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ACAS/ACCS 2015 Programme Cover Image:“Yoro Waterfall in Mino Province”
The image used for the cover of the ACAS/ACCS 2015 Conference Programme is from a woodblock print by
Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849). It is one of eight oban-sized woodblock prints in the series “A Journey to theWaterfalls in All the Provinces” (Shokoku Taki Meguri) and was originally published by the Edo publisher, Eijudo,in around 1832.
This print is titled “Yoro Waterfall in Mino Province” (Minokoku Yoro No Taki) and features two pilgrims, on their
way to the Mino Festival at Mino’s Hachiman Shrine (Mino City, Gifu Prefecture), looking at waterfall while otherpilgrims rest in nearby shelter.

welcome to acas/accs 2015
Dear Colleagues,
Welcome to the Fifth IAFOR Conference on Cultural Studies and Fifth IAFOR Conference on Asian Studies in Kobe. I am also
happy to welcome you on behalf of the Cultural Studies Association of Australasia, a global partner of this event.
IAFOR’s role as Asia’s Think Tank is a perfect vehicle for deliberations by Cultural Studies and Asian Studies scholars, thinkers,
practitioners and students. The hallmark of IAFOR is that its work provides a vital crossroad for dialogue and enquiry that isinternational, intercultural and interdisciplinary. Such work is germane to the research undertaken by and concerns of Cultural
Studies and Asian Studies practitioners.

The contributions to the Conference this year are decisively compelling, fascinating, rich and diverse, reflecting the strength ofsuch an interdisciplinary gathering. There is much to learn and gain from other disciplinary approaches than one’s own.
At a crossroads event like this in Japan, where ideas, perspectives and knowledge are exchanged in a spirit of conviviality,interest, curiosity and respect, it reminds us of the importance of creating scholarly space and practice for collaboration,
investigation and conversation, which are at the heart of academic life.
I hope that you find this Conference valuable, recuperative and stimulating as well as one that demonstrates the value ofparticipating and contributing in a meeting place such as this. In the end, a successful Conference helps create the conversations
we need to have, provides a space to test our ideas and critically reflect on our practice, and to seed future projects andendeavours.
I look forward to meeting you all.
With my warmest regards,

Professor Baden Offord
Vice President-International, Cultural Studies Association of Australasia
ACCS/ACAS 2015 Conference Chairletter of welcome

This year’s theme of the Conference is Human Rights, Justice, Media and Culture. Human rights praxis and ideas of justice
are now core fields of investigation for cultural studies, media studies and Asian studies scholars. One example of this is how
cultural research into the convergence of new media with everyday life, has brought into relief the growing significance of how
struggles for freedom and justice are enabled by social media. Various communities and peoples are now able to make claims
for social recognition within human rights frameworks and language as never before. But, how new forms of transmission ofhuman rights claims directly impact on everyday life is an ongoing question, and just one aspect of the rich field of research
into human rights and justice that cultural researchers and Asian Studies scholars engage in across a wide range of disciplines.

iiGetting to the Conference Venue

The Art Center Kobe is perfectly situated and easily accessible, and just a five minute walk from Shin-Kobe Station.
From Kansai International Airport
Board the Kobe-bound airport limousine bus from bus stop number 6 on the first floor of Kansai International Airport.
Get off at Sannomiya Station (see below).

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By Bullet Train (Shinkansen)
The Art Center Kobe is a five minute walk from the 1F exit of Shin-Kobe Station. There are regular bullet train(Shinkansen) services from Osaka (15 minutes), Kyoto (30 minutes) Tokyo (2 hours 48 minutes) and Hiroshima (1hour 13 minutes).
From Sannomiya Station (Kobe Downtown Area)
The bustling downtown center of Sannomiya, with a huge range of restaurants, bars, cafes and shops is a 15 minutewalk, or a short direct subway ride away.
The express train from Osaka Station to Sannomiya takes 21 minutes.
There are 3 options.
1) Take the subway to Shin-Kobe Station (Seishin-Yamate Line)
2) Take a taxi to the Art Center Kobe (about 10 minutes and approximately 800 JPY)
3) Walk to the Art Center Kobe (about 20 minutes).

Around the Conference Venue
The Art Center Kobe is a large, modern events center overlooking the city, and is opposite the ANA Crowne Plaza,
the official conference hotel.

Information and Registration
If you have already paid the registration fee, you will be able to pick up your registration pack and name card at theConference Registration and Information Desk. The Conference Registration and Information Desk will be locatedat the following locations during the conference:iii

ThursdayFridayFridaySaturday
Sunday15:00-17:00 - 2F Open Studio - Art Center Kobe
08:15-12:30 - 2F Open Studio - Art Center Kobe
12:30-17:00 - 6F (Room 606) - Art Center Kobe
08:30-17:00 - 6F (Room 606) - Art Center Kobe
08:30-17:00 - 6F (Room 606) - Art Center Kobe

If you have any questions or concerns, IAFOR staff and local volunteers will happily assist you in any way they can.

Thursday, May 28, 2015
8:30-17:00: Pre-Conference Tour of Kobe
This is ticketed at 9,000 JPY and is by advanced reservation only. If you are registered for the tour, please meet in the ANA
Crowne Plaza Lobby at 8:45 AM for a prompt 9:00 AM departure.
15:00-17:00: Conference Registration & Information Desk Open (2F Open Studio - Art Center Kobe)
18:00-19:30: Conference Welcome Reception (3F Grand Salon - Art Center Kobe)
To open the conference, come & enjoy a few glasses of beer, wine, sake, or a choice of soft drinks if you prefer. Meet withfellow delegates & network. All registered attendees are welcome.

9:00-9:10: Welcome & Introductory Addresses (2F Prokofiev Hall)
Kiyoshi Mana, IAFOR Director of Operations
Joseph Haldane, IAFOR President
9:10-9:20: ACAS ACCS 2015 Conference Overview (2F Prokofiev Hall)
Baden Offord, ACAS ACCS 2015 Conference Chair
9:20-9:50: ACAS ACCS 2015 Featured Presentation (2F Prokofiev Hall)
Amanda Third, University of Western Sydney​, Australia
9:55-10:25: ACAS ACCS 2015 Featured Presentation (2F Prokofiev Hall)Angela Wong Wai Ching, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
10:25-10:55: Coffee Break
10:55-11:40: ACAS ACCS 2015 Keynote Presentation (2F Prokofiev Hall)
Gerard Goggin, University of Sydney​, Australia
11:45-12:15: ACAS ACCS 2015 Featured Presentation (2F Prokofiev Hall)John Erni, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong
12:15-12:20: Conference Photograph (2F Prokofiev Hall)
12:20-13:15: Lunch Break
13:15-14:45 Parallel Session I (various rooms 5F & 6F)
14:45-15:00 Break
15:00-16:30 Parallel Session II (various rooms 5F & 6F)
16:30-16:45 Break
16:45-17:15: ACCS Spotlight Presentation (6F - Room 604)
Seiko Yasumoto, The University of Sydney, Australia

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Friday, May 29, 2015

17:20-18:20: ACAS Featured Panel (6F - Room 604)
Thomas French, Ritsumeikan University, Japan
Hiroaki Ataka, Ritsumeikan University, Japan
Akihiko Kimijima, Ritsumeikan University, Japan
Zsombor Rajkai, Ritsumeikan University, Japan
18:30-21:00: A Night Out in Kobe: Official Conference Dinner
The official conference dinner will be held in a downtown Kobe izakaya, and provides a relaxed and enjoyable environment
to meet and network with other delegates. This is ticketed at 5,000 JPY and there are a limited number of places; prereservation is required. The party will leave the Art Center Kobe 2F Open Studio at 18:30, so please be there in goodtime. The venue is a 30 minute walk away. The conference dinner will begin at 19:00 at the venue and will finish at 21:00..

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Saturday, May 30, 2015
9:00-10:30: Parallel Session I (various rooms 5F & 6F)
10:30-10:45: Break
10:45-12:15: Parallel Session II & Poster Session I (various rooms 5F & 6F)
12:15-13:15: Break
13:15-14:45: Parallel Session I (various rooms 5F & 6F)

conference at a glance

14:45-15:00: Break
15:00-16:30: Parallel Session II (various rooms 5F & 6F)
16:30-16:45: Break
16:45-17:15: ACAS Spotlight Presentation (6F - Room 604)
Joel Campbell, Troy University, Japan
17:20-17:50: ACCS Featured Presentation (6F - Room 604)
Yvonne Jewkes, University of Leicester, UK

Sunday, May 31, 2015
9:00-10:30: Parallel Session I (various rooms 5F & 6F)
10:30-10:45: Break
10:45-12:15: Parallel Session II (various rooms 5F & 6F)
12:15-13:15: Break
12:15-13:00: Calligraphy Workshop (6F Room 606)
Art students from Kyoto’s Ritsumeikan University will run a workshop for delegates to try the ancient art of JapaneseCalligraphy. All are welcome. No reservations are required. Participants will receive a calligraphy brush as a souvenir.
13:15-14:45: Parallel Session I (various rooms 5F & 6F)
14:45-15:00: Break
15:00-16:30: Parallel Session II (various rooms 5F & 6F)
16:30-16:45: Break
16:45-17:45: ACAS ACCS 2015 Featured Panel (6F - Room 604)
Baden Offord, Curtin University, Australia
Donald Hall, Lehigh University, USA
John Erni, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong
Gerard Goggin, University of Sydney, Australia
Amanda Third, University of Western Sydney​, Australia
Angela Wong Wai Ching, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
17:45-18:00: ACAS ACCS Conference Closing Address (6F - Room 604)
There will be a conference highlights photography slideshow and closing remarks from Conference Chair, Professors
Baden Offord.

Monday, June 1, 2015
8:00-18:30 Post-Conference Tour of Kyoto
This is ticketed at 12,000 JPY and is by advanced reservation only. For more information, please check with theRegistration and Information Desk. If you are registered for the tour, please meet in the 4F ANA Crowne Plaza Lobby
at 7:45 AM for a prompt 8:00 AM departure.

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art center kobe floor guideviWhat to Wear & Bring
Attendees generally wear business casual attire. You may want to bring a light jacket or sweater as the temperature
in meeting rooms is often difficult to control.
Smoking
The Art Center Kobe have implemented a Clean Indoor Air Act; therefore, smoking is not permitted in any of theconference rooms. Please smoke outside of the building.

conference guideInternet Access
There will be a free WiFi internet connection on the 5F & 6Fs of Art Center Kobe. However, this can be unreliable andwe would strongly suggest that you do not rely on a live connection for your presentation.
Wifi Connection Name: kobe-art Password: art12345
For your convenience, there will also be a limited number of computers at the Conference Information Desk.
Printing
There will be a printer at the Conference Information Desk, and we are able to offer a complimentary printing serviceof up to ten A4 sheets should you need this. Please be advised that printing may not be available at peak times.
BadgesWhen you check in, you will receive a conference package, which includes your name badge. Wearing your badge isrequired for entrance to the sessions. If you lose your badge it can be replaced for a fee of JPY 5000. You must wear
your badge at all times during the Conference.
If you are not wearing your badge, security may stop you and ask you to show your ID and evidence that you areregistered. Those unable to show proof may be escorted from the Conference by security.
There are 4 colours of badges indicating the type of conference participant:
RED: Presenters and General Audience
YELLOW: Keynote and Featured Speakers
BLUE: Conference Exhibitors and Affiliates
BLACK: IAFOR Staff & Board Members
Photo/Recording Waiver
There will be photography, audio and video recording at the conference. By entering the event premises you giveconsent to the use of your photograph, likeness or video or audio recording in whole or in part without restriction orlimitation for any educational, promotional, or any purpose for distribution.
Refreshment Breaks
Complimentary coffee, tea, and water will be available during the scheduled coffee break at the plenary session on
Friday morning on the 2F, and on Friday afternoon, Saturday & Sunday in Room 606 (6F). Light snacks will be provided
once in the morning and once in the afternoon.
Meals are not included in the conference registration fee, meals can be purchased at any of the restaurants orconvenience stores in and around the local area. There is also a supermarket on the Art Center Kobe 1F.
There are a variety of affordable restaurants in the Shin-Kobe Oriental Avenue shopping malll (B3F - 3F) locatedunderneath the ANA Crowne Plaza Kobe (across the street from the Art Center Kobe).
2F
Cafe de Clef (カフェ・ド・クリフ) - light meals & desserts
Mame no Hakate (豆乃畑) tofu & vegetarian restaurant
Namaste Taj Mahal - Indian restaurant
Shabusen (しゃぶ扇) - shabu-shabu restaurant
3F
Chunagon (活伊勢海老料理 中納言) - lobster & shrimp restaurant
Fusaya (旬菜食堂 房家) - vegetarian restaurant
Katsu-Ya (手打ちとんかつ かつ屋) - tonkatsu (pork cutlet) restaurant
Kineya (実演手打ちうどん 杵屋) - udon noodles restaurant
Kinporai (香港広東料理 金賽來) - Chinese Restaurant
Kushiare (なにわの串かつ 串あれ) - kushi & yakkitori restaurant
Neiru (ねいろ) okonomiyaki & tenpanyaki restaurant
Sasuki (紀州海鮮や 山水木) - fish restaurant
Wakkoqu (あぶり肉工房 和黒) - Kobe steak restaurant

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B3F
Gourmet City (グルメシティ新神戸店) - supermarket, deli & bakery

Conference Welcome, Keynote Speaker & Featured Speaker Session: Friday 09:00-12:25
The plenary session will be held on Friday morning, with the event beginning at 09:00AM in the 2F Prokofiev Hall of
the Art Center Kobe. Please arrive in good time if you wish to attend the session. There will be an interval after the
first keynote address and complimentary refreshments and snacks will be served. The plenary session will be followedby the official conference photograph. Please arrive in good time if you wish to attend the session.
Parallel Speaker Sessions
Parallel Sessions will run from 13:15 on Friday afternoon, and from 9:00 AM on Saturday & Sunday morning. They are
generally organized into streams. Sessions include two, three or four presenters. Each presenter has thirty minutes
including Q & A time. The session length reflects the number of presenters.

We recommend that you bring two copies of your presentation in the case that one fails, and suggest sending yourself
the presentation by email as a third and final precaution.
Session Chairs
Session Chairs are expected to introduce themselves and other speakers (briefly), hand out presentation certificatesat the end of the session, ensure that the session begins and ends on time, and that the time is divided fairly between
the presentations. Each presenter should have no more than 30 minutes in which to present his or her paper, andrespond to any questions.
The session chair is asked to assume this timekeeping role, and to this end, a yellow and red timekeeping card is used
as a visual cue for presenters, letting them know when they have 5 minutes remaining, and when they must stop.
Please follow the order in the programme, and if for any reason a presenter fails to show, please keep to the originaltimeslots as delegates use the programme to plan their attendance.
Presentation Certificates
Poster presenters can pick up a certificate of presentation from the Information Desk. All other presenters will receivea certificate of presentation from their session chair or a member of staff at the end of their session.
A Polite Request to All ParticipantsParticipants are requested to arrive in a timely fashion for all addresses, whether to their own, or to those of otherpresenters. Presenters are reminded that the time slots should be divided fairly and equally between the number ofpresentations, and that they should not overrun.

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Presentations and Equipment
All rooms will be equipped with a MacBook computer pre-installed with PowerPoint and Keynote, as well as a screen
and an LCD projector. If you wish, you may directly link your own PC laptop, although we advise you to use thecomputer provided by plugging in your USB flash drive.

We recommend that the 30 minutes presentation timeslot be divided as follows: 20 minutes for the paper and 10
minutes for Q and A.
Poster Sessions & Poster Requirements
The poster display boards are 1800mm high x 900mm wide. We are able to provide tape and pins. Please be awarethat are no on-site poster facilities for printing posters.
Conference Proceedings
The Conference Proceedings are published on the IAFOR website (www.iafor.org), and can be freely accessed as partof the research archive.
All authors may have their full paper published in the online conference proceedings. Full text submission is due byJune 30, 2015 through the online system. The proceedings will be published on July 31, 2015.
Authors will have PDF copies of their offprints emailed to them by the IAFOR office by August 31, 2015.
Returning Delegate Discount
Every year we have a growing number of delegates who have presented at previous IAFOR conferences. To show ourappreciation IAFOR would now like to offer you a 10% discount off your next IAFOR conference registration.
This offer is valid for the next 12 months and covers any IAFOR conference in Asia, Dubai, or Europe that you may
choose to attend.

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Japanese Calligraphy Workshop
Sunday, May 31
12:15-13:00
Art Center Kobe 6F
Room 606
Art students from Kyoto’s Ritsumeikan
University will run a workshop fordelegates to try the ancient art ofJapanese Calligraphy.
All are welcome. No reservations are
required. Participants will receive a
calligraphy brush as a souvenir.

Baden Offord

Curtin University, Australia

Among his publications are the books Homosexual Rights as Human Rights: Activism in Indonesia, Singapore andAustralia (2003), Activating Human Rights (co-edited with Elizabeth Porter, 2006), Activating Human Rights Education(co-edited with Christopher Newell, 2008), and Activating Human Rights and Peace:Theories, Practices, Contexts (coedited with Bee Chen Goh and Rob Garbutt, 2012). His most recent co-authored publication in the field of Australian
Cultural Studies is titled Inside Australian Culture: Legacies of Enlightenment Values (with Kerruish, Garbutt, Wessell
and Pavlovic, 2014), which is a collaborative work with the Indian cultural theorist Ashis Nandy. His latest chapter,‘Queer activist intersections in Southeast Asia: human rights and cultural studies,’ appears in Ways of Knowing About
Human Rights in Asia (ed. Vera Mackie, London, Routledge, 2015).
He has held visiting positions at The University of Barcelona, La Trobe University, the Kinsey Institute at Indiana
University and Rajghat Education Centre, Varanasi. In 2010-2011 he held the Chair (Visiting Professor) in AustralianStudies, Centre for Pacific Studies and American Studies, The University of Tokyo. In Japan he has given lectures andresearch seminars at Chuo, Otemon Gakuin, Sophia, Tohoku and Keio Universities.

acas accs 2015
conference chair &featured panel presenter

Baden Offord is an internationally recognized specialist in human rights, sexuality and culture. In 2012 he was asponsored speaker, invited by the European External Action Service and the European Commission, together with the
Human Rights and Democracy Network and Dag Hammarskjöld Foundation to the 14th EU-NGO Human Rights
Forum in Brussels where he spoke on ASEAN and sexual justice issues. In the same year he conducted a three-weeklecture tour of Japan sponsored by the Australian Prime Minister’s Educational Assistance Funds post the Great
Eastern Tohoku Earthquake in 2011.

Prior to his appointment at Curtin University, he was Professor of Cultural Studies and Human Rights at Southern
Cross University, where he was a faculty member from 1999-2014.

Conference Overview
Friday, May 29
09:10 - 09:20
Prokofiev Hall (2F)
Featured Panel Presentation
Sunday, May 31
16:45 - 17:45
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Amanda Third

acas accs 2015
featured presenter &featured panel presenter

University of Western Sydney​, Australia

Associate Professor Amanda Third (PhD) is Principal Research Fellow in Digital Social and Cultural Research in
the Institute for Culture and Society at the University of Western Sydney, Australia. Amanda’s research focuses on
the socio-cultural dimensions of young people’s technology use, with particular emphases on the intergenerational
dynamics shaping technology practice, and vulnerable young people’s technological engagements. Since 2010, Amanda
has led Research Program 2: ‘Connected and Creative’, of the Young and Well Cooperative Research Centre, which
unites young people with researchers, practitioners, innovators and policy-makers from over 75 partner organisations
across the not-for-profit, academic, government and corporate sectors to explore the role of technology in young
people’s lives, and how technology can be used to improve the mental health and wellbeing of young people aged
12 to 25. The research program Amanda leads investigates how to better connect vulnerable young people with
their communities by enhancing and leveraging their technology practices and their creative engagements. She is also
Chief Investigator on an Australian Research Council Industry Linkage project entitled “Young People, Technology andWellbeing Research Facility” that examines cross-sector knowledge brokering practices. She has been a member ofthe Australian-based ‘Technology and Wellbeing Cross-Sector Roundtable’ since 2008.
Featured Presentation: Children’s Rights in the Digital Age - Thinking Human Rights Beyond Citizenship and the
Nation-StateIn 1989, Sir Tim Berners Lee released the code that would form the foundation of the World Wide Web, which now
boasts an audience of three billion users worldwide. Since its inception, the internet has been touted, by technoutopians and others, as a potential game-changer for the field of human rights. This has taken its most recent – albeit
reductive – expression in Berners Lee’s 2014 call for recognition of the internet as a fundamental human right.
In another landmark event of 1989, the United Nations adopted the Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC),
the most widely ratified human rights treaty in the history of the UN. The UNCRC is commonly attributed withattempting to move beyond protective rights towards civil and political rights for children.

Featured Presentation
Friday, May 29
09:20 - 09:50
Prokofiev Hall (2F)

The trajectories set in motion by these two co-eval but independent events have only recently become more
explicitly intertwined, resulting in increasing momentum behind calls for the recognition of the potential of online andnetworked media for promoting and sustaining children’s rights. For example, in the context of the 25th anniversaryof the UNCRC in 2014, the Committee on the Rights of the Child held a General Day of Discussion at the UN in
Geneva to consider how the UNCRC might respond to the demands of the digital age. In doing so, the UNCRC
aimed to not only promote children’s rights to access the internet safely but also to consider ways the proliferation ofdigital media might better enable children to understand and enact their rights, as humans, more broadly.

But what are the implications for human rights, as both a theoretical concept and a field of practice, of claimingchildren’s rights in the era of connectivity? Conventionally, political rights – expressed through citizenship of the nationstate – provide the legitimating structure of human rights. Children are ambivalently positioned as citizens of the
Featured Panel Presentation nation-state, problematizing their capacity to claim their rights. Similarly, the micro-, meso- and macro-operations of
the internet transcend the national borders that conventionally proscribe political rights. Drawing upon the insights of
Sunday, May 31
148 children from 16 countries generated via a recent study conducted by the Young and Well Cooperative ResearchCentre and the University of Western Sydney, in collaboration with the Digitally Connected Network, this paperargues that the move to embrace both ‘children’ and ‘the digital’ necessitates a radical rethinking of the concept of
16:45 - 17:45
human rights.

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Angela Wong Wai Ching

The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

Featured Presentation: From Minzhong (民眾) to Juzhong (聚眾) - The Rise of the Multitude in Resistance
Minzhong (minjung in Korean spelling), signifies a very important historical movement for democracy by the people
against the dictatorial rule of Pak Chun Hee (1917-1979) and Chun Doo Hwan (1931- ) in South Korea from the lateseventies to the eighties.The Korean words correspond to the Chinese characters of minzhong (民眾) which combine
the word of min (民), the people, and zhong (眾), many. It is supposed to mean the majority of the people. Thereis much resources in the Chinese tradition referring to the weight of “the people” in governance. They include theConfucian call to the Emperor to exercise respect for his people as its basis of good ruling, and the integration of themodern idea of democracy into Kuomintang’s three principles “of the people, by the people, for the people” (Sanming
zhuyi) by Sun Yat Sen’s (1866-1925) when he became the Provisional President of the newly set up Republic of China
in Nanking in 1912. Ironically, KMT’s lost its moral appeals to the people when the Communist Party took over therule of China and the representation of people, renmin, in the title of the new nation as the People’s Republic of China.
Tracing the development of the ideas around min, the people, I shall examine the imaginary space of resistance of the“multitude” as revived by Hardt and Negri in 2000, and its usefulness and limitation in the mobilization of people’s
movement in Asia today. Started with offering itself as a political ideal, minzhong as the platform of people’s movement
against the self-interested government authorities has lost much of its aura in the mobilization of social movementin the twentieth first century. The nature of people’s movement has changed as such that the form and the venue ofthe emergence of the multitude have greatly departed from the minzhong (people’s) movement of the last century.
Because of the multiplicity of interests and diversity of goals and styles of conduction of movement, there is a needto reconceive the meaning of the people as they assemble for resistance. Rather than the reiteration of minzhong aslargely a descriptive noun, I shall propose to move it forward to the use of a verb of juzhong (聚眾). By ju, we may
highlight the mere execution of assembling; it may add to the conception of minzhong activism and dynamism.

acas accs 2015
featured presenter &featured panel presenter

Angela Wong Wai Ching received her Ph.D. from the University of Chicago. She teaches at the Department ofCultural and Religious Studies, serves as the Deputy Chair of the Department and a Director of the MA Programme
in Intercultural Studies at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. She has engaged deeply in the development of the
Gender Studies Programme, headed the Graduate Division of Gender Studies and is presently the Co-Director of
Gender Research Centre of the University. Her research interests include: gender and sexuality, religious fundamentalism
and Asian culture, women in Islam, Buddhism, Daoism and Christianity, and postcolonialism and religions in Hong Kong.
Her works have been published in many professional journals both in Chinese and English. Some representative
publications include: “The Poor Woman”: A Critical Analysis of Asian Theology and Contemporary Chinese Fiction by
Women (Peter Lang, 2002), co-ed. with CHOI Poking, Chinese Women and Hong Kong Christianity: An Oral History(Oxford University Press, 2010), co-ed. with Siumi Tam, Yip Hon Ming, and Lo Ka Wing, Gender Awareness: GenderStudies in Hong Kong, Taiwan and China (Commercial Press, 2012), and co-ed. with Siumi Maria Tam and DanningWang, Gender and Family in East Asia (Routledge, 2014).

Featured Presentation
Friday, May 29
09:55 - 10:25
Prokofiev Hall (2F)
Featured Panel Presentation

In the context of Hong Kong, juzhong is associated with any illegal gathering of people who is suspicious of its turning
Sunday, May 31
up into a mob, a situation that is actually forbidden by Hong Kong law. As a law inherited from the colonial times,
the spontaneous of gathering of people on the streets without official approval is subjected to police arrest. Juzhong
therefore also gains this rebellious tone, to threaten the law enforcement authorities and to disrupt order. Based on 16:45 - 17:45
the experience juzhong in the Umbrella Movement of Hong Kong, I shall explore the possibilities of conception andRoom 604 (6F)
re-conception of the multitude as a resistant force in a late capitalist society such as Hong Kong.

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Gerard Goggin

acas accs 2015
keynote presenter &featured panel presenter

University of Sydney, Australia

Gerard Goggin is Australian Research Council Future Fellow and Professor of Media and Communications, theUniversity of Sydney. He is widely published on digital technology, with books including Routledge Companion to
Global Internet Histories (2016; with Mark McLelland), Routledge Companion to Mobile Media (with Larissa Hjorth),
Technologies and the Media (2013), Global Mobile Media (2011), Cell Phone Culture (2006), and the co-edited
collections Locative Media (2014), Mobile Technology and Place (2012), Internationalizing Internet Studies (2009),
and Mobile Technology. In addition, he is well-known for his work on disability and media, including, with Katie Ellis, thebooks Routledge Companion to Disability and Media (2016) and Disability and the Media (2015), and with the late
Christopher Newell, Disability in Australia (2005), and Digital Disability (2003). For details of his Future Fellowshipproject on disability, digital technology and human rights, see http://disabilitydigitaltech.net.
Keynote Presentation: Asian Internet Activisms - Cultures of Technology, Human Rights, and Justice
For the past two decades, a rich, potent site for new concepts of human rights, media, culture, and justice has been
Internet activism.
In Asia, there have been many important social and political movements where we can see such a dawning of new
formats and template for hopeful social action: gay, lesbian, and queer activism in South-East Asia; the witnessing
via video and mobile phones in protests in Burma; the vital role the Internet has played in the responses to the
Fukushima 3/11 nuclear disaster; the place of Facebook in Indonesian activism around anti-corruption; workers andcitizens mobilizing with social media in China, not to mention work around and hacks for the firewalls in that country;
underground digital culture and alternative media in Korea; the longrunning MalaysiaKini and the use of a range ofInternet technologies to vivify alternative public spheres in Malaysia; and Hong Kong’s 2014 Umbrella student protests.

Keynote Presentation
Friday, May 29
10:55 - 11:40
Prokofiev Hall (2F)
Featured Panel Presentation
Sunday, May 31
16:45 - 17:45
Room 604 (6F)
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Such Internet activism has assumed great prominence and importance because of the centrality of the Internet, and its
complex of technologies, to contemporary social life and power. All too often, however, such varieties of Asian Internet
activism are seen through the prism of global uprising — a kind of digital revolutionary sublime, where, from the ArabSpring through the replication of Occupy movements and the Indignados in Spain to Burma, China, and Hong Kong,life is breathed into democracy by the magic of technology. This is as unlikely, as it is helpful.
To reflect upon the achievements and possibilities Internet activism for advancing justice and human rights, I discuss thestill obscure histories of the Internet and activism in Asia. To do so, I draw upon collaborative work on a comparative,
cultural history of Asia Pacific Internet, focussing on Japan, Korea, China, and Australia. By recuperating Asian Internet
histories and recognizing the distinctive, specific dynamics and terms upon which the Internet has been imagined andappropriated for activist purposes, we can avail ourselves of a regionally fitting set of resources for thinking about thehorizons and modes of justice work — something that can be instructive for reorienting global notions of how media
and rights interlock.

John Erni

Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong

Featured Presentation: Convergence or Collision - Human Rights with or without Cultural Studies
In the persistent (re)turn to questions of representational, identity-based, and political economic justice today, howwill Cultural Studies make space for human rights as a global legal and humanitarian practice? Of late, the new andunremitting atrocities linked to state, inter-state, and private violence have precipitated new social movements that
act in concert with international human rights law. To these movements, Cultural Studies has had little dialogic or
institutional connections. In this address, I shall consider the conditions of possibility for overcoming the apparent
non-correspondence between critical cultural humanism and rights, or between culture and law. I hope to outline a
critical model of analysis that on the one hand incorporates insights of postcolonial legal theorists and jurists from the
Global South and important cultural theorists from the North, and on the other hand, fuses a critical combination oflaw, social movements, and modernity. This would entail a reconception of human rights and international public law– including the assumptions, institutions, geopolitical relations, and grounded practices of the rights discourse, as it isimagined politically and legally – in order to remap the ethico-political commitments of Cultural Studies from withina “rights imaginary.”acas accs 2015
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John Nguyet Erni (PhD – Illinois; MA – Oregon; LL.M. – HKU) is Chair Professor in Humanities and Head of the
Department of Humanities & Creative Writing at Hong Kong Baptist University. He also serves as Adjunct Professor
at the Department of Cultural Studies at Lingnan University in Hong Kong, after having served as Head of that
Department in 2010-13. Previously, he taught at the City University of Hong Kong, as well as the University of New
Hampshire and the University of Wisconsin in the U.S. A former recipient of the Rockefeller Humanities Research
Fellowship, he worked at Columbia University’s School of Public Health in the Program on Gender, Sexuality, Health,and Human Rights. He is also an elected Fellow of the Hong Kong Academy of the Humanities. He has published widelyon international and Asia-based cultural studies, human rights legal criticism, Chinese consumption of transnational
culture, gender and sexuality in media culture, youth popular consumption in Hong Kong and Asia, and critical publichealth. His books include Understanding South Asian Minorities in Hong Kong (with Lisa Leung, HKUP, 2014), Cultural
Studies of Rights: Critical Articulations (Routledge, 2011), Internationalizing Cultural Studies: An Anthology (with Ackbar
Abbas, Blackwell, 2005), Asian Media Studies: The Politics of Subjectivities (with Siew Keng Chua, Blackwell, 2005), andUnstable Frontiers: Technomedicine and the Cultural Politics of “Curing” AIDS (Minnesota, 1994). Currently, he is completinga book project on the legal modernity of rights.

Featured Presentation
Friday, May 29
11:45 - 12:15
Prokofiev Hall (2F)
Featured Panel Presentation
Sunday, May 31
16:45 - 17:45
Room 604 (6F)xvi

Seiko Yasumotoacas accs 2015
spotlight presenter

University of Sydney, Australia

Seiko Yasumoto lectures and carries out research on Japanese and East Asian media and cultural studies at the University
of Sydney. She holds a PhD in Media and Cultural Studies from Queensland University of Technology ARC Centre of
Excellence for Creative Industries and Innovation. Her primary research which she has published widely, includes Japanese
government media policy and broadcasting media within the domain of popular culture. The scope includes transmissionof content, textual analysis, copyright, media industries, adaptation theory, youth culture, audience analysis and transnational media cultural flows in Japan and East Asia. She was the Japan and North, East Asia regional representative of the
Asian Studies of Association of Australia (2009-2012). She is currently the Editor in Chief of IAFOR Journal of Asian Studies
and on a number of editorial boards.
Spotlight Presentation: Multiculturalism and Cultural Diversity - A Case Study of Australia
Australia’s heritage, from a human settlement perspective, goes back more than forty thousand years with aboriginal
migration into Australia. There was a step change from the late sixteenth century with progressive overseas settlementfrom 1778, initially from the United Kingdom. This influx numerically has outpaced the incumbent aboriginal population.
Superimposed on this evolution there has been a dynamic change in the composition of Australia’s ethnicity commencing
from 1945. Since the end of WWII more than seven million migrants have made Australia their domicile. Some 25% of
the population in 2015 are migrants, an exemplar since 1945 in the evolution of multicultural societies towards a global
multicultural society. 40% of residents in Sydney do not have English as L1. The study examines the relationship between
the historical background in the colonisation of Australia and outcomes from post WWII government policy. These
relationships are explored from 1945 where, from a primarily European society, Australia now has a culturally diverse
society. A society enriched not only from Europe but globally and, in particular, from Asia. The transition, not withoutsome racial tensions, has arguable yielded substantial benefit to Australia. These benefits are commonplace in the culturalinternationalising of the population, diversity of food, religion and intellectual enrichment. Australia has made a significant
humanitarian contribution to global difficulties. Of particular contemporary significance is the need to reinforce empathy
and tolerance which requires multilateral societal adjustments. Quadrangulation is used as the research methodology
encompassing historical background, government policy, ethnic transition and media engagement.

Spotlight Presentation
Friday, May 29
16:45 - 17:15
Room 604 (6F)

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Thomas French, Hiroaki Ataka, Akihiko Kimijima, Zsombor Rajkai
Ritsumeikan University, Japan

Hiroaki Ataka is an Associate Professor in the College of International Relations at Ritsumeikan University (Japan).
He specializes in Critical International Relations Theory, Post-Western International Relations Theory, and Theories ofInternational Society.
Akihiko Kimijima is Professor of Constitutional Law and Peace Studies at the College of International Relations
at Ritsumeikan University. His recent publications include From Power Politics to Common Security: The Asia Pacific’s
Roadmap to Peace, in Tatsushi Arai, Shihoko Goto, and Zheng Wang (eds.), Clash of National Identities: China, Japan, andthe East China Sea Territorial Dispute (Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington DC, 2013),
New Paradigms of Peace Research: The Asia-Pacific Context (Rawat Publications, India, 2012) and the entry, “Article 9,” inNigel J. Young (ed.), The Oxford International Encyclopedia of Peace (2010). Every year he nominates a candidate for
the Nobel Peace Prize. He will be presenting “Six Faces of Article 9 – Elucidating the Complexities of Japan’s Postwar
Constitution”.
Zsombor Rajkai, Ph.D. (2008, 2010), is an Associate Professor in the College of International Relations at Ritsumeikan
University (Japan). He specialises in two fields: the modernisation of non-Western societies, and Sino-Central-Asian
historical relations.
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Thomas French is an Associate Professor in the College of International Relations, Ritsumeikan University. He is a
specialist on US-Japanese relations and the Occupation of Japan, and his broader research interests include Japanese
security, the Japanese arms industry, and the Self Defense Forces. He is the author of National Police Reserve: The
Origin of Japan’s Self Defense Forces (Global Oriental, 2014), the first ever book length examination of the force which
preceded the current SDF. He is currently working on a number of projects including an examination of the role ofrearmament on Japan’s automotive industry, and a book length study of the complete history of the SDF. He is also a
Fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society and the UK Higher Education Academy.

Thomas French: The ‘Wild Cards’ – The Threat to Peace of Non-State Actors in North East Asia
Hiroaki Ataka: The “Peaceful Rise” of China Discourse and its Performative Consequences
Akihiko Kimijima: Six Faces of Article 9 – Elucidating the Complexities of Japan’s Postwar Constitution
Zsombor Rajkai: The Images of Self and Neighbouring States held by The People of North East Asia

Featured Panel Presentation
Friday, May 29
17:20 - 18:20
Room 604 (6F)

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Joel Campbell

acas accs 2015
spotlight presenter

Troy University, Japan

Joel Campbell is an Associate Professor of Political Science in the Pacific Region (Japan and Korea) of the Global
Campus program of Troy University, a United States University in Japan. He teaches in the Masters of Science inInternational Relations (MSIR) program and has had a life-long interest in East Asia and International Politics. Dr.
Campbell was born in Ohio, grew up in Texas, and has lived in Arizona, Missouri, and Tennessee. He was awarded adoctorate in political science from Miami University (Ohio), and a Masters of Public Affairs (M.P.A.) from the Lyndon B.
Johnson School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin. Following this he worked in several governmental
offices, including the Texas House Speaker’s office and the Tennessee Valley Authority.
Dr. Campbell has taught at Tohoku University, Miyazaki International College and Kansai Gaidai University in Japan, three
universities in Korea as well as previously being an editor for a Japanese securities firm. He has also published extensively
on his principal research interests, the politics and political economy of Northeast Asia, along with technology policy
and international security. Dr. Campbell has written numerous articles for academic journals on topics ranging fromcombating terrorism and money laundering to European Union economic integration and technology policy. The bulkof his publications have focused on the politics and political economy of East Asia, especially in Japan, South Korea, andChina. Dr. Campbell is also a contributor to IAFOR’s Eye Magazine.
Spotlight Presentation: ASEAN and Northeast Asia - An Emerging Super-Region?

Spotlight Presentation
Saturday, May 30
16:45 - 17:15
Room 604 (6F)

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Regional integration has followed a much different course in Asia and Europe. The Association of Southeast Asian
Nations (ASEAN) by default has become the lead organization in forging an entity dedicated to economic and political
integration. ASEAN adopted a Charter, a sort of mini-constitution, and this year is implementing an Asian Common
Market for the first time. Due to ongoing political conflicts and differing strategic objectives, most of the region’s great
and middle powers (Japan, China, South Korea, India, and Australia) have been unable to assert leadership aimed
toward Asian unity. Recently, trade and production links between Northeast and Southeast Asia have grown, and thetwo regions have become closer.This is leading to a looser, more flexible form of regional integration than experienced
in Europe, but a more purposeful organization than found in North or South America (NAFTA or Mercosur). This
paper examines the course of Asian regional organization, and suggests that a modification of theories usually applied
to the European case involving an inversion of functionalism and neo-functionalism is more appropriate to Asia. It alsopresents several scenarios for the future development of the Asian super-region, suggesting that an emerging Asian
Community will become the world’s leading economic region by the 2020s.

Yvonne Jewkes

Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong

Featured Presentation: Human Rights, Human Wrongs - Penal ‘Hell-Holes’, Popular Media and Mass Incarceration
In recent years, the prison has been analogously compared to transportation and slavery; the Jim Crow laws; the urban
ghetto; a new apartheid; and a means of understanding state power and security apparatuses in post 9/11 societies. In
all these analyses imprisonment is explicitly linked to racially motivated processes of criminalization and segregation. A
further analogous framework by which prisons might be viewed and understood, and the focus of this paper, is thatof Hell. Drawing on images from Dante’s Inferno, the cultural purchase of which, it is suggested, remains undiminishedseven hundred years after it was written, and on contemporary popular media representations which have introduced
ideas from Inferno to a modern audience, this paper argues that social exclusion and mass imprisonment are related tobroader historical and cultural practices of discrimination and to contemporary media discourses of ‘othering’. In thelight of popular media constructions of ‘evil’ offenders, the paper suggests that, not only can the prison be understood
through the lens of darkness and lightness, Heaven and Hell, but that such cultural metaphors serve to justify andauthorize the denial of prisoners’ human rights and the prison as infernal hell-hole.

acas accs 2015
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Yvonne Jewkes is Professor of Criminology at the University of Leicester, UK. She earned her PhD in Criminology
from the University of Cambridge after studying for a Masters at the Centre for Mass Communications Researchat the University of Leicester. Her books include Media and Crime (now in its third edition), Captive Audience: Media,
Masculinity and Power in Prisons, Crime Online and the Handbook on Prisons. She is editor of the Sage book series Key
Approaches to Criminology and, with Ben Crewe (University of Cambridge) and Thomas Ugelvik (University of Oslo), isseries editor of Palgrave Studies in Prisons and Penology.Yvonne was one of the founding editors (with Chris Greer andJeff Ferrell) of the journal Crime, Media, Culture, winner of the 2006 Association of Learned and Professional Society
Publishers’ Charlesworth Award for Best New Journal. Her current research, funded by the ESRC, concerns prisonarchitecture, design and technology.

Featured Presentation
Saturday, May 30
17:20 - 17:50
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Gary McLeod

acas accs 2015
spotlight workshop presenter

University of Arts London, UK

Spotlight Workshop
Friday, May 29
13:15 - 17:00
Saturday, May 30
09:00 - 17:00
Sunday, May 31
09:00 - 17:00
Room 606 (6F)xxi

Gary McLeod is a visual artist exploring photography as a method of visually engaging with unfamiliar environments. In
2006, he received a Masters Preparation award from the Arts and Humanities Research Council, UK for his researchof photographs taken in Japan in 1875 during the voyage of the British scientific vessel H.M.S. Challenger (1872-1876).
Since then, he has continued to foreground visual contributions of the Challenger expedition and champion theirrelevance to contemporary visual culture.
His primary areas of research focus on rephotographic and ‘post-photographic’ approaches to practice-led inquiries.
He has participated in conferences and institutions around the world and has works held in the collection of the
Natural History Museum in London. Having lived and worked overseas for ten years, he has also taught students
of various backgrounds at institutions in India, UK, Japan, Taiwan, Portugal and New Zealand. Currently, he teaches
photography and visual communication in Izmir, Turkey.
Spotlight Workshop: Photographing Conference Delegates Together
Since the proliferation of digital cameras and increased use of social media, the freedom to take pictures has neverbeen greater. However, more is arguably needed to encourage a wider critical application of photography. As aphotographer, my practice takes issue with common forms of photographic visual culture that are dominated byattempts to record people and places within a single photographic frame; in particular, the group portrait. Such
photographs overlook an individual in favor of a group, inviting questions about honesty. For example, a photograph of
the 1928 Entomology conference in Ithaca presents a group of notable scientists, but their characters are reduced toa single moment, overlooking their natural individual complexities.
Drawing upon historical examples of ‘post-photography’ (e.g. Galton, Brady, Hill & Adamson), this workshop aims to
produce an honest group portrait of the ACAS/ACCS conference delegates (for later publication/display). Central tothis portrait is evidencing the process within it: delegates (arranged in sub groups according to social ties/networking)are photographed as multiple fragments and combined with other photographic images taken by the delegatesthemselves upon invitation. All visual material is then compiled and later assembled to create a visually explicit
composite group photograph that borrows from and improves upon the value of conventional group photography.
Working in collaboration with delegates, the workshop encourages a wider critical engagement with photography
and presents an opportunity for participants to reflect and learn. Most significantly, it forms a record of ACAS/ACCS
2015’s delegates both as individuals and as a group.

Donald Hall

Lehigh University, USA

His current and forthcoming work examines issues such as professional responsibility and academic communitybuilding, the dialogics of social change and ethical intellectualism, and the Victorian (and our continuing) interest in the
deployment of instrumental agency over our social, vocational, and sexual selves. His book, The Academic Community:
A Manual For Change, was published by Ohio State University Press in the fall of 2007. His tenth book, Reading
Sexualities: Hermeneutic Theory and the Future of Queer Studies, was published in the spring of 2009. In 2012, he andAnnamarie Jagose, of the University of Auckland, collaborated on a volume titled The Routledge Queer Studies Reader,which was published in July of that year. He continues to lecture worldwide on the value of a liberal arts education andthe need for nurturing global competencies in students and interdisciplinary dialogue in and beyond the classroom.
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Donald E. Hall, Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at Lehigh University, USA, has published widely in the fieldsof British studies, gender theory, cultural studies, and professional studies. Prior to arriving at Lehigh in 2011, he served
as Jackson Distinguished Professor of English and Chair of the Department of English (and previously Chair of the
Department of Foreign Languages) at West Virginia University (WVU). Before his tenure at WVU, he was Professor
of English and Chair of the Department of English at California State University, Northridge, where he taught for
thirteen years. He is a recipient of the University Distinguished Teaching Award at CSUN, was a visiting professor at
the National University of Rwanda, was 2001 Lansdowne Distinguished Visiting Scholar at the University of Victoria(Canada), was Fulbright Distinguished Chair in Cultural Studies at Karl Franzens University in Graz, Austria, for 2004-05,
and was Fulbright Specialist at the University of Helsinki for 2006. He has taught also in Sweden, Romania, Hungary,
and China. He has served on numerous panels and committees for the Modern Language Association (MLA), including
the Task Force on Evaluating Scholarship for Tenure and Promotion and the Convention Program Committee. In 2012,
he served as national President of the Association of Departments of English. In 2013, he was elected to and began
serving on the Executive Council of the MLA.

Featured Panel Presentation
Sunday, May 31
16:45 - 17:45
Room 604 (6F)xxii

Group Photography Workshop with Gary McLeod
Conference Base Room (Room 606)
Since the proliferation of digital cameras and increased use of social media, the freedom to takepictures has never been greater. However, more is arguably needed to encourage a wider criticalapplication of photography. As a photographer, my practice takes issue with common forms ofphotographic visual culture that are dominated by attempts to record people and places within asingle photographic frame; in particular, the group portrait. Such photographs overlook an individualin favor of a group, inviting questions about honesty. For example, a photograph of the 1928
Entomology conference in Ithaca presents a group of notable scientists, but their characters are
reduced to a single moment, overlooking their natural individual complexities.
Drawing upon historical examples of ‘post-photography’ (e.g. Galton, Brady, Hill & Adamson), thisworkshop aims to produce an honest group portrait of the ACCS / ACAS conference delegates (forlater publication/display). Central to this portrait is evidencing the process within it: delegates(arranged in sub groups according to social ties/networking) are photographed as multiple fragments
and combined with other photographic images taken by the delegates themselves upon invitation. All
visual material is then compiled and later assembled to create a visually explicit composite group
photograph that borrows from and improves upon the value of conventional group photography.
Working in collaboration with delegates, the workshop encourages a wider critical engagement withphotography and presents an opportunity for participants to reflect and learn. Most significantly, it
forms a record of ACCS / ACAS 2015’s delegates both as individuals and as a group.
Gary will be stationed in the Conference Base Room (Room 606) at the following times, so please
pay him a visit and have your photograph taken (times may vary).
Saturday the 30th (10am-1pm & 2pm-5pm)
Sunday the 31st (10am-1pm & 2pm-5pm)

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IAFORThe International Academic Forum
Academic Vision and Mission“To Open Minds, To Educate Intelligence, To Inform Decisions”
The vision of IAFOR grew out of the perceived need to fill a vacuum in the communication and exchange activities of the academic
world. Its mission arose out of examining that space and investigating why it existed. The vacuum existed because of the lack ofopportunity for serious and thoughtful exchange between academics, members of the global business community, and practitioners
in the fields of human endeavor that linked these groups together. In the field of education, for example, we have academic theorists,
educational managers (political decision-makers and organizational directors) and classroom teachers with their support staff in IT,
library work, exchange programs, and specialist fields. But how often do they have the opportunity to interact?
Moving beyond one particular field, larger questions arise. What function should universities prioritize in the 21st century? What
do businesses see as their contribution to social and global well being? How can people on the ground, trying to implement
improvements that will transform human life, best be supported? And perhaps above all, what are the agendas that will drive
mechanisms to enable these groups to interact effectively.
One piece of distilled thought that came from early exchanges at one of our conferences was the recognition that some of therhetoric of concern about the problems of developing nations was perhaps over-focused on the term “poverty” because it can be
defined only in a relative way. “Hunger” was put forward as being more immediate and itself a contributory factor to poverty, rather
than the other way round. One key to the hunger issue could be the provision of safe drinking water, or water for irrigation in somecontexts, while flood management might be necessary elsewhere. These, in and by themselves become valuable only insofar as they
help to relieve hunger in specific contexts.
IAFOR is affording opportunities that do not exist elsewhere. The base is Kansai, Japan’s great commercial and manufacturing hub,
one symbol of the emerging Pacific economy that is already eclipsing the long dominant Atlantic zone. Our conferences present
those taking part with three unique dimensions of experience. First of all, it encourages interdisciplinary activity to be expanded.
Depending on the field, this can face varying degrees of difficulty, ranging from discouragement to downright prohibition. Those
overly dependent on fixed academic structures often see lateral thinking as a threat. None of these negatives apply in IAFOR. Its
purpose is to generate new approaches that cross any disciplinary lines. The principle employed is to let the imagination permit
intuitive responses to questions. There are no panels of critics. There are simply people who want to listen and reflect. The model ofacademic work as potholing is replaced by the metaphor of mountaineering. While respecting the need for solid and well-founded
academic work, we feel the need to go beyond it from time to time to discover fresh approaches to old questions.
Secondly, it facilitates the heightening of intercultural awareness. Again, we encourage innovation through cross-cultural perception.
Cultural roots influence people in their attitudes more than most would realize or admit. The need to see and internalize insights
gained from other viewpoints is met by a process of steady illumination.
Thirdly, it promotes the broadening of international exchange. We may live in a globalized world, but in reality parochialism still holds
sway. The collapse of the U.S.S.R and the break-up of Yugoslavia led to the re-establishment of numerous former countries. While
this may be desirable for the peoples concerned, it merely adds to the world’s cultural confusion. Exchange leads to explanation andthat helps the growth of intercultural awareness.
IAFOR makes all of these developments possible in one gathering. Our conferences are not a substitute for specialist conferences.
We intend our events to be an alternative that functions as a balance or even a corrective to the extreme tendencies that can arise
from more narrowly defined research parameters. In short, IAFOR is promoting and facilitating a new multifaceted approach to oneof the core issues of our time, namely globalization and its many forms of growth and expansion. Awareness of how it cuts acrossthe worlds of business, and academia, along with its impact on societies and institutions is one of the driving forces that has given
the organization its momentum, and is making it a pioneer in this global age.

Rev. Professor Stuart DB Picken
Order of the Sacred Treasure (瑞宝中綬章), M.A. (Hons), BD., Ph.D., F.R.A.S.
Chairman, Japan Society of Scotland
Chairman, IAFOR International Advisory Board
Dr Joseph Haldane
B.A. (Hons), Ph.D F.R.S.A., F.R.A.S.
President, IAFOR

people - Leadership
Chairman of the International Advisory Board

President

The Reverend Professor Stuart D. B. Picken

Dr Joseph Haldane

Order of the Sacred Treasure,

B.A., Ph.D. (London), F.R.S.A., F.R.A.S.

M.A. (Hons), B.D., Ph.D. (Glasgow), F.R.A.S.

Stuart D. B. Picken is the Chairman of the International Advisory
Board, and in this role is Chairman of the Organization. As
Chairman of IAFOR, Professor Picken helps guide the academic
and political strategy of the organization, and assists in the forging
of global institutional partnerships. He is also responsible for thedevelopment of the IAFOR Research Institutes.
The author of a dozen books and over 130 articles and papers,
Professor Picken is considered one of the foremost scholars
on Japan, China, and Globalization in East Asia. As an academic,
Professor Picken has devoted more than 30 years to scholarshipin Japan, notably as a Professor of Philosophy at the International
Christian University in Tokyo, where he specialized in ethics andJapanese thought, and as International Adviser to the High Priest
of Tsubaki Grand Shrine (Mie prefecture). He has also served asa consultant to various businesses, including Jun Ashida Ltd., Mitsui
Mining & Smelting Corp., Kobe Steel, and Japan Air Lines.
In November 2008, the Government of Japan awarded Professor
Picken the Order of the Sacred Treasure for his pioneeringresearch, and outstanding contribution to the promotion offriendship and mutual understanding between Japan and the UK.
The honour is normally reserved for Japanese citizens and is amark of the utmost respect in which Professor Picken is held by
the Japanese Government. More recently, in 2012 he was invited
to London to attend a reception at the Japanese Embassy, hosted
by Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko as an expression of
their gratitude towards Britons who had helped support Japanafter the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami. Professor Picken
helped organize fundraising efforts through both the Japan Societyof Scotland, of which he is the chair, in the UK, and IAFOR in Japan.
Although now resident in Scotland, Professor Picken maintains his
interests in Japan, as Chair of the Japan Society of Scotland, andthrough the IAFOR IAB. He is also the Chairman of the Academic
Board of New College, Birmingham. He lives near Glasgow withhis wife and two children.

Joseph Haldane is the President of the International Academic
Forum. He was Academic Director from IAFOR’s inception in2009 until January 2011, and Executive Director from 2011 untillate 2014, when he assumed his current role. He is responsible fordevising strategy, setting policies, forging institutional partnerships,
implementing projects, and overseeing the organization’s businessand academic operations, including research, publications andevents.
Dr Haldane’s academic interests include politics and international
affairs, literature and history, and he holds a PhD from the
University of London in 19th century French Studies. He began
his academic career in France, and from 2002-2005 held full-time
faculty positions at the University of Paris XII (Paris-Est Créteil) and
Sciences Po Paris, as well as visiting positions at both the French
Press Institute in the University of Paris II (Université PanthéonAssas), and the School of Journalism at Sciences Po Paris. Prior tofounding IAFOR in 2009, Dr Haldane was an Associate Professor at
Nagoya University of Commerce and Business in Japan, where hetaught a range of language and culture courses at undergraduatelevel, and the MBA Ethics course in the graduate school.
Dr Haldane’s current research concentrates on post-war Japaneseand Chinese history, as well as Sino-Japanese and US-Japan
relations in the same period. In 2012 he was elected a Fellow of
the Royal Asiatic Society, and in 2015 a Fellow of the Royal Societyof Arts.

people - The Executive Council of the International Advisory Board
IAB Chair: Professor Stuart D.B. Picken
The IAB Executive Council is composed of distinguished academics, business executives, former and current government officials, and community leaders of international
standing. Its role is to provide counsel and direction in the business and affairs of IAFOR, suggest and approve the areas of scholarly investigation, and safeguard
the independence of the Forum’s work. International Directors of Program and Research Institute Directors are ex-officio members of the Executive Council of theInternational Advisory Board. Membership of the Executive Council of the International Advisory Board is by invitation only.
Mr Mitsumasa Aoyama
Director, The Yufuku Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Professor David N Aspin
Professor Emeritus and Former Dean of the Faculty of
Education, Monash University, Australia
Visiting Fellow, St Edmund’s College, Cambridge
University, UK
Professor Don Brash
Former Governor of the Reserve Bank, New ZealandFormer Leader of the New National Party, New
Zealand
Adjunct Professor, AUT, New Zealand & La Trobe
University, Australia
Lord Charles Bruce
Patron, Japan Society of Scotland
Patron, Scottish Centre of Tagore Studies at Edinburgh
Napier University
Chairman, Kolkata Scottish Heritage Trust
Professor Judith Chapman
Professor of Education, Australian Catholic University,
Australia
Visiting Fellow, St Edmund’s College, Cambridge
University, UK
Member of the Order of Australia
Professor Tien-Hui Chiang
Professor and Chair, Department of Education
National University of Tainan, Taiwan/Chinese Taipei
Professor Chung-Ying Cheng
Professor of Philosophy, University of Hawai’i atManoa, USA
Editor-in-Chief, The Journal of Chinese Philosophy
Professor Steve Cornwell
Professor of English and Interdisciplinary Studies,
Osaka Jogakuin University, Osaka, Japan
IAFOR International Director of Programme:
Langauge Learning
Professor Michael A. Cusumano
SMR Distinguished Professor of Managementand Engineering Systems, MIT Sloan School ofManagement, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
USA
Professor Dexter Da Silva
Professor of Educational Psychology, Keisen University,
Tokyo, Japan
Professor Georges Depeyrot
Professor and Director of Research & Member of theBoard of Trustees
French National Center for Scientific Research(CNRS) & L’Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris, France
Professor Donald E. Hall
Herbert J. and Ann L. Siegel Dean
LeHign University, USA

Professor June Henton
Dean, College of Human Sciences, Auburn University,
USA
Professor Michael Hudson
President of The Institute for the Study of Long-Term
Economic Trends (ISLET)Distinguished Research Professor of Economics, The
University of Missouri, Kansas City

Professor Jerry PlattProfessor of Global Communication, Akita
International University, Japan
Professor Emeritus, San Francisco State University,
USA
Professor Frank S. Ravitch
Professor of Law & Walter H. Stowers Chair in Law
and Religion, Michigan State University College of Law

Professor Koichi Iwabuchi
Professor of Media and Cultural Studies & Director of
the Monash Asia Institute, Monash University, Australia

Professor Richard RothSenior Associate Dean, Medill School of Journalism,
Northwestern University, Qatar

Professor Sue Jackson
Professor of Lifelong Learning and Gender & Pro-Vice
Master of Teaching and Learning, Birkbeck, Universityof London, UK

Professor Monty P. Satiadarma
Clinical Psychologist and Lecturer in Psychology &Former Dean of the Department of Psychology and
Rector of the University, Tarumanugara University,
Indonesia

Professor Sing Kong Lee
Director, The National Institute of Education,
Singapore
Professor Sir Geoffrey Lloyd
Senior Scholar in Residence, The Needham ResearchInstitute, Cambridge, UK
Fellow and Former Master, Darwin College, Universityof Cambridge
Fellow of the British Academy
Professor Keith Miller
Orthwein Endowed Professor for Lifelong Learning in
the Science, University of Missouri-St.Louis, USA
Professor Kuniko Miyanaga
Director, Human Potential Institute, Japan
Fellow, Reischauer Institute, Harvard University, USA
Professor Dennis McInerney
Chair Professor of Educational Psychology and CoDirector of the Assessment Research Centre
The Hong Kong Institute of Education, Hong Kong
Professor Johannes Moenius
The University of Redlands School of Business, USA
Professor Ka Ho Joshua Mok
Chair Professor of Comparative Policy, Associate VicePresident (External Relations)
Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, The Hong
Kong Institute of Education, Hong Kong SAR

Mr Mohamed Salaheen
Director, The United Nations World Food Programme,Japan & Korea
Mr Lowell Sheppard
Asia Pacific Director, HOPE International
Development Agency, Canada/Japan
His Excellency Dr Drago Stambuk
Croatian Ambassador to Brazil, Brazil
Professor Mary Stuart
Vice-Chancellor, The University of Lincoln, UK
Professor Arthur Stockwin, OBE ORS
University of Oxford, UK
Professor Gary Swanson
Distinguished Journalist-in-Residence & Mildred S.
Hansen Endowed Chair, The University of Northern
Colorado, USA
Professor Jiro Takai
Secretary General of the Asian Association for Social
Psychology & Professor of Social Psychology
Graduate School of Education and Human
Development, Nagoya University, Japan
Professor Svetlana Ter Minasova
President of the Faculty of Foreign Languages andArea Studies, Lomonosov Moscow State University

Professor Michiko Nakano
Professor of English & Director of the Distance
Learning Center, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan

Professor Yozo Yokota
Director of the Center for Human Rights Affairs, Japan
Former UN Special Rapporteur on Myanmar

Ms Linda Toyo Obayashi
Senior Mediation Officer, The World Bank Group
Washington DC, USA

Professor Kensaku Yoshida
Professor of English & Director of the Center for the
Teaching of Foreign Languages in General Education,
Sophia University, Tokyo, Japan

Professor Baden Offord
Director and Chair,Centre for Human Rights Education
Curtin University, Australia

The International Advisory Board is composed of distinguished academics, business executives, former and current government officials, and community leaders. Its role
is to consult and provide counsel on the business and affairs of IAFOR, and suggest areas of scholarly investigation. Membership of the International Advisory Board is
by invitation only. For a full list please see the IAFOR website.

The Japan Liaison Committee (JLC)The Japan Liaison Committee is a consultative committee that provides support in the form of advice and guidance in specific aspects of the planning and projects of
the Forum held in Japan. The Chairman of the International Advisory Board is also chair of the JLC. Members of the JLC are ex-officio members of the International
Advisory Board.
Prof Stuart D. B. Picken, Chairman, IAFORMr Mitsumasa Aoyama, Founder of the PHP Institute, Kyoto, Japan & Director, the Yufuku Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Prof Kuniko Miyanaga, Director, the Human Potential Institute, Tokyo, Japan and Fellow, Reischauer Institute, Harvard University, USA
Prof Michiko Nakano, Professor & Director of the Distance Learning Center, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan
Prof Yozo Yokota, Director of the Center for Human Rights Affairs, Japan & Former UN Special Rapporteur on Myanmar
Dr Joseph Haldane, President, IAFOR

people - IAFOR Journal Editors
Editors of IAFOR Journals are ex-officio Members of the International Advisory Board
IAFOR Journal of Arts and Humanities
Dr Thomas French, Ritsumeikan University, Japan
IAFOR Journal of Literature & Librarianship
Dr Richard Donovan, Doshisha University, Japan
IAFOR Journal of Education
Dr Bernard Montoneri, Providence University,
Taichung, Taiwan
IAFOR Journal of Business and Management
Dr Merlin Levirs, Ritsumeikan University
IAFOR Journal of the Social Sciences
Dr Andrea Molle, Chapman University, USA
IAFOR Journal of Ethics, Religion and Philosophy
Dr Michael O’Sullivan, The Chinese University ofHong Kong, Hong Kong

IAFOR Journal of Sustainability, Energy and theEnvironment
Dr Alexandru-Ionut Petrisor, The National Institutefor Research and Development in Construction,
Urban Planning and Sustainable Spatial Development(URBAN=INCERC), Romania

IAFOR Journal of Politics, Economics & Law
Dr Craig Mark, Kwansei Gakuin University, Japan

IAFOR Journal of Media, Communication & Film
Dr James Rowlins, Singapore University of Design
and Technology

IAFOR Journal of Psychology and the Behavioral
Sciences
Dr. Shahrokh (Sharo) Shafaie, Southeast Missouri
State University, USA

IAFOR Journal of Asian Studies
Dr Seiko Yasumoto, The University of Sydney,
Australia

IAFOR Journal of Cultural Studies
Professor Holger Briel, Xi’an Jiaotung-Liverpool
University, China

Dr. Deborah G. Wooldridge, Professor and School
Director, Bowling Green State University, USA

IAFOR Journal of Language Learning
Dr. Ebru Melek Koç, Izmir Institute of Technology,
Turkeypeople - IAFOR Key Staff
Kiyoshi Mana - Director of Operations
Kiyoshi Mana is the Director of Operations, and is responsible
for overseeing the operations of the organisation, including
IAFOR’s conferences in Asia, Europe, North America and the
Middle East. An American of Japanese descent, Kiyoshi has
long been fascinated by the country of his ancestors, studying
both Japanese language and culture at San Francisco State.

Alexander Pratt - Deputy Director of Operations
A civil engineering graduate from the University of Nottingham, Alex
first came to Japan in 1997. Previous to joining IAFOR, in 2013, Alex
held positions in education management, information services, andinternational relations. At IAFOR Alex helps oversee the generaladministration and operation of the organization and works alongside
the Director of Operations to expand IAFOR’s events in Japan andinternationally.

Michael Kedzlie - Research and Policy Manager
Michael Liam Kedzlie is a New Zealander who currently works
as the Research and Policy Manager. He is responsible forformulating legal policy as well as liaising with the organisation’s
university partners and the International Directors of Program.
He is also editor of Eye Magazine. He has a Master’s degreein Education from Massey University as well as a Law degreefrom the University of Waikato Law School. He is an enrolled
Barrister and Solicitor of the High Court of New Zealand.

Mai Hasuno - Events, Marketing and Domestic Relations Manager
Mai oversees the organisation’s conferences in Japan, and is responsiblefor developing and implementing IAFOR’s marketing strategy within
Japan. She also acts as special assistant to the President and the IAB
Chairman in the administration of the Japan International Liaison
Committee. Previous to joining IAFOR, Mai worked for the Aioi Nissay
Dowa Insurance Corporation.

Thaddeus Pope - Media and Design Manager
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commercial and editorial photographer with a BA in
Photography from the London College of Communication(University of the Arts London). Thaddeus’s duties at
IAFOR include overseeing the design and media output of
the organisation, as well as producing photo-essays, short
documentaries and other visual content for IAFOR and its
publications, including Eye Magazine. He is also the Creative
Director of the IAFOR Documentary Photography Award.

Bryce Platt - Technology Manager
After growing up in the Silicon Valley in California, Bryce graduatedfrom Gustavus Adolphus College (Saint Peter, Minnesota) with adegree in sociology, and in 2013 earned a Master’s degree in Global
Communication from Akita International University in Japan. As wellas coordinating IAFOR’s technology strategy, he is also responsible formanaging systems operations, and exploring technological solutions forthe organization.

Takumi Saito - Coordinator: Finance and Administration
Born and raised in Yamagata, Japan, Takumi studied English
literature at Waseda University. A language lover, he has alsostudied German, Spanish, French and Polish and can also speak
Italian. Takumi recently joined IAFOR to handle its finance andadministration.

Shawn Mahler - Production Manager
Los Angeles native Shawn Mahler has a wealth of experience working
on film, video, and theater productions in the United States and Japan.
He holds a Bachelor of Arts in Film Theory and Production from the
University of California, Irvine. Shawn has spent over ten years in Japan
where he has worked with numerous industry professionals to develop
television shows, movies, and theatrical productions.

Stephen Rudden - Systems & Administrative Coordinator
Originally from Leicester, England, Stephen Rudden is anexperienced network and systems engineer with a BSc in
Computing from the University of Westminster. Before joining
IAFOR in April 2015, Stephen was a network engineer for a
global consumer electronics company.

John Ananthan - Technology Coordinator
Born and raised in northern Denmark in a multicultural family, John
Ananthan studied Computer Science at University College Nordjylland.
At an early age he started his own IT company, worked for several 3rdparty companies and now has over 11 years of experience in website
management and software development. Due to his Scandinavian
background, John speaks Danish and can understand Norwegian andSwedish.

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to make all of our published materials available online.
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to the respective editors. A small number of papers from the associated IAFOR conference
proceedings may also be selected by the journal editor(s) for reworking and revising subject tonormal processes of review. It is expected that between 5 and 10 percent of papers included inany given conference proceedings will be developed for inclusion in the associated conference
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our conferences. Presented as a part of the open research archive, the Keynotes series provides
an example of the range and quality of speakers at IAFOR events. These keynotes are lightly
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Special Series & Monographs
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monographs in print and online form. One such publication is aselection of haiku from the Annual Vladimir Devidé Haiku Award.
Eye Magazine
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and opinions of our contributors, many of whom have presented fullresearch papers at our various conferences.
The Winter/Spring 2015 of Eye magazine has several articles that focus
on human rights & justice, as well as some other great articles, op-eds
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The Asian Conference on Asian Studies 2015
The Asian Conference on Cultural Studies 2015

Kobe, Japan

Friday Morning Events
08:00 - 09:00
Conference Registration
09:00 - 09:10
Welcome Address
Joseph Haldane
09:10 - 9:20
Conference Chair Address
Baden Offord
09:20 - 9:50
Featured Presentation
Amanda Third
09:55 - 10:25
Angela Wong Wai Ching
10:25 -10:55
Coffee Break
10:55 - 11:40
Gerard Goggin
11:45 - 12:15
John Erni
12:15 - 13:15
Lunch Break2

The Asian Conference on Asian Studies 2015
The Asian Conference on Cultural Studies 2015

Kobe, Japan

Friday Session I: 13:15 - 14:45

Friday Session I: 13:15 - 14:45
ACSS - Media Studies
Session Chair: Eiko Kawagoe

Room: 503

16402
13:15 - 13:45
Driving Your Characters Mad Iii - Kichiku Compilations in Deleuzian Outlooks
Jason Qian Chen, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong10641
13:45 - 14:15
A Cognition Study of Turning Poetry into Abstract Painting
Si-Jing Chen, National Taiwan University of Arts, Taiwan
Chih-Long Lin, National Taiwan University of Arts, Taiwan
Rungtai Lin, National Taiwan University of Arts, Taiwan
12376
14:15 - 14:45
The Image of Kobe in English Media
Eiko Kawagoe, Kobe College, Japan

Friday Session I: 13:15 - 14:45
ACAS - Japanese Studies
Session Chair: Robert Morton

Room: 506

12044
13:15 - 13:45
Japan, the Global Novel and the Question of Responsibility
Jonathan Dil, Keio University, Japan12981
13:45 - 14:15
Performance, Pedagogy, and Text in Written and Spoken Kodan
Stephen Filler, Oakland University, USA
16370
14:15 - 14:45
A Partial Witness: A.B. Mitford and the Meiji Restoration
Robert Morton, Chuo University, Japan

Friday Session I: 13:15 - 14:45
ACCS - Cultural Studies
Session Chair: Eli Park Sorensen

Room: 601

12486
13:15 - 13:45
Home, Memory and Identity: Migration Stories in Ann Hui’s Films
Sing Ha Fong, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong13326
13:45 - 14:15
Multiple Identities of Media Labourers and Experiences of Creative Autonomy: An Empirical Investigation from a TV Programme
Producer's Perspective
Chai-Rin An, University of Warwick, UK13223
14:15 - 14:45
Blade Runner and the Right to LifeEli Park Sorensen, Seoul National University, South Korea

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The Asian Conference on Asian Studies 2015
The Asian Conference on Cultural Studies 2015

Kobe, Japan

Friday Session I: 13:15 - 14:45

Friday Session I: 13:15 - 14:45
ACCS - Queer Theory
Session Chair: Aleardo Zanghellini

Room: 602

12679
13:15 - 13:45
Comedy, Coming of Age and Coming Out of the Closet: The Politics of Genre in Contemporary Thai Gay FilmThirayut Sangangamsakun, Chiang Mai University, Thailand
13156
13:45 - 14:15
Uploading Sexual Politics on Social Media: Online Queer Activism in Egypt
Fadi Saleh, University of Goettingen, Germany
11762
14:15 - 14:45
Colonial Rule, Homosexuality and the Press in the Late Victorian Age: The Dublin Castle Scandal
Aleardo Zanghellini, University of Reading, UK

Friday Session I: 13:15 - 14:45
ACAS - Chinese Studies
Session Chair: Qi Wang

Room: 604

12573
13:15 - 13:45
The Media in the Umbrella Movement: Narratives, Organization, Communication and Action
Michael W H Chan, Hang Seng Management College, Hong Kong
12561
13:45 - 14:15
From Missing Women to Leftover Women
Thomas W.P. Wong, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
10162
14:15 - 14:45
Gender Knowledge: Power and the Change of Power Constellation in Feminism in Post-Socialist China
Qi Wang, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark

14:45 - 15:00
Coffee Break

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The Asian Conference on Asian Studies 2015
The Asian Conference on Cultural Studies 2015

Kobe, Japan

Friday Session II: 15:00 - 16:30

Friday Session II: 15:00 - 16:30
ACCS Panel - Queer Theory
Session Chair: Baden Offord

Room: 50312622
15:00 - 16:30
LGBT Rights in South East Asia: 1 Step Forward, 2 Steps Back?
Paula Gerber, Monash University, Australia
Cai Wilkinson, Deakin University, Australia
Baden Offord, Curtin University, Australia
Anthony Langlois, Flinders University, Australia

Friday Session II: 15:00 - 16:30
ACAS - Japanese Studies
Session Chair: Craig Mark

Room: 50612722
15:00 - 15:30
Primary Education in Japan and India: A Comparative Analysis
Ajoy Kumar Das, Visva-Bharati University, India
12092
15:30 - 16:00
A Miracle Lone Pine Tree and Tidal Protection Forests in Japan
Masako Gavin, Bond University, Australia
13004
16:00 - 16:30
Implications of the Japanese 2014 Election
Craig Mark, Kwansei Gakuin University, Japan

Friday Session II: 15:00 - 16:30
ACCS - Media Studies
Session Chair: Betsy Forero-Montoya

Room: 601

11097
15:00 - 15:30
The Influence of the Object Form and Tactile Enticement Material on the Motivation of Touch
Chih-Long Lin, National Taiwan University of Arts, Taiwan
Si-Jing Chen, National Taiwan University of Arts, Taiwan
11766
15:30 - 16:00
Developing Social Work Practice for People with Disability through Digital Storytelling
Shinsuke Funaki, Fukui Prefectural University, Japan
Shoichi Fujita, Human Support Nest, Japan
Kazunori Taiencho, Kakoukai, Japan16479
16:00 - 16:30
Consumption of Japanese Popular Culture in Colombia
Betsy Forero-Montoya, Universidad de los Andes, Colombia

Friday Session II: 15:00 - 16:30
ACCS - Visual Culture
Session Chair: Gary McLeod

Room: 602

7409
15:00 - 15:30
Transitory Encounters: An Artistic Exploration on Collective Memory and Place Derived from Cultural Practices and Social Relationsin Public Space
Riza Manalo Eteve, RMIT University, Australia
12738
15:30 - 16:00"But That's Not What I Saw": Images from the War in Iraq from the Inside in Relation to Media Depiction
Johanna Fassl, Franklin University, Switzerland
16446
16:00 - 16:30
Cohorts: A Discussion of 'Post-Photographic' Class Portraits Produced with/By University Students
Gary McLeod, University of the Arts London

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The Asian Conference on Asian Studies 2015
The Asian Conference on Cultural Studies 2015

Kobe, Japan

Friday Session II: 15:00 - 16:30

Friday Session II: 15:00 - 16:30
ACAS - Chinese Studies
Session Chair: Cheng-Fang Hsu

Room: 604

9913
15:00 - 15:30
A Study on the Changes of Market Competitiveness Through McKinsey 7s Model with the Semi-Structured Interview
Cheng-Fang Hsu, Shu-Te University, Taiwan
Bo-Han Li, Shu-Te University, Taiwan
Seow-Sing Yie, Shu-Te University, Taiwan
Shiang-Ting Lin, Shu-Te University, Taiwan
Kueichen Hopin Yu Chiu, Shu-Te University, Taiwan
14300
15:30 - 16:00
How Ethical are the Marketing Practices Performed by Universities in Taiwan?
Hsuan-Fu Ho, National Chiayi University, Taiwan
9916
16:00 - 16:30
A Qualitative Study on the Competitiveness of B Restaurant Franchise in Taiwan through McKinsey 7s Model
Cheng-Fang Hsu, Shu-Te University, Taiwan
Pan-Qiao Yin, Shu-Te University, Taiwan
Chia-Teng Yang, Shu-Te University, Taiwan
Ho Chiayu, Shu-Te University, Taiwan
Yijhen Yezuyue Lin, Shu-Te University, Taiwan

16:30 - 16:45
Coffee Break

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The Asian Conference on Asian Studies 2015
The Asian Conference on Cultural Studies 2015

Kobe, Japan

ACAS ACCS Featured Session: 16:45 - 18:20

ACCS Spotlight Presentation: 16:45 - 17:15
Room: 604
Multiculturalism and Cultural Diversity - A Case Study of Australia
Seiko Yasumoto, The University of Sydney, Australia

ACAS Featured Security Panel: 17:20 - 18:20
Session Chair: Thomas French

Room: 604

The ‘Wild Cards’ – The Threat to Peace of Non-State Actors in North East Asia
Thomas French, Ritsumeikan University, Japan
The “Peaceful Rise” of China Discourse and its Performative Consequences
Hiroaki Ataka, Ritsumeikan University, Japan
Six Faces of Article 9 – Elucidating the Complexities of Japan’s Postwar Constitution
Akihiko Kimijima, Ritsumeikan University, JapanThe Images of Self and Neighbouring States held by The People of North East Asia,
Zsombor Rajkai, Ritsumeikan University, Japan

19:00 - 21:00
A Night Out in Kobe: Conference Dinner (Ticketed and Optional)
Come and join your fellow delegates on an evening out in Kobe
Please meet in the Art Centre Kobe 2F lobby at 18:30.
This is ticketed at 5000 JPY and there are a limited number of spaces.
If you would like to join, please register at the conference registration desk by 12:00 on Friday, May 29.

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The Asian Conference on Cultural Studies 2015

Kobe, Japan

Saturday Session I: 09:00 - 10:30

Saturday Session I: 09:00 - 10:30
ACAS - South East Asian Studies
Session Chair: Veronica Alporha

Room: 5036587
09:00 - 09:30
Storytelling on Newspaper Front Pages: Discourses of Crime News in Thailand
Nitida Sangsingkeo, Thammasat University, Thailand
14687
09:30 - 10:00
Freedom of the Internet in Malaysia: An Analysis of Online News Portals During the 2013 General Elections
Mohd Azizuddin Mohd Sani, Universiti Utara Malaysia, Malaysia
Azahar Kasim, Universiti Utara Malaysia, Malaysia
7767
10:00 - 10:30
Narratives of Disillusionment in the Philippine National Democratic Movement
Veronica Alporha, University of the Philippines, Philippines

Saturday Session I: 09:00 - 10:30
ACAS - Chinese Studies
Session Chair: Marc Nürnberger

Room: 50613948
09:00 - 09:30
The Poetics and Politics of Details: Re-Examining the Rise of Lithography in Late Imperial China in Light of "Flower in the Sea ofRetribution"
Xiaoyu Xia, Fudan University, China
12613
09:30 - 10:00
Negotiating the Ideal Womanhood: Rewriting and Re-Interpreting the Legend of Mulan in Late Qing and Republican China
Zhuoyi Wang, Hamilton College, USA
11683
10:00 - 10:30
The Restless Spirit of Justice: Reflections upon the "Jingshen Jianggui Zhuan"
Marc Nürnberger, LMU Munich, Germany

Saturday Session I: 09:00 - 10:30
ACCS - Gender Studies & Feminist Theory
Session Chair: Mira Adriani Permadi

Room: 601

16520
09:00 - 09:30
National and Gender Power Negotiations in Harriett Low's Lights and Shadows of a Macao Life
Chingyen Mayer, Siena College, USA
11343
09:30 - 10:00
The Line in Between Friendships: The Friendship Story of Taiwanese Young Students Displayed on YouTube and Gender
Relationship Education
Hsing-Chen Yang, Kaohsiung Medical University, Taiwan
16461
10:00 - 10:30
The Struggle of Waria Buddies to Achieve Symbolic Capital in an Infectious Diseases Intermediate Care Unit in Indonesia
Mira Adriani Permadi, Airlangga University of Surabaya, Indonesia

10The Asian Conference on Asian Studies 2015
The Asian Conference on Cultural Studies 2015

Kobe, Japan

Saturday Session I: 09:00 - 10:30

Saturday Session I: 09:00 - 10:30
ACCS - Cultural Studies
Session Chair: Melissa Karmen Lee

Room: 602

13470
09:00 - 09:30
Making Sense of Mess: Fieldwork Gender and Japan
Rosemary Overell, The University of Otago, New Zealand
11847
09:30 - 10:00
Smoking around the Campfire: A San Encounter with the Colonial and the Postcolonial
Michael Wessels, University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
12650
10:00 - 10:30
The Rights of Hospitality in Migration and Cultural Discourse
Melissa Karmen Lee, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

Saturday Session I: 09:00 - 10:30
ACCS - Interdisciplinary Issues
Session Chair: Benhar J. Tahil

Room: 604

16362
09:00 - 09:30
What's Love Got to Do with It?: Why Translation Matters
Ken-Fang Lee, National Taiwan Normal University, Taiwan
14031
09:30 - 10:00
Concept of Self-Peace in Spirituality among Sulus
Benhar J. Tahil, Zamboanga City State Polytechnic College, Philippines
15239
10:00 - 10:30
Visual Ethnography of Ceylon: Multymodal Analysis on Visual Representation of Travelogue Films in the Colonial Era
Nalaka Wijewardhane, University of Colombo, Sri Lanka

10:30 - 10:45
Coffee Break

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The Asian Conference on Asian Studies 2015
The Asian Conference on Cultural Studies 2015

Kobe, Japan

Saturday Session II: 10:45 - 12:15

Saturday Extended Session II: 10:45 - 12:45
ACCS/ACAS - Interdisciplinary
Session Chair: Joseph Reylan Viray

Room: 602

16256
10:45 - 11:15
Correlation between types of Personality and Learning Styles of Selected Students of the Polytechnic University of the Philippines(PUP): Basis for Learning Enhancement Program
Silvia Ambag, Polytechnic University of the Philippines, Philippines
Joseph Reylan Viray, Polytechnic University of the Philippines, Philippines
Kriztine Viray, Polytechnic University of the Philippines, Philippines
16417
11:15 - 11:45"Soledad": A Depiction of a Filipino Woman's Chastity As Perceived by Pre-Service Teachers
Ma. Junithesmer D. Rosales, Polytechnic University of the Philippines, Philippines
16380
11:45 - 12:15
Power Struggle Between Bonifacio and Aguinaldo: A Manifestation of a Divided Nation
Iris Rowena A. Bernardo, Polytechnic University of the Philippines, Philippines
Reylan Viray, Polytechnic University of the Philippines, Philippines
Raul Sebastian, Polytechnic University of the Philippines, Philippines
16231
12:15 - 12:45
Million People March Against Pork Barrel Projects: From Potentiality to Actuality
Joseph Reylan Viray, Polytechnic University of the Philippines, Philippines
Kriztine R. Viray, Polytechnic University of the Philippines, Philippines

Saturday Session II: 10:45 - 12:15
ACCS - Cultural Geography
Session Chair: Yirga Gelaw Woldeyes

Room: 503

12078
10:45 - 11:15
Space and the Meaning of Sound Recordings in the Revitalisation of Endangered Languages: The Cases of Ainu and West Frisians
Malgorzata Fryzlewicz, University of Plymouth, UK
16456
11:15 - 11:45
Living with Alterity?: SEZ & Civil Society along the Thai-Burmese Borderland
Decha Tangseefa, Thammasat University, Thailand
16449
11:45 - 12:15
Cross-Referencing Traditions for Active Human Rights Knowledge in Africa
Yirga Gelaw Woldeyes, Curtin University, Australia

Saturday Session II: 10:45 - 12:15
ACCS - Cultural Studies
Session Chair: Alexandre Avdulov

Room: 506

13688
10:45 - 11:15
Examining Identity Formation of Third Culture Kids through Transnational Engagements
George Amurao, Mahidol University International College, Thailand
12693
11:15 - 11:45
Pa Hiao: Changes Upon Chiang Mai People's Worldview and Wisdom
Kanita Amponpun, Kasetsart University, Thailand
Alisara Menakanit, Kasetsart University, Thailand
Wandee Sutthinarakorn, Kasetsart University, Thailand
13175
11:45 - 12:15
A Right to Quietude
Alexandre Avdulov, Saint Mary's University, Canada

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The Asian Conference on Cultural Studies 2015

Kobe, Japan

Saturday Session II: 10:45 - 12:15

Saturday Extended Session II: 10:45 - 12:45
ACAS - Chinese Studies
Session Chair: Timothy Iles

Room: 601

11685
10:45 - 11:15
A Symbol of Justice in Chinese Culture: A Case Study of Judge Bao
Jiehua Cai, LMU Munich, Germany
12181
11:15 - 11:45
Media Old and New and Freedom of Expression in China: Tiananmen Square 1989 and Attempted Commemoration
Melanie O'Brien, University of Queensland, Australia
12519
11:45 - 12:15
Skateboarding Subculture in China: Development Path, Characteristics and Representation of Values and Social Change
Anna Chelnokova-Siejka, Beijing Normal University, China
10774
12:15 - 12:45
Macro/Micro-Rights: The Overlap between the Tiananmen Student Movement and Sexual Identity in Mak Yan Yan's Film, Hu Die(Butterfly)
Timothy Iles, University of Victoria, Canada

Saturday Session II: 10:45 - 12:15
ACCS Panel - Queer Theory
Session Chair: Donald Goellnicht

Room: 604

13035
10:45 - 12:15
Sex Work, Queer Sexuality, Refugees, and Human Rights: Southeast Asia and Hong Kong
Y-Dang Troeung, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Christopher B. Patterson, New York Institute of Technology in Nanjing, China
Donald Goellnicht, McMaster University, Canada
Alvin K. Wong, Yonsei University, South Korea

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Saturday Poster Session I: 10:45 - 12:15

Saturday Poster Session I: 10:45 - 12:15
ACCS/ACAS - Interdisciplinary

Room: 606

9806
America, Our Home? A Qualitative Study of 1.5 Generation Asian Americans
Nadia Benyamin, University of Northern Colorado, USA
8659
Cultural Resilience: Traditional Genealogies in China's Southern Zhejiang Province
Clément Vincent, American University of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
16466
Use of Social Media in Urban Cities as an Increasing Trend for an Open and Transparent Culture in Nepal
Puran Khatri, Information and Human Rights Research Centre (IHRC) Banke, Nepal
16412
The Transgender Influence of Takarazuka Revue on Fans' Narratives
Yoko Sasagawa, Kobe Shinwa Womens' University, Japan

12:15 - 13:15
Lunch Break

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Saturday Session III: 13:15 - 14:45

Saturday Session III: 13:15 - 14:45
ACAS - South East Asia Studies
Session Chair: Simon Springer

Room: 503

16318
13:15 - 13:45
International Development in the Greater Mekong Sub-Region (GMS) and Its Impact on East West Economic Corridor (EWEC)
Pittaya Suvakunta, Thammasat University, Thailand
11802
13:45 - 14:15
The Dynamics of Indonesia-Malaysia Bilateral Relations Since Independence: Its Impact on Bilateral and Regional Stability
Omi Ongge, Universitas Muhammadiyah Yogyakarta, Indonesia
9296
14:15 - 14:45
Spiriting Away the Homeless: Cambodia's Urban Apocalypse
Simon Springer, University of Victoria, Canada

Saturday Session III: 13:15 - 14:45
ACCS - Education
Session Chair: Alberto M. AlbuquerqueRoom: 506

15372
13:15 - 13:45
Leading through Partnership: How to Lead Older Adult Volunteers to Run a Learning Community
Wen-Bing Gau, National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan
16436
13:45 - 14:15
Relaxed and Empathic Prison Staff are Liked Better by Inmates
Neila Ramdhani, Universitas Gadjah Mada, Indonesia
Annisa Aziza, Universitas Gadjah Mada, Indonesia
Enthin Hervina, Universitas Gadjah Mada, Indonesia
16176
14:15 - 14:45
Standing Alone: The Consequences of Ijime Among Adults
Alberto M. Albuquerque, Yamanashi Gakuin University, Japan

Saturday Session III: 13:15 - 14:45
ACCS - Media Studies
Session Chair: Leong Yew

Room: 601

11567
13:15 - 13:45
Homonationalism and Western Progressive Narrative: Locating 'Conservative Heartlands' with Zenne Dancer (2012) and Its
Western Reviews
Lukasz Szulc, University of Antwerp, Belgium
Kevin Smets, University of Antwerp, Belgium
12500
13:45 - 14:15
Queer Auteurs of Hong Kong Cinema
Zoran Pecic, Roskilde University, Denmark
15211
14:15 - 14:45
Resistance and Sympathetic Collaboration in the Made-for-America Filipino Exploitation Films of the 1960s and 70s
Leong Yew, National University of Singapore, Singapore

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Saturday Session III: 13:15 - 14:45

Saturday Session III: 13:15 - 14:45
ACAS - Japanese Studies
Session Chair: Masako Ikenushi

Room: 602

16082
13:15 - 13:45
Positive Disciplinary PowerCharles Miceli, Wenzhou Kean University, China
Nicholas Costantino, Kean University, USA
12645
13:45 - 14:15
Awakening from Dream, Back to the Pre-Modern: Satoh Makoto's “The Dance of Angels Who Burns Their Own Wings”
Jungman Park, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, South Korea
12987
14:15 - 14:45
Love Suicide Plays in Eighteenth Century Japan as a Media Outlet for the Double Suicide Epidemic
Masako Ikenushi, Palomar College, USA

Saturday Session III: 13:15 - 14:45
Room: 604
ACCS Workshop - Gender Studies & Feminist Theory
12857
13:15 - 14:45
Embodying Gender: How Representation and Identity Manifest in Posture and Movement
Catherine Cabeen, Marymount Manhattan College, USA

14:45 - 15:00
Coffee Break

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Saturday Session IV: 15:00 - 16:30

Saturday Session IV: 15:00 - 16:30
ACAS - Comparative Studies
Session Chair: Maggy Lee

Room: 5038455
15:00 - 15:30
Migration Without Settlement: Causes and Consequences of Exclusionary Migration Regime in East Asia
Yen-Fen Tseng, National Taiwan University, Taiwan
12936
15:30 - 16:00
Con Moto: Re-Theorizing Commotions and Power in East Asia
Ming Hung (Alex) Tu, Tamkang University, Taiwan
12520
16:00 - 16:30
Public Sensibilities Towards Crime and Disorder in Hong Kong
Maggy Lee, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

Saturday Session IV: 15:00 - 16:30
ACCS - Central / South Asian Studies
Session Chair: Anandita Pan

Room: 506

12808
15:00 - 15:30
The Power and Politics of Representation: Narcoterrorism in Afghanistan
Donald Gregory Aasen, University of Westminster, UK
16387
15:30 - 16:00
A Woman in Hijab: A Social Challenge or Social Rate
Gulnar Nadirova, Al-Farabi Kazakh National University, Kazakhstan
Shynar Kaliyeva, Al-Farabi Kazakh National University, Kazakhstan
12054
16:00 - 16:30
Now the Powerless Speaks: A Study of Bama's Sangati and Baby Kamble’s 'The Prisons We Broke' From a Dalit Feminist
Standpoint
Anandita Pan, Indian Institute of Technology, India

Saturday Session IV: 15:00 - 16:30
ACCS - Critical Legal Studies
Session Chair: Joe Rollins

Room: 601

13090
15:00 - 15:30
Deprivation of Community's Cultural Rights: A Look at Indonesia's Online Inventory of Intangible Cultural Heritage
Rangga Aditya Dachlan, Universitas Gadjah Mada, Indonesia
8151
15:30 - 16:00
Contested Spaces & Conservation Easements: Reconciling the National Interest in Preserving Cultural Property & Indigenous
Peoples' Land Rights
Maureen Z. Macaraeg, Ateneo de Manila School of Law, Philippines
12830
16:00 - 16:30
Windsor's Feminist Problems: Law and Culture in the American Marriage Debate
Joe Rollins, City University of New York, USA

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Saturday Session IV: 15:00 - 16:30

Saturday Session IV: 15:00 - 16:30
ACAS/ACCS - Interdisciplinary
Session Chair: Emma Kearney

Room: 60212494
15:00 - 15:30
Mutual Distrust between China and Japan and the Locked Sino-Japanese Relations
Shi Chen, Durham University, UK
12983
15:30 - 16:00
Big Sport Stars, Little Sisters of the Thai Nation-State: Popular Sport Media and Gender Politics of Negotiation
Sukrittaya Jukping, Thammasat University, Thailand
12993
16:00 - 16:30
Ethical Questions in the Archives: Mental Health, Human Rights, Justice and Access
Emma Kearney, Charles Sturt University, Australia

Saturday Session IV: 15:00 - 16:30
ACAS - Chinese Studies
Session Chair: Qiang Fang

Room: 60412989
15:00 - 15:30
Public Intellectuals? Chinese Committed Academics' Relationship to Power
Emilie Frenkiel, Université Paris Est Créteil, France
12069
15:30 - 16:00
Between 'Governance' and 'Democracy': Xi Jinping and His Model of Leadership from a Russian Perspective
Bruno Jaroslaw Surdel, Zirve University, Turkey
10628
16:00 - 16:30
Struggling for a Better Solution: Chinese Communist Party and the Minorities
Qiang Fang, University of Minnesota Duluth, USA

16:30 - 16:45
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ACAS/ACCS Interdisciplinary Plenary Session: 16:45 - 18:20

ACAS Spotlight Presentation: 16:45 -17:15
Room: 604
ASEAN and Northeast Asia - An Emerging Super-Region?
Joel Campbell, Troy University, Japan

Featured Presentation: 17:50 - 18:20
Room: 604
Human Rights, Human Wrongs: Penal 'Hell-Holes', Popular Media and Mass Incarceration
Yvonne Jewkes, University of Leicester, UK

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Sunday Session I: 09:00 - 10:30

Sunday Session I: 09:00 - 10:30
ACCS - Gender Studies & Feminist Theory
Session Chair: Djamaludin Ancok

Room: 503

12375
09:00 - 09:30
The Influence of Gender Role Ideologies in Women's Careers: A look at Marianismo and Machismo in the Treatment Room
Carmen Inoa Vazquez, NYU School of Medicine, USA5911
09:30 - 10:00
Are Women Still Better at Learning Languages? Examining Gender Differences on Learners' Academic Performance at University
Yoshihiko Yamamoto, Ritsumeikan University, Japan16435
10:00 - 10:30
Effects of Servant Leadership, Followership, Conscientiousness and Extraversion Personality Traits on Employee Engagement
Fina Pramodawardhani, Gadjah Mada University, Indonesia
Djamaludin Ancok, Gadjah Mada University, Indonesia

Sunday Session I: 09:00 - 10:30
ACAS/ACCS - Interdisciplinary
Session Chair: Margaret Chan

Room: 5066591
09:00 - 09:30
The Forgotten Tangerine: Ibn Battuta
Ken Newman, Higher Colleges of Technology - Dubai, UAE
5838
09:30 - 10:00
A Comparative Study of Religious Other-Making and Power between Muslims and Christians at the First Crusade
Maryam Pirdehghan, Islamic Art University of Tabriz, IranMohsen Niknam, Art University of Tehran, Iran
15357
10:00 - 10:30
The Worship of Semar as Claim of Jus Primordialis
Margaret Chan, Singapore Management University, Singapore

Sunday Session I: 09:00 - 10:30
ACAS - India & South Asia Studies
Session Chair: Shekh Mohammad Altafur Rahman

Room: 602

8488
09:00 - 09:30
Community-Based Tourism's Image Positioning and Strategic Management in Thailand and Lao PDR for Achieving ASEAN
Community
Jirapong Chaichawwong, Maejo University, Thailand
Chalitda Madhyamapurush, Maejo University, Thailand
15325
09:30 - 10:00
Urban Aspirations and Religious Cosmopolitanism: Middle Class Christianity in Indonesia
Chang-Yau Hoon, Singapore Management University, Singapore
16349
10:00 - 10:30
Understanding the Contribution of Islam in Realizing ASEAN Socio-Cultural Community (ASCC)
Shekh Mohammad Altafur Rahman, Thammasat University, Thailand
Sarawut Aree, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand
Mohammad Faheem, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand

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Kobe, Japan

Sunday Session I: 09:00 - 10:30

Sunday Session I: 09:00 - 10:30
ACCS - Cultural Studies
Session Chair: Shuo Lee

Room: 601

12409
09:00 - 09:30
Cultural Policy in the Coastal City of Keelung, Taiwan
Yun Liu, National Taiwan Ocean University, Taiwan
12860
09:30 - 10:00
The Code of Modernity: Women's Fashion in Taiwan 1895-1945
Shuo Lee, Chaoyang University of Technology, Taiwan
Li-An Kuo, National Changhua University of Education, Taiwan
12859
10:00 - 10:30
Fashioning National Identity: Taiwanese Fashion During the Kminka Movement, 1936-1945
Shuo Lee, Chaoyang University of Technology, Taiwan
Hsin-Chien Lee, Hsiuping University of Science and Technology, Taiwan

Sunday Session I: 09:00 - 10:30
ACCS - Media Studies Panel
Session Chair: Gerard Goggin

Room: 604

The Internet, Activism and Human Rights in Asia
Kyoko Tominaga, Ritsumeikan University, Japan,
Takanori Tamura, Hosei University, Japan
Tadahisa Hamada, University of Tokyo, Japan
Haiqing Yu, University of New South Wales, Australia
Gerard Goggin, University of Sydney, Australia
Micro-Philanthropy and New Grassroots Associations: Social Media and the Rights Discourse in China
Haiqing Yu, University of New South Wales, Australia
The Rise of Internet Freedom Activism: The Case of Australia
Gerard Goggin, University of Sydney, Australia
Surveillance and Sense of "Privacy" in the Internet Embedded Japanese NGOs: Through Cross Cultural Survey
Tadahisa Hamada, University of Tokyo, Japan

10:30 - 10:45
Coffee Break23

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Sunday Session II: 10:45 - 12:15

Sunday Session II: 10:45 - 12:15
ACCS - Education
Session Chair: Barry Natusch

Room: 503

6988
10:45 - 11:15
Moral Aspects of Economic Theories and Present-Day University Curriculum
Tatiana Suprun, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia
16211
11:15 - 11:45
Teaching Idiom and Metaphor via Poetry in the Chinese EFL Classroom
Kevin Kilroy, Wenzhou-Kean University, China
13203
11:45 - 12:15
Archivists to Activists: The Evolving Role of Museum Educators
Barry Natusch, Nihon University, Japan
Beryl Hawkins, Temple University Japan, Japan

Sunday Session II: 10:45 - 12:15
ACAS - South East Asian Studies
Session Chair: Rusdi Omar

Room: 506

12837
10:45 - 11:15
Hear Their Voices: Asian Sex Workers in Australia
Angela Mary Wilson, Curtin University, Australia
12296
11:15 - 11:45
The Transformation of Class Conflicts under Neoliberalism: A Case Study of Thailand under Contesting Meaning of Democracy
2010-2014
Sustarum Thammaboosadee, Thammasat University, Thailand
14966
11:45 - 12:15
Factors Affecting Malaysia-Singapore Relations during the Mahathir Era
Rusdi Omar, Universiti Utara Malaysia, Malaysia
Kamarul Zaman Yusoff, Universiti Utara Malaysia, Malaysia
Che Mohd Aziz Yaacob, Universiti Utara Malaysia, Malaysia

Sunday Session II: 10:45 - 11:45
ACCS - Cultural Studies
Session Chair: Edward Irons

Room: 602

12909
10:45 - 11:15
Hei She Hui (Triads) and the Imaginary of Hong Kong Cultural Identity in Contemporary Hong Kong Local Comics
Boris Lok Fai Pun, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
12876
11:15 - 11:45
Occupy Central: Search for a Geography of Somewhere
Edward Irons, The Hong Kong Institute for Culture, Commerce and Religion, Hong Kong

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Sunday Session II: 10:45 - 12:45

Sunday Extended Session II: 10:45 - 12:45
ACAS - South East Asian Studies
Session Chair: Grace Minerva Q. Macasaet

Room: 601

9759
10:45 - 11:15
Reading Power Relation in Islamic Marriage through Indonesian Muslim Women Magazines
Nisa Kurnia Illahiati, Airlangga University, Indonesia
9580
11:15 - 11:45
The (Photographed) Body of a Nation: Power, Matter and Memory in Facebook Group 'the Old-Time Indonesia'
Kandi Aryani Suwito, Universitas Airlangga, Indonesia
16209
11:45 - 12:15
Women and Power in the Practice of Marriage Payment Among Bimanese Muslims of Eastern Indonesia
Atun Wardatun, University of Western Sydney, Australia
16464
12:15 - 12:45
Cultural Values in Selected Southeast Asian Countries As Reflected in Representative Short Stories: A Comparative Study
Grace Minerva Q. Macasaet, Centro Escolar University, Philippines

12:15 - 13:15
Lunch Break

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Sunday Session III: 13:15 - 14:45

Sunday Session III: 13:15 - 14:45
ACCS - Social Criticism
Session Chair: Cheryl Stobie

Room: 503

16036
13:15 - 13:45
The Empirical Analysis of Tea Price Under the Influence of Wage Earners
Chen-Lei He, Nanjing Agriculture University, China
Xing-Hui Li, Nanjing Agriculture University, China
11950
13:45 - 14:15
Emancipation Moments and Ubuntu in Claire Robertson's the Spiral House
Cheryl Stobie, University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

Sunday Session III: 13:15 - 14:15
ACAS/ACCS - Interdisciplinary
Session Chair: Lalu Nurul Yaqin

Room: 506

12972
13:15 - 13:45
Empowerment of Beach Boys through International Marriages: Case Study of Hikkaduwa, Sri Lanka
Nirmala Ranasinghe, Rikkyo University, Japan
16297
13:45 - 14:15
An Analysis of Pembayuns Speech Acts in the Sorong Serah Ceremony of Sasak Marriage: A Ritualistic Discourse Study
Lalu Nurul Yaqin, University of Gunung Rinjani, Indonesia
12912
14:15 - 14:45
How We Get Married? The Wedding Imagination in Contemporary Beijing
Hao Li, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

Sunday Session III: 13:15 - 14:45
ACCS - Cultural Studies
Session Chair: Brandon Biller

Room: 60113158
13:15 - 13:45
One Nation-Different Fates: Kazakhstan in Pursuit of Cultural Identity
Aktolkyn Kulsariyeva, Abai Kazakh National Pedagogical University, Kazakhstan
Shaigozova Zhanerke, Abai Kazakh National Pedagogical University, Kazakhstan
Sultanova Madina, Abai Kazakh National Pedagogical University, Kazakhstan
12526
13:45 - 14:15
The Power of Prosthetic Identity in the Orphan Master’s Son
Brandon Biller, George Mason University, USA
16379
14:15 - 14:45
Correlational Analysis of Constructs of Trust and Community Participation in a World Heritage Site in the Philippines
Marianne Claire Vitug, ICOMOS-Philippines, Philippines
Katty Caragay, University of the Philippines-Diliman, Philippines

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Sunday Session III: 13:15 - 14:45

Sunday Session III: 13:15 - 14:45
ACCS - Cultural History
Session Chair: Augusto Vicente de Viana

Room: 602

16317
13:15 - 13:45
Power of Sympathy: Constructions of "Children's Rights" In Tokyo's Slums
Akane Oishi, University of Tsukuba, Japan
16394
13:45 - 14:15
Race for Human Rights: Tommie Smith, The Black Power Salute, and Japan
Yu Sasaki, University of Tsukuba, Japan
16090
14:45 - 15:15
Diversifying Urbanity: The Japanese Commercial Community of Prewar Manila
Augusto Vicente de Viana, University of Santo Tomas, Philippines

Sunday Session III: 13:15 - 14:45
ACCS - Cultural Studies Panel
Session Chair: Lorelei D.C. de Viana

Room: 604

16472
Architectural Landscapes, Modernity and Threats
This panel on "Architectural Landscapes, Modernity and Threats" includes five studies on architectural landscapes in thePhilippines that specifically dwell on heritge structures, the impact of urban decay and shifting of cultural patterns, cultural
mapping and documentation and revitalization efforts and policies for heritage sites.
Subverting Colonialism: The vernacular in early 20th century Philippine colonial architecture
Lorelei D.C. de Viana, Far Eastern University, Philippines
Revisiting the Bygone Era of the Commercial District of Manila: A Documentation and Analysis of the Historic Entertainment
Establishments of Santa Cruz
Mar Lorence G. Ticao, Far Eastern University, Philippines
Taft Avenue through the years: A case study on the efforts of conservation in the urban heritage context of Taft Avenue towards
development and its sense of place
Claudia Isabelle V. Montero, Far Eastern University, Philippines
The Transformation and Reinvention of Remedios Circle
Annabelle G. Verdote, Far Eastern University, Philippines
Intramuros by Foot: A Case Study on the Possible Impacts of the Walled City
Jeremy Jade D. Balagat, Far Eastern University, Philippines

14:45 - 15:00
Coffee Break

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Sunday Session IV: 15:00 - 16:30

Sunday Session IV: 15:00 - 16:00
ACCS - Linguistics, Language & Cultural Studies
Session Chair: Clarisa G. Quan

Room: 5039848
15:00 - 15:30
Gender Performance in Manga: Pronouns of Power
Krista Owen, Kanda University of International Studies, Japan13273
15:30 - 16:00
Women's Power and Influence Expressed through Men's "Falsetto" Voices
Clarisa G. Quan, University of Guam, Guam

Sunday Session IV: 15:00 - 16:30
ACAS South East Asian Studies
Session Chair: Gerad Collingwood

Room: 50611454
15:00 - 15:30
Exploring Filipinos' Intra-Asia Migration: The Case of Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWS) in Bangkok
Analiza Liezl Perez-Amurao, Mahidol University International College, Thailand
8655
15:30 - 16:00
Exploring How 'Participation' and 'Inclusion' are Constructed into Local NGO Projects that Provide Services for People with
Disabilities
Nuth Monyrath, RMIT University, Australia
7663
16:00 - 16:30
Drug Trafficking and Human Insecurity in Myanmar's Democratic Transition
Gerad Collingwood, University of Southern Queensland, Australia

Sunday Session IV: 15:00 - 16:30
ACAS - Japanese Studies
Session Chair: Kazuhito Onozuka

Room: 601

12150
15:00 - 15:30
Back to Asia: Kindness, The Power of Love and the Dynamics of Japanese Cultural Imperialism in Big Hero 6
Maria Grajdian, Nagasaki University, Japan12864
15:30 - 16:00
Balancing among Superpowers: Japan-Yugoslavia Relations during the Cold War
Jelena Glisic, University of Tsukuba, Japan12803
16:00 - 16:30'Re-Heating' Hope through Recognition in Japanese Late Capitalism: A Sociological Analysis of Ryo Asai's “The Kirishima Thing”
Kazuhito Onozuka, Kanda University of International Studies, Japan

Sunday Session IV: 15:00 - 16:00
ACCS - Human Rights & JusticeSession Chair: John Ryan

Room: 602

10032
15:00 - 15:30
Crime against the Elderly: Human Rights and Justice
Sue Ballyn, Barcelona University, Spain16131
15:30 - 16:00
The Unstory: Narrative, Representation and Subjectivity in Human Rights
John Ryan, Southern Cross Distance Education Centre, Australia

16:30 - 16:45
Coffee Break

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16:45-18:00
Plenary Panel & Closing Session

ACAS/ACCS 2015 Featured Panel: 16:45 - 17:45
Room:604
Interdisciplinary Responses to Global Crises and Human Rights Issues
Baden Offord, Curtin University, Australia
Donald Hall, Lehigh University, USA
John Erni, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong
Gerard Goggin, University of Sydney, Australia
Amanda Third, University of Western Sydney, Australia
Angela Wong Wai Ching, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
An important aspect of undertaking research and advocacy work in the field of human rights and global crises is the need fordisciplinary agility. As Edward Said wrote, ‘Survival is about the connection between things.’ In this featured panel, humanrights, media, gender and cultural studies scholars will discuss their interdisciplinary research experience. What are theappropriate methodologies for undertaking human rights research? How does one work across and interface with different
disciplinary methods? What does it mean to have an interdisciplinary response?

17:45 - 18:00
Closing Remarks

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5638
Hegemonic and Counter-Media Frames of the Unsolved-Past Tragedy
Gilang Desti Parahita, Universitas Gadjah Mada, Indonesia
11511
Musical Pedagogy's Improvement through New Technologies and Musicology: The Ogma Project
Guillaume Deveney, Aix-Marseille Université, France
12171
Weaving the Traditions for the Future: Building a Sustainable Support Framework for Iranian Traditional Hand-Woven Textile Arts
Kaya Kikuchi Munakata, Independent Researcher, Iran
12282
The Economic Impact of Bullfighting in Spain
Juan Medina, University of Extremadura, Spain
13061
Temples: Probing the Possibilities of Economic Regeneration of the Local Communities in Goa
Padmaja Kamat, PES Shri Ravi Sitaram Naik College of Arts & Science, India
13142
Filipinos' Religious Dimensions as Manifested in their Urban Legends
Ramir Philip Jones V. Sonsona, Mindanao University of Science and Technology, Philippines
16148
The Study of the Identity, Emotional Experience and Spatial Cognition in Department Stores
Hsu-Yu Yun, National Taipei University of Education, Taiwan
Chih-Kai Chen, National Taipei University of Education, Taiwan
Yung-Ting Chui, National Taipei University of Education, Taiwan
16367
A Dilemma or Hope for China's Democratization: A Research on Cyberpolitics Participation of Chinese Citizen Based on Chai Jing
Event
Shu Qi, China University of Political Science and Law, China
Jingya Sun, University of Bordeaux, France
16368
Between the Concept of Rights and the Philosophy of Ethics: An Investigation on the Concept of Marriage of Chinese Lesbians
Shu Qi, China University of Political Science and Law, China
Jingya Sun, University of Bordeaux, France

Virtual presentations are online video presentations of papers.
They can be viewed during and after the conference at iafor.org/virtuals

A-Z Index of Authors
Aasen, Donald Gregory 		Albuquerque, Alberto M. 		
Alporha, Veronica 			Ambag, Silvia 			Amponpun, Kanita 			Amurao, George 			An, Chai-Rin 			
Ancok, Djamaludin 			Aree, Sarawut 			Ataka, Hiroaki 			Avdulov, Alexandre 			Aziza, Annisa 			Balagat, Jeremy Jade D. 		
Ballyn, Sue 				Benyamin, Nadia 			Bernardo, Iris Rowena A. 		
Biller, Brandon 			Cabeen, Catherine 			Cai, Jiehua 				Campbell, Joel 			Caragay, Katty 			Chaichawwong, Jirapong 		Chan, Margaret 			Chan, Michael W H 			
Chelnokova-Siejka, Anna 		Chen, Chih-Kai 			Chen, Jason Qian 			Chen, Shi 				Chen, Si-Jing 			Chen, Si-Jing 			Chiayu, Ho 			Chiu, Kueichen Hopin Yu 		
Chui, Yung-Ting 			Collingwood, Gerad 			
Costantino, Nicholas 			Dachlan, Rangga Aditya 		de Viana, Augusto Vicente 		de Viana, Lorelei D.C. 			
Deveney, Guillaume 			Dil, Jonathan 			Eteve, Riza Manalo 			Faheem, Mohammad 			Fang, Qiang 			Fassl, Johanna 			Filler, Stephen 			Fong, Sing Ha 			Forero-Montoya, Betsy 		French, Thomas 			
Frenkiel, Emilie 			Fryzlewicz, Malgorzata 			Fujita, Shoichi 			
Funaki, Shinsuke 			Gau, Wen-Bing 			Gavin, Masako 			Gerber, Paula 			Glisic, Jelena 			Goellnicht, Donald 			
Goggin, Gerard 			Grajdian, Maria 			Hamada, Tadahisa 			
Hawkins, Beryl 			He, Chen-Lei 			
Hervina, Enthin 			Ho, Hsuan-Fu 			Hoon, Chang-Yau 			Hsu, Cheng-Fang 			Hsu, Cheng-Fang 			
Ikenushi, Masako 			Iles, Timothy 			Illahiati, Nisa Kurnia 			Irons, Edward 			Jewkes, Yvonne 			Jones V. Sonsona, Ramir Philip 		
Jukping, Sukrittaya 			Kaliyeva, Shynar 			
Kamat, Padmaja 			Kasim, Azahar 			

12808
16176
7767
16256
12693
13688
13326
16435
16349
Panel
13175
16436
16472
10032
9806
16380
12526
12857
11685
Spotlight
16379
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13090
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16472
11511
12044
7409
16349
10628
12738
12981
12486
16479
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12989
12078
11766
11766
15372
12092
12622
12864
13035
16454
12150
16454
13203
16036
16436
14300
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9913
9916
12987
10774
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16387
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Kawagoe, Eiko 			
12376
Kearney, Emma 			12993
Khatri, Puran 			
16466
Kilroy, Kevin 			16211
Kimijima, Akihiko 			Panel
Kulsariyeva, Aktolkyn 			
13158
Kumar Das, Ajoy 			12722
Kuo, Li-An 				12860Langlois, Anthony 			12622
Lee, Hsin-Chien 			
12859
Lee, Ken-Fang 			
16362
Lee, Maggy 			12520
Lee, Melissa Karmen 			
12650
Lee, Shuo 				12859Lee, Shuo 				12860Li, Bo-Han 				
9913Li, Hao 				12912Li, Xing-Hui 			
16036
Lin, Chih-Long 			10641
Lin, Chih-Long 			
11097
Lin, Rungtai 			
10641
Lin, Shiang-Ting 			
9913
Lin, Yijhen Yezuyue 			9916
Liu, Yun 				12409
Macaraeg, Maureen Z. 			
8151
Macasaet, Grace Minerva Q. 		
16464
Madhyamapurush, Chalitda 		
8488
Madina, Sultanova 			13158
Mark, Craig 			
13004
Mayer, Chingyen 			
16520
McLeod, Gary 			
16446
Medina, Juan 			
12282
Menakanit, Alisara 			12693
Miceli, Charles 			
16082
Montero, Claudia Isabelle V. 		
16472
Monyrath, Nuth 			
8655
Morton, Robert 			
16370
Munakata, Kaya Desti 			
12171
Nadirova, Gulnar 			
16387
Natusch, Barry 			13203
Newman, Ken 			
6591
Niknam, Mohsen 			
5838
Nürnberger, Marc 			11683
Nurul Yaqin, Lalu 			
16297
O’Brien, Melanie 			
12181
Offord, Baden 			12622
Oishi, Akane 			
16317
Omar, Rusdi 			
14966
Ongge, Omi 			
11802
Onozuka, Kazuhito 			
12803
Overell, Rosemary 			13470
Owen, Krista 			9848
Pan, Anandita 			12054
Parahita, Gilang Desti 			
5638
Park, Jungman 			
12645
Patterson, Christopher B. 		
13035
Pecic, Zoran 			
12500
Perez-Amurao, Analiza Liezl 		
11454
Permadi, Mira Adriani 			
16461
Pirdehghan, Maryam 			5838
Pramodawardhani, Fina 		
16435
Pun, Boris Lok Fai 			
12909
Qi, Shu 				16367Qi, Shu 				16368Quan, Clarisa G. 			
13273
Rahman, Shekh Mohammad Altafur
16349
Ramdhani, Neila 			
16436
Ranasinghe, Nirmala 			
12972
Rollins, Joe 				12830Rosales, Ma. Junithesmer D. 		
16417
Ryan, John 				16131Saleh, Fadi 				13156Sangangamsakun, Thirayut 		
12679
Sangsingkeo, Nitida 			
6587
Sani, Mohd Azizuddin Mohd 		
14687
Sasagawa, Yoko 			
16412
Sasaki, Yu 				16394

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A-Z Index of Authors
Sebastian, Raul 			Smets, Kevin 			
Sorensen, Eli Park 			Springer, Simon 			Stobie, Cheryl 			Sun, Jingya 				Sun, Jingya 				Suprun, Tatiana 			Surdel, Bruno Jaroslaw 		
Sutthinarakorn, Wandee 		Suvakunta, Pittaya 			Suwito, Kandi Aryani 			
Szulc, Lukasz 			
Tahil, Benhar J. 			
Taiencho, Kazunori 			
Tamura, Takanori 			
Tangseefa, Decha 			Thammaboosadee, Sustarum 		Ticao, Mar Lorence G. 			
Tominaga, Kyoko 			Troeung, Y-Dang 			Tseng, Yen-Fen 			Tu, Ming Hung (Alex) 			
Vazquez, Carmen Inoa 		
Verdote, Annabelle G. 			
Vincent, Clément 			
Viray, Joseph Reylan 			
Viray, Joseph Reylan 			
Viray, Kriztine 			Viray, Kriztine R. 			
Viray, Reylan 			Vitug, Marianne Claire 			Wang, Qi 				Wang, Zhuoyi 			
Wardatun, Atun 			
Wessels, Michael 			Wijewardhane, Nalaka 		
Wilkinson, Cai 			Wilson, Angela Mary 			Woldeyes, Yirga Gelaw 		
Wong, Alvin K. 			
Wong, Thomas W P			
Xia, Xiaoyu 			Yaacob, Che Mohd Aziz 		Yamamoto, Yoshihiko 			Yang, Chia-Teng 			Yang, Hsing-Chen 			
Yasumoto, Seiko 			Yew, Leong 			Yie, Seow-Sing 			Yin, Pan-Qiao 			Yu, Haiqing 			Yu, Haiqing 			Yun, Hsu-Yu 			Yusoff, Kamarul Zaman 		
Zanghellini, Aleardo 			Zhanerke, Shaigozova 			Zsombor, Rajkai			

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11950
16367
16368
6988
12069
12693
16318
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11567
14031
11766
16454
16456
12296
16472
16454
13035
8455
12936
12375
16472
8659
16231
16256
16256
16231
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12613
16209
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15239
12622
12837
16449
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16454
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Thank You
Our academic events would not be what they were without a commitment to ensuring adherence to international norms ofabstract peer review. We would like to thank the following scholars who have acted as reviewers for ACCS2015.
Senior Reviewers
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Brandon Biller, George Mason University, United States
Dimitris Vardoulakis, University of Western Sydney, Australia
Gilang Parahita, Universitas Gadjah Mada, Indonesia
Guillaume Deveney, Aix-Marseille University, France
Kanita Amponpun, Kasetsart University, Thailand
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Yoshihiko Yamamoto, Shizuoka University, Japan

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Chairin An, The University of Warwick, United Kingdom
Clément Vincent, American University of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
Edward Irons, Hong Kong Institute for Culture, Commerce & Religion, Hong Kong
Fadi Saleh, Univeristy of Goettingen, Germany
Froilan Fontecha, University of Santo Tomas, The Philippines
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Mo Hu, Shanghai University of Engineering Science, China
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Neila Ramdhani, Universitas Gadjah Mada, Indonesia
Shinsuke Funaki, Fukui Prefectural University, Japan
Shu Qi, The University of Idaho, China
Shuo Lee, Chaoyang University of Technology, Taiwan
Sukrittaya Jukping, Thammasat University, Thailand
Urjani Chakravarty, Institute of Infrastructure, Technology, Research and Management, India
Yirga Gelaw Woldeyes, Curtin University, Australia

Thank You
Our academic events would not be what they were without a commitment to ensuring adherence to international norms ofabstract peer review. We would like to thank the following scholars who have acted as reviewers for ACAS2015.
Senior Reviewers
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Christopher Mira, Polytechnic University of the Philippines, The Philippines
Gerad Collingwood, University of Southern Queensland, Australia
Greg Aasen, University Of Westminster, United Kingdom
Jirapong Chaichawwong, Maejo University, Thailand
Jungman Park, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, South Korea
Kaya Kikuchi Munakata, Independent Researcher, Japan
Ma. Junithesmer Rosales, Polytechnic University of the Philippines, The Philippines
Ryota Nishino, The University of The South Pacific, Fiji
Shekh Mohammad Altafur Rahman, Thammasat University, Thailand
Shu Qi, The University of Idaho, China
Silvia Ambag, Polytechnic University of the Philippines, The Philippines
Timothy Iles, University of Victoria, Canada
Yuen Beng Lee, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Malaysia
Zandro Estella, Polytechnic University of the Philippines, The Philippines

Reviewers
Jonathan Dil, Keio University, Japan
Lucille Ngan, Hang Seng Management College, Hong Kong
Marc Nürnberger, LMU Munich, Germany
Maria Grajdian, Nagasaki University, Japan
Marie-Emilie Masson, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE) at the University of Toronto, Canada
Michael Chan, Hang Seng Management College, Hong Kong
Robert Morton, Chuo University, Japan
Xiaoyu Xia, Fudan University, China
Ying-Yu Huang, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan

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