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CFP — Foodways: Diasporic diners, transnational tables and culinary connections

02/16/2012 CFP No comments

I got hun­gry just think­ing about this CFP.

CALL FOR PAPERS

FOODWAYS: DIASPORIC DINERS, TRANSNATIONAL TABLES AND CULINARY CONNECTIONS

Centre for Diaspora and Transnational Studies, University of Toronto

Please join us for the 2012 Annual Conference of the Centre for Diaspora and Transnational Studies, University of Toronto

Thursday October 4 – Sunday, October 7, 2012
Abstracts due: March 16, 2012

More infor­ma­tion on the con­fer­ence can be found on the Diasporic Foodways blog

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Description:
This con­fer­ence seeks to address ques­tions sur­round­ing the dynam­ics of the food ‘we’ eat, the ways in which ‘we’ eat, the mean­ing ‘we’ give to eat­ing, and the effect of eat­ing in a transna­tional world. Recognizing that culi­nary cul­ture is cen­tral to dias­poric iden­ti­fi­ca­tions, the focus is on the place of food in the endur­ing habits, rit­u­als, and every­day prac­tices that are col­lec­tively used to pro­duce and sus­tain shared senses of cul­tural iden­tity. Yet even as it does this work, food and the prac­tices of pro­duc­tion, prepa­ra­tion and con­sump­tion that revolve around it, can­not help but be drawn into wider cul­tures and cul­tural pol­i­tics of con­sump­tion increas­ingly grounded in the pur­suit of qual­i­ties of dif­fer­ence, acts of dis­tinc­tion and ques­tions of jus­tice. This focus on food, cook­ing, and eat­ing in dias­pora and its role in con­nect­ing and chang­ing peo­ples, places, tastes, and sen­si­bil­i­ties around the world yields insight not only to sub­stances that peo­ple con­sider essen­tial to the main­te­nance of iden­tity, but to the pro­duc­tion of new cul­tural polit­i­cal for­ma­tions in a transna­tional world and to the role of cul­tural (re)production in the expan­sion of con­sump­tion under con­tem­po­rary cap­i­tal­ism. A focus on food also reveals the dynamic role of his­tor­i­cal path­ways in under­stand­ing cul­tural for­ma­tions as they have existed through time, and in posi­tion­ing the present as a moment in a con­tin­u­ing process of struc­tured mobil­ity that directs the move­ment of peo­ple, what they eat, and how they under­stand them­selves and the world around them. It also yields insight into the mul­ti­ple places and ways in which food assumes value and how that value is often reliant upon the con­tin­ued repro­duc­tion of ties that bind peo­ple, place, and prac­tice across space and time. A great deal of aca­d­e­mic work explores this inter­play of food, prac­tice, iden­tity and sub­ject for­ma­tion, much of it bound together by a com­mit­ment that through a fuller under­stand­ing of those rela­tions, we bet­ter under­stand our­selves, our pasts, and the com­plex­i­ties of the spaces and lives we inhabit and enact in a transna­tional world. This con­fer­ence seeks to enhance that under­stand­ing.
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CFP: Transnational Asia Graduate Student Conference, Rice University

10/04/2011 FYI No comments

Call for Papers

3rd Annual Transnational Asia Graduate Student Conference
February 10 – 11, 2012
Rice University Chao Center for Asian Studies

Architectures of Mobility: Structures, Circuits, Deformations

Keynote: Dr. Nayan Shah, Department of History, UC San Diego

Deadline: Please send abstracts of 250 – 300 words to transnationalasia@​gmail.​com* by November 28, 2011

Contemporary fig­u­ra­tions of the transna­tional often invoke a lan­guage of flows and fric­tions to describe the increas­ingly ambigu­ous role of nation-states and their bound­aries in the move­ment of goods, per­sons, and ideas. Without aban­don­ing this view alto­gether, this con­fer­ence invites par­tic­i­pants to move beyond it in order to inves­ti­gate the dynam­ics which have led to its pro­mul­ga­tion – both as dom­i­nant metaphor in the thought of many schol­ars study­ing Asia and as lived ana­lytic for indi­vid­u­als mak­ing sense of their ver­tig­i­nous con­tem­po­raries and their legacies.

We aim to look at the struc­tures which ani­mate and ren­der pos­si­ble or hin­der expe­ri­ences of mobil­ity, from those of sub­jec­tiv­ity to the econ­omy; the cir­cuits that enable those mobil­i­ties, from local bus routes to the tra­jec­to­ries of migrant work­ers; and the defor­ma­tions of these estab­lished sys­tems that can gen­er­ate both psy­chic vio­lence and prac­tices of agency alike. In short, this year’s Transnational Asia Graduate Student Conference envi­sions a cross-disciplinary approach to explor­ing the processes and effects of “transna­tion­al­ism,” as well as the con­di­tions sup­port­ing its con­cep­tual coher­ence, in both the his­tor­i­cal past and the emerg­ing present. We invite inter­ven­tions sit­u­ated at all lev­els of analy­sis, from the micro-social to the geopo­lit­i­cal, uti­liz­ing a range of method­olog­i­cal approaches.

The above descrip­tion of the themes of this con­fer­ence ought to be taken as a heuris­tic for our dis­cus­sion about transna­tion­al­ism in Asia, rather than as a strict or exclu­sion­ary rule for the con­tent of papers. Potential areas of focus include, but are not lim­ited to:

  • Media and technology
  • Health and the body
  • Scientific col­lab­o­ra­tion
  • Language and lin­guis­tic practice
  • Activism and social movements
  • Theoretical approaches to transnationalism
  • The built envi­ron­ment and transportation
  • Environmental prac­tices and the nat­ural world
  • Religion and spir­i­tual practices
  • Affect and emo­tional life
  • Political econ­omy
  • Consumption prac­tices

This con­fer­ence is explic­itly inter­dis­ci­pli­nary in nature, and we invite par­tic­i­pa­tion from grad­u­ate stu­dents in ALL dis­ci­plines across the human­i­ties, social sci­ences, archi­tec­ture, plan­ning, busi­ness, and nat­ural sci­ences. Similarly, we strive to include research which rep­re­sents the regional and national diver­sity of Asia. Presentations on work in progress or research uti­liz­ing exper­i­men­tal approaches are strongly encour­aged. In addi­tion to a stim­u­lat­ing the­o­ret­i­cal dis­cus­sion, this con­fer­ence is intended to func­tion in part as a work­shop space, to allow grad­u­ate stu­dents to receive feed­back from men­tors and peers at any stage of their projects.

Please cir­cu­late freely.

Rice University
Chao Center for Asian Studies
6100 Main Street
Houston, Texas
http://​asia​.rice​.edu

Assistant Professor of Transnational Asian History, University of Wisconsin at Madison

07/15/2011 FYI No comments

Assistant Professor of Transnational Asian History

The Department of History at the UW-Madison invites appli­ca­tions for a full-time, tenure-track fac­ulty posi­tion begin­ning August 2012 at the rank of Assistant Professor in transna­tional Asian his­tory since 1500.

Applicants should hold a doc­tor­ate or antic­i­pate its com­ple­tion by the time of the appoint­ment. Candidates should demon­strate evi­dence of cre­ativ­ity and excel­lence in research deal­ing with transna­tional exchange or inter­ac­tion among cul­tures, soci­eties, regions or states within Asia. Possible realms of exchange include, but are not lim­ited to, intel­lec­tual, reli­gious, eco­nomic, envi­ron­men­tal, mil­i­tary, or polit­i­cal rela­tions. The suc­cess­ful appli­cant will be expected to teach under­grad­u­ate and grad­u­ate courses in Asian his­tory and to work closely with such allied pro­grams across cam­pus as the university’s Title VI National Resource Centers in South, East, and Southeast Asia. The posi­tion itself forms part of a larger ini­tia­tive sup­ported by the Mellon Foundation to enhance the study of Asian his­tory and cul­ture at the UW-Madison.

Interested can­di­dates should send hard paper copies of their let­ter of appli­ca­tion, cur­ricu­lum vitae, and a writ­ing sam­ple of approx­i­mately 50 pages, as well as three signed hard paper copies of let­ters of rec­om­men­da­tion to Ms. Nicole Hauge, Transnational Asian History Search Committee, Department of History, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 3211 Mosse Humanities Building, 455 North Park Street, Madison, WI 53706 – 1405. We also request that you send PDF copies of your let­ter of appli­ca­tion, cur­ricu­lum vitae, and a writ­ing sam­ple of approx­i­mately 50 pages to historysearches@​lists.​wisc.​edu. If the writ­ing sam­ple forms part of a larger book man­u­script or dis­ser­ta­tion, please include an abstract and table of con­tents or a state­ment of how the writ­ing sam­ple fits in with the larger project. Do not send elec­tronic copies of let­ters of rec­om­men­da­tion. For full con­sid­er­a­tion, com­plete appli­ca­tions must be received by November 1, 2011. Read more

[CFP] Transnational Religion workshop in Germany

12/21/2010 FYI One comment

I hope to attend this work­shop in 2011.

Call for Papers
Transnational Religion, Missionization, and Refugee Migrants in Comparative Perspective
6 – 7 October 2011

Organizers: Alexander Horstmann and Jin-Heon Jung (MMG-MPI)
International Workshop Series/Book Project
Max-Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, Gttingen, Germany

*For a full CFP, please visit http://​www​.mmg​.mpg​.de/​e​v​e​n​t​s​/​a​r​c​h​i​v​e​-​w​o​r​k​s​h​o​p​s​-​c​o​n​f​e​r​e​n​c​e​s​/​2​0​1​1​/​w​o​r​k​s​h​o​p​-​m​i​s​s​i​o​n​i​z​a​t​i​o​n​-​r​e​f​u​g​e​es/

The ever-growing scale of vio­lent mass dis­place­ment, rou­tine mea­sures of the de facto seal­ing of bor­ders and the crim­i­nal­iza­tion of migrant labor are phe­nom­ena that are cre­at­ing impor­tant fields for schol­arly engage­ments. Although refugee stud­ies have sought answers to the com­plex nature and causes of forced migra­tion, to the dilemma of human­i­tar­i­an­ism and to the mod­ern modes of gov­ern­ing refugees-migrants, our knowl­edge about the iden­tity processes of the refugee migrants or about the strate­gies and moti­va­tion of human­i­tar­ian orga­ni­za­tions is still limited.

Refugee camps have become impor­tant sites of pros­e­ly­ti­za­tion and Pentecostals, Buddhist mil­lenar­ian move­ments and Islamic revival­ist move­ments have become ever more promi­nent in con­texts of vio­lent mass dis­place­ment. Christian churches, Buddhist monas­ter­ies and Muslim mosques are eas­ily the most cen­tral place for social inte­gra­tion and spir­i­tu­al­ity of refugee migrants and the first shel­ter in hos­tile envi­ron­ments. Moreover, the nar­ra­tives of suf­fer­ing, the dynam­ics of polit­i­cal mobi­liza­tion in exile enhance and rein­force religious-mythical and nation­al­ist iden­ti­fi­ca­tion. However, reli­gion has not arrived yet on the map in refugee stud­ies. But in the sec­u­lar and struc­tural­ist social sci­ence approach to refugee stud­ies, schol­ars con­sider reli­gion only a by-product of iden­tity and gender.

We believe that reli­gion pro­vides a priv­i­leged win­dow to shed light on and are a dri­ving engine of iden­ti­fi­ca­tion processes of refugee migrants in transna­tional and polit­i­cal com­mu­ni­ties. We there­fore put reli­gion in the cen­ter of inquiry and explore the find­ings that such a per­spec­tive will engen­der. We thus invite papers to the fol­low­ing ques­tions: How do the tra­jec­to­ries of refugee migrants in reli­gious mis­sion­ary groups unfold and how are they being mobi­lized? How are the sub­jec­tiv­i­ties and iden­ti­fi­ca­tions of refugee migrants influ­enced by reli­gious groups and what kind of oppor­tu­ni­ties come with mem­ber­ship in them? What is the rela­tion­ship of human­i­tar­ian orga­ni­za­tions, reli­gious groups and refugee migrants? What is the ide­ol­ogy of human­i­tar­ian orga­ni­za­tions and reli­gious groups, their men­tal maps? How do human­i­tar­ian orga­ni­za­tions and reli­gious groups par­tic­i­pate in the gov­er­nance of the refugee migrants?

The papers given in the sym­po­sium will be pub­lished in an edited vol­ume. Interested schol­ars are encour­aged to send a short pro­posal of 250 words and short bio­graph­i­cal infor­ma­tion to the orga­niz­ers by 15 February 2011 to MisRef@​mmg.​mpg.​de. We will con­tact selected par­tic­i­pants 1 March 2011, and we may able to cover the par­tic­i­pants all travel expenses. Inquiries about the work­shop can be sent to the same address.