[ecrea] Call for Panels and Papers--Beyond the Culture Industry (National University of Singapore)

Main theme: *BEYOND THE CULTURE INDUSTRY*

Date: *July 3rd to July 5th 2013
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Venue: *National University of Singapore*, Kent Ridge Campus

Organizers: Inter-Asia Cultural Studies Society, Asia Research 
Institute, and Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, NUS

Opening keynote speaker: Professor Lily Kong, Vice-President, National 
University of Singapore

Plenary panel 1: Beyond the Culture Industry. Speakers include Professor 
Stephan Chan (Academic Dean, Faculty of Arts, Lingnan University, Hong Kong)

Plenary panel 2: Power, Politics and Pop Culture -- Chua Beng Huat's 
Scholarship. Speakers include Professor Kuan-Hsing Chen (National Chiao 
Tung University, Taiwan), Professor Meaghan Morris (University of 
Sydney), Associate Professors Kian-Woon Kwok and C.J.W.L. Wee (Nanyang 
Technological University, Singapore)

Plenary panel 3: States of Emergency. Speakers include Professor Hee 
Yeon Cho (SungKongHoe University, Seoul), and Hilmar Farid (National 
University of Singapore)

Closing keynote speaker: Professor Thongchai Winichakul, University of 
Wisconsin-Madison


CALL FOR PANELS AND PAPERS

Submission deadline: *Dec 1st 2012* -- online submission form for 
panels, for papers (http://culturalstudies.asia/)

Announcement of accepted panels and papers: Jan 1st 2013

Email: (iacs.conference /at/ gmail.com)

For graduate students, please submit your paper for the Graduate 
Conference, 1-2 July 2013

The general theme of the 2013 conference is "Beyond the Culture 
Industry". In the past two decades, the cultural sphere of rising Asian 
economies has increasingly shifted from being marked by the politics of 
authoritarianism and democratization to being pervaded by the market 
logic of deepening capitalism. The development of Asian culture 
industries has come under increasing scrutiny in cultural studies. 
However, we note that the emphases have been on the cultural policy of 
developmental states and the production of the cultural economy. For the 
2013 conference, we seek to move beyond these emphases and inquire into 
the politics of culture that accompanies the neoliberalization of the 
cultural sphere.

We welcome panel proposals of 3-4 papers based on the general theme and 
other important topics in inter-Asia cultural studies today. Panels 
proposed will be listed on the Submitted Panels page on the IACS Society 
website. To facilitate panel construction and encourage interaction 
between scholars, we will be providing the Call for Panels Bulletin 
Board for prospective panel organizers to put up their panel ideas and 
contact email --- interested presenters are encouraged to either look 
for a panel to join or to put up a panel idea on the Bulletin Board. The 
call is now open --- please submit your panel proposal using our Call 
for Panels online form.

While we prefer panel proposals, we will be accepting individual paper 
proposals, on condition that author(s) would accept our decision on the 
organization of relevant papers into panels and the right to reorganize 
panels due to withdrawals and other contingencies. Papers proposed will 
be listed on the Submitted Papers page of the IACS Society website. The 
call is now open --- please submit your paper proposal using our Call 
for Papers online form.

We are organizing a post-graduate conference over 2 days, 1st-2nd July, 
before the main conference. The call for post-graduate papers is now 
open. To encourage peer interaction, exchange and support between 
post-graduate students in a conducive learning environment, 
post-graduate students are required to submit their papers for the 
post-graduate conference. Post-graduate student papers will only be 
considered for the main conference if the papers are part of panels 
proposed by faculty members of a tertiary educational or research 
institution.


REGISTRATION FEES

Registration fees are tiered according to the country your institution 
is based in:

Tier 1, SGD $200: OECD countries, EU countries, Gulf Cooperation Council 
countries, Hong Kong, Macao, Singapore, Taiwan
Tier 2, SGD $150: China, India, Indonesia, Iran, Malaysia, the 
Philippines, Russia, Thailand
Tier 3, SGD $100: All other countries
Student, SGD $50: All graduate students

Registration for the conference will open after the announcement of 
accepted papers and panels on 1st January 2013. The fees will be 
collected through online credit card payment on this website. Conference 
participants must register by 1st March 2013.

Limited grants for registration and accommodation will be given out to 
applicants from institutions based in Tier 3 countries on a case-by-case 
basis. Application will open with the registration.


ACCOMMODATION

Participants are responsible for making their own arrangements for 
accommodation in Singapore. We will be making recommendations for hotels 
when registration opens. Public transportation is convenient and 
inexpensive in Singapore. Traveling to the conference venue, the Faculty 
of Arts and Social Sciences, would take 15-20 minutes by taxi from the 
recommended hotels.

We will also be block-booking 200 inexpensive, air-conditioned single 
rooms at the Prince George's Park Residences on campus. Priority will be 
given to graduate student participants, and participants from 
institutions based in Tier 2 and Tier 3 countries on a 
first-come-first-served basis.


CONFERENCE EVENTS

We will be hosting a welcome cocktail reception on the first evening of 
the conference.

The IACS Society will be organizing a conference dinner on the last 
evening of the conference at the Guild House on campus. Subsidized meal 
tickets will be sold.

Film screening facilities are available at the conference venue, with 
seating capacity of up to 300 people. If you have a film you would like 
to screened at the conference, please email the IACS Society Conference 
Secretary to make arrangements.


For all enquiries, please email the IACS Society Conference Secretary, 
Dr Daniel Goh, (iacs.conference /at/ gmail.com) <mailto:(iacs.conference /at/ gmail.com)>