<div dir="ltr">Here is a mailing list submission, a CFP for a graduate student conference at University of Minnesota. Thank you, <div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div>Travis Workman<br></div><div>Professor and Chair<br></div><div>Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies<br>University of Minnesota, Twin Cities<br></div><div>he / him / his<br></div></div></div></div></div></div><br class="gmail-Apple-interchange-newline"><div><br></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:16.866667px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><b><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.4px;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Graduate Student Conference, “Porosity”</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:16.866667px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><b><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.4px;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Oct. 25-26th, 2024</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:16.866667px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><b><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.4px;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies (AMES)</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:16.866667px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><b><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.4px;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">University of Minnesota, Twin Cities</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:16.866667px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.4px;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:16.866667px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><b><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.4px;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Keynote Addresses</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:16.866667px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><b><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.4px;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Dr. Jinying Li</span></b><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.4px;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">, Assistant Professor of Modern Culture and Media at Brown University</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:16.866667px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><b><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.4px;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Dr. Reginald Jackson</span></b><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.4px;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">, Associate Professor of Premodern Japanese Literature and Performance at the University of Michigan</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:16.866667px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.4px;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:16.866667px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><b><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.4px;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Call for Papers:<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span><i>Porosity</i></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:16.866667px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.4px;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">In today’s globalized world, new questions arise concerning area studies, as borders blur and regions overlap. Caught between questions of the geo-political and epistemological totalities of global capitalism and neoliberal colonialism on the one hand, and burgeoning right-wing politics and an increase in nationalist rhetoric on the other, the notion of the “area”–whether defined in geographic, cultural, social, or political terms–ceases to hold as a structural marker of the field. Meanwhile, Asian and Middle Eastern humanities have delineated transient experiences, discursive scaffolds, and affective infrastructures that situate us in an increasingly porous world. Porosity is “a hinge through which we are of and in the world.”<a name="_ftnref1" title="">^{^{<span lang="EN" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.4px">[1]</span>}}</a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:16.866667px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.4px;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:16.866667px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.4px;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Looking at the porosity of matter, media, texts, bodies, borders and time, this conference participates in the ongoing reconceptualization of Asian and Middle Eastern studies as a trans-disciplinary and intra-regional field concerning languages, literature, film and media, history, philosophy, gender and sexuality studies, digital humanities, and environmental humanities. How does porosity help to navigate the conceptual constraints in area studies and redefine our understanding of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies as a field? What social, cultural, political, and ecological formations are set in motion when we think through the paradigm of porous futurities? How do these new formations renegotiate the past and the present?</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:16.866667px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.4px;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:16.866667px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.4px;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Porosity highlights not only the enmeshment of material and theoretical entities and bodies, but also allows for the negotiation of very real boundaries. We invite you to reflect on the viability of<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span><b><i><u>porosity</u></i></b><span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span>to think through and about Asia and the Middle East in tandem with</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:16.866667px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.4px;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0in 0.5in;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black">●<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-feature-settings:normal">     <span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.4px;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black">(im)permeability<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0in 0.5in;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black">●<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-feature-settings:normal">     <span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.4px;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black">(in)affectability<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0in 0.5in;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black">●<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-feature-settings:normal">     <span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.4px;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black">inter- and intra-disciplinarity</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0in 0.5in;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black">●<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-feature-settings:normal">     <span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.4px;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black">inter- and intra-speciety</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0in 0.5in;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black">●<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"T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ence.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:16.866667px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.4px;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:16.866667px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.4px;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"> </span></p><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br clear="all"><hr align="left" size="1" width="33%"><div id="gmail-ftn1"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><a name="_ftn1" title="">^{<span lang="EN">^{<span lang="EN" style="font-size:11pt;line-height:16.866667px">[1]</span>}</span>}</a><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Proxima Nova""><span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span>Nancy Tuana, quoted in Mel Chen,<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span><i>Animacies</i>.</span></p></div></div><div><br></div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><br></div><div><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>