Call for Papers and online submission forms are up!
You can now visit the Submissions link above to read the Call for Papers and look at the online submission forms. Please contact us at admin@aastudies.org if you have questions! For your convenience, I have also attached the call for papers at the end of this post (click “more”).
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(Minor Update 5/01/2009: I accidentally linked the secured forms rather than the public ones, so you were taken to a sign-in page. Please try it again if you had trouble earlier. Thanks!)
(Minor Update 5/06/2009: Added information about travel grant eligibility.)
Call for Papers
“Crossroads: Asian America/Asian Diaspora Across Disciplines”
Date: September 25-26, 2009
Location: Bloomington, Indiana
This fall, Indiana University and Purdue University will be co-hosting an Asian American Studies graduate conference, the first ever sponsored by the Asian American Studies Consortium of the Committee on Institutional Cooperation. The conference coincides with the annual Lotus Festival. Musicians from all over the world will be performing during the evenings in downtown Bloomington.
The conference theme, “Crossroads: Asian America/Asian Diaspora Across Disciplines” is intended to explore the impact of the Asian Diaspora across a broad spectrum of political, cultural, historical, educational, and economic systems in the Midwest, in the US, in the Americas, and beyond. CIC graduate students whose papers have been accepted will be eligible for a travel award.
Proposals may address, but are not limited to, the following topics:
- Asian Diaspora
- Immigration, nationality, and citizenship
- Immigrants and language education in the context of globalization
- Cultural identities in the age of transnational, transcultural flux
- Processes of acculturation and enculturation
- Asian American Studies and research in Midwest
- Race, citizenship, and labor
- LBGT communities, sexualities, and Asian Americans
- Role of Asian medicines and health lifestyles
- Post-colonial education in Asia
- Portrayals of Asians in the media
- What’s in the terms?: “Asia”, “Orient”, and “East”
- Issues in teacher education programs in the US academic institutions
- Counseling and Asian American mental health
- Coalition building
- Generational studies
- Regional studies
- Residential enclaves
- Community building and empowerment
- Asian Americans and other people of color
- Whiteness, Blackness, and beyond
- Inter-racial/ethnic adoptions
- Asians in the Americas
- Asian/Asian American students in higher education
- Issues in cross-racial research agenda
- CRT, LatCrit, Indigenous Crit, and Asian American jurisprudence
- Diaspora communities in the Heartland
- Creative writing and the diaspora perspective
- Popular culture and commodification
* The Conference will also feature workshops on “Professional Development and Mentoring” and “Culture Centers: Outreach and Retention,” as well as one or more roundtables on teaching.
<Instructions for Submissions>
We will accept proposals for panels or for individual papers, and proposals for participation in the roundtables. Please indicate the type of proposal you are submitting.
Complete Panel Proposals
Panel sessions will be approximately 75 minutes long, with the last 15 minutes reserved for a Q & A session. Complete panel proposals should include three or four presenters, a chair (required), and a discussant (optional). The chair may be a presenter.
Please provide a one-page proposal that includes the (a) title and description of your panel’s presentations and (b) the names of panel members, the chair, and discussant (optional).
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The description of your panel should not exceed 250-300 words in length.
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Please include brief biographical information with full contact information for each presenter.
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Individual Papers
Graduate students may submit individual paper proposals; accepted papers will be placed on panels by the conference programmers. Individual presentations should be no more than 15 minutes.
Please provide a one-page proposal that includes the (a) title and description of your paper and your name.
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The description of your paper should not exceed 250-300 words in length.
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Please include brief biographical information with your full contact information.
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Roundtables on Teaching
The roundtables on teaching are designed primarily for discussion. We invite proposals for participation in these roundtables.
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Proposals should include a description (250-300 words) of the perspectives, experience, or strategies you want to share.
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Please include brief biographical information with your full contact information.
Prospective participants may submit both a panel/paper proposal and a roundtable proposal.
Please submit all proposals by July 20, 2009 at: http://aastudies.org/submissions/
For all other questions, send an email to: admin@aastudies.org
