MCLC: ASPAC 2013--cfp

[Denton, Kirk]

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From: Michael Day <mday at nu.edu>
Subject: ASPPAC 2013--cfp
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2013 ASPAC CONFERENCE CALL FOR PAPER & PANEL PROPOSALS

The annual conference of Asian Studies on the Pacific Coast (ASPAC) will
be held in the beautiful city of Monterey on California¹s Central Coast,
hosted by the Monterey Institute of International Studies, a Graduate
School of Middlebury College, on June 7-9, 2013. The conference organizing
committee welcomes the participation of university/college teachers and
researchers, graduate and undergraduate students, and independent scholars
interested in any aspect of Asia, defined to include Northeast Asia,
Southeast Asia, South Asia, Central Asia, and Southwest Asia. ASPAC
encourages inter/multidisciplinary discourse among Asia-focused scholars
and students and invites those trained in Political Science, Economics,
History, Sociology, Anthropology, Linguistics, Language Teaching, Law,
Business Administration, Psychology, and other disciplines to participate
in its annual conferences.

This year¹s conference theme is ³Asia: Looking Back, Moving Forward.²
Asian societies have changed and continue to change in myriad ways, while
memories of the past also continue to inform understandings about them.
Goods, services, capital, information, and people have moved and continue
to move both within Asia and beyond.  Proposals for individual or panel
presentations on these temporal and spatial aspects of Asian societies are
encouraged, although proposals on any other aspect of Asia will be also
considered. The theme is designed to encourage discussion of any aspect of
Asian experience and any approach to understanding Asian societies that
evokes or involves a sense of time or movement.  Welcome are reflections
on what has already transpired in the political, economic, and
social-cultural life of an Asian people or peoples, on what is desirable,
possible, or probable in the future or in a geographic space where it has
not yet happened, on how a sense of time and spatial movement is conveyed
in an Asian language or languages and how it has changed or may be
changing, on social-cultural practices that have or are moving into new
territories and communities within Asia and without, and on sources of
individual and community identities found in the history or in their
future aspirations and prospects of Asian societies, etc.

DEADLINE: May 13, 2013. Early submissions are encouraged as approval of a
proposal allows the author to register for the conference and also secure
a hotel room at a discounted rate.

SUBMIT PROPOSALS ONLINE at
http://www.miis.edu/academics/researchcenters/eastasian/events/aspac-confer
ence) or EMAIL to: Professor Tsuneo Akaha,takaha at miis.edu.  A proposal
review committee will review submissions and proposal authors will be
notified within 72 hours.

SPECIAL NOTES FOR STUDENTS: (1) Graduate and undergraduate students are
encouraged to submit proposals. If accepted, the student author must
present his/her paper in person. (2) ASPAC is proud to offer an
ASPAC-Esterline Student Paper Award to the best student paper presented at
its annual conferences. The paper must be accompanied by a brief note of
recommendation/endorsement by the faculty advisor/supervisor who is
familiar with the student¹s work. (3) Students are also encouraged to
register for the conference early to take advantage of the early
registration fee.
All inquiries should be addressed to Professor Tsuneo Akaha by e-mail
(takaha at miis.edu).