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working on the arts and material cultures of Asia from the eighteenth century to the present to submit previously unpublished papers of 4,500-10,000 words for publication.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

Program: Summer Program on Japanese Visual Culture in Tokyo (16 Feb; 18 May-29 June)

For the sixth consecutive year, an exciting six-week Summer Program on Japanese Visual Culture will take place at the Tokyo Campus of Temple University Japan (TUJ), May 18 – June 29, 2009 (tentative dates). This program consists of two coordinated courses: the first focuses on approaches to studying the richness and complexity of visual culture in Japan; the second allows students to develop modest visual projects (digital still, video or web) on selective topics immediately relevant to visual culture. Instruction is in English. All course work will be supplemented with an active program of cultural events, trips and lectures in and around Tokyo. Students live in Temple dormitories alongside Japanese students studying English at TUJ. This program grants course credits to both undergraduate and graduate students.

For additional information, details, and application forms see:
http://www.temple.edu/studyabroad/programs/summer/japan/visual-anthro.html

Application deadline: February 16, 2009.

R. Chalfen and L. Powell

"China Vision" (publication; 1 Oct)

It's a bit late but if you already have something pretty much ready to go....

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GLIMPSE explores the variety of aspects of visual perception by publishing relevant works from the physical sciences, social sciences, arts, and humanities. GLIMPSE examines the functions and processes of vision and its implications for being, knowing, and constructing our world/s. Each theme-focused journal issue features articles and essays, artists' visual essays, interviews, and reviews.
GLIMPSE invites submissions for upcoming themed issues. Since we strive to spark inquiry and dialogue across disciplines, and across academic and non-academic audiences alike, it is important that our articles avoid jargon and be accessible to readers from diverse backgrounds. Stylistically, we are more like a magazine than an academic journal, however, in depth of content, we value conceptual precision and rigor.

SUBMISSIONS http://www.glimpsejournal.com/contribute.html

Deadlines: China Vision --------- 01 October 2008
Vision and Language -- 15 December 2008
Visions -------------- 15 December 2008
Cosmos --------------- 01 March 2009
Blindness ------------ 01 March 2009

Editor
Glimpse Journal
PO Box 382178
Cambridge, MA 02238-2178
Email: editor at glimpsejournal.com"
Visit the website at http://www.glimpsejournal.com

CFP: Imag(in)ing Asia and the Pacific: Emerging Visualities and Art Perspectives (1 Dec; 20-21 Feb; Ithaca, NY)

Imag(in)ing Asia and the Pacific: Emerging Visualities and Art Perspectives
Department of the History of Art and Visual Studies Annual Graduate Symposium
Cornell University

The symposium addresses the 20th century processes of decolonization, modernization, and nation-building that characterized the regions of Asia and the Pacific. These structures are revisited in the 21st century in the wake of globalization, and art practice in recent years has sought to address these questions, variously embracing or resisting their assumptions, politicizing their implications, or challenging discourse around such formulations. Not only are the cities of Asia and the Pacific growing, but have also become major centers of art, with mega-exhibitions and biennales that crucially forge regional identities and affinities. The symposium aims to explore these emerging visualities in the light of the complex, and changing socio-political and economic issues that affect countries, peoples, institutions and practice in the region.
Keynote speaker to be announced.

We encourage submissions that focus on visuality, however, and can be from a range of disciplines, including but not limited to Asian Studies, Pacific Studies, History of Art, History, Visual Studies, Anthropology, Sociology, Studio Art, Architecture, Literature, Theatre, Film, and Dance.

Of the many possible engagements with our theme, some include, but are not limited to:

* Classifications, geographies and identities - Possibilities of "Asian" and/or "Pacific" art: art and the archive (Hong Kong), and the museum (Fukuoka, Wellington, etc.).
* Forging regional "cultural" alliances: Inter-Asia theatre, Asia Pacific Triennale, Pacific Arts Festival, etc.
* Art and the city - cities as sites, cities as centers. Global cities and new urbanities (e.g. Shanghai, Mumbai, Auckland, Sydney, etc.) Cities as sites of public art. Exhibitions such as
Cities on the Move, Paradise Now?,, etc. Biennales such as Singapore, Gwangju, Sydney and new biennales and triennals being planned.
* Traditional Practices, New Media, and Art against the grain. Negotiation of tradition and technology in practice. Space for national heritage and culture and emerging alternative spaces/media for art.
* Economies of Art: The movement of art from the region across the global art market and the recent booms. The role of museums, galleries and auction houses.

Please submit abstracts of no more than 500 words for all proposals, along with brief biographical information and special equipment requests if necessary. Submissions should be sent electronically to the organizers.

Bernida Webb-Binder and Brinda Kumar, Conference Organizers
Cornell University
Visit the website at http://www.arts.cornell.edu/histart/symposium.html

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

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

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

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

Abstracts due on 5 September 2008 by email to -

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

CFP: Asian Visual Cultures Workshop (UC Irvine; 16 Mar; 13 Apr)

University of California, Irvine
April 13, 2008

Graduate students of the departments of East Asian Languages and Cultures, Comparative Literature, and Visual Studies at the University of California, Irvine invite submissions from graduate students, independent scholars, and visual artists/filmmakers for a one-day workshop on Asian
Visual Cultures. This workshop aims to create a space for dialogue among those interested in Asia and visual cultures (including but not limited to art, cinema, games, theater, architecture, animation) beyond disciplinary frameworks in order to explore methodologies, theories, and objects of analysis.

We hope that this workshop will become an ongoing forum for sharing ideas, difficulties, and criticism around dialoguing research interests and dissertation projects.

This workshop will be experimental in nature. Instead of a conventional conference format, we imagine spending more time providing feedback to each presenter in a round-table discussion after each paper is presented. Also, presentations need not follow the standard of 'reading' papers. Let's talk about the work in progress, methodological difficulties, and theoretical impasses.

While there is no limitation to possible topics, we would be very interested in the following questions and problematics:

Cinema and Erotics
Affect and spectatorship
Genre Practice and its historicity
Transnational Asian Films: Production and reception
Feminist visual theory and criticism
Film festivals
Memory and history
Familiar/familial space
Queer visual culture
Vernacular modernity and urban space
Medium specificity
Re-imagining field/discipline
Film studies/area studies
Methodology, epistemology, objects of analysis
"Death" of cinema/ "rise" of "digital"

The deadline for submissions is Sunday, March 16, 2008. Please email a brief abstract (200-350) to Yun-Jong Lee

Please feel free to contact us for more information at: Yuka Kanno or Erin Huang