***Deadline extended to March 20, 2019***

CFP: Southeast Asia and Australia: Literary and Cultural Connections

This call is for a proposed collaborative session between the Southeast Asia/Southeast Asia Diasporic Forum of the Modern Language Association (MLA) and the American Association for Australasian Literary Studies (AAALS) at the January…[Read more]

MLA 2020: Southeast Asia-Focused CFPs

Having a hard time keeping track of the Southeast Asia-focused CFPs for MLA 2020? See the attached PDF for both the short and long descriptions of these four exciting CFPs! Please feel free to share widely and submit your own abstracts!

Southeast Asia and Australia: Literary and Cultural Connections:…[Read more]

MLA 2020 CFP: Settler Colonialism in Southeast Asia

This special session of the MLA Southeast Asian Forum seeks to interrogate settler colonialism through a diverse range of Southeast Asian literary and cultural texts. We are particularly interested in texts that illuminate the reconfiguration of place, power, and politics in the region, both…[Read more]

MLA 2020 (Jan 9-12, Seattle) CFP for Special Session sponsored by the CLCS Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic Forum:

“Transmedia Engagement and the Performance of Place in Southeast Asia”

In Transmedia Television: Audiences, New Media, and Daily Life (2011: 1-2), Elizabeth Evans defines transmediality as “the increasingly popular i…[Read more]

I’ll be giving a talk on Sonny Liew’s Eisner Award-winning The Art of Charlie Chan Hock Chye at the 2019 Brandeis Novel Symposium, and there are other fascinating talks on graphic novels lined up too. The event takes place on Friday April 12 at the Mandel Humanities Center, Brandeis University.

Below is the program and a link to the BNS web…[Read more]

CFP: Southeast Asia and Australia: Literary and Cultural Connections

This call is for a proposed collaborative session between the Southeast Asia/Southeast Asia Diasporic Forum of the Modern Language Association (MLA) and the American Association for Australasian Literary Studies (AAALS) at the January 2020 MLA conference in Seattle. Given the…[Read more]

CFP for EuroSEAS 2019: “Southeast Asian travelogues and global Asia”

This laboratory considers the ways in which travelogues by Southeast Asians articulated the concept of inter-Asian connections, thus prefiguring the term ‘global Asia.’ Examples include the study of early modern India and Southeast Asia by Chinese-language Nanyang (South Sea…[Read more]

Here’s an interesting article I thought I’d share with everyone, published December 2018 in the _Kyoto Review of Southeast Asia_.

Lee Jun Jie. “Colonialism and ASEAN Identity: Inherited ‘Mental Barriers’ Hindering the Formation of a Collective ASEAN Identity.”

Colonialism and ASEAN Identity: Inherited “mental barriers” hindering the formation of a collective ASEAN identity

Open assistant prof position in SE Asian Studies (including broadly-defined literature and culture focus) at UCLA:

https://recruit.apo.ucla.edu/apply/JPF04048

The Department of Asian Languages & Cultures (http://www.alc.ucla.edu/) at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), invites applications for a position in Southeast Asian studies,…[Read more]

The next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2019, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets during the January 2019 convention in Chicago. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is required to nom…[Read more]

Hi everyone, we plan to make an announcement detailing all Southeast Asia related papers at MLA 2019, so please let me know if you are presenting one! Thanks. Cheryl

<p class=”western”><span style=”font-size: medium;”>Hello! Our Southeast Asia & Southeast Asia Diasporic forum in the Modern Language Association will have 3 sessions at the January 2019 Chicago MLA conference. I’m also giving a 2nd talk on Singaporean comics artist Sonny Liew’s earlier work in a special session on postcolonial graphic nar…[Read more]

Dept. of American Studies & Ethnicity

University of Southern California

Los Angeles, California

The Department of American Studies & Ethnicity, Dana and David Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences, University of Southern California, in Los Angeles, California, is seeking one tenure-track assistant professor in the field of American…[Read more]

Hi everyone: just FYI – there’s a petition to create a CLCS Forum focused on Indian Ocean Studies.

I support the creation of this forum as I think it can be a venue to discuss the historical and contemporary connections between Africa, South Asia, and Southeast Asia, and this forum could be a potential collaborator in future. Please consider…[Read more]

Dear academic colleagues: there’s still time (deadline March 15) to submit a paper to one of these three proposed sessions about Southeast Asia for the 2019 MLA conference in Chicago. Details below.

* “Diasporas, Aesthetics, and Southeast Asia”: What aesthetics (or anesthetics) do diasporic movements into/out of/within Southeast Asia generate? C…[Read more]

Hi all, I’m on the board of the Association of Departments and Programs of Comparative Literature and I’m posting on behalf of the chair, Thomas Beebee, to publicize our CFP for MLA 2019. Here it is, inspired by the Presidential Theme of “Textual Transactions”:
Transacting Comparative Studies with other Disciplines and Units
Allied Organization:…[Read more]

Guaranteed panel sponsored by the Modern Language Association’s Committee of Comparative Literary and Cultural Studies, 20th and 21st century.

This panel takes its cue from Leopold Senghor’s writing on the ambiguities and paradoxes of the Bandung moment: as a call to shared independence that bears the risk of (ethno)-nationalist exploitations i…[Read more]