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Annual
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SWCAS Board of Directors
Arenda Chakravartty (2021)
Kimberlee Ortiz (2021)
Zachery Smity (2022)
Paul Clark (2022)
Melody Li (2023)
Marcy Tanter (2023)
SWCAS Officers 2020-21
Marcy Tanter, President
Zachery Smith, Vice President
Patricia Schiaffini, Past President
Leah Renold, Secretary-Treasurer
William Noseworthy, Webmaster
Patricia Schiaffini, CoC Rep
October 23-24, 2020
Virtual 2020 Annual Meeting
2019 Annual Meeting
St. Edward's University
October 18-19, 2019
Registration is now CLOSED!
The 49th Annual Meeting of the Southwest Conference on Asian Studies will be conducted virtually. To register, please send your name and title or degree, your institutional affiliation, and your address to SWCAS President Dr. Patricia Schiaffini-Vedani at p_s139@txstate.edu by 5:00pm Central Time, Thursday, Oct. 22, 2020. The registration fee for the virtual conference is $10.00. Please click on the appropriate button to pay electronically.
The 48th Annual Meeting of the Southwest Conference on Asian Studies was held at St. Edward's University in Austin, Texas, on October 18-19, 2019. Click below for more information about the 2019 meeting.
Click below for 2019 Conference registration information.
2019 Registration. Click appropriate registration fee for 2019 conference.
Journal of the Southwest Conference on Asian Studies
Click HERE to access the Call for Submissions to the 2021 edition of the Journal.
* Our logo depicts a tree bending in the prevailing southwest wind, inscribed in a red ochre circle symbolizing the southern sun. Our conference in general encompasses Asianists located in Oklahoma, Texas, Arkansas, and Louisiana, although anyone is invited to join.