Dear Colleagues and Members of SEC/AAS:

This letter is to inform you that the 52nd Annual Meeting of the Southeast Conference of the Association for Asian Studies will be hosted by University of North Carolina at Wilmington, to be held January 11-13, 2013. 

Proposals for individual papers or full panels may be submitted on the form located on our website at http://www.uky.edu/Centers/Asia/SECAAS/  You may also e-mail, fax, or post your proposals to Dr. Jieli Li, our 2013 Program Chair.  Regardless of the method you select, please submit your proposal no later than October 31, 2012, to ensure full consideration and a place on the conference schedule.

Professor Jieli Li
Department of Sociology and Anthropology
Ohio University
Bentley Annex 133– Athens, Ohio 45701;
Phone 740-593-1373 Fax: 740-593-1365; Email:  lij@ohio.edu

SEC/AAS dues are $20 ($10 for students); conference participants must be dues-paying members.  Membership form is available online at our website.  Dues should be sent to SEC/AAS with the membership form at http://www.uky.edu/Centers/Asia/SECAAS/member_application.html :Charlotte Beahan/Department of History 6B Faculty Hall/Murray State University/Murray, KY 42071-3341.
 
For our 2013 conference, we particularly encourage papers with inter-disciplinary and cross-cultural approaches.  Scholarship on any issues of Asian studies is welcome.  All dues paying members will receive copies of the 2012 issue of the Southeast Review of Asian Studies (SERAS), whether or not they attend the meeting.  Please consider SERAS as a future outlet for your work by submitting your research paper, scholarly notes, or reviews of recently published books in the field.  (We would be happy to review your recently published book on Asia, provided you can send us a copy.)  For further information, contact editor Dr. Li-ling Hsiao at: seraseditors@hotmail.com.  Past issues of SERAS and further information are available at: http://www.uky.edu/centers/Asia/SECAAS/seras.html.
 
The local arrangements chair is Dr. Paige Johnson Tan/ Dept of Public and International Affairs/ 601 South College Road/University of North Carolina-Wilmington/ Wilmington, NC 28403-5607/ Phone: (910) 962- 3221/ Fax: (910) 962-3286/ Office Location: 257 Leutze Hall/ Email:  tanp@uncw.edu  Details concerning lodging will be posted in due course on our website.  There are three grants in the amount of $200 available for graduate students presenting papers.  Those who wish to be considered for this assistance must indicate this when they submit their paper proposals.  Preference will be given to those who must travel more than two hundred miles to attend.

Sincerely,
 
Shiping Hua, President
SEC/AAS