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Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting
Washington, DC
14-18 April 2010
[from H-ASIA, 9/15/09]
Over the past two decades there has been a resurgence of interest in refugee camps, asylum and detention centers and other spaces in which people are confined. Many academic working on such sites have described them as non-places, states of exception and camp-villes revealing the peculiar juridico-political conditions of such sites and defining the subjugation of its inhabitants. However, refugee and internment camps, detention centers and other such sites are not only proliferating but many have also aged over the past half century. These sites are becoming increasingly complex as their spatial logics have expanded and evolved. The evolution of the built environment in camps and the development of networks of such spaces indicate the subtle but important ways in which those that occupy these sites exercise agency and political will.
This panel aims to analyze the spaces of containment themselves. We seek papers that attempt to unsettle some of the commonly held ideas about these spaces of exception through a careful investigation of their built environments. Among the questions that could be raised are: how, for example, do people build and live in such spaces and what impact does that have on their subjectivity? How do the construction, destruction, and appropriation of emergency shelter/ internment housing and structures of confinement affect the subjectivity of those who are confined to these spaces and those who confine them? How does an analysis of the materiality and spatiality of these sites unsettle our ideas of agency and resistance? How could such spaces possibly provide new insights into the processes of urbanization?
To present a paper please submit an abstract following the guidelines by October 10, 2009 and send it to Lynne Horiuchi or Lynne Horiuchi.
Special issue of Winterthur Portfolio
[from H-NET, 8/27/09]
The guest editors of this special issue of Winterthur Portfolio invite essays that engage object-based teaching and interpretation strategies in a variety of sites, including the secondary and college classroom, the museum gallery, the collection, the historic site, the national park, the archaeological dig, the library, the archive, and the World Wide Web.
Since 1974, when E. McClung Fleming published "Artifact Study: A Proposed Model" (consistently one of the most frequently downloaded articles from Winterthur Portfolio), scholars across the disciplines have engaged the art and mystery of teaching the material worlds of the past and the present. In this current revisiting of the topic, we seek essays that examine the interplay between new research and strategies for teaching and intepreting the results of that research. For example, how does recent work in such fields as book history, transnational studies, diaspora studies, or design studies and design history affect what is taught now and how? What is the impact of the new emphasis in material culture studies on such topics as the materialization of memory, the nature of fakes and forgeries, the history of collection and collection policies, the marketplace for artifacts? How do we interpret and teach politicized objects? What are the ethical implications of teaching material culture in a time of environmental consciousness and economic downturn? How can museums enhance, with new technologies or innovative exhibit design, the educational experience of new audiences brought in by cultural tourism?
The essay may be an extended analysis of one of these suggested topics or another topic of the author's choice. It may also be a shorter description of a specific object-based project or assignment or a case study of an object-based approach. In addition, offers to review pertinent new books in the field will be welcome.
Dissertation students as well as scholars and practitioners at any stage of their professional career are invited to submit a brief expression of interest to the guest editors. This should outline the topic and approach and be accompanied by a short biographical statement about the proposer. Final essays will be subject to the journal's peer review process.
Deadlines:
15 October 2009: Expressions of interest due to the editors via e-mail
15 November 2009: Response from the editors
15 March 2010: Draft manuscripts due to the editors
For more information:
Shirley Wajda
Debby Andrews
Universität Bern
Bern, Switzerland
2-4 September 2010
[from H-ARTHIST, 9/10/09]
Wir freuen uns, Ihnen mitteilen zu dürfen, dass vom 02.-04.09.2010 in Bern (UniS Schanzeneck, Schanzeneckstrasse 1, 3012 Bern) der Erste Schweizerische Kongress der Kunstgeschichte stattfinden wird. Organisiert wird der Kongress von der Vereinigung der Kunsthistorikerinnen und Kunsthistoriker in der Schweiz (VKKS, Präsident Prof. Dr. Peter J. Schneemann) und das Institut für Kunstgeschichte der Universität Bern wird als Gastgeber auftreten.
Der folgende Link führt zum Call for Panels mit Brief des Präsidenten in einer deutschen und einer französischen Version. Das Eingabedatum für ein kurzes Abstracts (maximal 1 Seite) bzw. den Entwurf eines Call for Papers für diejenigen, die eine Sektion leiten und organisieren möchten, ist der 15. Oktober 2009. back to page index
University of Toronto
9-11 April 2010
[from ACClist, 9/17/09]
The Buddhist Studies Graduate Students at the University of Toronto are happy to announce that Toronto will host the 2010 Conference. We are currently soliciting proposals from graduate students in Buddhist studies and related fields on any aspect of Buddhist traditions and cultures. We hope that the conference papers presented will reflect the wide range of disciplines (religion, philosophy, history, anthropology, art history, linguistics, area studies etc.), methodologies, and geographical regions that characterize the academic study of Buddhist traditions today. Approximately 15 papers will be selected for presentation at the conference. Presentations limited to 20 minutes will be followed by contributions from faculty respondents in related fields. The conference will encourage and nurture contact, conversation and debate between young scholars working on issues related to the Buddhist traditions today.
Paper proposals of no more than 300 words should be submitted by October 15, 2009. Applicants should also include a three-sentence bio in their email, covering where and what they study. Successful applicants will be notified by December 15 and presenters will be asked to submit their final papers in advance of the conference, by March 1 2010, for review by faculty respondents.
Any queries about the conference should be sent by e-mail to buddhiststudiesgradconference@gmail.com.
For information and updates please see our website at http://www.bsgconference.com/main.html.
Fifth Annual Midwest Interdisciplinary Graduate Conference
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
13-15 February 2010
[from H-NET, 8/13/09]
The fifth annual Midwest Interdisciplinary Graduate Conference at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee seeks submissions for "Obsolescence," a graduate student conference to be held February 13-15, 2010, in conjunction with the Center for 21st Century Studies and its research theme for 2009-2011: "Figuring Place and Time."
This year's theme calls upon scholars to interpret and consider various notions of "obsolescence." According to the Oxford English Dictionary Online, the word "obsolescence" derives from the classical Latin obsolescere: "to fall into disuse, fade away, sink into obscurity." Obsolescence thus presents a sense of expiration or decay; it represents some act, object or idea that is out of its own time. In contemporary life we hear much of technologies and their life-spans, often in terms of the fast-capitalist invention of "planned obsolescence." Public life is also informed by the mainstream media's focus on the immediate present or future; we are perpetually asking or being asked: what's hot?—who's now?—what's next?
Given these observations, we are interested in exploring the theoretical, historico-cultural and political ramifications of identifying an act, object or idea as "obsolete." In doing so, we expect to question the economic, political and cultural implications of temporality as tied to objects and media and to interrogate the assumption that value is inherently contingent on usability. However, we also wish to engage the concept of "obsolescence" as an active state of being, as a performative, and/or as indicative of political value. We aim to engage in a multi-day, interdisciplinary exploration of persistent tensions within the concept of obsolescence as well as in its obverse—utility.
Submissions that explore "Obsolescence" from a diverse range of fields and disciplines are encouraged. Possible topics include, but are not limited to:
This year's keynote address will be presented by Matt Coolidge, founder and director of the Center for Land Use Interpretation.
Please submit a 250-word abstract, with title, for a 15-20 minute presentation as an MS Word file attachment (.doc or .docx) to: grad-conference@uwm.edu. Panel proposals for 75 minute sessions will also be considered (comprised of three presentations); please submit an abstract for each presenter and indicate that you are proposing a panel. Deadline for Submissions: October 15, 2009 For more information, visit our website at: http://pw.english.uwm.edu/~migc.
Symposia: The Graduate Student Journal of the Centre for the Study of Religion at the University of Toronto
[from H-ASIA, 7/17/09]
Symposia is an online, peer-reviewed journal for graduate students in the study of religion and related fields. As in the past, the theme of this years publication has been chosen to correspond with that of the Centre for the Study of Religions annual symposium. Past issues of the journal can be viewed at http://jps.library.utoronto.ca/index.php/symposia/issue/current.
The editorial team extends a cordial call for original, unpublished papers investigating the link between religion and the so-called necessities of life, broadly defined. Physical and psychological needs play a key role in religious ceremonies, and are integral to religious beliefs and religious institutions. Once these needs have been met, however, the necessities of life, both physical (food, air, sleep, shelter, etc.) and psychological, are often overlooked in favour of an emphasis on less corporeal dimensions (e.g. the spiritual, the aesthetic). The editorial team is interested in exploring the ways in which religion either satisfies these basic needs, or leaves them unsatisfied.
We welcome articles that address these issues in the contexts of psychology, history anthropology, gender studies, philosophy, political science and sociology, as well as those which extend the subject across historical and geographical boundaries.
The following sub-fields have been designed to allow for a flexible interpretation of this volumes theme, as well as to encourage submissions reflecting a broad spectrum of interests and disciplines. The editorial team gladly welcomes applications which fall outside of these parameters:
Articles written in clear, grammatical, and fluent English or French will be considered. Articles should not exceed 25 pages in length. The deadline for submissions will be Friday, 16 October 2009.
For all submissions and queries, please contact Nicholas Dion or Rebekka King.
First International Meeting [from H-ARTHIST, 3/30/09, and EAHN, 6/20/09; sessions and roundtables relating to China or Japan listed below] The call for papers for the First International Meeting of the European Architectural History Network has
been issued. Papers are sought for the twenty-five sessions and
roundtables at the conference which will cover architecture of all
periods, from antiquity, medieval, and early modern, up through the
nineteenth and twentieth centuries, as well as topics from allied
disciplines. The call for papers can be viewed on the conference website
or downloaded at http://www.eahn2010.org/EAHN2010_CPF.pdf.
Complete details for submissions are included in the CFP, with proposals
and supporting material to be sent directly to the chair(s) of each
session or roundtable. The deadline for paper proposals is 30 October 2009. Local Dynamics in Global Empires Architecture in 19th-century Photographs The Changing Status of Women in Architecture between the Wars Fictionalising the City Museum of Architecture /
Architecture in the Museum Village Architecture in the Age of a Sustainable Future Roundtable: Setting a Research Agenda for 19th and 20th Century Colonial Architecture and Urban
Planning: Current and
Emerging Themes and Tools
Guimarães, Portugal
17-20 June 2010
Traditionally, the architecture produced in imperial contexts has been interpreted as being more or less
derivative in relation to its European counterparts and consequently almost unfailingly retardataire. More recently, however, reception theory, a critical revision of transfer models, and closer attention paid to extra-European, local dynamics has shown that often aesthetic choices were made not as mere reactions to changes in European fashion but rather as responses to local
circumstances engendered by the colonial order as it developed. The set of open-chapels in colonial New Spain or the Jesuit church in Portuguese-ruled Macao, for instance, while still owing to European architectural tradition, are probably better understood in the context of local circumstances than within the framework of the global transfer of European architectural forms.
Papers in this panel may address (but do not have to be limited to) issues such as responses to political and economic structures pre-existing the arrival of the
Europeans or created by the European presence,
adjustments to local religious practices and beliefs, or adaptations to specific cultural or social phenomena that stem from the colonial framework. This panel invites papers that analyse architectural phenomena on any
European imperial context in any period.
Please send paper proposals and short CVs by e-mail to: Prof. Nuno Senos, Centro de Historia de Além-Mar, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Av. de Berna 26C, 1069-061 Lisbon, Portugal; tel +351 (21) 797 21 51; fax + 351 (21) 790 83 08.
Heavily represented in collections of nineteenth century photographs, architectural photography provides inroads into major themes of the period: industry and technology, exploration and exoticism, documentation and
preservation, history and nationalism, etc. However, most histories of photography use the progressive development of the medium as the organizing structure for the presentation of the material. Architecture lent itself to the long exposure times required by the early photographic processes and was used extensively as subject by the first generation of photographers.
Architectural photography was the focus of three major exhibitions organized between 1982 and 1994 which gave pride of place to photographic technique. Since then, despite the musings of Susan Sontag, the theorizing of Roland Barthes, and three decades of post-colonial, post-structuralist and gender-conscious criticism, the study of architectural photography continues to privilege technical virtuosity. Because the history of architectural photography parallels both the development of photographic techniques and the expressive modalities assumed by the medium, a thematic exploration of the subject is overdue.
This session invites papers that consider thematic questions related to the photography of architecture in the nineteenth century. For instance: the significance of the structures scrutinized by photography, the role of the photographs as commodities on the intellectual and cultural market as it relates to architecture, the impact of the medium on the practice and study of architecture, the fascination for and consumption of photographs of exotic architecture by the "armchair tourist," the institutional and cultural reasons for the absence of women from nineteenth century architectural photography, vernacular architecture in photographs, commodification of architecture for the Baedeker- or Cook-guided middle and even lower-class tourist, photography and historic preservation or urban renewal. Exploration of these questions is intended to focus on how nineteenth century architecture photography eschews the tropes of functionality to reflect the aesthetic and intellectual concerns of the time. A genuine
understanding of the first decades of architectural
photography needs to account for the relevant
technical parameters of production but also demands that each photographic image of architecture be studied as a primary visual document and an aesthetic object. It is this multi-faceted enquiry, which is invited in this session on nineteenth-century architectural photography.
Please send paper proposals and short CVs by e-mail to Dr.
Micheline Nilsen, Indiana University South Bend, AA107, 1700 Mishawaka Avenue, South Bend, IN 46634-7111 USA; tel +1 (574) 520-4277; fax +1 (574) 520-4317.
Women made remarkable advancements in the field of
architecture in the wake of World War I. They also
suffered decided setbacks as a result of it. This was true not just of women in Europe and North America, but throughout the world, as prestigious schools of
architecture, well-guarded portals to the profession, were forced to open up to women. This session invites papers that might focus on the case of specific individuals, such as women admitted to professional schools of
architecture during the War when the enrollment of men was down, but then denied acceptance into the
profession after the War because of commonly held
assumptions of the architect as male: a female
architect was simply an oxymoron. On a broader level, one might consider national differences, with, for
example, a cross-cultural analysis of admission standards, curricular restrictions, and general public acceptance of "women architects." How did the acceptance of women in architecture differ from country to country, such as Finland and France, or Turkey and China? How was the cause of women in architecture helped--or hindered--by war? How did women excluded from admission into professional schools of architecture become recognized architects anyway via other, more traditional avenues such as interior design or the decorative arts? A number of women participated in the 1925 Paris Exposition des Arts Décoratifs et Industriels Modernes. What was their contribution, their role, and was their progress in
architecture helped or hindered by the Exposition? We know that in European countries such as France
professionally trained women denied jobs in Paris sought work instead in the colonies; who were these women, what kind of work did they pursue, and how were they accepted by the local population? What happened to women in architecture during the '30s, or again, for
example, in France, the Vichy years and the
Occupation? According to some sources, though the
profession of architecture "feminized" in the interwar
period, many professional schools retained their
reputation of misogyny even after WWII. Why was this? Was it as has been suggested because of an entrenched male political establishment that continued to suppress women, or was it because of something deeper, on a more sub- or unconscious level, and having to do with sexual identity, and conceptions of "masculinity" and "femininity" on the part of the general public?
Please send paper proposals and short CVs by e-mail to: Meredith L. Clausen, Professor, Architectural History, Box 353440, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195; tel +1 (206) 616-6751; fax +1 (206) 6885 1657.
This session focuses issues connected to a particular form of urban representation, namely those of fiction. How does this special kind of mediation affect our perception of and response to the actual, real city and its built
environment, its identity, its preservation problems and its development seen from the point of view of
architectural history?
Real cities are frequently represented in fiction media, such as novels and movies. Irrespective of whether a city representation in fiction is used as a passive
backdrop or as a dynamic actant, it may influence how inhabitants and visitors perceive the actual city and its environment. Thus the fictional representation and the real city become conflated, and people will see the city not as it is but filtered through this lens.
How does this influence the perceptions and re-representations of a specific city in reality and in other media than in fiction? How may it condition our responses to a certain city - our fears, our delight, our way of understanding it, maybe our way of developing it? Has this influenced the canonization of certain milieus as more worthy of visit than others? Is fiction of implicit importance to urban historiography?
Consumers of mediated fictional representations of cities are beginning to wield an indirect economic power over the actual city. A tangible example is guided tours through cities following routes determined by
popular novels and movies. Architourism not only takes note of the city as such and traditional sights, today it also often involves re-representing the city as fiction
authors, movie producers, and painters have represented it. Today, tours take visitors through the Oxford of
Inspector Morse, rather than the Oxford of research and learning.
Cultural Heritage has so far been created through an active selection of memories, traditions and
associations from history considered to be of
contemporary relevance. The growing interest in fiction and its city representations in tourism has added another possible selection criteria which may change the
landscape of Cultural Heritage in a city and through that the identity of its citizenry. To go a step further: Are there even instances where fiction has determined the preservation of a milieu?
Please send paper proposals and short CVs by email to: Britt-Inger Johansson, Assistant Professor, Dept of Art History, Uppsala
University, Box 630, 751 26 Uppsala, Sweden; tel +46 (18) 471 28 87; mobile +46 708 506 875; fax +46 (18) 471 28.
From the first public museums of architecture in 18th century France to the recent Deutsches
Architekturmuseum in Frankfurt, one thing has been clear: museums of architecture, unlike museums of art, do not contain their object within the space of the gallery.
Thus we expect to find in a museum of architecture drawings, models, casts, photographs, and fragments, but not an actual building. For, how can a building be displayed
inside of another and maintain its objecthood as distinct from that of its container? Where does the frame of a museum end and where does its exhibit, the work of architecture, begin?
This session will examine how techniques of
reproduction and display have transformed
architecture's object during the past 200 years. Scale models had been commonly used, at least since the
Renaissance, to conceive a building before its
construction. Yet the very idea of producing replicas of monuments and disseminating them in greater numbers belongs to a more recent modernity. We invite
participants to reflect on different types of museums and to consider how in the age of European nationalism and colonialism architecture museums helped re-map a vast geography, from Greece to Bengal and beyond. Case
studies may include, among others, Alexandre Lenoir's Musée des monuments français, James Fergusson's
Museum of Architecture in London, Viollet-le-Duc and his students' Musée de sculpture comparée du Trocadéro, the full-scale architectural reconstructions of Berlin's Pergamon Museum or the "period rooms" of the
Philadelphia Museum of Art. Theoretical essays that investigate the relation of key texts and images to
museums, and their role in constructing architecture's disciplinary and aesthetic autonomy are welcome too. Participants may also critically engage the
modernist white cube, which seeks to maintain a
disjunction between the work and its frame, as well as more recent approaches that reconceptualize
architecture and the city as a mnemonic object.
Please send paper proposals and short CVs by e-mail to Can Bilsel, Associate Professor and Chair, Department of Art, University of San Diego, 5998 Alcala Park, San Diego, California 92110, USA; tel +1 (619) 260 7987; fax +1 (619) 260 6875; and to Alexis Sornin, Head, Study Centre, Canadian Centre for Architecture, 1920, rue Baile,
Montréal, Québec H3H 2S6, Canada; tel +1 (514) 939 7000;
fax +1 (514) 939 7020.
This session focuses on the public buildings of village architecture. Around 1900, in many areas of Europe including France and Eastern Europe, local and national governments addressed the issue of bringing rural societies
and agricultural regions into the modern world. Architects were brought in to participate in the execution
of these policies and, as a result, village architecture became the subject of architectural discourse. Public buildings constructed at this time reflected the context of regionalism as broadly conceived in varied forms, based on traditional cultural practices and a vernacular architecture then being defined. Village extensions and alterations were also developed within the frame of regional
politics; among others, this encompassed villages in the ethnically mixed parts of Europe.
The study of these phenomena raises many complex
issues for both architectural history and contemporary
conservation. We invite papers that discuss any one of several topics, such as the survey of such architecture and assessment of its value to architectural history; the identification of architects involved with governmental and local projects; the distinction between vernacular/artistic and national/ethnic elements of village buildings in relation to the mapping of ethnic distribution; current perspectives on promoting a sustainable future for villages;
the assessment of current needs for public buildings;
consideration of local attitudes toward national and ethnic characteristics of buildings; proposals for renovation and re-use of village architecture. We hope to compose a session in which are reflected perspectives from architecture, art history, cultural heritage, politics, and society with case studies drawn from a variety of regions.
Please send paper proposals and short CVs by e-mail to Prof.
Katalin Keseru, Institute of Art History, University Eotvos
Lorand, 1088 Budapest, Muzeum krt 6-8. Hungary; tel +36 (30) 311 0852; fax +36 1 411 6565.
Research on colonial architecture and urban planning has come a long way since the 1970s studies on colonial cities and the early inventories of built colonial legacies. Today, the building and planning practices of all former European colonial powers have been the subject of (some)
investigation and the first comprehensive bibliographies on the topic have been compiled. Critical readings have also emerged that ask new and stimulating questions, widening our view on the particular production and role of
buildings, neighborhoods, cities, and infrastructures that shaped colonial environments and societies in the 19th and 20th centuries.
To a large extent, colonial architecture and urban planning still are researched through a national
perspective, focusing on export-import relations between mother country and colony. Yet more recent research is starting to challenge such bi-directional framework, arguing
for an approach that allows (1) to map and analyze more complex and diverse spheres of influence and
networks of expertise at work in colonial contexts and (2) to acknowledge the various agencies within colonial
societies in producing and shaping their environments, in order to break free from the ‘colonizer'-‘colonized'
dichotomy and from all too elementary understandings of issues like ‘segregation'.
The proposal for this round table starts from the assumption that much is to be gained from more
comparative research that looks across colonial borders and investigates trans-regional as well as transnational
phenomena in order to understand to what extent
building and planning policies in a colonial context were underscored by ideas, ideologies and practices shared among diverse colonial powers while simultaneously being shaped by local political, economical, social and cultural characteristics. By bringing together participants from different countries, and researching colonial contexts in various geographical settings, we aim to discuss
methodological challenges (linguistic barriers;
accessibility of local archives; collaboration with local scholars; the use of visual and oral history) as well as the development of new research tools that could facilitate interdisciplinary and comparative research on this topic.
Please send proposals for presentations/discussion positions and short CVs by e-mail to: Prof. Johan Lagae, Department of Architecture and Urban Planning, Ghent University, Jozef Plateaustraat 22, 9000 Gent, Belgium; tel +32 (0)9 264 3908; fax +32 (0)9 264 41 85; and to Dr. Pauline van Roosmalen, IHAAU, Delft University of Technology, Gillis van Ledenberchstraat 27-2, 1052 TX Amsterdam, The Netherlands; tel +31 (0)20 68 10 727.
University of Toronto Scarborough
14-16 May 2010
[from ACClist, 8/17/09]
The Department of Humanities, University of Toronto Scarborough, is pleased to present the Tung Lin Kok Yuen Conference: "Buddhism and Diaspora."
Keynote Address, Friday May 14th: Professor Victor Hori (McGill University)
This international and interdisciplinary conference will examine the role religion, and specifically Buddhism, plays within diasporic communities. Communities like Chinese Buddhists, Tibetans, Newars, Sinhalese, and many others have brought with them, translated, or alternately reformulated specific types of Buddhism as crucial pieces in the ongoing negotiation of their cultural and social identities. In this context, the conference inquires whether there have been or are currently specific ways that Buddhism has answered the challenges, problems, and expectations that accompany displacement and relocation.
This conference will question the role diaspora has had in the history and self-perception of Buddhism through the ages, both within Asia and during its more modern spread to other parts of the world. This can prompt us to examine how Buddhism has figured in developing and changing notions related to authenticity, tradition, ethnicity, belonging, nation, and landscape, in the light of displacement, exile, violence, travel, and integration. By thematizing diaspora as a situation in which both Buddhism's local articulations as well as its trans-local content are confronted, questioned and reformulated, this conference is an opportunity to bridge current methodological and thematic dichotomies between current ethnographic and text-oriented approaches in the study of Buddhism and Buddhist societies. These questions will help address larger issues of how Buddhist texts and Buddhist practitioners conceptualize and participate in the formation of lived diaspora in both modern and historic settings.
The conference will encourage speakers to probe into the following questions:
This conference will address such questions through multiple formats for scholarly inquiry, namely organized panels with discussants, roundtables, keynotes lectures, and public events.
The program committee welcomes proposals for papers from academics, professionals, graduate students and others. Proposals that include a max 300 word abstract of the paper and a short academic CV should be made online through our submissions site. At this website applicants can cut and paste both abstract and CV into our web form. The deadline for submissions is October 30, 2009. Participants will be notified by December 1st if their submission has been successful.
This conference is sponsored generously by an endowment for the advancement of Buddhist studies, made possible by a gift from the Tung Lin Kok Yuen Foundation (Hong Kong) to the University of Toronto Scarborough. Questions about this event or any other aspect of the Tung Lin Kok Yuen Conference Series in Buddhist Studies may be addressed to Sarah Richardson.
49th Annual Meeting of the Southeast Conference of the Association for Asian Studies (SEC/AAS)
University of Louisville
Louisville, KY
15-17 January 2010
[from SEC/AAS, 7/31/09]
The University of Louisville is host of the 49th annual meeting of the Southeast Conference of the Association for Asian Studies (SEC/AAS), to be held January 15-17, 2010 at the University of Louisville in Louisville, KY. The committee is especially interested in panels and papers that engage the topic of "Democratization in Asia." Proposals for panels on specific topics are expressly solicited; panels devoted to teaching Asian subjects at the secondary or college level are also requested. Individual paper proposals are also welcome. Only one paper per participant will be accepted. Annual SEC/AAS dues for 2009-2010 are required for submissions to be considered. Completed proposals should be sent by October 31, 2009 to:
Dr. Yawei Liu
Director, China Program
The Carter Center, One Copenhill
Atlanta, GA 30307
tel (404) 420-5161
Please put "SEC/AAS proposal" and your name on the subject line of e-mails), SEC/AAS regrets that it is unable to provide financial assistance to scholars from abroad.
Attention graduate students!: SEC/AAS will make available three grants of $200. each to ease the cost of participation by graduate students presenting papers at the conference. Indicate graduate student status and whether you would like to be considered for an award along with your personal information when submitting your proposal to the program chair. Preference in the awards will be given to graduate students traveling from beyond the immediate region of the conference location. Graduate students should also consider entering their papers in the SEC graduate prize competition; the winner has a chance of appearing on a panel at the 2010 AAS national meeting.
Belle Gabrielle
Nogent-sur-Marne, France
11 December 2009
[from SFEJ, 9/18/09]
Chères et chers collègues,
Comme nous l'avions annoncé lors de notre Assemblée Générale de décembre dernier, la SFEJ instaure un Atelier Doctoral National des Etudes Japonaises, ADNEJ. Cet atelier, coordonné par Sandrine Tabard, aura lieu le vendredi 11 décembre 2009, sur le site de la Belle Gabrielle à Nogent-sur-Marne, là même où auront lieu, le lendemain, notre AG et la conférence de M. Kawamura.
Les étudiants intéressés sont invités à s'inscrire avant le 31 octobre 2009 à adnej2009@gmail.co.
Il leur sera demandé de noter leur université d'origine, leur spécialité et le thème de leur thèse, de manière à annoncer un programme et un ordre de passage vers la mi-novembre. Sont invités à y participer tous les doctorants qui le souhaitent, quels que soient leur établissement d'origine et leur spécialité (pour peu, bien sûr, qu'elle s'inscrive dans les Études Japonaises).
Je rappelle que cet atelier se tiendra tous les deux ans (l'année sans colloque), à la même période que l'Assemblée Générale (c'est-à-dire au mois de décembre, à un moment où les doctorants qui sont au Japon sont susceptibles de rentrer en France). L'atelier se clôturera par une session «autour d'un café», qui devrait permettre aux participants de faire plus ample connaissance. Le succès des ateliers doctoraux organisés dans le cadre du colloque de la European Association of Japanese Studies (EAJS), ainsi que celui de l'Association Française d'Études Chinoises, montre que les étudiants en doctorat sont très demandeurs.
Nous comptons sur vous pour diffuser l'information auprès de vos doctorants et pour y prendre part vous-même!
Michel Vieillard-Baron
Président de la SFEJ
Christ's College
University of Cambridge
Cambridge, UK
20-22 July 2010
[from "Intoxicants", 9/26/09]
Abstracts are invited for a major international conference funded by the ESRC. Its aim is to gain some perspective on the nature and scope of intoxicants and intoxication as enduring and ubiquitous social and cultural phenomena, by bringing together established and new scholars whose interests and expertise range across disciplines, geographies and time periods. Keynote speakers include: Professor Thomas Brennan; Professor David Courtwright; Professor Allen Grieco; Dr Christine Guth and Professor Martin Jones.
Abstracts and short CV should be sent to Phil Withington and Angela McShane at pjw1003@cam.ac.uk by 31 October 2009.
University of California, Berkeley
16-17 April 2010
[from H-ASIA, 6/3/09]
The joint organizing committee of the Berkeley-Stanford Graduate Conference Modern Chinese Humanities invites currently enrolled graduate students to submit paper proposals for its inaugural meeting on April 16-17, 2010, at the Center for Chinese Studies at the University of California, Berkeley.
The conference will bring together a keynote speaker and approximately twelve graduate students to present innovative research on any aspect of modern Chinese cultural production in any humanistic discipline. We encourage interdisciplinary scholarship within and between literary and cultural studies, cultural history, art history, film and media studies, musicology and sound studies, as well as the interpretative social sciences.
Conference registration is free; lodging in Berkeley will be provided by the Berkeley-Stanford organizing committee for all conference presenters. Please submit a 300-word paper proposal and a short bio by e-mail attachment to ccs@berkeley.edu by November 1, 2009.
Elinor Levine
Program Director
Center for Chinese Studies
2223 Fulton Street, Room 505
University of California
Berkeley, CA 94720-2328
2010 Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies (INCS) Conference
University of Texas
Austin, TX
25-27 March 2010
[from INCS, 9/27/09]
The 2010 Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies (INCS) Conference invites proposals for papers and panels on Family/Resemblance in the 19th Century. The conference will consider how both family and resemblance were conceived/constructed in the 19th century from multiple interdisciplinary perspectives, including and/or integrating Literature, History, Art History, Law, Science, Sociology, Anthropology, Philosophy, Music, Economics, and Theology. Topics may include:
Hosted on the campus of the University of Texas at Austin, the 2010 INCS Conference will take place 25-27 March and will include a reception at the Harry Ransom Center and a plenary address by Elizabeth Helsinger, John Matthews Manly Distinguished Service Professor, University of Chicago.
Please submit 250 word abstracts by 1 November 2009 to Alexandra Wettlaufer. For more information on INCS, see www.nd.edu/~incshp/. Selected conference papers will be published in Nineteenth-Century Contexts.
Yale University
New Haven, CT
29 April - 1 May 2010
[from H-NET, 7/31/09]
An Academic Conference sponsored by the Visualizing Cultures Project and the Center for East Asian Studies, Yale University
Coordinators: Peter C. Perdue [Yale] and John W. Dower [MIT]
The Visualizing Cultures project and the Council on East Asian Studies at Yale University invite contributions to an academic conference focused on the relationship between visual imagery and social change in modern Asia. We will assemble scholars of history, art history, history of photography, and history of technology specializing in China, Korea, Japan, United States, Europe and the Philippines to discuss how to integrate visual and textual media in research and teaching, using to the fullest the opportunities presented by the Internet.
This will be one of the first academic conferences devoted to image-driven scholarship and teaching about Asia in the modern world. The topic is "Visualizing Global Asia at the Turn of the 20th Century." Images presented must be available for online publication.
John Dower, professor of Japanese history at MIT, and Shigeru Miyagawa, professor of linguistics and foreign languages and literatures at MIT, founded the Visualizing Cultures project to investigate the impact of visual media on cross-cultural interaction between Asia and the West. This project has expanded the scope of traditional historical study beyond written texts, creating truly visual narratives that integrate large numbers of graphics, including popular and commercial images with scholarly commentary. The Visualizing Cultures platform allows educators to download and use freely all content, for non-commercial purposes. The Visualizing Cultures team has worked with scholars to create truly innovative and elegant online publications.
So far, the project has produced units on subjects like the Perry mission to Japan, Sino-Japanese and Russo-Japanese wars, the Yokohama treaty port , Felice Beato's pioneer photographs of Japan, consumer culture and the Shiseido cosmetics firm, and the Canton trade system in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. New units in production include John Thomson's standard-setting photography of China, the Opium War, the histories of Beijing and Shanghai, interwar Tokyo, and the U.S.-Philippines relationship from 1898 through World War Two. Visualizing Cultures uses rare publications as well as archival materials from a variety of museums and art collections, including the Smithsonian Institution's Freer and Sackler Galleries, Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Peabody Essex Museum, Hong Kong Museum of Art, Yale's Beinecke Library, Shiseido archive in Japan, Hood Museum of Art at Dartmouth, and Smith College Museum of Art.
We invite interested researchers to submit contributions for presentation at the conference at Yale in Spring 2010. These presentations should integrate visual and textual content. We especially encourage contributions that use rare materials from archives and museum collections. Many of the contributions may become the basis for new units on the Visualizing Cultures website. Please contact the organizers for further information.
Peter C. Perdue
Professor of History
Yale University
320 York Street, HGS 2682
P. O. Box 208324
New Haven CT 06520-8324
tel (203) 432-6145
fax (203) 432-7587
http://www.yale.edu/history/perdue_pc.html
[Call for papers deadline: 2009-11-03]
Kyushu University
Fukuoka, Japan
27 February - 4 March 2010
[from H-ASIA, 8/25/09, and ESF, 8/31/09]
This conference seeks new approaches to common topics concerning social, cultural and political complexity on the fringes of empires in Europe and East Asia, namely, the Hellenistic and Roman, and successive Chinese empires. A special focus of the conference will be on interactions between empires and their peripheries, and on contact zones. The temporal coverage spans from the formative phase of the earliest empires in the concerned regions up to A.D.1000. The purpose of the conference is to seek new avenues for research collaboration in cutting-edge research, which is why early career researchers are particularly welcome. The conference will bring together archaeologists and anthropologists, philologists and linguists, art historians and historians, specialists of material culture and religion, experts on historical climate change and commercial exchange and many more.
Deadline for application: 5 November 2009
Ms. Jean Kelly, Conference Officer
European Science Foundation (ESF)
ESF Conferences Unit
149 avenue Louise, Box 14
Tour Generali, 15th Floor
1050 Brussels, Belgium
tel +32 (0) 25332020
fax +32 (0) 25388486
University of Glasgow
15-17 April 2010
[from AAH, 6/6/09; sessions of possible relevance to China and Japan listed below]
Various critical themes have shaped AAH conferences in recent years, and provided a focus for disciplinary self-reflection. We seek to continue in this reflective spirit, but rather than organiSe papers thematically, this call for papers is a general one from which different themes are expected to emerge.
The year 2010 marks the beginning of a new decade in 21st-century art historical investigation and an ideal moment for a reassessment of historical objects, issues, and methods, as well as acknowledging newer works of art and criticism developed across disciplines, periods, media and practice boundaries. Papers that address or employ new methods and issues are welcome, but equally important will be state-of-the-discipline investigations and critical assessments that may be uni- or multi-disciplinary, object-based, pedagogical, interrogative, theoretical, or performative. While we hope that the full historical and methodological range of the discipline will be represented, and the proposal of sessions devoted to the widest possible range of periods and cultures is encouraged, the 2010 conference particularly welcomes proposals related to medieval and Renaissance topics.
2010 marks the 20th anniversary of Glasgow as European City of Culture, and the city as a whole will be hosting this conference, from its collections to historic buildings. Though the majority of sessions will take place on the Gilmorehill campus of the University of Glasgow, one afternoon of the conference will be hosted by The Glasgow School of Art, in conjunction with the Centre for Contemporary Arts. Sessions for the GSA will demonstrate the diversity of current critical and analytical approaches to contemporary practices in art and architecture, and may be couched in practice-led and performative strategies of inquiry.
Deadline for the submission of paper proposals is 9th November 2009.
For other queries about the conference or bookfair please contact the convenor and/or administrator at aah2010@arthist.arts.gla.ac.uk.
Conference Convenor: Dr John Richards, University of Glasgow, Department of History of Art
Conference and Bookfair Administrator: Dr Ailsa Boyd, University of Glasgow, Department of History of Art
Session List
Images of Corporal Mortification and Corruption, Martyrdom and Mercy: 1250–1550
Emily Jane Anderson (University of Glasgow); Robert Gibbs (University of Glasgow)
The psychological implications of the new religiosity
with which the devotional image was in accord are
just as complex as the social conditions from which
the religious individual developed his self-awareness.
What took place in the thirteenth century was one of
the most comprehensive transformations European
society ever underwent. While the symptoms were
often only visible in images at a later date, the
impulses to modify images reach back to the
thirteenth century. [Hans Belting (trans. M. Bartusis and R. Meyer), The Image and Its Public
in the Middle Ages: Form and Function of Early Paintings of the
Passion. New Rochelle, New York: 1990.]
This session will explore images which illustrate the
mortification of the flesh, bodily corruption, disfigurement,
disease, decay, physical degradation and death. Such
images have been used to convey messages of strength,
the triumph of faith over fear and pain, the incorruptibility
of the spirit, salvation, celebration and optimism. Images
of suffering are often coupled with those of compassion
and protection. Issues surrounding the role of gender
within images of martyrdom and mercy will be
investigated. Papers are invited which engage with
related imagery (e.g. depictions of justice, punishment,
vengeance, restraint and clemency) from both religious
and secular contexts and which explore the relationship
between text and image. We encourage submissions
illustrating examples from a wide range of media (panel
and wall painting, manuscript illumination, sculpture,
architectural structures and contexts, decorated
household, religious and civic objects and textiles) and
originating from a variety of geographical locations.
"The Rules of (Collective) Art": Interpretation,
Social Engagement and Authorship in
Contemporary Community-based Art
Robin Baillie (National Galleries of Scotland); Ken Neil (Glasgow School of Art)
This session will build a frame of reference around such
artworks by calling for papers from art historians, art
critics, theorists, artists and educationalists involved in this
field. The session will seek to map out the shifting
boundaries of classification and meaning which arise
from contemporary art production in collaboration with
communities.
We are interested in papers which make reference to
new approaches to critical evaluation in this area that
may be influenced by social geography, cultural
sociology and social anthropology, as well as by
contemporary developments in art theory.
At stake in socially engaged artistic processes is the
"consecrated value" of the art object (modernist and
postmodernist) and the definition of the authorship of
contemporary artworks produced through community
collaboration. The work of Pierre Bourdieu, for example,
specifically his examination of 19th-century literary
modernism in The Rules of Art, 1996, has led to challenges
to traditional modernist notions of the work of art, its
intention and its audience.
Ultimately, these artworks, and the processes out of
which they are made, require a reappraisal of the
concepts and methods available to art historians in
assessing their impact and artistic value. This session will
help further that investigation.
Objects, Art History and Display
Museums and Exhibitions Members Group Session
Heather Birchall (M&E Group); Marika Leino (M&E Group)
This session will consider how past and present museum
display has been subject to the changing narratives, art
historical and other, that have shaped the meanings, as
well as the fortunes of objects, during their history. The
shifting status of individual works of art, or types of object,
has presented museum curators and academics with
complex scenarios requiring levels of interpretation both
in public display and academic discourse. From their
potential commission/purchase and initial use and
display, objects have often been transplanted from their
original contexts, they may have been in and out of
fashion, displayed in public or private collections and
sometimes discarded or disposed of, creating a
multifaceted picture which often requires extensive
unravelling. This session will particularly welcome papers
considering the art-historical and museological
challenges of presenting such fluctuating object
narratives to a wider public. The academic sessions will be held in conjunction with
related talks and ‘behind the scenes' tours by museum
professionals at different Glasgow museums, which will
take place during the M&E Group strand. (this is currently
under discussion with the Glasgow Museums).
Exhibitions as Research: Theory, Practice,
Problems
Stacy Boldrick (The Fruitmarket Gallery); Stephanie Straine (The Fruitmarket Gallery)
Ideally, exhibitions always present audiences with new
research. When exhibitions are outcomes of individual
academic research projects, however, the research
undergoes a process of translation. Under the guidance
of curators and other museum and art gallery staff, art
historians discover how to turn their work into a
phenomenological and conceptual experience that
communicates not only with their academic peers but also with public audiences, not only through the act of
writing about objects and ideas, but also through
encountering them and placing them in space and time.
As a collaborative situation, the process of exhibitionmaking
can, for some academics, become a form of
research in itself.
In this session, the term "research" is inclusive,
incorporating conventional art historical research,
research conducted by artists and curators, and other
research practices. Forms of research may range from
traditional scholarship which informs large-scale survey or
blockbuster exhibitions such as Gothic: Art for England,
1400–1547 (V&A, 2003) and Babylon: Myth and Reality
(British Museum, 2008/9), and more focused academic
exhibitions such as Freud's Sculpture (Henry Moore
Institute, 2006) and Close-Up: Proximity and
defamiliarisation in art, film and photography (The
Fruitmarket Gallery, 2008/9), to artist-led research as in
Tacita Dean's An Aside (Hayward National Touring
Exhibitions, 2005).
This session will consider how research is translated in
exhibitions of art from any period, from medieval to
modern and contemporary. Questions include: How can
display be used to express an argument, explore a
concept or even work against the presentation of
research? How can interpretation support or extend
academic research? What role can contemporary art
play to inform exhibitions of historic objects, and vice versa?
Materiality and Waste: Poetics of the Concrete
in Modern Life
Maura Coughlin (Bryant University); Jaimey Hamilton (University of Hawai'i)
This panel invites interdisciplinary visual culture studies
approaches to the mundane, concrete, local,
overlooked and discarded materials of modern and
contemporary life. While the abstract "deterritorialisation"
processes and increasingly global commodity cycles of
production and obsolescence often seem to
characterise this long epoch, this panel explores the
importance of understanding the local specificity of
material objects and concrete experiences.
Along with Henri Lefebvre, Michel de Certeau, and other
philosophers of the everyday, cultural anthropologist Tim
Dant suggests that we form lived and embodied
relationships with material objects. Can we discuss these
relationships without necessarily dismissing them as
framed by nostalgia, imposed from outside authority, or
generalised by international or global culture? What is or
can be considered ‘material' in our modern life? In what
ways do messages and meanings of art and other
aspects of visual culture invoke materiality? How do they
depend upon both the concreteness of physical matter
and the multivalence of their histories, uses, metaphors,
allegories, etc.?
How can materialist methodologies help us to
understand the interaction between people and things –
and articulate the power, politics, and poetics of a
phenomenological basis of subjectivity in material
culture?
Papers could offer methodologies applied to visual
culture, specific artistic approaches, or topics that
include, but are not limited to representations or use of
waste, filth, trash, obsolescence, commodities, the
discarded, junk, thrift, bricolage and the material basis of subjectivity.
Poster Session
Veronica Davies (The Open University); Janet Stiles Tyson (Independent Art Historian)
Building on experience gained in the successful
inauguration of a Poster Session at AAH09, we are inviting
submissions to a Poster Session for AAH10 in Glasgow, for
which participants will prepare materials that lend
themselves to visual display. This can be a combination of
visual, textual, and other media, whose presentation
focal point will be a freestanding panel or allotted area
of reserved wall space at the conference venue. These
displays then can be viewed by conference delegates:
authors also can make themselves available, at times of
their choosing, to discuss the display content. The poster
session will therefore provide delegates with an
opportunity to participate in the conference as authors,
whose ideas might not fit neatly into conventional
presentation formats.
We are calling for abstracts for the poster session,
prepared in the same way as conventional proposals,
bearing in mind the conference's wide-ranging
engagement with methodologies and issues: a particular
welcome is extended to medieval and renaissance
topics. Guidelines on parameters for display and on
effective presentation of visual and textual material will
be made available to selected session participants. Joint
authorship of posters would also be welcomed.
Supplementary Conflicts: Domesticities and
Life Histories in Wartime
Paul Fox (University College London);
Gil Pasternak (University College London)
This session will explore personal visual responses to
conflict, defined as the activities of any armed grouping
prepared to use lethal force to achieve political aims.
The personal, we argue, emerges as either
complementary or subversive in relation to given
historical narratives. Either way, it destabilises any
tendency to accede unreflexively to the authority of the
professional historian. Considering the personal offers an
insight into the relationship between the historical
constituted as narrative and the autobiographical as
fantasy (rather than as fiction). This is not to suggest that
life history provides a greater insight into human
experience than do other types of historical accounts.
Rather, this session will hold that the autobiographical, as
manifested through responses to conflict, is just one
productive source that provides access to the dynamics
between the experience of ordinary people and
subsequent wider accounts of the same perceived
event.
This session will aim to investigate the role played by visual
culture in developing supplementary historical topoi that
accompany, and may challenge, both popular and
official historical accounts. We propose to explore
personal visual responses to conflict produced in, or in
relation to, the domestic sphere and everyday life,
defined as visual representations of subject-positions
played out in the social and political spheres. Although
personal visual responses to conflict constitute a
challenging field for academic research, we argue that
ignoring such responses conceals their bearing upon
subject- and identity-formation. Thus, in this session we
particularly seek to explore the role personal responses to
conflict play in the mediation of history and ideology, in
the negotiation between private and public narrations of
history, between individual and collective identities, and
personal and socio-cultural values.
We invite proposals for papers that span the widest
possible range of periods, cultures and modes of visual
expression. In particular, we welcome contributions that
engage with subject matter offering alternatives to
accounts which work out of the themes of "victimhood"
and "trauma," both of which have received generous
attention in recent years. As such, we wish to broaden
the terms on which the disciplines of art history and visual
culture deal with the experience of conflict and its representation.
China and the West: The Reception of Chinese
Art across Cultures from the 15th Century to
the Present
Michelle Huang (University of St Andrews); Sarah Ng (University of Oxford)
With China’s long history and rich culture, Chinese art has long been perceived as the parent
art of Asia in the West. In the 15th century, extensive commercial development in China
transformed art into commodity and upset its original status. The function of art was no longer
limited to serving the official sphere for political and religious purposes, but extended to the
personal/ public spheres for leisure, cultivation and commercial culture.
Chinese art, since it emerged in the West through trade, war, and international exposition, has
been enthusiastically appreciated by connoisseurs, art collectors, artists, and museums.
Bequests from private collectors, and their collaborations with national museums, have both
played an important role in acquiring specimens of Chinese art of all kinds. Despite the
differences in the perception of Chinese art across time and cultures, the choice of collectibles
and exhibits reflects the national taste, and influences the general public’s understanding of the
subject.
This session will investigate the cultural interaction between China and the West from the
15th century to the present. It will explore the Western/ Chinese perception of Chinese art, the
roles of collectors, connoisseurs, and museums in shaping the conception of art, the influence
of Western/ Chinese art on the development of art in, respectively, China/ the West. We will
also encourage discussion on the collecting and display of ancient and modern Chinese art,
the perception of contemporary Chinese art, and the impact of collaboration across cultures.
Reading to Attention
Sharon Kivland (Sheffield Hallam University, University of London); Forbes Morlock, Syracuse University London and the
Institute for Creative Reading)
A return to reading. A new attention to reading. In a variety of formats, this panel asks what it is to read
attentively. It wants--after attention's own roots--to see
what reading can stretch to. A reader is on duty, and set free. Reading is at the core
of all the disciplines of the arts and humanities, but its
centrality to research is not measured. Part of this
immeasurability lies in reading's pleasures--the pleasure
of the activity, our pleasure in its objects. These pleasures,
though, are inseparable from its disciplines, its rigours. Hence, the call to attention. Too often, "reading" is interpretation, reaching through
the text or image/object to something inside or behind or
beneath it, imagining that what is latent will be of greater
interest or importance that what is manifest. This panel
invites practitioners of all sorts to return to the light, to the
words on the page, to the surface of the image, to the
form of the object (whatever form it takes).
Specifically, its three coordinated sessions invite
presentations that address--in any form--what it is to
read, to attend to the word or the image/object. The first
session will take up reading the verbal text, the second
reading the work of visual art, and the third will return us
to practice in the form of a reading group.
Contributions to these allied discussions in any form are
welcome. The wording here is open in the hope that
different readers will find something of their practice
reflected in it. Readings attentive, inattentive, and wild--all are invited.
Digital Continuities: From the History of Digital
Art to Contemporary Transmedial Practices
Nick Lambert (Birkbeck College, University of London)
Over the past two decades, a distinct history of digital art
has emerged from the general narrative of postwar Art
and Technology, with its own movements, controversies
and currents. During the same time period, a variety of
New Media, intermedia and transmedial practices have
gained recognition across a broader constituency than
historic "computer art" ever had. To some degree, the
growth of New Media is motivated by these concerns
stemming from the artistic discovery of the digital
medium.
Our session will examine this evolution of digital artforms
into a range of diverse manifestations across the cultural
sphere. Is it purely a case of technological expediency,
stemming from the growth of digital imaging and virtual
reality? To what extent should we look for a digitalspecific
artform, or should we accept that artists from a
variety of practices are now working with digital as they
would with any other tool or medium? And to what
extent does it fall within the rubric of Art History, or does it
instead represent the expansion of the field into looking at non-art imagery, as James Elkins has suggested? In this
way, the session connects to the AAH10 aim of
acknowledging newer works of art and criticism, as well
as assessing the state of the discipline.
The contributors to this panel represent a range of
theorists, historians, curators and practitioners of digital art.
"Untitled": What's in a Name?
AAH Student Session
Catriona McAra (University of Glasgow); Rosalind McKever (Kingston University)
As art historians, critics, and researchers we are
surrounded by titles, names, and classifications. Names
secure and give substance to our critical operations; but names can also constrain investigation if one relies on
given solutions without reassessing historical objects and
methods.
But what happens when the title is questionable,
anachronistic, or purposely absented? From
collaborative works that lack designated authors to the
untitled work, the enquiring viewer is prematurely left
alone to fill in the blanks--a productive insecurity in the
face of that which cannot be named, grasped, or
conveyed that leaks into, and has an impact upon, the
doing and teaching of art and its histories.
We would like to invite papers on naming as a activity
shared by art historians, critics, curators, and artists;
thereby also addressing questions of authority, validity,
critique, and resistance that become integral to the act
of giving--or retracting--titles. Possible areas of enquiry
can include: measuring the name: navigating
classification and reconfiguring value; the untitled work
as a site of frustration, opportunity, and challenge; the
function of names and classifications in reception,
historiography, and methodology; legitimising
nomenclature: claiming and re-claiming the utility of art
and history; and choosing names and choosing sides: the
vocabulary of cross-disciplinary studies.
With this session, we hope to open up a space for critical
reflection on the work of art history, wherein the validity
and function of the name/title must be constantly kept in
check, while navigating research through identification
and classification that we see ourselves reconfiguring.
Imperial Tensions: Visual Cultures of Coercion,
Silence and Display
Matthew Potter (University of Leicester); Daniel Rycroft (University of East Anglia)
Barringer and Flynn's "Colonialism and the object" (1998)
applied developments in new museology and postcolonial
theory to analyse the impact of ideology on the
collection and display of colonial objects. At the heart of
this and other related cultural studies has been a critique
of projects that sought to construct funds of knowledge
via educational and scientific pedagogies whilst
simultaneously enacting imperial control. Keeping in view
more recent shifts in museum ethnography and
indigenous studies, which enable institutional silences to
be apprehended productively, a key question emerges:
how representative of the violence of imperialism and
colonialism were these displays? In broaching this topic
art historians may actively engender new multidisciplinary
formations, to invoke research in visuality,
materiality, spatiality and temporality that contest existing
epistemologies.
Which objects are most representative of colonial
coercion? Do national and universal museums generate
cultures of silence around such objects? Were objects of
imperial violence admissible for public display during the
imperial heyday, or was there an obligation to sanitise
history and obscure evidence of conflict? How did the
metropolitan visualisation of coercion function within
popular cultures of imperialism? In raising these questions,
the panel seeks not only to identify the way objects were
created and/or collected in colonial contexts and the
visual history of empire between c.1750 and c.1950, but
also to assess how such cultures of display were received amongst imperial interest groups, journalists, artistic
communities and the wider public of empire.
First International Symposium of CORPUS, International Group for the Cultural Studies of the Body
Lisbon, Portugal
7-8 January 2010
[from H-NET, 9/9/09]
Founded in 2009, CORPUS now includes more than hundred researchers who work in more than twenty countries. Created after a series of seminaries organised between 2001 and 2008 in the Social Sciences High School (Paris) and the Autonomous University of Madrid, CORPUS intends to participate in the construction of a widely open anthropology of body, offering spaces to cross-thinking and dialogues about this fascinating study object.
During this first symposium, organised with the support of the Instituto de Estudos de Literatura Tradicional da Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas da Universidade Nova de Lisboa, we will study the theme: "The Beautiful and the Ugly: Body Representations". For centuries, Beauty has been defined by opposition to Ugliness. A historical relativity is underlying these concepts, which are cultural constructions. For instance, the "whims of nature", such as hybrids or monsters in which the formal aspects of various species could mingle, were generally regarded as ugly. Ugliness was thus defined as a negation of the different forms of beauty, both as a source of hostile reactions, violent repulsions, fear, horror, even terror. Conversely, Beauty could reassure, seduce, fascinate or obsess. Identifying and analyzing the canons of Beauty and those of Ugliness through the ages, studying their theorization and their associations with daily realities, will allow us to explore, beyond the purely aesthetic dimensions, quests for harmony and profound repulsions which are very revealing traits of civilization. We invite researchers (historians, anthropologists, archaeologists, psychologists, philosophers, literature or art specialists, etc.) interested in the topics of Beauty and Ugliness to speak during this meeting, especially considering one of the following themes:
The presentations will be 20 minutes long. The proposals must include an abstract (150-300 words) and an abbreviated CV (5 lines max). They have to be sent before November 10th 2009 to Frédéric Duhart, Yannick Le Pape, Inês de Ornellas e Castro, Carlos Augusto Ribeiro and Tomás Sánchez Criado (cf. contacts). All the proposals will be evaluated by an international scientific committee. The number of speakers will be limited to approximately twenty. Communications will be presented in English, French, Portuguese or Spanish.
This symposium will be held January 7th-8th 2010 at the Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Research Centres building, 26 Av. de Berna (Lisbon).
There will be no registration fee. Transportation costs and accommodation will be the sole responsibility of each participant. For accommodation, the researchers, who wish, may benefit from negotiated packages with hotels located near the faculty (downtown) and with Lisbon Youth Hostel (downtown).
Contacts:
CORPUS General Coordinators:
Frédéric Duhart, 0033 6 16 12 97 32
Tomás Sánchez Criado, 0034 669 47 97 64
Ist Symposium Coordinators:
Inês de Ornellas e Castro, 00351 965 739 179
Carlos Augusto Ribeiro, 00351 964 088 147
Ist Symposium Sc. Com. Coordinator:
Yannick Le Pape
University of South Carolina
Columbia, SC
25-27 February 2010
[from AAS, 9/13/09]
Sponsored by the Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, Asian Studies, the Confucius Institute at USC, and Women's and Gender Studies
Directed by Jeanne Garane, Jie Guo, Yvonne Ivory, and Ed Madden
Plenary Speakers: Shigehisa Kuriyama (Harvard University) and Peter McIsaac (York University)
A lot has been said about bodies, yet the body still remains one of the most contested concepts in a wide range of fields, such as art, anthropology, history, literature, medicine, philosophy, religion, as well as the study of gender and sexuality. Thinking about bodies has occasioned ongoing encounters, clashes, and border-crossings between these disciplines. The Program in Comparative Literature at the University of South Carolina invites submissions to an interdisciplinary conference entitled "Bodies," to be held in Columbia, SC, February 25-27, 2010. We welcome papers and panels that examine bodies from any angle, and we especially encourage cross-cultural and interdisciplinary approaches. Suggested topics include, but are not limited to:
Nalanda-Sriwijaya Centre, Institute of Southeast Asian Studies
Singapore
7-8 March 2010
[from H-ASIA, 9/23/09]
Keynote Speaker: Professor Sugata Bose, Gardiner Professor of Oceanic History and Affairs, Harvard University
Rabindranath Tagore made his first trip beyond India in 1878, when he traveled to Britain to study. But his more influential voyages were to be to the countries of Asia, beginning in 1916 with a visit to Burma and in 1922 when he traveled to Sri Lanka. Longer visits to China and Japan in 1924, Singapore, Malaya, Indonesia and Thailand in 1927, and China, Japan and Indo-China in 1929 were interspersed with further visits to Sri Lanka and, in addition, to many countries in the Middle East and Europe.
Wherein lay the rationale for these voyages? Were they simply voyages of discovery by a Nobel Laureate and his associates? Was there some overt political aim? Or was proselytizing for new understandings and new sensitivities an essential element? To what degree was the inculcation or stimulation of pan-Asianist sentiments an integral element of the Tagore voyages? Were the voyages steps in the promotion of universalism?
Humayun Kabir suggested that Tagore was the first great Indian in recent times who went out on a cultural mission for restoring contacts and establishing friendships with people of other countries without any immediate or specific economic, political or religious aim, while Ramachandra Guha avers that Tagore traveled to other lands out of curiosity, simply to see and speak with humans of a cultural background different from his own, while also suggesting that Tagore had a mission to synthesize East and West. Tagore himself, when speaking of a impending visit to Japan, opined "I want to know Japan in the outward manifestation of its modern life and in the spirit of its traditional past. I also want to follow the traces of ancient India in your civilization."
What then can we understand of these voyages and their motives? The ways in which Tagore was received and reacted to during these Asian voyages varied enormously, with some in his audiences considering him a "seer and patriarch", or even a saint with "a great and tender soul," while others rejected him as a "petrified fossil" who would maintain the oppression of enslaved peoples by "preaching to them patience and apathy". The materialist radicals and revolutionaries of China, in particular, were vehement in their denunciation of their visitor, who claimed to be intent on saving the spirituality of the East from the materialism of the West.
The ideas of Tagore himself were of course also in constant flux and his perceptions of the places he visited were also in continual evolution. In particular, his views of China's role in the reinvigoration of Eastern spiritual civilization obviously changed following his combative reception in China in 1924. How then did these voyages affect how Tagore saw the world, Asia and the role of spirituality in the modern world?
It is hoped that by bringing together scholars to discuss the Asian voyages of Tagore during the 1910s and 1920s, from both his own viewpoints and those of the officials, scholars, writers and artists with whom he interacted during these voyages it will be possible to further elucidate the Tagore phenomena during this period. Papers might examine the man himself, his agenda and his traveling companions, or the intellectual and artistic milieu of diverse parts of Asia during the 1910s-1920s (one which has been termed by Takashi Shiraishi "an age in motion") and how they affected how Tagore and his messages were received and responded to.
Paper proposals are invited from scholars engaged in any aspect of relevant studies. Proposals should be received by 15 November 2009 and successful applicants will be informed of their acceptance by 1 December 2009.
Paper proposals should include a title and a 400-word abstract, together with a short biography of the applicant. Proposals should be directed to:
Professor Tansen Sen
Nalanda-Sriwijaya Centre
Institute of Southeast Asian Studies
30 Heng Mui Keng Terrace
Singapore 119614.
Eikones NFS Bildkritik
Basel, Switzerland
6-7 May 2010
[from H-NET, 9/22/09]
Eikones NFS Bildkritik (Basel) organisiert vom 6. - 7. Mai 2010 einen Workshop zum Thema "Epistemologie der Kunstgeschichte / Epistémologie de l'histoire de l'art."
Die Veranstaltung möchte den kunsthistorischen Diskurs in der Begegnung zwischen deutsch- und französischsprachigen Forschenden und Doktorierenden ermöglichen. Es geht insbesonders um die methodologischen, philosophischen Voraussetzungen der Kunstgeschichte. Dieser Call for papers richtet sich vorrangig an junge Forschende (Master, Dissertation). Die Referate können auf Deutsch oder Französisch gehalten werden, wobei mindestens passive Kenntnisse beider Kurssprachen vorausgesetzt werden. Die Referatsvorschläge (max. 4000 Zeichen) müssen auf Deutsch und Französisch abgefasst werden.
Einsendeschluss ist der 15. November 2009.
Audrey Rieber 29th Annual Art History Visual Art (AHVA) Graduate Symposium [from H-ARTHIST, 10/4/09] In 2010, the city of Vancouver will become the site of an immense international spectacle. On the eve of the Olympic Games, the AHVA 2010 Graduate Symposium and Exhibition will engage with the notion of spectacle as theoretical concept, historical phenomenon, and artistic theme. Performance, subjectivity, power, agency, and mediation have been central to the theorization of spectacle. In his oft-cited The Society of the Spectacle (1967), Guy Debord presents the modern spectacle as hinging on, and being indicative of, issues of economic control, disempowerment, and mass consumerism. Shifting the study of spectacle to contexts beyond those of capitalist consumption, postmodernist and poststructuralist scholars have worked to deconstruct the rhetoric of empire, the symbolic uses of political power, and the ontological categories of race, gender, and sexuality as they relate to various kinds of spectacle. In pre-modern and early-modern contexts, scholars have nuanced our understanding of spectacles by viewing them in conjunction with other concepts--such as the carnivalesque--that interrogate the structure and negotiation of power within social relationships. Spectacle as historical event, object or experience forcefully intersects with modes of
perception. From ancient times to the present day, ceremonies, exhibitions, festivals, and rituals have all functioned in accordance with a posited or present spectator, there to witness and respond to the proffered display. Spectacles have taken on diverse and contested forms, including public executions, religious processions, civic pageants, athletic events, international fairs, scientific demonstrations, urban designs, military conflicts, advertising campaigns, art auctions, and the display of various technologies. Regardless of its manifestation, a spectacle is never neutral. In each case, it engages with its respective publics in the formation of meanings that challenge or support individuals, groups, or institutions pursuing economic and political control. Undeniably, an understanding of spectacle is relevant to scholars, artists, and activists who seek to address current political and social climates or pursue a more critical approach to historical phenomena. The 29th Annual AHVA Graduate Symposium and Exhibition sets out to explore a range of readings and interpretations of this theme and therefore welcomes proposals from all disciplines. The organizing committee seeks proposals for papers and presentations from emerging scholars,
including current and recently graduated Masters, Doctoral students, and Post-Doctoral scholars. Please apply with an abstract of no more
than 300 words by November 15, 2009. Include your full name, institutional affiliation, and contact information when you send your abstract and CV to gradsymp@interchange.ubc.ca with your first and last name, and the words "Paper Submission" in the subject line of your email. Accepted academic research-based or theoretical papers are not to exceed 10-12 pages in length. Successful presenters are required to submit an electronic copy of their presentation to conference organizers for review two weeks prior to the start of the conference. For those who are concerned about accommodations in Vancouver so close to the start of the Olympics, please be advised that the committee has successfully reserved affordable hotel rooms for the conference. The 29th Annual AHVA Graduate Symposium will take place in conjunction with the exhibition Sights/Sites of Spectacle. For more information on the symposium and exhibition, please visit the AHVA website. back to page index
Eikones NFS Bildkritik
Universität Basel
Rheinsprung 11
CH 4051 Basel
"Sights/Sites of Spectacle"
University of British Columbia
Vancouver, Canada
29-30 January 2010
[courtesy of H-NET, 10/16/09]
Estetika welcomes contributions in English or German on all topics related to aesthetics, the philosophy of art or the history of aesthetics, especially on (but not limited strictly to) the possibilities of the transformation and re-description of traditional concepts (such as the aesthetic experience and the aesthetic object); the cognitive and social dimensions of the Aesthetic (das Ästhetische); the emotions and affects; the history of aesthetics; the history of aesthetics as an institutionalized discipline; and, last but not least, the definition of aesthetics in contrast to traditional and more recent disciplines (such as the theory of art, the psychology of art, cultural theory, and visual theory).
We also seek authors of reviews (the reviewed books should not be older than two years).
Deadline: 15 November 2009.
Estetika: The Central European Journal of Aesthetics
Charles University, Faculty of Arts
Celetna 20
Prague 1
Czech Republic
e-mail <aesthetics@ff.cuni.cz>
11th Annual Graduate Symposium on Women's and Gender History
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
4-6 March 2010
[from H-GRAD, 10/12/09]
The Executive Committee of the Eleventh Annual Graduate Symposium on Women's and Gender History at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is pleased to announce this call for papers. The Symposium, which is the capstone event of the History Department's Women's History month celebration, is scheduled for March 4-6, 2010. To celebrate and encourage further work in the field of women's and gender history, we invite submissions from graduate students from any institution and discipline. The Symposium organizers welcome individual papers on any topic in the field of women's and gender history; papers submitted as a panel will be judged individually. Preference will be given to scholars who did not present at last year's Symposium.
The Symposium Executive Committee is interested in assembling a geographically, temporally, and topically diverse body of papers. This year's theme, "Mysterious Things," speaks to a variety of trends that are currently shaping the field of women's and gender history. This is particularly the case as we march on through a world where things—be they ideas, objects, or some strange mix thereof—continue to delight, baffle, liberate, and ruin individuals, as well as global institutions. Successful proposals could directly explore and build upon the implications of the moment in Marx's thought concerning commodities, wherein what should become inanimate matter actually assumes a mysterious, yet undeniable kind of life. Proposals could begin to chart out this life in a variety of fields—particularly gender and sexuality—and its effects upon those with whom it comes into contact. Indeed, gender and sexuality are, themselves, mysterious things, and proposals could also include any work that seeks to expose and demystify their strange functions in the everyday life of people and institutions. We welcome all proposals that seek to examine and interrogate any of the nebulous, enigmatic areas included under the rubric of gender and women's history. The choice of theme is purposefully broad but provocative, inviting perspectives and reflections from a variety of temporal, geographical, and inter/disciplinary perspectives.
For this year, the Eleventh Annual Symposium, we are delighted to announce a keynote speaker who engages many of these themes in his work: Kevin Floyd, Associate Professor of English, Kent State University, author of The Reification of Desire: Toward a Queer Marxism (University of Minnesota Press, 2009).
The journal Gender & History will again sponsor a prize for the best graduate student paper presented at the Symposium. Conference presenters will also have the opportunity to publish their work in the on-line proceedings volume. We possess limited resources to subsidize travel expenses for presenters. Giving priority to presenters with limited conference experience, we will allocate these funds based on the quality of presenters' proposals and the availability of funds.
To submit a paper or panel by e-mail (preferred method); please send only one attachment in Word or PDF format containing a 250-word abstract and a one-page curriculum vitae for each paper presenter, commentator, or panel chair to gendersymp@gmail.com. The subject line of the e-mail must read "Attn: Programming Committee." We cannot be responsible for submissions that do not meet these conditions.
To submit a paper or panel in a hard copy format, please send five (5) copies of all abstracts and curriculum vitae to:
Programming Committee
Graduate Symposium on Women's and Gender History
309 Gregory Hall, MC 466
810 S. Wright Street
Urbana, IL 61801.
Submission deadline: 15 November 2009.
Graduate Student Symposium in East Asian Art
Princeton University
27 February 2010
[courtesy of Tang Center, 6/23/09]
Organized by the P.Y. and Kinmay W. Tang Center for East Asian Art
Keynote Speaker: Professor Marsha Haufler (University of Kansas)
Historiography and art criticism have long been classification-conscious practices. Since the earliest art-historical writing in East Asia , historians and art critics alike created hierarchical systems for rating artists and ranking categories of art, privileging selected subject matters, genres of art, and means of expression. This has, in turn, helped to consolidate the place of the visual arts within a broad hierarchy of cultural pursuits. In what ways might these varied forms of hierarchical thinking and the values and prejudices they espoused have derived from the hierarchies, social or religious, that advanced them? How did differences in individual social standing or changes in social and religious structures over time and in different places contribute to variation or change in this kind of thinking? Artists, on the other hand, have had to negotiate their way through an ever-changing social landscape—be it social stratification of any type or the more narrowly defined market comprised of the state, religions institutions, private patrons, and fellow artists. In what ways can each artist's work be understood as a reflection of or a challenge to the social relations behind it?
We invite graduate students in East Asian art history and related fields to submit abstracts for papers that will address in some way the issue of "hierarchies" in the visual arts. Like boundaries that are drawn only to be transgressed, hierarchies crumble; the discursive and social dimensions of this theme should serve only as working parameters for our discussion. This symposium will provide the opportunity to explore and reexamine some of the prized and privileged notions—style/school, religious/secular, center/periphery, art/craft—and other epistemological hierarchies that we bring to the study of our subjects.
Please send an abstract of your paper, double-spaced and no longer than 350 words, along with your current curriculum vitae, by Monday, 16 November 2009, to:
Jun Hu
Department of Art and Archaeology
McCormick Hall, Princeton University
Princeton, NJ 08544-1018.
45th Annual Comparative Literature Conference
California State University, Long Beach
4-6 March 2010
[from H-ARTHIST, 9/22/09]
The contemporary situation in humanities and social sciences is often characterized by the so called "visual turn," or the increasing emphasis of theory on the power and scope of the visual in everyday life, science, literature, media and the arts. Visual Culture as well as the formation of the field of Visual Studies stems from this renewed focus upon pictoriality and the power of the image, and its expression through various linguistic, visual and media forms.
"Visual Culture & Global Practices" seeks to examine
literature (across time periods and languages), images,
visual objects and mechanisms, and events from diverse
cultures, across national boundaries, and within global
contexts. Among the questions to be explored are:
The Plenary Speaker is renowned Visual Culture scholar
W. J. T. Mitchell, Professor of English and Art History
at the University of Chicago, whose works Iconology (1986),
Picture Theory (1994), and What Do Pictures Want? (2005)
focus on media theory and visual culture. We invite proposals for papers that deal with the power
and role of the image and its relationship to literature
and other disciplines and methodologies. Participants from
different fields-literary theory and philosophy,
aesthetics, film studies, art history and theory, theater,
fine arts, graphic design, culture studies, visual and
media studies, digital media and electronic arts,
sociology, psychology, and cognitive science are invited
to submit an abstract. Given the topic of this conference, you can also or
alternatively represent your work in a poster session.
Posters are graphic and textual representations of
research. This format, more typical in the sciences than
in the humanities, allows for research to be presented to
audiences in visual formats throughout the conference
rather than at single sessions. Posters are welcomed and
encouraged on any aspect of visual cultural study or
practice.
To propose a POSTER, please send an electronic 250-word abstract along with an attached CV and /or work sample (in digital format) no later than November 16, 2009 to Prof. Nhora Serrano.
Graduate Student Conference in the History of Art 2010
University of Cambridge
30 April 2010
[from H-NET, 8/29/09]
The University of Cambridge Graduate Student Conference in the History of Art will be held on 30 April 2010 at the University of Cambridge. The conference will provide a forum for graduate students in all academic disciplines to present and discuss their research on the theme of humour in visual culture. We encourage submissions on a broad range of subjects – political, philosophical, historical, social, literary, art historical – that investigate humour, satire, and irony in visual media. Possible paper topics may include, but are not limited to, caricature and cartooning, vaudeville, humour in performance art, propaganda, and children's book illustrations.
Each presentation will be 20 minutes long with 10 minutes reserved for questions and discussion. The sessions of the conference will be chaired by senior scholars within the Cambridge History of Art department, and will feature a keynote address by Dr Robin Simon, editor of The British Art Journal and author of Hogarth, France & British Art. Additionally, Dr Dean Mobbs, a post-doctoral fellow in Cognitive and Behavioural Neuroscience at the University of Cambridge, will present an introductory lecture on how the mind processes humour and laughter.
Please submit a 300-word abstract and CV as Word document attachments, to CambridgeArtHistoryConference@googlemail.com by 20 November 2009.
If you have any questions, please contact Susanna Berger or Galina Mardilovich at CambridgeArtHistoryConference@googlemail.com.
Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies
University of Cambridge
Cambridge, UK
22-24 March 2010
[from EAJS, 9/16/09]
The European Association for Japanese Studies (EAJS) invites applications from advanced graduate students in all humanities and social science disciplines (except for Japanese language education, translation studies and linguistics) for the Sixth EAJS Workshop for Doctoral Students. The workshop will be held at the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Cambridge, UK, 22-24 March 2010. The EAJS applied for funding from the Japan Foundation, the Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation and the Japan Foundation Endowment Committee to cover the costs of travel, lodging in a Cambridge college and meals for the duration of the workshop for a group of max. 20 doctoral students and senior scholars who act as advisors.
The EAJS workshops for doctoral students aim to create a European multidisciplinary network of advanced graduate students and senior scholars in Japanese Studies. The informal environment of the workshop provides a unique opportunity for participants to work together intensively to enhance individual projects and engage in concentrated discussions of common themes and methods. Through presentations and focussed sessions, students give and receive critical feedback on dissertation projects, fieldwork plans and preliminary results. Students will be asked to read the work of their peers and prepare for workshop presentations linking their own work to the broader international Japanese Studies field. Students will also get a one-on-one supervision with a senior scholar in their respective field. Moreover, they will be introduced to study and research facilities at Cambridge.
Full-time graduate students working on Japan, regardless of citizenship, who are enrolled at universities in Europe, and students of European nationality, who are enrolled in graduate programmes outside of Europe with interest in European Japanese Studies, are eligible. Students travelling to the workshop from outside of Europe should expect no more than 400 Euro to be paid toward their transportation costs. Applications are particularly welcome from graduate students in the early-fieldwork through the middle stages of dissertation writing and those from European universities that do not have major centers of Japanese Studies. All applicants are expected to have studied the Japanese language.
[See the EAJS website for application procedures.] Application deadline is 20 November 2009.
Waseda University
Tokyo, Japan
19-20 June 2010
[from ASCJ, 9/16/09]
The Executive Committee invites proposals for panels, roundtables, and individual papers to be presented at the 2010 Asian Studies Conference Japan. It especially welcomes proposals that, by focusing on more than one region or by drawing on more than one discipline, will attract a broad range of scholarly interest.
Proposals will be accepted from September 1 to 20 November 2009.
Detailed guidelines for submission are now online.
Eighth Annual Material Culture Symposium for Emerging Scholars
Winterthur Museum & Country Estate
Winterthur, DE
24 April 2010
[from H-NET, 10/3/09]
The Center for Material Culture Studies at the University of Delaware invites submissions for papers to be given at the Eighth Annual Material Culture Symposium for Emerging Scholars.
Focus: Supported in part by a National Endowment for the Humanities grant for public engagement in the humanities, this year's symposium encourages graduate students and other emerging scholars to submit papers exploring material exchange over time and space. Within that context, we seek diversity in topics, chronology, and disciplinary approaches. Travel grants of up to $300 will be available for presenters. Disciplines represented at past symposia include American studies, anthropology, archaeology, consumer studies, English, gender studies, history, museum studies and the histories of art, architecture, design and technology.
Format: The symposium will consist of nine presentations divided into three panels. Each presentation is limited to twenty minutes and each panel is followed by comments from established scholars in the field. There will be two morning sessions and one afternoon session, with breaks for discussion following each session and over lunch. Participants will also have the opportunity to tour behind the scenes at Winterthur's unparalleled collection of early American decorative arts.
Submissions: The proposal should be no more than 300 words and should clearly indicate the focus of your object-based research, the critical approach you take toward that research, and the significance of your research in the wider community. While the audience for the symposium consists mainly of university and college faculty and graduate students, we encourage broader participation. In evaluating proposals, we will give preference to those papers that keep that broader audience in mind. Send your proposal, along with a current c.v. (no more than two pages), to emerging.scholars@gmail.com.
Deadline: Proposals must be received by 5 pm on Friday, 20 November 2009. Speakers will be notified of the vetting committee's decision in January 2010. Confirmed speakers will be asked to provide symposium organizers with digital images for use in publicity and are required to submit a final draft of their papers by 12 March 2010.
2010 Emerging Scholars Co-chairs
Kate LaPrad (Winterthur Program in American Material Culture)
Rebecca Bertrand (Winterthur Program in American Material Culture)
University of Manchester
UK
21 January 2010
[from H-NET, 10/14/09]
Chetham’s Library and the University of Manchester are pleased to announce their third one-day interdisciplinary history of the book and material culture conference at Chetham's Library, Manchester, taking place Thursday 21st January 2010.
We invite 20-minute papers from postgraduate students of any discipline who are interested in book history and material culture. Our aim this year is to encourage the combining of methodologies developed in book history in the last thirty years with those of other currents in twentieth-century cultural theory, literary criticism and the study of community. While all abstracts relating to book history and material culture will be considered, we particularly welcome papers that engage any of the following areas:
We are very pleased to announce that Joad Raymond (University of East Anglia) and Isabel Rivers (Queen Mary, University of London) have agreed to present guest papers at our event. Professor Raymond will be discussing Milton and the pan-European circulation of newsbooks in the seventeenth century, and Professor Rivers will present her current research on the culture of religious publishing in the eighteenth century.
Thanks to the support of the School of Arts, Histories and Cultures SAGE Postgraduate Training Programme, there will be no charge for the conference or for the conference lunch.
Abstracts of no more than 300 words should be sent to book-history@manchester.ac.uk by Friday 20th November 2009. To register to attend please contact the same with details of your position/institution.
International Warburg Seminar 2010 [from H-ARTHIST, 10/8/09] Organized jointly by the Department of Art History of Hamburg University and
the Aby Warburg Foundation, the thematic focus of the 2010 Warburg Seminar
will be on imbuing art with magical power, examining the topic from an
anthropological and media-historical perspective. The Warburg Seminar
addresses mainly young scholars, and will take place on Feb. 15-19 and Oct.
11-16, 2010. The focus of discussion will be on the magical image being an
object, on its function as a likeness or surrogate, as well as its
performativity. Aspects to be scrutinized in the Seminar are, on the one
hand, the media specificity, materiality, as well as the conditions of
production and reception of images that have been declared to have magic
powers or perceived as alive or as agents. On the other hand, the Seminar
will also investigate the possible genre functions inherent in efficacious
artworks. Thereby, images will be scrutinized in politico-juridical,
religious, or aesthetic contexts, such as in the case of executions in
effigy, in funerary sculpture, in the vera icon and related genres, as well
as in image substitutes in rites of rulers, in protective pictorial magic,
miraculous images, but also in the form of "living" images in contemporary
art forms as well as attacking images in the present. PhD candidates or younger PhDs of art history may apply for this
international course by submitting a short abstract of the project they want
to present during the Warburg Seminar 2010. Especially propositions related
to dissertation projects are welcome. A publication of the contributions is
intended. Participants are expected to present their topics during the first
session in February. Based on discussions during the first part of the
seminar, participants will have to refine and expand their papers by autumn.
Travel expenses and accommodation will be covered by the Warburg Foundation,
Hamburg. Foreign applications are most welcome. The seminar will be held in
German and English. Applications have to include a draft of the project (no
longer than two pages), a curriculum vitae, a list of publications and a
letter of recommendation by a university teacher. Completed dossiers should
be submitted by Nov. 29, 2009, to: Prof. Dr. Uwe Fleckner / Junior Prof. Dr. Iris Wenderholm / PD Dr. Hendrik Ziegler University of Sydney [from H-NET, 8/13/09] The idea of transculturation was coined by Cuban anthropologist Fernando Ortiz in 1940, to describe a process of transition from one culture to another. It has come to the fore once again in our third millenium, where concepts such as international and crosscultural, based on an idea of nations and cultures as relatively stable and clearly delimitable entities, have become, if not obsolete, then inadequate. The ideas of the transnational and transcultural have been put forward in recent years as conceptual frameworks that enable us to develop new interdisciplinary (or indeed transdisciplinary) epistemologies of the global, the local, and the "glocal." This conference aims to track why and how such debates have gained prominence in transnational, area and comparative cultural studies as well as the methodological and ideological implications of such theoretical reworkings. The development of postcolonial and crosscultural studies concepts such as the interstitial and the hybrid have begged the question of how these notions are determined (e.g. interstitial between what and what?). Technically all cultures are hybrid, so when we discuss border crossings and hybridities (in relation, for example, to postcolonial or area studies or to comparative cultural studies), on what cultural, political and historical premises are we basing such discussions? Are we positing some mythical idea of an original cultural homogeneity as a mooring from which we embark towards intercultural discovery? Does this then in turn render the idea of cultural mappings, or the discussion of an identifable "culture" associated with a language, nature or region, superfluous? In which case, how can we continue to have intelligible conversations about distinctive locations of groups and individuals, constructed historically, geopolitically, culturally, socioeconomically and indeed ideologically? Assumptions about such constructions and their impacts, even as we challenge them, continue to inform our analyses and debates. In short, we continue to map the world, sociopolitically and culturally as much as physically. Indeed, physical mappings still largely inform our geopolitical and cultural mappings, through identification of nations and subnational or supranational (and sometimes transnational) regions. What conceptual tools, then, might emerge from an exercise of "transcultural mappings"? Can it represent a possible way through a certain postmodern and postcolonial impasse? What factors might determine how these mappings occur and how they evolve? On what assumptions and consenses (or questionings and discords) might they be based? The term itself is paradoxical: mapping is an exercise in plotting, delimiting, demarcating. The transcultural, like its cousin the transnational, destabilises the certainties of maps, much as Peter has destabilised Mercator. It fuzzes the edges, shifts the foci, changes the shapes. Specific themes of presentations might include: We invite scholars to submit 200 word abstracts for individual presentations (20 minutes) or panel proposals (90-120 minutes) that address these issues either theoretically or through case studies. Abstracts, along with your affiliation, contact information and a short biography should be sent as an e-mail attachment in Microsoft Word by 30 November 2009 to tcm.10@usyd.edu.au. Enquiries should also be sent to this address. If you wish your paper to be considered for refereed publication, it should be submitted by 1 March 2010. Conference organising committee: Bronwyn Winter (convenor), Mary Crock, Stephanie Donald, Jennifer Dowling, Kiran Grewal, Fernanda Peñaloza, Blanca Tovias. Institute of Historical Research [from H-NET, 9/9/09] The Centre for Metropolitan History invites individual and panel proposals for a two-day conference on "Cities and Nationalisms," to be held at the Institute of Historical Research, London on 17-18 June 2010. Possible themes might include how festivals and parades, or the built environment, or literary and visual accounts of the city, have promoted or maintained nationalisms. Another possible theme would be how senses of urban community or territoriality interacted with nationalisms, ‘ethno-nationalisms' or ‘loyalism' in cities as a whole, parts of cities, or in divided cities. Particularly welcome would be papers or panels that investigate the relationship between cities and nationalisms for hitherto under-explored places and periods. This might be for provincial or colonial cities, or for cities of Asia, Africa or Latin America, or for European capital cities outside the period of high imperialism. But all proposals that address the broad theme of the conference will be considered. The full call for papers is available at http://www.history.ac.uk/events/conferences/941.
Panel (three speakers) proposals should include a panel title, paper titles and 200 word abstracts for each paper, and a short CV for each panel presenter. Individual submissions should include a paper title, 200 word abstract and a short CV. Proposals should be submitted by 30 November 2009 by e-mail to: Professor Vivian Bickford-Smith Delhi University [from H-NET, 9/23/09] [The] Two-day International Conference on "Buddhism in East Asia: Traditions, Changes and Challenges" is being organized by the Department of East Asian Studies, Delhi university, Delhi, India on 12-13 February 2010. The sub themes of the conference are as follows:
1.Spread of Buddhism in China, Korea and Japan and other topics of relevance under the broad theme of Buddhism in East Asia. Deadline for submitting [an] abstract is November 30, 2009. Anita Sharma 2nd International Conference on Heritage and Sustainable Developmente [courtesy of Heritage 2010, 10/8/09] We would like to inform all authors interested in joining the event that
Submission of Abstracts is now open until 30 November 2009. Papers addressing the following topics are welcome:
Heritage and Governance for Development, Heritage and Education
Policies, Heritage and Culture, Heritage and Economics,
Heritage and Environment, and Heritage and Society. For further detailed information, please visit the conference website. For further information on the Scientific Committee, please visit
http://heritage2010.greenlines-institute.org/H2010website/com_scientific.html. Graduate Student Symposium [from H-NET, 10/2/09]
This one-day graduate student symposium considers architecture through the framework of its explicit and implicit performative aspects. The built environment bears witness to the performances of its makers. It also reflects and informs the behavior of its inhabitants. The activities of those involved in producing architecture—among them architects, engineers, masons, builders, and decorators—and those who use it, represent some of the performances in which architecture participates. Other interpretations of "performative" architecture may be more conceptual. A building may, for example, be taken to embody the technical, ornamental, or historical knowledge of its producers. Alternatively, architecture may play a central role in communicating visual or verbal narrative in a painting, novel, or play, for example. This symposium explores the historical and theoretical relationships between architecture and performance across a range of disciplines, geographic locations, and periods. We invite proposals for 25-minute papers on this theme from graduate students across the arts and sciences. Special consideration will be given to papers examining the topic in relation to British art and culture. Cross- disciplinary and comparative studies are particularly welcome. Please submit abstracts of no more than 300 words by November 30, 2009. E-mail to imogen.hart@yale.edu, or mail to: Imogen Hart, Research Department Travel funds for speakers are available upon application.
University of Toronto [from H-ARTHIST, 10/19/09] The Graduate Union of the Students of Art is pleased to announce this
year's annual graduate symposium, Out of Sight: Looking Beyond Seeing.
The symposium will be held at the University of Toronto Art Centre
from Thursday, January 21 to Friday, January 22, 2010. Graduate
students from all disciplines are invited to submit abstracts for
presentations of twenty minutes. Several exceptional papers will have
the opportunity for publication in the University of Toronto Art
Journal. This year's symposium explores visual culture through the non-visual.
Papers may address memory, touch, taste, smell, hearing, intuition,
and other non-visual aspects in the broadest sense. Approaches to the
non-visual may include, but are not restricted to: reception and
experience; creative processes; aesthetics; sight as a secondary
sense; evocation of the visual through the non-visual. Abstracts for submission should be no more than 250 words, accompanied
by a short biography or CV. Submissions are due by MONDAY, NOVEMBER
30, 2009 to the symposium committee at the following address:
out.of.sight.symposium@gmail.com.
California State University, Sacramento [from H-NET, 10/20/09] This symposium returns to the ideological space between art and craft to see where the lines have shifted after poststructualism and decades of looking at visual culture in terms of hybrid identities, flexible hierarchies, and deterritorializations. Are such theoretical assumptions evident in recent arts and crafts historiography or in the institutional practices of colleges, galleries, museums, and publications? Where the divide is clear between art and craft, what values are protected on each side? Non-Western, comparative, and trans-cultural considerations are welcome as are papers on related oppositions such as high and low, modern and primitive, academic and self-taught, countercultural and commercial. Papers on art and architecture, film, and design are invited. Keynote speaker to be announced. Please send a 300-word proposal for a 25-minute lecture with a one-paragraph professional biography as an e-mail attachment to eobrien@csus.edu. Deadline: 30 November 2009. Elaine O'Brien Ninth Annual Israeli Asian Studies Conference [from H-ASIA, 6/23/09] Proposals for papers should be submitted by December 1st or earlier.
Preference will be given to organized panels but we also welcome
individual papers. Graduate students may submit proposals accompanied by
reference letter from their advisors. Proposals should include the following information:
For organized Panels:
For Individual Papers:
Please send all proposal information to asia.haifa@gmail.com. Kindly use
as header IAS Conference 2010.
Conference organizers: Historical Society for Twentieth Century China [from H-ASIA, 9/11/09] The Historical Society for Twentieth Century China (HSTCC) will host
its bi-annual meeting June 26-27, 2010. In keeping with our tradition
of rotating among North America, Europe, and Asia, the 2010 meeting
will take place at Saint Joseph's University in Philadelphia.
The theme of the conference will be "A Century of Change Since the
1911 Revolution: Crises and Responses in 20th Century China." All
interested participants are encouraged to submit panel proposals (no
more than 2 pages or 500 words) or individual paper proposals (no
more than 1 page or 250 words), as well as current CV, by December 1,
2009. Inquiries and paper submissions may be directed to James Carter, and additional
information, including registration and accommodation details, will
be posted on the HSTCC website. The HSTCC, now in its 26th year, is an affiliated organization of
both the AAS and the AHA. It is affiliated with the journal
Twentieth-Century China, which all members receive as part of their
dues-paying membership. Information about new and renewing
memberships can be found on the HSTCC website. 2nd Conference of the Asian Borderlands Research Network [from ABRN, 10/3/09] State-centered views of the world continue to predominate, but it is increasingly apparent that these restrict perspectives on dynamics within broader regional fields. In an attempt to leapfrog a definition of the world in terms of national economies, societies, cultures and histories, "borderland" centered perspectives have emerged. But whereas borderland studies have quickly developed in Africa, Europe and North America, the field is still in its infancy in Asia. "Asian Borderlands: Enclosure, Interaction and Transformation" intends to encourage scholarship that looks across Asian borders. The conference takes its cue from an important new book by James C. Scott, The Art of Not Being Governed: An Anarchist History of Upland Southeast Asia (Yale UP, 2009). In this book, Scott focuses on the mountainous regions of the Himalayas and its lower ranges that run from the Central Highlands in Vietnam, most of Laos, Northern Thailand, Southwest China, Northern Burma, Northeast India, Eastern Bangladesh, Bhutan, Nepal and Tibet. The 200 million people living in this huge region (over 15 million km2) are geographically dispersed and culturally diverse, yet they share crucial cultural, economic and social characteristics: hill agriculture, physical mobility, relatively egalitarian social structures, as well as commonalities in material culture and outlook. National borders often appear utterly arbitrary to them as many groups spill across two or more national borders. In this way they distinguish themselves from the lowland populations who dominate the states in which they live. Scott refers to this region as "Zomia," a term coined by Willem van Schendel (2002/2005). What is the viability and relevance of a concept such as Zomia for the study of Asian borderlands? To what extend are people in such border zones sharing ideas, practices and attitudes? Why and how do they remain different? How are relationships, alliances and conflicts between hills and plains people defined? In what ways are cultural and social dynamics in and beyond such a region influenced by political boundaries? How do people engage in, and are engaged by, processes of modernization and globalization? We invite conceptually innovative papers, based on new research, which address questions such as these, in order to develop new perspectives on the study of Asian borderlands. Panels will be considered that have a thematic focus, are of a comparative character, and involve scholars affiliated to distinct research institutions. Participants will be notified by February 1st, 2010. Deadline to send in abstracts/panel proposals: 1 December 2009. Participants are expected to fund their own travel and stay. Very limited financial support may be made available to specific scholars residing in Asia. If you would like to be considered for a grant: please submit with your abstract for a panel and/or paper a short letter motivating your request. Please specify the kind of funding that you have applied for or will receive from other sources. The conference operates on a very limited budget, and will not normally be able to provide more than a partial coverage of costs of travel and stay. 26th Annual Boston University Graduate Student Symposium on the History of Art [from BU, 9/3/09] The 26th Annual Boston University Graduate Student Symposium on the History of Art invites submissions exploring the themes of place, space, site, and geography. Possible topics include, but are not limited to the following: art concerning landscape, environmental concerns and eco-critical perspectives; nationalism, transnationalism, and boundaries; regionalism and internationalism; topographical impulses and mapping; the geographic imagination; physical or psychological placement or displacement; institutional, public, private or virtual spaces; art's physical location, size, and scale; gendered and domestic spaces; and the cosmos (outer space) or the psyche (inner space). We welcome submissions from graduate students at all stages of their studies, working in any discipline. Please email your CV and a one-page abstract to Carrie Anderson, Symposium Coordinator, Department of Art History, Boston University, by December 1, 2009. We will notify selected speakers by January 1, 2010. Tate Modern [from H-ARTHIST, 10/7/09] "Agency and Automatism" is the culminating conference of the 3-year AHRC
research project "Aesthetics after Photography"' co-directed by Margaret
Iversen (Dept of Art History & Theory, University of Essex) and Diarmuid
Costello (Dept of Philosophy, University of Warwick). The conference will
take place at Tate Modern, London, 10-12 June 2010. Taking as a point of departure the notable transformation in artists' use of
photography from 1960s to the present, the project considers its
implications for aesthetic theory. The art historical side of the project
tracks photography's transformation from anti-aesthetic, post-conceptual
document to large scale pictorial art. The philosophical side investigates
what distinguishes photography as a mode of depiction and an artistic
medium, particularly in light of recent artists' use of digital
technologies. Bringing these disciplines together promises to enhance our
understanding of one of the dominant mediums of contemporary art. The conference aims to bring art history and philosophical aesthetics into
dialogue at the point of their intersection around questions of agency and
automatism in the photographic process. Such questions can be understood,
art historically, in terms of the recent history of artists' interest in the
medium, particularly those conceptual and post-conceptual artists who value
photography in so far as it might be thought to bracket artistic agency and
authorial control. This is manifest in the preference for unpretentious
snapshot effects, documentary value, and deadpan anti- or a-aesthetic
qualities in conceptual and post-conceptual art, as well as in uses of
photography for the appropriation and recycling of existing imagery. Similar questions of agency and automatism have arisen in recent debates in
the philosophy of photography. Philosophers tend to start from certain
assumptions about the mechanical, causal or "mind-independent" nature of the
photographic process that are taken to distinguish photographs from other
forms of depiction. Given this starting point, a special case then needs to
be made for art photography, given its evident porosity to artistic
intention. By now almost all have rejected the extreme conclusion that their
underlying assumptions about photography as an automatic recording mechanism
preclude the possibility of fully-fledged photographic art. Nonetheless,
dominant conceptions of photography in philosophy still face problems doing
justice to artistic uses of the medium. From an art historical point of view, this is ironic, given that photography
arguably entered the mainstream fine art canon when artists turned to the
medium to exploit the very features of its process that appear, from a
philosophical point of view, to be in tension with its status as art. Such
artists were interested in the non-art nature of photography as a new
resource and horizon of possibility for artistic practice. That is, many
artists valued photography in all the respects in which it seemed to evade,
rather than mimic, art with a capital "A." In view of this, one way to
understand the foregrounding of artistic intention in more recent large
scale, and often digital, art photography is as a rejection of this
post-conceptual settlement concerning the automaticity of photography.
Whether such practices go beyond conceptual photography or return
photography to the terrain of pre-conceptual pictorial art remains much
debated. Given the centrality of these issues, and particularly the unremarked
interplay of their art historical and philosophical manifestations, we
invite papers that address key conceptual antinomies in this debate--not
just agency and automatism, but a wide range of cognate notions such as
intention and causality, mind and nature, decision and chance, picture and
document, icon and index, expressive vs. deadpan style, etc.--or consider
specific artists since the 1960s whose work bears on such issues in
illuminating ways. Invited speakers include: Carol Armstrong; Cynthia
Freeland; Robin Kelsey; Joel Snyder; Jeff Wall. Submissions should consist of a 300-500 abstract, addressing the conference
theme, and an accompanying 1-2 pp abbreviated CV. The deadline for receipt is
1 December 2009, and we aim to notify in January 2010. Please e-mail all submissions to both Dawn Phillips and Wolfgang Brückle,
the project research fellows. University of Michigan [from H-ASIA, 10/15/09] "Japan's Long Nineteenth Century: An Interdisciplinary Workshop and
Practicum" will run from June 7-12, 2010 at the University of Michigan, Ann
Arbor. The workshop will be structured around a series of working papers
drafted by the hosts and invited participants. These papers will be
pre-circulated and the morning sessions will be devoted to an intensive
discussion of the papers with a focus on general questions of method and
the framing of lines of inquiry. The afternoon sessions will be practica
devoted to hands-on work with faculty and curators with a variety of forms
and formats of material related to the study of nineteenth-century Japan
drawn from the University of Michigans museums and libraries. For application information, please visit http://www.19cjapan.ii.lsa.umich.edu/workshop/apply.html. All application materials should be submitted by midnight on December 1, 2009. 27th Annual Visiting Scholar Conference [from H-NET, 10/19/09] This conference will bring together researchers who share an interest in sensory modes of approaching the past and will cross boundaries between chronological periods, geographical regions, and material specializations. Potential themes to be covered at the conference include the presentation of new results of sensory archaeological projects; multisensory and synesthetic aspects of the production and consumption of material culture; the recognition of sensory hierarchies in past societies; embodied practices, including memory; and the dissemination of sensuous pasts in the present. Early career scholars are encouraged to apply. Abstract submission deadline: December 1st 2009. Papers presented are eligible for inclusion in a peer-reviewed volume, published as part of the Occasional Papers series of the Center for Archaeological Investigations. Dr. Jo Day Octopus Journal [from H-NET, 11/1/09] For Visual Studies at UC Irvine, 2009 marks a year of looking back and looking forward: to past achievements and new possibilities for a graduate student journal that has produced four volumes of scholarship on, about, and influenced by the expansion of visual studies in the past decade and a half. The fifth volume begins a new phase of Octopus. Like many others, the recent meltdown of global and national financial markets--and its specific and specifically problematic effect on institutions of higher learning--has forced us to reevaluate the economics of a journal supported exclusively by grants and volunteer effort. The expansion of digital media, and their capacity to entertain video and audio input, means that it is time for us to shift away from a paper-based journal to one composed of bits and bytes. It is in the spirit, then, of change and renewal--but also of seeing precisely where we have been--that we now seek to publish papers in volume five of Octopus dealing with the ways that visual studies has, since its first articulations nearly twenty years ago, altered the way visual media are understood in relation to social, political, aesthetic, and cultural production. In short, it's time to re-fashion our journal for the next decade; a decade in which we anticipate change for our discipline: innovation that is founded on a continued respect for our origins. How have our historical models developed under the influence of a wide variety of methods that share only, perhaps, their interest in vision and visuality? We might conceive of visual studies as questions of form, vision, materiality, and object-status and how they are linked to historical and theoretical disciplines including art history, film and media studies, the study of vision in science and technology, and visual anthropology. Our goal: to enable a critical appraisal of the work of seeing in an age of broad and often invisible mediation, allowing us to think about the visible and invisible, the sonorous and silent, as cultural and social processes. What, then, do our objects of attention disclose about the past of our sight (or, our sited past), and its possible future? Finally: to what extent do the artifacts left visible for our study enable a process of historical analysis into the ways that subjects are made, destroyed, and remade along axes of vision? We ask these questions at a particularly potent discursive moment. After nearly twenty years of debate, scholars have finally come to no conclusive set of principles from which visual studies must derive its formal logic. We have also, it appears, worked against delimiting a canon of discreet visual objects to which visual studies might look for credibility and security and over which its analytical models reign. We would like to see what Visual Studies looks like now. We look forward to submissions that will address this topic in its wide-ranging iterations. Some brief possibilities include: The above are broad suggestions. We hope to receive submissions that work through these topics, or the questions interspersed throughout, in a visual studies methodology. Paper submissions of 1,250 and 2,500 words will be accepted beginning October 12th, until December 4th, 2009. Please submit papers to octopusjournal@gmail.com At this time articles will be sent to peer review. Authors whose papers we can publish will be notified by January 11th. We look forward to reading your submissions and to sharing the work of graduate students and junior faculty with a broad and engaged audience. Octopus Journal Association for Asian Studies Doctoral Dissertation Workshop [from H-ASIA, 10/21/09] We are pleased to announce plans for a ninth consecutive AAS Dissertation
Workshop, which will be held in conjunction with the annual meeting in
Philadelphia next spring. The workshop will again be organized and led by
David Szanton, and follow the model used in previous workshops. No longer are Asian Studies largely focused on courts and peasants, ancient
cultures, classical texts, and traditional forms. Today all across the
humanities and social sciences scholars are approaching and re-interpreting
a rapidly changing Asia through various forms of popular culture (film,
sports, TV, music, dance, radio, online networks, fiction, fashion, cuisine,
fan clubs, martial arts, bars, drugs. etc.), concerned with how it is both
producing and marking social, and cultural change all across the region.
Intergenerational differences and tensions are growing all across the
region, often with serious political consequences. Popular culture, as an
alternative “unofficial view of the world,” as a form of subtle or overt
resistance to the hegemonic, has become an important lens for approaching
and analyzing Asia's rapidly expanding middle classes, urbanization,
consumerism, differentiation and stratification, political mobilization,
geographical mobility, diasporic influences, and both transnational and
globalizing sensibilities. This workshop is intended to bring together doctoral students in the
humanities and social sciences who are (1) developing dissertation proposals
or are in early phases of research or dissertation writing; and who are (2)
also dealing with the kinds of issues mentioned above in the context of
contemporary or historic Asian states and societies. The workshop will be limited to 12 students, ideally from a broad array of
disciplines and working on a wide variety of materials in a variety of time
periods, and in various regions of Asia. It also will include a small
multidisciplinary and multi-area faculty with similar concerns. The workshop will be scheduled for the days immediately following the 2010
AAS annual meeting in Philadelphia. It will cover two and ½ days of intense
discussion beginning the evening of Sunday, March 28, and running through
the afternoon of Wed. March 31. The AAS will be able to provide limited financial support for participants
including three night’s accommodations, meals and “need-based” travel funds
up to a maximum of $300. Students needing additional funds to attend the
workshop are encouraged to approach their home institutions for support. It
is hoped that participants also will attend the AAS annual meeting
immediately prior to the workshop. Applicants need not have advanced to candidacy but must have at least
drafted a dissertation research proposal. Applications are also welcome from
doctoral students in the early phases of writing their dissertations.
Applications consist of two items only: 1) Two copies of a current Curriculum Vitae, and 2) Two copies of the dissertation proposal, or if the research and writing
is well under way, a statement of the specific issues being addressed, the
intellectual approach, and the materials being studied. Neither the proposal
nor statement should exceed 10 double-spaced pages in length. Application
materials (hard copy only, no email) must reach the Dissertation Workshop
Program, AAS, 1021 East Huron St, Ann Arbor MI, 48104, no later than
December 11, 2009. Workshop participants will be selected on the basis of the submitted
projects, the potential for useful exchanges among them, and a concern to
include a wide range of disciplinary perspectives, intellectual traditions,
and regions of Asia. Applicants will be informed whether or not they have
been selected for the workshop by early January. For further information about the workshop, or eligibility, please contact
Michael Paschal or David Szanton.
University of Manchester [from H-NET, 10/21/09] "Museums and Restitution" is a two-day international conference examining the issue of restitution in relation to the changing role and authority of the museum, focussing on new ways in which these institutions are addressing the subject. Restitution is one of the most emotive and complex issues facing the museum world in the twenty first century. Its current high profile reflects changing global power relations and the increasingly vocal criticisms of the historical concentration of the world's heritage in the museums of the West. The 2002 Declaration of the Importance and Value of Universal Museums, which was signed by the directors of eighteen of the world's most powerful museums, pushed the subject to the forefront of debate as never before. Over recent years, the issue of restitution has taken on a new complexion with different processes emerging. We have seen an increasing emphasis on museums working with source communities, and with new forms of restitution other than object restitution - such as visual and knowledge restitution. The language of discussion too has changed, with the term 'reunification', for example, rather than 'repatriation' now often being used in relation to the Parthenon Marbles. The opening of New Acropolis Museum in Athens in June 2009 has added a further dimension to the debates. We are also seeing new countries gaining increasing prominence in restitution debates: for example, the official response from the government of the People's Republic of China to the Yves Saint Laurent auction of Chinese looted bronzes at Christie's in Paris in March 2009. This is a trend clearly set to continue. This conference will bring together museum professionals and academics from a wide range of fields (including museology, archaeology, anthropology, art history and cultural policy) to share ideas on contemporary approaches to restitution from the viewpoint of museums. Possible themes:
Please send a title and a short proposal of no more than 300 words and biographical details to Louise Tythacott and Kostas Arvanitis. Deadline: 11 December 2009. An International Conference Commemorating the 350th Anniversary of His Birth [from H-ARTHIST, 9/1/09] The year 2010 marks the 350th anniversary of the birth of the physician
Sir Hans Sloane (1660-1753). Well-known as one of the greatest
collectors of his age, he was also President of the Royal Society and
the Royal College of Physicians, the major patron of the Chelsea Physic
Garden, a physician to Queen Anne, George I and George II, and had many
other connections throughout British society, leaving his name to the
prestigious Sloane Square in London. His enormous network of
acquaintances and correspondents throughout the world established him as
probably the single most influential British 'scientist' between Isaac
Newton and Joseph Banks. After his death, Parliament purchased his
collections, which laid the foundation for what are now three
institutions: the British Library, British Museum, and Natural History
Museum. A project has been generously funded by the Wellcome Trust to
electronically re-create the bulk of Sloane's voluminous but now
dispersed library, led by Alison Walker with the assistance of Shauna
Barrett and the direction of Prof Hal Cook. It is now online and being
continuously updated at www.bl.uk/catalogues/sloane. The project's two
host institutions, The British Library and The Wellcome Trust Centre for
the History of Medicine at UCL, are sponsoring a two-day conference on
Sloane and his collections. We invite proposals on any aspect of the history and significance of
Sloane and his activities, such as: his medical practice and career; his
role in medical and scientific institutions; his travel and links to the
West Indies; his botanical and zoological collecting; his ethnographic
and antiquarian collecting; his prints, drawings and fine art; his books
and manuscripts; his links to global trade networks across and beyond
the British Empire. Papers on the development of the Sloane collections
after his lifetime will also be considered. Preference will be given to
studies that make use of the new online catalogue. Those attending the
conference will be responsible for organising their own travel and
accommodation. Please send your proposal by no later than 15 December 2009, which
should be no more than one page in length, to: Lauren Cracknell Inquiries may be directed to Hal Cook [Professor and Director, Wellcome Trust Centre for
the History of Medicine at UCL], via Lauren Cracknell, or to Alison Walker.
"The Magic Image: Techniques of Enchantment in Art from the Middle Ages to the Present"
15-19 February 2010
11-16 October 2010
Kunstgeschichtliches Seminar
Universität Hamburg
Edmund-Siemers-Allee 1
D-20146 Hamburg.
"Transcultural Mappings: Emerging Issues in Comparative, Transnational and Area Studies"
9-11 April 2010
"Cities and Nationalisms"
London. UK
17-18 June 2010
Centre for Metropolitan History
Institute of Historical Research
Senate House
Malet Street
London WC1E 7HU
UK
"Buddhism in East Asia: Traditions, Changes and Challenges"
Delhi, India
12-13 February 2010
2. Merchants and Monks from the Silk Road and beyond
3. Origin and Growth of Buddhist Sects in East Asia
4. Transmission, Translation and Digitization of Buddhist Texts
5. Buddhist Art and Architecture in East Asia
6. Socially Engaged Buddhist Activities in East Asia
Department of East Asian Studies
Faculty of Social Sciences
University of Delhi
tel +919810078267
fax +911127666675
Heritage 2010
Évora, Portugal
22-26 January 2010
"Architecture and Performance"
Yale Center for British Art
New Haven, CT
27 February 2010
Yale Center for British Art
1080 Chapel Street
P. O. Box 208280
New Haven, CT 06520-8280
"Out of Sight: Looking Beyond Seeing"
Toronto, ON
21-22 January 2010
"Revisiting the Art and Craft Divide"
20 March 2010
Art Department
California State University, Sacramento
Sacramento, CA 95819-6061
tel (916) 278-5704
Israeli Asian Studies Conference
University of Haifa
26-27 April 2010
Prof. Yitzhak Shichor
Dr. Guy Podoler
Dr. Michal Daliot-Bul
"A Century of Change Since the
1911 Revolution: Crises and Responses in 20th Century China"
Saint Joseph's University
Philadelphia, PA
26-27 June 2010
"Asian Borderlands: Enclosure, Interaction and Transformation"
Chiang Mai University (RCSD)
Thailand
5-7 November 2010
"Place"
Boston University
Boston, MA
19-20 March 2010
"Agency and Automatism: Photography as Art since the Sixties"
London, UK
10-12 June 2010
"Japan's Long Nineteenth Century: An Interdisciplinary Workshop and Practicum"
Ann Arbor, MI
7-12 June 2010
"Making Senses of the Past: Toward a Sensory Archaeology"
Center for Archaeological Investigations
Southern Illinois University Carbondale
Carbondale, IL
26-27 March 2010
Center for Archaeological Investigations
Faner 3479, Mailcode 4527
Southern Illinois University Carbondale
Carbondale, IL 62901
"Re-dress: Beyond and Between Visual Studies"
University of California, Irvine
Visual Studies PhD
University of California, Irvine
2000 Humanities Gateway
Irvine, CA 92697
e-mail <octopusjournal@gmail.com>
"Popular Culture and Social Change"
Philadelphia, PA
28-31 March 2010
"Museums and Restitution"
UK
8-9 July 2010
"Sir Hans Sloane, The Greatest Physician-Naturalist of His Era"
British Library
London, UK
7-8 June 2010
The Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine
University College London
183 Euston Rd.
London NW1 2BE
UK.
Popular Culture Association Conference
St. Louis, MO
31 March - 3 April 2010
[from H-ARTHIST, 9/29/09]
"Popular Art, Architecture and Design" is concerned with the aesthetics of popular culture in the everyday world of the past, present and future. Scholars from such disciplines as Architecture, Art History, Fine Art, Industrial Design, and Interior Design are invited to submit proposals. At previous conferences topics have included World Fairs, architectural follies, urban image, Buckminster Fuller, Tadao Ando, urban memory, Disneyland, railroad stations, literary architecture, Vietnamese shop-houses, mobile homes, and the effect of television on home and clothing design. It is truly a broad arena! Please e-mail a cover letter with contact information and 150-word abstract of your proposed paper to Dr. Loretta Lorance and Dr. Derham Groves.
NO ATTACHMENTS.
The deadline for abstracts is December 15, 2009.
[from H-ARTHIST, 10/14/09]
Submissions are invited for an edited book with the working title On Not Looking: Essays on Images and Viewers. Contemporary experience presents us with a contradiction: while we are at a historical moment when images have never been so readily available and circulated, we increasingly "don't look" at images. The collection will explore the myriad ways that not looking at images--as opposed to not seeing--is manifest in our burgeoning image culture today.
Contributions are sought that address practices and representations of "not looking," "turning away," and other manifestations of physical and mental distraction from material images. Our relationship to the glut of images that saturate the world is characterized by an ever-expanding contemporary form of iconoclasm. Again and again, while documentary images are touted as a reliable form of visible evidence, or as commensurate with the every day life they depict--due to their apparent mimeticism and their potential to be seen simultaneous with the event--we don't trust them, we question them, we continually go back to written words as a way of understanding and confirming what we have seen. This scepticism involves a looking away from the image. Even as the means of production become increasingly available, even as images are exhibited, published, seen and watched everywhere, we are either discouraged to turn away, or we are unable, or unwilling to look at what is pictured before us.
Not looking often comes as a result of privileging the other senses. Thus, we are directed to listen where we might want to look:in museums and art galleries, institutions apparently devoted to the idolatory of images, we are continually coaxed away from looking: we are enticed into following the audio guide, reading the texts on the wall, believing the written catalogue at the bookstore. Our eyes are constantly distracted from the supposed purpose of our visit: to look. Alternatively, looking with the eyes is devalued in the world of virtual reality: touching, hearing, smelling, even tasting challenge visual perception as the measure of our bodily experience of the visual world. In another example, never before have the images that document the modern battlefield been so abundant and readily available --on television, the World Wide Web, Instant Messaging and so on. Yet, again and again these images are censored, prohibited, manipulated and disguised in an effort to quell their power and blind their audience. Like the turn away from the deceptive documentary image as evidence, the press and the powers they represent force us to look elsewhere for the truth.
Despite the wont to "not look," to look away, to look elsewhere, scholarship in the more traditional disciplines of art history, cinema and media studies, and the relatively recent interdisciplinary fields of visual and image studies have focussed on discussions of "practices of looking" "how we see," and, for example, the precision of vision in modernity. Within the fields of philosophy, psychoanalysis, and other critical studies, scholarship tends to understand iconoclasm as a form of blindness or metaphysical distraction, not seeing when we look. Artists and imagemakers today, however, continue the preoccupation with the habit of "not looking" "looking away," "turning elsewhere" in analogue and digital media. On Not Looking will bring the concerns of critics and philosophers together with those of artists and imagemakers: the essays will reinstate the image to its position of primacy in an interrogation of the contemporary tendency to look away. As such, the anthology will contribute to ongoing debates about the politics and aesthetics of looking, and better assess the role of images, and our relationship to them, within contemporary history and culture more generally.
The collection will be divided into a number of sections with essays from different theoretical perspectives that focus on the image, and our relationship to it, as sites of 'not looking". Potential areas to be discussed might include: Politics of institutional exhibition and perception of images (including museums, schools, prisons, and so on); Censored, repressed, and banned images; Transformations to practices of not looking as a result of new media interventions; The image in history and memory; Not looking at images of bodies and cultures on the margins; Religious and cultural prohibitions about looking at certain types of images; Responses to images of trauma; Images in everyday life (eg. Reality TV, the role of the image in travel and tourism, YouTube interventions; advertising, home movies and family photo albums); Embodied vision and visceral imagery (e.g. acts of violence and the mutilated body); Political interventions (including public protest, Photojournalism, ecological imagery, and so on).
Submissions that focus on a variety of material images are welcome. These will include but are not limited to: painting, architecture, film, photography, video, television, museum exhibitions, the World Wide Web, cell phone images and the printed press. Essays that explore contemporary images that follow our habit of not looking, as well as the way older works have been revised and displayed within the contemporary moment are sought.
All inquiries, and/or 400-500 word abstract, and current CV can be sent to Frances Guerin by December 15, 2009. Full essays of 5,000-7,500 words will be due September 30, 2010.
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Andrea Feeser and Beth Fowkes Tobin are soliciting essays for a book on the material culture of color in the early modern world (14th - 18th centuries).
The book will examine the manufacture, trade, and/or use of pigment for dye, ink, and paint and ask questions about how these substances inform the cultural, social, and political histories of peoples and places in all parts of the globe. How do things that create or obtain color shape knowledge production, work life, burgeoning economies, government relations, and aesthetic experience? What types of resources-textual, material, visual-shed light on these operations, and how do they do so? The book will include essays that examine the objects and processes that vivified individual or multiple colors in the early modern world. Scholars from all disciplines are encouraged to submit their work.
Topics of interest to the editors include the social and ideological significance of color as well as the technology and manufacture of specific pigments and dyes, and their circulation and consumption in the form of paint, dye, and cosmetics. Possible topics might include: artists' participation in the making of their own pigments as well as their use of color; the use of child labor in the production of colored book illustrations and prints; cosmetics and textiles in stage productions; the use of arsenic and other toxic chemicals in pigments for cosmetics and paint; textile manufacturing and the color trade between Europe and Asia; the production and consumption of dyes and pigments in East Asia, South Asia, and the Mediterranean World; the role of the empire in the production of organic and inorganic materials used in dyes and pigments; and the global circulation of specific pigments and dyes, such as indigo and vermilion.
Abstracts of 300-500 words and short cv due on December 15, 2009 with the expectation that full-length essays will be due on June 15, 2010.
Please send copies of abstracts and cvs to both Feeser and Tobin at the following departmental addresses or e-mail addresses. We will acknowledge receipt of your correspondence.
Andrea Feeser
Associate Professor of Art History
123 Lee Hall
Clemson University
Clemson, SC 29634
Beth Fowkes Tobin
Professor of English
Arizona State University
P. O. Box 870302
Tempe, AZ 85287-0302
Midwest Art History Society
Omaha, NE
8-10 April 2010
[from H-NET, 10/26/09]
Walter Benjamin's seminal essay "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction" became the basis of much of the 20th century's discourse surrounding the effects of reproduction on the concept of originality in artworks. Now in the 21st century we enter the age of digital reproduction that, while seemingly similar to mechanical reproduction, is inherently different. Mechanical reproduction allowed for the concept of the “copy” which conversely implied an “original.” In digital production, there is no original, only data – data that can exist in infinite replication. Almost 50 years after Benjamin, Paul Virilio writes of Dromology, or the science of speed, and the ability of technology to compress distance, space and time. Digital production eradicates the limitations of distance, space and time by the very nature of binary data and lossless reproduction. This lossless reproduction capability creates an environment where imagery can be reproduced identically not only in one location, but simultaneously anywhere in the world.
How does this lossless/spaceless aspect of the digital medium affect the production of artwork? This session invites scholars and image-makers to discuss the nature of images today and to share written and creative works that explore concepts related to digital reproduction.
Presenters should remember to attach a c.v. and indicate their MAHS membership status. All participants must be MAHS members in the 2010 calendar year. Graduate students submitting proposals should do so with the approval of their adviser. Please provide the name and e-mail address of your academic adviser in your initial proposal. Graduate students whose papers are accepted may apply to the Charles D. Cuttler Student Travel Fund for assistance. Please contact the MAHS Treasurer if you would like further information.
Registration forms for the conference and membership materials will be available soon at the Midwest Art History website.
Proposals are due to session chairs on or before December 15. They should be no more than 250 words, single-spaced, and sent by e-mail as MSWord files. Submitters should indicate MAHS in the subject heading of their e-mails. All papers presented at the MAHS conference must be in Powerpoint and ready for digital projection. Please send all submissions - as well as any questions you may have to:
Liz Murphy Thomas
Assistant Professor of Art: Digital Media
University of Illinois Springfield
Freie Universität Berlin
Berlin, Germany
23-25 April 2010
[courtesy of A. Papist-Matsuo, 10/6/09]
The many different relationships between master and disciple constitute an influential and universal moment in human society. Even if the forms and characteristics of specific individual master-disciple relationships differ greatly according to period and region and the prestige accorded to them in the East and West, the relationships contain a high degree of culturally constitutive and integrating content over and beyond regional, cultural and historical variations. Here the transmission of knowledge and skills, traditions and competence plays a central role.
In theoretical considerations of masters and teachers, the concept of the master is clearly distinct from that of the teacher. While the teacher's role is to educate and equip students with skills and knowledge, the master, on the other hand, is predominantly defined by the emotional bond he arouses in his disciples. Indeed, although the figure of the master exerts a fascination over his disciples and attracts them to him in part by virtue of his knowledge and wisdom, the true force of his persona lies in much more ambiguous qualities, often characterised as spirituality and charisma.
To date there has been no interdisciplinary academic research on the theme of master-disciple relationships in time and space. For this reason the multiple workshop will explore the incidence of this relationship in societies and its theoretical considerations in widely different cultural, religious, historic and social contexts. Here the focus of the workshop will be on continuities, shifting and caesuras in the relationship from ancient times to the present day. Whereas a first workshop taking place in November 2009 will deal with masters and their disciples in the areas of religion and philosophy, the focus of this workshop will center on the various traditions in the humanities, social sciences and arts (for example fine art, architecture, theatre, music, film, martial arts), on (artisan) craftwork and on literature.
In all these areas, master figures and their disciples have had an influential role in shaping cultural developments. The rise of schools, traditions and epochs founded on a charismatic master-figure demonstrates not only how significant the teaching of this (secret) knowledge is, it can also throw light on the positions the disciples held in their respective societies and the importance their relationship to the master had for them in shaping their entire lives. In East Asian traditions especially, the custom of passing down knowledge underlies the student's often lifelong attempt at self-completion and self-perfection. Also to be considered are the mechanisms involved in forming master-disciple relationships. This will focus on the one hand on the master's criteria in selecting those followers chosen to receive his teaching, limiting the number of disciples who surround him. On the other hand, it will focus on the role the disciples play in solidifying the master's legitimacy. The societal ramifications of this reciprocal relationship are also to be examined in various cultural and historical contexts, as are the concepts of "charisma" and "spirituality", which are repeatedly used to characterize master figures. Another challenge for this workshop is to constitute a more pronounced formulation of the term "disciple" and its correspondence and differentiation with terms like "student," "follower" or "apprentice."
The range of workshops is expressly addressed to young academics, in order to offer them a platform for discussions and to encourage them to exchange views and information on past and future research projects, methodical questions and possible interdisciplinary links. The workshop languages are German and English. Papers from all disciplines will be considered, not only from the social sciences and humanities, but also from the natural sciences. Scholars of ancient and modern history, philology, literary, cultural and religious studies, theatre, film and media studies, art history, philosophy and theology, sociology and political science, psychology and education are welcome as well as colleagues from the natural sciences and (history of) medicine.
The papers should ideally fit in thematically with one of sections. Please e-mail your abstract (max. 500 words) along with a brief outline of your intentions concerning the theme, a CV (1-2 pages) and a list of publications, not forgetting your institutional affiliation, your full postal address, telephone number and e-mail address to MasterDisciple@geschkult.fu-berlin.de. The deadline for submitting abstracts is 20th December 2009.
We plan to publish a selection of the workshop papers. Manuscripts should be submitted before the middle of March 2010. More precise information on the detailed workshop programme will shortly be announced.
back to page index[from H-NET, 9/9/09]
Authors are invited to submit manuscripts for review to the Journal of Song-Yuan Studies, which is currently accepting submissions for inclusion in volume 40. Manuscripts for consideration must be received before the end of the calendar year 2009.
The Journal of Song-Yuan Studies is the official publication of the Society for Song, Yuan, and Conquest Dynasty Studies. The Journal of Song-Yuan Studies is devoted to presenting and promoting the most current scholarship in all disciplines related to China of the middle imperial period, focusing on the Song, Liao, Jin, Xia, and Yuan dynasties. All submissions undergo a standardized process of anonymous refereed peer review.
Scholars are invited to submit original English-language research in the form of topical articles or comprehensive review essays as well as reports on research or on the state of the field. Bibliographies are also accepted for consideration and only these need not be in English. The Journal of Song-Yuan Studies also publishes extensive book reviews and whereas those that are received without solicitation are unlikely to be considered, scholars interested in submitting reviews of specific books are welcome to contact the Book Review Editor Hilde De Weerdt.
All manuscripts for consideration should adhere as closely as possible to the guidelines provided by the Journal of Song-Yuan Studies Stylesheet, and all submissions other than book reviews should be sent electronically to the Editor [by 31 December 2009]. All contributors will receive 25 offprints of their published work.
Don J. Wyatt
Middlebury College
Axinn Center 343
tel (802)443-5548
fax (802)443-2084
Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities
[from H-NET, 10/16/09]
In the wake of the digital revolution and globalisation policies the whole world is witnessing formation of certain conditions which are having and will continue to have tremendous impact on the production, reproduction, access, dissemination and appreciation of visual arts. While the old art forms and artworks are being revisited and reproduced in wholly new ways and for a variety of purposes, new types in the forms of digital arts are surfacing not only on the internet but also every place of our visual culture. The place and workplace of the artist also has undergone a radical change. The artists are themselves very keen to define their position globally as the web makes it possible, and along this they are also ready to take up social and political challenges (as always was the case).
Like convergence in all other fields, in the sphere of visual arts we are also witnessing a convergence of all the art forms in the case of computer games. With 2D video games giving way to highly complex PC games, we find attempts at accommodating real-life 3D experiences and complex situations into the digitally recreated virtual reality. In combination with the web a professional team of experts has been able to create virtual worlds, where millions of people—irrespective of age, gender, class, caste and race—have started ‘living’. This kind of converged art is allowing the reader/player/resident the highest ever freedom not only to enter the ‘text’ but also to modify and manipulate it up to a certain limit.
Keeping in mind this kind of situation we are inviting critical writings on a variety of areas. While we are open to the suggestion from the writers for the inclusion of any particular area, for their convenience we are giving below a list of probable areas for submission:
i. Aesthetics of digital arts
ii. Aesthetics of photography
iii. Aesthetics of website design
iv. Our visual culture—sociology/psychology of the need for the visual
v. Sociology of the reproduction of old art forms and art objects
vi. 21st century artist and the digital technology
vii. Artist and the global politics
viii. Viewers as users
ix. Gender and visual arts today
x. Focus on any artist/tradition from new perspective
xi. Open Access and Fair Use Policies and Visual arts
For submission of critical writings, please send:
For submission of creative works, please send: Please send submissions and queries to editor@rupkatha.com. Deadline for sumbissions: December 31, 2009. [from H-NET, 11/1/09] The editor is looking for contributions to a special edition of the Australian journal Japanese Studies and potentially a future book proposal. Nowadays the academia increasingly pays attention to the softpower potential of manga in popular cultural representation. Tessa Morris-Suzuki has argued in The Past Within Us that "historical truthfulness" encompasses a shared social responsibility, which is increasingly jeopardised by the power of media to mould people’s "unconscious sense of the structure and meaning of world history." The representation of history via manga in Japan has a long and controversial historiographical dimension. Manga and by extension graphic art in Japanese culture has become one of the world’s most powerful modes of expressing historical verisimilitude. In particular, the Japanese tradition of the story-manga and its Western equivalent of the graphic novel, manifest the best and worst aspects of this global media, which has the potential to display history in previously unimagined ways. Boundaries of space and time in manga become as permeable as societies and cultures across the world. This special journal edition will investigate the authorship of history by looking at various different attempts to render pre-modern/modern history through the popular cultural media of the story-manga. As Carol Gluck, Tessa Morris-Suzuki, Susan Napier and others have shown, it has never been easy to encapsulate the complex narrative of emperor-based Japanese historical periods. How do manga and by extension graphic art rewrite, reinvent and re-imagine the historicity and dialectic of bygone epochs in postwar/contemporary Japan? We are seeking contributions from academics and experts interested in the representation of history. The deadline for proposals is: 31 December 2009. Please e-mail a 300-word abstract (for a paper length of 6000-8000 words) and a short biography as an attached word document to: Roman Rosenbaum 64th Annual Meeting [from SAH, 9/15/09] Members of the Society, representatives of affiliated societies, and other scholars who wish to chair a session at the 2011 annual meeting are asked to submit proposals by January 4, 2010, to: Prof. Abigail A. Van Slyck As SAH membership is required to present research at the annual meeting, non-members who wish to chair a session or deliver a paper will be required to join the Society and to pre-register for the meeting in September 2010. SAH will offer a limited number of travel fellowships (with a value of up to $1000) for speakers participating in the annual meeting; session chairs are not eligible for these awards. The deadline for applying will be in October 2010. Since the principal purpose of the annual meeting is to inform the Society's members of the general state of research in architectural history and related disciplines, session proposals covering every period in the history of architecture and all aspects of the built environment, including landscape and urban history, are encouraged. Sessions may be theoretical, methodological, thematic, interdisciplinary, pedagogical, revisionist, or documentary in premise and have broadly conceived or more narrowly focused subjects. In every case, the subject should be clearly defined in critical and historiographic terms, and should be substantiated by a distinct body of either established or emerging scholarship. XVIth Congress of the International Association of Buddhist Studies [from H-ASIA, 7/3/09] Those who plan to attend the XVIth Congress are asked to fill out the
electronic "mailings request form" online at
http://iabs2011.ddbc.edu.tw/general.php as soon as possible. Future
communications with IABS members will take place by e-mail, unless postal
mail is specifically requested (see the postal address at the bottom of
this letter). Academic Program As in previous congresses, mornings and afternoons will be organized in
parallel sessions of panels and general sections. We anticipate that
there will be about four or five parallel sessions running at most
times. Panels are organized by one or more conveners and focus on a
particular theme, the conveners being responsible for contacting the
appropriate individual contributors. Sections consist of papers that
have been grouped together under general themes by the conference
planning committee. The planning committee will put forward a
provisional set of such themes in the second circular (scheduled for
distribution in March 2010). Each panel or section will comprise about
five or six papers of a maximum of 25 minutes in length (with 5 minutes
allowed for discussion). Call for Initial Panel Proposals In keeping with the academic program just discussed, the planning
committee at this time invites scholars from all areas of Buddhist
Studies to submit initial panel proposals. An initial panel proposal is
submitted by the proposed convenor, and consists of a short (200 word)
description of the theme of the panel, along with a list of probable or
potential participants. A full list of all participants is not required.
Accepted initial panel proposals will be announced in the second
circular, and those interested in contributing a paper to one of the
accepted panels may contact the convenor to see if there is room on the
panel. The initial panel proposals should be sent to: Dr. William Magee The deadline for the initial panel proposal is January 31, 2010. Individual Paper Proposals Individual paper proposals are not being accepted at this time. A call
for individual papers will appear in the second information circular, at
which time the accepted initial panel proposals and a list of general
themes for the individual papers will also be announced. Posters and Demos Exhibition space will be available for posters and demos. There will be
a dedicated poster session during which each poster contributor will
have the opportunity to give a brief presentation to conference
delegates. Details will appear in the second circular.
Visa Requirements Visa requirements vary according to the nationality of the visitor.
Please check with your travel agent or representatives of Taiwan in your
country for up-to-date information. Accommodation
Limited, affordable accommodations will available in the residence halls
of Dharma Drum Buddhist College. Comfortable accommodations will also be
available at local hotels, beach-front hotels, and hot-spring spas
within commuting distance of the conference. Details will appear in the
second circular.
Conference/Travel Grants The planning committee regrets that it cannot provide travel or
conference grants for the XVIth Congress. The committee is working to
offer the lowest possible registration and accommodation fees. These
will be announced in the second circular. IABS Membership Status All XVIth Congress participants must be current subscribing IABS members
in the year of the conference. To join the International Association of
Buddhist Studies, please follow the instructions found on the IABS
website. Max-Planck-Institute for the History of Science [from H-NET, 10/28/09] The world, more of than not, is and has been conceived in its compactness, as stuff, things, and objects; far less so, in its interstices. Science, technology and culture, of course, are permeated and traversed by boundary phenomena: From the materialities of life itself, whether cellular membranes, skin, immune-systems or ecological habitats, to surface, separation and purification processes in chemistry and industry to the making, processing and exhibition of photographs and films, things coalesced at surfaces. They are palpable as well in the history of geography and politics, of urban and private spaces, of literature, art, psychology and the self, and certainly enough, as interfaces, in contemporary media theory. The workshop "Membranes, Surfaces and Boundaries" aims to recover and bring together these interstices. We wish to attract contributions from a wide range of disciplines, including the natural sciences, that cross, straddle and make permeable these specialist divides, and that interrogate the historical being of surfaces. We wish to focus the workshop on the materialities of membranes, surfaces, and boundaries themselves. Possible anchors are surfaces and membranes as biological entities; chemical and technical phenomena at boundaries such as catalysis, filtration or electrophoresis; or films, photographic and otherwise, as media of projection and material surface processes. We invite contributions engaging with these and other spheres and their manifold intersections. Some illustrative questions include: In the history of science, can we generate cultural histories of the biological cell, a historiographically rather neglected object? Or related, of the similarly neglected but important, huge fields such as electro-chemistry or chemical engineering? Might we re-read through surface-objects disciplinary histories, experimental practices or the ways science is permeable to its social and cultural settings (and vice versa)? In film and media studies, how can attention to the materialities of surfaces incorporate the histories of science, technology or industry? Or again, more philosophically, how can we bring together concepts and materials, the abstract and concrete, metaphors and physical boundaries in re-thinking the histories of interstices? All submitted abstracts showing some relation to our main theme will be given careful consideration. Abstracts of up to 300 words should include your name, institutional affiliation, and e-mail address. These should be submitted by e-mail to Mathias Grote and Max Stadler. The deadline for abstract submission is 31 January 2010. Max Planck Institute for the History of Science [from H-NET, 11/2/09] The next issue of the Annali della Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa. Classe di Lettere e Filosofia will devote its monographic section to the censorship of writings and artworks, either as an act of imposition by official powers or as self-censorship. Interdisciplinary articles on patterns and techiniques of recreation, readjustment and reuse of works – or part of them–-resulting from the destruction or alteration of the originals, due to censorship, expurgation or damage (incidental or intentional), are invited. Researches could focus on the rewriting of texts (literary or not), as well as on the restoration of artworks. There are no chronological or geographical limitations. The articles, both for the monographic and the miscellaneous section, must be sent no later than 15 February 2010 to segreteria.annali@sns.it (contact with any question). The guidelines and the editing rules can be found on the web page of the Annali. The answer about the acceptance of submitted articles for publication will be given within a month, according to the evaluation of internationally renowned referees. Giuseppe Marcocci 40th Annual International Conference [from H-ASIA, 7/14/09] Main Theme: Civilizational Futures
Sub-Themes: What roles religion, in the past, today and tomorrow?
Is a global civilization developing? How would we know?
How can past civilizational crises inform the present?
Does ecology matter, or are these crises driven entirely by culture,
politics, religion and other social phenomena?
Eternal Themes: What is a "Civilization" anyway?
How are civilizations distinct from nations, societies and
cultures? Are they correlated with empires?
How many are there in human history … and today?
Does history repeat itself and what about technology?
Are civilizational transformations necessarily traumatic, or can
they "transform" Peacefully?
When civilizations "clash" can they hybridize by combining strengths
positively? Or must one die?
How do art, language and culture matter compared to ancient drivers
of commerce and military affairs?
Submission Deadline: March 15, 2010 University of Wolverhampton [from H-NET, 9/24/09] The Pasold Research Fund and the Centre for the History of Retailing and Distribution (CHORD) invite proposals for a conference exploring the retailing and marketing of textiles and dress between c. 1700 and 1945. Proposals are invited for papers on any aspect of this topic, on any distribution/retailing format, and focusing on any geographical area. Areas of interest include (but are not limited to):
Japanese Studies
University of Sydney
School of Languages and Culture - Japanese Studies
tel +61 2 862 78250
fax +61 2 862 78284.
Society of Architectural Historians
New Orleans, LA
13-17 April 2011
General Chair of the SAH 64th Annual Meeting
Dayton Professor of Art History
Connecticut College
Box 5565
270 Mohegan Avenue
New London, CT 06320.
International Association of Buddhist Studies
Dharma Drum Buddhist College
Jinshan, Taiwan
20-25 June 2011
XVIth Congress of the IABS Planning Committee Chair
Dharma Drum Buddhist College
No. 2-6, Xishihu
Jinshan 20842
Taiwan
e-mail <iabs2011@ddbc.edu.tw>.
"Membranes, Surfaces and Boundaries: Interstices in the History of Science, Technology and Culture"
Berlin, Germany
7-9 October 2010
Boltzmannstrasse 22
14195 Berlin
Germany
"Censorship, Rewriting, Restoration"
Segretario Scientifico di Redazione
Annali della Classe di Lettere e Filosofia
Scuola Normale Superiore
Piazza dei Cavalieri, 7
I-56126 Pisa
tel (+39) 329-7460048
fax (+39) 050-563513
International Society for the Comparative Study of Civilizations
Brigham Young University
Provo, UT
15-17 June 2010
E-mail abstracts to Michael Andregg.
ISCSC website for conference information.
"Distribution Networks for Textiles and Dress, c. 1700-1945"
UK
8-9 September 2010
Proposals are invited both for individual papers and for sessions. Shorter papers (c. 15 minutes) for a "New Researchers" session are also welcome. Please send title, one page abstract, a list of 3 to 5 key words and if proposing a session, a cover letter with title and one-paragraph session description, to the address below (if possible via e-mail) by 19 March 2010. Please state whether you would like to be included in the New Researchers' session.
Laura Ugolini
[from H-ARTHIST, 2/24/03] We are currently preparing to launch a networking group among
art historians, graduate students, curators, critics,
dealers/gallerists/auctioneers, and others who are specifically interested in
post-1945 Japanese art. Our objective is to enrich the field of contemporary art
proactively by such network and discussion platform that we will call
PoNJA-GenKon. If you are interested in becoming part of our initiative or
simply want to know more about our prospects, please e-mail us at Post1945JA@aol.com. As the first phase of this project, we would like to identify
who is working in this growing field. By contacting us at above address, you
will receive a brief e-mail questionnaire. We hope to set up a mailing list
shortly. [from H-ARTHIST, 2/19/03] Cr is a Dutch interdisciplinary journal on the subject
of conservation and restoration of cultural heritage (works of art, historic
interiors, architecture, as well as books, photographic and archive materials).
Cr was founded in 2000 after an initiative by four restorers'
associations and has since been published four times a year. The journal is
aimed at professionals working in museums, libraries and archives (conservation
specialists, curators, art historians and others interested in the subject).
Cr offers information on an academic level and makes developments in
the field accessible to a wide audience. Articles are published in Dutch or
English (with a summary in the other language). The editorial board consists of
conservation specialists and experts on relevant fields of study. All
contributions are peer-reviewed. Cr is seeking contributions relating to: - case studies of recent conservation projects, Reports on recent conferences and reviews of recent publications
in relevant fields of study are also very welcome. The editors regret that they are not able to offer authors a fee
for their contribution, as Cr is published by a non-profit
organisation, which is still relying on subsidies. For more information, please contact the editor, Catrien Deys. Cr [from MCLC]
China Scolarship Questions about the journal can also be sent to Alex Des Forges at mailto:desforgs@netspace.org [from Asian Studies Newsletter, Fall 2004]
The purpose of this series is to produce early publication of important new
materials in formats that are easily accessible and affordable.
Authors will include scholars whose writings fill gaps in scholarship on any
part of Asia. The format of publications in the series will be determined by
both content and the immediacy of the materials presented, and likely will
include both print and electronic formats.
We anticipate that two or more titles will be published each year covering
such areas as major new bibliographies, guides to specific Asian materials,
historical studies of the field of Asian studies, data collections, and works on
new or largely unexplored areas of Asian studies, such as photographs and other
graphic images, electronic resources, Asian diasporas, guides to regional
resources on Asia, and other topics that will be revealed in proposals by
potential authors.
Proposals for publication in this new series should be sent (preferably in
paper) to:
Ria Koopmans-de Bruijn The AAS Editorial Board retains the right of acceptance or refusal of
proposals. This initiative by AAS presents an exciting opportunity for
members to make significant contributions to Asian studies. Please consider
taking advantage of the opportunity!
[from H-ASIA]
ANNOUNCEMENT & CALL FOR PAPERS
A group of European scholars are launching a new academic
journal in the field of East Asian studies. The journal is based at the Institut
d'Asie Orientale, in Lyon, but it enjoys the support of nine other European
research institutions. It will be published and distributed by Brill (Academic
Publishers). The following text provides a summary of the goals of the journal.
Europe is home to a very large community of scholars working on
East Asia whose research activities cover a broad spectrum of studies, in terms
of countries, periods, and disciplines. There is, however, no internationally
recognised journal in Europe encompassing within its covers the whole range of
East Asian studies as there is in the United States. We believe that European
East Asia scholars, by virtue of their own history, intellectual traditions, and
specific relations with the region, offer a different perspective to that of
American scholars and make an original contribution to East Asian studies. Until
now, they have been able to reach international recognition principally through
publications in American journals, for which most of them compete at an obvious
linguistic disadvantage. A European journal will be better equipped to take into
account this issue of language. It should be made clear here that we do not
claim any kind of Euro-centred intellectual superiority, nor do we want to give
the impression of an anti-American posture. On the contrary, we acknowledge the
overwhelming contribution of American scholars to contemporary East Asian
studies. The sole purpose of the initiators of this project is to create a new
intellectual arena that will publish the best contributions of European
scholarship on contemporary East Asia, without excluding contributions from
other parts of the world. We believe in intellectual competition and
stimulation. The journal will, therefore, welcome high-quality research,
whatever its origin. The journal will be interdisciplinary in nature, dedicated
to the publication of scholarly research across the range of the social sciences
-- including sociology, geography, anthropology, economics, political science,
and law -- as well as modern history. We take the term "modern" to refer
approximately to the last two hundred years. The journal makes no commitment to
any particular trend in scholarly research, but it will be receptive to all the
current approaches in Asian studies. Our geographical compass will take in "East
Asia" in a broad sense, that is to say the groups of countries usually included
in Southeast Asia (Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Burma, Thailand, Malaysia,
Indonesia, Singapore, and the Philippines) and Northeast Asia (China, Japan,
Korea, Taiwan). One of the major obstacles that has prevented the emergence of
such a journal is undeniably the absence of a common language among European
scholars. The initiators of this project believe that English has become the
universal language in East Asian studies. The journal will be devoted mainly to
original research based on the first-hand study of primary materials and/or
fieldwork. It will also welcome theoretical essays that offer new, synthetic
visions and perspectives from the field. We hope to strike a balance between
coherence (to make the journal attractive to a wide readership) and spontaneity
(to allow for competition and attract first-rate contributions). To this end, we
shall publish six papers per issue (initially with two issues per year). Three
of them may be devoted to a "special theme" (a list of three themes is offered
below) while another three will be individual contributions. These are of course
guidelines, conceived as a general strategy for the initial issues. Research
notes will also be welcome, though under a specific format. The journal will
include a section for book reviews, concentrating on significant works written
by European scholars. The first issue will be published in early 2001.
The European Journal of East Asian Studies welcomes from
today the submission of manuscripts from scholars on all aspects of East Asian
societies as defined in the announcement. Authors should feel free to contact
the editors for further information: EJEAS@ish-lyon.cnrs.fr. Special themes: besides papers on any topic within the fields
defined in the previous sections above, the editors will invite contributors to
submit papers on special themes. These themes will be defined in a separate
announcement. EDITORS
Christian
Henriot Paul Waley
Book review editor:
Philippe
Pelletier Editorial secretariat:
Marie-Pierre Fuchs
GUIDELINES FOR SUBMISSION OF MANUSCRIPTS EJEAS Institut d'Asie
Orientale - ISH A copy of the final revised manuscript saved on an IBM or Mac
compatible disk should be included with the final revised hard copy. Submission
of a manuscript is taken to imply commitment to publish in the journal and that
it is not currently being considered elsewhere. Manuscripts should not have been
published elsewhere in substantially similar form or with substantially similar
content. Authors in doubt about what constitutes prior publication should
consult with the editors. Manuscript review procedure: all articles received are
sent anonymously to two referees who are asked to respond within 30 days. Our
policy is to respond to authors within two months. Book reviews and
correspondence concerning reviews should be sent to the book review editor,
Philippe Pelletier, at the editorial address above. Unsolicited book reviews are
not accepted. Inquiries about materials for possible publication and
correspondence to the editors should be sent to the EJEAS
editorial postal and e-mail address above. We kindly urge authors NOT to use the
editors' personal e-mail address for correspondence related to the
journal.
[from H-ASIA, 10/17/00]
The editors of the Journal of Imperial and Post-Colonial
Historical Studies (JIPCHS) seek to encourage new and different questions of
long-standing intellectual problems, including the application of methods used
by scholars from a wide array of disciplines, as well as the application of
historical methods to those disciplines. We have chosen the themes of imperial
and post-colonial studies because they lend themselves readily to a broad range
of perspectives and approaches, and, significantly, because they are applicable
to every region where a human society has developed at some point in time. They
encourage discussions of state formation and diplomacy, yet do not preclude
issues of race, gender, or class.
JIPCHS is a new semi-annual journal for recent Ph.D.'s and
graduate students to expand the limits of colonial and post-colonial studies by
incorporating interdisciplinary methods into their works. Comparative approaches
are especially encouraged. JIPCHS welcomes a wide range of academic inquiry from
scholars around the world. Contributors address issues of statecraft, social
change, cultural interaction, and economic relations within the historical
context of imperialism and colonialism in any region of the world and in any
time period, from antiquity to the present. Topics for consideration include,
but are not limited to: colonization and decolonization, domination and
resistence, film/cinema, foreign policy, information media (print and/or
electronic), intellectual movements/history, literature, medicine/medical
history, methodologies, migration, missionaries and/or religious change,
servitude, state formation and expansion, women and states/law.
JIPCHS is a fully-refereed publication that uses a double-blind
(i.e., anonymous) process to evaluate manuscript submissions. Manuscripts will
be sent to at least two scholars and/or advanced graduate students who are
specialists in the field addressed by the manuscript. Copies and/or summaries of
the anonymous readers' reports will be sent to authors. Evaluations,
accordingly, will require three to five months, although in some exceptional
cases they may take longer. Copies of manuscripts will be returned only to those
authors who provide self-addressed, stamped envelopes. If a manuscript is
accepted for publication it will be edited for organization, clarity, and
consistency. Copy-edited versions will be sent to the authors for approval
before the finished article goes to press.
Send three (3) copies of the manuscript and all correspondence
to: [from H-ASIA, 03/16/00]
Ming Studies is a refereed journal concerned with
scholarship on all aspects of Chinese society and culture from the 14th to the
17th century. It is published twice a year and carries articles, book reviews,
news of the field, and biographical material. It also publishes once a year
listings of recently completed Ph.D. dissertations and dissertation projects
related to the Ming. The latest lists of theses and dissertation projects has
just been published in No. 38 (Fall 1997) No. 40 (Fall 1998) of the journal. It
covers theses completed until 1997/8. Ming Studies plans to publish a
continuation of this list in issue No. 42, and I would be grateful if you could
provide with me with information regarding more recent completed Ph.D. theses as
well as current dissertation projects.
For completed dissertations, please submit: Author's full name,
permanent mailing address or e-mail address, dissertation title and subtitle
(for foreign-language dissertations, the original title and an English
translation), university and department to which the thesis was submitted, name
of advisors, type of doctoral degree received and calendar year awarded, a
dissertation abstract, and a statement indicating how people may obtain copies
of the thesis.
For dissertations in progress, please submit: Author's full
name, permanent mailing address or e-mail address, dissertation topic and
working title, university and department to which the thesis will be submitted,
anticipated date of completion, and a one-page abstract of the dissertation
project.
Please send your information to:
Dietrich Tschanz
or Scott Hall [from H-ASIA, 6/15/00]
The newly established Taiwan Journal of Religious Studies
is now welcoming submissions of the following types of articles in the general
field of religious studies: Original Research Article (under 30,000 words);
Research Note (under 10,000 words); Review Article (under 10,000 words); Book
Review (under 3,000 words); Comments and Replies; Field Report. The articles are
peer-reviewed. Two issues of the Journal will be published each year by
Taiwan Association for Religious Studies.
Guidelines for Submission of Manuscripts
Completed manuscripts, either in English or in Chinese, and
inquiries about material for possible publication, and any correspondence should
be sent to:
Dr. Mu-chou
Poo, Editor Manuscripts should be sent to the editor in the form of three
hard copies and a disk (preferably Word 5.0 and above, or WordPerfect 5.1 and
above). All copies should be double-spaced, including extracts, notes, and
references. Research articles should also include an abstract of less than 500
words. As the articles are to be reviewed anonymously by peer scholars, please
take care not to reveal the author's identity as far as possible in the
manuscript, but use a cover sheet to state the author's name and professional
corresponding address. After the manuscript is accepted, the editor may ask the
author to submit a revised version of the manuscript according to the
Journal's style sheet, which is available upon request. All manuscript
submitted to this Journal are expected not to have been published and not
to be under review elsewhere. The editor is responsible for the final selection
of the manuscript and reserves the right to reject any material deemed
inappropriate for publication. Responsibility for opinions expressed and for the
accuracy of facts published rests solely with the individual authors. The author
will receive 2 copies of the current Journal and 30 copies of off-prints
when his/her manuscript is published.
Archives of Asian
Art, published by the Asia Society, invites the
submission of scholarly manuscripts on any aspect of Asian art. For a copy of
our "Notes
to Contributors" and "Style Sheet," contact:
Marsha Weidner Please do not submit articles electronically. We can only accept
material submitted in hard copy.
[from CAA News, July 2000]
JVAP is a new refereed journal publishing scholarly research and
informed commentary on various aspects of visual art practice seen from a
broadly educational perspective. It welcomes contributions from art educators,
scholars, art practitioners, and others concerned with contemporary art practice
seen from such a perspective. The journal will seek to represent the full
spectrum of intellectual positions and modes of educational practice that are
oriented by, or have developed out of, the traditional notions of "fine art"
practice, or in reaction to them. The journal will publish both scholarly papers
and more speculative pieces designed to futher understanding and debate.
Editorial Address:
[from Asian Studies Newsletter, Fall 2000] Early Medieval China (ISSN 1529-9104) is a refereed,
international journal published by The Early Medieval China Group, Incorporated.
The journal was founded in 1994 with the purpose of advancing the understanding
ain all disciplines of the "Period of Disunity," and of developments during the
later Han and Tang dynasties that are related to the era. Each annual issue
contains scholarly articles, book reviews, and news on conferences that concern
the medieval period. Also featured are comprehensive bilbliographic essays about
recent research and issues in the field. Among the contributors for Vol. 6 (Fall
2000) are Chen Guocan, Richard B. mather, and Victor Xiong. We plan future
issues that will be dedicated wholly to specific disciplines such as literature,
religion, history and historiography.Authors are usually informed within two
months whether their contribution is acceptable. Manuscripts and requests for
guidelies should be sent to the appropriate Editor: Cynthia L. Chennault [Book Review Editor] [Subscriptions] Individual membership (domestic and foreign) is $20. [from H-ASIA, 4/23/00] The past two decades have witnessed an explosion of interest,
research, and writing on visual culture within the Humanities and Social
Sciences. The Journal of Visual Culture is a new international,
refereed journal being launched in April 2002 as a site for astute, informative,
and dynamic thought on the visual. The journal will publish work from a range of methodological
positions, on various historical moments, and across diverse geographical
locations. It will promote research, scholarship, and critical engagement with
visual cultures. Interdisciplinary Coverage The Journal of Visual Culture will be essential reading
for academics, researchers and students engaged with the visual within the
fields and disciplines of: Topics to be covered will include: Call for Papers Articles are now being sought for early issues of the journal.
Articles should be between 5-7000 words. Reviews (which must be
approved in advance with either the Reviews or Events Editor) should be between
800-1200 words. Four copies of the manuscript should be submitted, typed in
double-spacing on one side of A4 paper only and must include an abstract of
100-150 words on a separate sheet. Authors will be asked to provide a diskette
of the final version. Submissions will be refereed anonymously by at least two
referees. The journal uses the Harvard system of referencing with author's
name and date in the text and a full reference literature in alphabetical order
at the end of the article. Articles for the journal should be addressed to
either: Raiford A.
Guins or Joanne Morra Reviews Editor: Simon
Ofield [from H-ASIA, 12/17/00] The editors of Japan Forum are pleased to announce that
the journal will shortly be moving to three issues per annum and would be
delighted to receive articles for publication consideration. Since its launch in 1989 by the British Association for Japanese
Studies, Japan Forum has developed into a major international journal. It
documents research in the multidisciplinary field of Japanese Studies, with
articles ranging from archeology, language, history, literature and culture to
economics, politics and law. A special feature of the journal is that it includes articles by
world renowned scholars as well as younger researchers. All articles are
independently refereed before publication. All manuscripts and/or enquiries should be sent, in the first
instance, to the Secretariat of BAJS c/o: Lynn Baird
[from Asian Studies Newsletter 46/1] The China Review is a continuation of China
Review, an annual publication of The Chinese University Press since 1990.
The new journal will be published twice a year in March and September; like its
predecessor,it is a scholarly journal covering various disciplines of study on
Greater China and its people, namely, domestic politics and international
relations; society, business and economic development; modern history, the arts
and cultural studies. Teachers, scholars, researchers, journalists and students
interested in the developments of China will find this publication a
comprehensive and indispensable tool. The China Review welcomes the submission of high-quality
research articles, research notes and book reviews dealing with the political,
economic and social aspects of modern and contemporary China. Research article
manuscripts should not be longer than 10,000 words in length. Research notes
should normally be 3,000 words, and book reviews between 800 and 1,000 words.
They should be submitted in electronic format with three typewritten hard
copies, double-spaced, with footnotes grouped together at the end of the paper.
The style of the text and footnotes should conform to those used in The
Chicago Manual of Style (14th edition, 1993). The China Review does
not accept manuscripts that have already been published or are being considered
for publication elsewhere. Manuscripts will be refereed by external readers. All
manuscripts should be submitted to: The China Review Editorial Board [from MCLC, 2/5/02] The Research Unit on Taiwanese Culture and Literature (TCL),
Department of Chinese Language and Literature, Ruhr University Bochum, Germany
now offers the opportunity to publish articles on Taiwanese culture and
literature on-line via our website at http://www.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/slc/taiwan.html. The first contribution is a short biographical study on the
Taiwanese author Meng Yao by Edel Marie Lancashire (U.K.): "Meng Yao. A
Tribute." Scholars working on subjects relating to Taiwanese culture and
literature are most welcome to submit proposals. Please visit our website for details.
[from Taylor & Francis, 11/8/09] Journal for Cultural Research is an international journal, based in Lancaster University's Institute for Cultural Research. It is interested in essays concerned with the conjuncture between culture and the many domains and practices in relation to which it is usually defined, including, for example, media, politics, technology, economics, society, art and the sacred. Culture is no longer, if it ever was, singular. It denotes a shifting multiplicity of signifying practices and value systems that provide a potentially infinite resource of academic critique, investigation and ethnographic or market research into cultural difference, cultural autonomy, cultural emancipation and the cultural aspects of power. As such, culture has itself become, in many areas, a primary instrument of government and thus the desire not to be governed is impelled to think culture differently from the accepted forms of cultural identity and recognition. In the academy, research has become a defining feature of the cultural just as the cultural has become indistinguishable from questions concerning the governable. The journal publishes original essays by established and emerging writers around the globe who are developing the future of cultural theory and research in the 21st century. We encourage writing that explores every aspect of cultural experience, experiences that occur in the correlation between fields of knowledge, types of normativity, and forms of subjectivity in different domains and locations around the world.
All review papers in this journal have undergone editorial screening and peer review. [from H-ASIA, 6/7/04] Asiatica Venetiana, the publication of the Department
of East Asian Studies, University of Venice, is now accepting contributions of
articles, notes, reviews for its double 2003-2004 edition (issue
8/9). Submissions in English, Italian, and French are encouraged in
all fields of East Asian, South Asian, and Southeast Asian Studies. For details
and guidelines. contact Prof. Marco Ceresa. Redazione di Asiatica
Venetiana [from Asian Studies Newsletter, Spring 2002] A new journal, China: An International Journal, published
by the East Asian Institute at the National University of Singapore, welcomes
the submission of theoretically and empirically-based research articles, review
articles, short comments and notes. Manuscripts towards East Asian specialists
are preferred, but pieces written for a wider audience will also be considered.
All submissions must be fully documented and of enduring value. Published twice
yearly in March and September, the CIJ focuses on contemporary China,
including Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan, covering the fields of politics,
economics, society, law, culture, and international relations. For editorial
matters and inquiries, please contact: The Editors [courtesy of Women's Studio
Center, 10/4/03] Women's Arts News is seeking
biographical articles, 700 words max., about well-known women visual artists and
writers from any time period, art movement or style (fine arts inlcudes -
painting, sculpting etc, decorative arts, design, photography, and
architecture). Due to limited space articles must be no more than and as close
to 700 words as possible. Women's Arts News is a monthly publication, September
through June, produced by Women's Studio Center Inc, Long Island City,
NY. Circulation is throughout the US but mostly in the New York City
Tri-State Area. Articles should be written for a general audience, artists, etc.
There should be more biographical and factual information and none or less
anaylisis of the artwork. For information, guidelines and a hard copy of Women's Arts
News, please contact Melissa Wolf, Managing Editor, at (718) 361-5649 or
[from H-ASIA, 6/16/02] International Journal of Asian Studies is a new
international and interdisciplinary English-language periodical publishing
research on Asia, primarily in the social sciences and humanities. Sponsored by
the Institute of Oriental Culture at the University of Tokyo, and with Professor
Takeshi Hamashita as Editor-in-Chief, it will be published by Cambridge
University Press. The first issue is due to appear in 2003. The journal will
consist of several papers around a central theme, as well as independent papers,
review articles and book reviews. The themes for the first two issues are
"Trans-Asian Networks" and "Gender in Asia: Women, Family Relations and
Inheritance." Submissions are invited from scholars interested in these topics,
but general submissions are also very welcome. The Journal examines Asia on a regional basis,
emphasising patterns and tendencies that go beyond the borders of individual
countries. For example, intra-Asian networks have played a major role in the
shaping of modern Asia, but their internal operations and position within
worldwide networks remain poorly understood. Modern and contemporary Asia has
witnessed dynamic transformations in cultures, societies, economics and
politics, and so confronts issues of collective identity formation, ecological
crisis, rapid economic change and resurgence of religion. The clarification of
past experiences can help produce a deeper understanding of contemporary change.
Therefore the Journal is particularly interested in locating contemporary
changes within a historical framework, especially using interdisciplinary
approaches, and so promotes comparative studies involving the various regions of
Asia. By doing so it hopes to foster a move away from the explicit or implicit
yardstick of European experience. Articles should not be more than 12,000 words, including
footnotes and references. Review articles should not exceed 8,000 words. Two
copies of the manuscript should be submitted, together with an abstract of not
more than 150 words and a brief profile about the author, printed on separate
sheets. The author's name, address, email address and title of manuscript should
appear on a coversheet. Alternatively, manuscripts may be sent as a file
attachment to the e-mail address below. In this case, to prevent virus
contamination, could you inform the editors in advance that you will be sending
an attachment, and send it only after you have heard back from us. Full information in English about the Journal, as well as
a guide to submissions, is contained in the Institute's web page. Professor Haruka Yanagisawa [from H-ASIA, 7/12/02] Persimmon magazine is seeking someone to write a brief
report (500 words) on current trends in the fine arts and popular culture in
Taipei for the City Scan section of our next issue. The deadline for the report
is the beginning of August, and there is a small honorarium. If any list members
are in Taipei and would like to do this, or know of someone there who might be
interested, please contact me directly. Persimmon: Asian Literature, Arts, and Culture, a New
York-based magazine, is published three times a year (in February, June, and
October) by Contemporary Asian Culture, Inc., a not-for-profit educational
organization whose mission is to provide to readers in the West insights into
contemporary Asian culture and social issues. Many thanks. Persimmon: Asian
Literature, Arts, and Culture [from http://www.lib.virginia.edu/area-studies/Tibet/Tserials/TibetJour/tibjsub.html] The Tibet Journal welcomes the submission of articles
and research paper in English and Tibetan, adequately substantiated or otherwise
documented, with the Wylie romanization system of The Tibet Journal.
Articles should be typed and double-spaced. We request that all contributions
sent to the journal have the print and diskette copy (ASCII Text Format or WP
5.1). Contributors will receive a copy of the Journal, and up to 15
off-prints of the particular article. Unaccepted articles will be returned upon
request. The Journal encourages readers' comments on articles published
in recent issues. Address articles, rejoinders, editorial enquires, and books
for reviews to: Managing Editor, The Tibet Journal [from H-ASIA, 5/24/03] The Chinese Historical Review (ISSN 10043-643X) invites
manuscripts of original research, reviews, and research notes concerning all
aspects and time periods of Chinese history, China-foreign relations, and the
Chinese diaspora. Manuscripts with comparative perspectives on history are also
welcome. Manuscripts should not exceed 8,000 words in length, excluding
notes, tables, and other forms of data. All texts, including footnotes and
quotations, should be double-spaced with at least 1.5-inch margin on both sides
of the page. Footnotes should be consecutively numbered and should be placed as
a separate section at the end of the text. The style of text, footnotes,
punctuations, and capitalization must conform to The Chicago Manual of
Style (14th ed., 1993). Manuscripts shall be submitted in both text and electronic
format. Send three copies of the manuscript to: The Editors The electronic version of the manuscript, saved in Microsoft
Word format, should be sent as an attachment to wangxi@iup.edu, hanchao.lu@hts.gatech.edu, and baumler@iup.edu. All relevant correspondence
should be sent to the same addresses. No manuscript will be considered for
publication if it is concurrently under consideration elsewhere. Originally created by the Chinese Historians in the United
States, Inc. in 1988, The Chinese Historical Review (formerly Chinese
Historians) has been a [from H-ASIA, 6/6/03] At the beginning of the 21st century, history has regained its
central position in the discourse on the future of humankind; scholarly interest
in the writing of and reflections on history has grown beyond the much-debated
Western tradition. It is under these circumstances that the new journal
Historiography East & West has been initiated as a truly
comparative and multi-lingual on-line journal. Historiography East & West
deepens our understanding of representations of "history" by comparing
historiographical practices and traditions from all over the world, thus
integrating them into the ongoing debates on general issues of history-writing
as well as reflections on history and memory. The editorial board of the journal
thus includes scholars from Europe, Asia and the US willing to guarantee the
high standards of the journal as well as to contribute to cross-cultural
understanding based on mutual respect. The editorial board of Historiography East & West
is committed to the idea of opening a worldwide discussion on issues of history
writing and therefore invites contributors to submit their manuscripts in
Chinese, Dutch, English, French, German, and Japanese. Manuscripts will go
through a process of peer review and, once accepted for publication, will be
accompanied by summaries in English and Chinese to make readers aware of their
contents who are not able to read them in their respective language of
publication. Outstanding articles first published in the online journal will be
selected for republication in a book every other year. Since the idea of launching Historiography East &
West originates from a conference on "Modern Chinese Historiography and
Historical Thinking" organized by the Center for Chinese Studies of Heidelberg,
Germany in May 2001, the first two volumes of the new journal will mostly draw
on the papers from the conference. Starting from Vol. 3:1 the journal is open to
any contributions related to the above-mentioned topics. Core features To subscribe, please go to Brill's website; for
inquiries please contact hgew@brill.nl.
Editors Axel Schneider, Chinese Department, Leiden University, The
Netherlands Associate editors Tony Ballantyne, History Department, University of Otago, New
Zealand Editorial board Frank Ankersmit, History Department, Groningen, The
Netherlands [from H-ARTHIST, 6/14/03] September 2003 sees the launch of a new electronic journal
designed especially for historians and theorists in the fields of visual
culture, including art, architecture, design and film. Art on the line is professional, peer-reviewed and will
be an international forum for original and innovative research into visual
culture. Drawing together research currently underway in art history
departments, museums and fine art departments it aims to push the boundaries of
art historical studies into the broader field of cultural studies. Its editorial
objectives are to encourage dialogue and debate and extend the understanding of
visual culture across a broad chronological and geographical context. The journal will publish a wide range of research articles, news
and a broad spectrum of reviews, including books, exhibitions and electronic
resources such as databases and web pages. In short, Art on the line
aims to provide readers with up to the minute information and scholarly research
in an easily accessible electronic format. The title, Art on the line, can have many layers of
meaning, but is intended primarily to reflect both the means of delivery, i.e.,
online, and its proximity to the margins of art history as a discipline. The
journal is quarterly, international and published by the Western Academic &
Specialist Press. If there is sufficient demand, an annual compilation of the
key parts of the journal will be published in print. The editors welcome submissions on any aspect of visual culture
and articles will be peer reviewed by at least two academic referees. Other
submissions for reviews and news items will be considered by the editor or one
of his associates. From time to time Art on the line will publish
special issues focusing on a single theme or subject - this might involve
special research undertaken in collaboration with a current exhibition or
conference - and all proposals are welcomed. Please contact the editor in the
first instance. For further information about the journal and author guidelines
visit http://www.waspress.co.uk/journals
or contact Mike.OMahony@bristol.ac.uk. [from Asian Studies Newsletter, Fall 2006] The American Journal of Chinese Studies (AJCS) is the
official publication of the American Association for Chinese Studies and is
published twice a year in April and October. The language of publication is
English. The AJCS is especially interested in receiving manuscripts
dealing with Taiwan. The journal also has an interest in mainland China o r
locales with significant Chinese population or influence. The AJCS
publishes articles in all social science disciplines, including history.
Contemporary subjects in the humanities also will be considered. Manuscripts
are refereed for acceptance. All opinions expressed in the
AJCS are the author's and should not be imputed to the association.
The AJCS is widely indexed. Manuscripts should not exceed 25 pages, should be typed, and
double-spaced. Footnotes are to be typed at the bottom of the text. There is not
a separate listing for references. Each manuscript should include a 200- to
250-word abstract. For transliteration, the Wade-Giles system is recommended for
information pertinent to the Republic of China and the Pinyin system for the
People's Republic of China. For additional information on styling, consult
The Chicago Manual of Style and previous issues of the journal. Please send two copies of your double-spaced manuscript, a DOS
formatted disk, and a short biographical note to: Professor Thomas J. Bellows Books for review should be sent to: Professor Yu-long Ling [from CAA News, July 2009] Call for Art Journal texts on "the Contemporary" Katy Siegel, who is associate professor of art history
at Hunter College, City University of New York, begins her three-year term as editor-in-chief of Art
Journal this month. During my tenure as editor-in-chief, I would like to
publish a wide-ranging series that assesses contemporary
art--its making, exhibition, criticism, history,
and social uses. This series could include the kind
of state-of-the-field essays that have traditionally
been written about historical areas of study for The
Art Bulletin. It could also mean more focused historiographic
subjects, such as the evolution of "the
contemporary" or the rise and fall of postmodernism.
Or theoretical discussions of, for example, the
relationships between the modern and the contemporary
(questions of periodization being of special
interest), or more speculative considerations of the
changing role of contemporary art in current economic,
technological, and social conditions. I welcome approaches that are ambitious and
generalizing, but since "the contemporary" is not
really a single unified disciplinary object, I am also seeking writing that is partisan and partial, local
and medium-specific. While one person might
approach postmodernism from a historical perspective,
as an object in the past, another might argue
for its continuing validity under current conditions.
Different authors might investigate the social meaning
of "the contemporary" as opposed to the modern
in particular countries at particular moments
(the US at midcentury, China today), or for particular
institutions, such as the museum, biennial exhibition,
or university/college course. I would like to hear from curators, teachers,
critics, and artists about their own concrete experiences
in relation to these large, abstract questions.
I am interested not only in a wide range of topics,
but also a diversity of approaches to those topics:
art criticism, discussions, shorter polemical essays,
and artists' projects are all possibilities in addition
to the scholarly article.
For more information, please write to me at
katy.siegel@gmail.com. For guidelines on submission
and style, visit www.collegeart.org/artjournal/guidelines.html. [from CAA] This journal is published by the Membership of the Ian Potter
Museum of Art, University of Melbourne. MAJ is a refereed art history
journal, indexed by BHA, that publishes the Sir Joseph Burke Lecture and
Margaret Manion Lecture, as well as articles in wide range of areas of art
history, including museology. Contributions are accepted from any source. It is
published annually (issue 4 will be published shortly). Contact: David
Marshall, Editor [from H-ASIA, 3/14/08] Journal of Chinese Overseas (JCO) launched in May 2005, is an internationally-refereed journal published in English twice a year in May and November. It carries academic articles on Chinese overseas worldwide. Topics on China, Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan where the emigrant communities originate, and articles on people of non-Han origins in diaspora who can trace their ancestry to China will also be considered. In addition to well-researched articles, the journal also publishes research reports and book reviews. Published for the Chinese Heritage Centre by NUS Press (formerly SUP) under the auspices of the International Society for the Study of Chinese Overseas Articles and reports for submission and enquires may be sent to: cbtan@cuhk.edu.hk (Prof. Tan Chee-Beng) or jco@ntu.edu.sg. Enquiries about book reviews may be sent to qianj@hku.hk (Dr. James K. Chin). For more information, please visit www.chineseheritagecentre.org and click on "Our Publications." [from H-ASIA, 1/15/04] Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, a biannual,
fully-refereed journal published in the Department of Government at the London
School of Economics, invites the submission of high-quality articles of no more
than 8,000 words on issues pertaining to ethnicity, nationalism, conflict,
identity and related topics. The editors welcome submissions of both theoretical and
empirical work, work in progress as well as contributions from professionals and
postgraduate students. For more information, and to consult our style guide, please
visit the SEN
website. SEN Editors [from H-ASIA, 9/9/05] The Journal of Women's History has entered its second
year at the University of Illinois, and we continue to seek submissions on a
range of subjects animating women's and gender history. In particular, we are
interested in enhancing the Journal's consideration of international,
transnational, and global issues, from pre-modern times through the recent past.
Our first History Practice section, vol. 17.4, features
reflections upon the ways in which colleagues' teaching of gender and women's
history has been impacted by war. The second History Practice, with
contributions from scholars based in the United States, Africa, India and Japan,
focuses on women historians and conditions of work in the 21st century. We
welcome suggestions for future History Practice themes. Vol. 18: 1 features our first Book Forum, in which scholars
examine Leslie Peirce's Morality Tales: Law and Gender in Ottoman Court of
Aintab (California, 2003). We plan to continue to spotlight books that have
had a significant impact on women's history within the past decade, as well as
new titles whose thematic concerns, method, and theoretical groundwork speak to
a broad and diverse women's history audience. We hope that whether you are a just beginning your career as a
historian or are a senior scholar in the field, you will consider submitting
your work for consideration at the Journal of Women's History. Please
see our website for submission
guidelines and contact us at womenshistory@uiuc.edu if you have any
questions. Jean Allman and Antoinette Burton, editors [from H-ASIA, 6/4/04] Advisory Board: Anthony J. S. Reid, Wang Gungwu, Claudine
Salmon, Philip Kuhn This series deals with regional relations and the movement of
ideas, goods, capital and people between Southeast Asia and China. The editors
seek manuscripts that illuminate the processes and networks linking China and
Southeast Asia, and particularly works that offer innovative approaches to
region and regional relationships. Submissions that fall within the following
categories are welcome, and the editors will be pleased to discuss other
proposals that fit the general scope of the project. + Studies of the historical and contemporary relations between
the polities of Southeast Asia and those of East Asia. Both overland and
maritime interactions are of interest. + Studies of the trading, financial and other economic
networks which have long interlinked these regions. Topics such as the mining
and plantation industries in Southeast Asia, which involved capital and labour
from East Asia, also fall within the scope of the series. + Works illuminating past and present cultural, linguistic and
intellectual interactions between China and Southeast Asia. + Investigations of the evolution of the political and
cultural borders separating East Asia from Southeast Asia. + Monographs or collected studies on Chinese communities in
Southeast Asia and Southeast Asian communities in East Asia. + Studies and/or translations of Chinese texts relating to
Southeast Asia and of Southeast Asian texts dealing with East
Asia. The language of the series will be English, but outstanding
works in other languages will also be considered for publication, either in the
original language or in translation. Prospective contributors should submit a
preliminary enquiry to the Series Editors at the following addresses: Geoff Wade Hong LIU [from MFEA,
7/6/04] The BMFEA publishes articles by scholars worldwide on
all aspects of ancient and classical East Asia and adjacent regions, including
archaeology, art, and architecture; history and philosophy; literature and
linguistics; and related fields. Contributions seriously engaging contemporary critical thought
in the humanities and social sciences are especially welcome. All contributions, for general issues (no deadline) as well as
for special thematic issues, are peer-reviewed. The new Editorial Advisory Board
mainly consists of scholars based at European centers for Asia research. The
Editors are Magnus Fiskesjö, Director, Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities
(Editor), and Martin Svensson Ekström, Department of Oriental Languages,
Stockholm University (Editor). Contact editors: +46-8-5195 5751 or by e-mail bmfea@ostasiatiska.se. [from ASDP-L, 7/7/04] Dear Colleagues, We'd like to announce a new e-journal, and a call for
papers. Asia-Pacific Cultural Studies (APCS), a new, refereed,
e-journal with an interdisciplinary orientation focussing on the Asia-Pacific,
seeks academic articles, photographic articles, book, film, DVD, website,
creative arts and music reviews of materials relating to the Asia-Pacific. APCS
accepts international submissions of original articles and reviews relating to
the Asia-Pacific region, and concerned primarily with any of the following
disciplines: history, political studies, literature, anthropology, sociology,
linguistics, psychology, economics, gender studies, queer theory, diasporic
studies, popular culture and environmentalism. While English language is the
preferred medium, the editors will consider submissions in Asian and Pacific
languages. For further information on submission guidelines, please see the
nascent website at http://www.arts.auckland.ac.nz/apcs/index.cfm?fuseaction=editorial. Please direct any inquiries to Yongjin Zhang (School of Asian
Studies/Politics, University of Auckland) or Matt Allen (School of Asian
Studies/History, University of Auckland). [from AAS,
11/2/04] The purpose of this series is to produce early publication of
important new teaching materials that are easily accessible and affordable.
Authorship is open. The intended audience is primarily undergraduates at two-
and four-year colleges, but could obviously include advanced high school
students and other teachers as well. The format of publications in the series
will be determined by the content, and likely will include both print and
electronic formats. In the series, we plan to publish a variety of teaching
materials including short (50+ pages) pamphlets on key turning points or
thematic issues in the study of Asia, basic documents for students to read and
analyze, maps, photos and other teaching aids, and other topics that will be
revealed in proposals by potential authors. Proposals for publication should be sent (preferably in paper)
to: Robert Entenmann Proposals should include a statement of the author's view of
what contribution the publication will make to Asian studies; a curriculum
vitae; a plan of the work; samples of the proposed text; and an indication of
when the manuscript might be completed. The AAS Editorial Board retains the right of acceptance or
refusal of proposals. [from H-ASIA, 7/4/06] Dear Colleagues, First of all, thank you to everyone for your continued support
of the electronic journal of
contemporary japanese studies. As a result of the generosity and
kindness of everyone involved the journal has continued to grow year on year and
we are approaching publishing our 100th publication. So, well done to everyone,
especially the members of our editorial board, our contributors, and our
reviewers, and thank you again. Just to remind you, our publication is unique in the field of
Japanese studies and is one of a growing community of academic journals
worldwide that operate on an open access model; where it is free for anyone with
an internet connection to view our publications. We do not make any financial
charges to readers or contributors and the journal is financed purely through
the goodwill of its community of contributors and through any earnings that can
be made by internet publishing (which is hardly anything at present).
ejcjs is also committed to sustainable living such that copies of the
journal are only made available electronically. Printing for private and
educational purposes is at the discretion of readers, though we would hope that
all prints would be done on recycled paper. I would encourage anyone with a
commitment to these principles to think seriously about making a zontribution to
our journal. You can do so in the following ways. 1. Articles for peer review, and discussion papers. These
should be of a good academic standard, be in good English (we cannot afford to
hire professional proof readers), and be on any subject that relates to
contemporary Japan and its place in the world. Please contact the editor (me) if you think you
may have something suitable for us. Alternatively, you can read more details
about what we are looking for on the following page: http://www.japanesestudies.org.uk/contents/inforcontributors.html. 2. Book reviews and film reviews. Please contact the following
for information: 3. Japanese studies news to include in our Bulletin.
Please take a look at the bulletin first, and then contact its editor (Stephanie Assmann). 4. Editorial Board Members. We are looking for active and
enthusiastic scholars who are hoping to make a contribution to their field. In
particular, we are looking for younger/emerging scholars who are ambitious to
move up in their careers. Membership of ejcjs has been beneficial to
past and present board members' careers and we hope that this will continue to
be the case. All applicants for membership of the board should show commitment
and quality by first submitting a peer reviewed article. Please also submit a
curriculum vitae and emphasise what kind of contributions you can make to
expanding the quality and size of our journal. Please e-mail me
directly. 5. Advertising. We are now able to host advertisements from
selected and relevant institutions. We have to do this because the journal's
costs are rising with expansion and higher levels of technological usage.
Please contact me directly if you wish to cooperate with ejcjs in
this manner. Just to let you know a little more about us: ejcjs has a full listing in the Directory of Open
Access Journals and the International Bibliography of the Social Sciences.
ejcjs is permanently preserved at research libraries worldwide by
the LOCKSS electronic data storage system. ejcjs receives an
average of more than 500 unique visitors per day from more than 150
countries. Approximately 20 per cent of our visitors are repeats.
ejcjs is ranked 4 in the world for "japanese studies" by Google out
of more than 90 million websites (and ranked 1 by Google UK). There are now
more than 900 discrete links to ejcjs from elsewhere in the internet. ejcjs
was recently awarded a 5 star rating by the Asian Studies WWW Monitor and
was assessed by its editor as being a "magnificent online resource."
Advertising in ejcjs would be most suitable for the following
institutions and organisations: a) Universities and departments of Japanese studies hoping
to recruit students, especially those at masters and PhD levels. Thank you so much for taking the time to read this message and
for your continued support [from CAA News, November 2004] AVISTA, the Association
Villard de Honnecourt for the Interdisciplinary Study of Science, Technology,
and Art, seeks contribution on the history of art for its annual publication,
the Avista Forum Journal (AFJ). Our focus is on the history of
medieval technology and science, including the history of architecture, art
history, archaeology, numismatics, medicine, and other material culture as
studied from a technical or scientific point of view. AFJ publishes
shore essays of 1,000-2,500 words in length. Essays from new scholars and
graduate students are encouraged, as are short source documents and
commentaries. Authors retain copyright and are welcome to use AFJ to
establish priority of a discovery and then expand their work for republication
elsewhere. For information or to send submissions, contact: Anne van Arsdall [from H-ASIA, 5/5/07] China aktuell
- Journal of Current Chinese Affairs is an internationally refereed
academic journal published bimonthly by the GIGA Institute of Asian Studies in
Hamburg, Germany, since 1972. The journal focuses on current developments in
Greater China and is devoted to the transfer of scholarly insights to a wide
audience. With a circulation of 1,200 copies, making it one of the world's most
widely distributed periodicals on Asian affairs, China aktuell reaches a broad
readership in the academia, administration and business circles. China aktuell
is devoted to the transfer of scientific insights
to a wide audience. The topics covered should therefore not only be orientated
towards specialists in Chinese affairs, but should also be of relevance to
readers with a practical interest in the region. We invite submission of articles on contemporary China including
Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan that are concerned with the fields of international
relations, politics, economics, society, education, environment or law. Articles
should be theoretically grounded, empirically sound and reflect the state of
the art in contemporary Chinese studies. All manuscripts will be peer reviewed
for acceptance. We respond within three months. Research articles should not exceed 10,000 words (including
footnotes and references; stylesheet:
www.duei.de/ias/stylesheet).
Articles to be published should be written in German or English and submitted in
electronic form exclusively to this publication:
CHINA-aktuell@giga-hamburg.de. Dr. Karsten Giese
[from H-ASIA, 2/26/05] Editor-in-Chief: Shi-xu, Zhejiang University, China It is fair to say that existing journals on discourse, and on
language and communication more generally, are largely oriented to the Western
intellectual world. The philosophies, theories, methods, issues and data that
they treat and the authors that they give voice to tend to be Western in origin
and/or in orientation. Consequently, the voices and concerns of the non-Western
world are repressed or ignored. In this sense, the scholarly discourses remain
largely univocal or, one might argue, a-cultural, though often under the guise
of universality. The international context, both academic and ordinary, has
changed, however. The subjugated non-Western, non-White and Third World cultures
are crying out to reclaim identities; the worsening cultural division and
domination call for culturally democratic dialogue and exchange. In discourse
scholarship and especially in critical approaches to social science, too, there
is increasing awareness of the need to complement the celebrated
interdisciplinarity with cultural equality and diversity. To break free from traditional cultural bondages and to
facilitate the politics of cultural solidarity and common cultural prosperity,
Multilingual Matters, a market-leading publisher in the field, is launching a
new journal in discourse studies, entitled Journal of Multicultural
Discourses (ISSN 1744-7143). Edited by Shi-xu, Professor and Director of
the Institute of Discourse and Cultural Studies, Zheijang University, China, who
is also the first Chinese person to edit an international journal in the social
sciences, the journal will appear in early 2006. Volume 1 will consist of two
issues, with 4 issues per volume from Volume 2 (2007) onwards. Journal of
Multicultural Discourses publishes following six broad types of articles:
(1) On forms of discourse studies from diverse cultural
traditions: e.g., explorations in the histories, philosophies, theories,
methods, principles and strategies of particular cultures; (2) On issues, concerns, texts and contexts and hence,
discourses, of diverse cultures and communities: e.g. studies of
culture-specific questions, experiences, problems, aspirations, circumstances
that are reproduced in and through discourses in the non-Western, non-White
and Third-World countries and areas as well as the West; (3) On historically-conscious, critical comparisons of
culturally variable versions, accounts, narratives about the "same" or similar
events or situations: e.g., culturally sensitive critiques of varied
discourses about terrorism, the environment, human rights or development;
(4) On representations of one's own and other cultures in
everyday and scientific communication and especially those discourses that
repress, exclude or otherwise discriminate against other cultures: e.g.
critical analyses of imperialist discourses of non-Western, non-White and
Third World cultures and populations; (5) On how to conduct culturally non-oppressive but inclusive
dialogue on language, communication and discourse studies and on how to
generate culturally mutually beneficial scholarly discourses: e.g.
deliberations and proposals on how the international scholarly community may
come to terms with culturally different intellectual traditions and
aspirations; (6) On how to identify, create and promote helpful ways of
speaking of "other" cultures, communities and populations as well as one's
"own"-- e.g., formulations and justifications for ways of speaking in
education and in society that enhance cultural pluralism, harmony and
progress. The journal features divergent disciplines, ranging from
discourse studies, cultural studies, communication studies, anthropological
linguistics, literary criticism, to critical pedagogy. Call for Papers The Editor encourages the submission of high quality papers on
topics relevant to the interest of the Journal of Multicultural
Discourses. Reviews of important, up-to-date, relevant publications and
proposals for special issues on relevant topics are also welcome. Manuscripts
should be presented according to the guidelines for authors of journal papers
that can be found at www.multilingual-matters.com and they should be sent to:
Professor Shi-xu (PhD, Mr) A Call for Papers (printed and electronic) and a special
foundation subscriber offer price for the first two volumes will be circulated
later in 2005. [from CAA News, March 2005] In addition to reporting on CAA's many activities, CAA
News publishes articles on critical and current issues in the fields of art
and art history. The July 2004 issue was dedicated to environmental, health, and
safety issues for artists, art schools, and art departments; last September, we
investigated the uses of slides and digital images in the classroom CAA News solicits your texts on four topics for future
newsletters: one issue will explore pedagogy in art-history survey courses and
in foundation studio-art courses; a second will look at censorship in art and
scholarship; a third will examine the work, duties, and challenges of a
department chair; and the fourth will investigate workforce issues as they
affect adjunct, part-time, and graduate-assistant faculty in the
arts. Additionally, we welcome your thoughts on other pertinent
matters that you face in the art, academic, and museum worlds. Please share your
suggestions with Christopher Howard, Editor, at caanews@collegeart.org. CAA News seeks article ideas, drafts, and completed
texts; length may be between 500 and 1,500 words. Submissions are subject to
editing and revision, and we cannot return submitted materials. The editor will
work with authors on securing photographs or other images. [from Asian Studies Newsletter, Winter 2004]
The Association for Asian Studies in conjunction with the
University of Hawai'i Press invites manuscripts (monographs, translations,
edited volumes) for its series, "Asian Interactions and Comparisons."
Manuscripts should be book-length works which treat more than one of the
civilizations, countries, or cultures of Asia--irrespective of discipline or
time period under stud. Five books have thus far been published in this series,
and six more are in press. Inquiries should be addressed to the series editor, Joshua A. Fogel. [from H-ASIA, 6/10/05] Twentieth-Century China would like to welcome Geremie
Barme, John Fitzgerald, and Christian Henriot to its editorial board. Published
by the University of Michigan's Center for Chinese Studies,
Twentieth-Century China is a refereed semi-annual scholarly journal
with issues appearing in At the same time, we would like to issue A CALL FOR SCHOLARLY
SUBMISSIONS relating to the historical study of China's long twentieth century
dating from the last decade or so of the Qing dynasty to the present).
Under its former title Republican China, the journal
served for many years as an important venue for the dissemination of
high-quality research and professional information of interest to scholars
focusing on the history of the 1911-1949 period. Founded in 1983 by Lloyd
Eastman, one of the American pioneers of Republican Chinese history,
Republican China was successively edited by John Israel, R. Keith
Schoppa, Herman Mast III, Roger B. Jeans, and then, from 1992, by Stephen C.
Averill. Since assuming its current title in November 1997 under Stephen
C. Averill's stewardship, the journal has expanded its coverage to include
topics concerning both end of the Qing dynasty and the post-1949 period. The
journal considers manuscripts from a wide range of disciplinary perspectives,
but editorial inclinations are particularly receptive to insightful,
empirically-oriented, Chinese document-based studies that have historical depth.
The editor invites submission of article-length manuscripts (not
exceeding 10,000 words/35 pages double-spaced including notes). The journal
seeks original scholarly contributions that challenge old paradigms, propose new
ideas and theses, set forth innovative research and methodologies, or engage
significant historiographic or interpretive issues regarding China's long
twentieth century as seen through mainland, Taiwan, Hong Kong, or diasporic
activities. Comparative empirical and/or theoretical studies that are rooted
in Chinese experience but touch on non-China-related subjects are welcome. In
addition, proposals for reviews of significant non-English Western-, Chinese-,
Japanese-, or Korean-language works relating to twentieth-century China,
translations of influential articles, or symposium-style special issues are
encouraged. The journal also seeks to provide a forum for scholarly conference
and project announcements and similar activities that promote the academic
pursuits of the journal's readers around the world. For further information about the journal, past issues,
subscriptions, or submissions requirements, please consult the journal web site
at http://www3.cohums.ohio-state.edu/projects/twentiethcenturychina/index.htm.
On editorial matters, please consult the following: Twentieth-Century China Journal Office tel (direct) +1 (614) 688-3092 [from H-ASIA, 3/12/06] Food, Culture, and Society is the official journal of
the Association for the Study of Food and
Society (ASFS). ASFS is a multidisciplinary international organization. Its
members approach the study of food from numerous disciplines in the humanities,
social sciences, and sciences, as well as in the world of food beyond the
academy. FCS is published three times a year by Berg Publishers.
"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket
fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not
fed, those who are cold and not clothed." Dwight D. Eisenhower "War is a beastly business, it is true, but one proof that we
are human is our ability to learn, even from it, how better to exist."
M.F.K.Fisher Historically, war has been both an agent of destruction and a
catalyst for innovation. We invite essays that look at the myriad ways that war
has affected food production, distribution, and consumption. Some sub-topics
include: - the provisioning of military personnel and civilian war
workers Approaches may incorporate a variety of fields, including
literature, film, visual and performing arts, historical studies, and the social
sciences. And for the sake of perspective and comparison, we especially welcome
articles that look at non-western and pre-modern case studies. Warren Belasco, Food,
Culture and Society editor [courtesy of Bob Tagert,
4/11/06] The Tibetan Museum Society announces a call for quality
manuscripts and research papers. This peer-reviewed, on-line journal, and
website of fine art, religious study and historical appreciation, welcomes
contributions of factual articles, notes and images based on new research of
Mongolia and the Greater Himalayan Region. "Our international audience consists
of historians, social scientists and those who appreciate exceptional Asian
art," said Delgermaa Dagva, Board Chair, and Executive Director of the Society.
Subjects written thus far have included Buddhism in Mongolia
after 1990, by Karénina Kollmar-Paulenz, Professor for the History of Religions
University of Berne, Switzerland, and The Zanabazar Art Exhibit at the Chojin
Lama Museum, with images and an introduction by Don Croner, Explorer at Large
and author of Travels in Northern Mongolia. Articles that do not exceed 3,500 words are preferred and
shorter pieces in the range of 600 words, accompanied by high-resolution images
of art, are also encouraged. Contributions directly e-mailed to the Society's
Board of Directors will receive immediate review. "To publish articles from a diverse pool of international
experts and to highlight research that is recognized as an outstanding
contribution in the field and study of Himalayan Art, is our prime web
objective," stated Mrs. Dagva, who herself is a practicing Buddhist of Mongolian
descent. Bilingual researchers and writers are greatly appreciated for
both original submissions and translation of existing material. Manuscripts
should be submitted exclusively to the Tibetan Museum Society or else clearly
identified as being a part of multiple submissions. According the Society's
Editorial Review Board, emphasis will be placed on content, rather than
adherence to style, however The Chicago Manual of Style (University of
Chicago Press) may be used as a reference in preparation of manuscripts.
References at the end of the text should be listed alphabetically according to
the author's last name, followed by the year of publication, as in Smith, J.
1989. Citation in the text should list author, date, and applicable page
numbers, as in (Smith 1989, xx). For use of illustrations or reproduced artwork,
permission must be obtained by the author and noted on the manuscript. We
reserve the right to make editorial changes in style and format; however, the
author will receive a pre-publication draft for approval. Accepted contributions are normally published within one to two
months of approval. Accepted authors will receive a complimentary one-year
membership to the Society, which includes invitations to Society functions and
mixers. Visit http://www.tibetan-museum-society.org/
for more information. For immediate consideration, contact: Delgermaa
Dagva [from H-ASIA, 4/21/06] The International Journal of Cultural Property,
published by Cambridge University Press, is now accepting submissions on for the
broad spectrum of views surrounding cultural property, cultural heritage, and
related issues. It is a vital, international, and multidisciplinary forum aiming
to develop new ways of dealing with cultural property debates, to be a venue for
the proposal or enumeration of pragmatic policy suggestions, and to be
accessible to a wide audience of professionals, academics, and lay readers.
Original research papers, case notes, documents of record, chronicles,
conference reports, and book reviews on a range of topics are welcome.
Contributions are welcome from the wide variety of fields
implicated in the debates--law, anthropology, public policy, archaeology, art
history, preservation, ethics, economics; museum, tourism, and heritage
studies--and from a variety of perspectives and interests--indigenous, Western,
and non-Western; academic, professional and amateur; consumers and producers--to
promote meaningful discussion of the complexities, competing values, and other
concerns that form the environment within which these disputes exist.
Manuscripts may be submitted by e-mail to the Editor. Tables of Contents and articles are available via Cambridge Journals Online (CJO).
For further information, please see http://journals.cambridge.org/jid_JCP. [from H-ASIA, 12/3/07] The Society for Asian Art was founded nearly 50 years ago to
persuade Avery Brundage to give his huge private collection to the City of San
Francisco. The Brundage Collection became the basis for San Francisco's Asian
Art Museum. The Society has continued to support the museum, especially through
education. This outreach includes a twice yearly scholarly publication,
Lotus Leaves, which is distributed to all the Society's members. The
audience includes collectors, art historians, art dealers, museum docents,
scholars, and others interested in a wide variety of subjects relating to Asian
Art. We welcome suggestions and submissions of articles of approximately 1500
words, and we provide a small honorarium to authors. For more information, please contact Dr. Robert Oaks, editor. [from AAS, 5/17/06]
The Board of Directors of the Association for Asian Studies
recently voted to resume publication of scholarly books under the Association's
own imprint in a new series—"Asia Past and Present: New Research from AAS."
This series succeeds a distinguished and successful predecessor,
"AAS Monographs and Occasional Papers," which brought out fifty-nine titles
between 1951 and 2000. The new enterprise will be overseen by the AAS Editorial
Board and the Series Editor, Martha Ann Selby, professor of Asian Studies at the
University of Texas, Austin. The Board expects to publish two to three books a year, each of
them fully refereed and selected on the basis of exemplary, original, and
enduring scholarship. Although submissions in all arenas of Asian studies are
welcome, the Board particularly hopes to support work in emerging or
under-represented fields, such as South Asia, premodern Asia, language and
literature, art history, and literary criticism. In addition to monographs, the
Board will consider translations, essay collections, and other forms of
scholarly research. Authors interested in publishing in this new series should first
consult the "Author
Guidelines" and send both a completed "Author
Questionnaire" and an extended excerpt of their manuscript (10,000–15,000
words, including a full Table of Contents) to: Jonathan Wilson For further information, please contact the Series Editor, Martha Ann Selby, or AAS Publications
Manager, Jonathan Wilson. [from H-ASIA, 6/13/06] Pickering & Chatto Publishers invite submissions for a new
monograph series on "Religious Cultures in the
Early Modern World, 1400-1800." Few serious scholars now doubt the central importance of
religious attitudes, beliefs and values for the ways early modern people
organised their social, political and cultural lives, or the potency of
religion, both as a source of social cohesion, and a force for social conflict.
Over the past few decades, a traditional preoccupation with "ecclesiastical
history" and the fortunes of institutions has given way to a more integrated
approach to the belief-systems, Christian and non-Christian, that structured the
early modern world, and religious history has been enriched by its engagement
with the approaches and methodologies of other disciplines. This important new
series aims to provide a showcase for writing on all aspects of the social,
cultural and political history of religion in the early modern period. Its remit
stretches broadly over time, from the early fifteenth to the later eighteenth
centuries, and extends widely geographically, to encompass both European and
non-European societies. Submissions are invited from established scholars, as well as
advanced PhD and post-doctoral candidates, working in the field of "religious
history" in its most inclusive sense. Works accepted into the series will be
scholarly monographs (80–100,000 words) of high quality and originality, which,
while they may focus on particular themes, persons or locations, will
demonstrate an ability to address wider themes and concerns in this exciting and
vibrant sub-discipline of historical writing. Proposals should be sent (in hard copy and by electronic
attachment) to one of the series editors: Dr Fernando
Cervantes Dr Peter Marshall
Prof. Philip Soergel
The editors will require a detailed proposal of at least 8–10
pages (including chapter outlines), along with the text of a sample chapter. It
is envisaged that contracts will be offered to the most promising authors on
this basis. [from Asian Studies Newsletter, Spring 2006]
The Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies (HJAS)
publishes articles and book reviews on a wide range of topics concerning the
humanities, broadly construed, in East Asia. The Editor welcomes article
manuscripts. Authors who are interested in having their work considered should
submit two copies with everything (text, block quotations, notes) double-spaced
and notes placed at the end. On matters of style, please consult recent back
issues of HJAS or write to the Editor for a style sheet. For
manuscripts that are accepted, final drafts may be prepared with either MAC or
IBM programs, preferably. No unsolicited book reviews will be accepted. For
inquiries, write to the Editor.
[from CAA, 5/11/06]
Ashgate Publishing Co. is pleased to announce a new book series:
Transculturalisms, 1400–1700. Series Editors: Ann Rosalind Jones (Smith College); Jyotsna G.
Singh (Michigan State University); & Mihoko Suzuki (University of Miami)
This series, published by Ashgate, will present studies of the
early modern contacts and exchanges among the states, polities and
entrepreneurial organizations of Europe; Asia, including the Levant and East
India/Indies; Africa; and the Americas. We are particularly interested in work
on and from the perspective of the Asians, Africans, and Americans involved in
these interactions. We welcome proposals for both single-author volumes and essay
collections. Please note, however, that we are unable to place individual
essays. For more information, please contact the Publisher, Erika Gaffney. [from Asian Studies Newsletter, Fall 2006] Dedicated to the study of ordinary architecture,
Perspectives in Vernacular Architecture,
the scholarly refereed journal of the Vernacular Architecture Forum, invites
submissions of articles that explore the ways the built environment constructs
the everyday. The editors encourage the submission of articles employing
cross-disciplinary methodologies and engaging topics within and beyond North
America. We are particularly interested in articles that incorporate field work
as a component of the research. All manuscripts should conform to the Chicago
Manual of Style. Contributors agree that manuscripts submitted to the PVA
will not be submitted for publication elsewhere while under review by PVA. Two
hard copies of the manuscript and photocopied reproductions of the illustrations
should be sent directly to each of the two editors. Please feel free to direct
any inquires to either editor via e-mail:
Howard Davis
Louis P. Nelson [from H-ASIA, 9/21/07] Early Modern Japan: An Interdisciplinary Journal is a refereed, on-line
publication sponsored by the Early Modern Japan Network (EMJNet), a
sub-committee of the Northeast Asia Council of the Association for Asian
Studies. We welcome submissions from all disciplines related to Early
Modern Japan (roughly the sixteenth to nineteenth centuries). We publish
in the following broad categories: As an on-line publication, we have no restrictions regarding length and
the publication of illustrations--something that gives authors great
flexibility. Potential authors can contact Philip Brown, and potential
contributors can follow the Early Modern Japan: An Interdisciplinary
Journal link on the EMJNet web site to get to
a style sheet and submission guidelines. [from H-ASIA, 2/5/08]
The Needham Research Institute is currently in discussions
with a project which aims to produce a large amount of web-based material on
certain historical and cultural topics, and to make this material available in
a novel and flexible way. We have been asked to assist them with a pilot stage
of their project, which calls for the production of about twenty articles in
English accessible to an educated but non-specialist audience on topics within
the following range:
Article length from 2,000 to 10,000 words.
Delivery of articles within 6 months.
The material need not be original, in the sense of embodying new research, but
you have to be able to deliver it copyright free, so it cannot simply consist
of the unaltered text of an article you have already published and of which you
have assigned the copyright to a journal. It would be fine, for instance, to
use the text of a conference presentation on an appropriate subject and at an
appropriate level. A good graduate student dissertation might also be
acceptable for present purposes. The point is to provide the project with
material that can be used to test the way the system is set up and
cross-referenced. For once, the payment is quite generous. Final amounts remain to be fixed, but
if we were to obtain 20 articles of 10,000 words each the project organisers
would pay a fee of about GBP 600 for each article on final delivery.
If you or someone you know is interested in contributing material of this kind,
please get in touch with me as soon as possible indicating what the topic would
be, why you are qualified to write on it, the length intended, and by when you
could RELIABLY deliver the text.
Christopher Cullen
[from Brill @ AAS, 4/4/08]
Brill Asian Studies – Contemporary China With China's economic boom, continuous political stability, and increasing influence, it is time to ask if the trajectories of the Chinese Revolution—its troubled interaction with the world market, its national independence movements, its pursuit of egalitarianism, communism, and socialism, and its post-socialist reform—could be understood as a meaningful and consistent historical experience. It is important now to see how China's past efforts have contributed or obstructed its progress since the Qing empire was thrust into the international system of nation-states in the late 19th century. This series aims to place the study of China in the contexts of the international system of nation-states, global capitalist and market expansion, imperialist rivalry, the Cold War, and recent waves of economic globalization. It welcomes analytical attempts to frame intellectual, historical, and cultural analysis conducive to dialectical relations between these categories. Ideas will not be studied in the abstract but be set in motion and intertwined with praxis through analysis of historical contexts and enriched by close analysis of aesthetic texts, such as literature, narratives, and phenomena of everyday life.
For more information, please contact Mr. Matt Kawecki.
[from H-ASIA, 4/18/08]
The History and Theory Reading Group provides a forum for theoretically
inclined historians and theorists who are deeply engaged with the study
of history in the Princeton, Columbia, NYU, and other New Jersey/New York
communities to meet informally on a regular basis. Each session is
devoted to thematic or topical discussions of the intersections between
critical theory and historical problems. The group normally meets in New
York City , but the exact location and readings for each meeting will be
determined in light of the interest of those present. The Group
Coordinator is responsible for managing a mailing list for announcements,
information, and readings to be distributed in an orderly manner. To
request participation in the Reading Group and the mailing list, please
send an e-mail to the Group Coordinator, Howard Chiang, with a brief self-introduction and statement of
interest. The Group welcomes scholars from a diverse range of
disciplinary and institutional backgrounds, but the core focus of the
readings and discussions will be on both historical and theoretical
issues, with an emphasis on how they relate to one another and other
disciplinary concerns.
[from ASDP-L, 4/29/08]
The Journal of Daoist Studies (JDS) is an annual publication dedicated
to the scholarly exploration of Daoism in all its different dimensions.
Each issue has three main parts: Academic Articles on history,
philosophy, art, society, and more (6-8,000 words); Forum on
Contemporary Practice on issues of current activities both in China and
other parts of the world (800-1,200 words); and News of the Field,
presenting publications, dissertations, conferences, and websites.
Facilitators: Livia Kohn, Russell Kirkland, Ronnie Littlejohn
Editorial Board: Shawn Arthur, Stephan-Peter Bumbacher, Yi Hsiang Chang,
Shinyi Chao, Chen Xia, Donald Davis, Catherine Despeux, Jeffrey Dippman,
Ute Engelhardt, Stephen Eskildsen, Norman Girardot, Jonathan Herman,
Adeline Herrou, Jiang Sheng, Paul Katz, Sung-Hae Kim, Russell Kirkland,
Louis Komjathy, Lü Xichen, Victor Mair, Mei Li, James Miller, David
Palmer, Fabrizio Pregadio, Michael Puett, Robert Santee, Elijah Siegler,
Julius Tsai, Robin Wang, Michael Winn, Yang Lizhi, Zhang Guangbao
Submissions: To submit an article, a practice note, or a news item for
publication in JDS, please contact us at daojournal@gmail.com
. Articles are reviewed by two anonymous
readers and accepted after approval. A model file with editorial
instructions is available upon request. Deadline for articles is
November 15 for publication in February of the following year.
[from H-ASIA, 5/2/08]
darkmatter Journal is an online project committed to producing incisive
post-colonial cultural critique. We are interested in interrogating
contested issues of multiculture, while eschewing current orthodoxies.
darkmatter seeks to promote critical knowledge production from a range of
contributors exploring the politics of everyday life.
darkmatter editors: [from H-ASIA, 5/22/08]
This call is for excellent new manuscripts in the field of Asian media and
society. We look for books which make exciting and innovative connections
between media, communications and the way people live in the Asia Pacific
region. Works on new media are particulary welcome at this time, as are
historically nuanced works. We also particularly welcome new work on India
and the SE Asian region. Authors from the region are important to the
series as its aims include the building of a strong scholarly field of
interest in Asia-Pacific.
The site for the Series is http://www.routledge.com/books/research/Media,+Culture+and+Social+Change+in+Asia+Series.
First ideas should be sent to me directly, marked 'SERIES' and please
expect a three work turnaround for initial feedback.
Stephanie Hemelryk Donald, FRSA MA DPhil University of Bristol [from H-ASIA, 8/19/08]
As editors of the above series, we would like to bring to your attention
an exciting new publishing venture in intellectual and cultural history
whose aims are:
We welcome proposals for monographs which combine rigorous use of
contextual analysis with strategies of textual interpretation drawn from
literary studies, or analyses of ideas which draw on the methodologies of
the social sciences, history of science, or history of art. We are aiming
at a global coverage, and want to include monographs and volumes of essays
not only on Europe and North America, but on Asia, Africa, Latin America,
and the Middle East as well. Alongside nationally focussed monographs, a
key part of the series will be work which focuses on processes of
intellectual and cultural exchange between different regions of the world.
We hope you will visit our website to
find details on how to submit a proposal. It is a great time to be an
intellectual and/or cultural historian, and we are confident that
Palgrave's global presence and commitment to this project will make this
series a successful one.
Anthony La Vopa, North Caroline State University, Raleigh (Emeritus) [from H-ASIA, 9/1/08]
Culture, Society and Masculinities (CS&M) is a new peer-reviewed
journal to be launched Spring 2009 (ISSN print: 1941-5583; ISSN
online 1941-5591).
The journal envisions bringing together synoptic as well as
"micrographic" ideas and views on men/boys, masculinity and genders.
It will provide a forum for emergent explorations of masculinity/ies,
specifically those that situate local (micro-ethnographic) findings
and theories in broader historical, political and/or sociological
frameworks.
Important themes, for instance, include the overarching relevance of
South/North, East/West and local/global relations, as well as the
Anglo-American hegemony in theory building around themes of
masculinity/gender. We are especially inviting comparative views and
work that rethinks, elaborates or critiques existing ideas and
concepts of locality, globalization and regionalization in/of gender
studies, both as a subject area and as a field of academic and
political performance.
Priority is given to reviews and critical discussions in theory
development, policy trends and/or area studies. Pertinent fields of
research include but are not limited to:
Manuscripts, review essays and book reports are currently being
solicited for the second issue, to be published in Fall 2009. CS&M is
published semi-annually, in print and digital format, by the Men's
Studies Press. The primary language will be English.
[from H-ASIA, 12/5/08]
The Sheng Yen Education Foundation and the Chung-Hwa Institute of Buddhist
Studies of Taiwan are delighted to announce the establishment of an
endowed monograph series with Columbia University Press: The Sheng Yen
Series in Chinese Buddhist Studies. It will support publication of
monographs and translations relating to all aspects of Chinese Buddhist
Studies. The endowment will support the publication of one to two books
each year. Appropriate monographs, as well as translations of Chinese
Buddhist classics, are welcome for consideration. Please submit inquiries to the series editor Chun-fang Yu or Columbia University Press editor Wendy
Lochner. [from Asian Studies Newsletter, Fall 2008]
While studies on Daoism have grown very fast over the past few decades, they do not have a distinct identity of their own within the larger academic world, and lack a forum where concerned scholars can debate and further define the state and the the future of the field. In this connection, the Centre for the Studies of Daoist Culture (The Chinese University of Hong Kong) and the École Française d'Extrême-Orient have decided to join their efforts in creating a new academic journal, Daoism: Religion, History and Society. Our Editorial Committee has Professor Lai Chi-tim as the Chief Editor and Professor Vincent Goossaert as Co-editor. The editors plan to publish one issue a year, both on paper and electronically, and to carry book reviews and bibliographic essays. Publication and distribution will be carried out by The Chinese University Press. A major distinguishing feature of the journal is its resolutely bilingual English-Chinese character. Each issue will have articles in both languages, with an abstract in the other language. The editorial team (an editorial committee formed of nine scholars and English and Chinese copy editors) will work in both languages. We thereby aim to provide a forum where scholars of both the Chinese-speaking and Western worlds can share their views. The scope of the journal is broadly defined as all social sciences and humanitites approaches to Daoism. The editors particularly seek articles exploring Daoism in its social and historical contexts, from the pre-modern to the contemporary period, rather than exegetical or philosophical spiritual pieces. Innovative research based on new documents and/or fieldwork will be most welcome. In any case, submissions will be evaluated on the basis of scholarly quality; the editorial committee will first screen them for inherent quality and fit with the journal's scope, and then, if accepted at this first stage, be sent to two external referees on a double-blind basis. The editors are definitely favoring quality over quantity. Both individual submissions and projects of guest-edited special issues are welcome. You are cordially invited to submit your papers to: Daoism: Religion, History and Society
[from H-ASIA, 2/28/09] Frontiers of History in China is an English-language quarterly
academic journal of history, jointly published, since 2006, by the
Higher Education Press of China and Springer. FHC welcomes original
research, mainly in the field of Chinese history of all historical
periods, including research articles, review articles, and book
reviews. External referees will review all articles anonymously. Article manuscripts, including notes, references, and tables, should be approximately 8,000-12,000 words in length. Authors should provide
an abstract of 150-200 words and no more than 6 keywords. All
manuscripts must be typed in 12-point font and double-spaced.
Documentation should follow the style of footnotes (author, date, and
page or section) recommended by the Chicago Manual of Style, and
include a complete list of references at the end of the paper.
Chinese names and places should follow the Pinyin system. Electronic submission is acceptable. All submissions and
correspondence with the editors should be sent to: The Editorial Office
[courtesy of M. Richter, 3/19/09] A monograph series published by Peter Lang, Berne, Switzerland I would like to call your attention to the possibility of publishing your monographs, essay collections, and selected papers of symposia at Euro-Sinica. These two terms should not be understood geo-politically, but culturally. The term "Euro" includes all regions that have a European heritage and primarily use a European language to communicate. The other term, "Sinica," is intended to include the countries that are culturally rooted in the teachings of Buddhism, Confucianism, and Daoism. Up to now, the Series has published books in the three largest European languages: English, French, and German. These books are focused on aspects of transcultural studies mostly in the fields of literature and intellectual history. However, other areas connected with culture are also of great interest. Euro-Sinica has no hidden agenda; it openly promotes communication between different cultures. Studies in all aspects, both positive and negative, of our transcultural past and present are welcome. The newest monograph published is entitled Drawing the Dragon. Western European Reinvention of China (2009) by Zhijian Tao, a resident of Canada. The next book, a collection of selected papers of a symposium titled "East Asian Culture in Western Perceptions" held in Riga last year, will be published this Fall. If you have a publication project related to EURO-SINICA transcultural studies, please do not hesitate to contact Adrian Hsia, Editor, Euro-Sinica.
[from AAS, 6/6/09]
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Gendai Bijutsu Kondankai: Post-1945 Japanese Art Discussion Group
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Scholarship
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published by the Commercial Press (Shangwu yinshu guan) in Beijing at the
beginning of the new millenium. Funded by the Harvard-Yenching Institute, and
edited by a board of international scholars, it will be published four times a
year, each issue containing approximately 250,000 words.
2. The goal of China Scholarship is to improve the quality of
research in humanities and social sciences in China; promote the scholarly
accomplishment of the Chinese-speaking world; enhance the intellectual
cohesiveness of Cultural China; and strengthen in-depth scholarly exchange
between China and the rest of the world. It is our objective to make Chinese a
working language for the international scholarly community, and to establish
the contemporary reconstruction of Chinese culture in the global context.
3. Essays and articles, essay-length book reviews, book reviews, and
scholarly news are the four categories under which submissions will be
considered for publication. There is no limit on the length of submissions.
4. China Scholarship pursues creative interaction between human and
social sciences. It welcomes discussions in the humanities with social
relevance, and those in social sciences with humanistic vision.
Interdisciplinary work will be encouraged.
5. Two-way anonymous peer review will be rigorously applied to all
submissions. Substantial research and intellectual creativity are the criteria
according to which submissions are reviewed.
6. The editorial work will be carried out jointly by a board of editors,
consisting of younger generation scholars, and an advisory committee,
constituted by the leading scholars in their respective fields. The editor in
general is responsible for the overall process of the editorial operation.
7. A contribution fee, in the range of 100 -200 RMB per 1,000 words, will
be paid to the contributor at the publication of the submitted text. The
copyright belongs to the Commercial Press.
8. China Scholarship sincerely invites submissions and promises
fair and timely review of each submission. The editorial office will
acknowledge receipt of submission and inform the contributor within a month
about the status of the submission after a preliminary review. Anonymous peer
review follows, the results of which will be mailed to the contributor.
9. China Scholarship, though published in Chinese, welcomes
submissions in all languages. Once accepted, a foreign-language submission
will be translated either by the author him/herself or by the journal. However
contributors must indicate that the text has never been submitted to any other
journal.
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Proposals should include a statement of the author's view of what
contribution the publication will make to Asian studies; a curriculum vitae; a
plan of the work; samples of the proposed text; and an indication of when the
manuscript might be completed. Queries and other correspondence can be sent to
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European Journal of East Asian Studies
Institut d'Asie Orientale
Lyon, France
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University of Leeds
Leeds, Great Britain
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Lyon, France
Institut d'Asie Orientale
Lyon, France
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Rutgers University
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Taiwan Journal of Religious Studies
Taiwan Journal of Religious Studies
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Archives of Asian Art
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Art
Spencer Museum of Art
University of Kansas
Lawrence, KS 66049.
Journal of Visual Art Practice
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Biggs
Facult of Art, Media, and Design
University of the West of
England
Bower Ashton Campus
Clanage Rd.
Bristol BS32JT
United
Kingdom
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Early Medieval China
Dept. of AALL
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University of Florida
Gainesville, FL 32611-5565
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Languages and Literatures
Swarthmore College
Swarthmore, PA
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Early Medieval China
c/o Ken Klein
East Asian
Library
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, CA 90089-0182
Journal of Visual Culture
University of California, San Diego
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Publishing and Music
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Campus
Oxford OX3 0BP
UK
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fax +44 (0)1865
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Events Editor: Rob Stone.
Japan Forum
Contemporary Japan Centre
University of Essex
Wivenhoe Park
Colchester CO4 3SQ
Essex
UK.
The China Review: An Interdisciplinary Journal
on Greater China
The Chinese
University Press
The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Shatin, New
Territories
Hong Kong, SAR
http://www.cuhk.edu.hk/cupress/.
Research Unit on Taiwanese Culture and Literature, Ruhr
University
Journal for Cultural Research
Asiatica Venetiana
Prof. Marco Ceresa
Dipartimento di Studi sullAsia Orientale
Palazzo Vendramin ai
Carmini
Dorsoduro 3462
30123 Venezia
Italy
China: An International Journal
China: An International
Journal
East Asian Institute
AS5, Level 4
7 Arts
Link
Singapore 117571
tel +(65) 6779-1037
fax +(65) 6779-3409.
Women's Arts News
WomensArtNews@aol.com.
International Journal of Asian Studies
Dr Gaynor Sekimori
Editorial
Office
International Journal of Asian Studies
Institute of
Oriental Culture
University of Tokyo
7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku
Tokyo
113-0033
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Persimmon: Asian Literature, Arts, and
Culture
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Herrick
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New York, NY 10128
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The Tibet Journal
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Tibetan Works & Archives
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Chinese Historical Review
Chinese Historical Review
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Hall
Department of History
Indiana University of Pennsylvania, PA 15705
USA.
vigorously [refereed] and edited journal, featured
with articles on the history of China, China-foreign relations, the Chinese
diaspora, and comparative studies of history, as well as extensive book reviews
covering contemporary historical scholarship published in Chinese language. It
has served as a vital academic bridge between the United States and China.
Historiography East & West
Susanne Weigelin-Schwiedrzik, Institute for Chinese Studies,
University of Vienna, Austria
Li Hongyan, Institute for Modern History, Chinese Academy of Social
Sciences, China
Brian Moloughney, History Department, University of Otago,
New Zealand
Peng Minghui, History Department, Cheng-chi University,
Taiwan
Peter Zarrow, Institute for Modern History, Academia Sinica,
Taiwan
Timothy Cheek, Institute of Asian Research, University of British
Columbia, Canada
Paul A. Cohen, Fairbank Center, Harvard University,
USA
Sebastian Conrad, History Department, Free University, Berlin,
Germany
Benjamin Elman, East Asian Studies Department, Princeton University,
USA
Hon Tzeki, History Department, State University of New York at Geneseo,
USA
Joshua Fogel, Institute for Advanced Study, School of Historical Studies,
Princeton University, USA
William C. Kirby, History Department, Harvard
University, USA
Rikki Kersten, Japanese Department, Leiden University, The
Netherlands
J?rn R?sen, Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities at the
Scientific Center of Northrhine Westfalia, Essen, Germany
Frederic Wakeman,
History Department, University of California, Berkeley, USA
Yeh Wen-hsing,
History Department, University of California, Berkeley, USA
Art on the line
American Journal of Chinese Studies
Editor, American Journal of
Chinese Studies
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The University of
Texas at San Antonio
San Antonio, TX 78249.
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Division
Franklin College
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Art Journal
Melbourne Art Journal
Melbourne Art Journal
School of Fine
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Classical Studies and Archaeology
University of
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3010 Australia.
Journal of Chinese Overseas
Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism
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London
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Journal of Women's History
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Journal of Women's History
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Southeast Asia and China: Historical and Contemporary
Perspectives
Series Editors: Geoff Wade and Hong Liu
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Research Institute
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Resources for Teaching about Asia
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electronic journal of contemporary japanese
studies
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as a main focus that are hoping to raise their profile on the
internet.
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fields of Japanese studies, Asian studies, and social
sciences.
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Editor
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and School of East Asian Studies
University of Sheffield
Avista Forum Journal
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CAA News
"Asian Interactions and Comparisons" series
Twentieth-Century China
November and April. The journal has been edited by
Christopher A. Reed of The Ohio State University's Department of History since
Spring 2004.
Christopher A. Reed
Chief Editor & Associate Professor of Modern Chinese History
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Collinson, Managing Editor
Department of History
The Ohio State
University
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USA
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Food, Culture, and Society
- the agro-ecological effects of warfare
- government food
policies during wartime
- how military needs have affected food
technologies
- civilian adaptations to wartime deprivation
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inequities in wartime food consumption
- the impact of occupying armies on
local foodways (and vice versa)
- cultural representations of food and war
- wartime food propaganda
- food, war, and the body
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International Journal of Cultural Property
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Perspectives in Vernacular
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History of Science
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"Media, Culture and Social Change in Asia" series
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Palgrave Studies in Intellectual and Cultural History
21-23 January 2009
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Culture, Society and Masculinities
The Sheng Yen Series in Chinese Buddhist Studies
Daoism: Religion, History and Society
Centre for the Studies of Daoist Culture
The Chinese University of Hong Kong
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Hong Kong
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Euro-Sinica
"Key Issues in Asian Studies"
A monograph series published by Peter Lang, Berne, Switzerland
"Key Issues in Asian Studies" is a series of booklets engaging major cultural and historical themes in the Asian experience. They complement the AAS teaching journal, Education about Asia, and serve as vital educational materials that are both accessible and affordable for classroom use.
Manuscripts submitted to the series should tackle broad subjects or major events in an introductory but compelling style appropriate for survey courses. Topics (for example) might include: Asia in the World Literature Classroom, East Asia's Economic Rise, The British Raj and South Asia, Islam in Asia, The Meiji Restoration, The Cultural Revolution, and The Vietnam War. Manuscripts on contemporary affairs that are narrow in focus or without historical context will not be suitable for the series. This series is particularly intended for use in undergraduate humanities and social science courses, as well as by advanced high-school students and teachers engaged in teaching Asian studies in a comparative framework. Authors should assume little prior audience knowledge of the subjects of their manuscripts. They should present various points of view in jargon-free prose meant to encourage debate and discussion. The AAS plans to publish 2–3 "Key Issues" booklets each year.
Authors who wish to submit a proposal should consult the "Key Issues Author Guidelines." If you have questions about "Key Issues" please contact the "Key Issues" series Editor, Lucien Ellington.
[from H-NET, 8/25/09]
Academica Press, an independent scholarly publisher, is proud to celebrate the third anniversary of its continuing series, "Research in Cultural and Intellectual History." This list, edited by Paul du Quenoy (Department of History and Archaeology, American University of Beirut), is a forum for cutting edge work that challenges traditional disciplinary boundaries and provocatively revisits conventional topics. Manuscripts in the series will ideally be devoted to eclectic and under-explored issues in cultural and intellectual studies and make imaginative uses of theory and method. The series hopes to appeal to active scholars in history, philosophy, literature, cultural and regional studies, the arts, anthropology, and political science.
The series editor will gladly consider proposals for complete or nearly complete unpublished manuscripts. Academica Press is not at this time interested in edited volumes or other compilations.
Please direct all proposals and related inquiries by e-mail to:
Paul du Quenoy, Ph.D.
Department of History and Archaeology
American University of Beirut
Riad El Solh 1107 2020
Beirut, Lebanon.
[from H-ASIA, 6/29/09]
Modern Art Asia is a new journal dedicated to the arts of Asia from the eighteenth century to today, presenting postgraduate research from historical perspectives and international news on Asian art. Combining peer-reviewed articles with insightful commentary and the latest exhibiton reviews from international correspondents, Modern Art Asia provides a new forum for exchange between scholars that crosses the boundaries of traditional academic disciplines, and engages with a general readership through the addition of journalistic writing on art.
Modern Art Asia invites postgraduates working on the arts and material cultures of Asia from the eighteenth century to the present to submit previously unpublished papers of 4,500- 10,000 words for publication. Modern Art Asia aims to take an interdisciplinary and innovative approach to the study of Asia, and will consider papers on media and experiments that stretch the parameters of "fine art." We are also seeking students and journalists interested in becoming regular correspondents or in submitting shorter journalistic pieces.
Word limits:
Academic papers: 4,500-10,000
Correspondence and opinion pieces: 500-1,000 words
Exhibition, book, performance reviews: 500-800 words
Students submitting academic papers who wish to include image reproductions are responsible for obtaining these and necessary copyright permissions. Authors of successful submissions will be notified 4-5 weeks ahead of publication. Copyright remains with the author and authors may re-publish papers with acknowledgement of Modern Art Asia as the original site of publication. Please include an abstract (250 words) with your submission.
Contact modernartasiaenquiries@yahoo.co.uk to submit articles and for further information.
Women and Gender in Contemporary Chinese Studies
University of Bristol
Bristol, UK
21-23 January 2009
[from BICC, 9/16/09]
This is the fourth in a series of very successful WAGNet graduate workshops. Previous workshops were held in Leiden, Oxford and Prague.
The Bristol workshop is for PhD students who are at an advanced stage of their research and working on any aspect of "women and gender in contemporary Chinese studies." Participants will be expected to present a paper that treats issues of "women" and "gender" as central and significant categories of analyses.
Students will get the opportunity to present their projects to other graduate students and more senior scholars working in the field of China-related women and gender studies. All too rarely do Ph.D. students have an opportunity for critical exposure of their thesis prior to submission and defence. The workshop is therefore designed to facilitate in-depth discussions and each presentation will be commented on by a senior academic discussant.
The workshop, accommodation and meals during the workshop are free. Some travel bursaries are also available.
Students wanting to participate should submit an outline of their project (750 words) including information on the state of their research, a curriculum vitae, and one letter of reference from someone who is familiar with their PhD (under separate cover). The application documents should be sent to:
Professor Marianne Hester
School for Policy Studies
University of Bristol
Bristol BS8 1TZ
UK.
Places are limited and successful applicants will be allocated places on a "first come first serve" basis.
The organisers will discuss the applications, and make a selection based on the merit of the outline, the recommendation, and the stage of the research.
[from H-NET, 10/26/09]
Greetings to the Scholarly Community,
I am the general editor for Commodities, Culture, and History: The Products That Changed the World, to be published by Facts on File in late 2010. This two volume work will contain approximately 500,000 words in about 125 articles, each from 2000 to 7,000 words long. Most entries have already been assigned, but I am still seeking authors for the following commodities:
Anchovies
Ceramics
Copper
Diamonds
Dynamite
Electronics
Fertilizer
Fruit
Granite
Hardwoods
Horses
Indigo
Ivory
Jade
Jute
Kerosene
Marble
Natural Gas
Olive Oil
Pearls
Pork
Shellfish
Tulips
Trains
Water
The purpose of this project is to bring together the origins, uses, trade routes, and impact of every major commodity in world history, for in spite of the vital importance of commodities in the rise of civilization and human development, there is no authoritative work that brings all of them together in one accessible reference source. This reference will combine social, economic, political, business, environmental, and cultural history in a rich resource for scholars, college and university students, advance-placement and standard-level high school students, and general readers interested in a variety of fields and disciplines. The goal of the reference is to show how major products and commodities have transformed history, civilization and everyday life. Contributors will receive a modest honorarium for their contributions.
If you are interested in writing one of the above-referenced entries, please contact me at streetsh@wsu.edu with your questions and qualifications.
Sincerely,
Heather Streets-Salter
Editor, Commodities, Culture, and History: The Products That Changed the World
Associate Professor
Washington State University
Department of History
P. O. Box 644030
Pullman, WA 99164-4030
[courtesy of J. Murray, 10/27/09]
This journal will publish its first issue on 31st December 2009 and will appear every six months thereafter. It intends to offer a focus for the study of art historiography. Its mission statement reads:
This journal exists to support and promote the study of the history of art historical writing. Much of this practice has been shaped by traditions inaugurated by Giorgio Vasari, Winckelmann and German academics of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Consequent to the expansion of universities, museums and galleries, the field has evolved to include areas outside of its traditional boundaries.
There is a double danger that contemporary scholarship will forget its earlier legacy and that it will neglect the urgency and rigour with which those early debates were conducted. The earlier legacy remains embedded in "normal" practice. More recent art history also stands in need of its own scrutiny. The journal is committed to studying art historical scholarship, in its institutional and conceptual foundations, from the past to the present day in all areas and all periods.
This journal will ignore the disciplinary boundaries imposed by the Anglophone expression "art history" and allow and encourage the full range of enquiry that encompassed the visual arts in its broadest sense as well as topics now falling within archaeology, anthropology, ethnography and other specialist disciplines and approaches. It will welcome contributions from young and established scholars and is aimed at building an expanded audience for what has hitherto been a much specialised topic of investigation.
Besides articles, it will accept notes, reviews, letters and translations. It will be published every June and December and include both peer-reviewed and commissioned contributions.
The Editor invites submissions from interested scholars.
For more information see http://www.gla.ac.uk/departments/arthistoriography/.
[from -H-NET, 11/2/09]
This journal will publish its first issue on 31st December 2009 and will appear every six months thereafter. It intends to offer a focus for the study of art historiography. Its mission statement reads:
Religious and theological reflection has often been confined to the realm of the private, the personal or the Church. In Europe this restriction of religion and theology can be traced back to the Enlightenment and has had long-lasting and pernicious consequences for the understanding of religious faith and society. On the one hand, there has been a rise in religious fundamentalisms around the globe, while, on the other hand, so-called advanced societies are constructed mainly along economic, pragmatic and rationalistic lines. Added to this is the reality that religious faith is increasingly lived out in pluralistic and multi-faith contexts with all the challenges and opportunities this offers to denominational religion.
This series explores what it means to be ‘religious’ in such contexts. It invites scholarly contributions to themes including patterns of secularisation, postmodern challenges to religion, and the relation of faith and culture. From a theological perspective it seeks constructive re-interpretations of traditional Christian topics – including God, creation, salvation, Christology, ecclesiology, etc. in a way that makes them more credible for today. It also welcomes studies on religion and science, and on theology and the arts.
The series publishes monographs, comparative studies, interdisciplinary projects, conference proceedings and edited books. It attracts well-researched, especially interdisciplinary, studies which open new approaches to religion or focus on interesting case studies. The language of the series is English.
Series Editors:
Dr Declan Marmion (Milltown Institute of Theology and Philosophy)
Dr Gesa Thiessen (Milltown Institute of Theology and Philosophy)
Dr Norbert Hintersteiner (Irish School of Ecumenics)
Commissioning Editor:
Joe Armstrong (Peter Lang Academic Publishers)
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