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<DIV>This is Sybil Thornton, again, Asia section chair for the 2010 Film and History conference.</DIV>
<DIV>I'd be grateful if you would post this notice of a third extended deadline on Kinejapan. I have also pasted it below. I am hoping this will be the last time.</DIV>
<DIV>Many thanks, again</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:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Milwaukee</st1:City></st1:place></FONT></FONT></DIV>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=3 face="Times New Roman">www.uwosh.edu/filmandhistory</FONT></DIV>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman">Third Round Deadline: June 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 face="Times New Roman">Asia is a big place with a long history of trade and cultural exchange resulting in layered and overlapping religio-cultural spheres--Hindu, Buddhist, Confucian and Islamic, and, later, Western—which have made for rich and complex narrative traditions in which the theme of sex and love plays an important part not only in describing the ineluctable condition of human life but also as a symbolic representation of the transcendent relationship between humans and the divine.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>What are the assumptions about the role or meaning of sex and love in Asia?<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Are there differences between traditional and Western or modern assumptions?<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>How do Asian countries compare?<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>How do they compare over
time?</FONT></DIV>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=3 face="Times New Roman">Papers dealing with films from any part of Asia (East, West, Central, South, Southeast) are welcome.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Proposals for panels should include the individual proposals for up to four presenters.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Topics may include but are not limited to:</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><FONT size=3 face="Times New Roman">S.A. Thornton</FONT></DIV>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=3 face="Times New Roman">Department of History</FONT></DIV>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=3 face="Times New Roman">Arizona State University</FONT></DIV>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=3 face="Times New Roman">Tempe, AZ<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>85287-4302</FONT></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">For updates and registration information about the upcoming meeting, see the <I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Film & History</I> website (</FONT><A href="http://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></DIV>
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