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H-ASIA November 8, 2005 Call for papers: Asian Migrations Conference at Binghamton University, March 24-25, 2006 ***************************************************************** From: Ravi Arvind Palat <palat@binghamton.edu> ASIAN MIGRATIONS Binghamton University March 24-25, 2006 Paper submissions are invited for a conference on Asian Migrations to be held at Binghamton University, Binghamton, NY on Friday March 24 and Saturday March 25, 2006. Plenary Speakers Anand Yang, Director, Jackson School of International Relations and Professor of History, University of Washington: "Nineteenth-Century Chinese and Indian Migrations in Comparative and Global Perspective." Lisa Lowe, Professor of Comparative Literature, University of California, San Diego: "Coolie, Middleman, Semiperiphery: Reading Discourses of Asian Labor." Wang Gungwu, Wang Gungwu is the Director of the East Asian Institute at the National University of Singapore and Faculty Professor, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, National University of Singapore (NUS): "Coming and Going: Issues in Chinese Migration Studies." In addition a plenary panel on migration andpolitical activism in New York will feature Professor Peter Kwong, CityUniversity of New York, and Professor Biju Mathew, New York TaxiAlliance The aim of the conference is promote conversations across a wide range of issues that transcend disciplinary boundaries and help bridge the divide between Asianists and Asian Americanists. Our thematic focus on the reconfiguring of Asian "cultures," identities, and communities through their migrations seeks to bring together scholars who investigate both intra-Asian migrations and Asian migrations outside of Asia, especially to the United States, and will include discussion of the issues facing New York’s Asian migrant communities. Potential topics could include the temporary transnational movements and permanent migration; the roles of state in facilitating and restricting migration; ability of specific markets (e.g., for doctors, coolies, or sex workers) to create migrations; and the role of migration in the transnational flows of religion and popular culture. Paper and panel proposals should be sent to Professor John Chaffee, at migrate@binghamton.edu no later than December 1, 2005. Sponsored by: Asian and Asian American Studies Program, SUNY Conversations in the Disciplines Program, Harpur College Dean’s Office, Binghamton Foundation Eckler Funds, Sociology Department and History Department. See our website at: http://ceo.binghamton.edu/aaasp/ for further information and registration particulars. ****************************************************************** To post to H-ASIA simply send your message to: <H-ASIA@h-net.msu.edu> For holidays or short absences send post to: <listserv@h-net.msu.edu> with message: SET H-ASIA NOMAIL Upon return, send post with message SET H-ASIA MAIL H-ASIA WEB HOMEPAGE URL: http://h-net.msu.edu/~asia/
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