Call for Papers

The 2011 NACSA Annual Conference

Las Vegas Nevada, August 19, 2011

The 2011 NACSA Annual Conference will be held on August 19th in Las Vegas, Nevada, following the great tradition of our association to hold a one-day mini-conference prior to the annual meetings of the American Sociological Association (August 20-23, 2011). The aim of this year’s conference is broadly defined to be two-fold: to promote scholarly research on Chinese society, culture, economy, and immigrant life in the greater Chinese Diaspora, and to continue building bridges and guanxi among scholars of Chinese heritage and non-Chinese ancestry in North America, Asia, and other parts of the world. 

Theme(s)

The themes of this year’s conference are otherwise open. We call for submissions of regular papers/panels and will let other theme(s) emerge from the submissions.  We encourage scholars and graduate students from mainlandChina,Hong Kong,Taiwan, and the greater Chinese Diaspora to submit papers/panels in either English or Chinese.

Sessions

The 2011 mini-conference will be holding 5-6 concurrent sessions and a special session, depending on the ASA space allocation.

Submission Deadline: March 15, 2011

Submit your paper or abstract via email to: Heying Jenny Zhan, (hzhan@gsu.edu).

-     Individual papers: Complete papers or paper abstracts will be considered.  Paper abstracts may be 1-2 pages but must contain sufficient detail and evidence of timely completion for the program committee in its decision making.  Please give all authors’ and coauthors’ names, organizational affiliations, and email addresses.

-     Panels: Any NACSA member can organize a panel. Each panel should consist of two to three presenters and a discussant.  The panel organizer must submit a proposal specifying the theme of the panel along with the summaries/abstracts of the papers selected. Pease give all panelists’ names, organizational affiliations, and email addresses.

-     Submissions may be in English or in Chinese.  The program committee assumes that the language used in individual papers/abstracts or panel proposals would be the same as the language used in presentation at the annual conference.  Papers should be formatted as Word documents and sent as an attached file.

Acceptance Announcement: May 1, 2011

-   Email announcements to all organizers/discussants/authors about the tentative panels to which their presentations are assigned

-   A formal acceptance letter is to be provided to all the authors for their travel funding application and/or visa application purposes.

-   Visit http://www.nacsaglobal.net/ for a tentative annual conference program after June 15 of 2011.

Full Paper Submission Deadline: July 1, 2011

-   A full paper is to be submitted to the organizer/presider/discussant of the assigned session.

Contact Persons

-   Dr. Heying Jenny Zhan, President of NACSA, Department of Sociology, Georgia State University, 38 Peachtree Center Ave, P.O. Box 5020, Atlanta, GA, 30302-5020 U.S.A.  Tel. 404-413-6517; Email: hzhan@gsu.edu

Registration Fee

-  The registration fee for each participant is US$10.  Fees may be paid in form of a personal check or a bank draft, payable to “NACSA,” via regular mail prior to July 1, 2010 or on site in Atlanta.  Checks should be sent to the treasurer: Professor Yang Cao, 476 Fretwell, Department of Sociology, 920 University City Blvd. Charlotte, NC, 28223, U.S.A.

Travel Funds

-   All participants will be responsible for their own traveling to and from the conference.  NACSA would be happy to assist you in applying for travel funds. 

Membership Renewal

Current members should renew their 2010 membership.  $15 for regular member, $10 for associate member, $5 for student member, and $300 life-time member.  Both current and new members may fill out their membership forms (see attached) and mail them with their membership dues in checks or bank drafts, payable to “NACSA,” to Professor Yang Cao, 476 Fretwell, Department of Sociology, 920 University City Blvd. Charlotte, NC, 28223, U.S.A.

Final Note

-  You are encouraged to distribute this Call for Papers widely to your colleagues, students, fellow students, and friends who may be interested in joining the NACSA.