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Association of Asian Studies (AAS) JANUARY, 2000 Chinese Labor Camp: Theory, Actuality, and Fictional Representation A one-day national conference will be held at the University of California, Riverside on January 15, 2000. This interdisciplinary conference will examine Chinese prison camps from perspectives in both the humanities and the social sciences. Speakers include both senior scholars in China studies and human rights activists, some of whom have first-hand experience of the camps. This conference is co-sponsored by the Center for Ideas and Society and the Presley Center for Crime and Justice Studies at the University of California, Riverside. For further information contact the Center for Ideas and Society at (909) 787-3987 or ideassoc@citrus.ucr.edu FEBRUARY, 2000 Graduate Student Conference on East Asia. The Ninth Annual Graduate Student Conference on East Asia will be held at Columbia University in the City of New York on February 5–6, 2000. Previous conferences have been very successful in providing opportunities for graduate students from various institutions to establish contact and share ideas with each other, and to gain valuable experience in presenting and discussing their work in front of an audience of their peers. We welcome applications from graduate students engaged in research on East Asian History, Literature, Art History, and Religion, and other disciplines. The deadline for application for conference participation is Monday, December 6, 1999. For further details and an application, contact Andy Schonebaum or Jessamyn Reich at the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, 407 Kent Hall, Columbia University, New York, NY 10027; Tel: (212) 854-5027; Fax: (212) 678-8629; E-Mail asiagradcon@columbia.edu; Website: http://www.columbia.edu/cu/ealac/gradconf/ Localities of Nationhood: The Nation in Philippine Literature. The Department of English of the Ateneo de Manila University is sponsoring a national conference on literature with the theme Localities of Nationhood: the Nation in Philippine Literature on 10–12 February, 2000. The National Conference on Literature is a venue for exchange of ideas among writers, scholars, teachers, and students. This year’s conference aims to identify how the nation has been constituted by the varieties of Philippine literature. We would like to invite you and your colleagues to participate in this conference either by presenting a paper or by attending the sessions. The conference fee is PHP 2,500.00 for non-students and graduate students and PHP 1,000.00 for undergraduate students, inclusive of lunch, snacks, and the conference kit. Speakers and paper presenters will be given a modest honorarium and free access to all sessions. Please send abstracts or address inquiries to: e-mail: litconf@admu.edu.ph regular mail:Litconf, The Department of English, School of Arts and Sciences, Ateneo de Manila University, P.O. Box 154, 1099 Manila, Philippines Religion, Public Culture, and Non-Governmental Organizations in Southeast Asia: Call For Papers. The 17th annual Berkeley conference on Southeast Asia will be held February 12, 2000 in Barrows Hall at the University of California at Berkeley. The conference welcomes paper proposals that address the values, practices, and stratgies of religious based Non-Governmental Organizations in Southeast Asia. Explorations of the role of such organizations in carving out a space for alternative politics in a region where the opposition parties are often suppressed are particularly encouraged. Please mail or e-mail one pate paper proposals by November 1, 1999, to Dr. Caverlee Carey, Center for Southeast Asia Studies, 2223 Fulton St., Room 616, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720-2318; E-Mail: cseas@uclink.berkeley.edu; Fax: 510-643-7062; Phone: 510-642-3609. Forum of European Expansion and Global Interaction: Call for Papers. The Forum of European Expansion and Global Interaction will hold its third biennial meeting at Flagler College in St. Augustine, Florida, February 18–19, 2000. The Forum is concerned with the expansion of Europe and the world-wide response to the expansion, form its beginnings in the 14th century to the middle of the 19th century. It seeks participation by scholars in all areas of the field and encourages submissions from individuals with an interdisciplinary focus. Both individual and group proposals are welcomed; proposals for round-table discussions will also be considered. In recognition of this year’s meeting site, the organizers would welcome papers related to the theme: "Cities, Entrepots, and Outposts" However, all other topics are also welcomed. Individual proposals should include the following: a 250-word abstract for each paper and a curriculum vita for each participant which provides complete contact information. Panel proposals should also include a 250-word abstract of the panel rationale. Inquires and proposals should be addressed to: Professor Jane Landers, Vanderbilt University, Department of History, Box 1802 Station B, Nashville, TN 37235 Phone: +1.615.322-3403; Fax: +1.615.343-6002; E-Mail: jane.landers@vanderbilt.edu. Completed proposals must reach Jane Landers by October 15, 1999. Further details on registration, program, and accommodations will be posted later. For more information, please check the website, at http://www.let.leidenuniv.nl/history/itin/feegi.htm Korean Studies in the Millennium. A conference to examine critical issues in Korean studies will be held in Honolulu February 18–21, 2000. The conference is sponsored by the Center for Korean Studies at the University of Hawai’i in cooperation with Osaka University of Economics and Law, the International Society for Korean Studies, and Beijing University. The Critical Issues in Korean Studies in the Millennium Conference will bring together Korean studies scholars from around the world to study critical issues in the field as we enter the new millennium. The conference planners hope to produce definitive studies on the issues affecting Korea and Korean studies. Efforts will also be made to explore new ideas and themes with an eye to identifying future collaborative research topics. The conference will be held at the Ala Moana Hotel. Registration is $50 and may be obtained through the Center for Korean Studies, University of Hawai‘i, 1881 East-West Rd., Honolulu, HI 96822. Telephone: (808) 956-7041. Fax: (808) 956-2213. For additional information, consult the Center’s Website at www.hawaii.edu/korea/ Workshop on Intra-Asian Cultural Traffic: Call for Expressions of Interest. The Research Centre in Intercommunal Studies at University of Western Sydney, Nepean is exploring in conjunction with ConsmAsiaN Network the possibility of holding an international workshop on ‘Intra-Asian Cultural Traffic’ in 23–26 February 2000. The workshop aims to explore the hitherto underexplored field of intra-regional cultural flows within Asia (including Australia and Asian diasporas in other parts of the world). The purpose of the workshop is to forge a theoretical shift in the study of cultural globalisation from the dominant West-Rest paradigm, by attending to globalisations’ effect on the multiple crosscultural and crossborder dialogues, exchanges and interactions within the Asia-Pacific region. We invite expressions of interest from those innovatively exploring the dynamics of Asian transnational cultural traffic and the articulation of new Asian identities in themes such as (popular) cultural hybridisation, localisation and regionalisation, transnational media consumption, and intra-Asian tourism (not exclusive). For further information please contact: Koichi Iwabuchi, k.Iwabuchi@nepean.uws.edu.au or Mandy Thomas ma.thomas@nepean.uws.edu.au MARCH, 2000 The History of Spoken Chinese: Call for Papers. The Yuen Ren Society announces a symposium on "The History of Spoken Chinese" to be held in conjunction with the 210th meeting of the American Oriental Society, in Portland, Oregon, March 12–15, 2000. Lectures will be presented with the general Sinological listener in mind. Topics will include: How is the history of spoken Chinese different from the history of written Chinese?; The standard languages and prestige dialects of the past; Proto-dialects and dialect metasystems, and their relationship to real regional languages of the past; Etymology of dialect words; Future prospects in Chinese historical dialectology. The initial deadline for submissions is 15 October, 1999. For more information contact: David Prager Branner, Yuen Ren Society, 440 Riverside Drive, #73, New York, NY 10027-6831 USA; E-Mail: yuen.ren.society@bigfoot.com or Richard VanNess Simmons, East Asian Languages and Cultures, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, 43 College Ave., Scott Hall, Room 330, New Brunswick, NJ 08901-1164 USA; E-Mail: rsimmon@rutgers.edu APRIL, 2000 Interdisciplinary Nineteenth Century Studies 15th Annual Conference: Call for Papers. INCS : Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies announces its Fifteenth Annual Conference, to be held at the Yale Center for British Art, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut on April 6–8, 2000. Proposals are invited for papers and panels on the general topic of "Centers and Peripheries." This conference focuses on the interdisciplinary issues of how both ideologies and material practices construct, maintain, and challenge centers and peripheral spaces in geographic, political, and psychological terms; we are interested in exploring the ways such practices are reflected and produced in the arts, sciences, commerce, history, and societies of the 19th century. Send 200–400 word abstracts by October 16, 1999 to: Mark Schoenfield, INCS President, E-mailed proposals and queries preferred to incs@vanderbilt.edu. Alternatively, please mail to: Mark Schoenfield, Department of English, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN 37235. Notification of acceptance will be (e)mailed in December. INCS sessions are devoted to discussion. Ten page papers are made available to attendants in advance; presenters make brief opening statements and respond to discussion. For more information, including about special sessions, see our website at http://www.vanderbilt.edu/incs Conference on Kwangiu Uprisings: Call for Papers. To commemorate the 20th anniversary of the Kwangju Uprising, a conference entitled "Kwangju after Two Decades: Historical and Comparative Perspectives" will be held at USC and UCLA on April 20–22, 2000. It will be jointly sponsored by the Centers for Korean Studies of UCLA and USC as well as 5.18 Memorial Foundation in Kwangju, Korea. The organizers invite paper proposals, especially those that address the impact of the KJ Uprising on Korean communities abroad and those that compare the Uprising with similar events in other Asian countries (such as the Chinese democracy movement of 1989). Hotel and meal expenses, round-trip airfare to Los Angeles, and a small honorarium will be provided for those selected. Please send your abstract (1-2 pages) (in the case of a graduate student, a reference letter from the dissertation advisor as well) by November 15, 1999 to: Professor Gi-Wook Shin, UCLA, Department of Sociology, 2201 Hershey Hall, LA, CA 90095-1551; Fax: (310) 206-9838; E-Mail: gwshin@soc.ucla.edu/ China’s Long Twentieth Century: Words and Images: Call for Papers. The Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations at the University of Chicago will host a graduate student symposium on twentieth-century China, April 14–15, 2000. Part of the year-long workshop devoted to interdisciplinary studies of modern Chinese culture and society, the symposium will create a forum for graduate students from different institutions to present their work and exchange ideas. We encourage participants to approach the entirety of twentieth-century Chinese cultural history as an interconnected and dynamic process. We will provide lodging for panelists and may be able to cover part of their travel costs. For more information, please contact either the faculty sponsor of the project, Professor Xiaobing Tang, xtang@midway.uchicago.edu of its student coordinator Jason McGrath, jc-mcgrath@uchicago.edu. A webpage for the workshop and symposium is accessible at http://cas.uchicago.edu/china20. Paper proposals, no more than two pages in length and with a cover letter, should be sent to Jason McGrath, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Wieboldt 301, 1050 E. 59th Street, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637. The deadline is January 1, 2000. Please do not send faxes or email attachments. Society for Military History: Call for Papers. The Marine Corps University will host the annual conference of the Society for Military History at Quantico, 28–30 April 2000. The theme of the conference will be "Korea 1950 and 400 Years of Limited War," but papers on other topics in military history are welcome. Mail one-page proposals by 1 November 1999 to: Director, Command and Staff College, Marine Corps University, ATTN: Prof. Rudd, SMH 2000 Coord., 2076 South Street, Quantico, Virginia 22134-5068. ASIANetwork Annual Conference 2000: Call for Participation. ASIANetwork, a consortium of over 125 institutions promoting the development of Asian Studies at liberal arts colleges and an AAS affiliate, invites participation in and panel proposals for its eighth annual conference, which will meet at the Hickory Ridge Conference Center, Lisle, IL (suburban Chicago) April 28–30, 2000. The conference will feature distinguished keynote speakers, plenary sessions, and breakout panel sessions. Annual ASIANetwork conferences focus on strengthening Asian programs on college campuses, and panel sessions re devoted to sharing views on curriculum design and development., discovering financial resources available for program enhancement, analyzing study-in-Asia programs, and improving the quality of instruction about Asia. Workshops inform faculty about programs funded by major grants awarded ASIANetwork by the Henry Luce Foundation, The Ford Foundation, and The Freeman Foundation for faculty and program development at ASIANetwork institutions. For more information, please contact Stanley Michel, 2000 ASIANetwork Conference Program Chair, Chinese Language and Literature, P.O. Box 720, Springfield, OH 45501; 937-327-6354; E-Mail: michel@wittenberg.edu MAY, 2000 WARRING STATES WORKING GROUP 14th CONFERENCE: CALL FOR PAPERS. The 14th Conference of the Warring States Working Group will be held at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst on 5–7 May, 2000. All conferences in this series focus on the solution of philological problems affecting the classical texts, and their implications for the general history of the period. Among the topics which will be included at the 14th meeting are: the state of Yen (and the nearby state of Jungshan) and any texts or archaeological finds associated with it; the question of an indigenous coastal population; the role of the northeast in the rise of the Syungnu confederation; the alleged Ji-sya enterprise in Chi and the career of Dzou Yen, which is claimed to have ended in Yen; early (late 04c) cosmological thinking; the Yen incident of 0314, including Mencius's role in it, together with Mician and other meritocracy theories; and the claimed folk sections of the Shr anthology and the admittedly late and forged parts of the Shu corpus. The schematic geographies of the Dzou Yen fragments, the Yw Gung, the Shan/Hai Jing, and other early sources will be a special emphasis. We will also attempt to reach a final decision on the interconnected questions of the date and probity of the Dzwo Jwan vs the Chun/Chyou chronicle, the shift to a mass army of maneuver and the date of the Sundz Bingfa, and the tradition of classical Chinese populism. Expenses of participants during the Conference will be paid by the Project, and modest travel grants are also available for those without access to support from their home institutions; see the separate announcement under Grants and Fellowships. For information about the Project or its Conference series, or to propose a 10-minute paper topic, contact E. Bruce Brooks at brooks@asianlan.umass.edu. National Council of Organizations of Less Commonly Taught Languages (NCOLCTL): Call for Papers. The Third Annual Conference of the National Council of Organizations of Less Commonly Taught Languages (NCOLCTL) will be held May 6–8, 2000, at the Holiday Inn Rosslyn Westpark Hotel in Rosslyn, VA. The theme for this year’s NCOLCTL Conference is "Less Commonly Taught Languages (LCTLs) in the Working World: Needs and Responses." Proposals are being solicited for individual papers, roundtable panels and poster sessions. The deadline for receipt of proposals is November 1, 1999. If interested in submitting a proposal, please refer to the guidelines at the following website: http://www.councilnet.org/pages/CNet_Announcements.html#NCOLCTL3. For other questions regarding the conference, contact Scott McGinnis, NCOLCTL Executive Director, National Foreign Language Center, 1619 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, #400, Washington, DC 20036. Office phone: 202 667-8100 x15; Fax: 202-667-6907; E-Mail: smcginnis@nflc.org. UCLA Graduate Student Symposium for Japanese Studies: Call for Papers. The seventh UCLA graduate student symposium for Japanese Studies on May 6, 2000, sponsored by the UCLA Center for Japanese Studies, offers interested graduate students and faculty commentators from the western United States and beyond a forum in which to discuss the topic, "Voices from the Empire: Japanese Colonialism and Its Legacy". Transportation and two nights’ lodging for presenters will be paid by the symposium. The symposium committee welcomes proposals from various academic fields addressing Japanese colonialism. The submission of papers employing interdisciplinary, comparative, or cross-cultural approaches is welcomed and encouraged. Please submit proposals of no more than 2–3 pages in length by December 8, 1999. Include your university department, field of specialization, name, address, telephone number, and e-mail address (if available), along with a self-addressed stamped postcard for acknowledgement of receipt of your submission. Send proposals to: UCLA Graduate Student Symposium, c/o Center for Japanese Studies, 405 Hilgard Avenue, 11250 Bunche Hall, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1487. Inquiries and proposals may be directed via e-mail to Suzette Duncan at qchan@ucla.edu or Yuki Endo at yendo@ucla.edu. JUNE, 2000 Ways of Seeing: The Nineteenth Century: Call for Papers. INCS: Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies and the University of Paris-X, Nanterre present "Ways of Seeing: Nineteenth Century," an interdisciplinary conference to be held at the University of Paris-X, Nanterre France, June 22–24, 2000. Discussions and papers will be presented in English. Send 200-400 word abstracts or papers by December 1, 1999 to: Therese Dolan, via e-mail at tdolan@astro.temple.edu or by post at: Department of Art History, Temple University, 8th Floor, Ritter Annex, Philadelphia, PA 19122 U.S.A. Notification of acceptance will be in January. For more information see our website at http://www.vanderbilt.edu/incs. JULY, 2000 Society for East Asian Archaeology (SEAA): 2nd Worldwide Conference: Call for Papers. The SEAA Conference will be held at the Oriental Museum, Durham University, England from the 6–9 July, 2000. The following panels are already proposed: Paleolithic Archaeology in the Far East, ICT and computer applications in East Asian Archaeology, Foreign influences in Chinese Archaeology, the archaeology of North East Asia, Early domestication of rice and the early Neolithic of South China, Archaeological heritage management in East Asia, Approaches to mortuary analysis of East Asian Data, The archaeology of State Formation in Japan, Analysis of East Asian Pottery. For more information concerning panel proposals and paper submissions, please contact Gideon Shelach, email msshe@ccat.sas.upenn.edu or write to: Dr. Gideon Shelach, Dept. of East Asian Studies, The Hebrew University, Mt. Scopus, Jerusalem 91905, Israel. For more information about attending the conference, accommodation, etc. please contact Ruth Carey, Local Organizer, Dept. of East Asian Studies, University of Durham, Durham DH1 3TH, England or via e-mail: r.j.carey@durham.ac.uk. Participants do not have to be prior members of SEAA and all are welcome to attend whether they give a paper or not. AUGUST, 2000 Society for Indian Philosophy and Religion: Call for Papers. The Society for Indian Philosophy & Religion will hold an International Interdisciplinary Conference in Calcutta 1–4 August, 2000. The Conference theme is Language, Thought and Reality: Science, Religion and Philosophy. Arrangements have been made for airline tickets at substantial discounts and a seven-day trip inside India. Interested persons should contact the organizers. Hotel reservations during the conference have also been made. Information will be available at http://www.elon.edu/chakraba. Registration: The advance registration fee for the conference is $80 and on site registration fee is $120. Conference events are currently expected to include a reception and an evening cultural program. If you would like to contribute a paper to this event please send an abstract of about 150 words to: Dr. Chandana Chakrabarti, Elon College , Campus Box 2336, Elon College, N.C. 27244, USA. E-mail: chakraba@numen.elon.edu. Phone (336) 538-2705, Fax (336) 538-2627. Deadline for proposals is October 25, 1999. Environmental Change in Native and Colonial Histories of Borneo: Lessons from the Past, Prospects for the Future: Call For Papers. The conference will be held in Leiden, The Netherlands, 10–11 August 2000 and is sponsored by the International Institute for Asian Studies and the Borneo Research Council. Because of time constraints and in the interest to stimulate discussion, the conference will be limited to 15–20 papers. Participants will be asked to submit their papers well ahead of the conference so that they can be circulated to all participants. Over the two days of the conference, presenters will be given 15 minutes each to summarize their papers. This will allow considerable time for discussion. The conference will be open to the public. Paper proposals should be about 300 words, and should be submitted by 15 November 1999. Participants should plan to pay for their own transportation and lodging, but the conference organizers will endeavor to raise some funds for paper presenters with priority going to those from Indonesia, Malaysia and Brunei. There will be no conference fees. The language for the conference will be English. All correspondence and proposals should be sent to: Dr. Reed Wadley, International Institute for Asian Studies, P.O. Box 9515, 2300 RA Leiden, The Netherlands. Fax: +31-71-527-4162, E-Mail: rwadley@rullet.leidenuniv.nl; Website: http://iias.leidenuniv.nl/iias/research/wadley/ ICANAS 2000: Call for Abstracts. The next meeting of the International Congress of Asian and North African Studies (ICANAS) will be held at the Montreal Convention Center, 27 August–1 September 2000. The Theme is: Oriental and Asian Studies in the Era of Globalization: Heritage and Modernity—Opportunities and Challenges. Dateline for Abstracts is 2 August 1999 (200 words). Information contained in Announcement Brochure is also available on our Web Site: http://www.bcoc.umontreal.ca. It is possible to submit Abstract directly on the Web. Announcement Brochure and Abstracts Forms are also available on demand. Please address queries to Mrs Madeleine Bergevin, Secretary General, ICANAS 2000. Website: http://www.bcoc.umontreal.ca; E-Mail: congres@bcoc.umontreal.ca; Fax: 1(514) 343-6544; Tel: 1(514) 343-6492 THE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON IMMIGRANT SOCIETIES AND MODERN EDUCATION. The Tan Kah Kee International Society and the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, National University of Singapore, 31 August–3 September 2000, Venue: Mandarin Hotel, Singapore. The International Conference on Immigrant Societies and Modern Education (Jointly organised by The Tan Kah Kee International Society and The Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, National University of Singapore) will be held at the Mandarin Hotel, Singapore, from 31 August to 3 September 2000. The main aim of the conference is to examine the social, cultural and economic dimensions of immigrant societies, giving emphasis to the role and value of modern education. As travel and transmigration are increasingly becoming important characteristics of the 21st century, it is pertinent to re-examine the place of education as a means to equip individuals for a highly mobile world. The conference will draw comparisons across different societies in Asia and elsewhere to provide a broad-based understanding of the dynamics involved. The conference targets about 200 participants and is intended to appeal to both specialists in the field as well as a more general audience. It will be of interest to academics in a number of disciplines including sociology, psychology, human geography, economics, political science, area studies, socio-linguistics, public policy and education as well as policy makers and school teachers. The conference will comprise about 50 papers presented in 3 plenary sessions and 14 paper sessions. There will also be two associated public lectures given by keynote speakers. SUB-THEMES (proposed): (A) Plenary Sessions: (1)The Age of Migration; (2) Immigrant Societies and Modern Education-An Historical Perspective; and (3) Globalisation, Cosmopolitanism and Education for the 21st Century (B) Paper Sessions: (1) Immigrant societies: past and present; (2) Home and away-adjustment and adaptation; (3) Negotiating cultural identities in immigrant societies; (4) Migrants and Sojourners - mobility amongst educated middle-class professionals; (5) Education and socio-economic mobility in immigrant societies; (6) Migrants, philanthropy and education; (7) Multicultural learning in immigrant societies; (8) Language, cultural minorities and immigrant societies; (9) Immigrant Societies and Science and Technological Education; (10) Entrepreneurship, Education and Immigrant Societies; (11) Religious education in immigrant societies; (12) Tradition and education in immigrant societies; (13) The internet as an instrument of transnational learning; and (14) Transmigration and the 'modern'/'postmodern' condition. Waiver of registration fees and/or partial financial support will be offered, on a competitive basis (based on quality of abstract and case for support) to graduate students and participants from developing countries in order to encourage their active participation in this international conference. ENQUIRIES, REGISTRATION FORMS, AND FURTHER INFORMATION: Please direct all your enquiries and requests to: Miss Kathleen Melissa Ke, ISME Conference, Centre for Advanced Studies, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, National University of Singapore, Shaw Foundation Building, AS7, 6th level, 5 Arts Link, Singapore 117570. Tel: 65-874 4909; Fax: 65-779 1428; E-Mail: caskkm@nus.edu.sg SEPTEMBER, 2000 Textile Society of America. The Seventh Biennial Symposium of the Textile Society of America, titled "Approaching Textiles, Varying Viewpoints", will emphasize the ways in which scholars and others investigate textiles through a wide range of methods, theorites and perspectives. The event will be held at La Fonda Hotel in Santa Fe, New Mexico from September 21–23, 2000. For information contact co-chairs: Ann Lane Hedlund, The GFR Center for Tapestry Studies, P.O. Box 3305, Tucson, Arizona 85722; Phone: (520) 626-8364; Fax: (520) 621-2976; or Margot Blum Schevill, San Francisco Airport Museum; Phone: (650) 652-2767; Fax: (650) 652-2778. OCTOBER, 2000 Cultural Impact of the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution: Call for Papers. An interdisciplinary symposium, film festival, and art exhibition will be held in Birmingham, Alabama, October 6–7, 2000. The symposium is hosted by the Asian Studies Program of BACHE, the Birmingham Area Consortium for Higher Education. Part political pageant and part civil war, the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution shaped the lives and attitudes of an entire generation of Chinese. Proposals are invited for papers and/or panels that address the impact and subsequent cultural repercussions of the Cultural Revolution. The organizers welcome papers that address any and all facets of cultural life as influenced by the Cultural Revolution. The conference will focus not only on the immediate historic effects of the Cultural Revolution but its continuing literary, cinemagraphic, and artistic reverberations within China. The Program will include a film festival as well as a museum exhibition of cultural artifacts dealing with the Cultural Revolution. For information contact Alan Atkinson, The University of Alabama at Birmingham, 113 Humanities Building, 900 13th St. South, Birmingham, AL 35294-1260; E-Mail: alanart@uab.edu; or Matthew Levey, Birmingham Southern College, 112C Phillips Science Building, Box 549031, Arkadelphia Road, Birmingham, AL 35254. E-Mail: mlevey@bsc.edu. Submit proposed title and a brief abstract to: Matthew Levey. Deadline: November 19, 1999. NOVEMBER, 2000 Crossroads: Hawaii’s Role in Interwar Japanese Cultural and Political Internationalism: Call for Papers. Between November 1–4, 2000, the University of Hawaii will host an interdisciplinary conference: "Crossroads: Hawaii’s Role in Interwar Japanese Cultural & Political Internationalism." Through activities associated with the PPU, IPR, YMCA, the Americanization movement, international education, the language school controversy, opposition to American immigration restrictions and a host of similar developments and events, Hawaii, by design and accident, played a central role in Japanese efforts to forge an international multicultural role throughout the Pacific region in the period between the two world wars. This conference aims to extend the scholarly frontiers of knowledge about these efforts, a matter of substantial historical significance about which much too little is known. Hardcopy abstracts of not more than 500 words and a CV should be postmarked by September 15, 1999 to Sharon A. Minichiello, Center for Japanese Studies, School of Hawaiian, Asian and Pacific Studies, 1890 East-West Road, Moore Hall 216, Honolulu, Hawaii 96822-2318; Fax: 808-956-2666. Inquiries may be forwarded to sharonam@hawaii.edu. Women’s Studies: Asian Connections. The University of British Columbia’s Centre for Research in Women’s Studies and Gender Relations, in collaboration with the UBC Institute for Asian Research and the Simon Fraser University Women’s Studies Department, is planning a Symposium and Participatory Forum, to be held at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, BC, Canada November 3–5, 2000. The programme will take shape around the topics that emerge as of greatest interest. An initial response by September 10, 1999 would be helpful. Please include a short abstract of your proposal, a paragraph indicating your present position, qualifications, and recent publications and an e-mail or fax address if possible. Send your submission to: "Women’s Studies: Asian Connections", Centre for Research in Women’s Studies and Gender Relations, University of British Columbia, 1896 East Mall, Vancouver, V6T 1Z1, BC, Canada; Tel: (604) 822-9171; E-Mail: litton@interchange.ubc.ca |
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