[Tlc] TLC-AAS meeting 2008

[justinm at ucr.edu]

Dear All,

Although it may seem like the AAS meeting in Boston was just
yesterday, believe it or not, the Call for Papers for AAS 2008
is already out. 

See information below or go to:
http://www.aasianst.org/Proposal/pages/2008CFP.htm

I am also writing to remind everyone to send me (I will pass
it on to the executive committee) their proposal (or recommend
their graduate students or colleagues) for the AAS meeting in
Atlanta by June 30th. The executive will begin reviewing
proposals for TLC sponsors panels after June 30th. The
deadline to submit the panel to the AAS is August 17th. If the
executive approves your panel, we can "designate" it as the
"TLC designated panel" for the AAS meeting. This would mean
that your panel would have a very strong chance of being
accepted by the AAS if it is submitted with a letter of
recommendation from the TLC executive committee. All proposals
still must be submitted in final form to the AAS by August 17th. 

The TLC designated panel is a great way to attract an audience
to your panel, encourage new members to join the TLC, and
support the work of scholars working on Thai/Lao/Cambodian
projects. It also nearly guarantees your panel's acceptance. 

Also, a quick reminder, we have travel funding (at least 250
dollars) for any graduate student who has a TLC-related paper
accepted for the AAS meeting. This funding will be given first
to a graduate student speaking on a TLC-designated panel. If
there is more than one graduate student on a TLC-designated
panel then the funding will be divided equally. Our budget may
allow for a larger travel award for 2008.

Thank you for your time and consideration.

Best regards,
justin

AAS CFP:
http://www.aasianst.org/Proposal/pages/2008CFP.htm
On behalf of the Program Committee for the 2008 AAS meeting in
Atlanta, we are pleased to invite colleagues in Asian studies
to submit proposals for Organized Panels as well as
Roundtables, Individual Papers for sessions to be created by
the Program Committee, and Poster Sessions. The Program
Committee seeks sessions that will engage panelists and
audiences in the consideration of ideas, information, and
interpretations that will advance knowledge about Asian
regions and, by extension, will enrich teaching about Asia at
all levels.

All proposals must be submitted electronically. We expect
electronic proposals will prove convenient for panel
organizers, and save significant time and effort for the
Program Committee and secretariat staff.

 

Because the AAS Board of Directors encourages as much
participation as possible, no person may appear on more than
one session.

In practice, this means that someone may participate on one
panel OR participate on one roundtable OR give one individual
paper OR present one poster. Although the Program Committee
will accept a proposal in which one individual serves as chair
and either gives a paper or serves as a discussant ON THE SAME
PANEL, the AAS Board of Directors has a strong preference for
each role being filled by a different person.

    *

      Panel organizers must confirm that the proposed
panelists are listed ON THEIR PROPOSAL ONLY. Multiple proposed
participation may undermine the chances for acceptance of
every proposal involved.

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      Preregistration is required of all participants. If your
panel is accepted, you must preregister for the annual
meeting. Unless you preregister before DECEMBER 6, 2007, your
name will NOT appear in the printed Program. No refunds will
be given for participants withdrawing after the December 6
deadline. Preregistration cards will be sent to all
participants at the time they are notified of their acceptance
to the program. Participant members must preregister at the
member rate. Participant non-members must preregister at the
slightly higher non-member rate. If you wish to become an AAS
member, please refer to AAS Membership. There are no
exceptions in regard to the preregistration requirement for
all participants.

 
PANEL SELECTION CRITERIA

The Program Committee considers the annual meeting program to
be primarily a collection of organized panels. For that
reason, it accepts a far higher percentage of panel proposals
than individual paper submissions. The criteria on which it
focuses are:

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      intellectual quality of the research (originality of
material or of interpretations, soundness of methodology,
knowledge of the field, etc.)
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      coherence of the papers proposed for a given panel
    *

      quality of the written abstracts, the overall panel
abstract being of greatest importance (clear, jargon-free
prose is especially valued)
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      indication of a commitment to stimulating active
discussion at panel sessions
    *

      gender, ethnic, and institutional balance
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      attention to AAS guidelines (deadline, prohibition on
more than one appearance, limits on numbers of presenters, etc.)

Also, the Program Committee will look favorably on "creative"
panels that address issues of interest to a wide consistency,
and incorporate e.g., comparative perspectives, outside area
and cross-disciplinary representation, etc.

 
EXPLORING NEW PANEL FORMATS

The AAS Board of Directors and Program Committee urge panel
organizers to explore, with your panel members, the ways in
which the ideas you are presenting can be communicated most
effectively and the ways in which the audience can contribute
to the liveliness of the dialogue. We encourage breadth of
approach in terms of geographical definition, discipline, and
methodology.

The panel format should, of course, be compatible with the
purpose and content of the panel. Many forms—some of them
waiting to be invented by you—are suitable. We hope that the
format you elect for your panel will encourage substantive
brevity and clear exposition, emphasizing the larger ideas at
stake and inviting response from the faculty and graduate
students in the audience. Presentation by way of well-crafted
remarks, rather than by reading an entire paper, might well
suit these objectives.

The following list of potential formats for the panel
illustrates a range of styles but is not meant to confine your
options.

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      Formats that introduce, at the outset, a clash of
perspectives, interpretations, or methodologies
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      Formats that limit each paper writer to ten or fifteen
minutes to explain the main idea of the paper
    *

      Formats permitting a joint panel discussion on a single
theme or book as a part of the panel session
    *

      Formats in which commentators begin by summarizing and
commenting on the papers and to which the paper writers then reply
    *

      Formats that allow sharply focused commentary from the
audience early on
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      Formats in which knowledgeable members of the audience
are encouraged to prepare comments of their own
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      Formats in which a single, major paper is the subject of
attention and on which other papers and all the commentary are
focused

 
SCHEDULING

Since the scheduling is done at the time of panel selection in
September, please indicate any potential scheduling conflict
on your proposal. The Program Committee will attempt to
accommodate conflicts, but cannot guarantee a particular time
slot, and no changes can be made once the schedule has been
determined.

 
"DIRECTIONS IN THE SOCIAL SCIENCES"

To encourage the presentation of new scholarship in social
science disciplines under-represented at AAS annual meetings
(e.g., Political Science, Sociology, Economics, Psychology,
Law, Publish Health, Social Work, Medicine, Sociobiology), the
Board of Directors recently created an initiative “Directions
in the Social Sciences.” The selected panels will be
highlighted in the printed program and scheduled at different
times. This initiative is meant to expand social science
representation-particularly in the under-represented
disciplines listed above-at the annual meetings. It will not
affect regular competitive review of all panel proposals in
the social sciences, which the Board hopes will mount steadily
in number.

The Board welcomes wide and innovative submissions in the
social science initiative, particularly those including
younger scholars and interdisciplinary approaches. We
especially encourage proposals in fields typically
under-represented at the annual meeting (see above). If you
would like your panel/roundtable to be considered for this
category, please check the relevant box on the online
Organized Panel or Roundtable form (individual paper and
poster session proposals are not eligible).

 
"BORDER-CROSSING" PANELS

To encourage wide and innovative intellectual exchange, the
program committee invites applications for sessions that cross
borders—disciplinary, national, regional, historical
periods—in subject matter as well as participants.
Border-Crossing panels should be thematically, disciplinarily,
and geographically expansive. Border-Crossing sessions may
offer novel formats that aim to encourage lively dialogue,
brevity, audience participation, and critical bite. While the
AAS is no longer able to provide funding for designated
Border-Crossing Sessions, the special status of these panels
will be indicated by highlighting in the Annual Meeting program.

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      Only Organized Panels and Roundtables are eligible for
this category. No Individual Papers or Poster Sessions will be
considered.
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      Border-Crossing panel organizers should use the
Organized Panel or Roundtable form, and indicate in the panel
abstract how the topic fits within the border-crossing
structure and spirit. Proposals must also include individual
abstracts from all paper-givers. The deadline is the same as
for regular proposals.
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      Proposals that are not selected as Border-Crossing
panels will be considered in the Interarea category.

 
AV EQUIPMENT REQUESTS

LCD Projectors for PowerPoint presentations will now be
available for all sessions (except posters) requesting them by
December 1. A panel can request ONLY an LCD projector and
screen; OR a slide projector and screen; OR an overhead
projector and screen—but not two or three of these options.
TV/VCR/DVD equipment cannot be provided.

AV equipment supplied will be limited to projectors, screens,
and necessary cabling. Computers, software and internet
connections will NOT be provided. It will be the
responsibility of panel participants to bring their own
computers and/or arrange and pay for other equipment and
services as needed.

To maximize efficiency and minimize set-up costs, each session
may request only one type of projector. All requests should
indicate if the LCD projector will need a sound system and all
requests must be made by December 1. If several projector
types are requested by participants on a given session, the
organizer of the session will make the final determination as
to which piece of equipment will be used.

 
TRAVEL ASSISTANCE FOR ASIAN SCHOLARS OF ASIA

We are happy to announce the availability of travel grants to
attend the Atlanta meeting for scholars who are citizens of
and work in the less economically advanced nations of Asia.
This support is limited to those scholars who are active
participants on Organized Panels or Roundtables that have been
accepted for the formal program. Individual Paper presenters,
Poster Session presenters, or meeting-in-conjunction
participants are not eligible for support.

Applications for scholars from the following countries will
NOT be accepted: Australia, Hong Kong, Japan, New Zealand,
Republic of China (Taiwan), Republic of Korea (South Korea),
and Singapore. Scholars who normally work in an eligible
country but will be residing in an ineligible country at the
time of the meeting may be considered on a case-by-case basis.

Unfortunately, we do not have sufficient funds to cover all
the related costs of attending the meeting. Costs covered will
be limited to international round-trip discounted airfare, up
to three nights hotel accommodation at the conference rate,
and meeting registration. The maximum amount available is
$2500, but due to the large number of applications, individual
grants will likely be much lower. Therefore panel organizers
or applicants should seek outside funding to supplement travel
assistance grants. Grant funds may be wired in advance either
directly to the scholar or to his/her travel agency, but proof
of actual airline ticket purchase price will be required.
Individual scholars or their respective panel organizers are
responsible for arranging purchase of tickets, hotel
accommodation, registration, etc.

Panel organizers should submit the Travel Assistance form at
the same time that they submit their Organized Panel or
Roundtable proposal. No late requests will be accepted. The
Travel Assistance form is included inside the Organized Panel
and Roundtable proposal forms. Only one participant per panel
will be considered for funding. Awards will be made by a
special selection committee after the formal program has been
decided by the Program Committee. Attempts will be made to
maintain fairness across countries, specializations,
disciplines, etc.

 
2008 Program Committee

Listed below are the members of the 2008 Program Committee.
Panel organizers may contact committee members with questions
concerning formats, possible participants, or to which
category a submission should be made. Please DO NOT send any
proposals to Program Committee members. All proposals should
be submitted to the AAS Secretariat via the online proposal forms.
INTERAREA/BORDER-CROSSING 	CHINA AND INNER ASIA 	JAPAN/KOREA
Cynthia Brokaw (Chair) 	Keith McMahon 	Ann Sherif
Ohio State University 	University of Kansas 	Oberlin College, OH
Tel: (614) 784-1323 	Tel: (785) 864-3100 	Tel: (440) 775-8827
brokaw.22 at osu.edu 	kmcmahon at ku.edu 	ann.sherif at oberlin.edu
  	  	 
Cynthia Talbot (Vice-Chair) 	Haiyan Lee 	Robert Pekkanen
University of Texas, Austin 	University of Colorado, Boulder 
University of Washington, Seattle, WA
ctalbot at mail.utexas.edu 	Tel: (303) 492-7545 	Tel: (206) 685-1527
	haiyan.lee at colorado.edu 	pekkanen at u.washington.edu
SOUTH/SOUTHEAST ASIA 		
Amrita Basu 	James Millward 	Chae-Jin Lee
Amherst College, MA 	Georgetown University 	Claremont McKenna
College, CA
Tel: (413) 542-2306 	Tel: (202) 687-6883 	Tel: (909) 621-8213
abasu at amherst.edu 	millwarj at georgetown.edu 	cjlee at cmc.edu
  	  	 
Katherine Bowie 	  	 
University of Wisconsin, Madison 	  	 
Tel: (608) 262-2132 	  	 
kabowie at wisc.edu 	  	 
  	  	 

 
TYPES OF PROPOSALS

The AAS Board of Directors and the Program Committee strongly
encourage diversity and balance in the composition of panels
and roundtables. The most successful panels combine junior and
senior scholars, and take into account gender, ethnicity, and
institutional representation.

 
(1) Organized Panels

Organized Panels are proposed by individual scholars around a
common subject or theme. Formal papers are presented, often
followed by discussion. Please note; the Back-to-Back panel
category has been eliminated.

A 250-word (maximum) abstract is required from each
participant, in addition to the 250-word (maximum) abstract
for the panel itself. The abstracts provided by the
prospective paper-givers are very important, but the overall
panel abstract is of greatest importance. Organized panels
last for two hours and should be limited to FIVE active
participants (four paper presenters and one discussant or
three paper presenters and two discussants). If more than one
organizer is necessary, the first name given will be our
primary contact.

Use this link to access the ORGANIZED PANEL proposal forms
(2) Roundtables

Roundtables are events at which no formal paper titles are
listed. This format provides opportunities for participants
with specific expertise to discuss with each other, and with
members of the audience, issues or themes concerning a
discipline or an Asian regional area. A roundtable lasts for
two hours and may have a maximum of SIX active participants.
While a Roundtable proposal need not have the detail required
of an Organized Panel proposal, the abstract must fully
explain its purpose, its issue(s)/theme(s), and scope.

Use this link to access the ROUNDTABLE proposal forms
(3) Individual Papers

The committee considers the annual meeting to be primarily a
panel-based conference. Therefore, the acceptance rate for
individual paper proposals is much lower than that for
organized panels. The AAS website offers a means for scholars
to announce their interests and paper topics to other
potentially interested scholars via e-mail, in the hopes that
panels can be formed from individual-paper
proposals—www.aasianst.org/panel-links.htm. Send an e-mail to
jwilson at aasianst.org to have your announcement included. The
committee would like to remind junior scholars that regional
AAS meetings are the ideal place to submit individual paper
proposals and to meet like-minded scholars who might be
interested in collaborating on organized panel proposals for
the following year’s national AAS meeting.

In order to make the individual-paper presentations more
coherent and useful to the scholars presenting papers, the
committee will organize the individual paper proposals into
panels centered around specific topics (these may be
cross-disciplinary and cross-cultural). The panel chair,
appointed by the program committee, will request copies of the
papers in advance of the conference and act as discussant for
the panel. Panel members will also be required to exchange
papers ahead of time, so that they can read and develop
linking comments on or questions about one another’s work.

While any person may submit a proposal for an individual paper
presentation, strong preference is given to those submitted by
advanced graduate students (with an advisor’s letter of
support) or by people who have completed their PhDs in the
last two or three years. Preference is given to those whose
institutional affiliation is outside the United States. The
intellectual quality of the abstract is the prime selection
criterion for proposals. Those who give an individual paper
one year are not accepted in the subsequent year. Once
assigned to a session, individual paper presenters may not
change to another panel.

Use this link to access the INDIVIDUAL PAPER proposal form
(4) Poster Sessions

Although poster sessions have not become widely popular with
AAS members, they present an excellent forum for many types of
research. These sessions provide opportunity for more
intensive interaction between the presenter and AAS members
interested in the topic. Moreover, the committee encourages
graduate students to propose poster sessions, and has agreed
to accept poster materials presented in languages other than
English, provided that the presentation includes an
English-language abstract. It also should be noted that the
acceptance rate of poster proposals thus far has been higher
than that in other categories. As a cautionary note: it is
important that poster sessions utilize the kinds of materials
that are appropriate to this medium, materials that are
effective visually (graphs, formats that organize content,
etc.); they should not involve the mere tacking up of pages
from an academic paper. AV equipment is not available for
poster sessions.

Use this link to access the POSTER SESSION proposal form

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Dr. Justin McDaniel
Dept. of Religious Studies
2617 Humanities Building
University of California, Riverside
Riverside, CA 92521
951-827-4530
justinm at ucr.edu