::fc-announce:: booklaunch Cosmopatriots

[Geert Lovink]

> The IIAS, ASiA and Rodopi Publishers have the pleasure to invite you 
> to the book launch of
> Cosmopatriots: On Distant Belongings and Close Encounters
> edited by Jeroen de Kloet and Edwin Jurriëns.
>
> Date: Friday, 7th of March, 2008
> Time: 16.00-18.00
> Location: Common Room, Spinhuis, Oudezijds Achterburgwal 185, Amsterdam
>
> Program:
>
> 16.00-16.10: Welcome, by IIAS
>
> 16.10-16.30: Lecture by Prof. Patricia Spyer (Leiden University)
>
> 16.30-16.45: Book presentation by the editors
>
> 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 at uva.nl