CFP: THE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON POPULISM IN ASIA: THE SAME OR DIFFERENT STORY?

 
The International Conference on Populism in Asia:



ABOUT THE CONFERENCE

The studies of populism in North America and Europe have reached an agreement upon the basic nature of populism in the Western liberal democracies. As a “thin” ideology, populism is found to be authoritarian, antipluralistic, welfarism-oriented, and chauvinistic. Populism in the West is related to economic conditions and, because of which, the sense of being deprived among some social groups. Populism in the Asia-Pacific region has not, however, been thoroughly investigated. The extant literature does not agree upon the characteristics of populism in this region, compared with its western counterpart. Some believe that it is the same story as in those North American and West European democracies, others believe not.

The conference is thus to invite the Asia-Pacific experts in the world to get together and exchange their empirical observations and research findings on populism in the Asian-Pacific countries, such as the details of its making, consequences, and implications. We intend to draw a comprehensive picture of populism in Asia and construct a comparative framework to contrast the models of populism in different political systems in the Asia-Pacific with the conventional wisdom derived from the West. Quantitative research based upon innovative data approaches is highly preferred.

An edited book is planned to be published as a result of the conference. The themes for investigation in the conference include, but are not limited to:
  • Populism and Nationalism
  • Populism and Democracy
  • Populism and Social Movement
  • Populism and the Internet
  • Populism and the Middle Class
Papers are now invited from interested scholars for this conference to be convened on 25-26 February 2021 in Hong Kong.

Abstract Deadline: January 31, 2022

Please submit an abstract of no more than 1000 words here.


kyyau@hsu.edu.hk

Tony Yau

CFP: BEYOND WORK FOR PAY? BASIC-INCOME CONCEPTS IN GLOBAL DEBATES ON AUTOMATION, POVERTY, AND UNEMPLOYMENT (1920-2020)

 
Beyond Work for Pay?

Basic-Income Concepts in Global Debates on Automation, Poverty, and Unemployment (1920-2020)


Friday, Sept. 30 and Saturday, Oct. 1, 2022


Political utopias have long envisioned a life without the need for paid work and free of economic struggle. At the same time, and over the past century especially, the idea of payments to citizens without work requirements has found more pragmatic purchase, gaining traction as a way of assuring human rights and well-being at times of high unemployment, structural change, and job-threatening automation. In the 1960s, it also became a centerpiece of social and economic justice movement politics, reaching a height of grassroots support in the Black freedom and welfare rights movements in the United States. By then, basic income proposals had drawn support from ideologically divergent groups of policy intellectuals as a centerpiece of a reformed or re-envisioned welfare state, laying the groundwork for government-staged basic income experiments in the 1970s, though not for basic income itself. Basic income gained renewed and sustained momentum after the global financial crisis of 2007-2008, as debates about the effects of technology and automation on the labor market have continued unabated among economists and in the European and North American public. Even before the Covid-19 pandemic and the unemployment caused by it, such debates have had some political consequences: Switzerland in a 2016 held a referendum on (and rejected) a proposal to provide an unconditional basic income (UBI) for citizens. During the 2019/20 presidential primaries in the US, Democratic candidate Andrew Yang claimed UBI as his signature policy proposal. In the US, a group of 43 mayors is pursuing the idea for their communities. In Korea, the province of Gyeonggi-do in 2019 has implemented a basic income for all of its 175,000 24-year-olds. Meanwhile, international organizations such as GiveDirectly (supported by Nobel-prize-laureate Abihjit Banerjee) since 2017 have run large-scale basic-income trials in African countries such as Kenya.

Against the backdrop of such interest in basic-income concepts, this conference provides an opportunity for historians as well as sociologists, economists, and social scientists in other fields to discuss the emergence and the history of basic-income concepts in the past century.

We invite proposals for papers on a wide range of topics, and especially encourage papers that draw on comparative and/or transnational analysis and that address one or more of the following themes:
  • The intellectual, political, and ideological genesis of the negative income tax and similar basic income concepts deemed to preserve the income-work-paradigm in North America, Western Europe, and eventually in other parts of the world beginning in the 1960s.
  • Basic income and the changing dynamics of “expert” policy-making, amidst the proliferation of regional, national, and global governmental and NGO policy actors and the prominence of contested and often conflicting bodies of economic knowledge in policy debates.
  • The gender, race, citizenship, generational, and broadly intersectional dimensions of basic income concepts and policy proposals, as reflected in social movement politics and in public debates.
  • Basic income and the history of anti-poverty policy, within national frameworks and in the formulation of global development goals.
  • The significance of basic-income concepts in larger cultural, societal, and political shifts that historians have associated with the 1970s and 80s, such as an emphasis on markets, limited government, and the privatization of welfare systems.
  • Automation, basic income, and the shifting political economy of the “full employment” welfare state.
  • The history and normative assumptions shaping basic income “experiments” since their first introduction in the late 1960s and 70s, in the U.S. and Canada and more recently in Finland, India, and Namibia. What is the history of these experiments, and how do their normative assumptions (and the assumptions of the media covering these experiments) preserve a commitment to income-work or abandon it in favor of other life concepts?
  • The shifting nomenclature of basic income and how framing it in terms such as “social dividend,” “basic minimum,” “guaranteed,” or “unconditional” income reflect efforts to reshape public conversation about the parameters of the social contract.
The conveners aim to publish contributions to this conference either as an edited book or as a special issue in a peer-reviewed journal.

The organizers will cover basic expenses for travel and accommodation. Please upload a brief CV and a proposal of no more than 750 words by February 15, 2022, to the GHI Washington’s online portal at here.

Please contact Susanne Fabricius at fabricius@ghi-dc.org at the GHI Washington if you have problems with submitting your information online. Successful applicants will be notified in April 2022.



Contact Info:


Contact Email:

fabricius@ghi-dc.org

CFP: COMMON THREADS: BLACK AND ASIAN BRITISH WOMEN'S WRITING INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE


Common Threads:

Black and Asian British Women’s Writing International Conference



Confirmed Keynote Speaker: Bernardine Evaristo

Dates: 21st-23rd July 2022

Following the inaugural conference of the Black British Women’s Writing Network (BBWWN) at the University of Brighton in 2014, we are pleased to announce the second international conference on Black and Asian British Women’s Writing. This conference celebrates the fact that so many Black and Asian women writers have emerged in the last two decades and acknowledges the significant impact their writing has made on publishing and the media since 2015. Black and Asian women’s writing has transformed Britain’s cultural landscape and provoked urgent conversations about nation and identity, home and belonging. Their work challenges the control white, British canonical writers have asserted over what qualifies as literary, where meaning is located in literary culture, and whose voices are privileged. The last couple of years have been particularly exciting for Black and Asian British women writers with Bernardine Evaristo winning the Booker Prize in 2019, the first Black British woman to do so, and several debut authors such as Reni Eddo-Lodge topping the UK’s fiction and nonfiction paperback charts in 2020-21, and receiving substantial attention and recognition. The recent publication of The Cambridge Companion to Black British and Asian Writing (edited by Deirdre Osborne), and The Cambridge History of Black and Asian British Writing (edited by Susheila Nasta and Mark Stein) bring together over 400 years of Black and Asian British writing. 2022 also marks the 21st anniversary of the landmark ‘Write Black, Write British’ conference at the Barbican (organised by Kadija George), and of the publication of the anthology Bittersweet: Contemporary Black Women’s Poetry. Common Threads aims to celebrate this rich cultural heritage while at the same time exploring how Black and Asian British Women’s Writing enables us to re-imagine the nation otherwise in the context of the unsettling, hostile environment of post-Brexit Britain.

The organisers welcome submissions from academics, postgraduate and early career researchers, teachers, publishers and literary activists. We welcome individual papers and panel proposals on any genre and topic related to writing by Black and Asian British women and queer people of colour. Suggested topics include, but are not limited to, the following:
  • Intersections and Common Threads: Black and Asian British Women’s Writing in the era of Black Lives Matter and post-Brexit Britain
  • Teaching Transformation: Black and Asian British Women’s Writing and Decolonising the Curriculum
  • Black and Asian British Women’s Life Writing, Screenwriting, Journalism, Popular fiction, Radio drama, Short fiction/flash fiction, Non-fiction
  • Black and Asian British Women’s Poetry and Spoken Word Performances
  • Speculative Fiction
  • Drama and Performance
  • Critically neglected writers/new writers
  • Black and Asian Women’s Writing and the School Curriculum
  • Black and Asian British Children’s Literature and storytelling
  • Black and Asian British Queer Writing
  • The 2018 Windrush Scandal
  • The matter of bodies, politics, place and diaspora
  • Making Space/Reconfiguring space: real and imaginary spaces, online, publishing and other spaces, worlds turned upside down
  • Regional and rural writing
Please send an abstract of 300 words maximum and brief bio by 31st January 2022 to commonthreads2022@gmail.com. The notification of acceptance will be sent by March 1, 2022. Online presentations/panels welcome. More details will be provided once notifications have been sent. Common Threads is an in-person event, but a limited number of online presentations can be accommodated.

The conference organizers will be working toward the publication of presented papers in a journal Special Issue in 2023.


Organisers: 



commonthreads2022@gmail.com

KOREAN GOVERNMENT SUPPORT SCHOLARSHIPS FOR INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS, 2022



Becas de apoyo del gobierno coreano

para estudiantes internacionales, 2022


El Gobierno de Corea invita a los candidatos a formar parte de las Becas de Apoyo. Todos los candidatos con talento pueden solicitarlas para la sesión académica 2022-2023.

El objetivo principal del programa es motivar y apoyar a los solicitantes que se enfrentan a dificultades financieras.

El Gobierno de Corea del Sur es una república democrática centralizada con tres poderes principales: ejecutivo, legislativo y judicial.

¿Por qué deberías solicitar este programa? Ayuda y anima al becario a llevarlos hacia una amplia gama de oportunidades de empleo para ti. La economía surcoreana es enormemente constante; te asegura un futuro financieramente seguro.

Plazo de solicitud:

Las solicitudes están abiertas para la sesión académica 2022/2023.

Breve descripción:
  • Universidad u Organización: Gobierno de Corea
  • Departmento: N/A
  • Nivel del curso: Grado Universitario 
  • Retribución: Máximo 5,000,000 wones por mes
  • Número de plazas: Aproximadamente 250
  • Modo de Acesso: Online
  • Nacionalidad: International
  • La beca puede ser recibida en Corea del Sur
Eligibility:
  • Países beneficiarios: Se aceptan aplicaciones de todo el mundo.
  • Curso o asignaturas disponibles: Cursos de grado en todas las materias ofrecidas por la Organización.
  • Criterios de elegibilidad: Para ser elegibles, los solicitantes deben cumplir con todos los criterios siguientes / dados:
    • Los estudiantes deben estar matriculados en una universidad nacional (incluidos los institutos de formación profesional) en el segundo año o superior según el año académico aplicado.
    • Los solicitantes deben tener una media de 80 puntos o más sobre 100 puntos durante todo el periodo de inscripción.
    • Deben tener un promedio de 80 o más sobre 100 puntos en el semestre anterior en el que las calificaciones se introducen en base a 100 puntos. Y también, aquellos que han redondeado 80 puntos no pueden aplicar.
    • Debe haber superado el nivel 4 o superior en el TOPIK
Cómo aplicar:
  • Cómo presentar la solicitud: El formulario de solicitud completo tiene que ser rellenado en línea para la admisión.
  • Documentos complementarios: Los solicitantes deben tener una copia del formulario de solicitud impreso del sistema después de una solicitud en línea y una copia del pasaporte. Certificado de matrícula y expediente académico, una copia de la puntuación del TOPIK. En el caso de transferencia, también se debe presentar el expediente académico completo emitido por la escuela anterior (universidad nacional).
  • Requisitos de admisión: Los solicitantes deben tener un certificado de grado anterior con un excelente rendimiento académico.
  • Requisito de idioma: Si el inglés no es su lengua materna, deberá acreditar su capacidad lingüística en inglés: IELTS, TOEFL u otra prueba aceptable.
Beneficios:

El Gobierno proporcionará el fondo de un maximo de 5.000.000 wones al mes a todos los solicitantes internacionales.

¡Presente su solicitud ahora!

CORNELL EAST ASIA PROGRAM 2022-2023 LB KOREAN STUDIES RESEARCH SCHOLARS




Cornell East Asia Program 2022-2023 LB Korean Studies Research Scholars

Cornell University, East Asia Program


Ubicación: New York, Estados Unidos

Posición: Becario de doctorado, becario, becario postdoctoral


The Cornell East Asia Program está aceptando solicitudes para una beca de investigación posdoctoral o predoctoral en residencia en Cornell (Campus de Ithaca) para el año académico 2022-2023. Los candidatos a doctorado avanzado y los recién graduados de doctorado cuya investigación esté relacionada con Corea pueden solicitar esta residencia de investigación no docente. La fecha límite de solicitud es el 11 de febrero de 2022.

El programa de investigación LB Korean Studies Research Scholars, dentro del Programa de Asia Oriental y el Centro Mario Einaudi de Estudios Internacionales de la Universidad de Cornell, tiene como objetivo cultivar nuevas colaboraciones que promuevan la erudición, la difusión de conocimientos, la enseñanza, la divulgación y el compromiso con el público en general para una comprensión más profunda de Corea en el mundo contemporáneo. El programa está abierto a académicos cuya investigación y enseñanza se centre en Corea, especialmente con una perspectiva comparativa, global y/o interdisciplinaria.

Los becarios de investigación de estudios coreanos de LB pueden tener formación en cualquier disciplina, así como llevar a cabo investigaciones interdisciplinarias que trasciendan los límites disciplinarios tradicionales. Además de los campos más tradicionales de los estudios coreanos, prevemos trabajos centrados en Corea en áreas como STEM, salud pública, planificación urbana, arquitectura y otras. La selección se basará en el potencial de la investigación del candidato para cultivar el diálogo y fomentar la colaboración entre disciplinas académicas, así como integrar, sintetizar y construir sobre las contribuciones disciplinarias existentes a la investigación de los estudios coreanos, en sentido amplio. Los becarios trabajarán en el Programa de Asia Oriental y en el Centro Einaudi de Estudios Internacionales, así como en colaboración con mentores y compañeros de Cornell.


Rol:

Los becarios se unirán a un centro interdisciplinario dinámico que reúne una profunda experiencia académica con amplias preocupaciones globales interdisciplinarias. Los becarios se beneficiarán de la formación y la tutoría en materia de publicaciones académicas y becas públicas al tiempo que contribuyen a la visión del Programa de Asia Oriental de hacer avanzar el estudio interdisciplinario de Corea. Organizarán la programación (como eventos pedagógicos y de investigación y/o coloquios), se coordinarán con el profesorado y los estudiantes, identificarán y se pondrán en contacto con socios globales y de la comunidad, y apoyarán al equipo de comunicaciones para difundir la investigación y los eventos de la iniciativa. Los becarios dedicarán aproximadamente el 50% de su tiempo a la investigación y el 50% a la iniciativa LB KSRS.


Posición disponible:
  • Becario visitante postdoctoral, o
  • Becario visitante predoctoral
El becario de investigación de estudios coreanos de LB puede ser un becario visitante posdoctoral (dentro de los 5 años posteriores a la concesión del doctorado) o un candidato al doctorado en una etapa avanzada de su doctorado (terminando su disertación). Estamos interesados en candidatos procedentes de programas de doctorado fuera de Norteamérica, así como de los Estados Unidos, y ofreceremos apoyo para la obtención de visados a aquellos que lo necesiten (este programa no ofrece el estatus de visado H1B).


Ayuda:
  • Estipendio por año académico (de agosto a mayo) de 29.000 USD
  • Ayuda para actividades de investigación de hasta 2.500 dólares (para actividades como viajes a archivos o conferencias, adquisición de material, costes de publicación, etc.)
  • Cobertura de la matrícula de la Escuela de Postgrado de Cornell, si es necesario, para los candidatos de instituciones no estadounidenses y con residencia no estadounidense
  • Uso de oficinas y otras instalaciones
  • Acceso completo del becario visitante a las instalaciones de la universidad de Cornell y recursos como el uso de las colecciones y recursos de la Biblioteca de Cornell, de categoría mundial.

Expectativas:
  • En residencia en el campus de Cornell Ithaca de agosto de 2022 a mayo de 2023
  • Organizar y convocar eventos y actividades de estudios coreanos dentro del calendario de programación de la EAP
  • Llevar a cabo investigaciones, y reconocer el programa LB KSRS en cualquier publicación del mismo
  • Realizar al menos dos presentaciones de la investigación para la comunidad de EAP y Cornell
  • Participar en las iniciativas de la EAP y del Centro de Estudios Internacionales relacionadas con el trabajo o los intereses del becario.
  • No es necesario impartir clases. Sin embargo, si el becario desea enseñar, ya sea formal o informalmente, EAP ayudará a identificar y establecer tales oportunidades.

Cómo aplicar:

La solicitud completa, incluyendo dos cartas de referencia, debe recibirse antes de la fecha límite de solicitud, el 11 de febrero de 2022. Las solicitudes deben enviarse directamente a eap@cornell.edu. El asunto debe ser: "LB Korean Studies Research Scholar Application".
  • Una carta en la que se exprese el interés por el programa y se expliquen las cualificaciones para el puesto. En la carta, los solicitantes deben presentar información biográfica, incluyendo la fecha prevista (o real) en que recibirán su título de doctorado, así como el nombre completo y la información de contacto de dos referencias, una de las cuales debe ser el asesor de doctorado del solicitante.
  • CV completo en formato PDF.
  • Descripción de la investigación propuesta (máximo de 2 páginas, a un solo espacio, letra de 12 puntos, márgenes de 1 pulgada, formato PDF). La propuesta debe estar libre de jerga disciplinaria.
  • Una muestra de su trabajo, que puede ser un escrito, un portafolio de obras de arte, programas de enseñanza u otro trabajo relevante.
  • Dos cartas de referencia, una de las cuales debe ser el asesor de doctorado del solicitante, que deberán ser enviadas directamente por las referencias a: eap@cornell.edu. El asunto debe ser: "LB Korean Studies Research Scholar - Reference Letter". Por favor, tenga en cuenta que todas las referencias deben ser recibidas antes de la fecha límite de solicitud, el 11 de febrero de 2022.
Los candidatos seleccionados serán invitados a participar en una entrevista en línea con el comité de selección.

Las decisiones de selección se notificarán a los candidatos en marzo de 2022.

Si tiene preguntas, póngase en contacto con el director del Programa de Asia Oriental, Joshua Young, en eap@cornell.edu.


Contacto:

Si tiene preguntas, póngase en contacto con el director del Programa de Asia Oriental, Joshua Young, en eap@cornell.edu

CFP: VERGE STUDIES IN GLOBAL ASIAS SPECIAL ISSUE 10.2 PROPOSALS



Special Issue 10.2 Proposals


Verge: Studies in Global Asias invites proposals for special issue 10.2, which will be published in Fall 2024.

Verge: Studies in Global Asias showcases scholarship on “Asian” topics from across the humanities and humanistic social sciences, while recognizing that the changing scope of “Asia” as a concept and method is today an object of vital critical concern. Verge publishes works that engage with the ways in which “globalization” requires us to understand the past, present, and futures of Asia. In doing so, the journal not only provides a critical space to think through the productive relations and generative discontinuities between Asian studies, Asian American studies, and Asian Diaspora studies, but also emphasizes multidisciplinary engagement—a crossing and engagement of the disciplines that does not erase disciplinary differences but uses them to make possible new conversations and new models of critical engagement.

Proposals should contain the following information:
  • A working title for the issue;
  • An abstract / CFP that outlines the issue’s focus;
  • A provisional sketch of how the issue might undertake the journal’s distinctive Convergence features;
  • A brief outline of potential authors and essay topics (these are meant to help the editorial collective imagine the shape of the issue);
  • A plan for how the special issue might connect to other academic projects (conference panels, symposia, etc.) or Global Asias Initiative programs; and
  • The CVs of the guest editor(s).
Please note that all special issues of Verge have open CFPs. Given the GAI’s emphasis on reimagining the conditions of possibility animating scholarly research on Asia and its multiple diasporas and laying groundwork for sustainable and sustaining intellectual exchange across disciplinary, institutional, and field boundaries, proposals that reflect these goals and articulate paths towards accomplishing them will be viewed especially favorably.

Proposals are due by January 15, 2022. Please direct all inquiries and submissions to verge@psu.edu.

CFP: THE (SCOPUS/ISI) SOAS GLOCAL CONFERENCE ON ASIAN LINGUISTIC ANTHROPOLOGY 2022 (CALA 2022)




The (SCOPUS/ISI) SOAS GLOCAL Conference on Asian Linguistic Anthropology 2022




GENERAL INFORMATION

The SOAS GLOCAL CALA 2022 (SCOPUS / ISI indexed) is the annual GLOCAL conference and set of workshops and lectures on the Linguistic Anthropology, The Sociolinguistics, and the Language and Society, of Asia.


UNIVESITY COLLABORATORS


And over 150 other global universities.


PUBLISHER COLLABORATORS



LOCATION

University of The Philippines Diliman, Diliman, The Philippines.


DATES

November 2-5, 2022.

Deadline for proposals: 23 of January, 2022


SESSIONS
  • General Papers.
  • Colloquia (including 10 national Philippine Universities presenting individual Colloquia).
  • Posters.
  • Workshops / lectures on research and publishing methodology, and on ethnography, by globally prominent academics (including ELAR SOAS) and publishing companies.
  • Special Panels.
  • Keynotes: Jack Sidwell (University of Toronto) and other globally prominent scholars in Linguistic Anthropology and Language and Society.

DISPLAYS
  • Universities (20 displays).
  • The Endangered Alphabets Atlas.
  • Local and International Ethnographical Associations.

PERFORMANCES

Anthropological and Cultural Performances from Philippines performance companies.


ANHROPOLOGICAL EXCURSIONS

Anthropological one day options to sites significant in Philippine language and society.


ABSTRACT SUBMISSIONS

The SOAS GLOCALCALA 2022 abstract submission / Second call for abstracts opens on October 23, 2021 and closes on January 23, 2022.

The Notification of Acceptance will be no later than October 20, 2021. Submit at the following link, with all information.


THEME

Symbol and New Society: The SOAS GLOCAL CALA 2022 invites work on the linguistic symbols of Asian and global Asian society, in a new era. Submissions should acknowledge and describe the transfer of language and communication in this new era. Papers should discuss the ways in which communication takes on both evolutionary and revolutionary form, following recent significant changes in Asian society, and in Asia’s new and revised interrelatedness across global scopes.


SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE

For full Scientific Committee, see link.


PUBLICATIONS
  • Conference proceedings (ISI / AHCI indexed)
  • Several special Top Tier (Scopus/ISI /ACHI /SSCI) journal issues and monographs are planned with well ranked publications and publishers only, from papers submitted to The (SCOPUS / ISI) SOAS GLOCAL CALA 2022 that meet review requirements. Ample assistance is provided to revise papers.

CONTACT

Head of Communications: Ms. Nhan Huynh

Email: glocal@soas.ac.uk


LINKS
glocal@soas.ac.uk

CFP: CROSSINGS. ASIAN CINEMA AND MEDIA CULTURE SERIES. HONG KONG UNIVERSITY PRESS

Crossings: Asian Cinema and Media Culture Series



Hong Kong University Press is reaching out to rising and established scholars for new, outstanding scholarship (monographs and edited volumes) for our Crossings: Asian Cinema and Media Culture series, co-edited by Poshek Fu (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champagne) and Man-Fung Yip (University of Oklahoma). If you would like to discuss a proposal with us, or have any questions about our publication processes, we would be delighted to hear from you. Please contact our Acquisitions Editors Kenneth Yung at kenyung@hku.hk or Yasmine Hung at yhungyy@hku.hk.


Submitting a Book Proposal

To submit a proposal, please include:
  • A statement of the argument or purpose of the manuscript, explaining how it will add to the existing literature on the topic
  • A table of contents, including a brief synopsis of each chapter
  • A sample chapter, if available
  • A word count of the project (including bibliography, notes, etc.) and details of other elements of the manuscript, such as illustrations, maps, or tables
  • A description of the projected audience, or market, for the book
  • An analysis of competing books (if any exist) and a brief explanation of the uniqueness of the proposed book
  • A curriculum vitae and/or other material describing the author’s background and expertise in the area

About the Series

The series “Crossings: Asian Cinema and Media Culture” publishes books in English and Chinese that investigate Asian cinema and media from cross-disciplinary and cross-methodological perspectives. It situates Asian cinema and media within a global or regional framework and explores different dimensions of transnationality in relation to production, distribution, and reception. It also entails trans-medial interrogations of past and present media culture, looking into the complex interactions of media forms and how they have shaped aesthetic and social practices. Wide-ranging in scope and method, the series places special emphasis on cutting-edge scholarship that draws on careful archival research or derives from vigorous, insightful theoretical study.


About the Editors



Man-Fung Yip is an associate professor and chair in the Department of Film and Media Studies at the University of Oklahoma. Link.


Titles in the Series
  1. Jing Jing Chang, Screening Communities: Negotiating Narratives of Empire, Nation, and the Cold War in Hong Kong Cinema (February 2019)
  2. Wai-Siam Hee, Remapping the Sinophone: The Cultural Production of Chinese-Language Cinema in Singapore and Malaya before and during the Cold War (November 2019)

Forthcoming Titles
  1. Adrian Yuen Beng Lee, Malaysian Cinema in the New Millennium: Transcendence beyond Multiculturalism (Expected August 2022)
Malaysian Cinema in the New Millennium offers a new approach to the study of multiculturalism in cinema by analysing how a new wave of filmmakers champion cultural diversity using cosmopolitan themes. Adrian Lee offers a new inquiry of Malaysian cinema that examines how the “Malaysian Digital Indies” (MDI) have in recent years repositioned Malaysian cinema within the global arena. The book shines a new light on how politics and socioeconomics have influenced new forms and genres of the post-2000s generation of filmmakers, and provides a clear picture of the interactions between the commercial cinema and politics and socioeconomics in the first two decades of the new millennium. It also assesses how the MDI movement was successful in creating a transnational cinema by displacing and deterritorialising itself from the context of the national, and illustrates how MDI functions as a site for questioning and proposing a new national identity in the era of advanced global capitalism and new Islamization. Covering all these inter-related topics, Lee’s book is a pioneering and comprehensive work in the study of Malaysian cinema in the recent decades.
  1. Jeff Kyong-McClain et al eds., Chinese Cinema: Identity, Power, and Globalization (Expected September 2022)
In Chinese Cinema: Identity, Power, and Globalization, a variety of scholars explore the history, aesthetics, and politics of Chinese cinema as the Chinese film industry grapples with its place as the second largest film industry in the world. Exploring the various ways that Chinese cinema engages with global politics, market forces, and film cultures, this edited volume places Chinese cinema against an array of contexts informing the contours of Chinese cinema today. The book also demonstrates that Chinese cinema in the global context is informed by the intersections and tensions found in Chinese and world politics, national and international co-productions, the local and global in representing Chineseness, and the lived experiences of social and political movements versus screened politics in Chinese film culture. This work is a pioneer investigation of the topic and will inspire future research by other scholars of film studies.


About the Press

Since its establishment in 1956, the Press has grown from a publisher of only a few titles, primarily studies done by the University’s own faculty, to one that releases up to 50 new titles a year from leading scholars around the world. All Press publications undergo a rigorous peer review process before they are accepted for publication. Building on our unique position in Asia, works published by the Press examine, critique, and celebrate Asia’s place in the world. These represent the full spectrum of academic disciplines, cover both historical and future issues, span all theoretical points of view, and range from in-depth local analyses through regional comparisons to global syntheses.

CFP: 2022 SITUATIONS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE FOR GRADUATE STUDENTS




2022 Situations International Conference for Graduate Students

Antagonism in Asia: The Fault-lines of Conflict in an Interdependent World

Jan. 28 -29, 2022 Venue: Online Zoom


It has been commonly thought that bringing the peoples of the world together through free trade and communications technology would create the prosperity that would in turn reduce conflicts between nations and between ethnic and racial groups. Instead, war and uprisings have plunged much of the Middle East into Chaos, while geopolitical rivalry has intensified between the two superpowers, the US and China. Furious and impassioned protests against China over an extradition law erupted in Hong Kong in 2019. Taiwan has sought to strengthen its ties to the US out of mounting fears of a military invasion from the mainland. Ethnic and religious conflicts have come to the forefront in Myanmar, where the crisis over the Rohingya people was a factor in both the country’s decision to ally with China and the coup that toppled its democratically-elected government.

We are looking for papers dealing with literary and cinematic representations of conflict — ideological, ethnic, racial, religious, or even sexual — in Asia. How have fiction writers and filmmakers dealt with this emerging landscape of conflict? What do efforts to grapple with the historical legacies of violence and atrocity, such as the Sino-Japanese War, the Pacific War, the Korean War, the Vietnam War, or the massacres in Indonesia under Suharto, reveal about contemporary global and regional predicaments?

Some possible topics:
  • The rise of China as a world power
  • The meaning of communism in an age of global markets
  • The legacies of the Cold War
  • Migrant labor in Asia
  • A Pan-Asian future: utopian or realistic?
  • Inter-ethnic tensions in Southeast Asia
  • The war on terror in Asia
  • The Chinese Cultural Revolution and the West
  • Views of Imperial Japan across Asia
  • The Vietnam War reconsidered
  • Feminism, gay rights, and geopolitics
  • Religious persecution in Asia

Early inquires with 200 word abstracts are appreciated. We invite you to submit 4,000 word essays with abstracts by January 17, 2022. All correspondence should be sent to bk21eng-edit@yonsei.ac.kr.

Submissions should follow the Chicago Manual of Style (16th ed.), using only endnotes. For further details about the citation protocols, refer to our journal website.


Contact Email: 

bk21eng-edit@yonsei.ac.kr


CFP: MATERIALITIES AND MOVEMENTS IN A CHANGING EAST ASIA


Materialities and Movements in a Changing East Asia 

Anthropology News, SEAA section


The Society for East Asian Anthropology (SEAA) column in Anthropology News is excited to invite submissions for a new curated series: “Materialities and Movements in a Changing East Asia.” The breadth of this theme encourages a variety of contributions based on members’ original ethnographic research. Submissions can take the form of short essays (up to 1600 words and 3 images) and photo essays (up to 600 words and 8 images).

From the COVID-19 pandemic to contemporary geopolitical contests in East Asia, the circulation and management of materials – from commodities and viruses to artifacts and waste – continue to animate ethical and political questions that the region faces today. Tracking the circulation, distribution, and proliferation of materials across spaces can reveal the production of novel social worlds; the mechanisms of power that are engendered to control material movements; the work of giving care and value to things beyond their intended meanings and lifecycles; and the ecologies of human and non-human entanglements.

We invite scholars to explore the following and other related questions in this curated series: How can ethnography capture the rich and varied material landscapes of East Asia, replete with different textures, shapes, sounds, and forms? How do people mobilize sensoria to make sense of social, historical, and political changes in meaningful ways? How are understandings of place, personhood, and time constituted through material objects? What strategies are employed to make things move smoothly, or interrupt such moves, in regulatory processes? What critical insights can be generated from East Asia toward issues that are shared at a global scale? And how might one mobilize the complex entanglements between things and beings for both critique and repair? We invite contributions from scholars who are involved with a broad range of ethnographic research, from archival to digital, media, in-person, and remote fieldwork.

If you are interested, please send your 150-250 word abstract to Contributing Editors Aaron Su (aaronsu@princeton.edu) and Jieun Cho (jieun.cho@duke.edu) by December 15. For a photo essay, please also include 2-3 sample images. Submissions are reviewed on a rolling basis, and articles in this series will be published in 2022. We look forward to receiving your ideas!

Anthropology News aims to provide a vibrant venue for creative, original, and accessible anthropological scholarship. We publish articles from members that address contemporary issues with original ethnographic research. Scholars of all stages currently possessing or anticipating SEAA membership are encouraged to participate. To learn more about what we publish, please check out previous articles here.
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