2008 East of California Conference:

Storrs, Connecticut

In 1993, the East of California Conference was hosted by the recently formed Asian American Studies Institute at the University of Connecticut. Fifteen years later, the EOC conference returns to UConn. As the Asian American Studies Institute celebrates its fifteenth anniversary, the field of Asian American Studies also celebrates a significant moment in 2008. The title for this year’s conference, “A Movement to Look Back To,” signals the fortieth anniversary of the San Francisco State strike, which facilitated the emergence of Ethnic Studies and Asian American Studies on the higher education landscape. The nature and tenor of Asian American Studies has altered dramatically, and the field is increasingly marked by multidisciplinary methodologies and interdisciplinary collaborations between Ethnic Studies programs and departments.

Mindful that Asian American Studies emerged out of an atmosphere of social justice and founded on both theory and practice, the conference organizers encourage individual papers, panel submissions and roundtable proposals that acknowledge the extent to which the field continues to grow and expand, both within and outside the institution of the academy and particularly East of California. Concomitantly, given the variegated nature of Asian American Studies, the conference organizers welcome proposals that actively engage contemporary considerations of Asian American cultural production, identity formation, aesthetics, and politics. The conference will be hosted by the Asian American Studies Institute at the University of Connecticut, Storrs, and will take place October 31 – November 1, 2008.

Possible topics include, but are not limited to, the following:

·                     Transnationalism & Cosmopolitanism

·                     Demographic Shifts

·                     Border studies

·                     Cross-ethnic/racial collaborations and coalitions

·                     Multi-disciplinary/inter-disciplinary collaborations and coalitions

·                     Scholar-activist work, within and outside the academy

·                     Civil Liberties and Civil Rights, before and after 9/11

·                     Teaching in the 21st century

·                     The state of “Asian America”

·                     Asian American methodologies and epistemologies

·                     Asian American visual cultures

·                     The Asian American archive: what is it and where is it?

Requirements for Submission:

Roundtable: 1 page curriculum vitae; 1 page outline for 5-7 minute remarks
Panel:  1 page curriculum vitae per participant; 1 page panel abstract (500 words)
Individual paper:  1 page curriculum vitae; 1 page panel abstract (250 words)

Please send electronic copies of all materials to both Cathy Schlund-Vials (schlundvials@gmail.com) and Jennifer Ho (hojennifer@earthlink.net) by May 1, 2008.

The University of Texas at Austin Job Posting

Job title Asian American Program Coordinator (Program Coordinator)

FLSA status Exempt

Posting number 08-01-28-01-8105

Job status Open

Basic Information

Date available 02/04/2008

Position duration Funding expected to continue

Position open to all applicants

Monthly salary $ 2837 - $ 3667 negotiable depending on qualifications.

Hours per week 40.00 Standard from 800AM to 500PM

Location Austin (main campus)

Hiring department VP-Div&comm Engagement
http://www.utexas.edu/student/mic/

General notes Please include the 12-digit job number in cover letter.

Additional Information

Purpose of position Assist the director of the multicultural information
center with programmatic operations. To support and enhance the
educational experiences of students by facilitating and guiding their
co-curricular and leadership activities.

Essential functions Advise an Asian-American student organization in
regard to student-initiated programming, activities and leadership.
Conceptualize and implement student-centered programs that create an
environment in which students and their organizations are offered
individual attention and support to develop their cultural and
educational programs. Design, manage, and coordinate and evaluate
student developmental events and arrange facilities, catering, guest
lists, work orders, printing and other requests that require special
billing. Address the needs of the targeted community the organization
represents. Support the organization in connecting with other
communities. Meet with university faculty and staff as needed to support
programming needs. Provide assistance in all programming and publicity
efforts in the area of budgeting, updating, proofing, duplicating, and
distributing brochures, handouts, and other office literature for
agencies. Duties include program evaluation and implementation of
strategies to increase program participation.

Marginal/Incidental functions Job may require occasional evening and
weekend work hours. Other related functions as assigned.

Required qualifications Bachelor’s Degree with five years experience
coordinating a program, a project, counseling students in an academic
program setting, teaching students in an academic setting, experience in
student personnel or a multicultural center. Must have strong
organizational written and oral communication skills and demonstrated
commitment to diversity and social justice issues. Nine graduate hours
substitute for 6 months of experience up to one and one-half years.
Master’s degree substitutes for two years of the amount of experience
above; however, the kind of experience is required. All but dissertation
(ABD) status substitutes for up to three and one-half years of the
amount of experience; however, the kind of experience is required.
Doctoral degree substitutes for up to four years of the amount of
experience; however, the kind of experience is required. Knowledge of
targeted group. Equivalent combination of relevant education and
experience may be substituted as appropriate.

Preferred qualifications Master’s degree with more than five years of
experience in student personnel, higher education administration, or
counseling in any of the following: coordinating a program/project in
higher education with a focus on serving students, experience in
teaching undergraduates, counseling or advising students in an academic
or student affairs setting, experience in student personnel programs in
a multicultural center.

Working conditions Exposure to standard office conditions. Repetitive
use of a keyboard at a workstation. Use of manual dexterity. Climbing of
stairs.

Security sensitive; conviction verification conducted on applicant
selected.

The retirement plan for this position is Teacher Retirement System of
Texas (TRS), subject to the position being at least 20 hours per week
and at least 135 days in length.

The University of Texas at Austin is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative
Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for
employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national
origin, disability, age, citizenship status, Vietnam era or special
disabled veteran’s status, or sexual orientation.

THE ASIAN AMERICAN STUDIES PROGRAM AT NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY invites applications for a full-time non-tenure-track position as assistant director and lecturer in Asian American Studies, to start Sept. 1, 2008. Duties include working with Asian American Studies, Latino/a Studies and African American Studies to help develop a major in Comparative Race and Ethnicity; teaching courses in Asian American Studies and comparative Asian American and Latino/a Studies; advising students; coordinating events programming; outreach to Asian American organizations; with other responsibilities as assigned. Required: PhD in a social science or humanities discipline, demonstrably excellent teaching ability, demonstrably superior administrative ability. Please send—preferably by e-mail—a letter of interest, curriculum vitae, teaching reviews, and administrative credentials, and ask three referees (at least one of whom can comment on administrative ability) to send recommendations directly to the Asian American Studies Assistant Director Search Committee. Application materials and reference letters should be sent to: Asian American Studies Assistant Director Search Committee, c/o Greg Jue, . Hard copies may be sent to: Asian American Studies Assistant Director Search Committee, c/o Greg Jue, Asian American Studies Program, Northwestern University, Crowe Hall 1-117, 1860 Campus Drive, Evanston, IL 60208-2166. Applications received by Feb. 28 will receive priority. AA/EOE. We welcome applications from women and members of minority groups.

CALL FOR PAPERS

FILIPINO AMERICAN STUDIES AT THE CROSSROADS:
ART, ACTIVISM, AND SCHOLARSHIP IN RESPONSE TO PHILIPPINE STATE VIOLENCE

*April 5, 2008*

Since 2001 nearly 900 people in the Philippines have been victims of extra-judicial killings committed under the regime of President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of the Philippines. In the past several months, a series of events have occurred in the Philippines that has shifted the political situation facing scholars and activists in both the Philippines and the US:

1) Three activists associated with the Gabriela Network, Judith Mirkinson, Ninotchka Rosca, and Annalisa Enrile, a US citizen, were prevented from freely leaving the Philippines on August 5
2) The Human Security Act, which widens the Philippine state’s powers of surveillance and incarceration, went into effect on August 11
3) The arrest of Jose Maria Sison in the Netherlands on August 28
4) The bombing at the Philippine House of Representatives on November 13
5) The rebellion at the Peninsula Manila hotel on November 29

For additional context see the report by the human rights organization Karapatan at http://www.stopthekillings.org/stknpv2/files/karapatan_2007hr_report.pdf

The Critical Filipina/o Studies Research Cluster of the Center for Cultural Studies at UC Santa Cruz invites papers from scholars and scholar-activists in Filipino American Studies and Philippine Studies that address the militarized political situation outlined above. In particular, we invite papers for a one-day conference on April 5, 2008, that answer one or more of the following questions:

1) In what ways do your current projects speak to these events, or are there ways your projects might extend towards these events?
2) How do these events affect the kinds of political solidarity work you might engage in?
3) What disciplinary and institutional boundaries do you negotiate in your scholarship, art, and activism related to the current political situation in the Philippines?

Possible topics might include but are not limited to the following:

-Cultural activism: visual and performing artists respond to Philippine state violence
-Diasporic nationalisms: transnational political organizing
-Anti-imperialist organizing among Filipino Americans
-The role of balikbayans in Philippine social movements

In lieu of a keynote speaker, the research cluster will screen a documentary and host a performance on the evening of April 5.

The conference will culminate with a performance by *Aimee Suzara* and other Filipina/o American artists whose work addresses issues of gender and sexuality in the current context of militarized state violence in the Philippines. Through song, spoken word, theater, and
poetry, the artists will present a creative response to the current political oppression and violence in the Philippines.

Please send paper proposals (500 words) to sherwin@ucsc.edu. Deadline for submissions is *February 15th*, and contributors will be notified before March 1.

Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship at Wellesley College

The Wellesley College Cinema and Media Studies program invites applications for the position of Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, a two-year appointment. The Mellon Fellow will teach one course in the first year of residency, and two courses in the second year; he or she may also be called upon to direct student independent work. The Fellow will deliver a public lecture in the second year of the appointment. Applicants must have received the PhD. within the last five years at the time of appointment.

We seek a fellow with expertise in film and media history and theory, new media, transnational cinema, or the representation of gender and sexuality in media.

Please send letter of application, CV, sample course syllabuses, and a writing sample, not to exceed 25 pages, by February 5, 2008. Please ask that letters of recommendation (up to four) be postmarked by February 12, 2008. Our first preference is to receive application materials as Word or PDF attachments, sent to wellesleycams@wellesley.edu. Only if electronic submission is not possible should candidates send paper copies, to Vernon Shetley, CAMS Search Committee, Wellesley College, 106 Central Street, Wellesley, MA, 02481. We understand that in many cases credentials services are unable to send recommendations electronically; paper copies of recommendations can be sent to the address above.

Wellesley College is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer, and we are committed to increasing the diversity of the college community and the curriculum. Candidates who believe they can contribute to that goal are encouraged to apply.

For more information about being a faculty member at Wellesley, please see http://www.wellesley.edu/DeanCollege/Diversity/Open_pos/prospectfac.pdf__

Please email completed proposals to:
forourcommunities@gmail.com

for more info: www.fanhs-national.org

C A L L F O R P A P E R S

FILIPINO AMERICAN NATIONAL HISTORICAL SOCIETY
12th National Conference
Anchorage Hilton
ALASKA
July3 - July 5, 2008
PLEASE COMPLETE THIS FORM. INCLUDE IT AS COVER PAGE OF YOUR PROPOSAL
TITLE OF THE PROPOSED PAPER, PANEL, WORKSHOP or FILM
__________________________________________________________
1. TYPE OF PROPOSAL (check one):
___ INDIVIDUAL PAPER/PRESENTATION - Individual papers/presentations on related topics will be grouped into panels. Presenters will each have 15 to 20 minutes to make an
oral presentation of their work.
___ PANEL A panel includes three or four personal accounts or papers, each 15 to 20
minutes, on specific historic events or experiences. Include list of participants.
Indicate name of session chair/moderator and/or contact person on form.
___ ROUNDTABLE A Roundtable includes personal accounts of specific experiences and the
subsequent sharing of similar experiences and ideas by others in the group.
Indicate name of session chair/moderator and/or name of main contact person.
___ WORKSHOP A Workshop teaches research techniques or shares research skills or sources.
Indicate the name of the session chair/moderator and/or the main contact person.
___ FILM Film must touch some aspect of Filipino American history or experience.
Sessions will provide time for discussion between presenters and those in attendance.
2. CONTACT INFORMATION FOR THE PERSON SUBMITTING THE PROPOSAL:
NAME __________________________________________________________
ADDRESS __________________________________________________________
CITY/STATE/ZIP __________________________________________________________
PHONE ________________ E-MAIL_______________________ FAX _______________
AFFILIATION __________________________________________________________
3. LIST AUDIO-VISUAL EQUIPMENT REQUIRED (there will be a fee for extraordinary requests)
__________________________________________________________
4. Attach three (3) copies of a one-page abstract and a brief vita – including address, e-mail and telephone and bio of each participant. Also include a stamped return envelope addressed to the person submitting the proposal. Mail to:
FANHS NATIONAL OFFICE / 810 18th Avenue, Room 100 / Seattle, WA 98122.
5. DEADLINE: February 28, 2008
FILIPINO AMERICAN NATIONAL HISTORICAL SOCIETY
12th National Conference
July 3 – July 5, 2008
Anchorage Hilton
Anchorage, Alaska
Lure of the SalmonSong

CALL FOR PAPERS, PANELS AND PRESENTATIONS
SUGGESTED TOPICS:
• Alaska Canneries
• Life in Alaska
• Interracial Marriage, Alaska Natives-Filipino Heritage, and Mestizos
• Early Labor Force (Agriculture, Alaska Canneries, Gold Mines, Domestics, Restaurants, etc)
• Unions, Strikes and Economic Survival
• Migrant Workers
• Second Wave of Immigration to the U.S. (1900 - 1935)
• Filipinos in the U.S. Navy, Army, Coast Guard, Marines and Merchant Marines
• The Importance of Lodges, Organizations, Churches and the “Extended Family”
• Women and Family
• “Bridge Generation”
• World War Two and Its Ramifications
• Third Wave of Immigration (1945 - 1965): War Brides / Bataan-Corregidor Survivors /
Exchange Workers and Students / Philippine Consulates
• Discrimination, Civil Rights and the Asian American and Filipino American Movements
• Fourth Wave of Immigration (1965 - 2005) and Changing Filipino American Demographics
• Present-day Regional History
• Religion, Politics, Business, Education
• The World of Entertainment and Sports
• Retention of Culture (Music, Arts, Dance, Queen Contests, Fiestas, and Self Defense)
• Acculturation or Assimilation
• Youth / Students
• Teaching Filipino American History
• “How To” Workshops

DEADLINE: February 28, 2008: Please submit 3 copies of one-page proposal /abstract and a brief vita(s) to:
Dorothy Laigo Cordova, Executive Director
FANHS NATIONAL OFFICE
810 18th Avenue / Room 100 / Seattle, WA 98122
(206) 322-0203 / e-mail: fanhsnational@earthlink.net
www.fanhs-national.org

Proposals may also be emailed to: forourcommunities@gmail.com

UCLA
Department of World Arts and Cultures
Announcement of Faculty Position
Beginning Fall 2008 or when filled

Assistant/Associate/Full Professor in Dance Studies

Position Description
The Department of World Arts and Cultures at UCLA invites applications for a tenure-track open rank position in dance studies focused on the study of dance in global perspective. The applicant’s research should examine dance or body-based performance in relation to theories of globalization, transnationalism and transmigratory studies which address identity, gender, race, ethnicity, and nationality. The department is interested in redefining the relationship between movement practice and dance scholarship and the ways we conceive of movement/body-based practice within varied cultural frameworks.
Responsibilities of the position will include active pursuit of research, publication and/or creative work; graduate and undergraduate teaching and mentoring students from diverse backgrounds; and service in the Department of World Arts and Cultures and university-wide. The successful candidate will contribute to the undergraduate and graduate curricula in dance studies, and will participate in the interdisciplinary, comparative, and theoretical dialogues that define the intellectual vitality of the Department of World Arts and Cultures.
Specific courses the candidate should be able to teach may include the following: at the undergraduate level, World Dance Histories, Topics in Dance Studies, courses on the history of specific body-based arts practices, and courses that analyze in cross-cultural perspective the meanings of concepts such as choreography, improvisation, and technique; at the graduate level, The Body, and Theories of Performance, as well as courses of the candidate’s design.

Qualifications
The position is open to scholars and artist-scholars. A Ph.D. is required. Experience in teaching in a university setting, demonstrated ability to mentor and challenge students of diverse backgrounds, collegiality, openness to new ideas, and demonstrated intellectual and administrative leadership are desirable. We invite applications from candidates who are interested in connecting with other fields and disciplines and are strongly committed to scholarly research. Theoretical and geographical interests are open.

Rank/Salary
Level of appointment and salary will be determined by the candidate’s qualifications and professional experience.

Application
Applicants must apply online at www.wac.ucla.edu. Requirements include a CV; 150- to 250-word narrative bio and a statement providing context for the applicant’s research and teaching interests; sample publication and/or documentation of creative work; and three letters of reference. Hard copies of supplemental materials that cannot be uploaded should be sent directly to:

Chair, Dance Studies Search Committee; Ref. # 0430-0708-01
UCLA Department of World Arts and Cultures
Box 951608
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1608

Deadline: Application period begins Friday January 4, 2008, closing on Friday February 29, 2008, with all supplemental materials that cannot be uploaded to be received at the address above by March 7, 2008. On-line applications will be accepted starting January 7, 2008.

UCLA welcomes and encourages diversity and seeks to recruit and retain a diverse workforce as a reflection of our commitment to serve the people of California, to maintain the excellence of the University, and to offer our students richly varied disciplines, perspectives, and ways of knowing and learning.

The University of California, Los Angeles is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. Proof of U.S. citizenship or eligibility for U.S. employment will be required prior to employment (Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986).

UCLA
Department of World Arts and Cultures
Announcement of Faculty Position
Beginning Fall 2008 or when filled

Assistant/Associate/Full Professor in Culture, Performance, and Globalization

Position Description
The Department of World Arts and Cultures at UCLA invites applications from scholars and scholar-artists for a tenure-track open-rank position focused on culture, performance, and globalization. The applicant’s scholarly or artistic research might focus on the migration of aesthetic practices; borders and border crossing; mestizaje and creolization; cultural action in political contexts; the role of culture in environmental movements; and new approaches to ethnographic inquiry and research methods, all with the intention of critiquing theories and practices of globalization and the arts.
Responsibilities of the position include active pursuit of a program of research, publication, and creative work; graduate and undergraduate teaching, including mentoring students from diverse backgrounds; service to the department and university; and leadership within the Culture and Performance degree program. Successful candidates will be expected to contribute energetically to the interdisciplinary and intercultural theoretical dialogues that define the intellectual vitality of the Department of World Arts and Cultures. Possible courses to be taught include Intro to World Arts and Cultures; World Arts, Local Lives; Art as Social/Moral Action; Culture: An Introduction; Theories of Performance; and Ethnographic Methods, as well as courses of the candidate’s own devising.

Qualifications
Ph.D., M.F.A., or other terminal degree preferred. We especially invite applications from candidates who are interested in connecting with fields and disciplines outside their own. Theoretical and geographical interests are open, although candidates whose international engagements include Latin America or the Black Atlantic are strongly encouraged to apply. International experience and commitments are essential. Demonstrated ability to mentor and challenge students of diverse backgrounds, and administrative leadership skills and experience are desirable.

Rank/Salary
Level of appointment and salary will be determined by the candidate’s qualifications and professional experience.

Application
Applicants must apply online at www.wac.ucla.edu. Requirements include a CV; 150-250-word narrative bio and a statement providing context for the applicant’s research and teaching interests; sample publication and/or documentation of creative work; and three letters of reference. Hard copies of supplemental materials that cannot be uploaded should be sent directly to:
Chair, CPG Search Committee; Ref. # 0430-0708-02
UCLA Department of World Arts and Cultures
Box 951608
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1608

Deadline: Application period begins Friday January 4, 2008, closing on Friday, February 29, 2008, with all supplemental materials that cannot be uploaded to be received at the address above by March 7, 2008. On-line applications will be accepted starting January 7, 2008.

UCLA welcomes and encourages diversity and seeks to recruit and retain a diverse workforce as a reflection of our commitment to serve the people of California, to maintain the excellence of the University, and to offer our students richly varied disciplines, perspectives, and ways of knowing and learning.

The University of California, Los Angeles is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. Proof of U.S. citizenship or eligibility for U.S. employment will be required prior to employment (Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986).

POSITION ANNOUNCEMENT
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA, TAMPA CAMPUS
SCHOOL OF ART AND ART HISTORY

UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA. Assistant or Associate Professor (pending final budgetary approval) Studio Art, Foundations, Position #3205, 9 month tenure track beginning August 2008. The School of Art and Art History offers an opportunity to re-envision and cultivate an
interdisciplinary Foundations Program within a forward looking art department in a research University. Salary is competitive and commensurate with experience.

Minimum Qualifications: MFA or equivalent; artist working in any media whose work is critically engaged in contemporary issues; demonstrated proficiency in a range of media; strong leadership capabilities; ability to supervise technical and instructional foundation staff; demonstrated professional record of exhibitions/projects/publications; teaching experience at the college level required.

Preferred Qualifications:Demonstrated abilities in teaching in a range of media, including 2D, 3D and/or time based forms; experience with curriculum development and supervising teaching assistants; progressive approach to artistic endeavor and collaboration within larger art community; multicultural interests, as relevant to our University’s support for diversity in teaching and research; two or more years college teaching experience as Instructor of Record.

Duties: Coordinate Foundations Program; teach two foundation/studio courses in Fall and Spring semester; coordinate technical staff; direct a diverse group of graduate students performing as Teaching Assistants and Instructors of Record for at least four sections of Foundations classes each semester; conduct an ambitious program of research appropriate for candidate’s area of expertise; play key role in elaborating an innovative Foundations curriculum; work in collaboration
with other faculty and technical staff; contribute service to the School, University, community and profession.

Application Deadline
Send letter of application; SASE; CV; statement of teaching philosophy; names and contact information for three references; relevant documentation of creative work; documentation of student work.
Guidelines for documentation: 20 images of creative work and 20 images of student work. These can be 35mm slides or jpegs; 72dpi, maximum size 1000 x 1000 pixels. Time based work of applicant or student work should be full resolution Quick Time files on Mac compatible CD/DVD. This may include complete long format works, but must also include a Œhighlights‚ piece of maximum duration 5 minutes. Websites are not accepted as work documentation. Electronic applications submitted to CAA will not be accepted. To ensure full consideration complete
applications must be received by January 15, 2008 by 5:00 pm; however, applications will be received until the position is filled.

Search Chair, Foundation
School of Art and Art History
University of South Florida
4202 E. Fowler Ave., FAH 110
Tampa, FL 33620-7350

website: www.art.usf.edu
Department

The School of Art and Art History, with a full-time faculty of 18, over 400 undergraduate majors, and 50 graduate students, offers the B.A., B.F.A., M.F.A. in Studio Art and the B.A., M.A. in Art History. Teaching facilities include a technologically advanced lecture hall, mobile digital and traditional projection and sound units, and a complete visual resource center housing books, journals, tapes, disks and over 200,000 images - many in digital format. Annual research and
travel grants, including release time, are available to faculty. The School of Art and Art History is an integral part of the College of Visual and Performing Arts, which includes Art/Art History,
Theatre/Dance and Music, as well as an outstanding Contemporary Art Museum and Graphicstudio, the internationally acclaimed research institute in art. Course experimentation is encouraged, as is interdisciplinary teaching, learning and research. The School sponsors
a summer program in Paris, an exchange program in London and an Endowed Program in Modern and Contemporary Art. The School has complete studio facilities, a dedicated support staff and a new 10,000 sq. ft. Art Faculty/Graduate Studio Research Center. Tampa/USFThe University of
South Florida is one of the nation‚s top 63 public research universities and one of 39 community engaged public universities as designated by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. USF was awarded more than $300 million in research contracts and grants
last year. The USF libraries have over 1,815,000 volumes, 27,820 serials, 160,000 e-books, 47,250 multi-media and 500 databases available for scholarly research endeavors. The University offers 219 degree programs at the undergraduate, graduate, specialty and doctoral levels, including the doctor of medicine. USF is the ninth largest public university in the nation, was ranked 17th among all schools for diversity, and serves more than 45,000 students on campuses in Tampa,
St. Petersburg, Sarasota-Manatee and Lakeland. The Tampa Bay Area has a culturally diverse population of 2.5 million. Its historic Ybor City, the former cigar capital of the world, is a
thriving center for jazz, blues and alternative music, experimental theatre, poetry and art. The University has convenient access to four major performing arts centers, including the Tampa Bay Performing Arts Center, the largest in the Southeast. The Tampa Bay Area is the home of
the Florida Orchestra and also benefits from several local professional theater and dance companies. Rounding out its diverse cultural atmosphere are several museums including the Dali Museum, the Museum of Science and Industry, and numerous galleries. Residents enjoy a
year-round comfortable climate, professional sports teams, close proximity to several Gulf Coast beaches, and a wealth of leisure-time activities.The University of South Florida is an equal opportunity, affirmative action, equal access institution. For disability accommodations, contact Gloria Quigley at (813) 974-9249 or TDD (813) 974-2218 at least five working days in advance of need. The search and selection process will be conducted in accordance with provisions of
the Government in the Sunshine laws of the State of Florida. All meetings of the search committee are open to the public. All documents related to the search are available for public inspection.

UCLA Publishes Wartime Edition of Amerasia Journal

Los Angeles-The UCLA Asian American Studies Center Press announces the publication of the special wartime edition of Amerasia Journal, on the state of Asian Americans and Asians in the U.S. in the six years following September 11, 2001. Entitled “World, War, Watada,” this 170-page special edition focuses on Lt. Ehren Watada, the first commissioned U.S. officer to resist the Iraq War.

“Amerasia Journal is the first and only national scholarly journal to gather, interpret, and present, from varying perspectives, the ideas and voices of Asian Americans themselves on the case of Lt. Ehren Watada and the war,” writes editor and UCLA professor Russell C. Leong. In this issue, Asian Americans and South Asian Americans take stands against racial, ethnic, and religious profiling and the curtailment of their civil, cultural, and political rights. Scholars and researchers also contribute pieces that bridge the “ivory tower” of the university with the realities of war, globalization, and
national identity in the twenty-first century.

This volume examines the multiple dimensions of the Lieutenant Watada case, connecting Watada to the history of Asian American resistance to injustice. From a legal perspective, Prof. Eric K. Yamamoto and Ashley Kaho’omino’aka Kaiao Obrey of the University of Hawai’i law school view Lieutenant Watada’s stand as part of a “long line of resistance” within the broader context of World War II Japanese American internee draft resistance and executive branch abuses of American civil liberties in the name of national security. They also discuss the applications of the Nuremberg Principles to the Watada case.

This issue also includes letters by Mits Koshiyama, Paul Tsuneishi, and testimony prepared for the Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians in July 30, 1981 by his father, Satoru Tsuneishi. Koshiyama, a Heart Mountain World War II draft resister, ends his personal letter to Lt. Ehren Watada, as follows: “Do what your conscience tells you what to do. We got punished by a prejudiced court but in the end, we prevailed.”

Other contributors include writer Frank Chin, constitutional lawyer Mari Matsuda, and the Nikkei for Civil Rights and Redress September 11 Committee.

Mari Matsuda, a professor of law at Georgtown University, in her essay discusses Lt. Watada as a Japanese American, as a citizen, soldier, and patriot, and argues that while Watada may be on trial as an individual Asian American, his principled stand and tribulations challenge all of us to examine our own positions on the war, on citizenship, and the real meaning of patriotism in this era.

The special wartime edition is designed by Mary Uyematsu Kao, who took many of the photographs of the Los Angeles NCRR demonstrations in support of Lieutenant Watada found throughout the volume.

Amerasia Journal also locates the case of Lieutenant Watada and the government’s response within the wider framework of national identity, globalization, and worldwide resistance to the Iraq War
after 9/11. U.S., British, Pakistani, and Chinese scholars examine a variety of interlinked political and cultural topics related to current cultural and political changes worldwide.

Arif Dirlik, an editorial board member of Amerasia and historian of modern China, shares an essay on “Contemporary Challenges to Marxism,” examining Marxism as an economic theory in relation to the challenges of globalization. In an e-mail interview with Amerasia, Tariq Ali, the internationally known writer, filmmaker, activist, and an editor of New Left Review, continues with an examination of globalization in relation to the political and economic status of minority immigrants and refugees in the U.S., Germany, Britain, and France.

Also, Luo Xuanmin, of Tsinghua University, Beijing shares an essay on Lu Xun/Zhou Zuoren (1881-1936), who is generally considered the most important Chinese writer of the twentieth century. Luo believes that Asian Americans, in order not be marginalized today, must translate
their cultural works to a global audience.

Irum Shiekh, a 2007 post-doctoral fellow with the UCLA Asian American Studies Center, talks about her methods of accessing, interviewing, and analyzing the experiences of post 9/11 Middle Eastern detainees through her work as a Muslim woman academic researcher in her essay
“Government Spy or Terrorist? Dilemmas of a Post 9/11 Academic Researcher.” Shiekh had done forty interviews with individuals arrested and deported to Pakistan, Egypt, India, and Trinidad between June 2002 and June 2007, and compares these findings to her fieldwork with Muslim detainees and deportees with her previous research on Japanese-Peruvians who were interned during World War II.

This issue also features a riveting fictionalized account of a Filipino American immigrant family and a marine’s training to fight in the desert sand, a view from inside the theater of war. Marlon M.
Layugan’s short story, “Enemy in the Sand” shows the experiences of one among many young women and men of African American, Latino, Native American, Asian American, and Pacific Islander, and Anglo descent drawn into the battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan. Layugan
is an American-born Filipino and a UCLA student who deployed with the United States Marine Corps Reserve in 2004 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom where he spent time at Camp Al Asad and Camp Al Qaim.

This limited edition volume, with can be ordered directly through the website of the UCLA Asian American Studies Center:

(http://www.aasc.ucla.edu). The cost is $15.00 plus $5.00 for shipping and handling and 8.25% sales tax for California residents. Ordering by mail, please make checks payable to “Regents of U.C.” Visa, Mastercard, and Discover are also accepted; include expiration date and phone number on correspondence. The mailing address is:
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Table of Contents:

Kazu Iijima, 1918-2007, In Memoriam by Glenn Omatsu

To Our Readers: Is Resistance Your Real Name? by Russell C. Leong
Contemporary Challenges to Marxism: Postmodernism, Postcolonialism, Globalization by Arif Dirlik

Tariq Ali: An Interview with Amerasia Journal
Government Spy or a Terrorist? Dilemmas of a Post-9/11 Academic
Researcher by Irum Sheikh Translation as Violence: On Lu Xun’s Idea of Yi jie by Luo Xuanmin
Letter to Lt. Watada by Mits Koshiyama
From Heart Mountain to Iraq: Lieutenant Watada and a Long Line of Resistance by Eric K. Yamamoto and Ashley Kaho’omino’aka Kaiao Obrey
Japanese, American, Citizen, Soldier, Patriot by Mari Matsuda

Enemy in the Sand by Marlon Layugan

Letters of Satoru and Paul Tsuneishi by Satoru and Paul Tsuneishi
“Building a Movement to End this Illegal and Immoral War” by The
Nikkei for Civil Rights & Redress September 11 Committee
Veterans Day Statement by the Asian American Vietnam Veterans
Organization (AAVVO)
A Call to Resist by Frank Chin
Curtis Choy & the Making of Watada, Resister: An Interview with
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