[ecrea] "Where is Home" workshop in Hong Kong, March 22-23.

Call for papers for PhD students

WHERE IS HOME?
PLACE, BELONGING AND CITIZENSHIP IN THE ASIAN CENTURY

Organized by the University of Amsterdam, the International Institute 
for Asian Studies, Hong Kong Baptist University, and the Institute for 
Culture and Society - University of Western Sydney

22-23 March 2013
at:
Hong Kong Baptist University

In March 2013, Hong Kong Baptist University, the University of 
Amsterdam, the International Institute for Asian Studies and the 
Institute for Culture and Society of the University of Western Sydney 
will hold a two-day workshop examining the transformations of 
place-making and cultural citizenship in the era of Asian influence.  
During the first day, leading scholars in the field of cultural studies 
from different localities in Asia, including Hong Kong, Japan, Indonesia 
and South Korea, will explore the notion of place and citizenship in the 
context of the geopolitical shifts that are taking place today. In the 
second day of the workshop, PhD students are invited to present and 
discuss their work with these scholars. This call for papers is for PhD 
students to submit their abstract. The best proposals will be selected; 
students from outside of Hong Kong will be fully funded for their travel 
and accommodation expenses. There will be no workshop fee.

Procedure for PhD students
Please send by 1 November 2012:

    * a 400-word maximum abstract of your paper
    * a one-page CV
    * contact details of two referees

to Dr. Yiu Fai Chow ((yfchow /at/ hkbu.edu.hk))
The selection of candidates will be announced before 15 December 2012.

The speakers:

Ien Ang
Melani Budianta
Chu Stephen Yiu-wai (tbc)
Vivian P.Y. Lee
Koichi Iwabuchi (tbc)
Kim So-young
Walter Mignolo

The Workshop
How to feel at home in a world that seems so much in flux? Where is our 
home now that a financial crisis is haunting the world? Confronted with 
the limits of neoliberalism, can we imagine a different home, a 
different sense of belonging? And given the shifting geopolitical 
ordering of the world, what role can and does Asia play in such 
re-imaginations of home? And what does “home” mean when it is constantly 
under the threat of demolition, as is the case in today’s China? What 
constitutes a home when you are forced to migrate in search for a better 
life? These are the questions this workshop engages with.

The “rise of Asia” in the changing global context of the 21st century 
engendered real and imagined shifts in geopolitical power relations. 
While scholars have attended to the consequences of such shifts in 
economic and political terms, less attention has been given to the role 
of social and cultural processes in the “making of Asia” or to the ways 
in which such world-making constructions affect our sense of place and 
belonging: How does Asianization affect conceptions and practices of 
place, belonging and citizenship? A question that may well be formulated 
in a more banal way:  How does Asianization affect our sense of home?

Questions of place, belonging and citizenship have been high on the 
intellectual agenda since the early 1990s, yet most of these studies 
take “the West” as their focus point. The Asian turn may urge us to 
rethink these notions. With the emergence of what may be termed a Global 
Modernity, or better: Global Modernities, “Asia” and its citizens are 
reconfigured in new ways. Although citizenship has always been defined 
as a legal and political relationship between the subject and the state, 
recent studies propose a broader concept of citizenship. The dynamics 
underpinning the way in which globalization affects place-making can be 
seen as articulating new definitions of “cultural citizenship.” What 
does it mean to be Asian today, how does one feel at home, in for 
example, Hong Kong? What does belonging mean in a place like Jakarta? 
And how can culture – be it art or popular culture – help to foster 
alternative imaginations of place, home and belonging, beyond the 
confines of the authoritative discourses of nationalism, capitalism and 
religion?

We aim to address these questions through the notion of “home.” What 
makes us feel at home in a specific locality? How is the sense of home 
connected to the production of place? And how are such constructions of 
home implicated in the already mentioned authoritative discourses of 
nationalism, capitalism and religion / philosophy (for example Islam or 
Confucianism) – the three interlocking discourses that seem to 
constitute the current rise of Asia? Can one construct a sense of home 
that moves beyond these discourses, or that challenges them? Or may a 
move towards homelessness, one that gestures towards a sense of 
cosmopolitanism, be a possible tactic to resist Asianization?

Organizers:
Dr. Yiu Fai Chow (Department of Humanities and Creative Writing, Hong 
Kong Baptist University)
(yfchow /at/ hkbu.edu.hk)

Martina van den Haak (International Institute of Asian Studies, Leiden 
University)
(m.c.van.den.haak /at/ iias.nl)

Prof. Jeroen de Kloet (Amsterdam Centre for Globalisation Studies, 
University of Amsterdam)
(b.j.dekloet /at/ uva.nl)

Dr. Sonja van Wichelen (Institute for Culture and Society, University of 
Western Sydney)
(s.vanwichelen /at/ uws.edu.au)








Jeroen de Kloet
www.jeroendekloet.nl




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