CAALS is pleased to announce CFPs for ALA 2026!May 20-23, 2026, Chicago, IL Model Minorities at the Margins of Asian America The 2024 presidential campaigns of Nikki Haley and Vivek Ramaswamy suggest that South Asian American visibility in the US political right is on the rise. South Asian Americans currently occupy prominent positions in the …
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CAALS CFP for ALA 2025
CAALS is pleased to announce CFPs for ALA 2025!May 21-24, 2025, Boston, MA Panel 1: Asian American Literature after 1965 The historic shift in immigration policies in 1965 radically changed the Asian American demographic and cultural landscape, ending pre-existing quotas from prior immigration policy and shaping new migration patterns from Asia. Focusing on a generation …
CFP for CAALS 2024 Virtual Conference
We invite submissions for two panels at the upcoming CAALS Virtual Conference on June 7-8, 2024. Asian American Mass Culture Today, it feels like Asian America is at a turning point. Asian Americans appear to be represented in an ever-expanding range of U.S. popular culture. No longer confined to niche subcultures or enclaves, they now …
CAALS CFP for ALA 2024
CAALS is pleased to announce CFPs for ALA 2024!May 23-26, 2024, Chicago, IL Panel #1:Asian American Carceral Structures: Dispossession and Relocation We invite papers that consider how Asian American literary texts illuminate, challenge, or reimagine Asian American relationships to carceral structures. We ask, how might a deeper awareness of the Asian American subject’s implication in …
CAALS CFP for AAAS 2024
CAALS is pleased to announce CFPs for AAAS 2024!April 25-27, 2024, Seattle, WA Panel Title & Description Emotional Asians: Theorizing the Affective Landscapes of Asian America After 2020 2020 was an emotional year for diasporic Asians in the U.S. The anti-Asian hate crimes that swept the nation during the COVID-19 pandemic stirred up a mix …
CAALS CFP for ALA 2023
CAALS is pleased to announce CFPs for ALA 2023May 25-28, Boston MA PANEL 1: Oceanic Orientations in Asian/American Literature This panel invites papers that are invested in exploring the new futures that emerge when centering an oceanic reading practice of Asian/American literature. How does a consideration of the ocean ask us to reframe the field’s …
CAALS CFPs for AAAS 2023
CAALS is pleased to announce CFPs for AAAS 2023April 6-9, 2023, Long Beach, CA Panel Title: The Sustaining Power of Asian American LiteratureChair: Aline Lo, Colorado College Literature has always played an integral role in the founding and development of Asian American Studies and the field’s commitment to humanizing change and justice. Claiming space for …