tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-347667472011-07-07T23:34:42.201-05:00<b><u>THE BLOG FOR THE EAST ASIAN LANGUAGES & CULTURES GRADUATE STUDENT ORGANIZATION</b></u><br> This blog was created as a resource for members of the East Asian Languages and Cultures Graduate Student Organization (EGO) at <a href="http://www.uiuc.edu">UIUC</a> and others working on East Asian and Pacific Studies here at UIUC. Feel free to add comments. To post a call for papers (CFP) or other announcement, please email it to <a href="mailto:jrwelker@mac.com">James</a>.jrwelkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05101757142463134702noreply@blogger.comBlogger2501100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34766747.post-25985521682703995832010-04-10T14:25:00.004-05:002010-04-10T14:32:33.847-05:00

The East Asian Studies Center at The Ohio State University is pleased to host the 59th Midwest Conference on Asian Affairs (MCAA) from October 1-3, 2010 at the new Ohio Union in Columbus, Ohio. A regional conference of the Association of Asian Studies (AAS), MCAA has provided a forum for scholars and teachers of Asian Studies in the Midwest to gather and exchange knowledge about the history and

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Call For PapersJapan Studies Association Journal, Volume 8 (2010)JSAJ, a juried professional journal published annually, accepts essays on a wide variety of topics related to Japanese Studies across the disciplines, Pedagogical Notes and Essays which reflect on aspects of teaching Japanese material, and book reviews and review essays of relevant research for our membership and for all those

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This is drivable!Sex and Love in Asian Contexts: Film & History Conference: Representationsof Love in Film and TelevisionNovember 10-14, 2010Hyatt Regency Milwaukeewww.uwosh.edu/filmandhistoryExtended Deadline: March 1, 2009AREA: Sex and Love in Asian Contexts,Asia has, perhaps, the richest history of cultural and commercial exchangein the world, resulting in deeply layered religious, political,

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This one's close by.Chicago, Illinois, 18-21 November, 2010Submission deadline: 15 February, 2010Power and Politicshttp://www.ssha.org/The 2010 Program Committee seeks panel proposals that will focus on Power and Politics. Power is a foundational concept in history and the social sciences, and just as clearly a contested one. Traditionally, the understanding of power as the capacity to enact one’

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

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FYI.... encyclopedias are a great, relatively easy way to get your feet wet in academic publishing.We are inviting academic editorial contributors to the MultimediaEncyclopedia of Women in Today’s World, a new print and electronicreference that will look at women today around the world and delve into thecontexts of being female in the 21st century. Thus the scope of theencyclopedia will focus on

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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,

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I don't normally post/send out regional AAS announcements, but since Louisville is very drivable from here....The Southeast Conference Association for Asian Studies49th Annual MeetingUniversity of LouisvilleLouisville, KYJanuary 15-17, 2010The University of Louisville is host of the 49th annual meeting of theSoutheast Conference of the Association for Asian Studies (SEC/AAS), tobe held January 15

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"Gay, Kind-of Gay and Pseudo-Gay in Anime and Manga: What's the Point?"a public lecture by Patrick DrazenThursday, 22 October 20094:00-5:30Noyes Lab 163From 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

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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

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As in the past, the Early Modern Japan Network is soliciting proposalsfor panels at its next meeting in association with the annual meeting ofthe AAS. We do not have a fixed number of panels, and in the past haveaccommodated as many as a half dozen over the course of the AAS'sThursday to Sunday meeting schedule.Please submit complete panel proposals to Philip Brown atbrown dot 113 at osu dot

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20th Japan Anthropology Workshop (JAWS) Conference2nd Call for Papers/Panels14 – 16 March 2010, University of Texas at Austin***Deadline for all abstracts: 1 November 2009***The organizing committee of the Japan Anthropology Workshop welcomes panel and paper proposals for the 2010 JAWS conference, which will be held in Austin, Texas. The conference theme is "Identity, Ritual, and Religion in

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We are inviting academic editorial contributors to the MultimediaEncyclopedia of Women in Today’s World, a new print and electronicreference that will look at women today around the world and delve into thecontexts of being female in the 21st century. Thus the scope of theencyclopedia will focus on women’s status starting in approximately 2000and look forward. The work will present

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From: Majella Munro, Editor (modernartasiaenquiries at yahoo dot co dot uk)Modern Art Asia is a new journal dedicated to the arts of Asia from the eighteenth century to today, presenting postgraduate research from historical perspectives and international news on Asian art. Combining peer-reviewed articles with insightful commentary and the latest exhibiton reviews from international

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The Department of Humanities, University of Toronto Scarborough, is pleased to presentA Call for PapersThe Tung Lin Kok Yuen Conference: Buddhism and DiasporaFriday May 14- Sunday May 16, 2010University of Toronto ScarboroughFor more information, please visit our website:http://www.utsc.utoronto.ca/~humdiv/TLKY/event3Keynote Address, Friday May 14th: Professor Victor Hori (McGillUniversity)This

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Note that individual paper proposals rather than full panels are also accepted, and that there are a limited amount of travel funds available for grad students.Japan Studies AssociationSixteenth Annual ConferenceJanuary 7-9, 2010Tokai UniversityHonolulu, HawaiiThe Japan Studies Association invites you to attend the Sixteenth Annual Japan Studies Association Conference to be held January 7-9, 2010

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Visualizing Global Asia at the Turn of the 20th CenturyAn Academic Conference sponsored by the Visualizing Cultures Project and the Center for East Asian Studies, Yale University Yale University, New Haven, April 29 May 1, 2010Coordinators Peter C. Perdue [Yale] and John W. Dower [MIT]The Visualizing Cultures project[http://visualizingcultures.mit.edu] and the Council on East Asian Studies at

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Call for papers: 21st Conference of the International Association of Historians of Asia (IAHA) 22-25 June 2010. DEADLINE 30 Sept. 2009A warm invitation is extended to all historians and scholars of Asia to come to the dynamic city of Singapore in late June 2010 to attend IAHA 2010. At this conference the Steering Committee will seek to showcase the latest scholarly research and

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(It's been a while since I've posted a CFP, mainly because there's been very little I've seen that would be of interest to more than one EALC grad. Please share CFPs that you think others of us might be interested in. You can email them directly to the EALC grads list or to me. Keep in mind that this particular conf is in a very driveable location.)2010 Film & History Conference: Representations

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20th Japan Anthropology Workshop (JAWS) Conference Call for Papers/Panels14 – 16 March 2010, University of Texas at Austin The organizing committee of the Japan Anthropology Workshop welcomes panel and paper proposals for the 2010 JAWS conference, which will be held in Austin, Texas. The conference theme is "Identity, Ritual, and Religion in Japan” although the organizers are open to all topics

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Call for WritersSchlager Group, the publisher of the award-winning "Milestone Documents"series of reference books, is seeking writers for its newest project,Milestone Documents in World History (MDWH). Aimed at high school andlower undergraduate history students, MDWH covers 130 of the mostimportant primary source documents in history. Our unique approach pairsthe full text of the primary

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Call for Authors: ABC-CLIO, the leading publisher of academic referenceworks, is in the process of developing a comprehensive 21-volumeEncyclopedia of World History. We are seeking interested scholars toprepare 500-1500 word articles on the history of Japan and Korea.Compensation: contributors will have their names associated with theentries they contribute and will receive access to the e-book

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The Eighteenth Annual MeetingRETHINKING GENDER IN THE POSTGENDER ERANovember 6-8, 2009Rutgers UniversityCALL FOR PAPERSElaine Showalter's A Literature of Their Own (1977) proposed a three-stagemodel of the growth of feminist theory, beginning with an androgynistpoetics, then a feminist critique and female aesthetic, and finally gendercriticism. If feminist theory could but explain gender

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Hello all!Join us at Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo for a four-week summerintensive program that will teach you about the business and practice oftranslation! We welcome applications from everyone, including currentstudents, graduates, and international students from around the world.The Summer Translation Institute (STI), hosted by the Department of ForeignLanguages at Western

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You are warmly invited to attend the upcoming 4th Joint East Asian StudiesConference (JEASC), to be held at the University of Sheffield, UK, 8-10September 2009.The JEASC is a triennial meeting held by the three academic associationsrepresenting East Asian Studies in the UK (The British Associations forChinese, Japanese, and Korean Studies – BACS, BAJS, and BAKS). We encourageapplications for

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*Papers, Essays and Reviews *(P.E.A.R.), a new interdisciplinary Englishlanguage journal of international studies at Yonsei University in Seoul, inconjunction with the Center for International Studies, is now acceptingsubmissions for its first issue from graduate students. The periodicalpublication includes varying disciplines and methodologies, but each issuewill attempt to be thematic.

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EALC students have frequently published in EAA. It's a great place to get your feet wet.---New Education About Asia Planned Special Sections: Winter 2009-Winter2010, Asia in World History; Business, Economics, and Asia; Asian Religions; Environmental Challenges and AsiaEducation About Asia (EAA) is the peer-reviewed teaching journal of theAssociation for Asian Studies. Our readers include

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Imag(in)ing Asia and the Pacific: Emerging Visualities and Art Perspectives Department of the History of Art and Visual Studies Annual Graduate Symposium Cornell University February 20-21, 2009The symposium addresses the 20th century processes of decolonization, modernization, and nation-building that characterized the regions of Asia and the Pacific. These structures are revisited in the 21st

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Kathryn Davis Fellowships for Peace: Investing in the Study of Critical Languages Full Scholarships for Intensive Language Study at the Middlebury Summer Language Schools in: Arabic, Chinese, Hebrew, Japanese, Portuguese and RussianMiddlebury College is pleased to announce The Kathryn Davis Fellowships for Peace: Investing in the Study of Critical Languages. These 100 fellowships are made

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nThe Institute of Humanities at Seoul National University is launching a peer-reviewed international journal of humanities. HORIZONS: Seoul Journal of Humanities is a forum for interdisciplinary, intercultural studies of humanities. Our primary goal is to generate intellectual dialogues between the traditional boundaries of knowledge and culture; we also seek to redefine, transform, and conflate

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Theme: Locating Taiwan: Space, Culture and SocietyIn the past two decades, Taiwan has experienced major transformations in the remapping of space. The operation of Taipei and Kaoshiung's Rapid Transit Systems and the High Speed Rail has integrated more people into the metropolis and fosters different lifestyles. The direct weekend flights between Taiwan and China not only attract Chinese

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The History Graduate Student Association at Indiana University invites paper submissions by graduate students for its 2009 conference entitled Making Memory, Making History: Ideas and Identities Beyond Borders.The year's conference seeks to engage with a variety of sources and perspectives related to the movement of ideas and identities, whether figurative or literal, across and beyond borders.

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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 2009Conference of the Society for East Asian Anthropology,American Anthropological AssociationEast by Southeast: Multiple Perspectives on Asia2-5 July 2009You are invited to participate in "East by Southeast: MultiplePerspectives on Asia

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This is close enough to perhaps make it worth the effort to go up to Chi-town. Plus several EALC students have presented at this conf in the past and it sounds like a good one.Fifth Annual Loyola University Chicago History Graduate Student ConferenceApril 24-25, 2009 Loyola University, Lakeshore Campus, Chicago, ILSponsored by the History Graduate Student Association, Loyola University

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Copy That!: Reproduction and PedagogySaturday, March 28, 2009Keynote speaker: Amy Powell, Assistant Professor, Department of Art History, University of California, IrvineSix years before Walter Benjamin wrote the first version of "Work of Art in the Age of its Technological Reproducibility," Erwin Panofsky published "Original und Faksimile Reproduktion," (Der Kreis, 1930), a letter addressing the

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12th Annual Harvard East Asia Society Graduate Student ConferenceBridges and Borders in East AsiaHarvard University, Cambridge, MA, USAFebruary 27 - March 1, 2009The Harvard East Asia Society (HEAS) Graduate Student Conference invitesgraduate students from around the world, conducting research in alldisciplines, to submit abstracts for our 2009 conference:Bridges and Borders in East AsiaThe East

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I don't remember who might be doing performance studies, but this is close and there's a chance of getting travel money directly from the conference--in addition, of course, to EALC, EAPS, etc.Call for Contributions: Radical Intersections: Performance Across DisciplinesA Graduate Student Conference with Keynote Speaker Sue-Ellen Case and Keynote Performance by Teatro LunaSubmission Deadline:

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The Editors of Asia Pacific: Perspectives invite scholars and graduate students to submit papers for publication in the spring 2009 issue (Vol. 9, No. 1).The submission deadline is February 22, 2009.Asia Pacific: Perspectives is a peer-reviewed journal published twice a year in May and November. It welcomes submissions from all fields of the social sciences and the humanities. In keeping with

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For the sixth consecutive year, an exciting six-week Summer Program on Japanese Visual Culture will take place at the Tokyo Campus of Temple University Japan (TUJ), May 18 – June 29, 2009 (tentative dates). This program consists of two coordinated courses: the first focuses on approaches to studying the richness and complexity of visual culture in Japan; the second allows students to develop

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The Kyoto Consortium of Japanese Studies (KCJS) is pleased to announce its new Summer Program in Advanced and Classical Japanese. This six-week program offers intensive training in advanced and classical Japanese for highly motivated undergraduate and graduate students who have completed three years of Japanese or the equivalent. Eight points of credit are awarded on a Columbia University

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Kobe College Corporation - Japan Education Exchange (KCC-JEE) is happy to announce that they are now recruiting for our 2009-2010 Graduate Fellowship. Interested graduate students should visit the following URL for further information, graduate fellowship guidelines and application materials.http://www.kccjee.org/pages/program_pages/gradfellowshippage.htmNote that applicants must be US citizens

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Remember that EAA is looking for relatively short pieces aimed primarily to educators at the secondary and undergraduate level. A number of EALC students have published in this journal. It's a great way to get your feet wet, if you haven't already.Call for Manuscripts: The Construction of "Memory" in Asia, EAA Spring 2009Education About Asia (EAA) is the peer-reviewed teaching journal of

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The 17th annual Midwest Conference on Literature, Language, and Media (MCLLM) will be held March 20-21, 2009 at Northern Illinois University in DeKalb, Illinois.MCLLM invites papers on all areas of literary, language, and media studies, especially proposals that interrogate identity and its representation through the prism of literature, language, or media in all their diverse contexts.Deadline

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It's a bit late but if you already have something pretty much ready to go....--GLIMPSE explores the variety of aspects of visual perception by publishing relevant works from the physical sciences, social sciences, arts, and humanities. GLIMPSE examines the functions and processes of vision and its implications for being, knowing, and constructing our world/s. Each theme-focused journal issue

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INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON POPULAR CULTURE AND EDUCATION IN ASIA Hong Kong Institute of Education, 11-13 December 2008 CALL FOR PAPERS DEADLINE: 31 August 2008 We invite you to join us at the First International Conference on Popular Culture and Education in Asia at the Hong Kong Institute of Education. The conference will bring together researchers from a variety of disciplines to focus on the

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Bilbao (Spain): 26-29 November 2008International Congress on Chinese Studies. The main subject is the "Immigrations and Cultures". Works about chinese culture and chinese studies are encouraged to be sent.Immigration and Multiculturalism1. Gender and Immigration2. Immigration and Multiculturalism3. Chinese Immigration to Western Countries4. Education and Social Intervention on Immigration5. China

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Japan Studies AssociationFifteenth Annual Conference January 8-10, 2009Hotel MonteleoneNew Orleans, LAThe Fifteenth Annual Japan Studies Association Conference will be held January 8-10, 2009 at Hotel Monteleone in New Orleans, LA. It will begin with a light reception on Thursday evening, January 8th at 5:30 pm and conclude with the conference banquet on Saturday night, January 10th, at 6:

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Imag(in)ing Asia and the Pacific: Emerging Visualities and Art PerspectivesDepartment of the History of Art and Visual Studies Annual Graduate SymposiumCornell UniversityThe symposium addresses the 20th century processes of decolonization, modernization, and nation-building that characterized the regions of Asia and the Pacific. These structures are revisited in the 21st century in the wake of

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The T‘ang Studies Society and the University at Albany will co-sponsor an international conference on T‘ang Studies: The Next Twenty-five Years to mark the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Society’s founding.The conference will be held at the University’s campus in Albany, NY May 8-9, 2009. The goal of the conference is to assess the current state of T‘ang studies and to encourage new avenues of

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The Department of Fine Arts at the University of Hong Kong will host an nternational conference on Rethinking Visual Narratives from 8-9 June 2009. The conference will bring together approximately fifteen scholars presenting new and original research to discuss how visual narratives function in different cultures and exploring connections and interactions between the arts of Asia and that of Asia

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As I've noted before, EAA is a relatively easy way to get a pub on the CV by writing about something you're interested in.Education About Asia (EAA) is the peer-reviewed teaching journal of the Association for Asian Studies. Our readers include undergraduate instructors as well as high school and middle school teachers. Our articles are intended to provide educators, who are often not specialists

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Dear Professors and Colleagues,On behalf of the board members of JAQS (Japan Association for Queer Studies), I am pleased to inform you about this year's conference for the association. It will be at Hiroshima Shudo University in November 8th-9th.This will be a great occasion for those who are involved in Japanese queer studies, gender studies, and sexuality studies to network with each other.

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If you haven't already heard, the AAS Annual Mtg is going to be in Chicago this year. It's a great chance to present at the national level. While getting a paper accepted is more challenging than MCAA, that just makes it more of an accomplishment. Individual papers are rarely accepted, especially from those based in the US. Your best shot is to put together a panel. I've heard they prefer

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Remember that MCAA is a very supportive place to get started presenting in the field as a grad student. And, unlike the national conference, you still have a good chance of getting accepted even if you don't propose a full panel (tho' full panel proposals are generally stronger and preferred). Why not give it a shot?Midwest Conference on Asian AffairsSt. Olaf College and Carleton College in

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They are currently seeking contributors to annotate primary source documents in women's history including on China and Japan--in areas that overlap with the interests of some students in EALC. As you probably know, encyclopedia entries aren't exactly gold on a CV, but they're definitely a good way to get started on publications.I am seeking another round of contributors for an anthology of global

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The 35rd annual Southwest Conference on Asian Studies (SWCAS), the regional organization for the Association for Asian Studies (AAS), will be held at Sam Houston State University in Huntsville, Texas on October 3rd and 4th, 2008. All fields of Asian Studies are invited to submit proposals for panels or individual papers. The theme of this year$B(Bs conference is Asia Abroad: Diaspora and

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Graduate Student Conference"Nationalism, Culture, and Identity: New Boundaries in Asia"Friday, October 10- Saturday, October 11, 2008Center for Asian Research and Department of Religious StudiesArizona State UniversityAbstractshttp://mail.google.com/a/asu.edu/?ui=2&view=js&name=js&ids=13lbhludim4iu#AbstractsSponsorshttp://mail.google.com/a/asu.edu/?ui=2&view=js&name=js&ids=13lbhludim4iu#

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International Conference on "Globalization: Cultures, Institutions and Socioeconomics"To be held in Hong Kong, December 12-13, 2008Co-Sponsored by The Chinese University of Hong Kong and Washington University in St. Louis Along with recent trends of globalization, a significant focal point of research has been issues related to "Greater China," a notion that originally entailed the potential

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Texas Asia Conference Graduate Student ConferenceFriday, October 10 & Saturday, October 11, 2008The Texas Asia Conference at the University of Texas at Austin invites students working on original research projects across disciplines and across traditional academic divisions of Asia to present their work. The conference will provide graduate students with a dynamic forum in which to present

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4th World Congress of Korean StudiesTheme: Korean Studies Interfacing with the WorldThe organizing committee of the 4th World Congress of Korean Studies announces a call for papers to all academics and professionals in Korean studies. The World Congress, co-organized by the Academy of Korean Studies (AKS) and Kyushu University, will be held from Sept. 22-24, 2008 at Kyushu University, Fukuoka,

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The Social Science Research Council (SSRC) and the Korea Foundation arepleased to announce the Korean Studies Dissertation Workshop. Thisevent aims to foster a sustained network of advanced graduate studentsand faculty engaged in research on Korea. The four-day workshopprovides an informal setting for participants to give and receivecritical feedback on dissertations in progress. Applications

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The University of Massachusetts Boston is pleased to host the 2008 meeting of the New England Association for Asian Studies on October 18, 2008. The conference organizers invite proposals for papers, panels, and roundtables that explore various issues relevant to all areas of Asia. Each panel will be accorded 2 hours and should consist of three presenters and a discussant, or four presenters and

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Call for PapersKorean Religions Group of the American Academy of Religion2008 Meeting in Chicago, IL, November 1-3Korean Religions GroupThe Korean Religions Group invites paper proposals on the theme of religion and violence both in traditional and modern contexts. The variations of the topic include but are not limited to religion and militarism; religion and torture; post-Korean War and

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University of California, IrvineApril 13, 2008Graduate students of the departments of East Asian Languages and Cultures, Comparative Literature, and Visual Studies at the University of California, Irvine invite submissions from graduate students, independent scholars, and visual artists/filmmakers for a one-day workshop on AsianVisual Cultures. This workshop aims to create a space for dialogue

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Check out the latest post at Frog in a Well. Lots of amazingly useful links!

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The International Journal of Asian Philosophical Association (IJAPA) – an interdisciplinary, intercultural, full text, open access online peer reviewed journal now invites proposals for articles for its first issue (vol 1, no 1) on subjects related to the theme of Asian philosophies and the contemporary modes of existence. Topics could include, but not limited to, the dialectics of Asian various

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ABC-CLIO, the leading publisher of academic reference works, is in the process of developing a comprehensive 21-volume Encyclopedia of World History. We are looking for interested scholars to prepare 500-1500 word articles with a global perspective in the area of Asian history and Culture.Compensation: contributors will have their names associated with the entries they contribute, and will

jrwelkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05101757142463134702noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34766747.post-71849704485291957082008-01-31T09:56:00.000-06:002008-01-31T10:04:09.521-06:00

Reminder: A number of EALC students have had articles in EAA (including Xiao Hui in the most recent issue). It's a great way to get your feet wet in publishing. Articles in EAA are relatively short and manageable. Why not give it a shot!Call for Asia and Youth Culture Manuscripts: EAA Winter 2008Education About Asia (EAA) is the peer-reviewed teaching journal of theAssociation for Asian Studies.

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York Centre for Asian Research Graduate Student ConferenceYork University, Toronto, CanadaSeptember 26 to 28, 2008Call for Papers deadline: April 1, 2008What does it mean to "research Asia"?Asian Studies is a growing field within and, we hope, beyond Area Studies. Recent developments in Asian research reflect modern and contemporaryevents across a wide range of disciplines. As the body of

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The Asian Studies Center at Michigan State University, in cooperation with MSU's Department of Journalism, is hosting a one day conference on "The Media and Human Rights in Asia" on Feb. 23, 2008. The evening before, Feb 22, will feature a talk and film showing by Ellen Bruno, film-maker who has produced controversial films on human rights issues in Asia. We are seeking paper proposals from

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By CHOE SANG-HUNNew York Times December 23, 2007In South Korea, once a rigidly patriarchal society, a centuries-old preference for baby boys is fast receding.SEOUL, South Korea — [...] According to a study released by the World Bank in October, South Korea is the first of several Asian countries with large sex imbalances at birth to reverse the trend, moving toward greater parity between the

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Miss Manners: Maybe He's a Doctor of PompousityBy Judith MartinArticle Launched: 12/16/2007 (San Jose Mercury News)DEAR MISS MANNERS: On the envelope of the Christmas card I sent to my cousin (whom I rarely see), I omitted "Dr." in front of his name. I instead addressed him as Mr.I didn't intend to offend him. I just meant to send him good wishes for Christmas. Yesterday, I received from him a

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The Seventeenth Annual Meeting"Parody"August 19-21, 2008University of British ColumbiaCall for PapersAs defined by Linda Hutcheon and other recent literary theorists, parody is "imitation with a critical difference, not always at the expense of the parodied text" (A Theory of Parody, 7). Because of parody's perceived "critical difference," it has been elevated in Anglo-European literary

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Call for World History Manuscripts: EAA Fall 2008Education About Asia (EAA) is the peer-reviewed teaching journal of the Association for Asian Studies. Our readers include undergraduate instructors as well as high school and middle school teachers. Our articles are intended to provide educators, who are often not specialists, with basic understanding of Asia-related content. Manuscripts submitted

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Yet another chance to get practice presenting your work in a low-key setting, and so close to home!CALL FOR PROPOSALS, POSTERS, AND REVIEWERSOrganized by Graduate and Professional Affairs Committee, Illinois Student SenateCo-Sponsored by the Provost OfficeThe Illini UnionUrbana, IL February 04, 2008A change in the way we do research, a change in the way we think The University of Illinois will be

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Dissertation Proposal Development Fellowship (DPDF)The Social Science Research Council, with funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, provides fellowships up to $5000 to humanities and social science students to support predissertation research. In addition to receiving funding, fellows participate in two four-day workshops organized around the research fields and that bracket the summer

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UC Santa Cruz Asia-Pacific-Americas Research Cluster Graduate Student Conference on "Uprooting Area Studies"February 2, 2008The Asia-Pacific-Americas Research Cluster (APARC) at the University of California, Santa Cruz is pleased to present its third annual Graduate Research Conference on the theme of considering the social, political, and epistemological implications of area studies in an

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Note: They are specifically seeking student writing, so....The Stanford Journal of East Asian Affairs (SJEAA) is currently seekingsubmissions in English on a broad range of social science issues related toEast Asia. In particular, we are looking for original, thoughtful analysis andresearch on issues related to Japan. Potentially interested students at both the undergraduate andgraduate levels

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Description:If cinema was instrumental to nation building processes during the twentieth century, it has been equally central to their challenging, interrogation and sometimes reaffirmation in the twenty-first. This is especially true for Asian and Latin American cinemas, as present conditions variously described as ‘globalisation’ or ‘flexible accumulation’ have wrought tremendous social change,

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Note that grad student funds are available.Critical Han Studies Symposium & WorkshopApril 24-27, 2008Stanford UniversityCall for PapersHan is a colossal category of identity that encompasses ninety-four percent of the population of mainland China, making it the largest ethnic group on earth. Like other immense categories of identity, whether national, racial, ethnic, or otherwise, Han is beset by

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The Journal of Japanese and Korean Cinema, a fully refereed forum for the dissemination of scholarly work devoted to the cinemas of Japan and Korea and the interactions and relations between them, seeks essays for its inaugural issue devoted to Japanese-Korea cinematic connections.Possible topics for this first issue include, but are not limited to:remakes across national borders;co-productions;

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CALL FOR PAPERSInternational Conference on Gender and Chinese CinemaDate: June 26 28, 2008 Place: Nanjing University, ChinaKeynote Speakers: Mary Ann Doane and Dai JinhuaOrganizers: Nanjing University and Brown UniversitySubmission Deadline: January 15, 2008Notice of acceptance by email: February 25, 2008 The conference aims to 1) foreground gender as a critical and analyticallens in the study

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Seventeenth Annual Graduate Student Conference on East Asia at Columbia UniversityFriday, February 8 to Saturday, February 9, 2008 Columbia University in the City of New YorkGraduate students are invited to submit papers for the Seventeenth Annual Graduate Student Conference on East Asia. This two-day conference provides a forum for students from institutions around the world to meet and share

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Here's a close one!APRIL 26-27, 2008INDIANA UNIVERSITYBLOOMINGTONKEYNOTE: EDWARD SLINGERLAND, UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIASubmissions are invited for papers on any aspect of East Asian thought, as well as comparative papers that deal with significant issues in East Asian thought. Suggested themes for submissions include: examining how recovered texts reframe familiar issues and debates in early

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News-GazetteThursday November 8, 2007Building and food service workers at the University of Illinois have notified the university of their intent to strike.But if a strike occurs, it's not expected to happen until after the union's next meeting, scheduled for Nov. 26, with the university and a federal mediator. ...Union members have been working without a contract since the end of July 2006, when

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The Berkeley Electronic Press is pleased to announce the launch of a major new peer-reviewed journal:NEW GLOBAL STUDIES (NGS)Editors:Nayan Chanda (Yale University)Akira Iriye (Harvard University)Bruce Mazlish (MIT)Managing editor:Kenneth Weisbrode (Harvard University)New Global Studies is the first journal to approach contemporary globalization as a whole, and across disciplinary lines. It draws

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Eighth Annual East Asian Studies Graduate Conference at the University of TorontoMediations and Critique: Perspectives on East AsiaUniversity of TorontoSaturday, March 15, 2008 What insights can we gain by thinking of East Asian societies as always already mediated by language, disciplines, discourse, symbolic systems and representations? Our conference seeks to challenge participants to

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"Best mom" chosen as face of currencyTue Nov 6, 2007 9:17am EST SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea's central bank on Monday chose the face of Korean motherhood as the first woman to be featured on its banknotes, but women's rights groups say the selection only reinforces sexist stereotypes.Shin Saimdang, known for raising a famed Confucian scholar and having a deft hand in painting, will grace the new

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The Journal of Progressive BuddhismCall for Papers, Issue 1, Vol. 1The Journal of Progressive Buddhism is seeking submissions of academic articles for its first issue and welcomes papers dealing with Progressive Buddhism. Possible topics may include, but are not limited to, the following:- How can Buddhism, in its present form(s), appeal to the rational, scientific, and/or skeptical mind?- Can

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Jonathan Dresner at Frog in a Well just posted some comments about the current job market in Japanese history that might be of interest and relevance, even to those of us working on Korea and China. This could be a very interesting year for the job market, not to mention for Asian history blogging. [...]Well, the majority of this year’s crop of jobs has been posted, and it’s time to take stock. I

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Traveling People, Traveling Texts: Mobilizing Asian Literature and Film in aComparative and Global ContextCall for PapersAmerican Comparative Literature Association Annual MeetingApril 24-27, 2008Long Beach, CARecent debates on redefining Area studies within the scope of globalization have spawned the reevaluation of the representation of Asian nations, and its conceptual validity in multiple

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11th Annual HEAS Graduate Student ConferenceHarvard UniversityCambridge, MAFriday, February 29 - Sunday, March 2, 2008The Harvard East Asia Society invites graduate students from all fields to present at the 11th Annual Harvard East Asia Society (HEAS) Graduate Student Conference.The HEAS Graduate Student Conference aims to provide an interdisciplinary forum for the exchange of ideas and the

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Request for Manuscripts for fall 2008 Asia in World History: 1750-1914Special Section of Education About AsiaEducation About Asia (EAA) is the teaching journal for the Association for Asian Studies. Our readers include undergraduate instructors as well as high school and middle school teachers. Our articles are intended to provide educators, who are often not specialists, with basic understanding

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Once again, here's a great and relatively easy to get published and get a line on the CV--and show your commitment to teaching. Why pass it up again?----Call for manuscripts:Marriage and Family in Asia for Spring 2008 issue of _Education About Asia_;also reviews for non-thematic sectionEducation About Asia Spring 2008 Call for ManuscriptsEducation About Asia (EAA) is the teaching journal for the

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We would like to bring to your attention a funding program available through the National Science Foundation (NSF), the East Asia and Pacific Summer Institutes (EAPSI). The EAPSI program offers U.S. graduate students in science and engineering a unique opportunity to study abroad with foreign researchers (in Australia, China, Japan, Korea, New Zealand, Singapore, or Taiwan) for 8 weeks during the

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Seventeenth Annual Graduate Student Conference on East Asia at Columbia UniversityFriday, February 8 to Saturday, February 9, 2008Columbia University in the City of New YorkGraduate students are invited to submit papers for the Seventeenth Annual Graduate Student Conference on East Asia. This two-day conference provides a forum for students from institutions around the world to meet and share

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Note that EALC students have published in EAA before. It's a relatively easy way to get a line on your CV. And Tanya Lee is at AEMS here at UIUC so you can always talk to her directly if you are interested.Call for reviews and essays: Education About Asia/Asian Educational Media Service spring 2008 special sectionWe are pleased to announce a special multimedia section that will be published in

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Early Modern Japan: An Interdisciplinary Journal is a refereed, on-line publication sponsored by the Early Modern Japan Network (EMJNet), a sub-committee of the Northeast Asia Council of the Association for Asian Studies. We welcome submissions from all disciplines related to Early Modern Japan (roughly the sixteenth to nineteenth centuries). We publish in the following broad categories:1)

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Second Annual Graduate Student Conference in Comparative Studies Hosted by the Department of Comparative Studies (http://comparativestudies.osu.edu) The Ohio State University Columbus, OH USA January 17-18, 2008 REPRESENTING AFFECT / AFFECTING REPRESENTATION In Parables for the Virtual, Brian Massumi argues that “belief has waned for many, but not affect. If anything, our condition is

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JAPANESE TRANSNATIONAL FANDOMS AND FEMALE CONSUMERSUniversity of Wollongong (near Sydney, Australia)3-4 July 2008This workshop investigates the different ways in which originally Japanese genres, aesthetics and styles have been taken up, deployed and transformed by female fans transnationally. The way in which Japanese products, styles and images are received in different cultures as well as the

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