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Asia's Global Cities: Spaces, Communities, and Lifestyles"</span></b><span lang="HE" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:107%;font-family:'Times New Roman'"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:107%;font-family:'Times New Roman'">International Workshop, June
21-23, 2016, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem</span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-position:initial initial;background-repeat:initial initial"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:107%;font-family:'Times New Roman'">Organized by: </span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:107%;font-family:'Times New Roman'">The Harry S. Truman Research
Institute for the Advancement of Peace; the Louis Frieberg Center for East
Asian Studies; and the Academy of Korean Studies</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">In the past several decades, both Northeast
Asia and Southeast Asia (hereafter 'East Asia') have witnessed the dramatic
growth of global cities: huge metropolitan centers that serve as dynamic hubs
of economic, social, and cultural activities not only on a national and
regional level but also on a global scale. The economic growth rate of cities
such as Shanghai, Bangkok, Seoul, Jakarta, Taipei and Kuala Lumpur often
exceeds that of the state as a whole. Global cities in East Asia also
constitute major sites for the emergence of new middle classes, consisting of
business and cultural entrepreneurs, managers, professionals, and white-collar
workers. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">Previous studies have shown that East Asia's new
middle classes harbor novel expectations and demands in areas such as leisure,
consumption, education, health, food safety, environmental protection, and in
some cases - political rights. However, existing work has paid little attention
to the concentration of the middle classes in a number of key global cities in
the region and to the way this process creates a new social geography that cuts
across the nation-state. Studies on middle classes in East Asia have typically
overlooked the question of how residence in a particular type of geographical
location - a 'global city' - may shape middle-class notions of citizenship and
collective belonging. Moreover, while much attention has been paid to the rise
of the middle classes in the context of a particular nation-state, few studies have
explored the common regional features of East Asia's middle-classes. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">In this workshop, we aim to address the
above-mentioned issues by comparing features of global cities and middle-class
attitudes and practices across Northeast and Southeast Asia. How does residency
in a global city affect middle-class life-styles, spaces, and communities
across the East Asian region? Do middle-classes in different East Asian global
cities exhibit a comparable sense of ‘urban citizenship’, which co-exists with
– or even subverts – their national or ethnic identification? In other words,
can we think about a notion of transnational community or collective affinity based
not on national or ethnic belonging but on global-city affiliation? If so, how
is this notion of 'global urban' citizenship expressed and/or practiced through
consumption habits, civic activities, or economic enterprises in the East Asian
region? Finally, how does the rising power of global cities and their middle
class inhabitants re-shape our definition of the East Asia region? </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">To address these issues, we call for original,
unpublished papers that draw on empirical research and/or offer new
conceptualizations of the study of middle class spaces, communities, and
life-styles in East Asian global cities. Papers may focus on the middle classes
in a single city. However, those that offer a comparison between different
cities and/or a regional perspective are particularly welcome. Suggested topics
may include (but are not limited to): </span></p>
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<p class="" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt 36pt;line-height:normal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:'Times New Roman'"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">The formation and features of middle-class
labor, residential and/or leisure spaces and communities in East Asia's global
cities</span></p>
<p class="" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt 36pt;line-height:normal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:'Times New Roman'"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">The role of the middle classes in the
construction of global city architecture in East Asia </span></p>
<p class="" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt 36pt;line-height:normal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:'Times New Roman'"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">Middle-class consumption of material and
cultural products; and the effects of consumer practices on social and
political domains; and on identity and community formation within East Asian
global cities</span></p>
<p class="" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt 36pt;line-height:normal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:'Times New Roman'"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">Middle-class mobility patterns between global
cities in the region</span></p>
<p class="" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt 36pt;line-height:normal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:'Times New Roman'"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">Middle class notions and practices of
citizenship in East Asia's global cities</span></p>
<p class="" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt 36pt;line-height:normal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:'Times New Roman'"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">Central/local state engagements with the
middle-classes in East Asia's global cities</span></p>
<p class="" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt 36pt;line-height:normal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:'Times New Roman'"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">Notions and practices of national belonging,
cosmopolitanism and/or multiculturalism among the middle classes in East Asia's
global cities</span></p>
<p class="" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt 36pt;line-height:normal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:'Times New Roman'"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">Middle-class engagements with the urban
lower-classes, rural migrants, and/or foreign migrants residing in East Asia's
global cities; and how these engagements with class/national "others"
contribute to the construction of middle-class identities and communities in
the region</span><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:12pt;text-align:justify"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:107%;font-family:'Times New Roman'">Abstracts of 300 words, with
five lines of biographical information, should be submitted electronically to </span></b><span lang="EN-US"><a href="mcglobal2016@gmail.com"><b><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:107%;font-family:'Times New Roman'">mcglobal2016@gmail.com</span></b></a></span><b><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:107%;font-family:'Times New Roman'"> by</span></b><b><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:107%;font-family:'Times New Roman'"> </span></b><b><u><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:107%;font-family:'Times New Roman'">January 29, 2016 </span></u></b></p>
<p class=""><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">Notification
of acceptance by: <u>February 1, 2016</u></span></b></p>
<p class=""><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">To
facilitate discussion during the conference, presenters will be asked to
pre-circulate their papers by <u>June 1, 2016</u></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">*Pending budgetary approval, full accommodation
and transportation from/to the airport will be provided during the workshop. The
participants will also be offered an optional post-workshop tour to Jerusalem's
Old City/ Dead Sea.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><b><u><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">Conference Organizers:</span></u></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">Dr. Nissim Otmazgin</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">, </span><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">Dr. Orna
Naftali</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">,<b> Dr. Jooyeon Rhee</b></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'"></span></p>
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of Asian Studies and the Harry S. Truman Research Institute for the Advancement
of Peace, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem</span></p>
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