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*CALL FOR ABSTRACTS*

*13th Annual Harvard East Asia Society Graduate Student Conference Facing East: Conversations and Connections*

Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA
February 26 - February 28, 2010

The Harvard East Asia Society (HEAS) Graduate Student Conference invites graduate students from around the world, conducting research in all disciplines, to submit abstracts for our 2010 conference:

*Facing East: Conversation and Connections
* As the first decade of the 21st century draws to a close, East Asia is exerting an unprecedented impact on global society. Now more than ever, we should explore every facet of East Asia, past and present, and engage in cooperative conversation.

An interdisciplinary workshop on the political economy of architecture and urbanism in contemporary China

November 20-21, 2009

Dear Students,

In summer 2010 the Department of Anthropology, in collaboration with Geography & the Program in Planning, and the Asian Institute, will be offering a field course and research opportunity in Indonesia. Financial support will be available for a limited number of participating students. Please see the attached documents for more information. If you wish to attend an information session about the course, please contact Josie Alaimo (josie.alaimo@utoronto.ca) and she will put you on the field course mailing list.

Best wishes,

Joshua Barker

City & Society in Indonesia
Summer 2010 Field Course (ANT490Y)
Join an interdisciplinary group of students
for a one-month course in the vibrant and
diverse city of Bandung.

May 3 – June 4, 2010.

By Ken C. Kawashima

Published by Duke University Press
March 2009

From the publisher:

Koreans constituted the largest colonial labor force in imperial Japan during the 1920s and 1930s. Caught between the Scylla of agricultural destitution in Korea and the Charybdis of industrial depression in Japan, migrant Korean peasants arrived on Japanese soil amid extreme instability in the labor and housing markets. In The Proletarian Gamble, Ken C. Kawashima maintains that contingent labor is a defining characteristic of capitalist commodity economies. He scrutinizes how the labor power of Korean workers in Japan was commodified, and how these workers both fought against the racist and contingent conditions of exchange and combated institutionalized racism.

Nov. 5 2009 (Thursday) 2:00-4:00 @ 108N MCIS.

North Korea's national ideology of self-reliance, or Juche, is in its simplest form a rejection of Korea's subservient role in the hierarchical Sino-centric system of international relations that prevailed in East Asia through the late 19th Century. North Korean leader Kim Il Sung first introduced Juche in December 1955, at the height of an internal policy dispute over post-war development strategies that nearly subjugated Pyongyang to the Moscow and Beijing-dominated international communist movement.

CALL FOR PAPERS
How might the understanding of “East Asia” – be it in terms of a geographical, historical, and cultural locus or as a space of fantasy and the imaginary – be illuminated by accounting for the ways in which desires are produced, structured, regulated, and mobilized through various institutions and discursive formations? Whether understood as lack or a productive force or a form of affective labor, desire is a concept that intersects with and imbricates a range of complex issues operating on the level of the libidinal as well as the material economy. Nationalism and imperialism, genders and sexualities, aesthetics and consumer culture, and the politics of alterity are but a few, yet are all significant to the study of East Asia.

We are pleased to announce that the 2009 Dr. David Chu APR Essay Prize has been awarded to Mark McConaghy, for his essay "A Politics of Restitution: Memory, History, and the Pursuit of Wealth in Reform Era China", published in the Autumn 2009 edition of the East Asia Forum.

The Dr. David Chu APR Essay Prize is funded by the Dr. David Chu Program in Asia-Pacific Studies in association with the Asian Institute, and awards the top annual submission to the Asia Pacific Reader, which publishes the East Asia Forum.

For more information, please consult http://www.eaf.asiapacificreader.org/