[KS] mailing list submission, CFP, UMN grad conference

[Travis Workman]

Here is a mailing list submission, a CFP for a graduate student conference
at University of Minnesota. Thank you,
Travis Workman
Professor and Chair
Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies
University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
he / him / his


*Graduate Student Conference, “Porosity”*

*Oct. 25-26th, 2024*

*Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies (AMES)*

*University of Minnesota, Twin Cities*



*Keynote Addresses*

*Dr. Jinying Li*, Assistant Professor of Modern Culture and Media at Brown
University

*Dr. Reginald Jackson*, Associate Professor of Premodern Japanese
Literature and Performance at the University of Michigan



*Call for Papers: Porosity*

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.”[1]



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?



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 *porosity* to
think through and about Asia and the Middle East in tandem with



●      (im)permeability

●      (in)affectability

●      inter- and intra-disciplinarity

●      inter- and intra-speciety

●      intersectionality

●      (im)mobility

●      scale and totality

●      transparency/opacity

●      inter- and intra-nationality

●      inter- and trans-mediality

●      trans-linguality

●      worlding

●      (post-)coloniality

●      ecologies

●      liminality

●      viscosity

●      temporality



We welcome submissions from independent scholars and graduate students
worldwide. Applicants must provide the following information to
porosityumn at gmail.com by June 1, 2024:



●      name & pronouns

●      level of study and name of institution (if applicable)

●      bio

●      title of the paper

●      abstract (300-500 words)

●      3-5 item bibliography



Decisions regarding your submissions will be sent out by July 1, 2024. A
portion of graduate students’ travel and lodging will be covered by the
conference.





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[1] Nancy Tuana, quoted in Mel Chen, *Animacies*.
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