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We are pleased to announce that the keynote speaker at the 2002 WIP conference will be Associate Professor Catharine Lumby, Director of the Media and Communications Program at the University of Sydney.
A widely published print journalist, Catharine has worked as a news reporter, feature writer and columnist for The Sydney Morning Herald , The Age and The Australian newspapers. She has also worked as a news reporter for ABC television and currently writes a fortnightly column for The Bulletin magazine. Catharine is the author of two books: Bad Girls: The Media, Sex and Feminism in the 90s (1997, Allen and Unwin) and Gotcha: Life in a Tabloid World (1999, Allen and Unwin).
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Her current research interests include the way popular media consumption is changing the experience of childhood and adolescence and the relationship between young girls' self-image and media consumption. Catharine is a member of the Advertising Standards Board, a national body which oversees the regulation of advertising.
Postgraduate Futures
An important feature of this year's conference will be a panel entitled Postgraduate Futures. We are pleased to announce that the speakers for this panel will be Mr Tom Clarke, postgraduate student and advocacy manager for the University of Melbourne Postgraduate Association, Dr Tseen Khoo, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Queensland, and Dr Ben Goldsmith, ARC Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Griffith University. This panel will discuss the state of postgraduate research in Australia, and examine the post-degree options for postgraduate students. The panel will be chaired by Professor Alan Lawson, Director of the Graduate School, University of Queensland.
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 Mr Tom Clarke is a PhD student in English Language and Early English Literature at the University of Sydney, where he is completing a thesis on 'Irony in Beowulf, particularly its epithets.' In 2001 Tom was postgraduate fellow of the Sydney University Senate, and in 1999 he was president of the Council of Australian Postgraduate Associations.
As well as studying, Tom works as Advocacy Manager at the University of Melbourne Postgraduate Association. Tom's four scholarly publications have been in the area of higher education policy.
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Dr Tseen Khoo researches in Asian diasporic literary studies and cultural production. She co-edited the collection of essays, Diaspora: Negotiating Asian Australia (2000) and convened the inaugural Asian Australian Identities conference in Canberra 1999. Her work appears in Interactions: Asia and Pacific Literatures (Ed. Dennis Haskell and Ron Shapiro; 2000) and Bastard Moon: Essays on Chinese-Australian Writing (Ed. Wenche Ommundsen; 2001). Tseen's articles and reviews also feature in Hecate, New Formations, and Journal of Japanese Studies. Tseen has also co-edited the "Sorry" issue of the online journal M/C.
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A member of the Executive Committee for the Association for Canadian Studies in Australian and New Zealand, Tseen also moderates the asian-australian electronic list and created and maintains the Banana Pages: Studying Asian Australia website.
Tseen is a postdoctoral research fellow in the School of Languages and Comparative Cultural Studies at the University of Queensland. Her current research includes a project investigating 'locations' of Asian-Australian identity. She has a book forthcoming from Hong Kong University Press, Banana Bending: Asian Australian and Asian Canadian Literatures.
From 1999-2001, Tseen worked as a Policy and Projects officer for the UQ Graduate School. She has also worked for State and Commonwealth government departments, MIM Holdings, and the local video shop.
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 Dr Ben Goldsmith is a graduate of the Universities of London and Queensland. Since July 2001, he has been an ARC (Australian Research Council) Postdoctoral Research Fellow, based at the Australian Key Centre for Cultural and Media Policy, Griffith University. His current research interests include trade policy and cultural diversity initiatives, and the new international ecology of audiovisual production.
From 1998 until July 2001 Ben was a Research Fellow in the Australian Key Centre for Cultural and Media Policy, where he worked on a range of projects including The Future of Local Content? Options for Emerging Technologies (with the Australian Broadcasting Authority); Legal and Cultural Protocols for the Development of Indigenous Arts and Cultural Industries in Queensland (for ATSIC and Arts Queensland); Digital Futures: Women's Employment in the Multimedia Industries (for the Department of Employment, Education, Training and Youth Affairs); Governing Differences: Museums, Nations and Post-Colonialism (with the National Museum of Australia).
Ben has also written numerous grant applications, with some success. His work on Australian film and international media policy has appeared in a number of publications including Media International Australia incorporating Culture and Policy, Griffith Law Review, Overland, Metro, Senses of Cinema, RealTime, Journal of Australian Studies, Television and New Media, Journal of Popular Culture, and Australian Studies.
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