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2026 Midwest Conference on Asian Affairs
October 2–4, 2026 | University of Wisconsin-La Crosse
An in person opportunity to learn, collaborate, and connect!
The University of Wisconsin-La Crosse is pleased to host the 75th Annual Meeting of the Midwest Conference on Asian Affairs (MCAA). The MCAA is an annual conference bringing together scholars of Asian studies from the US Midwest Region. Our mission is to encourage scholarly interchange between Asianists in the American Midwest with colleagues from other parts of the US and around the world.
We welcome proposals for panels, roundtables, individual papers, and workshops from all disciplines focusing on East and Inner Asia, Northeast Asia, South Asia, Southeast Asia, and the Asian Diaspora, as well as comparative, inter-Asian, and global Asia topics. Faculty, graduate students, undergraduate students and independent scholars from all regions are encouraged to share their work, receive feedback, and network at the conference. MCAA also awards several student prizes at the graduate and undergraduate levels.