2019 Situations International Conference
Ethnicity, Race and Racism in Asia
School of the Humanities, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
24 October-26 October 2019


Keynote Speakers

Chua Beng Huat (National U of Singapore)
Sacrificing Cosmopolitanism for the Postcolonial Nation

Meaghan Morris (U of Sydney)
On "right-wing" identity politics: reflections between Australia and Hong Kong

Stephen C. K Chan (Lingnan U)
A Hong Kong Critique of Identity: Belonging and becoming in the aberrant post-colony

Kasian Tejapira (Thammasat U)
A flea on the dragon’s back: How Siam bonded itself to China’s political and economic supply chains

Purnima Bose (Indiana U)
The Post-Colonial Afterlife of Martial Race Theory

C. J.W.-L. Wee (Nanyang Tech U)
Networking Contemporary Asia: The Japan Foundation Asia Center Symposia on Contemporary Art

John Nguyet Erni (Hong Kong Baptist U)
Is Ethnic Cultural Participation the Answer?






Proposal Guidelines

1. Early inquiries with 200-word abstracts are appreciated. The deadline for a 4,000-word presentation is September 1 2019.

2. Please include a bio-statement with your original submission. All submissions should follow the Chicago Manual of Style (16th ed.). Endnotes recommended. Refer to http://situations.yonsei.ac.kr/sub03/sub01.php.

3. Each invited participant is expected to turn his or her initial presentation into a 6,000-word paper for possible inclusion in a future issue of the SCOPUS-indexed journal, Situations: Cultural Studies in the Asian Context (http://situations.yonsei.ac.kr).

4. We will provide hotel accommodation for each invited speaker. Upon acceptance of the proposal, a partial defrayment of the airfare will be available while funding lasts.

5. All correspondence should be addressed to Terence Murphy the Editor at tmurphy@yonsei.ac.kr and cc’d to Rhee Suk Koo the Managing Editor at skrhee@yonsei.ac.kr.

Co-hosted by School of the Humanities, Nanyang Technological University and the Department of English, Yonsei University

CFP categories: Asia; race; racism; ethnicity; multiculturalism; belonging; exclusion; cosmopolitanism; diversity; pluralism; populism; refugees