The Call for Papers for the 2008 East of California Conference has been
extended to Monday, June 30, 2008. Please do consider sending in an
abstract–if you have any questions, feel free to contact one of the EOC
co-chairs (contact information listed below in the CFP).

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2008 East of California Conference: A Movement to Look Back To
October 31, 2008 – November 1, 2008
The University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut

ABSTRACTS DUE: Monday, June 30, 2008

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

• Transnationalism & Cosmopolitanism
• Demographic Shifts
• Border studies
• Cross-ethnic/racial collaborations and coalitions
• Multi-disciplinary/inter-disciplinary collaborations and coalitions
• Scholar-activist work, within and outside the academy
• Civil Liberties and Civil Rights, before and after 9/11
• Teaching in the 21st century
• The state of “Asian America”
• Asian American methodologies and epistemologies
• Asian American visual cultures
• The Asian American archive: what is it and where is it?

Requirements for Submission:

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

Please send electronic copies of all materials to both Cathy
Schlund-Vials (schlundvials@gmail.com) and Jennifer Ho
(hojennifer@earthlink.net) by June 30, 2008.

2008 East of California Conference:  A Movement to Look Back To

October 31, 2008 - November 1, 2008

The University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut

ABSTRACTS DUE: (NEW DEADLINE):  June 30, 2008

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

·                     Transnationalism & Cosmopolitanism

·                     Demographic Shifts

·                     Border studies

·                     Cross-ethnic/racial collaborations and coalitions

·                     Multi-disciplinary/inter-disciplinary collaborations and coalitions

·                     Scholar-activist work, within and outside the academy

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

·                     Teaching in the 21st century

·                     The state of “Asian America”

·                     Asian American methodologies and epistemologies

·                     Asian American visual cultures

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

Requirements for Submission:

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

Please send electronic copies of all materials to both Cathy Schlund-Vials (schlundvials@gmail.com) and Jennifer Ho (hojennifer@earthlink.net) by June 30, 2008.

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

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

filipino american studies at the
CROSSROADS
art activism and scholarship in response to philippine state violence

saturday APRIL 5 2008
university of california santa cruz

1-430PM seminar HUMANITIES 210 on Filipino American Studies
in response to current POLITICAL REPRESSION in the Philippines

5-630pm activist roundtable/dinner STEVENSON EVENTS CENTER
community building with FOCUS GABNET BABAE LFS

7-930pm performing STEVENSON EVENTS CENTER
AIMEE SUZARA
LANI MONTREAL
PEOPLE POWER
POWER STRUGGLE
KASAMA
KIWI
art music and films by
MASS MOVEMENT

The Critical Filipina/o Studies Research Cluster of the UCSC Center for
Cultural Studies wishes to thank Oakes College, Merrill College, Stevenson
College, Cowell College, Kresge College, Colleges 9 and 10, and the
departments of Sociology, Literature, HAVC, and History of Consciousness
and the Center for Justice, Tolerance, and Community for their generous
sponsorship of this event.

For parking information or directions, see our website at
www.criticalfilipinas.org. For more information, email sherwin@ucsc.edu.

Asian American Studies Program presents
“Philippine Palimpsests: Filipino Studies in the 21st Century”
March 7 & 8, 2008

Levis Faculty Center, 3rd Floor
919 West Illinois Street, Urbana, Illinois 61801
217.333.6241

Conference web site:
<http://www.aasp.uiuc.edu/PhilippinePalimpsests/index.html>http://www.aasp.uiuc.edu/PhilippinePalimpsests/index.html
<<http://www.aasp.uiuc.edu/PhilippinePalimpsests/index.html>http://www.aasp.uiuc.edu/PhilippinePalimpsests/index.html>

A) March 7, 2008
6:00 p.m. - 8:00 pm
Plenary Speaker: Professor Reynaldo Ileto
“American Scrapbooks: Two Filipinos’ Experiences of the Imperial
World”

“In this autobiographical presentation, I reflect upon the journeys of
two Filipinos to the United States, initially through the scrapbooks of
photos and other memorabilia of those events. My father, born in 1920,
was a product of U.S. colonial rule. His journey to West Point, New
York, in 1940 turned him four years later into a soldier of the empire,
to fight the Japanese and, later, the Communist enemy. I was born in
1946, the year the Philippines technically became an independent
nation-state. I followed my father’s footsteps, journeying to
Ithaca, New York, in 1967 to pursue my graduate studies. Though this was
the time of the Vietnam War and student unrest worldwide ˆ
different, to be sure, from my father’s times ˆ still I arguably
was turned into a scholar of the empire. But in what sense?

The scrapbooks of these two Filipinos are read in the context of the
state of “Philippine studies” in the 1930s and 1960s ˆ in
particular, the contested representations of the revolution of 1896-98,
the Filipino-American war of 1899-1902, and the special relationship
with the U.S. In a sense both scrapbooks can be placed in the category
of “wartime experiences.” In my father’s case, the wars were
military in essence; for me, the battlefield was the academe. The point
of this exercise is to bring out the complex interplay of personal
experience and regimes of knowledge that constitute one’s belonging
and response to empire in two different eras. But I speak from the
standpoint of the present and I hope that this exercise will illumine
the scholarly challenges we face in the age of imperial decline.”

Professor Reynaldo Ileto is Professor of History and Southeast Asian
Studies, National University of Singapore. Prior to this, he was Reader
at Australia National University in Canberra. Ileto, a graduate of
Cornell University, was a student of classically trained scholars like
O.D. Wolters, Benedict Anderson, and Victor Turner. His Pasyon and
Revolution (1979), widely recognized as one of the seminal texts of
Southeast Asian history, and his percipient essays collected in
Filipinos and Their Revolution (1998), have earned for Ileto
international recognition as the leader of Philippine Historical studies
and a pioneer of the burgeoning field of Filipino diasporic studies.

Biographical information about Dr. Ileto is available at:

http://www.fas.nus.edu.sg/sea/ppl/ac_illeto.htm

B) March 8, 2008

8:00 a.m.-5:30 p.m. Four scheduled panels

For more information about conference participants and scheduled panels,
visit http://www.aasp.uiuc.edu/PhilippinePalimpsests/index.html

2008 East of California Conference:

Storrs, Connecticut

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

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

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

·                     Transnationalism & Cosmopolitanism

·                     Demographic Shifts

·                     Border studies

·                     Cross-ethnic/racial collaborations and coalitions

·                     Multi-disciplinary/inter-disciplinary collaborations and coalitions

·                     Scholar-activist work, within and outside the academy

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

·                     Teaching in the 21st century

·                     The state of “Asian America”

·                     Asian American methodologies and epistemologies

·                     Asian American visual cultures

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

Requirements for Submission:

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

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

SAVE THE DATE!

What? The 2008 EOC Conference
When? October 31 - November 1, 2008
Where? The University of Connecticut, Storrs