Cal State Long Beach is advertising for an Assistant Professor in the Department of Asian and Asian American Studies, someone with “a Ph.D. in East Asian languages and cultures, applied linguistics, foreign/second language education, or a relevant area of Korean studies.” Deadline on October 15.… more →
Asian Studies at Cornell University is accepting applications for a tenure-track assistant professorship in Northeast Asian Critical Humanities. The department approaches Asian Humanities from diverse, but often complementary, disciplinary and theoretical arenas, including literature, film, media and visual culture, literary and intellectual history, religious studies, the investigation of imperial and colonial cultural forms and processes, translation studies, and study of modernities. Due November 1, 2017.… more →
Here are six (6) interesting calls for papers for the 2018 MLA convention in NYC from January 4-7, 2018, with themes ranging from representation of community and blacklisting to disability and cannibalism. The presidential theme for the convention is #States of Insecurity.
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This special issue asks whether or not it is possible therefore to theorise a queer commons, and – if it is – what it might look like within social, political and cultural practice. Can a queer commons be found across historical periods in, for example, various sexually dissident communities; from drag queen communes to anarcho-queer punk collectives?… more →
Organized by Asia Centre (Seoul National University), Vietnam National University (Hanoi), Leiden University (Leiden), and École des Hautes Études en… more →
Very interesting workshop CFP, due July 1, 2016. Submissions will be considered for publication in a 2018 special issue of the Journal of Korean Studies. The workshop “proposes to examine the intersection of science, language, and literature and expand this inquiry across periods, disciplines, and media, examining representations of science and scientific data in materials including but not limited to premodern archival materials, science textbooks, literature, popular science journals, general interest periodicals, and science fiction.”… more →
Below are five (5) Sessional Lecturer postings in Contemporary Asian Studies at the University of Toronto, in both the fall and spring semesters of 2016-2017 year: Politics of development in Asia, Comparative colonialisms in Asia, Asian cities, Asian youth cultures, and Comparative modernities in Asia.… more →
I’ll be interpreting tomorrow for artist and filmmaker Heung-Soon Lim whose documentary film Factory Complex 위로공단 (2004) won the prestigious Silver… more →
What is East Asia? From ideological construct to physical and material reality, East Asia is still a contested territory, marked by the discourse of “Asian ascendancy†in the midst of new forms of conflict and contradiction, ranging from territorial disputes to economic tensions and historical revisionism. By questioning what constitutes East Asia today in a world of shifting boundaries, this conference for junior scholars seeks new approaches to understand the region and new methods to conduct area studies. Attending to flows, connections, travels and interactions that dismantle the understanding of East Asian studies as a bounded entity, the conference invites papers that critically discuss East Asia from multiple disciplinary perspectives.… more →
Monash University in Australia is looking for a lecturer in Korean studies, especially with research/teaching expertise in contemporary popular culture. As the program already has linguistics expertise​,​ they’re particularly keen on anthropology, sociology, and cultural studies. Closing date is March 20, 2016.… more →
