[Commlist] Call for Presenters: AAS-IN-ASIA 2025 Panel on Popular Culture, Media, and Fandom in Global Asias

We invite presenters to submit paper abstracts for a panel for the2025 
AAS-IN-ASIA Conference 
<https://www.asianstudies.org/conferences/aas-in-asia/call-for-proposals/>held 
on June 1-4 in Kathmandu, Nepal.**

*Popular Culture, Media, and Fandom in Global Asias*

Chairs/Organizers:
Sneha Annavarapu, Yale-NUS College
Michelle H. S. Ho, National University of Singapore

In this panel, we aim to curate a conversation around the 
interrelationship between popular cultures, fandom practices and 
technologically-mediated mobilities in “Global Asias,” broadly defined 
in terms of its geographical region and discourse as well as going 
beyond this to examine its global relations and imaginations. We center 
how popular culture and fandom create and sustain sociality, belonging, 
and representation at a global scale while reproducing modalities and 
means of exclusion. Teasing out how gender, sexuality, race, ethnicity, 
and disability are represented on screen via-a-vis how they complicate 
the dynamics of community-making in fandom communities, we bring 
together diverse scholars working in transnational Asian contexts to 
cast a curious and critical lens on world-making in and around popular 
and media cultures.

Possible topics may include but aren’t limited to:

  * Digital feminist embodiment and gendered bodies in social media and
    popular cultures
  * LGBTQ+ representation and social movements in digital media and
    popular cultures
  * Race/ethnicity and representation in in digital media and popular
    cultures
  * Intersectional identities, intimacies, and communities in gaming,
    dating apps, and social media platforms
  * Anti-fandom, negative affects, and digital harms
  * Inclusion and exclusion of bodies with disabilities at the marginsof
    digital media and popular cultures, including accessibility in
    gaming, dating apps, and social media platforms
  * Fandom, urbanism, and mobilities in digital media and popular cultures

Interested presenters should email a 250-word abstract, including a 
working title for your paper, and short author bio to Michelle Ho 
((_michelle.ho /at/ nus.edu.sg) <mailto:(michelle.ho /at/ nus.edu.sg)>_) by*Sunday 
October 13, 2024*.

Scholars—including graduate students and junior scholars—working in 
comparative Asian contexts, such as Asian American and Asian Australian 
contexts, are especially welcome to join us. There may also be an 
opportunity for a special issue or edited volume to come out of this 
conference.


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