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

This is drivable!

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

November 10-14, 2010

Hyatt Regency Milwaukee

www.uwosh.edu/filmandhistory

Extended Deadline: March 1, 2009


AREA: Sex and Love in Asian Contexts,

Asia has, perhaps, the richest history of cultural and commercial exchange
in the world, resulting in deeply layered religious, political, and artistic
traditions. In cinema, for example, sex and love often are bound up in
complex rites, taboos, negotiations, honor codes, pieties, and spiritual
allegiances. How do Asians themselves see or represent love? How do
non-Asians see or represent love in Asian contexts?

This area, comprising multiple panels, welcomes papers treating the
representations of love and sex within, or from the perspective of, Asian
contexts (East, West, Central, South, Southeast). Proposals for full panels
should include the individual proposals for 3-4 presenters. Possible topics:

* traditional and customary practices--loved or hated--treatments of
historical and modern extra-marital sex and sex workers

* love and sex--including homosexuality--as indexes of modernity,
cosmopolitanism, or the status of women

* love and sex in pre-modern inter-Asian narrative

* modern international influences (American and European)

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

* new developments in contemporary pan-Asian cinema

* nsw developments in the films of Islamic cultures

* adaptations


Please send your 200-word proposal by e-mail to the area chair:

S.A. Thornton
Department of History
Arizona State University
Tempe, AZ 85287-4302

Email: Sybil.Thornton at asu dot edu (email submissions preferred)


Panel proposals for up to four presenters are also welcome, but each
presenter must submit his or her own paper proposal. For updates and
registration information about the upcoming meeting, see the Film & History
website (www.uwosh.edu/filmandhistory).

@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: “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).

Announcement: Japan Association for Queer Studies Conference (8-9 Nov; Hiroshima)

Dear Professors and Colleagues,

On behalf of the board members of JAQS (Japan Association for Queer Studies), I am pleased to inform you about this year's conference for the association. It will be at Hiroshima Shudo University in November 8th-9th.

This will be a great occasion for those who are involved in Japanese queer studies, gender studies, and sexuality studies to network with each other. The conference's special symposium titled "Is Japan Queer?" will feature prominent Japanese scholars including Prof. Takemura Kazuko, and Dr. Nakamura Mia. All the discussions and presentations will be held in Japanese.

For the details of the conference, please refer to the association's website.
http://queerjp.org/conf.html (Japanese language only)

If you are interested in becoming a member of the JAQS, please follow the guideline specified on the website.
http://queerjp.org/anai.html

Japan Association for Queer Studies (JAQS) aims to provide a forum for dialogue and the interdisciplinary exchange of ideas, in part through an annual JAQS conference and the publication of an annual refereed journal. We welcome membership from not only academics of diverse backgrounds but also from all engaged in discussion of the body, sex, sexuality, gender, and desire.

Please feel free to circulate this information to your friends, colleagues, and students.


With best regards,
Katsuhiko Suganuma

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Katsuhiko Suganuma
Ph.D. candidate
School of Culture and Communication
Cultural Studies Program
University of Melbourne

Post:
School of Culture and Communication
Level 2, West Tower
John Medley Building
University of Melbourne
Parkville, Victoria 3010
Australia

CFP: 2008 Thinking Gender Conference Call for Papers (29 Oct; 1 Feb; UCLA)

UCLA Center for the Study of Women
In Conjunction With
USC Center for Feminist Research


Announce
18th Annual Thinking Gender
Graduate Student Research Conference

Thinking Gender is a public conference highlighting graduate student research on women, sexuality, and gender across all disciplines and historical periods. We invite submissions for individual papers or pre-constituted panels. We especially welcome feminist research on women of color, the pre-modern, queerness, and the sciences.

For individual papers, please submit an abstract (250 words), a CV (2 pages maximum), and a brief bibliography (1 page maximum). For panels, please submit a 250-word description of the panel topic in addition to the materials required for the individual paper submissions.

Please reference the submission guidelines at http://www.csw.ucla.edu/thinkinggender.html.


Deadline for Submissions: Monday, October 29, 2007, by midnight.

We will only accept completed submissions emailed by the deadline.

Please send submissions to: thinkinggender@women.ucla.edu


Conference date and location:

Friday, February 1, 2008
UCLA FACULTY CENTER

@UIUC: Women Out/In Japan: Photos from the 9 April Performance

Here are some pics from the performance on Monday for those of you who made it and those who weren't able to. It was quite the experience and led to a great discussion afterward.

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

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


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


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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

@UIUC: Women Out/In Japan: Performance and Roundtable Discussion

Don't miss this exciting event here on campus!

Feminist performance artist Tari Ito and jazz musician SwingMasa will perform "Rubber Tit" in the Heritage Room at ACES Library (the octagonal building on the south quad) on Monday 9 April at 4:00. The performance will be followed by Q&A with the performers and then a roundtable discussion on female genders and sexualities in Japan with the performers as well as Elise Edwards of Butler University, our own Karen Kelsy (Head, EALC) and James Welker (PhD student, EALC).

Graduate students wishing to join Tari-san and Masa-san for lunch on Monday should contact James.



SwingMasa’s Reflections on Her Performance:

What it means to be “me” and the message of my jazz music, “Don’t Kill”:
My performance is for the recovery of “myself,” the me that is shrinking in this era of backlash and the rise of conservatism.

Tari Ito’s Reflections on Her Performance:

In the course of my daily life in Tokyo, I must face both the entrenched sexism and compulsory heterosexuality of this society. Even as I act with the hope of contributing to the visibility of lesbians, ultimately I cannot escape the feeling that I am being ignored. So—positively and with a big heart—I choose to toy with a giant rubber tit. I choose to pursue my sexual fantasies to my heart’s content. I chose the tit—a part of the body possessing a dangerous universality—with a consciousness of tits being something everyone is able to express strong feelings about, of tits being very political.

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

(a little far but....)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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