[EDLING:470] CFP: Cold War Language(s) and Asia/America

[Francis M Hult]

> Call for Papers
> Proposed Panel: Cold War Language(s) and Asia/America
> 	
> Annual Meeting of the American Studies Association
> November 3-6, 2005 in Washington D.C.
> 	
> This panel will engage in conversations on the transnational "place" of
> area studies and multilingualism during the Cold War, particularly
> regarding the transnational integration of Asia/America.  Interested
> panelists may want to address the consequences of language as a product of
> transnational "global" capital, ethnic or "local" identity, and the new
> internationalism of postwar Asian/American culture.  Questions to consider
> include: How did the rise of American internationalism during the Cold War
> affect the status of language in Asian/American culture?  What currency
> did multilingualism have in the campaign to educate a new "enlightened"
> American citizenry?  In the creation of ethnic identities, how did
> language operate to construct certain "imagined communities"?  What status
> did translation have in the production of cultural imaginaries during this
> time?  How did all of these issues contribute to the discourse of American
> "place" as an exceptional sphere of global empire?
> 	
> Possible topics to explore in conjunction with the above issues:
> 	
> *  Cold War transformations in American Orientalism
> *  Diasporic Studies and Asian/American identity
> *  The politics of mono/multilingualism
> *  Language and the rise of the model-minority discourse
> *  The global imaginaries of "containment" or "integration"
> *  Liberal education and the rise of American internationalism
> 	
> Deadline for submissions is Monday, January 10th, 2005.  Please send a
> one-page abstract (approx 250 words) and a one-page CV (as an attachment)
> to John Williams at rjwillia at uci.edu.  Questions can be sent to the same
> address.
> 	
> R. John Williams
> Department of Comparative Literature
> University of California, Irvine
>
> Xiao-huang Yin
> Chair & Professor, American Studies Program
> Occidental College