*Call for Papers:*
*Asia and the Pacific in German Culture*
Friday, February 14 - Saturday, February 15, 2014
University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa
*Keynote Speakers*:
Doug McGetchin, Professor of History, Florida State University
Author of *Indomania, Orientalism: Ancient India's Rebirth in Modern
Germany *(2009)
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James Bade, Professor of German, University of Auckland, New Zealand
*Editor of Karl Hanssen’s Samoan War Diaries August 1914-May 1915:*
*A German Perspective on New Zealand’s Military Occupation of German Samoa*
(2011)
The University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa’s German Program and Department of
Indo-Pacific Languages and Literatures invite submissions for a conference
that will explore the imagings of Asia and the Pacific in German culture.
Inversely, papers may also focus on imagings of German culture in
Asia-Pacific regions. We welcome paper proposals from a variety of
disciplines: literature, cultural studies, philosophy, religion,
linguistics, history, political science or personal narratives. We welcome
submissions from academics, independent scholars, filmmakers, curators,
artists, activists, and storytellers.
*Possible topics:*
· Captains’ logs on perceptions at first contact
· Logs of perceptions of colonizers at first contact
· Gender ideologies
· Germany’s loss of its colonies at the end of World War I
· Linguistics studies of, connections w/ and influences on
Asia-Pacific
· Perceptions of Eastern religions in 19th-century Germany
· Trade and commerce between Germany and Asia-Pacific
· History of trade in German cultural texts
· German and Asia-Pacific commerce and labor movements of the 19th
and 20th centuries
· Exclusion of German history and of colonization in education in the
former colonies
· Defining the self vis--vis the “other”
· Military vs. commercial administration in German colonies
· Germany’s purchase of the Northern Pacific from Spain and WWI losses
· German missionary involvement in Asia-Pacific
· Contemporary relations between Germany and Asia-Pacific
· Local perceptions in Asia and the Pacific of Germans
· German descendants in Asia and the Pacific
· Asia-Pacific migrants in both Germanies
· Intellectual underpinnings of German colonialism in Asia and the
Pacific
Please submit abstract (300 words max) and curriculum vitae (5 pp. max)
*by Fri. Aug. 16, 2013*
to: [log in to unmask]
Conversations are underway to publish select papers as part of a special
volume or journal issue.
Conference Co-organizers: Professor Sai Bhatawadekar (IPLL/Hindi),
Professor Christina Gerhardt
<http://manoa.hawaii.edu/llea/?page_id=754%20> (LLEA/German)
and Professor Fata Simanu-Klutz (IPLL/Samoan).
Generously co-sponsored by the Office of the Vice-Chancellor of Academic
Affairs <http://manoa.hawaii.edu/ovcaa/>; College of Arts and
Humanities<http://www.hawaii.edu/arthum/>
; College of Languages, Linguistics and Literature<http://www.lll.hawaii.edu/>
; School of Pacific and Asian Studies <http://manoa.hawaii.edu/spas/>;
Department
of Indo-Pacific Languages and Literatures <http://ipll.manoa.hawaii.edu/>;
and Department of Languages and Literatures of Europe and the
Americas<http://manoa.hawaii.edu/llea/?page_id=41>
.
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Dr. Uli Kozok
Associate Professor
Indonesian-Malay Language Program <http://ipll.manoa.hawaii.edu/indonesian>
2540 Maile Way, Spalding 255
Honolulu, HI 96822, USA
T: +1.808.956 7574 F 956 5978
http://indonesian-online.com
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