A Consortium of Liberal Arts Colleges to Promote Asian Studies
Call for Panel Proposals: 2011 ASIANetwork Conference
Doubletree Hotel Chicago-Oak Brook, Illinois
April 15-17, 2011
Transformations
The 2011 ASIANetwork Conference theme is TRANSFORMATIONS. The conference will be addressing this theme broadly and we encourage both on-going research and pedagogical presentations in a variety of fields. As the pace of technological change, and its correspondent impact on society, quickens, as the way we communicate transforms communication itself, the theme of transformation allows for some reflection on both change and sustainability. Panels and papers should look at transformations, past, present and future, of or about Asia. How has Asia been viewed, and viewed itself? How has Asia been taught, and taught itself? Confronted with such transformations, in the past as well as the future, how has this changed our understandings of sustainability, broadly understood. Possible topics for panels or ideas to help start thinking about papers and panels follow:
- Historical transformations compared to more recent transformations
- The impact of global shifts in the geopolitical and economic importance of Asia on Asian politics, society, culture, and the environment
- How new information technologies have changed how we as academics and as members of a wider public teach and learn about Asia
- How new information technologies have changed how our students learn about Asia
- Transformed from within? From without?
- How has our research informed and transformed how we teach or what we teach?
- Revisionism? Who, how and why?
- Teaching Asia: how has this changed and has teaching Asia changed anything?
We welcome papers and panels on teaching, research and other forms of artistic expression. If you are interested in organizing a panel or submitting an individual paper proposal, please send the completed panel proposal form to me by August 27, 2010 either by email (please put ASIANetwork 2011 Conference in the subject heading) to: sudry@carthage.edu or by surface mail to:
Steve Udry
ASIANetwork Conference Program Committee
Department of History
Carthage College
2001 Alford Drive
Kenosha, WI 53140
Panel Proposal Form:
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