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SEAA Taipei 2009: Conference of the Society for East Asian Anthropology, American Anthropological Association

East by Southeast: Multiple Perspectives on AsiaYou are invited to participate in "East by Southeast: Multiple Perspectives on Asia," a conference of the Society for East Asian Anthropology of the American Anthropological Association, which will be held in Taipei, Taiwan, on 2-5 July 2009. We encourage submissions of both organized sessions and individual papers on issues of interest and passion in the anthropology of East and Southeast Asian societies. We particularly welcome panels that bring together comparative studies of a common topic from different parts of the region.
Peoples in East and Southeast Asia have historically enjoyed intricate relationships. The unprecedented rate and spread of globalization since the late 20^th century onward have occasioned new modes of economic integration with attendant flows of people, commodities, and popular culture that knit the region in new and complex ways. At the same time, people in different parts of the region face similar challenges with respect to new class formations and lifestyles, new ways of performing gender, contestations between local and national identities, and expanding horizons of consumption. The region is also a site of post- and neo-colonial tensions. This meeting provides a unique opportunity for East and Southeast Asian anthropologists and anthropologists of East and Southeast Asia to learn about current research in their areas (both geographic and theoretical) and to create links with researchers in other countries. The conference will include a diverse and multicultural community of anthropologists, both students and established scholars, and academic and applied anthropologists.
This conference, which will be conducted in English, is jointly sponsored by the Society for East Asian Anthropology, the Taiwan Association for Anthropology and Ethnology, the Graduate Institute of Anthropology at National Tsing Hua University, the College of Hakka Studies at National Chiao Tung University, and the Institute of Ethnology at Academia Sinica.
Deadline for submission of panel and paper abstracts: 28 February 2009
Deadline for conference registration and housing application: 30 April 2009
Please visit the conference website for applications, forms, and additional information.
If you have any questions, please contact Anru Lee, the chair of the program committee at: alee@jjay.cuny.edu.

2007 Prize Recipients

Many congratulations to Tamara Jacka, recipient of The Society for East Asian Anthropology’s 2007 Francis L.K. Hsu Book Prize for Rural Women in Urban China: Gender, Migration, and Social Change (London: M.E. Sharpe, 2006); Jay Sohn, winner of the 2007 David Plath Media Award for Shocking Family; and John Cho, winner of the Theodore Bestor Outstanding Graduate Paper Award for The Wedding Banquet Revisited: ’Contract Marriages’ Between Korean Gays and Lesbians and Matthew Erie, honorable mention for the Bestor Award for Property Law, Public Interest, and the New Media in China: The Hard Case of "The Toughest Nail House in History"

SEAA 2006 Conference at the Chinese University of Hong Kong (13-16 July 2006)

SEAA 2006 Conference Website: http://www.cuhk.edu.hk/ant/SEAAconf/. You are invited to participate in a conference of the Society for East Asian Anthropology of the American Anthropological Association, which will be held in New Asia College, The Chinese University of Hong Kong on 13-16 July 2006. This meeting is a unique opportunity for East Asian anthropologists and anthropologists of East Asia to learn about recent research in their areas (both geographic and theoretical) and to create links with research in other East Asian countries. The conference will include a diverse and multi-cultural community of anthropologists, both students and established scholars, and both academic and applied anthropologists. This conference, which will be conducted in English, is jointly sponsored by the Society for East Asian Anthropology, the Department of Anthropology of the Chinese University of Hong Kong, and the Hong Kong Anthropological Society. Abstracts should be submitted by 15 Jan 2006; your conference registration and housing application need to be submitted by 15 March 2006. Please visit the conference website for applications, forms, and additional information.

106th AAA Annual Meeting: Papers and Panels Concerning the Anthropology of Asia

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2006 Prize Recipients

The Society for East Asian Anthropology’s 2006 Francis L.K. Hsu Book Prize was awarded to Susan Orpett Long for Final Days: Japanese Culture and Choice at the End of Life (University of Hawaii Press, 2005). This prize is awarded annually for the best book in East Asian anthropology at the Society’s business meeting at the American Anthropological Association’s annual meeting on November 18, 2006. Final Days is a rich ethnography of the last stage of life in contemporary Japan and an exploration of descriptive cross-cultural bioethics.

The Bestor Prize for the Outstanding Graduate Paper in East Asian Anthropology for 2006 was awarded to Shannon May for her paper, "The Work of Development: National Agendas, Local Income and Knotted Knowledge in Huangbaiyu." This paper describes the ways in which a development project in rural China is shaped by competing national and local goals, and by the financing and organization of the development apparatus. This annual prize was awarded by the Society for East Asian Anthropology at its business meeting on November 18, 2006 at the annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association.

SEAA 2006 Conference at the Chinese University of Hong Kong (13-16 July 2006)

SEAA 2006 Conference Website: http://www.cuhk.edu.hk/ant/SEAAconf/. You are invited to participate in a conference of the Society for East Asian Anthropology of the American Anthropological Association, which will be held in New Asia College, The Chinese University of Hong Kong on 13-16 July 2006. This meeting is a unique opportunity for East Asian anthropologists and anthropologists of East Asia to learn about recent research in their areas (both geographic and theoretical) and to create links with research in other East Asian countries. The conference will include a diverse and multi-cultural community of anthropologists, both students and established scholars, and both academic and applied anthropologists. This conference, which will be conducted in English, is jointly sponsored by the Society for East Asian Anthropology, the Department of Anthropology of the Chinese University of Hong Kong, and the Hong Kong Anthropological Society. Abstracts should be submitted by 15 Jan 2006; your conference registration and housing application need to be submitted by 15 March 2006. Please visit the conference website for applications, forms, and additional information.