A symposium on Literary / Media Histories of (Post)Colonial Southeast Asia. Friday 12 March at 9:30 AM US Pacific time (Los Angeles) on Zoom.

Speakers: Elizabeth Wijaya, Nadine Chan, Cheryl Narumi Naruse, & Philip Holden

Please register in advance: tinyurl.com/sealitmedia21

We have a website with talk abstracts, speaker bios, & helpful…[Read more]

Call for papers: Archipelagic Thinking in Asian American and Southeast Asian Literature (MLA 2022)

We invite papers for a proposed session on “Archipelagic Thinking in Asian American and Southeast Asian Literature” for the 2022 Modern Language Association conference (6-9 January). The session is co-sponsored by the MLA’s Asian American Liter…[Read more]

Call for papers: Archipelagic Thinking in Asian American and Southeast Asian Literature (MLA 2022)

We invite papers for a proposed session on “Archipelagic Thinking in Asian American and Southeast Asian Literature” for the 2022 Modern Language Association conference (6-9 January). The session is co-sponsored by the MLA’s Asian American Liter…[Read more]

FYI: based on a search of the MLA 2021 online program, here’s a list of the sessions/panels that have content related to Southeast Asia & its diasporas. All dates & times are US Eastern Time (New York).

* Asian American Literature and Empire and Imperialism
Thursday, 7 January 2021
7:15 AM – 8:30 A…[Read more]

FYI: based on a search of the MLA 2021 online program, here’s a list of the sessions/panels that have content related to Southeast Asia & its diasporas. All dates & times are US Eastern Time (New York).

* Asian American Literature and Empire and Imperialism
Thursday, 7 January 2021
7:15 AM – 8:30 A…[Read more]

MLA 2021 CFP: State of the Body: Health and Illness in the 21st Century
What methodologies and/or texts best help us make sense of our current bodily relationship to health, illness, and medicine? Papers utilizing posthumanism, new materialism, feminist science studies, or other philosophical tools are welcome. All literary genres and time p…[Read more]

MLA 2021 CFP: State of the Body: Health and Illness in the 21st Century
What methodologies and/or texts best help us make sense of our current bodily relationship to health, illness, and medicine? Papers utilizing posthumanism, new materialism, feminist science studies, or other philosophical tools are welcome. All literary genres and time p…[Read more]

CFP: special issue of Antipodes journal on Southeast Asian and Australian Literary and Cultural Connections

We invite essay submissions for a special issue of Antipodes, journal of the American Association for Australasian Studies (AAALS) on the topic of Southeast Asian and Australian Literary and Cultural Connections. This special section will…[Read more]

CFP: special issue of Antipodes journal on Southeast Asian and Australian Literary and Cultural Connections

We invite essay submissions for a special issue of Antipodes, journal of the American Association for Australasian Studies (AAALS) on the topic of Southeast Asian and Australian Literary and Cultural Connections. This special section will…[Read more]