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</font><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt;line-height:normal"><span lang="EN-NZ" style="font-family:"times new roman","serif";font-size:12pt"><font color="#000000">Call for Paper: Inter-Asia Cultural
Studies Conference 2017</font></span><span lang="EN-NZ" style="font-family:"times new roman","serif";font-size:12pt"><font color="#000000"> (July 28-30, 2017 Songkonghoe University, Seoul,
South Korea)</font></span></p><font color="#000000" face="굴림" size="3">
</font><div style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt;line-height:normal"><span lang="EN-NZ" style="font-family:"times new roman","serif";font-size:12pt"><font color="#000000"> </font></span></div><div style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt;line-height:normal"><span lang="EN-NZ" style="font-family:"times new roman","serif";font-size:12pt"><font color="#000000">Apologies for cross-posting and </font></span></div><div style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt;line-height:normal"><span lang="EN-NZ" style="font-family:"times new roman","serif";font-size:12pt"><font color="#000000">Deadline for inclusion of this panel is 10th January, 2017.</font></span></div><div style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt;line-height:normal"><span lang="EN-NZ" style="font-family:"times new roman","serif";font-size:12pt"><font color="#000000"></font></span><br></div><font color="#000000" face="굴림" size="3">
</font><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt;line-height:normal"><span lang="EN-NZ" style="font-family:"times new roman","serif";font-size:12pt"><font color="#000000">Panel proposers:</font></span></p><font color="#000000" face="굴림" size="3">
</font><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt;line-height:normal"><span lang="EN-NZ" style="font-family:"times new roman","serif";font-size:12pt"><font color="#000000">Younghan Cho, Hankuk University of
Foreign Studies, South Korea</font></span></p><font color="#000000" face="굴림" size="3">
</font><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt;line-height:normal"><span lang="EN-NZ" style="font-family:"times new roman","serif";font-size:12pt"><font color="#000000">Koji Kobayashi, Lincoln University, New
Zealand</font></span></p><font color="#000000" face="굴림" size="3">
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</font><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt;line-height:normal"><span lang="EN-NZ" style="font-family:"times new roman","serif";font-size:12pt"><font color="#000000">Panel Theme: </font></span><span lang="EN-NZ" style="font-family:"times new roman","serif";font-size:12pt"><font color="#000000">Sport Celebrity in Asia”</font></span></p><font color="#000000" face="굴림" size="3">
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</font><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt;line-height:normal"><span lang="EN-NZ" style="font-family:"times new roman","serif";font-size:12pt"><font color="#000000">Sport celebrity is now a constant
feature of mass media and a familiar figure for people to look up to in their
everyday lives across the globe. </font></span><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black;font-family:"times new roman","serif";font-size:12pt">Compared to film stars and
television personalities, those who attain sport celebrity can be distinguished
by their excellent athletic abilities, the sense of authenticity assigned to
them by their fans, and the unstable containment of their fame (Andrews &
Jackson, 2001). In Asia which is increasingly designated as a host of </span><span lang="EN-NZ" style="font-family:"times new roman","serif";font-size:12pt"><font color="#000000">mega-sporting
events such as the 2002 Korea-Japan World Cup and the 2008 Beijing Olympics (with
2018 Pyeongchang Olympics and 2020 Tokyo Olympics in sight), there have been proliferation
of media images and narratives of athletes whose nationality, ethnicity, gender
and other cultural identity are vigorously discussed and constructed as part of
political discourses of dominant cultures and stereotypes within a respective
nation. Much like sport celebrities in the West, this rise of sporting cultural
economy has been accompanied by an increased degree of sport celebrities’ mobility
in terms of their bodies and fame going beyond the boundaries of their
countries of origin and attaining regional or even global significance.
However, such transnational movements have been also constrained by the unique historical,
political and cultural contexts of Asia with respect to postcolonial
sensibility, rigid regulations of citizenship, sport-infused nationalism and intense
political tensions between governments. At the same time, the consumption of
the media, through which sport celebrity is represented, has been dramatically
altered by the rapid development and prominent usage of media technologies
through the internet and smartphones in Asia, and particularly India, South
Korea, China, Taiwan, Singapore and Japan. Therefore, as the most populous and
diverse region in the world, Asia offers a unique site of contested terrains
between ‘mobile’ sport celebrities and relatively ‘immobile’ political regimes
of the nation-states in the changing media ecology.</font></span></p><font color="#000000" face="굴림" size="3">
</font><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt;line-height:normal"><span lang="EN-NZ" style="font-family:"times new roman","serif";font-size:12pt"><font color="#000000"> </font></span></p><font color="#000000" face="굴림" size="3">
</font><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt;line-height:normal"><span lang="EN-NZ" style="font-family:"times new roman","serif";font-size:12pt"><font color="#000000">Although sport celebrities carry
symbolic significance, there has been little scholarly attempts to examine
national, regional and global relevance and implications of sport celebrity in
Asia. Thus, this panel session will invite papers that address the following
questions: 1) What makes ‘sport’ celebrity unique in Asia?; 2) How is sport
celebrity in Asia articulated with local, regional or global significance?;
and, 3) How are representations of sport celebrities in Asia produced and
consumed via the new media technologies?</font></span></p><font color="#000000" face="굴림" size="3">
</font><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt;line-height:normal"><span lang="EN-NZ" style="font-family:"times new roman","serif";font-size:12pt"><font color="#000000"> </font></span></p><font color="#000000" face="굴림" size="3">
</font><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt;line-height:normal"><span lang="EN-NZ" style="font-family:"times new roman","serif";font-size:12pt"><font color="#000000">In this regard, we encourage submissions
for topics including, though not limited to: </font></span></p><font color="#000000" face="굴림" size="3">
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</font><ul style="list-style-type:disc;direction:ltr"><li style="font-style:normal;font-weight:normal"><p style="line-height:normal;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;margin-top:0cm;margin-bottom:0pt"><span lang="EN-NZ" style="font-family:"times new roman","serif";font-size:12pt">Representation and symbolic power of
sport celebrities in Asia</span></p></li><li style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"times new roman","serif";font-size:12pt;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal"><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:normal;font-family:"calibri","sans-serif";font-size:11pt;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;margin-top:0cm;margin-bottom:0pt"><span lang="EN-NZ" style="font-family:"times new roman","serif";font-size:12pt">Cross-national comparison of media
construction of sport celebrities’ images in Asia</span></p></li><li style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"times new roman","serif";font-size:12pt;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal"><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:normal;font-family:"calibri","sans-serif";font-size:11pt;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;margin-top:0cm;margin-bottom:0pt"><span lang="EN-NZ" style="font-family:"times new roman","serif";font-size:12pt">Media production and consumption of
sport celebrity in Asia</span></p></li><li style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"times new roman","serif";font-size:12pt;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal"><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:normal;font-family:"calibri","sans-serif";font-size:11pt;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;margin-top:0cm;margin-bottom:0pt"><span lang="EN-NZ" style="font-family:"times new roman","serif";font-size:12pt">Gender difference and homosexuality in sport celebrity
in Asia</span></p></li><li style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"times new roman","serif";font-size:12pt;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal"><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:normal;font-family:"calibri","sans-serif";font-size:11pt;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;margin-top:0cm;margin-bottom:0pt"><span lang="EN-NZ" style="font-family:"times new roman","serif";font-size:12pt">Postcolonial desires and sport fandom in
Asia</span></p></li><li style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"times new roman","serif";font-size:12pt;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal"><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:normal;font-family:"calibri","sans-serif";font-size:11pt;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;margin-top:0cm;margin-bottom:0pt"><span lang="EN-NZ" style="font-family:"times new roman","serif";font-size:12pt">Asian diaspora and sport celebrity</span></p></li><li style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"times new roman","serif";font-size:12pt;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal"><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:normal;font-family:"calibri","sans-serif";font-size:11pt;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;margin-top:0cm;margin-bottom:0pt"><span lang="EN-NZ" style="font-family:"times new roman","serif";font-size:12pt">Mega-events in Asia and trans-local mobility
of sport celebrities </span></p></li><li style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"times new roman","serif";font-size:12pt;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal"><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:normal;font-family:"calibri","sans-serif";font-size:11pt;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;margin-top:0cm;margin-bottom:0pt"><span lang="EN-NZ" style="font-family:"times new roman","serif";font-size:12pt">Glocality of sport celebrities in Asia</span></p></li></ul><font color="#000000" face="굴림" size="3">
</font><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt"><font face="굴림"><span lang="EN-NZ" style="line-height:107%;font-size:12pt"><font color="#000000">P</font></span><span lang="EN-NZ" style="line-height:107%;font-size:12pt"><font color="#000000">roposals
should include a title of a paper, abstract of up to </font></span><span lang="EN-NZ" style="line-height:107%;font-size:12pt"><font color="#000000">3</font></span><span lang="EN-NZ" style="line-height:107%;font-size:12pt"><font color="#000000">00</font></span><span lang="EN-NZ" style="line-height:107%;font-size:12pt"><font color="#000000">
words in length, </font></span><span lang="EN-NZ" style="line-height:107%;font-size:12pt"><font color="#000000">author’s bio (about 100 words), affiliated institution, email address and
nationality (as this is required by the conference)</font></span><span lang="EN-NZ" style="line-height:107%;font-size:12pt"><font color="#000000">.</font></span></font></p><font color="#000000" face="굴림" size="3">
</font><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;text-align:justify"><font face="굴림"><b><span lang="EN-NZ" style="line-height:107%;font-size:12pt"><font color="#000000">Please send </font></span></b><b><span lang="EN-NZ" style="line-height:107%;font-size:12pt"><font color="#000000">individual </font></span></b><b><span lang="EN-NZ" style="line-height:107%;font-size:12pt"><font color="#000000">proposals </font></span></b><b><span lang="EN-NZ" style="line-height:107%;font-size:12pt"><font color="#000000">by January 10, 2017</font></span></b><b><span lang="EN-NZ" style="line-height:107%;font-size:12pt"><font color="#000000"> to both</font></span></b><b><span lang="EN-NZ" style="line-height:107%;font-size:12pt"><font color="#000000">:</font></span></b></font></p><font color="#000000" face="굴림" size="3">
</font><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-NZ"><a href="mailto:choy@hufs.ac.kr"><b><span style="line-height:107%;font-size:12pt"><font color="#0000ff" face="굴림">choy@hufs.ac.kr</font></span></b></a></span><b><span lang="EN-NZ" style="line-height:107%;font-size:12pt"><font color="#000000" face="굴림"> and <a href="mailto:koji.kobayashi@lincoln.ac.nz">koji.kobayashi@lincoln.ac.nz</a></font></span></b></p><font color="#000000" face="굴림" size="3">
</font><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-NZ" style="line-height:107%;font-size:12pt"><font color="#000000" face="굴림">For the conference
information, please refer to: </font></span></p><font color="#000000" face="굴림" size="3">
</font><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-NZ"><a href="http://culturalstudies.asia/about_iacs_conference_2017/"><span style="line-height:107%;font-family:"times new roman","serif";font-size:12pt"><font color="#0000ff">http://culturalstudies.asia/about_iacs_conference_2017/</font></span></a></span><span lang="EN-NZ" style="line-height:107%;font-family:"times new roman","serif";font-size:12pt"><font color="#000000"> </font></span></p><font color="#000000" face="굴림" size="3">
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</font><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt;line-height:normal"><span lang="EN-NZ" style="font-family:"times new roman","serif";font-size:12pt"><font color="#000000">Younghan Cho, Hankuk University of
Foreign Studies, South Korea</font></span></p><font color="#000000" face="굴림" size="3">
</font><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt;line-height:normal"><span lang="EN-NZ" style="font-family:"times new roman","serif";font-size:12pt"><font color="#000000">Koji Kobayashi, Lincoln University, New
Zealand</font></span></p><font color="#000000" face="굴림" size="3">
</font><span><span><br clear="all"><br>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div>Assoicate Professor (Ph.D in Communication Studies)</div><div>Dept. of Kkorean Studies, GSIAS, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies</div><div>Homepage: <a href="https://hufs.academia.edu/YounghanCho" target="_blank">https://hufs.academia.edu/YounghanCho</a></div></div></div>
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