MLA Commons | CLCS Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic | Activity https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/southeast-asian-and-southeast-asian-diasporic/ Activity feed for the group, CLCS Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 10:18:09 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 54b980997253cd51c921ebcf7d86629e Berna Gueneli started the topic CF Applications: Assistant Professor of Film Studies, UGA, apply by Jan. 15 in the forum CLCS Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/southeast-asian-and-southeast-asian-diasporic/forum/topic/cf-applications-assistant-professor-of-film-studies-uga-apply-by-jan-15/ Thu, 20 Nov 2025 17:01:55 -0500 <span style=”font-weight: 400;”>The Department of Theatre and Film at the University of Georgia welcomes applications for the position of Assistant Professor of Film Studies. </span>

 

<span style=”font-weight: 400;”>Area of specialization is open. Desired areas of specialization include, but are not limited to, one or more of the following:…[Read more]

]]> 0 58b60dfda3f4b63b40c4b1cd5e722058 Leigh A. Neithardt started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2025 Forum Delegate Election  in the forum CLCS Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/southeast-asian-and-southeast-asian-diasporic/forum/topic/membership-suggestions-for-2025-forum-delegate-election-5/ Thu, 19 Dec 2024 16:53:01 -0500 Hello!

The next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2025, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets in January 2025. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is required to nominate at least one can…[Read more]

]]> 0 72e134ff84d2d5238b962c27548938b9 Weihsin Gui started the topic CFP: Special Topic in Antipodes journal on "Australia And..." in the forum CLCS Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/southeast-asian-and-southeast-asian-diasporic/forum/topic/cfp-special-topic-in-antipodes-journal-on-australia-and/ Tue, 08 Oct 2024 01:05:25 -0400 <b>CFP: Special Topic in <i>Antipodes: A Global Journal of Australian and New Zealand Literature</i> — “Australia And…”</b>

<b>Priority Deadline 1 November 2024</b>

<i>Antipodes</i> invites articles for a special feature section in Antipodes, journal of the American Association for Australasian Studies (AAALS) that considers a literary or cul…[Read more]

]]> 0 0831bb404408fc3c057be8907c5e1de2 Alden Sajor Marte-Wood started the topic Three CFPs for MLA 2025 - Sponsored by the CLCS Southeast Asian Forum in the discussion CLCS Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/southeast-asian-and-southeast-asian-diasporic/forum/topic/three-cfps-for-mla-2025-sponsored-by-the-clcs-southeast-asian-forum/ Tue, 20 Feb 2024 18:28:58 -0500 Please see the following PDF with longer CFPs for our three sponsored MLA 2025 sessions. March 15, 2024 deadline for all of our CFPs.

]]> 0 b547288a3e736b9f9ec1eba2d662f310 Brian Bernards started the topic Kyoto University CSEAS 47th Southeast Asia Seminar: Call for Applications in the discussion CLCS Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/southeast-asian-and-southeast-asian-diasporic/forum/topic/kyoto-university-cseas-47th-southeast-asia-seminar-call-for-applications/ Tue, 08 Aug 2023 22:52:35 -0400 “Health, Border, and Marginality: Toward Transdisciplinarity?”:

The call for applications for the 47th Southeast Asia Seminar, organized by the Center for Southeast Asian Studies (CSEAS) and co-organized by the Shoklo Malaria Research Unit (SMRU), is now open: https://kyoto.cseas.kyoto-u.<wbr />ac.jp/seas47/

The Center for Southeast Asian Stu…[Read more]

]]> 0 85309dfa8ea6dd59000dbefb698cfdc5 Brian Bernards started the topic AAS 2024 Seattle CFP: Verge-sponsored panel on Inter-Asia Intermediality in the discussion CLCS Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/southeast-asian-and-southeast-asian-diasporic/forum/topic/aas-2024-seattle-cfp-verge-sponsored-panel-on-inter-asia-intermediality/ Wed, 19 Jul 2023 20:03:00 -0400

AAS 2024: Call for Papers for Verge-sponsored Panels


Inter-Asia Intermediality: The Transboundary Production of Global Asian Mediascapes
Organizers: Brian Bernards (bernards@usc.edu) and Elmo Gonzaga…[Read more]

]]> 0 52bff618435cff7e50a71860db700264 Brian Bernards started the topic Call for Applications: Humanities Grants for Scholars from SE & S. Asia in the discussion CLCS Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/southeast-asian-and-southeast-asian-diasporic/forum/topic/call-for-applications-humanities-grants-for-scholars-from-se-s-asia/ Fri, 09 Jun 2023 18:26:04 -0400 CALL FOR APPLICATIONS
Cultivating the Humanities and Social Sciences (CHSS) Research Grants for scholars from South and Southeast Asia
Submission Deadline: September 1, 2023The Cultivating the Humanities and Social Sciences Research Grants are made possible thanks to the generous support of Sweden. This grant program is part of a new c…[Read more]

]]> 0 d3b913d04fc9a9a2f3378d7365a6f1e7 Weihsin Gui started the topic Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic Forum CFPs for MLA 2024 in the discussion CLCS Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/southeast-asian-and-southeast-asian-diasporic/forum/topic/southeast-asian-and-southeast-asian-diasporic-forum-cfps-for-mla-2024/ Fri, 10 Feb 2023 19:05:04 -0500 For the 2024 Modern Language Association in Philadelphia (January 4 to 7), the Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic Forum is organizing or co-organizing four sessions / panels. Please click on the links below to see the full CFPs and submission deadlines.

1) Postcolonial Southeast Asia?: Limits and…[Read more]

]]> 0 f955aa68a90ab92cadefd7e0be44ada7 Amel Abbady deposited Afghanistan’s “Bacha Posh”: Gender-Crossing in Nadia Hashimi’s The Pearl That Broke Its Shell in the group CLCS Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1789158/ Sat, 30 Jul 2022 03:48:43 -0400 This article explores the tradition of Bacha Posh in Afghan culture as depicted in Afghan-American Nadia Hashimiʼs debut novel The Pearl that Broke its Shell (2014). In this novel, Hashimi shows how Afghan girls are obliged to cross-dress and live dual lives as boys for several years to lay claim for their rights to education and freedom of…[Read more]

]]> 0 c193e2908dfd70945800147f04dc4dbc Brian Bernards started the topic CFP: 2nd Biennial Conference of the Society of Sinophone Studies in the discussion CLCS Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/southeast-asian-and-southeast-asian-diasporic/forum/topic/cfp-2nd-biennial-conference-of-the-society-of-sinophone-studies/ Sun, 17 Jul 2022 03:01:45 -0400 Oceans and Empires: Sinophone Crossroads in Global Space and Time 

The 2nd Biennial Conference of the Society of Sinophone Studies <https://www.sinophonestudies.org/s3conference&gt;

5/12—5/14/2023

Penn State University

The Sinophone world that is invigorated by “multisensory protests” and “ally-ship” (the focus of the 2021 conference) a…[Read more]

]]> 0 3d314113e14162f3375815124bbf4de8 Brian Bernards started the topic Call for Applications: Gosling-Lim Postdoctoral Fellowship in SE Asian Studies in the discussion CLCS Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/southeast-asian-and-southeast-asian-diasporic/forum/topic/call-for-applications-gosling-lim-postdoctoral-fellowship-in-se-asian-studies/ Wed, 26 Jan 2022 02:36:22 -0500 https://www.asianstudies.org/grants-awards/gosling-lim-postdoctoral-fellowship-in-southeast-asian-studies/

The Association for Asian Studies is honored to offer the new Gosling-Lim Postdoctoral Fellowship in Southeast Asian Studies, made possible by a generous gift from L.A. Peter Gosling and Linda Yuen-Ching Lim.This fellowship is focused on cap…[Read more]

]]> 0 02041d4d5a4e661c74d728d08ea5cc44 Brian Bernards started the topic CFP: New Media and Post/Colonialism: New Colonial Media? in the discussion CLCS Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/southeast-asian-and-southeast-asian-diasporic/forum/topic/cfp-new-media-and-post-colonialism-new-colonial-media/ Tue, 04 Jan 2022 21:10:30 -0500 Call for Papers

New Media and Post/Colonialism: New Colonial Media?

Recent global scholarly debates have brought increased attention to the question of the “coloniality” of media, both new and old. While indigeneity and colonial subjection are both being pursued in these arenas, we are interested in the following questions, and more:

• Have…[Read more]

]]> 0 a429fdee54817a4571020f10f8791731 Brian Bernards started the topic CFP: Inter-Asia Intermediality: A Two-Part International Workshop in the discussion CLCS Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/southeast-asian-and-southeast-asian-diasporic/forum/topic/cfp-inter-asia-intermediality-a-two-part-international-workshop/ Thu, 21 Oct 2021 01:25:45 -0400 Inter-Asia Intermediality: A Two-Part International Workshop

Conveners: Brian Bernards (USC) and Elmo Gonzaga (CUHK)
Part 1: University of Southern California (Los Angeles), May 20-21, 2022
Part 2: Chinese University of Hong Kong, June 10-11, 2022

Over the past two decades, intermediality and inter-Asia (much like interdisciplinarity) have…[Read more]

]]> 0 d4db483a42f87e7f8ec7afa4f313876c Alden Sajor Marte-Wood started the topic Call for papers: Big Data & Social Media in Southeast Asia (MLA 2022) in the discussion CLCS Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/southeast-asian-and-southeast-asian-diasporic/forum/topic/call-for-papers-big-data-social-media-in-southeast-asia-mla-2022/ Tue, 09 Feb 2021 20:56:29 -0500 Call for papers: Big Data & Social Media in Southeast Asia (MLA 2022)

We invite papers for a proposed session on “Big Data & Social Media in Southeast Asia” for the 2022 Modern Language Association conference (6-9 January). This session is sponsored by the MLA’s Southeast Asia and Southeast Asia Diasporic forum. In The Costs of Connection: How D…[Read more]

]]> 0 593631d12373945ba55c551c44eb7c26 Brian Bernards started the topic Call for Applications: Southeast Asian Studies Archives Fellows in the discussion CLCS Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/southeast-asian-and-southeast-asian-diasporic/forum/topic/call-for-applications-southeast-asian-studies-archives-fellows/ Tue, 09 Feb 2021 00:13:38 -0500 The University of Washington Libraries invites applicants for our Southeast Asian Studies Archives Fellowship Program funded by the Henry Luce Foundation.  We invite recent Ph.D. graduates, or finishing doctoral candidates across all disciplines in the arts, humanities and social sciences to apply for one of three one-quarter long full time paid…[Read more]

]]> 0 dcfaceb570404af3b266c8717c383e67 Weihsin Gui started the topic Symposium: Literary / Media Histories of (Post)colonial Southeast Asia in the discussion CLCS Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/southeast-asian-and-southeast-asian-diasporic/forum/topic/symposium-literary-media-histories-of-southeast-asia/ Sun, 07 Feb 2021 17:40:14 -0500 A symposium on Literary / Media Histories of (Post)Colonial Southeast Asia. Friday 12 March at 9:30 AM US Pacific time (Los Angeles) on Zoom.

Speakers: Elizabeth Wijaya, Nadine Chan, Cheryl Narumi Naruse, & Philip Holden

Please register in advance: tinyurl.com/sealitmedia21

We have a website with talk abstracts, speaker bios, & helpful…[Read more]

]]> 0 481d4721ce8afd86060f2cd25467f63f Weihsin Gui started the topic CFP: Archipelagic Thinking in Asian American and Southeast Asian Literature in the discussion CLCS Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/southeast-asian-and-southeast-asian-diasporic/forum/topic/cfp-archipelagic-thinking-in-asian-american-and-southeast-asian-literature/ Mon, 01 Feb 2021 16:50:56 -0500 Call for papers: Archipelagic Thinking in Asian American and Southeast Asian Literature (MLA 2022)

We invite papers for a proposed session on “Archipelagic Thinking in Asian American and Southeast Asian Literature” for the 2022 Modern Language Association conference (6-9 January). The session is co-sponsored by the MLA’s Asian American Liter…[Read more]

]]> 0 6902a09d9c4ff055819a33dad9119f50 Weihsin Gui started the topic Southeast Asia & Southeast Asia diasporic sessions MLA 2021 in the discussion CLCS Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/southeast-asian-and-southeast-asian-diasporic/forum/topic/southeast-asia-southeast-asia-diasporic-sessions-mla-2021/ Thu, 26 Nov 2020 20:31:17 -0500 FYI: based on a search of the MLA 2021 online program, here’s a list of the sessions/panels that have content related to Southeast Asia & its diasporas. All dates & times are US Eastern Time (New York).

* Asian American Literature and Empire and Imperialism
Thursday, 7 January 2021
7:15 AM – 8:30 A…[Read more]

]]> 0 fce545426fef4a3600670c9ffe6aa3cc Brian Bernards started the topic CFP: Multisensory Dissent & Alliance Building - Society of Sinophone Studies in the discussion CLCS Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/southeast-asian-and-southeast-asian-diasporic/forum/topic/cfp-multisensory-dissent-alliance-building-society-of-sinophone-studies/ Tue, 14 Jul 2020 19:19:31 -0400 Call For Papers: https://www.sinophonestudies.org/cfp

The Inaugural Biennial Conference of the Society of Sinophone Studies

Multisensory Dissent & Alliance Building

Friday-Saturday, April 23-24, 2021

University of Southern California*

Los Angeles, CA

The COVID-19 pandemic has wrought disproportionately negative effects on communities based…[Read more]

]]> 0 77f86175de5ce2e9547e65d210d202fb Ben Vu Tran started the topic Southeast Asian Literary & Cultural Studies: Navigating the Job Market in the discussion CLCS Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/southeast-asian-and-southeast-asian-diasporic/forum/topic/southeast-asian-literary-cultural-studies-navigating-the-job-market/ Mon, 08 Jun 2020 17:26:12 -0400 Southeast Asian Literary & Cultural Studies: Navigating the Job Market Wednesday, July 22, 2020 / 4:00pm EST (US & Canada)  Please join members of the MLA Southeast Asian & Southeast Asian Diasporic forum to discuss how candidates working in Southeast Asian literary and cultural studies can effectively navigate the academic job market. This co…[Read more]

]]> 0 26832eef26492a7760e759019c82aa8a Brian Bernards started the topic MLA Toronto 2021 CFP: Archipelagic Studies in Asian Am & SE Asian Lit in the discussion CLCS Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/southeast-asian-and-southeast-asian-diasporic/forum/topic/mla-toronto-2021-cfp-archipelagic-studies-in-asian-am-se-asian-lit/ Wed, 04 Mar 2020 21:02:32 -0500 2) Archipelagic Studies in Asian American and Southeast Asian Literature
We invite papers focused on the archipelagic relations between Asian American and South East Asian literary studies, and especially attuned to migration, environment, settler colonialism, and radical friction. Please submit 300-word abstract and 1-page CV.

Deadline for…[Read more]

]]> 0 b858298da8b333ef292402c4b486d731 Brian Bernards started the topic MLA Toronto 2021 CFP: Authoritarianism & SE Asia in the discussion CLCS Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/southeast-asian-and-southeast-asian-diasporic/forum/topic/mla-toronto-2020-cfp-authoritarianism-se-asia/ Wed, 04 Mar 2020 20:57:19 -0500 CFP: “Authoritarianism and Southeast Asia”

Modern Language Association Annual Convention

January 7–10, 2021, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Presidential Theme: “Persistence”

The recent prominence of a global “New Right” has upended the progressivist teleology that, at the end of the Cold War, located the political and economic regime of the “moder…[Read more]

]]> 0 26384831ae071332b24a435a955660f0 Brian Bernards started the topic CLCS SE Asian & SE Asian Diasporic Forum: Call for Exec Committee Nominations in the discussion CLCS Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/southeast-asian-and-southeast-asian-diasporic/forum/topic/clcs-se-asian-se-asian-diasporic-forum-call-for-exec-committee-nominations/ Sat, 18 Jan 2020 18:35:18 -0500 To All Members of the CLCS Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic Forum:

This is an open call to all our forum members for nominations for election to the forum’s executive committee.  Executive committee members serve 5-year terms (this election is for the 2021-2026 term) and are expected to attend roughly two out of every three annual…[Read more]

]]> 0 8a27f965aaa4b262b30a4c24583ebe1e Adrian Alarilla started the topic The Southeast Asia x Seattle Film Festival in the discussion CLCS Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/southeast-asian-and-southeast-asian-diasporic/forum/topic/the-southeast-asia-x-seattle-film-festival/ Fri, 03 Jan 2020 13:22:23 -0500 Hello everyone,

If anyone is interested and has some free time, I would like to cordially invite you all to our little film festival at the University of Washington campus:

SEAxSEA 2020: Southeast Asia x Seattle Film Festival
January 9 and 10, 2020, 5:00 to 7:30 pm
Thomson Hall (THO) room 101, King Ln NE, Seattle, WA 98105
ADMISSION IS…[Read more]

]]> 0 78fda658ef307800311b0e3079db12ec Brian Bernards started the topic SE Asian CLCS Forum-Hosted Happy Hour: Fri, Jan 10 at the MLA in the discussion CLCS Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/southeast-asian-and-southeast-asian-diasporic/forum/topic/se-asian-clcs-forum-hosted-happy-hour-fri-jan-10-at-the-mla/ Sun, 15 Dec 2019 22:58:39 -0500 Members and friends of the Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic CLCS MLA Forum:

Our forum invites you to a MLA 2020 Happy Hour at 9pm on Friday, January 10 at the Frolik Kitchen + Cocktails, which is located on the 5th floor of the Motif Seattle Hotel (3 blocks from the Washington State Convention Center). Come mingle and decompress…[Read more]

]]> 0 cfddd520bf1720e6a6c0a3fd0fc4aec7 Weihsin Gui started the topic CFP: special issue-Southeast Asian & Australian Literary & Cultural Connections in the discussion CLCS Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/southeast-asian-and-southeast-asian-diasporic/forum/topic/cfp-special-issue-southeast-asian-australian-literary-cultural-connections/ Mon, 21 Oct 2019 18:49:46 -0400 CFP: special issue of Antipodes journal on Southeast Asian and Australian Literary and Cultural Connections

We invite essay submissions for a special issue of Antipodes, journal of the American Association for Australasian Studies (AAALS) on the topic of Southeast Asian and Australian Literary and Cultural Connections. This special section will…[Read more]

]]> 0 cf3a203f030676800c1ff7b830b1766d Brian Bernards started the topic Los Angeles Indonesian Film Festival (USC-UCLA, Oct 16-20, 2019) in the discussion CLCS Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/southeast-asian-and-southeast-asian-diasporic/forum/topic/los-angeles-indonesian-film-festival-usc-ucla-oct-16-20-2019/ Thu, 10 Oct 2019 22:25:47 -0400 For those in the So Cal area, the Los Angeles Indonesian Film Festival will be hosted at USC’s School of Cinematic Arts and the UCLA Film School next week, from 16-20 Oct, 2019. The events kick off next Wednesday at 6:30 p.m. with Dee Lestari’s Filosofi Kopi 2: Ben and Jody.

http://la-iff.org/index.php

]]> 0 4897b44211182a65028a3155ab1ba2ee Weihsin Gui started the topic ACLS postdoctoral fellowship+tenure-track position at U of Kentucky in the discussion CLCS Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/southeast-asian-and-southeast-asian-diasporic/forum/topic/acls-postdoctoral-fellowshiptenure-track-position-at-u-of-kentucky/ Wed, 25 Sep 2019 18:41:32 -0400 The English Department of the University of Kentucky is offering a 2-year ACLS postdoctoral fellowship  for someone working on postcolonial / global anglophone literatures. The 2-year fellowship transitions into a tenure-track Assistant Professor of English position. Please help spread the word about this excellent opportunity.

Full details in…[Read more]

]]> 0 f5e9007b8d2a2e5972dc3356e630a67a Brian Bernards started the topic CFP: Trauma and Southeast Asian American Studies (AAAS 2020) in the discussion CLCS Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/southeast-asian-and-southeast-asian-diasporic/forum/topic/cfp-trauma-and-southeast-asian-american-studies-aaas-2020/ Thu, 12 Sep 2019 19:23:52 -0400 The Southeast Asian American Section of the Association for Asian American Studies invites submissions for a panel: Trauma and Southeast Asian American Studies Association for Asian American Studies 40th ConferenceApril 9 – 11, 2020, Washington, DC“Troubling Politics” The U.S. has imagined the Pacific as an “American lake” since the nineteenth ce…[Read more]

]]> 0 4efdc3e95e734209181ede661f478ef0 Ben Vu Tran started the topic Vanderbilt job: Asian Environmental Studies in the discussion CLCS Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/southeast-asian-and-southeast-asian-diasporic/forum/topic/vanderbilt-job-asian-environmental-studies/ Wed, 11 Sep 2019 01:15:06 -0400 The Asian Studies Program at Vanderbilt University is accepting applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor in Asian Environmental Studies to begin in the Fall 2020 semester. Regional specialization is open to any area(s) of East, South, and Southeast Asia. Academic training may come from any discipline(s) in the humanities, social…[Read more]

]]> 0 4a9a7feb6c9855969b45107ac2b9f3d1 Ben Vu Tran started the topic Doing Theory in Archipelagic Southeast Asia in the discussion CLCS Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/southeast-asian-and-southeast-asian-diasporic/forum/topic/doing-theory-in-archipelagic-southeast-asia/ Sun, 18 Aug 2019 14:45:13 -0400 Passing along information about an ACLA seminar organized by Elmo Gonzalez and Nazry Bahrawi (original link here):

This seminar will explore what it means to ‘do theory’ in and about Southeast Asia.Recent initiatives such as the University of California System’s International Consortium for Critical Theory Programs and Asia Theories Network, the U…

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]]> 0 87a8fd60fae2f5e44ceaff34d537cd89 Brian Bernards started the topic Founding of the Society of Sinophone Studies (May 4, 2019) in the discussion CLCS Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/southeast-asian-and-southeast-asian-diasporic/forum/topic/founding-of-the-society-of-sinophone-studies-may-4-2019/ Sun, 05 May 2019 19:08:35 -0400 May 4, 2019

Founding the Society of Sinophone Studies

Following the successful “Sinophone Studies” conference held in April of this year at the University of California, Los Angeles, we announce the formation of the Society of Sinophone Studies to promote the study of Sinitic-language communities and cultures around the world. The Society see…[Read more]

]]> 0 935a5dd2225cfda0a2fc364de5c00f5c Weihsin Gui started the topic Deadline extended March 20: SEAsia-Australia session in the discussion CLCS Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/southeast-asian-and-southeast-asian-diasporic/forum/topic/deadline-extended-march-20-seasia-australia-session/ Sat, 09 Mar 2019 21:20:50 -0500 ***Deadline extended to March 20, 2019***

CFP: Southeast Asia and Australia: Literary and Cultural Connections

This call is for a proposed collaborative session between the Southeast Asia/Southeast Asia Diasporic Forum of the Modern Language Association (MLA) and the American Association for Australasian Literary Studies (AAALS) at the January…[Read more]

]]> 0 ca18052a9e6cdc0d85b423f81350df22 Sheela Jane Menon started the topic MLA 2020: Southeast Asia-Focused CFPs in the discussion CLCS Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/southeast-asian-and-southeast-asian-diasporic/forum/topic/mla-2020-southeast-asia-focused-cfps/ Thu, 14 Feb 2019 19:24:48 -0500 MLA 2020: Southeast Asia-Focused CFPs

Having a hard time keeping track of the Southeast Asia-focused CFPs for MLA 2020? See the attached PDF for both the short and long descriptions of these four exciting CFPs! Please feel free to share widely and submit your own abstracts!

Southeast Asia and Australia: Literary and Cultural Connections:…[Read more]

]]> 0 17753eed85f2a07394bd866b2b0bf5b2 Sheela Jane Menon started the topic MLA 2020 CFP: Settler Colonialism in Southeast Asia in the discussion CLCS Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/southeast-asian-and-southeast-asian-diasporic/forum/topic/mla-2020-cfp-settler-colonialism-in-southeast-asia/ Wed, 13 Feb 2019 14:38:20 -0500 MLA 2020 CFP: Settler Colonialism in Southeast Asia

This special session of the MLA Southeast Asian Forum seeks to interrogate settler colonialism through a diverse range of Southeast Asian literary and cultural texts. We are particularly interested in texts that illuminate the reconfiguration of place, power, and politics in the region, both…[Read more]

]]> 0 59ce486c6f3931e8b5889f6013266ff5 Brian Bernards started the topic MLA 2020 CFP: "Transmedia Engagement and the Performance of Place in SE Asia" in the discussion CLCS Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/southeast-asian-and-southeast-asian-diasporic/forum/topic/mla-2020-cfp-transmedia-engagement-and-the-performance-of-place-in-se-asia/ Thu, 07 Feb 2019 21:20:47 -0500 MLA 2020 (Jan 9-12, Seattle) CFP for Special Session sponsored by the CLCS Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic Forum:

“Transmedia Engagement and the Performance of Place in Southeast Asia”

In Transmedia Television: Audiences, New Media, and Daily Life (2011: 1-2), Elizabeth Evans defines transmediality as “the increasingly popular i…[Read more]

]]> 0 0050ded7ab2ee23a5296a2c73ad6bece Weihsin Gui started the topic 2019 Brandeis Novel Symposium - Talk on Sonny Liew in the discussion CLCS Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/southeast-asian-and-southeast-asian-diasporic/forum/topic/2019-brandeis-novel-symposium-talk-on-sonny-liew/ Thu, 07 Feb 2019 18:29:08 -0500 I’ll be giving a talk on Sonny Liew’s Eisner Award-winning The Art of Charlie Chan Hock Chye at the 2019 Brandeis Novel Symposium, and there are other fascinating talks on graphic novels lined up too. The event takes place on Friday April 12 at the Mandel Humanities Center, Brandeis University.

Below is the program and a link to the BNS web…[Read more]

]]> 0 cb907967748bda50b6a6f3b850692eee Weihsin Gui started the topic CFP: Southeast Asia & Australia: Literary & Cultural Connections in the discussion CLCS Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/southeast-asian-and-southeast-asian-diasporic/forum/topic/cfp-southeast-asia-australia-literary-cultural-connections/ Thu, 24 Jan 2019 03:12:00 -0500 CFP: Southeast Asia and Australia: Literary and Cultural Connections

This call is for a proposed collaborative session between the Southeast Asia/Southeast Asia Diasporic Forum of the Modern Language Association (MLA) and the American Association for Australasian Literary Studies (AAALS) at the January 2020 MLA conference in Seattle. Given the…[Read more]

]]> 0 afebd5f41509493c672e3ae89a732a3e Weihsin Gui started the topic CFP for EuroSEAS 2019: "Southeast Asian Travelogues and Global Asia" in the discussion CLCS Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/southeast-asian-and-southeast-asian-diasporic/forum/topic/cfp-for-euroseas-2019-southeast-asian-travelogues-and-global-asia/ Wed, 23 Jan 2019 16:55:44 -0500 CFP for EuroSEAS 2019: “Southeast Asian travelogues and global Asia”

This laboratory considers the ways in which travelogues by Southeast Asians articulated the concept of inter-Asian connections, thus prefiguring the term ‘global Asia.’ Examples include the study of early modern India and Southeast Asia by Chinese-language Nanyang (South Sea…[Read more]

]]> 0 8f6d3b8792cb31fda2a96623425b1716 Brian Bernards replied to the topic Article from Kyoto Review of SEAsia in the discussion CLCS Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/southeast-asian-and-southeast-asian-diasporic/forum/topic/article-from-kyoto-review-of-seasia/#post-1019471 Sat, 12 Jan 2019 23:47:18 -0500 This is a really helpful resource.  Thanks, Weihsin!

]]> 0 2595dc71a26ff373f5065e05ec76b11f Weihsin Gui started the topic Article from Kyoto Review of SEAsia in the discussion CLCS Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/southeast-asian-and-southeast-asian-diasporic/forum/topic/article-from-kyoto-review-of-seasia/ Tue, 08 Jan 2019 20:44:28 -0500 Here’s an interesting article I thought I’d share with everyone, published December 2018 in the _Kyoto Review of Southeast Asia_.

Lee Jun Jie. “Colonialism and ASEAN Identity: Inherited ‘Mental Barriers’ Hindering the Formation of a Collective ASEAN Identity.”

Colonialism and ASEAN Identity: Inherited “mental barriers” hindering the formation of a collective ASEAN identity

]]> 0 fb430348bf7ad666de54e4c80440ea1f Brian Bernards started the topic Job Announcement: Asst Prof. in Southeast Asian Studies, UCLA in the discussion Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/southeast-asian-and-southeast-asian-diasporic/forum/topic/job-announcement-asst-prof-in-southeast-asian-studies-ucla/ Sat, 06 Oct 2018 19:03:52 -0400 Open assistant prof position in SE Asian Studies (including broadly-defined literature and culture focus) at UCLA:

https://recruit.apo.ucla.edu/apply/JPF04048

The Department of Asian Languages & Cultures (http://www.alc.ucla.edu/) at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), invites applications for a position in Southeast Asian studies,…[Read more]

]]> 0 f163c93f3467211925f6a3728313a6f4 Carol Zuses started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2019 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/southeast-asian-and-southeast-asian-diasporic/forum/topic/membership-suggestions-for-2019-forum-delegate-election-6/ Fri, 21 Sep 2018 12:29:04 -0400 The next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2019, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets during the January 2019 convention in Chicago. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is required to nom…[Read more]

]]> 0 7278bf0ef57dbffcb9b904ab73ddf267 Weihsin Gui replied to the topic Southeast Asia related papers in the discussion Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/southeast-asian-and-southeast-asian-diasporic/forum/topic/southeast-asia-related-papers/#post-1017882 Fri, 21 Sep 2018 02:27:54 -0400 Hello! So my earlier post below contained a lot of formatting tags/HTML data, and MLA Commons does not allow users to edit or delete their error-filled posts in the spirit of preserving a transparent record of all conversations. So I’m posting the info from my previous post here.

THURSDAY, 3 JANUARY

“Historical Genres of the Nanyang”
Thursday,…[Read more]

]]> 0 a03ab907e94a2def167a77ffb84a104c Cheryl Narumi Naruse started the topic Southeast Asia related papers in the discussion Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/southeast-asian-and-southeast-asian-diasporic/forum/topic/southeast-asia-related-papers/ Fri, 21 Sep 2018 02:16:36 -0400 Hi everyone, we plan to make an announcement detailing all Southeast Asia related papers at MLA 2019, so please let me know if you are presenting one! Thanks. Cheryl

]]> 0 6353c640b5c05eaae5b0143bd916e677 Weihsin Gui started the topic Southeast Asia-related sessions & talks @ MLA 2019 in the discussion Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/southeast-asian-and-southeast-asian-diasporic/forum/topic/southeast-asia-related-sessions-talks-mla-2019/ Sat, 15 Sep 2018 07:07:14 -0400 <p class=”western”><span style=”font-size: medium;”>Hello! Our Southeast Asia & Southeast Asia Diasporic forum in the Modern Language Association will have 3 sessions at the January 2019 Chicago MLA conference. I’m also giving a 2nd talk on Singaporean comics artist Sonny Liew’s earlier work in a special session on postcolonial graphic nar…[Read more]

]]> 0 ee8bbac76b42f29d236239cbeac13c76 Brian Bernards started the topic Job Announcement: Asst Prof. in Transpacific Asian American Studies, USC in the discussion Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/southeast-asian-and-southeast-asian-diasporic/forum/topic/job-announcement-asst-prof-in-transpacific-asian-american-studies-usc/ Fri, 31 Aug 2018 22:16:29 -0400 Dept. of American Studies & Ethnicity

University of Southern California

Los Angeles, California

The Department of American Studies & Ethnicity, Dana and David Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences, University of Southern California, in Los Angeles, California, is seeking one tenure-track assistant professor in the field of American…[Read more]

]]> 0 8bb5a3a90547cbfc7b4575ad07843953 Weihsin Gui started the topic Petition to form an Indian Ocean Studies CLCS Forum in the discussion Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/southeast-asian-and-southeast-asian-diasporic/forum/topic/petition-to-form-an-indian-ocean-studies-clcs-forum/ Fri, 23 Mar 2018 20:19:19 -0400 Hi everyone: just FYI – there’s a petition to create a CLCS Forum focused on Indian Ocean Studies.

I support the creation of this forum as I think it can be a venue to discuss the historical and contemporary connections between Africa, South Asia, and Southeast Asia, and this forum could be a potential collaborator in future. Please consider…[Read more]

]]> 0 62f90fc1d572fe84d857be04813eefce Weihsin Gui started the topic Southeast Asia session proposals for 2019 MLA (deadline March 15) in the discussion Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/southeast-asian-and-southeast-asian-diasporic/forum/topic/southeast-asia-session-proposals-for-2019-mla-deadline-march-15/ Sun, 11 Mar 2018 04:32:48 -0400 Dear academic colleagues: there’s still time (deadline March 15) to submit a paper to one of these three proposed sessions about Southeast Asia for the 2019 MLA conference in Chicago. Details below.

* “Diasporas, Aesthetics, and Southeast Asia”: What aesthetics (or anesthetics) do diasporic movements into/out of/within Southeast Asia generate? C…[Read more]

]]> 0 06468ecd1d2a50ed29b3fd8ef9f8e1e6 Melek Ortabasi started the topic ADCPL CFP MLA 2019: "Transacting Comparative Studies" in the discussion Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/southeast-asian-and-southeast-asian-diasporic/forum/topic/adcpl-cfp-mla-2019-transacting-comparative-studies-2/ Wed, 07 Mar 2018 08:15:27 -0500 Hi all, I’m on the board of the Association of Departments and Programs of Comparative Literature and I’m posting on behalf of the chair, Thomas Beebee, to publicize our CFP for MLA 2019. Here it is, inspired by the Presidential Theme of “Textual Transactions”:
Transacting Comparative Studies with other Disciplines and Units
Allied Organization:…[Read more]

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