Program
Wednesday
7 December, 2022
1:20pm
(1:30pm – 5:15pm)
Coffee, Introduction
PhD panel
1:30 – 2:00pm
Online: Competing for Meaning: Human Rights and the Role of Civil Society Organisations in the Philippines
Syme de Leon
2:00–2:30pm
Veganism(s) in Japan: Practice, Concepts and Negotiation
Ruby Ramsden
2:30–3:00pm
Mobilising for Press Freedom in Duterte's Philippines: Forms, Strategies, and Challenges
David Lozada
3:00 – 3:15pm
Break
3:15 – 3:45pm
Small-Scale Democracy: A Case of Niseko, Japan
Kiyomi Misaki
3:45–4:15pm
Challenging Abe's "War Laws": Peace Activism and the use of Strategic Litigation in Japan
Adam Eldridge-Imamura
4:15 – 4:45pm
A Critical Ocean Studies of Civil Society Practice: How Sea of Fukushima, Great Barrier Reef and Billabongs of Ranger Mine Shape Fukushima–Cairns Recuperation Practice
Akina Mikami
4:45 – 5:15pm
Online: Environmental Civil Society actors in Okinawa: Saving the environment from the risks of the US military
Scott Masgrave-Takeda
Thursday
8 December, 2022
9:15am
(9:45–12:15pm)
Coffee, Networking, Introduction
Panel 1: How is civil society conceived by particular actors, including civil society organizations, individual activists, intellectuals, and the state?
Panel chair: Akina Mikami
9:45–10:15am
Changing and Contesting Notions of ‘Civil Society’ in China: The State, Activists, and Academics
Anthony J. Spires (University of Melbourne)
10:15 – 10:45am
Online: When a Struggle Spawns a New Civil Society: Mass Mobilization and Political Transformations in Sri Lanka
Udan Fernando (Centre for Poverty Analysis, Sri Lanka)
10:45 – 11:15am
Ethnic Politics in the Democratic Movement and Civil Society Organizations against Authoritarianism in Thailand
Apichai W. Shipper (Georgetown University)
11:15 – 11:45am
Online: Civil Society and Emergency Powers in the Time of Pandemic
Rawin Leelapatana (Chulongkorn University)
11:45 – 12:15pm
The Shifting Nature of International NGO and Foundation Behavior in China
Steve Noakes (University of Auckland)
12:15 – 12:45pm
Lunch
(12:45 – 2:00pm)
Keynote: A Century of Civil Society Activism in Taiwan: 1920-2022
Sponsored by Centre for Contemporary Chinese Studies, Asia Institute
(2:15 – 2:45pm)
Panel 1 continued
Panel chair: Adam Eldridge-Imamura
2:15 – 2:45pm
Online: Indigenous peoples and civic activism in Nepal
Mukta S. Tamang (Tribhuvan University)
(2:45 – 4:15pm)
Panel 2: What organizational forms are favored, eschewed, and promoted by particular actors?
Panel chair: Adam Eldridge-Imamura
2:45 – 3:15pm
NPOs in Japan: Why Co-Production with the State Failed
Akihiro Ogawa (University of Melbourne)
3:15 – 3:45pm
Online: A Global Civil Society on the Move?: The Global Compact on Migration and CSOs in the Asia Pacific
Jorge V. Tingo (University of the Philippines)
3:45 – 4:15pm
Gender and Power in the State-led Civil Society in Japan
Mayuko Itoh (University of Tasmania)
4:15 – 4:45pm
Online: Win a Victory without Battle? China's Crackdown on Civil Society of Post-NSL Hong Kong
Eric Yan-ho Lai (SOAS London / Georgetown University)
4:45pm
Exercise for strategy meeting
6:00pm
Conference dinner at Shakahari, Carlton
Friday
9 December, 2022
9:15am
(9:30 – 12:15pm)
Coffee, Networking, Introduction
Panel 3: With the rise of particular forms of globally recognized and recognizable civil society formations, like NGOs and private philanthropy foundations, what kinds of innovations distinguish particular civil society groups from others within the same country, region, or globally?
Panel chair: David Lozada
9:30 – 10:00am
Conceptualizing the Role of Civil Society in Ganges-Brahmaputra Basin Governance
M. Anwar Hossen (University of Dhaka)
10:00 – 10:30am
New Forms of Active Citizen Participation to Regenerate Cities?: Systematic Analysis of Co-City Literature and Projects in Asia
Herlin Chien (National Pingtung University of Science and Technology, Taiwan)
10:30 – 11:00am
Grassroots Movements vs. “NGOism”: Struggles for Legitimacy in Asian Migrant Civil Society Networks
Stefan Rother (Bundeswehruniversität München, Germany)
11:00 – 11:15am
Break
(11:15 – 12:15pm)
Panel 3 - continued
Panel chair: Ruby Ramsden and Tom Hu
11:15 – 11:45am
The Role of NGOs in Welfare Provision in Asia: The Case of Irregular Migration and Poverty on the Thailand-Cambodia Border
Ruth Phillips (University of Sydney), Geri Mason (Seattle Pacific University, USA), and Deanna Davy (Anglia Ruskin University, UK)
11:45 – 12:15pm
Online: Japanese International NGOs in Asia: The Reflexive Outcomes of Regional Activism
Simon Avenell (ANU)
12:15 – 2:00pm
Lunch & Film Screening:
Evoking the Kingdom: Claims of Monarchy in Modern Sri Lanka
(23 mins followed by Q&A)
(2:00 – 3:00pm)
Panel 4: How do changes in technology and technologies of governance create, inhibit, or challenge particular formations of civil society actors and approaches?
Panel chair: Kiyomi Misaki &Tony Wu
2:00 – 2:30pm
Civil Society and DV in Japan
Machiko Osawa (Nihon Women’s University) and Jeff Kingston (Temple University)
2:30 – 3:00pm
Online: From Offline Occupations to Online Platforms: Media and Advocacy Collectives in Asia
Ian Rowen (National Taiwan Normal University) and Bonnie Jin (Johns Hopkins University)
3:15 – 5:00pm