CFP: 2023 EAAA in Hong Kong

CALL FOR PAPERS

East Asian Anthropological Association Annual Meeting

“East Asian Anthropology in a Roiling World:

Pandemics, Politics, Potentials”

The Chinese University of Hong Kong

6-8 October 2023

The East Asian Anthropological Association is a scholarly association of teachers and students of anthropology based in East Asia and engaged in anthropological work on East Asia.  Its upcoming meeting will be in Hong Kong 6-8 October 2023. We hope that you will propose a panel or an individual paper for this conference. You do not need to be a member of EAAA at present in order to submit a panel or paper; you become a member automatically by attending this conference.     

Please fill out an EAAA panel proposal or EAAA individual paper proposal, which will require an abstract from you in English.  You can submit either a panel proposal, which should have 3-4 participants speaking on a common topic, or an individual paper proposal, which is your paper alone.  Individual paper proposals we will subsequently organize into panels.  Submitted panels have a somewhat better chance of being accepted for the conference than individual papers. This conference will be in-person, but if a given panel would like to be on-line rather than in-person, this can be accepted; however, there will be limited links to the conference as a whole.  It is very much recommended that you attend in person.

Please submit your proposal on-line to the hyperlinks supplied above by 15 May 2023. The program committee will make its decisions by 30 May, and will then send out acceptance notices, registration forms, and lodging information to all participants.  If you have any queries, please write to eaaa.2023.hk@gmail.com.

The conference will be held on 6-7 October at The Chinese University of Hong Kong, followed on 8 October by a tour of interesting Hong Kong places.  Registration will be US$100, and participants will pay for their own lodging. We will provide information about the nearby Hyatt hotel, Hong Kong’s famous Chungking Mansions, and other guesthouses; you will need to make your own bookings.  We will provide lunches and dinners and refreshments at the conference and on the tour.

We look forward to seeing you in Hong Kong in October! 

EAAA Meeting in Taipei Notification

Asia Re-Connecting? Crisis, Intimacy and Critique

2022 East Asian Anthropological Association (EAAA) Annual Meeting

National Chengchi University, Taipei, Taiwan

October 15-17, 2022

On behalf of the organizing committee, I am very happy to share with you the good news! The Taiwan government has officially announced the removal of border quarantine starting from Oct. 13, the day before the 2022 EAAA meeting. Looking forward to the meeting and a gathering in Taipei!

If participants cannot come to Taiwan because of policy restrictions or special personal difficulties, we can accept online presentations. But please be advised that, as the annual meeting is mainly not arranged virtually, the engagement of online participants with the whole conference will be more limited than on-site participation.

Nearly half of the participants have completed their registrations. For those who have not yet done with the registration, please do it before the deadline of September 15. 

Below I list some wonderful special events which I believe you will really enjoy in the Taipei meeting. The organizing committee is trying its best to make the conference not just successful but also memorable. 

Special Events

  • A documentary project to film participants joining the Taipei meeting.
  • A welcome reception dinner and a big closing dinner party. Please look forward to wonderful live band music, performances, and local food.
  • A unique post-conference tour for international participants.  

YOUR NEXT STEPS:

Registration for the Conference and Post-conference Tour

Registration for the EAAA conference and its post-conference tour opens now. The registration deadline for all conference participants is September 15, 2022. Registration by the deadline is required to ensure that your presentation will be included in the final program.

The registration fee is US$50 (non-student) or US$20 (student). The fee includes receptions and meals during the conference (October 15-16). Travel and lodging are not included. The registration fee is non-refundable.

The optional post-conference tour will take place on Monday, October 17, likely in the mountain areas of Wulai or Maokong in Taipei. This complimentary, half-day tour only opens to international participants. You may sign up for the tour through the registration link by September 15, 2022.

Registration for the Conference and Tour URL: https://page.cashier.ecpay.com.tw/forms/Xr3

Lodging

Participants need to pay for their own travel and lodging. We have reserved some rooms at two guesthouses/hotels. International participants can choose the room types and register with the hotels at their convenience. The availability of the reserved rooms will be first come, first served. When booking your room, please note in “special needs” that you are attending the EAAA conference. Participants can also arrange their own lodging.

The Howard Civil Service International House (Booking is open until September 15) https://onlinebooking.howard-hotels.com.tw/

NCCU i-House http://wrs.ec-hotel.net/wep4webhotel/webhotel/0295/hotel/showProductRoomList.action  (Booking will open from September 8 to September 15.)

Panel Changes and Scheduling

The participants can submit essential updates and edits to their personal and presentation data through the request form below. Acceptable updates include spelling corrections, changes in affiliation, and updates to titles and abstracts. Request form URL: https://forms.gle/auM94kKAu2YUtm256

We expect scheduling details will be made available around the third week of September, once all participants pay the registration fee by September 15, 2022 to keep their presentations in the conference program.

Thank you very much for your participation. Should you have any questions, please feel free to contact us at taipeimeeting@gmail.com

We look forward to your participation and the long-expected gathering in Taipei in the Fall!

2022 EAAA Registration Information

Asia Re-Connecting? Crisis, Intimacy and Critique

2022 East Asian Anthropological Association (EAAA) Annual Meeting

National Chengchi University, Taipei, Taiwan

October 15-17, 2022

Due to the uncertainty of the COVID-19 pandemic, the 2022 EAAA Organizing Committee will make an official announcement about whether the conference will take place in person or virtual around the end of this August.

YOUR NEXT STEPS:

Registration for the Conference and Post-conference Tour

Registration for the EAAA conference and its post-conference tour opens now. The registration deadline for all conference participants is September 15, 2022. Registration by the deadline is required to ensure that your presentation will be included in the final program.

The registration fee is US$50 (non-student) or US$20 (student). The fee includes receptions and meals during the conference (October 15-16). Travel and lodging are not included. The registration fee is non-refundable.

Early registration fee is US$45 (non-student) or US$15 (student).Please be aware that the deadline for early registration is August 20.

The optional post-conference tour will take place on 17 October, likely in the mountain areas of Wulai or Maokong in Taipei. This complimentary, half-day tour only opens to international participants. You may sign up for the tour through the registration link by September 15, 2022.

Registration for the Conference and Tour URL: https://page.cashier.ecpay.com.tw/forms/Xr3

Lodging

Participants need to pay for their own travel and lodging. We have reserved rooms at two guesthouses/hotels. International participants can choose the types of room and register with the hotels at their convenience. The availability of the reserved rooms will be first come, first served. Participants can also arrange their own lodging.

The Howard Civil Service International House https://onlinebooking.howard-hotels.com.tw/

NCCU i-House http://wrs.ec-hotel.net/wep4webhotel/webhotel/0295/hotel/showProductRoomList.action 

(Registration for NCCU i-House will open between September 8 and September 15. When booking your room, please note in “special needs” that you are attending the EAAA conference.)

Panel Changes and Scheduling

Through the request form below, the participants can submit basic updates and edits to their personal and presentation data. Acceptable updates include spelling corrections, changes in affiliation, and updates to titles and abstracts.

Request form URL: https://forms.gle/auM94kKAu2YUtm256

We expect scheduling details will be made available around the third week of September, after all participants pay the registration fee by September 15, 2022 to keep their presentations in the conference program.

Thank you very much for your participation. Should you have any questions, please feel free to contact us at taipeimeeting@gmail.com

We look forward to your participation and the long-expected gathering in Taipei in the Fall!

Important Deadlines:

August 20, 2022: Deadline to pay early registration.

September 15, 2022: Deadline for ALL participants to register for the conference to keep presentation in the conference program. Deadline for international participants to submit post-conference tour form.

2022 EAAA Call for Papers

Asia Re-Connecting? Crisis, Intimacy and Critique

 2022 East Asian Anthropological Association (EAAA) Annual Meeting

National Chengchi University, Taipei, Taiwan

October 15-17, 2022

The COVID-19 pandemic has transformed the world since its spread in 2020, disconnecting families, societies, economies, as well as anthropologists from their fieldsites. East Asia, where this crisis first emerged, is also the region which has weathered the crisis most successfully, although not without controversy. In 2022, in the context of new border regimes, new forms of (distanced) intimacy, and precarious supply chains, people are finding new ways to (re)-connect with each other.  Anthropologists in East Asia and across the world find there is no simple “returning to normal” fieldwork, but search for new ways of making and sustaining connections. This Call for Papers invites anthropologists and related scholars to deliberate on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and its ongoing impact and other emerging challenges that are crucial to our concern in East Asia.

How can anthropology illuminate the many ways people are seeking to reconnect and re-establish intimacies with others in a new context? More importantly, how might an “ethnographic sensibility” help us understand the different and sometimes contradictory ways people reconnect their worlds and establish new futures? A lingering and seemingly never-ending crisis not only challenges people’s lives and governance, it also generates a space for reflecting on humanistic concerns, and yearning either for pasts imagined to have been less precarious, or for imagined futures which might be realized. Defining the stakes of the crisis, rebuilding intimacies and making critiques look very differently depending on whether one is a laborer, investor, student, migrant, farmer, health worker, fisherman, activist, ritual specialist, politician, male, female, straight, queer, or transgendered (to only name a few).

We invite submissions from anthropologists from East Asia working in East Asia on a broad range of topics related to crisis, intimacy, and critique in reconnecting Asia. Recommended topics include the following:

1) Anthropocene in East Asia: The biopolitics of epidemics and medicine; climate change; human-animal and human-plant relations; landscapes; environmentalism; debates on sustainable development; the anthropology of food; food sovereignty and activism; the manufacturing of the senses; health and quality of life; alternative forms of life.

2) Social and Political Movements: Propaganda and political discourse; the struggles and strategies of indigenous peoples, recognition, social justice; migrant labor; anti-imperialism; populism; nationalism and patriotism; race and ethnicity; the politics of liberalism and illiberalism.

3) Intimacy, Hope and Anxiety: Affect; the end of intimacy; connectivity; political intimacy; spiritual belonging; religious revivalism; global health and education; community sustainability; psychological well-being; happiness and suffering; care and caring; burn out; communicability, stigma and xenophobia; active ageing; quality of life.

4) Digital Technology and Network Society: Digital ethnography, surveillance capitalism; net armies and “fake news”; technocracy and pandemic control; border and entry control; artificial intelligence; big data and censorship; incarceration; the metaverse and the future of social media; infrastructure; equality and inequality.

5) Global East Asia: Suspended globalization; regrouping; reopening; democracy; vaccine equity and hesitancy; socialism; capitalism; neoliberalism; disrupted supply chains; the inflation crisis; mobility and migration; cultural heritage and cultural revivalism; transnational movements for and against race, gender and LGBTQ+ equality.

Please fill in the online Submission Form (preferred); or download the submission form, fill in it, and send it back to taipeimeeting@gmail.com. The deadline for submission is May 31, 2022.

Individual Papers:

Online submission or download form

Proposed Panel:

Online submission or download form

The registration fee is US$50 (non-student) or US$20 (student), which includes receptions and meals during the conference (October 15-16). Participants need to pay for their own travel and lodging. We are reserving rooms at two guesthouses/hotels and participants can choose the types of room and register with the hotels at their convenience. The availability of reserved rooms will be first come, first served. Participants can also arrange their own lodging. Further information on conference registration, lodging, and the optional post-conference tour will be delivered in two months after the submission deadline.

Due to the lingering uncertainty of the COVID-19 pandemic, we list a 4-step application procedure and dates below for your attention:

Step 1: Submit Individual Paper or Proposed Panel by May 31, 2022.

Step 2: Receive Acceptance Notification and related information by July 31, 2022.

Step 3: Submit Post-conference Tour Form by August 31, 2022.

Step 4: Pay registration fee in order to keep presentation in the conference program by September 15, 2022.

We look forward to your submission for joining the 2022 EAAA in Taipei this October!

EAAA 2021 Meeting Report

On November 27-28, 2021, the “EAAA 2021 Annual Conference – East Asian Anthropology in the Era of Uncertainties”, organized by the Department of Anthropology of Shandong University and East Asian Anthropological Association, was successfully held online. A total of 126 people attended the conference, and more than 200 others participated in the presentations, discussions, or sidebars. Finally, 93 papers were published.

In the last two years, COVID-19 has changed people’s daily lives and the world has become vulnerable and exhausted. Nowadays, people are living in a new era of uncertainties and need to readjust to the new situation brought by the epidemic, which undoubtedly brings many challenges to East Asian societies and East Asian anthropologists. With its unique approach of fieldwork and cross-cultural comparisons, anthropology can help us reflect on the politics, economy, society and culture of East Asia at present. Therefore, “East Asian Anthropology in the Era of Uncertainties” was the theme of the conference. 23 panels were organized around various topics such as medicine, mobility, environment, economy, heritage, and religion.

The conference was opened in the morning of November 27. Professor Kwang Ok Kim was the host of the conference. Professor Okpyo Moon chaired the conference and delivered the Opening Remarks. Afterwards, the participants went into their respective panels to present their papers and discuss.

The topics of the 6 panels on the morning of the 27th were “Anthropology of communication and vulnerability: doing and undoing networks”, “embodying effective states across East Asia and the prediction of health care”, “shifting contexts of society and precarious employment in the (post-) pandemical era”, “sensors making in Taiwanese daily lives” “Transformations of Masculinity and Alternative Perceptions of Gendered Identities” and “Cross-Cultural Patterns of Diet and Ethnicity in Nomadic and Urban Landscapes”. In panel 4, Professor Hsun Chang from Academia Sinica examined a self-styled “Fashion Queen,” a female Shaman’s body experience, charging pictures, and performance for her urban clients. Visual experience is important in this internet era, and female shamans’ bodies attract more young clients (both male and female) through their skilled promotional broadcasts on personal websites and YouTube. Professor Hsun Chang described the interaction between the shaman and her clients and how she solves her clients’ problems. Finally, Professor Hsun Chang explained the formation of this new style of Shamanism in Taiwan.

On the afternoon of the 27th, panels 7-12 were entitled “Uncertainties and Agency: Cross-Cultural Differences in Coping with Risk Market”, “Manifestations of Patriotism, Provincialism, and Neo-Liberal Economics”, “Traditional-Modern Transformation from an Anthropological Perspective: Neo-Classical Structural Functionalism (1)”, “Can Hong Kong Be Home? Sub-Saharan Africans’ Experiences of Belonging/Not-belonging in Asia’s World City “, “Education and the Re-Making of Youth Communities in East Asia”, and “Border Crossings and Historical Perspectives on Asian Ethnicities”. In panel 10, Professor Gordon Mathews from the Chinese University of Hong Kong explored whether ethnic minorities can be considered as Hongkongers, and whether Hong Kong can ever be considered as “home”. In recent years, the new “ethnic other” in Hong Kong is not African or South Asian but, ironically, mainland Chinese: a new form of Hong Kong ethnic discrimination. With the National Security Law in Hong Kong, in its wide ramifications, Hong Kong identity is again shifting, in the balance over the extent to which Hong Kong is a Chinese city or an international city or both.

On the morning of the 28th, panels 13-18 were entitled “China’s Internal Migration: Encounters with the Inner Others”, “Tourism, Development, and Conceptualizations of Heritage”, “Ethnic Identity and Authenticity in Asian Contexts of Art and Architecture”, “Tracing Precarity in East Asia”, “Intimate Relations and Caring for Family: Ethnographies of Coping with Vulnerability”, and “Relevance of Anthropology and Public Responsibility in the Pandemic Era”. In panel 14, Professor Gang Chen from Yunnan University of Finance and Economics focused on studying the development of tourism at an ethnic village located at China-Myanmar border. It not only provided insights into how the tourism development affects the community and family livelihoods, but also helped to understand the specific performance of local livelihood changes and the mechanism of tourism development on livelihood changes. More importantly, it could provide a systematic analysis framework and research methodology for the study of sustainable tourism livelihoods. And in panel 18, Professor Ichiro Numazaki from Tohoku University proposed that anthropology ought to “turn” to literature—novels and dramas—as a subject of research into indigenous models of and for reality. Critical rethinking of ethnographic enterprises provides methods for “anthropological reading” of literature and that literature can be a fruitful field for anthropological exploration and reflection. Anthropology of literature may be and should be a legitimate subfield as anthropology of religion and ritual. Professor Ichiro Numazaki outlined how anthropology of literature can be conducted using examples from some Chinese and Japanese literature.

On the afternoon of the 28th, the last 5 panels are entitled “(Re-)Imaging Cancer and Care in an Uncertain Time: Four Case Studies from Mainland China”, “Contemporary Ideologies and Cult-Practitioners in the Religions of North-East Asia”, “Traditional-Modern Transformation from an Anthropological Perspective: Neo-Classical Structural Functionalism (2)”, “Global Rifts, Risks, and New Patterns of Sociality in the Age of Health Crisis” and “Transnationalism, Grassroots Governance, and Refugee Integration”. In panel 22, Professor Christian Joon Park from Hanyang University examined the relation between the spread of COVID-19, international travel, and migrants, the status of migrant health in South Korea before the global pandemic, and the socio-cultural issues related to migrants that arose as the South Korean nation-state responded to the global pandemic of COVID-19 from the perspectives of global health and urban citizenship. In the age of global migration and global health crisis, cities are embodying a plural notion of citizenship spanning across local, national and transnational polities. At 17:30 on the 29th, the discussion of all panels was finished and the meeting was closed. Participants from each region summarized and affirmed the conference. EAAA 2021 Annual Meeting based on East Asian societies, compared the diversity of East Asian regions, explored new theories and knowledge with new perspectives, and jointly discussed how to use anthropological approaches to propose viable solutions to the problems of our time. The number of papers in this conference was large and the topics discussed were broad. The innovation and theoretical value to some extent reflected the high academic level of East Asian anthropologists. Finally, all participants took group photos and the conference was successfully concluded.

2021 EAAA Call for Papers

2021 EAAA Call for Papers

East Asian Anthropology in the Era of Uncertainties

Online Meeting, November 27-28, 2021

Convened by
East Asian Anthropological Association
Department of Anthropology and
Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology
Shandong University, Jinan, P.R.C.

The newly emerging, post-pandemic world order makes its impact felt through various accelerating changes and social crises, which could hardly be anticipated by experts in thinking and acting upon the flow of events. A key implication of this bio-political state of emergency, which is of crucial relevance for anthropology at present, may be identified as a reversal of institutional patterns of sociality, as well as of traditional notions associated with community and collective responsibility.
Moreover, this transition into new social formations involves a shift towards the individualization of social responsibility in contexts familiar to the anthropology of East Asian societies. Alongside these social formations, an equally prominent tendency involves the expansion of preexisting kinds of structural inequality and class or gender based divisions.
Within this unsettling context of social relations, the various rifts and contestations widely emerging in the era of unprecedented uncertainties are presenting numerous challenges for East Asian anthropology. Furthermore, these transitions may be reflected upon as a new ethnographic ground for analyzing configurations of politics, economy, and social organization on both regional and global scales.
We invite ethnographically informed contributions by specialists in the anthropology of East Asia, as well as by anthropologists and social scientists whose expertise and interests intersect the above themes and explore connections between East Asia and other ethnographic areas. Potential proposals, drawing on East Asian specializations and/or on various trans-regional connections, may also engage any of the following topics:

1) Lives in isolation and austerity; ethnographies of silence, ‘a-social’ coexistence and estrangement, family disunity, domestic violence; aging and solitary living; community building, kinship, and new formations of sociality.

2) Gender, reproductive labor, women’s work and solidarity; masculinities and work; precariousness and post-pandemic economies; new patterns of labor, flexible economy, and transaction platforms; social security and welfare; office-work and the future of East Asian cities.

3) Consumption and markets; food governance, regimes of urban and rural hygiene; environmentalism, natural disasters and biological hazards in the Asia and Pacific Region; eco-management, sustainable development, climate change, the Anthropocene.

4) Borders, trans-border relations, and border-crossings; changing patterns of mobility in North and East Asia; migration, multiculturalism, and tourism.

5) Societies, ecology, epidemics; ontologies and multi-species ethnography; bioethics, diagnostic technologies, and medical care; medicines and native healing epistemologies; biosocial perspectives on covid-2019; ethnographies of contagion, vulnerability, social distancing, media and cell phone communication.

6) Urban landscapes in Asia; neo-traditionalism, religious movements and revitalization, ethnic legitimacies and ethnic identity.

7) Public anthropology, expert knowledge; social conscience, public opinion, socio-political discourse and the relevance of anthropology in the post-pandemic world.

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Please fill in both the registration form and individual or panel submission form (online or by download) by using the following links and send them to eaaa.jinan.2021@outlook.com by June 30, 2021.

Registration Form:

Online submission or download form

Individual Paper:

Online submission or download form

Panel Proposal:

Online submission or download form

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Procedure of registration and important dates*

  1. Registration for the Conference by 30 June
  2. Submissions of individual paper or panel proposals by 30 June
  3. Receiving decisions and related notices by 31 August
  4. Finalization of conference program by 15 October

* The links for the participation in the conference will be provided only for those who have registered. The conference being held online, however, there will be no registration fees.

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We look forward to your submissions and to your participation in the 2021 EAAA conference in Jinan, China, this November!

Cancellation of 2020 EAAA

Cancellation of 2020 EAAA

Dear Colleagues,

I hope this message finds you in good health and tranquility in mind amidst multiple global crises that are threatening the normalcy of life as we know it before the COVID-19 pandemic. The theme of this year’s EAAA conference tries to underscore the precarious nature of our moment in history. Unfortunately, the precarity of the time seems to have overcome our ability to convene a meeting scheduled for November 28-29, 2020 in Taipei.

On behalf of the preparatory committee of 2020 EAAA Annual Meeting, I regret to inform you that given the quarantine rule imposed by the Taiwanese government, 14 days of self-isolation in quarantine hotels for foreigners, we will have to cancel the well-planned 2020 EAAA conference. We received nearly 130 submissions and had planned a tentative agenda. However, as the Taiwanese government’s rules seemed to have been re-tightened since August, we cannot expect any flexibility under the circumstances. Although apologetic, we decided to inform you of this regrettable situation.

Hopefully we all survive the current crises and can meet next year to share experiences and insights as to how we endure the precarities of 2020. Take good care of yourself in this precarious time.

Cordially Yours,

Shao-hua Liu

Organizer

EAAA Taiwan Committee Chair

Shao-hua Liu, Ph.D
Research Fellow
Institute of Ethnology, Academia Sinica

2020 EAAA Call For Papers

Precarious Asia: Crisis, Critique and Yearning

2020 EAAA Call For Papers

East Asian Anthropological Association Annual Meeting

Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan

November 28-29, 2020

 

The COVID-19 pandemic has wrecked human lives and imposed an overwhelming sense of precarity on the world in its wake in 2020. East Asia, where this crisis first emerged, is a region whose anthropologists are urged now more than ever to contemplate its present and future.This Call for Papers invites anthropologists and related scholars to deliberate on the impact of the 2020 pandemic and other emerging challenges that are crucial to our concern in East Asia.

A sense of precarity reigns across the region, involving but not limited to recurrent epidemics, the fate of aging societies, the current and future status of political orders, the invention and use of technology in governance, emerging forms of culture and identity, economic uncertainties, national disputes, the effects of the human and non-human relationship, and the climate crisis. Taken together, a palpable anxiety about the future infuses the region.

How can anthropology illuminate the many ways a sense of precarity influences our time? More importantly, how might an “ethnographic sensibility” help us understand the different and sometimes contradicting ways people conceptualize their worlds and futures? A sense of impending (or even present) crisis not only challenges people’s lives and governance, it also generates a space for humanistic reflection, intellectual critique, and yearning; yearning either for pasts imagined to have been less precarious, or for imagined futures which might be realized. Defining what is or is not considered a “crisis,” and the kinds of critique and yearning they entail, look very differently depending on whether one is a laborer, investor, student, migrant, farmer, health worker, fisherman, activist, ritual specialist, politician, male, female, straight, queer, or transgendered (to only name a few).

We invite submissions from anthropologists from East Asia working in East Asia on a broad range of topics related to crisis, critique, and yearning in precarious Asia. Topics might include the following:

1) Anthropocene in East Asia: How people are experiencing and engaging with the effects of biopolitics of epidemics and medicine; climate change in their communities; human-animal and human-plant relations; the anthropology of food; food sovereignty movements; the anthropology of the senses.

2) Social and Political Movements: Government propaganda; struggles of indigenous people for sovereignty, recognition, and social justice; migrant labor; anti-imperialism; transnational movements for and against gender and LGBTQ+ equality; the practice of politics in illiberal spaces.

3) Hope and Anxiety: Populism; new religions; religious revivalism; cultural and language revivalism; education; community sustainability; psychological well-being; health and quality of life; Active Ageing.

4) Technological Change and Society: Surveillance capitalism; net armies and rumor; artificial intelligence; big data and censorship; incarceration; social media; quality of life; equality and inequality.

5) Global East Asia: Democracy; socialism; capitalism; aid diplomacy; migration; the end of globalization; cultural production; cultural heritage; race, ethnicity, and gender.

Please fill in the online Submission Form (preferred); or download the submission form, fill in it, and send it back to taipeimeeting@gmail.com . The deadline for submission is June 30, 2020.

Individual Papers:

Online submission or download form

Proposed Panel:

Online submission or download form

The registration fee is US$50 (non-student) or US$20 (student), and includes receptions and meals during the conference (November 28-29) and the post-conference tour (November 30). Participants need to pay for their own travel and lodging. We are happy to help participants stay at the Academia Sinica Guesthouse (ASG) depending on availability. Participants may also arrange their own lodging. The registration and ASG lodging information will be delivered within two months after the submission deadline.

Due to the lingering uncertainty of the COVID-19 pandemic, we list a 4-step application procedure and dates below for your attention:

Step 1: Submit Individual Paper or Proposed Panel by June 30, 2020.

Step 2: Receive Acceptance Notification and related information by August 31, 2020.

Step 3: Submit ASG Lodging Form and Post-conference Tour Form by September 15, 2020.

Step 4: Pay registration fee in order to keep presentation in the conference program by October 15, 2020.

We look forward to your submission for joining the 2020 EAAA in Taipei this November!

2019 EAAA Call for Papers

2019 EAAA Call for Papers

East Asian Anthropological Association
Annual Meeting 2019

Chonbuk National University, Jeonju, South Korea
28-29 September 2019

The East Asian Anthropological Association is a scholarly association of scholars and students primarily based in East Asia and engaged in anthropological work on Asia. It has had its conferences in China, Hong Kong, Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan in the past years. In 2019, the annual meeting will take place in Jeonju, South Korea on 28-29 September.
Jeonju is a historic city and a major tourist attraction in the southwestern region of South Korea. The Chonbuk National University, a popular venue to many international conferences including an international anthropological conference, is an ideal place for the annual meeting of EAAA.

We hope that you will propose a panel or an individual paper for this conference. You do not need to be a member of EAAA at present in order to submit a panel or paper. You will become a member automatically by attending this conference.

Please fill out an EAAA panel or individual paper proposal forms by clicking on-line links below. You can submit either a panel proposal, which should have 3-4 participants speaking on a common topic, or an individual paper proposal. Individual paper proposals once accepted will be organized into panels by the organizing committee. Panels that cross-national boundaries rather than only dealing with one society are preferred, but we realize that such panels may not always be possible.

We have recently decided to call for poster presentations in order to encourage the participation of graduate students and scholars who would feel more comfortable making a poster presentation instead of a formal paper presentation. We hope that the poster session will provide an opportunity for informal, interactive presentations and discussions. Due to the time and space constraints, the number of poster presentations will be limited. All poster presenters must register for the conference. Presenters must be present to answer questions during this session. The detail instruction on how to prepare the poster will be notified to the applicants whose proposals are accepted.

If you cannot access the online forms, please complete the attached panel or paper proposal form and send it to eaaa2019korea@gmail.com by 30 April 2019. The program committee will make its decisions by 15 June 2019, and will then send out acceptance notices, conference registration forms, and payment and accommodation reservation instructions to all participants.

For on-line submission:

Individual paper proposal:

https://goo.gl/WuZpRb

Panel proposal:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1xJtC3DLqdtwf6Jk9EqVUH-GFChtWKioHv4dP6pHPSQA/edit?usp=sharing

Poster proposal:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1duX2UrWfADt6AljnajB9OdZLvKIX2WnD5yjmHfg9o1A/edit?usp=sharing

The conference will be held on 28-29 September at the Chonbuk National University (CBNU), followed on 30 September by a tour of the historic city of Jeonju. Registration will be US$100, and participants will pay for their own lodging. The organizing committee will arrange lodging at a CBNU guesthouse (for which there are limited spaces and the fees for single and double rooms will be determined soon). You may choose to stay at local hotels through online booking sites. A list of recommended local hotels near CBNU will be provided later on. We will provide lunches and the welcome dinner and refreshments at the conference.

We look forward to seeing you in Jeonju in September!