[KS] In-person conference on "Photography, Temporality, and Decolonial Imagination in Global Asias, " April 6-7, 2023

[Jae Won Chung]

Good morning!

We would like to announce that *"Photography, Temporality, and Decolonial
Imagination in Global Asias" will be held on April 6-7, 2023 at Rutgers
University-New Brunswick. *Please circulate on Korean Studies Digest at
your earliest convenience.

The conference website can be found at https://sites.rutgers.edu/ptdiga/

I am including the conference themes below:

Best,
Jae Won Edward Chung
Jung Joon Lee
Sohl Lee

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Temporality has long been a key conundrum for the photographic medium.
Ongoing debates about photography’s relationship with reality, identity,
historical subjectivity, capitalism, coloniality, the environment, and the
unconscious all hinge on our understanding of how photographic images
mediate and help construct our experiences of and ideas about time. This
conference on Global Asias seeks to explore photography as a site of
onto-epistemological praxis through which we can reconceptualize
temporality and compel decolonial imagination.


The easing of the Cold War produced a new opening for decolonial
possibilities in recent decades, which calls for a critical re-examination
of the legacy of colonialism and the Cold War across the former colonies
and the imperial centers of past and present. Bearing in mind photography’s
crucial role in this re-examination and suspending a fixed determination of
what constitutes (counter-) temporality or decoloniality, we invite
presentations from scholars of Global Asias broadly defined, specializing
in media, anthropology, visual culture, art history, comparative
literature, Asian studies, Asian-American studies, diasporic studies, and
related fields. We seek to ask while taking into account photography’s
malleability and re-deployability across contexts of art, politics,
commerce, and everyday life,



   - How do decolonial efforts embrace or resist photography’s
   medium-specific properties and its demands on the temporal imagination of
   the colonizer and the colonized?
   - How might photography activate varied modes of temporality in
   reimagining intimacy and kinship with human and non-human agents toward
   decolonial ends?
   - How do counter-temporalities operate in migrant and diasporic contexts
   and resist empire’s knowledge/power nexus?
   - How do photography’s counter-temporalities undo the colonial
   relationality of difference-making and unleash alternative futurities?
   - What kinds of temporal disjuncture, conjuncture, or contingency can be
   found in photographs that capture, perform, or enact radical democracy and
   decolonization?
   - How do platforms of the exhibition and their transnational circulation
   shape multiple temporalities?
   - How does photographic imaging as a technology of control produce
   unexpected forms of temporality?
   - What is the relationship between recent efforts in photographic
   historiography to deconstruct the unity of photographic development as a
   linear teleological process and our search for temporalities that can
   durably instantiate decolonial projects and visions?

We also invite presenters to formulate their own line of inquiry that might
weigh in on or intervenes productively in the framing of these questions.


Organized by

Jae Won Edward Chung (Rutgers University)
Jung Joon Lee (Rhode Island School of Design)
Sohl Lee (Stony Brook University)


Sponsored by

*Department of Asian Language and Cultures*
*Korean Studies Gift Fund*
*Center for Cultural Analysis*
*Mason Gross School of the Arts*
*Department of African, Middle Eastern, And South Asian Languages and
Literature*
*Rhode Island School of Design Humanities Fund*
*Northeast Asia Council Conference Grant*
*Rutgers SAS Global Asias*




--
Jae Won Edward Chung (he/him/his)
Assistant Professor
Asian Languages and Cultures
Comparative Literature, Affiliate Faculty
Rutgers University-New Brunswick
jwechung.com
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