[Commlist] Conference - The Pan-Asian Quest for Cultural Authenticity: The Fantastic and the Folkloric in Film and the Creative Industries

*_Call For Conference Papers: ‘The Pan-Asian Quest for Cultural 
Authenticity: The Fantastic and the Folkloric in Film and the Creative 
Industries’_*

May 3^rd  and 4^th  2024, University of Nottingham Ningbo China

Steering committee: Dr. Mary J. Ainslie, Dr. Corey Schultz, Dr. Linnie 
Blake.

Deadline for submitting proposals: _29 February 2024 _

Researchers are invited to submit proposals for a conference examining 
the folkloric’s exploration of identity in the wider Asian context. Over 
the course of the last decade, the creative economies of the 
Asia-Pacific have become a key element in the promoted growth of this 
region. In response to wider global economic changes and the development 
of technology, the arts sector reorientated to the digital era, gaining 
an increased level of importance due to its crucial role in forming new 
Media Capitals, export markets and inter-regional circulation dynamics. 
Amidst this rapid development, one major discourse that underpins the 
creative economies in Asia is the promotion of the traditional cultural 
sphere, realized through behaviors, artifacts, beliefs and discourses 
that can often be labelled as folklore. This mass cultural deployment of 
the folkloric often involves the reappropriation of traditional figures, 
stories and tropes, one most evident in films, television, theatre and 
various transmedia franchises. Engendered by wider forces of 
globalisation and the neoliberal capitalism that underpins it, this 
folkloric search for cultural authenticity in the globalized context can 
provide relief and retreat from rapid modernisation and urbanization.

This conference seeks to explore folklore as a form of cultural 
expression of both the material dislocations of contemporary life and 
the emergence of transnational viewing practices in the digital age. 
Such elements have been incarnated and reappropriated in films, theatre 
productions and OTT platform products, all of which form a key part of 
creative economies across Asia.

Suggested Topics (though not limited to):

lRepresentations and constructions of folklore in film, television, and 
games

lFolklore-inspired tourism

lThe representation of minorities and minority communities

lHeritage and the growth of heritage industries

lThe turn towards folklore in cultural studies and the creative industries;

lThe promotion and business of the heritage industries

lThe promotion and circulation of folklore

lForms of cultural heritage in the media

Please submit proposals of up to _250 words_, 5 key words, and a brief 
biography of up to _100 words_ to https://forms.office.com/r/mUaXJ9gbzf 
<https://forms.office.com/r/mUaXJ9gbzf>by _29 February 2024_.** Further 
information about the conference can be found here: 
https://www.nottingham.edu.cn/en/humanities-and-social-sciences/schools-and-department/international-communications/research/the-pan-asian-quest-for-cultural-authenticity.aspx 
<https://www.nottingham.edu.cn/en/humanities-and-social-sciences/schools-and-department/international-communications/research/the-pan-asian-quest-for-cultural-authenticity.aspx> For 
questions or further information, please contact 
(Mary.Ainslie /at/ nottingham.edu.cn) 
<mailto:(Mary.Ainslie /at/ nottingham.edu.cn)> and/or 
(Corey.Schultz /at/ nottingham.edu.cn) 
<mailto:(Corey.Schultz /at/ nottingham.edu.cn)>Participants will be informed 
about selection by the end of March 2024.

The event is funded by the Institute for Asia and Pacific Studies 
<https://www.nottingham.edu.cn/en/humanities-and-social-sciences/research/iaps/home.aspx>and 
the School of International Communications 
<https://www.nottingham.edu.cn/en/humanities-and-social-sciences/schools-and-department/international-communications/home.aspx> at 
the University of Nottingham Ningbo China.

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