contested 3rd Foundation for histories Australian Studies in China (FASIC) & the Conference politics of 2015 .10.22 25 East China Normal me mory University, Shanghai convened by hosted by contact Professor David Walker, The Australian Studies Centre Attendance is free, registration BHP Billiton Chair of Australian at East China Normal University required: [email protected] Studies at Peking University conference east china australian studies normal centre at east china overview university normal university Contested Histories and the This year marks the 100th anniversary of the Founded in Shanghai in October 1951, Established in 1985, the Australian Studies Politics of Memory will Gallipoli landing, which has long been a subject East China Normal University (ECNU) is Centre of East China Normal University consider how societies of extensive discussion, dramatisation, historical one of the most prestigious universities is one of the most active centres in China remember, record and reflection and commemoration. As is apparent in the in China. With two campuses located in focusing on the teaching and research commemorate the past in commemoration of Gallipoli, the past intrudes into Minhang and Putuo District, ECNU has of aspects of Australia, with its mission to order to explore contested all aspects of contemporary society: international long been admired as a ‘Garden University’. promote the mutual understanding and histories, differing disputes, Indigenous histories, the teaching friendship between our two countries and As the first normal (teacher training) interpretations of the curriculum, Asia literacy, gender relations and the peoples. The Centre has 11 staff members, same event and the act university founded in the country after the nature and meaning of multiculturalism. who specialise in Australian literature, of commemoration itself. establishment of the People’s Republic of culture, politics, foreign relations, education This international conference will bring together China, ECNU has kept teacher training as and social studies. The Centre supervises scholars and students from a range of disciplines one of its main features and since China PhD and MA students. Members of the - International Relations, History, Politics, Cultural opened up to the world in 1978, ECNU Centre have published extensively in Studies and Literature – to discuss history, has developed into a comprehensive Australian Studies, with major publications commemoration, language, identity and memory research university. such as Contemporary Australian Society, in Australia and the Asia-Pacific. ECNU attaches great importance to the Australian Culture in Review, A History of internationalisation of its development China Australia Relations, An Anthology and enjoys a wide influence and an of Australian Literature, A History of excellent reputation around the world. The Australian Literature, The Impact of China’s university has established exchange and Modernisation on Relations with Australia, cooperative partnerships with more than Australian Literary Criticism and Towards 150 internationally renowned universities the Ideal and Freedom of Humanity: and academic institutions. Sexuality in Patrick White’s Fictions. ECNU is steadily and enthusiastically working towards its goal of establishing itself as an internationally renowned high- level research university, with a number of first-class disciplines, while also taking the lead in the development of China’s teacher training. 2 Cover image: John Young Zerunge, The Illustrious Fleet of Lowe Kong Meng, 2015, digital print and felt on canvas, 320 x 151 cm. Courtesy the artist. 3 foundation for conference Professor David Walker australian studies convenor in china BHP Billiton Chair of Australian Studies at Peking University The Foundation for Australian Studies in China The annual FASIC Conference is convened He is the co-editor with Agnieszka (FASIC) is a not-for-profit organisation registered and designed by Professor David Walker, Sobocinska of Australia’s Asia: From in Australia. FASIC supports existing and future BHP Billiton Chair of Australian Studies at Yellow Peril to Asian Century (UWA initiatives which deepen awareness of Australia in Peking University. The conference rotates Publishing, 2012). Australia’s Asia has China across a range of disciplines and fields of on an annual basis and addresses a been translated into Chinese by academics study. FASIC plays a significant role in the promotion different theme with new speakers each in the Australian Studies Centre at Beijing of Australian Studies in China and looks to further year. The first FASIC conference Australia’s Foreign Studies University. expand and strengthen research and teaching China/China’s Australia: Past, Present and A collection of his Asia-related essays has collaboration between Australian and Chinese Future was held at Peking University in been published under the title Encountering universities. FASIC provides grants and scholarships 2013, followed by The Big Picture: Lives, Turbulence: Asia in the Australian Imaginary to Australian and Chinese professionals. A key Landscapes, Homelands in Australian and (Readworthy, 2013). His recently published initiative of the Foundation is the BHP Billiton Chair of Chinese Art at Renmin University of China personal history, Not Dark Yet has been Australian Studies at Peking University. On November in 2014. translated into Chinese by Professor Li 26 2012, two Australian Ministers announced the Professor Walker has written extensively Yao, with the Chinese title appointment of the inaugural Chair, Professor David on Australian representations of Asia. and published by The People’s Walker from Deakin University. He took up his new His prize-winning book, Anxious Nation: Literature Publishing House, Beijing position in February 2013. Australia and the Rise of Asia, 1850 to (2014). Professor Walker is a Fellow of FASIC is supported by BHP Billiton, Universities 1939 (UQP, 1999) has been translated into the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia, the Australia-China Council of the Chinese and published by China Renmin Australia and the Australian Academy of Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Allens and University Press (2009). An English edition the Humanities. He is also Alfred Deakin Linklaters, PWC Australia and Riverstone Advisory. was published in India in the same year Professor at Deakin University, Melbourne. and a Hindi translation in 2015. 4 5 conference The conference will open with a format plenary session, followed by a viewing of Student Posters. Participants will then break out into parallel sessions: three sessions. During each panel, speakers will give a brief presentation of 15 minutes each, followed by time for questions and audience discussion moderated by the Chair. The conference focuses on and encourages open debate among the speakers and audience. Image left: John Young Zerunge, The Eternal (Annie, Arthur and Agnes Kong Meng), 2015, digital print and felt on canvas, 320 x 151 cm. Courtesy the artist. 6 7 attending the conference registration please note in conference conference details your rsvp venue hotel Contested Histories and the Politics of Full name (Chinese and English if East China Normal University, 3663 Guoman Hotel Changfeng Park Memory is open to all and attendance 1 appropriate) and your professional North Zhongshan Rd, Shanghai Block 1, 388 Daduhe Road, is free, registration required. title and organisation 3663 Guoson Centre, Putuo District, Shanghai Those wishing to attend must RSVP The Science Conference Hall by email to conference coordinators, Creative Asia: Which of the 2 events you will attend: 3881 2 Conference Day 1, 23 October 2015 [email protected] T: +86 21 6095 8888 Conference Day 2, 24 October 2015 E: [email protected] Registration deadline: Please note: Further information 16 October 2015 on getting to the conference venue to be advised on registration. For more information visit: pkuasc.fasic.org.au 8 9 3B conference Australia-China Cultural Understandings schedule Dou Wei, Beijing Foreign Studies University (Chair), Feminist Movement in Australia: From 1950s to the Present Benjamin Herscovitch, China Policy, day 1 Beijing, Escaping the ‘Century of Humiliation’ and ‘Tyranny of Distance’: friday Reforming Chinese and Australian 23 october Foreign Policy with New National Narratives John Scheckter, Long Island University, New York, Playing the Violin at Minus Twenty Degrees: American, 8:30am 10:00am – 11:15am 1:00pm – 2:30pm Australian, and Chinese Cultural Projects in Antarctica Sun Lizhou, Southwest University Registrations Session 1: Session 3: of Political Science and Law, The The Science Conference Hall Australian Studies in Asia Breakout Potential Role of Australia in China’s The Science Conference Hall Huashen Academic Exchange Center “One Belt, One Road” Initiative Richard Fidler, ABC Radio (Chair) 9:00am Heejin Lee, Yonsei University, 3A Remembering 3C Seoul, South Korea The Politics Welcome and World War One Chen Hong, East China Normal of Translation University, Shanghai, China Official Remarks Geraldine Doogue, ABC Radio The Science Conference Hall foyer Fang Hong, Soochow University Nilanjana Deb, Jadavpur University, (Chair), Remembering Gallipoli (Chair), Gender and Race in the Kolkata, India 100 Years On: Grief, Patriotism East China Normal University Translation of Carpentaria and Embracing Complexity Vice-President Ren Youqun Teruhiko Fukushima, National Defense Li Jianjun, Beijing