We invite proposals for the following, non-guaranteed session of the LLC Japanese to 1900 Forum @ MLA 2021:

Session title: The Location of Culture: Places and Spaces of the East Asian Imaginary

As either unmovable physical locations or portable culturally-mediated psychological spaces, places are an essential feature of our world. Throughout…[Read more]

We invite proposals for the following, non-guaranteed session of the LLC Japanese to 1900 Forum @ MLA 2021:

Session title: The Location of Culture: Places and Spaces of the East Asian Imaginary

As either unmovable physical locations or portable culturally-mediated psychological spaces, places are an essential feature of our world.…[Read more]

We invite proposals for the following, non-guaranteed session of the LLC Japanese to 1900 Forum @ MLA 2021:

Session title: The Location of Culture: Places and Spaces of the East Asian Imaginary

As either unmovable physical locations or portable culturally-mediated psychological spaces, places are an essential feature of our world. Throughout…[Read more]

Dear all,

Please see the CFPs below for panels sponsored by the Asian American Forum. If you have any questions, please let us know.

Jeehyun Lim

Modern Language Association (MLA) Annual Convention

Toronto, January 7-10, 2021

1. (Guaranteed Session with Southeast Asian Forum)
We invite papers drawing attention to the archipelagic relation…[Read more]

Sponsored by LLC East Asia Forum World War II remains the focus of intense contemporary interest across the transpacific and particularly in East Asia, where contested borders and competing narratives collide. Although these nationalist discourses are historically articulated in terms of aggressor and victim (China/Japan, Korea/Japan, etc.),…[Read more]

Sponsored by LLC East Asia Forum World War II remains the focus of intense contemporary interest across the transpacific and particularly in East Asia, where contested borders and competing narratives collide. Although these nationalist discourses are historically articulated in terms of aggressor and victim (China/Japan, Korea/Japan, etc.),…[Read more]

Guaranteed Session Sponsored by LLC East Asia Forum

Reimagining Wartime Incarceration in East Asia

World War II remains the focus of intense contemporary interest across the transpacific and particularly in East Asia, where contested borders and competing narratives collide. Although these nationalist discourses are historically articulated in…[Read more]

The passing of Emperor Hirohito in 1989 brought the long postwar to an end, at least symbolically. While older Japanese may have felt a sense of closure in his death, those growing up in the years that followed knew a cultural landscape determined not by imperialism, war, or economic growth (as a panacea for the Emperor himself), but rather…[Read more]

The passing of Emperor Hirohito in 1989 brought the long postwar to an end, at least symbolically. While older Japanese may have felt a sense of closure in his death, those growing up in the years that followed knew a cultural landscape determined not by imperialism, war, or economic growth (as a panacea for the Emperor himself), but rather…[Read more]

The MLA International Bibliography is an online database that covers literature, language and linguistics, folklore, film, literary theory and criticism, dramatic arts, as well as the historical aspects of printing and publishing. Listings on rhetoric and composition and the history, theory and practice of teaching language and literature are also…[Read more]

The MLA International Bibliography is an online database that covers literature, language and linguistics, folklore, film, literary theory and criticism, dramatic arts, as well as the historical aspects of printing and publishing. Listings on rhetoric and composition and the history, theory and practice of teaching language and literature are also…[Read more]

We invite papers exploring relationships between text and image (broadly defined) in premodern Japan.  Scholars from a variety of disciplines welcome.  250-word abstracts to Glynne Walley (glynne@uoregon.edu) by February 29, 2020.

The Pre-14th Century Chinese Literature Forum is making an open call for panel proposals on a topic of broad appeal to scholars of literary history, comparative literature, or language and literary pedagogy. MLA sessions can be either roundtables or panels with 3-4 short papers and a discussant.  Panel organizers would have the opportunity to c…[Read more]

The Pre-14th Century Chinese Literature Forum is making an open call for panel proposals on a topic of broad appeal to scholars of literary history, comparative literature, or language and literary pedagogy. MLA sessions can be either roundtables or panels with 3-4 short papers and a discussant.  Panel organizers would have the opportunity to c…[Read more]

The Japanese since 1900 forum’s executive committee seeks nominations, including self nominations, for candidates and alternate candidates to stand for election on the committee. This year we need to fill two positions (term 2020-2025 and 2021-2026) so please consider self-nominating as a way to help promote East Asian presence in MLA. Please c…[Read more]

The Japanese since 1900 forum’s executive committee seeks nominations, including self nominations, for candidates and alternate candidates to stand for election on the committee. This year we need to fill two positions (term 2020-2025 and 2021-2026) so please consider self-nominating as a way to help promote East Asian presence in MLA. Please c…[Read more]

The Japanese since 1900 forum’s executive committee seeks nominations, including self nominations, for candidates and alternate candidates to stand for election on the committee. This year we need to fill two positions (term 2020-2025 and 2021-2026) so please consider self-nominating as a way to help promote East Asian presence in MLA. Please c…[Read more]