Here on Asian Currents we’ll be hosting an account of each day’s online activity around the ASAA conference to give you a glimpse of what’s on offer at this year’s conference.
Before diving into the Day 3 content from the ASAA conference, we would like to express gratitude to everyone who attended and presented this week, and especially to the dedicated organising team for a seamlessly run conference.
Yes, the #ASAA2018 conference was fabulous – thanks everyone! I could only come for a day in the end, but it was a really good day https://t.co/EEr2sZSX0S
— Amrita Malhi (@AmritaMalhi) July 5, 2018
Big thanks to @MicheleSSEAC @liskramer @sea_greany and the whole @seacsydney team who organised #ASAA2018 – 200 panels, 800 papers & 1,000 delegates and it was seamless! Congrats all! ???????? pic.twitter.com/7fmYJhMQKK
— Sarah Ward ???? (@SarahWardAU) July 5, 2018
A big thanks to the hardworking organisers of #ASAA2018 and congrats on a great conference! (P.S. Most adorable sweets ever!!) pic.twitter.com/UaCXPiirLo
— Elicia O’Reilly (@eliciao_o) July 5, 2018
It may have been the final day but there was still plenty of absorbing content for conference attendees. Presenters tackled topics that ranged from labour rights to BL and so many more than we could hope to do justice to in one blog post.
Putting forward a conglomerate rock as a metaphor for understanding how texts were written in the premodern period – @infiniteteeth showing all the skills he picked up at the @seacsydney public speaking workshop! #ASAA2018 (‘do some dazzling at the ten minute mark’) pic.twitter.com/mjZdHayAUV
— Dr Natali Pearson ????????♀️???????? ???????? (@sea_greeny) July 4, 2018
Michele Ford: in moments of great institutional upheaval, e.g. Cambodia, Myanmar, etc, ideas of well-placed individuals can play a transformational role in shaping labour regulation for the coming years & decades #ILO #ASAA2018 #ausunions
— Tom Barnes (@drtombarnes) July 4, 2018
Kyounghee Moon is showing how historical Korean-Japanese diplomatic tensions are playing out in Sydney’s suburbs – nothing in the world is more politically charged than a proposed new statue! #ASAA2018 #Korea #Japan @asiancurrents pic.twitter.com/Mg1kOBav4a
— John Dooley (@JohnDooleyIV) July 4, 2018
@AntoniTsaputra on #DisabilityRights in #indonesia. Also, well done @thushdibley for organising sign interpreters and making the panel as inclusive as possible! #ASAA2018
— Elisabeth Kramer (@liskramer) July 4, 2018
Best post-presentation discussion of #ASAA2018 so far: Money Politics in Southeast Asia. Comparative project focuses on vote-buying and patronage, at local level. One study is https://t.co/QFHfhhH6l9 and more to come fm this project soon w/ @NUS_Press
— Peter Schoppert (@katong) July 5, 2018
The transnational BL panel at #asaa2018 starts with @asakopsaito’s look at Three Kingdoms dojinshi in East Asia pic.twitter.com/QYbGQlec9a
— Dr. Khursten Santos ( ꒪ͧ-꒪ͧ) 1/9 (@khursten) July 5, 2018
thinking about the links between human rights and sexuality in SEAsia opens up the nexus between deep philosophical and cultural questions and hot political topics e.g. moral panic over sexuality – hearing from @AnthonyLanglois #ASAA2018
— Alexandra Crosby (@digijalanjalan) July 5, 2018
Katherine Gibson taking up the challenge of addressing the “sociology of absence” by engaging with the community economies of Monsoon Asia at #ASAA2018 pic.twitter.com/wzTuqF1fBC
— Fiona Miller (@fionapmiller) July 5, 2018
Diversity of expertise continued to flow, taking in star anise, LGBT identities, and asylum seeker boats.
We’re getting our Imelda on with @M1ke_Pb and looking at the use and abuse of archaeology in the Philippines @seacsydney @asiancurrents @SEAsiaPasts #ASAA2018 pic.twitter.com/XQ54h5Aulk
— Dr Natali Pearson ????????♀️???????? ???????? (@sea_greeny) July 5, 2018
Hendri Yulius explaining the ‘Assemblages’ LGBT identity as a polit cal identity with instant noodles at #ASAA2018 pic.twitter.com/5wVpY9un0Q
— SSEAC (@seacsydney) July 5, 2018
Whats the link betwee star anise & antiviral medication ? Star anise was a key ingredient in Tamiflu. Roche switched to a synthetic version worried that crop failure would affect tamiflu production. Awesome research by Sarah Turner et al #ASAA2018
— Dr. Sarina Kilham (@SarinaKilham) July 5, 2018
https://twitter.com/sachacody77/status/1014730281398333442
Launching Style and Intersubjecrivity in Youth Interaction. Congratulations the the authors, including Dr Novi Djenar from @Sydney_Uni!! #ASAA2018 #linguistics
— Elisabeth Kramer (@liskramer) July 5, 2018
Speaking on Tasi Diak asylum seeker boat from Timor-Leste, examining asylum seekers as political actors #asaa2018 @TLStudies @Baucau76Costa pic.twitter.com/ocAuhtYmuQ
— Dr Vannessa Hearman (@vhearman) July 5, 2018
There was also a lot of love for the food.
What’s been you conference highlight? Plenty of food for thought… but how good is the actual food! #ASAA2018 @seacsydney @MicheleSSEAC @asiancurrents pic.twitter.com/Xn4Nbs1h8r
— Dr Natali Pearson ????????♀️???????? ???????? (@sea_greeny) July 5, 2018
https://twitter.com/CleveArguelles/status/1014716320833605632
Once again, thank you to everyone involved in making #ASAA2018 such a success. Here’s looking forward to #ASAA2020.
