MCLC: ACCL 2012 conference--cfp

[Denton, Kirk]

MCLC LIST
From: Lupke, Christopher <lupke at wsu.edu>
Subject: ACCL 2012 conference--cfp
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Global Sinophonia:
Association of Chinese and Comparative Literature
Conference

December 17, 18, 19, 2012
Institute of Chinese Literature and Philosophy
Academia Sinica
Taipei, Taiwan

Call for Paper Proposals

In conjunction with the Institute of Chinese Literature and Philosophy,
the conference of the Association of Chinese and Comparative Literature
will be held December 17, 18, 19, 2012 at Academia Sinica in Taipei,
Taiwan. This conference will be composed of participants based on an open
call for proposals of papers and panel presentations. We will make every
effort to accommodate as many presenters as possible: senior scholars,
scholars early in their careers, and advanced graduate students. We also
will strive to attract an array of pre-modern studies scholars, modern
studies scholars, Chinese specialists and comparatists.

The theme is ³Global Sinophonia.² We invite prospective presenters to
think broadly about such topics as the impact that the emergence of China
as a world economic and political power has had on the study of literature
and cultural studies; the complexity of multiple Chinese speaking
societies both inside mainland China and elsewhere; the status of Taiwan
and Hong Kong as alternative Sinophonic societies to the PRC; the notion
of multiculturalism, multi-ethnicity, and multi-lingualism in Sinophone
communities; reassessments of traditional Chinese culture in the light of
globalization, the emergence of China as a world power, and multiple
cultural centers for Chinese culture and literature; and the impact on the
natural environment in East Asia in the wake of global economic expansion
and its representation in various comparative forms.

Questions that could be asked in framing papers and panels for the
conference might include, but are not restricted to, the following: What
is the impact of global consciousness on contemporary Chinese literature?
How is identity being reconfigured in China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and
overseas, given that we are now linked by the immediacy of technological
communication? How is pre-modern Chinese literature to be re-thought in
education, given the power of China in the contemporary world? Is/should
traditional Chinese literature be rethought and more prominently inserted
into the canon of literary ³world classics,² given the emergence of China
economically and given the immigration of Chinese throughout the world?
What is the role of Chinese studies in larger academic associations such
as the MLA? What do literature and film tell us about migratory realities?
Is it even relevant to think of Chinese culture in terms of a cohesive
nation-state? Do porous borders mean more attention can now be assigned to
indigenous groups and minority nationalities? How is the discourse on
Taiwanese culture a counter-hegemonic force against dominant tendencies of
Han culture? How can we compare the cinematic culture of Hong Kong,
Taiwan, China, and overseas Chinese? How do we negotiate the different
approaches of nation-centric studies of Chinese (language) studies and
comparative versions? Would comparisons between mainland culture and
Sinophonic cultures outside the PRC be considered transnational? Are new
paradigms of cultural analysis needed to adequately make sense of the
contemporary world? How do individual author/filmmaker studies intervene
in an environment in which social forces appear to diminish individual
achievement? How is Chinese literature to be reinterpreted given the
advent of the internet? Do new digital platforms, methods of social
networking, and technological home appliances such as smart phones,
I-pads, laptop computers, and other tools affect the way we approach the
study of Chinese literature, both traditional and modern? What is the
impact of new modes of distributing literature and scholarship on literary
and cultural studies? What remains unchanging in literature and culture
and in our study of them despite the changes in technology, economy,
and/or politics?

Topics need not be confined to the aforementioned questions. We entertain
submissions on a wide range of subjects, epochs, genres, methods, media,
and perspectives. It is important to the success of the conference that
participants are drawn from a wide diversity of viewpoints. We encourage
submissions on all facets of Chinese studies, traditional and modern,
comparative studies, gender studies, LGBT studies, cinema studies, textual
and philological studies, period studies, poststructural, postmodern and
postcolonial studies, environmental studies, anthropological, sociological
and philosophical interactions with literary and cultural studies, and
others not cited in this list. We actively encourage scholars from Taiwan,
China, Hong Kong, other parts of Asia, North American, Europe, Oceana, and
other regions to submit proposals.

We have established a committee that will review all proposals. Send
paper proposals of approximately 400-500 words or panel proposals with an
overall abstract and abstracts for each paper of 400-500 words each to
Christopher Lupke lupke at wsu.edu by July 15, 2012. Notification of
acceptance will likely be made no later than August 15, 2012.