POSTPONED -- ASAGSG CONFERENCE 2007

POSTPONED!! MORE INFO TO FOLLOW.

STATES OF EM(URGENCY): WHERE IS ASIAN AMERICAN STUDIES A/CROSS DISCIPLINES?

OCTOBER 20-21, 2007

Call for proposal and conference website:
http://www.myspace.com/asagsgconference2007

CALL FOR PAPERS

Childhood & Migration: Interdisciplinary Conference 2008
Philadelphia, PA, USA
http://globalchild.rutgers.edu/

Friday, June 20th , and Saturday, June 21st, 2008

Call for Participation (issued September 2007)

Announcing our Keynote Speaker: Prof. Jacqueline Bhabha, Jeremiah Smith Jr. Lecturer in Law at Harvard Law School, the Executive Director of the Harvard University Committee on Human Rights Studies.

Emerging Perspectives on Children in Migratory Circumstances

The Working Group on Childhood and Migration (see http://globalchild.rutgers.edu/) will hold its first conference in June of 2008 in Philadelphia, with support from the U.S. National Science Foundation, Drexel University, and Rutgers University, Camden.

At this inaugural conference, we welcome researchers and policy advocates from all disciplines and all areas of the world whose work focuses on the ways that increased migration affects children and the cultural, legal, educational, medical, and psychological perception of childhood. Please submit a 200 to 300 word abstract for an individual paper proposal in the body of an email to _rrr@drexel.edu_ by December 15th . Notification of acceptance will be by January 10th, 2008 .

Conference website is available at:

http://www.pages.drexel.edu/~dtd28/GlobalChild/index1.htm

The way that world migration affects children's lives is complex and multi-faceted. Studies of children in migratory circumstances cross multiple areas of the world and multiple areas of concern for researchers, policy makers and direct service workers. Moreover, larger public concerns alter children's lives, concerns like immigration visa policies, media representations of child labor, and changing educational systems. Migratory familes also undergo unique private concerns over problems like the quality of substitute care and communication with loved ones across long distances. Holistic or at least less partial glimpses of these children's lives therefore must cross-cut the disciplines of law, political science, sociology, anthropology, demography, psychology, education, economics, communication, humanities and the arts. And yet, within academe researchers tend to communicate only with those in the same discipline or in the
same geographical
region. Thus, the June 2008 conference will provide
a venue to share
data, methodologies, and theories regardless of
discipline, with a focus
directly on how children fare under conditions of
migration.
Additionally, we want to create cross-disciplinary
synergy by bringing
together junior and senior research-active faculty
internationally
committed to developing new research avenues on
childhood and migration.

To frame our approach to child-centered
understanding of childhood and
migration, we consider childhood to be centrally
important to grasping
the effect that increased (and increasingly visible)
world migration has
on social and household reproduction. As a result,
the following
questions are important in guiding researchers
abstracts for the conference:

--Are children's development and maturation
processes significantly
affected by migration experiences, and if so, how
deleterious or
beneficial are they? Is a migration-associated
childhood now something
normative, and what does that kind of childhood look
like?

--How are children's rights and the notion of
children as citizens
affected by transnationalism, or by movement of
parents and children in
and out of various national legal systems?

--What are the emotional consequences of family
separation across
migratory families, especially for children?

--What are children's perspectives on migration, how
are they to be
elicited, how well can they be elicited and
represented, and what can
these perspectives tell us about socialization and
processes of
maturation in transnational families?

--How is migration shaping any given culture group's
notions of
childhood, and how are cultural notions of childhood
shaping migration?

--What are general and specific manifestations of
notions of childhood
under global economic change? For example, how do
remittances affect
expectations for children's scholastic achievement?
How do remittances
which elevate families into higher classes affect
children's social
development? How are attitudes toward child labor
changing with
increased international migration?

--How do media and policy makers represent children
in migration and how
do discourses about immigrant children and migrant
parents affect their
lives and experiences?

--What can we do to generate better quantitative and
qualitative data on
the effects that migration has on children? What are
the numbers of
migrant children and how are they best defined as
children in their own
rights?

The conference will run two days, Friday, June 20^th
, and Saturday,
June 21^st , at Drexel University in downtown
Philadelphia. Philadelphia
is accessible from Philadelphia International (PHL),
Newark
International (EWR) and Baltimore-Washington, D.C.
(BWI) airports.
Philadelphia is two hours from New York City and
Washington D.C. by
train. Limited funding for travel and/or
accomodations in Philadelphia
is available for graduate students and international
scholars (please
indicate your interest with your abstract
submission). We anticipate
publishing selected papers in a conference volume.

Conference includes buffet breakfasts, and a lunch
and a dinner on one
day. Conference pre-registration fees will be U.S.
$30.00 for tenure and
tenure-track professors and U.S. $20.00 for all
others. For
pre-registration rate, please register by February
1, 2007. Registration
on site will be $40.00.

Contact Rachel Reynolds _rrr@drexel.edu_ phone
215-895-0498, or Cati Coe
_ccoe@camden.rutgers.edu_ phone 856-225-6455, for
more information.
Conference website is available at:

http://www.pages.drexel.edu/~dtd28/GlobalChild/index1.htm

ASAGSG Welcome Mixer 10/12

Asian American Studies
Graduate Student Group

Welcome Mixer!!
Friday, October 12
1-3 pm
3201 Hart Hall (next to the Asian American Studies office on the 3rd floor)

· Find out how you can get involved in the ASAGSG
· Meet other grad students with similar research interests
· Learn about professional development opportunities
· Learn how you can get the support you need right now

The Asian American Studies graduate students group offers cross- and trans-disciplinary connections for graduate students whose research interests relate to the field of Asian American Studies. Your connection to Asian American Studies can be broadly defined by research interests (postcolonial, globalization, transnational, all are welcome), program/department (social sciences/humanities/sciences/all are welcome), or by race/ethnicity (Asian/Asian American/Pacific Islander/multiracial or mixed heritage/all are welcome). We welcome all who feel that this group can be a "home" or a support network. The goals are, very broadly, to create a sense of community and collegial support, provide a space for graduate students to openly discuss concerns, interests, and issues in general and organize grad students for self-empowerment.

Can’t make the event, want to get involved or learn more about ASAGSG? Please contact Catherine (cmfung@ucdavis.edu) or Terry (tkpark@ucdavis.edu)

We also have a blog: http://www.asagsg.blogspot.com/

CFP for Special Issue on War and Sexual Violence

Special Issue of *Women and Performance*

*The Performance of Mass Rape: War, Trauma, and Limit Phenomena

*Guest Editor:  Sel J. Hwahng

From World War II to the present, the vast majority of armed conflicts have been fought in  developing countries.  For instance, according to Christian Scherrer, of 150 conflicts since World War II, 130 have been fought in developing countries.  During the period from 1985 to 1996, the proportion of armed conflicts in Latin America remained constant, those in Asia and Europe declined, and the proportion of conflicts in Africa greatly increased.  And currently 44% of armed conflicts occur in Africa.  Women and children are often disproportionately affected by armed conflict and mass rape is often systematically used as a weapon of war.

To consider mass rape systems in the context of "performance", however, may give one pause.  Yet human rights discourse often refers to "actors", i.e. participants, in crises or emergencies within specific situated "theaters", i.e. places of enactment of significant events or actions.  And according to Norma Field, "limit phenomena" are catastrophes situated at the limits of comprehension, yet they demonstrate the urgency of confronting reality.

This special issue will therefore interrogate how mass rape systems from World War II to the present have been executed, acknowledged, and addressed through actors performing within theaters of particular armed conflicts, genocides, massacres, and complex emergencies.  Mass rape systems from World War II to the present in regions such as Africa, Latin America, Asia, and Eastern Europe during armed conflict will be examined.  Traumatic effects of mass rape systems in both individuals and groups will also be interrogated. How can focused attention on these limit phenomena also reveal new insights on gender, race, ethnicity, political economy, social formations, and human agency?

Mass rape systems during armed conflict may include but are not limited to the following:  Pacific War/World War II (including the Japanese military sex slavery system and the Rape of Nanjing); Bangladesh War of Liberation; Vietnam War; Colombian Armed Conflict; Guatemalan Civil War; Balkan Conflicts (including Bosnia-Herzegovina and Kosovo); Angolan Civil War; Mozambican Civil War; Salvadoran Civil War; Myanmar (formerly Burma) Civil War; Liberian Civil Wars; Rwandan genocide; Sudanese Civil Wars and Darfur conflict; Congo Wars and Civil War (Democratic Republic of Congo); Ugandan Armed Conflict; and Sierra Leone Civil War.

This special issue will address some of these questions:
-What are the ritualized aspects and practices of mass rape systems?
-How do mass rape systems perform gender, race, ethnicity, sexuality, nationalism, and religion?
-How do colonial, postcolonial, Cold War, and post-Cold War geopolitical dynamics inform and shape actors within mass rape systems situated in particular theaters of armed conflict?
-How does the act of repeatedly bearing witness to mass rape render such atrocities representable or unrepresentable, intelligible or unintelligible?
-How do trauma, terror, and disconnection perform in mass rape systems?
-How are responses to mass rape systems performed and/or ritualized?
-How are the representations of mass rape systems performed in various geopolitical locations, including the U.S.?
-How can the investigation of performative aspects of mass rape systems reveal new insights and applications for the prevention of and intervention in such atrocities?
-How can the investigation of performative aspects of mass rape systems reveal new insights and applications for the treatment of trauma from such atrocities?

Topics may include but are not limited to the following:
--Child Soldiers—Female and/or Male (including human trafficking; rape as initiation into military service; coerced sexual slavery as military duty; and militarized youth cultures)
--Traumatic Effects (including physical and reproductive injuries from rape and torture; physical and sexual mutilations; social disintegration; PTSD such as terror, hyperarousal, intrusion, constriction, and disconnection; silencing; historical trauma; and secondary trauma or injury)
--Ethnocultural Gender/Sex Systems (including gender and sexual identifications and practices before, during, and after armed conflicts; and new gender, sexual, and/or kinship formations arising from mass rape trauma)
--Religion (including religion as justification for rape; mass rape across religious differences; mass rape within same religious affiliation; Christianization and Islamization of genocide, massacres, and mass rape; and syncretic religious formations in mass rape systems)
--Drug Use (including coerced substance use as contraception; and voluntary or coerced substance use to facilitate mass rape and sexual exploitation)
--HIV/AIDS, Sexually Transmitted Infections, and Sexual and Reproductive Health (including HIV/STIs used as weapons of war; HIV/STI seroprevalence of women and children after armed conflict; HIV/STI seroprevalence of child soldiers; forced pregnancies; forced contraception; forced abortions; and sexual traumas such as vaginal fistulae and prolapsed uteri)
--Weapons (including arms trafficking of light weapons; transnational profiteering; Cold War geopolitical nation-state maneuvers; colonial capital accumulation; and postcolonial and post-Cold War crises of failed and unraveling states)
--Propaganda (including entrenchment of racial, ethnic, or religious identifications and differences; and gender disparagement and objectification)
--Documentation of Atrocities and Violence (including journalism; interviews; testimonies; case studies; online and print publishing; and research methodologies)
--Interpretation of Atrocities and Violence (including interpretive performance, theater, film, video, websites, and fiction; memoirs; and reflections by humanitarian workers)
--Demobilization, Demilitarization, Rehabilitation, Reintegration, and Destigmatization of Mass Rape Survivors and Actors (including psychosocial, biomedical, and indigenous healing modalities; and capacity building, best practices, and strategies employed by indigenous and transnational NGOs)
-- Justice Systems and Grassroots Organizing (including local, national, and international legal claims and actions; indigenous and transnational women's groups and organizing; and alternative social formations and peer networks among survivors)
--Comparative analyses between mass rape systems are especially welcome

Submission Guidelines
Please submit manuscripts electronically as email attachments in Microsoft Word.  All emails should be addressed to Sel J. Hwahng at hwahng@ndri.organd Jeanne Vaccaro at jeanne@womenandperformance.org.  Please write "Women and Performance: Special Issue" in subject line.  Essays should be double-spaced, with 1-inch margins; articles should not exceed 10,000 words. Please follow the Chicago Manual of Style, 15th edition. All manuscripts should be submitted with a 500 word abstract. Submissions due no later than December 15, 2007.

Call for Applications: Editorial Associate

Call for Applications: Editorial Associate for the Journal
THEORY and SOCIETY - Renewal and Critique in Social Theory

Theory and Society is currently accepting applications for Editorial Associates. We are an international journal, interdisciplinary in scope, publishing articles pertaining to theories of power, economies, states, culture, gender, social movements, political economy, and related fields of study. We publish articles that make significant critical contributions to existing theoretical knowledge, while being firmly grounded in empirical research. Our Editorial Associates are all graduate students at UC Davis, making us unique amongst journals of our stature. We are accepting applications from Graduate students in the Social Sciences, Humanities, and other disciplines. We are particularly interested in diversifying the editorial collective as most of our current members are from Sociology. The Editorial Associates collective meets once a month, year-round. Participation involves reading a submitted manuscript and presenting your summary, evaluation, and written recommendation at each meeting. Your summary and decision then become the basis for extended discussion by the rest of the collective. On this basis, we make a recommendation to the Editorial Board of the journal. Associates receive up to 4 units of credit through the Social Theory and Comparative History (STCH) program.
Interested graduate students should have completed coursework, but exceptions may be made. Please submit a 1-2 page statement of interest, including your academic department or program, research interests and methodological orientations, current status in your program, bodies of theoretical knowledge with which you are most familiar and/or comfortable, and reasons why you would be a good fit for the Journal. It will be helpful for you to look over a copy of the Journal in the library or online to get a sense of the range of articles we publish in order to ensure your interest in this work. Additionally, you may wish to contact current and former Editorial Associates who would be glad to talk with you about their experiences with the collective:
Sara Anderson, English sander@ucdavis.edu Jaime Becker, Sociology jsbecker@ucdavis.edu
Matthew Keller, Sociology mrkeller@ucdavis.edu
Marian Negoita, Sociology mnegoita@ucdavis.edu Karin Root, Sociology keroot@ucdavis.edu
Aarti Subramaniam, HCD asubramaniam@ucdavis.edu
You are also welcome to attend a meeting of the collective scheduled for October 17th.
Please send in your statement of interest by October 15th, for positions starting November, 2007.

Submit them to Executive Editor Janet Gouldner, either at jgouldner@ucdavis.edu or to: Janet Gouldner, Executive Editor Theory and Society Center for History, Society, and Culture University of California, Davis Davis, CA 95616

UCLA's Amerasia Journal Publishes "Pacific Canada: Beyond the 49th Parallel"

For Immediate Release
September 13, 2007

Press Information: Review Copies:
Russell Leong, Editor Ying Ming Tu, Distribution
Amerasia Journal AASC Center Press
(310) 206-2892; rleong@ucla.edu (310) 825-2968; ytu@aasc.ucla.edu

UCLA Amerasia Journal Publishes "Pacific Canada: Beyond the 49th Parallel"

Los Angeles-UCLA Asian American Studies Center announces the publication of "Pacific Canada: Beyond the 49th Parallel" a special commemorative issue of Amerasia Journal. The issue gathers twenty Canadian scholars, writers, and artists in a 175-page illustrated issue to commemorate the 1907 Pacific coast race riots against Asians in San Francisco, Bellingham, WA, and Vancouver, British Columbia.

Prof. Henry Yu, of UCLA and the University of British Columbia, the co-editor of the volume together with Prof. Guy Beauregard of National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan, states that this issue examines "how the 49th parallel, marking the political border that separates Canada and the United States, has made a difference in how Asian migrants acted and were treated" from their entry and settlement to the present.

Yu, in his introduction to the issue, talks about the Chinese from Guangdong province who came to British Columbia to mine gold and build transcontinental railroads in the 1850s and 1880s; later on, Japanese migrants went to Canada to work in fishing, farming, and agriculture, followed by Punjabi Sikhs in the 1970s. Yet, as Yu points out, Canada as part of the global British Empire differed from the U.S. in both its racial and immigrant policies, and its past and present responses to race relations. According to Prof. Erika Lee, "Racism towards Asians-especially the belief that "Asiatic invasions" threatened the racial, social, and economic well-being of the U.S. and Canada-was also transnational in scope."

In addition, the history of Asians in Canada must also be studied in relation to issues of First Nation peoples of Canada. Rita Wong, professor and cultural activist, reminds us to actively" support aboriginal self-determination, " otherwise Asian Canadians will inadvertently become part of the dominant colonizing history of Canada."

The focus of the special volume is on both historical and contemporary issues. Historical issues include an examination of the 1907 Pacific Coast Race Riots (Erika Lee) mentioned above; a study of Japanese American cultural activism before and after World War II (Masumi Izumi); and revisiting the house of Canadian author Joy Kogawa (Glenn Deer).

Other writers examine the scholarship on Asian Canadians in comparison to scholarship on Asian Americans: this includes essays by Iyko Day and Christopher Lee, whose article, "The Lateness of Asian Canadian Studies" talks about the relatively recent attention given to Asian Canadians by scholars on either side of the 49th parallel.

According to Lee, "what seems to be lacking are academic institutions- scholarly associations, journals, annual conferences, and undergraduate and graduate programs-dedicated to mobilizing research and teaching on Asians in Canada." This volume of Amerasia seeks to partially redress this absence.

Art historians and artists, and writers themselves present their work and point of view: including Alice Ming Wai Jim, Barbara Bickel, Valerie Triggs, Stephanie Springgay, Rita Irwin, Kit Grauer, Gu Xiong, Ruth Beer, Pauline Sameshima, Ashok Mathur, Rita Wong, and Hiromi Goto.

This limited edition volume, with artwork by Canadian artists, can be ordered directly through the website of the UCLA Asian American Studies Center: (http://www.aasc.ucla.edu). The cost is $15.00 plus $5.00 for shipping and handling and 8.25% sales tax for California residents. Make checks payable to "Regents of U.C." Visa, Mastercard, and Discover are also accepted; include expiration date and phone number on correspondence. The mailing address is: UCLA Asian American Studies Center Press, 3230 Campbell Hall, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1546. Phone: (310) 825-2968. Email: aascpress@aasc.ucla.edu

Annual subscriptions for Amerasia Journal are $35.00 for individuals, and $295.00 for libraries and other institutions. Amerasia Journal is published three times a year: Winter, Spring, and Fall. A free subscription to the Center's Crosscurrents Newsmagazine is included in a subscription to Amerasia Journal.

Call For Papers: Out of TimeSpace

Out of TimeSpace

Call for Submissions of Papers, Visual Art and Media
Priority Deadline:  September 7, 2007
Final Deadline:  September 14, 2007
Participant Notification:  September 28, 2007

Out of TimeSpace is a symposium and series of visual art and media events engaging issues of visual culture and politics to be held November 9 - 11, 2007 at the University of California-Berkeley and the San Francisco Art Institute. Through a series of small discussion groups, a visual art and media exhibition, and dialogues between key activists, artists, and scholars, Out of TimeSpace will create the context for a trans-disciplinary debate that will focus a critical lens on race, sexuality, gender, coloniality, power and resistance in global circuits of visual art and media, consider spaces of praxical possibility and social change, and, we hope, engender significant and ongoing connections between people and projects. The symposium is coordinated by the Visuality and Alterity Working Group sponsored by the Townsend Center for the Humanities and the Department of Ethnic Studies, University of California, Berkeley with the co-sponsorship of other UC-Berkeley departments, the San Francisco Art Institute and other partners.

The symposium planning committee invites proposals related to the following themes:

TRANSLOCALITIES/TRANSMODERNITIES
Understanding the geo-politics of art, media and visual culture to create new connections between people, communities and discourses.
Possible topics include:
-Translocal communities and shared visual cultures
-The globalized art world and visual artists in sites of geo-political alterity
-Global political trends across symbolic systems of visual art and media
-Interculturality and human rights
-Transnational visual art and activist projects
-Local visual pedagogies and global activism
-Translational/transnational women of color feminist cultural networks

MOBILE AESTHETICS AND EMERGING SOCIAL MOVEMENTS
Concerning the creative and communicative practices of contemporary social movements for peace and justice.
Possible topics include:
-Mobile communications and social justice
-Gender and decolonial aesthetics
-Human trafficking and resistance movements
-Comparative analysis of aesthetics of social movements
-Translocal hybridization of cultural resistance
-Global archiving of social movement art and media
-Cultural work and the World Social Forum

MEDIA INSURGENCIES
Concerning the evolving global commons of film and digital media responses to political, social, cultural and environmental crises.
Possible topics include:
-Circuits of media exchange between sites in the 'Global South'
-Fourth Cinema
-Liberatory imaginings of cyberspace negotiated or reworked in community-based media centers
-Reconsidering the raced, gendered and geopolitical dimensions of the 'Digital Divide'
-Comparative and relational approaches to transnational visual and digital culture analysis and production

Guidelines for Submission of Papers/Research Presentations:
We invite submissions of scholarly papers, work-in-progress research presentations, and presentations by artists, filmmakers and activists. Most presentations will take place in the context of small group workshop settings. Submit an abstract, short bio and cover letter describing your interest in this venue. Send all submissions by email to: outoftimespace@berkeley.edu

Guidelines for Submission of Visual Art, Film and Digital Media:
We invite submissions of visual art, films and digital media work for the symposium's exhibition and screening series. Submit visual documentation in digital or other media, artist's statement, short bio and cover letter describing your interest in this venue for your work. Please do not send packages larger than 8 x 11 inches and include a self-addressed stamped envelope for return of materials if necessary. Please send all submissions by email to outoftimespace@berkeley.edu or by regular mail to Out of Time Space c/o Dalida Maria Benfield, Department of Ethnic Studies, 506 Barrows Hall #2570, University of California-Berkeley , Berkeley, CA 94720-2570

Note on Languages:
Papers, presentations, films and digital media are invited in languages other than English. Please submit initial materials in both English and original language. Translation needs will be negotiated with each presenter. Please translate any or all of this notice for distribution if desired.

Symposium Organizing Committee:
Lindsay Benedict, Visual Artist, New York, NY Dalida Maria Benfield, Ethnic Studies, UC-Berkeley Annie Fukushima, Ethnic Studies, UC-Berkeley Luis de la Garza, Ethnic Studies, UC-Berkeley Rose Khor, Art Practice, UC-Berkeley Jenifer Wofford, Visual Artist and Independent Curator, Berkeley, CA Visuality and Alterity Working Group, UC-Berkeley, 2006 - 2007 Lindsay Benedict, Dalida María Benfield, Annie Fukushima, Luis de la Garza, Rose Khor, Joseph Morales, Laura Pérez, Jenifer Wofford, Byung Sun Yu

Collaborating Institutions and Individuals (as of August 2007):
Evelyne Jouanno, Independent Curator, San Francisco and Paris, France tammy ko Robinson, San Francisco Art Institute John Kim, University of San Francisco Allan de Souza, San Francisco Art Institute Katharine Wallerstein, Global Commons Foundation, San Francisco

We are continuing to seek additional institutional and individual partners. If interested, please contact us. Questions or inquiries may be sent to outoftimespace@berkeley.edu

UCLA Center for the Study of Women -- 2008 Thinking Gender Conference Call for Papers

2008 Thinking Gender Conference Call for Papers
UCLA Center for the Study of Women In Conjunction With USC Center for Feminist Research

Announce 18th Annual Thinking Gender Graduate Student Research Conference

Thinking Gender is a public conference highlighting graduate student research on women, sexuality, and gender across all disciplines and historical periods. We invite submissions for individual papers or pre-constituted panels. We especially welcome feminist research on women of color, the pre-modern, queerness, and the sciences.

For individual papers, please submit an abstract (250 words), a CV (2 pages maximum), and a brief bibliography (1 page maximum). For panels, please submit a 250-word description of the panel topic in addition to the materials required for the individual paper submissions.

Please reference the submission guidelines at http://www.csw.ucla.edu/thinkinggender.html.

Deadline for Submissions: Monday, October 29, 2007, by midnight.

We will only accept completed submissions emailed by the deadline.
Please send submissions to:

Conference date and location:
Friday, February 1, 2008
UCLA FACULTY CENTER

UCLA Center for the Study of Women
Box 957222
Public Policy 1400H
Los Angeles, CA 90095-7222
310-825-0590
http://www.women.ucla.edu/csw/
Email:
<https://webmail.sscnet.ucla.edu/src/compose.php?send_to=thinkinggender%40wo
men.ucla.edu> thinkinggender@women.ucla.edu

USC Center for Feminist Research
University Park
Taper Hall of Humanities 331C
Los Angeles, CA 90089-4352
(310) 825-0590 (213) 740-1739
http://www.usc.edu/dept/cfr/
Email:

cfr@usc.edu

Jacob Javits Fellowship Program

Program Description
This program provides fellowships to students of superior academic ability-selected on the basis of demonstrated achievement, financial need, and exceptional promise-to undertake study at the doctoral and Master of Fine Arts level in selected fields of arts, humanities, and social sciences.

Types of Projects
A board establishes the general policies for the program, selects the fields in which fellowships are to be awarded, and appoints distinguished panels to select fellows.

Additional Information
The Department of Education awards fellowships in selected fields of study of the arts, humanities and social sciences. Panels of experts appointed by the Javits Fellowship Board (Board) select fellows according to criteria established by the Board. Students must demonstrate financial need by filing the Free Application for Federal Student Aid. The selected fields of study supported by the Javits Fellowship Program are available for your review. Subject to the availability of funds, a fellow receives the Javits fellowship annually for up to the lesser of 48 months or the completion of their degree. The fellowship consists of an institutional payment
(accepted by the institution of higher education in lieu of all tuition and fees for the fellow) and a stipend (based on the fellow's financial need as determined by the measurements of the Federal Student Assistance Processing System. In fiscal year 2007, the institutional payment was
$12,627 and the maximum stipend was $30,000.

Visit the website for more information or to apply:
http://www.ed.gov/programs/jacobjavits/index.html

Call for Submissions: Growing Up Filipino

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

This is a call for submissions of short stories for an anthology tentatively titled, GROWING UP FILIPINO II - Stories for Young Adults. The book will be edited by Cecilia Manguerra Brainard and will be published by both Anvil and PALH. Contributors will receive copies of the book as compensation for the use of their work.

The manuscript should be approximately 8-10 pages long, typed, double-spaced (approximately 1,800-2,300 words). This should be emailed to CBrainard@aol.com . You may also send it by air mail to:

Cecilia Brainard
c/o PALH
PO Box 5099
Santa Monica , CA 90409
USA

This book project is a follow-up of an earlier short story collection entitled Growing Up Filipino: Stories for Young Adults (published by PALH 2002, and Anvil). The following review describes the 2002 collection:

>From School Library Journal
Grade 9 Up-These 29 short stories offer a highly textured portrait of Filipino youth and an excellent sampling of creative writing. Thematically arranged, most of the pieces have been written since the turn of the 21st century. Each story is introduced by a thumbnail sketch of the author and a paragraph or two about some element of Filipino culture or history that is relevant to the story. Authors include those born and continuing to live in the Philippines, emigres, and American-born Filipinos. Tough but relevant topics addressed include a gay youth's affection for his supportive mother, the role of religious didacticism in the formation of a childhood perception, consumer culture as it is experienced by modern teens in Manila, and coping with bullies of all ages and stations in life. The high caliber and broad but wholly accessible range of this collection, however, makes this title a solid purchase for multiple reasons.

The 29 stories in the 2002 edition of Growing Up Filipino were written before 9/11 ( September 11, 2001). The editor would now like to collect a second volume that continues to address the young adult audience. The stories in the collection will still be about the Filipino experience in the Philippines or any part of the world. But in this second volume, the editor is seeing contemporary stories, or post 9/11 stories. The editor is seeking the best stories about growing up Filipino. The editor is not looking for stories written by young adults, but about Filipino young adults. The editor envisions the stories dealing with relationships, family, falling in love perhaps, and other issues that the young adults deal with. Character-driven stories are encouraged. Those interested in submitting are encouraged to read the first volume of Growing Up Filipino: Stories for Young Adults, to get an idea of the kind of stories the editor is looking for.

Deadline for submission is September 30, 2007. Early submissions are welcome. Please send your bio (approx. 150 words) in people-friendly narrative form.

ABOUT THE EDITOR : Cecilia Manguerra Brainard is the author/editor of over a dozen books. She has a website at www.ceciliabrainard.com and a blog at cbrainard.blogspot.com

CFP: Gender Issues in International Migration (Asian Women)

Call for Papers
Asian Women
2007 Winter Issue, 2008 Spring Issue

Asian Women seeks submissions for recent gender issues such as women and welfare, women's rights, eco-feminism, health, women and bio-technology, women and history, men's studies, and other relevant themes in gender studies, slated for publication in 2007 issues. Asian Women is accepting submissions for 2007 Winter issue with a special theme of War, Women, and Military, and Women in Conflicts and for 2008 Spring and Summer issue with a theme of Gender Issues in International Migration.

Please visit http://asianfem.sookmyung.ac.kr/issue/k_issue.htm?type=b for more specific information about submission.

Asian Women, an interdisciplinary journal covering various Women's Studies, Men's Studies, and Gender Studies themes, hopes to share intelligent original papers as well as case studies with you. Also, any contributions of theoretical papers, regional reports, or case studies based on feminist studies and Asian studies will be welcomed. The editors welcome submissions that are based on either collaborative or independent scholarship. They also receive submissions from a wide variety of Asia and other countries. Contributors need to send their manuscripts to the Research Institute of Asian Women any time. However, for the prompt evaluation procedure and publication for 2007 Winter issue, contributors should send their manuscripts by 30th of September 2007. For more information, contact the Managing Editor, Research Institute of Asian Women, Sookmyung Women's University, 52 Hyochangwon-gil, Youngsan-ku, Seoul, Korea 140-742 or e-mail her at asianfem@sm.ac.kr.

Postdoctoral Fellowship at Williams College

Postdoctoral Fellowship in Asian American Studies

Williams College invites applications for a two-year Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship in Asian American Studies, to begin in the fall of 2008, preferably with a specialization in cultural history, cultural studies, film studies, contemporary politics, and/or social movements, although other specializations may be considered. New Ph.D.s are encouraged to apply.

The successful candidate will have an appointment in the American Studies Program and will teach one course per semester, including lower-level courses such as the Introduction to American Studies and upper-level courses from his or her area of specialization. The successful candidate will also advise students conducting research in Asian American Studies and American Studies.

The Mellon Fellows at Williams are included in the activities of The American Studies Program and of other related departments and programs as regular junior faculty members. They work closely with a faculty mentor; they participate in Williams’ Project for Effective Teaching; and they receive feedback on pedagogical skills and teaching effectiveness through our standard evaluation procedures.

The fellowship includes a salary of $36,000 plus benefits and funds to support research and travel.

Applicants must be citizens or permanent residents of the United States, or expect to pursue a teaching career in the United States.

Please submit a letter of application, c.v., a graduate school transcript, three letters of recommendation, and a brief description of teaching interests. Review of applications will begin on November 1, 2007 and continue until the search is completed. Send application materials to:

K. Scott Wong
American Studies Program
Stetson Hall
Williams College
Williamstown, MA 01267


Williams College is a coeducational liberal arts institution, offering undergraduate education to its 2,000 students. The College has built its reputation on a long tradition of outstanding teaching and scholarship and on the academic excellence of its students. Among the opportunities that Williams offers its students and approximately 260 faculty members are interdisciplinary programs and centers, including the Multicultural Center, the Oakley Center for the Humanities and Social Sciences, and the Center for Environmental Studies as well as extensive library and museum collections, state-of-the-art theatre and dance facilities, a center for information technology, and well-equipped laboratories. See also Williams College website (http://www.williams.edu).

An Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer, Williams College especially welcomes and encourages applications from women and minority candidates.

CFP: East Of California panels @AAAS in Chicago

CFP: Annual Association of Asian American Studies Conference (AAAS)
Chicago, IL, April 16-20, 2008 [http://www.aaastudies.org/index.tpl]
East of California / Roundtables and Panels

Brief Overview:
Taking advantage of this year’s conference theme, “Where is the Heart of Asian America?: Troubling American Identity and Exceptionalism in an Age of Globalization and Imperialism” and location (Chicago, IL), the East of California caucus proposes two roundtables and two academic sessions that consider new directions for the field with regard to professionalization, further institutionalization, and academic practice. Mindful that Asian American Studies was founded on both theory and practice, the proposed roundtables and panels acknowledge the extent to which the field continues to grow and expand, particularly East of California.

“Centering the Margins: Revising and Re-envisioning East of California” (Roundtable)
Asian American Studies has historically been focused on work and scholarship in California. However, as the emergence of programs across the country suggests, geographic considerations of the field no longer adequately accommodate for the heterogeneity of scholarship in Asian American Studies. Nor does such a location – “east” of California – immediately enable conversations of the field outside of simple geographic designation. This roundtable brings together administrators, faculty, and graduate students whose work reflects the need for further dialogue about the future of Asian American Studies. What are struggles that exist on the institutional or programmatic level? What about the issue of resources and the often lack of resources with regard to faculty numbers and student demands? How do these struggles suggest a potential for a larger Ethnic Studies collaboration in various sites? Additionally, we are interested in hearing from scholars whose main field of inquiry may not be Asian American studies but who nonetheless have an academic and/or activist interest in Asian American issues and in teaching Asian American subjects.

“Surviving in Academia: From First Year Graduate Student to Tenured Faculty Member” (Roundtable)
This roundtable is focused on the multiple levels of professionalization that occur from the graduate to the post-graduate level. Given that the field has grown considerably and that positions and programs are in new locations, how does thinking in terms of East of California shift the conversation about professionalization? How does one select a program? What about the job market? How does one negotiate a postdoctoral position? What about the ever-pressing need to publish? How does one broker a contract or negotiate an often complicated terrain of politics and missions? The experiences of graduate students to tenured faculty will allow this roundtable to present shared knowledge as a means of negotiating and surviving Academia as Asian Americanists.

“Re-Centering Asian American Narratives” (Panel)
As reflected in the larger field of Asian American Studies, Asian American scholarship about narrative is often located on the West Coast. However, as demographic shifts occur with regard to APA populations, and as more and more Asian American bodies move to locations like the Midwest (and the South), what is the impact on cinematic or literary narrative between the two coasts? In other words, how do narratives that take place outside of both the West Coast and the Eastern Seaboard , M. Evelina Galang’s collection of stories set largely in Chicago, Her Wild American Self, Ruth Ozeki’s second novel set in Idaho, All Over Creation, Susan Choi’s The Foreign Student, which moves between Sewanee, TN, Korea, and Chicago, the newly released memoir by Bich Minh Nguyen, Stealing Buddha’s Dinner, set in Grand Rapids, Michigan, or films like Renee Tajima-Pena’s My America or Honk if You Love Buddha or the groundbreaking documentary by Tajima and Rea Tajiri Who Killed Vincent Chin? force a reconsideration of narrative that brings us as scholars and academics back to Lisa Lowe’s now famous assertion of heterogeneity, hybridity, and multiplicity? What is the unique shape of narratives that take place in the heartland, away from the coasts, and how does a repositioning of Asian American narratives influence our understanding of where Asian America exists?

“Alternative Spaces in Asian America” (Panel)
EOC was founded as an alternative space to discuss issues of Asian American studies outside of the West Coast. Similarly, the internet, with its proliferation of blogs, social sites like Facebook and MySpace, and a growth of on-line journals, has become yet another alternate space to discuss Asian American issues. This panel brings together scholars, activists, and intellectuals, whether formally trained or home grown, to discuss the internet as an alternative space to explore Asian American identity, epistemology, pedagogy, activism, and social networking. What are the limits to using different spaces (blogs, on-line journals, social networking sites) to explore Asian American identity? What are the pleasures, perils, and pitfalls of doing Asian American studies in these alternative spaces? How can “traditional” academics make effective use of the internet to engage with more “organic” intellectuals to promote social justice and change as well as to create networking across the blogosphere and internet communities?

Requirements for Submission:
*Roundtable
--1 page cv
--1 page outline for 5-7 minute remarks

*Panel
--1 page cv
--1 page abstract (250 words) for 15 minute paper/presentation

Please send electronic copies of all materials to both Cathy Schlund-Vials (schlundvials@gmail.com) and Jennifer Ho (hojennifer@earthlink.net) by Monday, October 1, 2007.

American Studies Association Ethnic Studies Prize: Call for Papers

The Committee on Ethnic Studies calls for submissions for the 2007 Comparative Ethnic Studies Prize, awarded to a participant in the annual meeting of the American Studies Association. Any paper given at the meeting is eligible for consideration, provided that it does not exceed 15 pages, including the notes. The author of the winning paper will receive a $500 award at the Comparative Ethnic Studies Seminar at the annual meeting, to be held October 11-14, 2007 in Philadelphia, PA.

Relevant submissions will contrast or connect the process of race-making or the experiences of communities of color with similar processes or experiences inside or outside the United States. All essays must be global and/or comparative, focusing on the power of race to shape the lives of diverse groups of people.

Papers should be submitted electronically by September 1, 2007 to Sarika Chandra, chair of the committee, at: schandra@wayne.edu. Late submissions will not be accepted.

CFP: NEMLA: Revisiting Asian American Women's "Articulate Silences"

PLEASE NOTE: DEADLINE EXTENDED TO OCTOBER 12, 2007

Northeast Modern Language Association (NEMLA) Annual Convention
Buffalo, NY
April 10-13, 2008

Call for Papers:
Panel sponsored by the NEMLA Women’s Caucus:
“Revisiting Asian American Women’s ‘Articulate Silences’”

In her significant 1993 book, _Articulate Silences: Hisaye Yamamoto, Maxine Hong Kingston, Joy Kogawa_ (Cornell UP), King-kok Cheung links the legacies of silence for both Asian Americans and for women more broadly, tracing the connections among constructions of docility, acquiescence, silence, and inscrutability, and argues that Asian American women writers turn the assumption regarding silence on its head:

“They articulate—question, report, expose—the silences imposed on themselves and their peoples, whether in the form of feminine and cultural decorum, external or self-censorship, or historical or political invisibility; at the same time they reveal, through their own manners of telling and through their characters, that silences—textual ellipses, nonverbal gestures, authorial hesitations (as against moral, historical, religious, or political authority)—can also be articulate.” (3-4)

This panel revisits Cheung’s influential argument, as well as other pertinent analyses such as Patti Duncan’s book _Tell This Silence_, in order to extend our understandings of silence in Asian American women’s literature. What are the forms that silence takes? What kinds of articulations are possible? How is silence read? Are feminist coalitional politics enabled and/or limited by complicating the political emphasis on voice? Are various forms and styles of articulate silences traced to differences among Asian American women? (those marked by diaspora? by trauma and refugee status? by postcolonial legacies?) How are articulate silences shaped by historical contexts and the political and legal issues of the time? Proposals that address the literary, rhetorical, or political dimensions of silence and voice in Asian American women’s prose or poetry are welcome.

Deadline for presentation abstracts: September 15, 2007

Please email 250-500 word abstracts to the panel chair:

Susan Muchshima Moynihan, Assistant Professor
Department of English
State University of New York at Buffalo
Email: sm246@buffalo.edu

CFP: TRANS-

WSQ:  Women's Studies Quarterly

Call for papers: TRANS-

Trans: -gender, -national, -racial, -generational, -genic,, -species. The list could (and does) go on. This special issue of WSQ invites feminist work that explores categorical crossings, leakages, and slips of all sorts, around and through the concept "trans-." While it centrally addresses the challenges presented to traditional feminist scholarship by the transgender movement of the past few decades, it aims to take feminist scholarship in an even more expansive direction by recasting trans- as a more general conceptual operation, and by articulating the interrelatedness and mutual inextricability of various "trans-" phenomena.

This WSQ special issue invites work that situates "trans-" in dialogues beyond those bounded by the politics of identity. The meaning of "transgender" itself has shifted tremendously since the word first began appearing in cross-dresser community publications in late 1960s. By the 1990s, a burgeoning body of trans-historical and cross-cultural literary, documentary, performance, political and anthropological work had developed into the new field of transgender studies (see for example, Currah, Juang and Minter 2006; Stryker and Whittle 2006). This new field linked insights and analyses drawn from the experience or study of transgender phenomena with the central
disciplinary concerns of contemporary humanities and social science research, but our goal with this special issue is to promote cutting-edge feminist work that builds on existing scholarship to articulate new generational and analytical perspectives.

A fundamental assumption of this special issue is that "trans-" can best be understood (can perhaps only be understood) as mutually co-constituitive sets of embodied material practices.  These practices traffic themselves across porous, shifting, and diffuse borders between states and territories, citizens and aliens, representational and abstract, the real and the imaginary, men and women, the clinical and non-clinical, the normal and the pathological, the rational and irrational, human and non-human, the young and the old, living and dead, academic and activist-or that call those very divisions into question. Neither -gender, nor any of the other suffixes of trans-, can be understood in isolation.

While we certainly wish to engage with theoretical scholarship, germinal analyses of policy will also find a home in this special issue. In addition, in keeping with the established format of WSQ and the methodological conventions of feminist scholarship, we also welcome first person narratives, provocations, poetry, and fiction as a means to explore, interpret, and re-consider "trans-." Regardless of methodology or discipline, however, we encourage work that understands the representations and meanings of identities, bodies, movements, and anatomies to accrue particular weights and valences depending on the cultural moments in which they are produced and circulated.  The lines implied by the very concept of "trans-" are moving targets, simultaneously composed of multiple determinants.

Some of the critical operations of trans- that we wish this issue to explore include-
-Original, grounded, empirical analyses of historical or contemporary social formations of trans- embodiments.
-Challenges to biological sexual dimorphism via new reproductive technologies and body modification practices.
-Literary, cultural, film and media criticism on and about trans-representation and performance.
-Feminist analyses of geopolitical and temporal locations and boundary-crossings, including work on individual embodiment as a geopolitical temporality.
-Theoretical and substantive analysis of migration, diaspora, borders, and surveillance as they relate to bodily normativity.
-The increasingly blurred distinctions of human/non-human boundaries, particularly as they relate to emerging biomedical and communicational technologies.
-Emotion Studies, including the "movement" of feelings as depicted or analyzed in phenomenological philosophy, art, poetry, and/or autoethnography.
-Work that examines how the legal, administrative, and bureaucratic processes of sovereign power make trans- bodies live, or let them die Work that rearticulates trans- identities in ways that circumvent  the impasses of identity politics

We invite abstracts from all disciplinary and artistic homes including but not limited to: critical theories of race/gender/sexuality, biomedical fields, literary studies, technology and science studies, legal studies, the social sciences, and the arts and humanities generally.

If submitting academic work, please send abstracts by October 1, 2007 to the guest editors at WSQTransIssue@gmail.com.  If accepted, full papers will be due by January 2, 2008.  Poetry submission should be sent to WSQ's poetry editor Kathleen Ossip, at ossipk@aol.com, by January 2, 2008. Fiction, essay, and memoir submissions should be sent to WSQ's Fiction/Nonfiction editor Kamy Wicoff, at kwicoff@yahoo.com, by January 2, 2008. All art submissions should be sent on CD or floppy disk in a high-resolution (300 dpi or more) JPEG or TIFF image to the following addresses:

Paisley Currah
Department of Political Science
Brooklyn College, CUNY
2900 Bedford Ave
Brooklyn, NY 11210
pcurrah@brooklyn.cuny.edu

Lisa Jean Moore
Purchase College
SS 1010
735 Anderson Hill Road
Purchase, NY 10577
Lisa-jean.moore@purchase.edu

Susan Stryker
Women's Studies Department
Simon Fraser University
8888 University Drive,
Burnaby, B.C. Canada V5A 1S
susanstryker@yahoo.com

CFP: JAAS Special Issue, Asian Americans and Violence

Call for Papers

Journal of Asian American Studies

Special Issue: Asian Americans and Violence

Please note the early deadline: July 15, 2007


This special issue invites essays that address the relationship between race, culture, and violence as it pertains specifically to Asian Americans.  Extra consideration will be given to essays that consider this topic broadly, and that focus on Asian Americans not only as the objects of violence but also its agents.  For instance, essays might address questions like: What does it mean for Asian Americans to be perpetrators as well as victims?  What effect does this have on our understanding of gender roles and gender relations?  What affect does this have on representations of Asian Americans?  How important is it for us to define violence broadly to include domestic abuse, public policies that abandon large groups to
premature death, or war?  How does focusing on violence help us to understand transformations in the structural position of Asian American racial formations?  The primary occasion for this special issue is the recent shooting at Virginia Tech.  As revelations of the shooter’s racial and ethnic identity led to expressions of worry
about a racial backlash, we are reminded of the ways in which race and violence have long been inextricably linked to one another in the U.S.  But when the shooter turns out be Asian American, adding Seung-Hui Cho’s name to a list that includes Chai Vang, Andrew Cunanan, and Gang Lu, we are compelled to consider how complex this link can be.

Because of its topicality, this special issue has been fast-tracked to appear in print this year.  The deadline for essays is July 15, 2007, and should be emailed as an attachment following the appropriate JAAS submission guidelines to the guest editor, Min Hyoung Song (songm@bc.edu).  Questions about this special issue can
also be emailed to him.

CFP: Cityscapes

CALL FOR PAPERS
“Cityscapes” Conference

March 27 – 30, 2008
Cleveland, Ohio

Proposal deadline:  September 14, 2007

Sponsored by
The Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities and The Cleveland Institute of Art
The Cleveland Institute of Art and the Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities of Case Western Reserve University will collaboratively host a conference on “Cityscapes,” to be held March 27-30, 2008.  This conference is intended to explore the intersections between the urban environment, the humanities, and social change.

The conference considers the city as a physical, political, economic, and social entity and as a real and imagined place that has inspired and continues to inform some of the most important work in the humanities. The city can be described as a:

-built environment and a confluence of architectural design and urban planning
-public space shaped by dynamics of race, gender, and class
-concentration of technology and labor
-locus for the political economy as well as institutions of church, state, education, and culture, and community
-site of resistance and memory
-situated in a larger network constituted by the local, regional, national, international, and global

This conference seeks to explore what the arts and humanities can contribute to our understanding of the city. We seek papers that investigate both the historic constitutive factors of the city and issues of urbanism today.  The conference aims to explore the city as a crucible of creative change, investigating its relationship with human cultures of the past and present and its place in envisioning possible futures. This latter aspect is especially significant today, when many cities, particularly older cities like Cleveland, are challenged by profound shifts in population, infrastructure, politics, self-identity as well as the globalization of capital and degradation of the environment.

Questions to be considered include:
-What has defined, demarcated, and signified the cityscape?
-How do past representations relate to those generated today?
-How have changing geopolitics – locally, regionally, nationally, and internationally – and the emergence of cosmopolitanism and globalization shaped the cityscape and its representation(s)?
-What particular experiences of the city have informed the critical commentary of the arts and humanities and vice versa?
-What role do the arts and humanities play in relation to social change in the city? How do the arts and humanities articulate modernist and anti-modernist or utopian and dystopian visions of the city?
-How have representations of the city—in word and image—helped to conceptualize the city and/or offer critical critique that can, in turn, reshape or re-imagine the city?
-In our hyper-mediated image-saturated world, what is the role of visual culture and the humanities in conveying an understanding of the social conditions of urbanism?

The symposium welcomes papers that explore the relationship between cityscape and the humanities (Archaeology, Art, Art History, Classics, English, Film Studies, History, Linguistics, Modern Languages and Literatures, Media Studies, Music, Philosophy, Religion, Theater and Dance) in belief that these disciplines bring a necessary, yet previously under-represented, contribution to discussions of urbanism.

Paper proposals must include:
-200 word abstract (1 page);
-Cover letter delineating the proposed speaker’s expertise in the selected topic as well as audio-visual needs to support the presentation;
-C.V. (no more than 3 pages) that includes mailing address, phone number, and e-mail address
-Self-addressed postcard (for confirmation of receipt of submission) or request for confirmation if submitting electronically.

Conference presentations are expected to be 20 minutes in length; it is expected that the papers will not have been presented elsewhere.

Submission Deadline:  Due date for submission/postmark: 14 September 2007.

Submit to:  All inquiries and paper proposals should be directed to
Dr. Susan Martis, Research Associate
Baker Nord Center for the Humanities
Clark Hall 207
Case Western Reserve University
10900 Euclid Avenue
Cleveland OH 44106-7120
Phone: 216-368-2242
susan.martis@case.edu
www.bakernord.org

Hand-deliveries:
           Dr. Susan Martis
           Clark Hall 207
           11130 Bellflower Road

CFP: Concentric: Literary and Cultural Studies

Concentric: Literary and Cultural Studies is inviting submissions for its forthcoming issues. We encourage contributions from both Taiwan and international communities addressing our special topics; articles on other aspects of literature and culture are also welcome. If your manuscript is intended as a special topic submission, please so indicate. All correspondence should be addressed to Editor, Concentric: Literary and Cultural Studies, Department of English, National Taiwan Normal University, 162 Hoping East Road, Section 1, Taipei 106, Taiwan. [e-mail: concentric.lit @deps.ntnu.edu.tw]

Forthcoming Special Topics
Vol. 34 No. 1: "Water" (March 2008)
Guest Editor: Scott Slovic
University of Nevada, Reno
Deadline for Submissions: October 20, 2007

Water is necessary for life; likewise, the motif of water has nourished countless works of literature. The properties of water make it an excellent literary device: Water ebbs and flows, enabling an endless circulation. It can carry a vessel, or take the shape of any vessel that holds it. It occurs in various forms-vapor, rain, snow, ice-and differing intensities, from the gentle drizzle, the thunder storm to the devastating tsunami. Water has the power to give life and take it away: it quenches people's thirst and nourishes crops, yet it also floods fields and farms and homes. It is baptism and balm from Heaven; water is also the form divine retribution took to wipe Noah's contemporaries from the earth. As a major literary motif, water brings succor to T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land, serves as a testing ground in Melville's Moby-Dick, and opens a path to spiritual healing in Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Kate Chopin and Virginia Woolf both use water as symbol of rebirth and a pathway to creativity-but also as the site of a deadly finale, both for Chopin's protagonist in The Awakening and for Woolf herself. In recent decades, water has emerged as an important metaphor for theoretical discourses, including those of diaspora, migrations, globalization, and eco- criticism. As water is shapeless and yet able to take any shape, possibilities for investigations into the literary and cultural uses of water are fluid and multiple. The editors welcome explorations of the topic from a broad range of viewpoints.

Vol. 34 No. 2: Asia and the Other
a special issue in conjunction with the international conference on "Asia and the Other"

Date of Publication: September 2008
Deadline for Submissions: April 25, 2008

The year 1984 witnessed the taking place of a pioneering conference entitled "Europe and Its Others." With the publication of Edward W. Said's Orientalism only a few years apart, the conference organized by the University of Essex engaged in discussions heralded in Said's monumental work and presented some of the most groundbreaking writings in the then emerging field of "postcolonial theory," with the participation of numerous thought-provoking scholars, Said himself included. Now, two decades later, Concentric: Literary and Cultural Studies invites proposals for a special issue on "Asia and the Other," in conjunction with the international conference on the same topic, organized by the Department of English, National Taiwan Normal University, to solicit input on Asia's positioning in light of the question of the other.

Presenting a similar-sounding theme with slight revision to the Essex conference, we would like to examine whether or not the idiom of the self/other demarcation is still relevant in the context of Asia. If yes, relevant in what ways? Is the present-day Asia still imagined in the same fashion as the Orient once was? Does the rising economic force of Asia grant Asian countries the "Occidentalist" optics through which they represent their others as Orientalists did them? Without fixed conceptual presumptions, "Asia and the Other" is interested not only in Asia's relations with "its" others, but also in Asia's relations with "the Other/other" as an ethical, political, epistemo- logical, or ontological problematic. "Asia and the Other" seeks to revisit issues taken up by earlier postcolonialist theorists with a different geo- political focus; reexamine and update theoretical apparatuses often adopted in the discussions of the self/other issue, employing the realities of Asia, past and present, as examples; and stimulate conversations regarding the tensions or mutual productivity in cross-cultural, cross-national encounters.

We welcome proposals from various disciplines, including (but not limited to) anthropology, art history and theory, cultural studies, film and media studies, gender studies, geography, history, linguistics, literary studies, performance studies, philosophy, political science, religion studies, and sociology. We are particularly interested in submissions that not only provide historically- grounded reflections, but also boldly reassess predominant theoretical concerns in their specific fields.

Manuscript Submission Guidelines

1. Manuscripts should be submitted in English. Please send the manuscript, an abstract, a list of keywords, and a vita as Word-attachments to concentric.lit@deps.ntnu.edu.tw. Alternatively, please mail us two hard copies and an IBM-compatible diskette copy. Concentric will acknowledge receipt of the submission but will not return it after review.
2. Manuscripts should be prepared according to the latest edition of the MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers. Except for footnotes in single space, manuscripts must be double-spaced, typeset in 12-point Times New Roman.
3. To facilitate the Journal's anonymous refereeing process, there must be no indication of personal identity or institutional affiliation in the manuscript proper. The name and institution of the author should appear on a separate title page or in the vita. The author may cite his/her previous works, but only in the third person.
4. The Journal will not consider for publication manuscripts being simultaneously submitted elsewhere.
5. If the paper has been published or submitted elsewhere in a language other than English, please make available two copies of the non-English version. Concentric may not consider submissions already available in other languages.
6. One copy of the Journal and fifteen off-prints of the article will be provided to the author(s) on publication.
7. It is the Journal's policy to require assignment of copyrights form by all authors.

CFP: Asian American Law Journal

The Asian American Law Journal (formerly the Asian Law Journal) at the University of California – Berkeley, School of Law (Boalt Hall) is pleased to invite article and essay submissions for our 15th volume.

As one of only two Asian Pacific American law journals in the nation, we are committed to providing a forum for scholars, practitioners, and students to address legal and policy issues relevant to the APA community. We are dedicated to continuing our pursuit of excellent, applicable scholarship to foster awareness and increase dialogue both within and beyond the legal community. Our recent name change reaffirms our commitment to addressing issues of concern for Asians in the Americas, and we would request that you send articles on international issues only insofar as such issues affect APA communities in the Americas.

Although not limited to the following topics, we are particularly looking for pieces that address:
1. The connections between the Third World Liberation Front strikes at SF State and Berkeley and present-day struggles
2. Legal issues concerning Southeast Asian Americans and South Asian Americans
3. Pacific Islander legal issues
4. Immigration reform
5. Models of social change
6. Affirmative action as it affects APAs

All other articles and essays on APA legal and policy issues are also welcome!

If you are interested in contributing to the 15th volume of AALJ or the special affirmative action issue, please send us your submission(s) early. Articles will be reviewed and accepted on a rolling basis until Saturday, September 1, 2007. Final publication is scheduled for May 2008.

Articles or essays submitted should meet the following requirements:
1. The piece must be sent in Microsoft Word format, as an e-mail attachment, to the following address: aalj.submissions@gmail.com
2. Footnotes must be within the text (i.e. incorporated at the end of each page).
3. Footnotes should conform to The Bluebook: A Uniform System of Citation (18th ed.).
4. Please include an abstract and your resume/CV along with your submission.

If you have any questions or would like more information about the submission process, please do not hesitate to email AALJ's Submissions Editor, Jane Ho at aalj.submissions@gmail.com. For more information, please visit our website (http://www.boalt.org/ALJ/submit.html).

OYCF Teaching Fellowships 2007-2008

OYCF Teaching Fellowships 2007-08

The Overseas Young Chinese Forum ("OYCF"), a non-profit organization based in the United States, is pleased to announce that it is now accepting applications for its Teaching Fellowships, which sponsor short term teaching trips by overseas scholars or professionals (Chinese or non-Chinese) to universities or other comparable advanced educational institutions in China. The subjects of teaching include various fields of humanities and social sciences, such as economics, political science, sociology, education, law, anthropology, geography, international studies, literatures, philosophy, etc.

OYCF will grant 14 fellowship awards, including 5 OYCF-Ford fellowships in the amount of $2,250 each and 9 OYCF-Gregory C. and Paula K. Chow fellowships in the amount of $2,000 each, to support short term teaching trips during the academic year of 2008-09. The application deadline is August 15, 2007. Awards will be announced on September 15, 2007.

If you have a Ph.D., J.D., J.S.D. or a comparable graduate degree from, or is currently an advanced doctoral candidate (having passed the Ph.D qualification examination and finished at least three years of graduate studies) in a university in North America or other areas outside China, and are interested in teaching a covered subject in a college or graduate school in Mainland China, please find on line the Information and Application Procedures for the OYCF Teaching Fellowships at http://www.oycf.org/Teach/application.DOC. As noted therein, preference will be given to teaching proposals that include comparative or interdisciplinary perspectives; are about subjects that China is in relative shortage of teachers; or will be conducted at universities outside Beijing, Shanghai and other major metropolises.

We encourage teaching fellows to go to China's central and western regions. This year, we dedicate at least 1-2 fellowships as the Central and Western Region Teaching Fellowships to teaching fellows who plan to teach in an inland province or autonomous region. Accordingly, teaching proposals specifically designed for teaching in these regions are especially welcome.

To submit your application, you will need an application form, your curriculum vitae or resume, a detailed course syllabus, an invitation letter from your host institution in China. Detailed instruction and application form can be found at the above web link. You can visit http://www.oycf.org/Teach/fellowship.htm to take a look at syllabi and teaching reports from previous years. For more information about OYCF or its teaching program, please visit http://www.oycf.org. For questions concerning OYCF Teaching Fellowships or their application process, please contact teaching@oycf.org.

New issue of UCLA's AAPI Nexus explores Art and Cultural Institutions

UCLA Asian American Studies Center- From Sandra Oh of Grey's Anatomy to American Idol's Sanjaya, there has been an increase in the presence of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders (AAPIs) in popular media. Unfortunately, popular images of AAPIs have been based on simplistic stereotypes of perpetual foreigners or disease-bearing poor or unfair competitors in the marketplace or "model minorities," images that have had serious negative implications for AAPI communities. Building on the celebration of Asia Pacific American Heritage Month last May, the current issue of AAPI Nexus (5:1) entitled "AAPIs and Cultural Institutions,

"features how organizations like museums, traveling exhibits, performance troupes, and libraries represent AAPI communities and their diverse experiences.

"The struggle to make cultural institutions more representative and accountable is part and parcel of the larger struggle by people of olor and their allies for equality and justice," write the issue co-editors Paul Ong of UCLA and Franklin Odo, the Director of the Smithsonian Institution' s Asian Pacific American Program. In the early years, activist AAPIs lobbied for change from the outside, participating in protest politics against mainstream institutions. More recently, however, "they have worked their way into the "belly of the beast" and equally important have established parallel and counter organizations."

In the article "The Challenges of Displaying Asian America," art historian ShiPu Wang writes from a curator's point of view, examining the obstacles and reasons behind the lack of exhibitions of AAPI works in the United States, such as conservation issues and problems in finding lost works in the first place. This is especially true of pre-World War II artists like Lewis Suzuki, whose graphics carried unwavering pro-labor, pro-equality messages and Filipino American painter Carlos Maganti Tagaroma Carvajal, whose work challenged the marriage of Catholicism and European/American Imperialism and its impact on powerless people.

The article "Libraries as Contested Community and Cultural Space" by Clara Chu and Todd Honma explored how the Bruggemeyer Memorial Library in Monterey Park, CA became a battleground to reclaim "community, access, and representation of Asian Americans." In the mid-1980s, many long-time residents of the city grew alarmed at the increase of Chinese immigrants. The hostility of English language-only advocates spilled towards library policies, as the Bruggemeyer Library began to carry more foreign language books to meet the needs of its changing demographics.

Although the Monterey Park community has moved on, the issue resurfaced again two years ago over a proposed reveals unresolved issues regarding community identity. Chu and Honma's article shows how ethnic communities such as Asian Americans can "effectively wield political power to claim a rightful civic space."

While many of these cultural institutions are located in cities with large AAPI populations, John P. Rosa, in his article "Small Numbers/Big City: Innovative Presentations of Pacific Islander Art and Culture in Arizona,"examines how the small but growing community in Phoenix, AZ has sustained, developed, and preserved its culture and art in the absence of permanent cultural museums. Phoenix community groups use small, temporary displays at annual AAPI cultural festivals. One approach is a "museum on wheels"-a used tour bus filled with certified reproductions of artifacts on loan from the Bishop Museum in Honolulu. The annual Arizona Aloha Festival also features performances from Tongan choirs based in Tempe as well as ki ho`alu (slack key guitar) artist and Phoenix resident Dana "Moon" Kahele. A quilting group and a canoe-paddling club are further activities that let AAPIs share the "Aloha spirit" with their fellow residents.

Together, the articles in this issue show how AAPI concerns have become more accepted by cultural institutions, ethnic organizations have become more institutionalized, and AAPI activists have become more professionalized. However, editors Ong and Ono warn of a potential downside, of resting on the laurels of these successes.

"Incorporation of AAPIs individually and organizationally by this nation's cultural sector can lead to political complacency and isolation from the broader social movement long before the ultimate goals are achieved," the editors write. "The larger challenge before us, then, is renewing the passion for progressive social change."

AAPI Nexus copies are $13.00 plus $4.00 for shipping and handling and 8.25% sales tax for California residents. Make checks payable to "Regents of U.C." VISA, MASTERCARD, and DISCOVER are also accepted; include expiration date and phone number on correspondence. The mailing address is: UCLA Asian American Studies Center Press, 3230 Campbell Hall, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1546. Phone: 310-825-2968. Email: aascpress@aasc.ucla.edu

Annual subscriptions for APPI Nexus are $25.00 for individuals and $125.00 for libraries and other institutions. AAPI Nexus is published twice a year: Winter/Spring, and Summer/Fall.

Library of Congress Fellowship for Asian issues

Florence Tan Moeson Fellowship program on Asian research, Sept 30 deadline

The Asian Division of the Library of Congress is pleased to announce the annual Florence Tan Moeson Fellowship (URL:http://www.loc.gov/rr/asian/FTM.html).

This fellowship is made possible by the generous donation by Mrs.Florence Tan Moeson, a former cataloger in the Chinese Team of the Regional and Cooperative Cataloging Division for 45 years. The purpose of the
fellowship is to provide individuals with the opportunity to pursue research on East, Southeast, and/or South Asia (including the overseas Asian communities), using the unparalleled collections of the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. The grants are for a minimum of five business days of research and are to be used to cover expenses incurred while engaging in scholastic research at the Library of Congress, in the area of Asian studies (e.g., travel to and from Washington, overnight accommodations, photocopying). Up to 15 fellowships, with amounts varying from $300 to $2,500, will be awarded. Graduate students, independent scholars, community college teachers, researchers without regular teaching appointments, and librarians are especially encouraged to apply.

Further application details is described in the attached Florence Tan Moeson Fellowship brochure. Applications are accepted online only at http://lcasianfriends.org/application/index.php?sid=4 and must be
submitted between June 1st and September 30th every year. The awards will be announced later in December.

Anchi Hoh, Ph.D.
Co-Chair
Florence Tan Moeson Fellowship Committee
The Asian Division
Library of Congress, LJ 150
101 Independence Ave., SE
Washington, DC 20540-4810
Tel: (202) 707-5673
Fax: (202) 707-1724
Email: adia@loc.gov

Circle of Asian American Literary Studies -- Special Issue Journal Call for Papers in MELUS

Alien/Asian: Imagining the Racialized Future

This special issue of MELUS invites original article-length submissions (6,000-10,000 words, MLA format) addressing the racialization of the Alien/Asian subject in works of science fiction, fantasy, speculative fiction, or other such similarly aligned textual genres. The so-called "Asian" has been the site of multiple anxieties that have marked this subject as the inscrutable immigrant alien (Immigration Act of 1924), the subhuman monster (as embodied by the evil machinations of Fu Manchu), or the eerily agreeable "model minority." This special issue seeks innovative, dynamic readings on the perennial "alienness" of the Asian that draws inspiration from these historical developments and stereotypes which now cast the Asian as cyborg, robot, alien species, perhaps inhabiting a post-apocalyptic world in which race takes on complicated new formations and intersectionalities.

We broadly define Asian/American narratives and texts. Papers will dialogue with each other through broad theoretical, thematic and analytical methodologies including but not limited to "post" critiques ( e.g. postmodernism and posthuman), hybridity and contact zones, allegories of empire and colonialism, cell and tissue theory, materialist approaches that consider scientific studies, new media studies and hypertext, just to name a few. Articles might examine the configuration of dystopic and fantastic futures in texts such as Cynthia Kadohata's In the Heart of the Valley of Love , Karen Tei Yamashita's Tropic of Orange and Through the Arc of the Rainforest, Sesshu Foster's Atomik Aztex, Alejandro Morales's Rag Doll Plagues, Octavia Butler's Parable of the Sower, Hiromi Goto's The Kappa Child, Larissa Lai's Salt Fish Girl, Amitav Ghosh's The Calcutta Chromosome, Vandana Singh's and Yoon Ha Lee's short fiction, the work of Lawrence Yep, Tess Gerritsen's Gravity, Minsoo Kang's Of Tales and Enigmas, the vampire fictions of Cecilia Tan, among many others. Not to be overlooked, we hope to solicit articles that address experimental, avant-garde poetic works that interrogate the Alien/Asian in relation to science, technology, and/or the future such as Cathy Park Hong's Dance Dance Revolution, Brian Kim Stefans's Before Starting Over, Mei-mei Berssenbrugge's Four Year Old Girl, and Shanxing Wang's Mad Science in Imperial China. In addition, articles might examine Greg Pak's screenplay and adapted movie Robot Stories, which uses an almost entirely Asian cast to play overtly with categories of humanity and machinery, while leaving loudly unspoken the representation of race. Alternately, submissions might compare Asian American textual productions with the rich implications of Grace Park's "colorblind" casting as the humanoid Lt. Sharon Valerii, a Cylon in the current Sci-Fi original series, Battlestar Galactica, or other recent casting choices in LOST and Heroes, television shows which continue to draw on the "Asian" as a participant in a science fictional world in which Americans are black, white, and Latino but never Asian.

Is the literal dehumanization of the Asian Other in actual effect dehumanizing, and/or perhaps (paradoxically) metaphorically enabling? What kinds of permutations to the interracial romance, discourses of hybridity and "hapa" identity emerge from these conceits? Do speculative futures suggest a post-race politic that destabilizes and challenges the grounds of Asian/American Studies?

Please e-mail articles as anonymous word attachments with an accompanying abbreviated 1 page c.v. to Stephen Hong Sohn at Stephen.H.Sohn@gmail.com by September 30, 2007. Any queries may be forwarded to the same e-mail address.

Columbia Fellowship Competition

COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY

SOCIETY OF FELLOWS IN THE HUMANITIES

POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIPS 2008-2009


THE COLUMBIA SOCIETY OF FELLOWS IN THE HUMANITIES, with grants from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the William R. Kenan Trust, will appoint a number of post-doctoral fellows in the humanities for the academic year 2008-2009. We invite applications
from qualified candidates who have received the Ph.D. between 1 January 2004 and 1 July 2008. Fellows are appointed as Lecturers in appropriate departments at Columbia University The fellowship is renewable for a second and third year. In the first year, Fellows teach one course per semester: at least one of these courses will be in the undergraduate general education program. In years two and three, Fellows teach one course per year. The annual stipend will be $52,000. Each Fellow will receive a research allowance of $4,000 per annum.

APPLICATION FORMS will be available by 1 June 2007 on our website at www.columbia.edu/cu/societyoffellows

DEADLINE for receipt of completed applications is 8 October 2007.

COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer. and as Mellon Fellows in the Society of Fellows.

NEW UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA ASIAN AMERICAN AND PACIFIC ISLANDER POLICY RESEARCH PROGRAM ESTABLISHED

"NEW UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA ASIAN AMERICAN AND PACIFIC ISLANDER POLICY RESEARCH PROGRAM ESTABLISHED"

The Office of Research of the University of California has approved the establishment of the UC Asian American and Pacific Islander Policy Multi-Campus Research Program (UC AAPI Policy MRP), which will officially start operating July 1, 2007. The MRP will support and promote applied research on policy issues related to Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders (AAPIs) in California and the nation. The MRP currently has 50 faculty affiliates from all 10 campuses, representing a diverse range of disciplines, including political science, sociology, economics, ethnic studies, law, public health, nursing, urban planning, education, Asian
American Studies, ethnic studies and social welfare.

The UC AAPI Policy MRP will bring together UC researchers, community-based organizations and legislators to identify, implement and disseminate research related to the AAPI community. The MRP will provide support and training to faculty and their students to conduct policy research, and will sponsor forums for them to present findings to elected officials, policy makers, community leaders and the general public. In doing so, it will enhance the University's broader mission of integrating research, teaching, and community service in ways that enlighten public policy.

The University of California Office of the President will provide funds for core operations for three years. The MRP will be housed at UCLA's Asian American Studies Center, which will provide matching funds and administrative support. UCLA's Graduate Division within the Chancellorís Office and UCLA's Asian American Studies Department will provide additional support. The Berkeley, Davis, and Irvine campuses will provide matching funds and will sponsor and host annual conferences and workshops to further the MRP's goals.

The founding of the MRP was made possible through the active involvement of faculty from throughout the UC system, with support from the UC Office of the President, California Policy Research Center, UCLA Asian American Studies Center, the UC Center at Sacramento, and the Joint API Legislative Caucus.

Professor Paul Ong (Asian American Studies and School of Public Affairs) will serve as the MRP's faculty director.

Additional information on the UC AAPI Policy MRP can be found at
<http://www.aasc.ucla.edu/policy/default.htm> http://www.aasc.ucla.edu/policy/default.htm .
Please send inquires to aapipolicy@aasc.ucla.edu.

Executive Committee
UC AAPI Policy Initiative
Yen Le Espiritu, Michael Omi, Don T. Nakanishi, Andres Jimenez, and Paul Ong

CFP: 6th Annual Hawaii International Conference on Arts & Humanities

Call for Papers/Abstracts/Submissions

6th Annual Hawaii International Conference on Arts & Humanities

January 11 - 14, 2008

Waikiki Beach Marriott Resort & Spa, Hilton Waikiki Prince Kuhio

Honolulu Hawaii, USA

Submission Deadline: August 23, 2007

Sponsored by:
University of Louisville - Center for Sustainable Urban Neighborhoods
The Baylor Journal of Theatre and Performance

Web address: http://www.hichumanities.org
Email address: humanities@hichumanities.org

The 6th Annual Hawaii International Conference on Arts & Humanities will be held from January 11 (Friday) to January 14 (Monday), 2008 at the Waikiki Beach Marriott Resort & Spa, and the Hilton Waikiki Prince Kuhio, in Honolulu, Hawaii. The conference will provide many opportunities for academicians and professionals from arts and humanities related fields to interact with members inside and outside their own particular disciplines. Cross-disciplinary submissions with other fields are welcome.

Topic Areas (All Areas of Arts & Humanities are Invited):
*Anthropology
*American Studies
*Archeology
*Architecture
*Art
*Art History
*Dance
*English
*Ethnic Studies
*Film
*Folklore
*Geography
*Graphic Design
*History
*Landscape Architecture
*Languages
*Literature
*Linguistics
*Music
*Performing Arts
*Philosophy
*Postcolonial Identities
*Product Design
*Religion
*Second Language Studies
*Speech/Communication
*Theatre
*Visual Arts
*Other Areas of Arts and Humanities
*Cross-disciplinary areas of the above related to each other or other areas.

Submitting a Proposal:
You may now submit your paper/proposal by using our new online submission system! To use the system, and for detailed information about submitting see: http://www.hichumanities.org/cfp_artshumanities.htm

Hawaii International Conference on Arts & Humanities
P.O. Box 75036
Honolulu, HI 96836 USA
Telephone: (808) 542-4385
Fax: (808) 947-2420
E-mail: humanities@hichumanities.org
Website: http://www.hichumanities.org