CFP: Asian Visual Cultures Workshop

[Kimberly Icreverzi]

> Asian Visual Cultures Workshop
> University of California, Irvine
> April 13, 2008
>
> Call for Papers:
>
> Graduate students of the departments of East Asian Languages and 
> Cultures,
> Comparative Literature, and Visual Studies at the University of
> California, Irvine invite submissions from graduate students, independent
> scholars, and visual artists/filmmakers for a one-day workshop on Asian
> Visual Cultures. This workshop aims to create a space for dialogue among
> those interested in Asia and visual cultures (including but not 
> limited to
> art, cinema, games, theater, architecture, animation) beyond disciplinary
> frameworks in order to explore methodologies, theories, and objects of
> analysis.
>
> We hope that this workshop will become an ongoing forum for sharing 
> ideas,
> difficulties, and criticism around dialoguing research interests and
> dissertation projects.
>
> This workshop will be experimental in nature.  Instead of a conventional
> conference format, we imagine spending more time providing feedback to
> each presenter in a round-table discussion after each paper is presented.
> Also, presentations need not follow the standard of ?reading? papers.
> Let?s talk about the work in progress, methodological difficulties, and
> theoretical impasses.
>
> While there is no limitation to possible topics, we would be very
> interested in the following questions and problematics:
>
> Cinema and Erotics
> Affect and spectatorship
> Genre Practice and its historicity
> Transnational Asian Films: Production and reception
> Feminist visual theory and criticism
> Film festivals
> Memory and history
> Familiar/familial space
> Queer visual culture
> Vernacular modernity and urban space
> Medium specificity
> Re-imagining field/discipline
> Film studies/area studies
> Methodology, epistemology, objects of analysis
> ?Death? of cinema/ ?rise? of ?digital?
>
> The deadline for submissions is Sunday, March 16, 2008. Please email a
> brief abstract (200-350) to:
> yunjongl at uci.edu
>
> Please feel free to contact us for more information at:
> kannoy at uci.edu or eyhuang at uci.edu