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]

<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…[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]