The 14th International Conference of the European Association of Southeast Asian Archaeologists

Council on Thai Studies
Center for Southeast Asian Studies (Ingraham Hall)
University of Wisonsin-Madison
Location: Madison, WI USA
Meeting dates: 7 & 8 October 2011
Deadline: 9 September 2011

The Council on Thai Studies announces its annual meeting to be held at the Center for Southeast Asian Studies (Ingraham Hall), the University of Wisconsin-Madison on 7 & 8 October 2011. We invite students, faculty, and other scholars of Thailand and Tai peoples to submit papers for this conference. This is a premier opportunity to exchange ideas and present new and on-going research. We welcome all topics at this conference. This is a small conference. It is an ideal venue for presenters and attendees to share and test ideas.

Submit papers or panels by 9 September 2011 to Dr. Kate Gillogly (gillogly@uwp.edu). You can also contact Kate Gillogly for further information.

Hotel Reservations: A block of rooms will be reserved at the Lowell Center, 610 Langdon Street, Madison, WI, 53703. The phone number for reservations (866) 301-1753, or you can contact the Lowell Center via email at lowell@ecc.uwex.edu. Students: Sleeping bag space is available with advance notice.

Inter-Asian Connections III: Hong Kong
Conference dates: 6 – 8 June 2011
Deadline: 10 March 2011

The Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences (HKIHSS) at the University of Hong Kong, the National University of Singapore (NUS), and the Social Science Research Council (SSRC) (the Organizers) are pleased to announce an open call for proposals from faculty members at accredited universities and colleges in any world region to organize and direct one of four thematic workshops at a 3-day international conference entitled “Inter-Asian Connections III.” Following on successful conferences held in Dubai in February 2008 and Singapore in December 2010, this conference will be held in Hong Kong in June 2012. The conference aims to showcase innovative research from across the social sciences and related disciplines on themes of particular relevance to Asia, re-conceptualized as a dynamic and interconnected historical, geographical, and cultural formation stretching from the Middle East through Eurasia, South Asia and Southeast Asia, to East Asia.

Proposals are invited from faculty interested in organizing and directing a workshop on one of the following four themes:

* New Politics of Inequality

* Globalizing Asia

* Security and Insecurity

* Old Histories, New Geographies

Each workshop should have two directors (with different institutional affiliations and preferably representing different disciplines) and if selected will be expected to help recruit and choose 10 international workshop participants (senior and junior scholars, graduate students, other researchers) competitively from across relevant disciplines in the social sciences and related fields.

The full text of the call for proposals, along with information on the application process and eligibility can be found on the program’s website. For additional inquiries, please contact interasia@ssrc.org, tel: (212) 377-270, or fax: (212) 377-2727

This event is organized and co-sponsored by The Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences (HKIHSS) at the University of Hong Kong, the National University of Singapore (NUS), and the Social Science Research Council (SSRC).

Panel(s): Southeast Asian Cinema
Deadline: 15 July 2010

The Center would like to identify scholars interested in presenting papers on Southeast Asian cinema at the Association for Asian Studies (AAS) Annual Conference in Honolulu – March 31-April 3, 2011 (even if you have already submitted a paper to AAS…we’d like to know about people working on SEAn film!). With the AAS looking to expand their range of topics and noting that a larger convention space will allow for a greater number of panels, we are interested in organizing panels on SEA cinema themes to include (but not limited to) Vietnamese film, women filmmakers, films adapted from works of literature, translating SEAn film, and Islam in film.

If you or someone you know is interested in being included on such a panel(s), please contact us at cseas@hawaii.edu and include your name, institutional affiliation, and proposed paper title and short abstract (please include “SEA Cinema-AAS”in the subject bar). Since the deadline for paper submission to AAS is August 5, please send us a statement of interest no later than July 15. This is an organizational effort only. Sadly, we are not offering travel subsidies at this time. Thanks for your interest in Southeast Asian cinema. We look forward to seeing everyone in Honolulu in 2011!

On behalf of the Program Committee for the 2011 joint Association for Asian Studies (AAS) and International Convention of Asia Scholars (ICAS) conference “70 Years of Asian Studies,” to be held at the Hawaii Convention Center in Honolulu, we are pleased to invite colleagues in Asian Studies to submit proposals for Organized Panels, Roundtables, Workshops, and Individual Papers for sessions to be created by the Conference Committee.

The Committee seeks sessions that will engage panelists and audiences in the consideration of ideas, information, and interpretations that will advance knowledge about Asian regions and, by extension, will enrich teaching about Asia at all levels.

Because space constraints will not be a concern in 2011, we should be able to accommodate more than 400 panel sessions (compared to our usual 250), including substantially more panels comprised of individual paper proposals. The larger number of panel sessions will allow many more scholars to be on the formal program, thus facilitating institutional travel funding and maximizing attendance.

Institutions, organizations and affiliated groups are particularly encouraged to submit panel, roundtable, and workshop session proposals for the formal program, rather than as Meetings-in-Conjunction, which will be limited primarily to business meetings or social functions.

We look forward to your colleagueship at the Honolulu conference and to a program that reflects the culture and dynamism of both the AAS and ICAS, and celebrates the last 70 years of scholarship in the field of Asian Studies.

Questions? Please contact a member of the Program Committee or the AAS Conference Manager, Robyn Jones, rjones@asian-studies.org.

For more information on the conference, please visit the official website.

American Studies Graduate Student Association Graduate Student Conference
Saturday, 3 April 2010 – Rescheduled due to Tsunami
9:00 AM – 3:00 PM – Campus Center, University of Hawai’i at Mānoa

Inspired by the Mary Kawena Pukui quote, “The top of the cliff isn’t the place to look at us; come down here and learn of the big and little current, face to face,” the ASGSA conference focuses on issues of indigeneity, colonialism, and settler communities around the globe. Check out this free event, with Southeast Asian presentations in these sessions:

War and National Identity
11:15am – 12:15pm – Campus Center 308
Moderator: Yusuke Ikeda
Alvin Lim, Political Science. “Khmerness qua Event.”
Kevin Lim, American Studies. “Debunking The Myth of Canadian Multiculturalism: A Case Study of Select Japanese Canadian Internment Films.”
Linda Michaud-Emin, Political Science. “Identifying Complexities within an Ethnic or Sectarian Post-Colonialist Framework: Turkish Occupation of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC).”

Philippines: Colonized & Settler Colonizer
2:00 – 3:00 PM – Campus Center 307
Moderator: Miguel Llora
Eriza Bareng, American Studies. “The Direction of Modern Philippine Historiography and a Short Case Study.”
Kim Compoc, English. “Filipinos and Statehood: Reflections on American Assimilation and Settler Complicity.”
Melanie Medalle, Political Science and Women’s Studies. “1898 Unfortunates’: Reimagining Sex, Race, and Aesthetico-Sensory Space in the Treaty of Paris and Resistance to US Conquest of the Philippines.”
Theresa Navarro, American Studies. “Exhibiting Nation, Citizenship and Gender in the Philippines: The Pinay as Politico-Historical Prop at the Ayala Museum Diorama Experience.”

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Wednesday, March 10 – Friday, March 12, 2010
Center for Korean Studies, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa

The School of Pacific and Asian Studies (SPAS) 2010 Graduate Student Conference will be held this March, showcasing graduate student presentations on the Asia-Pacific Region from different disciplines. Awards will be given to outstanding doctoral and master’s papers at the conference.

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Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences Conference Centre, Hanoi, VIETNAM
29 November – 5 December 2009

The 19th Conference of the Indo-Pacific Prehistory Association is supported in part by: the Australian National University, Canberra; Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences (Hanoi); Vietnam Institute of Archaeology (Hanoi); Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research (New York); Granucci Fund for Archaeology in Indonesia and Timor Leste (Australian National University, through IPPA); Luce Foundation (via the University of Pennsylvania Middle Mekong Archaeological Project).

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4th Nakem International Conference – “Dap-ayan: Sharing and Understanding Ethnolinguistic Worlds Towards Cultural Pluralism”
Ilokano Language & Literature Program,
Dept. of Indo-Pacific Languages & Literatures, UH at Mānoa
11 – 14 November 2009

The four-day conference is expected to be attended by cultural researchers, heritage language educators, advocates of heritage preservation and promotion, public policy leaders, and cultural artists and workers who are interested in the issues of cultural pluralism, multicultural education, cultural democracy, heritage language teaching, and critical practices related to the pursuit of linguistic rights and social justice.

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Philadelphia Marriott Downtown
25 – 28 March 2010

The Association for Asian Studies (AAS) Program Committee has prepared the following list of 282 panels and roundtables for the 2010 Meeting in Philadelphia. Titles may change slightly, but the hourly schedule will remain constant. For your convenience, we’ve listed SEA-related panels below:

4. Banishing Acts: Exile, Identity and Connectivity across Colonial South and Southeast Asia (Penny Edwards, University of California, Berkeley)
10. Roundtable: Some Effective Approaches to Teaching and Analyzing Poetry – Sponsored by the Committee on Teaching Southeast Asian Languages (Robert J. Bickner, University of Wisconsin, Madison)
11. Red, White, and Green? Islam in Indonesian National Politics and Political Culture (James B. Hoesterey, Stanford University)

31. Inner Flows and Fusions: Mapping Musical Dynamism in East and Southeast Asia (Eun-Young Jung, University of California, San Diego)
37. Democracy and Identity in Southeast Asia (Jacques Bertrand, University of Toronto)
38. Transgendering and Transgressive Meanings in South East Asia (Mark Johnson, University of Hull)
39. Center for Lao Studies’ New Research on Contemporary Laos (Vinya Sysamouth, Center for Lao Studies)
40. Roundtable: The GMA Presidency and Its Legacy (David Timberman, USAID)
61. Local and National in Contemporary Policymaking in Southeast Asia: Environment and Energy Policy, Natural Resources Husbandry, Journalistic Norms, and Economic Management (Alasdair Bowie, George Washington University)
62. Who’s Who? Rethinking Marginal Intellectuals in Late Colonial Vietnam (Martina T. Nguyen, University of California, Berkeley)
63. Buddhist Approaches to Violence: Narratives, Texts, and Doctrine (Jeffrey Samuels, Western Kentucky University)
64. Center for Lao Studies’ New Research on Contemporary Laos II (Vinya Sysamouth, Center for Lao Studies)
79. Is Rule Change Real Change? Political Reforms in Southeast Asian Democracies (Dan Slater, University of Chicago)
88. New Perspectives on Southeast Asian Islam and the Middle East (Francis R. Bradley, University of Wisconsin, Madison)
89. Perspectives on Catholic Culture in Viet Nam, 1600-2009 (Nhung Tuyet Tran, University of Toronto)
113. Citizenship and Identity Issues in Contemporary Singapore: Political, Educational, Spatial, and Societal Perspectives (Yeow Tong Chia, University of Toronto)
114. Bringing Literature into the Study of Twentieth-Century Thai History (Michael J. Montesano, Institute of Southeast Asian Studies)
115. From Peace to Justice in Cambodia: Reconciliation and the Khmer Rouge Trials – Sponsored by the Southeast Asia Council (Caitlin N. Reiger, International Center for Transitional Justice)

140. Islam, Culture and Politics in Southeast Asia – Sponsored by the Indonesian and East Timor Studies Committee and the Malaysia/Singapore/Brunei Group (Timothy P. Daniels, Hofstra University)
141. Dangerous Histories in Southeast Asia: Disquieting Past – Sponsored by the Southeast Asia Council (Thongchai Winichakul, University of Wisconsin, Madison)
167. Dangerous Histories in Southeast Asia: Discomforting Narratives (Thongchai Winichakul, University of Wisconsin, Madison)
183. Presidential Roundtable: After Reformasi: Trends in Southeast Asian Muslim Politics and Culture (Robert W. Hefner, Boston University)
193. The Colonial City in a War of Decolonization: Socio-Cultural Approaches for a History of Saigon and Hanoi during the Indochina Conflict (1945-54) (Christopher E. Goscha, University of Quebec at Montreal)
194. Gendered Narratives of Islam in Indonesia: Performing Piety, Aurality, and Representation – Sponsored by the Indonesia and East Timor Studies Committee (Laurie M. Ross, University of California, Berkeley)
217. The Weave of Death: Funerary Cloths in Art and Ritual in Southeast Asian Buddhism – Sponsored by Thailand, Laos, Cambodia Studies (Erik W. Davis, Macalester College)
218. Political Islam and Electoral Behavior: Indonesia in Comparison (Jennifer L. Epley, University of Michigan)
219. Roundtable: United States Policy Toward Southeast Asia: Opportunities and Obstacles for the Obama Administration (Ann Marie Murphy, Seton Hall University)
220. Domestic Political Conflict in the Democratic Republic of Vietnam During the Late 1950s (Peter Zinoman, University of California, Berkeley)

243. Comparing Across Southeast Asia: Regional Patterns of Politics (Mark R. Thompson, University of Erlangen)
244. Roundtable: Ha Noi: A Thousand Years in the Embrace of the Red River – Sponsored by the Vietnam Studies Group (C. Michele Thompson, Southern Connecticut State University)
245. Roundtable: Burma/Myanmar: The 2010 Elections, the Constitution, Law, and Issues of the Distribution of Power and Legitimacy – Sponsored by the Burma Studies Group (David I. Steinberg, Georgetown University)
267. Dissecting Law, Sovereignty, and Citizenship in the Thai Polity (Eli A. Elinoff, University of California, San Diego)
268. Hidden Histories and Submerged Stories from Northwest Vietnam (Christian C. Lentz, Cornell University)
269. Individual Papers: Reflections on Contemporary Indonesian Studies (Justin T. McDaniel, University of Pennsylvania)

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