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working on the arts and material cultures of Asia from the eighteenth century to the present to submit previously unpublished papers of 4,500-10,000 words for publication.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: 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

"China Vision" (publication; 1 Oct)

It's a bit late but if you already have something pretty much ready to go....

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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 features articles and essays, artists' visual essays, interviews, and reviews.
GLIMPSE invites submissions for upcoming themed issues. Since we strive to spark inquiry and dialogue across disciplines, and across academic and non-academic audiences alike, it is important that our articles avoid jargon and be accessible to readers from diverse backgrounds. Stylistically, we are more like a magazine than an academic journal, however, in depth of content, we value conceptual precision and rigor.

SUBMISSIONS http://www.glimpsejournal.com/contribute.html

Deadlines: China Vision --------- 01 October 2008
Vision and Language -- 15 December 2008
Visions -------------- 15 December 2008
Cosmos --------------- 01 March 2009
Blindness ------------ 01 March 2009

Editor
Glimpse Journal
PO Box 382178
Cambridge, MA 02238-2178
Email: editor at glimpsejournal.com"
Visit the website at http://www.glimpsejournal.com

CFP: Intl Congress on Chinese Studies ("Immigration and Multiculturalism") (20 Sept; 26-29 Nov; Bilbao, Spain)

Bilbao (Spain): 26-29 November 2008
International 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 Multiculturalism

1. Gender and Immigration
2. Immigration and Multiculturalism
3. Chinese Immigration to Western Countries
4. Education and Social Intervention on Immigration
5. China and Society: The New Migrations
6. Local economies and the impacts of the immigration (on home and on the host Communities)
7. Immigrants and Associationism
8. Immigrant Communities

General Subjects on Chinese Studies

1. Chinese Culture in the beginning of the XXI Century. Its development outside of China
2. China and Society – China and Economy
3. China: Traditions and Culture (Anthropology, History, etc.)

Eduardo Rubio
Centro de Estudios Chinos Lu Xun (Bilbao-Spain)
Phone: 944050291
Fax: 944009786
Email: congress at estudioschinos.com
Visit the website at http://www.estudioschinos.com/congress.htm

CFP: "T'ang Studies: The Next Twenty-five Years" (1 Nov; 8-9 May; Albany, NY)

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 research and collaboration among scholars of medieval China. The Society is therefore soliciting paper proposals concerning the following themes: (1) T‘ang China and the World;
(2) Historical Transitions and the T‘ang (both from Six Dynasties to T‘ang and from T‘ang to Sung); (3) Religion in the T‘ang; (4) T‘ang Literature; (5) T‘ang China in Intellectual History; (6) T‘ang material culture (including archaeology, art history, history of science, and technology). Paper proposals should contain the author’s name, institutional affiliation, address, and a 250 word abstract of the paper.

Please send proposals to the chair of the organizing committee: Anthony DeBlasi, Department of East Asian Studies, Humanities 210, University at Albany, 1400 Washington Avenue, Albany, NY 12222 or deblasi_ _albany.edu by November 1, 2008. The committee also welcomes proposals for complete panels, with abstracts for each paper. Limited funding is available to cover some of the costs for scholars presenting papers. Please note: one must be a member of (or join) the Tang Studies Society to deliver a paper at the conference. Non-members are welcome to register for and attend the conference. For more information about proposals, membership, and conference registration visit the Society’s website at http://www.tangstudies.org.

Anthony DeBlasi
Department of East Asian Studies
Humanities 210
University at Albany
1400 Washington Avenue
Albany, NY 12222
(518) 442-5316
Email: deblasi_ _albany.edu
Visit the website at http://www.tangstudies.org

CFP: History of Feminist Thought (incl Ch & Jp) (encyclopedia entries; 15 Oct)

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 documents related to the History of Feminist Thought, to be published by Greenwood Press. This 2-volume set will present approximately 250 primary source documents, tracing responses and challenges to the subordination of women within different national, cultural, and political contexts at different times throughout history. It is a much-needed project in recovering women's voices and incorporating the story of women's rights into the larger themes of world history. In some cases, this will be the first English-language publication of a document and so the possibilities for future research based on our collection are exciting, to say the least.


BELOW is a chronological list of entries for which contributors are currently needed. The main focus of each entry is the primary source document. Contributors will assist in selecting excerpts to use and will write brief contextual essays to accompany the excerpt. Each entry will be approximately 1500 words total, to include both the excerpt and the analysis/context.

Please look over the list for a wide range of geographical and chronological areas of interest - you need not be familiar with an
individual writer or document to write an entry. In most cases, I have already compiled some bibliographical or other information on the specific document and will pass that research on to you to assist you in writing the entry. I will send complete contributor guidelines as well as sample entries to interested writers.

The deadline for these entries is October 15, 2008. The honoraria is $40.00 per entry - contributors completing 4 or more entries may choose a copy of the published set (valued at $225.00) in lieu of cash payment.

PLEASE circulate this call to colleagues at other institutions, to graduate students, or to other interested scholars/writers.

Thank you and I look forward to working with an international community of scholars on this exciting project!

Tiffany K. Wayne, PhD
Independent Scholar
www.womanwriting.com


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Call for Contributors - April 28, 2008
History of Feminist Thought (Greenwood Press)
Editor: Tiffany K. Wayne, PhD


1.. "How Should the Woman's Nature Hinder Us?" and other poems from the
Therigatha (India, c. 600 b.c.e.)
2.. "Lessons for Women," Pan Chao (China, 80 c.e.)
3.. "How I could best forward the cause of other women.," Radegund
(Germany?, 520/5-587)
4.. "The marriage knot can only tie one who exists.," Rabi'a (Islamic
empire (Iraq?), c. 800)
5.. ".I always write as I please.," Xue Tao (China, c. 800)
6.. "Because I am a woman." and "This wild lady.," poems by Yeshe
Tsogyal (Tibet, c. 800)
7.. ".they are not of equal status with me.," Dhuoda (Septimia
(France?), 843)
8.. ".my silken woman's dress obscures my poetry.," Yu Xuanji (China, c.
860)
9.. "Scorn he should not render at the writer's weaker gender,"
Hrotsvita (d. c. 973?)
10.. "These Five Obstructions" (to women's enlightenment), Senshi
Naishinno(Japan, c.1000)
11.. ".the fate of being a woman.," Shunzei kyo no musume (Japan, c.1200)
12.. "Letter of the god of love" and "Book of the City of Ladies,"
Christine de Pizan (Italy, 1405)
13.. "But a spindle is all you offer." (and other writings), Argula von
Grumbach (Germany?, c.1530s)
14.. Letter on "the rightful freedom" of women, Louise Labe (France, 1555)
15.. Preface to Calvin's "On the Modesty of Women in Their Dress," Marie
Dentiere
(Geneva, Switzerland, 1561)
16.. "What daunts me most is being a woman.forbidden to write." and other
writings, Maria de San Jose Salazar (Spain, c.1580s)
17.. Disenchantments of Love, Maria de Zayas y Sotomayor (Spain, 1637)
18.. On the Equality of the Two Sexes, Francois Poullain de la Barre
(France, 1673)
19.. "The Answer," Sor Juana de la Cruz (Mexico, 1691)
20.. A Serious Proposal to the Ladies, Mary Astell (England, 1694)
21.. "Song of a Married Woman," Sanciya Honnamma (India, date?)
22.. "Appeasing Radhika," Muddupalani (India, c. late 1700s)
23.. "Appeal of One-Half the Human Race," Anna Wheeler (William Thompson)
(England, 1825)
24.. "A Plea for Woman," Marion Reid (Scotland, 1843)
25.. "Liberty," Carolina Coronado (Spain, 1852)
26.. "The Homes of the New World," Fredrika Bremer (Sweden, 1853)
27.. "Woman and her Social Relationships," Anna Maria Mozzoni (Italy, 1864)
28.. "Appeal to the Men of New Zealand," Mary Muller (New Zealand, 1869)
29.. "My Life," Rassundari Devi (India, 1876)
30.. "The Emancipation of Women," Maria Eugenia Echenique (Argentina, 1876)
31.. "We women who are heads of households.," Kusunose Kita (Japan, 1878)
32.. The Political Rights of Women and Social and Political Equality of
Women and Men, Hubertine Auclert (France, 1878-79)
33.. "I am the most interesting book of all." or other writings by Marie
Bashkirtseff (Russia/France, 1878-79)
34.. "A Comparison of Men and Women," Tarabai Shinde (India, 1882)
35.. "Daughters in Boxes," Kishida Toshiko (Japan, 1883)
36.. Origin of Family, Private Property, and the State, Friedrich Engels
(Germany, 1884)
37.. "The High Caste Hindu Woman," Pandita Ramabai Saraswati (India, 1888)
38.. "Equality of Rights," Francisca Diniz (Brazil, 1890)
39.. ".men and women are equal before God.," Muhammad 'Abdu (Egypt c.1890s)
40.. "Fair and Equal Treatment," Zainab Fawwaz (Lebanon, 1892)
41.. "The Emancipation of Women and its Probable Consequences," Adele
Crepaz (Bohemia/Austrio-Hungarian, 1893)
42.. "The Christian Feminist," Marie Maugeret (France, 1897)
43.. "The Coming Woman" and other articles from The Dawn, Louisa Lawson(?)
(Australia, 1899)
44.. "The Liberation of Women," Qassim Amin (Egypt, 1899)
45.. "A Mother's Word on the Woman Question," Marianne Hainisch
(Austria, c. 1900)
46.. "Women of the Philippines," Clemencia Lopez (Philippines, 1902)
47.. Memoranda on women's education, Raden Ajeng Kartini
(Indonesia/Java, 1903)
48.. "Reflection on Woman Suffrage," Briet Bjarnheoinsdottir (Iceland,
1905)
49.. "To Critics of Femininity," Rosa Mayreder (Austria, 1905)
50.. "Feminism is a Force," Julieta Lanteri (Argentina, 1906)
51.. "If I had the right to legislate.," Bahithat al-Badiya (Egypt, 1909)
52.. "The Liberation of Motherhood," Katti Anker Moller (Norway, 1910s?)
53.. "My Opinion," Luisa Capetillo (Puerto Rico, 1911)
54.. "Future of the Women's Movement," Helena Swanwick (England, 1913)
55.. "To the Women of the World," Hiratsuka Raicho (Japan, 1913)
56.. "Memoirs of a Persian Princess," Taj Al-Saltana (Iran, 1914)
57.. Speech on Woman Suffrage (?), Sarojini Naidu (India, c. 1918)
58.. Resolutions of Zurich Conference, Women's International League for
Peace and Freedom (WILPF) (1919)
59.. "The Difference between Men and Women.," Nabawiya Musa (Egypt, 1920)
60.. speech/statement from Woman Suffrage League, Ichikawa Fusae (Japan,
c.1920s?)
61.. "Women's Careers," Yang Zhihua (China, 1922)
62.. "The Woman in Democracy," Frantiska Plaminkova (Czech Republic, 1924)
63.. "Woman as Leaders," Amy Garvey (Jamaica, 1925)
64.. "The Turkish Ordeal," Halide Edib Adivar (Turkey, 1928)
65.. "Unveiling and Veiling: on the Liberation of the Woman.in the
Islamic World," Nazira Zain al-Din (Lebanon, 1928)
66.. "Philippine Women and the Vote," Trinidad Fernandez Lagarda
(Philippines, 1931)
67.. "Facing Two Ways," Shizue Kato (Japan 1935)
68.. "East and West in Cooperation," Shareefeh Hamid Ali (India, 1935)
69.. "Sex and the Truth," Women Today, Murial Phillips (Australia, 1939)
70.. speech at Arab Feminist Conference (& other writings?), Huda
Shaarawi (Egypt, 1944)
71.. "Arab Women's Intellectual Heritage," Zahiya Dughan (Lebanon, 1944)
72.. Nation and Family, Alva Myrdal (Sweden, 1945?)
73.. "We had Equality.," Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti (Nigeria, 1947)
74.. "An End to the Neglect of the Problems of Negro Women," Claudia Jones
(Trinidad, 1949)
75.. founding statement of Singapore Council of Women (or other
writings?), Shirin Fozdar (Singapore, 1951?)
76.. charter and "What Women Want," Federation of South African Women
(FSAW) (South Africa, 1954-55)
77.. "Our Constitution-We the Liberated Women," Ghada Samman (Syria, 1961)
78.. pamphlet or statement on Indonesian women's movement, Gerwani
(Indonesia, c.1965)
79.. "Towards Equality," Committee on Status of Women in India (India,
1974)
80.. "A General Strike," Mariarosa Dalla Costa (Italy, 1974)
81.. "Black Sisters, Speak Out," Awa Thiam (Mali, 1978)
82.. "Let Me Speak!" (and/or "The Woman's Problem," 1980?), Domitila
Barios de Chungara (Bolivia, 1978)
83.. U.N. statement on "Women and Apartheid," World Conference/Decade
for Women (United Nations/South Africa, 1980)
84.. "Statement on Genital Mutilation," Association of African Women
(Senegal, 1980)
85.. "Speech before the Tokyo Metropolitan Assembly" and "The Day Women
Launched Into Politics," Mitsui Mariko (Japan, 1987)
86.. "Statement on International Woman's Day," Revolutionary Association
of the Women of Afghanistan (RAWA) (Afghanistan, 2004)

CFP: "Globalization: Cultures, Institutions and Socioeconomics" (30 May; 12-13 Dec; Hong Kong)

International Conference on "Globalization: Cultures, Institutions and Socioeconomics"
To be held in Hong Kong, December 12-13, 2008
Co-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 economic integration of China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong (including Macau) and has lately been broadened to include Singapore, Southeast Asian Chinese communities, and overseas Chinese in other countries. Despite some political repercussions, Greater China has become an indisputable economic reality today. But economy is not the strongest element at play; rather, a more prevalent and consequential factor is culture and its role in formal institutions and informal social customs.

This conference is designed to study the causes and consequences of globalization from cultural, institutional and socioeconomic perspectives, focusing particularly on topics related to Greater China. It invites scholars to investigate questions such as these:
· What perspectives can we deploy to investigate the different and yet similar cosmopolitan cultures of Hong Kong, Taipei, Shanghai, Beijing, Singapore, Macau, Shenzhen, and other cities?
· How do the cultures of these cities work in practice and how are they embedded in everyday-life situations as locatable phenomena?
· What approaches can we use to explore the experience of place and space, the dynamics between local and global, culture and economy, and the dilemmas of knowledge in these cities?
· How do states, empires and nations, corporations, shops and goods, literature, music, film, etc., figure in our examination of the cultures of consumption and production in these cities?
· How do places develop meanings for people? What are the struggles over defining who belongs in a place in these cities?
· What role do travel, information technology, and other means of communication play in shaping a global city network among these cities and beyond?

The conference will feature several distinguished keynote and plenary-session speakers, including Nobel Laureate Douglass North and Professors Frank Dikötter, Robert Hegel, Chang-Tai Hsien, Gordon Mathews, Hui Wang, and Shaoguang Wang. All sessions will be held on the Chinese University of Hong Kong campus, while the conference dinner will be housed at the world-renowned Hong Kong Jockey Club.

Although we prefer complete papers, submissions of long abstracts will be considered. Submissions of organized sessions are also welcome. All submissions must be made through e-mail to all the co-chairs of the program committee no later than May 31, 2008: Lingchei Letty Chen, Ann Louise Huss, Laikwan Pang, and Ping Wang. We anticipate having the preliminary program posted by June 15, 2008.

CFP: Critical Han Studies Symposium & Workshop (3 Dec; 24-27 Apr; Stanford U)

Note that grad student funds are available.

Critical Han Studies Symposium & Workshop
April 24-27, 2008
Stanford University

Call for Papers

Han 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 a host of linguistic, cultural, political, and historical inconsistencies that call into question its status as a coherent community. Despite this, however, Han has managed to fly below the radar of Critical Race Theory and largely above that of History, Ethnic Studies, and Anthropology.

The first-ever Critical Han Studies Symposium & Workshop seeks to bridge this expansive divide, and to bring this fascinating area of research to the attention of a broader, international, and interdisciplinary community of scholars. Participants will help conceptualize an agenda for the nascent subdiscipline of Critical Han Studies and develop materials to be published in two pathbreaking volumes: Critical Han Studies, an edited volume, and the Critical Han Studies Reader, a collection of primary source materials in translation for which the conference organizers have already secured a provisional contract. The conference is made possible thanks to the generous support of Stanford's Center for East Asian Studies, the Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity, and the Dean's Fund.

Keynote and Featured Speakers. Mark Elliott, Dru Gladney, Xu Jieshun (Founding Director, Han Research Center, Guangxi Institute for Nationalities), Emma Teng, Frank Dikötter, Uradyn E. Bulag, C. Patterson Giersch, and Nicholas Tapp, among others. (Final itinerary subject to change.)

Conference Topics. The conference is organized with attention to (but not limited to) the following topical areas£†

* When did the category of Han come into existence, and when did it come into widespread use? Should we date it to the early imperial period, as many do; to the discourse of turn-of-the-century anti-Qing revolutionaries; to some point in between; or to some point after?
* What kind of category is Han? Is it an ethnocultural category, a racial category, a civilizational category, or something else?
* What is the relationship between the category Han and those indigenous, historical categories of identity which it absorbed (Huaren, Huaxia, etc.)?

Likewise, how has the categorization and characterization of Chinese minorities shaped the category of Han?

* How does the category of Han operate in everyday life and at the local level?

Does it matter or is it overshadowed by other axes of identity, such as gender, class, dialect group, and native place?

* What is Han when viewed from a regional and/or transnational perspective? How does the category of Han in China relate to, for instance, the category of Hoa in Vietnam or the Haw in Laos? Can the category of Han be applied to the broader Chinese diaspora, or is it limited to specific national contexts?
* How have modern academic disciplines (ethnology, linguistics, archaeology, etc.) configured the form, structure and boundaries of Han?
* How does the category of Han relate to the category of Chinese? In the contemporary world, are they treated synonymously?

Historically, was it influenced by those colossal categories of identity which foreign observers used to describe the peoples of China ("Chinaman" in turn-of-the-century English language writings, "Shinanin" in Japanese discourse, the "Yellow Race" in Social Darwinian discourse, etc.)?

* What insights can a potential Critical Han Studies draw from Critical Race Theory? What insights can it offer in return?
* Are there meaningful connections to be made between Hanness and Whiteness?

Deadlines. The deadline for paper and panel proposals is December 3, 2007, and should include the following information:

- Author's name, address (postal and email), institutional affiliation, and title
- Paper title
- Abstract (250 words)
- Author's biography (up to 150 words)
- Suggestions for 3 or more primary source materials the author feels should be included in the Critical Han Studies Reader

Notifications will be sent out by January 14, 2007. Full papers of accepted presentations are requested by March 14, 2008. Proposals and final papers should be submitted electronically to Professor Thomas S. Mullaney at tsmullaney@stanford.edu

Special Note for Graduate Students. This conference strongly encourages proposals by graduate students. The organizers will be able to provide a limited number of Graduate Student Stipends in the amount of $200 each, with the understanding that students will seek out additional funds from their home institutions.

Conference Committee
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Thomas S. Mullaney
Department of History
Stanford University
http://www.stanford.edu/dept/history/Faculty/mullaney.html

James Leibold
Asian Studies Program
La Trobe University
http://www.latrobe.edu.au/socsci/staff/leibold/leibold.html

Stéphane Gros
Sociétés et Cultures en Himalaya
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique http://wwwvjf.cnrs.fr/himalaya/eng/membres/sgros.htm

CFP: International Conference on Gender and Chinese Cinema (15 Jan; 25 Feb; Nanjing)

CALL FOR PAPERS
International Conference on Gender and Chinese Cinema
Date: June 26 28, 2008
Place: Nanjing University, China
Keynote Speakers: Mary Ann Doane and Dai Jinhua
Organizers: Nanjing University and Brown University

Submission Deadline: January 15, 2008
Notice of acceptance by email: February 25, 2008

The conference aims to 1) foreground gender as a critical and analytical
lens in the study of Chinese films, and 2) to advance gender studies in the
areas of Chinese visual culture, media, and modernity. The conference
committee welcomes papers on all aspects of gender and Chinese cinema,
particularly papers that focus on Chinese women¹s roles as directors,
producers, cinematographers, and scriptwriters. Chinese cinema is broadly
conceived here to include films produced in mainland China, Hong Kong,
Taiwan, and in the overseas diaspora. Categories of interest include but are
not limited to:

1. Study of Chinese female authors/auteurs (directors, producers,
cinematographers ,scriptwriters)
2. Feminist re-view of canonical Chinese films
3. Feminist theory and Chinese women¹s cinema
4. Gender, cinema, and Chinese community-building (national, regional,
ethnic, and diasporic)
5. Cinematic representation of women and Chinese visual modernity
6. Gender, spectatorship, and Chinese audience
7. Cinematic (re)constructions of femininity and masculinity in modern China
8. Gender and socialist cinema
9. Gender and genre in Chinese cinema
10. Chinese gender, aesthetics, and cinematic narrative
11. Gender, sexuality, and performance in Chinese cinema
12. Colonialism, post-colonialism, and gender in Chinese cinema

Interested scholars and graduate students should submit Chinese and English
abstracts (approximately 250 words) for individual presentations and panel
proposals (by January 15) to Professor Yang Yishu at the following email
addresses:

gender politics njlyric@gmail.com or yishuyang632@hotmail.com

Please include:
1. Name and title.
2. Institutional affiliation and mailing address.
3. Email address.
4. Title of proposed paper.

Announcement: Scenes and Visions: Approaches to 20th-Century Chinese Visual Culture (6-7 Apr; USC)

It's a little far but looks very good, so....

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Dear Friends,

With much pleasure and excitement, I write to call your attention to an
international conference on modern Chinese visual culture that is going to
take place at the University of Southern California on April 6-7, 2007. The
conference website is now live at

http://www.usc.edu/chinesevisualculture

although I hasten to add that we are still in the process of adding pieces
of information and making adjustments.

The conference Scenes and Visions: Approaches to 20th-Century Chinese Visual
Cultures will bring together scholars from multiple disciplines (art
history, theater, history, journalism, film studies, comparative literature)
to examine a range of visual forms and experiences in twentieth-century
China. Twelve scholars from the U.S., Canada, China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and
Europe will be presenting their papers in four panels during the two-day
event.

You are cordially invited to come and participate in this event. We will be
happy to assist you in whichever way we can. For visitors in the LA region,
we will provide free parking. From visitors from out of town, we will be
happy to help you find lodging.

If you need any further information, please feel free to email me at
xiaobing.tang@usc.edu or contact my assistant Sally Kim at sallykim@usc.edu.

With best wishes,

Xiaobing Tang
Professor of Chinese
University of Southern California

CFP: 6th Intl Conf on Chinese Lang Pedagogy (30 Nov; 3-5 Aug)

The 6th International Conference on Chinese Language Pedagogy and the
First International Conference on Teaching Chinese to American Students
第六届国际汉语教学学术研究研讨会
暨首届国际对美汉语教学研讨会
August 3-5, 2007, Nanjing-Yangzhou, China
(The First Announcement)

The 6th International Conference on Chinese Language Pedagogy and the First International Conference on Teaching Chinese to American Students will be held in Nanjing and Yangzhou on August 3-5, 2007. (Deadline 30 Nov. 2006) The purpose of the conference is to promote academic exchange and cooperation among teachers and scholars in the field of Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language (TCSL) in and outside China. The theme of this conference is weighing on teaching Chinese to American students, but the conference also accepts papers on teaching Chinese as a foreign language to students in other countries.

The Conference welcomes papers (in Chinese or English) on, but not limited to, the following topics for discussion:
1) Common and special features of the Chinese learning styles among American students
2) Curriculum designs, teaching methods and techniques in the classrooms of TCSL (focusing on American students)
3) Case studies on teaching Chinese characters, pronunciation, grammar, speaking, reading and writing to American students
4) Management of Chinese language programs for American students
5) Teacher training programs for Chinese language teachers in U. S.
6) New concepts and developments in compiling textbooks for teaching Chinese to American students
7) Secondary school Chinese classrooms and AP Chinese in US
8) Comparative studies among HSK, TOFEL, and AP Chinese Test
9) Sino-American cultural differences in relation to Chinese language teaching and learning
10) Application of educational technology in Chinese language instruction
11) Researches on Chinese language acquisition and pedagogical development in TCSL
Conference Sponsors: Nanjing University, China: Yale University, USA; and the Chinese Language Teachers Association of Greater New York (CLTA-GNY), USA.
Conference Co-Chairs: Dr. Aimin Cheng (Nanjing University), Dr. Ling Mu (Yale University), Dr. Wayne Wenchao He (CLTA-GNY )
Conference Committee Members: Dr. John Zhiqiang Yu (Baruch College of City University of New York), Dr. Ted Tao-chung Yao (University of Hawaii), Dr. John Jing-hua Yin (University of Vermont), Dr. Martha Gallagher (US Military Academy, West Point), Dr. Xiaoqi Li (Beijing University), and Dr. Yongsheng Zhu (Fudan University).
Teachers and scholars in mainland China who have questions related to the Conference may contact:
Dr. Xianwen Cao and Dr. Yuan Chen
Tel: 86-25-83593586
Fax: 86-25-83316747
Email: xianwencao@126.com, yuanchen@nju.edu.cn
Teachers and scholars outside mainland China, including those in Hong Kong, Macao, and Taiwan, who have any questions related to the Conference, may contact:
Dr. Wenchao He
Tel: 1-201-968-6306
E-mail: wh3@nyu.edu

Teachers and scholars outside Mainland China, including those in Hong Kong, Macao, and Taiwan, who intend to attend the Conference should fill out the on-line Attendee’s Registration Form at: http://classes.yale.edu/chns150/conferences/2007nanjing/ at your earliest convenience and submit it before November 30, 2006.

Those who intend to present a paper at the Conference should send the paper abstract (no more than one page) as a file attached to an e-mail message to Dr. Wenchao He at wh3@nyu.edu and Dr. Ling Mu at ling.mu@yale.edu before January 31, 2007. The reviewing team formed by the Conference Committee will review the paper abstracts anonymously and will also notify paper abstract submitters of the status of their paper abstracts in March 2007.
Those whose paper abstracts are accepted will need to send the completed papers to Dr. Wenchao He at wh3@nyu.edu by May 31, 2007 so as to be included in the Conference Proceedings to be published. The Conference Committee reserves the right to review a completed paper again if it is drastically different from its original paper abstract. The format and other requirements of the paper will be provided in the acceptance letter.
Post-Conference Tours: 1) Confucius hometown Qufu & Taishan Mountain, 2) Huangshan Mountian, 3) Nanjing. Suggestions for tours to other nearby places are also welcome. Final decisions on tours will be made after all suggestions are collected.
Updated conference information will be available at the following website:
http://classes.yale.edu/chns150/conferences/2007nanjing/

CFP: Chinese Poetry Translations (Deadline: 15 Dec.)

basalt: A Journal of Fine and Literary Arts would like to receive
literary translations of contemporary Chinese poetry for our next
issue (April 2007), devoted to contemporary world poetry in
translation. Include up to five poems with original text and
translations, a brief biography of the poet, and permission from
the poet to translate his or her work. Send your submissions, with
SASE, to Jodi Varon and David Axelrod, editors, basalt, Eastern
Oregon University, One University Boulevard, La Grande, Oregon
97850 until December 15, 2006. Payment is two translator copies,
plus two copies for the poet. We will also consider short (500
words) prose pieces, documents, journals, and ephemera. To view
fuller guidelines for the special issue on translation, visit our
website:

http://www.eou.edu/artsci/basalt/index.html

We look forward to your submissions!

CFP: Fourteenth Berkshire Conference on the History of Women (June 2008)

Fourteenth Berkshire Conference on the History of Women
Continuities and Changes
June 12-15, 2008

CALL FOR PAPERS

The 14th Berkshire Conference on the History of Women, "Continuities and Changes" will be held June 12-15, 2008, at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, MN, USA. The theme points us to perennial historical issues in two ways. First, after the past forty years of pathbreaking and creative scholarship, is women's history characterized by deep continuities over the very long term, or can we identify sharp turning points? What are the appropriate markers for change in women's history? Is a traditional timeline of history, periodized by political regimes and cultural revolutions, useful for understanding women's lives? Or should women's historians propose a new periodization for human history? A second dimension of our theme looks to the continuities and changes of our interpretations of women's history: how has the field changed? What (if any) have been persistent themes, issues or interpretations? How has interdisciplinary scholarship shaped women’s history, and how has women’s history contributed to discussions in other fields? What issues, challenges, and opportunities are posed by public history or classroom (at any level) audiences?

The Program Committee welcomes proposals from scholars who attempt to evaluate their research in light of these broader questions. We encourage submissions in all historical fields, geographical and temporal: our theme will best be addressed by ensuring our conversation covers the widest possible intellectual territory. We also welcome submissions that address sources and methodology, and panels that are broadly comparative in both time and place. We invite proposals for a variety of formats: two-paper or three-paper panels, roundtables, and workshops, as well as applications to participate in seminars. Individual paper proposals are also accepted. Funding may be available for some international panelists.

Paper proposals and applications to participate in seminars are due by midnight, February 1, 2007. Full instructions will be available at http://www.umass.edu/history/berks/berks.htm and submissions should be sent to http://berks.pop.umn.edu/berkshire.jsp.

Types of Session:

Panel: two or three papers of no more than 20 minutes each, chair, and discussant.

Roundtable: Four to seven participants, brief presentations, with a focus on collegial discussion within the group and between the group and the audience.

Workshop: Four to seven people, pre-circulated papers, posted on web apply as group to participate in a discussion of their work. Papers will be posted in PDF format on a secure website open only to conference registrants.

Seminar: Seminars (a list can be found at http://www.umass.edu/history/berks/seminars.html) will be led by senior scholars, with up to twelve participants. Applicants will be asked at this time to submit a one paragraph abstract; those who are accepted will submit a paper of no more than 20 pages by April 15, 2008. Papers will be posted in PDF format on a secure website, to which only to conference participants will have access. Participants will be expected to read all the papers for their session in order to participate fully in the discussion. The purpose of the seminars is to allow participants the opportunity to engage in serious consideration of a topic in the companionship of others with major scholars, and preparation is vital. The sessions will last two and a half hours, and will take place on Sunday morning. Other conference participants may attend the sessions, and will have access to the papers as well.

Proposal submission: Proposals, for individual papers, full panels, roundtables or workshops, or for participation in the workshops and seminars, will be submitted online at a link available after September 1, 2006. It will be helpful to put the information for the proposal together in a word processing file before beginning the online submission process, although you can resume the process if you have to interrupt your work. The following is required for proposals.

For each participant
1. Name
2. Contact information, including surface mail, e-mail, and telephone
3. Institutional affiliation, if applicable
4. Five relevant publications or presentations
5. Title and Abstract of proposed paper or presentation, if applicable

For Panels:
1. Title of panel, roundtable or workshop
2. Rationale for panel, roundtable or workshop.

Contact: For all questions or problems, contact berks@umn.edu and we will get back to you as soon as possible. Some of your inquiries may be answered by consulting the Frequently Asked Questions page for the 2008 Berks Meeting. Visit the 2008 FAQ at http://www.umass.edu/history/berks/FAQ2008.html.