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[Commlist] Final CfP: Zines and self-publishing in Chinese cultures

Mon Nov 22 14:08:03 GMT 2021





*Zines and self-publishing in Chinese cultures*

Date: January 14th and 21st

Time: 09:00 - 17:00 GMT

Format: Online, but we can help organise regional clusters for those who wish to take part communally and offline

Submission Deadline: November 26th [*Extended: *December 3rd]

Contact: (carwyn.morris /at/ manchester.ac.uk)

Submission:https://forms.gle/Ukq7kSZWEPYbUMsL7 <https://forms.gle/Ukq7kSZWEPYbUMsL7> *Full CfP*: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1jzuvx4PAhK15B0Z6wHlJ-_Roo91PaYjXm9CI_8SOVMc/edit?usp=sharing <https://docs.google.com/document/d/1jzuvx4PAhK15B0Z6wHlJ-_Roo91PaYjXm9CI_8SOVMc/edit?usp=sharing> *Output*: A special issue in theBritish Journal of Chinese Studies <https://bjocs.site/index.php/bjocs>

Theme: A two-day conference exploring zines and self-publishing in Chinese cultures. The conference encourages submissions from any intellectual, academic or artistic perspective, and we further encourage contributions that explore zines and self-publishing related to feminist perspectives and LGBTQI+ themes. Zines, often forms of do-it-yourself self-published booklets, were thought by many to be a potential casualty of the digital age. Rather than losing their relevance, zines have re-emerged as a profound, powerful, and intimate form of story-telling, information sharing and artistic practice. Yet, while zines are increasingly popular, published research on zines in Chinese cultures is still limited. This is surprising, as zines in Chinese cultures have been used to tell many academically relevant stories, including stories of protest, migrant lives, diasporic thought, racism, food cultures, gender inequality and LGBTQI+ struggles. This conference seeks to stimulate conversations and research directions on zines and self-publishing inChinese cultures and to bring together academics and non-academics to encourage future collaboration.

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As an emerging area of research, the conference is not limited to 'experts' in any field, we seek to bring interested parties together to imagine new possibilities. This may include, but is definitely not limited to, (i) those researching zines related to Chinese cultures, (ii) scholars of zines more broadly, (iii) scholars of self-published and/or feminist media related to Chinese cultures, (iv) those teaching about zines and self-published media and (v) those producing zines and self-published media. To help discuss these issues we have several academic and non-academics already confirmed as taking part in the conference, includingLittle Mountain Press <https://www.littlemountainpress.com/>,Zine Coop <https://zinecoop.org/en>,Krish Raghav <https://twitter.com/krishraghav>,Rosemary Clark-Parsons <https://www.sp2.upenn.edu/people/view/rosemary-clark-parsons/>,Melanie Ramdarshan Bold <https://www.ucl.ac.uk/information-studies/melanie-ramdarshan-bold>,Hongwei Bao <https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/clas/people/hongwei.bao>,Dian Dian <https://emory.academia.edu/DianDian>,Kirsty Fife <https://www.mmu.ac.uk/infocomms/staff/profile/index.php?id=5329>,Denise Kwan <https://www.objectstories.co.uk/> andKin Long Tong <https://www.researchgate.net/publication/344709339_DIY_Print_Activism_in_Digital_Age_Zines_in_Hong_Kong's_Social_Movements>. We have a range of zine and self-published media producers from Chinese cultures around the world taking part. We will also be hosting two online zine making workshops from zine makers working in Chinese cultures to help further explore practices of zine making and self-publishing.

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We encourage submissions of individual papers and full sessions, including experimental formats, onany topic related to zines and self-publishing in Chinese cultures. Please use the Google Form above to submit an abstract or a session. You can read the Full CfP and see the conference poster through the Google Doc linked above. If you would like more information, or wish to discuss a potential contribution, feel free to email me. I would appreciate if you could submit your rough/non-final abstract or session idea by December 3rd.

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