CFP: "LIVES ACROSS BORDERS" 6TH ANNUAL ILLINOIS GRADUATE SYMPOSIUM ON EAST ASIA

"Lives Across Borders"

6th Annual Illinois Graduate Symposium on East Asia

The Society of East Asian Studies (SEAS) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign invites paper and panel proposals for its 6th annual Graduate Student Symposium on East Asia on April 13, 2019, which will be held on campus at the University of Illinois. The theme for this year is “Lives Across Borders”. We are pleased to announce that our keynote speaker this year will be Dr. Sara Friedman, professor of Anthropology at Indiana University.

With the theme “Lives Across Borders”, this conference aspires to nurture interdisciplinary discussions about the past and present of East Asia, including Greater China, Japan, and Korea, as well as their diasporic communities outside of East Asia. 

Papers can approach the theme in diverse ways. For example:

• Families and intimacy: How do relationships work across borders, such as those between North and South Korea or mainland China and Taiwan? 
• Technologies of the state: How does the state enforce literal and metaphorical borders? What are the roles of surveillance, engineering, and violence in perpetuating these borders? 
• Identity:  How does society set the borders between ethnicities, genders, nationalities, and other forms of identity? When and why do individuals defy these borders?

Papers need not adhere to the above sub-themes. We encourage submissions from diverse fields, including, but not limited to, anthropology, sociology, history, literature, film/media studies, gender studies, political science, and religious studies.

Submission Information:

Applicants must be currently enrolled in a program of graduate study. Abstracts for individual papers (20 minutes maximum) should be no more than 300 words in length and may be submitted at https://goo.gl/K43qqZ. We also welcome proposals for integrated panels. Those wishing to propose a panel are invited to email Patrick Du at seas.uiuc@gmail.com. A panel should consist of no more than three papers, twenty minutes per speaker in length.

Questions about the symposium may be directed to Mark Frank at mefrank2@illinois.edu. This event is sponsored by the Center for East Asian and Pacific Studies at the University of Illinois. A full list of sponsors will appear in later announcements.

Keynote Speaker: Sara Friedman, Professor of Anthropology and Gender Studies, IndianaUniversity Bloomington.

Application: https://goo.gl/K43qqZ

The deadline for submissions is Friday, Feb 8, 2019.