Perspectives:Asia | Stranded nation

Perspectives:Asia | Stranded nation
Perspectives:Asia | Stranded nation

Principal speaker

Professor David Walker

Other speakers

Professor Jing Han Professor Caitlin Byrne


The Griffith Asia Institute and the Australian Centre of Asia-Pacific Art (ACAPA),
Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art (QAGOMA) would like to invite you to an online in-conversation

Australia's population has been characterised by constant change for many decades, yet anxiety over a rising Asia and racism are continued factors. This has been made even more evident recently with the escalation in racial abuse towards Australians of Asian heritage due to COVID-19.

Join us as Professor David Walker, Deakin University and Professor Jing Han, Western Sydney University look at how our past still fuels anxiety and racism today.

Professor David Walker will draw on his latest book Stranded Nation: White Australia in an Asian Region which looks at Australia from 1920 - 1970 and addresses how Australia sought to convince both itself and its neighbours that it belonged within the Asian region. While Professor Jing Han, will share her thoughts on modern Australia's anxiety and how her translation work on the unexpected hit "If You Are the One' has led to an unprecedented cultural impact and influence on Australian audiences in understanding the ordinary lives of Chinese people.

Professor David Walker AM is a historian and emeritus professor at Deakin University. He is a leading authority in the study of Australian perceptions of Asia and has written extensively on Australian social and cultural history and is the author of Anxious Nation: Australia and the Rise of Asia, 1850 - 1939. He is an Honorary Professorial Fellow in the Asia Institute, University of Melbourne, was the inaugural BHP Billiton Professor in Australian Studies at Peking University and appointed a Member (AM) in the General Division of the Order of Australia in 2018.

Professor Jing Han is Director, Australia-China Institute For Arts and Culture, Western Sydney University and was the Head of SBS Subtitling Department. She is a leading expert in subtitling, intercultural communications and translating Chinese culture. Over the last 23 years, she has solely subtitled and been individually credited for the English versions of over 200 major Chinese films and documentaries broadcast on SBS channels.

Thursday 28 May 2020, 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm

Live webcast via ZOOM

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