Due to the surge in coronavirus cases, the executive committee of the LLC Latina/Latino Forum has cancelled the cash bar reception and moved all of our panels online.

We’re still looking forward to vibrant conversations about US Latinx Studies at the 2022 MLA convention, so please join us by attending the virtual panels listed b…[Read more]

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]

For MLA 2022:

How does Asian American literary studies address radical care for collective survival, and as a critical method for creating reciprocity and justice? 300-word abstract and 1-page CV by 10 March to jinah.kim@csun.edu or itagakil@missouri.edu.

For MLA 2022:

How does Asian American literary studies address radical care for collective survival, and as a critical method for creating reciprocity and justice? 300-word abstract and 1-page CV by 10 March to jinah.kim@csun.edu or itagakil@missouri.edu.

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]

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]

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]

Dear all,

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 Literature and Southeast Asia and Southeast Asia Diasporic Forums.

Please send abstract (300 words…[Read more]

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]

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]

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]

I am posting the following message on behalf of LLC Canadian’s executive committee chair, Rob Zacharias:

Dear friends and colleagues,

We are pleased to announce and invite participation in the upcoming July 8-22, 2020, online conference of the Association for Literature, Environment, and Culture in Canada (ALECC) on the theme Watershed,…[Read more]

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]

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]

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]

Canadian Environments and the Extraction Economy
This session, sponsored by the LLC Canadian Forum and the Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities Forum, considers the cultures and histories of resource extraction in Canada. We seek papers on Canadian and/or Indigenous literatures and environments. Deadline for submissions: Friday, 20 March…[Read more]

Scarborough in/as Canadian Literature
This session, sponsored by the LLC Canadian Forum, considers the recent florescence of literature from and about Scarborough, ON. We seek papers discussing particular works related to Scarborough, as well as theoretical approaches. Deadline for submissions: Friday, 20 March 2020 Robert Zacharias, York…[Read more]