Western Conference of the Association for Asian Studies
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- Western Conference of the Association for Asian Studies
-- Location: University of Colorado, Boulder
-- Date: September 12-14, 2008
-- Web announcement: http://www.colorado.edu/cas/wcaas.html
-- Papers for the WCAAS are currently being accepted. Send panel or individual paper proposals to: Program Committee, Center for Asian Studies, Campus Box 279, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309-0279
-- Proposals may be submitted electronically in PDF file format to cas@colorado.edu. Proposals should have been received by May 1, 2008, but are still being accepted.
-- Submission Guidelines:
ROUNDTABLE/OPEN FORUM: We encourage proposals for roundtable discussions devoted to research or pedagogical themes of interest to broad spectra of the AAS membership. Such proposals could feature more speakers (up to six) than a typical panel with the aim of encouraging dialogue between panelists and the audience. Themes might fall under several categories: conducting research in Asian archives; conducting research on comparative projects; "Intro to Asian Civ."; getting published; undergraduate research in the humanities; returning from language study programs abroad; etc. All roundtable proposals should include: full title of roundtable discussion topic, a brief abstract (fewer than 250 words) explaining its purpose, its issue(s)/theme(s), and scope, and each participant�s complete name, institutional affiliation, position, mailing address, phone number, and e-mail address.
A COMPLETE PANEL consists of 3 or 4 paper presenters, plus a chair. (A panelist may also serve as the chair.) All panel proposals should include: full title of panel; brief abstract of panel (fewer than 250 words); each panelist's (and chair's, if applicable) complete name, institutional affiliation, position, mailing address, phone number, and e-mail address; and brief abstract of each paper (fewer than 250 words).
INDIVIDUAL PAPER proposals should include the full title and a brief abstract of the paper (fewer than 250 words) and the participant's complete name, institutional affiliation, position, mailing address, phone number, and e-mail address.