MediAsia 2017 : The Asian Conference on Media, Communication & Film 2017
Join us in Kobe this autumn for The Asian Conference on Media, Communication & Film 2017 (MediAsia2017), October 27–29, 2017.
***MediAsia2017 at a glance
The Asian Conference on Media, Communication & Film 2017 (MediAsia2017) will be held in the beautiful port city of Kobe, Japan. Nestled in the Kansai region, Japan's historic, cultural and artistic heart, Kobe is within easy access of the metropolis of Osaka, the former capital of Kyoto and the spiritual centre of Nara.
Submit your abstract now to participate in this international, interdisciplinary and intercultural event.
**Location: Art Center Kobe, Kobe, Japan
**Dates: Friday, October 27 to Sunday, October 29, 2017
**Initial Abstract Submission Deadline: June 7, 2017
**Final Abstract Submission Deadline: August 7, 2017
**Early Bird Registration Deadline: July 13, 2017
**Final Registration Deadline: September 14, 2017
**Enquiries: [email protected]
SUBMIT AN ABSTRACT:
mediasia.iafor.org/call-for-papers
Already had your abstract accepted? Register now: mediasia.iafor.org/registration
To find out about registration packages, presentation options, conference events and more, please visit the conference website: mediasia.iafor.org
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***MediAsia2017 Conference Theme: "History, Story, Narrative"
Historians are far from the only interested party in writing history. In a sense it is an interest we all share – whether we are talking politics, region, family birthright, or even personal experience. We are spectators to the process of history while being intimately situated within its impact and formations.
How, then, best to write it? Is it always the victor's version? Have we not begun increasingly to write "history from below", that lived by those who are not at the top of the power hierarchy? Are accounts of history always gender-inflected, hitherto, at least, towards men rather than women? Who gets to tell history if the issue is colonialism or class? How does geography, the power of place, intersect with history? What is the status of the personal story or narrative within the larger frame of events?
This conference addresses issues of writing history from literary and other discursive perspectives. That is to say: novels, plays, poems, autobiographies, memoirs, diaries, travel logs and a variety of styles of essay. One thinks of Shakespeare's history plays, Tolstoy's War and Peace, Shi Nai'an's The Water Margin, Balzac's La Comédie Humaine. It also addresses oral history, the spoken account or witness, the Hiroshima survivor to the modern Syrian migrant.
Which also connects to the nexus of media and history. The great "historical" films continue to hold us, be it Eisenstein's October: Ten Days That Shook the World (1925) or Gone with the Wind (1940). We live in an age of documentaries, whether film or TV. There is a view that we also inhabit "instant" history, the download to laptop, the app, the all-purpose mobile. How has this technology changed our perception, our lived experience, of history? What is the role of commemoration, parade, holiday, festival or statuary in the writing of history?
The different modes by which we see and understand history, flow and counter-flow, nevertheless come back to certain basics.
One asks whether we deceive ourselves in always asking for some grand narrative. Can there only be one narrator or is history by necessity a colloquium, contested ground? Is national history a myth? And history-writing itself: is it actually a form of fiction, an artifice which flatters to deceive? What, exactly, is a historical fact?
This conference, we hope, will address these perspectives and others that connect and arise.
In conjunction with our Global Partners, including Waseda University (Japan) and The Medill School of Journalism, Media, Integrated Marketing Communications at Northwestern University (USA), we look forward to extending you a warm welcome in 2017.
– The MediAsia2017 Organising Committee (mediasia.iafor.org/organising-committee)
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***Programming
View programming: mediasia.iafor.org/programme
View confirmed speakers: mediasia.iafor.org/speakers
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***IAFOR's Grants and Scholarships
For information about IAFOR's new grants and scholarships for PhD students and early career academics, please visit: mediasia.iafor.org/grants-and-scholarships
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***IAFOR Publishing Opportunities
**Peer-Reviewed Journal: IAFOR Journal of Media, Communication & Film
IAFOR Journal of Media, Communication & Film (ijmcf.iafor.org) is an editorially independent journal associated with MediAsia2017. The editor of the journal will select the strongest papers from associated Conference Proceedings for consideration. This Open Access journal, which conforms to the highest academic standards, reflects the interdisciplinary and international nature of our conferences.
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***MediAsia2017 at a glance
The Asian Conference on Media, Communication & Film 2017 (MediAsia2017) will be held in the beautiful port city of Kobe, Japan. Nestled in the Kansai region, Japan's historic, cultural and artistic heart, Kobe is within easy access of the metropolis of Osaka, the former capital of Kyoto and the spiritual centre of Nara.
Submit your abstract now to participate in this international, interdisciplinary and intercultural event.
**Location: Art Center Kobe, Kobe, Japan
**Dates: Friday, October 27 to Sunday, October 29, 2017
**Initial Abstract Submission Deadline: June 7, 2017
**Final Abstract Submission Deadline: August 7, 2017
**Early Bird Registration Deadline: July 13, 2017
**Final Registration Deadline: September 14, 2017
**Enquiries: [email protected]
SUBMIT AN ABSTRACT:
mediasia.iafor.org/call-for-papers
Already had your abstract accepted? Register now: mediasia.iafor.org/registration
To find out about registration packages, presentation options, conference events and more, please visit the conference website: mediasia.iafor.org
-------------
***MediAsia2017 Conference Theme: "History, Story, Narrative"
Historians are far from the only interested party in writing history. In a sense it is an interest we all share – whether we are talking politics, region, family birthright, or even personal experience. We are spectators to the process of history while being intimately situated within its impact and formations.
How, then, best to write it? Is it always the victor's version? Have we not begun increasingly to write "history from below", that lived by those who are not at the top of the power hierarchy? Are accounts of history always gender-inflected, hitherto, at least, towards men rather than women? Who gets to tell history if the issue is colonialism or class? How does geography, the power of place, intersect with history? What is the status of the personal story or narrative within the larger frame of events?
This conference addresses issues of writing history from literary and other discursive perspectives. That is to say: novels, plays, poems, autobiographies, memoirs, diaries, travel logs and a variety of styles of essay. One thinks of Shakespeare's history plays, Tolstoy's War and Peace, Shi Nai'an's The Water Margin, Balzac's La Comédie Humaine. It also addresses oral history, the spoken account or witness, the Hiroshima survivor to the modern Syrian migrant.
Which also connects to the nexus of media and history. The great "historical" films continue to hold us, be it Eisenstein's October: Ten Days That Shook the World (1925) or Gone with the Wind (1940). We live in an age of documentaries, whether film or TV. There is a view that we also inhabit "instant" history, the download to laptop, the app, the all-purpose mobile. How has this technology changed our perception, our lived experience, of history? What is the role of commemoration, parade, holiday, festival or statuary in the writing of history?
The different modes by which we see and understand history, flow and counter-flow, nevertheless come back to certain basics.
One asks whether we deceive ourselves in always asking for some grand narrative. Can there only be one narrator or is history by necessity a colloquium, contested ground? Is national history a myth? And history-writing itself: is it actually a form of fiction, an artifice which flatters to deceive? What, exactly, is a historical fact?
This conference, we hope, will address these perspectives and others that connect and arise.
In conjunction with our Global Partners, including Waseda University (Japan) and The Medill School of Journalism, Media, Integrated Marketing Communications at Northwestern University (USA), we look forward to extending you a warm welcome in 2017.
– The MediAsia2017 Organising Committee (mediasia.iafor.org/organising-committee)
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***Programming
View programming: mediasia.iafor.org/programme
View confirmed speakers: mediasia.iafor.org/speakers
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***IAFOR's Grants and Scholarships
For information about IAFOR's new grants and scholarships for PhD students and early career academics, please visit: mediasia.iafor.org/grants-and-scholarships
-------------
***IAFOR Publishing Opportunities
**Peer-Reviewed Journal: IAFOR Journal of Media, Communication & Film
IAFOR Journal of Media, Communication & Film (ijmcf.iafor.org) is an editorially independent journal associated with MediAsia2017. The editor of the journal will select the strongest papers from associated Conference Proceedings for consideration. This Open Access journal, which conforms to the highest academic standards, reflects the interdisciplinary and international nature of our conferences.
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