CFP: East by Southeast: Multiple Perspectives on Asia (SEAA) (28 Feb; 2-5 July; Taipei)

A little far but I know some of you/us maybe in Taipei next summer anyway.
Why not increase your chance of getting a little money to cover your costs?

SEAA Taipei 2009
Conference of the Society for East Asian Anthropology,
American Anthropological Association

East by Southeast: Multiple Perspectives on Asia

2-5 July 2009

You are invited to participate in "East by Southeast: Multiple
Perspectives on Asia," a conference of the Society for East Asian
Anthropology of the American Anthropological Association, which will be
held in Taipei, Taiwan, on 2-5 July 2009. We encourage submissions of
both organized sessions and individual papers on issues of interest and
passion in the anthropology of East and Southeast Asian societies. We
particularly welcome panels that bring together comparative studies of a
common topic from different parts of the region.

Peoples in East and Southeast Asia have historically enjoyed intricate
relationships. The unprecedented rate and spread of globalization since
the late 20th century onward have occasioned new modes of economic
integration with attendant flows of people, commodities, and popular
culture that knit the region in new and complex ways. At the same time,
people in different parts of the region face similar challenges with
respect to new class formations and lifestyles, new ways of performing
gender, contestations between local and national identities, and
expanding horizons of consumption. The region is also a site of post- and
neo-colonial tensions. This meeting provides a unique opportunity for
East and Southeast Asian anthropologists and anthropologists of East and
Southeast Asia to learn about current research in their areas (both
geographic and theoretical) and to create links with researchers in other
countries. The conference will include a diverse and multicultural
community of anthropologists, both students and established scholars, and
academic and applied anthropologists.

This conference, which will be conducted in English, is jointly sponsored
by the Society for East Asian Anthropology, the Taiwan Association for
Anthropology and Ethnology, the Graduate Institute of Anthropology at
National Tsing Hua University, the College of Hakka Studies at National
Chiao Tung University, and the Institute of Ethnology at Academia Sinica.

Deadline for submission of panel and paper abstracts: 28 February 2009

Deadline for conference registration and housing application: 30 April 2009

Please check the SEAA Website URL:
http://www.aaanet.org/sections/seaa/index.html
for the SEAA 2009 Taipei Conference update. If you have any questions,
you can also contact Anru Lee, the chair of the program committee at:
alee at jjay.cuny.edu.


Anru Lee, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Anthropology
John Jay College of Criminal Justice
CUNY
899 10th Avenue
New York, NY 10019
(TEL) (212) 237-8571