CSEAS: Weekly Annoucement

Call for Papers

Graduate Student Conference on Southeast Asia
March 12 - 14, 2008 - Cornell University

website | email | Deadline: January 31, 2008

Beyond Dichotomies: Alternative Voices and Histories in Post-Colonial Viet Nam
May 15 - 18, 2008 - University of Washington, Seattle

website | email | Deadline: January 8, 2008

Islam and Popular Culture in the Malay World
October 2008 - University of Pittsburgh

This interdisciplinary conference addresses the following questions: Under what historical and social conditions have popular culture and Islam become mutually constitutive as sites for defining Islam in the Malay world? What forms does Islam take in popular culture? What meanings about Islam do audiences derive from popular culture?

Central to these questions are the role of mass media in (1) constituting Muslim identities, especially among youth; (2) defining audiences according to gender and class; (3) promoting certain kinds of Islamic practices and values while submerging others; (4) creating alternative media spaces; (5) shaping perceptions of Islam, both within and outside the Malay world, among non-Muslims.

The conference particularly welcomes presentations on the role of popular culture for examining the relationship between Islam and Malay identity, viz a viz long-standing debates about language, culture, race, and ethnicity in the Malay world.

Co-conveners: Andrew Weintraub (University of Pittsburgh), Drew McDaniel (Ohio University), and Gene Ammarell (Ohio University).

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Student Conference on Southeast Asian Studies
February 23, 2008 - Northern Illinois University

The conference will consider papers (undergraduate and graduate) on any topic related to Southeast Asia.  A panel of judges will evaluate accepted papers and award prizes for best undergraduate paper ($150) and graduate paper ($250).

One-page abstracts are due by December 14, 2007.
Final drafts are due by February 1, 2008.

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