Only requests for corrections (names, titles, affiliations, etc) will be considered. Any corrections requested after the 19th will be listed in the conference addendum.NO changes to or shifts in the days/times of panels will be made.
*Booking your travel? Don’t forget that the conference workshops and sessions start on Wednesday, April 7th at 2:30 pm.The first conference plenary begins on Thursday, April 8th from 8:30 am - 10:00 am and will feature Gail Nomura, Gary Okihiro, Shirley Hune, Davianna McGregor, and Rick Bonus. For more information on the conference schedule, go to http://aaastudies.org/2010/schedule/2010ConferenceSchedule.pdf
* When calling the conference hotel (Omni Hotel in Downtown Austin), you must say that you are a part of the AAAS 2010 conference in order to get the conference room discount. Staying at the conference hotel has its perks - one of them is FREE INTERNET in your rooms as long as you join (FOR FREE) their Omni Rewards Program when you check into the hotel (or before then).Conference attendees staying at the hotel also are allowed FREE access to the fitness facility and pool. For more information on the hotel, please go to http://www.omnihotels.com/FindAHotel/AustinDowntown.aspx
*All conference presenters MUST register by the March 1, 2010 OR your name will not appear in the conference book.There are no exceptions to this. There is significant savings if you register by March 1st so we encourage everyone to do this. For the registration page, please go to
*Tours are filling up fast. Please make sure you sign up for those by March 1st. Space is not guaranteed for individuals who sign up for tours after that date.
*Discounts are available to AAAS members for the Super Shuttle from Austin-Bergstrom International Airport to the Omni Hotel from 4/3/10 - 4/12/10. You can enter the group discount code - PKQ94 for your roundtrip reservation online or go to http://www.supershuttle.com/default.aspx?GC=PKQ94
Welcome to Austin! the live music capital of the world, home to the Austin City Limits and South-by-Southwest music festivals, Willie Nelson, Lance Armstrong, and the Whole Foods flagship store.Our conference convenes at the Omni Downtown Austin, a few blocks from the bar and music venues of Sixth Street and the Lady Bird Johnson Hike & Bike trail rimming Lake Travis.It is in this venue that the Association for Asian American Studies will come together for our annual meeting and reflect on our past as well as the future of our field.
Below, you will find special events that will help you experience Austin. These events are open to those who register to the conference as well as their guests, partners, and family members.
Registration for these events can be submitted along with the conference registration form online at http://aaastudies.org/2010/registration/index.php. Don’t forget registration deadlines for the conference. Early bird registration ends ON March 1, 2010.ALL PAPER PRESENTERS AND PANELISTS MUST REGISTER BY THEN IN ORDER TO PARTICIPATE IN THE CONFERENCE.
Tour of East Austin
It’s true enough that Austin is a progressive city; some describe it as a “little blue oasis in a big red state.” And yet when it comes to matters of urban displacement and segregation its history is as fraught and complex as any other. This is a guided tour of the Eastside — home to Austin’s largest concentration of Mexican American and African American residents. The Eastside offers lessons on community-resilience and the creation of alternative institutions despite legacies of segregation and displacement. This tour will cover many of the celebrated sites of the Eastside: churches, community and cultural centers, parks and the ethnic commercial strips. The tour will also include a presentation of the changing racial composition and geography of Austin in light of new immigration, rapid urban development and gentrification.
The tour will last 90 minutes and cost about $8 for transportation.Scheduled for Friday afternoon, April 9, 2010.
Zilker Botanical Garden
2220 Barton Springs Rd
Austin, TX 78746
Located on 30 acres, the Zilker Botanical Garden is known as the “jewel in the heart of Austin.” With rose, herb, and Japanese gardens interspersed among waterfalls, streams, and Koi ponds, the Zilker Botanical Garden provides visitors a natural and nature-filled refuge. In particular, the Taniguchi Japanese Garden, which occupies three acres, features two ponds and a Togetsu-kyo bridge (”Bridge to Walk Over the Moon”). The garden is named after retired Stockton, California farmer Isamu Taniguchi who spent 18 months designing and transforming the rugged landscape. The garden opened to the public in 1969. This guided tour will take approximately 2 hours and is estimated to cost $6 per person, transportation by shared taxi included.Scheduled for 1:30-3:30 Thursday, April 8, 2010.
Harry Ransom Center / The University of Texas at Austin
The Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin holds extensive collections of rare books, manuscripts, photography, film, art, and the performing arts.Focused on advancing the study of arts and humanities through the acquisition and preservation of original cultural materials, the Harry Ransom Center houses the Gutenberg Bible, the first photograph, and a rich archive of first-edition manuscripts. The Center’s film holdings are the focus of an exhibition titled, “Making Movies” (February 2 - August 1, 2010), which features iconic Hollywood star photographs, Gone with the Wind costumes and storyboards (including Scarlett’s “curtain dress”), Gloria Swanson’s annotated script for Sunset Boulevard, and Robert De Niro’s costumes from past films. The Center’s film collection contains over 10,000 radio, television, and radio scripts, 15,000 posters and lobby cards, and over one million photographs.This guided tour, which will include collection materials relevant to Asian Pacific American Studies, will take approximately 2 hours and requires only transport costs: $2 by bus or $3 by shared taxi.
The Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum houses forty five million pages of historical documents (inclusive of the former president’s entire public career). One of thirteen presidential libraries administered by the National Archives and Records Administration, the LBJ Library and Museum includes coins, stamps, Oval Office furniture, personal presidential items (owned by the former president and former First Lady), and a collection of four thousand editorial cartoons from all facets of LBJ’s presidency and political career. Additionally, the LBJ Library and Museum showcases over ten thousand items of political memorabilia from George Washington’s inauguration to the present day.
Admission is free. Self-guided tours are about 90 minutes.Shared taxis are about $6.60 per person and buses are also convenient.
Austin is home to the Whole Foods flagship store, centrally located at the intersection of Sixth St. and Lamar.Enjoy a one-hour, three-course cooking demonstration of Tex-Mex cuisine at their cooking academy followed by a self-guided tour of this organic products paradise which includes a chocolate fountain, bars dedicated to cheese, beer, barbeque, and raw food dishes.
Estimated time for this demo and tour is 3 hours.Estimated costs are $27 which includes a three-course meal and transportation by shared taxi.This tour may be cancelled if NOT ENOUGH INDIVIDUALS ARE enrolled.Scheduled for 11-2 Saturday April 10, 2010.
Emergent Cartographies: Asian American Studies in the Twenty-first Century
Association for Asian American Studies (AAAS) Annual Conference
UT Austin, Texas April 7-11, 2010
Omni Austin Hotel Downtown @ 700 San Jacinto St.
The interdisciplinary Association for Asian American Studies invites presentation proposals from the fields of literature, geography, sociology, political science, history, cultural studies, the applied social sciences, education, anthropology, media and film, ethnic studies, public policy, psychology, and communications.
The 2010 conference site is lodged squarely between the east and west coasts and abutting Mexico. How might this location inspire us to reinscribe the terrain of Asian American Studies to capture twenty-first century realities and subjectivities? For example, to the surprise of most, Texas now holds the third highest population of Asian Americans, surpassing even Hawai’i, Illinois, and New Jersey. Journeying away from the traditional AAS strongholds on the coasts and Hawai’i suggests the urgency of regional perspectives reflecting newer, post 1965 populations and communities that may fragment the field between its oldest and newest parts. We argue that a process of dismantling is necessary so that a twenty-first century vision of Asian American Studies might be reassembled from its many messy and morphing parts.
From its origins in the civil rights era, Asian American Studies has been an emergent project intellectually and institutionally. It tracks the growth and evolution of a highly heterogeneous population constantly shifting in location, arrival narratives, socioeconomic class, cultural formations, political identifications, and demography. UT Austin presents opportunities to highlight these transformations, as well as continuities, in student activism and program building, intersections with gender and sexuality studies, hemispheric conceptions of migration, transnational and diasporic practices,
transformative communications technologies, rediscovered migration trajectories, economic crises, new sites of labor and employment, communities emerging from war and refugee flight, and teaching for non-Asian populations.
To encompass the full range of research on Asian Pacific Americans, we encourage contributions from scholars at every level of seniority and papers ranging from community studies, pedagogical strategies, and programmatic models to the most experimental, and integrative, of theoretical ponderings.
All proposals must be submitted on-line by Oct. 23, 2009. For instructions on submitting proposals and other conference information, visit www.aaastudies.org/index.html. For more information, you may contact the AAAS Secretariat at piaseng@illinois.edu or the Center for Asian American Studies at UT Austin at kydawson@mail.utexas.edu.
*AV equipment will be available on a limited basis by request. Please make your requests when sending in your proposals although the Association cannot guarantee that equipment will be provided.
*To be included in the conference program, participants must be AAAS members who have paid registration fees.
AAAS 2010 Conference Reminders
