[csaa-forum] CFP: Cool New Asia: East Asian Popular Culture in a Local Context

[Scott Wilson]

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  Cool New Asia: Asian Popular Culture in a Local Context 
Date: 25th and 26th November, 2011 
Location: Unitec Institute of Technology: Auckland, New Zealand. 
Abstract Submission Due Date: August 31st, 2011. 
   
Confirmed Keynote Speaker: Professor Koichi Iwabuchi (Waseda
University, Tokyo) 
Koichi Iwabuchi is Professor of media and cultural studies at the
School of International Liberal Studies of Waseda University in Tokyo.
He has been worked on the issues of media and cultural globalization and
transnational connections, multicultural questions and cultural
citizenship in the Japanese and East Asian context. His English
publications include: Recentering Globalization: Popular culture and
Japanese Transnationalism (Duke University Press, 2002); Feeling Asian
Modernities: Transnational Consumption of Japanese TV Dramas (ed. Hong
Kong University Press, 2004); East Asian Pop Culture: Analyzing the
Korean Wave (co-eds with Chua Beng Huat, Hong Kong University Press,
2008). He is an editor of a Hong Kong University Press book series,
TransAsia: Screen Cultures. 
  
Symposium Theme: 
As popular culture flows and consumption opportunities become
increasingly ubiquitous, what is often overlooked is the marked and
local specificity of the popular culture texts themselves. In
multicultural societies there is growing interest expressed by different
agencies to utilise popular culture for their own purposes. We are
particularly interested in the theme of the emerging conflict between
different agencies performing popular culture, especially as popular
culture texts are used, misused or abused in the pursuit of singularly
local objectives and stable cultural identities. Questions of ownership,
authenticity and the production/negotiating of identity are central when
considering the role diasporic and immigrant communities play in any
local environment.  
  
This symposium seeks to bring together scholars and practitioners from
across the spectrum of popular culture production and theorisation,
leading to new understandings of the ways in which international popular
culture and particularly East Asian popular culture is produced and
consumed in a local context. 
  
We invite proposals for individual paper presentations and panel
proposals with up to 4 participants. Individual papers in the form of
250-word abstracts and panel proposals in the form of 200-word panel
proposal and 250-word individual abstracts, to be sent to the conference
organisers: 
Dr. Elena Kolesova: ekolesov at unitec.ac.nz 
Dr. Scott Wilson: swilson2 at unitec.ac.nz 
  
Suggested Presentation Topics Include (but are not limited to): 
·      Identity Construction and Popular Culture 
·      National Identity 
·      New Media 
·      Adaptation 
·      Fans and Audiences 
·      Asian goods outside of Asia 
·      East Asian Popular Culture (either general studies or specific
textual examinations but with the focus on a consumption of Asian
Popular Culture outside of Asia) 
·      Media-specific Production and Consumption 
·      Popular Culture Production 
·      Subaltern Groups 
Free papers are also most welcome. 
  
On your abstract proposal please indicate the following: 
title of paper 

author/s (please include a short bio) 

contact details 

three to four keywords 

  
On your panel proposal please indicate the following: 
·      title of panel 
·      panel chair 
·      panel abstract 
·      individual paper abstracts 
·      short bios of all panel participants 
  
  
Original papers will be considered for publication in a proposed book
to be made up of selected, refereed papers. 
  
Key words: identity, ideology, nationalism, pop(ular) culture, agency,
subaltern cultures, power struggle 
   
   


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