<div dir="ltr"><span id="gmail-docs-internal-guid-8d82b711-7fff-159d-e8f2-6870a4be8228"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Dear colleagues, </span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">We are co-organizing a panel to participate in 2026 AAS (Association for Asian Studies), which will take place in Vancouver, Canada, from March 12-15, 2026.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Please find below our CFP that invites papers on rifts and disjunctures in the more-than-human world in the context of Asia.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">If you are interested, please send your abstract (250 words) to Susie Wu (</span><a href="mailto:yue_wu@ucsb.edu" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline">yue_wu@ucsb.edu</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">) and Yeon-ju Bae (</span><a href="mailto:yjubae@gmail.com" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline">yjubae@gmail.com</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">) by </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">July 23, 2025</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Best wishes,</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Susie &amp; Yeon-ju</span></p><br><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Multispecies Ruptures in Asia: Aesthetics, Ethics, Scales</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">This panel explores how multispecies entanglements not only create connections but also produce ruptures that unsettle dominant human-centered frameworks. Rather than imagining clear pathways for remediation, we propose the notion of \u201cmultispecies ruptures\u201d to foreground the</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"> </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">complex politics of interspecies relations (Chao 2021) that can give rise to rifts at different scales (Carr &amp; Lempert 2016). Drawing upon the theoretical insights of Timothy Clark (2012), Philippe Descola (2013), and John Bellamy Foster (2011), as well as Thom van Dooren et al (2016), Anna Tsing (2015), and Donna Haraway\u2019s (2016) call for respect and attentiveness toward other forms of life, we consider rupture as an important arena where the workings of the more-than-human world defy (easy) resolution. These ruptures often generate epistemological discomfort, ethical conundrums, and resistance to aesthetic representation. What forms of attentiveness emerge when our perceptual and conceptual boundaries are breached through interspecies interaction? What possibilities arise when we take multispecies rupture as a generative space for rethinking life and responsibility? This panel invites critical reflection on the more-than-human politics and disjunctures in an era defined by ecological crisis and multispecies co-becoming.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Particularly, we propose to think about multispecies ruptures in the context of Asia, the region that is vastly heterogenous yet shares lived experiences of cultural, social, and political ruptures throughout contemporary history. The historical contingencies include, but are not limited to, de/colonization (Duara 2003), Cold War (Kwon 2010), authoritarian state violence (Ganesan &amp; Kim 2013), urbanization (Jones 2004), modernization (Davidann 2018), migration (Chu 2010), neoliberal capitalism (Song 2010), and so forth. In what ways have the diverse forms of ruptures across society and nature affected one another? What kinds of new perspectives can we present by attending to ruptures in more-than-human Asia(s)? Rather than treating rifts in nature as collateral incidents, we posit multispecies ruptures as the focal point of discussion to reflect on struggles and potentialities of other forms of life (Fedman, Kim &amp; Park 2023) in the context of unsettling landscapes at various scales.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:12pt"><br><span id="gmail-docs-internal-guid-3baab6fc-7fff-2261-dc5c-4f89e1d25de7"></span></p></span><div><div dir="ltr"><font size="2" color="#999999"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif">--</font></font></div><div dir="ltr"><font size="2" color="#999999"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif">Yeon-ju Bae [</font><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">j\u0259n-d\u0292u b\u0325\u025b</font><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">]</span></font></div><div dir="ltr"><div><font face="tahoma, sans-serif" color="#999999" size="2">(she/her/hers)</font></div><div><font face="tahoma, sans-serif" color="#999999" size="2">PhD in Anthropology</font></div><div><br></div><div><font color="#999999" face="tahoma, sans-serif">Instructor, Ferris State University</font></div></div></div><div><br></div></div>