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Call for Papers "Imaging the 'Oriental' in the Americas and the Iberian Peninsula" 3rd Conference on Orientalisms and the Asian and Arab Diasporas University of California, Merced Merced, CA (USA) 22-23 April 2011 __________________________________________________ You are all invited to participate in the Third Conference on Orientalisms and the Asian and Arab Diasporas in the Americas and the Iberian Peninsula, which will take place on Friday, April 22 and Saturday, April 23 at the University of California, Merced. The name of this year’s conference is Imaging the “Oriental” in the Americas and the Iberian Peninsula. Submissions Those interested are invited to submit a one-page abstract in Spanish or English, dealing with any of the topics listed below or any other topic related to Orientalism, Occidentalism, and/or the Asian and Arab presence and heritage in the Americas and the Hispanic world, or their respective imaginaries. Please send it via e-mail to Dr. Ignacio López-Calvo <[email protected]>, Dr. Cristián H. Ricci <[email protected]>, or Dr. Kevin Fellezs <[email protected]>. Preference will be given to proposals submitted by March 1, 2011, Scope The conference will focus on the different interpretations of Orientalism (roughly, the image and stereotypes of the Near and Far East in the Western world) that originated after the publication of Edward Said's seminal work Orientalism and with the opposite version of reading the “Other”: Occidentalism. It will also deal with the cultural production written by and about Asians and Arabs in the Americas and the Hispanic world in general (including Latin America, the Caribbean, Spain, the Philippines, and Equatorial Guinea). Topics 1. Can we speak about orientalist discourse when the exoticist gaze comes from formerly colonized countries? 2. Can a text be considered orientalist if it exoticizes the other without an obvious idealization of self? 3. Can we talk about orientalism when dealing with non-eastern cultures and peoples? 4. How can strategic self-orientalization be used for economic or political profit? 5. Is the “Orient” still helping Europe and the Western Hemisphere to define themselves? 6. Orientalism, Occidentalism, strategic Orientalism, and self-orientalization 7. How can strategic self-orientalization be used for economic or political profit? 8. Is the “Orient” still helping Europe and the Western Hemisphere to define themselves? 9. Orientalism, strategic Orientalism, and self-orientalization 10. Occidentalism 11. Asianness and Arabness in the Americas and the Hispanic world 12. "Cooleism" 13. Asian and Arab literature and culture in the Americas 14. Asian and Arab characters in Western literature 15. Nationalisms and the Asian or Arab as the "Other" 16. Japonisme in literature, film, and other types of cultural production 17. Asian and Arab testimonials, memoirs, and autobiographies in the Americas and the Hispanic World 18. Asian and Arab women in the Americas and the Hispanic world and their representation 19. José Rizal and other Spanish-language Filipino Authors 20. Asian/Arab transculturation, hybridity, and assimilation in the Western World 21. Erasure and misrepresentation of Asians and Arabs in Western cultural production 22. Asian and Arab religiosity and "witchcraft" in the Americas 23. White supremacy and Asians/Arabs in the Americas and the Hispanic world 24. Chinatowns in the Americas 25. “The Orient” in Travel Literature 26. Performing, Reading, and Writing “the Orient” 27. Feminization of “the Orient” and “the Orientals” 28. Asian/Arab identities, cultural difference, and de-ethnification in the Western world 29. Western travelers and imaginaries in the Near and Far East 30. Arab and Asian travelers and imaginaries in the West 31. Asian/Arab transnationalism, exile, and "inner exile" 32. Racialization of Asian/Arabs Contact: Ignacio López-Calvo, Ph.D. School of Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts University of California, Merced 5200 North Lake Road Merced, CA 95343 USA Email: [email protected] Web: http://faculty1.ucmerced.edu/ilopez-calvo/2.cfm?pm=212&lvl=2&menuid=478 __________________________________________________ InterPhil List Administration: http://interphil.polylog.org Intercultural Philosophy Calendar: http://cal.polylog.org __________________________________________________
