 UPDATED INFORMATION OF IACS CONFERENCE 2015
The call for paper is now closed: Announcement of accepted panels and papers will be noticed soon
MAIN THEME:Undercurrents: Unearthing Hidden Social and Discursive Practices
DATES:7-9 August 2015
VENUE:Airlangga University, Surabaya, Indonesia
ORGANIZERS:Inter-Asia Cultural Studies Society, University of Indonesia and Airlangga University
Opening Keynote Speaker:Prof. Abidin Kusno, University of British Columbia, Canada
Closing keynote speaker: Prof. Melani Budianta, University of Indonesia
Plenary panel 1:Hilmar Farid (Institute of Indonesian Social History, Indonesia), Chua Beng Huat (NUS, Singapore),Prigi Arisandi (Ecoton, Indonesia)
Plenary panel 2:Diah Arimbi (Airlangga University, Indonesia), Firdous Azim (BRAC University, Bangladesh), Shunya Yoshimi (University of Tokyo, Japan)
Plenary panel 3:Sri Palupi (tbc) (Ecosoc Rights, Indonesia), Meaghan Morris (University of Sydney, Australia), Goh Beng Lan (SEAS Dept. NUS, Singapore)
For whole information about the conference, click here. For information on Registration fee, click here.
Call for Workshop Paper Proposals
TITLE: “All I Need Is Love?” -Nation, Affect and Aversion in a Post-Imagined-Community Asia
DATE: 23-24 October 2015
VENUE: National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei
ORGANIZERS: Graduate Institute of Mass Communication, National Taiwan Normal University & Monash Asia Institute, Monash University
Confirmed speakers: Ien Ang (University of Western Sydney), Kim Hyun Mee (Yonsei University), Kwai-Cheung Lo (Hong Kong Baptist University), Eva Tsai (National Taiwan Normal University), and Koichi Iwabuchi (Monash University)
Deadline: The workshop invites interested presenters to send a 300-word paper proposal to MAI-En...@monash.edu by 15 April 2015. Please include a paper title, an abstract, and a short biography of the author with affiliation and contact information. In the email subject line, please clearly indicate “PAPER PROPOSAL FOR TAIPEI OCTOBER WORKSHOP.” The selection result will be notified in mid-May. Inquiries such as below will be discussed in this workshop:
1. What are the driving forces behind the expression and performance of nation-related affect and aversion in contemporary Asia?
2. How is this attempt at identification different from a representational paradigm of imagined communities as well as from the conventional understanding of nationalism and patriotism?
3. How does aversion against imagined “others” turn into an attack against marginalized people within the nation (such as ethno-racial minorities, recent migrants, and those who have sympathy with an Asian country under attack)?
4. How has the vicious circle of inter-Asian jingoism been generated with the rise of China, the popularity of Korean media culture and lingering issues of Japanese colonial history?
5. How have the states in Asia responded to various affective developments?
6. How have social media and internet communication mobilized nation-related affect and aversion, and how have people intervened?
7. Is it possible to foster inclusiveness and cosmopolitan action without negating affective attachment to nation-states?
8. How and whether would transnational collaboration work as an effective method of intervention? The organization of the workshop plans to publish an edited volume from the papers presented at the symposium through Asian Cultural Studies: Transnational and Dialogic Approaches, a new book series by Rowman & Littlefield International. There will be no registration fees for the workshop. However, please be advised that no support for participants’ travel expenses will be offered by the workshop either.
2015 MA PROGRAM IN UNIVERSITY SYSTEM OF TAIWAN (IACS-UST) IS NOW OPEN FOR APPLICATION
The University System of Taiwan is a network system connecting four distinguished research-oriented universities in Taiwan, including National Chiao Tung University (國立交通大學), National Tsing Hua University (國立清華大學), National Central University (國立中央大學) and National Yang Ming University (國立陽明大學). With a pool of over 70 outstanding faculty members from various disciplinary backgrounds in the four universities, the main objective of IACS-UST is to foster inter-disciplinary and cross-cultural studies, focusing on critical inter-Asia cultural studies. IACS-UST brings together the strength and specialization of these colleagues and forms a strong research team as well as solid curricula
The highlights of our course clusters are:
1. Critical Theory and Asian Modernity,
2. Contemporary Thought-trends and Social Movement,
3. Gender and Sexuality Studies,
4. Visual Culture Studies (Art History & Cinema Studies).
The courses include Critical Intellectual History in Asia, East Asian Political Thoughts, Chinese History and Culture, Taiwan Literature and Culture, History of Modern Japanese Thoughts, Critical East Asian Cinema, Contemporary Migrant Workers in Asia, Gender Issues in Asia, Comparative Studies on the Democratic Movements in Taiwan and Hong Kong, Contemporary Critical Theory and so on. IACS-UST offers courses both in English and in Chinese (it also offers mandarin courses of various levels for international students). Admission timetable for each institution: 
To see the brochure local hosts provide, click here. You can find the current courses of the program on this link: http://iics.ust.edu.tw/programs_02.php More information is available on: http://iics.ust.edu.tw/ |
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