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

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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).

@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: “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: "Rethinking Visual Narratives from Asia: Intercultural and Comparative Perspectives" (5 Sept; 8-9 June; Hong Kong)

The Department of Fine Arts at the University of Hong Kong will host an nternational conference on Rethinking Visual Narratives from 8-9 June 2009. The conference will bring together approximately fifteen scholars presenting new and original research to discuss how visual narratives function in different cultures and exploring connections and interactions between the arts of Asia and that of Asia and the West. The papers and discussion will consolidate academic understanding of visual narrative theories and augment them through analysis of their potential as a tool for exploring inter-cultural interactions and questioning cross-cultural assumptions. The focus will be on the visual with a cross-cultural dimension and dating to any time period within a broadly defined art historical discipline and material culture studies.

Possible panel topics include, but are not limited to –
The place of narrative: architecture and the disposition of imagery Theories of narration
Word and image: illustration and interpretation
Printed texts and images: semiotic dialogue
The social embeddedness of narrative
Narratology
The role of non-narrative or anti-narrative elements in imagery

Papers will be hosted on the conference website by the end of April 2009. It is expected that a conference proceedings will be published.

Abstracts due on 5 September 2008 by email to -

Dr. Alexandra Green
Research Assistant Professor
Department of Fine Arts, University of Hong Kong
Email: greenar_ _hkucc.hku.hk

$$$: Dissertation Proposal Development Fellowship (DPDF) (8 Feb; 29 May-1 June, or 11-14 Sept)

Dissertation Proposal Development Fellowship (DPDF)
The Social Science Research Council, with funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, provides fellowships up to $5000 to humanities and social science students to support predissertation research. In addition to receiving funding, fellows participate in two four-day workshops organized around the research fields and that bracket the summer research. Workshop exercises prepare fellows in formulating doctoral dissertation proposals that are intellectually pointed, amenable to completion in a resonable time frame, and competitive in future dissertation research fellowship competitions. Workshops will be held May 29 - June 1 in Saint Louis and September 11 - 14 in Milwaukee. Travel, lodging and meals for the two workshops are provided by the SSRC

DPDF is open to early-stage graduate students in all disciplines of the social sciences and humanities who are currently enrolled full time in PhD programs at accredited universities in the United States and whose predissertation research fits into one of the five research fields. Students pursuing relevant dissertation topics may apply to one of the following fields:

Animal Studies
Harriet Ritvo (History, MIT)
Janet Browne (History of Science, Harvard)

Critical Studies of Science and Technology Policy
Sheila Jasanoff (Science and Technology Studies, Harvard)
Clark Miller (Science and Technology Policy, Arizona State University)

Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change
Brent Yarnal (Geography, Pennsylvania State University)
Tom Evans (Geography, Indiana University - Bloomington)

Muslim Modernities
Charles Kurzman (Sociology, North Carolina - Chapel Hill)
Bruce Lawrence (Religion and Islamic Studies, Duke University)

Urban Visual Studies
Edward Dimendberg (Film & Media Studies/Visual Studies, UC Irvine)
M. Christine Boyer (Architecture and City Planning, Princeton)

Contact Details
For full descriptions of the research fields, eligibility and application requirements, and the DPDF program, visit our Web site http://programs.ssrc.org/dpdf.

All inquires must be directed to the SSRC DPDF program staff at dpdf@ssrc.org.

Applications
Deadline for submission is February 8, 2008 by 9:00 p.m. EST Applications are available on SSRC's appilcation portal:
http://applications.ssrc.org

CFP: Transnational Cinema in Globalising Societies: Asia and Latin America (1 Apr; Aug; Mexico)

Description:
If cinema was instrumental to nation building processes during the twentieth century, it has been equally central to their challenging, interrogation and sometimes reaffirmation in the twenty-first. This is especially true for Asian and Latin American cinemas, as present conditions variously described as ‘globalisation’ or ‘flexible accumulation’ have wrought tremendous social change, both rising standards of living and increasing inequality; allowing for reverse cultural flows and also exposing the mediascapes of countries in these two regions to unprecedented contact with ‘the West’; reducing their film production while also increasing availability of films made there. We invite papers addressing the relationship between these cinemas and (post)national identity, cinema and modernity/postmodernity, exilic cinema, diasporic and border filmmaking, the effects of digital technology on filmmaking and viewing in Asia and Latin America and, more generally, on the impact of globalisation on film industries in these two regions.

The following topics would be especially welcome:

* Contemporary issues of audience reception
* The role of co-productions
* Cross-fertilisation of genre across Asian/Latin American Cinemas
* The role of festivals in the construction and promotion of Asian and Latin American transnational cinemas
* Diasporic cinema
* Asian and Latin American directors and contemporary auteur theory
* The Cultural construction of Stars and Fandom in Internet communities
* Alternative versions of modernity in Asian and Latin American cinema

Audiences: Film scholars and area scholars (Latin America and Asia); sociology; philosophy' anthropology.

Date: Deadline is 1 april 2008

Venue: Conference will be held in Mexico in August 2008

Send 300 word abstract to the organisers, Armida de la Garza and Claudia Magallanes, by 1 April 2008 to the following address: Armida.Delagarza@nottingham.edu.cn

Dr Armida de la Garza
Lecturer in International Communication
University of Nottingham, Ningbo
199 Taikang East Road, Ningbo, China 315100
+86 (0) (574) 88180993
+86 (0) (574) 88180125
Email: armida.delagarza@nottingham.edu.cn
Visit the website at http://www.nottingham.edu.cn/

CFP: Journal of Japanese and Korean Cinema (No deadline noted)

The Journal of Japanese and Korean Cinema, a fully refereed forum for the dissemination of scholarly work devoted to the cinemas of Japan and Korea and the interactions and relations between them, seeks essays for its inaugural issue devoted to Japanese-Korea cinematic connections.

Possible topics for this first issue include, but are not limited to:

remakes across national borders;
co-productions;
censorship and regulation of Japanese films in Korea;
Representations of Koreans in Japanese film/Japanese in Korean Film;
Reception;
Casting/stars;
Korean cinema under colonialism;
manga adaptations across national borders;
Japanese influence on Korean cinema/Korean on Japanese cinema

Future submissions may include essays devoted to issues specific to either Japanese or Korean cinema, but articles on interactions between them will also continue to be considered.

Topics for essays for future issues may concern:

historical considerations and reconsiderations;
authorship;
genre;
spectatorship and audiences;
reception of Japanese and Korean cinema regionally and globally

Information for prospective authors:

Submit the article as an e-mail attachment in word format. Essays should be 6,000-8,000 words. Please include abstract of 150-200 words. Include a separate, short biography in the third person. Please give contact details, including e-mail address. Provide up to six key words for indexing.Do not put identifying information in your essay.

Text including notes should be in Times New Roman, 12 point. Everything must be double-spaced. Quotations must be in English. The first mention of a film should include its original title, director's surname and year of release. In all subsequent references, the title should be translated into English, unless known by original title in all markets. Use explanatory endnotes, not footnotes. Use MLA style for references and works cited.

Editors:

David Desser and Frances Gateward, University of Illinois
Unit for Cinema Studies
3072 FLB
707 S. Mathews
University of Illinois
Urbana, IL 61801 USA
Fax (217) 244-4019
Phone (217) 244-2705
jjkc@live.com

CFP: International Conference on Gender and Chinese Cinema (15 Jan; 25 Feb; Nanjing)

CALL FOR PAPERS
International Conference on Gender and Chinese Cinema
Date: June 26 28, 2008
Place: Nanjing University, China
Keynote Speakers: Mary Ann Doane and Dai Jinhua
Organizers: Nanjing University and Brown University

Submission Deadline: January 15, 2008
Notice of acceptance by email: February 25, 2008

The conference aims to 1) foreground gender as a critical and analytical
lens in the study of Chinese films, and 2) to advance gender studies in the
areas of Chinese visual culture, media, and modernity. The conference
committee welcomes papers on all aspects of gender and Chinese cinema,
particularly papers that focus on Chinese women¹s roles as directors,
producers, cinematographers, and scriptwriters. Chinese cinema is broadly
conceived here to include films produced in mainland China, Hong Kong,
Taiwan, and in the overseas diaspora. Categories of interest include but are
not limited to:

1. Study of Chinese female authors/auteurs (directors, producers,
cinematographers ,scriptwriters)
2. Feminist re-view of canonical Chinese films
3. Feminist theory and Chinese women¹s cinema
4. Gender, cinema, and Chinese community-building (national, regional,
ethnic, and diasporic)
5. Cinematic representation of women and Chinese visual modernity
6. Gender, spectatorship, and Chinese audience
7. Cinematic (re)constructions of femininity and masculinity in modern China
8. Gender and socialist cinema
9. Gender and genre in Chinese cinema
10. Chinese gender, aesthetics, and cinematic narrative
11. Gender, sexuality, and performance in Chinese cinema
12. Colonialism, post-colonialism, and gender in Chinese cinema

Interested scholars and graduate students should submit Chinese and English
abstracts (approximately 250 words) for individual presentations and panel
proposals (by January 15) to Professor Yang Yishu at the following email
addresses:

gender politics njlyric@gmail.com or yishuyang632@hotmail.com

Please include:
1. Name and title.
2. Institutional affiliation and mailing address.
3. Email address.
4. Title of proposed paper.

Other: IL/IN East Asian Summer Seminar: "East Asian Cinema in Transnational Contexts" (9 Mar; 20-22 May; Bloomington, IN)

IL/IN East Asian Summer Seminar:
"East Asian Cinema in Transnational Contexts"

May 20-22, 2007 at Indiana University in Bloomington

Application deadline: March 9, 2007

The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and the Indiana University Title
VI National Resource Center Consortium for the Study of East Asia (IL/IN
East Asia Consortium) announces a two-day summer seminar on East Asian
transnational film. All graduate students and advanced undergraduate
students at colleges and universities in the Midwest are welcome to apply.


The seminar will be led by East Asian film specialists David Desser
(Professor and Director of the Unit for Cinema Studies, UIUC), Frances
Gateward (Assistant Professor of Cinema Studies and African American Studies

& Research, UIUC), Gary Xu (Associate Professor of East Asian Languages and
Cultures and Comparative Literature, UIUC), and Greg Waller (Professor and
Chair of Communication and Culture, IU). It will begin with a film
screening on the evening of May 20th, include two full days of lectures and
roundtables, and conclude the afternoon of May 22nd.

The twenty students who are selected to participate will have their lodging
costs fully covered, as well as some meals, and will receive a travel
stipend.


For more information and an application form, go to:
http://www.indiana.edu/~easc/Summer_Seminar/index.htm

or contact:

Margaret Key, Associate Director

East Asian Studies Center, Indiana University

mskey@indiana.edu

CFP: Foreign Language Film Conference (28 Feb; Oct 11-13; S Illinois U, Carbondale, IL)

Foreign Language Film Conference: Cultural Correspondences and the Camera

Call For Papers : Interested scholars are invited to submit papers on aspects of film from traditions other than English, for the first-annual Foreign Language Film Conference of Southern Illinois University, Carbondale. The conference will take place October 11-13 2007, in the scenic region of southern Illinois.

The FLFC will focus on the idea of _correspondances_. How are cultural transactions portrayed in cinema? How does the camera participate in creating a cultural dialogue? How are national cinemas transformed by their interactions with transnational audiences?

Abstracts are invited in the following categories:

*Correspondences on camera*
Cultural interactions among national cinemas
Migrations, borders, vernaculars

*Correspondences off camera*
Dubbing, synchronization, production
Remakes, adaptations, translations
Genre-crossing

*Correspondences in the classroom*
Film as a pedagogical tool
Film as cultural/historical document for teaching language/literature

Other panel suggestions are also invited; please see website (http://www.siu.edu/~flfc) for details. Selected proceedings will be considered for publication after the conference.

Send abstract of not more than 250 words as an email attachment in Microsoft Word format. Abstract should include presenter's name, contact address and telephone number, and professional affiliation and status. Presentations should be 15-20 minutes long. Deadline for submission of abstracts (papers and panels): 28 February 2007.

Contacts:

French and Francophone Dr. Rosemary Peters rosemary@siu.edu

German, Austrian, Swiss Thyra Knapp thyra@siu.edu

Spanish and Latin American Dr. Edgar Meja emejia@siu.edu

Film in the Classroom Dr. Jennifer Smith smithjen@siu.edu

Other Traditions flfcsiuc@gmail.com

CFP: Graduate Studies Film Journal (no deadline noted)

The Graduate Studies Film Journal is currently looking for submissions.
We are looking for well-written 7-10 page articles, in proper MLA format,
on any cinema studies subject. Submit your work to dm8600@albany.edu.
We are only looking for work from current graduate students (MA, MFA, DA,
PhD., etc). To learn more about our journal, go to http://www.albany.edu/~dm8600.

@UIUC: Trans East Asia Cinema Reading Group

The Trans-East Asian Cinema Reading Group is underway for the Fall Semester (run by the incredible Eric Dalle and EK Tan). Listed in this email is our tentative schedule for events. As we did last year we try to coordinate and synchronize our meetings/topics with local events and guest speakers. All events are tentative, but we will inform you as events draw closer.

We are always in the process of updating our address book. If you received this email in error and do not want to be contacted about upcoming events, please email us and let us know. Similarly we invite the participation of all UIUC and local people interested in Asian cinema. So if you know someone who might be interested, please pass the word along.

For the schedule or more info send Eric and EK an email.