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[ AAS ANNUAL CONFERENCE | AAS REGIONAL CONFERENCES ]
Representations of Prostitution, Sex Work and Sex Trafficking between the 19th and 21st Centuries
The Women’s Library, London, September 9–10, 2010
Provisional Keynote Speakers:
Jane Arthurs, University of the West of England;
Marianne Hester, University of Bristol;
Russell Campbell, University of Wellington;
Kirsten Pullen, Texas A&M University.
The figure of the prostitute is a malleable cultural symbol, used to address social fears and desires (Matlock, 1994; O’Neill, 2001). Representations of prostitutes enable us to understand attitudes towards female mobility, sexuality, ethnicity, and emancipation that cross national divides and affect all gender identities. The global centrality of such representations is growing, as debates about sex work, tourism and trafficking recur in a variety of border-crossing forms. When considered from a global and historical perspective, portrayals of prostitution are many and varied, intersecting with different cultural and historical moments, in different forms and for different audiences, and functioning in dramatically different ways. Studies of the narratives of the prostitute, sex worker and sex trafficking within specific representational and key national contexts point to a need for further collaboration to understand the extent of their transnational nature, and the way in which representational forms may differ. This conference aims therefore to bring together studies of the representation of prostitution from a range of cultures, including Europe, North Africa, the US, Latin America, China, Japan, Korea, and India. In this transnational context we will examine how various representational forms inflect the figure differently since little attention has been paid to the evolution of the prostitute’s representation over the past two centuries from the novel and stage towards the globalized modes of film, television and the internet.
We would welcome proposals on any aspect of the conference theme, particularly in the light of the following questions:
1) Which features of the representation of prostitution cross a selection of different media and national contexts, and which do not?
2) How have new representational forms affected portrayals of prostitution? To what extent is there continuity between nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first century approaches?
3) What are the contentious issues around the representation of prostitution, and what strategies might one devise to negotiate them? How do different understandings of feminism inflect the way we interpret images of prostitution?
4) How do representations of prostitution overlap with other discourses about gender?
5) How can we develop a transdisciplinary methodological approach to the study of gender representation, in particular to the representation of prostitutes, by bringing medical history, philosophy, sociology, politics, and geography together with more traditional studies of representation?
Please send abstracts of 500 words to the organizers Danielle Hipkins and Kate Taylor at prostitutionconference@hotmail.com by February 28, 2010.
Beloit College is hosting a teaching colloquium on October 1 and 2, 2010, on Environment, Science, and Technology in Asia. The colloquium is intended both for scientists interested in incorporating Asia into undergraduate teaching and for Asian Studies.
The registration deadline for the colloquium is August 27.
The colloquium begins late Friday afternoon and continues through early afternoon on Saturday. Dinner Friday evening and lunch on Saturday will be provided. There is no registration fee. Small travel grants are available; individuals interested in these should contact Amy Dooley at dooleya@beloit.edu and put "Colloquium travel grant" in the subject line.
This panel is designed to appeal to a wide spectrum of approaches from scholars of modern Japan. Although conceived of as “area-focused”, the issue of the nature and timing of “the contemporary” in modern Japan resonates with debates on the nature of postmodernity in the West. Proposals for papers concerning the nature of “the contemporary” and/or of “modernity” and its relationship to “postmodernity” in Japan as it relates to literature, film or criticism are welcome.
The Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association conference takes place October 14-16, in Albuquerque, New Mexico. For information on the conference, please see
http://rmmla.wsu.edu/conferences/conf10Albuquerque/default.asp
In order to present their papers, all panel members must be members of the RMMLA by April 1, 2010. Please see http://rmmla.wsu.edu/member/join-renew.asp for details.
The deadline for proposal submissions is March 1, 2010. Please include the following in your proposal: name,
institutional affiliation,
area of study,
e-mail, paper title,
abstract of 250-500 words,
AV requirements.
Please e-mail proposals to: Peter Tillack,
Assistant Professor of Japanese,
Department of Modern Languages and Literatures,
Montana State University tillack@montana.edu.
“Acta Pekinensia: Western Historical Sources for the Kangxi Reign” is an International Symposium in Commemoration of 4th Centenary of the Death of Matteo Ricci, S.J. It is organized by The Macau Ricci Institute, to be held in Macau from 5 – 7 October, 2010.
The Macau Ricci Institute is conscious of the importance of contributing to better knowledge and use of historical materials of the Kangxi reign and we recognize that a comparatively neglected area are the Emperor and China’s relations with Europe and the European missionaries who were settled in China at the time. A few years ago our Institute therefore initiated a project of transcribing, translating and annotating the ‘Acta Pekinensia’ (Event of Peking), an eighteenth-century Latin manuscript of 1446 folios, written by the German Jesuit Kilian Stumpf (1655–1720) and kept in the Jesuit Roman Archives.
The basic motivation that underlies this ambitious project is a general belief that Western historical sources will play an important role in complementing Chinese sources. That double perspective enriches and enlightens both the publication of the ‘Acta Pekinensia’ and others existing sources. The double perspective situates the ‘Events of Peking’ in a new and broader light, which can be of great interest to Chinese and Western historians.
The purpose of the Symposium organized by the MRI is primarily to share with the scholarly community the results of the current research project to make this fascinating and important text widely known. In addition, the event aims to call or renew attention to the correspondence, reports and journals of missionaries residing at the court of the Kangxi Emperor, which constitute an invaluable source of information for the cultural, social, religious, and political history of this long reign.
Further information is available at http://www.riccimac.org/eng/symp2010/index.htm
Contact: symp2010@riccimac.org
“Sustainable Asia: Challenges and Opportunities”
October 22-24, 2010
Pennsylvania State University, State College, Pennsylvania
DEADLINE FOR PAPER SUBMISSIONS: MAY 1, 2010
To propose a panel or an individual paper, please send a completed proposal form along with a one-page abstract for each proposed paper by May 1, 2010 to David Kenley, the MAR/AAS 2010 Program Chair, as indicated below. Inquiries are also welcome.
Proposals may be submitted by mail, fax or e-mail (as an attachment). Acceptance notices will be sent to you by June 1, 2010. Further details and online applications are available on the conference website, http://www.maraas.org (click on “Conferences”).
In order to submit a proposal for the 2010 meeting, you should be a 2010 MAR/AAS member or submit a membership application to Executive Secretary, Dr. Diane Freedman, MAR/AAS, Department of Social Science W2-40, Community College of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA 19130. Annual membership is $10.00. To obtain MAR/AAS membership information, go to (www.maraas.org) or contact Dr. Diane Freedman (215-751-8547, dfreedman@ccp.edu).
The deadline for conference pre-registration for presenters will be June 20. Pre-registration by this date is necessary if you wish your name to appear in the program. The fees for pre-registration will be $50.00 for current members, $60 for non-members, $30 for current member students, and $35 for non-member students. When non-members pay the registration fee, the membership fee for 2011 will be complimentary. Information regarding registration, travel and lodging, and conference events will be available at the MAR/AAS website: http://www.maraas.org.
We welcome participation from faculty, graduate students, undergraduate students, independent scholars, and professionals, and especially encourage panels with innovative combinations of individuals and fields. Some travel assistance is available on a competitive basis for graduate students and international scholars. Include your request for travel funding with your paper proposal.
Program Chair: David Kenley, History Department, Elizabethtown College, One Alpha Drive, Elizabethtown, PA 17022; kenleyd@etown.edu; 717-361-1238 (o); 717-361-1390 (fax).
A three-day Conference, 11-13 November, followed by a two-day PhD course, 14-15 November 2010. Organized by ADI – Asian Dynamics Initiative, University of Copenhagen
The opening day of the conference is allocated to a big public event with invited keynote speakers. The following two days will be made up of 10-12 parallel panels and workshops under the common theme ‘Asian Diversity in a Global Context’. The goal is to generate deeper and fuller insights into the political, social, cultural and economic changes facing Asia in the 21st century. Finally, PhD students will have the opportunity to participate in an intensive PhD course over two days.
Call for papers: The conference welcomes papers relating to one of the themes of the conference’s panels and workshops. Instructions on submission of abstracts can be found on the individual panel/workshop subsites. PhD students are also invited to submit abstracts for the PhD course. Deadline for submission of abstracts: 1 March 2010
Detailed information on the conference’s panels, workshops, PhD course, submission of abstracts, venue and more can be found on the conference website: http://asiandynamics.ku.dk/asian_diversity_conference/
'Asian Diversity in a Global Context' is the third in the series of annual conferences initiated by ADI and the University of Copenhagen in 2008.
ADI - Asian Dynamics Initiative – is an interdisciplinary research priority area based in the Faculties of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Copenhagen. ADI aims at expanding research and teaching on Asia as well as strengthening the university's global networks in studies of Asia. http://asiandynamics.ku.dk/english
The Hong Kong Institute for Humanities and Social Sciences (HKIHSS) at the University of Hong Kong, the National University of Singapore (NUS), and the Social Science Research Council (SSRC) (the Organizers) are pleased to announce an open call for individual research paper submissions from researchers in any world region, to participate in a 3-day thematic workshop at an international conference, “Inter-Asian Connections II: Singapore.”
To be held in Singapore, December 8-10, 2010, the conference will host concurrent workshops, coordinated by individual directors and showcasing innovative research from across the social sciences and related disciplines. Workshops will focus on themes of particular relevance to Asia, reconceptualized as a dynamic and interconnected historical, geographical, and cultural formation stretching from the Middle East through Eurasia and South Asia, to East Asia.
The conference structure and schedule have been designed to enable intensive ‘working group’ interactions on a specific research theme, as well as broader interactions on topics of mutual interest and concern. Accordingly, there will be a public keynote and a plenary session in addition to closed workshop sessions. The concluding day of the conference will bring all the conference participants together for a public presentation and exchange of research agendas that have emerged over the course of the conference deliberations.
Individual paper submissions are invited from junior and senior scholars, whether graduate students or faculty, or researchers in NGOs or other research organizations, for the following five workshops:
- Regional Knowledge Hubs in Asia: the Social Sciences and Humanities in Science and Technology Human Capital (STHC)
Workshop Directors – V.V. Krishna (National University of Singapore) and Tim Turpin (University of Western Sydney)
- Inter-Asian temple and trust networks within and out of Southeast Asia
Workshop Director – Kenneth Dean (McGill University)
- How Asia Became Territorial
Workshop Directors – Itty Abraham (University of Texas at Austin) and See Seng Tan (S. Rajarantnam School of International Studies, Nanyang Technological University)
- Reproduction Migration in Asia
Workshop Directors – Biao Xiang (University of Oxford) and Mika Toyota (National University of Singapore)
- Old Histories, New Geographies: Contrapuntal Mobilities of Trade in Asia
Workshop Directors – Engseng Ho (Duke University) and Lakshmi Subramanian (Jamia Millia Islamia)
Descriptions of the individual workshops, including details on the workshop directors, and information on the application process are available at http://www.ssrc.org/pages/conference-on-inter-asian-connections-ii-singapore-december-8-10-2010/.
Application materials are due Monday, May 31, 2010. Please note that an individual cannot apply to more than one workshop. Selection decisions will be announced on June 25, 2010. Accepted participants are required to submit a 20-25 page research paper by October 15, 2010.
The Organizers will make every effort to ensure some level of funding for participants toward the travel/accommodation costs associated with attending the Inter-Asian Connections II conference. However, we are unable to guarantee any financial assistance at this point, and we encourage participants to seek funding from external agencies (such as their home institutions). We will be able to confirm details about funding availability after the selection process has been completed.
For additional inquiries, please contact the Organizers at interasia@ssrc.org.
This event is organized and co-sponsored by The Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences (HKIHSS) at the University of Hong Kong, the National University of Singapore (NUS), and the Social Science Research Council (SSRC).
The question of how people in Taiwan relate to the spaces which they inhabit has been one of the major issues in cultural discussions taking place there in the last 20 or 30 years. This conference will be multidisciplinary in focus, and participation by academic researchers working in any area related to the space and culture relationship and by those working in the arts and other domains of cultural activity is welcomed.
Conference dates: 9-10 December 2010
Conference location: Asia Institute, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Australia
Conference website: www.asiainstitute.unimelb.edu.au/taiwanconference
Please submit an abstract of approximately 300 words, no later than 31 August 2010, to taiwan-conference@unimelb.edu.au.
The National University of Educational Planning and Administration (NUEPA) is organizing first Global Conclave of Young Scholars of Indian Education on 27-29 January 2011 at New Delhi, India.
WHY A CONCLAVE ON INDIAN EDUCATION?
Indian education with its complexities and paradoxes has attracted the attention of young scholars all over the world. The canvas of research on Indian education stretches from the ideas of Tagore, Gandhi and Krishnamurthy, ethnographic studies of children in slums, econometric modeling of participation in schooling to politics of curricular content, privatization and external aid. Diverse disciplinary approaches, theoretical and ideological orientations, and methodologies have been adopted to paint this canvas. However, the majority of scholars researching Indian education in India and abroad seem to work largely independent of each other even though they may be examining similar issues. There is an urgent need to bridge this chasm between those researching Indian education in universities and research institutes in India and elsewhere in the world.
WHO IS THE CONCLAVE FOR?
The first Global Concave of Young Scholars of Indian Education to be held in New Delhi on 27-29, January 2011 presents a unique opportunity for young scholars (doctoral and post-doctoral researchers and early-career faculty) working on any aspect of Indian education in universities and research institutes in India and abroad to come together, to share and to showcase their research, to network and to publish across boundaries of nations and disciplines. Those under 35 years of age are particularly encouraged to apply.
HOW TO APPLY?
Given the wide canvas of research on Indian education, the theme for the conclave is open-ended. Papers are invited on any aspect of Indian education. The papers may explore theoretical and ideological orientations, empirical realities, issues of method, design and disciplinary boundaries. They could focus exclusively on Indian education or present comparisons with other countries. In the first instance, abstracts of 300-500 words (including statement of the problem, research strategy and findings) along with contact information, designation, institutional affiliation, disciplinary background and one page CV should be submitted by email to nuepa.conclave@nuepa.org and nuepa.conclave@gmail.com by SEPTEMBER 10, 2010 (deadline extendeed from Aug 25). Successful candidates shall be informed by September 25, 2010. Full research papers shall be solicited from the successful candidates by 15 November 2010. All abstract and paper submissions should be formatted in Times New Roman font, size 12, and spaced 1.5 lines. Both abstracts and papers shall be subject to a process of peer review. Papers that lend themselves to publication will be selected for submission as a special issue in an internationally reputed peer-reviewed journal.
FINANCIAL SUPPORT
A limited number of bursaries towards travel and accommodation expenses will also be provided. Those interested in availing of the bursaries are requested to apply for the same along with their full paper. Those being awarded bursaries shall be informed by 30 November 2010. However, all candidates are advised to explore alternate funding arrangements as it may not be possible to accommodate all the requests for bursaries.
WHOM TO CONTACT?
For information regarding registration and conclave organization, please visit http://www.nuepa.org/globalconclaveoneducation. For specific queries, please get in touch with Prof. R Govinda, Vice Chancellor, NUEPA and Chairperson, Conclave Organizing Committee (vc@nuepa.org), Dr. Sunita Chugh, Assistant Professor and Member, Conclave Organizing Committee (sunitachugh@nuepa.org) or Mr. Anugula N. Reddy, Assistant Professor and Member, Conclave Organizing Committee (anreddy@nuepa.org).
Hosted by the Asia-Europe Institute, University of Malaya, Malaysia. February 15-18, 2011.
The core emphasis of the conference is on understanding Asian perspectives on leadership and learning. Leadership and learning, like various other concepts, are often viewed/treated as global. As a response and reaction to the predominant presence of social theories rooted in the West, there is a growing recognition of and movement towards understanding theories through the wide range of diverse contextual and cultural perspectives available in the East. The significant role of culture is highlighted to an extent that some Asian researchers suggest that effective leadership in one culture may be counterproductive in another. It is in this connection that the conference is strategically an important initiative, as it aims at contributing to the knowledge on leadership and learning in Asia.
Thus, the questions that the conference intends to address are: Are the west-inspired theories on leadership and learning relevant for Asia in general and different contexts in Asia in particular? Is there a need to develop theories specific for Asia in general and different contexts in Asia in particular? Are there existing theories on leadership and learning with an Asian origin, which have not received much attention or have not been acknowledged so far?
THE SUBMISSION DEADLINE HAS BEEN EXTENDED TO JUNE 15, 2010.
Please visit also the Conference Website at http://ellta.org/ for more and continued information update about submissions, the journal Special Issues, members of the International Advisory Board etcetera.
Contact us via the following e-mail addresses: inquiries@ellta.org or ellta.conference@gmail.com.
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