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CONFERENCE DATES: Saturday-Sunday 31.03.2007 - 01.04.2007
CONFERENCE VENUE: Hall of Fame (C Building), Assumption University, Hua Mak Campus, Ramkhamhaeng Rd, Soi 24, 10240 Bangkok
CONFERENCE ORGANISERS: Graduate School of English, Assumption University
Conference Theme: NEW OLD WORLDS: THE CHANGING FACES OF ASIA
The conference seeks to explore new ways of understanding Asia, presenting both Asian and international scholars’ contributions reflecting on the changes in reading and representing Asian literatures, cultures and societies. The areas of interest include: 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 other forms of cultural expression.
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.
Conference Panels:
- The Identity in the Making: The Sense of Self in Modern Asia.
- Asian Dialectics: Diversity and Otherness.
- Caught in Culture: Reconsidering Asia from Within
- Asian Megalopolis: Envisioning Urban Spaces
- Tradition and Transgression: Asian (Popular?) Culture/s
- Visible Voices: Empowering Asian Women
- Between Women: Asia and Gender
- Bodies that Still Matter: Asian Masculinities
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