We welcome submissions across disciplines and addressing any region in Asia for the panel below, which will be part of the annual College Art Association conference held in New York city, February 11-14,

2015.

Contemporary Asian Craft Worlds
Rebecca M. Brown, Johns Hopkins University; and Jennifer Way,
University of North Texas. Email: rmbrown@jhu.edu and jway@unt.edu

Crafts–aesthetically engaged objects made by hand, often balancing function with attention to sensory qualities–anchored debates over authenticity, national identity, industrialization, neoimperial relations, and globalization during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. This session considers how craft has transformed in the face of new economic and political contexts impacting the production and movement of existing and new aesthetic regimes in Asia. What role does craft play in regional Asian cultural capitals, in industries such as fashion and design, or in museums, fairs, and biennials deploying craft in the name of cultural diplomacy and in the context of high art? Contributors might examine the collaborative, appropriative, or exploitative relations with craft in Asia and across the world, unpack factory techniques used to make ?handmade? objects for markets outside of Asia, examine narratives of aid and salvage in migrant communities, or engage with workers’ movements. We welcome proposals that address craft, writ large, in any Asian region.

The full call for papers can be found on the College Art Association website here:

http://www.collegeart.org/proposals/2015callforparticipation

Proposals for papers (see instructions on the CAA website for what that entails) are due via email to session chairs by May 9, 2014.