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: Radical Intersections: Performance Across Disciplines (7 Dec; 24-26 Apr; Northwestern [Chicago])

I don't remember who might be doing performance studies, but this is close and there's a chance of getting travel money directly from the conference--in addition, of course, to EALC, EAPS, etc.

Call for Contributions: Radical Intersections: Performance Across Disciplines
A Graduate Student Conference with Keynote Speaker Sue-Ellen Case and Keynote Performance by Teatro Luna
Submission Deadline: December 7, 2008
Conference Dates: April 24 - 26, 2009
Location: Northwestern University (Evanston, IL)

Northwestern University's Department of Performance Studies invites proposals from graduate students whose research uses performance as theory, method, or praxis to join us for panel presentations,performances, and sustained dialogue. We also encourage proposals from graduate students from across the social sciences and humanities whose research concerns cultural performances, performance events, or performativity in everyday life.

Radical Intersections aims to interrogate junctures at which dissimilar ways of being, doing, and thinking rub against one another.Such junctures have the potential to disturb foundational concepts and disciplinary assumptions. As Dwight Conquergood wrote, "Our radical move is to turn, and return, insistently, to the crossroads." With performance theory gaining currency in a variety of disciplines, and performance studies itself interdisciplinary in its subjects, methods, and analytics, performance scholars often inhabit such crossroads. Graduate students, as the next generation of the academy, would do well to pause at our present junctures and explore possible directions. What choices do performance studies scholars face today, and where should performance scholarship go from here?

Possible topics include, but are not limited to:
· How do collaborations of performance studies with particular disciplines, sites, or public conversations provoke "radical" scholarship?
· Figuring the human body as a complex and dynamic site of radical intersections of race, class, gender, sex, and sexuality
· Queer bodies and queer spaces; communicating "trans" movements,ontologies, and aesthetics
· Going public: taking scholarship into the public, into pedagogy,and translating scholarship into performance
· Taking up space: finding, creating, and claiming space for our work
· Collisions and collaborations of performance studies with cultural studies, anthropology, theatre studies, ethnography, media studies,studies of embodiment, and other fields
· Making the comfortable uncomfortable: controversial subject matter,acts of remembering, and using the body to enact scholarship and analyze culture
· Creating rigorous scholarship while working from a place of feeling and affect
· "Performance anxiety" both within and out the discipline over performance's applications, its institutionalization, and its radical potential
· In a discipline that resists strict definition, where do our tensions lie? What prevents us from doing particular kinds of work?

We welcome competitive proposals for individual papers as well as panels not exceeding four presenters. Please submit a 300-400 word abstract and a short CV to gcmitchell at northwestern.edu by Dec 7. (Proposals for panels should include individual and panel abstracts.)

Notices of acceptance will be sent in mid-January.

Northwestern University will provide double-occupancy hotel accommodations for all presenters residing outside the Chicagoland area. (You may request a specific roommate or be paired at random with someone of the gender[s] of your choice.) There is no registration/admission fee. We also anticipate providing some additional financial assistance for travel costs for presenters.

Gregory Mitchell

CFP: JSA 15 Annual Conf (30 Sept; 8-10 Jan; New Orleans)

Japan Studies Association
Fifteenth Annual Conference January 8-10, 2009
Hotel Monteleone
New Orleans, LA

The Fifteenth Annual Japan Studies Association Conference will be held January 8-10, 2009 at Hotel Monteleone in New Orleans, LA. It will begin with a light reception on Thursday evening, January 8th at 5:30 pm and conclude with the conference banquet on Saturday night, January 10th, at 6:00pm.

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, registration and room accommodation forms are available at: www.japanstudies.org. They can be returned as attached Word documents by e-mail to Michael Steiner at msteine at nwmissouri.edu. They can also be printed and mailed to the JSA at this address:
Michael Steiner
Department of History, Humanities, Philosophy, and Political Science
Northwest Missouri State University
800 University Drive
Maryville, MO 64468
(660)562-1288

The deadline for Conference proposal submission is September 30, 2008.

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 hotel reservations contact:
Hotel Monteleone
214 Rue Royale
New Orleans, Louisiana 70130-2201
Phone: (504) 523-3341 Toll Free: (800) 535-9595.
E-mail: reservations@hotelmonteleone.com
Be sure to mention that you are attending the JSA conference.

For information about the airport shuttle, contact the hotel or visit the JSA website.

We’re looking forward to seeing you in New Orleans.

$$$: Scholarships for International Study Newsletter

The Graduate College fellowship office has just completed Volume 3, Issue 2 of the Scholarships for International Study Newsletter. The publication includes notes and tips from some of our scholarships alum as well as listings of this year’s winners and deadlines for the upcoming year. Our July issue may be accessed online at http://www.ips.uiuc.edu/scholarship/07%20July%20Issue.doc
or from our home page at http://www.ips.uiuc.edu/scholarship/

$$$: Twentieth-Century Japan Research Awards for 2007-2008 (U Maryland; 9 Nov 07; 31 Oct 08 まで)

The Nathan and Jeanette Miller Center for Historical Studies and McKeldin Library, University of Maryland, invite applications for two $1,500 grants to support research in the library's Prange Collection and East Asia Collection on topics related to the period of the Allied Occupation of Japan and its aftermath, 1945-1960. Holders of the Ph.D. or an equivalent degree are eligible to apply, as are graduate students who have completed all requirements for the doctorate except the dissertation. The competition is open to scholars in all parts of the world and from any discipline, but historical topics are preferred. University of Maryland faculty, staff, and students may not apply.

The application deadline is November 9, 2007. The grants must be used by October 31, 2008. Grant funds will be disbursed in the form of reimbursement for travel, lodging, meals, photoduplication, and related research expenses. Such costs as computers or software are not eligible. Reimbursement will require submission of receipts for processing by the University.

To apply, send a curriculum vitae and a two- to three-page description of the research project to the following address. Applications from graduate students must be accompanied by a letter from the principal faculty advisor attesting to the significance of the dissertation project and to the student's completion of all other degree requirements.

Twentieth-Century Japan Research Awards
Nathan and Jeanette Miller Center for Historical Studies
Department of History, 2115 Francis Scott Key Hall
University of Maryland
College Park, MD 20742-7315 USA

Materials in the Prange Collection include virtually all Japanese-language newspapers, news agency releases, magazines, pamphlets, and books dating from the period of Allied censorship, 1945-1949, in addition to over 10,000 newspaper photos. There are also materials published by Chinese and Korean residents, most of which are written in Japanese. Related collections in English include the personal papers of Charles Kades and Justin Williams. Office correspondence documenting policies and decisions of the Publications, Pictorial, and Broadcast Division, Civil Censorship Detachment, Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers, Japan, are complementary to official Occupation records housed at the National Archives, College Park. Japanese newspapers and magazines from the Prange Collection are available for research on microform in the East Asia Collection. Other Prange materials are made available for research in the Prange Collection reading area after consultation with the Prange Curator or Manager. The East Asia Collection contains Japanese-language books published during the wartime period, scholarly monographs on Occupied Japan, and a wide variety of reference works.

Twentieth-Century Japan Research Awards
Nathan and Jeanette Miller Center for Historical Studies
Department of History, 2115 Francis Scott Key Hall
University of Maryland
College Park, MD 20742-7315 USA

Email: historycenter@umd.edu
Visit the website at http://www.history.umd.edu/HistoryCenter/awards.htm

$$$: Florence Tan Moeson Fellowship program (US Library of Congress)

The Asian Division of the Library of Congress is pleased to announce the annual Florence Tan Moeson Fellowship (URL: http://www.loc.gov/rr/asian/FTM.html). This fellowship is made possible by the generous donation by Mrs. Florence Tan Moeson, a former cataloger in the Chinese Team of the Regional and Cooperative Cataloging Division for 45 years.

The purpose of the fellowship is to provide individuals with the opportunity to pursue research on East, Southeast, and/or South Asia (including the overseas Asian communities), using the unparalleled collections of the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. The grants are for a minimum of five business days of research and are to be used to cover expenses incurred while engaging in scholastic research at the Library of Congress, in the area of Asian studies (e.g., travel to and from Washington, overnight accommodations, photocopying). Up to 15 fellowships, with amounts varying from $300 to $2,500, will be awarded. Graduate students, independent scholars, community college teachers, researchers without regular teaching appointments, and librarians are especially encouraged to apply.

Further application details is described in the attached Florence Tan Moeson Fellowship brochure. Applications are accepted online only at http://lcasianfriends.org/application/index.php?sid=4 and must be submitted between June 1st and September 30th every year. The awards will be announced later in December.

Anchi Hoh, Ph.D.
Co-Chair
Florence Tan Moeson Fellowship Committee
The Asian Division
Library of Congress, LJ 150
101 Independence Ave., SE
Washington, DC 20540-4810
Tel: (202) 707-5673
Fax: (202) 707-1724
Email: adia@loc.gov

$$$: Asian/Pacific Studies Institute and Perkins Library (Duke U)

Travel Grants
Asian/Pacific Studies Institute and Perkins Library
Duke University

The Asian/Pacific Studies Institute at the Duke University is offering
travel grants to scholars outside the Winston-Salem/Greensboro/Durham/
Chapel Hill/Raleigh area who wish to use the University's East Asian collection
for research during the 2006-2007 academic year. There will be six grants of
$500 each to cover travel, hotel and photocopy expenses. Applicants who
document how their research will benefit from access to the Duke Collection
and whose research will take advantage of its strengths will be given priority
consideration; secondary consideration will be given to applicants in the Southeast or
at institutions where there are no or few library resources in the East
Asian languages. The awards must be used before August 1, 2007.

The East Asian Collection at the Perkins Library consists of about
83,000 volumes in Chinese, Japanese and Korean. The collection is
especially strong in Japanese Studies, especially art history,
economics, the environment, history, literature, labor, political
science, popular culture, social movements and women's studies. Its
collections on China are more narrowly focused; it has strengths in
Chinese popular culture, film and TV studies, and statistical yearbooks.
For further information about the collection, please visit the web site
at http://www.lib.duke.edu/ias/eac/ or contact Kristina Troost, Head,
East Asian Collection and the Department of International & Area
studies, at kktroost@duke.edu or (919) 660-5844. For Chinese materials,
please contact Xi Chen, Interim Chinese Studies librarian, at
x.chen@duke.edu.

Applications for the grant, including a brief description of the
research topic and the type/subject of materials you are seeking, a
curriculum vitae, and an estimated budget, as well as any questions,
should be directed to the address below. Please be sure to identify the
sources in the Duke Collection you are planning to use.


Kristina Troost
Head, International and Area Studies
Librarian for Japan and Korea
Perkins Library
Box 90195
Duke University
Durham NC 27708-0195
919-660-5844
Fax: 919-668-3134
http://www.lib.duke.edu/ias/eac/eac.html