Fw: H-ASIA: CFP Happiness and Sadness: Taiwan society and its emotional textures (8-9 Dec 2011, The Asia Institute, The University of Melbourne)

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textures (8-9 Dec 2011, The Asia Institute, The University of Melbourne)

> H-ASIA
> June 7, 2011
>
> Happiness and Sadness: Taiwan society and its emotional textures (8-9 Dec
> 2011, The Asia Institute, The University of Melbourne)
>
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> From: H-Net Announcements <announce@MAIL.H-NET.MSU.EDU>
>
> Happiness and Sadness: Taiwan society and its emotional textures (8-9 Dec
> 2011, The Asia Institute, The University of Melbourne)
>
> Location: Australia
> Call for Papers Date: 2011-12-08
> Date Submitted: 2011-06-01
> Announcement ID: 185610
>
> We invite submissions for papers for a workshop to be held at the
> University of Melbourne in December 2011 that explores the varying
> emotional textures of Taiwan life. It takes the dyad of Happiness and
> Sadness as its point of departure, but also examines other emotional
> registers and how these might relate to Taiwan's social and historical
> structures. These emotional textures can be seen as both products of
> particular kinds of social, political, cultural and economic structures
> and as ways in which those structures are experienced and interpreted. We
> hope that an exploration of Taiwan society through the paired themes of
> happiness and sadness (while not excluding other emotions) will offer new
> ways to approach the study of Taiwan.
>
> This workshop seeks to provide an opportunity for intensive and
> collaborative discussion of the participants' work. It is envisaged that
> during the two days of the workshop each paper will be presented in turn,
> and each presentation will be followed by a roundtable discussion.
>
> Participation in the workshop offers the opportunity to refine ideas and
> develop working relationships that will facilitate publication of the
> papers, either as a collection or as individual articles. Papers will be
> circulated prior to the workshop to facilitate dialogue between papers and
> exploration of the workshop's themes.
>
> Examples of possible topics include:
>
> • Livelihood: the emotional textures of economic life
> • Identity: the happiness and sadness of being Taiwanese
> • The culture and literature of happiness and loss
> • Politics and emotional intensity
> • Urban design, transportation and the sense of emotional security
> • Media: representing the emotional textures of everyday life
> • Construction of social collectivity through emotional ideologies
> • Food and commodities: consuming happiness and sublimating sadness
>
> Please submit abstracts of 250-300 words with a brief CV to
> taiwan-studies@unimelb.edu.au by 15 July 2011. If the paper is accepted,
> the contributor will be invited to submit a full text of around 5000
> words. The due date for the full text will be 1 November 2011. All papers
> should be submitted in English.
>
>
> Dr. Du liping and Dr. Lewis Mayo
> The Asia Institute, the University of Melbourne
> Email: taiwan-studies@unimelb.edu.au
> Visit the website at
> http://www.asiainstitute.unimelb.edu.au/taiwan-studies-workshop/
>
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