May 21, 2013
3rd SYMPOSIUM of the ICTM STUDY GROUP ON PERFORMING ARTS OF SOUTHEAST ASIA (PASEA)
3rd SYMPOSIUM of the ICTM STUDY GROUP ON PERFORMING ARTS OF SOUTHEAST ASIA (PASEA)
14-19 JUNE 2014
CALL FOR PAPERS
Udayana University, STIKOM Bali
Denpasar, Bali, Indonesia
DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION: 15 OCTOBER 2013
We are pleased to announce the 3rd Symposium of the ICTM Study Group on Performing Arts of Southeast Asia (PASEA) and offer this call for Abstract proposals to be submitted by 15 OCTOBER 2013. This symposium will focus on the themes noted below, which will form the basis of the presentations and discussions.
The hosts and local arrangers for this symposium comprise a collaborative effort by the Udayana University and STIKOM Bali (College of Information Management and Computer Technology) in Denpasar, Bali, Indonesia.
Tentative Schedule:
June 14 (Saturday): Registration & opening of symposium in conjunction with opening of the Bali Arts Festival, and sessions begin at Udayana University, Denpasar campus
June 15 (Sunday) Sessions at Udayana University, Denpasar campus
June 16 (Monday) Excursion: gong foundry, kecak workshop and performance, and other events
June 17 (Tuesday) Sessions at STIKOM campus, Denpasar
June 18 (Wednesday) Sessions at STIKOM campus, Denpasar
June 19 (Thursday) Sessions at STIKOM campus, Denpasar, closing ceremony, departure of participants
THEMES
THEME I
Interculturalism and the Mobility of Performing Arts in Southeast Asia
Throughout the history of Southeast Asia, people have moved across the region, bringing with them their music, dance and theater. Trade, colonialism, religious evangelization, and transnationalism have promoted the diverse flow of the arts, for example, the circulation of
Muslims and associated music/dance genres in Southeast Asia, early exchanges between the courts of Yogyakarta and Siam, the presence of gong chime ensembles throughout insular Southeast Asia, the current pop music scene, and so on. Southeast Asian music and dance have
also been displayed in world's fairs in Europe, North America, and other countries. What happens when the performing arts move across the regions or continents? What are the reception and the impact of the performing arts in question in their new cultural space? How do people, musicians, dancers and other artists represent cultural difference and appropriation? These are some of the pertinent questions that would challenge us to explore the kind of transformations that take place when the performing arts travel outside their home country, in the past and the present.
THEME II
Sound, Movement, Place: Choreomusicology of Humanly Organized Expression in Southeast Asia
This theme opens a platform for a rich description of the various aural and visual elements involved in Southeast Asian performing arts. Cross-modal relationships between sound and movement have deep implications for the way we perceive objects, moving bodies, color and
sonic events among others. The interactions between sound and movement are not always congruent even though the two mediums may cohabit the same space. Analyzing the convergence and divergence of sound, movement, and place is crucial to an understanding of the
emotional, perceptual, and affective features of humanly organized expression. In music, dance, puppetry, and other movement arts, the variable relationships between sound and movement reveal characteristics of performance traditions housed in culturally organized social contexts. This theme brings attention to multisensory experience, the interactions between sound and movement, the field of metonymic relationships between music, dance, and space in Southeast
Asian societies.
THEME III
New Research
LANGUAGE
English is the official language of this symposium, however, the official language of the host country is Indonesian and papers may be presented in Indonesian with English language Powerpoint and Abstract, and a detailed Outline of the presentation in English to be handed out at the time of the session. The proposal Abstracts are to be submitted in English for review and selection purposes.
SEND PROPOSALS BY 15 OCTOBER 2013 TO:
1) The Chair of the Program Committee, Prof. Dr. Tan Sooi Beng,
Email: sbtan2@gmail.com
AND to the Co-Chairs of the Local Arrangements Committee:
2) Assoc. Prof. Made Mantle Hood, Local Arrangements Co-Chair,
Email: made.hood@gmail.com
3) Prof. Dr. Mohd. Anis Md. Nor, Local Arrangements Co-Chair,
Email: anisnor55@gmail.com
If sending your proposal by hard copy and on CD, please send to:
Prof. Dr. Tan Sooi Beng, School of Arts, Music Department, Universiti Sains Malaysia, 11800 Penang, MALAYSIA.
Please note that when your emailed proposal has been received, you will receive an email acknowledgment within 4-5 days. If you do not receive an acknowledgement within this time, please contact the Chair of the Program Committee (email address above). All proposals will undergo peer review, and notification of acceptance will be announced no later than early January 2014.
THE PRESENTATION FORMATS
Proposals are invited in the following formats:
1. Individual paper, 20 minutes long and followed by 10 minutes for discussion; a 20-minute paper is about 8 or 9 type-written pages, double-spaced using 12 point font
2. Organized panel, 90 minutes long for 3 presenters, OR 120 minutes long for 4 presenters OR 3 presenters and a discussant (each presentation is 20 minutes with 10 minutes for discussion)
3. Forum/Roundtable, up to 90-120 minutes long with 3 or more presenters on a given topic, entirely organized and run by a given Chair of the Roundtable, with discussion among the presenters and the audience
4. Participatory Workshop, informal, interactive hands-on session on one topic for a maximum of two hours, completely run by the workshop organizer/presenter
5. Film/Video, recently completed or in-progress films, video programs or excerpts thereof, each presentation about 20 minutes in length including some discussion on the film/video
6. ‘Lightning’ papers of 10-15 minutes in length to focus on reports of current research by graduate students and others. The format of the lightning paper may also be a ‘pecha kucha’ presentation in the form of showing 20 slides on your given topic with a 20-second
commentary on each slide, the timing of commentary and changing of slides is controlled by the Chair of the Session. The entire slide presentation by an individual is a total of 6 minutes & 40 seconds, with 2-3 minutes for Questions/Answers, making a grand total of 9-10 minutes per presenter.
Please submit an abstract for your individual paper, panel, round table discussion, film/video, workshop or 'lightning paper' presentation along with a very short biographical note (100 words or
less) about the presenter. The abstract should be a maximum of 300 words. Organizers of panels and roundtables must submit a statement on the focus and central concern of the panel/roundtable along with an abstract from each presenter on his/her presentation (each abstract is limited to 300 words and biographical notes are strictly limited to 100 words).
Please send your proposal by email. The text should be pasted in the body of the email and also sent as a Word file (.doc or .docx) or Rich Text Format (.RTF) attachment to your email to assure access. If you are unable to send your proposal by email, you may send a hard copy and an electronic version on a CD to the Chair of the Program Committee (see email address above). Please label all communications clearly with your full electronic and postal contact details.
The Program Committee reserves the right to accept only those proposals that, in their opinion, fit best into the scheme of the Symposium, and that can be scheduled within the time frame of the
Symposium.
A NOTE ON SUB-STUDY GROUPS
For those of you who are interested in starting a sub-study group focusing on a specific theme or topic, you will need to select a chair or spokesperson and write up a brief description of your proposed sub-study group, noting the rationale and any projects that can be earmarked by the group at the time of your proposal. Submit your proposal for the particular sub-study group to the Chair of this Study Group at email: pmatusky@gmail.com Your proposal will be included at the Study Group Meeting for discussion and approval.
A NOTE ON MEMBERSHIP IN ICTM
Please note that all presenters must register as a member of the International Council of Traditional Music directly with the ICTM Secretariat before attending the Study Group Symposium. The email
contact is: secretariat@ictmusic.org Those visitors who wish to attend this Symposium as nonmembers will be able to do so under a special registration fee, as will students. All registration fees and other information will be forthcoming from the Local Arrangements Committee.
The Program Committee for this Symposium is Tan Sooi Beng, Chair (Malaysia), Lilymae Montano (Philippines), Ako Mashino (Japan), Sumarsam (USA), R. Anderson Sutton (USA), Bussakorn Binson (Thailand), Tan Shzr Ee (UK), Paul Mason (Australia).
SUBMISSION INFORMATION (please complete and copy onto the head of your Abstract proposal and Biographical note)
Name of submitter:
Institutional affiliation:
Mailing address:
Phone/Fax number:
Email address:
Confirm if a current member of the ICTM?
Type of presentation (please identify):
Individual paper, Theme 1, 2 or New Research
Panel (how many presenters?), Theme 1, 2, or New Research
Roundtable or Forum (how many presenters?) Topic
Workshop, Topic
Film/Video, Topic
Lightning session, Type of presentation: individual paper or ‘pecha kucha’ slide show
Technical equipment requests:
PC or Mac (for Powerpoint or other projection),
Wifi
Audio requirements (specify)
Visual or spatial requirements (specify)
Other technical needs
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Citizenship Projects in Transnational Asia: Gender, Belonging and Care
http://www.aas.asn.au/conf13/index.php
Citizenship Projects in Transnational Asia: Gender, Belonging and Care
Panel Convenors: Adelyn Lim and Bo Kyeong Seo
This panel explores the expansive, multifaceted, and sometimes
contradictory conceptions of citizenship in transnational Asia. In
anthropological scholarship on citizenship, the political significance
of cultural differences, legal regulation on migration, and neoliberal
rationalities of labour and markets have been extensively analysed.
However, political mechanisms of inclusion and exclusion often fail to
acknowledge the affective dispositions of citizenship. Drawing on the
2013 AAA conference theme of “The Human in the World, the World in the
Human”, this panel focuses on citizenship as articulated and
represented by agency, subjectivity, and embodied struggles. By
engaging with concrete and everyday experiences, we emphasize the
dialogical and relational dimensions of citizenship in Asia through
the lens of gender, embodiment, health, reproduction, care, and
activism.
We welcome papers that address these themes, including but not limited
to the following questions:
- What kinds of aspirations, desires and sensibilities are enmeshed
within contemporary citizenship formation and other forms of belonging
in democratising or post-democratic Asia?
- How does the gendered dimension of citizenship mediate ideas of
domesticity and normativity?
- How does the biological and social reproduction of citizen and
non-citizen subjects reflect state technologies of belonging?
- What might we learn from the feminist ethics of care (Nira
Yuval-Davis 2011) to navigate new modes of political being?
- How do notions of care, hospitality, humanitarianism, and sympathy
intertwine with contemporary practices of liberal democratic
citizenship?
Together, we aim to contribute not only to enriching our understanding
of Asia in its various aspects of citizenship formation, but also to
the scholarship on citizenship by emphasizing Asia as the embodiment
of global and local forces through particular historical trajectories,
regulatory practices, socio-cultural norms, and forms of resistance.
Contacts:
soclla@nus.edu.sg
bo.seo@anu.edu.au
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Emerging Philippines: New Frontiers, Directions, Contributions
Call for Papers
Emerging Philippines: New Frontiers, Directions, Contributions
February 28 - March 1, 2014
Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan
Submission deadline: June 30, 2013
This conference aims to highlight the diversity of perspectives, debates, and practices that go into thinking about, and rethinking, Philippine politics, economy, society, and culture in historical, contemporary, comparative, regional, and transnational terms. We welcome individual paper and panel proposals on topics ranging from state (including theories of the state), security, economic transformation, culture and society, the arts, popular democracy, transnationalism, governance, business process outsourcing, demography, and finance to migration, religion and spirituality, the rise of China and territorial disputes, urbanization, informal sector, poverty, environment issues, regionalism and regionalization, and others. Keynote speakers: Prof. Resil Mojares and Prof. Cayetano Paderanga, Jr.
Please observe the following format when submitting your finalized individual paper or panel information: 1. Title of Individual Paper or Panel, 2. Paper/Panel Abstract (no more than 250 words), 3. Individual presenter/list of panel members (including organizer - include name, affiliation, complete mailing address, and e-mail address of each member), 4. Abstracts of the individual papers (no more than 250 words) included in the panel. Inquiries and proposals should be sent to all three e-mail addresses: Prof. Hiromu Shimizu (shimizuh@cseas.kyoto-u.ac.jp), Prof. Caroline Hau (hau@cseas.kyoto-u.ac.jp), Dr. Mario Ivan Lopez (marioivanlopez@cseas.kyoto-u.ac.jp).
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New Research in Southeast Asian History
Call for Papers
New Research in Southeast Asian History
Graduate Student Conference, Yale University
October 18-19, 2013
Submission deadline: July 1, 2013
The Council on Southeast Asia Studies at Yale University invites submissions of abstracts for its inaugural graduate student history conference, “New Research in Southeast Asian History.” The conference aims to establish a forum at Yale dedicated to the exchange of graduate-level historical work that spans Southeast Asia.
For information and updates, see conference website: www.yale.edu/seas/SEAHistoryConf
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May 07, 2013
Ecologies of Urbanism in Asia II: Cities, Towns, and the Places of Nature
Call for Papers
Ecologies of Urbanism in Asia II: Cities, Towns, and the Places of Nature
June 9-12, 2014
Hong Kong
Application deadline: July 15, 2013
Convenors: Anne Rademacher (NYU) and K. Sivaramakrishnan (Yale)
The organizers seek submissions for a conference to investigate urbanism, nature, and ecological sustainability in Asian cities and towns. The papers will engage cases grounded in South Asia, Southeast Asia, and south China in the following thematic areas: the political ecology of the city, urban environmentalism, nodes and networks, and the social lives of infrastructure. Paper proposals of no more than 300 words (1 double spaced page) and a two-page author's CV showing current institutional affiliation with postal and email addresses, should be sent via email attachment as pdf documents, to Sahana Ghosh, sahana.ghosh@yale.edu. All selected participants will be provided RT economy airfare to Hong Kong and up to six nights' accommodation. This conference follows on Urban Ecologies in Asia held in Hong Kong in 2010.
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Theorising Mobilities in/from Asia
Call for Papers
Theorising Mobilities in/from Asia
November 14-15, 2013
Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore
Proposal deadline: June 14, 2013
While mobilities have long been a staple in Asian societies and a force of social transformation throughout history, a greater need/desire for mobility in recent years has impelled new ways of being on the move in Asia. Yet the mobilities literature has remained rooted in the Anglo-American context. This conference invites scholars to explore ways of retrieving lost knowledges of mobilities through a deliberate (re)turn to Asia. In particular, the region is taken as a collective of centers for re-understanding and re-theorizing mobilities in their plurality and, especially, how migration and transport have compelled new social outlooks and modes of organisation in Asian contexts. Conference convenors: Prof. Brenda YEOH, National University of Singapore and Weiqiang LIN, University of London. See the ARI website for full details and for submission information www.ari.nus.edu.sg/events_categorydetails.asp?categoryid=6&eventid=1425.
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Penang and the Hajj
Call for Papers
Penang and the Hajj
August 17-18, 2013
George Town, Penang, Malaysia
Keynote address by Prof. Eric Tagliacozzo (Cornell)
From the 18th century until the 1970s, Penang was a port of embarkation for aspiring pilgrims travelling by ship to the holy lands. The conference organizers seek papers for a workshop on the Penang and the Hajj, for example: the businesses of Penang Sheikh hajis/pilgrim brokers especially Hadhrami operators and the service industry at the port cluster; religious, social and cultural change stimulated by Hajj returnees; colonial regulations on hajj travel; travel preparations for the pilgrimage; socio-economic dimensions of hajj travel. Paper proposals should consist of an abstract of 300-500 words and short biographical information (100-150 words) and should be sent to Abdur-Razzaq Lubis at namorasende@gmail.com. Abstracts should be submitted by May 6, 2013. The workshop is organised by Penang Heritage Trust www.pht.org.my/ and Think City www.thinkcity.com.my/.
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Sites of Knowledge: Space, Locality, and Circulation between Asia and Europe
Call for Papers
Sites of Knowledge: Space, Locality, and Circulation between Asia and Europe
Heidelberg, Germany
August 4-8, 2013
Application deadline: May 31, 2013
The Cluster of Excellence for Asia and Europe in a Global Context at Heidelberg University Summer School 2013 is intended for graduate students with an interest in theories and practices of knowledge production in Asia and Europe. The academic program combines informal lectures with more interactive elements such as reading groups and writing workshops. Confirmed speakers include Christian Jacob (Paris), Dhruv Raina (Delhi), Ruth Rogaski (Vanderbilt), Stephan Günzel (Berlin), Fan Fa-ti (Binghamton) Henrique Leitao (Lisbon), Martin Dusinberre (Newcastle), Eric Hayot (Penn State) and, from Heidelberg University, Frank Grüner, Rui Magone and Joachim Kurtz. For application information see the website www.asia-europe.uni-heidelberg.de/en/students/summerschool.html.
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Vietnam and World History
Call for Papers
Vietnam and World History
Hanoi, Vietnam, December 29-31, 2013
Deadline for submissions: August 15, 2013
Web announcement: www.thewha.org/files/conference_2013/Hanoi-Call-for-Papers.pdf
The World History Association, in association with the University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Hanoi, the Vietnam History Association and Hawaii Pacific University, and the Vietnam Center and Archive, is issuing an initial Call for Papers for a Symposium on Vietnam in World History.
The program committee can help find a panel chair, if necessary. Individual panelists should then proceed to submit their individual papers to this panel and indicate that it is part of this panel where indicated. Submit via the WHA website link on the organized panel submission site: thewha.org/abstract-submission/hanoi/group.php
Individual paper proposals abstracts must include no more than a 250 word summary with the title of the paper, your name, your institutional affiliation, email address, phone number, and brief curriculum vitae, all submitted to the WHA website link on the individual paper submission site: thewha.org/abstract-submission/hanoi/individual.php
At the request of the conference hosts, the Vietnam National University, Hanoi, University of Social Sciences and Hmanities and the Vietnam History Association, a workshop for Vietnamese teachers on world history will be held immediately prior to the symposium.
Please contact thewha@hawaii.edu for further information or answers to any questions you may have.
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April 30, 2013
CFP: Consensus and Conflict in Contemporary Vietnam
Vietnam Update 2013: Consensus and Conflict in Contemporary Vietnam
The Australian National University, Canberra, 31 October - 1 November 2013
As they approach four decades since the end of the Vietnam Wars, most people in today's Vietnam have no direct personal experience of war or revolutionary violence. Most have known only peace and political stability as they have attempted to benefit from a postwar expansion in socio-economic opportunities and widening of social and cultural horizons. Is this era of peaceable change durable? Have the factors that contributed to decades of destructive wars and divisive social, regional and religious conflicts been resolved decisively?
This Vietnam Update is devoted to the examination of consensus and conflict as key dimensions of contemporary Vietnamese life. The organizers of this year’s Update seek papers which combine first-hand research with critical analysis and the ability to place the conference theme in wider social context. We are particularly interested in the following sets of questions:
1. In an era of globalization and markets what is the ‘glue’ that binds together Vietnamese society? What integrating or co-ordinating role is played by state institutions? How effective are the country’s longstanding political institutions in responding to demands for change?
2. Is nationalism–official and non-official–a unifying force? What other rallying-points and processes promote consensus and community from ‘micro’ to ‘macro’ societal levels?
3. How important in the regulation of social, economic and political affairs are formal conventions and written agreements? Are unwritten norms and rules potentially more binding? What part is played in the regulation of social life or in mobilisation for change by sentiments, memories, stories, symbols and rites?
4. Despite an official emphasis on stability and harmonious integration, conflicts and disputes are a prominent feature of Vietnam’s domestic landscape. What do disputes and conflicts tell us about the grievances and fault-lines that divide the society? By what means, formal and informal, are such disputes articulated, managed and resolved? Of what relevance today are the politics of resistance and revolution by which the ruling party came to power?
5. What are Vietnam’s prospects and means for peaceable dealings with its neighbours, most importantly with China? How might Vietnam find itself aligned in emerging regional, transnational and global conflicts? What structures, forces, passions and trends shape the country’s negotiation of its fast-changing regional context and new security challenges?
Interested writers are invited to submit paper proposals on the above themes. We do not expect each paper to address all the sets of questions noted above. We would like, however, each paper to take up issues from more than one of these sets. Papers can approach the issues in different ways; we expect variety in this regard. Interdisciplinary approaches are encouraged Contributions should endeavour to put the discussion in comparative perspective.
Proposal Submission: Contributors should send their proposals and a one page CV to Philip Taylor by 25 May 2013. Email: Philip.taylor@anu.edu.au
Each proposal should be no longer than 600 words. The proposal should outline how the paper relates to the issues highlighted in the above set of questions and the kind of research the paper will be based on. The conference organizers will then decide which proposals to accept. We will then extend invitations to the authors of the selected proposals to prepare and present their papers to the conference. The organizers also reserve the right to solicit papers, if necessary, from individuals who did not submit proposals.
Funding for travel and accommodation is available and details will be discussed later with each paper presenter.
Paper Specifications: The paper itself should be submitted 30 days before the date of the conference. The paper should not exceed 10,000 words and it should include appropriate bibliography and citations. Each paper should include an abstract of 200 words.
Presentation and Publication: We envisage about ten paper presentations during a one and a half day workshop in Canberra on 31 October and 1 November 2013.
At the Update each author will have approximately 40 minutes to summarize what her/his paper argues and the evidence used. The conference will also have to other presentations about recent political and economic developments in Vietnam. The full text of the paper may be included subject to any necessary revisions to meet publication requirements, in a refereed book that we hope will be published within a year after the conference.
For more information on this Vietnam Update theme or questions about paper proposals please contact the Update convenors John Gillespie (john.gillespie@monash.edu) and Philip Taylor (philip.taylor@anu.edu.au).
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CFP: Western Conference of the Association for Asian Studies
Asia in Memory and Imagination
Western Conference of the Association for Asian Studies
September 27-28, 2013
Weber State University, Shepherd Union Building, Ogden, Utah 84408
We welcome faculty, scholars and students from all disciplines to submit proposals for papers, panels, roundtables, poster exhibits, or workshops.
Proposal Deadline: August 1, 2013
Visit our website: www.weber.edu/WCAAS
Contact: Greg Lewis, Program Chair, 801-626-6707 or glewis@weber.edu
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CFP: Urban Hybridity in the Post-Colonial Age
December 16-20, 2013
Macau
Deadline for applications: May 16, 2013
Co-hosted by the International Institute for Asian Studies (IIAS) and and the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, University of Macau. Ph.D. students accepted to the program will have the opportunity to present their research and receive productive critical feedback from scholars and their student peers. The session will close with a one-day conference where selected participants will present their revised papers. Academic Directors: Prof. Engseng Ho (Duke), Prof. Akhil Gupta (UCLA) and Prof. Michael Herzfeld (Harvard). See the IIAS program page for more details and information on how to apply www.iias.nl/masterclass/urban-hybridity-post-colonial-age.
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