CFP: Graduate student conference, Critical Asian Humanities workshop, Duke University
CALL FOR PAPERS Graduate Student Conference in conjunction with the first annual Critical Asian Humanities workshop at Duke University April 3rd,… more
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CFP: The (Re)production of Misery and the Ways of Resistance
“The relatively unexplored category of misery suggests a similar need to make and to challenge distinctions between subjective, individual experiences on the one hand and social divisions on the other. […] Considering misery and resistance together encourages a raft of theoretical and methodological approaches, old and new.”… more
CFP: “Tours of Duty and Tours of Leisure” – American Quarterly
This certainly should interest many friends doing critical Korean/American studies. This special issue seeks to explore the mutual and cogenerative genealogies, technologies, ideologies, and geographies of tourism and militarism.… more
Application Summer Institute on military occupation, Cornell University
Looks like an interesting & timely theme for sure. “Preoccupation with occupation in its multiple forms is spreading. The theme of the Third Annual Summer Institute at Cornell University is military occupation and its civilian society relatives. Military occupation refers to temporary control of territory by a conquering nation. Such occupation at times continues open-endedly as post-war governance: 11 of 42 military occupations since the end of World War II continue today.”… more
CFP: Religion, Gender and Body Politics at Utrecht University
International conference on behalf of the international research project “Interdisciplinary Innovations in the Study of Religion and Gender: Postcolonial, Post-secular and Queer Perspectivesâ€, at Utrecht University, The Netherlands, 12-14 February 2015.… more
CFP: Critical Ethnic Studies conference at York 2015
Sovereignties and Colonialisms: Resisting Racism, Extraction and Dispossession April 30 – May 3, 2015 York University, Toronto The Critical Ethnic… more
CFP: Transgender Studies Quarterly: The Translation Issue
Special Issue on Translating Transgender, due March 1, 2015 for publication in Spring 2016. Few primary and secondary texts about transgender lives and ideas have been translated from language to language in any formal way over the centuries. Meanwhile, transgender, gender variant, and gender non-confirming people have often been exiles, translators, language mediators, and multilinguals in greater numbers and intensities historically than their cisgender counterparts have. … more
CFP: Sport in Asian America
“From basketball leagues in the San Francisco Chinatown of the 1930s and 1940s to Michael Chang and Jeremy Lin, sport has always been an important site for understanding Asian American life. This special issue of Amerasia Journal focuses on how various forces—transnational processes, the contemporary era of globalization, histories of colonialism and imperialism, and U.S. domestic history—have shaped the cultural politics of sport in Asian America.”… more
CFP: Korea and Vietnam in the 20th Century
Another interesting CFP focusing on the significance of Southeast Asia in Korean studies. This small conference in Fall 2015 will examine intersection or comparison of Korean and Vietnamese experience to highlight similarities and differences between the two countries’ culture and historical experience.… more
CFP: Serialization in Asia, University of Washington
The Center for Korean Studies at the University of Washington invites paper proposals for “Serialization in Asia†to open up interdisciplinary and interregional discussions on the creation and consumption of cultural products in serialized form. Beginning most prominently in the nineteenth century, seriality emerged as one of the core components of cultural productions in many fields, and it continues to become an ever more powerful mechanism in the twenty-first century, ubiquitous in fields as diverse as literature, radio, film, TV, comic books, games, and various web-based formats.… more