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Programme
Day 1 - 19 November
2008
10:35 –
11:00am
Keynote address
His Royal
Highness Raja Dr Nazrin Shah
Crown Prince
of Perak Darul Ridzuan
12:00 –
1:00pm Session 1 - General
Perspectives and Overview
Professor
Graeme Hugo, University of Adelaide
Professor
Kee Pookong , Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific
University
2:00 – 3:30pm
Session 2 - Social Cohesion and
Inclusion
Engaging with
Faith, Identity and Integration
Dr Howard
Duncan , Metropolis Project
Rev Dr
Hermen Shastri , Council of Churches of Malaysia
Dr Kris
Rampersad, Communications and Literary Consultant, Trinidad and
Tabago
Jerald
Joseph, Commonwealth Foundation, Malaysia
4:00 – 5:30pm
Breakout sessions
based on
sessions 1 and 2
Session 1
Chair Sam Rajappa, The Statesman
Session 2
Chair Howard Duncan, Metropolis Project
Day 2 -
20 November 2008
9.00am –
10:30am Session 3 - Education
Diasporas
Sam Rajappa, Journalist, The Statesman
Professor
Richard Bedford , University of Waikato
Professor
Stephanie Fahey, Monash University
11:00 –
12:30pm Session 4 - Realising
People’s Potential
Inclusion, opportunity and social capital
Professor
Sanjukta Dasgupta , Calcutta University
Bala Thakrar,
Asian Foundation for Philanthropy
Dr
Lim Teck Ghee,
University
College Sedaya International, Malaysia
1.30 –
3:00pm Breakout Sessions
Based on
sessions 3 and 4
Session 3
Chair Stephanie Fahey, Monash University
Session 4
Chair Bala Thakrar, Asian Foundation for Philanthropy
3.30 – 5:00pm
Session 5 - Diasporas – Where
to next?
Ravindra
Kumar, The Statesman
Sione Leolahi
, Niue Association of Non-Governmental Organisations
Andrew
Firmin. Commonwealth Foundation
Professor
Kee Pookong , Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific
University
5:00pm Conference
Close
Professor
John Nieuwenhuysen AM
Monash Institute for the Study
of Global Movement
________________________________________ Recent
Staff Publications
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Dr Yeoh Seng Guan: 'Sidewalk
Capitalism: Notes on a Critical Visual Ethnography of Street
Vending in Baguio City, The Philippines', in 'Are We Up
to the Challenge?', Tokyo: The Nippon Foundation, 2008 |
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Dr Zakir Hossain Raju: ‘Filmic Imaginations of the Malaysian
Chinese: Mahua Cinema as a Transnational Chinese Cinema’ in
Special Issue on Transnational Chinese Cinemas Journal of
Chinese Cinemas, Vol. 2, No. 1, 2008 pp. 67-79. |
| Dr Zakir Hossain Raju: 'Bollywood in Bangladesh: Transcultural
Consumption in Globalizing South Asia’ in Media Consumption
and Everyday Culture in Asia, ed. Youna Kim, New York:
Routledge (pp. 155-166). |
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Prof
James Chin: Contemporary Chinese Community in Papua-New Guinea:
Old Money versus New Migrants,
Chinese Southern Diaspora Studies
Vo2, 2008 (南方华裔研究杂志) |
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