14th Annual Conference on Asian Studies

November 20–21, 2020

Department of Asian Studies, Palacký University Olomouc, Czech Republic

The Department of Asian Studies at Palacký University Olomouc is currently accepting individual paper and panel proposals for its 14th Annual Conference on Asian Studies to be held on November 20–21, 2020 in Olomouc, Czech Republic.

The general theme of the conference this year is Voiced and Voiceless in Asia. The relationship between ‘voice’ and ‘power’ is always a complex one. In the Asian context, a number of often closely intertwined issues come to mind, including such topics as the relationship between those that govern and those that are governed,  the dominant social groups and minorities those that are promoted and those that are marginalized, the mainstream culture and the subcultures, the official and the non-official, the standard and the varieties, as well as a range of means that are used to maintain or subvert such relationships, assert or acquire power, give or suppress voice, etc.

We welcome papers that concern any region in Asia and approach the conference theme from a variety of perspectives, including linguistics, literature, arts, cultural studies, media studies, sociology, anthropology, history, philosophy, political science, international relations, economics, cultural geography, and other fields.

We invite researchers, teachers, and postgraduate students to submit their proposals for individual oral presentations as well as organized panels comprising of three to four oral papers dealing with a selected theme. In addition, there will also be a student poster session which will allow undergraduate (BA) as well as graduate (MA and PhD) students to present the results of their research.

The language of the conference is English.

Submission Guidelines

All papers must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference. The following paper categories are welcome:

• Panel proposal
• Individual paper
• Poster

We invite researchers, teachers, and postgraduate students to submit their proposals for individual oral presentations as well as organized panels comprising of three to four oral papers dealing with a selected theme. In addition, there will also be a student poster session which will allow undergraduate (BA) as well as graduate (MA and PhD) students to present the results of their research.

The individual presentations should not exceed 20 minutes. Additional 10 minutes are planned for questions and discussion. The panels may include three or four topically related presentations and take up to 90 minutes, including the Q&A.  For details regarding the Student Poster Session, please see this page. The proposals should be submitted in the form of abstracts (max. 300 words, including references, for an individual paper or a poster, and up to 1,000 words, including references, for a panel)  to EasyChair by August 30, 2020. Decisions on the abstracts will be sent by September 21, 2020.

The conference fee for oral presenters is 75 EUR / 2000 CZK (in case that the conference takes the form of an in-person meeting). Participation in the student poster session is free of charge, and the selected posters will be printed by the organizer.

All active participants must register by October 20, 2020. The fee will have to be paid during the first week of November 2020 through the conference website payment gateway.

Organizing Committee

• Halina Zawiszová
• Martin Lavička
• František Kratochvíl

Venue

The conference will be held at the Department of Asian Studies, Palacký University Olomouc, Czech Republic. Some details about the venue and the city can be found here: http://acas.upol.cz/venue/

We hope that despite the current challenges created by the coronavirus outbreak we will be able to organize the conference in the usual in-person format. However, the final decision about the format will be made closer to the conference date in the autumn of 2020 so as to accommodate potential travel restrictions and social-distancing rules, as well as the preferences of the conference participants.

Contact

All questions about submissions should be emailed to acas@upol.cz