[asiacouncil] 28th ASDP Conference (Virtual)

[Eric Spears]

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Dear Colleagues,

The Asia Council has been a strong partner with the Asian Studies
Development Program (ASDP).  We co-hosted its annual meeting in Atlanta
last year.

As your chair, I would like to encourage you to submit an abstract and
present at this year's meeting.  This is a friendly and supportive
collegial conference.  You can present on an area of interest or how you
program or infuse any aspect of Asian studies into your CSU courses.  For
example, I will present on how I integrate the Chinese *hukou* migration
system into my World Regional Geography course.

The registration fee is$150.  I would hope your academic departments would
cover this cost since there is no required travel or per diem.   Registration
Link
<https://www.eastwestcenter.org/professional-development/asian-studies-development-program/national-conference-0/2021-asdp-28th>
.

The ASDP program committee is now accepting proposals for its 2021 National
Meeting program. Proposals can be for individual papers, panels, poster
sessions, or round-table sessions and should not exceed 250 words. Early
submissions greatly facilitate putting together meaningful panel and
sessions and *all proposals should be submitted by February 1, 2021*.

The conference theme of *Knowing Practices Intersecting* invites reflection
on how ways of knowing develop, intersect and evolve. These include the
practices of embodied knowledge in, for example, traditional healing and
martial arts, calligraphy and meditation, but also scientific and
historiographical methods,  emotional and aesthetic ways of knowing, the
interaction of education and neuroscience, and the creation of intelligent
technology innovation hubs in Korea and China. We encourage both scholarly
and pedagogical approaches in examining the diversity of Asian cultures and
societies, as well as the diversity of perspectives on Asia, especially
those that adopt interdisciplinary lenses. Since its inception the Asian
Studies Development Program has worked to forge and highlight intersections
between Asian and Western traditions and proposals highlighting such
intersections are especially welcomed.

This conference is an excellent introduction to the ASDP and network of
faculty worldwide who have a common goal of introducing Asian studies to
undergraduate and graduate students.

Please let me know if you have any questions.  I hope to see you at the
virtual meeting and at our next council meeting on January 29th.

Yours truly,
Eric Spears, Ph.D.
Chair, USG Asia Council
Mildred Miller Fort Foundation Scholar & Chair of International Education
Associate Professor of Geography
Columbus State University

E-mail: spears_eric at columbusstate.edu
Tel: +1 (706) 507-8545
Web:https://international.columbusstate.edu/ & https://ericspears.org
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