Women in Asia: Transition and Interchange
The Women in Asia (WIA) Conferences have been held regularly since 1981 and are supported by the Women’s Forum of the Asian Studies Association of Australia. These are international conferences, with attendees from throughout Australia and the Asian regions, including those who are working on or in the region.
Participants include academics and students; representatives of NGOs and other organisations involved in aid and development; artists and performers; and interested members of the general public. The conference provides excellent opportunities for networking and getting to know others in the field.
The theme for the 2008 conference is Transition and Interchange, which we hope will stimulate discussion on temporal and geo-cultural changes and interactions that may be understood in many different ways and in many different contexts.
We invite you to present a conference paper, organise your own specialist panel, or just participate in discussion. The program highlights include a showcase of outstanding Emerging Researchers, a panel of experts roundtable discussion, and film screenings of some outstanding women’s films from Asia with introduction and discussion by their directors including Japanese director Hamano Sachi and Chinese director Peng Xiaolian.
We look forward to welcoming you to the University of Queensland’s St Lucia campus from September 29 to October 1st.
Helen Creese, Tomoko Aoyama and Rosemary Roberts
Conference Convenors
School of Languages and Comparative Cultural Studies
University of Queensland
