<div class="gmail_quote"><div class="gmail_quote"><p class="MsoNormal"><b>Annual Conference for the Consortium for African and Asian Studies (CAAS)</b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><br></b></p><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="4" color="#cc0000"><b style>Making a Difference – Representing/Constructing the Other in
Asian/African Media, Cinema and Languages</b></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>16-18 February 2012</b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Khalili Lecture Theatre, SOAS, University of London </p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal">Each individual has the need to define ‘the Other’ in
opposition to oneself. Theories on Otherness such as Lacan’s or Simmel’s,
emphasize that ‘we’ need ‘them’ to define our own identities. This need to
define oneself can also be taken to a broader socio-cultural level, where the
construction of Otherness is used in order to define who belongs to a
respective culture and society, who belongs to a region, an ethnic group or a
nation. Choosing who to include and who to exclude, helps to create a sense of
unity and identity. In our globalising world, representations of Otherness grow
increasingly influential and the issues more complicated, with implications for
international relations. Otherness, serving as a sphere of projection for the
desires of oneself, can assume multiple roles. As the threatening, enemy-like
Other, as a refuge, as role-model, the appropriations are numerous, but all of
them are united by the fact that the Other assumes the shape required by those
who are creating this Other to contrast or complement their Self. Otherness is
also constructed by language (i.e. what characters say and how they say it).
Reflection on the representation/construction in the media can also help
individuals gain understanding of languages, cultures and intercultural
communication.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal">The aim of the conference is to bring together scholars from
across the world to discuss the representations of 'Otherness' in Asian and
African media cultures. The usual focus of research on Otherness is the gaze of
the Other towards the West or vice versa, but rarely is research concerned with
images that non-Western societies have of other non-Western societies.
Consequently, we shall explore how Otherness is constructed when the ‘Other’
cannot be considered as totally 'alien', but when familiarity might also be of
vital importance.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u><b>Programme</b></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.soas.ac.uk/centresoffice/events/making-a-difference/file72881.pdf" target="_blank">Provisional Programme</a></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u><b>Admission</b></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">All participants have to register. <a href="http://www.soas.ac.uk/centresoffice/events/making-a-difference/16feb2012-making-a-difference--representingconstructing-the-other-in-asianafrican-media-cinema-and-l.html#Programme" target="_blank">Further details</a></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u>Conference Fee</u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"></p><ul><li>Free for all CAAS members and invited speakers: <a href="https://docs.google.com/a/soas.ac.uk/spreadsheet/viewform?hl=en_US&formkey=dGN3ZU1PbUFRaC1fMXEzQ0NDOXBkYlE6MQ#gid=0" target="_blank">Consortium
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Manager, Jane Savory on <a href="mailto:js64@soas.ac.uk" target="_blank">js64@soas.ac.uk</a>. Cancellations must be received
by 2 February 2012 in which case registration fees will be refunded, less a £5
processing fee. No refund will be given to cancellations received after 2
February 2012.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><br></p>
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