SWCAS NEWSLETTER
DEC 1998
MESSAGE FROM PRESIDENT OF SWCAS
It is a great honor to serve as president of the Southwest Conference on Asian Studies. I would like to thanks outgoingPresident Thomas Bellows for this successful leadership over the past year. I would also like to express our gratitude to Dr. Kenneth Hammond for his hard work in organizing the SWCAS portion of the 1998 SWCAS-WCASS joint meeting in El Paso. Furthermore, I must thank Dr. Stephen Field, our official webmaster, for his indispensable service in putting together and managing the SWCAS on-line site at: http://www.trinity.edu/org/swcas/home.html.
Last but not least I want to acknowledge the organization's appreciation to AAS President-elect Susan Mann for her excellent luncheon presentation.
I am happy to announce that the SWCAS will hold an unprecedented joint meeting with The Historical Society for 20th Century China, an affiliated society of the AAS, in 1999. The meeting will convene 21-23 October in San Marcos with Southwest Texas State University serving as the host institution and celebrating its Centennial year. Information about the conference hotels, meeting sites, and other pertinent matters will appear in the next issue of the newsletter.
Please be thinking of papers, panels, roundtable topics, and poster sessions that you, your colleague and graduate students could present at San Marcos next year. Please remind your colleagues that (1) conference papers will be considered for publication in the 1999 edition of the SWCAS's refereed journal; and (2) small travel grants will be offered to selected graduate students whose written papers are accepted for the conference.
Please send all proposals and inquiries about the grants to me. The deadline for receipt of proposals and grant requests is June 21, 1999.
The Southwest Conference on Asian Studies depends on your active participation and support. I welcome any comments and suggestions that you might have about improving our organization's effectiveness and breath.
Looking forward to seeing you in San Marcos next October.
- Dr. Joseph K.S. Yick
- Department of History
- Southwest Texas State University
- San Marcos, TX 78666
- Phone: (512) 245-3748
- Fax: (512) 245-3043
- E-mail: jy02@swt.edu
SWCAS JOURNAL
Paper presenters at the 1998 joint meeting who would like their papers to be considered for publication in The Journal of the Southwest Conference on Asian Studies should send a polished hard and disk copy to Dr. Thomas Bellows, Office of International Programs, Univ. of Texas at San Antonio, TX 78249-0603 no later than January 30, 1999. The papers should be single-spaced with endnotes (not footnotes), using typeface New Times Roman, 12-pitch, and in either WordPerfect 6.0 or Word 5.0. Papers should also conform to the Chicago Manual of Style. Submissions should not exceed 20 pages including endnotes.
1998 BUSINESS MEETING
The first item on the agenda of the 1998 business meeting was the election of officers. The officers of the SWCAS for 1999 are:
- President Joseph Yick (1999) jy02@swt.edu
- Vice President Shelton Woods (1999) swoods@sspafac.idbsu.edu
- Secretary-Treasurer John Peek (1999) jpeek@centenary.edu
- Directors - Kwang Ro (1999) ro@polisci.tamu.edu
- - Harold Tanner (1999) tanner@jove.unt.edu
- - Stephen Field (2000) sfield@trinity.edu
- - Wing-Chung Ng (2000) wng@lonestar.utsa.edu
- - Philip Williams (2001) phil.williams@asu.edu
- - Huiying Wei-Arthus (2001) hweiarthus@weber.edu
Other actions taken at the business meeting were to:
- 1) Change the name of the organization's publication, Selected Papers, to The Journal of the Southwest Conference on Asian Studies.
- 2) Decide to hold the October 2000 meeting of the SWCAS in Houston.
- 3) Remove from the organization's mailing list the names of individuals that had not paid dues for more than five years.
- 4) Increase annual dues to $15.
- 5) Initiate a review of the organization's by laws.
- 6) To approve the report of the Secretary-Treasurer: A balance of
- $3149.16 as of November 1, 1998.
The business meeting also included a summary report from the SWCAS representative on the AAS Council on Conferences. In brief:
- 1) The membership of the COC will be increased to include a representative of American scholars residing in Japan.
- 2) The AAS intends to actively recruit K-12 teachers and design
- programs to meet their specific needs.
- 3) The COC will develop a more formal application and reporting process for outreach grants.
- 4) The AAS is attempting to promote a more interdisciplinary and interactive approach to panel presentations and discussions.
- 5) Each of the regional conferences and the COC will be encouraged to organize a panel for the AAS meetings.
- 6) The future meetings of the AAS will be in San Diego in 2000,
- Chicago in 2001, Washington D.C. in 2002, and Atlanta in 2003.
ANNOUNCEMENTS AND HONORS
Congratulations to Dr. Philip Williams for his election to the AAS Council on Conferences. Dr. Williams will begin his three year term on the COC following the 1999 annual meeting of the AAS in Boston.
In October 1999 the terms on the SWCAS Board of Directors of Kwang Ro and Harold Tanner will expire. Nominations for vice president are also now being accepted. The vice president selected in October 1999 will become president of the SWCAS at the conclusion of the annual meeting in 1999. If you are interested in serving on the Board or as vice president, please contact Dr. Joseph Yick prior to the 1999 meeting.
Formal proposals for the site of the October 2000 and 2001 meetings are now being accepted by the President of the SWCAS.
If you are willing to serve as program chair or local arrangements chair for 2000 or 2001, please inform Dr. Yick.
If you have any notices or announcements for inclusion in the next newsletter, please send them to Dr. John Peek, Dept. of Political Science, Centenary College, Shreveport, LA 71134 by April 1, 1999.
1999 MEMBERSHIP DUES
All participants in the 1999 meeting must be members of the SWCAS. SWCAS dues are $15 which entitle the member to the biannual newsletter, a membership directory, and a copy of The Journal of the Southwest Conference on Asian Studies. Those members who have paid their 1999 membership dues as of December 1, 1998 are: Thomas Bellows and John Peek. Please send your 1999 dues (payable to SWCAS) to:
- Dr. John M. Peek
- Department of Political Science
- Centenary College of Louisiana
- Shreveport, LA 71134
Please include with your check the following information:
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FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS AND PANELS
SOUTHWEST CONFERENCE ON ASIAN STUDIES
October 21-23, 1999 in San Marcos
Name _______________________
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Please send by June 21, 1999 to:
- Dr. Joseph Yick
- Department of History
- Southwest Texas State University
- San Marcos, TX 78666
- E-mail: jy02@swt.edu