CALL FOR PAPERS, PANELS & PRESENTATIONS
ICOPHIL-9: The Philippines and the World
The Ninth International Conference on the Philippines
28-30 October 2012 at Michigan State University

The Ninth International Conference on the Philippines will be held at Michigan State University in East Lansing, Michigan USA, October 28-30, 2012. Please note the change
from the previously announced dates.

Held at approximately four-year intervals since 1980, this conference seeks to bring together specialists in all academic areas concerning the Philippines or Filipinos anywhere in the world. Within the context of disciplinary and cross-disciplinary sessions we aim to foster interdisciplinary  conversations among academics, policy makers, and interested members of the global community that will bring about greater understanding of Philippine matters and address issues of importance for the future of the Philippines and of Filipinos in the homeland and its diasporas. Some of the round-table sessions will be internet-based to incorporate presenters located outside the United States.

See more here.

Deadline for submission of panel and paper proposals: March 1, 2012.

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CALL FOR PAPERS (Deadline: 19 March 2012)

7th Singapore Graduate Forum on Southeast Asia Studies

Organised by the Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore

The Asia Research Institute (ARI) of the National University of Singapore (NUS) invites applications from postgraduate students who are engaged in research on Southeast Asia to attend the 7th Singapore Graduate Forum on Southeast Asian Studies on 16 – 20 July 2011.

This 3-day forum will be part of ARI’s 5-day Graduate Development Institute and Forum, which in addition to the forum will include two full days of sessions aimed to develop graduate student understandings of academia and relevant skills, through roundtable discussions with faculty, focused practical seminars and breakout group discussions.   

This event coincides with the Asia Research Institute’s Asian Graduate Student Fellowship Programme 2012, which brings some 35 graduate students to ARI for a two and a half month period. These students will also participate in the Graduate Forum.

Postgraduate students working on Southeast Asia are invited to submit abstracts based either on work in progress that is at an advanced stage (i.e. already completed data collection and analysis), or on completed work. NUS students are encouraged to take advantage of this unprecedented opportunity to interact and exchange ideas with students from ASEAN as well as those from other regions whose interests focus on Southeast Asia.

This three-day forum, the seventh of an annual series of forums for graduate students who work on Southeast Asia, will be organised thematically. Themes broadly reflect (but are not limited to) the core research strengths of the Asia Research Institute, including  the Asian dynamics of religion, politics, economy, gender, culture, language, migration, urbanism,  science and technology, population and social change.

In addition to student presentations, experts from the region will also be invited to give keynote speeches, sharing their insights on challenges and issues facing contemporary social science scholarship.

Students whose proposals are selected for presentation at the forum will participate in the full 5 days of the Graduate Development Institute and Forum. Partial or full funding may be available for selected students. Funding will cover board and lodging for the duration of the forum, and in selected cases, air travel to Singapore by the most economical means.
 

SUBMISSION OF PAPER PROPOSAL

Graduate students should submit a 300-400 words abstract of their proposed paper using the attached form to Mr Jonathan Lee at jonathan.lee@nus.edu.sg no later than 19 March 2012. Click here for the Application Form. 

The abstract should clarify the substantive issues which your paper will address and be firmly grounded in your own research project. Please include information on objectives, methods, and findings, as well as explain the original contribution the research makes to the field of study.

One confidential letter of recommendation from a supervisor should also be forwarded along with your form by the same date.

Successful applicants will be notified by 9 April 2012.

Those selected will have to submit full-length papers, of around 4,000-5,000 words in length, by 18 June 2012.

CONVENERS

Dr Michelle MILLER, Asia Research Institute, NUS (Chair)
Dr Jonathan BENNEY, Asia Research Institute, NUS

Dr CHEE Heng Leng, Asia Research Institute, NUS
Dr Kay MOHLMAN, Dept of Sociology, NUS

Dr LIANG Yongjia, Asia Research Institute, NUS

Dr Maria Wendy PLATT, Asia Research Institute, NUS

Dr SUN Jung, Asia Research Institute, NUS
A/P Titima SUTHIWAN, Centre for Language Studies, NUS
Prof Thongchai WINICHAKUL, Asia Research Institute, NUS

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DORISEA-Workshop
Religion, Place and Modernity in East and Southeast Asia
Comparative Perspectives on the Placing of Religion in the Context of Modernity

Convenor: PD Dr. Michael Dickhardt

Conference dates: 19-22 September 2012

Hosted by: Competence Network “Dynamics of Religion in Southeast Asia”, Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Goettingen, Germany

Keynote speakers:
Goh Benglan (National University of Singapore)
Peter van der Veer (Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, Goettingen)

Call for Papers: The workshop approaches the relation between religion and modernity through a discussion of the processes of placing and spatializing religious practices under the conditions of modernity as mediated in and through places. Using places as a focus implies a reflection of the complex relationality of places brought about by the paths and referential practices of actors within local, national, transnational, regional and global structures. The topic will be discussed in the following three panels:
How do practices of modernity shape and form religious places?
How are religious places are present in spatialities of modernity?
Modern urbanity and religious praxis

See more here.

Deadline for submission of abstracts: March 31st 2012. Please submit an abstract of not more than 300 words to mdickha@gwdg.de.

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Call for Papers

Identity and the Nation in 20th Century Asia

Bremen 07/12

Hübner, Stefan, Jacobs University, Bremen; Weber, Torsten, Universität Freiburg

20.07.2012-21.07.2012, Bremen, Jacobs University

Deadline: 15.04.2012

The formation of group identities in 20th century Asia has been a complex process of interacting phenomena. Not only did "Western" and Japanese colonialism, wars and revolutions affect the identities of different Asian nations and ethnicities. Decolonization, nation-building, the Cold War and various ideas of pan-Asianism also influenced the relations between Asian peoples as well as those with other regions and international organizations. For a couple of years now, international history and more recent methodological approaches like transnational and global history have paved the way for a resurgence of identity studies. Still, neither is there an entity called "Asia" in a political, economic or cultural sense, nor have the many upheavals in 20th century Asia been overcome completely. Identity in Asia therefore was and still is characterized by various shifting local, regional and national identities, often contradictory or mutually exclusive, most of them stemming from or at least shaped by the 20th century.

The workshop seeks to unravel the nexus between identity and the nation in Asia from three perspectives. First, it probes the ideas, transfers, and flows responsible for forging these dimensions. Second, it investigates actors and their often complex interactions with Asian and non-Asian counterparts, specifically in regard to constructions/deconstructions of national identities and of the nation. Thirdly, it looks at 'mega events' and the way they orchestrated national or Asian unity, modernity or uniqueness.

This call for papers is mainly aimed at PhD students but open to all those interested in presenting current and/or ongoing research in a stimulating environment open to new ideas and approaches. Presentations shall be limited to a maximum of 30 minutes, with a further 30 minutes of discussion time. The workshop language is English.

The workshop is connected to a research project on 'Asianisms in the 20th Century' (principal investigators: Nicola Spakowski, University of Freiburg and Marc Frey, Jacobs University Bremen) and sponsored by the German Research Foundation (DFG). Funding for accommodation, meals and travel expenses is available. Interested researchers are requested to send an abstract of max. 400 words and a short CV to both Stefan Hübner and Torsten Weber no later than April 15, 2012.

s.huebner@jacobs-university.de

torsten.weber@orient.uni-freiburg.de

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CALL FOR PAPERS
TWENTY-FIRST ANNUAL WORLD HISTORY ASSOCIATION CONFERENCE
Albuquerque, New Mexico
June 27-30, 2012
Conference Themes:
Frontiers and Borders in World History
and
Indigenous Peoples in World History

The Twenty-First Annual World History Association Conference begins with registration and a reception on Wednesday, June 27th. Panel sessions and other conference-related activities commence June 28 and continue to the end of the day on Saturday , June30th.

Information regarding accommodations, registration, the keynote speakers, and related issues will be posted and regularly updated on the WHA website, www.thewha.org.

The World History Association invites proposals from scholars and teachers around the world for panels (up to 3 panelists, one chair, and one discussant), single papers, and roundtables (between 4 to 5 participants) on topics related to the scholarly and/or pedagogical aspects of the conference's themes, “Frontiers and Borders in World History” and “Indigenous Peoples in World History.” The Program Committee encourages mixed panels of K-12 teachers, university professors, and independent scholars in which cutting-edge scholarship is presented and then discussed in terms of how it might be introduced into the classroom. Moreover, panels devoted to research in progress and sessions dealing with the current scholarship of “big issues” in world history and how these issues might be brought to the classroom are also sought. The committee also invites proposals for sessions in which all papers and commentary have been posted on the WHA website in advance and the entire session is devoted to open discussion of the issues raised. Additionally, the conference will include a poster session, and the committee invites proposals for such poster displays and presentations (details available on the WHA website).

Prearranged panels are given priority, but individual papers will be considered. Individual papers, if accepted, will be placed into panels put together by the Program Committee. Papers and proposed panels that do not fit into the conference themes will be considered and accepted, as space allows.

Each proposal should include: a maximum 250-word abstract of each paper, a brief, one page, curriculum vitae for each participant, and a statement noting how each paper makes an original contribution to scholarship or pedagogy. Please only make A/V requests if absolutely necessary, due to costs, logistics and potential technical difficulties. As always, handouts are welcome. Proposals must be submitted using the forms and guidelines available at http://www.thewha.org.

Guidelines for panel organizers, paper presenters, commentators, and chairs are posted at http://www.thewha.org and should be read with care and followed. Please note the strict 20-minute time limit for paper presentations (for panels containing three presenters; if only two papers are presented, each may be limited to a maximum of 25-minutes.).

DEADLINE FOR PROPOSALS: 15 April 2012. Paper/panel submissions must be accompanied by conference registration. Organizers should ensure that all panel members are registered for the conference at the time of a proposal submission. If you do not receive funding from your institution or the occasion arises that you cannot attend the conference, you may request a full registration fee refund before April 15th, 2012. After that date, regular cancellation policies apply. Visit www.thewha.org for further details.

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DORISEA workshop
Ghost-Movies in Southeast Asia and beyond.
Narratives, cultural contexts, audiences

Convenor: Prof. Dr. Peter J. Braeunlein

Conference dates: October 3-6, 2012

Hosted by: Competence Network “Dynamics of Religion in Southeast Asia”, Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Goettingen, Germany

Call for Papers: Frenzy, ghastly homicides, terror attacks, communication with unredeemed (un)dead, vengeful (female) ghosts and their terrifying grip on the living - all this is part of popular TV- and film-entertainment in Southeast Asia. Such films are world-view mirrors but also enhancers of morals and convictions. The audience, however, and the effects of this peculiar film consumption are largely unknown.

What are the sources on which such film narratives are based (myths, urban legends, stage drama, social drama, literary fiction, crime)? What kind of people (age, gender, class, education) become horror-movie fans? Do “tele-visions of the otherworldly” promote forms of imaginations that undermine (or stabilize) the dominant knowledge formations? Are the products of the film industry sources of re-enchantment, or do they simply produce forms of “banal religion”, or do we need different analytical categories, beyond the enchantment-disenchantment metaphor?

The workshop aims at film-reception research and the comparative analysis of ghost-discourses in the realm of popular culture of various Southeast Asian countries and beyond. Methodological problems involved should be taken as special challenges in this workshop.

Welcome are papers from diverse disciplinary backgrounds: media anthropology, area studies, cultural studies, literary studies, film studies, religious studies etc.

See more here.

Deadline for submission of abstracts: April 30th 2012. Please submit an abstract of not more than 300 words to pbraeun@uni-goettingen.de.

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CALL FOR PAPERS - Embodying Urban Asia

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INVITATION

4TH SOUTHEAST ASIA UPDATE

CALL FOR PRESENTATIONS

22 JUNE 2012

RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN

This years’ Southeast Asia Update is being organized by the Centre for Pacific and Asian Studies (CPAS) of the Radboud University Nijmegen. Get a quick update on the ongoing and exiting research that is being carried out in the region.

· Get an overview of on-going debates and recent research on Southeast Asia.

· Take the chance to present recent findings, your research project or a newly published book.

· Listen to other researchers who present current research projects, new findings and hot debates.

· Meet old friends.

· Extend your network on Southeast Asian scholars in the Netherlands.

Throughout the Netherlands, a large number of scholars are involved in research projects dealing with Southeast Asia. Whereas those working on comparable subjects or countries know each other well, the general academic exchange on Southeast Asia in The Netherlands remains rather limited. Therefore, the Southeast Asia Update brings researchers working on the region together on a yearly basis.

We are presently putting together a programme that comprises presentations of new and ongoing research projects, book presentations, and poster presentations. Moreover, the programme provides time for discussion and get-togethers. As always, presentations should be sharp and succinct. The maximum time for presentation and discussion is 15 minutes, as to allow for as diverse and interesting a programme as possible.

Our explicit aim is to include young researchers and Ph.D. candidates in the programme. Anyone with an interest in giving a presentation on recent fieldwork results, presenting a poster on research projects or wishing to introduce a newly published book should contact the organisers before. Powerpoints and the usage of images are encouraged. Presentations should be state of the art, short and informative. BA/MA students with an interest in Southeast Asia are welcome to attend (please register).

Date: 22 June 2012
Time: 9.30 – 17.00 h
Venue: Campus Radboud University Nijmegen

If you are planning to attend, please send an email to Yayah Siegers (kitlv@kitlv.nl) for registration.

If you want to give a presentation, please contact Laurens Bakker (L.Bakker@jur.ru.nl) or Edwin de Jong (E.de.Jong@maw.ru.nl).

Faithfully yours,

Laurens Bakker and Edwin de Jong

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