CAALS is pleased to announce CFPs for AAAS 2023
April 6-9, 2023, Long Beach, CA
Panel Title: The Sustaining Power of Asian American Literature
Chair: 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 textual self-representations and its study often occurs alongside making demands for social and political visibility. As the field grows and changes, we welcome proposals that address or take up the question of how literary studies still works and pushes for social justice and public engagement. Potential submissions might take on such questions as:
- How is the teaching of Asian American Literature aligned with anti-racist movements?
- Are reading lists helpful in changing the discourse around anti-Asian hate?
- What texts have been (un)helpful in driving collective engagement?
- What kinds of conversations are driven by Asian American literature and literary studies?
- What is the relationship between social justice and publishing “trends?”
- How do Asian American texts subvert or challenge literary “standards?”
Please submit an abstract (max. 250 words max) and a brief CV (max. 500 words) to Aline Lo lo.aline.lo@gmail.com by September 29, 2022.
This panel is being organized by the Circle for Asian American Literary Studies. CAALS is the only national and international scholarly society for the study of Asian American literature, culture, and arts. Learn more at our website: caals.org.
Panel Title: Consuming Asian America
Chair: Timothy K. August, Stony Brook University
This panel will consider what consuming Asian America means in the present moment. Taking the increasing visibility of Asian American cultural products during the 21st century as an underlying premise, this panel will explore how this new attention sparks Asian American authors and creators to reconsider the topic of cultural consumption and/or the body of ideas that form Asian America itself. Potential submissions could include:
- The staging of consumption within particular Asian American literary works
- The integration of recent popular culture forms or attitudes in Asian American literary prose
- The new forms of exoticization and Orientalizing systems that have emerged with this increased attention, and how Asian American artists engage and/or disrupt these systems
- The themes of ingestion, taste, disgust, and pleasure in Asian American literature
- How Asian American literary works are edited, published, and consumed
Please submit an abstract (max. 250 words max) and a brief CV (max. 500 words) to Timothy K. August timothy.august@stonybrook.edu by September 29, 2022.
This panel is being organized by the Circle for Asian American Literary Studies. CAALS is the only national and international scholarly society for the study of Asian American literature, culture, and arts. Learn more at our website: caals.org.