Thursday, October 2, 2008

Conference Agenda*

International Conference
De-Westernizing Communication Research:
What Is the Next Step?

First Day: Saturday, December 13, 2008


08:30-09:00


Registration


09:00-09:30


Welcoming speech: Wu Se-Hwa 吳思華, President, NCCU

Welcoming speech: Chao-sung Huang 黃肇松, Chairman of the Board (Central News Agency)

Photo session



9:30-11:10


Session I: Knowledge and Theory: The Issue of Universality

Chair/Discussant: Kuan-Hsing Chen 陳光興

The Geography of Theory and the Place of Knowledge : Pivots, Peripheries and Waiting-Rooms

David Morley

Communication and Transformation: The Cultural Contradictions of Globalised Modernity

Graham Murdock

De-westernizing Communication: Strategies for Neutralizing Cultural Myths

Molefi Asante


11:10-11:30


Tea Break


11:30-12:40


Session II: The Essentiality of de-Westernization
Chair/Discussant: Eddie C.Y. Kuo郭振羽

The Cross-Cultural Challenge to Communication Science: The Issue of Cultural Bias
M. S. Kim

An Anatomy of Eurocentrism in Communication Scholarship: The Role of Asiacentricity in De-Westernizing Theory and Research

Yoshitaka Miike (outline read by Professor Guo-Ming Chen 陳國明)


12:50-14:00


Lunch Break


14:00-15:30


Session III: The Peripheral Outlook
Chair/Discussant: Gholam Khiabany (for Professor Georgette Wang’s and Professor Shi-xu’s paper)

Discussant: Eddie C.Y. Kuo郭振羽 (for Professor Gunaratne’s paper)

Reconstructing Eastern Paradigms of Discourse Studies
Shi-xu 施旭 (via video conference)


De-Westernizing Communication / Social Science Research: Opportunities And Limitations
Shelton Gunaratne


Orientalism, Occidentalism, and Communication Research

Georgette Wang 汪琪


15:30-15:50


Tea Break


15:50-17:00


Session IV: Method and Methodological Challenges Chair/Discussant: M. S. Kim

Conceptual challenges to the paradigm of media research in national and local contexts
Herng Su 蘇蘅


The Return to Practice
Wei Wen Chung 鍾蔚文


Second Day: Sunday, December 14, 2008


09:00-10:40


Session V: Moving Away from Universalism
Chair/Discussant: David Morley

Beyond Ethnocentrism in Communication Theory: Towards a Culture-centric Approach

Eddie C.Y. Kuo 郭振羽 and Han Ei, Chew


“De-westernization” of communication studies in Chinese societies
Paul S.N. Lee 李少南

Beyond the Dichotomy of Communication StudiesKuo-Ming Guo-Ming Chen 陳國明


10:40-11:00


Tea Break




11:00-12:40


Session VI: Opportunities and Limitations of an Alternative Approach
Chair/Discussant: Chen Kuo-Ming

Cross-cultural Analysis: Wenyi (文藝) and Melodrama

Emilie Y. Y. Yeh 葉月瑜

Imagining de-Westernization: A point of view from the science of meaning

Yaly Chao 趙雅麗


Whither Eurocentrism? Media, culture and nativism in our time
Gholam Khiabany

An agenda for the social sciences in Asia
Syed Farid Alatas (via video presentation)


12:40-14:00


Lunch Break


14:00-15:30


Session VII: Round table discussion: The “Next Step”
Chair: Eddie C.Y. Kuo

Panelists: All



Agenda subject to change*

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