[Tlc] TLC-CFPs and Conferences

Tue Apr 7 15:38:41 PDT 2009

FYI. See seven announcements below.
Best,
justin

1) Call for Papers

Developing Southeast Asia: Challenges and Prospects in the New Millenium

The Department of Southeast Asian Studies, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, University of Malaya is organizing the Third International Conference on Southeast Asia (ICONSEA 2009) from the 8th to 9th of December 2009, at the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur. The theme of the Conference is  Developing Southeast Asia: Challenges and Prospects in the New Millenium. Academicians, practitioners, researchers, postgraduate students and administrators from the private and public sectors are invited to participate and submit papers to be considered for presentation.Topics of interest include but are not limited to:

      * Regional Economy

      * Maritime Southeast Asia

      * Minorities in Southeast Asia

      * ASEAN and Regional Integration

      * Arts, Literature and Culture in Southeast Asia

      * Political Development in Southeast Asia

      * Social Development in Southeast Asia

      * Economic Development in Southeast Asia

      * Government and Politics in Southeast Asia

      * Foreign Policy and International Relations

      * Any other issues related to the conference theme

Abstract submitted must not exceed 300 words and sent to <yulyadi at yahoo.com> or <iconsea2009 at gmail.com> before 25th of June 2009. For further detailed information on the Conference, visit our Conference website at http://umconference.um.edu.my/ICONSEA2009

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2)

Call for Abstracts

International Conference on Science, Technology and Innovation for Sustainable Well-Being

The Faculty of Engineering, Mahasarakham University, together with the Faculty of Engineering, Khonkaen University, the Institute of Engineering, Suranaree University of Technology and the Faculty of Engineering, Ubonrajathani University are pleased to announce the holding of the International Conference on Science, Technology and Innovation for Sustainable Well-Being during 23-24 July 2009 in Mahasarakham, Thailand.

We invite Graduate, Post-graduate students, researchers and interested participations to submit abstracts for related topics and to attend the conference. 

Website: http://www.msueng.msu.ac.th/

Questions? Contact Dr. Adisak Pattiya <adisak.p at msu.ac.th>.

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3)

Call for Papers

American Council for Southern Asian Art

The American Council for Southern Asian Art (ACSAA) is pleased to announce that Symposium XIV will be held at Denison University in Granville, Ohio, and The Ohio State University in Columbus, Friday-Sunday, October 16-18, 2009. In a departure from the usual format, ACSAA XIV will be held in conjunction with another closely related conference, entitled “New Darshans: Seeing Southern Asian Religiosity and Visuality Across Disciplines,” which is being hosted jointly by the same two institutions. An exhibition of the extensive Burmese art and artifact collection of the Denison Museum will be on view during the conference. There will be a single registration fee for the complete joint conference weekend. Panels from each of the two conferences will be interspersed throughout the three days.

This format will provide a special opportunity to highlight and further crossdisciplinary investigation of South and Southeast Asian visual cultures. Members of ACSAA are invited to engage the recent work of scholars, many of whom come from outside the disciplines and fields traditionally represented at ACSAA, but who are addressing shared issues. Attendees of “New Darshans” will likewise be invited to consider the issues that scholars in the fields of South and Southeast Asian art history are now addressing, and so come to see the full range of the field. Roughly 50% of the papers and panels will be selected to represent ACSAA membership, while the other 50% will be selected to correspond to the themes put forth by the “New Darshans” conference (See below).

The conference committee encourages the submission of both preformed panels and individual papers from ACSAA members. We welcome submissions on all periods of art historical inquiry, from ancient to contemporary. ACSAA papers and panels should represent the state of the field.

Proposals for papers and panels considering the following possible topics are welcomed:

•visual technology(s) and religion

•mass media (comic books, photography, VHS/DVD, film, internet/web) and religion

•fresh interpretations of traditional image-making affiliated with religious practices

•new methodological approaches to the study of the religious image

•diasporic and transnational religious practice and visualities

•intersections of text and image

•visualization/meditation practices

•reassessments of post-colonial scholarship and Orientalist critiques involving the visual

•new museological practices and new archives

SUBMISSION INFORMATION:

Proposals to ACSAA and “New Darshans” should include the following:

•Your name

•Title and institutional affiliation

•Preferred mailing address, phone number(s) and email

•Your ACSAA membership status. (ACSAA participants should be up-to-date members to participate)

•250 word abstract

Send ACSAA and “New Darshans” proposals to:

Natalie Marsh, M.F.A., Ph.D., Director

The Denison Museum

Burke Hall, 240 West Broadway

Denison University

Granville, OH 43023

<marshn at denison.edu>

Postmark and Email Deadline ACSAA and “New Darshans” Proposals: April 15, 2009

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4)
Call for Submissions
Asian Women's Film Festival

Berlin, Germany, October 2009

The 1st Asian Women’s Film Festival was successfully launched in October 2007 at the Cinema Arsenal, Berlin. More than 40 films representing diverse genres from Korea, Japan, China, Taiwan, Vietnam, Malaysia and Hong Kong were screened. International guests attended the festival which also encompassed Q&A sessions, a symposium “The Women’s Survival Guide to Filmmaking in Asia”, and networking activities. The festival is scheduled to be held once every two years.

The AWFF welcomes film and video works directed, written, shot, edited and produced by Asian women. We are looking for works which question and challenge rules of normalcy regarding gender and ethnicity. The 2009 program will be divided into five sections: New Currents, Asian-Diaspora, Short Films, Experimental and Documentary.

Does it all have to be about identity politics? While this issue does play a significant role in our program, it is really not intended to be an exclusive criterion for selection. Rather, the festival is conceived as a platform where categories, genres and subjects themselves can be proposed, opposed, declined and negotiated; different ways of re/presentation performed.

Asian Women’s Film Festival Berlin
c/o Sun-ju Choi
Oranienstr. 49
10969 Berlin
Germany
Email: sunjuchoi at web.de
Website: http://www.asianwomensfilm.de/
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5)
Call for Papers
Western Conference of the Association for Asian Studies

We invite proposals for papers and panels on all aspects of Asian Studies for WCAAS 2009, October 22-24, at the University of Arizona. We welcome papers from faculty as well as graduate students, and also those who venture outside traditional disciplinary configurations. Those considering contributing are welcome to contact faculty of the University of Arizona whose interests they feel are compatible with theirs for suggestions about organizing panels and roundtables.

Individual Paper: proposals should include the full title and a brief abstract of the paper (less than 250 words) and the participant's complete name, institutional affiliation, position, mailing address, phone number, and e-mail address.

Deadline: 15 April 2009

Panel Session: proposals should include a panel title and a description of the focus of the panel (less than 250 words). Normally panels should consist of three papers and a discussant (who may serve as chair). All panel proposals should also include: each participant's complete name, institutional affiliation, position, mailing address, phone number, and e-mail address; and brief abstract of each paper (less than 250 words).

Roundtable/Open Forum: All roundtable proposals should include: full title of roundtable discussion topic, a brief abstract (less than 250 words) explaining its purpose, its issue(s)/theme(s), and scope, and each participant's complete name, institutional affiliation, position, mailing address, phone number, and e-mail address.

Either send them to:

Program Committee, Department of East Asian Studies

Learning Services Building, Room 102

PO Box 210105

University of Arizona

Tucson, Arizona, 85721-0105

Or submit them electronically in PDF or Word file format to <wcaas at email.arizona.edu >.

Website: http://eas.web.arizona.edu/
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6)
Conference Announcement

Buddhist Studies, U.C. Berkeley

April 17-19, 2009 UC Berkeley will be hosting a graduate student conference in Buddhist Studies, with papers presented by graduate students from universities throughout the world. We welcome all those who are interested to attend. For more information, please see the conference web site at:  http://ieas.berkeley.edu/gradconference2009.

The event is open to all, and there no pre-registration is required. However we would like to have a rough idea of the expected number of attendees, so if you are planning on coming please email us at: <Buddhist_conference at berkeley.edu>.

Depending on the numbers attending, we would ideally like to invite graduate students and faculty from other universities to join us for lunch on Saturday the 18th. If you are planning on attending and would like to join the lunch, please indicate this in your email. Our ability to offer lunch will depend on the expected number of attendees, so please respond as soon as possible. We hope to you see you there!
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7)
Conference announcement

Buddhism and Islam: Encounters, Histories, Dialogue and Representation

McGill University, 29-30 May 2009

McGill University's Faculty of Religious Studies, in cooperation with the McGill Institute of Islamic Studies, is proud to host an outstanding group of scholars this spring, who together will be exploring the long, shared history of Buddhism and Islam.

The conference will include presentations by Anna Akasoy (University of Oxford), José Cabezón (University of California, Santa Barbara), Dru Gladney (Pomona College), Georgios Halkias (University of London), Charles Hallisey (Harvard University), Alexander Horstmann (Universität Münster), Irving Chan Johnson (National University of Singapore), Hudaya Kandahjaya (Numata Center for Buddhist Translation and Research), Charles Keyes (University of Washington), Dominique-Sila Khan (Instititute of Rajasthan Studies), Xinru Liu (College of New Jersey), Nishii Ryoko (Tokyo University of Foreign Studies), Kieko Obuse (Oxford University), Leslie Orr (Concordia University), Alexandre Papas (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris), Rohit Singh (University of California, Santa Barbara), Karel Steenbrink (Utrecht University), Yano Michio (Kyoto Sangyo University), and Ronit Yoeli-Tlalim (University of London).

For more information, or to register, please visit our conference website at http://numata-conference.mcgill.ca/.

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Dr. Justin McDaniel
Dept. of Religious Studies
3046 INTN
University of California, Riverside
Riverside, CA 92521
951-827-4530
justinm at ucr.edu