ARENAOnline - Imagining 'Inter-Asian-ness' beyond Neo-liberalism

<Statement>
This Summer Camp aims at organizing an open forum where young cultural studies researchers and graduate students gather and discuss common interests and current issues. The camp intends to provide participants with the opportunity to share, with fellow-researchers and cultural practitioners, concerns about emerging cultural phenomena and agenda in Asia and beyond. Another purpose of the camp lies in fostering the participants' visions and passions as future scholars and activists.

Today, the neo-liberalist order is greatly influencing the methods of governance, the profit-making of corporations, the general trend of popular culture, and the knowledge production of academia. Cultural researchers are in the situation of having to understand the actual workings of the world through creating critical discourses and cultural practices. This camp is a place for education, in which next generation cultural researchers gather and communicate through researching radical changes brought about by neo-liberalist order.

Throughout the Camp, young researchers and students who are interested in the cultural currency and urgency of Asia will have uplifting experiences of learning and networking by discussing with scholars, experts, activists, and policy-makers. Asia is rapidly changing and the future generation of cultural studies researchers and cultural workers is emerging. In the camp, we wish to create a critical perspective toward what is happening “here and now” in the inter-Asia and a sustainable platform for solidarity and collaboration among the young generation.

<Organizers>
The Inter-Asia Cultural Studies Society associated in Seoul hosts the 2008 summer camp. The organizing committee is listed below;

1. The organizing Committee
Cho Hee Yeon (Sungkonghoe University, Korea)
Paik Won Dam (Sungkonghoe University, Korea)
Shin Hyun Jun (Sungkonghoe University, Korea)
Shim Bo Seon (Sungkonghoe University, Korea)
Cho Haejoang (Yonsei University, Korea)
Kim Hyun Mee (Yonsei University, Korea)
Lee Sang Gil (Yonsei University, Korea)
Yoon Tae Jin (Yonsei University, Korea)
Kang Myung Koo (Seoul National University, Korea)
Kang Nae-hui (Chungang University, Korea)
Kim So Young (Korean National University of Arts, Korea)
Yoo Sun Young (Korean Press Foundation, Korea)
Chua Beng-Huat (National Univ. of Singapore, Singapore)
Chen Kuan-Hsing (National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan)
Earl Jackson (Korea University, Korea)
Tejaswini Niranjana(Centre for the Study of Culture and Society, India)
Yoshitaka Mouri(Tokyo National University of Music and Arts, Japan)

2. The graduate students committee
Shim Bo Seon(Committee chair) / Bark-Yi Eun Sil (Yonsei University) / Cho Chang Eun (Myungji University) / Hwang Miyojo (Centre for the Study of Culture & Society, India) / Joung Seung Hwa (Yonsei University) / Kang Ju Hee (Yonsei University) / Kim Dong Hyun (Yonsei University) / Kim Soo Yeon (Korean National University of Arts) / Kim Sue(Sungkonghoe University) / Sohn Irhe (Korean National University of Arts)

<Programs>
1. The camp consists of seven 'stream's. 'Stream' is a concept in which each team communicates and exerts social influence by acting in a stream-like manner.

2. Each stream runs four sessions, which are
a. Lectures (Faculty members lecture on subjects related with streams)
b. Seminar (students present working papers)
c. Workshop (researchers or practitioners give presentations and intensive team discussion follows)
d. Field work (upon decision of stream participants)

3. We will notice the list of participant faculties and practitioners in mid March.

4. At the end of the Camp, participants will be given a certificate.

<Streams>
Listed are the seven streams. We listed examples of topics under each stream. Of course, participants can come up with their own topics in relation with the suggested stream. We expect that the number of participants will be 15-20 for each stream (100-150 in total).

● Cultural Movement and cultural policy
    - Practices and organization of cultural movement in Asia
    - Relationships between cultural movement and cultural policy
   - Re-conceptualization of cultural movement and cultural policy in the global age

● New urban spectacle- consumption and space
   -Multiplex and arcade
   -Urban design
   -Consumption of spaces
   -Contemporary Club Culture
    -Alpha girl, BoBos, Creative class

● Cultural economy and cultural industry
    - Cultural economy of piracy
    - Copy right under free trade (FTA)
    - Reorganizing of labor in cultural industry
    - Cultural management in the private sector
    - Cultural marketing in the public sector

● New media and cultural development
    - The impact of mobile media on audience reception
    - User Created Contents, Blogging, personal media
    - Media literacy
    - Media activism
    - Open source movement and copy left under free trade(FTA)
    - Subjectivity in cyberspace (youth culture, Otaku)

● Gender and sexuality in the global space
    - Migration and diaspora
    - International marriage
    - Sex work industry
    - Commercialization of intimacy
    - Sexual minority-gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, inter-sex people’s movements
    - New feminism in Inter-Asia

● Memory, nationalism, and inter-Asia
    - Reinvention of collective memory
    - Fantasies of Asian-ness in inter-Asia
    - New nationalism
    - Trans-Asia and pop culture
    - Imagining Asian solidarity

● Asian Cinema Anew
    - Emerging Topics
    - New Films, New Directors, and New Stars
    - Digital Experimentation
    - History and Trauma in film

   <Detailed schedules> (the following schedules are subject to change)

	June 30	July 1	July 2	July 3
9:00 ~ 10:30		lecture 1	workshop1	master classes (1 or 2?)
10:30~ 10:50
10:50 ~ 12:30
10:50 ~ 12:30		coffee break	coffee break	closing ceremony
12:30 ~ 13:00		coffee break	coffee break
12:30 ~ 13:00		lecture 2	workshop2
13:00 ~ 15:00		lecture 2	workshop2
		lunch	lunch
		seminar1	field work
15:00 ~ 15:20	opening keynote speech	coffee break
15:20 ~ 17:30	opening keynote speech	seminar2
18:00 ~	Welcome Party	Dinner	Dinner
	opening ceremony	event?	event?

<Open Call for Papers>

1. The Summer Camp will accept individual working papers(work-in-progress, or full paper that potentially leads to participants’ thesis).
2. Eligibility: Graduate Students (ma/M.Phil/Ph.D) from any humanities or social science disciplines from any college/university.
3. Deadline for submissions: April 15, 2008, only through e-mail to:
4. Proposals should include the following materials:

    a. general statement of purpose
    b. selection of two streams in order of preferences
      (e.g. 1. Cultural movement and cultural policy, 2. New media and cultural development)

c. individual paper abstracts

    d. short autobiographical information and e-mail address
    e. passport information (including number, name, expiring date)
    f. projected budget for air fair and accommodation if you apply for funding

g. The Summer Camp will NOT consider incomplete proposals.

5. The organizing committees of the summer camp will review the proposals and select the best ones. Accepted proposals will be announced in early May, 2008
6. Language: As a general rule, we accept proposal for presentations in English. However, we will have people available for helping translation during the presentations and lectures.
7. Limited funding will be available to support travel/accommodation for selected proposals. Applications for funding support must be submitted with the panel proposal. The application should include paper title, abstract, short autobiographical information and projected budgets in detail (air fair and accommodation). Recommendation letters are welcome though not compulsory. The committee will NOT consider incomplete applications.

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