CFP: Midwest Conference on Asian Affairs: Call for Papers (11 June; 1-3 Oct; Columbus, Ohio)

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 cultures of Asia for over a half-century. The conference will feature panels and roundtables at which faculty and graduate and undergraduate students present and discuss new research and pedagogical tools.

Proposals for panels and individual papers from all academic disciplines on any topic involving Asia are currently being accepted. Submission of panels and individual papers that address the full range of literary production and consumption in print, performance, film, and digital media across the span of Asian history are especially encouraged. Panels and individual papers that cross boundaries, be it in regional, temporal, linguistic, disciplinary or other terms, are also particularly welcome.

The final deadline for submission is Friday, June 11, 2010. All proposals must be submitted electronically through the conference website at http://easc.osu.edu/mcaa. Presenters must be members of MCAA and must have pre-registered by Friday, September 3, 2010 to attend and present. The membership fee will be collected as part of the registration fee for the conference. Registration instructions are forthcoming.

For academic questions, please contact Dr. Patricia Sieber, 2010 MCAA Program Chair, at sieber.6 at osu dot edu. For general questions, please contact Amy Carey, 2010 MCAA Conference Coordinator, at carey.189 at osu dot edu.


East Asian Studies Center
The Ohio State University
314 Oxley Hall, 1712 Neil Ave.
Columbus, OH 43210
(614) 688-4253
Visit the website at http://easc.osu.edu/mcaa

CFP: Japan Studies Association Journal, Volume 8 (15 June))

Call For Papers
Japan 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 engaged in infusing Japanese and Asian material into their curricula.

For our next volume, a general number, we invite submissions, inquiries, and proposals, both disciplinary and interdisciplinary, on any topic related to Japan.

General guidelines
--up to 5,000 words, formatted in a style consistent with your discipline(s)
--use roman script as much as possible and severely limit graphic images, especially color images
--try to include in your bibliography helpful sources for anyone teaching the material you discuss in your paper
--include at the beginning of your paper an abstract of 250 or so words, single-spaced?
--minimize use of footnotes and endnotes
--send your paper as a Word document attached to an email to:painestover at gmail dot com
--send in a second attachment a brief Contributor's Note including your name, academic affiliation, relevant publications, areas of research, etc.
--make sure you include in your email message a current and reliable email address, as well as your postal address
--please use current MLA style, or the current style manual adopted by your discipline

Deadline for all submissions in completed form is June 15, 2010. The issue will be presented at the JSA Conference in January 2011.

John H. E. Paine, Editor, Japan Studies Association Journal
Department of English, Department of Foreign Languages
Belmont University?
1900 Belmont Blvd.
Nashville, TN 37212
Tel. 615-794-2341 (home), 615-460-6244 (office)
preferred email: painestover at gmail dot com

CFP: Sex and Love in Asian Contexts: Film & History Conference (Milwaukee; 1 Mar; 10-14 Nov)

This is drivable!

Sex and Love in Asian Contexts: Film & History Conference: Representations
of Love in Film and Television

November 10-14, 2010

Hyatt Regency Milwaukee

www.uwosh.edu/filmandhistory

Extended Deadline: March 1, 2009


AREA: Sex and Love in Asian Contexts,

Asia has, perhaps, the richest history of cultural and commercial exchange
in the world, resulting in deeply layered religious, political, and artistic
traditions. In cinema, for example, sex and love often are bound up in
complex rites, taboos, negotiations, honor codes, pieties, and spiritual
allegiances. How do Asians themselves see or represent love? How do
non-Asians see or represent love in Asian contexts?

This area, comprising multiple panels, welcomes papers treating the
representations of love and sex within, or from the perspective of, Asian
contexts (East, West, Central, South, Southeast). Proposals for full panels
should include the individual proposals for 3-4 presenters. Possible topics:

* traditional and customary practices--loved or hated--treatments of
historical and modern extra-marital sex and sex workers

* love and sex--including homosexuality--as indexes of modernity,
cosmopolitanism, or the status of women

* love and sex in pre-modern inter-Asian narrative

* modern international influences (American and European)

* stinctively indigenous traditions (Bollywood, Japanese studios, etc.)

* new developments in contemporary pan-Asian cinema

* nsw developments in the films of Islamic cultures

* adaptations


Please send your 200-word proposal by e-mail to the area chair:

S.A. Thornton
Department of History
Arizona State University
Tempe, AZ 85287-4302

Email: Sybil.Thornton at asu dot edu (email submissions preferred)


Panel proposals for up to four presenters are also welcome, but each
presenter must submit his or her own paper proposal. For updates and
registration information about the upcoming meeting, see the Film & History
website (www.uwosh.edu/filmandhistory).

35th Annual Meeting of the Social Science History Association (15 Feb; 18-21 Nov; Chicago))

This one's close by.

Chicago, Illinois, 18-21 November, 2010
Submission deadline: 15 February, 2010
Power and Politics
http://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’s will against resistance and images of the coercive, central state apparatus held sway, and these are still compelling visions. More recently, we have seen the emergence of a rather different conception of power as a diffuse set of forces, at work in the practices of everyday life, which may entangle actors in their own subjection. Here, the analysis of power has expanded to include the constitution of domination outside the formal polity, in forms of inequality and difference such as race, gender, or sexuality, or in terms of capillary processes working through classification systems, therapeutic discourses, and other technologies of regulation. Similarly, notions of politics and the political are debated. Some focus on collective practices, formal and informal, directed at states, while others stress the ways in which “the personal is political,” or examine individual or smallscale acts of compliance, resistance or inauguration that may be carried into the polity. And which issues and relations are considered political is historically specific. Power and politics, then, have many faces, and we may trace their institutionalization in forms of rule and the formation of subjects in a broad array of spatial, national and historical contexts.

As historical social scientists and social science historians, we hail from many traditions and disciplines. But we share common ground in the weight we assign to historicizing our understandings of power and politics. SSHA is a site in which we may use our collective intellectual resources and disciplinary traditions to help us to challenge foundational concepts and conventional understandings within our own fields. More broadly, still, we can ask what the streams of social science history and historical social science imply for understanding power and politics in today’s world, and in the future.

The 2010 conference will be held in downtown Chicago, in the Palmer House Hilton. Chicago has served as a stage for some of America’s most memorable political events and has a rich history as a site of civil rights, labor, feminist, anti-war, student and other social movement organiz ing; many are fascinated by its municipal politics, its role in national partisan battles, and its emergence as one of North America’ s global cities. Thus, we also encourage panels and papers organized around Chicago themes. As ever, papers and panels on themes not related to the conference theme are also welcome.

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

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

CFP: Multimedia Encyclopedia of Women in Today’s World (Encyclopedia; 1 Dec)

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 1, 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: Modern Art Asia (grad e-journal; initial issue deadline 7 Sept)

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 correspondents, Modern Art Asia provides a new forum for exchange between scholars that crosses the boundaries of traditional academic disciplines, and engages with a general readership through the addition of journalistic writing on art.

Modern Art Asia invites postgraduates working on the arts and material cultures of Asia from the eighteenth century to the present to submit previously unpublished papers of 4,500-10,000 words for publication. Modern Art Asia aims to take an interdisciplinary and innovative approach to the study of Asia, and will consider papers on media and experiments that stretch the parameters of "fine art". Our first issue will be published online during the last week of October, to coincide with Asian Art in London and Frieze; the submission deadline for this issue is September 7th. We are also seeking students and journalists interested in becoming regular correspondents or in submitting shorter journalistic pieces.

Word limits: Academic papers: 4,500-10,000 / Correspondence and opinion pieces: 500-1,000 words /
Exhibition, book, performance reviews: 500-800 words

Students submitting academic papers who wish to include image reproductions are responsible for obtaining these and necessary copyright permissions. Authors of successful submissions will be notified 4 -5 weeks ahead of publication. Copyright remains with the author and authors may re-publish papers with acknowledgement of Modern Art Asia as the original site of publication. Please include an abstract (250 words) with your submission.

Contact modernartasiaenquiries at yahoo dot co dot uk to submit articles and for further information.

Modern Art Asia
modernartasia.com
modernartasiaenquiries at yahoo dot co dot uk

CFP: The Tung Lin Kok Yuen Conference: Buddhism and Diaspora (30 Oct; 14-16 May; U Toronto, Scarborough)

The Department of Humanities, University of Toronto Scarborough, is pleased to present

A Call for Papers

The Tung Lin Kok Yuen Conference: Buddhism and Diaspora

Friday May 14- Sunday May 16, 2010
University of Toronto Scarborough

For more information, please visit our website:
http://www.utsc.utoronto.ca/~humdiv/TLKY/event3

Keynote Address, Friday May 14th: Professor Victor Hori (McGill
University)

This international and interdisciplinary conference will examine
the role religion, and specifically Buddhism, plays within
diasporic communities. Communities like Chinese Buddhists,
Tibetans, Newars, Sinhalese, and many others have brought with
them, translated, or alternately reformulated specific types of
Buddhism as crucial pieces in the ongoing negotiation of their
cultural and social identities. In this context, the conference
inquires whether there have been or are currently specific ways
that Buddhism has answered the challenges, problems, and
expectations that accompany displacement and relocation.

This conference will question the role diaspora has had in the
history and self-perception of Buddhism through the ages, both
within Asia and during its more modern spread to other parts of
the world. This can prompt us to examine how Buddhism has figured
in developing and changing notions related to authenticity,
tradition, ethnicity, belonging, nation, and landscape, in the
light of displacement, exile, violence, travel, and integration.
By thematizing diaspora as a situation in which both Buddhism's
local articulations as well as its trans-local content are
confronted, questioned and reformulated, this conference is an
opportunity to bridge current methodological and thematic
dichotomies between current ethnographic and text-oriented
approaches in the study of Buddhism and Buddhist societies. These
questions will help address larger issues of how Buddhist texts
and Buddhist practitioners conceptualize and participate in the
formation of lived diaspora in both modern and historic settings.

The conference will encourage speakers to probe into the
following questions:

- How may a Buddhist heritage account for a certain kind of
diasporic experience?
- Which strategies do Buddhist agents, practice and doctrine
offer to mediate between the locality of the community's
provenance and that of its host country? Between the diasporic
communities and other religious communities? Between the
political and economic conditions of their displacement?
- What role does Buddhism play in the creation of such
conditions?
- What kind of new forms of religiosity emerge from such transfer
and reconfiguration?

This conference will address such questions through multiple
formats for scholarly inquiry, namely organized panels with
discussants, roundtables, keynotes lectures, and public events.

The program committee welcomes proposals for papers from
academics, professionals, graduate students and others. Proposals
that include a max 300 word abstract of the paper and a short
academic CV should be made online through our submissions site
at: http://link.library.utoronto.ca/buddhiststudies/conference/

At this website applicants can cut and paste both abstract and CV
into our web form.
The deadline for submissions is October 30, 2009. Participants
will be notified by December 1st if their submission has been
successful.

This conference is sponsored generously by an endowment for the
advancement of Buddhist studies, made possible by a gift from the
Tung Lin Kok Yuen Foundation (Hong Kong) to the University of
Toronto Scarborough. Questions about this event or any other
aspect of the Tung Lin Kok Yuen Conference Series in Buddhist
Studies may be addressed to Sarah Richardson at:
tlkyconf at utsc dot utoronto dot ca

CFP: Sixteenth Annual Japan Studies Assoc Conf (1 Oct; 7-9 Jan; Honolulu)

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 Association
Sixteenth Annual Conference
January 7-9, 2010
Tokai University
Honolulu, Hawaii

The Japan Studies Association invites you to attend the Sixteenth Annual Japan Studies Association Conference to be held January 7-9, 2010 at Tokai University, Honolulu, Hawaii. It will begin with a light reception on Thursday evening, on the 19th floor at Tokai, January 7th at 5:30 pm, and conclude with the conference banquet on Saturday night,in the Ballroom of the New Otani Hotel, January 9th, at 6:00pm.

The Japan Studies Association is a multidisciplinary organization dedicated to the development of better understanding of Japan and Japanese Culture, to providing mutual assistance for the development and expansion of members' undergraduate curricula and local outreach programs, and to establishing a central network and resource center. It works in close cooperation with other Asian-studies organizations such as the Asian Studies Development Program of the East-West Center of the University of Hawaii.

Individual and panel proposals are invited. Printable proposal and registration forms are available at: www.japanstudies.org. They can be returned as attached Word documents by e-mail to Dr. James Peoples at jgpeople at owu dot edu.

They can also be printed and mailed to the JSA at the following address:
Dr. James Peoples
61 S. Sandusky Street
Ohio Wesleyan University
Delaware, OH 43015 Telephone: (740)368-3839

The deadline for Conference proposal submission is October 1, 2009.

JSA also offers graduate student scholarships for selected students who have proposals accepted for presentation at the annual conference. For details see the JSA website.

For accommodations at Tokai University and nearby hotels check the JSA website.

We're looking forward to seeing you in Honolulu.

CFP: Visualizing Global Asia at the Turn of the 20th Century (3 Nov; 29 Apr-1 May; Yale)

Visualizing Global Asia at the Turn of the 20th Century

An 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, 2010
Coordinators 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 Yale University [http://research.yale.edu/eastasianstudies]
invite contributions to an academic conference focused on the relationship between visual imagery and social change in modern Asia. We will assemble scholars of history, art history, history of photography, and history of technology specializing in China, Korea, Japan, United States, Europe and the Philippines to discuss how to integrate visual and textual media in research and teaching, using to the fullest the opportunities presented by the Internet.

This will be one of the first academic conferences devoted to image- driven scholarship and teaching about Asia in the modern world. The topic is "Visualizing Global Asia at the Turn of the 20th Century". Images presented must be available for online publication.

John Dower, professor of Japanese history at MIT, and Shigeru Miyagawa, professor of linguistics and foreign languages and literatures at MIT, founded the Visualizing Cultures project to investigate the impact of visual media on cross-cultural interaction between Asia and the West. This project has expanded the scope of traditional historical study beyond written texts, creating truly visual narratives that integrate large numbers of graphics, including popular and commercial images with scholarly commentary. The Visualizing Cultures platform allows educators to download and use freely all content, for non-commercial purposes. The Visualizing Cultures team has worked with scholars to create truly innovative and elegant online publications.

So far, the project has produced units on subjects like the Perry mission to Japan, Sino-Japanese and Russo-Japanese wars, the Yokohama treaty port, Felice Beato's pioneer photographs of Japan, consumer culture and the Shiseido cosmetics firm, and the Canton trade system in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. New units in production include John Thomson's standard-setting photography of China, the Opium War, the histories of Beijing and Shanghai, interwar Tokyo, and the U.S.-Philippines relationship from 1898 through World War Two. Visualizing Cultures uses rare publications as well as archival materials from a variety of museums and art collections, including the Smithsonian Institutions Freer and Sackler Galleries, Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Peabody Essex Museum, Hong Kong Museum of Art, Yales Beinecke Library, Shiseido archive in Japan, Hood Museum of Art at Dartmouth, and Smith College Museum of Art.

We invite interested researchers to submit contributions for presentation at the conference at Yale in Spring 2010. These presentations should integrate visual and textual content. We especially encourage contributions that use rare materials from archives and museum collections. Many of the contributions may become the basis for new units on the Visualizing Cultures website. Please contact the organizers for further information.

Contact emails: peter.c.perdue at yale dot edu; Visualizing Cultures c/o Director Scott Shunk: shunk at mit dot edu

CFP: IAHA (International Conference of Historians of Asia) (30 Sept; 22-25 June; Singapore)

Call for papers: 21st Conference of the International Association of Historians of Asia (IAHA) 22-25 June 2010.
DEADLINE 30 Sept. 2009

A 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 developments that have taken place on a wide range of Asian topics in both the humanities and social sciences. IAHA 2010, generously supported by the Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, the Department of History, the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences and the Asia Research Institute at the National University of Singapore will delve into the past and look into the future. It will provide scholars with the opportunity of evaluating and discussing the emerging themes related to the continent with a large body of delegates from around the world. We would like you to be involved too, so please come and join us!

Our Programme Committee has already identified a number of themes which we would like delegates to explore in their papers and panels (see below), but we are open to other suggestions as well:

Asia's Political/Economic History

Agriculture; Ancient History; Archeological Perspectives; Asian Diasporas; Border & Boundaries; Maritime History; Nation-Building; Trade/Trade Networks; Societies on the Margins

Asian Cultural History

Asian Identities in the Past; Crime and Criminal Activities; Film & Music; Food; Gender; Literature & Art; Popular Culture; Religion/Missionary Activities; Sport

Current Issues & the Past in Asia

Financial Crises; History of the Asian Press; Human Rights; Labour & Labour Movements; Law of the Sea; Piracy; Protest Movements; Terrorism & History

Historiography/Heritage
Archives & the Maintenance of Documents; Asian Historiography; Asia in Museums/Museums in Asia; Educational History; Memory & Heritage; The Idea of Asia

History of Science
Biosciences & Modern Asia; Environmental History; Medicine & Public Health (Biomedicine, Forms of Traditional Practice, Western Medicine); Technology (Traditional to Colonial & Post-Colonial)

Military History
All forms of military involvement in Asia stretching from the distant past to the present will be considered

Proposals for individual papers, panels and colloquia, along with titles and short abstracts, are strongly encouraged from all interested parties and should be sent to the Chair of the Programme Committee to arrive no later than 30 September 2009.

An early bird registration fee of S$300 is offered to all delegates if they make payment by 28 February 2010. Thereafter, the registration fee will be S$350.*

Tentative Programme:

Tuesday, 22 June 2010

6 pm
Opening Event
Address by University Professor Wang Gungwu
National University of Singapore

8 pm
Dinner for all participants

Wednesday, 23 June 2010, 9am till Friday 25 June 2010, 5pm

Paper Presentations and Panel Discussions

Friday, 25 June 2010

5 pm
IAHA Business Meeting


Venue:
River View Hotel
382 Havelock Road
Singapore 169629

Tel: +65-6732 9922
Fax: +65-6732 1034
Website: www.riverview.com.sg

Accommodations:

Delegates will arrange their own accommodations. A listing of accommodations in Singapore can be found on this site:

http://www.visitsingapore.com/publish/stbportal/en/home/where_to_stay/accommodation_in_singapore.html

IAHA 2010 promises to be a vibrant gathering in a safe but vivid environment. This is a conference that shouldn't be missed. Do, please, think about coming here. We would love to have you with us.

Best wishes

The Steering Committee of IAHA 2010

* Conference package will include Opening Event Dinner, 3 lunches, 6 tea/coffee breaks and a conference bag.



Jointly Organized By:
Department of History | Journal of Southeast Asian Studies
Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore

CFP: Milestone Documents in World History (Encyclopedia)

Call for Writers

Schlager 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 and
lower undergraduate history students, MDWH covers 130 of the most
important primary source documents in history. Our unique approach pairs
the full text of the primary document alongside an in-depth analysis
that explains the historical context of the document as well as its
influence and impact. The set covers documents from every region and
period of history (excluding U.S. history), including Africa, the
Americas, the Western World, ancient Greece and Rome, the ancient Near
East, the Middle East, and Asia (China, India, Japan, Korea, Southeast
Asia).

Each entry will include approximately 4,500 words of original analysis.
Every entry will carry the author's byline. We welcome practicing
historians as well as talented graduate students. To receive more
information about the project, including the writing honorarium, model
entry, contributor guidelines, and entry list, please contact Marcia Merryman-Means: marcia@schlagergroup.com.

Editorial Board, Milestone Documents in World History

Christopher Blackwell
Furman University

Brian Bonhomme
Youngstown State University

Frank L. Chance
University of Pennsylvania

Eleanor Congdon
Youngstown State University

R. Hunt Davis
University of Florida

Ainslie T. Embree
Columbia University

Paul R. Goldin
University of Pennsylvania

Ronald Leprohon
University of Toronto

Thomas Metcalf
University of California, Berkeley

James A. Reilly
University of Toronto

Lawrence Waldron
St. John's University

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Neil Schlager
Founder and president
Schlager Group Inc.
Phone: 214-347-9469, ext. 801
Fax: 214-347-9469
E-mail: neil at schlagergroup.com
http://www.SchlagerGroup.com

CFP: Korea and Japan History Entries for Encyclopedia of World History (no deadline noted)

Call for Authors: 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 seeking interested scholars to
prepare 500-1500 word articles on the history of Japan and Korea.

Compensation: contributors will have their names associated with the
entries they contribute and will receive access to the e-book version of
the encyclopedia (list price $1,800) for personal use. Contributors
assigned 3,000 words or more will also receive a credit of $300 towards
purchase of ABC-CLIO, Greenwood, and Praeger books.

In addition to the topics listed below, please see list of additional
open topics:
http://www.abc-clio.com/academic/aboutus/callToAuthors.aspx


In order to meet review standards, we require that contributors hold a
Ph.D, ABD, be currently enrolled in a doctoral program, or have
recognized expertise in the field. If you are interested in writing 1
or more of the entries listed below, please send a c.v. to Fred Nadis
and/or Jeanie Azizian:
Fred Nadis, Project Editor FNadis at abc-clio.com

Jeanie Azizian, Project Coordinator JAzizian at abc-clio.com



OPEN TOPICS WHE - Japan & Korea

Era 1 (To 4000 BCE) Science & Technology Tools/Technology of
Modern Humans: Jomon in Japan 200
Era 3 (1000 - 300 CE) Society & Culture Concept of female
rulers in Yayoi Japan 600
Era 3 (1000 - 300 CE) Society & Culture Late Jomon and Yayoi
funerary sculpture 600
Era 3 (1000 - 300 CE) Politics & Statecraft Governance in the
Period of the Three Kingdoms 600
Era 5 (1000 - 1500) Population & Environment Human Imprint
on Environment: The Cities of Japan and Korea 500
Era 5 (1000 - 1500) Population & Environment Kyoto and/or
Seoul 300
Era 5 (1000 - 1500) Population & Environment The Populations
(gains and losses) of Japan and Korea: 1000-1500 600
Era 5 (1000 - 1500) WAR & DIPLOMACY The Fortifications of
East Asia 1000
Era 6 (1450 - 1770) ECONOMICS & TRADE Lynchpins of the East
Asian Economy: Ryukyu and Malacca 750
Era 6 (1450 - 1770) THOUGHT & RELIGION Major Sites of
Intellectual Inquiry: Yi Hoe's World (Korean) 750
Era 6 (1450 - 1770) THOUGHT & RELIGION Yi Hoe, Kangnido
(1402; 1460 copy) 200
Era 7 (1750 - 1914) Society & Culture Government-Mandated
Dietary Rules in Meiji Japan 600
Era 8 (1900 - 1945) Society & Culture Japanese Literature
(conflicts tradition/new; native/foreign) 1000
Era 9 (1945 - present) Politics & Statecraft Indigenous People of E.
Asia 600





Fred Nadis, Ph.D.
Project Editor
ABC-CLIO
130 Cremona Drive
Santa Barbara, CA 93117-5505
phone: (805) 968-1911 x132
toll free: (800) 368-6868 x132
fax: (805) 685-9685

CFP: AJLS 2009 "RETHINKING GENDER IN THE POSTGENDER ERA" (Rutgers, NJ; 1 June; 6-8 Nov)

The Eighteenth Annual Meeting
RETHINKING GENDER IN THE POSTGENDER ERA
November 6-8, 2009
Rutgers University

CALL FOR PAPERS
Elaine Showalter's A Literature of Their Own (1977) proposed a three-stage
model of the growth of feminist theory, beginning with an androgynist
poetics, then a feminist critique and female aesthetic, and finally gender
criticism. If feminist theory could but explain gender relations, the
promise of eliminating inequality between the sexes seemed within reach.
Perhaps contrary to Showalter’s expectations, the trajectory of gender
studies in the intervening three decades has moved it away from feminist
theory and in other directions.

Several forces motivated this shift, including the theoretical focus on
gender identity and sexual difference in the 1980s, and the growing
perception in the 1990s that gender was also a men’s issue. Gayle Rubin’s
“Thinking Sex” (1984) rejected the feminist assumption that sexuality is
simply derived from gender and argued that gender relations alone could not
account for the complexity of sexual behaviors. Judith Butler, in Gender
Trouble (1990), further identified subversive strategies of gendered
performance, such as parody and drag, as central to understanding how the
codes of gender work in creating normative and non-normative identities. The
recent postgenderism movement, galvanized by Donna Haraway’s A Cyborg
Manifesto (1991), advocates the voluntary rejection of biologically or
socially normative sexual and gender identities altogether in favor of an
understanding of human fulfillment outside the bounds of the male/female,
man/woman binary.

In the context of Japanese literary and visual culture, scholarship on
gender reflects a close engagement with these trends and is producing
numerous new critical approaches and concepts. Studies have addressed topics
such as: literary “intersexuality,” defined as representations of
ambivalence towards or rejection of categories of sex; the “postgender”
phenomenon of ambiguously gendered or ambiguously sexed bodies in popular
media; and narrative constructions of gender as a complex and porous
“labyrinth” rather than a simple binary; to name but a few.
This conference begins with a set of questions: How do texts and images work
to create gender identities or postgender alternatives to them, and for what
purposes? How are those gender or postgender identities related to or
distinct from sexual, national, ethnic, and other identities? What is the
history of these questions we inherit, and how does that history complicate
our attempts to address Japanese literary and visual culture? Conversely,
what questions has Japanese literary and visual culture raised about gender,
and how can they challenge our inherited set of questions?
The 2009 AJLS Conference at Rutgers welcomes proposals that approach gender
in innovative ways and examine its relationship to, or intersection with,
any issue relevant to Japanese literary and visual culture:

� Femininity and masculinity; their construction, representation,
performance
� Female and male authorship
� “Voice” in oral performance, such as biwa h�shi, ningyo j�ruri, kabuki,
etc.
� Readership; who reads what, and why
� Escaping the limitations of gender binary: gender bending, gender
blending, postgenderism
� Literary genres: travel diaries, detective fiction, etc.
� Media analysis: film, theater, and anime
� Race and ethnicity
� Rhetoric and ideology of nationalism, including the production of national
language
� Rhetoric of desire (for example, within the triangular relationship as
described by Rene Girard)
� Construction of pre-modern or modern subjectivities and identities
� Normative and non-normative sexualities
� Place, space, landscape
� Japan and Japaneseness
� Diaspora

Papers and panels are especially welcome that address the life and literary
legacy of Oba Minako (1930-2007).
Deadline is June 1, 2009 for receipt of abstracts of no more than 250 words
on these and other questions. We welcome individual submissions as well as
three- or four-person panel proposals. Abstracts should be submitted by
e-mail attachment and must include the presenter’s name, institutional
affiliation, and e-mail address. (You may use the proposal form included in
the electronic version of our newsletter). In the case of panel proposals,
the organizer of the panel should send a cover sheet briefly explaining the
panel’s unifying rationale along with the abstracts for each paper and the
name of a chair and a discussant. Presentations will be organized in 1-hour
time blocks. The conference languages are English and Japanese.

Proposals should be submitted to: ajls2009.rutgers at gmail.com
All other correspondence may be directed to the organizers: Paul Schalow
schalow at rci.rutgers.edu or Janet Walker
jwalk at rci.rutgers.edu

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CFP: 4th Joint East Asian Studies Conf (Sheffield, UK; 30 Mar; 8-10 Sept)

You are warmly invited to attend the upcoming 4th Joint East Asian Studies
Conference (JEASC), to be held at the University of Sheffield, UK, 8-10
September 2009.

The JEASC is a triennial meeting held by the three academic associations
representing East Asian Studies in the UK (The British Associations for
Chinese, Japanese, and Korean Studies – BACS, BAJS, and BAKS). We encourage
applications for individual papers, panels of up to four papers, or posters on
any aspect of China, Japan or Korea, as well as on cross-regional topics.
Scholars and graduate students from any country are welcome. There is no
overall theme for the conference, but the Plenary Session will be made up of
speakers from China, Japan and Korea who will speak on the topic of 'Hope in
Hard Times'.

Please go to the following page on the BAJS website for more details and a
conference application form. For the sake of convenience and efficiency those
interested in Chinese and Korean studies should also apply through the BAJS
pages. Deadline for receipt of applications is 30 March 2009.

http://www.bajs.org.uk/news.htm

Please feel free to forward this mail on to your colleagues, staff members,
graduate students, and anyone else who you think may be interested.

Further information below

The conference will take place at Sheffield University’s Halifax Hall and The
Edge. Halifax Hall is a converted Victorian Mansion which was refurbished to
international conference standards in 2008, while The Edge is a new development
offering state of the art conferencing.
http://www.shef.ac.uk/conferences/facilities/residential

Sheffield is a pleasant, friendly and fun medium-sized city located in the
centre of Britain, on the edge of the Peak District; which is the UK’s first
and most visited National Park. There are 530,000 people – 10 per cent of whom
are university students – and more than 2 million trees in the city. Sheffield
is easily accessible by train from London St. Pancras Station, from where the
Eurostar departs for Paris and the European continent. The nearest and most
convenient airport is Manchester. There are regular train services directly to
Sheffield from Manchester Airport.

Sheffield: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheffield
Peak District: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peak_district
Getting there: http://www.shef.ac.uk/visitors/mapsandtravel

The University of Sheffield’s School of East Asian Studies is one of Europe’s
leading centres for the study of East Asia. In 2006 SEAS collaborated with
Leeds University’s Department of East Asian Studies to create the White Rose
East Asia Centre (WREAC) to produce world class research and advanced research
training on East Asia.

University of Sheffield: http://www.sheffield.ac.uk/
SEAS: http://www.sheffield.ac.uk/seas/
WREAC: http://www.wreac.org/

Looking forward to seeing you there.

Peter Matanle
JEASC On-Site Liaison

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Dr. Peter Matanle
National Institute of Japanese Studies and
School of East Asian Studies,
University of Sheffield,
Western Bank, Sheffield, S10 2TN, UK.
Tel (Direct Line): +44 (0)114 222 8407
Website: http://www.shef.ac.uk/seas/