I am posting the following message on behalf of LLC Canadian’s executive committee chair, Rob Zacharias:

Dear friends and colleagues,

We are pleased to announce and invite participation in the upcoming July 8-22, 2020, online conference of the Association for Literature, Environment, and Culture in Canada (ALECC) on the theme Watershed,…[Read more]

Southeast Asian Literary & Cultural Studies: Navigating the Job Market Wednesday, July 22, 2020 / 4:00pm EST (US & Canada)  Please join members of the MLA Southeast Asian & Southeast Asian Diasporic forum to discuss how candidates working in Southeast Asian literary and cultural studies can effectively navigate the academic job market. This co…[Read more]

2) Archipelagic Studies in Asian American and Southeast Asian Literature
We invite papers focused on the archipelagic relations between Asian American and South East Asian literary studies, and especially attuned to migration, environment, settler colonialism, and radical friction. Please submit 300-word abstract and 1-page CV.

Deadline for…[Read more]

CFP: “Authoritarianism and Southeast Asia”

Modern Language Association Annual Convention

January 7–10, 2021, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Presidential Theme: “Persistence”

The recent prominence of a global “New Right” has upended the progressivist teleology that, at the end of the Cold War, located the political and economic regime of the “moder…[Read more]

Canadian Environments and the Extraction Economy
This session, sponsored by the LLC Canadian Forum and the Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities Forum, considers the cultures and histories of resource extraction in Canada. We seek papers on Canadian and/or Indigenous literatures and environments. Deadline for submissions: Friday, 20 March…[Read more]

Scarborough in/as Canadian Literature
This session, sponsored by the LLC Canadian Forum, considers the recent florescence of literature from and about Scarborough, ON. We seek papers discussing particular works related to Scarborough, as well as theoretical approaches. Deadline for submissions: Friday, 20 March 2020 Robert Zacharias, York…[Read more]

Indigenous-diasporic relations on Turtle Island
What are the possibilities for building alliances across lines of difference on Turtle Island? What are the challenges of intertwining decolonial struggles? We welcome papers, artistic, and pedagogical provocations on diasporic-Indigenous relations on Turtle Island.Deadline for submissions: Friday,…[Read more]

To All Members of the CLCS Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic Forum:

This is an open call to all our forum members for nominations for election to the forum’s executive committee.  Executive committee members serve 5-year terms (this election is for the 2021-2026 term) and are expected to attend roughly two out of every three annual…[Read more]

Hello everyone,

If anyone is interested and has some free time, I would like to cordially invite you all to our little film festival at the University of Washington campus:

SEAxSEA 2020: Southeast Asia x Seattle Film Festival
January 9 and 10, 2020, 5:00 to 7:30 pm
Thomson Hall (THO) room 101, King Ln NE, Seattle, WA 98105
ADMISSION IS…[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]

Please consider submitting a proposal for the following conference, which should be of interest to LLC Canadian members.

Future Horizons: Canadian Literature and Public Debate in the Digital Age
McMaster University | Hamilton, ON | May 28–29, 2020

The past few years have demonstrated limitations of and problems with the concept of Canadian l…[Read more]

Please consider submitting a proposal for the following conference, which should be of interest to LLC Canadian members.
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<p style=”text-align: center;”>McMaster University | Hamilton, ON | May 28–29, 2020</p>
The past few years have d…[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]

The Asian Studies Program at Vanderbilt University is accepting applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor in Asian Environmental Studies to begin in the Fall 2020 semester. Regional specialization is open to any area(s) of East, South, and Southeast Asia. Academic training may come from any discipline(s) in the humanities, social…[Read more]

Passing along information about an ACLA seminar organized by Elmo Gonzalez and Nazry Bahrawi (original link here):

This seminar will explore what it means to ‘do theory’ in and about Southeast Asia.Recent initiatives such as the University of California System’s International Consortium for Critical Theory Programs and Asia Theories Network, the U…

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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]