| Greetings from IAFOR and the MediAsia2017 Organising Committee in Kobe, Japan! This is a reminder that Monday, August 7, 2017 is the due date for final submission to the MediAsia2017 conference. We know this is a very busy time for you – our visionary leaders, educators, scholars and graduate students. You're already getting ready for the upcoming school year and some of you will be lucky enough to get in a vacation break late in the summer. However, we encourage you to take the time and submit your work now to be accepted to present at this year's conference, which will be held on the theme of "History, Story, Narrative" in the amazing city of Kobe, Japan. IAFOR offers a special opportunity for a multicultural and interdisciplinary synergy and a myriad of connections with international thinkers, teachers, researchers, and practitioners in a variety of fields representing more than 40 countries. This will be our eighth year for MediAsia and we expect it to be our most successful yet. We've invited an impressive programme of Keynote Speakers. William Lindesay OBE is an unparalleled expert in his study of the Great Wall of China, and has traversed the entire length of the Wall many times, meticulously documenting his findings. He has written and published many books, produced and directed documentaries, and been interviewed by media and television organisations in China and throughout the world. We're also pleased to welcome back Professor Bradley Hamm, Dean of the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University, which is one of the top journalism schools in America and the world. Professor Gary E. Swanson, one of the original visionaries and members of IAFOR's MediAsia conferences, will present our third keynote address. Each year our participants engage in rich and interactive dialogues and collaborate to create new and meaningful directions for education and the world. Kobe is a wonderful city and as you send in your submission please take extra time to plan your trip to take advantage of all Japan has to offer. Thank you from the MediAsia 2017 Organising Committee and see you in Kobe, Japan, in late October. Gary E. Swanson, University of Northern Colorado, USA (fmr.) James Rowlins, Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore Paul Spicer, Hiroshima Jougakuin University, Japan Timothy W. Pollock, Osaka Kyoiku University & Hagoromo University of International Studies, Japan Joseph Haldane, IAFOR, Japan Kiyoshi Mana, IAFOR, Japan ------------- ***MediAsia2017 at a glance **Conference Dates: Friday, October 27 to Sunday, October 29, 2017 **Conference Theme: "History, Story, Narrative" **Final Abstract Submission Deadline: August 7, 2017 **Venue: Art Center Kobe, Kobe, Japan **Final Registration Registration Deadline: September 14, 2017 **Enquiries: mediasia@iafor.org Submit your abstract now to participate in this international, interdisciplinary and intercultural event. mediasia.iafor.org/call-for-papers Already had your abstract accepted? Register by August 13, 2017 and receive the Advance Registration discount: mediasia.iafor.org/registration ------------- ***MediAsia2017 Conference Theme: "History, Story, Narrative" Historians are far from the only interested party in writing history. In a sense it is an interest we all share – whether we are talking politics, region, family birthright, or even personal experience. We are spectators to the process of history while being intimately situated within its impact and formations. How, then, best to write it? Is it always the victor's version? Have we not begun increasingly to write "history from below", that lived by those who are not at the top of the power hierarchy? Are accounts of history always gender-inflected, hitherto, at least, towards men rather than women? Who gets to tell history if the issue is colonialism or class? How does geography, the power of place, intersect with history? What is the status of the personal story or narrative within the larger frame of events? This conference addresses issues of writing history from literary and other discursive perspectives. That is to say: novels, plays, poems, autobiographies, memoirs, diaries, travel logs and a variety of styles of essay. One thinks of Shakespeare's history plays, Tolstoy's "War and Peace", Shi Nai'an's "The Water Margin", Balzac's "La Comédie Humaine". It also addresses oral history, the spoken account or witness, the Hiroshima survivor to the modern Syrian migrant. Which also connects to the nexus of media and history. The great "historical" films continue to hold us, be it Eisenstein's "October: Ten Days That Shook the World" (1925) or "Gone with the Wind" (1940). We live in an age of documentaries, whether film or TV. There is a view that we also inhabit "instant" history, the download to laptop, the app, the all-purpose mobile. How has this technology changed our perception, our lived experience, of history? What is the role of commemoration, parade, holiday, festival or statuary in the writing of history? The different modes by which we see and understand history, flow and counter-flow, nevertheless come back to certain basics. One asks whether we deceive ourselves in always asking for some grand narrative. Can there only be one narrator or is history by necessity a colloquium, contested ground? Is national history a myth? And history-writing itself: is it actually a form of fiction, an artifice which flatters to deceive? What, exactly, is a historical fact? This conference, we hope, will address these perspectives and others that connect and arise. ------------- ***Programming **Keynote Speaker: William Lindesay OBE – Founder, International Friends of the Great Wall *Keynote Presentation: The Great Wall Story – The Way I Have Discovered It Between the late fourth century BC to 1644 AD at least 16 border-defence systems were intermittently built (or inherited and operated) by rulers of Chinese dynasties – all of them functioning as fortifications against nomadic cavalry from the north. These are known as "Great Walls of China". Chinese chroniclers wrote a great library about their empires, including a history of each dynasty, but shy of rough work on imperial frontiers they seldom reference "Great Walls". Today, their remnants comprise the largest system of related ancient ruins in the world, yet in spite of the urgent need to conserve these monuments their academic study and field research is ignored by university faculties – because "Great Wall Studies" transcends many fields. By reviewing a series of personal Great Wall explorations, field-research foci, discoveries, advocacy and archive projects carried out and achieved in China between 1987 and 2017, as a geographer, author and film-maker I will show how diverse, personal, unconventional – and "foreign" – approaches have made significant contributions to the surprisingly narrow, Sino-centric and limited corpus of Great Wall knowledge, as well as popular understanding. "The Great Wall", the most famous building in the world, a bucket-list must-see, remains the least-known and most superficially protected of UNESCO world heritages, as continuing damage to it by nature and man shows. I hold that a better future for its protection, and rational, economic, educational and inspirational uses, rests with the development of “Great Wall Studies” as an integrated course at university level. **Further programming details for The Asian Conference on Media, Communication & Film 2017 will be announced in the coming weeks: mediasia.iafor.org/programme ------------- ***IAFOR Publishing Opportunities **Peer-Reviewed Journal: IAFOR Journal of Media, Communication & Film IAFOR Journal of Media, Communication & Film (ijmcf.iafor.org) is an editorially independent journal associated with MediAsia2017. The editor of the journal will select the strongest papers from associated Conference Proceedings for consideration. This Open Access journal, which conforms to the highest academic standards, reflects the interdisciplinary and international nature of our conferences. **Conference Proceedings After having your abstract accepted and presenting your research at the conference, you are encouraged to submit a full paper for inclusion in the official Conference Proceedings. Our Conference Proceedings are Open Access research repositories that act as permanent records of the research generated by IAFOR conferences. Further details are available here: mediasia.iafor.org/final-paper-submission **THINK THINK (think.iafor.org), The Academic Platform, is IAFOR's online magazine, publishing the latest in interdisciplinary research and ideas from some of the world's foremost academics, many of whom have presented at IAFOR conferences. Content is varied in both subject and form, with everything from full research papers to shorter opinion pieces, interviews, podcasts, film and photography. ------------- ***Join IAFOR at MediAsia2017 to: – Present to a global audience – Have your work published in the Conference Proceedings and considered for peer-reviewed, Open Access journals – Hear about the latest interdisciplinary research in Media, Communication & Film – Participate in a truly international, interdisciplinary and intercultural event – Take part in interactive audience sessions – Network with international colleagues **Register by August 13, 2017 to take advantage of the Advance Registration rate. Lunch is included in all conference registrations. Please see the registration page for details: mediasia.iafor.org/registration *If you have attended an IAFOR conference within the past year, or belong to an affiliated university or institution, we offer additional discounts in appreciation of your support. Please contact us at mediasia@iafor.org for details. ------------- ***About IAFOR To learn more about IAFOR, please visit iafor.org. For enquiries please contact mediasia@iafor.org. |
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