self-introduction and CFP

[sadako at op.pl]

Dear All,

First of all let me introduce myself properly. My name is Katarzyna Ancuta, a Gothicist by specialisation, currently associated with Assumption University in Bangkok Thailand where I am researching for a book on Asian Horror Cinema (Japan, South Korea, HK and Thailand).

I have been an ardent readent of the posts on the list for over a year now but somehow never got to writing one myself. Which is why I am taking this opportunity to attach a call for papers for a conference I'm organising in Bangkok in March. Perhaps someone might be interested?

All the best,
Katarzyna
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CALL FOR PAPERS

I ANNUAL ASIAN CULTURAL STUDIES ASSOCIATION (ACSA) CONFERENCE
 
NEW OLD WORLDS: THE CHANGING FACES OF ASIA

The deadline for submission of abstracts has been extended to 31st January 2007.

Please submit your 200-word abstracts to Katarzyna Ancuta at kancuta at au.edu or sadako at op.pl by 31.01.2007, including your University affiliation, and whether or not you will require any visual aid equipment for your presentation. 

CALL FOR PAPERS
Whether admiring the pleasure dome of the mighty Khubla Khan, sharing illicit thrills of the opium dens with Dorian Gray, or journeying through the Indian landscape in Kim's footsteps, Western audiences have long been captivated in their desire to unravel the mysteries of the Orient. Sensuous and dangerous, tempting and exotic, the construction and reconstruction of the images of the Oriental otherness have filled many a volume of literary and critical works. Today still, it seems, in the Western eyes, the Asian continent remains a space of possibilities and paradoxes, a cradle of philosophies and ideologies, a juxtaposition of space-age technologies and dark-age superstitions, and a home to the Third World poverty and Asian Tigers' export-driven economy at the same time. 

But is this everything that can be said about Asia? This conference seeks to explore new ways of understanding Asia, inviting both international and Asian scholars' contributions reflecting on the changes in reading and representing Asian literatures, cultures and societies.

We invite papers and presentations on Asia-related aspects in literature, language, literary criticism, film & media, theatre & performing arts, art & design, architecture, new media, cultures & societies, gender, race & ethnicity, popular culture, martial arts, religion, philosophy, ideology, semiotics, critical theory and any other forms of cultural expression. All critical approaches are welcome. 

Suggested conference panels might (depending on interest) include the following:

Orientalism Revisited: Asia in Theoretical Perspective.

Asian Dialectics: Diversity and Otherness.

Asian Megalopolis: Urban Spaces of Excess.

Disassembling the Empire: Asia in Postcolonial Theory.

Must Have: The Rise of Asian Consumerism. 

Orient Express: Technologies of Change.

Tradition and Transgression: Asian Popular Culture.

The Identity in the Making: The Sense of Self in Modern Asia.

Bodies that Still Matter: Asia and Gender.


CONFERENCE DATES: SATURDAY-SUNDAY 31.03.2007-01.04.2007

Assumption University
592 Ramkhamhaeng 24, Hua Mak
10240 Bangkok, Thailand
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