26 Oct 2006

Media: Policies, cultures and futures in the Asia Pacific Region, Nov 2006
Humanities Research Centre, Curtin University of Technology, Perth, Australia
Supplied note: "Media: Policies, cultures and futures in the Asia Pacific Region Conference 27-29 November 2006, Curtin University of Technology, Western Australia This year the ARC Asia Pacific Futures Research Network's (APFRN) signature event is organised by the Media-Asia Research Group (MARG) at Curtin University of Technology in Perth. We would like to invite you to join us. The conference will feature over 70 papers on a wide range of topics exploring issues such as new media and the internet, media and gender, media law and policy, journalism, globalisation and censorship in the region.
Prominent Asian film directors Shyam Benegal from India and Garin Nugroho from Indonesia will be at the conference to talk about film and social commentary. [...] The conference will feature short films from Yogyakarta, Indonesia compiled by Konfiden Foundation in Jakarta. There will also be a screening of Passabe, a documentary film by James Leong and Lynn Lee (Singapore) on the United Nations-backed Commission for Reception, Truth and Reconciliation in East Timor. [...] There will be plenary presentations by Professor Yingjin Zhang (University of California, San Diego) and Dr Paola Voci (Otago University) on 'China, films and documentaries' and Associate Professor David Robie (Auckland University) and Louise Williams (Sydney Morning Herald) on 'Reporting Asia and the Pacific'. [...] For more information about the conference please visit the conference website [at the URL below] or email: MARG--at--curtin.edu.au - ks."
URL http://www.MediaAsiaConference.humanities.curtin.edu.au
Internet Archive (web.archive.org) [the site was not archived at the time of this abstract]
Link reported by: Dr. Krishna Sen (k.sen--at--curtin.edu.au)
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