AAS 2025 Call for Late-Breaking Sessions

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The Association for Asian Studies welcomes proposals for Late-Breaking Sessions to be held at its 2025 Annual Conference, March 13-16 in Columbus, Ohio. Late-Breaking Sessions are an opportunity to engage the entire membership and Asian Studies community in discussing trending topics. Late-Breaking roundtables provide a forum for engaging in dialogue on current events that affect our perspectives on and work in the Asian region.

We will consider only roundtable sessions (no individual papers, please). We are not accepting traditional organized panel sessions; since these are, by definition, conversations that respond to recent events, we do not expect traditional research presentations.

All sessions will run 90 minutes in length. Roundtables should consist of no more than five discussants and a chair.

Before submitting a full proposal, organizers should send a two- or three-sentence description of the planned session; short descriptions are due by January 2, 2025. Within a week of the January 2 submission deadline, a selection committee will review the description and indicate whether or not they grant approval to proceed with the submission. Those who are invited to submit full proposals must do so by January 24, 2025. Invitations to submit are not an indicator of guaranteed acceptance.

This opportunity is not a second chance for proposals not initially accepted by the Program Committee. The bar for acceptance will be considerably higher than through the regular process.


The AAS Secretariat will be closed on Monday, February 17 in observance of Presidents’ Day