SWCAS NEWSLETTER
MAY 1999
MESSAGE FROM PRESIDENT OF SWCAS
I would like to thank President Ka-che Yip and the Board of Directors of the Historical Society for the 20th Century China for their kind cooperation in arranging our joint meeting to be held in San Marcos, Texas, October 21-23, 1999.
AAS President Susan Mann will deliver the James Taylor Lecture, sponsored by the Southwest Texas State University History Department, on Thurday, October 21. The luncheon speaker on Saturday will be AAS immediate past President Wendy Doniger. The Saturday evening banquet speaker will be Director-General David Liu of the Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in Houston. A troupe will perform a Chinese song-and-dance show at the banquet.
The hotels for the meeting will be the Holiday Inn Express ($65), Best Western ($55), and La Quinta ($65). Shuttle service between the Austin-Bergstrom International Airport will be prvided upon advance request.
The pre-registration fee for the joint meeting is $25.00. The on-site registration fee will be $35.00. Checks can be made out to me, but please write SWCAS in the memo portion of the check.
If you have not already submitted a panel, paper, or roundtable proposal, please do so by June 21, 1999. Additionally, 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.
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 1999 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 copy to Dr. Joseph Yick no later than December 3, 1999. The papers should be double-spaced with endnotes (not footnotes), and should conform to the Chicago Manual of Style. Submissions should not exceed 40 pages including endnotes.
Those submitting papers will be informed by February 4, 2000, whether their papers have been accepted for publication. All revisions of selected papers must be submitted by April 28, 2000, in hard and disk copy. The final draft should be single-spaced, use typeface New Times Roman in 12-pitch, be in WordPerfect 6.0, and not exceed 20 pages.
SWCAS OFFICERS
- 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
In October 1999 SWCAS will be electing two members to the Board of Directors, a vice president, and a secretary-treasurer. The vice president elected in October 1999 will become president of the SWCAS at the conclusion of the annual meeting in 2000. The new secretary-treasurer's term also begins at the end of the annual meeting and runs for three years. If you are interested in any of these positions, please contact Dr. Joseph Yick prior to the 1999 meeting.
FUTURE MEETINGS
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.
NOTICES AND ANNOUNCEMENTS
The SWCAS wishes to congratulate Philip Williams and Yenna Wu on the publication of their Chinese language primer, Chinese the Easy Way, by Barron's Educational Series.
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
- William Cunningham
- Gerald Fielder
- Shelia Fling
- Ken Hammond
- Chiang Lin D.E. Mungello
- Hong-kyu Park
- John Peek
- Christiane Reinhold
- Harold Tanner Derrill Trenholm
- Philip Willimas
- Yenna Wu
- Joseph Yick
1999 DUES
Please send your 1999 dues (payable to SWCAS) to:
- Dr. John M. Peek
- Department of Political Science
- Centenary College of Louisiana
- Shreveport, LA 71134
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FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS AND PANELS
SOUTHWEST CONFERENCE ON ASIAN STUDIES
October 21-23, 1999 in San Marcos
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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