[ecrea] CFP East Asian Screen Studies Symposium, King's College London

Call for papers: East Asian Screen Studies Symposium 16 May 2014 at 
King's College, London

Keynote Speaker: Dr Julian Stringer, University of Nottingham


The study of East Asian film, television and screen media has been an 
area of continued growth in UK academia. With an expanding body of 
post-graduate students and early-career researchers breaking new ground 
in British institutions, it is imperative that we think critically about 
how we conduct academic research on East Asian film and screen media the 
UK. How are we 'doing' East Asian Film & Screen Studies now, in 2014? 
How we have done it in the past, and how might we continue do it in the 
future?


Does practising East Asian Film & Screen Studies in the UK result in a 
particular mode of knowledge production? How are we influenced, as new 
researchers, by location (cultural, institutional, and geographical)? 
How can we best effect the dissemination of our knowledge and maximise 
knowledge sharing among ourselves and with researchers in other parts of 
the world? Through this symposium, we hope to create a network and 
promote knowledge sharing amongst UK-based East Asian film and screen 
specialists, and to start a much-needed and comprehensive conversation 
between such specialists from across the UK.


The symposium will open with a keynote speech from Dr Julian Stringer of 
the University of Nottingham, and will close with a roundtable 
discussion on 'The Future of East Asian Film and Screens in the UK', 
featuring leading East Asian Film and Screen Studies specialists. 
Tea/coffee and a closing wine reception will be provided.


We aim to be as inclusive as possible and to provide space for all 
colleagues working on East Asian film/screen related topics to present 
their work and exchange feedback in a supportive and friendly 
environment. Therefore, we hope to receive submissions that cover the 
complete range of topics currently of interest to our research 
community. Topics may include, but are not restricted to:


·      Translations of Asian-language film, media and/or cultural theory 
into English, and its use in     English-language academic contexts

·      New and innovative applications of Euro-American theory to East 
Asian screen media

·      Historical and/or archival research and the methodology of the 
archive (preferably with a     focus on issues of archival access for 
UK-based students)

·      Papers with an audience and/or reception studies focus 
(preferably on the reception of East Asian media in the UK)

·      Stardom in East Asian film and television

·      The role of audiences and fan cultures in constructing and 
reconstructing the ?meaning of East Asian cultural texts

·      The role of film festivals in the promotion, distribution and 
exhibition of East Asian ?cinema

·      The digitization of East Asian film and television and the role 
of new media, ?including that of file-sharing networks, streaming 
services and other online media

·      The influence of, and interplay between, East Asian cinema and 
East Asian television drama

·      The cinema of colonial or occupied periods in East Asia

·      Contemporary East Asian auteur filmmakers

·      Genre in East Asian cinema, particularly genre cycles, 
conventions, and hybridity ?



We are eager to receive abstracts for both individual paper 
presentations and panel presentations. We are also particularly keen to 
organise panels by institution as well as by theme, so if there are 
multiple researchers in your department working on East Asian film, 
television or screen media, we would encourage you to consider applying 
together as an institutional panel (your papers do not have to be 
thematically linked, and could be on whatever subject you wish). ?Thanks 
to funding from the King's College Arts & Humanities Department, the 
symposium will be free for all delegates. The symposium is also 
presented in affiliation with the Chinese Visual Festival 2014.


?Please submit a 200-300 word abstract for a twenty-minute paper to 
(eastasianscreenstudies /at/ gmail.com) by Monday 17 March 2014. For those 
proposing panel presentations please also include a 200 word panel 
description.


Alice Haylett Bryan

Graham Gillespie

Mark Plaice

King's College London



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