Screening of 1428 in Ann Arbor, Michigan on Saturday, March 10th, 7-9pm:
"1428" (dir. Du Haibin)
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Upcoming Screening in Ann Arbor and Berkeley
Thursday, March 8th, 2012Call for Papers: East Asian Languages and Literature Session at SCMLA, San Antonio
Tuesday, March 6th, 2012Session in East Asian Languages and Literatures at the 69th Annual Convention of South Central Modern Language Association (SCMLA), November 8-10, 2012 in San Antonio, TX.
The topic for the session in East Asian Languages and Literatures in 2012 is OPEN. Any paper exploring the linguistic, literary, cinematic, aesthetic or cultural topics in China, Japan, Korea, or East Asia in general is welcome.
Please send your paper or a 500-word abstract to Takeshi Kimoto at takeshi.komoto@ou.edu by March 28, 2012. Abstracts as well as papers are acceptable.
“Beijing Besieged By Garbage” Photo Essay by Wang Jiuliang
Friday, February 24th, 2012
photo: Wang Jiuliang
A photo essay by Beijing Besieged By Waste director Wang Jiuliang appeared recently in Cross-Currents: East Asian History and Culture Review, a new publication from UC Berkeley. In his artist statement, Wang details the landscape and events that led him to focus his mind–and his camera–on garbage. Wang writes:
The clean and beautiful hometown of my childhood memories—only a decade or two old—is nowhere to be found. This rapid transformation prompted me to start thinking about the problem of garbage brought about by modern civilization.
Asia Cinema Studies Society Conference, March 16-20: Program Now Available
Thursday, February 23rd, 2012ASIAN CINEMA STUDIES SOCIETY CONFERENCE
March 16-20, 2012, University of Hong Kong (post-conference events on March 21)
The tentative program for the 2012 international meeting of the Asian Cinema Studies Society is now available online. We have scheduled a dynamic program of panels, workshops, screenings, and other events on films from across Asia and the Asian diaspora. Registration is open. Visit the ACSS conference website for full information including the conference program, schedule, and registration forms.
Call for Papers: Imagining Chinese Cinemas at University of Exeter UK
Monday, February 20th, 2012Call for Papers
Imagining Chinese Cinemas in the 21st Century
9th-11th July 2012 (Mon-Wed), University of Exeter, UK
Funded by a Leverhulme Trust International Network grant, the research project Chinese Cinemas in the 21st Century: Production, Consumption, Imagination would like to invite scholars and PhD students to the launch event and workshop to be held at the University of Exeter from 9th to 11th July, 2012. This project is led by Dr Song Hwee Lim (University of Exeter), and the keynote speaker for the launch event is Professor Rey Chow (Duke University).
Call For Papers: AAP Adjudicated Emerging Scholars Panel
Wednesday, February 1st, 2012CALL FOR PAPERS: AAP ADJUDICATED EMERGING SCHOLARS PANEL
The Association for Asian Performance (AAP) invites submissions for its
18th Annual Adjudicated Panel to be held during the Association for Asian
Performance annual conference in Washington, D.C., August 1-2, 2012, which
precedes the Association for Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE) conference.
Pema Tseden discusses “Tibetan Cinema Today” on February 2nd
Monday, January 30th, 2012New Yorkers, please join Pema Tseden, director of Old Dog, Francois Robin, and Robbie Barnett in a discussion of contemporary Tibetan film and literature this Thursday, February 2. The event, organized by the Trace Foundation, will run from 6-8pm and take place at Trace Foundation’s Latse Library, 132 Perry Street, 2B, New York, NY.
Call for Papers: New York Conference on Asian Studies, September 28-29
Monday, January 23rd, 2012New York Conference on Asian Studies, NYCAS 12
September 28-29, 2012
State University of New York at New Paltz
Plan NOW to participate in NYCAS 2012!
EARLY submission of panels and papers is encouraged!
The deadline for submitting proposals is May 15, 2012.
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2012 Melbourne Conference on China: Global Media and Public Diplomacy in Sino-Western Relations
Monday, January 16th, 2012Announcement and Call for Papers
2012 Melbourne Conference on China: Global media and public diplomacy in Sino-Western relations
Date: Wednesday 30 May and Thursday 31 May 2012
Venue: The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia
Organisers: The Asia Institute and the Centre for Advanced Journalism at the University of Melbourne, and Radio Australia of the ABC
Website: www.chinastudies.unimelb.edu.au/conferences/2012
Contact: Conference-on-China@unimelb.edu.au
Postdoctoral Position at Penn State
Monday, January 16th, 2012The Pennsylvania State University invites applications for a Post-Doctoral Fellow with a joint appointment in the Department of Comparative Literature and the Asian Studies Program.
