CFP: Visualizing Global Asia at the Turn of the 20th Century (3 Nov; 29 Apr-1 May; Yale)

Visualizing Global Asia at the Turn of the 20th Century

An Academic Conference sponsored by the Visualizing Cultures Project and the Center for East Asian Studies, Yale University Yale University, New Haven, April 29 May 1, 2010
Coordinators Peter C. Perdue [Yale] and John W. Dower [MIT]

The Visualizing Cultures project
[http://visualizingcultures.mit.edu] and the Council on East Asian Studies at Yale University [http://research.yale.edu/eastasianstudies]
invite contributions to an academic conference focused on the relationship between visual imagery and social change in modern Asia. We will assemble scholars of history, art history, history of photography, and history of technology specializing in China, Korea, Japan, United States, Europe and the Philippines to discuss how to integrate visual and textual media in research and teaching, using to the fullest the opportunities presented by the Internet.

This will be one of the first academic conferences devoted to image- driven scholarship and teaching about Asia in the modern world. The topic is "Visualizing Global Asia at the Turn of the 20th Century". Images presented must be available for online publication.

John Dower, professor of Japanese history at MIT, and Shigeru Miyagawa, professor of linguistics and foreign languages and literatures at MIT, founded the Visualizing Cultures project to investigate the impact of visual media on cross-cultural interaction between Asia and the West. This project has expanded the scope of traditional historical study beyond written texts, creating truly visual narratives that integrate large numbers of graphics, including popular and commercial images with scholarly commentary. The Visualizing Cultures platform allows educators to download and use freely all content, for non-commercial purposes. The Visualizing Cultures team has worked with scholars to create truly innovative and elegant online publications.

So far, the project has produced units on subjects like the Perry mission to Japan, Sino-Japanese and Russo-Japanese wars, the Yokohama treaty port, Felice Beato's pioneer photographs of Japan, consumer culture and the Shiseido cosmetics firm, and the Canton trade system in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. New units in production include John Thomson's standard-setting photography of China, the Opium War, the histories of Beijing and Shanghai, interwar Tokyo, and the U.S.-Philippines relationship from 1898 through World War Two. Visualizing Cultures uses rare publications as well as archival materials from a variety of museums and art collections, including the Smithsonian Institutions Freer and Sackler Galleries, Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Peabody Essex Museum, Hong Kong Museum of Art, Yales Beinecke Library, Shiseido archive in Japan, Hood Museum of Art at Dartmouth, and Smith College Museum of Art.

We invite interested researchers to submit contributions for presentation at the conference at Yale in Spring 2010. These presentations should integrate visual and textual content. We especially encourage contributions that use rare materials from archives and museum collections. Many of the contributions may become the basis for new units on the Visualizing Cultures website. Please contact the organizers for further information.

Contact emails: peter.c.perdue at yale dot edu; Visualizing Cultures c/o Director Scott Shunk: shunk at mit dot edu

CFP: "Asia: Backwards and Forwards." P.E.A.R. vol. 1 (grad student journal; 9 Mar.)

*Papers, Essays and Reviews *(P.E.A.R.), a new interdisciplinary English
language journal of international studies at Yonsei University in Seoul, in
conjunction with the Center for International Studies, is now accepting
submissions for its first issue from graduate students. The periodical
publication includes varying disciplines and methodologies, but each issue
will attempt to be thematic. Submissions fall into one of three categories:
*Papers,* original research that follow the theme of the issue with proper
citations and ranges between 3,000 to 8,000 words; *Essays,* dedicated to
editorials, recommendations, and reflections that do not necessarily adhere
to the theme and ranges between 1,500 to 3,000 words; or *Reviews,* focusing
on evaluating existing arguments contained in essays, articles and books, in
addition to the inclusion of policy reviews, not exceeding 2,000 words.

The inaugural theme is "Asia: Backwards and Forwards." All submissions are
(blind) peer reviewed, should follow *The Chicago Manual for Style* and
submitted no later than March 9, 2009 for the first issue via email at
pear at yonsei.ac.kr. For more information, please visit our website at
http://web.yonsei.ac.kr/pear.

CFP: Copy That!: Reproduction and Pedagogy/Graduate Student Symposium (30 Nov; 28 Mar; Princeton, New Jersey)

Copy That!: Reproduction and Pedagogy
Saturday, March 28, 2009
Keynote speaker: Amy Powell, Assistant Professor, Department of Art History, University of California, Irvine

Six years before Walter Benjamin wrote the first version of "Work of Art in the Age of its Technological Reproducibility," Erwin Panofsky published "Original und Faksimile Reproduktion," (Der Kreis, 1930), a letter addressing the possibilities and problems of using photographic reproductions and plaster casts as objects in museum exhibitions and as pedagogical tools. While both authors attended to questions of authenticity, simulacra, aesthetic experience, and function, Panofsky, unlike Benjamin, insisted that the reproduction could function autonomously as an aesthetic object independent of the original.

From Johann Winckelmann's famous refusal to travel to Greece and see original works of art to today's reliance on digital images and "virtual museums," art history is a discipline grounded in the study of reproductions. The W旦lfflin two-slide comparison has given way to the power point presentation, in which a lecture may shift among a seemingly infinite number of images, text, video, and websites. This time of shifting pedagogical paradigms within the discipline calls for an examination of the two trajectories mapped out by Benjamin and Panofsky and a re-assessment of the possibilities and limitations of learning from reproduction.

With these ideas in mind, this conference seeks to explore the intersection of the discipline of art history, pedagogy, and reproduction. How have different historical understandings of pedagogy shaped the relationship between the copy and the original, reshaped technologies of copying, and changed the reception of the copy?

Topics could include but are not limited to:
-artistic workshop practice (medieval model books, Renaissance drawing books, Japanese master-pupil, "the Factory")
-dissemination and changing conceptions of original artworks through the mediums of printmaking and photography
-the birth of the artists' monograph
-the copy and the lost original
-copy, deception, piracy
-appropriation art and its aftereffects
-the intersection of aesthetic experience and learning
-artistic practices and copy (drawing from plaster casts, painting from photographs)
-the relationship between technology and pedagogical models
-changing concepts of authenticity
-uses of image archives

Submissions from all areas of art history as well as related disciplines are welcome. Email abstract and CV in the body of an email to Caroline Fowler and Amanda Bock at gradsymp at princeton.edu by November 30, 2008. Abstracts should not exceed 300 words and final papers should not exceed 20 minutes in length. Selected speakers will be notified by December 20, 2008.

Email: gradsymp at princeton.edu

CFP: Midwest Conference on Literature, Language, and Media (2 Jan; 20-21 Mar; Dekalb, Illinois))

The 17th annual Midwest Conference on Literature, Language, and Media (MCLLM) will be held March 20-21, 2009 at Northern Illinois University in DeKalb, Illinois.
MCLLM invites papers on all areas of literary, language, and media studies, especially proposals that interrogate identity and its representation through the prism of literature, language, or media in all their diverse contexts.

Deadline for submission: January 2, 2009.
Please include a cover page with your name, affiliation, mailing address, and e-mail address.
Accepted contributions will be notified via e-mail by January 19, 2009.
Please submit your 250 word (one page) abstract as an attachment to mcllm2009@gmail.com

Proposals are being solicited for fifteen minute papers from scholars at all career stages, from beginning graduate students to established and senior scholars.

Individual or panel proposals are welcome.

Contact Conference Co-Chairs: Alisa Smith-Riel, Ellen Stuart, and Paul Petrovic
Graduate Department of English
Northern Illinois University
Email: mcllm2009 at gmail com
Visit the website at http://www.engl.niu.edu/mcllm/

"REPRESENTING AFFECT / AFFECTING REPRESENTATION" -Second Annual Graduate Student Conference in Comparative Studies (10 Nov; 17-18 Jan; Columbus, Ohio)

Second Annual Graduate Student Conference in Comparative Studies
Hosted by the Department of Comparative Studies
(http://comparativestudies.osu.edu)
The Ohio State University Columbus, OH USA January 17-18, 2008


REPRESENTING AFFECT / AFFECTING REPRESENTATION


In Parables for the Virtual, Brian Massumi argues that “belief has waned
for many, but not affect. If anything, our condition is characterized by
a surfeit of it. The problem is that there is no cultural-theoretical
vocabulary specific to affect.” Indeed, in a time when so much
experience is mediated, encountered through representation, the
functioning of affect is especially complex, shaping our daily lives as
citizens, consumers, and subjects. Yet without a precise language, it
becomes difficult to account for the precise ways that this occurs.
Shielded from scrutiny, affect begins to seem apolitical and naturalized,
rather affixed to representations laden with ideological projects.


Accordingly, we are seeking graduate student papers on the interchanges
between affect and representation that engage this nexus from a variety
of (inter)disciplinary perspectives. We welcome projects that consider
the following topics or others, as they illuminate the relationships
between affect and representation:



• Biopolitics and governmentality
• History and historiography
• Nation, state, and nation-state
• Religion
• Art, film, and literature
• Popular culture
• Trauma
• The family
• Psychoanalysis
• Gender and sexuality
• Terror and terrorism
• Crises and disasters
• Performance
• Philosophy and ethics
• Environmentalism
• Technology
• Race
• Illness, medicine, and death
• Justice and the law
• Class and capital


Please send 250-word abstracts for individual 20-minute papers (or panels
of 3-4 presenters) to AffectAndRepresentation_at_hotmail.com. The deadline
for submissions is November 10th, 2007. Accepted applicants will be
notified by November 30th. In the body of the e-mail, please include the
following information:

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Presenter(s) name(s):
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@UIUC: Critical Theory Fall 2007 Seminar: "Affect Theory" (Monday Evenings)

The Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory is pleased to announced its fall 2007 criticism seminar on "Affect Theory." This non-credit seminar is open to all interested faculty and graduate students. Readings for each session will be available either through e-reserves (Unit 2007/Rothberg) or as hard copies through campus mail. If you are interested in being on the Unit's seminar mailing list and receiving announcements about the seminar, please respond to this message. If you are interested in receiving hard copies of the readings, please indicate that and include your campus address, including mail code.

Please feel free to forward this to any faculty or graduate students who you believe will be interested in taking part in any of our activities. I will be happy to answer any questions about the seminar.

Best wishes for the new semester,

Michael Rothberg


Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory Seminar, Fall 2007: Affect Theory

Rage. Fear. Shame. Disgust. Love. Anxiety. Depression. Joy.

Why affect, why now? Fredric Jameson has claimed that we live in a time of “waning affect,” yet a growing number of scholars working within and across various disciplines have challenged this view. Especially since 9/11 and the ensuing “war on terror,” affect has emerged as a key site of political mobilization and critical concern. Scholars such as Sianne Ngai in literary/cultural studies and Antonio Damasio in neuroscience are convinced that affect has anything but waned in our time and are now producing a formidable body of knowledge on a subject that was once considered too nebulous for serious study.

This Unit seminar approaches “affect theory” as an open and exciting interdisciplinary field—one that traverses both the humanities and the sciences. We will examine several questions related to affect theory and its rise. First and foremost, what is affect? How is it different from emotion, feeling, or passion? How does affect work across disciplines? Can we study affect historically? How are certain affects racialized or gendered? How do affects and affect-laden signs flow among bodies, human and non-human? How might one theorize a politics of terror and other affects? How do affects lend force to ideas and ideologies, to causes such as the anti-globalization movement or the recent surge of nationalist sentiment in the U.S. and other countries? Finally, what does affect bring to the study of theory and criticism? 

In conjunction with a Unit colloquium panel on “Affect Across the Disciplines” and a Unit-sponsored graduate student conference “Thinking Affect: Memory, Cognition, Language” (September 28-29), this seminar aims to create a space for dialogue among a wide range of disciplines, to address methodological concerns raised by affect theory, and to explore the political implications of affect.

Texts will be chosen from authors such as Sara Ahmed, Lauren Berlant, Teresa Brennan, Antonio Damasio, Lawrence Grossberg, Brian Massumi, Sianne Ngai, Phoebe Sengers, Eve Sedgwick, Ann Laura Stoler, and Sylvan Tomkins. Other texts will be added depending on the interests of the group.

For more information or to be included on the Affect Theory seminar mailing list, contact Michael Rothberg, Director of the Unit for Criticism (mpr@uiuc.edu).

Schedule

All meetings will take place on Monday evenings from 8:00 – 10:00 pm at the IPRH Building, 805 W. Pennsylvania, Urbana unless otherwise noted.

September 10: Introducing Affect Theory

Lawrence Grossberg, “Mapping Popular Culture,” We Gotta Get Out of This Place (69-87, 409-10)

Brian Massumi, “The Autonomy of Affect,” Parables for the Virtual (23-45, plus notes)

Sianne Ngai, “Introduction,” Ugly Feelings (pp. 1-37, 357-61)



Tuesday, September 18, 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm, Place TBA: Special Session with Lauren Berlant (University of Chicago)

Lauren Berlant, “Love, a Queer Feeling,” from Homosexuality and Psychoanalysis, ed. Tim Dean and Christopher Lane

Lauren Berlant, “Cruel Optimism,” from differences



September 24: Affect and Cognition

Kirsten Boehner, Rogério DePaula, Paul Dourish, and Phoebe Sengers, “Affect: From Information to Interaction,” Proc. 4th Decennial Conference on Critical Computing (2005), 59-68.

Antonio Damassio, “Introduction” & “Emotions and Feelings,” Descartes’ Error: Emotion, Reason, and the Human Brain (xi-xix, 127-64, 269-70, 282-5)

Otniel Dror, “Counting the Affects: Discoursing in Numbers,” Social Research 68.2 (2001): 357-78.


Recommended:

Teresa Brennan, “The New Paradigm,” The Transmission of Affect (74-96, 182-88)



September 28-29: Thinking Affect: Memory, Language, and Cognition (Graduate Student Conference)


October 15: Shame, Fear, and the Politics of Affect

Sarah Ahmed, selection from The Cultural Politics of Emotion

Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, selection from Touching Feeling

Sylvan Tomkins, selection TBA



November 12: Historicizing Affect

William Reddy, “Sentimentalism and Its Erasure: The Role of Emotions in the Era of the French Revolution,” Journal of Modern History 72:1 (March 2000): 109-52

Other readings TBA

Recommended:

Barbara H. Rosenwein, “Worrying about Emotions in History,” American Historical Review 107:3 (June 2002): 821-45.


December 3: Affect Across the Disciplines: A Panel Discussion

8:00 pm, Levis Faculty Center

Samantha Frost, Political Science and Gender and Women's Studies

Justine Murison, English

Gabriel Solis, Music

Yasemin Yildiz, German

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Michael Rothberg
Director, Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory
Associate Professor, Departments of English and Comparative Literature
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
208 English Building, MC-718
608 S. Wright St.
Urbana, IL 61801 USA
telephone: (217) 333-2581
fax: (217) 333-4321

CFP: Book Reviews--Postmodern Culture (e-journal; no deadline noted)

Note: There are a few Asia-related books on the list as well as books related to some interests of those in EALC. The CFP doesn't say but it's very possible that the journal will be able to send a review copy--write and ask. Assuming you're qualified to review a given title, book reviews can be a great way to get free books!


The online journal Postmodern Culture solicits reviews for the following books. We also welcome proposals for reviews on any aspect of postmodern culture and theory. Please send either reviews of 2000-3500 words or proposals for a review, along with a short professional bio, to: Ellen McCallum, Reviews Editor, PMC, email: emc@msu.edu. Word attachment files are best.


Anderson, Perry. Extra Time: World Politics Since 1989. Verso, December 2006.

Armstrong, Nancy How Novels Think. Columbia University Press, 2006.

Becker, Ron. Gay TV and Straight America. Rutgers University Press, 2006.

Birchall, Claire. Knowledge Goes Pop: From Conspiracy Theory to
Gossip. Berg, 2006.

Bloom, Lisa. Ghosts of Ethnicity: Jewish Identities in American
Feminist Art. Routledge Press, 2006.

Butler, Judith. Giving an Account of Oneself. Fordham UP 2005.

Camus, Albert and Levi Valensi, Jacqueline. Camus at "Combat".
Princeton University Press, 2006.

Cixous, Helen. Reveries of the Wild Woman. Northwester University Press, 2006.

Coles, Nicholas, and Zandy, Janet. Working-Class Literature of the
United States. Oxford University Press, 2006.

Collins, Alan. Cities of Pleasure: Sex and the Urban Socialscape.
Routledge Press, 2006.

Collins, Lisa Gail, and Crawford, Margo Natalie. New Thoughts on the
Black Arts Movement. Rutgers University Press, 2006.

Collins, Patricia Hill. From Black Power to Hip Hop. Temple
University Press, 2006.

Conboy, Martin. Tabloid Britain; Constructing a Community Through
Language. Routledge, 2006.

Derrida, Jacques. Sovereignties in Question. Fordham UP, 2005.

Easterling, Keller. Enduring Innocence: Global Architecture and its
Political Masquerades. MIT Press, 2005.

Funkhouser, C.T. Prehistoric Digital Poetry: An Archaeology of Forms
1059-1995. U Alabama P, 2006.

Gass, William H. A Temple of Texts. Alfred A Knopf: Random House Press, 2006.

Geis, Deborah, ed. Considering Maus: Approaches to Art Spiegelman's
"Survivor's Tale" of the Holocaust. U Alabama P, 2006.

Gillespie, Joanie Farley and Jayne Gackenach, eds. Cyber Rules: What
you Really Need to Know about the Internet: the Essential Guide for
Clinicians, Educators, and Parents. WW Norton, 2007.

Gordon, W. Terrance. Marshall McLuhan. Gingko Press, 2006.

Gray, Jonathan. Watching with the Simpsons. Routledge Press, 2006.

Hawkesworth, Mary E. Feminist Inquiry. Rutgers University Press, 2006.

Horsfield, Kate, and Hilderbrand, Lucas. Feedback. Temple University
Press, 2006

Jantzen, Grace M. Forever Fluid : A Reading of Luce Irigaray's
Elemental Passions. Manchester University Press, 2006.

Katrak, Ketu H. Politics of the Female Body. Rutgers University Press, 2006.

Kristeva, Julie. Murder in Byzantium. Columbia University Press, 2006.

Kritzman, Lawrence D. The Columbia History of Twentieth Century
French Thought. Columbia University Press, 2006.

Lim, Shirley Geok-Lin, Gamber, John Blair, and Sohn, Stephen Hong.
Transnational Asian American Literature. Temple University Press,
2006.

MacDonald, Scott. Art in Cinema. Temple University Press, 2006.

Maingard, Jacqueline. South African National Cinema. Routledge Press, 2006.

Marchetti, Gina. From Tian'anmen to Times Square. Temple University
Press, 2006.

McGann, Jerome. The Point is to Change it: Poetry and Criticism in
the Continuing Present. U Alabama P, 2006.

Morton, Timothy. Ecology without Nature: Rethinking Environmental
Aesthetics. Harvard UP, 2007.

Nancy, Jean-Luc. The Ground of the Image. Fordham UP 2005.

Nunes, Mark. Cyberspaces of Everyday Life. U Minnesota P, 2006.

Pettman, Dominic. Love and Other Technologies: Retrofitting Eros for
the Information Age. Fordham UP, 2006.

Petrescu, Doina. Altering Feminine Practices. Routledge, 2006.

Robinson, Hilary. Reading Art, Reading Irigaray. I. B. Tauris Press, 2006.

Roeper, Richard. Schlock Value. Hyperion Press, February 2006.

Said, Edward W. On Late Style. Pantheon Press, 2006.

Sleigh, Tom. Interview with a Ghost. Graywolf Press, 2006.

Spivak, Gaytri Chakravorty. Other Asias. Blackwell Publishers Press, 2006.

Stam, Robert. Francois Truffaut and Friends. Rutgers University Press, 2006.

Stewart, Charles, ed. Creolization: History, Ethnography, Theory.
Left Coast Press, 2007.

Sussman, Henry. The Task of the Critic: Poetics, Philosophy,
Religion. Fordham UP, 2006.

Tabbi, Joseph and Rone Shavers, eds. Paper Empire: William Gaddis
and the World System. U Alabama P, 2006.

VanBuskirk, Jim, and Shank, Will. Celluloid San Francisco. Chicago
Review Press, 2006.

Weber, Samuel. Targets of Opportunity. Fordham UP, 2005.

White, Edmund. My Lives. Ecco Press, 2006.

Wright, Melissa. Disposable Women and Other Myths of Global
Capitalism. Routledge, 2006.

Wyschogrod, Edith. Crossover Queries: Dwelling with Negatives,
Embodying Philosophy's Others. Fordham UP, 2006.

Xie, Yu, and Shauman, Kimberlee A. Women in Science. Harvard
University Press, 2006.

CFP: (Un)Making Queer Worlds: Transformations in Asia-Pacific Queer Cultures (Melbourne; 27 Apr; 22-23 June)

(a little far but....)

(Un)Making Queer Worlds: Transformations in Asia-Pacific Queer Cultures
Roundtable Workshop for Postgraduate and Early Career Researchers

June 22-23, 2007
Graduate Centre, University of Melbourne
Parkville, Victoria, Australia

Call for Papers
Proposal deadline: April 27 2007
Since 2000, intellectual interest in Asia-Pacific queer cultures has surged. This surge responds partly to the new visibility of non-normative sexual and gendered subjectivities in the Asia-Pacific and its multiple diasporas. Along with the new thinking around Asian/Pacific sexualities and genders come various contestations: in particular, the fine distinction between understanding A/P sexual cultures as part of an emerging ‘queer globality’, and the tendency to subsume them under a developmental model that places the ‘West’ as the vanguard of, or bad example for, the ‘rest’. Collaborations between queer studies, post-colonial studies, and post-structuralist critiques have shed light on the contemporaneity and historicity of each local queer culture in the Asia-Pacific. But although such effort to carefully describe geographical or local queer particularities is invaluable, locality does not subsist in an insular manner, but is always relational. ‘Glocal’ queer theory marries the specificity of locality with the context of globality. Additionally, the economic processes of globalisation have been accompanied by—indeed, in some cases actively promoted—mass migration, warm body exports and brain drains, particularly from the Asia-Pacific regions, that have temporarily and permanently dislocated individuals and families from their homelands. In such instances the ability to locate ‘local sexualities’ is brought to the fore just as it proposes new difficulties for the analysis of sexuality along national, regional lines, particularly in Australia. And if sexualities and genders are ‘glocal’, then so is capital. Understanding the nexus between glocal capital and sexual subjectivities through their localised and diasporic trajectories is, at bottom, about the political stakes of queer survival in a neoliberal world.

(Un)Making Queer Worlds tackles these important questions directly by bringing together scholars for a two-day roundtable workshop at the University of Melbourne, Australia. The workshop is particularly interested in proposals from postgraduates and Early Career Researchers (ECRs).

What we’re looking for:
We seek participants investigating how various Asia-Pacific constituents are (un)making trajectories of queer world and globality. We encourage papers that employ interdisciplinary approaches. (Un)making Queer Worlds We hope that (Un)making Queer Worlds will contribute to the ongoing elucidation of constantly evolving Asia-Pacific queer cultures and their global articulations.

Format:
Featured participants will be asked to circulate their papers a week in advance of the workshop. Participants will be allocated a one-hour session to present a paper (20-30 minutes) and engage in discussion.

Important dates:
Proposals due: 27 April 2007
Speakers confirmed: Monday May 7
Deadline for papers to be submitted: Monday Jun 4
Papers circulated: Monday June 11
Workshop: Sat/Sun June 22-23

For more info, to register or to submit a paper proposal, email unmaking-worlds@unimelb.edu.au
(Un)Making Queer Worlds is a project within the Cultural Studies Program, School of Culture and Communication, University of Melbourne.