Euroseas: Call for papers/Cultural politics in the ASEAN region
Date: Thu, 09 Nov 2006 17:55:12 +0000
> Subject: Euroseas: Call for papers/Cultural politics
> in the ASEAN region
> From: Pauline Khng <p.khng@btinternet.com>
> To: Aseasuk members 1 <p.khng@btinternet.com>,
> Aseasuk members III <p.khng@btinternet.com>,
> Aseasuk members IV <p.khng@btinternet.com>
>
> 7th EuroSEAS CONFERENCE
>
> University of Naples, Italy, 12-15 September 2007
>
> CALL FOR PAPERS FOR PANELS
>
> CULTURAL POLITICS IN THE ASEAN REGION
>
>
> Convenor: Felicia Hughes-Freeland (Dept of Sociology
> and Anthropology,University of Wales Swansea, United Kingdom) and
> Nora Taylor (Smithsonian Institute, Washington DC, USA)
>
> This panel invites papers that present original case
> materials from particular ASEAN states to explain and analyse how
> globally originated policies on cultural diversity and cultural
> management affect national and > local practices. In particular we are interested in
> UNESCO?s policies associated with world heritage sites and intangible
> heritage, and the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) which aims
> to protect Traditional Knowledge, Traditional Cultural Expression, and
> Genetic Resources. We particularly welcome papers that address different
> aspects of cultural production, including the plastic and performing
> arts, ?folk? performance, musical composition, and film, but papers about
> intellectual property and genetic resources which consider the uses of plants
> and medical traditions would also be welcome.
>
> The object of the panel is to consider the issues from the perspective of
> particular situated practices and cases, and not just from the macro,
> top-down perspective.
>
> Questions to be addressed are as follows:
>
>
> 1. How do cultural property, intellectual, and artistic creations contribute
> to cultural identity?
>
> 2. What aspects of social practice and creation should count as intellectual
> property?
>
> 3. What problem does the concept of individual authorship present for Asian
> societies and/or individual artists?
>
> 4. What problem does the concept of legal ownership present for Asian
> societies?
>
>
> 5. Is intellectual property a Western concept? If so, how might it be
> amended to fit cultural patterns in ASEAN, and what might these patterns be?
>
> 6. How are specific governments in ASEAN states using these kinds of policy
> to strengthen their control of national identity?
>
> 7. What kind of contestation arises when the state attempts to implement
> such policies? This refers to issues of indigeneity, ethnicity, and minority
> statuses.
>
> 8. Are there any discernible patterns emerging within ASEAN that might
> develop into future lines of fracture?
>
> We intend to produce an edited book from our discussions that will contribute to cross-cultural and cross-disciplinary debates about cultural property, and provide case materials that will be helpful for furthering the debate, in both theoretical and practical terms.
> Please send abstracts of 200-300 words to both
> F.Hughes-Freeland@swansea.ac.uk and
> nthanoi04@yahoo.com by 1 March 2007 at
> the very latest.