<span style='font-family:Verdana'><span style='font-size:12px'><blockquote style="border-left: 1px solid #CCC; padding-left: 5px; margin-left: 5px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px;" type="cite"><div><p class="style8" style="text-align:center;background:white" align="center"><font face="Default Sans Serif,Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif" size="2"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="font-size: 26pt; font-family: "Arial Black","sans-serif";"><font color="#333333">CALL FOR PAPER</font></span></b></font></p><p class="style8" style="text-align:center;background:white" align="center"><font face="Default Sans Serif,Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif" size="2"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="font-size: 26pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><font color="#333333"> </font></span></b></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
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14.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Post-Asia Film, Media and Popular Culture Conference, </span></b><br /><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;
line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">July 14-16, 2014</span></b></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
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ideograph-other"><font face="Default Sans Serif,Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif" size="2"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">If the historical experiences of colonialism and imperialism, both internal and external, have produced the asymmetries of Asia versus the Rest, how does one address the problematics of Asia as an identity category? Indeed how can one define ‘Asia’ or ‘Asian-ness’ without falling into the traps of essentialism that glosses over the diversity </span><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
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"Arial","sans-serif"">not only within the Asian region but also beyond -- where sites of Asian-ness come to being, and where sights of Asian-ness float about? How do film, media and popular culture and other cultural artifacts expressive of the changing spectra of representations and identities -- whether created inside or outside Asia -- imagine that diversity in the past and the present, as well as for the future? Do they otherwise articulate sameness that cuts between Asia and the Rest? I<span style="color:black;background:white">f essentialist notions of identity can be tolerated as expedient means for political ends, at what point do they become unquestioned categories for academic inquiry? Can an interdisciplinary <i>lingua frança </i>be found to rethink Asia beyond the terms of geographical, cultural, ethnic and national essentialisms? Can ecologies of the ‘Inter-Asia’ and the ‘Sinophone’, and other new critical categories, including the renewed take on cosmopolitanism, de-territorialize ‘Asia’ and ‘Asian-ness’ without reinscribing existing ontological dilemmas? Can ‘Asia’ and ‘Asian-ness’ be de-Asianized? What is post-Asia?</span></span></font></p><p class="style8" style="background:white"><font face="Default Sans Serif,Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif" size="2"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black;background:white">To these ends, we call for paper and panel proposals for the </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><font color="#333333">11<sup>th</sup> Asian Cinema Studies Society Conference: Post-Asia Film, Media and Popular Culture. With the support of the Department of Communication, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Macau, in conjunction with the Asian Cinema Studies Society, the conference is planned for July 14-16, 2014, in Macau SAR. Topics include, but are not limited to, the following areas:</font></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><i>Asia Cinema studies<br />Asian Media studies<br />Asian Popular Culture studies<br />Asian Cultural Studies<br />Cosmopolitan cinemas<br />Creative/Cultural Industries<br />Cross-media formats </i></span><br /><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
mso-fareast-font-family:SimSun">Cultural and Media Ecologies</span></i><br /><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Cultural Policies</span></i><br /><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
mso-fareast-font-family:SimSun">Genders and Sexualities</span></i><br /><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Global Communication<br />Identities and Representations<br />Media Communication<br />Nationalism and Transnationalism<br />New Media studies<br />Postcolonial Theories and Criticisms<br />Postmodern cultures<br />Print media<br />Sinophone Communication<br />TV studies</span></i></font></p><p class="style8" style="background:white"><font face="Default Sans Serif,Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif" size="2"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><font color="#333333">Language: English and Chinese.</font></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><font face="Default Sans Serif,Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif" size="2"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><font color="#333333">Please send proposals of 200-300 words in RTF or WORD format. For all proposals, be certain to include the title, author(s) name(s), institutional affiliation, mailing address, and email contacts, as well as a brief biography of each contributor. For panel, workshop, and group submissions, be certain to provide a brief description (100 words) of the contribution of each participant. Sessions will be 1 1/2 hours in duration, and time limits will be strictly enforced. </font></span></font></p><p class="style8" style="background:white"><font face="Default Sans Serif,Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif" size="2"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><font color="#333333">The deadline for submission of proposals is <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">15<sup>th</sup>February 2014</b>. </font></span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><font color="#333333">Notifications of acceptance will be sent out by </font></span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><font color="#333333">early March<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"> </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight:bold">2014</span></font></span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><font color="#333333">.</font></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><font face="Default Sans Serif,Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif" size="2"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><font color="#333333">Selected papers will be published in the peer-reviewed biannual <i>Asian Cinema. </i>Now published by Intellect Press (UK), this seminal journal has long been the flagship publication of the Asian Cinema Studies Society. </font></span><u><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:blue"><a href="http://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/journals/view-Journal,id=219/">http://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/journals/view-Journal,id=219/</a></span></u></font></p><p class="style8" style="tab-stops:92.15pt;background:white"><font face="Default Sans Serif,Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif" size="2"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><font color="#333333">Registration fee*:<br />Regular rate: USD200<br />Discount rate: USD125. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">This applies to participants from developing countries in Asia such as India, Indonesia, Philippines, People’s Republic of China (except Hong Kong) and Thailand, as well as full-time students (with proof of identification).</i></font></span></font></p><p class="style8" style="background:white"><font face="Default Sans Serif,Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif" size="2"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><font color="#333333">* The registration includes access to all sessions, one-year ACSS membership, one-year subscription to the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">Asian Cinema </i>journal, tea/coffee breaks, and one closing conference dinner.</font></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><font face="Default Sans Serif,Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif" size="2"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><font color="#333333">Please submit your proposals to </font></span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><font color="#333333">XU</font></span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><font color="#333333"> Xiaying, Richard</font></span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><font color="#333333"> (University of Macau)</font></span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><font color="#333333">: <a href="mailto:asiancinema2014@gmail.com">asiancinema2014@gmail.com</a>.</font></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><font face="Default Sans Serif,Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif" size="2"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><font color="#333333">All updated information will posted at: </font></span><a name="_GoBack"></a><u><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:blue"><a href="http://www.umac.mo/fss/comm/acss/">http://www.umac.mo/fss/comm/acss/</a></span></u></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><font face="Default Sans Serif,Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif" size="2"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><font color="#333333">Principal organizing members: </font></span><br /><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><font color="#333333">Tony SCHIRATO (University of Macau): <a href="mailto:tonyschirato@umac.mo">tonyschirato@umac.mo</a></font></span><br /><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><font color="#333333">T</font></span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><font color="#333333">AN</font></span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><font color="#333333"> See Kam </font></span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><font color="#333333">(University of Macau): </font></span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><font color="#333333"><a href="mailto:(tsktan@umac.mo">tsktan@umac.mo</a><br />Gary B</font></span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><font color="#333333">ETTINSON</font></span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><font color="#333333"> </font></span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><font color="#333333">(University of Lancaster): </font></span><u><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:blue"><a href="mailto:g.bettinson@lancaster.ac.uk">g.bettinson@lancaster.ac.uk</a>.</span></u></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><font face="Default Sans Serif,Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif" size="2"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> </span></font></p><font face="Default Sans Serif,Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif" size="2">Thank you and best regards,<br />Prof. Tan See Kam<br />Department of Communication, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Macau<br />Chair, Asian Cinema Studies Society<br />Editor, ASIAN CINEMA</font><br /> </div></blockquote><p style="margin:0px; 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