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]

***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]

Enthusiastically inviting participants for a roundtable on global Black studies for the Modern Language Association’s 2020 convention in Seattle, Washington, USA, 9-12 January.

For this non-guaranteed session, the organizers seek short provocations in response to the following prompt:How does the prefix “global” alter, expand, or complicate no…[Read more]

MLA 2020: Southeast Asia-Focused CFPs

Having a hard time keeping track of the Southeast Asia-focused CFPs for MLA 2020? See the attached PDF for both the short and long descriptions of these four exciting CFPs! Please feel free to share widely and submit your own abstracts!

Southeast Asia and Australia: Literary and Cultural Connections:…[Read more]

MLA 2020 CFP: Settler Colonialism in Southeast Asia

This special session of the MLA Southeast Asian Forum seeks to interrogate settler colonialism through a diverse range of Southeast Asian literary and cultural texts. We are particularly interested in texts that illuminate the reconfiguration of place, power, and politics in the region, both…[Read more]

July 12-13, 2019: Institute of Modern Languages Research at the University of London (London, England)

From Ian Watt to Joseph Slaughter, scholars of literature have understood the novel as a genre that emphasizes the formation of the individual in relation to a nation-state. However, in recent decades, the interconnectedness of the global market…[Read more]

Race, Indigeneity, and Articulations of Sovereignty across the Global South
Papers on the intersections between indigeneity, postcoloniality, creolization, and discourses of race in the Global South. How does migration affect understandings of sovereignty/belonging? What are the powers/limitations of a globalized concept of indigeneity? 250-word…[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]

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 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