CALL FOR PROPOSALS
MCAA Conference
October 19-20, 2018
Metropolitan State University
Metropolitan State University, located near downtown St Paul, MN, is pleased to host the 67th Annual Meeting of the Midwest Conference on Asian Affairs, October 19-20, 2018. The MCAA seeks to promote Asian Studies both at the university and the secondary and primary levels and particularly to encourage scholarly interchange between Asianists in the Midwest as well as with those from other parts of the country and the world. Scholars and students from all regions are invited to participate.
We write to solicit panels, roundtables, and individual papers in all fields dealing with China and Inner Asia, Northeast Asia, South Asia, and Southeast Asia, the Asian Diaspora, and topical and comparative panels. Faculty, graduate, and undergraduate students, as well as independent scholars are encouraged to share their work and attend the conference.
Proposals are due April 16, 2018. The submission portal for proposals is now open and the review of proposals submitted by April 16th will begin soon thereafter in April. Applicants will be contacted with the results by June 29, 2018, if not sooner. Persons presenting papers must be members of MCAA and must pre-register by July 23, 2018 in order to be included in the conference.
MCAA 2018 will feature a special roundtable dedicated to the topic of publishing for graduate students and early career scholars.
Contact Info: Hiromi Mizuno, the program chair and PhD in History, University of Minnesota, mizuno@umn.edu