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Date: Jeudi, 05 Août, 2010 À 00:00
Durée: 1 Jour
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  Type
Call for contributions
Date
31 March - 3 April 2011
Answer before
5 August 2010
Place
Honolulu, Hawaii
As part of a larger conference, submissions are being soliticed for two panels of particular interest to urban researchers. Details of the general call for papers can be found here, while the call for contributions to specific panels is here (scroll down or search for the below panels). The 5 August deadline is for the submission of papers to the conference organisers, therefore, while there is no cited deadline to join the individual panels, it would be advisable to make contact with the panel organisers as soon as possible.
Organisers' description (general) :
Each spring, the AAS holds a four-day conference devoted to planned programs of scholarly papers, roundtable discussions and panel sessions on a wide range of issues in research and teaching, and on Asian affairs in general.
Panel : Theorizing the city in Southeast Asia
Raymond Williams (1973) argues that the city has been consistently represented as the site of intimately connected community, in opposition to the city. Such tropes feed directly into the ways in which the city has been theorized in writings about the city from Baudelaire’s flâneur to Simmel’s intellectualized urban affect. But despite its claims to universality, such theory always comes from a particular place and time (see also Harrison and Jackson eds 2010). As Southeast Asia rapidly urbanizes, we see effects quite different from the disenchantment promised by Weber or the rationality suggested by Simmel: rises in supernatural fears (Siegel 2006), increases in spirit religions (Morris 2000), amongst other things. Accordingly, this panel looks at alternative ways of conceptualizing the city in Southeast Asia. In doing so, we recognize the hybrid origins of Southeast Asian cities as places where different ways of being urban have been constructed (both literally and figuratively) atop older forms. We seek to use examples of alternate forms of urbanity in order to question, critique, and ultimately contribute to the development of theory concerning the city.
Please send abstracts to: Andrew Alan Johnson, Research Professor, Sogang Institute for East Asian Studies (SIEAS) Sogang University, Seoul, South Korea aaj22@cornell.edu.
Panel : Cities and civilisations in Asia
We are looking for speakers and discussiants to join us in the panel: "Cities and Civilisations in Asia" for the AAS/ICAS 2011 meeting in Honolulu. This panel aims to discuss all aspects of cities and urbanisation in Asia from ancient times to today. Particular emphasis is given to their roles in the creation of civilisations in various parts of the region. The aim of the panel is to explore the link between cities and civilisations in which they were born. Therefore, all issues concerning cities and urbanisation peculiar to Asia, their contributions to the civilisations in the region are wellcome. Special emphasis is given to comparisons of cities, their similiarities and differences in various regions of Asia, their continuity and change through ages and their roles as representatives of civilisations. Please contact me on facun@hacettepe.edu.tr. Prof. Dr. Fatma Acun, Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey.
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