<div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><span style="color:black;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-size:11pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:0.1pt">Aloha! </span><br></div></div></div><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div><span style="font-size:11pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:0.1pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:11pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:0.1pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">The School of Pacific and Asian Studies (SPAS) and the Department of Asian Studies at the <b>University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa (UHM) </b>are excited to announce our call for papers</span><span style="font-size:11pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:0.1pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> <span style="color:black">for our </span>35th<span style="color:black"> annual <b>Asian Studies Graduate Student Conference.</b> The conference will be held on </span><b>April 4-5th, 2024</b>, at the Campus Center of the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa.</span><br></div><div><span style="font-size:11pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:0.1pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:11pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:0.1pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">We invite you to forward this notification widely throughout your networks, so that any interested graduate students may apply. Abstracts are due on <b>January 15th</b>, and can be submitted to the following link: </span><a href="https://forms.gle/9KJzyE6g8vora5cJ9" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:11pt" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><b>https://forms.gle/9KJzyE6g8vora5cJ9</b></span></a></div><div><span style="font-size:11pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:0.05pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:11pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:0.05pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">For the 2024 conference, we are proud to present the theme </span><i style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:0.05pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><b>Living “Asia.”</b> </span></i><span style="font-size:11pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:0.05pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">The theme seeks to question how what we call “Asia” is seen, heard, or experienced. A diverse range of interactions and sensorial realities shape the lived experiences of people across the region. How do day-to-day encounters within Asia contribute to complex and overlapping notions of identity, community, or visions for the future? On the other side of the coin, how do we experience Asia as researchers? What individual affective reactions, including responses to art, spaces, storytelling, current events, or climate challenges, produce our ideas about Asia and the countries and cultures that comprise it? Every scholarly idea begins with personal experiences – our own, other peoples’, or both. This conference seeks to ground its discussion of Asia in the lived, human experiences that give rise to the ideas we share. We welcome submissions from any disciplinary or interdisciplinary background, and look forward to hearing more about your research.</span></div><div><span style="font-size:11pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:0.1pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:11pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:0.1pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">The 202</span><span style="font-size:11pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:0.1pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">4<span style="color:black"> </span>SPAS<span style="color:black"> Graduate Student Conference will feature Dr. </span>Arfa Sayeda Zehra as the<span style="color:black"> keynote speaker</span>. Dr. Zehra is a Pakistani educationist and Urdu language expert, and is currently a Professor Emeritus of History at Forman Christian College in Lahore, Pakistan. She was formerly the Principle of Lahore College for Women University, and was a chairperson on the Pakistani National Commission on the Status of Women. Dr. Zehra currently serves as a Special Advisor to the Prime Minister for Education and National Harmony Affairs in Pakistan. She is recognized for her knowledge on Urdu language and literature, the intellectual history of South Asia, and South Asian social issues and human rights.</span></div><div><u style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:0.1pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"><br></span></u></div><div><u style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:0.1pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Why Apply?</span></u><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 20.95pt 0.0001pt 16.55pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:0.2pt;lin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 Can Apply?</span></u><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0in 16.85pt;line-height:normal;border:none;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Graduate students in any academic discipline</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">, from any academic institution, <span style="color:black">with a focus on Asia.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0in 16.85pt;line-height:normal;border:none;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><u style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"><br></span></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0in 16.85pt;line-height:normal;border:none;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><u style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">How to Apply?</span></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0in 16.85pt;line-height:normal;border:none;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Applicants should submit a <b>250-300 word abstract</b> </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">through the following online form: </span><a href="https://forms.gle/9KJzyE6g8vora5cJ9" style="font-size:11pt" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><b>https://forms.gle/9KJzyE6g8vora5cJ9</b></span></a><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">. The deadline to submit abstracts is <b>January 15th</b>, and applicants should expect to hear back with regards to their acceptance to the conference in mid-February, 2024.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0in 16.85pt;line-height:normal;border:none;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0in 16.85pt;line-height:normal;border:none;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"> Please direct any questions to conference organizers </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Lucie Crowley Duffy and Celia Langford <span style="color:black">at </span><u><span style="color:rgb(17,85,204)"><a href="mailto:gradconf@hawaii.edu" target="_blank">gradconf@hawaii.edu</a></span></u><span style="color:black">. You can also follow the department’s social media accounts for updates, or<span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"> </span></span></span><a href="https://spasgraduateconference.wordpress.com/" style="font-size:11pt" target="_blank"><b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">visit our website.</span></b></a></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:11.6pt 36.55pt 10pt 0.25in;line-height:normal;border:none;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"></span></p><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-size:14.6667px">Mahalo, and we hope to see many of your students at the conference!</span></div></div></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-size:14.6667px"><br></span></div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000">Lucie Crowley Duffy (</font><font color="#000000"><a href="mailto:lrcduffy@hawaii.edu" target="_blank">lrcduffy@hawaii.edu</a><font face="arial, sans-serif">) & Celia Langford (<a href="http://goog_1709173206" target="_blank">c</a></font><a href="mailto:elialan@hawaii.edu" target="_blank">elialan@hawaii.edu</a><font face="arial, sans-serif">)</font><br></font><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000">SPAS Graduate Student Conference 2024 Co-organizers</font></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><font face="arial, sans-serif">College of Arts, Languages, and Letters (CALL)</font></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">University of Hawai'i at Mānoa</span></font></div></div></div></div></div>
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