2023 SWCAS Annual Meeting
Nov 3-4, 2023, University of Houston, Houston
Voices and Visions: New Perspectives in Asian Studies
November 3, Friday Conference Agenda
8:00-9:00 am
Virtual Event:
Conversation with writer Zhang Ling Where Waters Meet (2023): https://uh.edu/streaming/events/class/swcas2023
9 -10:15 am
Virtual Panels Session I
10:30-11:45 am
Virtual Panels Session II
In-Person Registration opens
(UH Student Center South, 2nd floor)
12-1:30pm
Welcoming Luncheon (Student Center South, Ballroom)
(livestream for virtual audience: https://uh-edu-cougarnet.zoom.us/s/88955649245)
1:30-3:30 pm
Cultural Fair (Student Center South, Ballroom)
1:45-3:00 pm
In Person Panel Sessions I
3:15-4:30 pm
In Person Panel Sessions II
4:45- 6:00 pm
In-Person Panel Sessions III
6:45-8:45 pm
(Optional) Night Market in Texas Asia Society
(1370 Southmore Blvd, Houston, TX 77004)
November 4, Saturday, Conference Agenda
(UH Student Center South, 2nd floor)
7:30-8:45 am
Virtual Panels Session III
(https://uh-edu-cougarnet.zoom.us/s/88955649245)
9am-10:15 am
Virtual Panels Session IV
In-Person Panels IV
Teachers’ Workshop I
10:30-11:45 am
Virtual Panels Session V
In-Person Panels Session V
Teachers’ Workshop II
12-1:30 pm
Keynote Speech by Prof. Jean C. Oi /Luncheon/Student Paper Awards
(Student Center South, Ballroom)
1:30-2:45 pm
In-Person Panels Session VI
3 - 4:15 pm
In-Person Panels Session VII
4:30-5:30 pm
Film Screening: Camellia Flowers (dir. Changhee Chun)
Q&A with the director
(Student Center South, Ballroom)
5:30-5:50pm
Closing Remarks and Sharing
6-7 pm
Board Meeting (all welcome)
7-7:30 pm
Car Pool/Uber
7:30-9:30pm
Hang out in Bellaire AsiaTown
(Optional Group Dinner, ticket required)
Hotel Information
Holiday Inn Express in Medical Center (about 20 mins to campus by uber)
Follow this link for reservation.
Hilton Houston Plaza: (about 15 mins to campus by car)
52nd 2023 Annual SWCAS Registration is Available Here
2023 Registration Fees:
In-Person Tenure-track/Tenured Faculty:
$120 before Sept 1; $150 Sept 1-Oct 6.
In-Person Adjunct/Postdoc/Independent Scholar:
$100 before October 6.
Students (Graduate/Undergrad):
$80 before Oct 6
In-Person Late Registration:
$180 Oct 6-Nov 1
Virtual Registration:
$40 before Oct 6
Virtual Late Registration:
$60 October 6 - Nov 1
SWCAS Board of Directors
Christopher Born (2025)
John Barnett (2025)
Aryenda Chakravartty (2024)
Jooyoun Lee (2024)
Melody Yunzi Li (2023)
Marcy Tanter (2023)
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
Click here to access former programs and other information about SWCAS Annual Meetings.
SWCAS Officers 2022-23
Melody Yunzi Li, President
Aryendra Chakravartty, Vice President
Zach Smith, Past President
Leah Renold, Secretary-Treasurer
Miao Dou, Webmaster
Patricia Schiaffini, CoC Rep
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.”
* 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.