CFP: "WOMEN IN EAST ASIAN CINEMA", CHINESE FILM FORUM UK CONFERENCE

"Women in East Asian Cinema"

A Chinese Film Forum UK Conference

HOME, Manchester 4 – 6 December 2019

Keynote Speaker: 

Dr Jinhee Choi, King's College London

Recent interventions into global film and processes of canonisation have worked to highlight the contributions of women in spaces and discourses previously dominated by men. Yet, despite these social and academic movements, women remain under-represented across vital areas of film culture as recent discussions of the 2019 Oscars and the 2018 Cannes Film Festival have shown. This event aims to highlight the increasing English-language research of contributions by self-identifying women in East Asian cinema and to interrogate questions of representation, labour, and production contexts. For English speaking fans, academics and researchers based outside of East Asia, this work is all the more important as a counter to the limiting and selective problems of international film festivals and regional distribution.

CFP: "ASIAN TEXT, GLOBAL CONTEXT", THE CALA 2020 ANNUAL CONFERENCE ON ASIAN LINGUISTIC ANTHROPOLOGY

The CALA 2020; Asian Text, Global Context

The (annual) Conference on Asian Linguistic Anthropology 2020

February 5-8, 2020

Universiti Putra Malaysia. Bintulu, Sarawak, Malaysia.

Themed Asian Text, Global Context, The CALA 2020 will represent over 300 years of East-West global interaction, communication, and transnationalism. Throughout, symbolisms of Asian ‘texts’ have been significantly emphasized, (re)interpreted, contested, and distorted, while employed for cultural and political purpose. Asian texts have become highly representational, authenticating, and legitimizing sociopolitical and cultural devices, and their potency should not be underestimated. Never have these texts shown more significance than in the present, as their intensified use, and their qualities in Asian identities long contested, seek this Linguistic Anthropological exploration.

DIPLOMA DE ESPECIALIZACIÓN EN RELACIONES COREA-NORESTE ASIÁTICO, ESPAÑA Y LATINOAMÉRICA

La Universidad de Málaga ha desarrollado un intenso proyecto de internacionalización con Corea desde 2006, conectando con diversos agentes dentro y fuera de España, Y en especial con la Universidad Nacional de Incheon (Corea) y la Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León (México). La Universidad de Málaga se ha convertido en uno de los muchos agentes activos en la globalización de Andalucía y España con Corea y México. Desde la actividad propia de la universidad, la situación requería una reflexión académica de dicho fenómeno para comprenderlo. Por otra parte, en tanto que la internacionalización de las instituciones y empresas crea nuevas oportunidades de empleabilidad, se quiere ofrecer desde la Universidad un programa que traslade las reflexiones académicas a dichas posibilidades de desarrollo económico y profesional.

DIPLOMA DE ESTUDIOS COREANOS EN EL INSTITUTO COMPLUTENSE DE ESTUDIOS INTERNACIONALES DE MADRID

Este Diploma ofrece un conocimiento general, multidisciplinario y actualizado sobre los problemas contemporáneos de la República de Corea. De igual manera, pretende desarrollar una especialización en temas de historia, cultura, economía, política y relaciones internacionales. Este curso aspira a fortalecer los vínculos institucionales entre la Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM) y Corea de Sur a través de la colaboración con la Embajada de dicho país en España.

El Instituto Complutense de Estudios Internacionales (ICEI) ha venido realizando a lo largo de estos años una intensa actividad de investigación, formación y debate orientados a los estudios internacionales.

CFP: "ASIA AS ACTION: SCALING ETHNOGRAPHY OF THE EVERYDAY", GRADUATE STUDENT CONFERENCE

Asia as Action: Scaling Ethnography of the Everyday

A Graduate Student Conference

The University of Chicago Center in Beijing

June 21st-22nd, 2019

Keynote Speaker: Viren Murthy, Associate Professor of History, University of Wisconsin-Madison:

The University of Chicago Center in Beijing is inviting graduate students and emerging scholars to participate in a graduate student conference to consider the meaning and politics of “Asia” in everyday contexts. In 1960, Takeuchi Yoshimi, a Japanese scholar of Chinese literature, delivered a lecture on “Asia as Method” to challenge fellow Japanese intellectuals to consider their nation and region from the global historical situation of “Asia.”  If the telos of modernization is not that of imperialist conquest in the wake of decolonization, peoples of “Asia” must reckon anew with modern ideas spread from the West while pushing back against its colonial histories toward actualizing global equality. An intuitive rather than programmatic formulation, “Asia as method” refers to this ongoing project of collective subject-formation. Takeuchi saw the scholar’s object as “a nation’s people in regard to their thoughts and feelings, and through this…their everyday existence”. Following suit, we seek to estrange and embrace the notion of “Asia” as a call to scholarly action. We ask, how can methodologies in the social sciences and humanities re-center around “Asia” while being informed by the everyday practices, habits, affects and thoughts of ordinary actors? Recognizing the challenge of using ethnography to represent the complexities of regional constructs like “Asia,” we encourage innovative ways of scaling the local and the everyday to speak to inter-Asian histories, politics and cultures.

CFP: "INFRASTRUCTURE", ISSUE 6.2, VERGE: STUDIES IN GLOBAL ASIAS

"INFRASTRUCTURE"

Issue 6.2

Verge: Studies in Global Asias

 

The infrastructures of the modern world—from roads and railways to global communications, from codes of law to the code within computers—move things, people, and ideas and help craft regions and urban spaces while conveying the images that people use to shape selves and communities. In all these ways, infrastructures have been central to the historical and contemporary experiences of Asian communities. Across the humanities and social sciences, however, infrastructure has only recently emerged as a topic of focus, and questions remain about how to analyze infrastructures as material artifacts and media of the imagination, to read for their appearances in literature or interpret representations of them in film, and to understand their role in contemporary aesthetic, political, or ecological practices.

CFP: "ESOTERIC BUDDHISM AND EAST ASIAN SOCIETY", INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE

International Conference on “Esoteric Buddhism and East Asian Society”

(Aug 2 to Aug 4, 2019, Xi’an 西安 and Zhen’an 鎮安, Shaanxi province)

The organizing committee for the international conference on “Esoteric Buddhism and East Asian Society” cordially invites the submission of related papers. The conference is hosted by the Association for the Promotion of Xuanzang-associated Culture 玄奘文化促進會 in Xi’an 西安, Shaanxi province, co-organized by the From the Ground Up Project based at the University of British Columbia (www.frogbear.org), Guiyuan Monastery 歸元寺 in Xi’an, Shaanxi, Xinglong Monastery 興隆寺 in Zhen’an 鎮安, Shaanxi, and the Jintai Academy 金臺書院, Shaanxi. The conference will be held between August 2 and August 4, 2019 in Xi’an and the Jintai Academy in Zhen’an.

It has been thirty-two years since the discovery of the underground chamber at Famen Monastery 法門寺, west of Xi’an. The discovery of this chamber fascinated the world not only with its rare treasures, but also the esoteric implements and offerings that had been preserved there more than a millennium ago. This discovery allows us to glimpse the design and the high artistic achievements represented by Tang religious artifacts and reveals the significant role that Esoteric Buddhism assumed during the Tang dynasty. For instance, similar to Esoteric Buddhism in medieval Japan where influences can be seen across all levels of society, Esoteric Buddhism under the Tang was unique: not only in that it achieved a recognizable sectarian identity, but also because elements of esoteric teachings were absorbed by other religious schools, influencing their philosophical tenets and everyday practices. Some scholars have recently shed new light on the important role that the esoteric tradition played in the formation of Chan teachings and its central narrative of transmission from master to disciple.

CFP: "BEYOND THE PRINTING PRESS: ALTERNATIVE MEANS OF PRODUCTION IN THE GLOBAL HISTORY OF PRINT", INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE

Beyond the printing press: 

Alternative means of production in the global history of print

An international conference to be held at the Royal Asiatic Society, London 

26 June 2019

Conference convener: Dr Vaibhav Singh, British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Reading

Typewriters, duplicators, copiers, and a myriad other means of production and reproduction of textual/visual matter have been a vital part of print cultures across the world. The ‘agents of change’ in the global history of printing and publishing, across the twentieth century in particular, have been other processes, other mechanisms, other devices than the printing press. This conference focuses on the role of such alternative or additional means of knowledge production and dissemination – tools like stencils, mimeographs, duplicators, photocopiers, the processes of strike-on and rub-down lettering, cyclostyle, xerography, to name just a few. Despite their marginal location in print history such means and processes of production have had significant influence in wide-ranging contexts of political activism, countercultures, resistance and student movements, and indeed in confronting and challenging censorship. But they have also been indispensable in mundane office use, and in the day-to-day personal consumption of, and access to, information. 

CFP: "BETWEEN THE SACRED & THE SECULAR, FROM THE INTERNAL TO THE EXTERNAL: BUDDHISM & EDUCATION IN THE PAN-EAST ASIAN CONTEXT", INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE

International Conference: Between the Sacred & the Secular, from the Internal to the External:

Buddhism & Education in the Pan-East Asian Context

亦僧亦俗、自內及外：東亞大視野下的佛教與教育

國際研討會

Great Bamboo Grove Monastery 大聖竹林, Mount Wutai 五臺山, Shanxi, China;

June 3-5, 2019

The organizing committee for the international conference on “Between the Sacred & the Secular, from the Internal to the External: Buddhism and Education in the Pan-East Asian Context” cordially invites the submission of related papers. The conference is organized by the Wutai Research Institute for Eastern Buddhist Culture 五臺山東方佛教文化研究院 in Shanxi, China, co-organized by the Research Center for Buddhist Texts and Arts (RCBTA) at Peking University 北京大學佛教典籍與藝術研究中心, Institute for Ethics and Religions Studies (IERS) at Tsinghua University 清華大學倫理與宗教研究院, Center for East Asian Religions at the University of Zhejiang (ZU-CEAR) 浙江大學東亞宗教文化研究中心, and the From the Ground Up project based at the University of British Columbia. The conference will be held between June 3 and June 5, 2019 at the Great Bamboo Grove Monastery 大聖竹林 on Mount Wutai 五臺山.

CFP: CALL FOR SUPPLEMENTUM, ARCHIV ORIENTALNI JOURNAL

Supplementum

Archiv Orientalni (ArOr)

 23:59 (CET) on 30th March, 2019

Archiv Orientalni (ArOr) is an indexed, peer-reviewed academic journal dedicated to the cultures and societies of Africa, Asia and the Middle East. ArOr is listed in Scopus, Thomson Reuters, and ERIH Plus and is accessible via ProQuest and EBSCO. The journal was founded in 1929 and has an uninterrupted history of high academic standards since then, aiming at reaching both the academic public as well as a wider readership interested in the areas covered.

Topics for a Supplementum can range in scope, discipline and time, provided they are concerned with the geographical areas covered by the journal; interdisciplinary or cross region themes are strongly supported. Supplementa normally consist of an introductory article (approximately 5,000 to 10,000 words) and 6-8 chapters (7,000 to 10,000 words). Each Supplementum is overseen by one (or more) guest editor whose name appears on the front cover.