Call for Papers: Fourth Annual Critical Asian Humanities Workshop (deadline, November 20, 2017)
Duke University, April 6-7, 2018
Duke University will host a select graduate student conference in conjunction with its fourth annual Critical Asian Humanities workshop, which will be held on April 6-7, 2018. Integrating approaches and methodologies from cultural studies, critical theory, and area studies, we identify Critical Asian Humanities as an interdisciplinary field that emphasizes humanistic inquiry while critically interrogating many of the assumptions on which the humanities have traditionally relied.
The 2018 Workshop’s keynote speakers will be:
Thomas Lamarre (McGill)
Tina Lu (Yale)
Jennifer Ho (UNC)
The graduate student conference component of the workshop will feature papers by 6 graduate students, selected by a panel of Duke faculty and graduate students. Duke will cover the domestic travel and 3 days of room/board for the graduate students who are invited to speak.
Although the workshop does not have a formal theme, preference will be given to graduate student papers that complement the keynote speakers’ focus on work that foregrounds methodological considerations. Students working on Asia (including global Asia) in any discipline in the humanities or interpretive social sciences are welcome to apply.
Please send a 500-word abstract and brief biographical blurb to CAH-AMES@duke.edu by November 20, 2017. Queries may be addressed to Carlos Rojas (c.rojas@duke.edu).