The CES 2015 North America Conference

March 14-15, 2015

University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA 

http://china-ces.org/Conferences/ConferenceDefault.aspx?ID=39

 The Chinese Economists Society (CES) calls for paper submissions for its 2015  CES North America Conference, to be held at University of Michigan, March  14-15 (Saturday and Sunday), 2015. The local host for the conference is University of Michigan. It is also co-organized byHenan University, Kaifeng City, Henan Province, China.  The theme of the conference is “Economic Transformation and China’s Role in the World Economy”. The conference features some well-known scholars, invited speakers, round table forums, and parallel sessions. Arrival and registration of participants will take place on March 13, Friday. All speeches and sessions will be held on March 14-15.

This conference will promote exchanges of academic ideas related to the Chinese economy in a North American venue. It also provides an opportunity for Ph.D. students in North America interested in working in China to learn about employment opportunities in China. We invite Chinese universities to recruit at the conference for new faculty and pursue visiting opportunities in North America for their faculty members. This conference also invites student participation by offering a best paper award and valuable opportunities for students to network with experienced scholars.

PAPER SUBMISSIONS

CES invites both members and non-members to present papers and/or to propose organized sessions at the 2015 North America Conference. Non-members are invited to join CES and enjoy a discounted registration rate. All fields of specialization within Economics and Business will be considered, but papers focusing on the Chinese economy will be given priority. The abstract submission deadline is December 1, 2014.

Scholars interested in presenting a paper at the conference are asked to submit a paper proposal, which must include a title, abstract of no more than 400 words, and JEL code(s) with keywords. Paper proposals must be submitted via the CES website at www.china-ces.org. You will be notified by e-mail by December 30, 2014, as to whether your proposal has been accepted.

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Since the caesura in 1989, a sharp increase in civic activities all over the People’s Republic of China (PRC) has taken place. Civic engagement draws on historical experiences and predecessors while at the same time developing fresh modes of mobilization and engagement and employing innovative strategies to further its causes. The increased formation of citizens and the emergence of a flourishing civil society indicate a new level of civic engagement in China.

This issue takes a critical look at Chinese citizens’ activities and their engagement past and present, to analyze the changes in citizenship that has taken place in the last quarter century.

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29-30 June 2015
University of Cambridge, Centre for Research in the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences (CRASSH)

Organizers: Johannes D. Kaminski, Rudolph Ng
Keynotes: Eva Illouz, Laura Moretti

This conference will address the semantic demarcations of erotic literature. Transgressive by nature, no genre of literature is more defined by the social and aesthetic conventions that it playfully disregards or unwillingly reproduces.

Leopold von Sacher Masoch’s Venus in Furs (1870) is an excellent example of an erotic novel that has prompted a multitude of adaptions. Its translations have resonated strongly in different socio-cultural settings, no doubt in part as a result of translators’ efforts to tailor the text to new audiences. Film adaptations cover a broad spectrum, from mainstream soft-core porn to acclaimed psychological dramas such as Roman Polanski’s latest feature film (2013).

Often enough, the cross-cultural transfer of erotic literature must negotiate incompatible concepts. When Franz Kuhn translated the 17th century Chinese text The Carnal Prayer Mat 肉蒲 團 into German for the first time (1959), he glossed over the finesse of its physiological detail. The anthropological conceptions that inform the text simply proved too inconsistent with contemporaneous Western notions of the body. At any rate, upon publication, Swiss authorities decided to place the translation on the index.

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Approaching the issue in a Foucauldian vein, this seminar operates on the assumption that body is more than a physical entity; rather, body should be considered as a cultural and social presence. Likewise, as a cultural construct, sexuality is constantly and often heavily contested in its respective social context. By bringing together a set of research papers from different genres, this seminar aims at exploring various literary expressions of and reflections on body and sexuality in different literatures. Attention will be directed to how social norms and discourses on body and sexuality are constructed, modified, de-constructed, and/or reconstructed.

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The following panel has been approved by 2015 ACLA annual conference secretariat. Those interested please contact xinning13[at]jlu[dot]edu[dot]cn:

The (Re)vision of Nature, Eco-consciousness, and Modern Chinese Literature

A vibrant and productive branch of modern literary theory, eco-criticism not only unsettles the old anthropocentric view of nature and humanity and fuels environmentalist activism, but contributes, directly or indirectly, to the (re)construction of national and ethnical identities, gender roles and cultural self-imaginations in different historical contexts.  Also a cosmopolitan movement that urges a collective response of human race to the environmental challenges in the modern world, eco-criticism nonetheless vehemently condemns the rapacious and hegemonic globalization through foregrounding the importance of locality and the attachment of human beings to their immediate living environments. By contrasting what Spivak terms as “planetarity” to capitalist globalization, eco-criticism promises a cultural pluralism based on mutual recognition and respect.

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The Association for Asian Performance invites panel proposals and/or individual paper proposals for the Association of Theatre in Higher Education 2015 conference

Conference Dates and Location
July 30—August 2, 2015
Montréal, Québec, Canada
Fairmont The Queen Elizabeth Hotel

Conference Theme

Je me souviens [I Remember]: We invite you to continue to dream as we look towards our 2015 Conference in Montréal.  Quebec’s simple but provocative motto, which is not without controversy over interpretation, caught the imaginations of the members of your 2015 Conference Committee—both metaphorically and geographically.  For ATHE’s members, in the broadest sense, it invokes thoughts of remembering—remembering theatre at its best, when its immediacy and humanness is embraced, remembering our past and how it points to the future, and remembering our power to instigate change.

As most ATHE members will cross the national border of Canada and the provincial border of Quebec—which is recognized as a nation within Canada, and onto territory claimed by the First Nations Iroquois people, “Je me souviens” [I remember] can be defined by considerations of place as well. Issues of country/isolation/assimilation that began in Phoenix, as well as acts of revolt/revolution, quiet and otherwise, give rise to consideration of the silences, the unsaid, the gestures, the sub-text, the dangers, the misunderstandings, the non-discursive in the “in-between” terrain between cultures, countries, and constituencies in Canada and beyond.  Building on this, we can also embrace inter/trans-national and inter/trans-cultural exchanges in performance texts, process, or production.

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Memory, Moment, and Mobility in East Asia

East Asian Languages and Cultures Graduate Student Conference

University of Southern California, April 11-12, 2015

Proposal Submission Deadline: November 30, 2014 The Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of Southern California Graduate Student Conference invites graduate students from around the world conducting research in all disciplines related to East Asia to submit abstracts for our 2015 conference, to take place April 11 – 12, 2015. This conference aims to investigate and formulate new theorizations of memory, moment, and mobility as well as rethink how communities and individuals construct narratives in the context of East Asia. All three topics can be interpreted widely in relation to various fields, including linguistics, history, religion, literature, visual studies, new media, and cinema. Topics can include but are not limited to:

• The role of mobility in second language acquisition
• Constructed narratives of history or remembering in film, literature, and/or language
• Intersection between transpacific movement and religion
• Construction of memory in transnational cinemas
• The interplay between memory and moment in literature
• Representations of memory and history in East Asia
• Examining local communities in relation to global migration

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