Call for Papers: Modernity’s ‘Other’ – Disclosing Southeast Asia’s built environment across the colonial and postcolonial worlds

2nd SEAARC (Southeast Asia Architecture Research Collaborative) Symposium

5-7 January 2017

National University of Singapore

Convenors: Dr. Lee Kah-Wee, Dr. Imran Tajudeen, Dr. Chang Jiat-Hwee

Web announcement: blog.nus.edu.sg/seaarc/symposium-2017-3/

Abstract Submission Deadline: 5 July 2016

Across various disciplines, attention on the category of the “Other” has shone light on women, minorities, the poor, profane, criminal and mundane. But what and where is the category of “Others” in architectural studies? Is it to be attached to the spaces and buildings associated with these marginalized social categories? Or are there intrinsically architectural “Others” – subjects within the discipline that undergird its internal discourse through contrast and opposition – that should be opened up to interdisciplinary scrutiny? Finally, what can Southeast Asia offer to the larger intellectual debates in which the category of the “Other” has played a critical role in the last few decades?

Call For Papers - Liberalism and Empire in Southeast Asia

December 16, 2016

Australian National University

Convening committee: Anthony Milner, Gareth Knapman, Mary Quilty

Submit abstracts to Gareth.Knapman [at] anu.edu.au.

Deadline: July 18, 2016

This symposium collects the leading scholars on British colonial thought in Southeast Asia to consider the question of the relationship between liberalism and the British Empire in Southeast Asia. The empire builders in Southeast Asia: Lord Minto, William Farquhar, William Leyden, Thomas Stamford Raffles, and John Crawfurd - to name a few - were fervent believers in a liberal free trade order in Southeast Asia. Three stand out events shaped the British liberal approach to Southeast Asia: the establishment of the colony on the island of Penang, the British occupation of Java between 1811 and 1816, and the founding of Singapore. All of these events have been discussed as defining elements in the making of Southeast Asia, but have rarely been discussed as embodying the tension between empire and  liberalism. The convening committee invites abstracts broadly on the topic of liberalism and the British Empire in Southeast Asia between 1750 and 1900. There is no funding available to support airfares and accommodation. The convening committee will be publishing a selection of papers as part of an edited collection after the symposium.

Symposium on Indonesian Language Teaching

Friday, April 1, 2016
1:00 p.m. - 4:45 p.m.
University of Washington, Thomson Hall, Room #317
Seattle, WA  98195
https://www.washington.edu/maps/
Free and open to the public.

Sponsored by the Consortium for the Teaching of Indonesian (COTI), the symposium will include papers on:

·         Content Based-Instruction in Indonesian Classroom

·         Curriculum Development: The Importance of the Balance between Language, Culture, and Communication

·         Indonesian Jump Started Course

·         Jatuh Bangun: Lessons (not) Learned from Growing a Language Program

·         Who are the Native Speakers of Indonesian?

·         Common Grammatical Errors by Intermediate High Level Students at the DLI Monterey

·         Challenges in Moving up to High Advanced Proficiency level: Frequently Uncorrected Learners Errors

2016 Annual SOYUZ Symposium on the "Politics of Difference: Migration, Nation, Postsocialist Left and Right?"

The 2016 Annual SOYUZ Symposium on the "Politics of Difference: Migration, Nation, Postsocialist Left and Right?"  will be held at the University of Chicago on March 11-12, 2016.  The deadline for paper proposals has been extended to December 1, 2015.  See below for complete details.

The 2016 Annual SOYUZ Symposium

Politics of Difference: Migration, Nation, Postsocialist Left and Right?

Center for East European and Russian/Eurasian Studies

University of Chicago

March 11-12, 2016

Keynote Address

"A Sea of Difference?  Regime Collapse and Migrations from Albania to Italy, 1945-1992"

Pamela Ballinger

Fred Cuny Chair in the History of Human Rights

University of Michigan

Call for Papers

The SOYUZ theme this year gains immediacy and poignancy from the migration and refugee crisis in Europe in Autumn 2015.  While some leaders repudiate migrants from points east by calling for a “Christian” Europe, others welcome them as a Christian gesture.  Such differences are not new to postsocialism.  Religion, out-migration, borders, nationality have been flash points repeatedly. The conference will examine these and other forms of difference-making within and across contemporary postsocialist contexts. Economic globalization and the integration of eastern Europe into the European Union have provided the context for postsocialist transformation.  Yet, such projects of integration have encouraged new articulations of difference and reframed old ones: Minorities, diasporas, east-west relations, techno-environmental differences and border-disputes. Neo-nationalist groups rail against in-migrants and minorities at the same time as nation-branding projects posit national distinctiveness as a lure for foreign investment and tourism.  Narratives of “culture wars” vilifying differences of sexual orientation and life-style have erupted, opposing conservative religious and political groups to the purportedly cosmopolitan values of “the West.”  New xenophobias and homophobias compete with discourses of tolerance, each staking claims to what constitutes belonging and civilization.  Deep discontent over waves of neoliberalization, austerity, corruption and kleptocracies have reconfigured economic polarization as political difference, with Left and Right both taking on new valences within an increasingly agitated political spectrum.

We therefore invite proposals for research papers that address the politics of difference – broadly understood – in the postsocialist world. How have postsocialist historiesdriven new articulations of difference and to what effect?   How do contemporary politics of postsocialist difference-making resemble, draw on, differ from, or challenge antecedents in the last century?  What new political horizons might contemporary articulations of difference – left and right – suggest?  Finally, how might the critical analysis of global postsocialism inform the scholarly investigation of the politics of difference more broadly?  As always, at SOYUZ, other topics of research on postsocialism that are not directly related to this theme are also welcome.

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Abstracts of up to 250 words should be sent to ceeres@uchicago.edu by December 1, 2015.

Please include your full name, affiliation, and paper title. Write “SOYUZ 2016” in the subject line of your email. Papers will be selected and notifications made by December 20, 2015.

The Soyuz Research Network for Postsocialist Cultural Studies is an interdisciplinary forum for exchanging work based on field research in postsocialist countries, ranging from Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union to Africa, Southeast Asia, and Latin America. Soyuz is an interest group in the American Anthropological Association (AAA) and an official unit of the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES). The Soyuz symposium has met annually since 1991 and offers an opportunity for scholars to interact in a more personal setting.

5th Southeast Asian Studies Symposium 2016

Project Southeast Asia invites proposals for Panels and Papers for the 5th Southeast Asian Studies Symposium 2016. The Symposium is the largest annual Southeast Asian studies conference in the world and will be held at the Mathematical Institute, Oxford. 

The 2016 Symposium will focus on the theme of “Human and Environmental Welfare in Southeast Asia”, but proposals on any topics relating to Southeast Asia are welcome. The deadline for submissions is 1 October 2015.

Please visit http://projectsoutheastasia.com/academic-events/sea-symposium-2016/call-for-panels for more information.