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: 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: 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: "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


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

CFP: "Nationalism, Culture, and Identity: New Boundaries in Asia" (Arizona State; 1 July; 10-11 Oct)

Graduate Student Conference

"Nationalism, Culture, and Identity: New Boundaries in Asia"


Friday, October 10- Saturday, October 11, 2008

Center for Asian Research and Department of Religious Studies
Arizona State University


Abstractshttp://mail.google.com/a/asu.edu/?ui=2&view=js&name=js&ids=13lbhludim4iu#Abstracts

Sponsorshttp://mail.google.com/a/asu.edu/?ui=2&view=js&name=js&ids=13lbhludim4iu#Sponsors

Locationhttp://mail.google.com/a/asu.edu/?ui=2&view=js&name=js&ids=13lbhludim4iu#location

Contactshttp://mail.google.com/a/asu.edu/?ui=2&view=js&name=js&ids=13lbhludim4iu#Contacts

Travel and Lodging

The Arizona State University Center for Asian Research is pleased to host
its first annual Asian Studies Graduate Student Conference entitled
"Nationalism, Culture, and Identity: New Boundaries in Asia." This
conference is an opportunity for graduate students from across the country
to present their current research projects related to the topics of culture,
nationalism, and identity. More broadly, the conference seeks to explore
the meanings and applications of the term Asia. By juxtaposing these three
areas of research, the conference looks to draw out original and intriguing
questions pertaining to the study of Asia in general as well as specific
locales.


Presentations should deal critically with the three themes in the context of
the guiding question: Should Asia as conceived by scholars be redefined? If
so, how?


Papers can address the themes of nationalism, culture, and identity from any
number of disciplinary approaches including religious studies, history,
literature, political science, and anthropology$B(Bideally, combining two or
more fields. Papers will be selected on their cross-disciplinary nature and
significance to the field. Papers need not be limited to solely contemporary
issues. Some topics students may consider presenting on include:


* the interaction of Asian regions;

* the influence of religion on the development of nationalism;

* how cultural and national identity formation is negotiated
among different actors;

* the relationship between localization, nationalization, and
globalization;

* ethno-nationalism and the effects of colonialization on
identity and culture


*Abstracts***

The deadline for submitting abstracts is July 1, 2008. Abstracts should be
maximum 250 words, accompanied by a 100 word biography. Student's contact
information including: full name, university affiliation, field(s), and a
current email address, should be at the top of every document submitted.

Please specify what kind of AV support your presentation requires, if applicable.

A prize will be awarded for the best paper. In order to be considered for
the prize, papers must be submitted by September 1, 2008.



*Contacts*

Any questions or concerns should be directed to any of the following
conference organizing committee members:

Mugdha Yeolekar

Seth Clippard

William Nitzky

Samsul Maarif

* *

*Location***

The conference will take place at Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, in
the Memorial Union, located just south of Hayden Library, on the second
floor in the Fiesta Room (MU 231). Click
herehttp://www.asu.edu/map/pdf/asu_map_tempe_2008.pdffor a map of
the campus.

* *

*Sponsors***

The organizing committee would like to thanks the following sponsors for
their generous support:

* ASU Center for Asian Research
* Department of Religious Studies
* Institute for Humanities Research
* Center for the Study of Religion and Conflict
* School of Human Evolution and Social Change

CFP: "Globalization: Cultures, Institutions and Socioeconomics" (30 May; 12-13 Dec; Hong Kong)

International Conference on "Globalization: Cultures, Institutions and Socioeconomics"
To be held in Hong Kong, December 12-13, 2008
Co-Sponsored by The Chinese University of Hong Kong
and Washington University in St. Louis



Along with recent trends of globalization, a significant focal point of research has been issues related to "Greater China," a notion that originally entailed the potential economic integration of China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong (including Macau) and has lately been broadened to include Singapore, Southeast Asian Chinese communities, and overseas Chinese in other countries. Despite some political repercussions, Greater China has become an indisputable economic reality today. But economy is not the strongest element at play; rather, a more prevalent and consequential factor is culture and its role in formal institutions and informal social customs.

This conference is designed to study the causes and consequences of globalization from cultural, institutional and socioeconomic perspectives, focusing particularly on topics related to Greater China. It invites scholars to investigate questions such as these:
· What perspectives can we deploy to investigate the different and yet similar cosmopolitan cultures of Hong Kong, Taipei, Shanghai, Beijing, Singapore, Macau, Shenzhen, and other cities?
· How do the cultures of these cities work in practice and how are they embedded in everyday-life situations as locatable phenomena?
· What approaches can we use to explore the experience of place and space, the dynamics between local and global, culture and economy, and the dilemmas of knowledge in these cities?
· How do states, empires and nations, corporations, shops and goods, literature, music, film, etc., figure in our examination of the cultures of consumption and production in these cities?
· How do places develop meanings for people? What are the struggles over defining who belongs in a place in these cities?
· What role do travel, information technology, and other means of communication play in shaping a global city network among these cities and beyond?

The conference will feature several distinguished keynote and plenary-session speakers, including Nobel Laureate Douglass North and Professors Frank Dikötter, Robert Hegel, Chang-Tai Hsien, Gordon Mathews, Hui Wang, and Shaoguang Wang. All sessions will be held on the Chinese University of Hong Kong campus, while the conference dinner will be housed at the world-renowned Hong Kong Jockey Club.

Although we prefer complete papers, submissions of long abstracts will be considered. Submissions of organized sessions are also welcome. All submissions must be made through e-mail to all the co-chairs of the program committee no later than May 31, 2008: Lingchei Letty Chen, Ann Louise Huss, Laikwan Pang, and Ping Wang. We anticipate having the preliminary program posted by June 15, 2008.

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/

FYI: New Global Studies (new peer-reviewed electronic journal)

The Berkeley Electronic Press is pleased to announce the launch of a major new peer-reviewed journal:

NEW GLOBAL STUDIES (NGS)

Editors:
Nayan Chanda (Yale University)
Akira Iriye (Harvard University)
Bruce Mazlish (MIT)

Managing editor:
Kenneth Weisbrode (Harvard University)

New Global Studies is the first journal to approach contemporary globalization as a whole, and across disciplinary lines. It draws from history, sociology, anthropology, political science, and international relations to study the past and present of today's globalizing process. Topics include the patterns and local effects of economic globalization, global media networks, preservation of the global environment, transnational manifestations of culture, and the methodology of global studies itself. New Global Studies is an essential resource: a single journal for those who are interested in global affairs and the contemporary history of globalization, both broadly and in depth.

To view any of the articles in question, simply click on the links below
VOLUME 1, ISSUE 1, 2007

ARTICLES

David E.H. Edgerton "The Contradictions of Techno-Nationalism and Techno-Globalism: A Historical Perspective".
http://www.bepress.com/ngs/vol1/iss1/art1

Jenifer L. Van Vleck "The 'Logic of the Air': Aviation and the Globalism of the 'American Century'".
http://www.bepress.com/ngs/vol1/iss1/art2

Timothy H.B. Stoneman "An 'African' Gospel: American Evangelical Radio in West Africa, 1954-1970".
http://www.bepress.com/ngs/vol1/iss1/art3

COMMENTARY

Yi-Fu Tuan "Power, Modernity and Traditional Cultures".
http://www.bepress.com/ngs/vol1/iss1/art4

REVIEW ESSAYS

Daniel J. Sargent "School of Zbigniew".
http://www.bepress.com/ngs/vol1/iss1/art5

Phyllis Thompson "Food for the Masses".
http://www.bepress.com/ngs/vol1/iss1/art6


To submit your next paper to New Global Studies, visit http://www.bepress.com/ngs, and click "Submit Article."

CFP: JAPANESE TRANSNATIONAL FANDOMS AND FEMALE CONSUMERS (25 Oct; 3-4 July; Australia)

JAPANESE TRANSNATIONAL FANDOMS AND FEMALE CONSUMERS
University of Wollongong (near Sydney, Australia)
3-4 July 2008

This workshop investigates the different ways in which originally Japanese genres, aesthetics and styles have been taken up, deployed and transformed by female fans transnationally. The way in which Japanese products, styles and images are received in different cultures as well as the (sub)cultural ends to which they are deployed will be investigated, as will the impact of the fandom on the changing nature of consumerism, participatory fan culture and particularly gender in the Asia-Pacific region and beyond. We invite papers that discuss female consumers’ uptake of originally Japanese popular cultural styles and artefacts across all regions and media.

Of particular interest in this workshop is the ‘yaoi’ or ‘boys’ love’ (BL) manga/animation fandom popular with girls and young women. Over the last decade there has been a massive boom in interest in this genre (including commercially translated and published volumes as well as amateur fan-authored productions) in Korea, China, Taiwan, Thailand and the United States. Papers focusing specifically on the yaoi/BL fandom are particularly welcome.

The workshop will result in a themed edition of the journal Intersections: http://wwwsshe.murdoch.edu.au/intersections/ due for release in April 2009.

Keynote speaker: Professor Christine Yano (University of Hawaii) speaking on the global Hello Kitty Fandom.

Other invited speakers include: Professor Chris Berry (Goldsmiths University) speaking on BL fan circles in Shanghai; Dr Kazumi Nagaike (Oita University) speaking on the history and cultural context of Japanese BL fandom; Dr Sharalyn Orbaugh (University of British Columbia) speaking on yaoi influence on the Harry Potter fandom; Dr Larissa Hjorth (RMIT) speaking on “cute customisation” across Japanese and Korean new media; Dr Fran Martin (University of Melbourne) speaking on the BL fandom in Taiwan.

Please send 250 word title and abstract and a short biography to Dr Mark McLelland (markmc@uow.edu.au) and Dr Fran Martin (f.martin@unimelb.edu.au) by 25 October 2007. A limited number of travel bursaries will be available.

This event is sponsored by the ARC’s Cultural Research Network and CAPSTRANS (Centre for Asia-Pacific Social Transformation Studies) at the University of Wollongong.

CFP: South Korea’s Education Exodus (Chogi yuhak): Risks, Realities, and Challenges (**31 Aug; 28-29 Mar; UIUC)

**Since I'm just now getting the announcement, I imagine they are resending it based on a low number of abstract submissions. If you're interested and just seeing this announcement for the first time, you might want to contact them and see if you can get an extra week or two.

South Korea’s Education Exodus (Chogi yuhak): Risks, Realities, and Challenges
A Working Conference at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
March 28-29, 2008

South Korean “early study abroad” students – namely those young people who exit South Korea for study prior to college – are literally changing the face of Korean diasporic communities across the U.S. and other English-speaking nations. Early study abroad is a rapidly escalating market in South Korea: a $550 million industry in the first quarter of 2004, doubling the 2002 figures. Remarkably, a recent South Korean survey revealed that if given the opportunity, 1 out of 4 parents would like to emigrate for their children’s education. The conference will ask large questions about South Korea’s particular globalization embrace, cosmopolitan desires, and education system; and about the changing face and social reality of Korean America with the arrival of these new immigrants. In doing so, the conference will take up both the macro-level context and consequences and the U.S. realities of this growing “immigrant” population.

We invite graduate students and faculty with sustained and substantive research programs on this topic to submit an abstract.

Deadline for Abstract Submission: August 31, 2007

Conference website:
http://www.aasp.uiuc.edu/EducationExodus/index.html
E-mail: aasp@uiuc.edu

@UIUC: Transnational Seminars Fall Semester (Fridays @ 3 pm)

TRANSNATIONAL SEMINARS

SOCIOLOGY ● GEOGRAPHY ● CENTER GLOBAL STUDIES ● WOMEN AND GENDER IN GLOBAL PERSPECTIVES ● GLOBAL STUDIES IN EDUCATION ● URBAN AND REGIONAL PLANNING




Every other Friday 3 pm (with variations)
Venue: Lincoln Hall 336 (Alt: Davenport 219)

Sept 7 Sociology Centennial

Sept 21
David Hess, Science and Technology Studies, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY
Local First...But What Next? Globalization, regional development, and the localist movement
Respondent: Diana Mincyte, Advertising

Sept 28
Berch Berberoglu, University of Nevada, Reno
Dynamics of globalization and its impact on society in the 21st century
Respondent: Brian Dill, Sociology

Oct 12
Olga Sezneva, University of Chicago
Practicing memory and nostalgia
Michael Peters, Education

Oct 26
Davenport 219
Euan Hague, DePaul University
The Jefferson Davis Highway: A Confederate memorial landscape in Washington state
Respondent: David Wilson, Geography

Nov 9
Colin Flint, UIUC Geography
Transnationalism and just war: theoretical problems and soldier's words
Respondent: Ellen Moodie, Anthropology

Nov 30
Davenport 219
Roger Keil, York University, Geography
Old laws, new insights: urban research and action in the age of terror
Respondent: Jan Nederveen Pieterse, Sociology

Dec 14
William Brustein, UIUC, Associate Provost International Affairs
The socialism of fools: The leftist origins of modern anti-Semitism
Respondent: Emanuel Rota, Italian Studies

For info contact fall series coordinator Jan Nederveen Pieterse

CFP: International Conference on Inter-Asian Connections (14 Sept; 21-24 Feb; Dubai)

Note that funding to attend the conference seems available from SSRC, so don't let the location put you off.

The Social Science Research Council (SSRC) is pleased to announce an open call for individual research paper submissions from researchers in any world region, to participate in a 4-day thematic workshop at an international conference on "Inter-Asian Connections."

To be held in Dubai, February 21-24, 2008, the conference will host concurrent workshops showcasing innovative research from across the social sciences and related disciplines, on themes of particular relevance to Asia, reconceptualized as a dynamic and interconnected historical, geographical, and cultural formation stretching from the Middle East through Eurasia and South Asia, to East Asia.

The conference structure and schedule has been designed to enable intensive 'working group' interactions on a specific research theme, as well as broader interactions on topics of mutual interest and concern to all participants. Accordingly, there will be public keynotes, plenaries, and roundtables addressing different aspects of Inter-Asian research in addition to closed workshop sessions. The concluding day of the conference will bring all the workshops together in a public presentation and exchange of research agendas that have emerged over the course of the deliberations in Dubai.

Individual paper submissions are invited for the following workshops:

Sites of Inter-Asian Interaction

Networks of Islamic Learning across Asia: The Role of International
Centers of Islamic Learning in Building Ties and Forging New Identities

Distant Divides and Intimate Connections: Migrant Domestic Workers in
Asia

Law-in-Action in Asian Societies and Civilizations

Multiple flexibilities: nation-states, global business and precarious
labor

Neoliberal Globalization and Governmentality: State, Civil society and
the NGO Phenomena in Asia

Initiatives of Regional Integration in Asia in Comparative
Perspective: Concepts, Contents and Prospects

Border Problems: Theory, Culture, and Political Economy

Post-collective Economic Lives and Livelihoods: Studies of Economy,
Institution and Everyday Practice in Post-socialist Eurasia and Asia

Transnational Circuits: 'Muslim Women' in Asia

Inter-Referencing Asia: Urban Experiments & the Art of Being Global

Descriptions of the individual workshops, along with information on the
application process, are available at:
http://www.ssrc.org/program_areas/global/papers/.

Application materials are due on Friday, September 14, 2007. Junior and
senior scholars are encouraged to apply, whether graduate students and
faculty affiliated to colleges and universities, or researchers in NGOs
or other research organizations.

Selection decisions will be announced on October 19, 2007. Accepted
participants are required to submit a 20-25 page research paper by
January 14, 2008.

The SSRC will make every effort to subsidize the travel and
accommodation costs associated with attending the conference, and we
will issue a formal announcement about availability and levels of
financial assistance for individual participants in the coming months.
In the meantime, prospective participants are encouraged to seek out
alternative sources of funding that may be available from their home
institutions or other agencies.

For additional inquiries, please contact the SSRC at
intl_collaboration@ssrc.org.

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Shabana Shahabuddin
Social Science Research Council
International Collaboration Program
810 Seventh Avenue, 31st Floor
New York, NY 10019
intl_collaboration@ssrc.org

CFP: Globalization & Japan: Challenges from Social Changes (Wash., DC; 31 Aug; 16-17 Nov)

American University, Washington, D.C.

The organizers issue a call for papers for a conference to be held at American University in Washington, DC on November 16-17. The theme will be "Globalization & Japan: Challenges from Social Changes."

Globalization is a topic that has been studied in much frequency in recent years. It has been the theme of the annual meetings of several of the social science professional organizations. Recent trends in various disciplines have shown that the "globa" is an emerging force of study as evidenced by Global Economics and Business, Global Politics, Global Public Health, Global Climatology, Global Sociology, and many other sub-fields. Preference would be given to topics related to Japan, explicitly or implicitly.

Social change is also an important topic of inquiry. The press is always
interested in having social scientists comment on recent events related to
social change. Public disturbances such as the recent riots in Paris or
anti-war protests in the United States or even long-term changes such as
public behavior on airplanes have attracted the press to consult social
scientists for explanation of these events.

Though conferences on the study of globalization and on the study of
social change are often made, few conferences focus on the intersection of
these two important subjects. We invite submissions from a variety of
theoretical and disciplinary perspectives, including sociology, political
science, economics and business, international relations, and
anthropology. We encourage submissions from JSPS Fellows and all social
scientists.

We welcome proposals for papers and panels on all aspects of globalization
and social change in any discipline.

Proposals:
For paper proposals, maximum 500 word abstract and brief vitae. Proposals
must include titles of papers; presenters name(s) and institutional
affiliations( s); mailing address, phone, fax and e-mail addresses.

Deadline for receipt of proposals: August 31, 2007.

We prefer the proposals to be submitted electronically.
Send proposals to: peng@cas.usf. edu.
Or in case you are not comfortable with electronic submission or have no
access to e-mail, send proposals by regular mail to:

Dajin Peng
Department of Government and
International Affairs
University of South Florida
Tampa, FL 33620-8100
Phone: (813) 974-0789

Conference organizers: Dajin Peng, University of South Florida
Quansheng Zhao, American University
Louis Edgar Esparza, Stony Brook University
Akira Masaike, JSPS Washington Office

Contact: Dajin Peng, peng@cas.usf. edu

Conference committee: Louis Edgar Esparza, Dajin Peng, Gerhardus Shultink,
Quansheng Zhao, JSPS US Alumni Association Executive Committee and JSPS
Washington Office

Organized by: Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) US Fellows
Alumni Association and JSPS Washington Office

Sponsored by: Japan Society for the Promotion of Science,
American University School of International Relations
Michigan State University Department of Resource Development.

CFP: Global Themes in World History: Teaching and Research (15 Aug; 12-13 Oct; New Jersey)

Global Themes in World History: Teaching and Research

October 12-13, 2007

Fairleigh Dickinson University, Florham Park, NJ
http://www.fdu.edu/

MAWHA is pleased to announce our eleventh annual Mid-Atlantic World History Association conference. Our special focus this year will be on broad historical themes that are applicable on a global scale and how these themes can be applied to teaching at all levels.

Possible topics could include, but are not limited to, the following:

The global impact of religions/ideologies
Migration and borders/diasporas
War and militarism/terrorism
Imperialism/colonialism/global elites
Trade and commerce/globalization
Disease/non-native species
"Clash of civilizations" vs. connections
Industrialism/technology/communications
Languages/nationalism
Geography and climate/environment
Spread of cultures/popular culture
Thematic approaches to World History

We welcome proposals on any subject, period or area from independent scholars as well as teachers/scholars from universities, colleges, secondary schools, publishers and other related institutions. Proposals may include individual papers, collaborative projects or roundtable discussions of a topic or theme connected to world history.

Please send proposals and curriculum vita by AUGUST 15, 2007 to:

MAWHA Program Committee or
Professor Anthony Snyder
asnyder@brookdalecc.edu

CFP: GENDER ACROSS BORDERS III: RESEARCH TRANSFORMATIONS (31 Aug; 4-5 April; Buffalo, NY)

Friday & Saturday, April 4-5, 2008
Institute for Research & Education on Women and Gender
University at Buffalo, State University of New York

The Gender Across Borders III: Research Transformations committee
seeks panel proposals for an interdisciplinary conference highlighting
national and international trends in scholarship on gender and women.
Researchers are invited to consider "transformation" as a metaphor for
a number of scientific, social, cultural, religious, or physical
phenomena. Gender Across Borders III will use "transformation" as a
prism to reflect on the literal or metaphorical conditions of
existence, difference, permanence, and possibility. Although this
call is for panel proposals, individual papers or posters that
consider gender or transformation are also welcome (see below).
Topics on the conference theme could include:

TRANS
Border-crossing (in politics; as metaphor); conversion experiences;
diaspora; experimental film; healing; human sexuality; identity
politics; (im)migration culture and reform; international law; labor
relations; language acquisition; library studies and technology;
management; medical ethics, nursing and/or patient care; othering (in
philosophy, psychoanalysis, literature, etc.); pedagogy; performance
art; queerness; radical cultural practices and politics
(transgression); religious studies; research-community collaborations;
research on relations/relationships (in management, politics,
psychology, etc); the sublime/transcendence; transgender politics;
visual culture and the image; women's histories; work-life issues

FORMATIONS
Architecture; art history; cancer research; classics; cultural
studies; economies (of finance, of labor); education; environmental
studies; epidemiology; feminisms; "the formative years" (childhood and
adolescence); genetic research; geology; hegemony; historicizing
research in any field; ideologies; illness; innovations in a
particular discipline; investigations of genre and form; linguistics;
nation formation; palimpsests; the persistence of gender; regional
studies; social movement theory; sociology and anthropology;
traditions and revisions; women's health; working-class studies;
working in male-dominated fields

ADDITIONAL PANELS
-- Individual papers: Researchers wishing to submit individual papers
on "transformation" or on gender and women may do so at any time.
-- Emerging Women Scientists and Engineers: Researchers whose work does
not explicitly discuss gender are welcomed and encouraged to present
their current research in format most appropriate to their work: panel
discussion, power-point presentations and/or poster display.
-- "Work Life" Forums: balancing research, community, family, health,
and sanity.

POSTERS
In addition to panel and paper proposals, we welcome proposals of
poster displays from all disciplines. Poster-prizes will be awarded
to outstanding poster displays in the exhibit accompanying the
symposium.

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
Abstracts, not to exceed 300 words, should be included in the body of
an email sent to Susannah Bartlow or submitted online at
www.genderbuffalo.org. Please include a short bio of 200 words with
your abstract.

Deadline for Abstracts of Panel Proposals: August 31, 2007
Deadline for Abstracts of Individual Papers: January 10, 2008
Deadline for Posters: February 15, 2008

Information about past and current IREWG activities is available at
http://www.genderbuffalo.org.

@UIUC: Globalization, Culture and Self (w/ EALC presenters) (1 May; 2090B FLB)

In case you missed this in the EAPS Weekly Bulletin, next week Leona and Sangsook are presenting papers from a seminar called "Globalization, Culture and Self."

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Tuesday, May 1
Globalization, Culture and Self
12-2 pm Room 2090B FLB

CY CHIU, Poshek FU and Freeman Fellows Keli DIAO, Huixia LIU, Wensong LIU, Sufeng SONG, Volette WANG, Zhi-Xue ZHANG announce a noontime presentation of student work from their spring seminar "Globalization, Culture and Self."

This course engaged scholarships from different humanity and social science disciplines for the purpose of exploring important historical and cultural issues facing Greater China ( i.e., China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and ethnic Chinese communities in Southeast Asia) today. The goal of this course was not to provide answers to the questions, but to question the answers. The goal was for this learning process to broaden and deepen inquiry into the intricate interrelations of globalization, culture, and the self in Greater China.

Presenters:
Leona Middleton: Japanese television dramas and identity formation in Chinese communities
Grace Yan: Representations of Chinese Landscapes in Beijing 2008 Olympic Campaign
Melody Chao: Model minority: A media-nurtured stereotype
Eric Dalle: Positioning identities: Shan Sa's The Girl Who Played Go and the Sino-Francophone
Dong Han: Copyright and freedom of expression in China
Emily Johns: Female arts in contemporary China
Sangsook Lee-Chung: Changing Perspectives of Chinese Diaspora and Chinese Identity
Michael Parris: Ways of Being Wild and In the Mood for Love

CFP: 8th Asia Pacific Sociological Association (APSA) (30 June; 19-22 Nov; Penang, Malaysia)

"ASIA PACIFIC REGION: SOCIETIES IN TRANSFORMATION"
8th Asia Pacific Sociological Association (APSA) conference
to be held in Georgetown (Penang) Malaysia, 19-22 November, 2007.

Rapid globalization, coupled with economic liberalization and financial deregulation, has opened-up the economics of the Asia Pacific region. Increasing wealth generation is heralded as a sign of great personal and notional success, while large numbers of people remain marginalised in poor paying a insecure jobs. Youth are under extreme pressures in terms of successful education and gaining secure employment. The media glorifies the consumer revolution, and we see increasing use of new technologies which are changing forever the very fabric of work, family life, health and culture in the countries of the Asia Pacific. The region is seemingly now more integrated, with unprecedented levels of tourism, migration, and economic and cultural linkages. But, are the nations of the region, and their populations, becoming more divided, united or are they fundamentally unchanged over the past two decades? This conference aims to explore the various dimensions of the rapid social transformation of the Asia Pacific. Papers that empirically or theoretically address the themes of social transformation, in its diverse forms, are particularly welcome.

http://www.capstrans.edu.au/resources/conferences/2007/conferences-2007-apsa.html
Please also check the APSA website at: http://www.asiapacificsociology.org

The conference is co-sponsored by the School of Social Sciences, Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM) and the Centre for Asia Pacific Social Transformation Studies (CAPSTRANS), University of Wollongong, Australia.