CFPs: SFF lit theory, Vietnamese Diaspora,Asian Americans & Environmentalism
Planning to be in Berlin in November 2011? The Vietnamese Diaspora & Beyond program will take place there Nov. 26 & 27.
Attention, academic writers, researchers: the editor of an interdisciplinary volume on American Multicultural Studies is seeking papers for possible publication. Chapter proposals are sought for a collection on Asian American literature and the environment. darkmatter Journal seeks writing on "Post-racial Imaginaries". In a different publishing opportunity, a researcher seeks academic writing about the SF television series Farscape.
Could these opportunities benefit you or someone you know? Please share!
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Call for Papers: Science Fiction and Fantasy Area: Special Area: Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature
Location: Texas, United States
Call for Papers Date: 2010-12-15 (in 11 days)
CFP: Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature SW/TX PCA/ACA (12/15/10; 4/20-23/11)
The 2011 National and Southwest/Texas Popular Culture/American Culture Association Joint Conference, The Marriott Rivercenter, San Antonio, April 20-23, 2011.
This is a special CFP on science fiction and fantasy literature.
Please send queries and 250-word paper proposals to:
Brian Cowlishaw, cowlishb@nsuok.edu
Include with the submission full contact information including email, phone, snail mail, and institutional affiliation.
Deadline for proposal submissions: December 15, 2010. The registration deadline is January 7, 2011. All participants must register by that date or they will not be permitted to present or appear in the program.
For more details on the conference, please visit the Southwest/Texas Popular Culture/American Culture Association: http://www.swtxpca.org/documents/home.html.
Brian Cowlishaw
Northeastern State University
301 Seminary Hall
Tahlequah, OK 74464
(918) 444-3621
Email: cowlishb@nsuok.edu
Visit the website at http://www.swtxpca.org/documents/home.html
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Vietnamese Diaspora and Beyond, HAU 2 Berlin (26.-27.11.2011)
Location: Germany
Conference Date: 2010-11-26
Vietnamese Diaspora and Beyond, HAU 2 Berlin (26.-27.11.2011)
The lecture and discussion program "Vietnamese Diaspora and Beyond" will take place from the 26.-27.11.2010 at the Hebbel Theater in Berlin. It is part of the "Dong Xuan Festival" on Vietnamese Migration in Berlin and will discuss a broad spectrum of topics ranging from the transnational movements of families, cultural imaginations and theories in the Asian diaspora to national and local political issues struggling with racialization, immigration control and anti-Asian violence, from the construction of pan-asian identities and the yearning for cross-bordering forms of solidarity to the complexity and internal differences based on gender, class and political identifications within the various Vietnamese communities and their histories.
It is possibly the first time that a program based in Germany tries to encounter the subject of Vietnamese/Asian immigration in Germany from a postcolonial and Asian Diasporic perspective. This effort also an invitation for the beginning of an ongoing multilateral networking of Asian German activists and scholars to co-operate with other sites of the transnational Asian Diaspora as well as with individuums and institutions who are interested in these subjectivities.
With best regards,
Kien Nghi Ha (Berlin)
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Vietnamese Diaspora and Beyond
Hebbel Theater am Ufer Berlin, HAU 2, Hallesches Ufer 32, 10963 Berlin
26.11. - 27.11.2010, from 6 pm to 10:30 pm / www.hebbel-am-ufer.de
Curatorial Statement by Kien Nghi Ha
While the dominant debates on integration are still characterised nationally and culturally, often not exceeding racist platitudes, there is in social reality a fundamental change in society. With the example of Vietnamese migration that is strongly present in Berlin one can show how life in diaspora takes on various forms, and how this process has to be thought of from the perspective of the migrant subjects. With this change of perspective comes along a shifting from the habitual pattern of perception and the content that goes hand in hand. In thinking newly about the nation from its far corners it becomes possible to evoke questions that have been neglected so far, and to focus on marginalised spaces.
Part of this revision is to not only test essentialist constructs of identity and the homogenizing understanding of culture, but also to lead the term of “diaspora” towards a contemporary meaning. Migration is no longer being perceived as a problem that has to be solved, but the diaspora is being discussed as a cosmopolitical form of transformation into public ownership, linking Berlin to Vietnam, Orange County (U.S.A.) and other diasporic places. Being at home in-between hybrid cultures, political borderlines and constructed nations, enabling transnational solidarity and provoking claims for a “cultural citizenship” - this all represents the actual task for the future of the migration society.
Such complex, composite identities in diasporic communities reflect diverse historical experiences with exile, gender-specific exploitation and racism. On the one hand they are being processed culturally, and on the other they contain a socio-political dimension. However it is by no means about deficit-compensations and integration efforts, but about the same rights and democratic standards. At the same time these universal categories indicate the necessity not to stumble into the “ethno-trap”, but to open up the discussion about anti-Asian racialisation and exotisms for other experiences, and to look for trans-boundary forms of solidarity.
With Trinh T. Minh-ha, Anna Babka, Nguyen Quoc Toan, Sun-Ju Choi, Urmila Goel, Jee-Un Kim, Nivedita Prasad, Kien Nghi Ha, Ruth Mayer, Iman Attia, Uta Beth, Pham Thi Hoai, Anja Tuckermann, Petra Isabel Schlagenhauf, Tamara Hentschel, Thúy Nonnemann, Günter Piening, Alke Wierth.
Admission Fee
26.11.2010: Full ticket for whole evening 15 Euro, reduced ticket: 10 Euro; ticket for each session: 5 Euro
27.11.2010: Full ticket for whole evening 11 Euro, reduced ticket: 7 Euro; ticket for each session: 5 Euro
Co-operation partners:
Chair of history and society in Southeast Asia (Humboldt Universität zu Berlin).
The festival is sponsored by Hauptstadtkulturfonds and presented by tip.
...
Asian American Literature and the Environment: Call for Chapter Proposals
Chapter proposals for a collection on Asian American literature and the environment currently being considered. For full consideration, submit a 600-word proposal plus a position-publication profile statement by February 15, 2011. Chapters will be 7000 words due by December 30, 2011.
L. Fitzsimmons is Associate Professor of Humanities at CSUDH in Los Angeles. She is currently editing several collections on Asian popular culture studies with John A. Lent (Temple University).
Lorna Fitzsimmons, Ph.D.
Coordinator, Humanities Program
California State University, Dominguez Hills
LCHA338
1000 East Victoria Street
Carson, CA 90747-0005
USA
310-243-3036
Email: lfitzsimmons@csudh.edu
...
Post-racial Imaginaries - darkmatter Journal CFP
Call for Papers Deadline: 2011-02-01
Date Submitted: 2010-11-29
Announcement ID: 180987
darkmatter Journal - http://www.darkmatter101.org/
Special Issue - Call for Papers: Post-racial Imaginaries
Increasing reference to the notion of ‘post-race’ is suggestive of an emergent discursive framework in critical approaches to race and racism. ‘Post-race’, ‘post-racial’, ‘post-black’, and associated ideas, are being mobilized in various theoretical, cultural and political discourses to describe new racial formations. Post-race requires us to question in new ways the precepts of race thinking, positing the end of race as a point with which to think racial futures. The imprecise nature of much ‘post-’ talk means there has yet to be a rigorous assessment of the significance of post-race and its cognate terms, beyond simple endorsement or dismissal.
This special issue of darkmatter Journal is interested in delineating the contours of the ‘post-racial’ turn by asking: what is the post-racial? What are the conditions of its emergence? What assumptions and claims does it make about the logics of racism? What critical and political work is the term doing? What does the ‘post’ in post-race mean? How is racism theorized in post-race? What is the relationship between colonial history and the post-racial? When and where is the post-racial? Who claims post-raciality?
Given the multiple registers of post-race talk, these fundamental questions might be addressed in relation to:
* The shifts from race to ethnicity, cultural difference and multiculturalism;
* The ontology and epistemology of race;
* Obama and the politics of anti-racism;
* Utopia and the end of racism;
* Modernity, history, nation and racial memory;
* After whiteness;
* Feminism, sexual politics and multiraciality;
* Neoliberalism, Marxism and class politics;
* Globalism, Orientalism, anti/post/de-colonialism;
* Post-black aesthetics, popular culture and politics;
* Digitalization, bio-technologies, genetic engineering and racial mutations
Submissions: between 1,500 - 8,000 words are welcome, as are alternative formats such as commentaries, reviews, audio, visual and digital contributions. Please email a 400 - 500 word abstract to submit@darkmatter101.org
Please note: submissions to darkmatter are now subject to external peer review. If your contribution is intended for the less formal (and non-peer reviewed) ‘commons’ section, indicate this on your submission.
For further inquiries about the 'Post-racial Imaginaries' special issue, email: editors@darkmatter101.org
Deadline for Abstracts: 1st Feb 2011
Deadline for Articles: 1st Aug 2011
Publication date: Nov 2011
editors@darkmatter101.org
Email: editors@darkmatter101.org
Visit the website at http://www.darkmatter101.org
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Farscape -- 'Scaping the Territories -- Reminder and Extension
Call for Papers Date: 2011-01-02 (in 29 days)
Date Submitted: 2010-11-29
Announcement ID: 181004
A scholarly treatment of the award-winning science fiction series Farscape is currently under consideration for publication. This book, tentatively entitled, "‘Scaping the Territories: Critical Explorations of Farscape" will be a collection of essays with the general objective of increasing the critical academic exploration of this series. The first editor of this collection has published an essay on the women of Farscape in her book Our Space, Our Place: Women in the Worlds of Science Fiction Television (UPA, 2005). A book examining Farscape was published previously (Battis, IB Taurus, 2007) and addressed divergent social issues such as masculinity and femininity, sexuality, racism and imperialism. The proposed book aims to expand discussion of these issues and the series by examining the myriad ways in which fans and scholars of the program envision themes explored during the airing of the original series, and its extension into print media, including graphic novels.
Dr. Sherry Ginn
Rowan-Cabarrus Community College
1531 Trinity Church Rd.
Monroe, NC 28110
Email: doctorginn@gmail.com
...
Edited book in American Multicultural Studies
Call for Papers Date: 2011-01-05
Date Submitted: 2010-11-29
Announcement ID: 181003
Papers concerning issues in American Multicultural Studies are now being sought for an edited volume, which is under contract with Sage Publications. This book is devoted to the interdisciplinary field of multicultural studies in the United States. It centers on how race, gender, ethnicity, sexuality, and cultural diversity are examined and discussed in the academic field of American multicultural studies. This book seeks to bring together foundational works of scholars writing within the framework of multicultural studies, a developing and innovative critical field that extends beyond disciplinary boundaries. Articles for this volume will be 15-20 pages including references. The first drafts of the articles are due by May 30, 2011. Interested contributors should send a short biographical statement of no more than 50 words and an abstract between 300 and 350 words by January 5, 2011. E-mail Dr. Sherrow Pinder at spinder@csuchico.edu.
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Attention, academic writers, researchers: the editor of an interdisciplinary volume on American Multicultural Studies is seeking papers for possible publication. Chapter proposals are sought for a collection on Asian American literature and the environment. darkmatter Journal seeks writing on "Post-racial Imaginaries". In a different publishing opportunity, a researcher seeks academic writing about the SF television series Farscape.
Could these opportunities benefit you or someone you know? Please share!
Onward...
Call for Papers: Science Fiction and Fantasy Area: Special Area: Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature
Location: Texas, United States
Call for Papers Date: 2010-12-15 (in 11 days)
CFP: Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature SW/TX PCA/ACA (12/15/10; 4/20-23/11)
The 2011 National and Southwest/Texas Popular Culture/American Culture Association Joint Conference, The Marriott Rivercenter, San Antonio, April 20-23, 2011.
This is a special CFP on science fiction and fantasy literature.
Please send queries and 250-word paper proposals to:
Brian Cowlishaw, cowlishb@nsuok.edu
Include with the submission full contact information including email, phone, snail mail, and institutional affiliation.
Deadline for proposal submissions: December 15, 2010. The registration deadline is January 7, 2011. All participants must register by that date or they will not be permitted to present or appear in the program.
For more details on the conference, please visit the Southwest/Texas Popular Culture/American Culture Association: http://www.swtxpca.org/documents/home.html.
Brian Cowlishaw
Northeastern State University
301 Seminary Hall
Tahlequah, OK 74464
(918) 444-3621
Email: cowlishb@nsuok.edu
Visit the website at http://www.swtxpca.org/documents/home.html
...
Vietnamese Diaspora and Beyond, HAU 2 Berlin (26.-27.11.2011)
Location: Germany
Conference Date: 2010-11-26
Vietnamese Diaspora and Beyond, HAU 2 Berlin (26.-27.11.2011)
The lecture and discussion program "Vietnamese Diaspora and Beyond" will take place from the 26.-27.11.2010 at the Hebbel Theater in Berlin. It is part of the "Dong Xuan Festival" on Vietnamese Migration in Berlin and will discuss a broad spectrum of topics ranging from the transnational movements of families, cultural imaginations and theories in the Asian diaspora to national and local political issues struggling with racialization, immigration control and anti-Asian violence, from the construction of pan-asian identities and the yearning for cross-bordering forms of solidarity to the complexity and internal differences based on gender, class and political identifications within the various Vietnamese communities and their histories.
It is possibly the first time that a program based in Germany tries to encounter the subject of Vietnamese/Asian immigration in Germany from a postcolonial and Asian Diasporic perspective. This effort also an invitation for the beginning of an ongoing multilateral networking of Asian German activists and scholars to co-operate with other sites of the transnational Asian Diaspora as well as with individuums and institutions who are interested in these subjectivities.
With best regards,
Kien Nghi Ha (Berlin)
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Vietnamese Diaspora and Beyond
Hebbel Theater am Ufer Berlin, HAU 2, Hallesches Ufer 32, 10963 Berlin
26.11. - 27.11.2010, from 6 pm to 10:30 pm / www.hebbel-am-ufer.de
Curatorial Statement by Kien Nghi Ha
While the dominant debates on integration are still characterised nationally and culturally, often not exceeding racist platitudes, there is in social reality a fundamental change in society. With the example of Vietnamese migration that is strongly present in Berlin one can show how life in diaspora takes on various forms, and how this process has to be thought of from the perspective of the migrant subjects. With this change of perspective comes along a shifting from the habitual pattern of perception and the content that goes hand in hand. In thinking newly about the nation from its far corners it becomes possible to evoke questions that have been neglected so far, and to focus on marginalised spaces.
Part of this revision is to not only test essentialist constructs of identity and the homogenizing understanding of culture, but also to lead the term of “diaspora” towards a contemporary meaning. Migration is no longer being perceived as a problem that has to be solved, but the diaspora is being discussed as a cosmopolitical form of transformation into public ownership, linking Berlin to Vietnam, Orange County (U.S.A.) and other diasporic places. Being at home in-between hybrid cultures, political borderlines and constructed nations, enabling transnational solidarity and provoking claims for a “cultural citizenship” - this all represents the actual task for the future of the migration society.
Such complex, composite identities in diasporic communities reflect diverse historical experiences with exile, gender-specific exploitation and racism. On the one hand they are being processed culturally, and on the other they contain a socio-political dimension. However it is by no means about deficit-compensations and integration efforts, but about the same rights and democratic standards. At the same time these universal categories indicate the necessity not to stumble into the “ethno-trap”, but to open up the discussion about anti-Asian racialisation and exotisms for other experiences, and to look for trans-boundary forms of solidarity.
With Trinh T. Minh-ha, Anna Babka, Nguyen Quoc Toan, Sun-Ju Choi, Urmila Goel, Jee-Un Kim, Nivedita Prasad, Kien Nghi Ha, Ruth Mayer, Iman Attia, Uta Beth, Pham Thi Hoai, Anja Tuckermann, Petra Isabel Schlagenhauf, Tamara Hentschel, Thúy Nonnemann, Günter Piening, Alke Wierth.
Admission Fee
26.11.2010: Full ticket for whole evening 15 Euro, reduced ticket: 10 Euro; ticket for each session: 5 Euro
27.11.2010: Full ticket for whole evening 11 Euro, reduced ticket: 7 Euro; ticket for each session: 5 Euro
Co-operation partners:
Chair of history and society in Southeast Asia (Humboldt Universität zu Berlin).
The festival is sponsored by Hauptstadtkulturfonds and presented by tip.
...
Asian American Literature and the Environment: Call for Chapter Proposals
Chapter proposals for a collection on Asian American literature and the environment currently being considered. For full consideration, submit a 600-word proposal plus a position-publication profile statement by February 15, 2011. Chapters will be 7000 words due by December 30, 2011.
L. Fitzsimmons is Associate Professor of Humanities at CSUDH in Los Angeles. She is currently editing several collections on Asian popular culture studies with John A. Lent (Temple University).
Lorna Fitzsimmons, Ph.D.
Coordinator, Humanities Program
California State University, Dominguez Hills
LCHA338
1000 East Victoria Street
Carson, CA 90747-0005
USA
310-243-3036
Email: lfitzsimmons@csudh.edu
...
Post-racial Imaginaries - darkmatter Journal CFP
Call for Papers Deadline: 2011-02-01
Date Submitted: 2010-11-29
Announcement ID: 180987
darkmatter Journal - http://www.darkmatter101.org/
Special Issue - Call for Papers: Post-racial Imaginaries
Increasing reference to the notion of ‘post-race’ is suggestive of an emergent discursive framework in critical approaches to race and racism. ‘Post-race’, ‘post-racial’, ‘post-black’, and associated ideas, are being mobilized in various theoretical, cultural and political discourses to describe new racial formations. Post-race requires us to question in new ways the precepts of race thinking, positing the end of race as a point with which to think racial futures. The imprecise nature of much ‘post-’ talk means there has yet to be a rigorous assessment of the significance of post-race and its cognate terms, beyond simple endorsement or dismissal.
This special issue of darkmatter Journal is interested in delineating the contours of the ‘post-racial’ turn by asking: what is the post-racial? What are the conditions of its emergence? What assumptions and claims does it make about the logics of racism? What critical and political work is the term doing? What does the ‘post’ in post-race mean? How is racism theorized in post-race? What is the relationship between colonial history and the post-racial? When and where is the post-racial? Who claims post-raciality?
Given the multiple registers of post-race talk, these fundamental questions might be addressed in relation to:
* The shifts from race to ethnicity, cultural difference and multiculturalism;
* The ontology and epistemology of race;
* Obama and the politics of anti-racism;
* Utopia and the end of racism;
* Modernity, history, nation and racial memory;
* After whiteness;
* Feminism, sexual politics and multiraciality;
* Neoliberalism, Marxism and class politics;
* Globalism, Orientalism, anti/post/de-colonialism;
* Post-black aesthetics, popular culture and politics;
* Digitalization, bio-technologies, genetic engineering and racial mutations
Submissions: between 1,500 - 8,000 words are welcome, as are alternative formats such as commentaries, reviews, audio, visual and digital contributions. Please email a 400 - 500 word abstract to submit@darkmatter101.org
Please note: submissions to darkmatter are now subject to external peer review. If your contribution is intended for the less formal (and non-peer reviewed) ‘commons’ section, indicate this on your submission.
For further inquiries about the 'Post-racial Imaginaries' special issue, email: editors@darkmatter101.org
Deadline for Abstracts: 1st Feb 2011
Deadline for Articles: 1st Aug 2011
Publication date: Nov 2011
editors@darkmatter101.org
Email: editors@darkmatter101.org
Visit the website at http://www.darkmatter101.org
...
Farscape -- 'Scaping the Territories -- Reminder and Extension
Call for Papers Date: 2011-01-02 (in 29 days)
Date Submitted: 2010-11-29
Announcement ID: 181004
A scholarly treatment of the award-winning science fiction series Farscape is currently under consideration for publication. This book, tentatively entitled, "‘Scaping the Territories: Critical Explorations of Farscape" will be a collection of essays with the general objective of increasing the critical academic exploration of this series. The first editor of this collection has published an essay on the women of Farscape in her book Our Space, Our Place: Women in the Worlds of Science Fiction Television (UPA, 2005). A book examining Farscape was published previously (Battis, IB Taurus, 2007) and addressed divergent social issues such as masculinity and femininity, sexuality, racism and imperialism. The proposed book aims to expand discussion of these issues and the series by examining the myriad ways in which fans and scholars of the program envision themes explored during the airing of the original series, and its extension into print media, including graphic novels.
Dr. Sherry Ginn
Rowan-Cabarrus Community College
1531 Trinity Church Rd.
Monroe, NC 28110
Email: doctorginn@gmail.com
...
Edited book in American Multicultural Studies
Call for Papers Date: 2011-01-05
Date Submitted: 2010-11-29
Announcement ID: 181003
Papers concerning issues in American Multicultural Studies are now being sought for an edited volume, which is under contract with Sage Publications. This book is devoted to the interdisciplinary field of multicultural studies in the United States. It centers on how race, gender, ethnicity, sexuality, and cultural diversity are examined and discussed in the academic field of American multicultural studies. This book seeks to bring together foundational works of scholars writing within the framework of multicultural studies, a developing and innovative critical field that extends beyond disciplinary boundaries. Articles for this volume will be 15-20 pages including references. The first drafts of the articles are due by May 30, 2011. Interested contributors should send a short biographical statement of no more than 50 words and an abstract between 300 and 350 words by January 5, 2011. E-mail Dr. Sherrow Pinder at spinder@csuchico.edu.
...
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