Association of American Geographers (AAG) Annual聽Meeting 2013
Los Angeles April 9-13th | Deadline: September 21, 2012
Session Title:聽Port Cityscapes: Dynamic Perspectives on the Port-City-Waterfront Interface.聽Ports, waterfronts, and their cities remain closely interconnected,聽despite the structural changes in global trade, shipping and logistics聽which have transformed their spatial and functional-economic聽relationships. Scholars have approached specific elements of this聽complex interface from selected disciplinary perspectives. Transport and聽economic geographers have focused on the position of ports in spatially聽extensive supply chains and global production networks as well as the聽regionalization of the port system and of logistics activity, and port聽governance reform. Architectural and planning practitioners as well as聽urban historians, have focused on waterfront transformation as the聽frontline of urban regeneration and as part of the shift to a聽post-industrial economy. Social and urban geographers have focused on聽the redevelopment of waterfronts for high end uses/users as well as the聽displacement of the urban working class. As a result, port cities are聽now studied and transformed by different (disciplinary) perspectives and聽often unconnected actors and stakeholders, even though the long-standing聽functional and spatial relation between port and city 銉籲ow understood聽to include the larger metropolitan area 銉籧ontinues.聽This session invites papers on port cities which critically assess the聽fraught but dynamic relationships that exist between ports, waterfronts,聽and urban development. We invite scholars from various academic聽backgrounds to reflect on current theoretical developments in their聽specific fields, to discuss theoretical and methodological approaches as聽well as the inherent conceptual implications in interdisciplinary聽research on port cities, and to critically assess emerging port聽cityscapes through a range of global case studies.
Please submit abstracts of no more than 250 words by Friday 21st聽September 2012 by email to any of the session organizers:聽Wouter Jacobs (W.A.A.Jacobs@uu.nl),聽Carola Hein (chein@brynmawr.edu),聽Anne Wiese (langer-wiese@tum.de),聽Peter V. Hall (pvhall@sfu.ca).聽Successful submissions will be contacted by 1st October 2012 and will be聽expected to register and submit their abstracts online at the AAG聽website by October 24th 2012.
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Representations of Shanghai: Film and Fiction
Boston, MA, March 21-24, 2013 | Deadline: September 30, 2012
Because of its unique historical and geopolitical situation -- major聽Asian port, economic target for Western and Eastern powers, and node聽for conflicts between nationalists and communists -- Shanghai has been聽the object of literary and cinematographic representation throughout聽the 20th and 21st centuries. This NeMLA panel will analyze, organize,聽and probe the representation of Shanghai by Asian, European, and聽American writers and filmmakers. Comparative approaches and聽reflections on cultural history are particularly welcomed. Format may聽range from traditional papers to multi-media presentations.
Please send 250-500word abstracts to Lisa Bernstein at聽lbernstein@umuc.edu and Richard Schumaker at聽rschumaker@umuc.edu.
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International聽Young Scholars Conference 2013
Philippines, May 17-19, 2013 | Deadline: October 1, 2012
The College of Liberal Arts of De La Salle University invites graduate聽students, researchers, junior faculty, and scholars from Asia and the聽Pacific to share and present their research works in its International聽Young Scholars Conference 2013. In line with the theme: The Youth and聽the Asia-Pacific in the 21st Century, the conference aims to explore聽the local, national, and global participation of young people in聽locating and contextualizing their social positions, voices,聽discourses, and practices that have changed and made a major impact in聽the lives of many people in the Asia-Pacific region and around the聽globe.
The conference aims to provide a venue for dialogue and sharing of聽knowledge and experiences between young scholars and the leading聽international experts in the social sciences and humanities.聽To be held in world-famous Boracay beach, Philippines on May 17-19,聽2013 [in original text typographical error reads 2012].聽To submit your abstract online and to know more about registration聽fees and other details, kindly visit聽
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The 43rd Annual Urban Affairs Association Conference
San Francisco, California April 3-6, 2013 | Deadline: October 1, 2012
We invite you to submit a proposal for participation in the 2013 Urban聽Affairs Association Conference. UAA conferences are attended by scholar聽and practitioners from a variety of disciplines and are noted as a聽welcoming context for a diverse array of perspectives.
Call for participation:聽
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Tourism and the Shifting Values of Cultural Heritage:聽Visiting Pasts, Developing Futures
National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, April 5-9, 2013 | Deadline: October 5, 2012
The cultural heritage of nation states, regions and communities is not聽only seen as a marker of identity but is also, more than ever, open and聽projected for global consumption. Domestic and international tourists聽visit both their own pasts and those of others through a vast diversity of聽tangible heritage sites--buildings, monuments, museums, landscapes聽etc.--and also a variety of intangible heritage rituals and performances.聽But the motivations and practices of those which are involved in the聽protection, preservation, display and management of cultural heritage can,聽and frequently do, differ from tourists who metaphorically "visit" the聽past and, the tourism sector which selectively packages the past in the聽form of heritage. Such divergences reflect the different values attached聽to cultural heritage and the different value systems through which聽heritage is filtered.
In this context, this conference seeks to examine both the tensions and聽opportunities in the processes of valuing and protecting cultural heritage and,聽in mobilising it for development purposes in the wider social sphere. We wish聽to explore how heritage "works" in the context of shifting and mobile values聽and, the various ways in which tourism and tourists shape, embed and change the聽value of heritage in societies.
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The creation and circulation of Chinese Identities in and through cinema
Chinese Arts Centre, Manchester, UK,聽January 29-30, 2013 | Deadline: October 26, 2012
The Chinese Film Forum UK, a research network supported by the AHRC, is hosting its second symposium. The focus is on the creation and circulation of Chinese identities in and through cinema.聽Questions of identity and representation have been prominent in film studies, including the proliferation of work produced on Chinese cinemas to date. However, the question of how identities may be circulated, and created, through cinema as a socio-cultural formation and industrial product remains to be further explored. For example, what role do genres play in identity formation and circulation? How do distribution networks and marketing practices impact on what kinds of Chinese films are produced and received? Is there a space that exists for multilingualism and cultural diversity within Chinese cinemas, and what implications might it have for how Chinese cinemas are conceptualised?聽
150-200 word proposals for papers or contributions and a short biography should be sent by 26th October 2012 to both Felicia Chan Felicia.Chan@manchester.ac.uk聽and Andy Willis a.willis@salford.ac.uk
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Berkeley-Stanford Graduate Student Conference in Modern Chinese聽Humanities
Stanford University, April 26-27, 2013 | Deadline: November 16, 2012
Initiated in 2010, the annual Berkeley-Stanford Graduate Student聽Conference in Modern Chinese Humanities brings together current聽graduate students from across the U.S. and around the world to present聽innovative research on any aspect of modern Chinese cultural聽production in any humanistic discipline. This not only provides a聽window into what kind of new research is going on right now in Chinese聽Studies, but also gives budding scholars the opportunity to interact聽with peers from geographically disparate institutions whom they might聽not otherwise be exposed to, allowing a broad platform for the sharing聽of ideas and interests. Specifically, it is hoped this conference will聽encourage interdisciplinary scholarship within and between literary聽and cultural studies, cultural history, art history, film and media聽studies, musicology and sound studies, as well as the interpretative聽social sciences.
To apply, submit a single-spaced 300-word paper proposal and short bio聽via our online submission system.聽 Proposals/bios due: November 16, 2012.聽Notification of acceptance by: December 31, 2012聽Full papers due: March 29, 2013.聽For past conferences, please see:聽
Please send a 300 word abstract of your paper with a clear title to:聽ironbridge@contacts.bham.ac.uk as soon as possible but no later than October聽5th 2012. Please be sure to include your full contact details.
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Dragon Tails 2013: Tradition and modernity amongst聽overseas Chinese
University of Wollongong, NSW, Australia, July 6-8, 2013 | Deadline: December 15, 2012
Following on from the success of the Dragon Tails conferences at聽Ballarat in 2009 and the Chinese Museum in Melbourne in 2011, we will聽be holding the third Dragon Tails conference at the University of聽Wollongong in NSW. Dragon Tails 2013 is timed to coincide with the聽Australian Historical Association conference also being held at聽Wollongong from 8-12 July 2013.聽Dragon Tails 2003 will explore the twin forces of tradition and聽modernity, examining cultural maintenance and evolution amongst聽overseas Chinese. Diverse aspects of tradition and modernity could be聽considered through papers on religion, family values, community聽organisation, business and trade activities, gender roles, labour聽relations, political action, the arts and architecture etc. We聽encourage papers which take an Australian or local focus as well as聽papers on the global Chinese diaspora. We welcome the attendance and聽participation of family historians. Professor Henry Yu from University聽of British Columbia, Canada, will be the Keynote Speaker.
Abstracts and panel proposals should be submitted by 15 December 2012聽via the Dragon Tails website聽