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SEAA-SNU Anthropology 2025 Conference

October 4, 2024 by Guven Witteveen

night landscape of central Seoul around Mt. Nam-san lit by artificial lights [credit: FREEPIK]
Central Seoul nightview – image credit Freepik

About the SEAA-in-Asia regional conference: details and Call-for-Panels [current October 4, 2024].

Dedicated website for conference, http://seaasnu2025.com/

SHAPING FUTURES: EAST ASIA AS PRACTICE, July 2025 Conference in Seoul, South Korea
Organizers: Society for East Asian Anthropology (American Anthropological Association) and
Seoul National University Department of Anthropology
Timing and venue: July 14–16, 2025 at Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea
Submission deadline for proposals: January 15, 2025 with decisions by March 1, 2025
All sessions will take place in person
Registration fee: USD $100 regular and reduced student rate USD $25
Contact us at: snuseaa2025@ g mail dotcom

The Society for East Asian Anthropology (American Anthropological Association) and Seoul National University Department of Anthropology are pleased to announce a joint conference, “Shaping Futures: East Asia as Practice,” to be held in-person at Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea, on July 14-16, 2025.

This inter-regional collaboration takes the task of shaping futures as a crucial responsibility for anthropologists. In placing that responsibility under the rubric of “East Asia as Practice,” we assume the ongoing intergenerational dynamism that actively creates futures. We place mentoring–both vertical and lateral–as central to the processes and structure of this future-focused conference. We not only have a pre-conference specifically designed by and for graduate students, but also structure the whole conference in a way that encourages intergenerational, interregional conversations. In short, we take “shaping futures” as an assertion, a responsibility, a platform for community, and a call to action. Those futures include overlapping issues of:

● Mentoring relationships
● Transnational ties that bind
● Diasporas and their possibilities
● Interlingual responsibilities
● Political activism and scholarship
● Raceandracism in 21st century East Asian lives
● EastAsian colonialisms, Indigeneities, and (co)ethnic politics
● Migration and the geopolitical dynamics of border-crossing
● Culinary futures: localism, regionalism, globalism
● Pasts and their consumption: cultural heritage, urban renewal, tourism
● Religious transformations and spiritual practices
● Affects, trauma, and healing
● Sexualities, violence, interventions
● Queerfutures
● Declining birth rates, societal aging, and shifting care regimes
● Digital worlds (social media, virtual reality, metaverses, etc.)
● Automation, robots, and AI
● Inter-species futures, human-animal relations, and their ethics
● Environmental sustainability and climate action
● Well-being amidst an era of anxieties

Our list is long as we commit to creating interactive, dialogic spaces of inclusion and collaboration that not only reflect upon scholarship, but place it within critical modes of engagement. Please join us in conversation and community that together constitute “Shaping Futures.”

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SEAA *final* program, August conference, Tokyo

July 27, 2019 by Guven Witteveen

screenshot from 2019 conference program
see the conference schedule here

The regional conference hosted at Waseda University in a few days is quickly approaching. The organizers have released the final PDF program to browse, download, or printout. Conference overview is at https://seaa.americananthro.org/2018/11/seaa-regional-conference-august-2019-tokyo/ and the PDF program is here.

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SEAA *draft* program, Regional Conference, August

June 22, 2019 by Guven Witteveen

See the PDF draft edition for Day-1 and Day-2 of the upcoming conference in Tokyo. The final printed edition will be distributed on-site, pending travel arrangements of some presenters.

SEAA Tokyo Conference Program_Draft21june2019Download
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Upcoming S.E.A.A. conference, June 19-22

May 28, 2016 by Guven Witteveen

conference announcement

conference announcement

Tell your colleagues & students about our regional conference this June.

This year’s regional conference of the Society for East Asia Anthropology is hosted in Hong Kong. Join the conversation about “East Asia and Tomorrow’s Anthropology.” See conference details and refer colleagues and students to http://arts.cuhk.edu.hk/~ant/SEAAconf/

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Call for Papers – Asian Studies Conference Japan (ASCJ) 2016

September 14, 2015 by Heidi K. Lam

Call for Papers: ASCJ 2016

The Executive Committee of the Asian Studies Conference Japan (ASCJ) invites proposals for panels, roundtables, and individual papers to be presented at the Twentieth Asian Studies Conference Japan. The conference will be held at the International Christian University (ICU) in Tokyo on Saturday and Sunday, July 2-3, 2016. All presentations are to be delivered in English.

Please visit the ASCJ website for details:
http://www.meijigakuin.ac.jp/~ascj/

Proposals may be submitted online beginning on September 1, 2015. The online application forms are available on the ASCJ website:
http://www.meijigakuin.ac.jp/%7Eascj/forms/index.html

The deadline for proposals is October 15. Results will be announced by late December.

Panels are proposed by a group of scholars around a common subject. A complete panel includes up to five participants, three or four paper presenters and one or more discussants. Panel proposals should include a 250-word (maximum) abstract from each participant as well as a 250- word (maximum) statement that explains the session as a whole. Only complete panels will be considered for acceptance.

Roundtables offer an opportunity for participants to discuss a specific theme, issue or significant recent publication. A maximum of six active participants is recommended. While a roundtable proposal will not be as detailed as a panel proposal, it should explain fully the purpose, themes or issues, and scope of the session.

Individual papers give scholars an opportunity to participate in the conference even if they are not able to put together a complete panel. Since only a limited number of individual papers can be accommodated, preference will be given to junior scholars. Applicants have a better chance of acceptance as part of a panel.

The Executive Committee encourages members to submit proposals that, by focusing on more than one region or by drawing on more than one discipline, will attract a broad range of scholarly interest. Suggestions for innovative alternatives to the panels, individual papers and roundtables described above are also encouraged.

The Executive Committee also strongly encourages graduate student participation, and will give favorable consideration to panels that include junior as well as senior scholars.

From 2014 the ASCJ initiated a Graduate Student Paper Prize. For details on this competition please see the ASCJ webpage. To be considered for this prize the student must be enrolled in a degree program at a Japanese university and present the paper at ASCJ 2016. The deadline for submission of the completed paper is June 14, 2016. The winner will be announced at the time of the keynote lecture.

The programs and abstracts of past ASCJ conferences can be found on the ASCJ webpage: http://www.meijigakuin.ac.jp/~ascj/

Everyone worldwide interested in Asian Studies is invited to participate. Unfortunately we cannot provide visa support, and can only draft letters of invitation for participants scheduled to present papers at the ASCJ.

Mark E. Caprio
ASCJ President
ascj20xx@gmail.com

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SEAA Conference – Hong Kong, June 2016

September 1, 2015 by Guven Witteveen

preparing for June 2016 conference

preparing for June 2016 conference

SEAA has had great success in hosting meetings independent of AAA sessions at the Annual Meeting.
Come to Hong Kong to engage with colleagues from 19 to 22 June 2016, where the conference theme is “East Asia and Tomorrow’s Anthropology.”

Download proposal forms for paper or panel at the “Call for Papers” tab, http://arts.cuhk.edu.hk/~ant/SEAAconf/
Deadline for registration is Dec. 1. After the program is announced in January, the conference registration will begin and accommodations will be arranged.
Consider presentations you can make or panels to join in. Please, also invite colleagues near and far to participate.

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SEAA is committed to developing international channels of communication among anthropologists throughout the world. We hope to promote discussion and share information on diverse topics related to the anthropology of Taiwan, PRC, Hong Kong, Japan, Korea; other societies/cultures of Asia and the Pacific Basin with historical or contemporary ties to East Asia; and diasporic societies/cultures identified with East Asia.

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