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[justinm at ucr.edu]

See three calls for papers below.
Thanks,
justin

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Call for Papers
Association for Asian Performance 8th Annual Conference

August 7, 2009    New York, NY

The Association for Asian Performance (AAP) invites submissions for its 8th annual conference in New York City, August 7, 2009. The AAP conference is a one-day event, to be held at Hunter College, CUNY preceding the annual ATHE (Association for Theatre in Higher Education) conference. (The conference may be extended to a day and a half, beginning on the afternoon of Aug 6th.)

Proposals are invited for papers, panels, workshops and roundtable discussions. The deadline for proposals is April 1, 2008.

•    Proposals for individual papers should include a brief abstract. Individual presentations should be limited to 20 minutes so that there will be time left for questions and discussion. Visual materials (slides, video etc.) are strongly encouraged.
•    Panels should be composed of three paper presenters and one discussant or four paper presenters. Proposals for panels should provide a brief statement that explains the session as a whole and the proposed subject of each paper.
•    Roundtables offer an opportunity for participants to discuss a specific theme, issue or significant recent publication. A maximum of six active participants is recommended. While a roundtable proposal will not be as detailed as a panel proposal, it should explain fully the session’s purpose, themes or issues and scope.
•    Proposals for workshops by performance practitioner(s) with expertise in specific Asian performance traditions are welcomed, particularly workshops that overlap with a panel theme or paper presentation. Workshop proposals should include an abstract explaining methods and goals. Workshops should be designed to run no longer than 80 minutes.

We encourage suggestions for innovative alternatives to the panels, individual papers and roundtables described above.

Proposals should include the following:
1.    Title of panel, roundtable or paper.
2.    Names of all the presenters, including chair and/or organizer and discussant (for panels and roundtables.) A few biographical sentences about each presenter.
3.    Affiliation, specialization (field/region), mailing address, phone numbers and e-mail addresses of al participants.
4.    Explanation of the session (for panels, workshops and roundtables); abstract of each panel presentation or each paper.

Proposals should be emailed to the conference organizer, Claudia Orenstein <corenste at hunter.cuny.edu>

If you need help locating other scholars to participate in a panel or roundtable, please submit a preliminary description of your proposal before February 1 so we can post it on the AAP website. Alternatively, you can post your suggestions for a panel there directly by logging on to the site at: http://www.yavanika.org/aaponline/

All presenters are expected to join AAP. Membership is $40 per year ($25 for students) and includes a subscription to the Asian Theatre Journal.
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Call for Papers
Emerging Scholars Panel, Association for Asian Performance
 
The Association for Asian Performance (AAP) invites submissions for its 15th Annual Adjudicated Panel to be held during the Association for Asian Performance annual conference in New York City Aug 6th-7th, 2009, which precedes the Association for Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE) conference.
 
Anyone (current and recent graduate students, scholars, teachers, artists) early in their scholarly career or who has not presented a paper at an AAP conference before is welcome to submit work for consideration. To qualify one need not necessarily be affiliated with an institution of higher learning, although this is expected. Papers (8-10 double-spaced pages) may deal with any aspect of Asian performance or drama. Preparation of the manuscript in Asian Theatre Journal style, which can be gleaned from a recent issue, is desirable.  Up to three winning authors may be selected and invited to present their papers at the upcoming AAP conference.   Paper and project presentations should be no longer than twenty minutes. A $100 cash prize will be awarded for each paper selected, to help offset conference fees. AAP Conference registration fees are waived for the winners, who also receive one year free membership to AAP.
 
The Emerging Scholars Panel Adjudication Committee is chaired by Dr. Kathy Foley, Editor of Asian Theatre Journal.  Selected papers will be strongly considered for publication in ATJ, which is an official publication of AAP and the Association for Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE). Those interested in submitting work for review should mail four (4) copies of their paper or report to:

Kathy Foley, Professor, Theatre Arts
1156 High Street
Theater Arts Center, UCSC
Santa Cruz, CA 95064
and by e-mail attachment to: email: <kfoley at ucsc.edu>
 
Deadline for Submissions: February 1, 2009
Winners will be notified by April 15, 2009
 
A separate cover sheet detailing the author's contact information-address, phone number, and email address (for both academic year and summer holiday) must accompany each submission. The author's name should not appear on the text proper.

AAP is proud to sponsor this adjudicated panel. Not only is it a chance for students and emerging scholars to get exposure and recognition for their work, but it also provides an opportunity to meet and make contacts with others who are interested in similar fields of research.

Please direct any inquiries regarding the emerging scholars panel to Dr. Foley.
 
To find out about the benefits of becoming an AAP member, please check out our website at http://www.yavanika.org/aaponline.
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Call for Papers
Queer Studies Graduate Symposium "Queer Mobility, Queer Citizenship"

University of California, Davis May 29, 2009

Keynote Speaker: Siobhan Somerville, Associate Professor in the Department of English and the Gender & Women's Studies Program at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Somerville has written extensively on the intersection of race and sexuality in U.S. literature and history, and her current book project is entitled A Queer Genealogy of Naturalization in the U.S.

Recent queer scholarship reflects an investment in studies of transnationalism and a concern with questions of mobility and citizenship. Scholarship within the growing field of transnational queer studies, as exemplified in works such as Social Text's 2005 special issue "What's Queer about Queer Studies Now" and GLQ's 2008 special issue "Queer/Migrations," investigates the imbrications of gender and sexuality with racial, national, and diasporic formations; circuits of travel, migration, and displacement; and immigration, asylum, and citizenship policies. To interrogate discourses of sexuality, desire, and political change within the current phase of globalization, transnational queer studies requires attention to the ways in which constructions of sexuality are linked to the movements of bodies, ideas, and capital as well as to local, regional, and global systems of inclusion and exclusion.

This conference emerges at a moment in which technologies of war and information simultaneously transcend and reinscribe modern boundaries of time and space. Therefore, we invite conversations around how queer modes of mobility and citizenship may be at once complicit with and disruptive of the temporal, spatial, and affective logics of nation-states, economic formations, and liberal personhood. What does the study of mobility and citizenship offer queer scholarship? Who is denied or granted access to various forms of mobility? How is that access/denial contingent upon and constitutive of one's citizenship status? When and how are non-normative genders and non-reproductive desires in synchrony with the state and when do they expose the fissures, inconsistencies, and ambivalences of the state? Is queerness compatible with the pursuit of liberal citizenship and is queer citizenship possible? How does a focus on mobility and citizenship further demonstrate the necessity of interrogating the racial, class, and gendered formations inherent in discourses of sexuality? How can considerations of different scales of mobility and forms of embodiment bring together studies of sexuality, dis/ability, and citizenship? How are metaphors of mobility (coming out, "fluid" identities, access) central to queerness? What are the links between citizenship and in/voluntary modes of travel, im/migration, and displacement? How is the production of modern citizen-subjects embedded in histories of colonialism, war, and empire-making, and what is particular about the role of mobility in the construction of queer subjectivities? How does queer fail or succeed as a transnational and translatable concept, identity or politic?

We invite scholarship from a broad range of disciplines, especially interdisciplinary work in queer theory and transgender theory. We especially encourage work that critically engages mutually constitutive articulations of race, class, sexuality, ability, gender, citizenship, religion, and nationality. Papers engaging activism and community organizing are also encouraged. For information on past symposia please visit http://www.queersymposium.org/.

Possible topics include (but are not limited to):
-Histories of queerness mobility and citizenship
-Gay/lesbian tourism and travel -Immigration and asylum law
-Technology / digital and virtual spaces -"Global Gay" / the gay international
-Embodiment/Disability Studies -Queerness and mobile capital
-Border crossing and borderlands -Violence, war, and the State
-Immobility/Stasis -Local and regional belonging
-Temporal mobility, temporal belonging -Affective and cultural citizenship
-Homonormativity, neoliberalism and mobile citizenship

Please send 250-500 word abstracts with a CV to <queersymposium2009 at gmail.com> by March 15, 2009. Along with this abstract, please indicate if your presentation requires any AV equipment. Acceptances will be sent out by March 29, 2009. For more information, email Abigail Boggs and Cynthia Degnan at <queersymposium2009 at gmail.com>.
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Dr. Justin McDaniel
Dept. of Religious Studies
3046 INTN
University of California, Riverside
Riverside, CA 92521
951-827-4530
justinm at ucr.edu