Calls for Papers/Participants
Hope everyone is having a productive summer, or on your way there.
Here are a couple CFPs --
Berkeley-Stanford Graduate Student Conference in Modern Chinese Humanities
April 16-17, 2010
(Deadline: October 31, 2009)
Call for Papers
The joint organizing committee of the Berkeley-Stanford Graduate Conference Modern Chinese Humanities invites currently enrolled graduate students to submit paper proposals for its inaugural meeting on April 16-17, 2010 at the Center for Chinese Studies at the University of California, Berkeley.
The conference will bring together a keynote speaker and approximately twelve graduate students to present innovative research on any aspect of modern Chinese cultural production in any humanistic discipline. We encourage interdisciplinary scholarship within and between literary and cultural studies, cultural history, art history, film and media studies, musicology and sound studies, as well as the interpretative social sciences.
Conference registration is free; lodging in Berkeley will be provided by the Berkeley-Stanford organizing committee for all conference presenters. Please submit a 300-word paper proposal and a short bio by email attachment to ccs@berkeley.edu by October 31, 2009.
PACIFIC SEMINAR 2009
UC Santa Cruz, June 24-25
(Deadline: June 5, 2009)
Redefining Human Rights & Social Justice in the Pacific Rim
Scheduled for June 24-25, the 2009 Pacific Seminar, "Redefining Human Rights and Social Justice in the Pacific Rim," will bring together UC Santa Cruz and UC Berkeley faculty and graduate students with local Asian Pacific American activists for a two-day intensive seminar and workshop. Intended to foster fresh critical inquiry into human rights, militarism, and social justice in the Pacific Rim as matters of geopolitics, cultural critique, and activist concern, this year's Pacific Seminar will feature talks by leading human rights scholar Suh Bohyuk, former senior researcher at the South Korean National Human Rights Commission and current research professor at the Peace Studies Institute of Ewha University, and influential scholar-activist Ling-chi Wang, founder of Chinese for Affirmative Action and Professor Emeritus of Asian American Studies at UC Berkeley. The seminar will include the following:
Two mixed panels of graduate students and Bay Area social justice advocates, An open discussion based on select assigned readings, and a special screening of a film on Nogunri (site of one of the worst civilian massacres by U.S. forces during the Korean War), followed by comments from Martha Mendoza, Pulitzer Prize-winning AP journalist and co-author of Bridge at Nogunri.
Should you be interested in attending, please contact Christine Hong for further details. All inquiries should be directed to cjhong@berkeley.edu.
Co-sponsored by the UC Santa Cruz Institute for Humanities Research, the UC Santa Cruz Literature Department, the UC Santa Cruz Asia-Pacific-Americas Research Cluster, the UC Berkeley Asian American Studies Program, the UC Berkeley English Department, the Townsend Working Group on Asian Pacific American Studies, and the Townsend Working Group on Asian Cultural Studies.
Here are a couple CFPs --
Berkeley-Stanford Graduate Student Conference in Modern Chinese Humanities
April 16-17, 2010
(Deadline: October 31, 2009)
Call for Papers
The joint organizing committee of the Berkeley-Stanford Graduate Conference Modern Chinese Humanities invites currently enrolled graduate students to submit paper proposals for its inaugural meeting on April 16-17, 2010 at the Center for Chinese Studies at the University of California, Berkeley.
The conference will bring together a keynote speaker and approximately twelve graduate students to present innovative research on any aspect of modern Chinese cultural production in any humanistic discipline. We encourage interdisciplinary scholarship within and between literary and cultural studies, cultural history, art history, film and media studies, musicology and sound studies, as well as the interpretative social sciences.
Conference registration is free; lodging in Berkeley will be provided by the Berkeley-Stanford organizing committee for all conference presenters. Please submit a 300-word paper proposal and a short bio by email attachment to ccs@berkeley.edu by October 31, 2009.
PACIFIC SEMINAR 2009
UC Santa Cruz, June 24-25
(Deadline: June 5, 2009)
Redefining Human Rights & Social Justice in the Pacific Rim
Scheduled for June 24-25, the 2009 Pacific Seminar, "Redefining Human Rights and Social Justice in the Pacific Rim," will bring together UC Santa Cruz and UC Berkeley faculty and graduate students with local Asian Pacific American activists for a two-day intensive seminar and workshop. Intended to foster fresh critical inquiry into human rights, militarism, and social justice in the Pacific Rim as matters of geopolitics, cultural critique, and activist concern, this year's Pacific Seminar will feature talks by leading human rights scholar Suh Bohyuk, former senior researcher at the South Korean National Human Rights Commission and current research professor at the Peace Studies Institute of Ewha University, and influential scholar-activist Ling-chi Wang, founder of Chinese for Affirmative Action and Professor Emeritus of Asian American Studies at UC Berkeley. The seminar will include the following:
Two mixed panels of graduate students and Bay Area social justice advocates, An open discussion based on select assigned readings, and a special screening of a film on Nogunri (site of one of the worst civilian massacres by U.S. forces during the Korean War), followed by comments from Martha Mendoza, Pulitzer Prize-winning AP journalist and co-author of Bridge at Nogunri.
Should you be interested in attending, please contact Christine Hong for further details. All inquiries should be directed to cjhong@berkeley.edu.
Co-sponsored by the UC Santa Cruz Institute for Humanities Research, the UC Santa Cruz Literature Department, the UC Santa Cruz Asia-Pacific-Americas Research Cluster, the UC Berkeley Asian American Studies Program, the UC Berkeley English Department, the Townsend Working Group on Asian Pacific American Studies, and the Townsend Working Group on Asian Cultural Studies.