The Asia-Pacific-Americas Research Cluster (APARC) at UC Santa Cruz invites submissions to its second graduate student conference on the theme of the spatial, political, and conceptual formation of the Pacific. Various human activities have shaped a globally interconnected and locally inflected world of the Pacific: the development of tourism; the processes of displacement and migration; the transnational political and commercial relations; the transmission and translation of texts and theories, etc. How have different practices of movements, travels, and migrations made and remade the Pacific? How have various notions of mobility and ?grootedness?h shaped local and transnational imaginations of the Pacific as a place and a concept? How far has the Pacific been entangled with discourses of nationalism, colonialism, identity, gender, ethnicity, or race? We welcome papers that discuss diverse range of topics across fields and disciplines.

This year's keynote speaker is Lok Siu, Associate Professor of Anthropology and Asia/Pacific/American Studies at New York University and author of Memories of a Future Home: Diasporic Citizenship of Chinese in Panama (Stanford University Press, 2005).

The deadline for abstracts is January 20, 2007.

Your submission should include the following:
1.Your name, institutional and departmental affiliation, and year
2.3 to 4 keywords or technical terms describing your topic
3.An abstract of your paper in approximately 300 words

Please submit your abstract via email attachment (.doc or .rtf only) to ctakakir@ucsc.edu.

*Important Note: Due to budgetary constraints and policies, we are unable to fund student travel and accommodation expenses. Participants are asked to secure funding at their home institutions. We sincerely hope that it will not prevent contributions to this promising occasion.

For more information: http://www2.ucsc.edu/aparc/aparc.htm