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UHM Political Science Colloquium
The Future of the Image, Past Imaginations, and the Present "War on Terror"
By Brianne Gallagher, Noah Viernes, and Chad Shomura
The future of the image in contemporary visual culture functions as a highly contested terrain of sensibility in post-9/11 worlds. Advances in new media technologies and the intense circulation of images in global networks have played a significant role in organizing past, present, and future imaginaries of the "war on terror."
This panel responds to these postmodern shifts in visual assemblages of war and violence by turning to various aesthetic practices and critical readings that re-distribute(in)visibilities imag(in)ing the "war on terror." Our papers re-frame dominant "war on terror" visual cultures by first rendering 9/11 as an event-space not exclusively American through a cinematically stylized novel of Thai writer Anusorn Tipayanond; second, by exploring the virtual construction(s) of the U.S. soldier through new digital media technologies in juxtaposition to representations of soldiering during Vietnam; and finally, elucidating the continuing violence of the human- and the queer-figure interplay which materialized at Abu Ghraib. Taken together, we illuminate how 9/11 image culture might be re-imagined to disrupt the control of congealed meanings by mobilizing alternative images of the future.
Tuesday, February 10, 2009
11:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
Saunders 624, Harry Friedman Room
University of Hawaii at Manoa
For more information about this event, please contact Cassandra Tengan at <tenganca@hawaii.edu>
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Scholarships
The Royal Sala Thai Scholarship Fund
East-West Center, Hawaii
The East-West Center and an EWC alumni group have signed the agreement which establishes a new scholarship fund to assist Thai students at the Center. Interest earnings from the Royal Sala Thai Scholarship Fund will help cover travel and living expenses for qualified graduate students from Thailand studying in Hawai'i on East-West Center grants.
more info
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Learn Balinese Music & Dance in Bali
 Cudamani Summer Institute
Bali, IndonesiaJune 28 - July 19, 2009Intensive study with 6 master artists and a team of 12 assisting teachers using pedagogy developed collaboratively by Ibu Ni Ketut Alit Arini, Bapak I Nyoman Cerita and Çudamani; lectures and demonstrations by internationally renowned scholars and artists; observation of rehearsals, 'backstage' preparation and performances; visits to sacred sites and ceremonies. Participants engage with Pengosekan's community of artists, well known as weavers, painters, dancers and musicians. With the success of the 2007 and 2008 summer programs, Çudamani will once again invite 35 individuals from around the world to participate in a rigorous study of Balinese music and dance in the village of Pengosekan, Ubud, Bali. Çudamani has provided gamelan and dance instruction to hundreds of youth and adults over the past eleven years. The company's technical accomplishments on the seven-toned Semarandana are unparalleled. The program is suitable for experienced musicians and dancers as well as beginners. For more information, contact UCLA Center for Intercultural Performance at <cip@arts.ucla.edu> or 310-206-1335.
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Conference Announcement
International Graduate Student Conference on the Asia Pacific Region
The East-West Center, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
February 12-14, 2009
The East-West Center International Graduate Student Conference (IGSC)
is an annual interdisciplinary conference that welcomes presentations
in a number of thematic and disciplinary areas focusing on the Asia
Pacific region, and/or the relationship/interaction of the US with the
Asia Pacific region. more info Buddhism Across Asia: Networks of Materials, Intellectual and Cultural ExchangeThe Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, SingaporeFebruary 16-18, 2009The Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (ISEAS) has
recently established a Buddhist Studies Centre and the first event in
our efforts to build the Centre is to host an international conference
titled Buddhism Across Asia: Networks of Material, Intellectual and Cultural Exchange.
The
conference will be held from 16 February to 18 February 2009 in the
Orchard Ballroom 3, Level 3, Orchard Hotel, Singapore. More than fifty
renowned scholars of Buddhism will deliver papers on topics ranging
from transregional exchanges, the transmission of Buddhist texts and
ideas, archeology and Buddhism, to the colonial and contemporary
encounters among Asian societies through Buddhism. more info
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Call for Papers
The 19th Annual Meeting of the Southeast Asian Linguistics SocietyUniversity of Social Sciences and Humanities, Vietnam National UniversityMay 28-29, 2009, Ho Chi Minh City, VietnamThe Southeast Asian Linguistics Society - SEALS - was founded at Wayne State University (in Detroit, Michigan) in 1990. SEALS holds an annual conference in diverse locations in the United States, Australia, Southeast Asia and other countries. This time, SEALS XIX will be hosted in Vietnam by the Faculty of Vietnamese Studies at the University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Vietnam National University. Abstracts are invited for papers on any topic related to the analysis of Southeast Asian languages, such as descriptive, theoretical, or historical linguistics, linguistic anthropology (ethnolinguistics, language attitudes and ideology, discourse and conversational analysis, language and gender, language and politics), language planning, literacy and bilingual education. more info | Deadline: February 15, 2009
Historical Knowledge in/on East and Southeast AsiaTallinn University, Tallinn, EstoniaSeptember 13-15, 2009We invite to the conference scholars and PhD candidates from all involved fields and methodological background (history, history of ideas, anthropology, philosophy, cultural studies, literary studies, social geography, education, etc.) to submit papers related to the nature and role of historical discourses and historical knowledge in the cultures of China, Japan, Korea and mainland Southeast Asia, both in the past and in current affairs. more info | Deadline: March 30, 2009 |
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SEA Film Series
Now in its fifth year!
The Film Series is returning to the Korean Studies Building in January 2009! See you there...and bring a sweater.
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