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CFP: DIGITALLY-AIDED MOBILITIES IN THE POST-PANDEMIC ASIAN CONTEXT

                                        

Digitally-Aided Mobilities in the Post-Pandemic Asian Context 

May 19-20, 2022

Following the pandemic, the ways in which mobile bodies are being administered and governed are in sync with advanced techniques of demographic control, which manifests into increasing digital surveillance on mobilities. Conversely, the neo-liberal economic order reifies speed and mobility, while ‘deterritorialization’ continues to constitute an important paradigm for the ‘flows and networks’ in a globalized world. From within this apparent dichotomy emerges a thrust toward normativizing digitally-aided mobility, which has churned out a diverse range of digital apparatuses (for instance, apps that measure ‘proxemics’, most popularly, the contract tracing app; e-passes for public transports etc.) -- often guised as public health technology systems that seek to restrict, control, enable and negotiate mobilities across post-pandemic spaces. Departing from here, the conference seeks to examine the evolving nature of urban spatialities in the context of post-pandemic Asian cities: how it leverages digital infrastructures and how this forges links with a techno-futurist imagination of Asia.


Important Dates: Abstracts due: Dec 31, 2021

Decision on abstract: Jan 9, 2022

Draft paper due: Apr 22, 2022

It is hoped that select papers from the conference will eventually lead to publishable academic volumes. Amsterdam University Press has expressed strong interest in the project.


Contact Info:


Assistant Professor



Assam, India.

email: avishekray@hum.nits.ac.in


Contact Email:

avishekray@hum.nits.ac.in

CFP: MIGRATION METHODOLOGIES: CHALLENGES, INNOVATIONS AND CONCEPTUAL IMPLICATIONS FOR ASIAN MIGRATIONS


Migration Methodologies:

Challenges, Innovations and Conceptual Implications for Asian Migrations


Migration flows of unprecedented volume and complexity within, as well as in and out of Asia have become one of the main drivers of contemporary social change in the region. Major travel restrictions and curtailments in recent months brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic have further raised severe concerns over the potential impacts and implications of ongoing curbs. In these contexts, approaches to studying international migration have highlighted the institutions, infrastructures, processes, practices, consequences and experiences of migration while attending to its multi-directional, multi-sited, multi-causal and open-ended nature. New spatialities and temporalities – from transnational families, mobile cities, diaspora-and-development, global care chains, contact zones, spaces of encounter, travel bubbles/corridors/sandbox to multinational migrations – have animated migration research as material borders and socially constructed boundary lines are transgressed, rigidified or redrawn in the face of multiple-, hyper- and transnational migrations and mobilities.

In view of the increasing conceptual breadth and theoretical sophistication of international migration scholarship, it follows that our research practices need to evolve to embrace the quickened pace of mobilities and the heightened sense of transience, simultaneity and otherness experienced by the migrant (and non-migrant) subject within interlocking lifeworlds. As Collins and Huang (2012, p.270) observe, contemporary migration scholarship “draws on a wide range of research methodologies, reflecting the multi-disciplinary character of the field, the diverse sites and subjects of migration, and the varied concepts and theories that underpin this area of study”. These methodologies have broadened to include computational, quantitative, qualitative and mixed-method approaches and techniques as exemplified by the use of longitudinal surveys, sequence analysis, social networks analysis; mental mapping, multi-sited ethnographies, go-along ethnography, visual ethnography, life-story interviews, paired/unpaired interviews, participatory methods and data visualization techniques (Büscher, Urry, and Witchger, 2010; Amelina and Faist, 2012; Meeus, 2012; Martiniello, 2017; Fauser, 2018; Ryan and D’Angelo, 2018).

Despite “all this methodological development, innovation and cross-fertilisation” within the scholarship on migration, the discipline has – to date – failed to fully explore, interrogate, review and compare the merit and design of such methods (Collins and Huang, 2012, p.270). The authors continue to argue that there has also been limited “reflection on the ethical and conceptual implications of these choices” (Collins and Huang, 2010, p.270). This workshop responds to their observation by providing a collaborative forum to bring together migration scholars with diverse methodological interests and expertise.

We invite papers that focus on innovative methodological approaches while drawing on substantive findings relevant to “Asian migrations” (broadly defined to refer to migration flows within, as well as in and out of Asia) in order to grapple with the challenges and possibilities in conducting migration research. Contextually grounded papers that pursue one or more of the following questions are particularly welcome:
  • How do we research new migration-led spatialities and temporalities in (im)mobile times across interconnected worlds and/or during a pandemic?
  • How do we work with multi-directionality, multi-causality and provisionality in contemporary migrations? How do we map multinational migrations over time and space?
  • What kinds of methodological routes can be pursued to go beyond the single case in migration research and to seriously contemplate multi-sited research, develop comparative transnational frameworks, increase awareness of the connectivities across scales and units of analysis, and instill wariness of methodological nationalism?
  • How do we equip ourselves for the task of boundary-crossing, a task which goes hand in hand with supporting a socially progressive migration agenda?
  • How do we devise research practices that would contribute towards dismantling institutionalized practices which reproduce racisms, nationalisms and social privilege, and pave the way for a more inclusive approach in our work as migration researchers?
  • How has the “new (pandemic-)normal” featuring lockdowns, immobilities and restricted human interactions altered our ways of conducting research and reshaped existing conceptualizations of migration?

Submission of Proposals:

Paper proposals should include a title, an abstract (300 words maximum) and a brief personal biography of 150 words for submission. Please use the paper proposal form and send it in doc/docx format to Ms Rohini Anant at rohini.a@nus.edu.sg by 15 September 2021.

Please also include a statement confirming that your paper has not been published previously, it is not committed elsewhere, and that you are willing to revise your paper for potential inclusion in a special issue submission (in collaboration with the workshop organizers and other participants).

Successful applicants will be notified by end of September. Panel presenters will be required to submit drafts of papers (4,000-7,000) words by 20 December 2021. These drafts will be circulated to fellow panelists and organizers in advance.


Convenors:

Professor Brenda Yeoh






Professor Elspeth Graham



Associate Professor Lucy Jordan



Contact Info:

Ms Rohini Anant at rohini.a@nus.edu.sg


Contact Email: 

arios@nus.edu.sg

CFP: 15TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE ON ASIAN STUDIES: CONTINUITY AND CHANGE (ONLINE OR HYBRID EVENT)


15th Annual Conference on Asian Studies

Continuity and Change (online or hybrid event)


The Department of Asian Studies at Palacký University Olomouc is currently accepting individual paper, organized panel, and research poster proposals for its 15th Annual Conference on Asian Studies to be held on November 26–27, 2021 in Olomouc, Czech Republic and online, using Whova, a conference (web)app. 

The general theme of the conference this year is Continuity and Change. We invite contributions that concern any region or culture in Asia and address the conference theme from a variety of perspectives. We welcome both synchronic and diachronic approaches grounded in a range of disciplines, including anthropology, arts, cultural geography, history, international relations, linguistics, literature, philosophy, political science, religion studies, sociology, and other fields. We look forward to contributions dealing with topics such as continuity and discontinuity in cultural, social, political, or linguistic systems, the agents, drivers, and catalysts of change, the motivations for and power to change or control of change, the attitudes and reactions to change, and more. In addition, we are also interested in proposals that focus on the impact of COVID-19 and the global pandemic on different aspects of public and private lives of citizens in Asia as well as on Asian studies around the globe.

We invite researchers, teachers, and postgraduate students to submit their proposals for individual oral presentations as well as organized panels comprising of three to four oral presentations dealing with a selected theme. We also invite students to submit their proposals for our Student Poster Session where they can showcase the results of their research.

The language of the conference is English. The proposals should be submitted in the form of abstracts by June 30, 2021. Please see the conference website for details.

Any questions can be addressed to acas@upol.cz.

We look forward to your proposals!

The Organizing Team of ACAS 2021


Contact Info:

Contact person: Halina Zawiszová

Contact Email: acas@upol.cz

CFP: ASIAN LIVES/ASIAN STUDIES IN THE POST PANDEMIC ERA


2021 NYCAS Conference

Asian Lives/Asian Studies in the Post Pandemic Era


In association with the New York Conference on Asian Studies (NYCAS), SUNY-Brockport will host the 2021 NYCAS Conference centered on the theme of “Asian Lives/Asian Studies in the Post Pandemic Era.” The conference is open to all, and will consist of two days of sessions on areas concerning Asian Studies. 


Dates: October 1-2, 2021

​Format: Hybrid

This conference is dedicated to looking forward to post-pandemic life as well as examining the impact of pandemic life - both subtle and profound, positive and negative- on Asian lives and the field of Asian Studies. How did the pandemic impact Asian lives? In what ways did the pandemic change the trajectory of Asian lives and Asian Studies and how should we respond? What factors influenced the field in the past year and how will that affect behavior and research going forward?

Scholars may propose topics on, but not limited to, the pandemic’s impact on Asian lives and the field of Asian Studies (pre, concurrent, or post) or focus on any range of significant and timely concerns such as:
  • Politics, Policies, Governing: Globalization and De-Globalization, Regulation and Trade; Authoritarianism and Human Rights; Economies, Finance, Tourism;
  • Health and Education: Asian Public Health Responses, Modes of Delivery, Agendas and Curricula, Budgets and Reform
  • The Digital: Digital and Technological Acceleration; Digital Consumption; Digital Entrepreneurship
  • Culture and History: History and Values; Stigmatization and Discrimination; Arts, Creativity and Imagination; Nationalism, imperialism, colonialism; identity, sexuality, LGBTQ+ rights; Spirituality and religion
  • The Environment: Eco-Systems, environmental philosophies and politics, sustainability

Submissions

We welcome proposals for traditional or non-traditional panels, individual papers, roundtables, workshops and educationally-related performances. Graduate student and advanced undergraduate participation is highly encouraged. Please use our proposal submission form found on the Brockport NYCAS 2021 website (below).

The deadline for submissions is June 15, 2021


Websites and Contact Information


Conference Chair:  Natalie Sarrazin nsarrazi@brockport.edu

CFP: THE 2021 ELLAK INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE "BEYOND PANDEMICS: REIMAGINING THE HUMANITIES AND THE NEW NORMAL"



The 2021 ELLAK International Conference

"Beyond Pandemics: Reimagining the Humanities and the New Normal"


The English Language and Literature Association of Korea (ELLAK) is pleased to announce an international conference on “Beyond Pandemics: Reimagining the Humanities and the New Normal” to be held at Korea University, Seoul, South Korea, from December 16 to 18, 2021.

The COVID-19 pandemic has turned our world upside down. In addition to disrupting our day-to-day experiences of how we work, travel, and interact with others, the pandemic has had far-reaching consequences on the economy, educational system, healthcare services, and international relations. As we continue to come to grips with the havoc that the new coronavirus has wreaked on the world, the “new normal” has become an integral part of our vocabulary. However, it is not an entirely new term, for its usage can be traced to as early as 1922. After being increasingly discussed in relation to other major crises such as the 2005 avian flu, the 2008 financial crisis, and the global recession that shortly ensued, the “new normal” has now become firmly enmeshed in our collective discourse and imagination in the post-COVID era. While it can simply refer to our experiences as the pandemic continues to spread and impose drastic changes upon our lives, it can also be employed as a rhetorical means to mitigate the disruptions caused by the virus and normalize our current situation. On the other hand, the “new normal” enables us to shed renewed light on the frailties of the human condition as well as the structural inequalities that prevail in our societies and consequently reimagine the post-pandemic world.

At this critical juncture, in which we are simultaneously experiencing and transitioning to a “new normal,” ELLAK aims to examine how the studies of English language and literature (or more broadly, the humanities) can contribute to the interrogation of this term and thereby help us better navigate the latest in the series of crises to have afflicted the world. It is during such times of crisis and radical change that literary and cultural texts can play a significant role. That catastrophes have a stimulating effect on the mind and imagination is made evident by the plethora of plague narratives, which have accompanied human history. As previous works such as Giovanni Boccaccio’s The Decameron, Daniel Defoe’s A Journal of the Plague Year, Charles Brockden Brown’s Arthur Mervyn, Mary Shelley’s The Last Man, Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Masque of the Red Death,” and Albert Camus’ The Plague demonstrate, literary and cultural texts do more than just provide a compelling imaginative account of the effects that actual and imagined disasters have on humanity and the world. In addition to helping us attain a critical understanding of the dynamics of various political, economic, and social institutions, they lead us to imagine alternative modes of being and thinking as we deal with the exigencies of the present and face an increasingly uncertain future.

By examining the various ways in which literary and cultural texts have responded to not only the current crisis, but also past global and local disasters that date back to the beginning of human history, ELLAK seeks to reimagine what the term “new normal” means and can mean as it relates to all aspects of human life in the past, present, and future. Rather than uncritically accepting and perpetuating the new (or old) status quo, we would like to use this opportunity to explore how the humanities can aid us in not only overcoming the problems and challenges produced by disasters beyond the current pandemic, but also bringing about fundamental change in our respective societies and global community. The 2021 ELLAK Conference organizing committee invites scholars, educators, and students in the humanities as well as other disciplines to submit papers that directly or indirectly address issues related to such an imaginative reconstruction of the “new normal.”

Topics may include but are not limited to the following subjects:

  • Crises and disasters
  • Conflict and war
  • Biopolitics
  • Affect, emotion, and body
  • Disease, pain, and trauma
  • Medicine and healing
  • Social distancing and networking
  • Untact and contact
  • Social (in)equality and otherness
  • Race and gender
  • Media and culture
  • Environment and ecology
  • High education and pedagogy
  • Humanity, posthumanity, and transhumanity
  • Digital humanities


To apply for participation in the conference, submit an abstract and short bio to 2021ellak@gmail.com by June 30, 2021.

Proposals may be submitted for either individual papers or sessions.

  • Individual paper proposals should include an abstract of no more than 250 words and a short bio.
  • Session proposals should include a one-page proposal with a title and topic for a session of three to four papers, along with individual abstracts and short bios. 

Each presentation, which can be delivered in either Korean or English, will be no longer than 20 minutes, followed by a discussion and Q&A session.

For further inquiries, please contact the Organizing Committee at 2021ellak@gmail.com.

Important Dates:

  • Abstract submission deadline: June 30, 2021
  • Notification of acceptance: July 31, 2021
  • Submission deadline for papers in the conference proceedings: October 15, 2021

Registration Fee:

  • Standard: USD 50
  • The registration fee will be reduced if the 2021 ELLAK International Conference becomes a virtual conference due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Registration Fee includes:

  • Reception and dinner banquet (December 17, 2021)
  • Three daily refreshment and snack breaks
  • Conference program and proceedings
  • Conference bag and name tag

ICAS BOOK PRIZE 2021: CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS 


ICAS Book Prize 2021: Call for Submissions 


The secretariat of the ICAS Book Prize 2021 welcomes you to submit the titles of your Asia-related publications in the Humanities and Social Sciences. Because of the challenges we are all currently facing with the COVID-19 pandemic, we have decided to extend our submission deadlines. Please see the list below for the new dates. Despite the circumstances, we nevertheless look forward to making this another successful edition of the ICAS Book Prize.
 

Addition of a New Prize

We would also like to introduce our newest addition to the ICAS Book Prize: the IBP for Best Article on Global Hong Kong Studies, organised and sponsored by the Society for Hong Kong Studies (articles to be submitted in English). Please find all information about this prize here


The ICAS Book Prize 2021

The biennial International Convention of Asia Scholars Book Prize (IBP) is awarded to outstanding Asia-related publications in the Humanities and Social Sciences. The IBP creates an international focus for publications on Asia, increasing their visibility and recognition worldwide. The IBP has grown into the leading Book Prize in the field of Asian Studies. For this ninth edition of the IBP we are accepting books in Chinese, English, French, German, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish. For the English and French language editions we also welcome dissertations on Asia in the fields of Humanities and Social Sciences. The articles submitted to the IBP Global Hong Kong Studies should be written in English.

 
New Submission Deadlines

With the world having been turned upside down, it is no wonder that the ICAS Book Prize process has also been affected. Normal channels of communication have been disrupted and all processes (including publishing and shipping) have slowed down. To give everyone a little more time, the new extended submission deadlines are as follows:
  • English language edition (Books and Dissertations): 1 November 2020
  • French language edition (Books and Dissertations): 1 December 2020
  • Chinese language edition: 1 February 2021
  • German language edition: 1 February 2021
  • Hong Kong article prize: 1 February 2021
  • Japanese language edition: 1 February 2021
  • Korean language edition: 1 February 2021
  • Spanish/Portuguese language edition: 1 February 2021

Submission

Read more here.

Rules and regulations for submitting titles to the IBP 2021 can be found here.

Start the submission process by creating an account and logging in here.


Contact

Send any questions you may have with regard to the English language edition, or the IBP in general, to ibp@iias.nl.

Contact details for all other language editions can be found online.

People in charge:
- Sonja Zweegers (Secretary IBP English edition)
- Paul van der Velde (General Secretary IBP)

CFP: "HATE SPEECH IN ASIA AND EUROPE: PANDEMIC, FEAR, AND HATE", THE 3RD INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP


The 3rd International Workshop

Hate Speech in Asia and Europe: Pandemic, Fear, and Hate

May 20 (THU) – 21 (FRI), 2021


Convener:

Center for Korean Studies, Ritsumeikan University, Kioto, Japan


Co-organizers:

Institute of Communication Research, Seoul National University, South Korea

LCAO-CCJ, Université de Paris, France


Supporter:

Resona Foundation

This project began in 2017 as a way to bring scholars across the continents together to discuss national, regional, and global dynamics of hate speech from diverse viewpoints that include the political, legal, historical, ideological and cultural perspectives. Through the 1st and 2nd workshop, held respectively in Kyoto and Paris, we explored the contours of hate speech in different Asian and European countries. And some of the papers from the two workshops were published via a journal special issue and an edited volume.

(You can find more information on the edited volume from the 1st workshop at here)

Next year, the workshop will continue and expand this conversation by considering acute tensions surrounding hate speech issues in the age of pandemic and including research on other continents, not strictly confined to Asia and Europe.

Although the COVID-19 was of natural origin, its impact on society is more a matter of a social crisis than a natural disaster. Pandemic is shaking the society to its very foundation. This workshop pays attention to the fear, discrimination, and hatred between nations, communities, and individuals within the context of the anxiety and inequality brought by the pandemic. COVID-19 has spurred hate speeches across continents, from the conflict between the U.S. and China to discriminatory acts targeting at the ‘other(s)’. The profile of victims varies from country to country, and diverse civil societies and nations have responded to this phenomenon in different manners. While no one can predict how this pandemic is going to shape the world after all, through this workshop, we expect to explore hate speech fueled by the pandemic crisis and seek philosophical, ethical and theoretical perspectives that illuminate how to overcome the fear and the hate in this pandemic era.

We invite you to submit paper abstracts adopting different approaches such as media studies, history, sociology, anthropology, political science, legal studies, religious studies that examine, but are not restricted to, the following questions:

  • What are the current contours of hate speech in this/the pandemic crisis?
  • How can we better prevent and address social stigma associated with the COVID-19?
  • What are the differences and similarities in the manifestations of hate speech across countries in the pandemic crisis?
  • What are the legal and discursive characteristics of individual societies in dealing with hate speech in the pandemic crisis?
  • What frailties and inequalities does the COVID-19 expose?
  • How are different media platforms exploited to express and spread hatred against various minorities in the pandemic period?
  • Why do ethnicity, sexuality and religion often act as flashpoints in the pandemic crisis?
  • Who are the scapegoats stigmatized by hate speeches linked to this health crisis?


We are pleased to provide selected presenters with partial subsidies for accommodation and travel expenses, depending on funding availability and the participant’s needs. We intend to publish selected papers from the workshop as a journal special issue and/or an edited volume with a reputable academic press.

This is an in-person workshop, but we are considering converting it to a virtual or hybrid event.


Submission guidelines

Please email your proposal with a title, an abstract of not more than 500 words in MS Word to hatespeechworkshop@gmail.com, together with your name, position, institutional affiliation and email address by October 31, 2020. (Authors will be notified of abstract acceptance by November 20, 2020). Selected authors will be requested to submit full papers by April 20, 2021.

Please do not hesitate to contact us (hatespeechworkshop@gmail.com) for any questions regarding this workshop.


Organizing Committee:

Myungkoo KANG, Professor Emeritus, Seoul National University, Korea

Marie-Orange RIVÉ, Associate Professor, Université de Paris, France

Wooja KIM, Associate Professor, Ritsumeikan University, Japan

Sojeong PARK, Postdoctoral Researcher, Seoul National University, Korea


Contact Info: 

If you have any question, please contact Sojeong Park (hatespeechworkshop@gmail.com).

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