Media-Asia Research Group (MARG)
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The Media-Asia Research Group (MARG) and the Centre for Advance Studies in Australia, Asia and the Pacific (CASAAP) present a workshop on:
The Beijing Olympics in Transnational China: Politics, economic reforms and the media game.
The international media’s focus in 2008 has been very much on Beijing as the host of the Olympic Games. While most of the reporting is on sports and the athletes, the Olympic Games is more than just a sporting event. In this workshop the connections between sports, media, nationhood and politics will be examined, with a focus on both the Chinese and international coverage of the games.
Venue: Bank West Theatre, Curtin University of Technology: View Map
Date and time: Thursday 2 October 2008, 10am to 12pm
Catered lunch: 12 noon – 1.30pm, Level 3, Building 100, Curtin University (RSVP essential)
Discussant:
Professor Mobo Gao is the Director of the Confucius Institute and Professor of Chinese Studies at The University of Adelaide. Professor Gao has published widely in the areas of contemporary Chinese politics & culture, Chinese migration to Australia and Chinese language.
Speakers:
Dr Anne-Marie Brady is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Political Science and Communication in the University of Canterbury, New Zealand. She is a fluent Chinese language speaker whose research focuses on the Chinese Communist Party, China’s international relations and domestic politics, nationalism, and New Zealand’s past and present relations with China.
Associate Professor Wanning Sun is the Director of the Media-Asia Research Group (MARG) in the School of Media, Culture and Creative Arts at Curtin University of Technology. She is also a Management Member of the Centre for Advanced Studies in Asia, Australia and the Pacific (CASAAP). Associate Professor Sun’s research interests include transnational Chinese migration and internal migration in China, transnational and diasporic media, gender, and social change.
For further information, and to RSVP to both the event and catered lunch, please contact:
Dr Denise Woods
Phone: 9266 3934
Email: Denise.Woods@curtin.edu.au
March 2008
The Media-Asia Research Group website has been updated over 2007. The website now has links to related sites and a directory of expertise listing MARG members and their research areas. The purpose of this page is to provide a source of information on who is working in the media in Asia and in what specific areas. We are hoping that this will be a useful resource for researchers, supervisors looking for thesis examiners, as well as general networking.
We would like to invite you to join MARG and to be listed in the directory. If you would like to be included, please send your information (name, institution, research area and publications) to marg@curtin.edu.au. If you are already on the list and would like to update your bio, please send all updates to the above email address as well.
In 2008 we would like to start a MARG newsletter with profiles of MARG members, news on members' research, publications, projects, conferences and other relevant information. We are hoping that this will help keep members in touch with each others' work and be a source of information on what is happening in the area of the media in Asia. The newsletter will be bi-monthly and sent out electronically. If you have news to share please send them to the MARG email address marg@curtin.edu.au. We will aim for the first newsletter to be sent out in May 2008, so please send all contributions by 14 April 2008.
In September 2007, MARG organised a 2 day Asian Media, Culture and Society Masterclass at Curtin University of Technology. It was organised in conjunction with the department of Arts, Communication and Culture at Murdoch University and the Centre for Advanced Studies in Australia, Asia and the Pacific (CASAAP) at Curtin University. The event was generously funded by the ARC Cultural Research Network. Two leading researchers contributed to this masterclass - Fran Martin and Vera Mackie, both from University of Melbourne. The event featured 10 papers presented by postgraduates and ECRs from Curtin University and Murdoch University. The event concluded with a round table discussion titled 'Framing Research on Asian media: Beyond Western Theories'. Contributors to the discussion talked about a variety of issues, such as the appropriateness of using theories that originated in the West to study the media in Asia, and the questioning of what is a 'Western' theory.
In 2008 MARG will have two international visitors to the group in the second half of the year. These visitors will be participating in an event tentatively planned for 2 October 2008 on 'The Beijing Olympics in Transnational China: Politics, Economic Reforms and the Media Game'. The regular MARG seminars held at Curtin University showcasing postgraduate and ECR's research will re-start in March 2008.