CFP: ASIAN SOUND CULTURES CONFERENCE, THE UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD

Asian Sound Cultures Conference

The University of Sheffield, UK

The Asian Sound Cultures Project is delighted to announce our second conference, to be held at The University of Sheffield from 18-19 September 2024. The second conference will build upon the success of the inaugural conference at Tokyo University of Foreign Studies in 2018 and the resulting book Asian Sound Cultures Project (Routledge, London, 2022), which opened up new avenues for research and cooperation. In Sheffield, we aim to further explore the evolving soundscapes of Asia, their impact on global sound studies, and interdisciplinary approaches to research, performance, and pedagogy.

Asia’s sounds are dynamic, influenced by historical, social, and technological factors, as well as historical processes of transformation that are both global and local. The study of sound is multi-disciplinary and evolving, incorporating musicology, linguistics, anthropology, cultural studies, technology, history, media, and more. The role of sound in shaping cultures, identities, and societies is profound and multifaceted. It is clear that the diverse historical experiences and rich social practices of Asia can be mobilised to provide alternative horizons and voices for the exciting and vibrant field of sound studies, and this conference seeks to expand the horizons of our knowledge, reflecting upon contemporary challenges and opportunities, and the importance of embracing the sensory turn in all of our research.

Our conference aims to foster discussions on the following themes while also welcoming contributions on other related topics:

• Sonic Urbanism: How have urbanisation and modernization reshaped the soundscapes of Asian cities? What are the implications for the sensory experiences of urban dwellers?

• How can we understand the relationship between the man-made sonic environment and the natural environment?

• Technological Transformations: The impact of technology on sound production, distribution, and consumption in Asia. What role has technology played in the evolution of Asian sound cultures?

• Language, Identity, and Sound: Exploring the relationship between language, dialects, and the formation of sound-based identities in Asia.

• Cultural Heritage and Preservation: The role of sound in preserving and transmitting cultural heritage, and the challenges of safeguarding these traditions.

• Sonic Nationalisms. What role does sound play in the development of nationalism? How does/can the study of sound inform theories of nationalism and national identity?

• Sound and Globalization: How have Asian sound cultures been transformed by increasing globalisation?

• Sensory Turn in Sound Studies: How can an enhanced focus on the sensory aspects of sound deepen our understanding of sound cultures in Asia and beyond?

• Sonic Pedagogy: How does/can research into and better understandings of sound influence pedagogy? How can teachers work to incorporate sound into teaching within and across disciplines?

Submission Guidelines

We invite scholars, researchers, teachers, practitioners, and sound enthusiasts to submit their proposals for papers, panels, workshops, and performances. Please submit an abstract of no more than 250 words, along with your name, affiliation (if applicable), and contact information, to asiansoundcultures@gmail.com by 31 January 2024.

We look forward to a vibrant exchange of ideas, knowledge, and experiences, fostering a deeper understanding of sound cultures in Asia and their global resonance. Join us in Sheffield for the Asian Sound Cultures Conference 2024 and contribute to this interdisciplinary exploration of sound in a rapidly changing world.

Contact Information

Dr Martyn David Smith (Sheffield) and Dr Iris Haukamp (TUFS)

Contact Email: asiansoundcultures@gmail.com

CALL FOR NEW EDITORIAL BOARD MEMBERS, ASIA PACIFIC STUDIES E-JOURNAL

New Editorial Board Members,

Asia Pacific Studies e-Journal

Call for Editorial Board Members in the Asia Pacific Social Sciences and Humanities

The University of San Francisco Center for Asia Pacific Studies is pleased to announce a call for new members to join the editorial board for its peer-reviewed, interdisciplinary journal, Asia Pacific Perspectives. We welcome editorial board applicants from all fields of the social sciences and the humanities that focus on the Asia Pacific, especially those whose research adopts a comparative, interdisciplinary approach to issues of interrelatedness in the region.

To Apply: Please email the following to the journal’s editor, Melissa Dale, at perspectives@usfca.edu:

• a copy of your CV

• a 300-500 word statement of interest

Review of applications will begin on January 16, 2024 and continue until the positions are filled.

Asia Pacific Perspectives (APP) (ISSN: 2167-1699) is an international, peer-reviewed, open access, electronic journal that promotes cross-cultural understanding, tolerance, and the dissemination of knowledge about the Asia Pacific. The journal facilitates academic discussions among both established scholars in the field and advanced graduate students. APP is published twice each year by the University of San Francisco Center for Asia Pacific Studies.

For more information about Asia Pacific Perspectives, please visit our website.

What we ask of our Editorial Board Members:

• Willingness to serve a full three-year minimum term on the Board

• Assist in identifying peer reviewers for submissions in your field

• Share constructive suggestions at 2 editorial board meetings each semester

• Encourage high-quality submissions to the journal

• Promote the use and dissemination of APP in your field and among your networks

Desirable Attributes:

• Scholarly focus on areas in which our board has relatively less focus: including the Koreas, Taiwan, the Pacific Islands including the Philippines, South and/or Southeast Asia

• Has a background that can balance out the areas of expertise on our board, preferably in: cultural studies, geography, science/technology, sociology, anthropology, political science, and the environmental humanities

• Deep, meaningful, and reciprocal connections to scholarly and Asia Pacific communities

Contact Information

Melissa S. Dale, Editor

Contact Email: perspectives@usfca.edu

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CFP: "ARE WE THERE YET? JOURNALISM EDUCATION DURING THE SOCIAL MEDIA AGE IN ASIA"

“Are We There Yet? Journalism Education

During the Social Media Age in Asia”

Social Media have brought a paradigm shift in journalism and journalism education is in transition in this ever-changing media landscape in the Global South. The process of news has been getting complex and challenging as the journalists have to adapt with the social media tools from gathering to disseminating news.

As a continent, Asia is unique with 60% of world population and one third of area in the globe. The history and civilization of this region date back to thousands of years and Asia is the birthplace of major religions. Journalism education was not started in Asia but this region is known for its pioneering and thought-provoking educational initiatives starting from ancient Babylonian civilization to modern day’s leading role in STEM.

Journalism in Asia has been developed based on both the North American and European models as many countries of this region were colonized by either a North American or a European, mostly British, ruler. Likewise, journalism education has been modeled by both North American and European pedagogies.

With the advancement of digital media, Asian journalism educational institutions have been trying to adopt new pedagogy, redesign curricular alongside utmost struggle to adapt with the new and changing scenario.

The process of news has been ever evolving as social media provides unlimited opportunities to get information from the digital sphere. In addition, the traditional model of getting information from the mainstream media is withering away and the economic existence of journalism is in jeopardy. The access to the sources has become much easier and journalists could reach new audiences and increase the visibility of news. On the other hand, the social media landscape also has been putting pressure on journalists to keep up with the pace of breaking the news.

Given the ever-evolving Asian journalism education landscape, this book aims to address the following questions: Are Asian journalism educational institutions ready and equipped to train journalists in the social media age? What are the challenges of journalism education and how should those challenges be addressed?

In this book, the authors from the Asian countries will highlight the challenges and opportunities of journalism education in the digital and social media age in Asia.

The book aims to house scholars from various backgrounds who have experience in journalism education in all Asian countries. It tends to cover the scenario of journalism education in various Asian countries of diverse socio-political backgrounds and cultures. The book aims to cover the issue in the methodological and theoretical discussion and challenges regarding the reciprocal engagement between journalism educational institutions and journalists from both local and regional perspective.

Notes on editors

Neelam Sharma (Ph.D.) is an Associate Professor of Journalism and Media Studies and the Director of Graduate Program in the Department of Communication, Media and Persuasion at Idaho State University, USA. Dr. Sharma earned her Ph.D. in Public Communication and Technology from Colorado State University, Fort Collins. She also received her M.A. from Panjab University, India. Dr. Sharma teaches courses in Media Writing, Business Journalism, Social Media, and Research Methods. Her research interests include social media, journalism, and the South Asian news and entertainment media. Her research appears in journals including the International Journal of Communication, Psychology of Popular Media, Journal of Communication Inquiry, Global Media and Communication, and Atlantic Journal of Communication, among others. She is currently working on her sole-author book project, Online Abuse, hatred and women journalists in India. Dr. Sharma served as the PF&R chair of the International Communication Division (ICD), AEJMC. Before starting her doctoral studies in the US, Dr. Sharma worked as a journalist with the two-leading media, The Times of India and The Indian Express, in India.

Delaware Arif (Ph.D.) is a digital journalism Associate Professor and Graduate Program Director in the Department of Communication at the University of South Alabama, USA. He teaches Digital Writing & Production, Multimedia Storytelling, Social Media, and Ethics and Social Responsibility. Dr. Arif also taught mass communication courses at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater. He was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication and Journalism at the University of Chittagong in Bangladesh. He also served as Chairman of the department until coming to the U.S. to pursue his Ph.D. Before joining teaching in 2002, Dr. Arif worked for Reuters, Bangladesh National News Agency (BSS) and an international NGO, the Hunger Project. He earned his Ph.D. in Mass Communication and Media Arts at Southern Illinois University Carbondale (SIUC) focusing on the patterns of usage of social media among the South Asian diaspora group in the U.S. He also received his M.A. in media theory & research from SIUC. Dr. Arif completed the Training for Trainers course at the International Institute for Journalism (IIJ) in Germany. He received his B.A. and M.A. in Mass Communication and Journalism from the University of Dhaka in Bangladesh. His teaching and research areas revolve around social media, new media, political communication, international communication, journalism studies, race and media, and mass media ethics.

Important Deadlines

• Abstract submission: December 31, 2023

• Final manuscript: March 31, 2024

• Tentative Publication: August 2024

Potential publishers:

Duke University Press, Chicago University Press, University of Pennsylvania Press or Palgrave MacMillan, Routledge, SAGE, Springer, Rowman & Littlefield.

Please send your abstract:

• sharneel@isu.edu

• darif@southalabama.edu​​

Contact Information

• Neelam Sharma

• Delaware Arif

Contact Email: darif@southalabama.edu

CFP: "NATURAL HISTORY", SPECIAL ISSUE, CROSSROAD JOURNAL VOL 23.2

“Natural History”, Special Issue,

Crossroads Journal Vol. 23.2.

The early modern world was not only a world of increasing interconnectivity in terms of trades and travels, but fostered a systematic exploration of hitherto unknown territories and peoples, constituting the birth hour of all kinds of 'natural histories.'

In our forthcoming issue of Crossroads, 23.2, we plan a special issue on 'natural history' and the transfer of plants, (ethno-)botanical, geological, and (ethno-)medicinal knowledge across the Asian Pacific and Indian Ocean worlds, 16th to early 19th centuries. We intend particularly to stress 'science migration' between Asian and European agents and the exploration and examination of Asian flora, and their local biological, (ethno-)medicinal, and geological environments by European travelers.

The range of topics shall also include studies on exchanges of material objects (plants, minerals, books, instruments, etc.), on the transplantation of certain plants, the setting up of botanical gardens, the use of special herbs and plants in local food cultures or medicinal practices, and/or the compilation of special 'natural histories'.

Authors who are interested in submitting a paper to this special issue should submit their papers through our online tool linked below, indicating/marking it as "Special Issue: Natural History". Otherwise, our general submission guidelines apply.

Online submission: Articles for publication in Crossroads can be submitted online through Editorial Manager. To submit an article, follow this link: Editorial Manager®.

Please visit the journal's home page at Crossroads | Brill.

Contact Information

Stephanie Carta

Associate Editor, Asian Studies

Brill USA

Contact Email: stephanie.carta@brill.com

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CFP: "RADICAL HISTORIES OF DECOLONIZATION", RADICAL HISTORY REVIEW

“Radical Histories of Decolonization”,

Radical History Review. Issue 153

Radical History Review seeks contributions for a special issue entitled “Radical Histories of Decolonization.”

Historians have tended to treat decolonization as an event that began in the 1940s and ended by the late 1970s, primarily confined to large areas of Asia and Africa, though scholars of global Indigenous histories offer a deeper and unfinished timeline. Many activists today use the term to discuss a still-present need to end colonial institutions, from settler colonial occupation in places as widespread as Turtle Island (North America), Hawai’i, Puerto Rico, Palestine, and Aotearoa (New Zealand), to the hegemony of Western thought in university curricula, to the possession of art and artifacts expropriated from the colonies and displayed in museums in major cities such as New York, London, and Paris. The term “decolonization” has come to mean many things, some limited, and others expansive.

This issue of the Radical History Review seeks to explore the genealogy of decolonization as a category of analysis and how people have dreamed and enacted decolonization in past and present. We are interested in work that reconsiders how decolonization has occurred—as both success and failure—throughout history, including in geographic areas that fall outside of the twentieth-century paradigm including Haiti and many parts of Latin America that press into the twenty-first century. We are interested in questions of how the colonized in overseas colonies, settler colonies, and informal colonies understood decolonization across different times and spaces. While the works of individual thinkers (Fanon, Cabral, Césaire, Nehru, Ho Chi Minh) tend to dominate histories of decolonization, we ask how people on the ground who are often left out of the story—including but not limited to women, soldiers, and ethnic and linguistic minorities—challenged colonial power and the dominant parties fighting for sovereignty. This issue aims to center the work of scholars, activists, and archives that lay outside of Western institutions.

Potential topics include (but are not limited to):

• While the etymology of decolonization begins in the nineteenth century, how is it useful for historians of the ancient or medieval worlds to work with this concept?

• What happens when anti-colonial movements have interacted with and taken up imperial imaginaries of an idealized pre-colonial past?

• How have people across the political spectrum interpreted (and perhaps instrumentalized) decolonization differently?

• Where does the concept of Indigeneity fit into histories of decolonization?

• Is decolonization a concept that can be understood universally? Or does it always need to be rooted in local struggles?

• What does history tell us about the relationship between decolonization and sovereignty?

• How do we understand the rise of religious, social, and political movements in the context of decolonization?

• How does the framework of decolonization work (or not work) in contexts of informal colonial or “semi-colonial” relations?

• Does decolonization mean the end of empire and/or has decolonization meant the end of empire? Historically, how have colonized subjects imagined and attempted to enact an end to empires?

• How does decolonization work as a language outside of the context of Western European imperialism (i.e. Japanese empire, Russian empire)?

The RHR publishes material in a variety of forms. Potential contributors are encouraged to look at recent issues for examples of both conventional and non-conventional forms of scholarship. We are especially interested in submissions that use images as well as texts and encourage materials with strong visual content. In addition to monographic articles based on archival research, we encourage submissions to our various departments, including:

• Historians at Work (reflective essays by practitioners in academic and non-academic settings that engage with questions of professional practice)

• Teaching Radical History (syllabi and commentary on teaching)

• Public History (essays on historical commemoration and the politics of the past)

• Interviews (proposals for interviews with scholars, activists, and others)

• (Re)Views (review essays on history in all media—print, film, and digital)

• Reflections (Short critical commentaries)

• Forums (debates and discussions)

Procedures for submission of articles:

By January 8, 2024, please submit a 1-2 page abstract summarizing the article you wish to submit to our online journal management system, ScholarOne. To begin with ScholarOne, sign in or create an account at here. Next, sign in, select “Author” from the menu up top, and click “Begin Submission” or “Start New Submission.” Upload a Word or PDF document, including any images within the document. After uploading your file, select “Proposal” as the submission type and follow the on-screen instructions. Please write to contactrhr@gmail.com if you encounter any technical difficulties.

By February 29, 2024, authors will be notified whether they should submit a full version of their article for peer review. The due date for completed articles will be in June, 2024. Those articles selected for publication after the peer review process will be included in issue 153 of the Radical History Review, scheduled to appear in October, 2025.

Abstract Deadline: January 8, 2024

Contact: contactrhr@gmail.com

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CFP: "(UN)ARCHIVED: PHOTOGRAPHY AGAINST/ALONG THE GRAIN OF ABSENCE IN GLOBAL ASIAS", DEVELOPING ROOM GRADUATE COLLOQUIUM

“(Un)archived: Photography Against/Along the Grain of Absence in Global Asias”,

Developing Room's 8th Annual Graduate Student Colloquium

The Developing Room, a photography working group at Rutgers University’s Center for Cultural Analysis, announces its eighth graduate colloquium in collaboration with the positions: asia critique journal and New York University.

With a special focus on Global Asias, this year’s colloquium is organized by three PhD students, from Comparative Literature and Art History at Rutgers and East Asian Studies at NYU. We invite doctoral students—at any stage and from any field of study—whose research critically engages with photography in/as/and/against the archive around the issues of Asia and its diasporas. The colloquium will open with a keynote speech, and each graduate participant will give a 20 to 25-minute presentation and engage in a faculty-led panel discussion. Selected papers will also be considered for publication in positions politics, the online platform of positions.

The optical field of photography paradoxically leaves open as much as it forecloses the possibility of interpretive reimagination and speculation. It is this opening, the utterance that draws attention to what the photograph does not show, that lies at the heart of our concerns. With its line of inquiry oriented toward the discourses on historiography, futurities, temporalities, and contingencies in relation to photography, the “(Un)archived” colloquium turns to the archival absence and silence within, on the edge of, and/or in excess of the visual documents. In so doing, we seek to break with the ideology of empiricism and positivist demands of history, instead making room for what Saidiya Hartman refers to as “critical fabulation.” We call on our participants to consider, without limiting themselves to, the following questions:

• How do absences and silences register in photography?

• How do we attend to and articulate that which is invisible, yet present, in the photograph? How might we do this by turning to the archive?

• What are the instances where photography and the archive stand at odds with one another? What can we learn from such dissonances?

• How do certain photographs activate alternative ways of engaging with the archive?

• What kind of image emerges when we move away from the optical realm of photography? In other words, how does photography engage extra-visual senses?

• What is at stake when we embrace imagination and speculation as viable methods in the face of archival absences?

• How do artists, filmmakers, writers, and other cultural practitioners respond to such absences through photography?

• How do the material and archival conditions of certain photographs speak to or unsettle our notions of the (un)photographed?

Keynote Speaker

Jae Won Edward Chung is an assistant professor in the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures at Rutgers University-New Brunswick. He is also an affiliate faculty of the Comparative Literature program. He specializes in modern and contemporary Korean literature and visual cultures. He has previously taught at the University of Colorado Boulder and Ewha University. His work has appeared in the Journal of Asian Studies, Journal of Korean Studies, Azalea, Apogee Journal, Boston Review, and Asymptote. He is currently completing a monograph on the intersection of literature, photography, cinema, and art of South Korea’s First Republic (1948-1960), entitled Aesthetics of Abandonment: Literary and Visual Culture of Early South Korea.

Respondent

Lily M Cho is Vice-Provost and Associate Vice-President (International) at Western University. Her research focuses on diasporic subjectivity within the fields of cultural studies, postcolonial literature and theory, and Asian North American and Canadian literature. Her book, Mass Capture: Chinese Head Tax and the Making of Non-citizens (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2021) is a SSHRC-funded project that focuses on Chinese Canadian head tax certificates known as "C.I. 9's." These certificates mark one of the first uses of identification photography in Canada. Drawing from this archive, her research explores the relationship between citizenship, photography, and anticipation as a mode of agency.

Organizers

Vero Chai is a third-year Ph.D. student in Comparative Literature at Rutgers University and editorial assistant of positions: asia critique. Her research concerns the interplay of film, literature, and photography in relation to the archive, with an emphasis on the Asian diasporas and their sonic, affective, and intersubjective articulations.

Julian Wong-Nelson is a fourth-year Ph.D. candidate in the Rutgers University-New Brunswick Art History program. Their research interests include Asian-diasporic performance, photography, and video, queer & trans* theory, and cinema studies.

Junho Peter Yoon is a fifth-year Ph.D. student in the East Asian Studies Department at New York University. His research mainly focuses on the question of how to rethink ethics in the age of Anthropocene beyond the categorical confines of the human by contextualizing this inquiry through modern and contemporary Korean history, literature, and cinema.

To apply, please submit the following materials to our web form no later than January 15, 2024:

• an abstract of 250 words or less

• a summary of your larger project or dissertation progress, 250 words or less

• a short bio of 150 words or less

• CV

Contact Information

Developing Room

Contact Email: developingroom@gmail.com

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CFP: THE PALGRAVE HANDBOOK OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH IN EAST ASIA: CHINA, KOREA AND JAPAN

The Palgrave Handbook of the Catholic Church in East Asia:

China, Korea, and Japan

This three-section Handbook provides information on the Catholic Church in East Asia—China mainland, Mongolia, Macau, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Korea, and Japan—from its beginnings to the present. It aims to offer sufficient material and analysis for the study and research of the East Asian Catholic Church. It follows a chronological framework tracing events from the 7th century to the 21st century.

The editors are seeking authors for the three-section Handbook (the titles of the following chapters can be changed) (each chapter is about 30 pages and 16,500 words)

1. "Bible and Religious Literature Translation and Indigenous Religious Texts: Korea"

2. "Evangelization through Paintings and Sculptures (Images) in Korea

3. Foreign Missionaries, 1900-1945: Japan

4. Colonialism, Imperialism, and Relations with Local Powers: Japan"

5. Foreign Missionaries and the Building of the local Church Hierachy: 1945 to the Present

6. Evangelization through Education from Simple Schooling to Universities: Japan

Contact Information

Cindy Yik-yi Chu

Professor

Department of History

Hong Kong Baptist University

AAB 1152,

Academic and Administration Building,

15 Baptist University Road,

Kowloon Tong, Kowloon

Hong Kong

Tel: (852) 3411 7182

Contact Email: cindychu@hkbu.edu.hk

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