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Dear readers, we are delighted to inform you that the latest issue of International Journal of Asia Pacific Studies, Vol. 11, No. 1, is now available for download online.

This latest issue consists of five articles and a book review. The issue can be viewed and downloaded here.

We thank our contributors in making this a successful publication. Stay tuned for our next issue, coming up in July 2015!

The Executive Committee of the Asian Studies Conference Japan (ASCJ) invites proposals for panels, roundtables, and individual papers to be presented at the Nineteenth Asian Studies Conference Japan. The conference will be held on the Shirokane campus of Meiji Gakuin University, Tokyo on 20-21 June 2015 (Saturday and Sunday).

All presentations are in English.

Please visit the ASCJ website for details.

Proposals may be submitted online beginning on 1 September 2014. The deadline for proposals is 15 October. Results will be announced in December.

The online application forms are available on the ASCJ website (here).

Panels are proposed by individual scholars around a common subject. Panels are composed of up to five participants, three or four paper presenters and one or more discussants. Panel proposals should include a 250 word (maximum) abstract from each participant as well as a 250 word (maximum) statement that explains the session as a whole.

Roundtables offer an opportunity for participants to discuss a specific theme, issue or significant recent publication. A maximum of six active participants is recommended. While a roundtable proposal will not be as detailed as a panel proposal, it should explain fully the purpose, themes or issues, and scope of the session.

Individual papers give scholars an opportunity to participate in the conference even if they are not able to put together a complete panel. Since only a limited number of individual papers can be accommodated, preference will be given to junior scholars. Applicants have a better chance of acceptance as part of a panel.

The Executive Committee encourages members to submit proposals that, by focusing on more than one region or by drawing on more than one discipline, will attract a broad range of scholarly interest. Suggestions for innovative alternatives to the panels, individual papers and roundtables described above are also encouraged.

From 2014 the ASCJ initiated a Graduate Student Paper Prize. For details on this competition please see the ASCJ webpage. To be considered for this prize the student must be enrolled in a degree program at a Japanese university and present the paper at ASCJ 2015. The deadline for submission of the completed paper is 7 June. The winner will be announced at the time of the keynote lecture.

The programs and abstracts of past ASCJ conferences can be found here.

Everyone worldwide interested in Asian Studies is invited to participate.

Mark Caprio
ASCJ President
Email: ascj20xx@gmail.com

We are pleased to inform you that the International Journal of Asia Pacific Studies (IJAPS) has published Vol. 10, No. 2 publication. The latest issue consists of a set of five articles from our themed issue “Performance in Asia,” one featured article, and a book review.

2014 is a highly significant year for the journal as it achieves its “decade of publication” milestone. An introductory piece by our Editor-in-Chief also accompanies this issue.

Article listing can be viewed and downloaded here.

We thank our contributors in making this a successful publication.

We are pleased to inform you that the International Journal of Asia Pacific Studies (IJAPS) has published its Vol. 10, No. 1 publication, consisting of 7 articles (6 multidisciplinary articles and a book review). Article listing can be viewed and downloaded here.

In addition, on top of the conventional PDF file, readers can also now download articles (either a single/individual article or the entire issue in one file; we offer both conveniences) in EPUB format, which is optimized for mobile device reading. This is part of our move in embracing the next-gen digital publication standard.  

The EPUB file format has also been extended to previous issues that include issues 8.1, 8.2, 9.1 and 9.2.

We thank our contributors in making this a successful publication.

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Department of English, City University of Hong Kong, Run Run Shaw Creative Media Centre, Hong Kong.

Fashion travels on a never-ending journey from one century to another, across country and culture and from one generation to the next. Moving from sweatshop to wardrobe; season to season, page to screen, newspaper to website, camera to blog, catwalk to high street, producer to consumer, writer to reader, artist to audience, and across the lifetime of an individual’s wardrobe. The narrative representations of fashion across time and cultures have also included a wide range of fiction and non-fiction and verbal and non-verbal forms of media from print to digital formats. The study and practice of fashion is located across space and place as a form of creative expression and as a subject for academic analysis Fashion is a universal theme for novelists; poets, playwrights, directors, writers, creators, designers, merchants, advertisers, bloggers and flaneurs who are drawn to the power of appearances.

This conference will focus on the material and non-material forms of fashion for a range of professional, commercial, historical, social, cultural and creative purposes. The conference will be international and cross-cultural in order to highlight the largely transglobal, transcultural multiple flows of fashion discourse and to broaden the analysis of fashion beyond a purely traditional Western frame of analysis.

Papers may include the way that fashion has been used as a mediated form of content for advertising and branding campaigns or as a subject for fashion documentaries across the 20th century. It can also be analyzed from the perspective of fashion as a literary and filmic device or trope for character development and authentic social scene setting in novels, films, videos, photographs and art. Equally, these fashion narratives can encompass the professional expressions of fashion from design to journalistic commentary on the fashion industry in editorials and blogs. Participants are also encouraged to define their own ideas of transcultural narratives and cross-cultural flows.

Papers fitting the conference theme are sought from those engaged in the cross disciplinary fields of fashion studies, social sciences, humanities, anthropology, history, cultural studies, visual studies, creative writing, professional writing, communication, media studies, media production, cultural studies, language studies, design, architecture, art, curatorial studies, philosophy, management and business.

Possible topics may include, but are not limited to:

Fashion and/in novels, plays, diaries, short stories; Fashion and/in films and television programs; Fashion as/in art; Fashion in/as documentaries; Fashion in/as film; Fashion as/in poetry; Fashion journalism; Fashion and social media; Fashion events and shows; Fashion archives; Fashion illustration; Fashion and/in marketing communication; Fashion advertising; Fashion brands and branding; Fashion merchandising; Fashion promotion; Fashion writing; Fashion discourse; Fashion communication; Fashion as/in videos and viral media; Fashion photography; Fashion and performance; Fashion and the consumer; Fashion and the body; Fashion style trend; Fashion travel; Fashion and popular culture; Fashion and cultural hybridity; Fashion and politics; Fashion and trade; Fashion and economy; and Fashion and gender.

All submissions for this conference will be blind peer-reviewed. Those selected will be published in conference proceedings. Participants interested in submitting for this conference should do the following:

In an email submit to Anne Peirson-Smith at: english.event@cityu.edu.hk (in a single folder with your name as folder name).

1. Submit a 500 word abstract (including citations) and 100-word biography in a single Word file labelled LASTNAME_File One.
2. Submit an abstract without your name or biography labelled simply (File Two).

Please use your professional emails not any email that use nick-names or that are not associated to your professional affiliations. You will also need to include all your professional contact information in your email as well.

Abstract Deadline: 21 February 2014.

Please visit this link for more details of the conference.

Two Publication Formats For Conference Papers

Participants will have the opportunity to submit their papers for publication in either of the following formats:

a. Book Chapter
Those who would like to submit their papers for book publication can submit them to the conference organizers for possible inclusion in the book, Fashion in Popular Culture II.

b. Journal Article
Those interested in having their papers published as a journal articles can submit them to the official journal of the conference Fashion, Style and Popular Culture, click here.

On 26 November 2013, University Sains Malaysia Press (USM Press), the publisher of International Journal of Asia Pacific Studies (IJAPS) was delighted to welcome representatives from the Asia Pacific Management and Business Application (APMBA), University of Brawijaya, Indonesia.

Two officials from APMBA—Dr. Dodi Irawanto, the Editor-in-Chief and Prof. Moeljadi P.S., a member of the Editorial Board—came for this visit. The Director of USM Press, Akhiar Salleh, Editor-in-Chief of IJAPS, Prof. Ooi Keat Gin, Head of Journal Division, Fazlina Mohamed Rouse and the Journal Division team members represented USM Press.

In an enlightening half-day session, both sides had been able to share experience in key aspects of journal operations that include the management structure, milestones, challenges, as well as processes and workflows.

We thank both of our esteemed visitors from APMBA, and we look forward to forming a long-term relationship with the University of Brawijaya.

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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.

Click here to visit the web.

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.