***Call for Papers***
Global Islam in Everyday America
April 3, 2009
University of Pennsylvania
Hosted by the Asian American Studies Program, the Middle East Center, and the South Asia Center

As Islam is increasingly associated with worldwide debates on terror, anti-West sentiment, and extremism, images of Islam and Islamic identity circulating in the media have become ubiquitous. Pictures of the veil, the turbaned terrorist, and the children schooled in madrasas are conflated to a singular representation of all Muslims. While Muslims face the challenges of negative imagery, researchers know relatively little about the lived experiences of Muslim Americans.

Global Islam in Everyday America is a one-day conference that explores Islam and Muslim identities in the U.S. by interrogating the multiple implications resonating from stereotypes of Islam and the ways in which the imagined versus the lived experience of American Muslims are implicated. We encourage papers that address the migration experiences, political participation and representation of Muslim Americans. We welcome scholars from a wide range of social science and humanities disciplines to submit their 750 word abstract that address these issues on Muslims of all racial and national backgrounds in the United States. Preference will be given to papers based on ethnographic research.

Possible topics may include but are not limited to the following:
Popular Culture and Islam
Gender and Islam
Second Generation
Social Practices
Race and Islam
Islam and Film
Muslims and Migration
Islam and Folklore
Muslim Identity

Please send your 750 word abstract along with your curriculum vitae to:
Dr. Fariha Khan
Associate Director, Asian American Studies Program
University of Pennsylvania
166 McNeil Bldg
3718 Locust Walk
Philadelphia, PA 19104
<mailto:fariha@sas.upenn.edu>fariha@sas.upenn.edu

Abstracts are due by November 7, 2008 and we will notify you of the status of your proposed presentation by December 1, 2008.

–
Grace Kao, Ph.D.
Director, Asian American Studies Program
Associate Professor of Sociology, Education, and Asian American Studies
University of Pennsylvania
3718 Locust Walk
Philadelphia, PA 19104

email: grace2@pop.upenn.edu
http://gracekao.231.googlepages.com/home

Phone: 215.898.9060
Fax: 215.898.2124

Call for papers: Asian/Pacific/American Studies

We seek papers for a ground-breaking collection of interdisciplinary essays that examine the intersections of Asian American, Pacific Islander and Latin@ American Studies from a hemispheric and transnational perspective within and across the Americas, the Caribbean, Asia and the Pacific. We seek essays that link Trans-American studies with Asian American and Pacific Islander studies within contemporary debates and social movements especially as these debates impact policy, labor, cultural productions, racialization, identity, land rights, and social and political entities.

We are interested in essays that challenge the geographical conventions of American studies and North-South relations to rethink American interactions with Asia and the Pacific. We also seek essays that explore inter-ethnic and inter-racial relations between/among Latin@s, Asians, and Pacific Islanders. We are especially interested in interdisciplinary essays that challenge and rethink the separation of area studies and ethnic studies. Essays should engage larger debates in accessible and jargon-free prose.

Some possible topics include but are not limited to the following:

transnational Labor exploitation and organizing

Popular culture and racial formation

Mixed race identity and belonging

Asian migration in the Americas

Borders and boundaries in the Americas/American Pacific

Transnational and Transpacific social movements

Race, ethnicity and food (or culinary mestizaje)

The Politics of Immigration

U.S. empire and cultural productions

Hawaiian sovereignty movement

Post-area and post-ethnic studies

Asian American and Latino politics/political movements/organizing

Please send paper abstracts, cvs, and a short bio to either Rudy Guevarra—Asian Pacific American Studies, Arizona State University—at rpguevarra@asu.edu or to Camilla Fojas—Latin American and Latino Studies, DePaul University cfojas@depaul.edu.

Send abstracts by October 22nd.

aalj-call-for-submissions-fall-2008.docaalj-call-for-submissions-fall-2008.docaalj-call-for-submissions-fall-2008.docThe Asian American Law Journal (AALJ) at the U.C. Berkeley School of Law is pleased to invite article submissions for our sixteenth volume.

As one of the nation’s two law journals dedicated to Asian American jurisprudence, we are committed to providing a forum for scholars, practitioners, and students to address legal and policy issues relevant to Asian American and Pacific Islander communities. Our mission is to promote excellent scholarship that fosters awareness and dialogue within and beyond the legal community.

Past volumes have addressed such issues as immigration policy, civil liberties, community development, and political engagement. Any unpublished articles, notes, or comments regarding legal, political, or social issues affecting Asian American and Pacific Islander communities are welcome.

If you are interested in contributing to AALJ’s sixteenth volume, please submit your piece early. Articles will be reviewed on a rolling basis until October 15, 2008 for publication in Summer 2009. Articles submitted should meet the following requirements:

1. Document must be sent as a Microsoft Word attachment to aalj.submissions@gmail.com
2. Document must be double-spaced.
3. Document must be in 12 point Times New Roman font, at least thirty (30) pages long, with one-inch margins.
4. Footnotes must be within text (i.e. incorporated at end of each page).
5. Footnote citations must conform to The Bluebook: A Uniform System of Citation (18th ed.).
6. Statements made in text must be supported by outside authority.
7. Deadline for submission for Summer 2009 is October 15, 2008.
8. Accepted articles will undergo a rigorous editing process, and authors will be required to meet revision deadlines.

Please feel free to send questions or concerns to the Submissions Editor, Sophia Lai at aalj.submissions@gmail.com

We look forward to receiving your submissions.

Sincerely,

Sophia Lai
Submissions Editor
Asian American Law Journal

Northeast Modern Language Association
2009 Annual Convention Celebrating NEMLA’s 40th Anniversary
Boston, MA
February 26th-March 1st, 2009

Panel Title: “The Transnational of National(ist) Discourse in Asian/American Literature”

When might national—even nationalist—discourse hold within it the possibilities of transnational dynamics? Is national(ist) discourse sometimes used to express transnational desires and affiliations? How are multiple national(ist) loyalties/affinities/histories “layered” one upon another in a sort of palimpsest that operates transnationally? Do multiple national(ist) affinities always translate into a transnational sensibility more critical of the nation-state?

In literary and cultural studies, we’ve moved from an era that emphasizes immigrant literatures and the dynamics of assimilation to one that emphasizes the textual production of diaspora and more transnational affiliations. This panel seeks to address the continuing tensions between these critical models. What traces of immigrant rhetoric remain and why do they linger (whether or not one is speaking of an immigrant generation)? Is the rhetoric of immigration sometimes used to express a more diasporic sensibility? When and why do we continue to see nationalist discourse when multiple national affiliations are involved?

Asian/American literature has long been marked by the perils of multiple national affiliations. Certainly, one may consider the demand for performances of loyalty to the United States; this demand only reveals how accusations of traitorous behavior are
always just beneath the surface for those now considered the “model minority,” for the immigrant generation and beyond. For refugees forced to leave their homelands, too, how might the national(ist) rhetoric of one country be employed to express national
(ist) sentiments for another? One may also consider how literary texts negotiate the demands of national(ist) and transnational sensibilities, say, for example, the tensions among the terms “overseas Chinese,” “Chinese diaspora,” and “Chinese Americans.”

One may wish to consider how solidarities with other people of color and other diasporas may embrace and yet undermine more nation-based fantasies of a multicultural state. When might “trans-racial solidarity” speak to the instability of national(ist) identity? How do gender and/or sexual difference shape the relations between what we consider national and the transnational? How do histories of occupation and colonialism affect the employment of national(ist) discourse?

Proposals should critically assess Asian/American texts that wholeheartedly embrace nationalist rhetoric, texts that purposefully use nationalist rhetoric in order to critically dismantle it, texts that are marked by the tensions between national affiliations
and transnational connections, or even texts that test the limits of the term “transnational.”

Deadline for presentation abstracts: September 15, 2008
Please note any need for audio-visual equipment.

Please email 250-500 word abstracts to the panel chair:

Susan Muchshima Moynihan, Assistant Professor
Department of English
State University of New York at Buffalo
Email: sm246@buffalo.edu

The Asian Pacific Islander Caucus for Public Health (API Caucus) as recognized by the American Public Health Association (APHA) is pleased to announce the Fourth Annual Best Published Paper Award. The award is to recognize achievement in the field of public health as it applies to Asian, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander issues.

This award will be presented, along with the Best Student Abstract Award, at the 2008 APHA Annual Meeting and Exposition in San Diego, CA on Tuesday, October 28, 2008 at the API Caucus Social Reception. To find out more about API Caucus events during the APHA Annual Meeting and Exposition, please visit http://www.apicaucus.org/apha/

Below are some general guidelines for consideration of nominees.

Best Published Paper Award

This award is to recognize the best published paper of the past year either published or accepted for publication in a peer-reviewed journal between October 2007 to September 2008. The paper will be recognized for its role in advancing a public health issue in the Asian, Native Hawaiian, or Pacific Islander communities.

We are especially interested in manuscripts that present new conceptual understandings of Asian, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander public health, display exceptional scientific rigor, promote the translation of research into practice, and/or demonstrate “best practices” in community participatory research.

Submissions for consideration for the best paper award are due by 11:59 PM PST August 22, 2008. Please email your submissions** to Winston Tseng at chairelect@apicaucus.org
**Please note that you must submit an electronic version of the manuscript to this email address.

Selection Committee

The API Caucus is actively seeking volunteers for the selection committees to help review and select recipients for this award. Reviewers must be members of the API Caucus.
To become a member, please visit our membership web page at: http://www.apicaucus.org/membership/index.htm

The review processes for the each award begins August 25, 2008 and ends by September 8, 2008. Dedicated member time is required to review the nomination packets for the submitted publications for the Best Published Paper Award. The winners will be notified by September 15, 2008.

If you are interested in serving on the award selection committee, please e-mail Winston Tseng chairelect@apicaucus.org

Winston Tseng, PhD
Assistant Research Scientist
University of California, Berkeley
School of Public Health
Health Research for Action
2140 Shattuck Avenue, 10th Floor
Berkeley, CA 94704-7388
Tel: (510) 643-4461
Fax: (510) 643-7679
Email: winston@berkeley.edu
http://healthresearchforaction.org/

Call for Contributors

The Encyclopedia of Asian American Folklore is scheduled to be published by Greenwood Press in 2010.

Asian American Folklore shares a close tie with Asian Folklore, and is growing increasingly important to all Americans. Never before has there been such a broad and deep interest in Asian and Asian American folklore in the United States and Europe. The many different cultures of Asian Americans in all of their specificities offer a rich trove of historical experiences through their folklore that hold continuing relevance and offer wisdom guidance for present living.

Editors Juwen Zhang and Kathy Nadeau seek contributors for entries on different types of folklore, histories and applications of folklore, and analysis. A-Z arrangements.

Principles for establishing entries: to cover as broad as possible the Asian American folklore practice, in particular those that have regional or national basis. When an Asian American culture or community is introduced, its folklore may contain, but not limited to, these aspects:

- Folk-literature; narrative; tale; legend; histories; personal experience narratives; myth; poetry; epic; ballad; song; verse; speech; proverb; riddle
- Names; graffiti; language; dance; music; musical instruments
- Belief systems; medicine; magic; religion; churches and temples
- Behavior; drama; games and play; children games; ritual; foodways; festival
- Material culture; art; products; technology
- Settlement patterns (houses/cultural architecture; interior and exterior designs and decorations)
- Further reading: book and journal publications; film; record and audiotape; websites; ethnography; monographs

Sample list of (working and expandable) table of contents in alphabetical order will be provided to interested contributors.

A letter of intent should be submitted and we are accepting applications until June of 2009. Prospective candidates will receive an assignment, contributor’s guidelines, and sample entries by email or postal mail; followed by release form to be sent by postal mail from the publisher to be signed and returned. Complete entries are due by January 2010, and are subject to normal editing process required for quality publications and are accepted for publication at the discretion of the editors, advisory board, and publisher. Contributors will receive a free set of this two volume reference book and/or a modest honorarium once it is published.

If you are interested in submitting one or more entries please send a short biographical sketch describing your background and interests in Asian American Folklore and your preferred e-mail and postal address to: Juwen Zhang juwen@willamette.edu; and/or Kathy Nadeau knadeau@csusb.edu. Qualified candidates will receive a listing of available entries (again, by way of a friendly reminder, suggestions for new topical entries of relevance to Asian American Folklore, also, will be welcome and invited for consideration by the editors for possible inclusion).

Prospective candidates will receive an assignment, contributor’s guidelines, and sample entries by email or postal mail; followed by release form to be sent by postal mail from the publisher to be signed and returned.

Thank you!

Call for Papers for a Session of Asian American Literature

40th Anniversary Convention, Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA)
Feb. 26-March 1, 2009
Hyatt Regency - Boston, Massachusetts

Ghostly Men in Asian American Women’s Narratives
In the production and consumption of Asian American literary texts, the formula of mother-daughter relations have been immensely popular, while making Asian/American male figures ghostly. This panel explores the political significance of the conjuration of these male figures in Asian American women writers’ texts. Do Asian American women writers simply describe male figures as a source of oppression and violence? How do women writers describe the relation between father and daughter or brother and sister? What is the cultural and political significance of the alternative bond? Please send 250-500 word abstracts to Yasuko Kase ykase@buffalo.edu by September 15th, 2008.

Please include with your abstract:

Name and Affiliation
Email address
Postal address
Telephone number
A/V requirements (if any; $10 handling fee)

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Yasuko Kase (ykase@buffalo.edu)
Ph.D. Candidate in English
Instructor of AAS courses
SUNY at Buffalo

Call for Papers

Asian American Literature—the Voice of Southeast Asian Diaspora

40th Anniversary Convention, Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA)
Feb. 26-March 1, 2009
Hyatt Regency - Boston, Massachusetts

Session Description:

After the Vietnam War ended in 1974, the refugees from Southeast Asia risked their lives traveling across the Pacific Ocean in order to escape from the political persecution of communism in their home countries and look for a better life in North America. What has their “American Dream” come to be? Without the experiences of Exclusion Laws and racial discriminations that early Asian immigrant groups have had during the first half of the twentieth century, how are the diasporic experiences of Southeast Asian immigrants different from other Asian ethnicities like Chinese, Japanese, Koreans, and Filipinos?
In Lan Cao’s Monkey Bridge, the narrator Mai Nguyen describes Vietnamese immigrants in America: “Not only could we become anything we wanted to be in America, we could change what we had once been in Vietnam. Rebirthing the past, we called it, claiming what had once been a power reserved only for gods and other immortal beings.” How do these Southeast Asian immigrants accommodate themselves to a new life? How do their younger generations identify themselves in North America? Pioneer Southeast Asian American writers like Lan Cao, Monique Thuy-Dung Truong, Le Ly Hayslip, Lê Thi Diem Thúy, T. C. Huo, Lawrence Chua, etc. have initiated this dialogue in their literary expression and addressed the voice of Southeast Asian diaspora. This panel invites papers discussing the voice of Southeast Asian diaspora, including but not limited to Vietnamese, Cambodians, Laotians, Hmongs, Thais, and Burmese. We will be discussing how these diasporic groups inscribe their North American experiences and sociopolitical issues—their joy and sorrow, their assimilation, their homesickness, their reinvention of identity and history, etc. Any disciplines and approaches are welcome: literary studies, cultural studies, anthropology, history, sociology, psychology, and the like.

Please send an abstract of 500 words and a brief bio in a single file to Dr. Brian Guan-rong Chen at grc0930@yahoo.com. (Note: Only PDF and DOC files are acceptable. If you are using the latest version of Microsoft Word, please make sure that your filename ends with DOC, not DOCX.)

Deadline: September 15, 2008

Please include with your abstract: Name and Affiliation, Email address, Postal address, Telephone number, A/V requirements (if any; $10 handling fee)

The complete Call for Papers for the 2009 Convention will be posted in June: www.nemla.org. Interested participants may submit abstracts to more than one NeMLA panel; however panelists can only present one paper. Convention participants may present a paper at a panel or seminar and also present at a creative session or participate in a roundtable.

CALL FOR ABSTRACTS

Panel: Middle Eastern or Middle Eastern American Literature
Conference Title: Teaching About the Middle East in the 21st Century
Date of Conference: October 16-18, 2008
Location: California State University, Fresno
Deadline for Abstract (1-2 pages): 6/27/2008
Submit to: Samina Najmi, English Department, CSU Fresno
Email:snajmi@csufresno.edu

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Call for Proposals
First International Conference on Middle East Studies
California State University, Fresno

“Teaching about the Middle East in the 21st Century”
October 16-18, 2008
Fresno, California, USA

The Middle East Studies Program at California State University, Fresno, calls for proposals for pre-organized panels and individual papers for the Program’s inaugural conference, October 16-18, 2008, in Fresno, California.

CONFERENCE THEME
In academic and popular discourse today, the Middle East has become a primary dimension of our geopolitical-intellectual culture. The global reach of current events has brought the Middle East into direct contact with the West. Much scholarly and professional attention is afforded today to the complex (yet habitually abstracted and simplified) human reality of the peoples of the Middle East, and their contributions to the world, be they in science, religion, literature or art.

One of the primary objects of this conference will be to explore the constructions and contextualizations of the modern Middle East through artistic, scholarly, economic, political, sociological, historical, and philological works and texts. The conference will subsequently examine the politics that underlie their production and dissemination in academia.

KEYNOTE SPEECH
Dr. Juan Cole, Professor of History, University of Michigan, “The Iraq Crisis and the Next Administration,” Friday, October 17, 2008. Dr. Haleh Afshar, University of York, “Islam and Feminisms,” Saturday, October 18, 2008.

RESEARCH TOPICS
Cutting across disciplinary lines, and recognizing the plurality of the Middle East, the inherent multidisciplinary nature of studying and teaching it, as well as the diversity of its identities, the richness of its languages, histories, religions, political, economic and social circumstances, the conference invites panels and contributions from a range of disciplines, including, but not limited to:

• Pedagogical Approaches to Middle East Studies
• Art, Architecture, Visual & Performing Arts
• History & Historiography
• Literature, Literary Studies & Linguistics
• Culture, Gender & Ethnography
• Diaspora & Migration Culture
• Middle East Politics & Representations
• U.S. Foreign Policy
• Civil Society, NGOs & International Development
• Media Studies (including Film, Broadcast, Print, News, etc.)
• Economic development/Sustainability/Democratic transitions
• Business and Finance
• Religion: Christianity, Islam and Judaism in the context of the Middle East

IMPORTANT DATES
Deadline for abstracts 27 June, 2008
Notification of acceptance 1 August, 2008

FORMATS
Papers: Exploring original research on the Middle East by one or more authors. Presentations will be 20 minutes long.

Plenary Session/ Panel Discussion: Panel proposals should be submitted by a moderator, inviting three to five presenters to discuss a topic relevant to the conference theme. The topic should be one that would benefit from diverse opinions and open discussion. Panel presentations will be limited to 90 minutes.

ABSTRACTS/PAPER PROPOSALS
Submission Items:
• Cover Sheet: Required for all submissions. On a separate cover sheet, list the title of the presentation, author name(s), school affiliation(s), contact person address, and audio-visual requirements. Make a separate cover sheet for each submission.

• Abstracts: Abstract submissions should be approximately 500 words and must be in English. Abstract and full paper submissions should be sent in MS Word or PDF document format. Include title but do not include author name(s) or school affiliation(s).

• Notes & References: Must conform to the Chicago/Turabian style.

Submission Method:
Contributors have two choices for submitting:

• Option 1. (preferred) Submit as an email attachment to the Program Committee Chair at sasanf@csufresno.edu. Submission should include cover sheet and abstract along with other documents or images required for submission attached to an email. Please put CSU-Fresno Mid-East Conference Submission in email subject line.

• Option 2. Submit in hard copy. Submitters may mail a hard copy of cover sheet, and three copies of other required submission items. The mailing address is:

Dr. Sasan Fayazmanesh,
Program Committee Chair
Department of Economics
California State University, Fresno
5245 N. Backer MS/PB20
Fresno CA 93740-8001

CONFERENCE FEES, REGISTRATION & ACCOMMODATION
Authors are invited to complete the registration process before September 1, 2008. Failing to send the registration fees on or before this date might result in excluding the paper from the proceedings. Registration fee is $50 for conference participants and $25 for students. An additional $25 will be charged for late registration. Accommodation is available at Piccadilly Inn University Hotel, 4961 North Cedar Avenue, Fresno, CA 93726, (559) 224-4200 (the conference rate is $88 per night and reservation must be made no later than September 16).

CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS
Select papers presented at the conference will be published in a conference proceedings, which will become available after the conference. Details will be announced in October 2008.

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
A. Sameh El Kharbawy, Liaison, Manuchehr Shahrokhi, Vincent Biondo, Vida Samiian, Sasan Fayazmanesh

CSUF PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Sasan Fayazmanesh (Chair), Steve Adisasmito-Smith, Vincent Biondo, José A. Díaz, A. Sameh El Kharbawry, Ellen Gruenbaum, Mary Husain, Ellen Lipp, Samina Najmi, Jay O’Brien, Vida Samiian, Manuchehr Shahrokhi

PROGRAM COMMITTEE ON OTHER CAMPUSES
Sebouh Aslanian (Whitman College), Houri Berberian (CSU Long Beach), Touraj Daryaee (UC Irvine)
Manzar Foroohar (Cal Poly San Luis Obispo), Jonathan Friedlander (UCLA), Amir Hussain (Loyola Marymount University), Simin Karimi (University of Arizona), Nikki Keddie (UCLA), Afshin Matin (CSU Los Angeles), Rudi Matthee (University of Delaware), Mahmood Monshipouri (CSU San Francisco), Jamal R. Nassar (CSU San Bernardino), Katherine Platt (Babson College), Jasmin Rostam (CSU Fullerton)

CONFERENCE COORDINATOR
Dr. Vida Samiian, Dean
College of Arts and Humanities
California State University, Fresno

CONFERENCE LIAISON
Please direct any questions to:
Dr. A. Sameh El Kharbawy
College of Arts and Humanities
California State University, Fresno
aelkharbawy@csufresno.edu

CALLING OUT TO ALL WRITERS, ARTISTS, PROFESSIONALS
AND SERVICE PROVIDERS IN THE COMMUNITY!

DIWA: Illuminating Pilipina Voices©

would like your contributions!

Diwa [Tagalog]: “essence,” or intrinsic nature of things; “soul,” or cause of inspiration and energy; “spirit” or a human being’s moral, religious or emotional nature; “thread” or main thought that connects different parts; “sense”; “consciousness”; “gist”; “meaning”; “idea”. (Leo James English, Tagalog-English Dictionary)

Through the written word, artistic endeavors, and scholarly research, Diwa: Illuminating Pilipina Voices is a multidisciplinary publication that aims to augment the visibility of the Pilipina by providing an avenue to explore diversity amongst Filipino women; highlight Pilipina achievements in the community; create dialogues on Pinayism or Pilipina feminist paradigms; educate and provoke critical thought and discussion; bridge issues about the Pilipina in the Philippines, the U.S., and the larger global scene; and bring awareness about the Pilipina community to youth and adults within general and professional audiences.

Issue #1: “INVISIBILITY”

DEADLINE: August 4, 2008

Filipinos have long been known as the “invisible minority” within the Asian/Pacific Islander community as well as the greater community at large. Diwa’s first issue will explore any aspect of the Filipino woman’s experiences regarding this “invisible” status. We strongly encourage contributors to think beyond cultural representation and also highlight subpopulations, issues, and people or artists in the community that have been stigmatized and/or given little exposure. Some topics could explore issues pertaining to older Pilipina adults, “mail-order brides,” domestic violence between Pinays and Pinoys, the LGBT community and definitions of femininity/masculinity, experiences of Filipino women overseas, indigenous forms of spirituality, Filipino women who are biracial, etc.

Although the subject of Diwa focuses on Filipino women, we welcome contributions from any individual regardless of race, ethnic or national origin, gender, or religious affiliation.

Written Submissions (Word.doc files only)

Academic articles that are written for both general and professional audiences (1000-1800 words)
Interviews (800-1000 words)
Reporting on events in the community (800-1000 words)
Book, movie, music reviews (800-1000 words)
Personal stories, short fiction, opinions (800-1000 words)
Poetry (500-800 words)
Email submissions/questions to: dp_writtensubmissions@yahoo.com

Artistic Submissions (JPG, JPEG files only)

Paintings, illustration, photography
Collages, multi-media
Email submissions/questions to: dp_artsubmissions@yahoo.com

Advertising (FREE for first issue!!)

Services (ie. independent practice)
Events in the community (ie. cultural conferences, festivals)
Specify if you would like a quarter-, half-, or full page to display your ad
First priority given to services/events emphasizing the Filipina population and/or their issues (ie. lawyers specializing in immigration, events geared towards the general API community)
Email submissions/questions to: dp_adsubmissions@yahoo.com

What information to include with submission(s):

Name you would like to appear in publication (ie. pseudonym, penname)
Best way to contact you (for our information, will not published)
Brief author bio, 30 words max
References for professional articles, 6 max (if there are more, we will list them on website and refer readers to the appropriate webpage)
Optional: Your professional website, blog (inform us if websites require mature audiences)
IMPORTANT:

Informed Consent: Diwa Publications requires that all contributors accompany their submissions with a brief informed consent form read and signed by any individual(s) who actively participated as the main subject of the contributor’s submission(s) (ie. interviewees, people who participate in surveys, models/subjects for photography). We will not accept or print any submissions that are not accompanied by this form. Email the appropriate subcommittee for the form if your submission requires it. For more information, please email questions to diwapublications@yahoo.com

Quotations: For written submissions, free-standing quotations from another author are limited to 40 words. For quotations over 40 words in length, indent the whole block. Always provide author, year, and page citation (APA Publication Manual, 5th Edition, 2003).

LIMITATIONS: We can only accept 3 submissions per contributor. Depending on the number of submissions we get, we will not be able to print every submission. However, these submissions may have the opportunity to be featured in future issues.

If you have any other ideas for submissions or have general questions, please email diwapublications@yahoo.com

We look forward to hearing from you!

Sincerely,

The Diwa Publications Committee