*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*

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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>
.


-- 
Dr. Uli Kozok
Associate Professor
Indonesian-Malay Language Program <http://ipll.manoa.hawaii.edu/indonesian>
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Honolulu, HI 96822, USA
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