Please come to the East Asian Languages and Literatures Reception on Saturday night at 8:45 pm in Marriott 411-412. There will be food and drink! I hope to see you there.

Christopher Lupke

If you’re attending the 2017 MLA convention, please check out the following sessions arranged by the Forum in LLC Asian American:

Boundary Conditions and Complexities in Teaching the Works of Karen Tei Yamashita

Thursday, 5 January, 5:15–6:30 p.m., 110A, Pennsylvania Convention Center

Program arranged by the forum LLC Asian A…[Read more]

Dear Colleagues,

Thank you very much for supporting the LLC Ming/Qing Chinese forum!

We hope to see you all at our second forum meeting on

Friday, Jan. 6, at 7:30 p.m. in the Marriott, room 303.

Please join us to talk about plans for promoting more China scholarship at the MLA.

Because of your participation in this forum, this year…[Read more]

<div>In April, 2013, the Association for Asian American Studies became the first academic organization within the US to pass a resolution calling for the academic boycott of Israel for its systematic and wholesale violation of the rights of Palestinians in all areas of life, including education. In December 2013, the American Studies Association…[Read more]

When this forum’s executive committee meets during the Philadelphia convention in January, it will take up the matter of nominations for the first election of a Delegate Assembly representative for the forum; the election will be held in the fall of 2017. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is required to no…[Read more]

This forum will need to elect a new Delegate Assembly representative in the fall of 2017, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets during the January 2017 convention in Philadelphia. The executive committee is responsible for making nominations, but it is required to nominate at l…[Read more]

As a member of the executive committee of the Asian American Literature Forum, my hope would be to use the wide audience of MLA as a showcase and an educational opportunity about advancements in the field. Asian American studies’ numerous directions, which have caused a lot of self-examinations within the field, offer us a unique opportunity to…[Read more]

I’m co-organizing a seminar on Asian American and Asian Canadian topics for next year’s ACLA meeting in Utrecht. I’m sure that the conversations we are envisioning would be of interest to members of this forum! My apologies for a last minute posting, but if you have an abstract ready to submit, the ACLA website will accept proposals to our seminar…[Read more]

I hope this message finds you enjoying a beautiful fall semester! I’m writing because I’m on the search committee for a new position in Chinese Literature at Penn State. Could you help spread the word amongst friends, colleagues, peers, grad students and the like? (Ad below.)

Thanks so much!
Charlotte

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