Call for Papers - Critical Island Studies International Conference 2024
De La Salle University, College of Liberal Arts,
The Department of Literature
together with the Office of the Dean, Southeast Asia Research Center and Hub, Bienvenido N. Santos Creative Writing Center, and Jesse M. Robredo Institute of Governance
with the Critical Island Studies Consortium
The Political Lives of Islands
Critical Island Studies International Conference 2024
Oct.03-04, 2024 | De La Salle University Manila
The Political Lives of Islands
Islands studies in their contemporary form remain imminently productive because of the many theoretical trajectories that come into play when we speak of islands and what they can mean for us. Oscar Campomanes (2018) has previously described the physical form of islands and how they cross and transgress the traditionally geopolitical and geopoetic. Similarly, scholars (DeLoughrey and Flores 2020; Hau’ofa 1994; Benitez-Rojo 1996) have described alternative ways of thinking about islands that consider dialectics parallel to their natural rhythms as opposed to the imperial/Anthropocentric impositions that predominate modern ways of thinking about islands and their continental relations.
In many ways, islands that are otherwise imagined as spatially bound, static, and paradisical are dynamic, moving, and constantly transforming. The two-day hybrid conference merges our critical and creative responses to our theoretically informed and lived experience of the islands. This is reflected in the concerns and objectives this conference hopes to surface through a transdisciplinary conversation from multiple fields of inquiry.
We ask, for instance, how do governance and business remake our land, water, and air? Here, we acknowledge the scarcity of human and nonhuman resources, the deterritorializing politics of capital and technology, and climate change, and are interested in interdisciplinary methodologies and practices of empirical, historical, cultural, practical, and imaginative ways of life-making.
We are interested in receiving submissions under, but not limited to, the following themes:
- Theorizing the Island
- Island Rhetorics and Performance
- Islands and Cities
- Digital Islands
- Island Regimes and Governance
- Indigenous Islands/Indigenizing Islands
- Island Mobilities/Connections
- Island Afterlives/Futures
- Island Industries and Ecologies
- Island Identities
- Posthuman Islands
- Island Aesthetics
- Island Resistances
Selected paper presentations will be published in a special section under the AKDA: The Asian Journal of Literature, Culture, Performance, Kritika Kultura, UNITAS, and other publication opportunities with journals under the Asian Journal Network (AJN).
The Critical Island Studies Consortium (CIS) was born in 2019 in Manila with the theme, “Critical Island Studies: The Islandic Archipelago, and Oceanic” hosted by Kritika Kultura, Ateneo de Manila University (ADMU) and UNITAS, University of Santo Tomas (UST). It reconvened post-pandemic in Jakarta in 2022 with the theme “Maritime Across Disciplines” hosted by Universitas Kristen Indonesia (UKI) and Universitas Indonesia (UI). In 2023, it carried the theme “Island Commodities” and was held at Universitas Gadjah Mada (UGM) in conjunction with the Universitas Sanata Dharma’s Literary Studies Conference.
The CIS consortium includes Ateneo de Manila University, University of Santo Tomas, De La Salle University; Universitas Gadjah Mada, Universitas Sanata Dharma, Universitas Indonesia, Universitas Kristen Indonesia, Universitas Kristen Maranatha, Universitas Udayana; Konkuk University, Kyung Hee University, and National Taiwan Normal University. The CIS consortium
aims to develop a new planetary perspective from which to invent an image of the environment and create a new sense of nature to seek environmental justice.
References:
- Benítez Rojo, Antonio, and James E. Maraniss. The Repeating Island: The Caribbean and the Postmodern Perspective. 2nd ed, Duke University Press, 1996.
- Campomanes, Oscar V. “The Islandic in the Postcolonial Critique of American Empire” The University of California Humanities Research Institute, September 2018 https://uchri.org/foundry/the-islandic-in-the-postcolonial-critique-of-american-empire/
- DeLoughrey, Elizabeth, and Tatiana Flores. “Submerged Bodies.” Environmental Humanities, vol. 12, no. 1, May 2020, pp. 132–66. DOI.org (Crossref), https://doi.org/10.1215/22011919-8142242.
- Hau’ofa, Epeli. “Our Sea of Islands.” The Contemporary Pacific 6, no 1, Spring 1994, pp. 148-61.
REGISTRATION FEES
Participation
(Onsite & Online)
(Professional /Student)
ONSITE
Paper Presenter
Professional
Early Registration| Onsite | Professional: P4,500.00
Regular | Onsite | Professional: P5000.00
Student
Early Registration | Onsite | Student: 3500
Regular Registration| Onsite | Student: 4000
Non-presenter
Onsite: P1,000.00
ONLINE
Early Registration| Online: P2,000.00
Regular | Online: P2,500.00
The onsite fee includes lunch, morning and afternoon snacks, and a conference kit + certificate.
The online fee includes a conference kit and certificate.
Pre-registration is required (LINK - to follow)
Important Dates
Abstract Submission: 10 May 2024
Notification of Acceptance: 10 June 2024
Early Bird Registration Deadline: 31 May 2024
Regular Registration Deadline: 26 July 2024
Non-Presenter Registration begins on 30 August 2024
Guideline for Abstracts
Individual Presentations: Abstracts should be 250 words long. It must include the author’s name (s), institutional affiliation, degree, contact information such as email and cellphone number, and a short bionote. Please indicate if you intend to present onsite or online.
Panel Presentations: It must be composed of three to five paper presentations that include a session chair and/or discussant. Submission must include the panel abstract and the individual abstract of each presenter of 250 words long, name of the contact person, institutional affiliation, contact information, and short bionote.
For details and inquiries, contact us at: cis2024@dlsu.edu.ph.
Steering Committee
Dr. Ma. Luisa Reyes, Critical Island Studies Consortium/UNITAS, University of Santo Tomas
Dr. Vincenz Serrano, Critical Island Studies Consortium/Kritika Kultura, Ateneo de Manila University
Dr. Alex Taek-Gwang Lee, Critical Island Studies Consortium, Kyung Hee University
Dr. Anne Frances Sangil, Chair, Department of Literature, De La Salle University Manila
Dr. Jazmin Llana, Department of Literature, De La Salle University Manila
Dr. Dinah Roma, Department of Literature, De La Salle University
Dr. Clarissa Militante, Director, Bienvenido N. Santos Creative Writing Center, De La Salle University Manila
Dr. Fernando Santiago, Director, Southeast Asia Research Center & Hub, De La Salle University Manila
Dr. Ador Torneo, Director, Jesse M. Robredo Institute for Gorvernance
Dr. Genevieve L. Asenjo, Conference Director
Dr. Carlos Piocos, Deputy Director
Secretariat
Dr. Antonette Arogo
Dr. Mesandel Arguelles
Dr. Johann Vladimir Espiritu
Dr. Jose Kervin Cesar Calabias
Dr. Isabela Lacuna
Ms. Harmony Guevarra
Ms. Ana Margarita Nuñez
Ms. Ina Abuan
Ms. Mary Jessel Duque
Mr. Mark Adrian Ho
/updated 01.19.2024
