亚洲研究协会（AAS）成立于1941年，是全球规模最大的亚洲研究学术组织。每年一度的AAS年会也是世界上最重要的亚洲文化与艺术研究国际会议，汇聚来自世界各地的学者，为其提供展示最新研究成果，深入探讨亚洲多样历史、文化及当代议题的学术交流平台。为鼓励多元性，AAS年会不设置固定主题，大会广泛接受人文与社会科学领域的学术提案，尤其鼓励关注亚洲研究的学者和艺术家提交跨学科的研究成果与作品。开放式的议题设置促进了不同学科之间的思想碰撞与交流，推动学术界和艺术界从多角度探讨亚洲问题。
AAS2026年会将于2026年3月12日至15日在加拿大不列颠哥伦比亚省温哥华举行。大会旨在推动亚洲各地区间的交流与互动，提升对亚洲相关议题的研究与教学。2025年6月，AAS2026年会发布征稿启事，面向全球学者征集平行论坛方案。经过严格评审，中国传媒大学戏剧影视学院副教授黄天乐与北京大学艺术学院博士研究生杨宇的提案“幽灵现代性：东亚视觉文化中的媒介、信仰与另类感知”获协会通过。本次会议也是黄天乐老师连续第二年作为AAS提案人、分论坛主席，同时，他还受邀担任分论坛“中国特色技术政治：中央治理与分布式实践的技术现代化”主席。在此，诚邀学者、艺术家和研究人员提交相关文章，参加本次会议。入选文章有机会于相关SSCI、A&HCI、CSSCI期刊发表。
The Association for Asian Studies (AAS) is the world’s largest academic organization dedicated to Asian studies. Its annual conference is one of the most significant international meetings for scholars in Asian culture and arts, providing a global platform for cutting-edge research and deep discussions on diverse issues on history, culture, and contemporary issues of Asia. To promote diversity, the AAS Annual Conference does not have a fixed theme. It welcomes academic proposals from humanities and social sciences. Scholars and artists focusing on Asian studies are especially encouraged to submit interdisciplinary research and creative works. This open-topic format fosters intellectual exchange across disciplines, encouraging new perspectives and conversations on Asian issues within both academic and artistic communities.
The AAS 2026 Annual Conference will be held from March 12 to 15, 2026, in Vancouver, B.C., Canada. The conference aims to promote communication and interaction between various Asian regions and enrich research and teaching on Asia-focused topics. In June 2025, the AAS 2026 Annual Conference issued their call for proposals, inviting submissions from scholars worldwide for parallel session. Following a rigorous reviewing process, the proposal entitled Spectral Modernity: Media, Belief, and Alternative Perception in East Asian Visual Culture by Tianle Huang, associate professor from School of Theater, Film and Television at Communication University of China, and Yu Yang, doctoral candidate at the School of Arts, Peking University, was accepted. This also marks the second consecutive year for prof Huang to join AAS annual conference as a proposer and chair of a parallel session. This time, he is invited to chair another panel entitled: Technopolitics with Chinese Characteristics: Technological Modernization through Central Governance and Distributed Practice. We hereby invite scholars, artists, and researchers to submit articles to join this session. Accepted articles will be considered for publication in related SSCI, A&HCI and CSSCIjournals.
提案人
黄天乐
中国传媒大学戏剧影视学院副教授
Tianle Huang
Associate professor at the School of Theater, Film and Television, Communication University of China
杨宇
北京大学艺术学院博士研究生
Doctoral candidate at the School of Arts, Peking University
论坛主题
幽灵现代性：
东亚视觉文化中的媒介、信仰与另类感知
本次论坛从跨区域与跨学科的视角出发，探讨东亚现代性构造过程中，视觉实践、媒介技术与宗教经验、信仰世界之间的深层关联。我们关注的不是单一宗教或媒介现象，而是影像如何在现代性话语空间中被赋予调解人与非人存在（如神灵、亡灵、灵媒、算法等）的中介功能。在19世纪中后期至当代的东亚社会中，随着摄影术、广播、电影、电视甚至数字影像等媒介形态的更迭，传统宗教、民俗并未退隐为“迷信遗产”，而是不断被重新激活、再编码，进入由科学、国家、殖民技术、现代视觉政体所共同构成的可见性机制。例如，中国民国时期的灵魂摄影与催眠术、日本流行文化中的幽灵再现与超自然力量、韩国数字平台上的AI招灵与宗教复兴现象、朝鲜政治宣传图像中“永生”身体的视觉仪式等，均展现出媒介图像在宗教、政治与感知经验中的高度中介作用。我们主张，这些关于神圣存在、幽灵或超自然力量的视觉显现，应被理解为东亚现代性中持续运行的（不）可见性的政治。
论坛将通过文献、个案与实证研究，打破“宗教/科学”“传统/现代”“理性/迷信”的二元范式，论析幽灵现代性在东亚不同国家的在地化具现形式，探讨在视觉与信仰交叉的语境中，影像如何作为科学知识、宗教信念与现代感知的界面，既生成现代性经验又由之形塑。更重要的是，来自东亚的视觉实践表明：现代性并非一个单向线性的西方范式在非西方语境的被动复制，而是某种被不断嵌入、延宕、杂糅与重写的文化过程，某种图像、媒介、知识与信仰持续协商的动力机制，某种在祛魅与复魅的反复博弈中完成的视觉秩序与知识形构。
我们欢迎包括但不限于以下议题的文章
1.图像的显灵：东亚现代性中的视觉、信仰与感知机制
2.存在的幽灵：非人主体与东亚宇宙论的重述
3.殖民现代性与可见性的政治
4.非人中介与感知技术：从仙灵、幽灵到算法泛灵世界
5.东亚现代性中图像的信念维度与知识协商
6.幽灵现代性的理论潜能：东亚经验如何重塑现代性范式
Theme
Spectral Modernity: Media, Belief, and Alternative Perception in East Asian Visual Culture
This cross-regional interdisciplinary panel examines how visual practices, media technologies, religious experience, and the realm of belief intertiwine throughout the formation of East Asian modernity. Rather than focusing on one particular religious tradition or medium, we explore how images mediate interactions between human and non-human entities—deities, ghosts, mediums, or algorithms—within the discursive space of modernity. Since the late 19th century, albeit the successive emergence of photography, radio, cinema, television, and digital imaging, East Asian traditional religions and folk beliefs have not withdrawn into “superstitious residue,” but have been persistently reactivated and recoded, entering visible regimes shaped by science, states, colonial technologies, and modern visual governance. The Republican China’s spirit photography and hypnosis, Japanese pop culture’s ghostly apparitions and supernatural powers, South Korean AI-based spirit invocation and religious revival, and North Korean propaganda’s visual rituals of “eternal bodies” all demonstrate images as an intensive mediator in shaping religious, political, and sensory experiences. We argue that such visual manifestations of sacred presence, ghosts, or supernatural forces should be comprehended as part of the ongoing politics of (in)visibility within East Asian modernity.
Through textual, historical, and ethnographic case studies, this panel challenges binary distinctions such as religion/science, tradition/modernity, and reason/superstition. It proposes a “spectral modernity” concept to account for the diverse, localized forms through which visuals, spirits, and technologies intersect in East Asia. Moreover, East Asian visual practices deny modernity as a uni-linear Western paradigm passively reproduced in non-Western contexts. Rather, it is a cultural process continuously being intervened, deferred, hybridized, and rewritten; a dynamic negotiation among images, media, knowledge, and belief; and a visual order and epistemic formation established through constant shift between disenchantment and re-enchantment.
We welcome articles on,but not limited to the following topics
1.Epiphanies of Images: Visuals, Belief, and Perceptual Regimes in East Asian Modernity
2.Specters of Being: Non-human Subjects and the Re-articulation of East Asian Cosmologies
3.Colonial Modernity and the Politics of Visibility
4.Non-human Agents and Perception Technologies: From Spirits and Ghosts to Algorithmic Animism
5.The Epistemic Life of Images: Visual Belief and Knowledge Negotiation in East Asian Modernity
6.Theorizing Spectral Modernity: How East Asian Experience Rewrites the Paradigm of Modernity
投稿指南
截止日期
北京时间2025年11月1日24:00
提交材料
1.个人学术简历
2.完整的学术文章或800-1000字的
中/英文长摘要及关键词
征稿邮箱
aas2026@163.com
本次会议秉承亚洲研究协会一贯的宗旨，倡导多样性，欢迎不同区域、国籍、种族和身份背景的学者参与。文章获选后，可通过AAS官方网站申请注册费减免及差旅补助等资金支持。如果您有任何问题，欢迎随时通过邮箱联系会议主持人。期待在AAS2026年会上与您共同参与讨论。
Submission Guidelines
Deadline
24:00 (UTC+8), November 1, 2025
Required Materials
1.An academic CV
2.A full paper or an extended abstract of 800-1000 words in either Chinese or English, along with keywords
Contribution Email
aas2026@163.com
This session follows the Association for Asian Studies’ commitment to diversity and welcomes scholars from different regions, nationalities, races, and backgrounds to participate. Upon acceptance, the scholar may be eligible to apply for financial support, including registration fee waivers and travel grants, through the AAS official website. If you have any questions, feel free to contact the Lightning Talks organizer via email. We look forward to engaging with you at the AAS 2026 Annual Conference.
