Fw: H-ASIA: CFP (Reminder) Rising Asia, Anxious Europe, Copenhagen 2-3 May 2012

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May 2012

> H-ASIA
> December 23, 2011
>
> REMINDER Call for paper: "Rising Asia, Anxious Europe", Asian Dynamics
> Initiative, University of Copenhagen, May 2-3, 2012
>
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> From: H-Net Announcements <announce@MAIL.H-NET.MSU.EDU>
>
> REMINDER: CFP - "Rising Asia, Anxious Europe"
>
> Location: Denmark
> Call for Papers Date: 2012-01-15 (in 23 days)
> Date Submitted: 2011-12-20
> Announcement ID: 190643
>
> On 2-3 May 2012, the Asian Dynamics Initiative, University of Copenhagen
> will convene an international conference to unravel the new' encounter
> between Asia and Europe. The conference will feature distinguished keynote
> speakers and paper presentations from an inter-disciplinary group of
> scholars, focusing on Europe's new' relationship with Asia or the changes
> in Europe and Asia against the backdrop of such changing relationships.
> We invite scholars to reflect, describe and speculate on the current state
> as well as the future of Europe's new' engagement with Asia. We
> particularly invite empirical studies, ethnographies and historically
> grounded accounts of the event - of the rise of Asia - as witnessed in a
> variety of settings and localities. These include not only different
> regional experiences, but also transformations experienced at the level of
> macro policy making to everyday individual choices and patterns.
>
> Abstracts (no more than 250 words) should be submitted by 15 January 2012
> to Marie Yoshida (marie.yoshida@nias.ku.dk)
>
> The organizing committee will notify abstract submitters of acceptance by
> email no later than 27 January 2012.
>
> The idea is to address the political and policy concerns - ranging from
> anxieties of economic downturn and changing capital flows, climate change
> attributed to increased energy consumption in growing Asian economies,
> continued population growth that will potentially lay an even greater
> demand on the world's natural resources to fears of Europe losing its
> competitive edge in a world where Asian economic and military power might
> have an upper hand. In short, the rise of Asia' is not an event confined
> to Asia alone. Its effects can be witnessed in the ways European
> economies, societies, politics and cultural imaginings are themselves
> being rearranged as a consequence.
>
> There is of course nothing new about Europe-Asia encounters as such, yet
> the contours of such encounters continue to shift. The thrust of our
> exploration is not limited to the imagined rivalries between Europe and
> Asia, but includes exploring similarities, intimacies and unities in terms
> of intellectual, literary and artistic output that have defined and
> blurred the two entities predicated upon one another.
>
> We suggest the following sub-themes, although other topics relevant to the
> overall Asia-Europe theme are also welcome:
>
> Shifting Centres of Economic Gravity
> Environmental Challenges
> Urban Imaginaries and Power
> Changing Security Dynamics
> Historical Difference
> Bodies and Boundaries
> Cultural Affects
> Competition for Resources
>
>
> Read more on the conference website:
>
> http://asiandynamics.ku.dk/english/rising_asia_anxious_europe/
>
> The conference is organized by the Asian Dynamics Initiative, a
> cross-faculty and inter-disciplinary research priority area at the
> University of Copenhagen. http://asiandynamics.ku.dk/english/
>
>
> Marie Yoshida
> Asian Dynamics Initiative
> University of Copenhagen
> Leifsgade 33, 3
> 2300 Copenhagen S
> Denmark
> Phone: +45 35329521
>
>
> Email: marie.yoshida@nias.ku.dk
> Visit the website at
> http://asiandynamics.ku.dk/english/rising_asia_anxious_europe
>
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