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The graduate students of the University of Pennsylvania seek abstracts for the fourth annual Center for Ancient Studies graduate student conference. This conference aims to explore the theme of competition in the ancient world. Competition was a key component of many aspects of life in the ancient world and was found in areas people in the 21st century might not expect. We plan to focus on the role of competition and its associations with society at large, be it in the form of games or sports, interactions between members of a community, rivalries between communities, or the way culture and literature channeled competition. Our goal in presenting this conference will be to compare how competition manifested itself in the disparate societies of the ancient world and highlight similarities across cultures.
The conference invites papers on topics involving competition such as (but, of course, not limited to):
Conspicuous consumption and status competition Games as education Competition as a structural force in society Political competition Ancient theories of competition Competition and literature Ideologies of competition Sports and diplomacy Place of athletes in the community
Submissions are welcome from graduate students working on ancient topics in such fields as: Ancient History, Anthropology, Archaeology, Art History, East Asian Studies, Classics, Egyptology, Linguistics, Middle Eastern Studies, Near Eastern Studies, Pre-Columbian Studies, Religious Studies, and South Asian Studies.
If you are interested in presenting a paper, please submit a 250-word abstract for a 15 minute talk by January 7, 2012 including your contact information (including name, institution, and e-mail) to Arthur T. Jones at ancient@sas.upenn.edu. Speakers will be notified of the status of their submissions by January 15, 2012.
We are currently seeking original academic papers on the theme of ‘deception’. Establishing as our starting point the distinction between truth and falsehood, we are interested in the question of how and to what purposes that distinction might be intentionally blurred. We welcome contributions that discuss the human, and also non-human, faculty to deceive, as well as the human potential to be deceived. Deception can take the form of propaganda or a glance, an image or an utterance, a presence or an absence, a ploy or a pledge, an action or a silence. The question of deception invites a multitude of discussions: political, linguistic, artistic, cultural, historical, anthropological, philosophical, psychological, and many more besides. Thus we welcome papers from any and all disciplines willing and able to engage academically in the issues, intricacies, and illuminations of the topic of deception in an East Asian context, from the ways deception is defined and figured in East Asian societies and cultures, to the very workings of deception in the figuring and definition of East Asia.
For those interested, we request that you provide an abstract (300 words maximum) as well as your personal and contact information by December 15, 2011. Submissions from both individuals and panels of three (panelists should send individual abstracts and a panel abstract) are encouraged.
Submitted papers are also eligible for consideration for the East Asia Forum, a journal edited and published by graduate students in the Department of East Asian Studies at the University of Toronto. Please indicate whether you wish to have your completed paper considered for publication.
Selected participants will be asked to submit completed papers by February 15, 2012. Those who wish their papers to be considered for publication should submit a publication-ready copy (about 4000 words) by March 31, 2012. During the conference, participants will be given 20 minutes to present their work; actual presentation papers should be about 1500-2500 words long.
Please e-mail submissions and queries to eas.gsc@utoronto.ca. Further information as it becomes available will be posted on the conference website at http://groups.chass.utoronto.ca/easgsc/
The 2012 CHINOPERL conference will be held as a one-day conference in conjunction with the AAS Meeting on Thursday, March 15, 2012 at the Sheraton Centre Toronto Hotel in Toronto, Canada. The CHINOPERL Program Committee welcomes submissions of papers on topics relating to Chinese oral and performing literature. Presentations at the annual meeting may be delivered in English or Chinese. Individual paper abstracts in 250 words or panel proposals to be considered for presentation should be sent to Wenwei Du at wedu@vassar.edu by January 2, 2012. CHINOPERL’s website: http://chinalinks.osu.edu/chinoperl/
March 15-16. The 13th Annual IMI Conference on Intercultural Relations. The School of International Service, American University, Washington, D.C., USA
http://www.american.edu/sis/imi/conference/index.cfmwith a Pre-Conference Symposium, The Khan Experience, on March 14.
IMI's Annual Conference brings together approximately 250 of the top U.S. and international intercultural trainers, scholars and educators. The composition of our registrants is almost equally divided among the educational, governmental, corporate and nonprofit sectors, with a slightly higher nonprofit and educational sector presence.
The IMI conference offers varied, hands-on workshops and seminars to individuals concerned with advancing intercultural relations. The conference also provides direct networking opportunities with decision makers from a wide range of organizations. Session presenters include intercultural professionals from international business, academia, government, military, international education, training, and international human resources.
Hallyu (the Korean Wave), a term coined to describe the widespread popularity and regional/trans-regional influence of Korean cultural products, has recently come into its own as a subject of academic inquiry and broad intellectual interest. However, while much attention has been paid to the impact of the Korean Wave on Korea’s national image or domestic economy, as well as its implications for transnational cultural flow, there has been little discussion about the impact of new communication technologies, such as social media.
Hallyu is indeed entering the new age of social media. For the last few years, Facebook, Twitter, youtube, cyworld, and myriad social networking websites have boosted the dissemination of Korea’s popular media contents to regions where the traditional media-- theatrical distributions, TV networks, and DVD/VCD sales-- had never reached before. Korean films, TV dramas and variety shows, online games, comics, and popular songs are now being shared, distributed and consumed in cyberspace at an unprecedented pace.
“Hallyu 2.0: The Korean Wave in the Age of Social Media” conference seeks to comprehend and interpret the meaning of this new and powerful cultural industry. The conference will stage interdisciplinary dialogues among scholars of cinema, media, and visual studies, and of area studies and communication studies, by implicating multiple approaches in deciphering the intricate web of contemporary media ecosystems.
Examples of topics to consider:
1) Social networking culture
2) American/Asian American reception of Korean TV dramas and K-pop
3) K-pop idols and cyber fan cultures
4) Youtube, Hulu, and other web-based media streaming services
5) Government digital policy
6) Mobile media
7) Online Games
8) Anti-hanryu activities in Japan, PRC, and Taiwan
9) Twitter, blogs, mini-homepages, and podcasts
Interested scholars should submit a CV and 400-word abstract by e-mail to Sangjoon Lee (leesangj@umich.edu). The conference is open to graduate students. The deadline for submissions is December 1, 2011. The authors of accepted submissions will be notified by December 15. A full paper of 7000-8000 words will be requested by March 15, 2012. Participants will receive accommodations and travel grants. Conference organizers plan to have selected papers published in an edited volume or a special issue of a journal.
Organizers:
Sangjoon Lee (Nam Center/Department of Screen Arts and Cultures, University of Michigan), Abe Markus Nornes (Department of Screen Arts and Cultures, University of Michigan), and Nojin Kwak (Nam Center/Department of Communication Studies, University of Michigan)
Sponsor:
Nam Center for Korean Studies, University of Michigan
Academy of Korean Studies, Korea
Co-sponsor:
Department of Communication Studies and Department of Screen Arts and Cultures, University of Michigan
* Please note: This conference may continue through the following Saturday depending on the number of submissions accepted.
The College of Arts, University of Glasgow, is excited to announce Spaces of (Dis)location, a two-day multidisciplinary graduate conference taking place on 24–25 May, 2012.
As national and cultural boundaries are blurred in our increasingly global society, the ideas of space and location – whether physical or metaphysical, real or imaginary – are evolving. This notion provides the stimulus for a conference that we hope will inspire creativity and debate across many subjects in the arts and humanities.
A major aim of this conference is to foster networks and connections across different institutions and subjects. It is also our intention to publish an edited volume with articles from this conference through the University of Glasgow's international postgraduate research journal eSharp.
Possible topics may include, but are not limited to:
- Ideas of space: physical and imaginary
- Spatial dichotomies (urban/rural, public/private)
- Globalization
- Localism
- Cultural and natural spaces
- Adaptation (literary, linguistic, cinematic, etc.)
- Cultural diaspora
- Immigration
- Spaces of performance
- The space of the body
We welcome submissions of abstracts for papers in the classic 20-minute format, but are also keen to accept different presentation formats. There will be a poster session and a Pecha Kucha session on each day of the conference and we would welcome your submissions in these formats too.
A Pecha Kucha presentation consists of 20 slides, each shown for exactly 20 seconds, so the entire presentation will therefore last 6 minutes and 40 seconds. It is an engaging and challenging format for researchers at every stage of their career, but provides a particularly creative format for those just starting their research to receive feedback on their project design and initial findings.
The poster sessions will take place during conference coffee breaks. Presenters will have the opportunity to briefly introduce their poster and then the posters will all be on display during the break. The poster session will offer a space for presenters to introduce their research to other participants and, like the Pecha Kucha format, is particularly helpful to those just starting their research.
In addition to the poster and Pecha Kucha formats, we will also accept proposals for short performance pieces or films that reflect the themes of the conference. If you wish to submit such a proposal, please also provide us with any technical specifications that your piece will require.
Please submit abstracts or proposals of no more than 250 words as e-mail attachments to: arts-pgconference@glasgow.ac.uk. Please include a 50 word biography and specify which presentation format you would like to use.
Deadline for submissions is Friday 9th March 2012.
More information regarding the conference (including information on accommodation and transportation) can be found on the conference's Wordpress page: http://spacesofdislocation.wordpress.com/
Co-sponsored by Beihang University (Beijing University of Aeronautics & Astronautics) and Christopher Newport University, the International Conference of Environmental Governance in China will be held on June 2-3, 2012, at Beihang University, Beijing, China.
Description
China’s environment has drawn great concerns in recent decades as the country rapidly catches up in industrialization and modernization. This booming economy, however, has come alongside with an environmental crisis, which affects not only the livelihood of the Chinese citizens and the survival of the regime, but also the relationship between China and the rest of the world. In the past decades, Chinese government has been striking to address the issue through various channels, but the outcomes have not yet been fully assessed and understood.
This conference aims to draw the best experts in this field in order to stimulate the discussion and improve our understanding of the issue for better research and policy decisions in the future. Scholars and practitioners across disciplines are invited to submit papers and panels following the themes listed below:
1. Environment in China: status, change, and future
2. Environmental Governance: dynamics, obstacles, and strategies
3. Environmental Impact Assessment: decision-making and public participation
4. Firms, Laws and Regulations: enforcement and compliance
5. Environment, Growth, and Social Development
6. Environmental Politics: actors, interests and institutions
7. Environmental Protests, Movements, and Non-governmental Organizations (ENGOs): confrontation and collaboration
8. Globalization and Political Economy of Chinese Environment
9. Environmental Conflict and Cooperation: China and the world
We will invite renowned scholars, Chinese officials, and representatives of domestic/ international environmental organizations and firms as keynote speakers in order to facilitate the dialogue between scholars, policymakers, and private sectors. Well-researched conference papers will have the opportunity to be included in edited books.
Proposal Submission and Contact
Please email your paper abstract or panel proposal up to 300 words in length along with a brief bio of the author no later than March 10, 2012 to Dr. Huisheng Shou at Christopher Newport University (Huisheng_shou@hotmail.com) and Dr. Bingqiang Ren at Beihang University (ren_bingqiang@yahoo.com.cn), co-chairs of the conference organizing committee. Registration details for the conference and acceptance letters will be sent shortly after that. For those who require a formal letter for travel and visa purposes, please send your proposal early and indicate accordingly.
Conference Accommodation
The conference organizers will provide FREE lodging and meals during the conference session for all participants, and will also provide certain sightseeing activities following the conference.
The aim of this conference is to question the ways in which we tend to divide the maritime world into spatial blocs such as the 'Atlantic World', the concept of 'Mediterranean' blocs, the 'Indian Ocean' and so on. Instead, we wish to focus on the nature of maritime connections between two such maritime spheres, namely the 'Pacific' world and a space that is often characterized by scholars of the pre-modern period as the 'East Asian Mediterranean'.
Our starting point is East Asia in the nineteenth century, when maritime history is often framed by scholarly interest in the establishment and workings of the treaty port system. By placing East Asia in a wider Pacific context, one that reflects the reality of steamships beginning to cross greater distances with relative ease, we hope to broaden our understanding of the ways in which maritime space was both imagined and lived during the long nineteenth century. Thus, instead of focusing on land-based issues such as extraterritoriality, we want to examine the relationship between ports and new maritime networks, so as to develop a more fluid, comparative sense of shifting East Asian-Pacific sovereignties in this period. Drawing on the new maritime history of the British empire (in particular, elastic concepts of a 'British Sea', of 'home' on the water and of the naval 'theatre'), we want to consider the relationship between ships, the sea and the East Asian/Western imperial imagination. To complement our focus on sovereignty and imagination, we plan also to examine the significance of the increasing numbers of goods, peoples and even diseases crossing between and within East Asia and the Pacific. In short, how -if at all- does the categorization of 'Asian' and 'Pacific' maritime blocs in this period change when we attempt to write connected histories 'on' as well as 'of' the sea?
We welcome submissions to answer these questions and many more from scholars working within history and related disciplines, and on all aspects of East Asia and the Pacific World. The organizers of the conference plan to create an edited volume out of the conference papers. To that end, please send your proposed titles, institutional affiliation (and year of study, in the case of doctoral students), and abstracts of 400-500 words as a Word attachment to Ms Shupin Lang (lang@asia-europe.uni-heidelberg.de) by 31 January 2012. Successful participants will be informed by mid-February 2012 and will be expected to submit their conference papers for discussion by 31 May 2012. Following the conference, we would anticipate sending full-length chapters out for review in November 2012. Any questions on the theme of the conference should be sent to martin.dusinberre@ncl.ac.uk.
To support the participation of scholars from around the world, we can offer hotel accommodation in Heidelberg and travel assistance. Please indicate your anticipated travel costs at the end of your abstract.
September 7-8, 2012 Bangor University UK
The aim of this interdisciplinary conference is to focus on questions of ‘cultural translation’ in all its forms and constructs. As global identity becomes increasingly defined by questions of communication across languages and cultures the role of ‘translation’ becomes key in the forging of new subjectivities.
Topics could include (although are not limited to) :
1. Adaption in literature, film and media
2. Interplay between East Asian nations
3. Construction of ‘East Asia’ as a theoretical/political/cultural concept
4. A focus on the interplay between ‘East Asia’ and the ‘West’
5. Global Dissemination of East Asian Popular Culture.
6. Creative writing and literary translation as cross-cultural tool
We would especially welcome practice-led works from artists, translators, filmmakers and writers. Panel submissions (3-4 people) are also very welcome.
This conference is broadly considering Mainland China, Taiwan, Mongolia, Hong Kong, North Korea, South Korea, Japan, Philippines, Cambodia, Thailand, Vietnam, Singapore, Malaysia and Indonesia to be the geographical area of focus however comparative studies are very welcome.
There are plans for a special edition journal as a direct result of this conference.
Any questions or queries please don't hesitate to contact the organisers: Dr Kate Taylor-Jones (k.taylor@bangor.ac.uk) and
Dr Yan Ying (y.ying@bangor.ac.uk)
Website: https://sites.google.com/site/culturaltranslationbangorwales/home/call-for-papers
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