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NEW PUBLICATION: The Asian American Literary Review
http://www.aalrmag.org/
The Asian American Literary Review is a space for writers who consider the designation “Asian American” a fruitful starting point for artistic vision and community. In showcasing the work of established and emerging writers, the journal aims to incubate dialogues and, just as importantly, open those dialogues to regional, national, and international audiences of all constituencies. We select work that is, as Marianne Moore once put it, “an expression of our needs…[and] feeling, modified by the writer’s moral and technical insights.” Published biannually, AALR features fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, translations, comic art, interviews, and book reviews.
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Subscription information here: http://www.aalrmag.org/subscribe/
AALR Issue 1:
Forum Responses
- Ru Freeman
- David Mura
- Alexander Chee
Poetry
- Cathy Song
- Oliver de la Paz
- Paisley Rekdal
- April Naoko Heck
- Mong-Lan
- Eugene Gloria
- Nick Carbo
- David Woo
Interview
- Karen Tei Yamashita by Kandice Chuh
Prose
- Ed Lin
- Marie Mutsuki Mockett
- Sonya Chung
- Hasanthika Sirisena
- David Mura
- Gary Pak
- Brian Ascalon Roley
Book Reviews
- Paul Lai
- Timothy Yu
- Jennifer Ann Ho
Race/Ethnicity: Multidisciplinary Global Contexts
Volume 4 Number 3
Spring 2011 (June 2011)
Submission Deadline: October 15, 2010
“Field Notes on the 9/11 Moment: Transformations in Community and Country”
The ten-year anniversary of the September 11, 2001 attacks on American soil encourages us to consider how the events of that day have framed how we address race, religion and national origin in the policy and public realms. The 9/11 moment has shaped American domestic and foreign policy, and has transformed individuals and communities both in the United States and abroad. Here in the United States, Arab Americans, South Asians, Muslims, and Sikhs have endured backlash, targeted law enforcement, and various forms of racial, religious and national origin profiling at the hands of the general public, the media, and the U.S. government in the name of national security. Nor were the repercussions of 9-11 felt only within the United States; Muslim communities around the world have experienced unprecedented backlash since 9/11.
Guest Editor Deepa Iyer, Executive Director of South Asian Americans Leading Together (SAALT), and the editorial staff of Race/Ethnicity: Multidisciplinary Global Contexts invite submissions for the third issue of its fourth volume, entitled “Field Notes on the 9/11 Moment: Transformations in Community and Country.”
We especially welcome analysis, critiques, reflections, and documentation by activists, community-based organizations, and others who responded to the crisis that enveloped the South Asian, Muslim, Sikh, and Arab American communities in the wake of the terrorist attacks.
Topics of inquiry can include but are not limited to:
- How has 9/11 changed the way that we think about race, religion, national origin, and immigration status in the United States and abroad?
- What tools and strategies have been used by community activists to sustain and build community during and after the 9/11 moment?
- What impacts does being targeted as “suspect” by the United States government have on an individual? A family? A community?
- What are some of the success stories around coalition-building and race relations that have occurred since 9/11?
- What lasting impacts, if any, have the events of 9-11 and their aftermath had on relationships between racial and ethnic minority communities in the United States or abroad?
- What lasting impacts, if any, have 9-11 and the subsequent decade-long, global War on Terror had on the political consciousness of Arab American, South Asian, Muslim and/or Sikh communities inside or outside the United States?
See our suggested Style Guidelines (www.raceethnicity.org/styleguide.html) and please feel free to contact our managing editor, Leslie Shortlidge (shortlidge.2@osu.edu), with any questions or concerns about submitting your work.
Submission of artwork for the cover that relates to the theme of the issue is welcome. See website at http://www.raceethnicity.org/coverart.html for submission guidelines.
Next MELBOURNE CHINESE STUDIES GROUP seminar
Date: Friday 2 July 2010, 6pm
Admission: $2 All Welcome
Venue: Jenny Florence Room, 3rd Floor, Ross House, 247 Flinders Lane, Melbourne (between Swanston and Elizabeth Sts)
Topic: Temples, Ghosts and Christians – A Brief History of Chinese Spiritual Practice in Australia
Speaker: Paul Macgregor
Traditional spiritual beliefs and practices were fundamental to the lives of most Chinese in colonial Australia. Temples were built across the goldfields and in major cities. Cemeteries and burning towers to maintain relations with the spirits of the those who died here were also established around the country. Rituals and ceremonies were central to community events and the annual spiritual calendar was adhered to by many. On the other hand a small but growing number chose to adopt the Christian faith and formed congregations that, by the Federation era, also had key roles in community organisation, business affairs and political activity. New migrants from the Chinese diaspora to Australia from the 1950s onwards have also continually reinvigorated and
diversified Chinese spirituality in Australia.
Historians and archaeologists have undertaken significant documentation of many of the temples and cemeteries. Others have enquired into the organisational history, and the political and social influence, of traditional Chinese spiritual organistions such as the Hung League as well as key Chinese Christian congregations. This seminar however will focus on exploring the actual spiritual beliefs and practices – both traditional and Christian – of Chinese Australians, how these were
transformed in Australia, and how they have underlain individual lives as well as community history.
Paul Macgregor is an historian who is the convenor of the Melbourne Chinese Studies Group, and was the curator of Melbourne’s Museum of Chinese Australian History from 1990 to 2005. He is the editor of Histories of the Chinese in Australasia and the South Pacific (1995),
and joint editor of both Chinese in Oceania (2002) and After the Rush: Regulation, Participation and Chinese Communities in Australia 1860-1940 (2004). He has organised three international conferences on the Chinese diaspora in Australasia, and has curated numerous exhibitions on the history and material heritage of Chinese Australians.
Talk followed by an informal, inexpensive meal in a nearby Chinatown restaurant.
Following seminar:
Fri 6 August – Pauline Rule: A transnational Chinese-Australian family and the ‘New China’
The next event from the Chinese Australian Historical Society is a talk from Alistair Kennedy, BA (Hons) MA Dip Ch (HK), MBE from the School of History, ANU.
Race, Service, Citizenship: White Australia’s attitudes to Chinese-Australians between the two World Wars
When: Saturday 31st July 2010
Time: 2pm
Where: Sydney Mechanics School of Arts, 280 Pitt Street, Sydney (near Bathurst Street).
This paper represents work in progress on Alistair’s PhD thesis. It examines how the experience of war service in the First Australian Imperial Force (1st AIF) affected the lives of Chinese-Australians . It covers the consequences of the 1901 Immigration Restriction Act, the Dictation Test and the white working class exclusion discrimination on Chinese workers. The Chinese-Australian population fell rapidly from more than 88,000 in the 1880s to 25,000 at the 1911 census. In 1914, there were fewer than 2,000 Chinese-Australian males of military age with British citizenship and, of these, the racially intolerant Defence Acts excluded many who could not prove they were of ‘substantially European origin or descent’. Yet many of these Chinese-Australians did enlist.
Apart from the indigenous peoples, Australian social historians have seldom examined White Australia’s treatment of ethnic minorities between the wars. This paper argues that for one such minority, Chinese-Australians , the experience of military service in World War 1 was a positive one.
Cost: $10 members; $15 non members
Bookings: Anna Lee, Treasurer. Pay at the door.
Email: annalee@workready. com.au
Phone: 9519 7436 or text 0412 334 398
Committee: Robert Ho, King Fong, Clifford To, Frederick Leung, Arthur Lock Chang, Anna Lee
GRAPHIC
7-8 August 2010
Sydney Opera House
Comic books, illustration, animation, music, multimedia and other new ways of telling stories have not only changed the face of our popular culture, they now define it.
Graphic novels and comic art are now a leading source of inspiration for films, television, clothing, designers, musicians and artists the world over.
GRAPHIC celebrates this brave new world in a weekend of specially commissioned productions – with musical responses to graphic art & stories, workshops, panels, a film program, a games exhibition and an animation competition.
http://www.sydneyoperahouse.com/about/program_graphic.aspx
FEATURES: Shaun Tan, Matt Huynh, and Akira with a live score by Regurgitator. AND Neil Gaiman.
CALL FOR PAPERS: Feminisms of Discontent: Global Perspectives
Feminist Theory in India, including Feminist Legal Theory, draws from many sources, including postcolonial theory, critical legal theory, and other perspectives from the so-called ‘developing world’. Despite these foundations, it maintains tenuous relations to many of its seemingly allied
theoretical perspectives, for example, Liberal Feminism and Women’s Studies in India. As such, there exists a profound opportunity for a conference to explore the tensions and commonalities among Feminisms across a range of geographical and disciplinary divides and theoretical perspectives. The Feminisms of Discontent Conference seeks to facilitate a dialogue in this space.
The Conference is designed to create a forum to critically and enthusiastically engage in discussions surrounding the word ‘feminism’ in all its versions in relation to law. In particular, this conference seeks to challenge the ‘woman’ and the concept of gender behind our legal activism and therefore behind our various brands of feminism. The Conference panels will reflect the tensions that emerge within and amongst the various feminist perspectives in law, with a focus on the developing world. We are looking for spirited and challenging discussions on a range
of topics, to engage with some of the following questions:
- How has liberal feminism informed women’s rights in India, and the Global South?
- Who is the ‘woman’ behind the intervention that informs legal advocacy?
- Is there a post-colonialial feminism? Does it fall into the trap of essentialism?
- How do words like ‘post-colonial’ or ‘development’ inform conceptions of feminism? Are they useful?
- How do those who theorize anti-essentialism then participate in politics?
The Centre for Women, Law, and Social Change (CWLSC) at the Jindal Global Law School (JGLS) was established in furtherance of JGLS’s commitment to furthering legal academia in India. The
CWLSC seeks to provide an institutional framework to develop a global approach to legal education, given India’s entry onto the global stage. To this end, CWLSC promotes collaborative research projects with Indian and foreign partners addressing cutting edge gender issues from an interdisciplinary and inter-jurisdictional perspective. The CWLSC is holding the Conference in continuance of this goal.
WHEN: February 18-20, 2011. Details to follow.
WHERE: O.P. Jindal Global University
(JGU), Sonipat, Haryana, India
(National Capital Region of Delhi).
OPEN TO: Academics, practitioners, and students.
APPLY: Offers of papers should be accompanied by a 100-word abstract and full contact details to cwlsc@jgu.edu.in.
DUE BY: July 30th, 2010
QUERIES: should be addressed to cwlsc@jgu.edu.in.
NOTE: Depending on the level and extent of participation, the papers will be included in a publication edited by JGLS. Details to follow
New publication from Otago University Press that might interest some of you. It features one of our AASRN members, Ruth DeSouza.
India in New Zealand: Local Identities, Global Relations
Edited by Sekhar Bandyopadhyay
Release date: August 2010
Indian people in ‘bi-cultural’ New Zealand have long been an invisible minority, rarely mentioned in our history books. This volume is a second contribution to remedying this historical silence, following the publication of Indian Settlers: The Story of a New Zealand South Asian Community by Jacqueline Leckie. The first section introduces the context, briefly tracing the history of Empire and migration, which saw a few hundred adventurers from Gujarat and Punjab braving the seas and settling here in the late 19th century. Now Indians constitute the second-largest Asian-Kiwi group in our population (having more than doubled in number between 1991 and 2001). This increasing diversity has initiated a fresh debate on New Zealand’s changing national identity, with the emphasis shifting from its bicultural foundation to greater recognition of ethnic minorities within the nation-space. The second section critically addresses the issue of a distinctive and uniform ‘New Zealand Indian’ identity and rethinks diasporic identity. In the third section, the Indian diaspora in New Zealand is looked at from a wider global perspective.
CONTENTS:
Introduction Sekhar Bandyopadhyay I Migration and Settlement 1 India in New Zealand: The Fault Lines of Colonial Culture Tony Ballantyne 2 A Long Diaspora: Indian Settlement Jacqueline Leckie 3 Indian Presence: A Demographic Profile Arvind Zodgekar II Local Identities 4 What Does It Mean To Be Indian? A View from Christchurch Martin Fuchs, Antje Linkenbach, Aditya Malik 5 Growing Up Indian: Problems of Cultural Identity Gwyn Williams 6 Choosing Indian and Kiwi Identities: The Ethnic Options of Local Gujaratis Amanda Gilbertson 7 New Mothers in a New Land: Indian Migrant Mothers Talk Ruth DeSouza 8 Lighting Up Aotearoa: Presenting Diwali to a Multicultural Nation Henry Johnson III Global Relations 9 In the Shadow of the Empire: India–New Zealand Relations since 1947 Sekhar Bandyopadhyay 10 New Zealand and Globalising India: The Challenge of Developing Economic Engagement Tim Beal 11 A Stormy Affair: Local Indian Film Production (1993–2003) Rebecca C.M. Kunin
FOR FULL INFORMATION ABOUT THE BOOK:
http://www.otago.ac.nz/press/booksauthors/indiainnewzealand.htm
FELLOWSHIP
Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg (HWK), Institute for Advanced Study Call for Applications: Fellowship North-Western Germany
The HWK announces the launch of a focus program in the area of European studies in 2010. The HWK-Europe-Fellowships are dedicated to foster the studies of European history, politics, culture and societies and to broaden the knowledge about Europe in the world.
The Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg (HWK), Institute for Advanced Study, is a non-profit foundation, incorporated under German civil law by the German federal states of Lower Saxony and Bremen and by the City of Delmenhorst. One of its primary objectives is to augment the nationally and internationally recognized research potential of the universities and research institutions in the region, especially the Universities of Bremen and Oldenburg. The HWK accomplishes its mission by appointing advanced researchers from universities and research institutes from all over the world as Research Fellows. At most Institutes for Advanced Study, the work of the Fellows remains largely independent of the faculties and institutes at local or regional universities. By contrast, the work of the HWK follows a different principle: mostly, Fellows are selected for their ability to work with colleagues at nationally and internationally recognized research centers in north western Germany (although they are not necessarily required to do so). The Institute offers excellent working and living conditions and supports international conferences and workshops.
The Fellowships are intended for scholars of social sciences and neighboring disciplines (such as economy, law studies, history, ethnology, philosophy, anthropology, psychology, etc.) who want to pursue a project on Europe and whose research will benefit from the possibility to study Europe from within. The HWK strongly encourages the application of researchers who plan to set up a temporary study group on their topic at the HWK.
Applicants should at least hold a PhD or equivalent qualification. A Fellowship is to last between 3 and up to 10 months, the fellowship can be split into two or more stays at the institute. The HWK allows for different financial solutions regarding reimbursement of fellows, such as direct compensation or reimbursement of the home institution.
We request that you submit the following materials:
- A formal covering letter to the Rector of the HWK or the Research Manager responsible for the Social Sciences at the HWK,
- an exposé of the planned research project written by the applicant containing a detailed work schedule,
- an abstract (1500 characters incl. blanks) of the research exposé
- a curriculum vitae,
- an up-to-date list of publications,
- where available, a letter of recommendation from cooperation partners in the vicinity of the HWK,
- one (recent) article, paper or monograph published by the applicant,
- if a study group is planned, a short outline on the working schedule of the group and a (preliminary) list of possible participants.
In order to pool applications to be reviewed by the Scientific Advisory Board there are two deadlines each year: February 28 and August 31.
NEXT DEADLINE: 31 AUGUST 2010.
Please visit our homepage for further information: http://www.h-w-k.de/
or contact Dr. Susanne Fuchs ++49/4221-9160-123; sfuchs@h-w-k.de
The AAALS calls for papers for its 27th Annual conference to be held in conjunction with ANSZANA in Forth Worth, TX, from February 17 to 19, 2011.
As always, the conference will be collegial and open-minded, welcoming papers from many different approaches and contexts.
Since this will be our first official conference as the American Association for Australasian Literary Studies, we particularly invite material on New Zealand literature and film and its international connections.
We also are especially interested in papers on Indigenous Australian literature and Maori literature in New Zealand.
Welcome as well will be papers dealing with the two giants of Australian literature we have recently lost, Peter Porter and Randolph Stow, and writers whose centennials are in or near 2011, such as Elizabeth Riddell, Allen Curnow, Denis Glover, William Hart-Smith, and Patrick White.
As always, submissions on any other aspect of Australian, New Zealand, or South Pacific literature, culture, or film is welcomed: local, regional, national, international, transnational, as well as comparative après on Australian literature with respect to other traditions.
Please send 200 word abstracts to Nicholas Birns at birnsn@newschool.edu by December 1, 2010.
From South China to North America: New Perspectives on Chinese American Transnationalism
The School of Modern Languages and Cultures' American Studies Programme and the Hong Kong-America Center are co-organizing a two-day conference entitled “From South China to North America: New Perspectives on Chinese American Transnationalism” on June 9 and 10, 2010, at the University of Hong Kong. A post-conference workshop in China sponsored by the Institute of Overseas Chinese Studies at Jinan University in Guangzhou and the Guangdong Qiaoxiang Culture Research Center at Wuyi University in Jiangmen will follow from June 11 to 13.
The Conference brings together scholars from the United States, Canada, mainland China, and Hong Kong who specialize in the fields of Chinese American and diaspora studies. These historians, anthropologists, sociologists, political scientists, and literary and cultural critics will explore new patterns and themes of scholarship related to the flow of people, resources and ideas between Southern China and North America over the past two hundred years.
List of Participants:
Dr. James K. Chin (HKU)
Prof. Cindy Chu Yik-Yi (HKBU)
Prof. Louise Edwards (HKU)
Dr. Staci Ford (HKU)
Prof. Evelyn Hu-Dehart (Brown)
Prof. Madeline Hsu (Texas at Austin)
Prof. Gray Kochhar Lindgren (University of Washington & HKU)
Ms. Heidi Kong (UBC & Sun Yat-sen)
Prof. Robert G. Lee (Brown)
Prof. Li Jinzhao (Beijing Foreign Studies U)
Prof. Haiming Liu (Cal Poly Pomona)
Dr. Liu Jin (Wuyi)
Prof. Long Denggao (Tsinghua)
Prof. Andrea Louie (Michigan State)
Prof. Kam Louie (HKU)
Dr. Nicole Newendorp (Harvard)
Prof. David Pong (U of Delaware & CUHK)
Prof. Jay Qian Suoqiao (CityU)
Prof. Edward Rhoads (Texas at Austin – retired)
Dr. Glenn Shive (HKAC)
Prof. Elizabeth Sinn (HKU)
Prof. Chee-Beng Tan (CUHK)
Ms. Tan Jinhua (Wuyi & HKU)
Prof. Wan Xiaohong (SCNU)
Prof. Wing-kai To (Bridgewater & HKU)
Prof. Wu Jinping (Jinan)
Prof. Hon-ming Yip (CUHK)
Prof. Philip Yuen Sang Leung (CUHK)
Prof. Zhang Guoxiong (Wuyi)
