Program and speakers

Dragon Tails 2013 will be a single-stream conference held from Saturday, 6 July to Monday, 8 July 2013.

We are pleased to welcome our international speaker, Professor Henry Yu from the University of British Columbia, Canada, who will be speaking on 'The Cantonese Pacific and the Making and Un-Making of White Settler Nations'.

There will also be a special pre-conference workshop on 'The Heritage of Chinese Temples in Australasia' on Saturday morning.

Dr Julia Martinez will also be holding, on the Saturday morning, a pre-conference master class on writing histories of the Chinese diaspora, for honours, masters and PhD students, where students can present and discuss their thesis work.

The conference itself will have over 25 speakers, on a wide range of topics, looking at the diverse ways in which the forces of tradition and modernity have played out in cultural maintenance and evolution amongst overseas Chinese in the 19th and 20th centuries.

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Draft program – timetable at a glance

Saturday 6 July 2013

Pre-conference workshops (concurrent):
10.30–1.45   THE HERITAGE OF CHINESE TEMPLES IN AUSTRALASIA
11.30–2.00   POSTGRADUATE MASTER CLASS WITH DR JULIA MARTINEZ

2.00   Registration

2.45   Conference opening

2.45   Saturday panel 1 - PIONEERING WOMEN; RESILIENT FAMILIES

4.30   Afternoon tea

5.00   Saturday panel 2 - GENDER, MODERNITY, LEGALITY

6.30–7.30   Conference reception

Saturday dinner – not organised but restaurant suggestions will be offered for delegates

Sunday 7 July 2013

8.45   Registration

9.15   Opening remarks

9.30   Sunday panel 1 – CHINESE AGENCY AND EXCHANGE IN
          AUSTRALIA & ASIA, 1870s-1930s

11.00   Morning tea

11.30   Sunday panel 2 – SOUTH CHINA & AUSTRALIA:
            CONNECTIONS, CONTINUITIES & INNOVATIONS

1.00   Lunch

2.00   Sunday panel 3 – GOLD AND CULTIVATION

3.30   Afternoon tea

4.00   Sunday panel 4 – KEEPING COMMUNITY IDENTITY

7.00   Conference dinner: at Hanoi Wollongong Restaurant

Monday 8 July 2013

9.30   Registration

10.00   Morning tea – Display of Wollongong's Dion family photographs

10.30   Monday panel 1 – ORGANISATION AND ADVOCACY

12.00   Lunch

1.00   Monday panel 2 – EDUCATION, MIGRATION AND CULTURE

2.30   Afternoon Tea

3.00   Monday keynote address –
          Prof. HENRY YU, University of British Columbia:
          THE CANTONESE PACIFIC AND THE MAKING
          AND UN-MAKING OF WHITE SETTLER NATIONS

4.30   Conference close

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