<div dir="auto">Hello Alex,</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">What an interesting conference. Is the proposal deadline this year (2024) if the conference is to be held in May next year?</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Many thanks.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">eva<br clear="all"><br clear="all"><div dir="auto"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><ul style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><li style="list-style-type:none"><font color="#0b5394">-ˏˋ⋆ ̥ ̣̮ ̥ ͙ʰ͙ᵉ͙ˡ͙ˡ͙ᵒ͙ ̥ ̣̮ ̥ ⋆ˊˎ-</font></li></ul></div><font face="verdana, sans-serif" color="#0b5394">蔡如音，台師大大傳所教授</font><div><font face="verdana, sans-serif" color="#0b5394">Eva Tsai, Ph.D.</font></div><div><font face="verdana, sans-serif" color="#0b5394">Professor</font></div><div><font face="verdana, sans-serif" color="#0b5394">Graduate Institute of Mass Communication</font></div><div><font face="verdana, sans-serif" color="#0b5394">National Taiwan Normal University (NTNU)</font></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm"><font face="verdana, sans-serif" color="#0b5394"><span lang="EN-US"><a href="https://www.mcom.ntnu.edu.tw/index.php/faculty/" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US">師大大傳所網頁</span></span></a></span><span lang="EN-US"> ; </span><span lang="EN-US"><a href="https://www.mcom.ntnu.edu.tw/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/%EF%BC%A3%EF%BC%B6-Eva-202402.pdf" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US">ＣＶ</span></span></a></span><span lang="EN-US"></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm"><font face="verdana, sans-serif" color="#0b5394"><span lang="EN-US">Podcasts: </span><span lang="EN-US"><a href="https://player.soundon.fm/p/71a1e8da-b594-45bf-91fb-97c1e470a956" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US">聲與故事的裁縫手</span></span></a></span>；<span lang="EN-US"><a href="https://player.soundon.fm/p/1f3b5d9c-b2bd-48ca-9967-31eded24f1a9" target="_blank">MIT<span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US">作者對談</span></span></a></span>；<span lang="EN-US"><a href="https://open.firstory.me/user/cl01yph2r91l70946r9grt8e1/platforms" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US">師大的故事Shida Stories</span></span></a></span></font></p></div></div></div></div></div><div><br></div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Sep 19, 2024 at 00:31 Zahlten, Alexander via KineJapan <<a href="mailto:kinejapan@mailman.yale.edu">kinejapan@mailman.yale.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Dear All,<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Please find below the Call for Papers for a conference on (Histories of) East Asian Amateur Media Practices, to be held at Harvard on May 10/11 next year. The conference will also be used to launch the Japanese
Amateur Film Archive at Harvard.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Feel to write to me with any questions you might have!<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">All best wishes,<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Alex<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Histories of East Asian “Amateur” Media Practices Conference</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">May 10/11, 2025<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Harvard University<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Keynote Sessions Featuring:</span></i><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Susan Aasman, University of Groningen<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Jamie Zhao, City University of Hong Kong<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"> <u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">We invite proposals to the East Asian “Amateur” Media Practices conference at Harvard University. The conference aims to provide a venue for presenting research on historical and contemporary amateur media
practices in East Asia and for discussing the current state and possible futures of this rapidly expanding field of inquiry.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"> <u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">The production and distribution of media content is now a part of everyday life - from social media posts to livestreams or fan-produced media based on popular characters. This ubiquity of popular media production
and distribution has often implicitly been ascribed to digital culture and the resulting emergence of the “produser” or of “playbor”, destabilizing a term such as amateur.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">But the production and distribution of media content outside of the commercial media industries has a long history. Be it amateur radio broadcasting in 1920s Japan, amateur film from the 1930s across East
Asia, print publications made and circulated by groups and individuals from the 19th century, or “grassroots painting” in the PRC, East Asia has an exceptionally long and deep history of what might be called amateur media practices in the (broadly speaking)
modern context- and many different terms besides “amateur” to describe it. <u></u>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">So far, many of the questions around “amateur” media production in English-language research have been posed primarily in the North American or Western European context. But their extent and impact in East
Asia has been particularly striking, transforming politics, consumption, and economics, built urban environments, discourses of sexuality and gender, and rhythms of everyday life. Such massive shifts raise important questions about the nature of amateur media
practices and about its past and future in East Asia and the world, questions for which much remains to explore from the vantage points of both media studies and area studies.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">They also raise the question of what the category of amateur practices means means differently over time, and when it is useful – or not. The term amateur already situates these practices in very specific
ways. What other terms might be more appropriate for similar phenomena across time, or do we need a different terminology depending on the temporal, regional, or media-technological context? How do “amateur” media practices often connect to one another and
form an extensive network? How do they align with, cause friction with, or complexly negotiate a co-existence with, site-specific economic or political systems?
<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">The East Asian Amateur Media Practices conference aims to foster interdisciplinary, intermedial, and transhistorical conversations. With a significant amount of research on amateur media practices being conducted
across very different fields and disciplines, we hope to generate a conversation across these approaches, and the often very different time zones they address.
<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Contemporary fan studies, film studies focused on the 1930s, communications-type work on community broadband in the 1970s and many other approaches will hopefully enter in a fruitful dialogue. Broadly, we
hope to collectively address questions such as the following:<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<ul style="margin-top:0in" type="disc">
<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">How do differing media situations require different theorization of “amateur” practices - or make other terms and frameworks more productive?<u></u><u></u></span></li></ul>
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<ul style="margin-top:0in" type="disc">
<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">As “amateur” media practices take place across media forms / genres / channels, which methodologies are useful to map them and their significance - and which specific questions
are they geared to address?<u></u><u></u></span></li></ul>
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<ul style="margin-top:0in" type="disc">
<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Do amateur media practices - past and present - present useful different models of economy, sociality, politics, or topography (i.e. planetary, global, transnational etc.)
that can be made productive today?<u></u><u></u></span></li></ul>
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<ul style="margin-top:0in" type="disc">
<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">What kind of larger historical trajectories come into view once one takes more than one amateur media form into account? Does the significance of amateur media practice change
with their relationship to specific media forms and expressions?<u></u><u></u></span></li></ul>
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<ul style="margin-top:0in" type="disc">
<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Not only recent amateur practices are networked well beyond national contexts; how do amateur media practices and their networks help us track an interaction with imaginaries
of nation, or of geopolitics?<u></u><u></u></span></li></ul>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></p>
<ul style="margin-top:0in" type="disc">
<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">How do we think beyond what is the focus of much work on amateur media practices: production? How would that history look different if we additionally focused on distribution?
<u></u><u></u></span></li></ul>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"> <u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">We invite proposals on all topics related to “amateur” media practices in East Asia and are open to a broad span of topics and approaches. Proposals from graduate students are also very welcome. Proposals
should be up to 200 words in length and include a list of three keywords and include a few sentences on how the paper contributes to an emergent field of “amateur” media practices across media forms.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"> <u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">We plan to cover two nights of accommodation for all conference participants.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt"> </span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Please send proposals in pdf form by October 31, 2025 to:</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><a href="mailto:ea.amateurmediaconference@gmail.com" target="_blank">ea.amateurmediaconference@gmail.com</a></span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"> <u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">The conference is organized by Alexander Zahlten and conference assistant Ami Tanahashi. It is made possible with the kind support of the Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies, the Korea Institute, and
the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">……………………<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><sup><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Alexander Zahlten<u></u><u></u></span></sup></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><sup><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations<u></u><u></u></span></sup></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><sup><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Chair, Regional Studies East Asia (RSEA) Masters Degree Program<u></u><u></u></span></sup></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><sup><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Harvard University<u></u><u></u></span></sup></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><sup><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">(He / him / his)</span></sup><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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