CFP: 11th Annual Asian Cinema Studies Society Conference: Post-Asia Film, Media and Popular Culture

Post-Asia Film, Media and Popular Culture
July 14-16, 2014
Macau

If the historical experiences of colonialism and imperialism, both internal and external, have produced the asymmetries of Asia versus the Rest, how does one address the problematics of Asia as an identity category? Indeed how can one define Asia or Asian-ness without falling into the traps of essentialism that glosses over the diversity of experiences not only within the Asian region but also beyond -- where sites of Asian-ness come to being, and where sights of Asian-ness float about? How do film, media and popular culture and other cultural artifacts expressive of the changing spectra of representations and identities -- whether created inside or outside Asia -- imagine that diversity in the past and the present, as well as for the future? Do they otherwise articulate sameness that cuts between Asia and the Rest? If essentialist notions of identity can be tolerated as expedient means for political ends, at what point do they become unquestioned categories for academic inquiry? Can an interdisciplinary lingua frana be found to rethink Asia beyond the terms of geographical, cultural, ethnic and national essentialisms? Can ecologies of the Inter-Asia and the Sinophone, and other new critical categories, including the renewed take on cosmopolitanism, de-territorialize Asia and Asian-ness without reinscribing existing ontological dilemmas? Can Asia and Asian-ness be de-Asianized? What is post-Asia?

 To these ends, we call for paper and panel proposals for the 11th Asian Cinema Studies Society Conference: Post-Asia Film, Media and Popular Culture. With the support of the Department of Communication, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Macau, in conjunction with the Asian Cinema Studies Society, the conference is planned for July 14-16, 2014, in Macau SAR. Topics include, but are not limited to, the following areas:

 Asia Cinema studies
 Asian Media studies
 Asian Popular Culture studies
 Asian Cultural Studies
 Cosmopolitan cinemas
 Creative/Cultural Industries
 Cross-media formats
 Cultural and Media Ecologies
 Cultural Policies
 Genders and Sexualities
 Global Communication
 Identities and Representations
 Media Communication
 Nationalism and Transnationalism
 New Media studies
 Postcolonial Theories and Criticisms
 Postmodern cultures
 Print media
 Sinophone Communication
 TV studies

 Conference language: English and Chinese.

 Please send proposals of 200-300 words in RTF or WORD format to Mr. Xu Xiaying atasiancinema2014@gmail.com. For all proposals, be certain to include the title, author(s) name(s), institutional affiliation, mailing address, and email contacts, as well as a brief biography of each contributor. For panel, workshop, and group submissions, be certain to provide a brief description (100 words) of the contribution of each participant.

 Deadline for submission of proposals: 15 February, 2014

 Notifications of acceptance will be sent out by early March 2014.


Dr. Tan See Kam
Department of Communication,
Faculty of Social Sciences,
University of Macau, Taipa, Macau SAR
Email: tsktan@umac.mo
Visit the website at http://www.umac.mo/fss/comm/acss/