My research col­lab­o­ra­tor, Jennifer Chun, will be attend­ing this con­fer­ence to present a paper that we co-wrote, “Language Travels: The Cosmopolitan Pursuits of Korean Temporary Residents in Vancouver.”

American University Meets the Pacific Century Conference
March 9 – 10, 2012
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Many American uni­ver­si­ties, like top-tier uni­ver­si­ties through­out the world, are increas­ingly becom­ing global insti­tu­tions, no longer held exclu­sively to national inter­ests. What is the impact of the esca­lat­ing num­bers of inter­na­tional under­grad­u­ates and how are they trans­form­ing the American uni­ver­sity? These ques­tions will be exam­ined on March 9 – 10, 2012 at the American University Meets the Pacific Century Conference at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. This con­fer­ence will fea­ture research from schol­ars in the United States, Great Britain, and South Korea.

The con­fer­ence is hosted in asso­ci­a­tion with the American University Meets the Pacific Century Project (AUPC, 2010-), an inter­dis­ci­pli­nary team of social sci­en­tist fac­ulty and stu­dents who are cur­rently research­ing the inter­na­tion­al­iza­tion of the under­grad­u­ate stu­dent body at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The project is prin­ci­pally inter­ested in the American uni­ver­sity as a con­tact zone in which record lev­els of inter­na­tional under­grad­u­ates, largely from Asia, meet American stu­dents whose futures are increas­ingly impacted by global trans­for­ma­tions, the eco­nomic and sci­en­tific rise of Asia among them.
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Call for papers
Working the Frame: Comparative Approaches to Asian Canadian Literature & Culture
John Douglas Taylor Conference 2012
McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada
October 25 & 26, 2012

Call for Papers
The emer­gence of Asian Canadian lit­er­a­ture and cul­ture as an iden­ti­fi­able force over the last twenty years is abun­dantly clear: Asian Canadian fic­tion and poetry have won major lit­er­ary prizes, there are sev­eral active Asian Canadian the­atre groups in major cities, and film fes­ti­vals on Asian and Asian Canadian film are held annu­ally. Despite the grow­ing promi­nence of Asian Canadian arts, how­ever, the broad pub­lic per­cep­tion that we are liv­ing in a post-racial or even a post-national world makes it dif­fi­cult to estab­lish insti­tu­tional ground­ing for a field founded on explor­ing racial, eth­nic, and national iden­tity; to date, no uni­ver­sity pro­gram or depart­ment devoted to Asian Canadian Studies has emerged. Yet, as the recent Macleans arti­cle Too Asian? and the strong responses it has gen­er­ated demon­strate, racial iden­tity pol­i­tics are nei­ther obso­lete nor dead, although new pos­si­bil­i­ties for coali­tional oppor­tu­ni­ties have arisen between and among dif­fer­ent racial­ized groups in Canada, and between dif­fer­ent com­mu­ni­ties in the Asian dias­pora. While the pol­i­tics of race and iden­tity have shifted over the last two decades with the turn to dias­pora and transna­tional approaches in crit­i­cal race stud­ies, eth­nic stud­ies, post­colo­nial stud­ies, and cul­tural stud­ies, it is pre­cisely this shift that demands atten­tion to new devel­op­ments in the cir­cu­la­tion of knowl­edge about and the expe­ri­ence of race and nation­al­ity in Canada.

The pur­pose of this con­fer­ence is to explore the cur­rent for­ma­tion and future devel­op­ments of Asian Canadian lit­er­a­ture and cul­ture in a comparative/relational frame, exam­in­ing the pos­si­bil­i­ties and respon­si­bil­i­ties of coali­tional pol­i­tics and col­lab­o­ra­tive cul­tural pro­duc­tion, as well as the very def­i­n­i­tion of the term Asian Canadian. We invite pro­pos­als that engage with Asian Canadian lit­er­a­ture and cul­ture and are espe­cially inter­ested in research that inves­ti­gates cross-cultural rela­tion­ships, col­lab­o­ra­tions, and antag­o­nisms recounted in, enacted by, or in con­ver­sa­tion with Asian Canadian cul­tural prod­ucts.
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Asian American Studies Postdoctoral Research Associate, 2012 – 2013
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

The Asian American Studies Program (AASP) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign seeks two post­doc­toral research asso­ciates for the 2012 – 2013 aca­d­e­mic year. Applicants should con­duct research ger­mane to Asian American stud­ies. Proposed research projects should have the poten­tial to make a sig­nif­i­cant con­tri­bu­tion to the field.

Applicants must be U.S. cit­i­zens or per­ma­nent res­i­dents, must have received a doc­tor­ate or appro­pri­ate ter­mi­nal degree within the past five years or have com­pleted this require­ment by July 31, 2012. They must demon­strate promise for a tenure-track appoint­ment at a research col­lege or uni­ver­sity and their pri­mary research focus must be Asian American, and/or transna­tional Asian pop­u­la­tions in the U.S. and across the Asian Diaspora.

Appointments have a tar­get start date of August 16, 2012, and are for a nine-month period, August 16, 2012 – May15, 2013. Contingent on review, recip­i­ents may be eli­gi­ble for a sec­ond year appoint­ment. Recipients must be in res­i­dence full-time at the University’s Urbana cam­pus for the dura­tion of the appoint­ment, and may not hold other fel­low­ships or awards dur­ing the appoint­ment period. During their stay at Illinois, post­doc­toral research asso­ciates will be expected to par­tic­i­pate in research, teach­ing, and ser­vice. While research and par­tic­i­pa­tion in the intel­lec­tual life of the pro­gram is the pri­mary respon­si­bil­ity, research asso­ciates will be expected to teach a course in Asian American Studies. The spe­cific teach­ing duties will be decided in con­sul­ta­tion with the Director.
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SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY
DIRECTOR, ASIAN/ASIAN AMERICAN STUDIES PROGRAM

Syracuse University seeks nom­i­na­tions and appli­ca­tions for the posi­tion of Director, Asian/Asian-American Studies, an inter­dis­ci­pli­nary pro­gram housed in The College of Arts and Sciences. The suc­cess­ful can­di­date will be a senior tenured pro­fes­sor who demon­strates a strong com­mit­ment to teach­ing, advis­ing stu­dents, and con­duct­ing a seri­ous research agenda in an area of Asian-American Studies that is con­sis­tent with the University’s vision of Scholarship in Action. The spe­cific research area and dis­ci­pline of the Director is open.

The charge for the Director is to lead this quickly grow­ing inter­dis­ci­pli­nary pro­gram in Asian/Asian-American Studies, which recently estab­lished a minor in the cur­ricu­lum of The College of Arts and Sciences but is avail­able for every under­grad­u­ate major at Syracuse University. There are cur­rently over30 courses offered on cam­pus and abroad that con­tribute to this minor. More courses are expected, and the poten­tial to offer a major in Asian/Asian-American Studies within a few years is extremely strong. TheDirector will pro­vide local and national lead­er­ship in the field of Asian/Asian-American stud­ies; iden­tify areas of future growth; coor­di­nate the cur­ricu­lum offered by fac­ulty mem­bers in this area; and work to enhance the pro­file of the pro­gram.
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CALL FOR PAPERS
East of California Section-Sponsored Panels for the AAAS Conference in Washington, DC (April 11 – 15, 2012)
SUBMISSION DEADLINE: SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

Based on the con­fer­ence theme, “Expanding the Political: Power, Poetics, Practices,” the East-of-California Section seeks to spon­sor the fol­low­ing three pan­els at the 2012 AAAS Conference in Washington, DC. We invite fac­ulty, grad­u­ate stu­dents and com­mu­nity mem­bers who are involved in Asian American pol­i­tics and art to sub­mit pro­pos­als to one of these pan­els by email­ing a 250-word abstract and a two-page CV to Mark Chiang (mchiang00@gmail.com) and Eric Hung (msumeric@gmail.com) by September 20, 2011.

PANEL: Asian Americans and Conservative Politics East of California
Asian American vot­ers have become increas­ingly “Democratic-leaning” in fed­eral elec­tions over the past two decades. Simultaneously, a num­ber of Asian Americans have become highly vis­i­ble in con­ser­v­a­tive pol­i­tics. Not only have Dinesh D’Souza and Elaine Chao served in the Reagan and sec­ond Bush admin­is­tra­tions, Bobby Jindal and Nikki Haley have become gov­er­nors of Louisiana and South Carolina. Additionally, Michelle Malkin has become a promi­nent con­ser­v­a­tive pun­dit on Fox News.

This panel seeks papers that address the rise of Asian Americans in con­ser­v­a­tive pol­i­tics — the Republican Party, neolib­eral and lib­er­tar­ian orga­ni­za­tions, the Tea Party — east of California. What led to this rise? What are its impli­ca­tions for Asian American iden­tity and Asian American Studies? What impacts have these fig­ures made on the Conservative move­ment? What roles has reli­gion played in this trend? Is it an inevitable result of increased assimilation?

PANEL: Asian American Political Art
This panel seeks papers that address the rela­tion­ship between art (broadly defined), pol­i­tics and Asian America. We are par­tic­u­larly inter­ested in stud­ies of visual art, film, dance, music and lit­er­a­ture that engage with the for­mal polit­i­cal sys­tem or the polit­i­cal process. Potential top­ics include:

• method­olog­i­cal issues raised by polit­i­cal art
• art as a tool of polit­i­cal legit­i­ma­tion or resistance
• pro­pa­gan­dis­tic works about Asian America or Asian immigration
• art’s impact on the terms of debate and polit­i­cal actions
• the role of com­mu­nity in the cre­ation and use of polit­i­cal art

PANEL: Questions of State
What role does the state play in Asian American pol­i­tics, cul­ture and com­mu­nity? We seek papers that address any aspect of the state, from his­tor­i­cal stud­ies of Asian American actors in the polit­i­cal sys­tem or state appa­ra­tus (gov­ern­ment employ­ees, politi­cians, lob­by­ists and oth­ers), to the­o­ret­i­cal reflec­tions on the con­tem­po­rary trans­for­ma­tions of the state and its impact on ide­o­log­i­cal strug­gles over polit­i­cal hege­mony, to inves­ti­ga­tions of the state’s place in the global econ­omy and how that shapes Asian American sub­jects or com­mu­ni­ties. What kinds of power still oper­ate through the state and where are Asian Americans located in rela­tion to that power? Is the state still an essen­tial site of polit­i­cal or cul­tural strug­gles, or is it becom­ing increas­ingly mar­ginal to transna­tional move­ments or organizations?