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

CFP: Education About Asia (various topics) (journal; various deadlines)

EALC students have frequently published in EAA. It's a great place to get your feet wet.

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New Education About Asia Planned Special Sections: Winter 2009-Winter
2010, Asia in World History; Business, Economics, and Asia; Asian Religions;
Environmental Challenges and Asia

Education About Asia (EAA) is the peer-reviewed teaching journal of the
Association for Asian Studies. Our readers include secondary school
teachers and undergraduate instructors, and our articles are intended to
provide educators, who are often not specialists, with basic
understanding of Asia-related content. Qualified referees evaluate all
feature manuscripts submitted for consideration.

The following four special sections are being developed for 2009 and 2010:


Fall 2009-We are in the process of developing a special section in the fall 2009
issue entitled "Asian Intercultural Contacts: Diasporas and Minorities."
In this special section, it is hoped that articles will be published
where authors develop manuscripts that describe the historical and
contemporary experiences of Asian ethnic and minority groups as they
have encountered new cultures in both Asia and other parts of the world.
Although the primary focus of the special section will be on the
experience of Asians, we also will consider manuscripts where authors
focus upon the experience of non-Asians in Asian cultures. Prospective
authors should be aware that approximately sixty to sixty-five percent
of our readers are secondary or middle school teachers and the rest
teach at the undergraduate level.


Winter 2009-Asia in World History: The Twentieth Century. In this
concluding special section of the series based upon National Standards
for World History, we seek manuscripts that encompass a wide range of
topics including economic, maritime, military, political, and social
history. We also invite authors to submit manuscripts about important
individuals who influenced twentieth century Asian and World History.
The deadline for initial submission of manuscripts is August 10, 2009.


Spring 2010-Business, Economics, and Asia. In this special section, we
invite authors to address economics, economic history, and
business-related topics such as entrepreneurship in Asia, the benefits
and costs of the East Asian economic "miracles," international trade and
Asia, and Asian values and capitalism. The deadline for initial
submission of manuscripts is December 10, 2009.


Fall 2010-Asian Religions. We invite authors to submit manuscripts that
address topics such as the historical and contemporary roles of
religions in Asian cultures, everyday religious practices in Asia,
comparative religions, and teaching about Asian religions in world
history and literature survey courses. May 10, 2010 is the deadline for
initial receipt of manuscripts.


Winter 2010-Environmental Challenges and Asia. We invite authors to
submit manuscripts that address topics such as the potential conflicts
between economic growth and the environment in Asia, the environmental
movement in Asian countries, natural resources and their utilization and
conservation, and environmental problems that affect particular Asian
countries. The deadline for initial submission of manuscripts is August
10, 2010.


We are most interested in manuscripts that are useful for survey-level
courses. Prospective authors are encouraged to share possible manuscript
ideas with me via email before developing a submission. Interested
authors are strongly encouraged to consult the EAA guidelines and
examine sample articles available on the Web site under my signature,
before submitting manuscripts.


Cordially,

Lucien Ellington
Editor, Education About Asia
302 Pfeiffer Stagmaier Hall
University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
Chattanooga, TN 37403
Phone (423)425-2118, Fax (423)425-5441
email: l-ellington at comcast.net
Web Site: http://www.aasianst.org/

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

CFP: AAS Annual Meeting (15 Aug; 26-29 Mar; Chicago)

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 diversity in terms of stature and affiliation, so a panel of 4 or 5 grad students from UIUC is unlikely to get chosen, but one with a few grad students as well as a professor or two as presenters, the chair or discussant, and making sure that some of these folks are not from UIUC is your best bet.

Besides, with it so close, you're going to try to go, right? Presenting is probably the only way to get most or all your expenses paid for. (AAS generally gives a stipend to grad students and EALC and EAPS are more likely to fund attendance at a national conference than anything else.)

And it takes a while to pull all of this together, so....

The Program Committee for the 2009 AAS meeting to be held at the Sheraton Hotel in Chicago invites colleagues in Asian studies to submit proposals for Organized Panels, Roundtables, Workshops, and Individual Papers for sessions to be created by the Committee. The Committee seeks sessions that will engage panelists and audiences in the consideration of ideas, information, and interpretations that will advance knowledge about Asian regions and, by extension, will enrich teaching about Asia at all levels.

Consistency between accepted panels and delivered panels is an ongoing concern of the Program Committee, and we urge your attention to some long-established principles:

No individual is to be on the AAS program in more than one session. Panel organizers must confirm that the proposed panelists are listed on their proposal only. The name of a single individual on more than one proposal could threaten the chance of acceptance of every proposal involved. Individuals on a panel should have discrete roles, and the Program Committee prefers this arrangement although guidelines do not preclude a panel on which the chair serves as a paper-giver or discussant.

A proposal should be a commitment in the sense that its original configuration, its appearance in the printed Program, and its delivery at the annual meeting all should match. Toward this end, the Program Committee will expect strict compliance with the December 5 deadline for participant preregistration, which assures inclusion in the printed Program, and will expect the in-person participation of all those named in successful proposals.

Habits of collegiality and professional courtesy are both the pattern and the continued expectation at the AAS annual meeting. Most fundamental are the honoring of commitments to present papers and the provision of papers to discussants in a timely fashion. The Program Committee assumes and celebrates an interactive style and effective communication in the evolution and delivery of a well-coordinated panel session. Individual paper sessions also benefit from the best implementation of professional style.

Important links:

[ Creative Panel Formats | Looking for Participants or to Join a Panel? | Panel Selection Criteria ]

[ Exploring New Panel Formats | "Border-Crossing" Panels | "Directions in the Social Sciences" ]

See the conference website for more!

CFP: Midwest Conference on Asian Affairs (31 July; 10-12 Oct; Northfield, Minn.)

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 Affairs

St. Olaf College and Carleton College in Northfield, Minnesota, will host the 57th MCAA from October 10 to October 12, 2008. Most events will be on the St. Olaf College campus, and a shuttle will provide transportation to events at Carleton College, five minutes away. We invite submissions from all academic disciplines on topics examining Asia and its sub-regions.

Proposals for panels and individual papers are due July 31, 2008.
The early-registration deadline is September 15, 2008.

Registration and Check-in will be at Buntrock Commons on the St. Olaf College campus.

Highlights of the conference include the Keynote Address by the president of the Association for Asian Studies, Professor Robert Buswell, UCLA.

"Uprooting Area Studies"--Grad Conference (31 Dec; 2 Feb; Santa Cruz, Calif)

UC Santa Cruz Asia-Pacific-Americas Research Cluster Graduate Student Conference on "Uprooting Area Studies"
February 2, 2008

The 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 increasingly interconnected world. APARC invites submissions from graduate students from any discipline on topics that address, complicate, or illustrate the knowledge-making practices of area studies. How are regions defined, constructed, and reflected through scholarship and pedagogy? In what ways can we usefully re-imagine areas that have been delimited by academic and political boundaries, geographical features, histories, or religions? Finally, how do inquiries that are situated within an area studies framework figure into contemporary transnational connections of technology, capital, and migration? We welcome papers on a broad range of topics that address or refigure region-making practices.

KEYNOTE SPEAKER:
Takashi Fujitani, Associate Professor of History at the University of California, San Diego, will deliver a keynote address entitled "Total War and Inclusionary Racism: Japanese as Americans and Koreans as Japanese in WWII." Professor Fujitani is the author of "Splendid Monarchy: Power and Pageantry in Modern Japan" (University of California Press, 1996) and is co-editor of "Perilous Memories: The Asia Pacific War(s)" (Duke University Press, 2001). His forthcoming book is "Racism Under Fire: Japanese as Americans and Koreans as Japanese in WWII."

CONFERENCE DATE: Saturday, February 2, 2008 at the University of California, Santa Cruz

SUBMISSIONS:
Papers from any discipline are welcome. Please send to aparc.ucsc@gmail.com the following: your title, abstract (500 word limit), institutional and departmental affiliation, and class year by Monday, December 31, 2007. Applicants will be notified by January 10, 2008. Conference updates will also be posted to APARC's website at http://www2.ucsc.edu/aparc/.

Important note: Due to budgetary constraints and policies, we are unable to fund student airfare. Participants are asked to secure funding at their home institutions. We sincerely hope that this will not prevent contributions to this promising event.

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Asia Pacific Americas Research Cluster
University of California, Santa Cruz
http://www2.ucsc.edu/aparc/
aparc.ucsc@gmail.com