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working on the arts and material cultures of Asia from the eighteenth century to the present to submit previously unpublished papers of 4,500-10,000 words for publication.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: 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: 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: Radical Intersections: Performance Across Disciplines (7 Dec; 24-26 Apr; Northwestern [Chicago])

I don't remember who might be doing performance studies, but this is close and there's a chance of getting travel money directly from the conference--in addition, of course, to EALC, EAPS, etc.

Call for Contributions: Radical Intersections: Performance Across Disciplines
A Graduate Student Conference with Keynote Speaker Sue-Ellen Case and Keynote Performance by Teatro Luna
Submission Deadline: December 7, 2008
Conference Dates: April 24 - 26, 2009
Location: Northwestern University (Evanston, IL)

Northwestern University's Department of Performance Studies invites proposals from graduate students whose research uses performance as theory, method, or praxis to join us for panel presentations,performances, and sustained dialogue. We also encourage proposals from graduate students from across the social sciences and humanities whose research concerns cultural performances, performance events, or performativity in everyday life.

Radical Intersections aims to interrogate junctures at which dissimilar ways of being, doing, and thinking rub against one another.Such junctures have the potential to disturb foundational concepts and disciplinary assumptions. As Dwight Conquergood wrote, "Our radical move is to turn, and return, insistently, to the crossroads." With performance theory gaining currency in a variety of disciplines, and performance studies itself interdisciplinary in its subjects, methods, and analytics, performance scholars often inhabit such crossroads. Graduate students, as the next generation of the academy, would do well to pause at our present junctures and explore possible directions. What choices do performance studies scholars face today, and where should performance scholarship go from here?

Possible topics include, but are not limited to:
· How do collaborations of performance studies with particular disciplines, sites, or public conversations provoke "radical" scholarship?
· Figuring the human body as a complex and dynamic site of radical intersections of race, class, gender, sex, and sexuality
· Queer bodies and queer spaces; communicating "trans" movements,ontologies, and aesthetics
· Going public: taking scholarship into the public, into pedagogy,and translating scholarship into performance
· Taking up space: finding, creating, and claiming space for our work
· Collisions and collaborations of performance studies with cultural studies, anthropology, theatre studies, ethnography, media studies,studies of embodiment, and other fields
· Making the comfortable uncomfortable: controversial subject matter,acts of remembering, and using the body to enact scholarship and analyze culture
· Creating rigorous scholarship while working from a place of feeling and affect
· "Performance anxiety" both within and out the discipline over performance's applications, its institutionalization, and its radical potential
· In a discipline that resists strict definition, where do our tensions lie? What prevents us from doing particular kinds of work?

We welcome competitive proposals for individual papers as well as panels not exceeding four presenters. Please submit a 300-400 word abstract and a short CV to gcmitchell at northwestern.edu by Dec 7. (Proposals for panels should include individual and panel abstracts.)

Notices of acceptance will be sent in mid-January.

Northwestern University will provide double-occupancy hotel accommodations for all presenters residing outside the Chicagoland area. (You may request a specific roommate or be paired at random with someone of the gender[s] of your choice.) There is no registration/admission fee. We also anticipate providing some additional financial assistance for travel costs for presenters.

Gregory Mitchell

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: Texas Asia Conference Graduate Student Conference (5 Apr; 10-11 Oct; U Texas, Austin)

Texas Asia Conference Graduate Student Conference

Friday, October 10 & Saturday, October 11, 2008

The Texas Asia Conference at the University of Texas at Austin invites students working on original research projects across disciplines and across traditional academic divisions of Asia to present their work. The conference will provide graduate students with a dynamic forum in which to present their work and benefit from a scholarly exchange of ideas. We welcome applications from graduate students in all academic disciplines engaged in research on South, Southeast, Central, and East Asia, and their communities in the diaspora. All areas of study are invited: anthropology, art history, communication, ethnomusicology, history, literature, philology, political science, religion, sociology, women's studies, and other related fields. Work which crosses disciplinary, spatial, and temporal boundaries is encouraged.

In addition to an exciting range of panel presentations and a lecture from two keynote speakers, a more casual program of receptions will provide ample time for less structured discussion and exchange, something essential to bringing together the wider community of students and professors. In the past, selected papers delivered at the conference were published in the South Asia Graduate Research Journal (SAGAR). We aim to publish selected papers again this year.

Submission Deadlines for Abstracts:
Saturday, April 5th, 2008.
Submissions must be made to the Planning Committee via email or post-marked no later than April 3rd. Electronic submissions must include the text in the body of the message. Abstracts should be limited to 300 words. Please submit the abstract with personal information, paper title, the author's name, affiliation, panel title (if applicable), address, telephone number, and email address, on a separate page. Presenters are encouraged to form 3- or 4-person panels. Groups submitting panels should send individual abstracts, plus a brief panel abstract, via the same email or envelope and include the panel title. Panels should be linked by theme. Final papers must not exceed 3000 words, as the maximum reading time is 20 minutes. The Planning Committee reserves the right to accept, reject, or restructure any paper and panel submissions.


Please send abstracts and panel suggestions to:
Email: texasasiaconference@gmail.com
OR
Planning Committee
The University of Texas at Austin Asian Studies
Austin, TX 78712

CFP: 1st Annual Student Interdisciplinary Conference (UIUC; 21 Dec; 4 Feb)

Yet another chance to get practice presenting your work in a low-key setting, and so close to home!






CALL FOR PROPOSALS, POSTERS, AND REVIEWERS
Organized by Graduate and Professional Affairs Committee, Illinois Student Senate
Co-Sponsored by the Provost Office

The Illini Union
Urbana, IL
February 04, 2008
A change in the way we do research, a change in the way we think

The University of Illinois will be hosting the 1st Annual Student Interdisciplinary Conference on February 4, 2008 at the Illini Union. This one-day event brings together graduate and undergraduate students from all disciplines including engineering, science, social science, humanities, education, fine arts, and beyond in an informal and supportive atmosphere where they can present their interdisciplinary work, network, discuss different points of view, and engage in conversations related to the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and challenges of such research methodologies. The conference will promote interdisciplinary research through two honored speakers, help graduate and undergraduate students build their social networks, and provide students an opportunity to meet with some of the leaders of interdisciplinary projects.

The conference invites original contributions in form of presentation/ poster session on:
· Creative Applications,
· Practical use case studies, and
· Completed or research in progress
that require cross-campus collaborations, interdisciplinary efforts, and innovative research methods for posters and presentations sessions. Examples of conference themes for proposal submission include but not limited to experience with interdisciplinary research, cross-disciplinary research, barriers to interdisciplinary research, and discussion on research, methods, and types of interdisciplinary research.

Graduate and Undergraduate Students are invited to submit applications electronically to mgolpar2@uiuc.edu
· For Poster Sessions:
o An abstract of 200 words for a poster session.
· For Presentation:
o An abstract of 200 words as well as a 2-page proposal for presentation.
See website for format information and templates.
· For the review of posters and proposals:
o A 2-page CV highlighting reviewing experience
(experience recommended but not required).
· For templates, examples, and further submission information, please visit www.iss.uiuc.edu/UISIC .

Accepted presentations and posters will be eligible for one of three best paper/poster awards, sponsored by the Office of the Provost.

Important dates are:
Proposals and Abstracts due December 21, 2007
Notification of Acceptance by January 14, 2008
Student Interdisciplinary Conference at the Illini Union February 4, 2008

For further information, contact mgolpar2@uiuc.edu or visit www.iss.uiuc.edu/UISIC.
If you believe that you may need accommodations due to any sort of special circumstances, please contact the conference committee so that appropriate arrangements can be made.