Student Symposium
2008 Graduate Student Conference - Cornell University Southeast Asia Program
The Cornell Southeast Asia Program invites submissions for its 10th Annual Southeast Asian Studies Graduate Conference. This year 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 14-16, 2008. We welcome submissions from graduate students at any stage engaged in original research related to Southeast Asia. Graduate students working in the following disciplines as well as other related fields that contribute to the understanding of Southeast Asia are encouraged to apply: history, literature, art history, sociology, musicology, religion, anthropology, archeology, architectural history, gender studies, political science, economics, linguistics and literature..
This year we are honored to announce that our keynote speaker will be Professor Thongchai Winichakul, the author of Siam Mapped: A History of the Geo-body of a Nation (1994), and "Remembering/Silencing the Traumatic Past: the Ambivalent Memories of the October 1976 Massacre in Bangkok" in Cultural Crisis and Social Memory: Modernity and Identity in Thailand and Laos (2002), edited by Charles F Keyes and Shigeharu Tanabe. Papers related to Professor Winichakul’s interests are strongly encouraged.
Please submit a one-page abstract and curriculum vitae to the following email address: seapgradconference@gmail.com. All abstracts should be limited to one page (using 1" margins on all sides, Times New Roman, and 12pt font size), including examples and references, and submitted as attachments, in Word format only. The filename should be unique. You should use your first name's initial and your last name to name your abstract. For example: John Smith's abstract would be named jsmith.doc. 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 abstract
- discipline(s)
NOTIFICATION OF ACCEPTANCE: Early February, 2008
Final papers will be due by February 29, 2008. Papers should be in English. Presentations should be no more than 20 minutes and will be followed by 10 minutes of discussion.
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A limited number of modest travel grants are available. Please indicate in your email when you submit the abstract if you would like to apply for a travel grant.
We look forward to an exciting symposium!
Chika Watanabe and Amanda Flaim
SEAP Student Committee Co-Chairs
2007-2008