tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-347667472024-10-04T20:55:15.990-05:00<b><u>THE BLOG FOR THE EAST ASIAN LANGUAGES &amp; CULTURES GRADUATE STUDENT ORGANIZATION</u></b><br> This blog was created as a resource for members of the East Asian Languages and Cultures Graduate Student Organization (EGO) at <a href="http://www.uiuc.edu">UIUC</a> and others working on East Asian and Pacific Studies here at UIUC. Feel free to add comments. To post a call for papers (CFP) or other announcement, please email it to <a href="mailto:null">James</a>.jrwelkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05101757142463134702noreply@blogger.comBlogger250125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34766747.post-25985521682703995832010-04-10T14:25:00.004-05:002010-04-10T14:32:33.847-05:00

The East Asian Studies Center at The Ohio State University is pleased to host the 59th Midwest Conference on Asian Affairs (MCAA) from October 1-3, 2010 at the new Ohio Union in Columbus, Ohio. A regional conference of the Association of Asian Studies (AAS), MCAA has provided a forum for scholars and teachers of Asian Studies in the Midwest to gather and exchange knowledge about the history and

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Call For PapersJapan Studies Association Journal, Volume 8 (2010)JSAJ, a juried professional journal published annually, accepts essays on a wide variety of topics related to Japanese Studies across the disciplines, Pedagogical Notes and Essays which reflect on aspects of teaching Japanese material, and book reviews and review essays of relevant research for our membership and for all those

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This is drivable!Sex and Love in Asian Contexts: Film & History Conference: Representationsof Love in Film and TelevisionNovember 10-14, 2010Hyatt Regency Milwaukeewww.uwosh.edu/filmandhistoryExtended Deadline: March 1, 2009AREA: Sex and Love in Asian Contexts,Asia has, perhaps, the richest history of cultural and commercial exchangein the world, resulting in deeply layered religious, political,

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This one's close by.Chicago, Illinois, 18-21 November, 2010Submission deadline: 15 February, 2010Power and Politicshttp://www.ssha.org/The 2010 Program Committee seeks panel proposals that will focus on Power and Politics. Power is a foundational concept in history and the social sciences, and just as clearly a contested one. Traditionally, the understanding of power as the capacity to enact

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Transnational Asia Graduate Student ConferenceFriday, February 5, 2010, 8:30 a.m. - 5:30 p.m.Sponsor: Chao Center for Asian Studies, Rice UniversityKeynote: William Mazzarella, University of Chicago Dept of AnthropologyPhenomena that accompany the movement of individuals, ideas, and goods across the boundaries of nation-states are often glossed as "transnational." Individuals in Asia are evermore

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FYI.... encyclopedias are a great, relatively easy way to get your feet wet in academic publishing.We are inviting academic editorial contributors to the MultimediaEncyclopedia of Women in Today’s World, a new print and electronicreference that will look at women today around the world and delve into thecontexts of being female in the 21st century. Thus the scope of theencyclopedia will focus on

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How might the understanding of “East Asia” – be it in terms of a geographical, historical, and cultural locus or as a space of fantasy and the imaginary – be illuminated by accounting for the ways in which desires are produced, structured, regulated, and mobilized through various institutions and discursive formations? Whether understood as lack or a productive force or a form of affective labor,

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I don't normally post/send out regional AAS announcements, but since Louisville is very drivable from here....The Southeast Conference Association for Asian Studies49th Annual MeetingUniversity of LouisvilleLouisville, KYJanuary 15-17, 2010The University of Louisville is host of the 49th annual meeting of theSoutheast Conference of the Association for Asian Studies (SEC/AAS), tobe held January

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"Gay, Kind-of Gay and Pseudo-Gay in Anime and Manga: What's the Point?"a public lecture by Patrick DrazenThursday, 22 October 20094:00-5:30Noyes Lab 163From the cross-dressing of Osamu Tezuka's Princess Sapphire in Princess Knight (Ribon no kishi, orig. 1953-56) and Ryoko Ikeda's Oscar de Jarjayes in The Rose of Versailles (Berusaiyu no bara, 1972-73) to the fake twincest of the Ouran High School

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A good number of EALC students have presented at this conference in the past. It's a very supportive place to get experience if you haven't presented very much or at all. And of course there's no transportation or hotel expenses. You do not have to be focused on history in your degree as long as the paper you propose has a historical aspect to it. This paper could be something you've written or

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As in the past, the Early Modern Japan Network is soliciting proposalsfor panels at its next meeting in association with the annual meeting ofthe AAS. We do not have a fixed number of panels, and in the past haveaccommodated as many as a half dozen over the course of the AAS'sThursday to Sunday meeting schedule.Please submit complete panel proposals to Philip Brown atbrown dot 113 at osu dot

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20th Japan Anthropology Workshop (JAWS) Conference2nd Call for Papers/Panels14 – 16 March 2010, University of Texas at Austin***Deadline for all abstracts: 1 November 2009***The organizing committee of the Japan Anthropology Workshop welcomes panel and paper proposals for the 2010 JAWS conference, which will be held in Austin, Texas. The conference theme is "Identity, Ritual, and Religion in

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We are inviting academic editorial contributors to the MultimediaEncyclopedia of Women in Today’s World, a new print and electronicreference that will look at women today around the world and delve into thecontexts of being female in the 21st century. Thus the scope of theencyclopedia will focus on women’s status starting in approximately 2000and look forward. The work will present

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From: Majella Munro, Editor (modernartasiaenquiries at yahoo dot co dot uk)Modern Art Asia is a new journal dedicated to the arts of Asia from the eighteenth century to today, presenting postgraduate research from historical perspectives and international news on Asian art. Combining peer-reviewed articles with insightful commentary and the latest exhibiton reviews from international

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The Department of Humanities, University of Toronto Scarborough, is pleased to presentA Call for PapersThe Tung Lin Kok Yuen Conference: Buddhism and DiasporaFriday May 14- Sunday May 16, 2010University of Toronto ScarboroughFor more information, please visit our website:http://www.utsc.utoronto.ca/~humdiv/TLKY/event3Keynote Address, Friday May 14th: Professor Victor Hori (McGillUniversity)This

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Note that individual paper proposals rather than full panels are also accepted, and that there are a limited amount of travel funds available for grad students.Japan Studies AssociationSixteenth Annual ConferenceJanuary 7-9, 2010Tokai UniversityHonolulu, HawaiiThe Japan Studies Association invites you to attend the Sixteenth Annual Japan Studies Association Conference to be held January 7-9, 2010

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Visualizing Global Asia at the Turn of the 20th CenturyAn Academic Conference sponsored by the Visualizing Cultures Project and the Center for East Asian Studies, Yale University Yale University, New Haven, April 29 May 1, 2010Coordinators Peter C. Perdue [Yale] and John W. Dower [MIT]The Visualizing Cultures project[http://visualizingcultures.mit.edu] and the Council on East Asian Studies at

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Call for papers: 21st Conference of the International Association of Historians of Asia (IAHA) 22-25 June 2010. DEADLINE 30 Sept. 2009A warm invitation is extended to all historians and scholars of Asia to come to the dynamic city of Singapore in late June 2010 to attend IAHA 2010. At this conference the Steering Committee will seek to showcase the latest scholarly research and

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(It's been a while since I've posted a CFP, mainly because there's been very little I've seen that would be of interest to more than one EALC grad. Please share CFPs that you think others of us might be interested in. You can email them directly to the EALC grads list or to me. Keep in mind that this particular conf is in a very driveable location.)2010 Film & History Conference: Representations

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20th Japan Anthropology Workshop (JAWS) Conference Call for Papers/Panels14 – 16 March 2010, University of Texas at Austin The organizing committee of the Japan Anthropology Workshop welcomes panel and paper proposals for the 2010 JAWS conference, which will be held in Austin, Texas. The conference theme is "Identity, Ritual, and Religion in Japan” although the organizers are open to all topics

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Call for WritersSchlager Group, the publisher of the award-winning "Milestone Documents"series of reference books, is seeking writers for its newest project,Milestone Documents in World History (MDWH). Aimed at high school andlower undergraduate history students, MDWH covers 130 of the mostimportant primary source documents in history. Our unique approach pairsthe full text of the primary

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Call for Authors: ABC-CLIO, the leading publisher of academic referenceworks, is in the process of developing a comprehensive 21-volumeEncyclopedia of World History. We are seeking interested scholars toprepare 500-1500 word articles on the history of Japan and Korea.Compensation: contributors will have their names associated with theentries they contribute and will receive access to the e-book

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The Eighteenth Annual MeetingRETHINKING GENDER IN THE POSTGENDER ERANovember 6-8, 2009Rutgers UniversityCALL FOR PAPERSElaine Showalter's A Literature of Their Own (1977) proposed a three-stagemodel of the growth of feminist theory, beginning with an androgynistpoetics, then a feminist critique and female aesthetic, and finally gendercriticism. If feminist theory could but explain gender

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Hello all!Join us at Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo for a four-week summerintensive program that will teach you about the business and practice oftranslation! We welcome applications from everyone, including currentstudents, graduates, and international students from around the world.The Summer Translation Institute (STI), hosted by the Department of ForeignLanguages at Western

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You are warmly invited to attend the upcoming 4th Joint East Asian StudiesConference (JEASC), to be held at the University of Sheffield, UK, 8-10September 2009.The JEASC is a triennial meeting held by the three academic associationsrepresenting East Asian Studies in the UK (The British Associations forChinese, Japanese, and Korean Studies – BACS, BAJS, and BAKS). We encourageapplications for

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