 CALL FOR PAPERS IACS CONFERENCE 2015
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)
CALL FOR PANELS AND PAPERS Submission deadline : Jan 31st 2015 – online submission for panels and papers
Email : iacsconfe...@gmail.com
Announcement of accepted panels and papers : March 1st 2015
The general theme of the 2015 conference is “Undercurrents: Unearthing Hidden Social and Discursive Practices.” Cultural Studies scholarship has contributed to the humanities and social science scholarship by giving voices to the subaltern, everyday life, popular culture and social movements. Inter-Asia Cultural Studies has furthered the areas of inquiries by bringing down the East- West divide and foregrounding the fluid trans-local knowledge production, which gives a dialogic perspective on the region. However, there are still many social and cultural forces as well as praxis, that shaped everyday reality in Asia, which remain under-theorized and unexplored. This conference aims at bringing the undercurrents into the surface, examining how they intersect with, subvert, or mould the formal structures. By engaging with the undercurrents, the conference hopes to open up new frontiers of inquiries in the inter-Asia cultural studies scholarship. Subthemes:
1. Courting ecological disaster: movement, subversion, corruption
2. Para-sites: Alternative space and knowledge production
3. ‘Free man’, mafia and underground economy
4. Healing and killing:‘pharmakon’ and alternative modernity
5. Uncharted border, illegitimate transnationality, diaspora
6. Voices of the supernatural: ghosts, cults, spirit mediums
7. Challenging urbanity: rural, underclass, urban guerillas
8. Theorizing emergent movements: arts, youth, social media, politics
9. Surviving political violence: memory, narratives, performativity
10. Secrecy, blasphemy, laughter and promiscuity: grafting unsacred codes
11. Performing sexuality: communities and practices
12. Fetishizing the culinary: foodporn and the body Panel proposals of 3 – 4 papers based on the subthemes and other important topics in inter-Asia cultural studies today are welcomed. The Conference encourages trans-local panel proposals and discourages single-university or single-country panels. The call is now open — please submit your panel proposal using Call for Panels online form.
While panel proposals are preferred, individual paper proposals will be also accepted, on a condition that the author(s) would accept decision of the conference on the organization of relevant papers into panels and the right to reorganize panels due to withdrawals and other contingencies. The call is now open — please submit your paper proposal usingCall for Panels online form. Information on Registration fee, Accommodation and other administrative details will be posted soon. For more detailed information, please visit: http://culturalstudies.asia/call-for-papers-iacs-conference-2015/ |
