Members and friends of the Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic CLCS MLA Forum:

Our forum invites you to a MLA 2020 Happy Hour at 9pm on Friday, January 10 at the Frolik Kitchen + Cocktails, which is located on the 5th floor of the Motif Seattle Hotel (3 blocks from the Washington State Convention Center). Come mingle and decompress…[Read more]

Members and friends of the Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic CLCS MLA Forum:

Our forum invites you to a MLA 2020 Happy Hour at 9pm on Friday, January 10 at the Frolik Kitchen + Cocktails, which is located on the 5th floor of the Motif Seattle Hotel (3 blocks from the Washington State Convention Center). Come mingle and decompress…[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]

For those in the So Cal area, the Los Angeles Indonesian Film Festival will be hosted at USC’s School of Cinematic Arts and the UCLA Film School next week, from 16-20 Oct, 2019. The events kick off next Wednesday at 6:30 p.m. with Dee Lestari’s Filosofi Kopi 2: Ben and Jody.

http://la-iff.org/index.php

The English Department of the University of Kentucky is offering a 2-year ACLS postdoctoral fellowship  for someone working on postcolonial / global anglophone literatures. The 2-year fellowship transitions into a tenure-track Assistant Professor of English position. Please help spread the word about this excellent opportunity.

Full details in…[Read more]

The Southeast Asian American Section of the Association for Asian American Studies invites submissions for a panel: Trauma and Southeast Asian American Studies Association for Asian American Studies 40th ConferenceApril 9 – 11, 2020, Washington, DC“Troubling Politics” The U.S. has imagined the Pacific as an “American lake” since the nineteenth ce…[Read more]

May 4, 2019

Founding the Society of Sinophone Studies

Following the successful “Sinophone Studies” conference held in April of this year at the University of California, Los Angeles, we announce the formation of the Society of Sinophone Studies to promote the study of Sinitic-language communities and cultures around the world. The Society see…[Read more]

***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…[Read more]

***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 (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 p…[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]

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: 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: 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: 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]