How can we bring politics back to life in the age of Trump, Putin, Brexit and post-truth?

This conference is the culmination of the ARC Laureate Project Informal Life Politics in Northeast Asia: New Perspectives on Social Transitions from Cold War to Post Cold War, conducted by Professor Tessa Morris-Suzuki, Dr Tom Cliff, Dr Shuge Wei, Dr Robert Winstanley-Chesters, Dr Uchralt Otede and Yonjae Paik, all of whom will also speak at the conference.

This conference will rethink the boundaries of the “political”, exploring innovative autonomous ways in which people in East Asia and beyond are collaborating to solve challenges which conventional political systems fail to address.

The conference brings together practitioners in grassroots alternatives as well as academic researchers. Topics covered will include: informal life politics; reimagining the state; cooperation and cooperatives; the self-help politics of memory, and art activism. The aim is to encourage debate and inspire new ways of looking at politics in our region.

Living Politics Conference Program

Speakers include:

Davina Cooper
King's College, London
Kim Yuik
Korean Activist and Social Innovation Researcher
Lai Endian
Chinese Documentary Filmmaker
Muto Ichio
Founding Member of Towa Organic Farming Cooperative, Fukushima, Japan
Charles Stafford
London School of Economics
Tanaka Natsuko
Small-scale Farmer and Researcher
Odenchimeg
Founder of the environmental farming community Ikh Ovoo Nurul NGO, Mongolia
Rod Cliff
Independent Researcher (Archaeology and Economic History)
Fang-I-Chieh
National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan
Michal Glikson
Artist and Researcher
Thi Huyen Linh Nguyen
University of Wollongong