Cosmopatriots: On Distant Belongings and Close Encounters
07/03/2008 - 15:30
7 March 2008
16.00 - 18.00 hrs
Book launch of Cosmopatriots: On Distant Belongings and Close Encounters, edited by Jeroen de Kloet and Edwin Jurriëns
Location: Common Room, Spinhuis, Oudezijds Achterburgwal 185
Program:
16.00-16.10: Welcome, by IIAS
16.10-16.30: Lecture by Patricia Spyer
16.30-16.45: Jeroen and Edwin present the book
16.45-----------Drinks
This volume analyzes mediated articulations of "cosmopatriotism" in East and South-East Asian popular cultures and arts. Cosmopatriots navigate between a loyalty to the home country and a sense of longing for and belonging to the world. Rather than searching for the truly globalized cosmopolitans, the authors of this collection look for the postcolonial, rooted cosmopolitans who insist on thinking and feeling simultaneously beyond and within the nation. The cultural sites they discuss include Hong Kong, Indonesia, China, Singapore, the United States, South Korea and Australia. They show how media from both sides of the arbitrary divide between high art and popular culture - including film, literature, the fine arts, radio, music, television and mobile phones - function as vehicles for the creation and expression of, or reflection upon, intersections between patriotism and cosmopolitanism.
Contributing Authors:
Michelle Marie Antoinette, Emma Baulch, Tom Boellstorff, Rey Chow, Yiu Fai Chow, Jon Dunbar, Stephen Epstein, Edwin Jurriëns, Jeroen de Kloet, Helen Hok Sze Leung, Song Hwee Lim, Francis Maravillas, Qin Liwen, Kyongwon Yoon.
The book will be made available for a 40% discount on the day itself. Publisher: Rodopi (New York & Amsterdam).
Contact: Michiel Baas (michiel.baas@uva.nl)