Call for Papers: Anti-Asian Violence Graduate Writing Workshop at UCLA

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An invitation for UC graduate students to workshop and receive feedback from faculty in a shared dialogue space.

Abstracts Due: 12.15.2023.
The Spring workshop will take place at UCLA on May 17, 2024 from 10 am to 3 pm.

CFP and Submission Guidelines

Anti-Asian Violence Graduate Writing Workshop at UCLA Flier

Description:

A workshop for UC graduate students working on articles, essays, or dissertation chapters related to themes on anti-Asian violence. Invited participants will submit their writing in advance and receive feedback from UC faculty and participating graduate students in a shared dialogue and setting. We encourage scholarship from a wide range of disciplines. In addition, the workshop is particularly committed to supporting student work in the following areas:

  • How to think about “violence” in relation to the category of “Asian American”
  • Mapping specific trajectories of anti-Asian violence within and across local, national and transnational scales
  • Dominant narratives and contested histories of anti-Asian violence
  • How changing transnational and global political-economic conditions shape anti-Asian sentiment in the U.S
  •  How “anti-Asian violence” obscures complex histories and multiple contemporary forms of intra-Asian violence
  • The overlap and/or conflation between anti-Asian violence and anti-Asian hate as political discourse.
  • Institutional reforms and reformist-reforms that respond to and/or exemplify anti-Asian violence
  •  State sanctioned responses that pair “anti-Asian violence” or “Anti-Asian hate” within criminalizing and pro-policing agendas
  • Thinking through violence, non-violence, and anti-violence as ways of knowing and being differently
  • Documentation and analysis of specific forms of community organizing or campaign building against anti-Asian violence
  • Visual arts, multimedia and performance practices that invite embodied engagement and reflexive thinking about anti-Asian violence
  • Forging relational critique through abolition feminist, decolonial, anti-carceral, or anti-violence political insights and practices
  • Strategies and problematics of healing, care work, and mutual aid practices
  • Pedagogical practices and challenges in teaching about anti-Asian violence
  • Speculative forms and imagined futures about diverse modes of sustaining livable Asian American communities

This workshop is a project of the UC Multicampus Research Programs and Initiatives project “Anti-Asian Violence: Origins and Trajectories” Leti Volpp (UCB), Susette Min (UCDavis), Laura Kang (UCI), and Lee Ann Wang (UCLA). Co-Sponsored by the Asian American Studies Department, Asian American Studies Center, Center for the Study of Women, and the American Cultures Institute.

Submission Deadlines and Guidelines:

Please submit a 500-750 word abstract by December 15th, 2023. You will receive a confirmation email. Accepted abstracts are expected to send their full submission by April 15th, 2024.  The workshop takes place on May 17th 2024 at UCLA.

Submit here:  https://tinyurl.com/aav-grad-workshop

Graduate Student Funding:

Partial funding is provided for graduate student travel.

Questions: Please email aavotgrad@gmail.com

Cosponsors:

  • CSW|Streisand Center
  • UCLA Institute of American Cultures
  • UCLA Department of Asian American Studies
  • UCLA Asian American Studies Center