Description: Panelists examine literary-cultural connections between Southeast Asian countries and Australia. What relationships between Southeast Asia and Australia emerge in literary representations? How do race, racism, and racial identification factor into these relationships? Do specific literary genres affect the structure and significance of these relationships and representations?

Speakers

Ruth Yvonne Hsu, U of Hawai‘i, Mānoa

Eunice Ying Ci Lim, Penn State U, University Park

Michelle O’Brien, Central Washington U

Samuel Perks, Nanyang Technological U

Zhouling Tian, U of Wollongong

Elisabeth Arti Wulandari, Clarkson U

Presider

Weihsin Gui, U of California, Riverside