"East Asia and Latin America" Conference

Call for papers for the "East Asia and Latin America" conference, to be held virtually on Friday, March 29th, at the University of Kansas, Lawrence. This interdisciplinary conference will bring together scholars from a variety of fields, including politics, history, economics, religion, anthropology, business, literature, and the arts, to explore the historical and contemporary links between East Asia and Latin America and to rethink dominant narratives and knowledge production by the West and Global North. Are welcomed Individual papers or complete panels that will examine the historical and contemporary political, economic, cultural, and social interactions between East Asia and Latin America, and to explore how these interactions complement, complicate, or challenge such dominant narratives as the rich and the poor, East and West, and North and South based on Euromerican-centered binary thinking.

Papers can be delivered in English, Portuguese, Spanish, Japanese, and Chinese. The event will be hybrid. The due date for submission is February 20, 2024. Accepted panels or papers will be notified by March 1, 2024. Please submit your proposals here:

Panel (three or four presenters) proposal
https://kusurvey.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_3BHE6NTl2S1DHeK

Individual paper proposal
https://kusurvey.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_bBJeMB3K6RaeJHE