Graduate Student Conference - Cornell University Southeast Asia Program: March 16-18, 2007
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- Graduate Student Conference, Cornell University Southeast Asia Program
-- Deadline to submit abstracts: 1/31/2008
-- Description: The Cornell Southeast Asia Program would like to announce its 10th annual Southeast Asian Studies Graduate Conference. This year the event will be held at the Kahin Center for Advanced Research on Southeast Asia on March 14-16, 2008. The Annual Southeast Asian Studies Graduate Conference is a symposium organized annually by the SEAP Student Committee. It serves as a forum for students around the U.S. and abroad who are working in any discipline related to Southeast Asia to be actively involved in intellectual exchanges with their fellows in the community of Southeast Asian Studies.
-- We welcome submissions from graduate students at any stage engaged in original research related to Southeast Asia. Graduate students working in the following disciplines as well as other related fields that contribute to the understanding of Southeast Asia are encouraged to apply: history, literature, art history, sociology, musicology, religion, anthropology, archeology, architectural history, gender studies, political science, economics, linguistics and literature.
-- This year we are honored to announce that our keynote speaker will be Professor Thongchai Winichakul, the author of Siam Mapped: A History of the Geo-body of a Nation (1994), and "Remembering/Silencing the Traumatic Past: the Ambivalent Memories of the October 1976 Massacre in Bangkok" in Cultural Crisis and Social Memory: Modernity and Identity in Thailand and Laos (2002), edited by Charles F Keyes and Shigeharu Tanabe. Papers related to Professor Winichakul's interests are strongly encouraged.
-- Please submit a one-page abstract and curriculum vitae to the following email address: <seapgradconference@gmail.com>. All abstracts should be limited to one page (using 1" margins on all sides, Times New Roman, and 12pt font size), including examples and references, and submitted as attachments, in Word format only. The filename should be unique. You should use your first name's initial and your last name to name your abstract. For example: John Smith's abstract would be named jsmith.doc. The subject of the message should specify "Abstract", and the body should include the following information: author's name(s), affiliation and e-mail address, title of abstract and discipline(s)
-- NOTIFICATION OF ACCEPTANCE: Early February, 2008 Final papers will be due by February 29, 2008. Papers should be in English. Presentations should be no more than 20 minutes and will be followed by 10 minutes of discussion. Please see Cornell University Southeast Asia Program Graduate Student Symposium 2008 for further information and future updates. A limited number of modest travel grants are available. Please indicate in your email when you submit the abstract if you would like to apply for a travel grant.
-- Event Website: http://www.einaudi.cornell.edu/southeastasia/symposium/2008.asp
