[csaa-forum] 2007 Inter-Asia Cultural Studies Shanghai Conference

[Melissa Gregg]

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Open Call for Panels

　
Conference Theme : Conditions of Knowledge and Cultural Production

Time : June 15-17, 2007(Friday to Sunday) / June 15, Pre-Conference for
graduate students, Opening and Keynote

Venue : Shanghai University , Shanghai , China

Organizers : Center for Contemporary Cultural Studies, Shanghai University
and the Inter-Asia Cultural Studies Society



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Contacts :

e-mail: cccs at vip.163.com and cccsshu at yahoo.com (Mr. Zhu Shanjie)

address: Center for Contemporary Cultural Studies, Shanghai University ,

             99 Shang-da Road , Shanghai , China 200444

Website:  <http://www.inter-asia.net/> www.inter-asia.net



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Statement :

The process of globalization has generated an expected but equally
unexpected new “intermediary” condition of knowledge production:
regionalization. In Asia , the intermediary can be perceived in the context
of Inter-Asia Cultural Studies movements, for instance. This new set of
trend has profound impacts on the present and future intellectual work. It
not simply serves to challenge our previous analytical framework bound by
the local society and hence to open up the perspective to study the local in
relation to the regional dynamics. It further enhances the necessity to work
together beyond nation-state boundaries and calls for a change in our mode
of thinking if not intellectual life. In Asia , the processes of regional
integration have begun since the 1990' s and escalated in the new
millennium. The purpose of the conference is to reflexively investigate the
emerging conditions of knowledge on all levels and sites of intellectual
productions.

Since the late 1990s, the Inter-Asia Cultural Studies (IACS) project has
worked towards the imagination and possibilities of diverse forms of
intellectual integrations in Asia . Besides publishing intellectual work
produced out of Asia since 2000, the IACS has also organized various forms
of activities to contribute to the interaction in Asia , including four
major conferences held in Taipei , Fukuoka , Bangalore and Seoul . In 2004,
an Inter-Asia Cultural Studies Society (IACSS) was formed in response to
meet the growing demand of younger intellectuals to expand the scale of
interactions in the region. The 2007 Shanghai Conference is the first
meeting organized by the IACSS, in cooperation with the Center for Cultural
Studies at Shanghai University , to provide a platform so that scholars and
intellectuals can meet each other to discuss and analyze urgent issues
emerging in the Asia region.




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Keynote Speaker:

  Professor Partha Chatterjee (Center for the Study of Social Sciences,
Calcutta , India )


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Open Call for Panels:

1. The Conference will accept organized panels only, and will not accept
individual papers.

2. Deadline for submissions: July 31, 2006 , only through e-mail to:
<mailto:zhushanjie at vip.163.com>  cccs at vip.163.com or cccsshu at yahoo.com

3. Panel proposals should include the following materials:

    a. general statement of purpose

    b. individual paper abstracts

    c. short autobiographical information for each participant (including
panelists, moderator and discussant), plus e-mail address

    d. passport information (including number, name, and expiring date)

    The selection committee will NOT consider incomplete proposals.

4. The selection committee will review the panel proposals and select the
best ones. Accepted panels will be announced on October 1, 2006

5. The conference particularly encourages the organizing of trans-local
panel proposal. However, due to the limited resources and capacities the
organizing committees may prioritize proposals and panelists within Asia .
The conference organizing committees reserve the right to designate areas of
priorities.

6. Language: English is the mediating language of the conference. We accept
panel proposal for presentations in all Asian languages. We assume the panel
organizers of such non-English panels will find ways to make translation
into English available during the conference to increase the participation
from the audience

7. As a general rule, participants for the Society or Association conference
will raise their own funding to join. We encourage all students and
faculties to find their own travel fund where and if possible.

8. Limited funding will be available to support travel/accommodation for
selected proposals from developing parts of Asia . Applications for funding
support must be submitted with the panel proposal. The application should
include paper title, abstract, short autobiographical information and
projected budgets in details (airfare and accommodation). Recommendation
letters are welcome thought not compulsory. The committee will NOT consider
incomplete applications.


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Accommodations : to be announced later


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Registration:

US$100 registration fee for salaried faculty, and US$50 for students and
participants from developing parts of Asia, will be collected to cover
meals, refreshment and conference booklet.

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