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Global and Local Dimensions of Asian America:
An International Conference on Asian Diasporas
Radisson Miyako Hotel
San Francisco, California May 10-12, 2002
Call for Papers
Asian American Studies at the University of California, Berkeley will
host an international conference on the Asian American communities and
the Asian diasporas from May 10-12, 2002 iin San Francisco, California.
When Asian American studies was founded 32 years ago, its intellectual
focus was primarily personal, political, and national and the students
and faculty involved in the formation of the new academic enterprise in
1969 were mostly Americans of Chinese, Filipino, Japanese, and Korean
descent. Over the past 32 years, the same communities grew sharply and
new ones emerged in the U.S. and throughout the world , including many
originated from S. and S.E. Asian countries, contributing to a kind of
cultural, linguistic, political, and economic diversity never before
experienced by Asian Americans and by many countries throughout the
world. This has resulted in an unprecedented demographic transformation
and fragmentation among the Asian communities along race, class,
language, national origin, and gender lines in the U.S. and various
countries. The accelerated process of globalization, fueled in no small
measure by rapid advances in telecommunication, transportation, and
internet technology and by the growing transnational financial,
commercial, and cultural ties, has helped cement ties among and
transform the Asian communities across national boundaries in ways
previously not imagined. These trends have made it necessary for Asian
American studies and related disciplines to reassess its essentially
identity-based paradigm and political agenda of late 1960s and to look
for new or additional paradigms for understanding the intersection of
local, national and transnational links within the Asian communities in
the U.S. and worldwide and for formulating strategies in addressing
issues of racial inequality and economic justice in the U.S. and among
the Asian diasporas.
The primary objectives of the international conference are to reexamine
the global and local dimensions of the changing Asian communities in the
U.S. and throughout the world and to understand the multiple connections
and dynamic interactions among the Asian diasporic communities and their
homelands. Toward this end, the conference will be open to both scholars
and community leaders interested in the objectives of the conference. It
also welcomes writers, artists, film-makers, and community activists to
present their original works on issues related to the themes of the
conference.
Please submit abstracts or proposals, no more than two pages, to the
conference committee with contact addresses, telephone and fax numbers,
and
e-mail addresses, by April 1, 2002:
Prof. L. Ling-chi Wang Tel. 510-642-7439
Asian American Studies Fax 510-642-6456
506 Barrows Hall
University of California, Berkeley 94720-2570, U.S.A.
Proposals may be sent by e-mail to: LCWang@uclink.berkeley.edu
http://socrates.berkeley.edu/~ethnicst/diasporas/main.html
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L. Ling-chi Wang, Director Tel. 510-642-7439 (Direct)
Asian American Studies Program 510-643-0796 (Message)
Department of Ethnic Studies Fax: 510-642-6456
506 Barrows Hall
University of California E-mail: lcwang@uclink.berkeley.edu
Berkeley, CA 94720-2570 U.S.A.
Asian Pacific Americans in Higher Education Conference:
http://socrates.berkeley.edu/~ethnicst/apahe/main.html
50 Years of Denial: Japan and Its Wartime Responsibilies:
http://socrates.berkeley.edu/~ethnicst/japandenial/main.html
Asian America & the Asian Diaspora: An International Conference:
http://socrates.berkeley.edu/~ethnicst/diasporas/main.html
International Conference on the Literatures of the Chinese Diaspora:
http://socrates.berkeley.edu/~ethnicst/literatures/main.html
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