For the 2025 Annual ACLA Conference (May 29th-June 1st 2025, held virtually)

This panel asks presenters to consider the logics of fracture, at the level of idenity, artisitic production, and national scales as it realtes to East and Southeast Asian art and literature. 

This session wishes to examine the concept of fracture as it relates to art and literature from East Southeast Asia and the diaspora. A central line of inquiry is to engage how poets, filmmakers, graphic novelists, and others produce fractured works in response to war, occupation, exile, uprisings, displacement, and division. In what ways are such frameworks also constructed by and resistant to Empire? What role does Empire play in its relationship to East and Southeast Asian cultural, political, and artistic productions? Cross-geographic presentations are welcomed and encouraged.

Paper proposals should be longer than 1500 characters. 

Please submit your abstract to:https://www.acla.org/node/add/paper (no later than October 14th- you will need to login in to create and submit your abstract proposal).

If you have any questions or concerns feel free to direct them to my email, drrobertstaylor@gmail.com

-Dr. Taylor Roberts