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참여하고 있는 SSRC InterAsia
Program은 2018년 12월
4일-7일의 기간
베트남 사회과학원과 함께
InterAsian Connections VI: Hanoi 를 공동
개최합니다. 이번 국제회의 개최를 위한 Request for Workship Proposals이 공지되었기에 관련내용 전해드리니, 많은 연구자들께서 관심을 갖고 지원하여 주시기를 부탁드립니다. 2018년도 국제회의 및 프로포절 공모의 세부 내용은 아래의 공지사항을 확인하시기 바랍니다. |
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Conference
on InterAsian Connections VI: Hanoi (December 4-7, 2018) Hosted by Vietnam
Academy of Social Sciences
Organized
by: Social Science Research Council InterAsia Program, Duke University Global
Asia Initiative, Göttingen University Global and Transregional Studies
Platform, the Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences at
the University of Hong Kong, Asia Research Institute at the National
University of Singapore, Seoul National University Asia Center, Vietnam
Academy of Social Sciences, and Yale University – collectively the
Organizers.
Request
for Workshop Proposals
InterAsian
Connections VI: Hanoi is the sixth in a series of conferences
showcasing innovative research from across the social sciences and related
disciplines that explores themes that transform conventional understandings
of Asia. Crossing traditional area studies boundaries and creating
international and interdisciplinary networks of scholars working to theorize
the intersection of the “global” and the “regional” in a variety of contexts,
Asia is reconceptualized as a dynamic and interconnected historical,
geographical, and cultural formation stretching from West Asia through
Eurasia, South Asia and Southeast Asia, to East Asia.The 2018 Hanoi conference—comprised of both closed, director-led thematic workshops and plenary sessions open across workshops and to the general public—will be structured to enable intensive “working group” interactions on specific research themes as well as broader interactions on topics of mutual interest and concern. Each workshop will have two directors with different institutional affiliations, preferably representing different disciplines. Joint proposals are invited from faculty members at accredited universities and colleges in any world region who are interested in co-organizing and co-directing a thematic workshop that addresses one of the following broadly conceived workshop themes (click here to see full description of workshop themes):
1.
Sites of InterAsian
Interaction
2.
Territorial
Sovereignties and Historical Identities
3.
Transregional
Religious Networks
4.
Environmental
Humanities in Asia
5.
Rethinking
Conceptual Frameworks for the Rise of Asian Cities
6.
Infrastructures and
Networks
Application
Process for Workshop Directors
Applications
are invited from scholars who would like to convene an international workshop
that brings together a group of researchers working to address one of the
broadly conceived workshop themes located in an InterAsian research
landscape.All workshop directors are encouraged to think about InterAsia in the context of connections, convergencesand comparisons. We are interested in developing the study of connections – the exploration of historical and/or contemporary transnational/cross-national/trans-regional processes, structures, practices, and flows within and across the territorial and imaginative space of Asia, secondly convergences or the responses of different Asian societies to common processes, and finally comparisons involving the investigation of societies/polities within Asia, especially those that utilize innovative units of comparison. In addition to the investigation of particular issues and processes as described in the workshop themes, the conference aims to critically investigate the ways in which fields of knowledge map Asia and imagine alternatives. Workshop directors should encourage papers that promote a conscious InterAsian project of inquiry. We aim at gathering as broad an international and multi-disciplinary representation of scholars as possible. We also encourage proposals for workshops that will see participation by activists, policymakers, media practitioners, and cultural producers addressing different aspects of the InterAsian conference theme. Each workshop should have two directors (with different institutional affiliations and preferably representing different disciplines) and will include 10-12 participants (senior and junior scholars, graduate students, other researchers) chosen competitively from across relevant disciplines in the social sciences, humanities and related fields. Workshop Directors will be selected by the Organizers and are then expected to help recruit and select workshop participants, thus they should have sufficient research experience on the region and themes of their proposals. Directors will be selected according to four criteria:
The deadline for application submissions is October 31, 2017 and decisions will be announced by early November. Once these workshop directors have been selected, we will issue a second Call for Workshop Papers for individual paper submissions (please look for this call in December 2017). Applicants should submit the following materials. Click here to download application materials
1.
Application cover sheet–basic workshop details
2.
1-2 page C.V. for each workshop director (academic qualifications and
employment history; list of publications)
3.
1-page abstract of the workshop that could be circulated as an open call for
papers (may be single-spaced). As a note, if selected to lead a workshop,
directors may be asked to revise this CfP prior to circulation.
4.
Answers to five questions (3-4 pages, may be single-spaced)
Director’s
Responsibilities
Following
the selection of workshop directors, the Organizers will announce an open
call for individual paper submissions for all conference workshops, including
thematic workshops and workshops organized by the host institution, Vietnam
Academy for Social Sciences, and the Organizers. The responsibilities of the
workshop directors include:
Workshop
Themes
1.
Sites of InterAsian Interaction
This
workshop would focus on locations through which Asia is made, unmade and
remade. These sites are ones through which people, goods, ideas, texts and
images traverse, consolidate, are translated and get refracted. The sites
themselves could be of different types and scales, from global cities to
trucking stops to penal colonies or tourist resorts. They may be permanent or
temporary or ephemeral. Papers may address case studies of particular sites,
or the topography of networks or different dimensions of the connections and
confluences studied. The workshop can bring together the historical and
contemporary, the spatial and the temporal dimensions of interactions across
the Asian expanse as well as between Asia and the world.
2.
Territorial Sovereignties and Historical Identities
Territorial conflicts among sovereign states, whether on land or sea, have been around since the appearance of the very idea of sovereignty in Europe. Yet as Thongchai Winnichakul and others have revealed, the very idea of a sovereign ‘geobody’ in Asia is not much more than a century old. Workshops in this area could explore how historical materials and events that do not speak to the modern notion of sovereignty utilized to make sovereignty claims. To what extent is the mobilization around historical identities the more important factor? How rapidly can these identities change? How do states and other players negotiate between relatively recent international laws, identity mobilization and assertions of raw power?
3.
Transregional Religious Networks
Religious mobilization in Asia has long relied on the movement of actors, ideas and institutions across national and imperial boundaries: movement is a constant despite enormous transformations in technologies of border control, ideas of sovereignty, and notions of citizenship. With the rise of a global discourse on terror, moreover, religious movement is routinely represented as a threat to state sovereignty: even as international pilgrimage attracts record levels of participation, adherents today must comply with increasing demands for security. Workshops in this area could explore the role of new strategies used by such networks to facilitate movement and the dissemination of new rationales that seek to attract followers to transregionally imagined forms of community. We will explore as well how conflict among religions and between religions and states often centers on concerns to proscribe or promote specific kinds of movement, with political consequences both for members of religious networks but also for the multi-religious Asian nation-states which these networks traverse. How and when, for instance, do political actors distinguish between religious teachers, proselytizers, pilgrims, labour migrants, and refugees? When and how do counter-movements that seek to (re)place particular religions within borders become popular? Finally, what can these networks tell us about the mutual entailments of religion, politics and sovereignty across modern Asia?
4.
Environmental Humanities in Asia
The topic of Environmental Humanities has been gaining popularity over the last several years. While the need for such an area of inquiry is palpable from the environmental crisis facing the planet, it is unclear what the agenda of such an inquiry should be. First, how would such an approach both demarcate its territory of inquiry and also speak to or join the more developed inquiries conducted by technical, geo-engineering and market approaches? Second, in what ways might the particularity of problems in Asia (eg population density or significance of the billion people dependent on circum-Himalayan rivers) and the approaches developed in this area be different from other parts of the world? What are some of the themes that thread through the diverse projects undertaken about this topic? These questions are suggested as examples only of the kind of questions to be posed at this stage of the field’s development.
5.
Rethinking Conceptual Frameworks for the Rise of Asian
Cities
This workshop should focus on the apparent disconnect between the rise of urban nodes in the Inter-Asian region and existing urban studies paradigms (both in the social sciences and humanities) that remain largely Euro-centric and positivist. Asian urban nodes accommodate a growing percentage of the world’s population. They have unique historical baggage and are faced with volatile, competitive pressures today. The workshop expects papers to capture the lived experiences of their populations as they engage the tumultuous modern transformations of Asia in the past century and the reconfigurations of spaces in the new century. New analytical tools should be devised to highlight diverse energies to become “urban”, contesting political agendas and moral imagination.
6.
Infrastructures and Networks
Workshops in this area could explore infrastructures as material and organizational networks “that facilitate the flow of goods, people, or ideas and allow for their exchange over space” (Larkin 2013), a useful concept to study the circulation of knowledge and practices that transcend national and political boundaries, re-defining a region. The concept should be central in the history of trade, material and human flows, circulation of technological knowledge and practices that are entangled with not only built infrastructures, but also organizational and regulatory networks, and cultural imaginaries.
Deadlines/Timeline
Submission
Options
Email
all applications to: interasia@ssrc.org.
Please indicate InterAsian Connections VI and the name of the workshop theme
in the subject line.Questions? Email us at: interasia@ssrc.org |
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