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.