[Commlist] CFP: The 12th Biennial Association for Southeast Asian Cinemas Conference

    CFP: The 12th Biennial Association for Southeast Asian Cinemas
    Conference

    Sustainable futures: ecologies, kinships, and communities in
    Southeast Asian Cinemas


    The 12th Biennial Association for Southeast Asian Cinemas Conference
    (ASEACC)  will take place at Chiang Mai University, on 14 – 16
    August 2025. The focus of the conference is Sustainable Futures:
    ecologies, kinships and communities in Southeast Asian Cinemas. This
    theme will be addressed from a broad range of perspectives in order
    to encourage critical engagement with current debates in film theory
    and the environmental humanities, inviting papers that theorize the
    diverse film and media practices across Southeast Asia including new
    developments in artists’ moving image, video art, VR, and activist
    media.

    Recent years have seen a surge of interest in ecological approaches
    to film and media studies including publications devoted to
    Southeast Asia (e.g. Chua, Davis and Taylor, 2021; Chulphongsathorn
    and Lovatt, 2022; Ryan and Telles, 2022). Seeking to build on this
    work, the conference invites papers that develop new approaches to
    questions of ecology and sustainability from a variety of
    perspectives including film production, exhibition, discussion and
    circulation. We are interested in papers that respond to questions
    such as: What can a specific focus on Southeast Asian film bring to
    existing debates within the fields of energy ethics, the blue
    humanities, posthumanism and human-nonhuman relations (including
    human-spirit) and/or animal studies? And what kinds of practices
    build and sustain communities, kinships and solidarities in the face
    of ongoing ecological and humanitarian crises brought about by
    extractivist capitalism, war and authoritarianism?

    We welcome a range of methodological and theoretical approaches.
    Topics could include (but are not limited to):

    Sustainable practices in film production and archiving

    Materialism, extractivism, electronic waste

    Feminist, indigenous and decolonial theories of environmental histories

    Queer ecologies

    Animism and more-than-human relations in film aesthetics, genres and
    narratives

    Sustaining practices of kinship and communities through film
    production, exhibition, criticism and pedagogy

    Cinema and moving images in the context of ritual, religious and
    other supra-human engagements

    Migration, war, and human rights on screen

    Animal studies and film

    Energy ethics on screen

    Blue humanities, oceanic humanities

    Elemental media

    Useful cinema, non-theatrical cinema, industrial films,
    infrastructural cinema

    Activist film and video, social movements

    Film and the plantationocene

    Abstract Submission Deadline: December 1, 2024.

    Please use the online forms below to submit your paper or panel
    proposals. Paper and panel abstracts should not exceed 300 words.
    Panels should have at least three papers but not more than four
    papers, and each panel proposal must also be accompanied by the
    corresponding paper proposal for each paper on the panel.

    Graduate students are invited to apply for an online workshop, which
    will be held via Zoom the day prior to the conference on August 13,
    2025. Workshop participants will be divided into small groups of 3-4
    students. Each group will work with a mentor, who will offer close
    feedback on their submissions and moderate the workshop. Everyone in
    the group will read each other’s work and offer constructive advice
    during the workshop, in the spirit of intellectual engagement and
    generosity. We welcome submissions of completed drafts or
    works-in-progress (future conference presentations or research
    publications).

    Panel proposers: https://tinyurl.com/aseacc2025panels
    <https://tinyurl.com/aseacc2025panels>

    Paper proposers: https://tinyurl.com/aseacc2025papers
    <https://tinyurl.com/aseacc2025papers>

    Graduate workshop proposers: https://tinyurl.com/aseacc2025gsw
    <https://tinyurl.com/aseacc2025gsw>

    For conference inquiries, please email the abstracts committee:
    Leong Yew – NUS College (lyew /at/ nus.edu) <mailto:(lyew /at/ nus.edu)>; Mariam
    Lam – University of California-Riverside (mariam.lam /at/ ucr.edu)
    <mailto:(mariam.lam /at/ ucr.edu)>; Katrina Tan – University of the
    Philippines Los Baños (katan /at/ up.edu.ph) <mailto:(katan /at/ up.edu.ph)> and
    Sophia Siddique – Vassar College (soharvey /at/ vassar.edu)
    <mailto:(soharvey /at/ vassar.edu)>.

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