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)
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
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 (LLEA/German) and Professor Fata Simanu-Klutz (IPLL/Samoan).