[ecrea] CFP The Sense of Time in a Hyper-Mobile Digital Age Nostalgia, Presentism and Hope

Call For Paper: International Conference

The Sense of Time in a Hyper-Mobile Digital Age

Nostalgia, Presentism and Hope

18-20 May 2018

Doshisha University, Kyoto

Co-organized by Monash Asia Institute, Monash University &

Department of Media, Journalism and Communications, Doshisha University

We are living in a globalized world where the scale and speed of social 
change has been ever-escalated, cross-border human mobilities have been 
intensifying, and digital communications have been drastically 
transforming the mode of mediation and connectivity. These evolutions 
engender the complication of our sense of "now and then" in conjunction 
with that of "here and there” in ways to substantially transform the 
mode and meaning of recollecting the past, perceiving the present and 
imagining the future. This conference aims to consider whether and how 
the perception of past, present and future has been transformed in a 
hyper-mobile digital age.

While growing mobilities such as migration, tourism, expatriation, 
studying abroad and encourage people to experience plural forms of 
social life, transnational crisscrossing of visual images that represent 
diverse modes of "now and then" across the world further gives us much 
repertoire to long for what used to be and contemplate on the present 
and future. Sophisticated visualization and documentation of the 
(non-existing) past has also become a marketing trend of commercial 
media. Moreover, revolutionary development of digital communication 
technologies has a profound impact on how we recollect the past, 
perceive the present and imagine the future in more individualized ways. 
Does individualized action of recollecting the immediate past or 
embryonic present discount the potential of collective memory as a 
self-reflexive reference point? Does it make us ahistorical being, 
deterring us from appreciating how the present has been dynamically 
constructed through various historical accidents and intermingling 
actions by diverse social subjects and institutions and appreciating 
unrealized progressive possibilities of social advancements? Or an 
individualized mode of nostalgia has a great capability to make people 
more positive about life, more tolerant and caring for others and less 
wary of interpersonal relationship, as personality psychologists insist? 
Whether and how does the emerging perception of past, present and future 
relate to the time-space compression that market-driven globalization 
processes have been intensifying? How the digitalized sense of time 
flows works in tandem with shrinking time frame to recollect and foresee 
with accelerating speed of change and socio-economic insecurity and 
frustration that accompany? While the ever-escalating speed of change 
and scale of movement evokes the desire of slowing down, whether and how 
is it associated with nostalgic recollection and/or future prospects?


The Sense of Time in a Hyper-Mobile Digital Age aims to critically 
examine these issues and facilitate cross-regional and interdisciplinary 
exchange among researchers working on them in the disciplines and fields 
of cultural studies, anthropology, sociology, geography, intercultural 
communication, and so on. Selected papers will be published in an edited 
volume or a journal special issue.We will consider the inclusion of 
papers that discuss the shifting sense of time in relation to the 
development of digital and social media and the rise of data industry in 
conjunction with the intensification of mobilities and cross-border 
connections and far-reaching socio-economic fluctuation and predicament. 
We expect papers that consider these issues by attending to intersecting 
socio-cultural backgrounds such as generation, gender, sexuality, class, 
ethnicity, mobility experience and region of dwelling (including urban 
and rural). We will accept proposals of any national/regional context, 
but we especially encourage the submission of the proposals on Asian 
contexts.

Confirmed speakers include: Göran Bolin (Södertörn University), Marwan 
Kraidy (University of Pennsylvania), Shin Mizukoshi (University of 
Tokyo), Jack Qiu (Chinese University of Hong Kong)

Please send your paper proposals (less than 200 words) with your 
affiliation details and e-mail address no later than 30 September 2017 
to: (MAI-Enquiries /at/ monash.edu) <mailto:(MAI-Enquiries /at/ monash.edu)>

Please clearly put “Proposal for DIGITAL TIME” in the subject line.

Acceptance of proposal will be notified by the end of October.

Please kindly be advised that we will not be able to offer financial 
support for participants’ travel costs. You can find more details of the 
workshop and the venue at the webpage of Monash Asia Institute: 
http://artsonline.monash.edu.au/mai/


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