[ecrea] CFP: Cool New Asia: East Asian Popular Culture in a Local Context

* /Cool New Asia: Asian Popular Culture in a Local Context/*

*Date: 25^th  and 26^th  November, 2011*

*Location: Unitec Institute of Technology: Auckland, New Zealand.*

*Abstract Submission Due Date: August 31^st , 2011.*

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*Confirmed Keynote Speaker: *Professor Koichi Iwabuchi (Waseda 
University, Tokyo)

Koichi Iwabuchi is Professor of media and cultural studies at the School 
of International Liberal Studies of Waseda University in Tokyo. He has 
been worked on the issues of media and cultural globalization and 
transnational connections, multicultural questions and cultural 
citizenship in the Japanese and East Asian context. His English 
publications include: /Recentering Globalization: Popular culture and 
Japanese Transnationalism/ (Duke University Press, 2002); /Feeling Asian 
Modernities: Transnational Consumption of Japanese TV Dramas/ (ed. Hong 
Kong University Press, 2004); /East Asian Pop Culture: Analyzing the 
Korean Wave/ (co-eds with Chua Beng Huat, Hong Kong University Press, 
2008). He is an editor of a Hong Kong University Press book series, 
/TransAsia: Screen Cultures/.**

*Symposium Theme:*

As popular culture flows and consumption opportunities become 
increasingly ubiquitous, what is often overlooked is the marked and 
local specificity of the popular culture texts themselves. In 
multicultural societies there is growing interest expressed by different 
agencies to utilise popular culture for their own purposes. We are 
particularly interested in the theme of the emerging conflict between 
different agencies performing popular culture, especially as popular 
culture texts are used, misused or abused in the pursuit of singularly 
local objectives and stable cultural identities. Questions of ownership, 
authenticity and the production/negotiating of identity are central when 
considering the role diasporic and immigrant communities play in any 
local environment.

This symposium seeks to bring together scholars and practitioners from 
across the spectrum of popular culture production and theorisation, 
leading to new understandings of the ways in which international popular 
culture and particularly East Asian popular culture is produced and 
consumed in a local context.

We invite proposals for individual paper presentations and panel 
proposals with up to 4 participants. Individual papers in the form of 
250-word abstracts and panel proposals in the form of 200-word panel 
proposal and 250-word individual abstracts, to be sent to the conference 
organisers:

Dr. Elena Kolesova: (ekolesov /at/ unitec.ac.nz)

Dr. Scott Wilson: (swilson2 /at/ unitec.ac.nz)

Suggested Presentation Topics Include (but are not limited to):

· Identity Construction and Popular Culture

· National Identity

· New Media

· Adaptation

· Fans and Audiences

· Asian goods outside of Asia

· East Asian Popular Culture (either general studies or specific textual 
examinations but with the focus on a consumption of Asian Popular 
Culture outside of Asia)

· Media-specific Production and Consumption

· Popular Culture Production

· Subaltern Groups

Free papers are also most welcome.

On your abstract proposal please indicate the following:

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     title of paper

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     author/s (please include a short bio)

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     contact details

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     three to four keywords

On your panel proposal please indicate the following:

· title of panel

· panel chair

· panel abstract

· individual paper abstracts

· short bios of all panel participants

Original papers will be considered for publication in a proposed book to 
be made up of selected, refereed papers.

*Key words: identity, ideology, nationalism, pop(ular) culture, agency, 
subaltern cultures, power struggle*

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