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[Commlist] Conference - The Pan-Asian Quest for Cultural Authenticity: The Fantastic and the Folkloric in Film and the Creative Industries

Wed Jan 24 15:43:30 GMT 2024






*_Call For Conference Papers: ‘The Pan-Asian Quest for Cultural Authenticity: The Fantastic and the Folkloric in Film and the Creative Industries’_*

May 3^rd  and 4^th  2024, University of Nottingham Ningbo China

Steering committee: Dr. Mary J. Ainslie, Dr. Corey Schultz, Dr. Linnie Blake.

Deadline for submitting proposals: _29 February 2024 _

Researchers are invited to submit proposals for a conference examining the folkloric’s exploration of identity in the wider Asian context. Over the course of the last decade, the creative economies of the Asia-Pacific have become a key element in the promoted growth of this region. In response to wider global economic changes and the development of technology, the arts sector reorientated to the digital era, gaining an increased level of importance due to its crucial role in forming new Media Capitals, export markets and inter-regional circulation dynamics. Amidst this rapid development, one major discourse that underpins the creative economies in Asia is the promotion of the traditional cultural sphere, realized through behaviors, artifacts, beliefs and discourses that can often be labelled as folklore. This mass cultural deployment of the folkloric often involves the reappropriation of traditional figures, stories and tropes, one most evident in films, television, theatre and various transmedia franchises. Engendered by wider forces of globalisation and the neoliberal capitalism that underpins it, this folkloric search for cultural authenticity in the globalized context can provide relief and retreat from rapid modernisation and urbanization.

This conference seeks to explore folklore as a form of cultural expression of both the material dislocations of contemporary life and the emergence of transnational viewing practices in the digital age. Such elements have been incarnated and reappropriated in films, theatre productions and OTT platform products, all of which form a key part of creative economies across Asia.

Suggested Topics (though not limited to):

lRepresentations and constructions of folklore in film, television, and games

lFolklore-inspired tourism

lThe representation of minorities and minority communities

lHeritage and the grow of heritage industries

lThe turn towards folklore in cultural studies and the creative industries;

lThe promotion and business of the heritage industries

lThe promotion and circulation of folklore

lForms of cultural heritage in the media

Please submit proposals of up to _250 words_, 5 key words, and a brief biography of up to _100 words_ to https://forms.office.com/r/mUaXJ9gbzf <https://forms.office.com/r/mUaXJ9gbzf>by _29 February 2024_.** Further information about the conference can be found here: https://www.nottingham.edu.cn/en/humanities-and-social-sciences/schools-and-department/international-communications/research/the-pan-asian-quest-for-cultural-authenticity.aspx <https://www.nottingham.edu.cn/en/humanities-and-social-sciences/schools-and-department/international-communications/research/the-pan-asian-quest-for-cultural-authenticity.aspx> For questions or further information, please contact (Mary.Ainslie /at/ nottingham.edu.cn) <mailto:(Mary.Ainslie /at/ nottingham.edu.cn)> and/or (Corey.Schultz /at/ nottingham.edu.cn) <mailto:(Corey.Schultz /at/ nottingham.edu.cn)>Participants will be informed about selection by the end of March 2024.

The event is funded by the Institute for Asia and Pacific Studies <https://www.nottingham.edu.cn/en/humanities-and-social-sciences/research/iaps/home.aspx>and the School of International Communications <https://www.nottingham.edu.cn/en/humanities-and-social-sciences/schools-and-department/international-communications/home.aspx> at the University of Nottingham Ningbo China.

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