Fwd: CFP: UNSETTLING EAST ASIA

[Ono Seiko and Aaron Gerow]

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From: Christopher Gerteis <chris-gerteis at uiowa.edu>

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UNSETTLING EAST ASIA; INTERROGATING COMMUNICATION
GLOBALIZATION, MARGINALIZATION, AND (NEW) CULTURAL FORMATIONS
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The University of Iowa campus, Iowa City, April 27-29, 2001
Sponsored by the Center for Asian Pacific Studies (CAPS)

KEYNOTE SESSION FEATURING: Masao Miyoshi, Myung Koo Kang, and Wenshu Lee

This conference aims at rendezvousing the disciplinary boundaries of East
Asian studies and communication studies in universities in the United
States.  We hope to connect communication and East Asia not only as
mutually inclusive disciplines, but also as discourses that have mutual
political, historical and cultural implications.

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WE ENCOURAGE YOU TO READ A FULL VERSION OF OUR CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT,
WHICH INCLUDES OUR CONFERENCE MISSION AND INFORMATION ABOUT OUR STUDY
GROUP, BY VISITING OUR WEBSITE AT
http://www.uiowa.edu/~caps/eacsg/conference.html OR DOWNLOADING THE
ATTACHED PDF FILE.
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CALL FOR PROPOSALS

We invite graduate students and recent Ph.D.s to submit topic proposals
dealing with one of these following areas. We encourage participants to
engage in diverse theoretical frameworks such as cultural studies,
postcolonialism, globalization, postmodern theories as well as
cross-disciplinary approaches such as historical analysis, ethnographic
research, and other empirical methods.

(1) Cultural/Historical Identities: How are identities in conjunction with
East Asia formed and transformed at the crossroads of culture, history,
and globalized communication? Topics of communication are not limited to
mass media forms but are inclusive of interpretations from cinema studies,
history, anthropology, literary studies, geography, cultural studies, and
other arts.

(2) Media Texts/Popular Culture: How do we theorize the relationships
between forms of social texts produced in and on East Asia and their
material conditions?

(3) Knowledge/Power/Agency: How have the roles of communication workers
and scholars pertaining to East Asia been shaped by their professional
environment as well as a larger social and cultural context? Institutions
can include governmental, commercial, and educational agencies but can
also include wider, multiple contexts in which communication practitioners
and critics are situated.

(4) Political Economy: How are culture and communication in East Asian
diaspora implicated by transnational corporations and global capital?

As these questions are not mutually exclusive and exhaustive, we invite
graduate students and recent Ph.D.s to be innovative in devising a topic
relevant to the conference goal. We welcome individual submissions as well
as group panel proposals.

Please submit a 250-word abstract by mail or e-mail by November 1, 2000.
We appreciate your observing the November 1st deadline. If you need any
special accommodation, please contact us. Notification of acceptance will
be sent out starting December 5, 2000. Final papers are due February 15,
2001. We have set an early deadline to leave time for conversion of papers
into pdf format so that they can be read online on the conference website
(http://www.uiowa.edu/~caps/eacsg/conference.html) prior to the
presentations.  This is to encourage dialogues during panel discussions.
Final papers should be approximately 6,000 words and the presentation
should be kept under 15 minutes.

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COMPETITIONNOTICE: The conference will award cash prizes to the top three
papers in each of the four topic areas. To be considered for the
competition, the paper needs to be postmarked on February 15, 2001. Papers
that arrive after the deadline will still be considered for presentation
but will not be eligible for competition. The Journal of Communication
Inquiry (JCI), edited by the School of Journalism and Mass Communication
at the University of Iowa, will give special consideration for review of
top papers. JCI is an international journal devoted to the advancement of
critical, cultural and historical perspectives on communication and media.
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Please send proposals to:

Jungbong Choi (eacsg at blue.weeg.uiowa.edu)
CAPS 276 International Center
University of Iowa
Iowa City, IA 52246

INVITATION TO FACULTY MEMBERS:

We cordially invite faculty members to participate in the conference as
panel discussants. The panel sessions will be designed to furnish
dialogues between graduate students and faculty across disciplines. Please
contact

Stephen Vlastos, Director
CAPS 276 International Center
University of Iowa
Iowa City, IA 52246
(319)335-0519, or stephen-vlastos at uiowa.edu


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