CFP: Midwest Conference on Asian Affairs: Call for Papers (11 June; 1-3 Oct; Columbus, Ohio)

The East Asian Studies Center at The Ohio State University is pleased to host the 59th Midwest Conference on Asian Affairs (MCAA) from October 1-3, 2010 at the new Ohio Union in Columbus, Ohio. A regional conference of the Association of Asian Studies (AAS), MCAA has provided a forum for scholars and teachers of Asian Studies in the Midwest to gather and exchange knowledge about the history and cultures of Asia for over a half-century. The conference will feature panels and roundtables at which faculty and graduate and undergraduate students present and discuss new research and pedagogical tools.

Proposals for panels and individual papers from all academic disciplines on any topic involving Asia are currently being accepted. Submission of panels and individual papers that address the full range of literary production and consumption in print, performance, film, and digital media across the span of Asian history are especially encouraged. Panels and individual papers that cross boundaries, be it in regional, temporal, linguistic, disciplinary or other terms, are also particularly welcome.

The final deadline for submission is Friday, June 11, 2010. All proposals must be submitted electronically through the conference website at http://easc.osu.edu/mcaa. Presenters must be members of MCAA and must have pre-registered by Friday, September 3, 2010 to attend and present. The membership fee will be collected as part of the registration fee for the conference. Registration instructions are forthcoming.

For academic questions, please contact Dr. Patricia Sieber, 2010 MCAA Program Chair, at sieber.6 at osu dot edu. For general questions, please contact Amy Carey, 2010 MCAA Conference Coordinator, at carey.189 at osu dot edu.


East Asian Studies Center
The Ohio State University
314 Oxley Hall, 1712 Neil Ave.
Columbus, OH 43210
(614) 688-4253
Visit the website at http://easc.osu.edu/mcaa

CFP: Sex and Love in Asian Contexts: Film & History Conference (Milwaukee; 1 Mar; 10-14 Nov)

This is drivable!

Sex and Love in Asian Contexts: Film & History Conference: Representations
of Love in Film and Television

November 10-14, 2010

Hyatt Regency Milwaukee

www.uwosh.edu/filmandhistory

Extended Deadline: March 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)

* stinctively indigenous traditions (Bollywood, Japanese studios, etc.)

* new developments in contemporary pan-Asian cinema

* nsw 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).

CFP: Transnational Asia Graduate Student Conference (10 Dec; 5 Feb; Rice U, Houston, TX)

Transnational Asia Graduate Student Conference
Friday, February 5, 2010, 8:30 a.m. - 5:30 p.m.
Sponsor: Chao Center for Asian Studies, Rice University
Keynote: William Mazzarella, University of Chicago Dept of Anthropology

Phenomena that accompany the movement of individuals, ideas, and goods across the boundaries of nation-states are often glossed as "transnational." Individuals in Asia are evermore bound to each other and to the rest of the world. This increase in transnational encounters has both tested and strengthened national boundaries. We are interested in how intra- and inter- regional, transnational flows impact Asian societies and their interlocutors. While telecommunications technology and convenient air travel facilitate the forging of trade, educational, and cultural links, they may also presage the development of new conflicts and frictions. Our Transnational Asia Conference seeks a cross-disciplinary approach for exploring the processes and effects of "transnationalism" within contemporary and historical periods. We also aim to interrogate the very usefulness of the concept itself.

We are seeking paper proposals for the following panels. Abstracts of no more than 250 words may be sent to transnationalasia at gmail dot com by Thursday, December 10, 2009. Please indicate which panel you are submitting to in the body of your e-mail.

CFP: EAS Grad Student Conference on "Desire" (21 Dec; Mar 13; U of Toronto)

How might the understanding of “East Asia” – be it in terms of a geographical, historical, and cultural locus or as a space of fantasy and the imaginary – be illuminated by accounting for the ways in which desires are produced, structured, regulated, and mobilized through various institutions and discursive formations? Whether understood as lack or a productive force or a form of affective labor, desire is a concept that intersects with and imbricates a range of complex issues operating on the level of the libidinal as well as the material economy. Nationalism and imperialism, genders and sexualities, aesthetics and consumer culture, and the politics of alterity are but a few, yet are all significant to the study of East Asia.

The East Asian Studies Graduate Student Conference at the University of Toronto invites paper submissions for its 10th annual conference titled DESIRE, to be held on March 13, 2010. We seek papers that can critically interrogate the operations of desire, articulating how they are embedded in different modes of social organization at historically specific moments and bringing them into relation with larger issues of how East Asia is situated in the world. Submissions from graduate students around the world in all disciplines within and beyond the field of East Asian Studies, including history, sociology, anthropology, economy, art, literature, cultural studies, philosophy, and others are welcome.

Possible topics for papers include (but are not limited to):
– theories of desire and their complications in the East Asian context;
– literary and cultural representations and mediations of desire;
– the mobilization of desires and affects through cinema and other visual spectacles;
– intersections of nationalism and the construction of national identities with the constitution, regulation, and circumscription of desire;
– the interplay of capitalism, commodity culture, and desiring production in East Asia;
– gender, sexuality, and the regimes through which desire is disciplined;
– the construction of East Asia as a space of fantasy, and its consequent structuring as object of desire.

We invite all those interested in presenting papers to submit an abstract (300 words maximum) along with brief biographical information by December 21, 2009. Submissions from both individuals and panels of three (panelists should send individual abstracts and a panel abstract) are encouraged. Submitted papers are also eligible for consideration for the East Asia Forum, a journal edited and published by graduate students in the Department of East Asian Studies at the University of Toronto. Please indicate whether you wish to have your completed paper considered for publication.

Selected participants will be asked to submit completed papers by February 15, 2010. Those who wish their papers to be considered for publication should submit a publication-ready copy (about 4000 words). During the conference, participants will be given 20 minutes to present their work; actual presentation papers should be about 1500-2500 words long.

Please e-mail submissions and queries to easgsc2010 at gmail dot com. Further information as it becomes available will be posted on the conference website at http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/easgsc/

CFP: Southeast Conference Association for Asian Studies (31 Oct; 15-17 Jan; Louisville, KY)

I don't normally post/send out regional AAS announcements, but since Louisville is very drivable from here....

The Southeast Conference Association for Asian Studies
49th Annual Meeting

University of Louisville
Louisville, KY
January 15-17, 2010


The University of Louisville is host of the 49th annual meeting of the
Southeast Conference of the Association for Asian Studies (SEC/AAS), to
be held January 15-17, 2010 at the University of Louisville in
Louisville, KY. The committee is especially interested in panels and
papers that engage the topic of "Democratization in Asia." Proposals
for panels on specific topics are expressly solicited; panels devoted to
teaching Asian subjects at the secondary or college level are also
requested. Individual paper proposals are also welcome. Only one paper
per participant will be accepted. Annual SEC/AAS dues for 2009-2010 are
required for submissions to be considered

Dues are $20; student dues are $10.
Dues checks made payable to SEC/AAS should be sent to
Charlotte Beahan, Department of History, 6-B Faculty Hall, Murray State
University, Murray, KY 42071-3341, using the membership form
(http://www.uky.edu/Centers/Asia/SECAAS/member_application.html).

Note that dues do not cover the cost of conference registration. We urge
you to submit proposals by e-mail or post; and full required paper/panel
submission information is listed below. Proposals should be submitted
by October 31, 2009 to the Program Chair, Dr. Yawei Liu. (Please put
SEC/AAS proposal and your name on the subject line of emails), SEC/AAS
regrets that it is unable to provide financial assistance to scholars
from abroad.

(Attention graduate students!): SEC/AAS will make available three
grants of $200). each to ease the cost of participation by graduate
students presenting papers at the conference. Indicate graduate student
status and whether you would like to be considered for an award along
with your personal information (from the text box, below) when
submitting your proposal to the program chair. Preference in the awards
will be given to graduate students traveling from beyond the immediate
region of the conference location. Graduate students should also
consider entering their papers in the SEC graduate prize competition;
the winner has a chance of appearing on a panel at the 2010 AAS
national meeting (information enclosed).

I. INDIVIDUAL PAPER proposals should also include the following:
Personal information (from text box), title of paper, region and
discipline of the paper, a 200- to 250-word abstract or summary of the
paper, and any audiovisual (AV) or other equipment required for the
presentation of the paper. (Please note that equipment requests may only
be acted upon if submitted along with the paper proposal. Satisfying
equipment needs at the last minute may not be possible).

II. PANEL/ROUNDTABLE proposals should also include the following:
Name of panel organizer or chair (and personal information, in text
box); panel title, summary of panel, including discipline and region;
names of panel presenters (along required personal information, from
text box); for each paper: paper titles and 200- to 250-word abstracts
or summaries; name of discussant or chair (along with personal
information); a statement as to whether each panelist/discussant/chair
has agreed to participate; AV or other equipment required for
presentations. (Note that equipment requests may only be acted upon if
submitted along with proposals. Satisfying equipment needs at the last
minute may not be possible).

III. DISCUSSANT/CHAIR: Those interested in volunteering to serve as a
discussant or a chair for panels put together from individual papers
should include their area(s) of expertise.

IV. OUTREACH SESSION: Those interested in offering a Teaching Methods
& Materials Outreach Session should include personal information for
each presenter (as above) and indicate the topic, target audience, time
requirements, and AV needs.

All paper/panel submissions should include the following information
for all presenters, chairs, and discussants:

* Name of the presenter
* Position/title/affiliation
* Regional and discipline specializations
* E-mail and mailing address
* Home and office phone & fax numbers
* Also, graduate students who wish to be considered for the
SEC/AAS travel grants (above) should so indicate.


Completed proposals should be sent to:
Dr. Yawei Liu, Director, China Program
The Carter Center, One Copenhill
Atlanta, GA 30307
chanellliu at gmail dot com
Tel: 404-420-5161


Local information requests to:
Shiping Hua, Director
Center for Asian Democracy
University of Louisville
Louisville, KY 40292
(502) 852-3305
shiping.hua at louisville dot edu
http://www.louisville.edu/asiandemocracy

@UIUC: Patrick Drazen talk: "Gay, Kind-of Gay and Pseudo-Gay in Anime and Manga: What's the Point?" (22 Oct, 4-5:30pm; Noyes Lab 163)

"Gay, Kind-of Gay and Pseudo-Gay in Anime and Manga: What's the Point?"

a public lecture by Patrick Drazen

Thursday, 22 October 2009
4:00-5:30
Noyes Lab 163

From the cross-dressing of Osamu Tezuka's Princess Sapphire in Princess Knight (Ribon no kishi, orig. 1953-56) and Ryoko Ikeda's Oscar de Jarjayes in The Rose of Versailles (Berusaiyu no bara, 1972-73) to the fake twincest of the Ouran High School Host Club (Ouran Koukou hosuto-bu, 2003-), Japanese pop culture has not been shy about playing a variety of sexual games with its consumers. However, given the essential conservatism of pop culture's message despite cutting edge story-telling techniques, there is far more teasing going on than actual same-sex romance. In this presentation, using clips from various anime, Drazen will show that the point of most works is to nudge the consumer toward the conventional rather than away from it.



Patrick Drazen is the author of the Anime Explosion: The What? Why? and Wow! of Japanese Animation (2003). He has given presentations at the Cherry Blossom Festival Anime Marathon at the Freer Gallery of the Smithsonian Institution (2006), Schoolgirls and Mobilesuits (2004), Yaoi-Con (2002), and, for the past several years, Anime Central in his hometown of Chicago. He also participated in a panel discussion with Gundam creator Yoshiyuki Tomino as part of the Chicago International Film Festival (2006). Drazen has written on anime and manga for the magazines Animation, SFX, and Time Out New York, and sits on the editorial board of and has contributed to the manga and anime studies journal Mechademia. He is currently working on his second book.

This talk is sponsored by the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, the Center for East Asian and Pacific Studies, the School for Literatures, Cultures, and Linguistics, the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Resource Center, the Department of Comparative and World Literatures, and the Gender and Women's Studies Program.

CFP: Modern Art Asia (grad e-journal; initial issue deadline 7 Sept)

From: Majella Munro, Editor (modernartasiaenquiries at yahoo dot co dot uk)

Modern Art Asia is a new journal dedicated to the arts of Asia from the eighteenth century to today, presenting postgraduate research from historical perspectives and international news on Asian art. Combining peer-reviewed articles with insightful commentary and the latest exhibiton reviews from international correspondents, Modern Art Asia provides a new forum for exchange between scholars that crosses the boundaries of traditional academic disciplines, and engages with a general readership through the addition of journalistic writing on art.

Modern Art Asia invites postgraduates working on the arts and material cultures of Asia from the eighteenth century to the present to submit previously unpublished papers of 4,500-10,000 words for publication. Modern Art Asia aims to take an interdisciplinary and innovative approach to the study of Asia, and will consider papers on media and experiments that stretch the parameters of "fine art". Our first issue will be published online during the last week of October, to coincide with Asian Art in London and Frieze; the submission deadline for this issue is September 7th. We are also seeking students and journalists interested in becoming regular correspondents or in submitting shorter journalistic pieces.

Word limits: Academic papers: 4,500-10,000 / Correspondence and opinion pieces: 500-1,000 words /
Exhibition, book, performance reviews: 500-800 words

Students submitting academic papers who wish to include image reproductions are responsible for obtaining these and necessary copyright permissions. Authors of successful submissions will be notified 4 -5 weeks ahead of publication. Copyright remains with the author and authors may re-publish papers with acknowledgement of Modern Art Asia as the original site of publication. Please include an abstract (250 words) with your submission.

Contact modernartasiaenquiries at yahoo dot co dot uk to submit articles and for further information.

Modern Art Asia
modernartasia.com
modernartasiaenquiries at yahoo dot co dot uk

CFP: The Tung Lin Kok Yuen Conference: Buddhism and Diaspora (30 Oct; 14-16 May; U Toronto, Scarborough)

The Department of Humanities, University of Toronto Scarborough, is pleased to present

A Call for Papers

The Tung Lin Kok Yuen Conference: Buddhism and Diaspora

Friday May 14- Sunday May 16, 2010
University of Toronto Scarborough

For more information, please visit our website:
http://www.utsc.utoronto.ca/~humdiv/TLKY/event3

Keynote Address, Friday May 14th: Professor Victor Hori (McGill
University)

This international and interdisciplinary conference will examine
the role religion, and specifically Buddhism, plays within
diasporic communities. Communities like Chinese Buddhists,
Tibetans, Newars, Sinhalese, and many others have brought with
them, translated, or alternately reformulated specific types of
Buddhism as crucial pieces in the ongoing negotiation of their
cultural and social identities. In this context, the conference
inquires whether there have been or are currently specific ways
that Buddhism has answered the challenges, problems, and
expectations that accompany displacement and relocation.

This conference will question the role diaspora has had in the
history and self-perception of Buddhism through the ages, both
within Asia and during its more modern spread to other parts of
the world. This can prompt us to examine how Buddhism has figured
in developing and changing notions related to authenticity,
tradition, ethnicity, belonging, nation, and landscape, in the
light of displacement, exile, violence, travel, and integration.
By thematizing diaspora as a situation in which both Buddhism's
local articulations as well as its trans-local content are
confronted, questioned and reformulated, this conference is an
opportunity to bridge current methodological and thematic
dichotomies between current ethnographic and text-oriented
approaches in the study of Buddhism and Buddhist societies. These
questions will help address larger issues of how Buddhist texts
and Buddhist practitioners conceptualize and participate in the
formation of lived diaspora in both modern and historic settings.

The conference will encourage speakers to probe into the
following questions:

- How may a Buddhist heritage account for a certain kind of
diasporic experience?
- Which strategies do Buddhist agents, practice and doctrine
offer to mediate between the locality of the community's
provenance and that of its host country? Between the diasporic
communities and other religious communities? Between the
political and economic conditions of their displacement?
- What role does Buddhism play in the creation of such
conditions?
- What kind of new forms of religiosity emerge from such transfer
and reconfiguration?

This conference will address such questions through multiple
formats for scholarly inquiry, namely organized panels with
discussants, roundtables, keynotes lectures, and public events.

The program committee welcomes proposals for papers from
academics, professionals, graduate students and others. Proposals
that include a max 300 word abstract of the paper and a short
academic CV should be made online through our submissions site
at: http://link.library.utoronto.ca/buddhiststudies/conference/

At this website applicants can cut and paste both abstract and CV
into our web form.
The deadline for submissions is October 30, 2009. Participants
will be notified by December 1st if their submission has been
successful.

This conference is sponsored generously by an endowment for the
advancement of Buddhist studies, made possible by a gift from the
Tung Lin Kok Yuen Foundation (Hong Kong) to the University of
Toronto Scarborough. Questions about this event or any other
aspect of the Tung Lin Kok Yuen Conference Series in Buddhist
Studies may be addressed to Sarah Richardson at:
tlkyconf at utsc dot utoronto dot ca

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: IAHA (International Conference of Historians of Asia) (30 Sept; 22-25 June; Singapore)

Call for papers: 21st Conference of the International Association of Historians of Asia (IAHA) 22-25 June 2010.
DEADLINE 30 Sept. 2009

A warm invitation is extended to all historians and scholars of Asia to come to the dynamic city of Singapore in late June 2010 to attend IAHA 2010. At this conference the Steering Committee will seek to showcase the latest scholarly research and developments that have taken place on a wide range of Asian topics in both the humanities and social sciences. IAHA 2010, generously supported by the Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, the Department of History, the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences and the Asia Research Institute at the National University of Singapore will delve into the past and look into the future. It will provide scholars with the opportunity of evaluating and discussing the emerging themes related to the continent with a large body of delegates from around the world. We would like you to be involved too, so please come and join us!

Our Programme Committee has already identified a number of themes which we would like delegates to explore in their papers and panels (see below), but we are open to other suggestions as well:

Asia's Political/Economic History

Agriculture; Ancient History; Archeological Perspectives; Asian Diasporas; Border & Boundaries; Maritime History; Nation-Building; Trade/Trade Networks; Societies on the Margins

Asian Cultural History

Asian Identities in the Past; Crime and Criminal Activities; Film & Music; Food; Gender; Literature & Art; Popular Culture; Religion/Missionary Activities; Sport

Current Issues & the Past in Asia

Financial Crises; History of the Asian Press; Human Rights; Labour & Labour Movements; Law of the Sea; Piracy; Protest Movements; Terrorism & History

Historiography/Heritage
Archives & the Maintenance of Documents; Asian Historiography; Asia in Museums/Museums in Asia; Educational History; Memory & Heritage; The Idea of Asia

History of Science
Biosciences & Modern Asia; Environmental History; Medicine & Public Health (Biomedicine, Forms of Traditional Practice, Western Medicine); Technology (Traditional to Colonial & Post-Colonial)

Military History
All forms of military involvement in Asia stretching from the distant past to the present will be considered

Proposals for individual papers, panels and colloquia, along with titles and short abstracts, are strongly encouraged from all interested parties and should be sent to the Chair of the Programme Committee to arrive no later than 30 September 2009.

An early bird registration fee of S$300 is offered to all delegates if they make payment by 28 February 2010. Thereafter, the registration fee will be S$350.*

Tentative Programme:

Tuesday, 22 June 2010

6 pm
Opening Event
Address by University Professor Wang Gungwu
National University of Singapore

8 pm
Dinner for all participants

Wednesday, 23 June 2010, 9am till Friday 25 June 2010, 5pm

Paper Presentations and Panel Discussions

Friday, 25 June 2010

5 pm
IAHA Business Meeting


Venue:
River View Hotel
382 Havelock Road
Singapore 169629

Tel: +65-6732 9922
Fax: +65-6732 1034
Website: www.riverview.com.sg

Accommodations:

Delegates will arrange their own accommodations. A listing of accommodations in Singapore can be found on this site:

http://www.visitsingapore.com/publish/stbportal/en/home/where_to_stay/accommodation_in_singapore.html

IAHA 2010 promises to be a vibrant gathering in a safe but vivid environment. This is a conference that shouldn't be missed. Do, please, think about coming here. We would love to have you with us.

Best wishes

The Steering Committee of IAHA 2010

* Conference package will include Opening Event Dinner, 3 lunches, 6 tea/coffee breaks and a conference bag.



Jointly Organized By:
Department of History | Journal of Southeast Asian Studies
Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore

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).

CFP: 4th Joint East Asian Studies Conf (Sheffield, UK; 30 Mar; 8-10 Sept)

You are warmly invited to attend the upcoming 4th Joint East Asian Studies
Conference (JEASC), to be held at the University of Sheffield, UK, 8-10
September 2009.

The JEASC is a triennial meeting held by the three academic associations
representing East Asian Studies in the UK (The British Associations for
Chinese, Japanese, and Korean Studies – BACS, BAJS, and BAKS). We encourage
applications for individual papers, panels of up to four papers, or posters on
any aspect of China, Japan or Korea, as well as on cross-regional topics.
Scholars and graduate students from any country are welcome. There is no
overall theme for the conference, but the Plenary Session will be made up of
speakers from China, Japan and Korea who will speak on the topic of 'Hope in
Hard Times'.

Please go to the following page on the BAJS website for more details and a
conference application form. For the sake of convenience and efficiency those
interested in Chinese and Korean studies should also apply through the BAJS
pages. Deadline for receipt of applications is 30 March 2009.

http://www.bajs.org.uk/news.htm

Please feel free to forward this mail on to your colleagues, staff members,
graduate students, and anyone else who you think may be interested.

Further information below

The conference will take place at Sheffield University’s Halifax Hall and The
Edge. Halifax Hall is a converted Victorian Mansion which was refurbished to
international conference standards in 2008, while The Edge is a new development
offering state of the art conferencing.
http://www.shef.ac.uk/conferences/facilities/residential

Sheffield is a pleasant, friendly and fun medium-sized city located in the
centre of Britain, on the edge of the Peak District; which is the UK’s first
and most visited National Park. There are 530,000 people – 10 per cent of whom
are university students – and more than 2 million trees in the city. Sheffield
is easily accessible by train from London St. Pancras Station, from where the
Eurostar departs for Paris and the European continent. The nearest and most
convenient airport is Manchester. There are regular train services directly to
Sheffield from Manchester Airport.

Sheffield: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheffield
Peak District: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peak_district
Getting there: http://www.shef.ac.uk/visitors/mapsandtravel

The University of Sheffield’s School of East Asian Studies is one of Europe’s
leading centres for the study of East Asia. In 2006 SEAS collaborated with
Leeds University’s Department of East Asian Studies to create the White Rose
East Asia Centre (WREAC) to produce world class research and advanced research
training on East Asia.

University of Sheffield: http://www.sheffield.ac.uk/
SEAS: http://www.sheffield.ac.uk/seas/
WREAC: http://www.wreac.org/

Looking forward to seeing you there.

Peter Matanle
JEASC On-Site Liaison

--
Dr. Peter Matanle
National Institute of Japanese Studies and
School of East Asian Studies,
University of Sheffield,
Western Bank, Sheffield, S10 2TN, UK.
Tel (Direct Line): +44 (0)114 222 8407
Website: http://www.shef.ac.uk/seas/

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: Education About Asia (various topics) (journal; various deadlines)

EALC students have frequently published in EAA. It's a great place to get your feet wet.

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New Education About Asia Planned Special Sections: Winter 2009-Winter
2010, Asia in World History; Business, Economics, and Asia; Asian Religions;
Environmental Challenges and Asia

Education About Asia (EAA) is the peer-reviewed teaching journal of the
Association for Asian Studies. Our readers include secondary school
teachers and undergraduate instructors, and our articles are intended to
provide educators, who are often not specialists, with basic
understanding of Asia-related content. Qualified referees evaluate all
feature manuscripts submitted for consideration.

The following four special sections are being developed for 2009 and 2010:


Fall 2009-We are in the process of developing a special section in the fall 2009
issue entitled "Asian Intercultural Contacts: Diasporas and Minorities."
In this special section, it is hoped that articles will be published
where authors develop manuscripts that describe the historical and
contemporary experiences of Asian ethnic and minority groups as they
have encountered new cultures in both Asia and other parts of the world.
Although the primary focus of the special section will be on the
experience of Asians, we also will consider manuscripts where authors
focus upon the experience of non-Asians in Asian cultures. Prospective
authors should be aware that approximately sixty to sixty-five percent
of our readers are secondary or middle school teachers and the rest
teach at the undergraduate level.


Winter 2009-Asia in World History: The Twentieth Century. In this
concluding special section of the series based upon National Standards
for World History, we seek manuscripts that encompass a wide range of
topics including economic, maritime, military, political, and social
history. We also invite authors to submit manuscripts about important
individuals who influenced twentieth century Asian and World History.
The deadline for initial submission of manuscripts is August 10, 2009.


Spring 2010-Business, Economics, and Asia. In this special section, we
invite authors to address economics, economic history, and
business-related topics such as entrepreneurship in Asia, the benefits
and costs of the East Asian economic "miracles," international trade and
Asia, and Asian values and capitalism. The deadline for initial
submission of manuscripts is December 10, 2009.


Fall 2010-Asian Religions. We invite authors to submit manuscripts that
address topics such as the historical and contemporary roles of
religions in Asian cultures, everyday religious practices in Asia,
comparative religions, and teaching about Asian religions in world
history and literature survey courses. May 10, 2010 is the deadline for
initial receipt of manuscripts.


Winter 2010-Environmental Challenges and Asia. We invite authors to
submit manuscripts that address topics such as the potential conflicts
between economic growth and the environment in Asia, the environmental
movement in Asian countries, natural resources and their utilization and
conservation, and environmental problems that affect particular Asian
countries. The deadline for initial submission of manuscripts is August
10, 2010.


We are most interested in manuscripts that are useful for survey-level
courses. Prospective authors are encouraged to share possible manuscript
ideas with me via email before developing a submission. Interested
authors are strongly encouraged to consult the EAA guidelines and
examine sample articles available on the Web site under my signature,
before submitting manuscripts.


Cordially,

Lucien Ellington
Editor, Education About Asia
302 Pfeiffer Stagmaier Hall
University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
Chattanooga, TN 37403
Phone (423)425-2118, Fax (423)425-5441
email: l-ellington at comcast.net
Web Site: http://www.aasianst.org/

CFP: East by Southeast: Multiple Perspectives on Asia (SEAA) (28 Feb; 2-5 July; Taipei)

A little far but I know some of you/us maybe in Taipei next summer anyway.
Why not increase your chance of getting a little money to cover your costs?

SEAA Taipei 2009
Conference of the Society for East Asian Anthropology,
American Anthropological Association

East by Southeast: Multiple Perspectives on Asia

2-5 July 2009

You are invited to participate in "East by Southeast: Multiple
Perspectives on Asia," a conference of the Society for East Asian
Anthropology of the American Anthropological Association, which will be
held in Taipei, Taiwan, on 2-5 July 2009. We encourage submissions of
both organized sessions and individual papers on issues of interest and
passion in the anthropology of East and Southeast Asian societies. We
particularly welcome panels that bring together comparative studies of a
common topic from different parts of the region.

Peoples in East and Southeast Asia have historically enjoyed intricate
relationships. The unprecedented rate and spread of globalization since
the late 20th century onward have occasioned new modes of economic
integration with attendant flows of people, commodities, and popular
culture that knit the region in new and complex ways. At the same time,
people in different parts of the region face similar challenges with
respect to new class formations and lifestyles, new ways of performing
gender, contestations between local and national identities, and
expanding horizons of consumption. The region is also a site of post- and
neo-colonial tensions. This meeting provides a unique opportunity for
East and Southeast Asian anthropologists and anthropologists of East and
Southeast Asia to learn about current research in their areas (both
geographic and theoretical) and to create links with researchers in other
countries. The conference will include a diverse and multicultural
community of anthropologists, both students and established scholars, and
academic and applied anthropologists.

This conference, which will be conducted in English, is jointly sponsored
by the Society for East Asian Anthropology, the Taiwan Association for
Anthropology and Ethnology, the Graduate Institute of Anthropology at
National Tsing Hua University, the College of Hakka Studies at National
Chiao Tung University, and the Institute of Ethnology at Academia Sinica.

Deadline for submission of panel and paper abstracts: 28 February 2009

Deadline for conference registration and housing application: 30 April 2009

Please check the SEAA Website URL:
http://www.aaanet.org/sections/seaa/index.html
for the SEAA 2009 Taipei Conference update. If you have any questions,
you can also contact Anru Lee, the chair of the program committee at:
alee at jjay.cuny.edu.


Anru Lee, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Anthropology
John Jay College of Criminal Justice
CUNY
899 10th Avenue
New York, NY 10019
(TEL) (212) 237-8571

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: "Bridges and Borders in East Asia" Harvard Grad Conf (30 Nov; 27 Feb-1 Mar; Cambridge, Mass.)

12th Annual Harvard East Asia Society Graduate Student Conference
Bridges and Borders in East Asia

Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA
February 27 - March 1, 2009


The Harvard East Asia Society (HEAS) Graduate Student Conference invites
graduate students from around the world, conducting research in all
disciplines, to submit abstracts for our 2009 conference:

Bridges and Borders in East Asia

The East Asian landscape is dominated by barriers that separate culture from
culture and state from state, from the Korean Demilitarized Zone to the
Great Wall to the Taiwan Strait. But borders are permeable and mutable,
constantly shifting in position and meaning; frontiers connect the same
spaces that they partition. The 2009 Harvard East Asian Society Conference
Committee welcomes submissions addressing this theme of borders and
border-crossings. We are looking for any work that bridges divides between
people, spaces, eras, ideas, cultures or disciplines. Often, the first
bridges to be built are the first to be burned. Walls are enduring symbols
of stasis; they are nonetheless sites of exchange. We look forward to
exploring these paradoxes of social, cultural, physical and intellectual
space.

The HEAS Graduate Student Conference is an annual conference which aims to
provide an interdisciplinary forum for graduate students to exchange ideas
and discuss current research on East Asia. The conference is an opportunity
for young scholars to present their research to both their peers and eminent
scholars in East Asian Studies. All panels will be moderated by Harvard
University faculty.

We welcome submissions from graduate students in all disciplines. Papers
should be related to this year's theme and to East Asia, Inner Asia,
Singapore, or Vietnam. We will consider submissions of individual papers and
panel proposals.


Eligibility and Application Guidelines:
1. Applicants must be currently enrolled in a program of graduate study ("postgraduate" in British degree classification systems)
2. Papers must be related to the conference theme AND to one or more of the countries of East Asia that share the Chinese cultural tradition, including Japan, Korea, Inner Asia, Singapore and Vietnam
3. Abstracts must be no longer than 250 words, submitted exactly as directed on the HEAS Conference website
4. Deadline for abstract submission: November 30, 2008 (Sunday)
5. Detailed instructions and more information are available on our website:
http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/~heas/conference/


Inquiries:
For general conference inquiries, please contact: heasconference at gmail.com
For abstract submission inquities, please contact: heas.abstracts at gmail.com


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12th Annual Harvard East Asia Graduate Student Conference
heasconference at gmail.com
www.hcs.harvard.edu/~heas/conference

CFP: Asia Pacific: Perspectives (journal; 22 Feb; Spring 09)

The Editors of Asia Pacific: Perspectives invite scholars and
graduate students to submit papers for publication in the spring 2009
issue (Vol. 9, No. 1).

The submission deadline is February 22, 2009.

Asia Pacific: Perspectives is a peer-reviewed journal published twice
a year in May and November. It welcomes submissions from all fields
of the social sciences and the humanities. In keeping with the Jesuit
traditions of the University of San Francisco, Asia Pacific:
Perspectives commits itself to the highest standards of learning and
scholarship.

Our task is to inform public opinion through a broad hospitality to
divergent views and ideas that promote cross-cultural understanding,
tolerance, and the dissemination of knowledge. Papers adopting a
comparative, interdisciplinary approach to issues of interrelatedness
in the Pacific Rim region* will be especially welcome. Graduate
students, as well as established scholars, are encouraged to submit
their work.

* 'Pacific Rim region' as used here includes North America, Pacific
Central and South America, Oceania, Australia, New Zealand, Southeast
Asia, East Asia, South Asia (India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan, and Sri
Lanka), and the Russian Far East.

Please direct all submissions and inquiries to

The Editors
Asia Pacific: Perspectives
Center for the Pacific Rim
2130 Fulton St, LM202
San Francisco, CA
94117-1080
Tel:(415)422-6357 Fax:(415)422-5933 email: pacrim at usfca.edu

John Nelson
Associate Professor
Department of Theology and Religious Studies
Director, Asian Studies Degree Program
University of San Francisco
2130 Fulton St., San Francisco, CA. 94117
Office: 415-422-5093

CFP: The Construction of "Memory" in Asia, EAA (journal; 20 Dec; spring 2009)

Remember that EAA is looking for relatively short pieces aimed primarily to educators at the secondary and undergraduate level. A number of EALC students have published in this journal. It's a great way to get your feet wet, if you haven't already.

Call for Manuscripts: The Construction of "Memory" in Asia, EAA Spring 2009

Education About Asia (EAA) is the peer-reviewed teaching journal of the
Association for Asian Studies. Our readers include undergraduate
instructors as well as high school and middle school teachers. Our
articles are intended to provide educators, who are often not specialists,
with basic understanding of Asia-related content. Manuscripts submitted
for consideration are evaluated by qualified referees.

We are in the process of developing a special section in the spring 2009
issue entitled "History, Literature, and the Construction of "Memory" in
Asia." It is hoped that articles will be published where authors develop
manuscripts that will enable teachers and students to better understand
how academic and popular historical narratives and works of literature
influence the way Asians perceive their past and those of other cultures.
Manuscripts will also be considered where authors address how history and
literature influence a non-Asian's perception of Asia. I am looking for
essays that will be particularly applicable to educated non-specialists.
We are especially interested in obtaining more manuscripts that focus upon
South and Southeast Asia.

Prospective authors should be aware that approximately sixty percent of
our readers are secondary or middle school teachers and the rest teach at
the undergraduate level. Therefore, we are most interested in manuscripts
that are useful for survey-level courses.

Prospective authors should consult the EAA guidelines, available on the
Web site under my signature, before submitting a manuscript for this
special section. Prospective authors are also encouraged to share possible
manuscript ideas with me via email. The deadline for initial receipt of
manuscripts for this special section is December 20, 2008.


Cordially,
Lucien Ellington
Editor, Education About Asia
302 Pfeiffer Stagmaier Hall
University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
Chattanooga, TN 37403
Phone (423) 425-2118, Fax (423) 425-5441
email: l-ellington at comcast.net
Web Site: http://www.aasianst.org/

CFP: Intl Conf on Popular Culture and Education in Asia (31 Aug; 11-13 Dec; Hong Kong)

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON POPULAR CULTURE AND EDUCATION IN ASIA
Hong Kong Institute of Education, 11-13 December 2008
CALL FOR PAPERS DEADLINE: 31 August 2008

We invite you to join us at the First International Conference on Popular Culture and Education in Asia at the Hong Kong Institute of Education. The conference will bring together researchers from a variety of disciplines to focus on the implications of global flows of popular culture for educational practices and youth development. We welcome papers that elucidate changing patterns in Asian and global popular culture, as well as papers that explore implications and applications of youth engagement with popular culture inside and outside the classroom.

We welcome researchers and scholars from Sociology, Cultural Studies, Media Studies, Anthropology, Language and Literacy, Music, Visual Studies, Asian Studies, Education and other disciplines that take popular culture seriously to join us in this event. The first two days of the conference will be devoted to academic presentations. The third day of the conference will also feature practical workshops for local teachers on popular culture and pedagogy.

Dani Wang
Email: hkpop at ied.edu.hk
Visit the website at http://home.ied.edu.hk/~hkpop/conference.html