Room

    Stephen Teo is currently associate professor in the Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. Before joining NTU he was a research fellow at the Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore from 2005-2008. He has had extensive work experience in the Hong Kong International Film Festival and in the Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival, researching and writing about Hong Kong Cinema and other Asian cinemas. He is the author of Hong Kong Cinema: The Extra Dimensions (London: British Film Institute, 1997), Wong Kar-wai (London: BFI, 2005), King Hu's A Touch of Zen (Hong Kong University Press, 2007), Director in Action: Johnnie To and the Hong Kong Action Cinema (HKU Press, 2007), and The Chinese Martial Arts Cinema: The Wuxia Tradition (Edinburgh University Press, forthcoming).

10:45 AM - 11:15 AM

  • Morning Tea

12:45 PM - 01:15 PM

  • Launch: The ChinaBase, Philippa Kelly 

    Venue: Menzies Common Room

  • Lunch

01:15 PM - 01:45 PM

  • Presentation: China National Knowledge Infrastructure databases 

    Venue: Menzies Common Room

03:15 PM - 03:45 PM

  • Afternoon Tea

06:00 PM - 09:00 PM

  • Drinks, light refreshments and special events 

    Special events will include film screenings. Drinks and finger food served.

2009-07-11

09:00 AM - 09:50 AM

  • Keynote Address: Prasenjit Duara 

    Venue: Menzies Common Room

    Prasenjit Duara is Director of Research in Humanities and Social Sciences at the National University of Singapore and emeritus professor of History at the University of Chicago. He is the author of several books on Chinese and East Asian history including Culture, Power and the State: Rural North China, 1900-1942 (1988), which won the Fairbank Prize of the AHA and the Levenson Prize of the AAS. His other books are Sovereignty and Authenticity: Manchukuo and the East Asian Modern (2003), Rescuing History from the Nation (1995) and most recently, The Global and the Regional in China's Nation-Formation, (Routledge 2009). He has also edited a volume on Decolonization (Routledge, 2004).  His work has been widely translated into Chinese, Korean and Japanese.

10:00 AM - 10:50 AM

  • Keynote Address: David S G Goodman 

    Venue: Menzies Common Room

    David S G Goodman is Professor of Chinese Politics at the University of Sydney, where he is also Director of the Institute of Social Sciences. Educated at the University of Manchester, Peking University and the London School of Oriental & African Studies, his research is concerned with social and political change in China. Recent publications include China's Campaign to ‘Open Up the West' (2004) and The New Rich in China: Future rulers, present lives (2008). He is currently engaged in projects to examine the social basis of local politics in contemporary China (with Dr Beatriz Carrillo Garcia and Dr Chen Minglu); and the social history of Germans in China 1870-1937 (with Dr Yixu Lu).

11:00 AM - 11:15 AM

  • Morning Tea 

    Co-sponsored by Routledge

12:45 PM - 01:45 PM

  • CSAA AGM 

    Venue: Menzies Common Room

  • Lunch

03:15 PM - 03:30 PM

  • Afternoon Tea

06:00 PM - 06:30 PM

  • Conference closes

07:30 PM - 09:00 PM

  • Dinner with postgraduate workshop participants

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