From: "Frank Conlon" <conlon@U.WASHINGTON.EDU>
To: <H-ASIA@H-NET.MSU.EDU>
Sent: Tuesday, September 06, 2011 10:30 PM
Subject: H-ASIA: CFP The Art of Neighbouring: Old Crossroads and New
Connections along the PRC's Borders, Singapore, 1-2 Mar 2012
> H-ASIA
> September 6, 2011
>
> Call for papers: The Art of Neighbourisng: Old Crossroads and New
> Connections along the PRC's Borders, Asia Research Institute, National
> University of Singapore, March 1-2, 2012
> DEADLINE OCTOBER 15, 2011
> ************************************************************************
> From: Zhang Juan <arizj@nus.edu.sg>
>
> CALL FOR PAPERS (DEADLINE: 15 OCTOBER 2011) The Art of Neighbouring: Old
> Crossroads and New Connections along the PRC's Borders
>
> Date: 1-2 March 2012
> Venue: Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore
> Workshop website: www.neighbouringchina.net/conference
>
> This event is jointly organized by the Asian Migration Cluster and the
> Open Cluster, Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore
>
> What does China's rise mean for its immediate neighbours? This simple
> question is what this workshop hopes to address. Reflecting on the PRC's
> rapid economic growth, its strategic decisions to foster trade, secure
> influence and access to natural resources, and its efforts to prevent
> unrest in the borderlands, this workshop explores the ways in which
> people's lives and futures are affected by living along the PRC's borders.
>
> For local societies situated within zones of contact, the close proximity
> to the PRC is becoming increasingly relevant. As rising China (the nation,
> the notion, the buzzword) channels aspirations, triggers fears, and
> creates opportunities, "the art of neighbouring" becomes a crucial skill
> in the borderlands - a skill that includes evading, openly opposing,
> making use of, or renegotiating the border situation.
>
> The shared experience of neighbouring is shaped by the making of borders
> and their "closures" and "openings". In the first half of the 20th
> century, the fuzziness of erstwhile frontier zones was replaced by sharp
> contours of the 'geo-bodies' of nation-states. Political and military
> conflicts between the PRC and its neighbouring states brought many
> long-established trans-border relations to a halt; more recently, new
> stimuli of economic growth and material prosperity readily impelled a
> momentum of "opening up".As ancient crossroads emerge as zones of contact
> and translation again, borderland communities actively engage with new
> possibilities; they also become targets of new regulatory regimes to
> "manage" the flows of people and goods between nation states.
>
> This workshop explores the ways in which the closure and re-opening of
> China's borders condition the myriad realities of making as well as being
> China's neighbours through peace and turmoil. By theorizing "the art of
> neighbouring", this workshop offers an alternative perspective to observe
> the ordering of border practices and strategies, as well as to understand
> relations between nations, territories, geo-political positionalities, and
> historical connections.
>
> We invite anthropologists, geographers, historians, political scientists
> and scholars from associated disciplines to submit paper abstracts to
> explore the following questions:
>
> * How do new dreams and aspirations about China provoke desires of
> migration? How are migratory flows to and across national borders
> encouraged and facilitated?
> * How are new regulatory regimes implemented? How do they redefine
> legality and illicitness, and how are these locally negotiated?
> * What are the economic, political and social impacts of Chinese
> investment, development aid and designated special zones?
> * How do newly arrived actors at the periphery engage with "native"
> borderlanders?
> * What are the roles of rekindled ties of friendship, kinship, common
> religion or ethnicity in forging efficacious networks that promote
> greater cross-border mobility? How do remembering and forgetting,
> private and collective interpretations of "closure" and "opening
> up" as well as desire and anxiety shape borderland identities?
> * And finally, how do imagined borders and fictive ties animate the
> dynamics between the "mainland" and the "diaspora"?
>
> SUBMISSION OF PROPOSALS
>
> Paper proposals should include a title, an abstract (500 words maximum)
> and a brief personal biography of 150 words using the Paper Proposal
> Submission Form on our website. Please send your form to Ms Valerie Yeo at
> valerie.yeo@nus.edu.sg, by 15 October 2011.
>
> Successful applicants will be notified by 10 November 2011 and will be
> required to send in a draft paper (5,000 - 8,000 words) by 10 February
> 2012.
>
> PHOTOGRAPH EXHIBITION
>
> To accompany this workshop, we plan to organize a small-scale photo
> exhibition at the main venue. The objective of the photo exhibition is to
> attract attention and interest of people who are less familiar with the
> various borderlands adjacent to China. We hope that with a collection of
> photographs that portray everyday life in the borderland, the audience
> will appreciate the diversity, the transformations, the vulnerability and
> resilience of these diverse border zones. We invite submissions of
> photographs on China's borderlands, the cultural practices of
> border-crossings (literal as well as symbolic), and images that reflect
> the theme of "neighbouring". Submissions could be in both digital and
> non-digital forms. Please include copyright and caption information in
> your submissions. Digital photographs must be at least 2,400 pixels wide
> if a horizontal image or 2,400 pixels tall if a vertical image, in
> high-quality JPEG or RAW. We prefer original, unmodified camera images. If
> your files are larger than 5 MB, or if you wish to submit photographs in
> printed form, please contact the workshop convenors Dr Martin Saxer
> (arijms@nus.edu.sg) and Dr Zhang Juan (arizj@nus.edu.sg).
>
> CONTACT DETAILS
>
> Workshop Convenors
>
> Dr Martin SAXER Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore.
> Email: arijms@nus.edu.sg
> Dr ZHANG Juan Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore.
> Email: arizj@nus.edu.sg
>
> Ms Valerie Yeo
> Asia Research Institute
> National University of Singapore
> 469A Tower Block, Level 10, Bukit Timah Road, Singapore 259770
> Tel: (65) 6516 5279
> Fax: (65) 6779 1428
>
> Email: valerie.yeo@nus.edu.sg
> Visit the website at
> http://www.ari.nus.edu.sg/events_categorydetails.asp?categoryid=6&eventid=1209
>
> ZHANG Juan (PhD) :: National University of Singapore :: Asia Research
> Institute (ARI), 469A, Tower Block, Bukit Timah Road, #08-10B, Singapore
> 259770 :: 65-6516 4214 (DID) :: 65-6779 1428 (Fax) ::
> arizj@nus.edu.sg<mailto:arizj@nus.edu.sg> (E) :: *Support Arnis, Love
> Arnis: lightningarnis.wordpress.com*
> ******************************************************************
> To post to H-ASIA simply send your message to:
> <H-ASIA@h-net.msu.edu>
> For holidays or short absences send post to:
> <listserv@h-net.msu.edu> with message:
> SET H-ASIA NOMAIL
> Upon return, send post with message SET H-ASIA MAIL
> H-ASIA WEB HOMEPAGE URL: http://h-net.msu.edu/~asia/
No comments:
Post a Comment