SWCAS NEWSLETTER

DECEMBER 1999

MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT OF SWCAS

I wish to express my appreciation to the members of the Southwest Conference on Asian Studies for the honor of being selected as the organization's president for Y2K. I will do my best to equal the meritorious service of outgoing President Joseph Yick.

The 1999 SWCAS joint meeting with the Historical Society for 20th Century China organized by Dr. Yick was well received by members of both professional organizations and by officials at Southwest Texas State University. Thanks, Joseph! The outreach activities of SWCAS also were well received by the local community. Thus, a special thanks must go to Drs. Levine and Kagan for a rich outreach program on Vietnamese History and Culture.

Planning for the next annual conference is already underway. The 2000 meeting is scheduled to be held October 13-14 in Houston. I am currently working with Sharon Wen at the University of Houston to complete the local arrangements. Information on meeting sites and lodging will appear in the spring edition of the newsletter.

The success of the 2000 meeting of SWCAS, of course, depends heavily on your participation. Thus, I wish to strongly encourage you to attend the meeting in Houston. It is not too early to begin thinking of a paper, roundtable, or poster topic to be presented in October, 2000. Please remember that conference papers can be submitted for possible inclusion in the journal published by SWCAS. And don't forget that the conference does offer travel grants of up to $100 for graduate students presenting a paper at the annual meeting.

If you plan to participate in the next annual meeting, please send the "first call" form attached to this newsletter to the following address:

John Peek
Department of History and Political Science
Centenary College of Louisiana
Shreveport, LA 71134

SWCAS JOURNAL

Eighteen papers from the 1999 conference in San Marcos were received for consideration for publication in the Issue Number 2 of the Journal of the Southwest Conference on Asian Studies. No further submissions will be considered.

NEWS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS

SWCAS members Philip F. Williams and Yenna Wu are co-organizers of a one-day national conference "The Chinese Labor Camp: Theory, Actuality, and Fictional Representation," to be held at the University of California, Riverside on January 15, 2000. The conference will be open to the general public. For further information and on-line registration, see the conference website at http://www.ucr.edu/cis/chinese/

SWCAS OFFICERS

President John Peek (2000) jpeek@centenary.edu
Vice President Wing Chung Ng (2000) wng@lonestar.utsa.edu
Secretary-Treasurer Harold Tanner (2002) tanner@jove.unt.edu

Directors:

Tracy Steele (2002) his_tls@shsu.edu
Thomas Bellows (2002) bellows@lonestar.utsa.edu
Philip Williams (2001) phil.williams@asu.edu
Huiying Wei-Arthus (2001) hweiarthus@weber.edu
Stephen Field (2000) sfield@trinity.edu
Wing-Chung Ng (2000) wng@lonestar.utsa.edu

In October 2000 SWCAS will be electing two members to the Board of Directors and a vice president. The vice president elected in October 2000 will become president of the SWCAS at the conclusion of the annual meeting in 2001. If you are interested in any of these positions, please contact Dr. John Peek prior to the 2000 meeting.

FUTURE MEETINGS

The 2000 meeting of the SWCAS will be held in Houston on October 13-14. In the year 2001 we will be going to Las Vegas for a joint meeting with the Western Conference of the Association for Asian Studies. Suggestions for sites for conferences in 2002 and 2003 may be submitted to the President of the SWCAS.

2000 MEMBERSHIP DUES

All participants in the 2000 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.

Please send your 2000 dues (payable to SWCAS) to:

Dr. Harold M. Tanner
Department of History
P.O. Box 310650
University of North Texas
Denton TX 76203-0650

Please include with your check the following information:

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FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS AND PANELS

SOUTHWEST CONFERENCE ON ASIAN STUDIES

October 13-14, 2000 in Houston

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Please send by June 21, 2000 to:

Dr. John M. Peek
Department of Political Science
Centenary College of Louisiana
Shreveport, LA 71134