Conference Theme : Conditions of Knowledge and Cultural Production
Time : June 15-17, 2007(Friday to Sunday) / June 15, Pre-Conference for graduate students
Venue : Shanghai University , Shanghai , China
Organizers : Center for Contemporary Cultural Studies, Shanghai University and the Inter-Asia Cultural Studies Society
Contacts :
e-mail: cccs@vip.163.com and cccsshu@yahoo.com (Mr. Zhu Shanjie)
address: Center for Contemporary Cultural Studies, Shanghai University ,
99 Shang-da Road , Shanghai , China 200444
Website: www.inter-asia.net
Statement :
The process of globalization has generated an expected but equally unexpected new “intermediary” condition of knowledge production: regionalization. In Asia , the intermediary can be perceived in the context of Inter-Asia Cultural Studies movements, for instance. This new set of trend has profound impacts on the present and future intellectual work. It not simply serves to challenge our previous analytical framework bound by the local society and hence to open up the perspective to study the local in relation to the regional dynamics. It further enhances the necessity to work together beyond nation-state boundaries and calls for a change in our mode of thinking if not intellectual life. In Asia , the processes of regional integration have begun since the 1990' s and escalated in the new millennium. The purpose of the conference is to reflexively investigate the emerging conditions of knowledge on all levels and sites of intellectual productions.
Since the late 1990s, the Inter-Asia Cultural Studies (IACS) project has worked towards the imagination and possibilities of diverse forms of intellectual integrations in Asia . Besides publishing intellectual work produced out of Asia since 2000, the IACS has also organized various forms of activities to contribute to the interaction in Asia , including four major conferences held in Taipei , Fukuoka , Bangalore and Seoul . In 2004, an Inter-Asia Cultural Studies Society (IACSS) was formed in response to meet the growing demand of younger intellectuals to expand the scale of interactions in the region. The 2007 Shanghai Conference is the first meeting organized by the IACSS, in cooperation with the Center for Cultural Studies at Shanghai University , to provide a platform so that scholars and intellectuals can meet each other to discuss and analyze urgent issues emerging in the Asia region.
Invited Speakers :
Wang Anyi (Fudan University, Shanghai)
Chua Beng Huat (National University of Singapore)
Wang Hui (Tsing Hua University, Beijing)
Hilmar Farid (Jaringan Kerja Budaya, Jakarta)
Tejaswini Niranjana (CSCS, Bangalore)
Meaghan Morris (Lingnan University, Hong Kong)
Josephine Ho (Central University, Chungli)
Cho Haejoang (Yonsei University, Seoul)
Melani Budianta (University of Indonesia)
Firdous Azim (University of Dhaka)
Shunya Yoshimi (University of Tokyo)
Keynote Speaker:
Professor Partha Chatterjee (Center for the Study of Social Sciences, Calcutta , India )
Open Call for Panels:
1. The Conference will accept organized panels only, and will not accept individual papers.
2. Deadline for submissions: July 31, 2006 , only through e-mail to: cccs@vip.163.com or cccsshu@yahoo.com
3. Panel proposals should include the following materials:
a. general statement of purpose
b. individual paper abstracts
c. short autobiographical information for each participant (including panelists, moderator and discussant), plus e-mail address
d. passport information (including number, name, and expiring date)
The selection committee will NOT consider incomplete proposals.
4. The selection committee will review the panel proposals and select the best ones. Accepted panels will be announced on October 1, 2006
5. The conference particularly encourages the organizing of trans-local panel proposal. However, due to the limited resources and capacities the organizing committees may prioritize proposals and panelists within Asia . The conference organizing committees reserve the right to designate areas of priorities.
6. Language: English is the mediating language of the conference. We accept panel proposal for presentations in all Asian languages. We assume the panel organizers of such non-English panels will find ways to make translation into English available during the conference to increase the participation from the audience
7. As a general rule, participants for the Society or Association conference will raise their own funding to join. We encourage all students and faculties to find their own travel fund where and if possible.
8. Limited funding will be available to support travel/accommodation for selected proposals from developing parts of Asia . Applications for funding support must be submitted with the panel proposal. The application should include paper title, abstract, short autobiographical information and projected budgets in details (airfare and accommodation). Recommendation letters are welcome thought not compulsory. The committee will NOT consider incomplete applications.
Accommodations : to be announced later
Structure :
Day I: June 15
17:00-17:30 Opening Ceremony
17:30-19:30 Keynote Session
19:30-21:30 Welcome Dinner
Day II June 16
09:00-10:45 Parallel Sessions I
10:45-11:00 Tea Break
11:00-12:45 Parallel Sessions II
12: 45-14:00 Lunch Break
14:00-15:45 Parallel Sessions III
15:45-16:00 Tea Break
16:00-17:45 Plenary Session I
Conditions of Knowledge: Cultural Studies and the Peasantry
18:00-20:00 Dinner
Day III June 17
09:00-10:45 Parallel Sessions IV
10:45-11:00 Tea Break
11:00-12:45 Parallel Sessions V
12:45-14:00 Lunch Break
14:00-15:45 Parallel Sessions VI
15:40-16:00 Tea Break
16:00-18:00 Plenary Concluding Session II
Roundtable on Conditions of knowledge and cultural production
18:00-20:30 Farewell dinner party
Accommodations:
By February 1, 2007, information for accommodation will be announced on the conference web-site. Cheaper prices will be arranged. It will be the participants’ own responsibilities to contact the guest houses or hotels in the nearby area where the conference is to be held.
Organizations:
Shanghai Committee:
Wang Xiaoming (Chair) (Shanghai University), Sun Xiaozhong (General Secretary) (Shanghai University), Bao Yaming(Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences), Lei Qili (Eastern China Normal University), Luo Gang (Eastern China Normal University), Lu Xinyu (Fu-san University),Mao Jian ((Eastern China Normal University), Ni Wei (Fu-dan University), Ni Wenjian (Eastern China Normal University), Xue Yi (Shanghai Normal University), Zhang Lianhong (Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences)
International Committee:
Wang Xiaoming (co-chair; Shanghai University), Kim Soyoung (co-chair; Korean National University of Arts and Trans: Asian Screen Culture Institute), Lei Qili (Eastern China Normal University), Yoshitaka Mori (Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music), Sun Xiaozhong (Shanghai University), Sun Ge (Chinese Academy of Social Sciences), Hilmar Farid (Jaringan Kerja Budaya, Indonesia), Chen Kuan-Hsing (Tsing Hua University), Stephen Chan (Lingnan University), Tejaswni Niranjana (CSCS, India),Cho Heeyeon (Sungkonghoe University, Seoul), Park Jayoug (Hyupsung University), Shunya Yoshimi (University of Tokyo), Ashish Rajadhyaksha (CSCS, India)
Panel Coordinating Committee: Kim Hyunmee (Yonsei University, Seoul), Fran Martin (Melbourne University), Koichi Iwabuchi (Waseda University), Yan Hairong (University of Illinois), Sunyoung Yoo (Korea Press Foundation), Peter Liu (Cornell University), Chen Huimin (Tunghai University), Eva Tsai (Taiwan Normal University), Shin Hyunjoon (Sungkonghoe University, Seoul), Eric Ma (Chinese University of Hong Kong), SV Srinivas (CSCS, India), Malathi de Alwis (Center for Ethnic Studies, Sri Lanka), Naono Akiko (Kyushu University, Japan), Chu Wei-cheng (National Taiwan University), PK Hui (Lingnan University), Naifei Ding (National Central University)
Advisory Board:
Wang Anyi (Fudan University) (Co-Chair)
Cai Xiang (Shanghai University)
Chua Beng Huat (National University of Singapore) (Co-Chair)
Dai Jinhua (Peking University)
Shamsul A.B. (National University of Malaysia)
Madhava Prasad (CIEFL, Hyderabad, India)
Baike Wanden (Sungkonghoe University, Seoul)
Meaghan Morris (Lingnan University, Hong Kong)
Firdous Azim (Bangaldesh)
Baik Youngseo (Yonsei University, Seoul)
Ubonrat Siriyuvasak (Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok)
Josephine Ho (Central University, Chungli)
Cho Haejoang (Yonsei University, Seoul)
Wang Hui (Tsing Hua University, Beijing)
Rob Wilson (University of California, Santa Cruz)
Muto Ichiyo (People’s Plan Study Group, Tokyo)
Paul Willemen (Ulster University, Northern Ireland)
Myungkoo Kang (Seoul National University)
Registration:
US$100 registration fee for salaried faculty, and US$50 for students and participants from developing countries, will be charged to cover meals, refreshment and printed conference information.