CFP: Transnational Asia Graduate Student Conference (10 Dec; 5 Feb; Rice U, Houston, TX)

Transnational Asia Graduate Student Conference
Friday, February 5, 2010, 8:30 a.m. - 5:30 p.m.
Sponsor: Chao Center for Asian Studies, Rice University
Keynote: William Mazzarella, University of Chicago Dept of Anthropology

Phenomena that accompany the movement of individuals, ideas, and goods across the boundaries of nation-states are often glossed as "transnational." Individuals in Asia are evermore bound to each other and to the rest of the world. This increase in transnational encounters has both tested and strengthened national boundaries. We are interested in how intra- and inter- regional, transnational flows impact Asian societies and their interlocutors. While telecommunications technology and convenient air travel facilitate the forging of trade, educational, and cultural links, they may also presage the development of new conflicts and frictions. Our Transnational Asia Conference seeks a cross-disciplinary approach for exploring the processes and effects of "transnationalism" within contemporary and historical periods. We also aim to interrogate the very usefulness of the concept itself.

We are seeking paper proposals for the following panels. Abstracts of no more than 250 words may be sent to transnationalasia at gmail dot com by Thursday, December 10, 2009. Please indicate which panel you are submitting to in the body of your e-mail.

CFA: SAGE Multimedia Encyclopedia of Women in Today's World (31 Dec)

FYI.... encyclopedias are a great, relatively easy way to get your feet wet in academic publishing.

We are inviting academic editorial contributors to the Multimedia
Encyclopedia of Women in Today’s World, a new print and electronic
reference that will look at women today around the world and delve into the
contexts of being female in the 21st century. Thus the scope of the
encyclopedia will focus on women’s status starting in approximately 2000
and look forward. The work will present state-of-the-art research,
ready-to-use facts. The 1,000 signed entries (with cross-references and
recommended readings) will cover issues in contemporary women’s and gender
studies and the articles will include information relevant to the following
academic disciplinary contexts: women in different cultures/countries; arts
and media; business and economics; criminal justice; education; family
studies; health; media; military; politics; science and technology; sports;
environmental studies; and religion. We are making assignments with a
submission due date of December 31, 2009.

This comprehensive project will be published in stages by SAGE Reference
and will be marketed to academic and public libraries as a print and
digital product available to students via the library’s electronic
services. The General Editors, who will be reviewing each submission to the
project, are Dr. Mary Zeiss Stange of Skidmore College, and Dr. Carol K.
Oyster of the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse.

If you are interested in contributing to this cutting-edge reference, it is
a unique opportunity to contribute to the contemporary literature,
redefining women’s issues in today’s terms. Moreover, it can be a notable
publication addition to your CV/resume and broaden your publishing credits.
SAGE Publications offers an honorarium ranging from SAGE book credits for
smaller articles up to a free set of the printed product or access to the
online product for contributions totaling 10,000 words or more.

The list of available articles is already prepared, and as a next step we
will e-mail you the Article List (Excel file) from which you can select
topics that best fit your expertise and interests. Additionally, Style and
Submission Guidelines will be provided that detail article specifications.

If you would like to contribute to building a truly outstanding reference
with the Multimedia Encyclopedia of Women in Today’s World, please contact
me by the e-mail information below. Please provide a brief summary of your
academic/publishing credentials in women’s and gender issues.


Thanks very much.

Sue Moskowitz
Director of Author Recruitment
Golson Media
women at golsonmedia dot com

CFP: EAS Grad Student Conference on "Desire" (21 Dec; Mar 13; U of Toronto)

How might the understanding of “East Asia” – be it in terms of a geographical, historical, and cultural locus or as a space of fantasy and the imaginary – be illuminated by accounting for the ways in which desires are produced, structured, regulated, and mobilized through various institutions and discursive formations? Whether understood as lack or a productive force or a form of affective labor, desire is a concept that intersects with and imbricates a range of complex issues operating on the level of the libidinal as well as the material economy. Nationalism and imperialism, genders and sexualities, aesthetics and consumer culture, and the politics of alterity are but a few, yet are all significant to the study of East Asia.

The East Asian Studies Graduate Student Conference at the University of Toronto invites paper submissions for its 10th annual conference titled DESIRE, to be held on March 13, 2010. We seek papers that can critically interrogate the operations of desire, articulating how they are embedded in different modes of social organization at historically specific moments and bringing them into relation with larger issues of how East Asia is situated in the world. Submissions from graduate students around the world in all disciplines within and beyond the field of East Asian Studies, including history, sociology, anthropology, economy, art, literature, cultural studies, philosophy, and others are welcome.

Possible topics for papers include (but are not limited to):
– theories of desire and their complications in the East Asian context;
– literary and cultural representations and mediations of desire;
– the mobilization of desires and affects through cinema and other visual spectacles;
– intersections of nationalism and the construction of national identities with the constitution, regulation, and circumscription of desire;
– the interplay of capitalism, commodity culture, and desiring production in East Asia;
– gender, sexuality, and the regimes through which desire is disciplined;
– the construction of East Asia as a space of fantasy, and its consequent structuring as object of desire.

We invite all those interested in presenting papers to submit an abstract (300 words maximum) along with brief biographical information by December 21, 2009. 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, 2010. Those who wish their papers to be considered for publication should submit a publication-ready copy (about 4000 words). 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 easgsc2010 at gmail dot com. Further information as it becomes available will be posted on the conference website at http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/easgsc/

CFP: Southeast Conference Association for Asian Studies (31 Oct; 15-17 Jan; Louisville, KY)

I don't normally post/send out regional AAS announcements, but since Louisville is very drivable from here....

The Southeast Conference Association for Asian Studies
49th Annual Meeting

University of Louisville
Louisville, KY
January 15-17, 2010


The University of Louisville is host of the 49th annual meeting of the
Southeast Conference of the Association for Asian Studies (SEC/AAS), to
be held January 15-17, 2010 at the University of Louisville in
Louisville, KY. The committee is especially interested in panels and
papers that engage the topic of "Democratization in Asia." Proposals
for panels on specific topics are expressly solicited; panels devoted to
teaching Asian subjects at the secondary or college level are also
requested. Individual paper proposals are also welcome. Only one paper
per participant will be accepted. Annual SEC/AAS dues for 2009-2010 are
required for submissions to be considered

Dues are $20; student dues are $10.
Dues checks made payable to SEC/AAS should be sent to
Charlotte Beahan, Department of History, 6-B Faculty Hall, Murray State
University, Murray, KY 42071-3341, using the membership form
(http://www.uky.edu/Centers/Asia/SECAAS/member_application.html).

Note that dues do not cover the cost of conference registration. We urge
you to submit proposals by e-mail or post; and full required paper/panel
submission information is listed below. Proposals should be submitted
by October 31, 2009 to the Program Chair, Dr. Yawei Liu. (Please put
SEC/AAS proposal and your name on the subject line of emails), SEC/AAS
regrets that it is unable to provide financial assistance to scholars
from abroad.

(Attention graduate students!): SEC/AAS will make available three
grants of $200). each to ease the cost of participation by graduate
students presenting papers at the conference. Indicate graduate student
status and whether you would like to be considered for an award along
with your personal information (from the text box, below) when
submitting your proposal to the program chair. Preference in the awards
will be given to graduate students traveling from beyond the immediate
region of the conference location. Graduate students should also
consider entering their papers in the SEC graduate prize competition;
the winner has a chance of appearing on a panel at the 2010 AAS
national meeting (information enclosed).

I. INDIVIDUAL PAPER proposals should also include the following:
Personal information (from text box), title of paper, region and
discipline of the paper, a 200- to 250-word abstract or summary of the
paper, and any audiovisual (AV) or other equipment required for the
presentation of the paper. (Please note that equipment requests may only
be acted upon if submitted along with the paper proposal. Satisfying
equipment needs at the last minute may not be possible).

II. PANEL/ROUNDTABLE proposals should also include the following:
Name of panel organizer or chair (and personal information, in text
box); panel title, summary of panel, including discipline and region;
names of panel presenters (along required personal information, from
text box); for each paper: paper titles and 200- to 250-word abstracts
or summaries; name of discussant or chair (along with personal
information); a statement as to whether each panelist/discussant/chair
has agreed to participate; AV or other equipment required for
presentations. (Note that equipment requests may only be acted upon if
submitted along with proposals. Satisfying equipment needs at the last
minute may not be possible).

III. DISCUSSANT/CHAIR: Those interested in volunteering to serve as a
discussant or a chair for panels put together from individual papers
should include their area(s) of expertise.

IV. OUTREACH SESSION: Those interested in offering a Teaching Methods
& Materials Outreach Session should include personal information for
each presenter (as above) and indicate the topic, target audience, time
requirements, and AV needs.

All paper/panel submissions should include the following information
for all presenters, chairs, and discussants:

* Name of the presenter
* Position/title/affiliation
* Regional and discipline specializations
* E-mail and mailing address
* Home and office phone & fax numbers
* Also, graduate students who wish to be considered for the
SEC/AAS travel grants (above) should so indicate.


Completed proposals should be sent to:
Dr. Yawei Liu, Director, China Program
The Carter Center, One Copenhill
Atlanta, GA 30307
chanellliu at gmail dot com
Tel: 404-420-5161


Local information requests to:
Shiping Hua, Director
Center for Asian Democracy
University of Louisville
Louisville, KY 40292
(502) 852-3305
shiping.hua at louisville dot edu
http://www.louisville.edu/asiandemocracy

@UIUC: Patrick Drazen talk: "Gay, Kind-of Gay and Pseudo-Gay in Anime and Manga: What's the Point?" (22 Oct, 4-5:30pm; Noyes Lab 163)

"Gay, Kind-of Gay and Pseudo-Gay in Anime and Manga: What's the Point?"

a public lecture by Patrick Drazen

Thursday, 22 October 2009
4:00-5:30
Noyes Lab 163

From the cross-dressing of Osamu Tezuka's Princess Sapphire in Princess Knight (Ribon no kishi, orig. 1953-56) and Ryoko Ikeda's Oscar de Jarjayes in The Rose of Versailles (Berusaiyu no bara, 1972-73) to the fake twincest of the Ouran High School Host Club (Ouran Koukou hosuto-bu, 2003-), Japanese pop culture has not been shy about playing a variety of sexual games with its consumers. However, given the essential conservatism of pop culture's message despite cutting edge story-telling techniques, there is far more teasing going on than actual same-sex romance. In this presentation, using clips from various anime, Drazen will show that the point of most works is to nudge the consumer toward the conventional rather than away from it.



Patrick Drazen is the author of the Anime Explosion: The What? Why? and Wow! of Japanese Animation (2003). He has given presentations at the Cherry Blossom Festival Anime Marathon at the Freer Gallery of the Smithsonian Institution (2006), Schoolgirls and Mobilesuits (2004), Yaoi-Con (2002), and, for the past several years, Anime Central in his hometown of Chicago. He also participated in a panel discussion with Gundam creator Yoshiyuki Tomino as part of the Chicago International Film Festival (2006). Drazen has written on anime and manga for the magazines Animation, SFX, and Time Out New York, and sits on the editorial board of and has contributed to the manga and anime studies journal Mechademia. He is currently working on his second book.

This talk is sponsored by the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, the Center for East Asian and Pacific Studies, the School for Literatures, Cultures, and Linguistics, the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Resource Center, the Department of Comparative and World Literatures, and the Gender and Women's Studies Program.

CFP: “Mysterious Things”: The 11th Annual Graduate Symposium on Women’s and Gender History (1 Nov; 4-6 Mar; UIUC)

A good number of EALC students have presented at this conference in the past. It's a very supportive place to get experience if you haven't presented very much or at all. And of course there's no transportation or hotel expenses.

You do not have to be focused on history in your degree as long as the paper you propose has a historical aspect to it. This paper could be something you've written or plan to write for a course.

If you haven't presented before, you might want to ask a colleague with experience to help you work on your proposal/abstract.

"Mysterious Things”: The 11th Annual Graduate Symposium on Women’s and Gender History

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign / March 4-6, 2010

Submission Deadline: November 1, 2009

The Executive Committee of the Eleventh Annual Graduate Symposium on Women’s and Gender History at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is pleased to announce this call for papers. The Symposium, which is the capstone event of the History Department’s Women’s History month celebration, is scheduled for March 4-6, 2010. To celebrate and encourage further work in the field of women’s and gender history, we invite submissions from graduate students from any institution and discipline. The Symposium organizers welcome individual papers on any topic in the field of women’s and gender history; papers submitted as a panel will be judged individually. Preference will be given to scholars who did not present at last year’s Symposium.

The Symposium Executive Committee is interested in assembling a geographically, temporally, and topically diverse body of papers. This year’s theme, “Mysterious Things,” speaks to a variety of trends that are currently shaping the field of women’s and gender history. This is particularly the case as we march on through a world where things—be they ideas, objects, or some strange mix thereof—continue to delight, baffle, liberate, and ruin individuals, as well as global institutions. Successful proposals could directly explore and build upon the implications of the moment in Marx’s thought concerning commodities, wherein what should become inanimate matter actually assumes a mysterious, yet undeniable kind of life. Proposals could begin to chart out this life in a variety of fields—particularly gender and sexuality—and its
effects upon those with whom it comes into contact. Indeed, gender and sexuality are, themselves, mysterious things, and proposals could also include any work that seeks to expose and demystify their strange functions in the everyday life of people and institutions. We welcome all proposals that seek to examine and interrogate any of the nebulous, enigmatic areas included under the rubric of gender and women’s history. The choice of theme is purposefully broad but provocative, inviting
perspectives and reflections from a variety of temporal, geographical, and inter/disciplinary perspectives.

For this year, the Eleventh Annual Symposium, we are delighted to announce a keynote speaker who engages many of these themes in his work: Kevin Floyd, Associate Professor of English, Kent State University, author of The Reification of Desire: Toward a Queer Marxism (University of Minnesota Press, 2009).

The journal Gender & History will again sponsor a prize for the best graduate student paper presented at the Symposium. Conference presenters will also have the opportunity to publish their work in the on-line proceedings volume. We possess limited resources to subsidize travel expenses for presenters. Giving priority to presenters with limited conference experience, we will allocate these funds based on the quality of presenters’ proposals and the availability of funds.

To submit a paper or panel by email (preferred method); please send only one attachment in Word or PDF format containing a 250-word abstract and a one-page curriculum vitae for each paper presenter, commentator, or panel chair to gendersymp at gmail dot com. The subject line of the email must read "Attn: Programming Committee.” We cannot be responsible for submissions that do not meet these conditions.

To submit a paper or panel in a hard copy format, please send five (5) copies of all abstracts and curriculum vitae to: Programming Committee, Graduate Symposium on Women's and Gender History 309 Gregory Hall, MC 466, 810 S. Wright Street Urbana, Illinois 61801.

For more information, please contact Programming Committee Chair, T.J. Tallie at gendersymp at gmail dot com.

CFP: Early Modern Japan meeting (15 Oct; 25-28 Mar; Philadelphia)

As in the past, the Early Modern Japan Network is soliciting proposals
for panels at its next meeting in association with the annual meeting of
the AAS. We do not have a fixed number of panels, and in the past have
accommodated as many as a half dozen over the course of the AAS's
Thursday to Sunday meeting schedule.

Please submit complete panel proposals to Philip Brown at
brown dot 113 at osu dot edu. Proposals should include the following:

Panel Title
Panel abstract (Maximum 200 words)
Abstracts for each paper (Maximum 200 words)
Participant list, with snail- and e-mail contacts

Deadline: October 15, 2009

Format can be the traditional 3-4 presentations plus comment, discussion
panels, or more innovative approaches.

NOTE that we can not provide for rental of any projection equipment and
that sometimes contracts with hotels prohibit use of personal equipment.

Please contact Philip Brown in advance if you have questions; I would
appreciate hearing as soon as possible from people who plan to submit
proposals so I have an idea of what space and time slots to prepare.

Thanks in advance for your interest..


Philip Brown