ASA Meeting: Dec. 2

Our next meeting (and last for the year) will be this Wednesday, December 2, at 2pm, Graduate House, Goldsmiths. We'll be discussing next semester's seminars, workshop, as well as next Fall's conference and funding opps.

ASA Summer Meeting- Tues. July 14

Our next meeting (probably our only one during the summer!) is next Tuesday, July 14, from 2-4pm. We'll meet up in front of the Goldsmiths Library, and either walk over to the Graduate School (if a room is free) or stay in the library. Topics to be discussed: ASA autumn film series (music as a theme), ASA conference to take place next Feb./March, with a similar theme, maybe contemporary arts in a globalized Asia?, and a reading list for the Fall term.

After the meeting, we can all head over to the MA Visual Arts: Transnational Arts' Graduation Show at Camberwell College of Arts (University of the Arts London) in support of ASA member, Gerard Choy. The Private View is from 5-8pm at House Gallery (70 Camberwell Church Street, SE5 8QZ) and from 6-9pm at Wilson road (Camberwell College of the Arts, Wilson Road, SE5 8LU). More info: www.transnational.org.uk

Next Meeting: March 4

We'll be holding our next meeting from 3-5pm (after the Stiegler seminar). John won't be able to join us. Instead of readings, we'll be watching two films (if we can squeeze them in): "Perhaps Love" and "Lost in Translation" or "Memoirs of a Geisha". The readings next week will be a quick review of the Stephen Teo & Chris Berry texts (which reference "Perhaps Love"), as well as Koichi Iwabuchi's "Lost in TransNation: Tokyo and the urban imaginary in the era of globalization."

Notes & Minutes from Feb. 11

1. We discussed readings (Richard Johnson's "Post-hegemony? I Don't Think So" and John Hutnyk's "Culture")
2. We would like to invite Prof. John Hutynk (who has agreed to be ASA's academic advisor) to come to a future meeting as we had a few questions regarding his text, and to suggest another text of his to read
3. We would like to invite Prof. Scott Lash, regarding the reading from the previous week ("Power After Hegemony"). Questions: Why are things becoming ontological now? What is ontological? What are some examples?
4. Going to Student Union for forms to formalize ASA as a student association
   
5. Choosing two readings each week
6. Sung- to suggest readings on 'glocal'
7. John had emailed about Allen Chun's recent article in Positions
8. We want to read some material from the Frankfurt School (Adorno's Cultural Industry, Benjamin's The Age of Mechanical Reproduction) as well as Gramsci's Prison Notes
9. What is the definition of materialism/material?
10. Selecting texts from Inter-Asia Cultural Reader
11. Find articles by David Morley and Chris Berry (invite them to future meetings), and articles by Iwabuchi
12. We looked online at InterAsia Journal for articles of interest to us (we stopped at Vol. 9 Issue 1)
    

Feb. 18 Meeting- CANCELLED

We will be canceling the scheduled February 18th meeting (Reading Week). The next meeting will be Wednesday, February 25th.

Next meeting: Feb. 11 (time change)

The next ASA meeting will be held Wednesday, Feb. 11 from 3-5pm (changed from 2-4pm) as a number of us will be attending the Bernard Stiegler seminar earlier that day. We will be discussing the agreed readings: Richard Johnson's "Post-hegemony?: I Don't Think So."(link), and John Hutnyk's "Culture" (link). We will decide on readings and activities we would like to organize for the rest of the semester. Let us know if you have trouble downloading the PDF files.