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<p class="gmail-MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'times new roman'">Call for
Papers:</span></i></b><br></p><div></div><p></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'times new roman'">Vernacular Practices
across East Asia</span></b></p><div></div><p></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'times new roman'">The University of
Chicago Graduate Student Conference 2016 </span></b></p><div></div><p></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'times new roman'">Friday, October 7<sup>th</sup></span></b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'times new roman'"> through <b>Sunday, October 9<sup>th</sup></b></span></p><div></div><p></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'times new roman'"></span></b></p><div><b> </b><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'times new roman'">Keynote Speaker: Bao
Weihong</span></b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'times new roman'">,<b> </b>Associate Professor in the Chinese
Program and Film Studies, University of California, Berkeley </span></div><div></div><p></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'times new roman'"></span></p><div> <b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'times new roman'">Special Event</span></b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'times new roman'">: <b>“Kagawa Ryo Live in Chicago</b>,<b>”
</b>a performance of Japanese folk music</span></div><p></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'times new roman'">Conference
Description:</span></p><div></div><p></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNormal" style="text-indent:0.5in"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'times new roman'">The study of East Asia is perennially haunted by
the specters of standardization, and the centralization of political and
cultural capital in the nation-state.
What is often lost in the margins is the particular, the non-standard,
the suppressed, the minor, and the indigenous experience in which vernacular
practice and its potential for various modes of reproduction, resistance,
transcendence, and imminence takes place.
Recently, postcolonial studies, area studies, media studies, and other
fields have taken a common interest in how and to what extent the vernacular as
language, aesthetic, and sensibility and more importantly as literary,
cultural, and political practice can offer new perspectives and possibilities
to our understanding of East Asia.
Rather than defining the object of this project through the arbitrary
political demarcations of nation, or the structural mechanisms of the state, or
an oversimplified, homogenized discourse of particular -isms, we want to focus
on place, community, and people created by and through a variety of
practices. Practice is embodied: it is
always localized and informed both by geographically-defined environments and
by ever-changing networks of power. The
vernacular holds the prospect of specificity, and practice, that of immediacy:
in combination, they can be used to address dynamic issues of democracy,
agency, and power.</span></p><p></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNormal" style="text-indent:0.5in"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'times new roman'">It is with this in mind that we invite graduate
students<span style="color:rgb(79,129,189)"> </span>and postdocs
from various disciplines (including but not limited to language, literature,
history, media studies, theater and performance studies, art history, music,
political science, and anthropology) to submit proposals for papers that
consider vernacular practice in East Asia.
Presenters should prepare twenty-minute conference papers, which will be
grouped into panels with time for questions and comments for each paper. The
thematic orientation of this conference will provide a basis for participants
of diverse methodological and regional backgrounds to find commonality between
their work, while simultaneously encouraging breadth. To that end, we expect
and encourage work that crosses national, temporal, and disciplinary boundaries
to critically rethink the categories that both bind and sub-divide area
studies.</span></p><div></div><p></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'times new roman';color:rgb(79,129,189)"></span></b></p><div><b> </b></div><p></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'times new roman'">Potential topics may include
(but are not limited to):</span></b></p><div></div><p></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'times new roman'">Rethinking
vernacular language(s) in East Asia</span></p><div></div><p></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'times new roman'">Vernacular
literature and modernity</span></p><div></div><p></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'times new roman'">Vernacular
literature and literary canons</span></p><div></div><p></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'times new roman'">The
vernacular and global capitalism</span></p><div></div><p></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNormal" align="left"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'times new roman'">Musical performance as a political
vernacular practice</span></p><div></div><p></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNormal" align="left"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'times new roman'">Vernacular practice in theatrical performance</span></p><div></div><p></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNormal" align="left"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'times new roman'">The vernacular, cosmopolitan, and
neoliberal<br>
The vernacular in global media<span style="color:red"></span></span></p><div></div><p></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNormal" align="left"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'times new roman'">Translocal vernacular practice</span></p><div></div><p></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNormal" align="left"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'times new roman'">Vernacular and trans-lingual practice</span></p><div></div><p></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'times new roman'">The
technologically (re)producible vernacular</span></p><div></div><p></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'times new roman'">Vernacular
modernism in film</span></p><div></div><p></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'times new roman'"></span></p><div> </div><p></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'times new roman'">Please
send your application to </span><a href="mailto:vernacularpractice.uofc.2016@gmail.com"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'times new roman'">vernacularpractice.uofc.2016@gmail.com</span></a><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'times new roman'"> by <b>July 31<sup>st</sup>, 2016, 11:59pm Central Standard Time</b>. The
application should include:</span></p><p></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt">*Your full name as
you would like it to appear in the <span class="gmail-il">conference</span><span class="gmail-apple-converted-space"> </span>schedule</p><div></div><p></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt">*Contact
information (e-mail, address, and phone number)</p><div></div><p></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt">*Institutional
affiliation</p><div></div><p></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt">*Title of your
paper </p><div></div><p></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt">*250-300 word
abstract in print-ready format </p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><br></p><div></div><p></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"></p><div>Successful
applicants will be notified of acceptance in early August.</div><div></div><p></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"></p><div>This conference is
funded with the assistance of the China, Japan, and Korea Committees of the
Center for East Asian Studies, the Franke Institute, and the Division of the
Humanities at the University of Chicago.<br></div><div></div><p></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'times new roman'"></span></p><div> CONTACT
INFORMATION:</div><div></div><p></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNormal"><a href="mailto:vernacularpractice.uofc.2016@gmail.com"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'times new roman'">vernacularpractice.uofc.2016@gmail.com</span></a><span class="gmail-MsoHyperlink"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'times new roman'"></span></span></p><div></div><p></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'times new roman'">University
of Chicago, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations</span></p><div></div><p></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'times new roman'">1050
E. 59th Street, Chicago, IL 60637, #301</span></p><div></div><p></p>
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