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<DIV>This is Sybil Thornton, Asia section chair for the 2010 Film and History conference.</DIV>
<DIV>I'd be grateful if you would post this notice of an extended deadline on Kinejapan. I have also pasted it below.</DIV>
<DIV>Many thanks.</DIV>
<DIV>Sybil</DIV>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman">Call for Papers<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /><o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></B></DIV>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=3 face="Times New Roman">“Sex and Love in Asian Contexts”</FONT></DIV>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=3 face="Times New Roman">2010 <I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Film & History</I> Conference: Representations of Love in Film and Television</FONT></DIV>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=3 face="Times New Roman">November 10-14, 2010</FONT></DIV>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman">Hyatt Regency <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" /><st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Milwaukee</st1:place></st1:City></FONT></FONT></DIV>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><A href="../../Local%20Settings/Temporary%20Internet%20Files/Content.IE5/HCBY0FRW/www.uwosh.edu/filmandhistory"><FONT size=3 face="Times New Roman">www.uwosh.edu/filmandhistory</FONT></A></DIV>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman">Extended Deadline: March 1, 2010<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></B></DIV>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=3 face="Times New Roman">AREA: <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>“Sex and Love in Asian Contexts”</FONT></DIV>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman"><st1:place w:st="on">Asia</st1:place> has, perhaps, the richest history of cultural and commercial exchange in the world, resulting in deeply layered religious, political, and artistic traditions. In cinema, for example, sex and love often are bound up in complex rites, taboos, negotiations, honor codes, pieties, and spiritual allegiances. How do Asians themselves see or represent love? How do non-Asians see or represent love in Asian contexts?</FONT></FONT></DIV>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=3 face="Times New Roman">This area, comprising multiple panels, welcomes papers treating the representations of love and sex within, or from the perspective of, Asian contexts (East, West, Central, South, Southeast). Proposals for full panels should include the individual proposals for 3-4 presenters. Possible topics:</FONT></DIV>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman"><SPAN style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </SPAN>•<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>traditional and customary practices—loved or hated</FONT></FONT></DIV>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman"><SPAN style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </SPAN>•<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>treatments of historical and modern extra-marital sex and sex workers</FONT></FONT></DIV>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=3 face="Times New Roman">•<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>love and sex--including homosexuality--as indexes of modernity, cosmo-</FONT></DIV>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman"><SPAN style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </SPAN>politanism, or the status of women</FONT></FONT></DIV>
<P style="TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=3 face="Times New Roman">•<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>love and sex in pre-modern inter-Asian narrative </FONT></DIV>
<P style="TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=3 face="Times New Roman">•<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>modern international influences (American and European)</FONT></DIV>
<P style="TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=3 face="Times New Roman">•<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>distinctively indigenous traditions (Bollywood, Japanese studios, etc.)</FONT></DIV>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=3 face="Times New Roman">•<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>new developments in contemporary pan-Asian cinema </FONT></DIV>
<P style="TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=3 face="Times New Roman">•<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>new developments in the films of Islamic cultures </FONT></DIV>
<P style="TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=3 face="Times New Roman">•<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>adaptations </FONT></DIV>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=3 face="Times New Roman">Please send your 200-word proposal by e-mail to the area chair:</FONT></DIV>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><st1:PostalCode w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on"><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman"><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Tempe</st1:City></st1:place>, <st1:place w:st="on">AZ</st1:place><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><st1:place w:st="on">85287-4302</st1:place></FONT></FONT></st1:place></st1:PostalCode></DIV>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman">Email:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></FONT></FONT><A href="mailto:Sybil.Thornton@asu.edu"><FONT size=3 face="Times New Roman">Sybil.Thornton@asu.edu</FONT></A><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>(email submissions preferred)</FONT></FONT></DIV>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=3 face="Times New Roman">Panel proposals for up to four presenters are also welcome, but each presenter must submit his or her own paper proposal. For updates and registration information about the upcoming meeting, see the Film & History website (</FONT><A href="http://www.uwosh.edu/filmandhistory/documents/www.uwosh.edu/filmandhistory"><FONT size=3 face="Times New Roman">www.uwosh.edu/filmandhistory</FONT></A><FONT size=3 face="Times New Roman">).</FONT></DIV>
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