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<p><b>“The Aesthetics of the Tropics” Conference CFP</b><br />
June 23-24, 2017 | Nanyang Technological University, Singapore<br />
Language: English or Chinese</p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">The conference “The Aesthetics of the Tropics” invites multidisciplinary papers that focus on the tropics as a location of cultural encounter and innovation, a trope of imagination, desire, and memory, or a site of knowledge production and social engineering. If the tropics loom large in the foundational writings of anthropology as an academic discipline, the melancholy embedded in Levi-Strauss’s <i>Tristes Tropiques</i> speaks unmistakably to the impossibility of authentic cultural encounters and the catastrophic result such encounters may cost the indigenous societies. In academic fields ranging from anthropology, history, to postcolonial studies, the tropics not only continue to function as a key site for the self-understanding of human culture and history, but are also inextricably entangled in a cultural logic that reinforces the north-south, self-other, colonizer-colonized demarcation and the struggle against it. While “the south” evokes in Chinese culture rich connotations such as the barbaric, the exotic, or the radical revolutionary, the boundary and the hierarchy between the center and the periphery is no less prominent. From the perspective of the outsiders to that of the indigenous, this conference seeks to revisit and reformulate, through the lens of the tropics, the cultural, historical, gender, linguistic, geographical, environmental, medical, and /or technological discourses regarding the region. </span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">Confirmed keynote speakers:</span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">Professor David Damrosch (Director of World Literature Institute, and Ernest Bernbaum Professor and Chair, Department of Comparative Literature, Harvard University)</span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">Professor Chen Sihe 陳思和教授 (Fudan University, China; Changjiang Scholar, China; International Advisory Panel member to Chinese program at NTU)</span><span class="s1"> </span></p>
<p class="p3"><span class="s1">The deadline for proposal submission is April 10, 2017.</span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">All proposals should include:</span></p>
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<li class="p4"><span class="s1">Paper title and abstract (300 words max)</span></li>
<li class="p4"><span class="s1">presenter’s personal info (name, affiliation, mailing address, email address) </span></li>
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<p class="p1"><span class="s1">Please submit proposals by e-mail to <a href="mailto:RC-LITCULT@ntu.edu.sg"><span class="s3"><a href="mailto:RC-LITCULT@ntu.edu.sg">RC-LITCULT@ntu.edu.sg</a></span></a></span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">You may also contact conference secretary, Dr Woo Hyo Kyung (<a href="mailto:hkwoo@ntu.edu.sg"><span class="s4"><a href="mailto:hkwoo@ntu.edu.sg">hkwoo@ntu.edu.sg</a></span></a>), or Chun Chun Ting (<a href="mailto:ccting@ntu.edu.sg"><span class="s4"><a href="mailto:ccting@ntu.edu.sg">ccting@ntu.edu.sg</a></span></a>) for inquiries.</span></p>
<p class="p5"><span class="s5">Learn more about the conference at <a href="http://www.hss.ntu.edu.sg/aesthetics/"><span class="s6"><a href="http://www.hss.ntu.edu.sg/aesthetics/" rel="nofollow">http://www.hss.ntu.edu.sg/aesthetics/</a></span></a></span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1"> Posted by: Ting Chun Chun <<a href="mailto:ccting@ntu.edu.sg">ccting@ntu.edu.sg</a>></span></p>
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by <a href="mailto:denton.2@osu.edu">denton.2@osu.edu</a> on February 6, 2017 </div>
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