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<p style="box-sizing:border-box;line-height:1.65em;color:rgb(66,66,66);font-family:"Open Sans",Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;background-color:rgb(243,243,243)">Call for Papers</span></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;line-height:1.65em;color:rgb(66,66,66);font-family:"Open Sans",Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;text-align:center"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;background-color:rgb(243,243,243)">Resistance Reimagined</span></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;line-height:1.65em;color:rgb(66,66,66);font-family:"Open Sans",Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;text-align:center"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;background-color:rgb(243,243,243)">East Asian Languages and Cultures Graduate Student Symposium</span></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;line-height:1.65em;color:rgb(66,66,66);font-family:"Open Sans",Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;text-align:center"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;background-color:rgb(243,243,243)">University of Southern California<br style="box-sizing:border-box">September 29, 2018</span></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;line-height:1.65em;color:rgb(66,66,66);font-family:"Open Sans",Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;text-align:center"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;background-color:rgb(243,243,243)">Proposal Submission Deadline: May 1, 2018</span></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;line-height:1.65em;color:rgb(66,66,66);font-family:"Open Sans",Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;background-color:rgb(243,243,243)">The Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures and Graduates Studying East Asia at the University of Southern California invite graduate students conducting research in all disciplines related to East Asia to submit abstracts for our 2018 symposium, “Resistance Reimagined,” to take place September 29, 2018. This conference aims to investigate and formulate new theorizations of resistance as well as rethink how communities and individuals construct narratives to reimagine social and political changes in the context of East Asia. The topic can be interpreted widely in relation to various fields, including but not limited to cinema and media studies, gender studies, history, linguistics, literature, religion, and visual studies. </span></p><div class="gmail-page" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(66,66,66);font-family:"Open Sans",Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><div class="gmail-layoutArea" style="box-sizing:border-box"><div class="gmail-column" style="box-sizing:border-box"><p style="box-sizing:border-box;line-height:1.65em"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;background-color:rgb(243,243,243)"><b><u>Topics can include but are not limited to:</u></b><br style="box-sizing:border-box">Methods and practices that initiate or imagine resistance;</span></p><p style="font-weight:400;box-sizing:border-box;line-height:1.65em"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;background-color:rgb(243,243,243)">Representation of marginal communities or intersectional identities;</span></p><p style="font-weight:400;box-sizing:border-box;line-height:1.65em"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;background-color:rgb(243,243,243)">Strategies or modes of resistance movements and activism efforts;</span></p><p style="font-weight:400;box-sizing:border-box;line-height:1.65em"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;background-color:rgb(243,243,243)">Pedagogies of resistance in East Asian studies.</span></p><p style="font-weight:400;box-sizing:border-box;line-height:1.65em"><span style="background-color:rgb(243,243,243)"> </span></p><p style="font-weight:400;box-sizing:border-box;line-height:1.65em"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;background-color:rgb(243,243,243)">The conference will provide an interdisciplinary forum for graduate students to exchange ideas and discuss current research on East Asia with each other and invited faculty panelists. The conference provides a venue for participants to meet other scholars in their fields conducting similar research and to forge new professional relationships. Submissions are welcome from graduate students in all disciplines. Papers should be related to East Asia, including East Asian interactions with the wider world.</span></p><p style="font-weight:400;box-sizing:border-box;line-height:1.65em"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;background-color:rgb(243,243,243)">Applicants should submit an abstract (max. 250 words) and a short biography (max. 150 words) to<span> </span><a href="mailto:uscgsea@gmail.com" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;color:rgb(50,153,186);text-decoration:underline">uscgsea@gmail.com</a><span> </span>by May 1, 2018 (5:00 p.m. PST). </span></p></div></div></div>

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