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From: "Frank Conlon" <conlon@U.WASHINGTON.EDU>
To: <H-ASIA@H-NET.MSU.EDU>
Sent: Saturday, February 02, 2013 5:51 AM
Subject: H-ASIA: CFP DEADLINE EXTENSION: Imagining Globality: China's Global
Projects in Culture, 12-14 June, University of Alberta, Edmonton,
> H-ASIA
> February 1, 2013
>
> DEADLINE EXTENSION Call for papers: "Imagining Globality, China's Global
> Projects in Culture," 12-14 June, Edmonton, University of Alberta
> *****************************************************************
> From: Heather Schmidt <heather.schmidt@ualberta.ca>
>
> *REMINDER & EXTENSION: *CFP - Imagining Globality: China's Global Projects
> in Culture
> University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada - June 12-14 (Wed-Fri), 2013
>
>
> *Keynote Speaker: *Dr. P?l Ny?ri, Professor of Global History from an
> Anthropological Perspective, Vrije Universiteit (the Netherlands)
> *Please note the deadline for submissions to the "Imagining Globality"
> conference have been extended to February 11, 2013.*
>
>
> The China Institute at the University of Alberta will be hosting a
> conference to explore *China's global projects in culture* and how these
> projects variously imagine a global world and China*'*s place in it.
>
> Recent popular and academic discourses have speculated much on "China's
> rise" and its implications for the future global order. Representations of
> China, which oscillate between a positive 'rise' or negative 'threat',
> bestow on the Chinese state, explicitly or implicitly, the power to make
> the world over according to its own desires. The concept of *global
> projects
> * (as theorized by Anna Tsing) enables us, however, to analyse larger
> global processes as a composite of projects. Such global projects may work
> together or to conflicting ends, but each is culturally and
> institutionally
> specific and thereby circumscribed in its ability to shape the global
> order
> according to its own imagined globality.
>
> As 'soft power' issues increasingly make their way into China's official
> state discourse, it becomes necessary to consider the ways in which
> individuals and organizations in and from China are engaging with the
> world
> through culture, both officially and unofficially. The images and
> imaginaries being generated through the various cultural global projects
> emanating from China are significant in understanding how Chinese
> individuals and organizations see China, how they hope to be seen by
> others, and how they are discursively negotiating China's shifting place
> in
> the world.
>
> This interdisciplinary conference will bring together scholars from
> diverse
> backgrounds to explore the ways in which China has in the recent past and
> is today engaging with the world culturally. We invite submissions from
> scholars in the social sciences and humanities whose research engages with
> the following broad themes:
>
> 1) *China Imagined*: In what ways are the Chinese state, organizations and
> individuals portraying China? Who are the key actors (or what are the key
> events) shaping projected images of China? To what ends do such
> representations work? What tensions and/or contradictions may exist across
> different depictions or in what ways might they be mutually reinforcing?
>
> 2) *Globalities Imagined*: In what ways do China's various global projects
> imagine the world, and in particular China's role/place in it? In what
> ways
> do depictions intended for global circulation and consumption reinforce or
> contradict narratives intended for home audiences? What
> intellectual/social/cultural contributions is China generating to address
> global issues?
>
> 3) *Cultural Political Economy*: In what ways is Chinese culture being
> used
> as a resource in global engagements (cultural, political, economic, or
> otherwise) and to what purpose? In what ways is cultural power tied to
> China's growing economic and political interests?
>
> Possible topics include but are not limited to:
>
> * China's culture industries in global context (e.g. media, film,
> music, cultural products)
> * Confucius Institutes
> * China's soft power and/or cultural diplomacy
> * China's mega-events
> * Popularization and/or circulation of Chinese culture outside China
> (e.g. TCM, Chinese New Year)
> * China's contributions to issues of global concern (e.g. development,
> governance)
> * China's cultural engagements with different regions such as Africa,
> Asia, North America, Europe, etc. (i.e. how does China engage
> differently with different geographical regions?)
> * Chinese culture and transnational capitalism (e.g. corporate
> diplomacy)
>
>
> The deadline for submission of presentation proposals has been *extended
> to February 11, 2013*.
>
> Proposals should be approximately 300 words in length and submitted by
> email (preferably in the text of the email) to
> <imaginingglobality@ualberta.ca>. Please also include your name,
> designation, department, and institution. Applicants will be notified of
> acceptance by late February 2013.
>
> Accommodations and some meals will be provided to panelists.
>
> For additional information, please contact the conference organizers at:
> imaginingglobality@ualberta.ca <imagingglobality@ualberta.ca>.
>
> If you feel your question(s) may be pertinent to others, please also feel
> free to contact us through our facebook page:
> http://www.facebook.com/pages/China-Institute-at-the-University-of-Alberta/171003582915953
>
> Conference webpage:
> http://www.china.ualberta.ca/Conferences/ImaginingGlobality.aspx
>
> Heather Schmidt
> University of Alberta
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