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Participatory and Popular Culture 2014 Winter Conference

Date: 15th to 18th February, 2014 (conference day: 17th February).
Venue: Caeser Park Hotel Taipei, Taipei City, Taiwan, R.O.C.

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In recent years, the boundary between supplier and consumer is becoming blurred. Many popular culture products are not only being
consumed but also creating a new participatory culture. There are various distinctive examples, such as wearing costume for a party or an event or writing reviews about anime, games, comics and novels on the SNSs, review pages or video-sharing websites. The purpose of this conference is to discuss these situations from interdisciplinary viewpoints.

Topic of conference include, but not limited to:

• Cosplay Culture
• Anime Game Comic and Novel Culture
• Exhibition and Event Culture
• Fashion, Style & Popular Culture
• Music, live and concert Culture
• Gaming Research(ex. gambling and Casinos)
• Trading Card Game Industry Research
• Video-sharing site, Film and TV Culture
• Public Diplomacy and Popular Culture
• Cultural Tourism (ex. Seichi-Junrei)

Important Dates

• Submission of Abstract 1st December.
• Notification of Acceptance 15th December.
• Registration Deadline 31st January.

Proposal submission guidelines

Abstracts of no more than 200 words in English for presentations should be sent to our website alongside a short Bio (max 100
words that include name, current position and academic affiliation or graduate school) .

Submission of Abstract

Registration Fee

• Authors NT$4,500 / US$150.
• Observers NT2,000(Observers are attendees who do not present).
• Standard Payment of registration fees is accepted by credit card.
• If you will filed an proposal under joint signature, 1st author must pay author’s participants fee.
• Co-author(s) must pay observer’s participation fee.

Other Important Notice

• English will be the official language of conference, while oral presentations in Chinese and Japanese will be accepted for designated bilingual sessions.
• All abstracts will be peer-reviewed and successful applicants will be notified about acceptance of their papers.

Conference Officials

• Jin NAKAMURA(Japan Univ. of Economics).
• Masahiro OKADA (Hiroshima Univ.)

Contact: ppc.secretariat@gmail.com.

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The 11th Annual Conference of European Association of Taiwan Studies (EATS).

Moving into the second decade since its birth, the 11th annual EATS conference will be held at the University of Portsmouth, UK, April 30th to May 2nd, 2014. Themed on Taiwan: Self vs. Other, the conference invites papers examining how Taiwan perceives and projects itself to its domestic as well as international audiences. To elaborate on this theme, we suggest seven topics as follows, but we also welcome abstracts which are within the conference theme but are not included in any of the seven suggested panels. Besides, it is our pleasure to also announce the fourth European Taiwan Studies Young Scholars Award (YSA).

Submission is open from Friday 1 November and the deadline is Sunday 15 December 2013. Please submit an A-4 ONE PAGE abstract to info@eats-taiwan.eu (subject: EATS 2014 abstract). After a double-blind review process, an announcement will be made of those accepted by the end of February 2014.

1. Taiwan in international disputes and cross-strait relations

This panel aims to analyse Taiwan’s strategies towards recent sport and territorial disputes in the international arena and their implications on cross-strait relations. Papers might address Taipei’s position, crisis management capability, and the persisting constraints and risks of Taiwan’s unsettled sovereignty.

2. Economy

This panel focuses on Taiwan’s international and regional economic cooperation, related treaties and their influence on different social groups, and their impact on the political decision-making processes. This panel also welcomes papers critically analysing Taiwan’s economic cooperation with Europe and assessing the triangular relationship of Europe, mainland China and Taiwan.

3. Media and politics

The liberalisation of the media played an important role in facilitating Taiwan’s democratisation. However, while Taiwan is now a consolidating democracy, new challenges arise in the interaction between media and politics. This panel invites papers to analyse and evaluate the current performance of the media and their relationship with political processes, institutions, and actors in Taiwan.

4. Public diplomacy

Public diplomacy has attracted increasing interest amongst academics and practitioners. The incumbent government of Taiwan has claimed to use public diplomacy as a core component
of the tandem with ‘diplomatic truce’ with the PRC. This panel invites papers examining Taiwan’s past and present practice of public diplomacy in the broad context of juxtaposing the projected Taiwan ‘self’ with the appealed or contrasted ‘other’.

5. Election

Elections in Taiwan are both frequent and multilayered. They are known for their colourful and intensely fought campaigns and for the typical “election culture” that combines both traditional and modern campaigning methods. They mobilise large parts of society, and often have high voter-turnout. An outstanding trait of Taiwanese democracy no doubt that is thus crucial to its political identity. This panel welcomes papers analysing any aspect of elections per se as well as papers reflecting on their perception by others in East Asia.

6. Taiwan and Europe: Historical and contemporary interconnectivity

The historical relationship between Europe and Taiwan is arguably a process of ‘formal empire’ (under the Dutch and Spanish) to that of ‘informal empire’ (following the signing of treaties in the mid-19th century). This panel welcomes papers that adopt a decentralised socio-cultural analysis that shifts away from a metropolitan perspective. It should instead focus on contrasts and complementarities of port city interconnectivity throughout the geographical and ethnic extremes of both the ‘formal’ and ‘informal’ empire in Taiwan. As the tensions and contradictions between informal empire and international society are also a contemporary issue, this panel also seeks papers exploring contemporary relations between Taiwan and Europe.

7. Contact zone in literature and popular culture

Extending the notion of contact zone to that of literature and popular culture, this panel invites papers figuring ways in which Taiwan literary history embeds the co-presence of multiethnicities and its interaction with foreign cultures over the centuries. Substantiating the argument that the selection of foreign popular culture items reflects the variety of cultural forms that are negotiated and translated, this panel also welcomes papers dealing with theoretical & methodological issues involving cultural translation, ethnography and social media-driven research.

8. MA panel

Master’s degree students enrolled in a Taiwan Studies programme/course or working on a dissertation focusing on Taiwan are encouraged to present in this panel. (Please note that students of non-European institutions are not eligible for the EATS Young Scholar Award.)

The International Journal of Asia Pacific Studies is pleased to inform the publication of the latest issue, Vol. 9, No. 2. The latest issue consists of 4 articles, including a book review.

Details of the current issue publication are following (click the titles to go to respective article page):

1. Some Reflections on How to Approach Chinese Culture, by Shi Li.
2. Covering Galas and Batu Sapi By-elections: Framing by Chinese Newspapers, by Md. Sidin Ahmad Ishak and Yang Lai Fong.
3. Green Awareness Effects on Consumers’ Purchasing Decision: Some Insights from Malaysia, by Norazah Mohd. Suki.
4. Book Review – Appropriate Illustrations for Appropriate Functions: The Taxonomy of Illustration, by Zailan Moris.

INTERNATIONAL AND INTERDISCIPLINARY CONFERENCE

Topic: Culture, Values and Justice.
Dates: May 21-23 2014.
Venue: University of Vaasa, Finland.

Sponsored by the University of Vaasa, Society for Indian Philosophy & Religion, and Institute of Cross-Cultural Studies and Academic Exchange.

Abstract: 150 words.
Submit before: August 10 2013.
Selected papers will be published (subject to editorial review).
Email to: chandanachak@gmail.com.
Date of proposal acceptance: Week after the proposal is submitted.

Subtopics:
Ethnic identity and culture, Personal identity in society, Society, culture and consumption, Social identification, Dynamics of group culture, Ethnic boundaries, Constructing and deconstructing ethnic identity, Evolution of society, Encountering different cultures, Indian civilization and society, Cultural shock, Society and effect of colonization, Media and society, Morality and society, Taoist view on morality, Enlightened anarchy, Values in Confucius ethics, Perfectionist and situational ethics, Spirituality and modern age, Humanism and positivism, Reductionist approach to moral responsibility, Archaeological approaches to society, Asian society and culture, Globalization’s effects on culture and values, Hybrid cultural systems, Hybrid ethical theory, Cultural meaning, Secularization of religion, Culture and postmodernity, Buddhist ethics, Buddhism and philosophy of deconstruction, Culture and values of modernity, Cultural roots of environmental problems, Uneven income distribution as a social ethical issue, The point of view of justice, Core values, traditions and justice etc.

Conference Director: Chandana Chakrabarti.

Advisory Board Members: Barbara Amodio (USA), Gordon Haist (USA), Robin Kar (USA), Elizabeth Koldzak (Poland),Tommi Lehtonen(Finland) Maria Marczewska (Poland), Debkumar Mukhopadhya (India), Rizwanur Rahman (India), Ming Shao (China), Andrew Ward (UK), Su-Chen Wu (Taiwan)

Web address.

Papers from the Conference will be published subject to editorial review:

1. Books and papers: Magnus Publications.
2. Journal of Indian Philosophy and religion.
3. Interdisciplinary Journal.

Papers from our last four conferences have been published by the Cambridge Scholars Press and by Magnus Publications.

If you are interested to submit your manuscript for book or paper, please contact Dr. Chandana Chakrabarti and send book proposal.

Call for Papers: Chinese Studies Association of Australia Biennial Conference, July 10-11, 2013, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia

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Chinese Studies Association of Australia – 13th Biennial Conference

“探尋之旅” – Journeys

July 10-11, 2013
University of Tasmania
Hobart, Tasmania

Call for Papers (deadline April 12 2013)

The Chinese Studies Association of Australia is the peak body in Australia for Chinese Studies. Its biennial conference is the opportunity for scholars to share their expertise and current research among peers at the highest level in an atmosphere that is both convivial and galvanizing of new ideas and knowledge about China.

The CSAA is pleased to invite colleagues to submit paper proposals for the biennial CSAA 2013 conference in Hobart, Tasmania.

The theme of the conference is 探尋之旅, which we translate simply as “Journeys”. The phrase intends to capture conceptual links between Tasmania as a place for scholars to come and evocative ways of thinking about China. We invite participants to reflect upon journeys across territory and through time that have been undertaken by people, objects, ideas and words in the Chinese world, and the transformation that those things have undergone.

As in previous meetings of the CSAA, we encourage contributions from all disciplines and points of view, either as individual papers or in coherent panels. We welcome innovative concepts for panels, including themes and texts presented in dialogue with each other or contrasting readings of common material by panel members.

The conference will be held at the Old Woolstore Hotel conference venue in downtown Hobart, providing both affordable accommodation and professional conference facilities.

In addition, the conference will include a special event at MONA – the Museum of Old and New Art.

Information about the conference, including submissions, is available at the conference website.

For further information, please contact Dr Mark Harrison at the University of Tasmania at mark.harrison@utas.edu.au.

We are pleased to announce that the latest issue of the International Journal of Asia Pacific Studies (IJAPS), Volume 9, Number 1 is now published and all articles are accessible and available for download.

This latest issue comprises three main sections: A) Thematic Issue on Music in Asia, guest edited by Joshua Paul Dale, comprising five articles; B) Featured Article (one article); C) Book Review; and D) Scholarly Viewpoints.

Details of the current issue publication are following (click the titles to go to respective article page):

A. Thematic Issue on Music in Asia:

• Introduction to Thematic Issue on Music in Asia, by Joshua Paul Dale (Guest Editor).
• Affective Resistance: Objects of Korean Popular Music, by Timothy Gitzen.
• Social and Political Effects of Pop Bali Alternatif on Balinese Society: The Example of “XXX,” by Kaori Fushiki.
• Theorising Hip-Hop and Street Dance in the Philippines, by J. Lorenzo Perillo.
• The Philippine Rondalla: A Gift of Musical Heritage in a Migrant Context, by Kim Rockell.
• Ritual Village Music and Marginalised Musicians of Western Orissa/Odisha, India, by Lidia Guzy.

B. Featured Article: 

• Politics of Development and Articulation of Indigenous Identity: The Formation of Munda Identity in Barind, Bangladesh, by Shaila Sharmeen.

C. Book Review: 

• Book Review – The Factory of the English East India Company at Bantam, 1602–1682, by Barbara Watson Andaya.

D. Scholarly Viewpoints:

• Scholarly Viewpoints – Victor T. King.

Ooi Keat Gin, Editor-in-Chief, Int. Journal of Asia Pacific Studies (IJAPS).

First and foremost I would like to wish a Happy New Year to each and every one of you. May the year 2013 bring prosperity, happiness and health to you and your loved ones.

2012 has been an exciting year for the journal with a number of major milestones achieved. In July 2012, we rolled out a new website with enhancement on both front-end and back-end features. This new website was especially designed to help maximise content discovery through the Internet, in particular, search engines.

To cultivate enrichment of the journal’s contents, a new section, called Scholarly Viewpoints was inaugurated in the June 2012 that puts into perspective opinions of senior scholars in their areas of expertise and beyond.

A mobile version website was also released in November that allowed users to have seamless access to the journal’s website from major, network-enabled smart phones. Thereafter there was the release of beta live support that facilitates real time chat between website visitors and the site administrator.

We are extremely excited to embrace the year 2013 and to attain new milestones. We have lined up plans and strategies to take the journal into a new level such as making its contents available on mobile app market including App Store and Google Play.

To all our authors, your contribution is much appreciated. We very much value your time and effort in creating quality publications and enriching the global scholarly community. We would be delighted to hear updates of your latest works and research undertakings, and we highly welcome more manuscript submissions from you.

To all our reviewers, we expressed our gratitude for your efforts in facilitating the journal’s avowed mission in streamlining publications of the highest scholarship. Your assistance has indeed been exceedingly helpful in contributing to our decision-making process with regards to submitted manuscripts. We hope of receive your continual support in the near future. Moreover we take this opportunity to welcome your manuscript contribution.

Warm appreciation is extended to our editorial board members who have been generous in recommending ways to develop and uplift the journal to greater heights of excellence.

Happy New Year!

Sincerely,
Professor Ooi Keat Gin
Editor-in-Chief, Int. Journal of Asia Pacific Studies