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Please note that proposal submission deadline for 2009 AAAS conference in Honolulu, HI is Friday, October 31, 2008. To upload your paper and finalize your 2009 AAAS conference submission please click on the link below.

http://donerightweb.com/aaas/callforpapers.php

2009 CALL FOR PAPERS

Challenging Inequalities: Nations, Races and Communities

2009 Association for Asian American Studies Conference
Hilton Waikiki Prince Kuhio Hotel
2500 Kuhio Avenue
Honolulu, HI 96815-3696

The conference theme can be interpreted in two different ways. Political, economic and social inequalities among nations, races, and other communities are indeed challenging insofar as they have persisted to the present and continue to resist reduction. At the same time, the theme can also be understood as a call for scholars, students and community activists to develop ways to challenge inequalities in order to foster equality, justice and fairness among nations, races, and communities of various backgrounds, including ethnicity, gender, class, sexual orientation, and nationality.

Honolulu, and more generally Hawai‘i, provides an appropriate site for the Association for Asian American Studies annual conference because 2009 marks the fiftieth anniversary of statehood for Hawai‘i. The islands became a state in 1959 because of the unequal power relations between the nations of Hawai‘i and the United States that resulted in the overthrow of the Hawaiian kingdom in 1893 and its annexation as a U.S. territory in 1898. The fiftieth anniversary of statehood is not likely to be officially celebrated in Hawai‘i out of respect for the concerns of the Kanaka Maoli (Native Hawaiian) people who became U.S. colonial subjects after annexation. By contrast, some Asian American groups, such as Chinese Americans and Japanese Americans, have benefited substantially from statehood as evident from their dominant economic and political status in Hawai‘i. Our conference can serve as a forum to rethink the causes and differential consequences of the emerging American Empire in the Pacific and Asia in the late nineteenth century and its peremptory status in the affairs of Asian Americans and of Asian and Pacific Island peoples in the twentieth century, and to consider its possible decline in the current neoliberal age.

The historical injustices and violence of U.S. colonization of Hawai‘i and the contemporary marginalization of Kanaka Maoli in their homeland provide a political, economic and cultural context for rethinking other challenging inequalities that continue to plague us and compel us to develop appropriate means to contest them. Such inequalities, albeit constantly shifting, include those between the United States and Asian and Pacific nations, especially as a result of the economic, cultural and military globalization of the latter nations, including Hawai‘i, under the impetus of transnational capital. In response, nationalist movements, including the Hawaiian sovereignty movement, have emerged to resist such globalizing processes. What role can Asian Americanists play in our teaching, research, and community service in rethinking and challenging such global inequalities among nations and their peoples?

Inequalities among races include those between Asian Americans and other racial groups, including Pacific Islanders. In what is being referred to as his “A More Perfect Union” speech on March 18, 2008, Honolulu-born and raised Barack Obama described contemporary race relations as “a racial stalemate we’ve been stuck in for years.” How then can we as academics and activists contest persisting racial inequalities and hierarchies? How do we challenge “color-blind racism” and appropriations of the civil rights struggles of the 1960s in limited ways that deny the persistence of vast racial inequalities? How can we develop collective strategies and coalitions toward a society based on tolerant and egalitarian race relations?

Inequalities among communities include those among and within Asian American groups based on ethnicity, gender, class, and sexual orientation. Women and gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender communities continue to face institutional hurdles that bar them from gaining equal treatment. Those inequalities certainly intersect with those based on nation and race (and with each other) and clearly indicate the social and cultural complexity of inequalities in society. How do such inequalities and their intersections challenge us to rethink our theoretical approaches and political strategies for resolving them?

Please join us in Honolulu in 2009 as we address the above and other significant questions and issues on challenging global, racial, ethnic, gender, class, and other inequalities. Complete panel submissions (with a minimum of three papers and a maximum of four) will be given priority, but individual paper submissions will also be considered. We invite submissions for workshops and roundtables as well.

Please note that all paper and panel applicants, including other paper presenters and discussants in a panel, must be members of the Association for Asian American Studies. If you are not an association member at the time of the submission deadline of October 31, 2008, you will have until January 1, 2009 to join by sending your payment and completed annual membership form to The John Hopkins University Press, the publisher of the association’s journal. The membership form is available on the AAAS website at http://www.aaastudies.org/forms/index.html. Note also that paper presenters and discussants must pay the conference registration fee prior to the conference in order to be included in the printed conference program.

DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS: OCTOBER 31, 2008.

Call for Papers:  Amerasia Journal’s Special Issue for 2010 on
“Asian Australia & Asian America: Reconceptualizing Transnational Geographies”

Co-editors:
Jacqueline Lo, School of Humanities, The Australian National University

Tseen Khoo, School of Political and Social Inquiry, Monash University

Dean Chan, School of Communications and Arts, Edith Cowan University

Amerasia Journal Editors:
Russell C. Leong, Editor, University of California, Los Angeles

Stephanie Santos, Assistant Editor, University of California, Los Angeles

This special issue of Amerasia Journal on Asian Australia situates sociocultural analysis of Asian diasporas within a broader transnational framework, deploying comparisons with the U.S. to illuminate the ways in which localized concepts of belonging and nation are intricately and inextricably influenced by global forces.

Asian diaspora studies in Australia and the U.S. share similarities in their developmental trajectory and representational politics. Nevertheless, while Asian American Studies is an important reference point both politically and theoretically for the development of Asian Australian Studies, there are significant distinctions based on different histories of settlement, race relations and immigration, as well as shifting agentive prerogatives and community politics that have inflected the modes of diasporic Asian studies at these locales. These considerations will be highlighted in this special issue, forming the basis for new comparative and contextual knowledge about diasporic and transnational Asian cultures.

The editors of this issue invite contributions to discussions about Asian transnationalism with particular attention to the relations between Asian Australia and Asian America.  We are keen to include a range of disciplinary perspectives including history, anthropology, sociology, community politics, education, cultural studies, literature, and popular culture analysis, as well as creative practices. The aim of the issue is to represent the depth and diversity of Asian Australian communities and cultures, and illuminate the many points of connection to, and divergence from, Asian American paradigms.

The questions we are seeking to address include but are not limited to the following:
o    How are conventional ways of understanding transnationalism being re-imagined in an Asian Australian context?
o    How do specific national histories of racialization impact on the ways in which diasporic Asians in Australia and the U.S. negotiate systems of power, knowledge, and representation?
o    To what extent does creative and cultural production in Asian Australia and Asian America exemplify differential modes of diasporic Asian agency and empowerment?
o    What are the possibilities for developing a transnational framework for comparative or inter-diasporic Asian studies?

Please send 2-page proposals by November 30. 2008 by e-mail to:
Russell Leong <rleong@ucla.edu>
Jacqueline Lo <jacqueline.lo@anu.edu.au>
Tseen Khoo <tseen.khoo@arts.monash.edu.au>
Dean Chan <d.chan@ecu.edu.au>

The editors will review proposals and contact authors about developing essays for publication consideration. All submitted essays will be reviewed by the two journal editors and two consulting guest editors, plus a blind reviewer. If your proposal is accepted, we will send you a stylesheet with format and length requirements.

The planned publication date of this special issue is August 2010.

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Deadline to apply is November 15, 2008.
John Carroll University
Cleveland, Ohio
Assistant Director, Multicultural Affairs
September 2008

DESCRIPTION:
The Office of Multicultural Affairs supports the academic success and overall adjustment to campus life of students of color. It promotes a holistic educational experience for the campus community by fostering an appreciation of and respect for all cultures through a variety of programs. The assistant director will work with the director in fulfilling
the goals of the office. Specifically, the assistant director will oversee office programs aimed at aiding in the academic success of students of color and will provide students with financial aid guidance, social support and general counseling. Also, the assistant director will oversee student cultural organizations and represent the office on university committees. The assistant director will prepare reports on students’ academic performance and assist with campus and community outreach efforts and diversity and inclusion programming. The assistant director will perform additional duties as assigned by the Director of Multicultural Affairs.

REQUIREMENTS:
Master’s degree in College Student Personnel Admission, Counseling, Higher Education Administration or related field, demonstrated experience in developing and managing multicultural education programs and working with diverse college student populations required. Strong oral and written communication and organizational skills, and an ability to actively support the mission of John Carroll University as a culturally diverse, Jesuit, Catholic University is expected.

Please submit your materials electronically using our on-line application. The process requires that you complete our online application and attach an electronic version of your cover letter and esume (same document) to your submission. At this time we can accept PDF (.pdf), Word (.doc) or .txt documents. https://secure.jcu.edu/hr/

Assistant Professor of English

Creighton University’s English department seeks to fill a tenure-track, entry level Assistant Professor position in Creative Writing (area open). We welcome applicants with interest and involvement in the international writing community. Three-course load. M.F.A. or Ph.D. in creative writing required by August 2009, with evidence of excellent university-level teaching and significant publications. In addition to graduate and upper-division undergraduate courses, poasition involves teaching first-year courses on an annual basis. Position begins August 2009. Candidates should familiarize themselves with our programs, department, university and mission at http://www.creightonenglish.org. Review of applications begins November 15 and continues until the position is filled. Send three recommendation letters, CV w/ email address, teaching philosophy statement, graduate/undergraduate transcripts (photocopies OK initially), and writing samples to Bob Whipple, English Department, Creighton University, Omaha, NE 68178. All applications will be acknowledged. We plan to interview at MLA. A Jesuit, Catholic institution, Creighton University encourages applications from qualified individuals of all backgrounds who believe they can
contribute to the university’s distinctive educational traditions. Creighton is an EEO/AA employer and seeks a wide range of applicants for the position so that one of our core values–ethnic and cultural diversity–may be realized.

FACULTY POSITION

ASIAN AMERICAN STUDIES
UC DAVIS

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The Asian American Studies Program at the University of California, Davis invites applications for a tenured or tenure-track position, to begin July 1, 2009, preferably at the level of Associate or Full Professor but the position is open to all ranks. We seek an Asian American studies scholar in history or social sciences with a Ph.D. in a relevant field who has expertise in interdisciplinary, comparative research. We are interested in a scholar who focuses on empire and colonialism with a specialization in two or more of the following areas: gender, sexuality, racialization, labor, citizenship, indigeneity, and transnationalism. Expertise in Filipino American and/or Asian Pacific Islander studies is also desirable, but we are open to other areas of concentration.

We seek a scholar with an accomplished and innovative publication record; an excellent record of research, teaching, and leadership in the field, and a strong track record of departmental/university service and collaboration, along with proven administrative abilities. We are especially interested in candidates who will provide programmatic leadership in the delivery of our undergraduate and graduate curricula, who will foster outreach and grant activities to support programmatic goals, and who are committed to building and sustaining cross-disciplinary, cross-departmental connections to other programs on the campus.

Our program is multidisciplinary, with strengths in humanities, cultural studies, and social sciences. We offer an undergraduate major and minor program, and faculty members can participate in the Cultural Studies Graduate Group which offers a doctoral degree. Visit our home page at: http://asa.ucdavis.edu/.

Please submit a letter of application, a curriculum vita, and samples of written work (not more than 50 pages) as PDF or MS Word compatible files, and three letters of reference to AsianAmericanStudies@ucdavis.edu. If letters of recommendation cannot be sent electronically, please mail hard copies to: Asian American Studies Program, Attn: Search Committee, University of California-Davis, One Shields Ave., Davis, CA 95616. Review of applications begins on December 8, 2008 and continues until the position is filled.

The University of California, Davis and the Asian American Studies Program are interested in candidates who are committed to the highest standards of scholarship and professional activities, and to the development of a campus climate that supports equality and diversity. The University of California is an affirmative action/equal opportunity employer.

Asian American Studies Program at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is pleased to announce that Lisa Nakamura, Associate Professor in the Institute of Communications Research and the Asian American Studies Program, has been named Interim Director of the Program for the 2008-2009 academic year.

Lisa is an internationally renowned scholar of race and digital media.  She is the author of Digitizing Race: Visual Cultures of the Internet, Cybertypes: Race, Ethnicity, and Identity on the Internet.  She is also coeditor of the classic book Race in Cyberspace.  She teaches courses on Asian Americans and the media and new media criticism, history, and theory.  She was an Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities fellow during the 2007-2008 academic year.  Prior to coming to Illinois, she was a tenured faculty member at the University of Wisconsin, Madison in the Communication Arts Department.

Mark your calendars!

The next Northwest Asian American Film Festival takes place February 26-March 1, 2009

*Call for Entries*

Northwest Asian American Film Festival is now accepting entries for films on subjects related to the Asian Pacific American experience. Along with screenings of curated and selected works from the Pacific Northwest and
North America, the four-day film festival will offer a variety of social events and programs relating to Asian American media.

*Submission Format: DVD or URL link (to YouTube, Google Video etc.)
*Genres: Short; Experimental; Documentary; Narrative
*Screening Format: 35mm; 16mm; mini DV; DVD
*Deadline: November 21, 2008

INSTRUCTIONS FOR SUBMISSION:
1) Complete and send the entry form to NWAAFF 2009* (form is available on
our web site www.nwaaff.org)
- By email to info@nwaaff.org
- By mail to 1463 E. Republican St. #106, Seattle, WA 98112

2) Send your film to NWAAFF 2009:*

-DVD sent by mail to NWAAFF, 1463 E. Republican St. #106, Seattle, WA 98112. Please indicate the film’s title and contact information on the tape/disc.
OR
-As a URL where your film can be viewed online (e.g. YouTube, Google Video, etc.).

Please do not include additional promotional materials.

DEADLINES: Mailed entries must be postmarked and electronic entries must be sent no later than NOVEMBER 21, 2008. Receipt of entries will be confirmed via email. Final selections will be announced in late December/early
January.

*ENTRY FEE:* There is no entry fee for this year’s festival.

Questions? Email info@nwaaff.org

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Northwest Asian American Film Festival 2009
1463 E. Republican St. #106
Seattle, WA 98112
Email: info@nwaaff.org
Web Site: www.nwaaff.org
MySpace: www.myspace.com/nwaaff
Join mailing list: subscribe@nwaaff.org

We’re seeking papers to be included in a panel proposal on the Korean Wave and Asian America (see description  below) for the Association for  Asian American Studies conference to be held in Honolulu on April  22-26, 2009.  If accepted, this panel will be among those sponsored by  the Korean American studies caucus.  Please e-mail title, brief paper  description, and one-page c.v. to both Robert Ji-Song Ku (jku@binghamton.edu) and Barbara Kim (bkim2@csulb.edu) by October 24.

Riding the Korean Wave: Hallyu and Asian America

Coined by Beijing journalists to explain the growing presence of South  Korean population and commodities in China, the “Korean Wave” (hanryu/ hallyu) of popular culture has swept through neighboring Asian  countries, including China, Japan, Vietnam, Singapore, and the  Philippines, among many others. South Korea’s emergence as an  industrial center of popular culture began with television dramas in  the late 1990s and subsequently went on to include film and music. The  Korean Wave coincided with the rise of the affluent middle class in  Asia and helped redefine the South Korean image from a historically  “colonized other” and copycat of its more powerful Asian neighbors to  one of cosmopolitanism and “vitality of trendy entertainers and  cutting edge technology” (Y. Kim, 2007). The rise of the Korean Wave  has been described by one scholar as a “transnational cultural flow  that challenged Western cultural hegemony in Asia” (E. Cho, 2005).  Critics meanwhile caution it largely as a tabloid and mass media  concoction with minimal social and political significance (Yong-Sung,  2005).

In the U.S., Korean television dramas air on free stations in most  major cities and over cable and satellite in smaller markets. Video  recordings are widely available in ethnic markets throughout the  country and on countless Internet sites. They are dubbed and subtitled  in a variety of languages, including English, Vietnamese, Chinese,  Tagalog, and Khmer, and sold, rented, and downloaded by fans across  generations, races, and ethnicities. In 1989, Hawaii’s KBFD was the  first station to broadcast Korean dramas with English subtitles. In  2005, the Mandarin-dubbed final episode of “Dae Jang Geum” (“Jewel in  the Palace”) attracted a larger audience than ABCs “Extreme Makeover”  in the San Francisco area. Meanwhile, millions listen to Korean music  (K-Pop) on iPods, view music videos on YouTube, and Korean stars like  Bi (Rain) sell out concert halls in Las Vegas and New York City. South  Korean films are compared to French cinema of the 60s and are  regularly featured in film festivals and art house movie theaters.

Given the transnational and global dimensions of the Korean Wave, how  might Asian American studies contribute to the understanding of the  production, export, and consumption of Korean popular culture? This  panel proposes to examine this and other Korean Wave-focused  questions, including: Does the Korean Wave compel a redefinition of
Korean/Asian American culture and identity? Does it challenge Western  cultural hegemony?  How can we study and incorporate the Korean Wave  as a global or transnational cultural phenomenon? How does Korean  popular culture address inequalities based on ethnicity, gender,  class, and sexual orientation, and how do we critique them? How do we  read Korean dramas, music, and films as cultural texts and/or social/cultural transformations and possibilities that affect Asian American  communities?

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Robert Ji-Song Ku
Visiting Associate Professor
Department of Asian and Asian American Studies
Binghamton University
607.777.4517

CHANG-LIN TIEN EDUCATION LEADERSHIP AWARDS – TWO $10,000 AWARDS

Call to University and College Presidents for 2008-2009 Nominations: Third Annual Chang-Lin Tien Education Leadership Awards, honoring Asian Americans with significant academic accomplishments and the potential to advance to the highest leadership levels in higher education.

• Two awardees will each receive a $10,000 unrestricted grant
• Nominations by invitation only; deadline is October 31, 2008
• Selected leaders will be announced in January 2009

More information: http://www.asianpacificfund.org/awards/tien_index.shtml.

Nomination Criteria
? Asian American working in US higher education institution
? Currently associated with a four-year public or private college or university
? Appointed at the level of dean or a position of comparable—or higher—responsibility
? Demonstrates outstanding leadership qualities and scholarly achievements

Selection Committee — We are grateful to have worked with a committee of respected higher education leaders to guide the nomination and selection process. Past committee members include:

Dr. Bobby Fong, President, Butler University
Dr. David Pierpont Gardner, President Emeritus, University of California
Dr. Horace Mitchell, President, California State University, Bakersfield
Leslie Tang Schilling, University of California Regent
Dr. Bob Suzuki, President Emeritus, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona
Dr. Henry Yang, Professor and Chancellor, University of California, Santa Barbara

Background

This award honors the legacy of Chang-Lin Tien, a founding Board member of the Asian Pacific Fund and the first Asian American to head a major American research university as chancellor of UC Berkeley from 1990 to 1997. This endowed and permanent program is the only one of its kind in the nation. Past recipients include:

2008
? Dr. Norman C. Tien, Dean and Nord Professor of Engineering, Case School of Engineering, Case Western Reserve University
? Frank H. Wu, Dean and Professor of Law, Wayne State University Law School

2007
? Dr. Sung-Mo “Steve” Kang, Dean, Baskin School of Engineering, University of California, Santa Cruz
? Dr. Belle W. Y. Wei, Dean, College of Engineering, San Jose State University

The Asian Pacific Fund is a community foundation established to improve the health and well-being of all Asian Americans in the Bay Area. The Fund supports community agencies and public education projects in addition to working closely with Asian donors. For a full description of the awards program, nomination form and important dates, visit http://www.asianpacificfund.org/awards/tien_index.shtml.

Questions: Please call (415) 433-6859 or email info@asianpacificfund.org.

FACULTY POSITION
Asian American Studies
UC Davis

The Asian American Studies Program at the University of California, Davis invites applications for a tenured or tenure-track position, to begin July 1, 2009, preferably at the level of Associate or Full Professor but the position is open to all ranks. We seek an Asian American studies scholar in history or social sciences with a Ph.D. in a relevant field who has expertise in interdisciplinary, comparative research. We are interested in a scholar who focuses on empire and colonialism with a specialization in two or more of the following areas: gender, sexuality, racialization, labor, citizenship, indigeneity, and transnationalism. Expertise in Filipino American and/or Asian Pacific Islander studies is also desirable, but we are open to other areas of concentration.

We seek a scholar with an accomplished and innovative publication record; an excellent record of research, teaching, and leadership in the field, and a strong track record of departmental/university service and collaboration, along with proven administrative abilities. We are especially interested in candidates who will provide programmatic leadership in the delivery of our undergraduate and graduate curricula, who will foster outreach and grant activities to support programmatic goals, and who are committed to building and sustaining cross-disciplinary, cross-departmental connections to other programs on the campus.

Our program is multidisciplinary, with strengths in humanities, cultural studies, and social sciences. We offer an undergraduate major and minor program, and faculty members can participate in the Cultural Studies Graduate Group which offers a doctoral degree. Visit our home page at: http://asa.ucdavis.edu/.

Please submit a letter of application, a curriculum vita, and samples of written work (not more than 50 pages) as PDF or MS Word compatible files, and three letters of reference to AsianAmericanStudies@ucdavis.edu. If letters of recommendation cannot be sent electronically, please mail hard copies to: Asian American Studies Program, Attn: Search Committee, University of California-Davis, One Shields Ave., Davis, CA 95616.
Review of applications begins on December 8, 2008 and continues until the position is filled.

The University of California, Davis and the Asian American Studies Program are interested in candidates who are committed to the highest standards of scholarship and professional activities, and to the development of a campus climate that supports equality and diversity. The University of California is an affirmative action/equal opportunity employer.