The College has further clarified graduate assistantship funding for next year. The pay plans in place for the 2008-09 academic year will remain in place for the upcoming 2009-10 academic year. For American Studies that means teaching assistants will make 17.75 per hour and teaching instructors will make 18.75 per hour. Please contact Colleen with any questions.
Wednesday, June 24, 2009
Wednesday, June 17, 2009
Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States Special Issue Submissions
Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States (MELUS) invites submissions for a special issue on "Asian American Performance". Deadline: January 15, 2010.
Call for Papers
ASIAN AMERICAN PERFORMANCE
Special Issue of MELUS
Guest Editor: Tina Chen
Deadline: January 15, 2010
MELUS invites submissions for a special issue on "Asian American
Performance".
Asian Americans, to paraphrase Tam Lum from Frank Chin's Chickencoop
Chinaman, are "made, not born." Indeed, such identities have had to be
performed into being, enacted in order to function as a category of
both personhood and political possibility. Although Asian American
studies has always been concerned with the performance of everyday
life, scholars have only recently begun focusing critical attention on
the public production of Asian Americanness via the realm of the
performing arts (broadly conceptualized). This special issue seeks to
encourage a sustained and varied examination of the ways in which
concepts of performance--somatic, literary, visual, artistic,
linguistic--intersect with and inform Asian American subjectivity. In
what ways might performance studies provoke new understandings of the
subjects and objects of Asian American studies? How can performance
help produce critical models for theorizing Asian American cultural
and social action? Can we look to performance as a way of unsettling
the institutionalization of Asian American Studies as a field of
academic inquiry?
Topics might include (but are not limited to): performance art;
musical theater; literary concepts of performance and performativity;
video performances that highlight ethnic subjectivity or contest
historical narratives; comparative approaches to Asian American
performance; art installations that perform Asian American ethnicity;
music videos; dance; the role of the Avante-garde; comedic acts that
revise concepts of Asian American identity and/or physicality; spoken
word performance; historiographical approaches to performing race;
transnational contexts for understanding Asian American performance;
dramatic literature and its transformation into theatrical production;
performance and new media and technology; circuits of pedagogical
performance (either in the classroom or as manifested in the business
of shows that travel to various college campuses); poetics and
performance; art and activism; martial arts and the possibility of a
"kung-fu aesthetic"; conflict and confrontation in the performance
encounter; the relationship between local, national, and global
stages; performance, emotion, and affect; commodification and
performance.
TO SUBMIT: Manuscripts should be double spaced and between
6,000-10,000 words (MLA style). A blind submission policy will be
followed; as such, the author's name should not appear anywhere on the
manuscript, but an accompanying cover letter should contain the
author's name and address. Consultation on manuscript ideas is
welcome. Ideas and submissions should be sent via email to
tina.chen@psu.edu. Deadline for receipt of completed papers and
curriculum vitae is January 15, 2010.
Call for Papers
ASIAN AMERICAN PERFORMANCE
Special Issue of MELUS
Guest Editor: Tina Chen
Deadline: January 15, 2010
MELUS invites submissions for a special issue on "Asian American
Performance".
Asian Americans, to paraphrase Tam Lum from Frank Chin's Chickencoop
Chinaman, are "made, not born." Indeed, such identities have had to be
performed into being, enacted in order to function as a category of
both personhood and political possibility. Although Asian American
studies has always been concerned with the performance of everyday
life, scholars have only recently begun focusing critical attention on
the public production of Asian Americanness via the realm of the
performing arts (broadly conceptualized). This special issue seeks to
encourage a sustained and varied examination of the ways in which
concepts of performance--somatic, literary, visual, artistic,
linguistic--intersect with and inform Asian American subjectivity. In
what ways might performance studies provoke new understandings of the
subjects and objects of Asian American studies? How can performance
help produce critical models for theorizing Asian American cultural
and social action? Can we look to performance as a way of unsettling
the institutionalization of Asian American Studies as a field of
academic inquiry?
Topics might include (but are not limited to): performance art;
musical theater; literary concepts of performance and performativity;
video performances that highlight ethnic subjectivity or contest
historical narratives; comparative approaches to Asian American
performance; art installations that perform Asian American ethnicity;
music videos; dance; the role of the Avante-garde; comedic acts that
revise concepts of Asian American identity and/or physicality; spoken
word performance; historiographical approaches to performing race;
transnational contexts for understanding Asian American performance;
dramatic literature and its transformation into theatrical production;
performance and new media and technology; circuits of pedagogical
performance (either in the classroom or as manifested in the business
of shows that travel to various college campuses); poetics and
performance; art and activism; martial arts and the possibility of a
"kung-fu aesthetic"; conflict and confrontation in the performance
encounter; the relationship between local, national, and global
stages; performance, emotion, and affect; commodification and
performance.
TO SUBMIT: Manuscripts should be double spaced and between
6,000-10,000 words (MLA style). A blind submission policy will be
followed; as such, the author's name should not appear anywhere on the
manuscript, but an accompanying cover letter should contain the
author's name and address. Consultation on manuscript ideas is
welcome. Ideas and submissions should be sent via email to
tina.chen@psu.edu. Deadline for receipt of completed papers and
curriculum vitae is January 15, 2010.
Teaching and Teaching Assistantship Offers
The first round of teaching and teaching assistantship offers have been sent out. We hope to be able to make additional offers as enrollments change. For those of you who have received offers, you will note that Colleen used the University base rate for Graduate TA's, because she had not heard that CLA would be able to sustain the increase to the base (1.00/hr over U base) that they provided last year. However, the Chief Financial Officer of CLA just confirmed that they are able to offer the increase to the base.
Women's Everyday Lives Worldwide Narrative Submissions
Women's Everyday Lives Worldwide is looking for narratives to be published in its upcoming 14 volumes. Preferred deadline is 14-16 months maximum.
Women's Everyday Lives Worldwide is searching for narratives for its upcoming reference series. It will consist of 14 volumes, with volumes on African American Women. Latino Women, Asian American Women, Native Women, Latin AMerican Women, Middle Eastern Women, European Women, Sub-Saharan African Women, East Asian, South Asian, and Pacific Women. Below are the details of the content.
Length: 70,000 words
The preferred deadline is 14-16 months maximum.
Series format:
This should be followed in order (for the final manuscript only) and exact chapter titles.
o Introduction
o Overview/stats (extensive demographics on age, occupation, income, marital and family status, etc.)
o Morning Routines
o Work Day
o Evenings
o Weekends
o Holidays/Vacations
o Dating, Marriage, Family, and Friendship
o Hobbies/Interests/Outside Activities
o Selected Bibliography
Narrative chapters per topic will broadly and specifically characterize what women do, their typical schedules and routines, and how they live. Country, class, and other distinctions, such as age, will be made as necessary. Fun side bars with vignettes, amplification of topics of interest, lists, quotations, etc., will be interspersed.
Questions or comments please contact:
Manisha Desai
Director, Women's Studies Program
University of Connecticut
354 Mansfield Rd, Unit 2181
Storrs, CT 06269
phone: 860-486-1131
fax: 860-486-4789
email: manisha.desai@uconn.edu
http://www.womens.studies.uconn.edu/faculty/Manisha.html
Women's Everyday Lives Worldwide is searching for narratives for its upcoming reference series. It will consist of 14 volumes, with volumes on African American Women. Latino Women, Asian American Women, Native Women, Latin AMerican Women, Middle Eastern Women, European Women, Sub-Saharan African Women, East Asian, South Asian, and Pacific Women. Below are the details of the content.
Length: 70,000 words
The preferred deadline is 14-16 months maximum.
Series format:
This should be followed in order (for the final manuscript only) and exact chapter titles.
o Introduction
o Overview/stats (extensive demographics on age, occupation, income, marital and family status, etc.)
o Morning Routines
o Work Day
o Evenings
o Weekends
o Holidays/Vacations
o Dating, Marriage, Family, and Friendship
o Hobbies/Interests/Outside Activities
o Selected Bibliography
Narrative chapters per topic will broadly and specifically characterize what women do, their typical schedules and routines, and how they live. Country, class, and other distinctions, such as age, will be made as necessary. Fun side bars with vignettes, amplification of topics of interest, lists, quotations, etc., will be interspersed.
Questions or comments please contact:
Manisha Desai
Director, Women's Studies Program
University of Connecticut
354 Mansfield Rd, Unit 2181
Storrs, CT 06269
phone: 860-486-1131
fax: 860-486-4789
email: manisha.desai@uconn.edu
http://www.womens.studies.uconn.edu/faculty/Manisha.html
Hot Water Outage-Scott Hall
Facilities Management informed us today that there will be a hot water outage in Scott Hall and some of the other Knoll area buildings beginning this Friday and going until July 20th. There will still be running cold water.
Tuesday, June 16, 2009
YU Social Anthropology Graduates' Association Call for Papers
YU Social Anthropology Graduates' Association (SAGA) is pleased to announce a call for papers for its 2009 Interdisciplinary Conference at York University in Toronto, Canada, November 21, 2009.
YU Social Anthropology Graduates' Association Call for Papers
YU Social Anthropology Graduates' Association (SAGA) presents:
Interdisciplinary Conference at York University, Toronto, Canada
November 21, 2009
Playing the Field
playingthefield2009@gmail.com
http://www.playingthefield2009.wordpress.com
Throughout much of the history of socio-cultural anthropology, fieldwork, particularly that involving extended periods of participant observation, has been touted as the discipline's methodological hallmark. However, the established tendency to conceptualize 'the field' as the site where 'fieldwork' is conducted, and 'the fieldworker' as the actor who conducts it, obscures the complex and multiple milieux informing their mutual constitution. This conference encourages participants to interrogate, complicate, demystify, and possibly re-enchant the concepts and practices of field/work/er, with
special focus on their privileged, albeit shifting, contributions to the domains of knowledge making within anthropology and other disciplines. Alongside theoretical interrogations, we welcome submissions that speak to participants' ongoing experiences, obstacles and successes as workers in the field.
The Social Anthropology Graduates' Association (SAGA) cordially invites fellow graduate students, activists and applied scholars to participate in an interdisciplinary and interactive forum on Saturday, November 21, 2009 at York University in Toronto, Canada.
We invite conference contributions in the following formats:
- Academic papers (presentation time: 15 minutes) and panels (presentation time: 75 Minutes)
- Alternative media presentations (posters, video, poetry, other creative works)
Possible topics include, but are not limited to:
What and where is the field?
How is it constituted, entered, and exited by fieldworkers?
Who is a fieldworker? How is she or he constituted by the practice of fieldwork?
Where is the 'work' in fieldwork?
How is fieldwork arranged and conducted?
What are the experiences of fieldworkers?
How does the experience of the 'field' sometimes surprise fieldworkers?
What kinds of interesting stories come out of fieldwork? Do these
stories make it to the final draft?
What is the relationship between disciplinary, regional, and
performative fields?
How is the face and place of fieldwork changing in academia?
To propose a paper, please submit a cover page with your name; institutional affiliation; contact information (mailing address, phone number, and email) and a 250 word abstract of the paper. Presentations will be limited to fifteen minutes.
Panels of 3-4 presentations are especially welcome. To propose a panel, please submit a cover page including the title of the panel and the names of presenters; a panel abstract of 150 words; a separate page with the names of presenters, their contact information (mailing address, phone number, and email) and institutional affiliation(s),
the titles of their presentations; and a 250-word abstract for each paper. Panels will be limited to one hour and fifteen minutes, including discussion periods.
Keynote address by Trent University Professor Anne Meneley:
http://www.trentu.ca/anthropology/meneley.php
Submission deadline for abstracts, proposed panels, and media presentations is September 25, 2009. Please send abstracts and all other inquiries to playingthefield2009@gmail.com. Successful submissions may be assembled for later publication. Note: travel bursaries are NOT available.
YU Social Anthropology Graduates' Association Call for Papers
YU Social Anthropology Graduates' Association (SAGA) presents:
Interdisciplinary Conference at York University, Toronto, Canada
November 21, 2009
Playing the Field
playingthefield2009@gmail.com
http://www.playingthefield2009.wordpress.com
Throughout much of the history of socio-cultural anthropology, fieldwork, particularly that involving extended periods of participant observation, has been touted as the discipline's methodological hallmark. However, the established tendency to conceptualize 'the field' as the site where 'fieldwork' is conducted, and 'the fieldworker' as the actor who conducts it, obscures the complex and multiple milieux informing their mutual constitution. This conference encourages participants to interrogate, complicate, demystify, and possibly re-enchant the concepts and practices of field/work/er, with
special focus on their privileged, albeit shifting, contributions to the domains of knowledge making within anthropology and other disciplines. Alongside theoretical interrogations, we welcome submissions that speak to participants' ongoing experiences, obstacles and successes as workers in the field.
The Social Anthropology Graduates' Association (SAGA) cordially invites fellow graduate students, activists and applied scholars to participate in an interdisciplinary and interactive forum on Saturday, November 21, 2009 at York University in Toronto, Canada.
We invite conference contributions in the following formats:
- Academic papers (presentation time: 15 minutes) and panels (presentation time: 75 Minutes)
- Alternative media presentations (posters, video, poetry, other creative works)
Possible topics include, but are not limited to:
What and where is the field?
How is it constituted, entered, and exited by fieldworkers?
Who is a fieldworker? How is she or he constituted by the practice of fieldwork?
Where is the 'work' in fieldwork?
How is fieldwork arranged and conducted?
What are the experiences of fieldworkers?
How does the experience of the 'field' sometimes surprise fieldworkers?
What kinds of interesting stories come out of fieldwork? Do these
stories make it to the final draft?
What is the relationship between disciplinary, regional, and
performative fields?
How is the face and place of fieldwork changing in academia?
To propose a paper, please submit a cover page with your name; institutional affiliation; contact information (mailing address, phone number, and email) and a 250 word abstract of the paper. Presentations will be limited to fifteen minutes.
Panels of 3-4 presentations are especially welcome. To propose a panel, please submit a cover page including the title of the panel and the names of presenters; a panel abstract of 150 words; a separate page with the names of presenters, their contact information (mailing address, phone number, and email) and institutional affiliation(s),
the titles of their presentations; and a 250-word abstract for each paper. Panels will be limited to one hour and fifteen minutes, including discussion periods.
Keynote address by Trent University Professor Anne Meneley:
http://www.trentu.ca/anthropology/meneley.php
Submission deadline for abstracts, proposed panels, and media presentations is September 25, 2009. Please send abstracts and all other inquiries to playingthefield2009@gmail.com. Successful submissions may be assembled for later publication. Note: travel bursaries are NOT available.
2010 JAAS Conference, "Change and Power: Comparative US-Japan Perspectives"
The American Studies Association and the Japanese Association for American Studies is pleased to announce a call for proposals for next year's JAAS Conference, "Change and Power: Comparative US-Japan Perspectives," held June 5-6, 2010, at Osaka University, Japan.
2010 JAAS Conference, "Change and Power: Comparative US-Japan Perspectives"
The American Studies Association and the Japanese Association for American Studies, with support from the Japan-United States Friendship Commission (JUFSC), are pleased to announce a competition open to ASA members (U.S. citizens). We plan to select two ASA delegates for participation in the annual JAAS conference to be held June 5-6, 2010, at Osaka University, Japan.
We invite proposals for workshops at the 2010 conference of the Japanese Association for American Studies (JAAS), with the participation of ASA delegates, and for two post-conference pro-seminars: I. "Change and Reconciliation" and II. "Cultural Strategies in Time of Change: Minority-Majority Relations." The two workshops will include an ASA delegate and two or three members of the JAAS or other international delegations and will be conducted in English.
Applicants should describe their interest in and availability for a two-week period in June 2010. The award covers round trip airfare to Japan, housing, and modest daily expenses.
The ASA delegates will speak in one of the workshops named above. The delegates will be chosen by collaborative assessment and selection by the members of the ASA-JAAS Project Advisory Committee and the International Committee of the JAAS. Following the conference, pro-seminars will be held either at the site of the conference or in an appropriate venue that will enable JAAS scholars to participate. The pro-seminars will run for two days. Themes of the pro-seminars will follow from but not necessarily repeat the workshop themes, and the ASA workshop speakers, now leading the pro-seminars, will construct the syllabi and assign readings for the pro-seminars. The pro-seminars will be open to the entire range of JAAS members, from graduate students to senior scholars. Under the proposed project, the ASA delegates will spend two days at the JAAS conference, two days in their pro-seminars, plus travel time, for a total of about a week.
The ASA scholars will contribute to an intensive dialogue and interaction with a fixed group of JAAS scholars. This group will include junior members of the JAAS and academia, put into a special relationship not only with the ASA delegates but also with mid-career and senior Japanese scholars of American Studies. These benefits are expected to flow in all directions, with the ASA delegates learning from the JAAS scholars, and with senior and junior scholars alike learning about directions the field may be taking and how they each may participate in renewals of American Studies in Japan. The "Comparative US-Japan Perspectives" named in the title of the proposed three-year theme speak directly of current directions in the field of American Studies, in regard to internationalism, transnationalism, and globalism. It is expected that JAAS scholars will speak of Japanese perspectives, in comparative connection with American Studies. These talks will put the JAAS scholars on th
e same footing as the ASA delegates in the workshops, each participant with a certain expertise to offer.
Accordingly, the theme statements for the proposed project are broad, conceptual, and inclined toward the theoretical, though the language is simple and the statements invite applicants to provide the historical examples and theoretical bases that they feel best fulfill the broad themes.
Theme Statements:
1. "Change and Reconciliation": JAAS framers of this theme are interested in having a dialogue on how the United States reunifies itself (if it does) following significant political changes, which necessarily involve friction and conflict. While proposed by a political scientist (a significant discipline in American Studies in Japan), the theme calls for proposals from ASA scholars in the array of fields and emphases that constitute interdisciplinary American Studies.
2. "Cultural Strategies in Time of Change: Minority-Majority Relations": The theme calls for examinations of so-called "identity politics" and possibly new directions in minority-majority relations of power and culture in the United States in view of the US elections of 2008 and their outcomes. To address this theme, proposals that involve studies of cultural change are welcome, with the understanding that a study of "culture" may include but need not be confined to the study of arts and the humanities. Has the election of President Barack Obama affected American culture? What cultural strategies and productions are signs and interpretations of current changes in minority-majority relations? How? Why?
Here again applicants need not propose comparative US-Japan studies, but contributions to a comparative method will be encouraged by the dialogue between ASA and JAAS scholars within the workshop and in the pro-seminar to follow.
Application Procedures:
Each application letter will include a summary in 300 words of the proposed paper to be presented at the JAAS annual meeting. Participants will specify the workshop to which they are applying. They will explain how the proposed paper contributes to discussion of that topic. They will include two-page curriculum vitae, emphasizing teaching experience and publications. They will also include the names and addresses of three references and a personal statement, no longer than two pages, describing their interest in this project and the issues that their own scholarship and teaching have addressed. They will devote one or two paragraphs to why they understand this scholarly visit to be central to their own development as a scholar in the world community. They may include comments on previous collaboration or work with non-U.S. academics or students. If they wish, they may comment on their particular interest in, or connections to, Japan. Prior experience of work or travel in Japan, however, is not a requirement for selection. The grant requires that applicants must be current members of the ASA and U.S. citizens. Application materials should be addressed to the ASA-JAAS Project Advisory Committee, and sent via electronic mail message, as a Word, Word Perfect, or PDF document in a single attachment before midnight (US DST) October 1, 2009, to asa-jaas@theasa.net.
2010 JAAS Conference, "Change and Power: Comparative US-Japan Perspectives"
The American Studies Association and the Japanese Association for American Studies, with support from the Japan-United States Friendship Commission (JUFSC), are pleased to announce a competition open to ASA members (U.S. citizens). We plan to select two ASA delegates for participation in the annual JAAS conference to be held June 5-6, 2010, at Osaka University, Japan.
We invite proposals for workshops at the 2010 conference of the Japanese Association for American Studies (JAAS), with the participation of ASA delegates, and for two post-conference pro-seminars: I. "Change and Reconciliation" and II. "Cultural Strategies in Time of Change: Minority-Majority Relations." The two workshops will include an ASA delegate and two or three members of the JAAS or other international delegations and will be conducted in English.
Applicants should describe their interest in and availability for a two-week period in June 2010. The award covers round trip airfare to Japan, housing, and modest daily expenses.
The ASA delegates will speak in one of the workshops named above. The delegates will be chosen by collaborative assessment and selection by the members of the ASA-JAAS Project Advisory Committee and the International Committee of the JAAS. Following the conference, pro-seminars will be held either at the site of the conference or in an appropriate venue that will enable JAAS scholars to participate. The pro-seminars will run for two days. Themes of the pro-seminars will follow from but not necessarily repeat the workshop themes, and the ASA workshop speakers, now leading the pro-seminars, will construct the syllabi and assign readings for the pro-seminars. The pro-seminars will be open to the entire range of JAAS members, from graduate students to senior scholars. Under the proposed project, the ASA delegates will spend two days at the JAAS conference, two days in their pro-seminars, plus travel time, for a total of about a week.
The ASA scholars will contribute to an intensive dialogue and interaction with a fixed group of JAAS scholars. This group will include junior members of the JAAS and academia, put into a special relationship not only with the ASA delegates but also with mid-career and senior Japanese scholars of American Studies. These benefits are expected to flow in all directions, with the ASA delegates learning from the JAAS scholars, and with senior and junior scholars alike learning about directions the field may be taking and how they each may participate in renewals of American Studies in Japan. The "Comparative US-Japan Perspectives" named in the title of the proposed three-year theme speak directly of current directions in the field of American Studies, in regard to internationalism, transnationalism, and globalism. It is expected that JAAS scholars will speak of Japanese perspectives, in comparative connection with American Studies. These talks will put the JAAS scholars on th
e same footing as the ASA delegates in the workshops, each participant with a certain expertise to offer.
Accordingly, the theme statements for the proposed project are broad, conceptual, and inclined toward the theoretical, though the language is simple and the statements invite applicants to provide the historical examples and theoretical bases that they feel best fulfill the broad themes.
Theme Statements:
1. "Change and Reconciliation": JAAS framers of this theme are interested in having a dialogue on how the United States reunifies itself (if it does) following significant political changes, which necessarily involve friction and conflict. While proposed by a political scientist (a significant discipline in American Studies in Japan), the theme calls for proposals from ASA scholars in the array of fields and emphases that constitute interdisciplinary American Studies.
2. "Cultural Strategies in Time of Change: Minority-Majority Relations": The theme calls for examinations of so-called "identity politics" and possibly new directions in minority-majority relations of power and culture in the United States in view of the US elections of 2008 and their outcomes. To address this theme, proposals that involve studies of cultural change are welcome, with the understanding that a study of "culture" may include but need not be confined to the study of arts and the humanities. Has the election of President Barack Obama affected American culture? What cultural strategies and productions are signs and interpretations of current changes in minority-majority relations? How? Why?
Here again applicants need not propose comparative US-Japan studies, but contributions to a comparative method will be encouraged by the dialogue between ASA and JAAS scholars within the workshop and in the pro-seminar to follow.
Application Procedures:
Each application letter will include a summary in 300 words of the proposed paper to be presented at the JAAS annual meeting. Participants will specify the workshop to which they are applying. They will explain how the proposed paper contributes to discussion of that topic. They will include two-page curriculum vitae, emphasizing teaching experience and publications. They will also include the names and addresses of three references and a personal statement, no longer than two pages, describing their interest in this project and the issues that their own scholarship and teaching have addressed. They will devote one or two paragraphs to why they understand this scholarly visit to be central to their own development as a scholar in the world community. They may include comments on previous collaboration or work with non-U.S. academics or students. If they wish, they may comment on their particular interest in, or connections to, Japan. Prior experience of work or travel in Japan, however, is not a requirement for selection. The grant requires that applicants must be current members of the ASA and U.S. citizens. Application materials should be addressed to the ASA-JAAS Project Advisory Committee, and sent via electronic mail message, as a Word, Word Perfect, or PDF document in a single attachment before midnight (US DST) October 1, 2009, to asa-jaas@theasa.net.
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