self-introduction and CFP

[tim.iles at utoronto.ca]

Warm welcome, Katarzyna, to the list! And I just had to say... very  
amusing to be having messages posted from "SADAKO" on the list! ^_^  
What happens seven days after we read them? ^_^

Tim Iles
University of Victoria

Quoting 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
> -------------------------------------------------------------
> 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
>