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SWCAS 53rd Annual Conference

Technology, Knowledge and Belonging:

Asia and the Global Dynamics of Thought, Development and Human Endeavors

November 1 – 2, 2024

Stephen F. Austin State University,

Member of the University of Texas System

Nacogdoches, TX

Format: In-Person & Online  

Accommodation

Hotel Fredonia, Nacogdoches

Book hotel rooms below:

https://bookings.travelclick.com/102255?groupID=4175013#/guestsandrooms 

Block reservation for Friday (Nov. 1) - Sunday (Nov. 3)

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53rd 2024 Annual SWCAS Registration

is now available 

Regular registration

(Extended: till October 11)

Late Registration

(starting from October 12)

SWCAS 2023, at University of Houston 

SWCAS Board of Directors

Allison J. Truitt (2026)

Miao Dou (2026)

Christopher Born (2025)

​John Barnett (2025)

Aryenda Chakravartty  (2024)

Jooyoun Lee (2024)
 

SWCAS Officers 2023-24

Aryendra Chakravartty, President

Zhaojin Zeng, Vice President

Melody Yunzi Li, Past President

Leah Renold, Secretary-Treasurer

Miao Dou, Webmaster

Jooyoun Lee, CoC Rep

Directory

 

 

Click here for a PDF of the directory. If you would like to join the SWCAS Mailing List, all you will need is an institutional email address. Send a request to the SWCAS administrator in the contact form below.

Journal of the Southwest Conference on Asian Studies

 

Click HERE to access the Call for Submissions to the 2021 edition of the Journal. 

Annual

Meetings

 

Click here to access former programs and other information about SWCAS Annual Meetings.

About

Click here to learn more about the early history and by-laws of SWCAS.

Past Meeting: October 7-8, 2022
University of Central Arkansas Hybrid (In Person & Online)

The 51st Annual SWCAS meeting was held in-person and virtually at the University of Central Arkansas on October 7 - 8, 2022. Focusing on the theme of “Reconnecting in a (Post) Pandemic World,” the conference invited over one hundred scholars, teachers, and students representing fifteen different countries. The conference featured a keynote lecture from AAS President Dr. Kamran Asdar Ali, a roundtable on Asian and Asian American Studies under the framework of Global Asia, cultural performances from Dr. Melody Li and Dr. Cynthia Ma, and a public teacher education workshop on “Asia Across the Curriculum.”

Southwest Conference on Asian Studies  

is a regional conference of the 

Association for Asian Studies

* 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.

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