Re-SEAing SouthEast Asian American Studies

Memories & Visions: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow

 

San Francisco State University

March 10-11, 2011

Call for papers

The third tri-annual interdisciplinary Southeast Asians in the Diaspora conference will take place at San Francisco State University. The San Francisco Bay Area is home to sizable populations of Burmese, Cambodian, Filipino, Hmong, Indonesian, Lao, Malaysian, Singaporean, Thai, and Vietnamese Americans. This conference will foreground the large Southeast Asian American communities of the Bay Area, Silicon Valley, and the Pacific Northwest, as well as continue to build momentum and grow just as the Southeast Asian American demographics increase in size and visibility here in the U.S. and in particular, on the West Coast.

 

The main objectives of this conference are:

· to encourage the interdisciplinary and comparative study of Southeast Asian

American peoples and their communities;

· to promote national and international cooperation in the field;

· to establish partnerships between academia and the community.

 

This two-day conference explores memories (e.g., memories of homeland; memories of war; memories of childhood and growing up American; historical memories; embodied memories; intergenerational memories; technologies of memories; and imagined/created memories) and visions (actual sightings and sites of Southeast Asian Americans and their communities, both real and imaginary). Because this conference takes place after the constitutionally mandated 2010 census, the focus will be on locating/situating Southeast Asian American Studies for the 21^st century.

 

The conference invites proposals for panels, workshops, and individual papers from all disciplines and fields of study that explore the dialectical relationship between memories and visions related to the following topics:

· Southeast Asian American health and wellness;

· Southeast Asian American social justice;

· Southeast Asian American and critical pedagogy;

· Southeast Asian American youth cultures;

· Southeast Asian American folklore, folklife, and religions;

· Southeast Asian American families, relationships, and communities;

· Southeast Asian American queer cultures and spaces;

· Southeast Asian American sexualities;

· Southeast Asian Americans of mixed heritage/race;

· Southeast Asian American transnationality, transnationalization, and transnationalism;

· Sino-Southeast Asian Americans;

· Explorations of how artists (writers, filmmakers, visual artists) “see” and envision themselves and their communities as Southeast Asian Americans;

· the location and relationship of Southeast Asia to Southeast Asian America;

· the shifting demographics of Southeast Asian Americans vis-à-vis (in)visibility.

Papers will also be considered on any related topics in Southeast Asian American Studies.

250 word abstracts should be submitted by June 15, 2010 to Dr. Jonathan H. X. Lee at jlee@sfsu.edu with the following information: a) author(s), b) affiliation, c) email address, and d) abstract with title.

All papers will go through an internal review process and decisions regarding acceptance of papers for the conference will be communicated by October 15, 2010.

 

Information on pervious conferences:

 

1^st 2005 at University of California, Riverside

http://www.international.ucla.edu/asia/events/showevent.asp?eventid=3062

 

2^nd 2008 at University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

http://www.aasp.uiuc.edu/seasiandiaspora/2008/schedule.html

 

Jonathan H. X. Lee, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Asian American Studies
San Francisco State University
Department of Asian American Studies
1600 Holloway Ave, EP 103
San Francisco, CA 94132

Dear Colleagues,

I am looking for additional authors for entries in the EAI, Second Edition. The text of my original solicitation appears below the list of available articles. I would need articles on this list completed by August 1. All articles listed below will be approximately 1000 words unless otherwise noted.

I especially need articles on contemporary immigration issues (e.g., since 9/11) and on cultural issues. I can be contacted at this email or jtradzilowsk@uas.alaska.edu

With thanks,
John Radzilowski

===Contemporary Issues:===

9/11 and its Impact on Immigration

The Politics of Immigration and Amnesty

Controlling the Borders

USA Patriot Act?effect on immigration Department of Homeland Security

Foreign policy and Immigration since 9/11 (750 wds)
Illegal Immigrant Identification

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) (750 wds)

U.S. Immigration and Citizenship Service (USCIS) (750 wds)

U.S. Customs and Border Protection (USCBP) (750 wds)

Human Trafficking and Slavery (world-wide)

Theory:

Retention vs. Assilimation

Cultural Issues (Overviews of Historical to Contemporary periods)

Immigrant Literature in English

Immigrant Literature in Immigrant Languages

Immigrant Music

Folk Arts
Immigrant Film and Broadcast Media

Groups
Non-Arab Middle East (Armenians, Kurds, Turks)
Vietnamese

Call for Papers: Critical Race Theory and Communication Studies

A Special Issue of Communication Law Review
Guest Editor: Rachel Griffin Ph.D., Southern Illinois University at Carbondale

The editorial board of the Communication Law Review encourages submissions of scholarly articles for a special issue on Critical Race Theory (CRT). The overarching premise of this special issue is to serve as a focused point of entry for CRT into the field of Communication Studies.
Described as “a gasp of emancipatory hope” by Cornel West (1995, p.xii), CRT offers numerous possibilities to the field of Communication Studies as a theoretical and methodological force that necessitates positioning the perspectives, knowledges, and experiences of marginalized identity groups at the center of inquiry.

Rooted in legal studies, critical race theory was designed to critique the laws and policies that uphold White supremacy in the United States (Crenshaw Gotanda, Peller, & Thomas, 1995). As theory, CRT provides a rich foundation for understanding the experiences of people of color; as method, CRT allows for the exploration of how race and racism work in the everyday lives of people of color. With a fierce emphasis on liberation, those who utilize CRT and the offspring of CRT including Critical Race Feminism, LatCrit, AsianCrit, TribalCrit, WhiteCrit, and QueerCrit within their work address the deeply embedded roots of oppression. As a genre of critical scholarship, CRT and its’ offspring offer rich theoretical and methodological means to explore the ways social inequality is produced, (re)produced, and/or contested at micro and macro levels of U.S. American society and abroad. Submissions that bring together the unique insights of CRT and communication scholarship to contribute to an innovative dialogue that inspires social consciousness and social justice will be favored. Authors may address a variety of different topic areas including but
not limited to rhetoric, performance, identity, policy, education, pedagogy, media, technology, sport, and globalization.

Graduate students as well as faculty are highly encouraged to submit manuscripts for this special issue. It is strongly encouraged that authors submit manuscripts electronically and conform to the stylistic and citation guidelines of the Chicago Manual of Style. The deadline for submissions to this special issue is August 1st, 2009. All submissions should be sent to Rachel Griffin, Ph.D. at rachelag@siu.edu in a Microsoft Word document. To facilitate the blind, peer review process, no material identifying the author(s) of submitted manuscripts should appear anywhere other than the
title page, which should include: (a) the title of the paper, (b) the author’s name, position, institutional affiliation, address, telephone and fax numbers, and email address, (c) any acknowledgements, including the history of the manuscript and if any part of it has been presented at a
conference or is derived from a thesis or dissertation; and (d) a word count. Manuscripts must be double-spaced throughout and should be no longer than 9,000 words, inclusive of notes and reference matter. Papers will be referred to peer reviewers for publication. The manuscripts
for this special issue should not be under review by any other publication venue.

To inquire about this special issue, please contact:

Rachel Alicia Griffin, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Dept. of Speech Communication
Southern Illinois University @ Carbondale
1100 Lincoln Drive Mailcode 6605
Carbondale, IL 62901
rachelag@siu.edu
(618) 453-1882

References

Crenshaw, K., Gotanda, N., Peller, G., & Thomas, K. (Eds.). (1995). Critical race theory: The key writings that formed the movement. New York: The New York Press.

West, C. (1995). Forward. In K. Crenshaw, N. Gotanda, G. Peller, & Thomas, K. (Eds.), (2000). Critical Race Theory: The key writings that formed the movement. (pp.xi-xii). New York: The New York Press.

A final reminder that the deadline for submissions for Volume 10 of the Hmong Studies Journal is May 30, 2009.

If interested, please see the call for papers at:
http://www.hmongstudies.org/HSJCFP2009volume10.html

Thank you,

Mark Pfeifer

Theatre, Performance, and DestiNation

American Society for Theatre Research Conference

San Juan, Puerto Rico

11-15 November, 2009

Asian American Theatre Working Group

Apologies for cross-postings

Constant Journeys: Asian American Theatre and DestiNation

The performative implications of its “arrival” on the national stage position Asian American theatre as a particularly appropriate opportunity to explore notions of “destination.” In contrast to the term’s general interpretation as the culmination of a migration, a transference from a fixed and implicitly less desirable locale to an equally certain and more satisfactory one, the outcomes of such a journey for immigrant groups rarely have been so stable or agreeable. For such populations, the “destination” within relatively specific geographic locales simultaneously may, and likely will, produce exclusion from “settlement” inside “America” or other social and political territories. In particular, Asian populations have found themselves in illusory American “destinations” that deny both statutory and cultural membership and withhold occupation of the territory between the artificial opposition of “Asian” and “American.” By its presence, its “arrival” onstage, Asian American theatre continues to resist relegation and marginalization to a mere cellular component of American theatre and culture, and its marketable potential as a commodity of “diversity.” Its changing self-representation eludes confinement within preconceived boundaries, territorial and cultural, and consistently redefines its own “destination,” fulfilling its depiction by Dorinne Kondo as one of the most promising sites for challenging the false dichotomy that continues to define the constructed representation of Asian Americans. Proposals should address the ways in which those various “travels” and “destinations” extend a performative effect to reconstitute cultural and (inter)national notions of belonging and permit imagination of a redefined “home” space in the American consciousness. That redefinition may, of course, include the term Asian American itself and the performative territory it travels and occupies. We hope to build upon our 2008 conference presence as the first ASTR session to focus on Asian American theatre and continue to encourage participants to explore its potential as a web of links and thus extend our “destination” by re-examining the history, practice and scholarship of Asian American theatre within the American DestiNation.

Potential topics include, but are not limited to:

· What are the historical and present effects of the “travelling” of Asian American theatre, as tour, appropriation, or cultural adaptation and alteration?

· How has the construction of theatre as an “island” form of cultural expression affected its usability or usefulness to Asian American cultures?

· How have the various constructed “islands” of Asian American culture influenced its theatrical representation or destabilized notions of American nationalism?

The process and implementation of the session will resemble the ASTR seminar’s 2-hour structure. Participants must commit to submitting preliminary drafts of their papers by August 31st and to participating actively in an online pre-conference discussion by means of our session’s fully secure website. The final conference drafts (8-10 pages) will be due by October 15th. Participants will be expected to read all colleague drafts before the conference session on Saturday November 14, 2009. Other important guidelines are listed at: http://www.astr.org/Conference/WorkingSessionsGuidelines/tabid/128/Default.aspx

By Friday, May 15, please submit an abstract (max 500 words) and brief biography (150 words) via email to:

Ron West, Metropolitan Community College, Omaha, NE (rwest33449@aol.com)
and co-conveners

Jennifer Chan, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA (jc609@nyu.edu)

and

Sean Metzger, Duke University, Durham, SC (smetzger@duke.edu).

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.

Conference Co-chairs: Madeline Hsu (UT Austin) & Cathy Schlund-Vials (UConn Storrs)

*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.

Amerasia Journal: Call for Abstracts
“Global Community Formations and Asian American Futures”

Amerasia Journal, UCLA Asian American Studies Center, and the U.C. Berkeley Center for Globalization and Information Technology

Consulting Guest Editors: Michel Laguerre, Professor and Director, Berkeley Center for Globalization and Information Technology, and author of Global Neighborhoods: Jewish Quarters in Paris, London, and Berlin, 2008; and Dr. Joe Fong, Ph.D. from University of California at Berkeley, Research Associate at BCGIT, and author of Complementary Education and Culture: in the Global/Local Chinese Community, 2003.

Amerasia Journal Editor: Adjunct Prof. Russell C. Leong, English and Asian American Studies, project director www.uschinamediabrief.com

Review & Publication Deadlines:

Due date July 15, 2009: 2-page abstracts.
Due date of final papers: Feb. 1, 2010
Publication date of issue: Fall/Winter 2010

Send copies of abstracts to: Dr. Joe C. Fong Kuankung@hotmail.com; Dr. Michel Laguerre bcgit@berkeley.edu; Russell Leong rleong@ucla.edu Inquiries and abstracts will be reviewed by the editors, and the authors notified.

Amerasia Journal now invites contributions for an innovative forum on “Global Community Formations and Asian American Futures.” (For past issues or reference, see 50,000 pages of 40 years of Amerasia Journal, the core journal in Asian American Studies, are also now online through your institutional or individual subscription: through MetaPress.)

In the U.S., researchers and the public at large may still perceive Asian American communities as “glittering ghettos” within localized urban or suburban areas. That perception is outdated and inaccurate: they are neither ghettos, nor are they merely affluent enclaves. Rather, scholars in this field are seeing the multiple and complex effects of globalization in many contemporary urban Asian American communities across the United States, which are no longer localized in the traditional sense. Scholars are re-discovering global elements with Asian communities that integrate with existing structures, or create new ones, whose characteristics may not be so easily defined in past terms.

Already, localized Asian American culture and ethnic entrepreneurship link and intersect with globalized community and transnational culture. Global businesses, music, film and literature from Asia, for example, have transformed traditional urban areas into “globalized/localized” cultural zones. Likewise, Asian American communities have also experienced other dimensions of globalization from food to religious practices, from interethnic workplace cooperation to open conflict around sweatshops, unionization, or workplace standards. Asian American communities, particularly in the suburbs, appear far more “global” than the average local community, though not “global” in the same sense that major cities around the world, such as Tokyo and New York, are considered global. This transformation has led to the need for updated theoretical and methodological approaches to understanding 21st century Asian American community formation.

“Global Community Formations and Asian American Futures” thus extends and complements recent 2000-2009 issues of Amerasia Journal on the creation of “Asian American Places,” on ‘North American Asians (Canada); and on “Asians within a Transcultural Context”(Latin America), and “Asian American Literature in China, Poland, Sweden, Italy, etc.” : these special editions also involved scholars from Asia, Europe, and the Americas.

Thus, “Global Community Formations” also welcomes international scholars and U.S. scholars who do work on the dual transnational consequences of Asian Americans and globalization on their countries, e.g. remittances and labor transfer; trafficking and human rights issues, Asian American involvement in homeland politics in India, Cambodia, Vietnam, Philippines, and elsewhere.

This Amerasia issue solicits papers that address the global as well as local dimensions of Asian American community in the 21st century in in relation to community formation, social institutions and networks, media, politics, etc.. Factors which will continue to shape Asian American communities include the following: 1. the impact of Asia’s economic and cultural influence through institutions and medium such as banks and media; 2. transnational science, technological, and professional migration both ways; 3. transnational legal and human rights issues; and, 4. the reciprocal social/cultural and economic infrastructure of Asian communities as reflected in settlement, educational, and work patterns, as well as political participation in the U.S. and abroad.

We hope to address the following questions and will review abstracts in the following areas (but not restricted to these topics):

(1) Due to the influence of Asia’s globalization on Asian American communities, what changes have occurred? How have they affected the community’s social structure, cultural institutions, and politics in America?
(2) Has such transformation (i.e. Asia’s globalization) taken place in and impacted non-Asian neighborhoods and suburbs in the United States? Here, we include not only the usual metropole
centers such as L.A., New York, or Chicago, but medium-sized and smaller cities and towns.
(3) Have these changes enhanced or hindered Asians’ accomplishments in the area of education, businesses, and others within the larger society? How have these changes led to the formation of working, middle, and upper class Asian American communities?
4.) What is the relationship of Asian Americans with other minority groups at the workplace, in school, and in other venues, e.g. Asians and Latinos, African Americans, and with other ethnic groups? Are these relationships contested–and what are the significant issues?
5. How do “hot button” issues around religion, homeland politics, same-sex marriage
and sexual diversity, and local and global Asian media play out in Asian American communities nationally? Are there regional and demographic differences?

We hope that the papers will enable us not only to contribute to the field of Urban Studies and Asian American Studies, but also to unrestrict the conversation of community forces, social capital, and ethnic enclave.

If you have other topics not included above, please direct your inquiries to the editors.

Hello everyone, please find pasted below one of the Division of Asian
American Literature sponsored panels which will take place at MLA,
2009 in Philadelphia. I’m looking for submissions that consider the
role of cooking, food in the broadest sense possible as it relates to
Asian American literature. Please note the deadline has been extended
to the 20th of March.
Thanks!
Anita

Session Type: Division
Organization: Asian American Literature
Title: Asian American Culinary Fictions
Description: Food in Asian American literature; e.g., kitchens and
domesticity; ethics of eating; cooking and subjectivity; reading
recipes and cookbooks. Interdisciplinary approaches welcome.
Submission Requirements: 300-word abstracts and 2-page vitae
Deadline: 20 Mar. 2009
Organizer: Anita Mannur (mannur@denison.edu)

–
Anita Mannur, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
English Department
Box M
Denison University
Granville OH 43023

Tel: 740-587-6237
Fax: 740-587-5680

CFP / Modern Language Association Annual Conference / 2009 / PROPOSAL

Please distribute!

Panel title: Memory Work and Southeast Asian American Narrative

This panel focuses its attention on Southeast Asian American narrative. Beginning with the concept of “memory work,” which suggests labors of remembrance and debates over the forms such remembrance takes, this panel seeks presentations that examine the connections between history and memory in Southeast Asian American cultural production. For example, how does Lan Cao’s Monkey Bridge use the memory of the Vietnam War in the articulation of a Vietnamese American identity? What is at stake in the work of Cambodian American writers like Loung Ung and Chanrithy Him who remember the “Killing Fields”? How does Monique Truong’s Book of Salt use cultural memory? What is the role of political memory in Carlos Bulosan’s America is in the Heart? Possible topics include but are not limited to representations of genocide, state-sanctioned mass violence, negotiations of U.S. empire, notions of justice, and questions of ethics. Please submit a 250-word abstract and 1-page curriculum vitae via e-mail to cathy.schlund-vials@uconn.edu. The deadline for submission is March 25, 2009. Decisions will be made soon after the deadline.

The deadline for submissions for Volume 10 of the Hmong Studies Journal is May 30, 2009. Please see the call for papers at:
http://www.hmongstudies.org/HSJCFP2009volume10.html

Also, if you haven’t had the chance yet, you may wish to take a look at volume 9 of the journal which was published a few weeks ago:
http://www.hmongstudies.org/HSJ9OnlinePR.html