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CAALS-sponsored panels at AAAS 2024

AAAS 2024April 25-27, 2024 in Seattle, WA Please support these exciting CAALS sponsored panels at AAAS this year. Thursday, April 25 at 2:45pm – 4:15pmT74. Re-Thinking Asian American Literary Criticism in the 2020sVENUE: Kirkland Participants: Aline Lo, Colorado College Binod Paudyal, University of Maryland Cherise Fung, University of Wisconsin Nabiha Mansoor, University of Wisconsin Anthony …

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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2022 CAALS Essay Prize Announcement

Please join us in congratulating this year’s CAALS Essay Prize winner Nancy Carranza for her piece, “The Violent Inheritance of Empire: Narrating and Navigating Contested Psychic and Physical Spaces in Peter Bacho’s Entrys“!  The award committee, which is made up of CAALS board members, sent us the message below: The committee felt that this is a sharp paper with solid argumentation and …

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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 …

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CAALS Virtual Conference 2022

Welcome to the CAALS 2022 Virtual ConferenceFriday, June 10 – Saturday, June 11(All Times EST)Hosted by University of California, Santa Barbara  Welcome Message By Conference Co-Chairs Thank you for joining the Circle for Asian American Literary Studies (CAALS) for our second Virtual Conference, June 10-11, 2022! We welcome one and all to this now not-so-new …

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