DECEPTION:
The 12^th Annual East Asian Studies Graduate Student Conference, University of Toronto
10 March 2012

EXTENDED DEADLINE: JANUARY 20^th

We are cur­rently seek­ing orig­i­nal aca­d­e­mic papers on the theme of “decep­tion.” Establishing as our start­ing point the dis­tinc­tion between truth and false­hood, we are inter­ested in the ques­tion of how and to what pur­poses that dis­tinc­tion might be inten­tion­ally blurred. We wel­come con­tri­bu­tions that dis­cuss the human, and also non-human, fac­ulty to deceive, as well as the human poten­tial to be deceived. Deception can take the form of pro­pa­ganda or a glance, an image or an utter­ance, a pres­ence or an absence, a ploy or a pledge, an action or a silence. The ques­tion of decep­tion invites a mul­ti­tude of dis­cus­sions: polit­i­cal, lin­guis­tic, artis­tic, cul­tural, his­tor­i­cal, anthro­po­log­i­cal, philo­soph­i­cal, psy­cho­log­i­cal, and many more besides. Thus we wel­come papers from any and all dis­ci­plines will­ing and able to engage aca­d­e­m­i­cally in the issues, intri­ca­cies, and illu­mi­na­tions of the topic of decep­tion in an East Asian con­text, from the ways decep­tion is defined and fig­ured in East Asian soci­eties and cul­tures, to the very work­ings of decep­tion in the fig­ur­ing and def­i­n­i­tion of East Asia.

For those inter­ested, we request that you pro­vide an abstract (300 words max­i­mum) as well as your per­sonal and con­tact infor­ma­tion by January 20, 2011. Submissions from both indi­vid­u­als and pan­els of three (pan­elists should send indi­vid­ual abstracts and a panel abstract) are encouraged.

Submitted papers are also eli­gi­ble for con­sid­er­a­tion for the East Asia Forum, a jour­nal edited and pub­lished by grad­u­ate stu­dents in the Department of East Asian Studies at the University of Toronto. Please indi­cate whether you wish to have your com­pleted paper con­sid­ered for publication.

Selected par­tic­i­pants will be asked to sub­mit com­pleted papers by February 15, 2012. Those who wish their papers to be con­sid­ered for pub­li­ca­tion should sub­mit a publication-ready copy (about 4000 words) by March 31, 2012. During the con­fer­ence, par­tic­i­pants will be given 20 min­utes to present their work; actual pre­sen­ta­tion papers should be about 1500 – 2500 words long.

Please e-mail sub­mis­sions and queries to eas.​gsc@​utoronto.​ca. Further infor­ma­tion as it becomes avail­able will be posted on the con­fer­ence web­site at http://​groups​.chass​.utoronto​.ca/​e​a​s​g​sc/.