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Subject: H-ASIA: CFP On Cosmopolitanism & Southeast Asia: imaginings,
mediation and movement, Canberra, ANU, 16-18 February 2012
> H-ASIA
> August 7, 2011
>
> Call for papers: "On Cosmopolitanism and Southeast Asia: imaginings,
> mediation and movement", Island Southeast Asia Centre, School of Culture,
> Languatge and History, Australian National University, Canberra ACT,
> February 16-18, 2012
> ABSTRACT DEADLINE SEPTEMBER 15,2011
> ************************************************************************
> From: Amy Chan <Amy.Chan@anu.edu.au>
>
> CALL FOR PAPERS:
> 16 -18 February 2012
> Organised and hosted by Island Southeast Asia Centre, School of Culture,
> Language and History, The Australian National University.
>
> Abstracts due: 15 September 2011
>
> Keynote speaker: Prof. Pheng Cheah (University of California, Berkeley)
>
> This conference follows a series of conversations started in the first
> "Intersections of Area, Cultural and Media Studies Workshop" hosted by
> the Southeast Asia Centre at The Australian National University in
> February 2010. The aim of the workshop was to focus debates and
> discussions on potential benefits of Southeast Asian studies engagement
> with cultural studies and media studies. The present conference focuses
> on the notion of "new cosmopolitanism", the juncture of the social,
> political and cultural aspects of cosmopolitanism.
>
> Cosmopolitanism, as a concept, has engendered much discussion, mainly in
> the last decade or so, in social, postcolonial and some areas of cultural
> studies. Many scholars agree that there are different forms/modes of
> cosmopolitanism. They recognise the Western (European) origin of the
> concept and its association with elitism, but increasingly recent
> theorisations agree on the need to accommodate diversity brought about by
> colonialism (in the past) and globalisation, and notions such as
> 'cosmopolitanism from below', 'alternative cosmopolitanism', as well as
> 'rooted cosmopolitanism'. Concepts of 'situated cosmopolitanism' and
> 'cosmopatriots' have been raised specifically to the region of Asia
> and/or Southeast Asia.
>
> This conference aims to contribute towards furthering our thinking on the
> concept of "new cosmopolitanism", aiming to examine and enquire into
> Southeast Asia's (nations and the region) membership of the global
> community. It recognises Southeast Asian nations are emerging nations
> with economic and political leverage within the region, and as a region
> vis-à-vis the rest of the world. This conference is interested in the
> process of socio-cultural changes that such inter-connectedness may
> foment or produce. The topics of discussion will necessarily evolve
> around issues of travel, hybridity, identities, social diversity, race
> and ethnicity, language, international politics, political economy and
> gender.
>
> In conjunction with the series theme of 'intersections' of the three areas
> of studies: culture, media and area, this conference organising committee
> calls for papers that deals with the following topics, focusing on the
> region's inter-connectedness with cosmopolitan issues of human rights,
> democracy, identity, diversity:
>
> * Travel/diaspora/migration
> * Media, media industries and politics
> * Global culture and identity
>
> It will ask questions such as:
>
> * How do we imagine ourselves as Southeast Asians within the
> global/cosmopolitan environment we live in today? How have these
> imaginings affected the everyday life of Southeast Asians? How
> important is regionalism in the everyday imaginings?
> * How are the individual states within the region negotiating with issues
> of people, social and political movements that have reverberations
> across the region and the rest of the world, and/or vice versa? Is
> regionalism a solution or deterrence?
>
> * How are these issues mediated between Southeast Asia and the rest of
> the world? What role (if any) has global media (including new
> social media) in the social and political changes within the
> region? How effective has this new global media been to local
> socio-political change?
>
> *? How have recent events (political, technological, etc.) in the region
> change the way we think of concepts such as 'cosmopolitan
> patriotism', 'rooted' or 'alternative cosmopolitanism'?
>
> * In answering some of these questions, what new light can we throw onto
> our reconceptualization of the idea and practice of ?area studies??
> How should we do 'area studies' in an era of 'world openness' and
> global connectedness?
>
> Inquiries can be directed to <sea-cosmopolitan@anu.edu.au>
>
> We welcome abstracts of up to 250 words by September 15, 2011.
>
> For further information, visit us at:
> http://chl.anu.edu.au/islandseasia/conference/
>
> Regards,
>
> Amy
>
> =====================================
>
> Dr. Amy Chan
>
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> Island Southeast Asia Centre (ISEAC)
> School of Culture, History and Language
> College of Asia and Pacific
> The Australian National University.
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