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</span></font><b><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'>Call for Paper for American Society For
Theater Research (ASTR) 2004 National Conference at </span></font></b><st1:City><st1:place><b><font
size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:
bold'>Las Vegas</span></font></b></st1:place></st1:City><b><font size=2
face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'>
(http://www.astr.umd.edu/conference2004/ASTRConference_call_seminar.html#05)</span></font></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><tt><b><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-weight:bold'>Global
Queer Tastes:</span></font></b></tt><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><tt><b><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-weight:bold'>Performance in Inter-Asian and
Inter-African Perspectives </span></font></b></tt><o:p></o:p></p>
<p align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><tt><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Eng-Beng Lim, </span></font></tt><st1:place><st1:PlaceType><tt><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>University</span></font></tt></st1:PlaceType><tt><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'> of </span></font></tt><st1:PlaceName><tt><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>California</span></font></tt></st1:PlaceName></st1:place><tt><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'> at </span></font></tt><st1:City><st1:place><tt><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Los Angeles</span></font></tt></st1:place></st1:City><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><st1:place><st1:City><tt><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt'>Tavia Nyong'o</span></font></tt></st1:City><tt><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>, </span></font></tt><st1:State><tt><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>New York</span></font></tt></st1:State></st1:place><tt><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'> University </span></font></tt><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'><br>
<br>
<tt><font face="Courier New">In recent years, a body of scholarship under the
rubric of "global queering" is pointing to an emergent "lesbian
and gay world" or signs of what we think of as "modern"
homosexuality. According to this scholarship, this "global
subculture'" is dominated primarily by the lesbian and gay cultural models
of the </font></tt></span></font><st1:country-region><st1:place><tt><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>USA</span></font></tt></st1:place></st1:country-region><tt><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'> and secondarily </span></font></tt><st1:place><tt><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Europe</span></font></tt></st1:place><tt><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>. For better or worse,
"universal" and "modern" are considered to be Western
properties in this global cultural imaginary of "queer,"
"lesbian," "gay," and/or "transgender." Such an
unquestioned presumption in comparative queer studies reiterates the dualities
that fix the non-Western world as "local" and the West as
"global." Notably, much of this scholarship is inflected by a white
gay male optic that uses a style of enlightened postcolonial ethnography,
acknowledging the privilege of its gaze while nonetheless replicating some
dimensions of Western economic and cultural hegemony. Queer "</span></font></tt><st1:place><tt><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Asia</span></font></tt></st1:place><tt><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>" and queer
"</span></font></tt><st1:place><tt><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt'>Africa</span></font></tt></st1:place><tt><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>" emerge in this
literature as sites of inquiry situated within a suspiciously neoliberal
topography. </span></font></tt><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'><br>
<br>
<tt><font face="Courier New">In this seminar we will propose ways of exploring
queer "Asia" and queer "Africa" that not only subvert the
dominance of white queer culture, but which also examine the inter-Asian and
inter-African dimensions of queer globalizations that have been neglected by
scholars. Using theatre and performance as our guiding scenarios, we discourage
the reduction of "global queering" to a unidirectional process of
Westernization or Americanization, and seek an active engagement in the queer
cultural resources circulating within </font></tt></span></font><st1:place><tt><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Asia</span></font></tt></st1:place><tt><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>, </span></font></tt><st1:place><tt><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Africa</span></font></tt></st1:place><tt><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>, and their diasporas.
We are reintroducing a discussion of neoliberalism and US/European cultural
hegemony in a literature that presupposes and ignores it. But we also seek to
expand the critical parameters of such binaries as "East/West" and
"North/South" to include circuits of mobility within the
"East" and/or "South," and forces other than neoliberalism,
that effect the inter-Asian and inter-African circulation of queer cultures.
We seek proposals that explore the following:</span></font></tt><o:p></o:p></p>
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<li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
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face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>How are queer tastes
performed in specific national contexts and amidst particular national
liberation movements? <o:p></o:p></span></font></tt></li>
<li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:list 36.0pt'><font size=2
face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>How
are they inflected by consumer culture and tourism? </span></font><o:p></o:p></li>
<li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
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face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>How
do Asian and African theatre companies code them in their productions? <o:p></o:p></span></font></li>
<li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
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face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>How
are they displayed in the performances of everyday life? </span></font><o:p></o:p></li>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><tt><font size=2
face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>While all disciplinary and
epistemic approaches are welcome, we are particularly interested in those that
deal critically with the intersection of globalization, queer, feminist,
diaspora, and area studies. Suggestions of related topics are welcome, and we
encourage scholars from </span></font></tt><st1:place><tt><font size=2
face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Africa</span></font></tt></st1:place><tt><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'> and </span></font></tt><st1:place><tt><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Asia</span></font></tt></st1:place><tt><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'> to submit proposals.
Essays should be of conference paper length, 10-12 pages </span></font></tt><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'><br>
<br>
<tt><font face="Courier New">Please submit a 250 to 500 word abstract (attached
or pasted in an email) by May 31 to:</font></tt><br>
<tt><font face="Courier New">Eng-Beng Lim, eb@ucla.edu</font></tt><br>
<tt><font face="Courier New">AND Tavia Nyong'o tavia.nyongo@nyu.edu </font></tt><br>
<br>
<tt><font face="Courier New">If email is not available, hard-copy submissions,
also due by </font></tt></span></font><st1:date Month="5" Day="31" Year="2004"><tt><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>May 31, 2004</span></font></tt></st1:date><tt><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>, may be made to: </span></font></tt><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'><br>
<tt><font face="Courier New">Eng-Beng Lim</font></tt><br>
<tt><font face="Courier New">UCLA Theatre, Critical Studies & International
Institute</font></tt><br>
<tt><font face="Courier New">11343 Bunche Hall, </font></tt></span></font><st1:address><st1:Street><tt><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Box 951487</span></font></tt></st1:Street><tt><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>, </span></font></tt><st1:City><tt><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Los Angeles</span></font></tt></st1:City><tt><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>, </span></font></tt><st1:State><tt><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>CA</span></font></tt></st1:State><tt><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'> </span></font></tt><st1:PostalCode><tt><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>90095-1487</span></font></tt></st1:PostalCode></st1:address><tt><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>. </span></font></tt><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'><br>
<br>
<tt><i><font face="Courier New"><span style='font-style:italic'>and</span></font></i>
</tt><br>
<br>
<tt><font face="Courier New">Tavia Nyong'o</font></tt><br>
</span></font><st1:place><st1:PlaceName><tt><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt'>New York</span></font></tt></st1:PlaceName><tt><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'> </span></font></tt><st1:PlaceType><tt><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>University</span></font></tt></st1:PlaceType></st1:place><tt><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'> Performance Studies</span></font></tt><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'><br>
<tt><font face="Courier New">721 Broadway, Room 628, </font></tt></span></font><st1:place><st1:City><tt><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>New York</span></font></tt></st1:City><tt><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>, </span></font></tt><st1:State><tt><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>NY</span></font></tt></st1:State><tt><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'> </span></font></tt><st1:PostalCode><tt><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>10003</span></font></tt></st1:PostalCode></st1:place><font
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</span></font><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
Arial'>*PLEASE NOTE that presenters need to become ASTR members. <br>
</span></font><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New"'><br>
</span></font><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
Arial'>Eng-Beng Lim<br>
PhD Dissertation Fellow, UCLA Theater<br>
Associate Global Fellow, UCLA International Institute</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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