[Tlc] Asian Queer Sites Call for Papers

[justinm at ucr.edu]

FYI: Please read the following important call for papers sent
by Dr. Tamara Loos.
Thanks,
justin

Second and final Call for Papers



Queer Asian Sites

An International Conference of Asian Queer Studies

Convened by the AsiaPacifiQueer Network and

The Trans/forming Cultures Centre

At

University of Technology, Sydney

City Campus, Sydney, Australia

21, 22 & 23 February, 2007



Held in association with the conference

Queer Space: Centres and Peripheries

20-21 February, 2007

Also at UTS and convened by the UTS Centre for Social Theory and 
Design in the Faculty of Design Architecture and Building 
( www.dab.uts.edu.au/conferences/queer_space/)




Background



The AsiaPacifiQueer network is convening an international
conference, 
Queer Asian Sites, to be held at the University of Technology,
Sydney 
on the afternoon of Wednesday 21, and all day Thursday 22 and
Friday 
23 February, 2007 in collaboration with the Trans/forming
Cultures 
(TfC) Key University Research Centre in Communication and Culture 
( www.transforming.cultures.uts.edu.au) and the Queer Space:
Centres 
and Peripheries Conference convened by the UTS Centre for Social 
Theory and Design in the Faculty of Design Architecture and
Building.



The two-and-a-half-day conference will feature keynote
addresses from 
major figures in Asian queer scholarship and a series of
themed panel 
streams on intra-Asia/Pacific queer cultural flows.  Confirmed 
keynote speakers from Asia include:



• Rosanna Flamer-Caldera (Sri Lanka, Co-Secretary General of the  
International Lesbian and Gay Association [ILGA])

• Prof. Neil Garcia (University of the Philippines, Diliman)
• Dr Chandra Shekhar Balanchandran (Dharani Trust, Bangalore,
 India)

• Dr Dédé Oetomo (Surabaya University & GAYa  Nusantara,
Indonesia)



Professor David Halperin, W. H. Auden Collegiate Professor of the 
History and Theory of Sexuality at the University of Michigan,
Ann 
Arbor, USA, will be joint keynote speaker for both the Queer
Asian 
Sites and Queer Space conferences.  The Queer Asian Sites
Conference 
will open with Professor Halperin’s address on the afternoon of 
Wednesday 21 February.  This will be followed by a joint
reception 
for both conferences including a presentation by invited
Taiwanese 
performance artist Shihue Tu.



The Aims of the Conference



The conference will investigate the importance of intra-regional 
networks and interactions amongst queer cultures and
communities in 
Asia, Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific.  Some
English-language 
research has tended to understand the emergence of new LGBTQ 
identities in the region in terms of a ‘West and the Rest’
model 
of globalisation based on a one-way process in which 'the West' 
exerts influence upon 'the Rest'.  In contrast to this model, the 
Queer Asian Sites conference will focus on the importance of
intra- regional flows of capital, people, knowledge,
representation, and 
community mobilisation around health and rights in the
histories and 
contemporary forms of queer cultures and communities in the
region.  
The types of questions we hope the conference will explore
include:



• What is the legacy of the pre-World War period of Japanese 
colonial occupation on Taipei’s and Seoul’s same-sex and 
transgender cultures?



• How has the Confucian culture of the economically and 
politically 
important immigrant Chinese communities in countries such as 
Thailand, the Philippines, and Malaysia impacted upon forms of
sexual 
knowledge, representation, and queer lifestyles in those
countries?



• What impact does gay and lesbian tourism, both from the West
 and 
within Asia and the Pacific, have upon identities and
practices in 
the region?



• How are responses to health crises such as HIV/AIDS and 
international human rights movements impacting on LGBTQ community 
development and activism in the region?



• How are Asian and Pacific diasporic identities negotiated in  
Western queer cultural centres such as Sydney, Melbourne, and 
Auckland that are located in the region?



• What roles have gay, lesbian, and transgender entrepreneurs
 and 
the establishment of markets for LGBTQ services and products
had on 
the emergence of queer communities in the region?



• How important is the expansion and cross-border transfer of
 queer 
capital -- the “pink dollarâ€・, the “purple bahtâ€・, the 
“lavender yuanâ€・, the “rainbow rupeeâ€・-- to the public 
legitimation of LGBTQ communities in Asia, Australia, New
Zealand, 
and the Pacific?



Abstracts are now invited on these and related topics.



Please send abstracts of no more than 250 words to Queer Asian
Sites 
Conference Manager at the following email address
apq at anu.edu.au by 
30 September 2006.  Persons who have already submitted
abstracts do 
not need to resubmit.  Persons whose papers are accepted for 
presentation at the conference will be notified by early
October.  A 
preliminary conference program will also be posted on the 
AsiaPacifiQueer website in October. (See http://apq.anu.edu.au). 
Further details including registration and accommodation will be 
posted on the AsiaPacifiQueer website later in 2006.



The Queer Asian Sites conference is being run on a limited
budget and 
we regret that no funds are available for scholarships.



Registration for the Queer Space conference is being administered 
separately and any inquiries should be addressed to: 
queerspace at uts.edu.au



______________
Dr. Justin McDaniel
Dept. of Religious Studies
2617 Humanities Building
University of California, Riverside
Riverside, CA 92521
951-827-4530
justinm at ucr.edu