"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

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/

Searching Looks: Asian American Visual Cultures

Searching Looks: Asian American Visual Cultures

February 25-26, 2010

Slought Foundation
4017 Walnut Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104-3513

“Searching Looks” explores the practice and materiality of Asian American visual culture. In highlighting visual technologies and their repercussions within Asian America, this event proposes to examine the concept of visuality as a critical lens for understanding minority cultural studies. The conference brings together practitioners and scholars of Asian American visual art to consider questions of art history and practice, new media, and the poetics of visuality.

Cultural theorists have been heralding and lamenting a turn to visual culture from at least the turn of the last century—and within Asian American studies, a rhetoric of racial invisibility and hypervisibility has defined the field from its inception in the late 1960s. At the start of the twenty-first century, how are we to see the image, firmly ensconced as a global commodity? A renewed call to transnationalism is presently transforming cultural studies in the academy, and Asian American studies marks a crucial site for understanding global flows of things and bodies. How can we theorize visuality in the context of a rigorously transnational understanding of Asian American studies?

Thursday, February 25
Keynote Address: Anne Anlin Cheng, “Strange Skin” (5pm)

Friday, February 26
Ways of Seeing: The Visual and Material Practice of Asian American Art (10 -11:45am)
Margo Machida, and Annu Palakunnathu Matthew, moderated by Bakirathi Mani

Desiring Images: Performing and Representing Asian American Cultures (1 – 2:45pm)
Patty Chang, and Mimi Nguyen, moderated by Homay King

Writing Seeing: Visuality in Asian American Poetics (3 – 4:45pm)
Brian Kim Stefans, and Timothy Yu, moderated by Josephine Park

For more information, visit: http://asam.sas.upenn.edu/visualcultures

cfp: Re-SEAing SouthEast Asian American Studies

Re-SEAing SouthEast Asian American Studies. Memories & Visions: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow.

San Francisco State University
March 10-11, 2011

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 21st 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 previous conferences:

• 1st 2005 at University of California, Riverside
• 2nd 2008 at University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

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

FANHS-Midwest Conference

Filipino American National History Society, Midwest Chapter
2009 Biennial Regional Conference

"The Filipino American Experience in Ohio and Other Midwestern States"

October 16-18, 2009
University Plaza Hotel & Conference Center
3110 Olentangy River Road, Columbus, OH 43202

To view the conference program and download the registration form, visit: http://asianamericanstudies.osu.edu/dsp_event.cfm?EventID=4ded2088-c776-45f3-bd42-cf98b72374c0

cfp: Asian American Studies national conference

The call for papers for the 2010 AAAS conference, "Emergent Cartographies: Asian American Studies in the Twenty-first Century," is available online: http://www.aaastudies.org/2010/call/index.php.

Proposals due: Nov. 15, 2009
Conference dates: April 7-11, 2010
Location: Austin, TX

Walter Lim talk -- 9/24/09

The Asian American Studies Program is pleased to present:

Dr. Walter S. H. Lim

“Reading Asian American Literature from Ohio to Singapore—notes from a comparative perspective”

Thursday, Sept. 24, 2009
4:30 – 5:30 p.m.
311 Denney Hall

After receiving his PhD from the University of Toronto (Canada), Walter S. H. Lim taught at Hiram College (Ohio) before moving on to the National University of Singapore, where he is presently Deputy Head (Literature) in the Department of English Language and Literature. Dr. Lim teaches English Renaissance Literature and Asian American Literature, and has published articles on such diverse topics as Shakespeare, Spenser, Milton, and Asian American Literature. He is the author of two books: The Arts of Empire: The Poetics of Colonialism from Ralegh to Milton (University of Delaware Press, 1998) and John Milton, Radical Politics, and Biblical Republicanism (University of Delaware Press, 2006). He is also co-editor with Debra Johanyak (University of Akron Wayne College) of a volume of essays, The English Renaissance, Orientalism, and the Idea of Asia, forthcoming in 2010 from Palgrave Macmillan. For more information, visit http://profile.nus.edu.sg/fass/elllimw/.