<div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:left;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="color:black">Call
for Papers</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:left;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="color:black">Transpacific East Asia: Transformations and Trajectories in Music and Sound</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:left;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="color:black;font-size:12pt">Virtual
& in-person conference  - Sheffield, United Kingdom</span><br></p>

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1-2, 2023</span></p>



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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:left;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Convenor:
Hannah Hyun Kyong Chang</p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="color:black">Music studies has seen the emergence
of oceanic approaches that de-center nationalist frameworks in music
historiography. In recent decades, for example, Atlantic and Indian oceanic
historiographies have re-shaped our understandings and conceptualizations of
music and sonic formations by paying more attention to colonial encounters and
contacts, as well as emancipatory and everyday practices resulting from these
relations. Research on Pacific or transpacific trajectories in music have also
been gaining traction in recent years (see, for example, Irving 2010, Solis
2015, Rao 2017). This conference aims to amplify and widen conversations on
transpacific formations in music across genres and, more broadly, sound, by
inviting papers that explore music and sound that circulated across or around
the Pacific Ocean. While the Pacific Ocean’s myriad intersections with
disparate world areas is acknowledged – the Pacific Ocean is the world’s
largest ocean – this conference focuses on East Asia. Papers that illuminate on
or reconceive inter-Asian, East Asian diasporic, Asian American, or East Asian-Latin
American trajectories are welcome. Ultimately, this exploratory conference as a
whole seeks to ask: how does moving from a landed perspective to an oceanic one
help us reconceptualize scale, identity, agency, methodology, and
interdisciplinarity within research on music and sound? </span></p>

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of music / sound in transpacific contexts with any of the following:</span></p>

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music </span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0in 43.5pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Wingdings;color:black">§</span><span style="font-size:7pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"> </span><span style="color:black">Vocalization, aurality, and/or
inscriptional practice</span></p>

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empires</span></p>

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militarization across the Pacific</span></p>

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insubordination</span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0in 43.5pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Wingdings;color:black">§</span><span style="font-size:7pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"> </span><span style="color:black">Ethics of encounter, decoloniality,
indigeneity</span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="color:black">We also welcome:</span></p>

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historical archives or sources</span></p>

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critiques  </span></p>

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methods</span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="color:black">Confirmed Keynote Speakers: Nancy
Yunhwa Rao (Professor of Music, Rutgers University), Nicholas Harkness
(Professor of Anthropology, Harvard University)</span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="color:black">Conference Website: <a href="https://sites.google.com/sheffield.ac.uk/transpacific" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(5,99,193)">https://sites.google.com/sheffield.ac.uk/transpacific</span></a></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="color:black">Deadline for abstract: January 15,
2023. Please email a 300-word abstract to </span><u><span style="color:rgb(17,85,204)"><a href="mailto:hyun.chang@sheffield.ac.uk" target="_blank">hyun.chang@sheffield.ac.uk</a></span></u><span style="color:black"> with
subject heading “Transpacific conference abstract”</span></p>

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January 30, 2023</span></p>

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held on June 1-2 2023, is funded by the Arts Humanities Research Council
(UK). <b>There will be funding for conference travel and lodging for participants
based in the UK, and an online component will be used for participants based
elsewhere.</b></span></p>

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peer-reviewed by a program committee.</span></p>

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by 10 minutes of Q & A.</span></p>

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