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ASAP: The Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present seeks applications for the next editor(s)-in-chief of the award-winning ASAP/Journal.

Please see more information below!

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ASAP/Journal Editor-in-Chief Search ASAP: The Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present seeks applications for the next editor(s)-in-chief of the award-winning ASAP/Journal. Elizabeth Ho w...
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November 7, 2025 at 7:19 PM
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Congratulations to Kency Cornejo, whose book "Visual Disobedience" has won the Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present Book Prize from @asapartsnow.bsky.social.
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Cover of Visual Disobedience: Art and Decoloniality in Central America by Kency Cornejo. Cover features a photograph of an individual with long black hair looking out over a yellow cornfield. The person wears a blue jacket with various words stitched into it in vibrant colors. The sky is blue above the field with a few scattered groups of puffy, white clouds.
October 27, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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Thank you all for such a lovely ASAP/16! The conversations and gatherings are what make our organization so special and exciting.

We’re already excited for ASAP/17 in Madison, WI! Stay tuned for more info!
October 26, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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I'll be talking about the NEA, literary nonprofits, & poetry's professionalization at @asapartsnow.bsky.social in Houston on Friday.
October 22, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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Safe travels to Houston for ASAP/16! We’re so excited to kick things off tonight! Tag us if you’re presenting!
October 22, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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Happy ASAP/16 Week! We’re so excited for the conference in a few days. Here’s a quick checklist to make sure you have everything you need.
October 21, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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Sixth in the ASAP/16 Book Prize shortlist is Christopher T. Fan’s ASIAN AMERICAN FICTION AFTER 1965: TRANSNATIONAL FANTASIES OF ECONOMIC MOBILITY from @columbiaup.bsky.social. The winner of the prize will be announced at our conference in Houston next week. Please join us!
October 17, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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Fifth in the ASAP/16 Book Prize shortlist is Amber Jamilla Musser’s BETWEEN SHADOWS AND NOISE: SENSATION, SITUATEDNESS, AND THE UNDISCIPLINED from @dukepress.bsky.social. The winner of the prize will be announced at our conference in Houston next week. Please join us!
October 15, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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Fourth in the ASAP/16 Book Prize shortlist is Steven Swarbrick and Jean-Thomas Tremblay’s NEGATIVE LIFE: THE CINEMA OF EXTINCTION from @nupress. The winner of the prize will be announced at our conference in Houston in a few weeks. Please join us!
October 13, 2025 at 1:32 PM
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Third for the ASAP/16 book prize is DEPTH EFFECTS: DIMENSIONALITY FROM CAMERA TO COMPUTATION
by Brooke Belisle from University of California Press! We’ll announce the winner of the book prize at our annual conference in Houston! Please join us!
October 10, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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Third for the ASAP/16 book prize is DEPTH EFFECTS: DIMENSIONALITY FROM CAMERA TO COMPUTATION
by Brooke Belisle from University of California Press! We’ll announce the winner of the book prize at our annual conference in Houston! Please join us!
October 10, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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Second up in our shortlist for the ASAP/16 Book Prize is Kency Cornejo’s VISUAL DISOBEDIENCE: ART AND DECOLONIALITY IN CENTRAL AMERICA from @dukepress.bsky.social. We will announce the winner at this year’s conference in Houston, TX. Please join us!
October 8, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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First up in our shortlist for the ASAP/16 Book Prize is Sarah Dimick’s UNSEASONABLE: CLIMATE CHANGE IN GLOBAL LITERATURES from @columbiaup.bsky.social. We will announce the winner at this year’s conference in Houston, TX. Please join us!
October 6, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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All of these books are FANTASTIC. I was blown away — in different ways — by each one and they were each a joy to read. The world is dark but scholarship continues to amaze
asapartsnow.bsky.social Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present @asapartsnow.bsky.social · Oct 2
We are so excited to announce the shortlist for the ASAP/16 Book Prize!

Congratulations to all the nominees! We’ll announce the winner of the prize at the annual conference in a few weeks in Houston! See the ALT ID and thread for more information.

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Sarah Dimick- Unseasonable: Climate Change in Global Literatures (Columbia UP) Kency Cornejo- Visual Disobedience: Art and Decoloniality in Central America (Duke UP) Brooke Belisle- Depth Effects: Dimensionality from Camera to Computation (University of California Press) Steven Swarbrick & Jean-Thomas Tremblay- Negative Life: The Cinema of Extinction (Northwestern UP) Amber Jamilla Musser- Between Shadows and Noise: Sensation, Situatedness, and the Undisciplined (Duke UP) Christopher T. Fan- Asian American Fiction After 1965: Transnational Fantasies of Economic Mobility (Columbia UP)
October 6, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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We are so excited to announce the shortlist for the ASAP/16 Book Prize!

Congratulations to all the nominees! We’ll announce the winner of the prize at the annual conference in a few weeks in Houston! See the ALT ID and thread for more information.

1/4
Sarah Dimick- Unseasonable: Climate Change in Global Literatures (Columbia UP) Kency Cornejo- Visual Disobedience: Art and Decoloniality in Central America (Duke UP) Brooke Belisle- Depth Effects: Dimensionality from Camera to Computation (University of California Press) Steven Swarbrick & Jean-Thomas Tremblay- Negative Life: The Cinema of Extinction (Northwestern UP) Amber Jamilla Musser- Between Shadows and Noise: Sensation, Situatedness, and the Undisciplined (Duke UP) Christopher T. Fan- Asian American Fiction After 1965: Transnational Fantasies of Economic Mobility (Columbia UP)
October 2, 2025 at 10:29 PM
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Watch this space! We'll be dropping the shortlist for the 2025 ASAP Book Prize TOMORROW, October 1! 👀

The winner will be announced at the ASAP/16 conference in Houston.
September 30, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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ASAP Members! Are you a grad student who presented at our conference last year in NYC? Submit for this year’s Grad Student Paper Prize! Swipe to see the guidelines! Submissions due OCT 1!
RULES FOR COMPETITION Only current ASAP members in good standing can submit work for consideration for the graduate student paper award. Papers considered for the prize must have been presented at the previous year’s ASAP conference. Papers may be self-nominated or nominated by members of the association who attended the conference at which the paper was presented. The paper must be the paper presented at the conference. It should not be in any way revised or edited for consideration by the prize committee. Longer papers submitted to seminars are eligible, but submissions longer than 12 double-spaced pages (works cited excluded) will not be accepted. Papers must be submitted electronically to the chair of the prize committee by the deadline. The paper must be the same version as the presentation at ASAP/15. It should not be revised or edited in any way. Papers pre-circulated to seminars are eligible, but submissions longer than 12 double-spaced pages (works cited excluded) will not be accepted.
September 12, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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Grad students, please submit!!!
asapartsnow.bsky.social Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present @asapartsnow.bsky.social · Sep 12
ASAP Members! Are you a grad student who presented at our conference last year in NYC? Submit for this year’s Grad Student Paper Prize! Swipe to see the guidelines! Submissions due OCT 1!
RULES FOR COMPETITION Only current ASAP members in good standing can submit work for consideration for the graduate student paper award. Papers considered for the prize must have been presented at the previous year’s ASAP conference. Papers may be self-nominated or nominated by members of the association who attended the conference at which the paper was presented. The paper must be the paper presented at the conference. It should not be in any way revised or edited for consideration by the prize committee. Longer papers submitted to seminars are eligible, but submissions longer than 12 double-spaced pages (works cited excluded) will not be accepted. Papers must be submitted electronically to the chair of the prize committee by the deadline. The paper must be the same version as the presentation at ASAP/15. It should not be revised or edited in any way. Papers pre-circulated to seminars are eligible, but submissions longer than 12 double-spaced pages (works cited excluded) will not be accepted.
September 12, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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ASAP Members! Are you a grad student who presented at our conference last year in NYC? Submit for this year’s Grad Student Paper Prize! Swipe to see the guidelines! Submissions due OCT 1!
RULES FOR COMPETITION Only current ASAP members in good standing can submit work for consideration for the graduate student paper award. Papers considered for the prize must have been presented at the previous year’s ASAP conference. Papers may be self-nominated or nominated by members of the association who attended the conference at which the paper was presented. The paper must be the paper presented at the conference. It should not be in any way revised or edited for consideration by the prize committee. Longer papers submitted to seminars are eligible, but submissions longer than 12 double-spaced pages (works cited excluded) will not be accepted. Papers must be submitted electronically to the chair of the prize committee by the deadline. The paper must be the same version as the presentation at ASAP/15. It should not be revised or edited in any way. Papers pre-circulated to seminars are eligible, but submissions longer than 12 double-spaced pages (works cited excluded) will not be accepted.
September 12, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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REMINDER! The deadline to register for ASAP/16 in Houston, TX is SEPTEMBER 1! Register here: asap.press.jhu.edu/membership/c...
August 29, 2025 at 9:29 PM
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Happy August! As we get ready for the ASAP/16 conference in Houston, TX, don't forget to register:

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August 4, 2025 at 1:07 PM
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The ASAP/16 Book Prize, awarded to a scholarly book written by an ASAP member that has made the most significant contribution to the study of the arts of the present during the year 2024. The submission deadline for this year is May 15.

Please find more info here: www.artsofthepresent.org/prizes/
May 7, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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Due to technical issues, we have extended the deadline for the Grad Student Papers in Progress Workshop to May 5 at 11:59pm EST.

If you continue to have issues with Ex Ordo on Monday evening, please send abstracts and bios to conference.asap@gmail.com.
May 3, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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Deadline is TOMORROW! Submit to the Grad Student Papers in Progress Workshop!
asapartsnow.bsky.social Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present @asapartsnow.bsky.social · Apr 30
Are you grad student interested in workshopping a paper? Apply to the Grad Student Papers in Progress Workshop, which allows students to pre-circulate longer pieces of in-progress writing (article-length or approx. 15-25 pgs).

Submissions are due MAY 2! Please send submissions to asap16.exordo.com.
Speakers’ Options
The ASAP/16 Conference will feature four types of sessions: panels, roundtables, seminars, and workshops.  Panels feature 3-4 papers or presentations, moderated by a session chair.One of those present...
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May 1, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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Are you grad student interested in workshopping a paper? Apply to the Grad Student Papers in Progress Workshop, which allows students to pre-circulate longer pieces of in-progress writing (article-length or approx. 15-25 pgs).

Submissions are due MAY 2! Please send submissions to asap16.exordo.com.
Speakers’ Options
The ASAP/16 Conference will feature four types of sessions: panels, roundtables, seminars, and workshops.  Panels feature 3-4 papers or presentations, moderated by a session chair.One of those present...
artsofthepresent.org
April 30, 2025 at 4:35 PM