CFP reminder-Mediations and critique-EAS graduate conference at the U of Toronto, 15 Mar '08 (deadline Dec 21)

[Jonathan M. Hall]

From: Olga Fedorenko <olga.fedorenko at utoronto.ca>

CALL FOR PAPERS

Eighth Annual East Asian Studies Graduate Conference at the  
University of Toronto
Mediations and Critique: Perspectives on East Asia

University of Toronto
Saturday, March 15, 2008

What insights can we gain by thinking of East Asian societies as  
always already mediated by language, disciplines, discourse, symbolic  
systems and representations? Our conference seeks to challenge  
participants to critically consider how various mediations are  
embedded in social existence and how we accommodate for them in our  
research on China, Korea and Japan.


The interdisciplinary conference welcomes research from graduate  
students in all fields of East Asian Studies, including but not  
limited to history, sociology, anthropology, economy, art, literature  
and philosophy. We invite papers that critically engage topics  
relevant to the issue of mediations in the East Asian context, such  
as (but not limited to) the role of media in constituting and  
defining a society; mediation of identities through technology and  
media; constructions of the other; history of mediations and  
mediations of history; historical development of media and its  
implications; questions of ontology, epistemology and phenomenology  
as they relate to the issues of mediations in East Asia.

We invite all those interested in presenting papers to submit an  
abstract (300 words maximum) and brief biographical information by  
December 21, 2007. We encourage submissions from both individuals and  
panels of three (panellists should send individual abstracts and a  
panel abstract).

Please indicate whether you would like your completed paper to be  
considered for publication in the East Asian Studies Forum, journal  
published by graduate students of the East Asian Studies department  
of the University of Toronto.

Selected participants should submit completed papers by February 4,  
2008. Those who wish their papers to be considered for publication  
should submit a publication-ready copy (about 3500 words). During the  
conference, participants will be given 15 minutes to present their  
work, so actual presentation papers should be about 1500-2250 words  
long. Additional information will be posted on the conference  
website, www.chass.utoronto.ca\easgsc.

Please email your submissions and questions to the Conference  
Committee at eas.conference.2008 at gmail.com

Olga Fedorenko (on behalf of the 8th EAS GSC team)