3rd International Diaspora Conference at Cal Poly Pomona
12 p.m.-8:30 p.m.
All Panel Sessions will be held in the same room at the Kellogg West Conference Center
(TBA on the day of the conference), Cal Poly Pomona
Friday, June 2, 2000
12:00-1:00 Lunch (you may dine at the conference center restaurant for special
conference rate of $7.99 plus tax)
1:00-3:00 Registration
2:00-3:15 Panel One: Transnationalism and Diasporic Communities
Ayumi Takanaka (Columbia University), The Impact of Economic Recession on the Formation
of Transnational Communities: The Japanese-Peruvian Community
Miriam Sharma (University of Hawaii), Racing Through the Diaspora: Race and Place of
'Asians' in Britain
Moderator: Timothy Lim (California State University, Los Angeles)
3:30-5:15 Panel Two: Impact of Asian Economic Crisis on Diasporic Communities
Arif Dirlik (Duke University), Intimate Others: Diasporas and Nations in an Age of
Globalization Jonathan Okamura (University of Hawaii), The New Economy, Globalization and
Diasporic Communities in Hawaii
William Kelly (Oxford University), The Asian Crisis and Japanese Communities in the United
Kingdom
Moderator: Eui-Young Yu (California State University, Los Angeles)
5:45-6:00 Dinner Shuttle: Meet at main entrance of conference center for shuttle
service to dinner (shuttle will make separate runs to the restaurant, which is located
approximately ten minutes away).
6:30-8:30 Dinner at the Diamond Palace Chinese Seafood Restaurant ,225 Gentle Springs
Lane Diamond Bar, CA (909) 860-6339
Saturday, June 3, 2000
7:00-8:30 Breakfast at Kellogg West Dining Room
8:45-11:00 Panel Three: China/Chinese Diaspora
Bernard Wong (San Francisco State University), Globalization and Citizenship: The
Chinese in Silicon Valley
Bolong Liu (University of Macau), The Political Future of the Macanese: Changes After
Macaus Conversion with China
Ling-Chi Wang (University of California, Berkeley), "Boundary and Boundary Crossing:
Intersection of Chinese Studies, Chinese Diaspora Studies and Chinese-American Studies
Peter Kwong (Hunter College, CUNY), The Fourth Wave of Chinese Migration
Moderator: Gary Cretser, Cal Poly, Pomona
11:15-12:15 Panel Four: Korea/Korean Diaspora
Wayne Patterson (Harvard University), Korean Nationhood and the Role of the Korean
Diaspora in America
In-Jin Yoon (Koryo University), North Korean Diaspora: North Korean Refugees/Defectors
Abroad and in South Korea
Moderator Eui-Young Yu (CSULA)
12:30-2:00 Lunch and Keynote speaker John Lie Diasporic Nationalism: Korea between
Homeland and Diaspora
2:15-3:45 Panel Five: Symbolic Diaspora
Yen Le Espiritu (University of California, San Diego), Home and Abroad: The Politics of
(Trans)location in Filipino American Lives
Thongrith Phoumirath (Australian National University), Lao Weddings: Rituals, Remembrance,
and Identity in Lao Diaspora
Lianne Yu (University of California, San Diego), Its Who You Bribe, Marry or Consider
Family: The Changing Forms of Ethnic Chinese in Networks in Vietnam
Moderator: Sonia Blackman, Cal Poly, Pomona
4:15-5:30 Panel Six: Intersecting Diasporas: Latino and Asian Communities in the United
States
Kenneth Bauzon (St. Josephs College), Political Participation Among Minority
Communities: The Hispanic Americans And The Asian Americans In Comparative Perspective
William Bollinger (California State University, Los Angeles), Developing Research on
Relations Between the Asian and Latin American Diasporas
Moderator: Brett Stockdill, Cal Poly, Pomona
5:30-5:45 Please meet at the conference lobby for shuttle service to Kellogg House
6:00-9:00 Reception/Dinner at Kellogg House
Sunday, June 4, 2000
7:00-8:30 Breakfast at Kellog West Dining Room
8:45- 11:00 Panel Six: Migrant and Immigrant Workers in the Global Economy
Ron Tsukashima (California State University, Los Angeles), Interest Groups and Labor
Migration from Japan: Refugees and Supplemental Agricultural Workers
Keiko Yamanaka (University of California, Berkeley), Contesting Immigrant Rights in Japan:
A Precedent Setting Legal Case
Timothy Lim (California State University, Los Angeles), The Fight For Equal Rights: The
Power of Foreign Workers in South Korea
Kyeyoung Park (UCLA), 10,000 Senora Lees":The Changing Gender Ideology in the Korean
Diaspora as Reflected in the Clothing Industry
Moderator: TBA
11:15-1:00 Panel Eight: Diasporic Identities
Brahim Aoude (University of Hawaii), Connecting in the Diaspora: Arab Lives Across
Three Continents
Khatharyn Um (University of California, Berkeley), Homeland and Return: Cambodia and
Diaspora
Abdoulaye Kane (Amsterdam School for Social Science Research), Village Diaspora and Local
Development: A Study of Relations Between Senegalese Migrants and Their Villages in
Transnational Space
Moderator: Ron Tsukashima (California State University, Los Angeles)
1:15-2:15 Farewell Lunch at the Kellogg West Dining Room
The conference is free and open to the public. For further information, please contact
Dr. Timothy C. Lim (tclim@calstatela.edu or 323-343-2242) or go to the following URL: http://curriculum.calstatela.edu/faculty/tclim/diaspora_conference.htm
Korean War: The Last 50 Years (cont.)
Film: The Man with Three Coffins
4 pm
Humanities Instructional Building, Room 100, UC Irvine
$5 admission
Exit Jamboree south, left on Campus Drive, right on W. Peltason, left on Pereira, Park in
the Pereira Structure on your left -- $2.
(949) 824-7418
The Man with Three Coffins (Nakûne nûn
kil esôdi swuhu annûnda), South Korea, 1987
Directed by Yi Chang-ho
A dying old man wishes to visit his hometown which lies
on the other side of the DMZ. He may not reach it physically, but can he somehow go home?
The film is in Korean with English subtitles.
Film: To the Starry Island
Director Park Kwang-su will be in attendance.
7 pm
Humanities Instructional Building, Room 100, UC Irvine
$5 admission
Exit Jamboree south, left on Campus Drive, right on W. Peltason, left on Pereira, Park in
the Pereira Structure on your left -- $2.
(949) 824-7418
To the Starry Island (Kû sôm e gago sipta),
South Korea, 1994
Set in the decade after the Korean War, a man's last
wish is to be buried on the island where he was born. The islanders, however, refuse to
allow his coffin to be brought onshore. Why?
The film is in Korean with English subtitles.
UCLA Center for East Asian Studies 