Invited Speakers
Professor Dr. Farzad Sharifian
Professor Farzad Sharifian holds the Chair in Cultural Linguistics at Monash University, Australia, the first appointment of its kind in the world. He is a pioneer of Cultural Linguistics, a new multidisciplinary area of research that explores the relationship between language and cultural conceptualisations. Professor Sharifian is the founding Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Language and Culture (John Benjamins), the Series Editor of Cultural Linguistics book series (Springer) and the editor (With Professor Ning Yu) of the book series Cognitive Linguistic Studies in Cultural Contexts at John Benjamins. He has widely published in many international journals and edited books, including articles in more than 20 leading international journals. He is the author of Cultural conceptualisations and Language (John Benjamins, 2011) and the editor of The Routledge Handbook of Language and Culture (Routledge, 2015).
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Professor Farzad Sharifian
Chair in Cultural Linguistics
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Professor Farzad Sharifian
Chair in Cultural Linguistics
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Professor Dr. Lily Rose Tope
Lily Rose Tope is professor and current department head at the Department of English and Comparative Literature, University of the Philippines. She has a PhD from the National University of Singapore. She is author of (Un)Framing Southeast Asia: Nationalism and the Post Colonial Text in English in Singapore, Malaysia and the Philippines as well as several articles on Southeast Asian literature in English, Philippine Chinese literature in English, and ethnicity in Southeast Asian literature. She is co-editor of the Anthology of English Writing from Southeast Asia.
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Professor Dr. Wan Zawawi Ibrahim
ZAWAWI IBRAHIM received his PhD in social anthropology from Monash University, Melbourne. His current position is a joint appointment as a professor at the Institute of Asian Studies and the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Universiti Brunei Darussalam (UBD). He researches and writes on new Malaysian cinema and contemporary popular music, indigenous communities and their storytelling, peasantry and rural labour, the new media, and multiculturalism in Malaysia. His current research is on Islamic cinema in Indonesia and religious diversity governance in Malaysia.
His books include The Malay Labourer: By the Window of Capitalism (1998); Cultural Contestations : Mediating Identities in a changing Malaysian Society(1998); Representation, Identity and Multiculturalism in Sarawak (2008), Blogging and Democratization in Malaysia (with Jun-E Tan) (2008); Social Science and Knowledge in a Globalizing World (2012); Penan Society and Imagined Development (with NoorShah M.S) (2012); and Borneo Studies in History, Society and Culture ( with Victor King et.al)(2016), He has contributed articles to regional and international journals, including Kajian Malaysia, Prisma,Inter-Asia Cultural Studies, Critical Asian Studies, Modern Asian Studies, Journal of Contemporary Asia, Asian Studies Review, Asian Journal of Social Sciences, Southeast Asian Studies (Kyoto),Journal of Glocal Studies, Seoumen Antropologi, Spectator, Situations, Positions (forthcoming)
His books include The Malay Labourer: By the Window of Capitalism (1998); Cultural Contestations : Mediating Identities in a changing Malaysian Society(1998); Representation, Identity and Multiculturalism in Sarawak (2008), Blogging and Democratization in Malaysia (with Jun-E Tan) (2008); Social Science and Knowledge in a Globalizing World (2012); Penan Society and Imagined Development (with NoorShah M.S) (2012); and Borneo Studies in History, Society and Culture ( with Victor King et.al)(2016), He has contributed articles to regional and international journals, including Kajian Malaysia, Prisma,Inter-Asia Cultural Studies, Critical Asian Studies, Modern Asian Studies, Journal of Contemporary Asia, Asian Studies Review, Asian Journal of Social Sciences, Southeast Asian Studies (Kyoto),Journal of Glocal Studies, Seoumen Antropologi, Spectator, Situations, Positions (forthcoming)
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