cfp: “Filipino Studies and its Diaspora”

The Philippine Study Group Student Association (PSGSA) welcomes abstract submissions for the second annual symposium “Filipino Studies and its Diaspora” to be held at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor on Friday, March 25-26th, 2011. PSGSA seeks scholars to present the latest cutting-edge research on Philippine and Filipino American studies and engage with the scholarly community at the University of Michigan.

This symposium will provide a space to assess the state of the field and its future directions. We endeavor to explore questions such as: What methods, resources, and epistemologies inform contemporary scholars of Filipino studies? Considering the major regional, ethnic, religious, and class inequalities in the Philippines and among diasporic Filipinos, in what ways has “Filipinoness” become an internal and nationalist imperial project unto itself? What racialized, gendered, sexualized, classed, and other discourses justified or supported oppressive policies in U.S.-Philippine relations?

Please submit abstracts to Sony C. Bolton at jcbolton@umich.edu. Abstracts should be no longer than 250 words. Please submit abstracts no later than February 20th, 2011. Topics may include but are not limited to:

- Philippine and Filipino American Literature
- Archives and Knowledge Production
- Gender & Sexuality
- Pre-colonial Philippines
- Visual and Cultural Studies
- “Hispanic” Philippines
- Economy and Development
- Islam in the Philippines and the Diaspora
- Race and Indigeneity
- U.S. Empire and Migration
- Religion and Spirituality
- Public Policy and International Relations
- Politics of Language
- Diaspora Studies
- The Philippine-American War and World War II
- Settler Colonialism and Militarism

Any questions or concerns can be sent to jcbolton@umich.edu.

cfp: “Race and Immigration in the American City"

Call for Papers
University of Chicago
Center for the Study of Race, Politics and Culture

“Race and Immigration in the American City: New Perspectives on 21st century Intergroup Relations”

May 20, 2011

The Center for the Study of Race, Politics and Culture at the University of Chicago solicits paper proposals for a day-long conference to be held on the Chicago campus on May 20, 2011, on “Race and Immigration in the American City: New Perspectives on 21st century Intergroup Relations.” Our keynote speaker will be Professor Jennifer Lee of the sociology department at the University of California, Irvine.

“Race and Immigration in the American City” seeks to explore themes of intergroup dynamics within multi-racial and multi-ethnic contexts across a range of urban arenas. As the post-1964 immigration wave has transformed the face of American cities, these new polyglot demographics introduce new forms, experiences, and dynamics of intergroup relations. How newcomers “fit
into” contemporary contexts of urban daily life, how current residents receive them, and how structural factors may influence these encounters prompt a number of avenues of analytic examination that help shed light on our contemporary experience of race and immigration in the American city.

Of particular interest are the dynamics that play out between African Americans and Latinos. Although racially and ethnically diverse urban contexts are long the hallmark of the American urban experience, the persistence of racial inequality and racial consciousness starkly shapes the urban context into which today’s immigrants—the majority of whom are Latino and categorized as non-white by dominant racial ideology—arrive. A primary focus of scholarly attention has been on the competition effects that emerge between African Americans and Latinos under such circumstances, especially in the labor market. We welcome such inquiry but also encourage comparative examination of other modes of engagement between groups.

Conference papers might explore: other dimensions of difference that mediate race and nativity, such as gender or class; the ways in which new configurations of racial and ethnic inequality have emerged in multiracial contexts; the ways in which new arrivals and/or prior residents adapt, contest, and reshape the experience of “race” in America; new forms of collaboration between groups; the persistence or shift in the “color line” given the ethnoracial diversity of
contemporary urban demographics. Substantively, we are interested in any number of topics that examine the contemporary urban condition such as employment, housing, neighborhood change, local politics, and social mobilization. Methodologically, the conference will emphasize comparative rather than group-specific research.

Paper proposals of two (2) pages maximum, plus a two (2) page curriculum vitae should be sent to Virginia Parks vparks@uchicago.edu and Ramón Gutiérrez rgutierrez@uchicago.edu by Friday, March 25, 2011.

"Technologies of Migration: Asia, Media, Mobility, and Virtuality"
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
April 21-22, 2011

This is a free conference for presenters and for attendees. We are particularly interested in giving graduate students a venue to present their work. If you wish to present a 20 minute paper, please send a proposal consisting of:
1>. your title
2>. a 200 word abstract
3>. a 50 word biodata
to yang140@illinois.edu by January 1, 2011.

We welcome presentations on topics such as Migration, Asia, and the Internet, Media Platforms for Asian/American Migration: Literature, Film, and Television, Mobile Media, Mobile Identities, Virtual Migration, Asia, and Digital Games, and Gender, SE Asia, and Technologies of Labor Migration, or related topics.

For more information, visit: http://www.technologiesofasianmigration2011.illinois.edu/index.html

CFP: Panels for ALA 2011

Circle for Asian American Literary Studies
American Literature Association Conference 2011

The Circle for Asian American Literary Studies (CAALS) seeks papers for three panels and one roundtable discussion to be held at the American Literature Association Conference, May 26-29, 2011, in Boston, MA. Proposals should be emailed to each panel’s organizer by January 10, 2011. See individual CFPs for details. All are welcome to apply; accepted panelists are asked to become members of CAALS by the date of the convention.

1. Comparative Ethnic Religion in a Postsecular World
Chair: Khanh Ho, Grinnell College
Co-sponsored by the Latino/a Literature and Culture Society

2. Techno-Orientalism and Asian American Culture
Chair: David Roh, Old Dominion University

3. New Perspectives on the Works of Meena Alexander
Chair: Trevor Lee, CUNY/Graduate Center

4. Pedagogy Roundtable: Asian American Studies, Literacy, and Education
Chair: Greta Aiyu Niu, University of Rochester

For more information on CAALS, visit our website: http://caals.org
Find us on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=19663624895
For more information on the ALA conference: http://americanliterature.org

CIC-AISC Graduate Student Conference

The 12th annual Graduate Student Conference for the CIC-American Indian Studies Consortium will be held in Detroit, Michigan on February 4-5, 2011. Abstracts are due on December 10, 2010. For more details (including the official call for papers, information on lodging, and requirements for the paper prize) please visit the CIC-AISC conference webpage.

Upcoming Bridges & Borders Roundtable

Please mark your calendars for the USEP (US Ethnic and Postcolonial Studies Association) Roundtable Discussion on November 16:

Bridges & Borders 

POSSIBLE INTERSECTIONS BETWEEN 

U.S. ETHNIC AND POSTCOLONIAL STUDIES

A ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION WITH HAPPY HOUR TO FOLLOW

Presenters Include:

PROFESSORS ADÉLÉKÈ ADÉÈKÓ, KORITHA MITCHELL, AND JOE PONCE

GRAD STUDENTS ANNE JANSEN, LIZZIE NIXON, AND TIFFANY SALTER

Tuesday, November 16

3:30 in Denney 311 

HOSTED BY USEP, THE U.S. ETHNIC AND POSTCOLONIAL STUDIES ASSOCIATION

CFP: MELUS 2011 Conference

For those of you who are interested, MELUS has moved their deadline up significantly from last year so proposals are now due by November 15. The following information was taken directly from the official MELUS website.

25th Annual MELUS Conference
April 7 – 10, 2011
Florida Atlantic University
Boca Raton, FL

THEME: Ethnic Canons in Global Contexts
As an ongoing and vital process through which societies and cultures have become integrated through a globe-spanning network of communications, economics, and politics, globalization addresses the transnational circulation of ideas and languages. Its impact on literature is manifold, with both positive and negative associations, wherein cultures receiving outside influences ignore some, adopt others as they are, and then immediately start to transform others. Certain aspects of globalization – such as hybridity and multi-rootedness – are increasingly present in literary texts as we witness ways in which they shape new literary forms, interrogate existing canons, and explore the emergence of ethnic canons.

We invite paper abstracts and complete panels, workshops, and roundtable proposals on all aspects of the multi-ethnic literatures of the United States and elsewhere. We are particularly interested in proposals that explore globalization in terms of its influence on ethnic canons, and vice versa, and encourage presentations on all global frameworks of analysis, such as Atlantic studies, global feminisms, pan-Africanism, postcolonialism, transnationalism, global indigenous studies, etc. Submissions should detail requests for specific audiovisual equipment, if needed. We also ask that a proposal for a complete panel, roundtable, or workshop include a short description of the central topic, supplemented by brief abstracts of individual speakers’ contributions.

Deadline for abstracts and proposals (250 words in Word or rtf format): NOVEMBER 15, 2010

OSU Asian American Studies Workshop Series

The OSU Asian American Studies Program

announces

The 2010-2011 Workshop Series

If you are interested in presenting works in progress or participating in discussions about Asian American Studies topics, please contact Prof. J. Wu (wu.287, 2-9331).  The workshop series is open to all (faculty, graduate and undergraduate students, as well as staff both at OSU and elsewhere).  Information about our first workshop will be sent to those who respond before November 5. 

http://asianamericanstudies.osu.edu/

CIC-AISC Grad Student Conference CFP

Twelfth Annual 
CIC-American Indian Studies Consortium Graduate Student Conference
February 4 – 5, 2011
Detroit Institute of Art

Graduate students at any stage of graduate study and in any academic discipline in or related to American Indian Studies are invited to submit papers for the annual graduate student conference to be held at the DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ART February 4-5, 2011 in Detroit, Michigan. For the CFP and more details, visit the CIC-AISC Graduate Student Conference page.

Deadline for Paper Titles and Abstracts: DECEMBER 10, 2010

USEP Welcome Reception

You're invited to a USEP (US Ethnic and Postcolonial Studies Association) reception to kick off the new academic year!

USEP Welcome Reception
Thursday, September 30, 2010
Denney Hall 311, 5:45-7:15

USEP is a (grad) student-run organization dedicated to fostering an academic community of scholars in Ethnic Studies, Postcolonial Studies, and related fields. Each year, we sponsor a variety of events from reading groups to colloquiums, and we'd love to have you participate in, attend, and contribute to what USEP is all about. At this reception, we'll have a brief meeting to discuss the upcoming year and then you can enjoy the food and refreshments provided and catch up with or meet your colleagues.