Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs has announced its first Trans-Pacific Student Contest, a unique experiment in U.S.-Asia collaboration. The contest is part of Ethics for a Connected World, a three-year global education project to mark the Council's 2014 Centennial. Winners will receive a trip to New York City.

The contest will be conducted via Carnegie Council's online Global Ethics Network, a social media platform for people across the world who are committed to exploring the role of ethics in international affairs through joint projects, ongoing dialogues, and the creation of collaborative multimedia resources.

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Both graduate and undergraduate students are invited to submit individual paper and panel proposals. The theme of this year's conference is "50 Years of Exploring Frontiers"

The conference will be held at Brigham-Young University, Idaho from October 11-13. For more information, please visit: http://www.wcaas2012.com/index.html

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Information about conference travel support for GW students:

The Sigur Center provides travel support to graduate and undergraduate students invited to present scholarly papers at conferences. If you are selected to present an Asian Studies-specific paper, you may apply for conference travel funding. Please submit the following three items to Dr. Ed McCord (mccord@gwu.edu) and Matt Grieger (mgrieger@gwu.edu): (1) confirmation that your paper has been accepted for the conference; (2) an itemized budget; and (3) your academic paper. Requests for funding are decided on a rolling basis. Students who seek and receive cost-sharing commitments from other GW and non-GW sources will be considered favorably.

The Council for Undergraduate Research’s CUR Quarterly is seeking student submissions for its Spring 2013 Issue!

Deadline for submitting a proposal: June 1, 2012

The theme of the Spring 2013 issue of the CUR Quarterly will be “Students Voices in Undergraduate Research.” 

The publication seeks several student authors who can write articles that focus on students' experiences engaging in undergraduate research.

The CUR Quarterly encourage articles that explore, among other things:


·        What other students, faculty, and administrators should know about undergraduate research from the perspective of students
·        Advice and practical tips for students who want to do research
·        What every undergraduate research mentor should know
·        How to navigate and succeed at a summer undergraduate research experience (on your campus or at another campus)
·        How to conduct undergraduate research in a study-abroad program
·        Perspectives on presenting your research at conferences


If you are interested in contributing an article or vignette, please submit a short (300-500 word) prospectus describing the focus of your proposed article or vignette by June 1, 2012. Click here for the website. 


Please also submit a copy of your prospectus to the Center for Undergraduate Fellowships and Research at fellcent@gwu.edu; we would very much like to hear the stories you have to tell!

Decisions on invitations for full papers to be published in the CUR Quarterly will be made by June 15, 2012.

Final articles will be about 1500 to 2000 words in length.  The final text for review and editing must be submitted by August 1, 2012.

Fan the Center for Undergraduate Fellowships and Research on Facebook!

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The Columbia East Asia Review (CEAR) is a multidisciplinary undergraduate journal of East and Southeast Asian Studies based at Columbia University. CEAR is dedicated to publishing superior undergraduate research on East and Southeast Asia while offering students the opportunity to learn about academic publishing and the peer-review process firsthand. Print and online editions are published annually in April and reach a readership that extends top universities across the United States, Europe, and Asia.

CEAR is currently accepting submissions in any discipline from undergraduate students worldwide. The deadline for submissions is February 12, 2012 but earlier submissions are welcomed.

Submissions must be written by an undergraduate or recent graduate (having graduated within one year from an undergraduate institution), exhibit original research, and relate directly to one or more regions of East or Southeast Asia.

For more details on eligibility and submissions guidelines, see http://eastasiareview.org/submission. Questions may be directed to editor@eastasiareview.org or CEAR’s Facebook page at facebook.com/eastasiareview.

In preparation for graduate student conferences this spring, the University of Hawaii and Columbia University are both calling for papers. Two great opportunities for GW graduate students! Details for both are provided below.


CALL FOR PAPERS: 2012 SPAS GRADUATE STUDENT CONFERENCE

The University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa’s School of Pacific and Asian Studies is seeking papers and presentations for its 23rd annual Graduate Student Conference.

Conference Date: April 11–13, 2012
Where: Center for Korean Studies, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, Honolulu, Hawai‘i
Theme: “ASIA/PACIFIC JUNCTURES: CHALLENGING NOTIONS OF REGIONALISM AND INTERDISCIPLINARITY”
Submission Deadline: 12/20/2011

In particular, we are looking for papers /presentations that:
• Incorporate interdisciplinary approaches• “traditional” vs. “contemporary”
• Present Asian and/or Pacific performance practices
• Engage with new and emerging trends in Pacific and/or Asian Studies
• Provide insights on the importance of area studies
• Challenge approaches based on a national or regional focus
• Involve any other original research on Asia and/or the Pacific

We are most interested in accepting papers and performances that deal with Asia and the Pacific in a manner that challenges notions of regionalism and interdisciplinarity. We also highly encourage those with a background in the arts to apply with performance proposals.

Please complete the attached form and submit it by December 20th 2011, following the guidelines and instructions on the form. When submitting, please rename the file from “2012 SPAS Abstract Submission Form.doc” to “Applicant’sLastName_Applicant’sFirstName.doc” and email it to gradconf@hawaii.edu by the submission deadline.

Limited partial travel grants to the conference site may be available.
If you have any questions, please contact the conference planning committee at gradconf@hawaii.edu. For more information, please refer to our Facebook page: “2012 SPAS Graduate Conference.”


CALL FOR PAPERS: GRADUATE STUDENT CONFERENCE ON EAST ASIA

WHAT: Twenty-first Annual Graduate Student Conference on East Asia
WHERE: Columbia University in the City of New York
WHEN: Friday February 10 to Saturday February 11, 2012

Graduate students are invited to submit papers for the Twenty-First Annual Graduate Student Conference on East Asia. This two-day conference provides a forum for students from institutions around the world to share ideas with their peers. The 2012 conference marks the beginning of a new decade in the conference’s history. As such, this year’s participants will have the opportunity, in the spirit of reinvigoration, to use this year’s conference as a forum for the promotion and circulation of new ideas within East Asian Studies. In addition, participants will gain valuable experience in presenting their work for discussion with other graduate students as well as Columbia faculty.

We welcome applications from graduate students engaged in research on all fields in East Asian Studies, including history, literature, political science, economics, art history, religion, sociology, archaeology, law, environmental studies and anthropology.

PARTICIPATION:
• Participants can take part in the conference as presenters and/or discussants.
• Presenters deliver talks no longer than 15 minutes that summarize research in progress.
• Discussants introduce the panelists and facilitate the 20-minute discussion session following the presentations.

APPLICATIONS (due November 27, 2011):
• Fill out application on http://www.columbia.edu/cu/ealac/gradconf/form.htm
• Notification of acceptance within two weeks of application deadline
• Final Papers (5-7 pages maximum) due January 8, 2012

REQUIRED INFO:
*Your full name as you would like it to appear in the abstract booklet
*Contact info (e-mail)
*Institutional affiliation
*Major area of study (region and discipline)
*Title of your paper
*One-page (250 words max.) abstract in print-ready format, including your name and institution
*We will not accept applications without abstracts (Please provide five key words for your paper in the abstract)

NOTE:
• Please indicate audiovisual equipment you will need for your presentation. Please note that our A/V resources are quite limited. Presenters must bring own laptops and VGA adapters for presentations.
• Presentations will be limited to 15 minutes, so full-length research papers will not be accepted
• Required $7 registration fee must be paid upon arrival at the conference

HOUSING:
The conference runs from Friday afternoon to late Saturday evening. Travel and lodging information can be found on the conference website. Please plan accordingly.

CONFERENCE ORGANIZERS:
Joshua Batts / Glenda Chao / Jae Won Chung / Clay Eaton / Matthieu Felt / Nicole Kwoh

CONTACT INFORMATION:
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/ealac/gradconf/

2012eagradcon@gmail.com

Graduate Student Conference on East Asia
Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures
407 Kent Hall, Mail Code 3907
Columbia University
New York, NY 10027

FAX: 212-678-8629

The Michigan Journal of Asian Studies is a peer-reviewed journal that aims to provide undergraduate students around the world with a venue for submissions of original research and/or analytical papers on Asian Studies. We accept work from all disciplines relating to South, Southeast, and East Asia. Our deadline for submissions is October 10^th, 2011. All submissions must meet the following guidelines:

--Your subject line and document title should fit the following format: [author name] [paper title] [region (south/southeast/east)]

--Submissions have a lower limit of approximately 5000 words.

--All submissions must include a coversheet. The coversheet should include an abstract, your full name, academic institution, and e-mail address.

--Authors must provide a complete bibliography with their submissions, including page citations. Authors should follow the Chicago Manual of Style format for references and endnotes.

The author must supply any additional figures and pictures as separate files in the highest resolution possible. It must be noted in the document as to where the figure belongs. (e.g. [Picture001 belongs here])

Please send all comments and questions to michiganjournalofasianstudies@umich.edu

Call for Papers
Location: South Korea
Date: 2011-03-01

Funding available for Graduate Students in Comparative Political Theory and Asian Political Thought.

The Project on East Asian Perspectives on Politics: Advancing Research in Comparative Political Theory announces conference travel scholarship for graduate students working in comparative political theory and Asian political thought. The broad purpose of this project is to advance the field of comparative political theory through a series of six workshops each focused on a dimension of politics in the East Asian context. The first workshop took place at Fudan University on May 1-2, 2010. The second workshop, East Asian Perspectives on Legal Order,took place at the National University of Singapore on August 26-27, 2010. The third workshop, Governance and Political Leadership in East Asia, will be held at Seoul National University on June 3-4, 2011. The conference will be conducted in English. A workshop dedicated to graduate students working on comparative political theory and Asian political thought will be held on June 5, 2011. Because our principal funding source is the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, Canadian citizens and doctoral students at> Canadian universities are preferred. However, all eligible candidates are welcome to apply. Successful candidates will present a paper at the June 5 workshop, and should be attending the larger conference, too. Papers will be circulated in advance and must be completed no later than May 5, 2011. Funding is available for up to 4 researchers and will cover the full costs of economy class airfare, reasonable ground transportation costs, and 4 nights hotel accommodation.

To apply, send a paper title and abstract of no more than 300 words, together with a current curriculum vitae to http://us.mc596.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=kimyoungmin@snu.ac.kr no later than March 1, 2011. Successful candidates will be notified by email by March 20, 2011. Further information about the project is available at:

Youngmin Kim,
Dept. of Political Science,Seoul National University
Email: http://www.blogger.com/mc/compose?to=brynmawrkim@gmail.com

The UCLA China Studies Graduate Students, in conjunction with the UCLA Center for Chinese Studies, present the fourth annual China Undisciplined Conference

Saturday, April 30, 2011
University of California, Los Angeles

The interdisciplinary China Studies colloquium at UCLA is pleased to announce its fourth annual China Undisciplined conference. The colloquium invites graduate students to submit paper proposals discussing current research in the field. Applicants are encouraged to submit abstracts of papers dealing with topics involving the crossing of disciplinary, temporal, national, cultural, social, and linguistic barriers in the imagination of China. We welcome creative, new approaches to the field of China studies. Papers that initiate interdisciplinary dialogues will be given particular consideration.

Abstracts should be no more than 250 words, and should be submitted electronically, along with the personal information listed below and a current CV. The deadline for submissions is March 15, 2011.

Please email your abstract as an attachment to: http://us.mc596.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=uclacscconference@gmail.com http://us.mc596.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=uclacscconference@gmail.com> . In your email, please also include your name, institutional affiliation, department, title of paper, and contact information.

Call for Papers

The Cornell Southeast Asia Program invites submission for its 13^th Annual Southeast Asian Studies Graduate Conference. This annual event will be held at the Kahin Center for Advanced Research on Southeast Asia at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York on March 11-13, 2011.

Graduate students at any stage engaged in original research related to Southeast Asia. are encouraged to apply Graduate students whose papers fall under any of the following categories are welcome to apply:

· Gender Studies

· Social and Economic Development

· Culture/Musicology/Art

· History

· Religion

· Politics/Government/International Relations

· Linguistics

Submission Information

Please submit an abstract and a 1 page curriculum vita to the following email address: seapgradconference@gmail.com. All abstracts should be limited to 300 words (using 1” margins on all sides, Times New Roman, and 12 pt font size) and sent in MS Word format. Please name your abstract using your first initial and last name (for example, jsmith.doc for John Smith’s abstract). The subject of the message should specify “Abstract”, and the body should include the following information:

Author’s name(s), affiliation and e-mail address

Title of paper

Paper category

SUBMISSION DEADLINE: January 10, 2011
NOTIFICATION OF ACCEPTANCE: Late January 2011

COMMITMENT TO PRESENT: January 28, 2011

Final papers will be due by February 28, 2011. Papers must be in English. Presentations should be no more than 20 minutes and will be followed by 10 minutes of discussion.

Go to http://www.einaudi.cornell.edu/southeastasia/academics/2011spring.asp for more information.

The Harvard East Asia Society (HEAS) Graduate Student Conference is an annual conference that invites graduate students from around the world to present papers from all disciplines on topics related to East or Inner Asia. Papers focusing on Chinese, Korean, Japanese or Vietnamese diaspora in any region of the world are also welcome.

Abstract submissions are currently being accepted for the 14th HEAS conference to be held from February 25 to 27, 2011 at Harvard University. The call for papers deadline is February 25, 2011.

For more information about the 14th HEAS conference, you can visit the website at http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/~heas/conference. If you have any questions regarding the conference, you can email the HEAS Conference Committee at heasconference@gmail.com.