CFP: Asian Cultural and Media Studies Now

International Conference
Asian Cultural & Media Studies Research Cluster, Monash Asia Institute

6-7 Nov 2014

The Asian Cultural & Media Studies Research Cluster of the Monash Asia Institute, Monash University will host an international conference, 'Asian Cultural and Media Studies Now' at Monash University, Caulfield campus in Melbourne on 6 and 7 November 2014.

The conference aims to critically revisit some of the key issues in the study of Asian culture, media and communications, which have been developed rapidly over the last twenty years, to discuss what kinds of new approaches and scholarly frameworks are required in the current socio-historical context. The conference will focus on four key areas of investigation, whose historical significance and transgressive potential requires reassessment in light of the advancement of market-driven processes of globalization and intensifying socio-economic disparity:

1)Alternative modernities and de-Westernization

2)Trans-Asian connections, dialogue and unevenness

3)Cultural convergence, citizenship and socio-cultural diversity

4)Mobility, imagined communities and cosmopolitanism

We are inviting proposals for paper presentations on these issues, although proposals that are in other ways relevant to the topic of Asian Cultural and Media Studies Now will also be considered.

The conference format will be discussion-oriented and all speakers will give a concise talk of the main points for 10-15 minutes. Speakers are not expected to present complete papers but to raise key theoretical questions with related empirical examination where relevant.

Please send your paper proposals (less than 300 words) with your affiliation details and e-mail address no later than _12 May_ to: MAI-Enquiries@monash.edu <mailto:MAI-Enquiries@monash.edu>

Please clearly put "Paper proposal for Asian Cultural and Media Studies Now" in the subject line.Acceptance of proposals will be notified in mid-June.

Please kindly be advised that we will not be able to offer financial support for participants' travel costs. There will be no registration fees for the conference.

We look very much forward to receiving your proposals!

Best regards,
Koichi Iwabuchi, Olivia Khoo & Dan Black
(Conveners, Monash University, Australia)

CFP: Port Cities in the Early Modern World, 1500-1800

November 5-7, 2015, Philadelphia, PA

Co-sponsored by the McNeil Center for Early American Studies, the Program in Early American Economy and Society, and Temple University.

In the early modern period, advances in maritime technology redrew the global map-not only through the "discovery" of new worlds, but by reorienting patterns of commerce and migration to transform what had been peripheries into vital nodes of exchange, power, and culture. Port cities rose to occupy a critical space, mediating between their own hinterlands and an oceanic world of circulation and exchange. Highly local institutions and networks influenced and reacted to global networks and the movements of people, goods, fashions, ideas, and pathogens.  This conference will explore comparisons and connections among ports in the age of sail.  Through broadly comparative papers and revealing case studies this conference provides a forum to explore comparisons and contrasts, diversity and congruence, competition and emulation, among far-flung port cities on a global scale. Among the topics the organizers hope to explore are socio-political organization, economic and labor patterns, and cultural productions

We seek proposals from scholars at all stages of their careers. Committed participants include Christopher Hodson, Richard Kagan, Willem Klooster, Christian Koot, Kris Lane, Ty Reese, Philip Stern, and David Wheat.

Paper proposals should include an abstract of no more than 500 words and a one-page curriculum vita.  Papers, which will be pre-circulated, should be approximately 7,500 words in length. Please e-mail paper proposals to mceas@ccat.sas.upenn.edu<mailto:mceas@ccat.sas.upenn.edu>  by September 15, 2014.  All queries should be sent to the conference organizer, Jessica Choppin Roney (roney@ohio.edu<mailto:roney@ohio.edu>).
The program committee will reply by December, 2014.

Some support for participants' travel and lodging expenses will be available for paper presenters.

Conference Notice

Symposium: Narrative in Buddhist Texts, Practice and Transmission

April 18, 2014 (Friday)
9:00 am - 5:30 pm
2140 Durant Avenue
Berkeley, California 94704

This symposium will explore the significance of narrative in Buddhism from a variety of perspectives, in particular the narrative core of its texts, structures of engagement of the Buddhist path, and new forms arising within a range of cultural contexts.

Principal Speakers:

Dr. Charles Hallisey, Harvard Divinity School
"Narrative Amidst the Activities of Scripture"

Dr. Richard K. Payne, Institute of Buddhist Studies
"The Path from Metaphor to Narrative: Gampopa's Jewel Ornament of Liberation"

Dr. Michael D. Nichols, Saint Joseph's College (Indiana)
?M?ra Re-imagined: Stories of the 'Evil One' in Changing Contexts?

Co-convenors: Scott Mitchell and David Matsumoto
Admission is free and open to all interested persons

For more information: http://www.shin-ibs.edu/narrative

CFP: Globalization and Health: East and West

June 22-26, 2014
University of Pittsburgh

The University of Pittsburgh will host the 2014 FUTH meeting, which will address globalization in its socio-cultural and health dimensions. It focuses on the nature and impact of globalization and health in the East, present and past, tracing the nature of globalization in the region of densest population. Second, it focuses on the impact of Eastern processes of globalization and health on other regions in the world, notably Europe, the Americas, and Africa. Distinguished speakers include Edmund Burke III (UCSC),  Rila Mukherjee (Hyderabad), Naoki Sakai (Cornell), Joanna Waley-Cohen (NYU-Shanghai), James L.A. Webb (Colby College), Christine Yano (Hawaii), and others.  Prospective participants should send proposals that include a title, a 500-word abstract, a short (2-page) CV, and names of two referees to worldhis@pitt.edu by March 31, 2014.  Proposals should include a clear topic and may include methods, temporal organization, and reference to any links between the proposal and broader global, historical, and especially interdisciplinary approaches and questions. Sponsoring universities: Hanyang University, University of Leipzig, St. Andrews University, University of Pittsburgh, and University of Tampere. 

Conference: Waterfront Asian Cultural Landscape

2014 International Symposium
Waterfront Asian Cultural Landscape
Organised by: ACLA Asian Cultural Landscape Association, and SNU Urban
Greening Institute, Seoul National University, Korea
Date: October 7th (Tue.) - 9th (Thur.) 2014.
Venue: International Conference Hall, Seoul National University, Seoul,
KOREA.

ACLA, Asian Cultural Landscape Association, is an organisation that promotes the physical, natural and cultural heritagescapes, traditions, crafts and creativity as driving forces for overall sustainable landscape development; and the generation of cross-cultural integration and strategies for a balanced socio-economic and cultural development. Apart from organising annual symposium, herewith, ACLA call for the entries on undergraduates design competition, together with the support of Urban Greeting Institute, Seoul National University.

The Preamble

Says an ancient Indian text that, "Water thou art the source of all things and of all existence". Water is symbolised as foundation of all the civilisations, ensuring long life and creative energy and are the principle
of all healing. Local waterfronts have acquired increasing relevance to the economic development of human settlements, and in turn afforded themselves as key nodes in globalization processes and tourism development on the line of sustainable landscape planning. A crucial aspect of the competitive repositioning of Asian towns in the global arena is the capacity of post-industrial waterfronts for urban and environmental and sustainable development. As these cities shift from industrial to service economies,the qualities of their urban spaces become increasingly important and need for clean water becomes more crucial. The visibility of waterfront areas and its access to other parts of the city become assets to the redevelopment of these places. As such, waterfront developments have attracted the attention of different institutions interested and involved in varying aspects of such development through varieties of stakeholders and degrees of public participation.

The ACLA-2014 Symposium will provide a platform for interacting driving thoughts and practices that are resulting from cultural landscapic transformation of the urban waterfront spaces in Asian cities, within their economic, political, socio-cultural and landscapic milieu, resulting in the formation of varieties of waterscapes, visualscapes and faithscapes. Changes in public-policy and traditional practices governing land-use on the waterfront have further allowed for the new spatial configurations, including the changing roles of actors and agencies in the transformations of waterfronts. In these purviews and perspectives discourses will be performed and a rational strategy will be formed in understanding, envisioning and re-making of waterscapes in Asia. The overall changing
spatial relationship of the waterfront with the city is the main emphasis of the Symposium, presuming a dictum that new spatialities will be generated by the re-development of the waterfronts potentially lead to create new meanings for the urban spaces of the Asian cities.

The Focal themes/ Sub-themes (but not limited to):

(a)  Waterfront Cultural Landscape: Theoretical Frame and Images (integrity of water-land-landscape, water-plant-gardening, spatial pattern and designing, waterfront cities, water-plant landscaping, water-smart landscaping, Water-smart landscapes vs. Xeriscapes, etc.) 

(b)  Farming Cultural Landscape: Lifestyle and Practices (such as, lowland, wetlands, highland, paddy field, terraces and terrace paddy, salt farm, efficient irrigation, wisely water use, etc.)

(c)  Human Settlements: Spatial Structure and Morphology  (waterfront siting, village, towns, floating village, waterfront landscaping and settlements, water-wise garden, waterfront and waterways developments, etc.)

(d)  Religion and Symbolism: Ritualscapes, Faithscapes (Sacrality in space and time, the routes, spatiality of time, temporality of space, Sacred Cities and pilgrimages, etc.)

Deadlines & Format

* Deadline of Abstract: The abstracts submission deadline by e-mail is 31st May 2014.

* Abstracts: maximum of 250 words in MSwd.doc file, and should NOT include figure/s.

* Abstract Outline: In the abstract, please include session topics, title, name of the authors including complete mailing address and e-mail, Tel./Mobile, and elaborate the focus, field study and prospects, in one MSwd.doc file and send as attachment.

* Deadline of Decision: Your abstract will be peer reviewed by the Scientific Committee. Authors will be notified about the decision regarding the acceptance or rejection of the abstract via e-mail by 30th June 2014.

* Deadline for Paper: for submission of the full papers is 15th August 2014. A template for full papers will be provided after acceptance as a presenter, if required.

* Paper Format: Abstracts accepted for a paper presentation at the Symposium, should be developed as paper/s (3,500 - 6,000max words in length; Harvard Manuel of format strictly to be followed: all the reference be cited by surname and year within parentheses, and arranged alphabetically at the end; no footnotes to be incorporated; feel free to contact us for further help if required), which will be published in the ACLA proceedings, and research anthologies from a standard and established publisher/s.

Registration Fee
Full Registration Fee for outside Participants: KRW 250,000 (i.e. US$250).

Registration Fee for Local Participants, without accommodation: KRW 100,000 (i.e. US$ 100).

Registration Fee for Observers and other Participants: KRW 100,000 (i.e. US$ 100).

Note: All the payments be transacted or transferred in KRW.

Registration Fee includes subsidised accommodation for three-night (shared basis), meals, local hospitalities, and field-trip (countryside waterfront heritage site), and all the proceedings and kits.

Invitation
First of all, it is our great pleasure to welcome all distinguished participants to the 4th International Symposium on "Waterfront Asian Cultural Landscape", organised under the aegis of the ACLA: Asian Cultural Landscape Association, at Seoul National University, Seoul, KOREA. 

The feedback from the discussions facilitated by this Symposium may find future application in making waterfront cultural landscapes more serene and sensitive environmentally, aesthetically, visually and visionary in Asian
region and serve as a model frame for other parts of the world. We hope this Symposium can provide inspiration to experts in creating and generating new models and platforms in this direction to sustainable waterfront habitat development.

The Symposium's schedule contains many activities designed to help and organize the networking of experts and practitioners in Cultural Landscapes and Heritagescapes in Asian region to facilitate the sharing of expertise
for waterfront cultural landscape and planning.

We promise you that we will make every endeavour to ensure your time here fulfilling, enriching and awakening. We wish to welcome you all and hope you have a wonderful experience attending the Symposium, workshops, and technical excursions.

Thank you very much,
Sung-Kyun KIM

CFP: Peace and Human Rights in World History

2014 Conference Call for Papers
October 10-11, 2014, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, Florida

On the 100-year anniversary of the First World War, the Southeast World History Association invites proposals from scholars, teachers, and students in and beyond the Southeastern United States for papers, posters/media displays, panels, roundtables, and workshops addressing this year's theme of "Peace and Human Rights in World History," encompassing interconnected trends of global citizenship that illustrate the complex need for peace and conflict resolution. Participants will engage in the study of the history of peace, international cooperation, and social justice. Peace and human rights is of particular importance to Florida Atlantic University as it has a Peace Studies program: http://www.fau.edu/peacestudies/ and several human rights initiatives, including the Center for Holocaust and Human Rights Education (CHHRE)http://www.coe.fau.edu/centersandprograms/CHHRE

Topics are not limited to, but might include:
        * Peace movements throughout history
        * Resisting, subverting, and recovering from genocides in history
        * Legal, social, and other paths to human rights in history
        * International peace and peacemaking
        * Cases of civil resistance and nonviolent struggle
        * The distinction between combatant and civilian in conflict
        * The role of new technologies and human rights
        * Antiwar activities
        * Positive peace and negative peace
        * Expanding representation and democratic rights
        * Teaching these world historical issues at the K-12 and/or college level
        * Any topic relating to world history research or teaching

In keeping with the mission and character of SEWHA, the Program Committee welcomes proposals that address scholarship and teaching in world history at all levels. Papers not related to this year?s theme are also welcome. The Committee strongly encourages proposals not only for panels (up to three presenters) and individual papers (conference organizers will assemble into panels), but also for innovative formats such as roundtables (up to five participants), individual posters/media displays, workshops, and the like. The Committee also invites interested scholars, teachers, and students to coordinate proposals through the SEWHA list serve, and it particularly encourages proposals that combine teaching and scholarship.

For more information, seehttp://www.sewha.org/conference.

To submit a proposal, please send the following to Prof. Doug McGetchin (dmcgetch@fau.edu) by June 1, 2014:

For Panels:
* An abstract of each paper (no more than 250 words)
* Name, affiliation, and role of each participant (presenters and chair)
* A/V and other equipment needs

For Individual Papers or Posters:
* Name and affiliation of presenter
* Abstract of paper or poster/media display (no more than 250 words)
* A/V and other equipment needs

For Roundtables or Workshops:
* Name and affiliation of each roundtable member or workshop facilitator
* One page description of roundtable or workshop purpose and scope, including statement of relevance to the conference theme, if applicable

For more information about this conference including hotel information, please see our general conference page.
 
Denis Gainty
Georgia State University