CFP: “Sex and Love in Asian Contexts” area @ 2010 Film & History Conference (Milwaukee; 1 Nov 2009; 10-14 Nov, 2010)

(It's been a while since I've posted a CFP, mainly because there's been very little I've seen that would be of interest to more than one EALC grad. Please share CFPs that you think others of us might be interested in. You can email them directly to the EALC grads list or to me. Keep in mind that this particular conf is in a very driveable location.)

2010 Film & History Conference: Representations of Love in Film and Television

November 10-14, 2010

Hyatt Regency Milwaukee

www.uwosh.edu/filmandhistory

Second-Round Deadline: November 1, 2009


AREA: “Sex and Love in Asian Contexts”

Asia has, perhaps, the richest history of cultural and commercial
exchange in the world, resulting in deeply layered religious,
political, and artistic traditions. In cinema, for example, sex and
love often are bound up in complex rites, taboos, negotiations, honor
codes, pieties, and spiritual allegiances. How do Asians themselves
see or represent love? How do non-Asians see or represent love in
Asian contexts?

This area, comprising multiple panels, welcomes papers treating the
representations of love and sex within, or from the perspective of,
Asian contexts (East, West, Central, South, Southeast). Proposals for
full panels should include the individual proposals for 3-4
presenters. Possible topics:

• traditional and customary practices—loved or hated

• treatments of historical and modern extra-marital sex and sex workers

• love and sex--including homosexuality--as indexes of modernity, cosmopolitanism, or the status of women

• love and sex in pre-modern inter-Asian narrative

• modern international influences (American and European)

• distinctively indigenous traditions (Bollywood, Japanese studios, etc.)

• new developments in contemporary pan-Asian cinema

• new developments in the films of Islamic cultures

• adaptations

Please send your 200-word proposal by e-mail to the area chair:

S.A. Thornton
Department of History
Arizona State University
Tempe, AZ 85287-4302
Email: Sybil.Thornton at asu dot edu (email submissions preferred)

Panel proposals for up to four presenters are also welcome, but each
presenter must submit his or her own paper proposal. For updates and
registration information about the upcoming meeting, see the Film &
History website (www.uwosh.edu/filmandhistory).