MCLC: Asian Cinema Studies Society 11--cfp

[Denton, Kirk]

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From: Gina Marchetti <gina.marchetti at gmail.com>
Subject: Asian Cinema Studies Society 11--cfp
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CALL FOR PAPERS
Post-Asia Film, Media and Popular Culture Conference
11th Asian Cinema Studies Society Conference

University of Macau
July 14-16, 2014

If the historical experiences of colonialism and imperialism, both
internal and external, have produced the asymmetries of Asia versus the
Rest, how does one address the problematics of Asia as an identity
category? Indeed how can one define ‘Asia’ or ‘Asian-ness’ without falling
into the traps of essentialism that glosses over the diversity of
experiences not only within the Asian region but also beyond -- where
sites of Asian-ness come to being, and where sights of Asian-ness float
about? How do film, media and popular culture and other cultural artifacts
expressive of the changing spectra of representations and identities --
whether created inside or outside Asia -- imagine that diversity in the
past and the present, as well as for the future? Do they otherwise
articulate sameness that cuts between Asia and the Rest? If essentialist
notions of identity can be tolerated as expedient means for political
ends, at what point do they become unquestioned categories for academic
inquiry? Can an interdisciplinary lingua frança be found to rethink Asia
beyond the terms of geographical, cultural, ethnic and national
essentialisms? Can ecologies of the ‘Inter-Asia’ and the ‘Sinophone’, and
other new critical categories, including the renewed take on
cosmopolitanism, de-territorialize ‘Asia’ and ‘Asian-ness’ without
reinscribing existing ontological dilemmas? Can ‘Asia’ and ‘Asian-ness’ be
de-Asianized? What is post-Asia?

To these ends, we call for paper and panel proposals for the 11th Asian
Cinema Studies Society Conference: Post-Asia Film, Media and Popular
Culture. With the support of the Department of Communication, Faculty of
Social Sciences, University of Macau, in conjunction with the Asian Cinema
Studies Society, the conference is planned for July 14-16, 2014, in Macau
SAR. Topics include, but are not limited to, the following areas:

Asia Cinema studies
Asian Media studies
Asian Popular Culture studies
Asian Cultural Studies
Cosmopolitan cinemas
Creative/Cultural Industries
Cross-media formats
Cultural and Media Ecologies
Cultural Policies
Genders and Sexualities
Global Communication
Identities and Representations
Media Communication
Nationalism and Transnationalism
New Media studies 
Postcolonial Theories and Criticisms
Postmodern cultures
Print media 
Sinophone Communication
TV studies

Language: English and Chinese.

Please send proposals of 200-300 words in RTF or WORD format. For all
proposals, be certain to include the title, author(s) name(s),
institutional affiliation, mailing address, and email contacts, as well as
a brief biography of each contributor. For panel, workshop, and group
submissions, be certain to provide a brief description (100 words) of the
contribution of each participant. Sessions will be 1 1/2 hours in
duration, and time limits will be strictly enforced.

The deadline for submission of proposals is 15th February 2014.
Notifications of acceptance will be sent out by early March 2014.

Selected papers will be published in the peer-reviewed biannual Asian
Cinema. Now published by Intellect Press (UK), this seminal journal has
long been the flagship publication of the Asian Cinema Studies Society.

http://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/journals/view-Journal,id=219/

Registration fee*:
Regular rate: USD200
Discount rate: USD125. This applies to participants from developing
countries in Asia such as India, Indonesia, Philippines, People’s Republic
of China (except Hong Kong) and Thailand, as well as full-time students
(with proof of identification).

* The registration includes access to all sessions, one-year ACSS
membership, one-year subscription to the Asian Cinema journal, tea/coffee
breaks, and one closing conference dinner.

Please submit your proposals to XU Xiaying, Richard (University of Macau):
asiancinema2014 at gmail.com.
All updated information will posted at: http://www.umac.mo/fss/comm/acss/

Principal organizing members:
TAN See Kam (University of Macau): tsktan at umac.mo <mailto:(tsktan at umac.mo>
Gary BETTINSON (University of Lancaster): g.bettinson at lancaster.ac.uk.
.