CFPs: Regional cultural politics in SEA; Asian Visual Cultures; Colonial and Indigenous Medicines
Judith Henchy <judithh@u.washington.edu>
date Mar 6, 2008 6:41 PM
subject [Vsg] CFPs: Regional cultural politics in SEA; Asian Visual Cultures; Colonial and Indigenous Medicines
> Call for Papers
> Challenges of local and regional cultural politics in
> Southeast Asia
>
> We would like to invite those of you interested in "Challenges
> of local and regional cultural politics in Southeast Asia" to
> submit paper abstracts for our workshop at the 10th Biennial
> Conference of the European Association of Social
> Anthropologists (EASA) that will be held from 26 to 30 August
> in Ljubljana, Slovenia. For a more detailed workshop
> description and the submission of proposals please visit:
> http://www.nomadit.co.uk/easa/easa08/panels.php5?PanelID=291
>
> Workshop organisers: Birgit Bräuchler, Asia Research
> Institute, National University of Singapore,
> <birgitbraeuchler@gmx.net> Kari Telle, Chr. Michelsen
> Institute (CMI), Norway, <kari.telle@cmi.no>. For more
> information on the conference as such see:
> http://www.easa2008.eu/en/informacija.asp?id_meta_type=13
>
> We are looking forward to your submissions!
>
> Dr Birgit BRÄUCHLER
> Asia Research Institute
> National University of Singapore
> 469A Tower Block
> Bukit Timah Road, #10-01
> Singapore 259770
> Website: www.ari.nus.edu.sg
> __________________________________________________
Call for Papers
> Asian Visual Cultures Workshop
>
> University of California, Irvine, April 13, 2008
>
> Graduate students of the departments of East Asian Languages
> and Cultures, Comparative Literature, and Visual Studies at
> the University of California, Irvine invite submissions from
> graduate students, independent scholars, and visual
> artists/filmmakers for a one-day workshop on Asian Visual
> Cultures. This workshop aims to create a space for dialogue among
> those interested in Asia and visual cultures (including but
> not limited to art, cinema, games, theater, architecture,
> animation) beyond disciplinary frameworks in order to explore
> methodologies, theories, and objects of analysis. We hope
> that this workshop will become an ongoing forum for sharing
> ideas, difficulties, and criticism around dialoguing research
> interests and dissertation projects.
>
> This workshop will be experimental in nature. Instead of a
> conventional conference format, we imagine spending more time
> providing feedback to each presenter in a round-table
> discussion after each paper is presented. Also, presentations
> need not follow the standard of 'reading' papers. Let's talk
> about the work in progress, methodological difficulties, and
> theoretical impasses.
>
> While there is no limitation to possible topics, we would be
> very interested in the following questions and problematics:
>
> Cinema and Erotics
> Affect and spectatorship
> Genre Practice and its historicity
> Transnational Asian Films: Production and reception
> Feminist visual theory and criticism
> Film festivals
> Memory and history
> Familiar/familial space
> Queer visual culture
> Vernacular modernity and urban space
> Medium specificity
> Re-imagining field/discipline
> Film studies/area studies
> Methodology, epistemology, objects of analysis
> "Death" of cinema/ "rise" of "digital"
>
> The deadline for submissions is Sunday, March 16, 2008. Please
> email a brief abstract (200-350) to: <yunjongl@uci.edu> (Yun
> Jong Lee). Please feel free to contact us for more
> information at: <kannoy@uci.edu> (Yuka Yanno) or
> <eyhuang@uci.edu> (Erin Huang).
> _________________________________________________
>
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> Call for Papers
> Crossing Colonial Historiographies: Histories of Colonial and
> Indigenous Medicines in Transnational Perspective
>
> St. Anne's College, Oxford, 16-17 September 2008
>
> This conference therefore aims to provide a platform for
> exchange to scholars who are working on the history of
> medicines in different geographical regions in Asia, Africa,
> Austral-Pacific and the Americas and within the varied
> contexts of Spanish, Portuguese, French, Italian, German,
> Dutch and British colonialisms. In addition to appealing to
> researchers working on these various, seemingly clearly
> demarkated colonial and neo-colonial empires, contributions
> are invited from those who locate internal colonialism within
> the imperial metropoles (such as, for example, the Scottish
> Highlands, Canadian Arctic). Presentations on issues of
> transnational entanglements, 'circulation' of ideas and
> exchanges between different ways of healing within different
> colonial/medical contexts are particularly welcome.
>
> Panels on the following themes will be offered:
>
> 1. Medical discourses/practices and global/local exchanges;
> 2. State policies and colonial and indigenous medical practices;
> 3. Medicine and healing and the contours of colonial and
> indigenous communities;
> 4. Medical theories, treatments and approaches to healing;
> 5. Medical experts and indigenous healers;
> 6. Patients, families and social networks.
>
> Panels will be organised on a thematic (not geographic or
> 'type of colonialism'-related) basis to encourage intellectual
> exchange on varied regional experiences. Each speaker will
> have 20 minutes for presentation followed by 20 minutes of
> discussion, to enable other delegates to engage with each
> contribution and provide feedback and comments for the
> speaker. There will be a conceptually focused plenary talk
> commenting on the historiographic approaches and conceptual
> frameworks employed by participants. A roundtable discussion
> on the six major panels/themes will highlight the scope and
> limitations of the different theoretical and historiographic
> traditions/fashions that have been employed. Papers will be
> pre-circulated.
>
> Submission of abstracts (300 words) by 1 June 2008:
>
> Could you please design the abstract with the following issues
> in mind: The conference aims at facilitating intellectual
> exchange and debate between delegates working within different
> academic traditions/networks. Emphasis is on the
> historiographic approaches and methodologies characteristic of
> participants' geographic and network-specific specialisms.
> Apart from a brief outline of the topic, geographical area and
> period you are planning to talk about, it would therefore be
> useful if you also commented briefly on the historiographic
> approaches and methodologies that have hitherto been employed
> in your field of research. If appropriate, this should be
> followed by an indication of the approach/methodology that you
> have come to consider most valuable in your own work.
>
> Please submit an abstract only if you are prepared to provide
> us with a paper for pre-circulation. Deadline for submission
> of papers for pre-circulation (2,000 words): 1 September 2008.
>
> Please send enquiries and abstracts to Ms Manjita Palit at
> <manjita.palit@gmail.com>.