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10th ASEACC Conference: The Politics Of Faith, Spirituality, And Religion In Southeast Asian Cinemas

CFP: The Politics Of Faith, Spirituality, And Religion In Southeast Asian Cinemas 10th Biennial Association for Southeast Asian Cinemas Conference (ASEACC) July 23-26, 2018, Indonesian Institute of the Arts (ISI) Yogyakarta, Indonesia In Southeast Asia, the tropes of faith/belief, spirituality and religion are frequently inseparable from the political––whether specific regimes, groups, movements or longer 'undercurrents'––in a way that challenges post-enlightenment, rationalist/secularist conceptions of the political and the modern. As the products of these rapidly changing societies with diverse and long-historical philosophies and practices of faith, religion and ritual, Southeast Asian cinemas have often occupied disputed theoretical and aesthetic ground, particularly in their engagements with politics. Local cinematic forms have consistently resisted any absolute break with the power structures and attendant narrative and aesthetic discourses that link the regional p