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This Week
Click on the title for more details.- East Eats West
Mon Nov 9, 2009 - CALL FOR PAPERS - Explorations in Southeast Asian Studies
Mon Nov 9, 2009 - Film Showing: Dung Dot (Don’t Burn It, It's Already on Fire) A film in Vietnamese with English subtitles
Tue Nov 10, 2009 - Ray McGovern on "Why Accountability for Torture Is Crucial for Human Rights, Our Security and Our Souls"
Thu Nov 12, 2009
All Events
November 2009
CALL FOR PAPERS - "BEYOND BORDERS: ALTERNATIVE VOICES AND HISTORIES OF THE VIETNAMESE DIASPORA
Monday November 2, 2009
The Center for Southeast Asian Studies, in conjunction with the Walter
Chapin Simpson Center for the Humanities at the University of Washington,
Seattle (USA), invites academics, advanced graduate students, and
independent scholars to submit paper proposals for the
conference-workshop
"BEYOND BORDERS: ALTERNATIVE VOICES AND HISTORIES OF THE VIETNAMESE
DIASPORA,"
to be held on the Seattle campus of the University of Washington from
Thursday, March 4th, to Sunday, March 7th, 2010.
Organizers and co-coordinators:
Christoph Giebel and Judith Henchy (Univ. of Washington - Seattle)
Co-coordinators and "keynote speakers in dialog":
Mariam B. Lam (Univ. of California - Riverside) and Jack Yeager
(Louisiana State University). These two scholars of the Vietnamese
diaspora will help frame the conference-workshop with distinct
Francophone and American perspectives.
GENERAL CONCEPT: This March 2010 conference-workshop on the Vietnamese
diaspora is the third in a three-part series, constituting a multi-year
research initiative in Viet Nam Studies, "Alternative Voices and
Histories in Viet Nam: Colonial Modernities and Post-colonial
Narratives." The initiative's aims are:
* to bring together scholars from around the world who focus on new
interpretations of Vietnamese history and historiography;
* to provide a forum for recent, disparate work on new sources and
under-researched topics to critically engage with one another;
* and to make the results available to the wider academic community.
Our first and second conference-workshops, "Beyond Teleologies:
alternative voices and histories in colonial Viet Nam" and "Beyond
Dichotomies: alternative voices and histories in post-colonial Viet Nam"
were held in Seattle in March 2007 and May 2008.
The trilogy of conference-workshops is based on the understanding that
modern Vietnamese historiography has been unduly dominated by several
particular and at times overlapping discourses reflective of the
prevalent ideological presumptions of the 20th century, such as those
that:
* privilege the perspectives, interests, and actions of a central state
or states;
* impose nationalist and traditionalist notions on Vietnamese history
and culture;
* subsume Vietnamese revolutionary visions and movements solely
under communist teleologies;
* and enforce Cold War rhetorical postures by excluding, externalizing
and de-legitimizing those that do not fit simplistic binaries.
By contrast, the workshops will highlight academic work that complicates,
challenges and counters these paradigms, thereby enriching and expanding
our understanding of the variety of modern Vietnamese historical actors,
factors, and epistemologies, and suggesting the contours of alternative
models.
CALL FOR PAPERS: For this workshop on the Vietnamese diaspora, "Beyond
Borders," we are seeking papers that focus on the disparate margins of
Vietnamese identities. Papers should explore the particular and
multiple histories of Vietnamese overseas sojourn, migration and exile in
early modern, colonial, war time, post-1975, and socialist contexts. At
the same time, contributors can help articulate the initiative's interest
in marginal voices in Vietnamese historiography with the disciplinary
concerns of ethnic and global cultural studies. Papers might illuminate,
among many other possible themes:
* colonial politics of exile and punishment throughout the global French
empire;
* inter-colonial and transnational connections in exile, for example, by
Vietnamese soldiers, workers, students, political activists, prisoners,
travelers, or those subjected to colonial display;
* literary representations of diaspora, from colonialism and the anomie
of "foreigners at home" to the contemporary Vietnamese imaginary of
exile and return;
* diasporic community formations, acculturations, as well as ethnic
enclave politics and economics;
* politically diverse exile groups during the war years and their
relations with post-war refugee communities;
* comparative diasporic work, or multi-sited anthropological research
on, for example, overseas Vietnamese student and migrant/contract
labor populations, adoptees, or transnational out-marriages;
* exposure/isolation of particular demographics: e.g.,
Israeli-Vietnamese, Versailles-New Orleans, or non-identifying diasporic
communities from Viet Nam;
* overseas Vietnamese linkages to Viet Nam, remittances, anti-communist
rhetoric, generational concerns, and educational differences.
In general, the organizers welcome papers on the Vietnamese diaspora,
broadly defined in time and space, that engage a wide range of sources
and literatures, in particular new and under-researched ones.
Please submit, preferably electronically,
(1) a paper abstract,
(2) a brief statement how the paper will engage the larger themes and
concerns of the workshop, and
(3) a short C.V.
BY MONDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 2009
to the organizers of the conference series:
Christoph Giebel, Assoc. Prof. of History and International
Studies, giebel@u.washington.edu and
Judith Henchy, Head, Southeast Asia Section, University of Washington
Libraries,
and Lecturer in International Studies, judithh@u.washington.edu
c/o Center for Southeast Asian Studies
University of Washington, box 353650
Seattle, WA 98195-3650, USA
Participants should agree to submit their draft papers no later than
three weeks prior to the workshop, be willing to provide detailed
comments on other select papers, engage in group deliberations during the
entire workshop, and, if feasible, commit to actively participate in
periodic follow-up discussions and commentary for possible
publications. While graduate students will receive a modest travel
subvention from the organizers, all other participants will be expected
to cover their expenses through other institutional funds.
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Commitment, Controversy, and Torture: The Road to Defeat in Vietnam
Tuesday November 3, 2009
4:00pm
Communications 120
John Prados is an analyst of national security based in Washington, DC. Prados holds a Ph.D. from Columbia University and focuses on presidential power, international relations, intelligence and military affairs. He is a senior fellow and project director with the National Security Archive, leading both the Archive's Iraq Documentation Project and its parallel effort on Vietnam. His current book is Vietnam: The History of an Unwinnable War, 1945-1975 (University of Kansas Press). Now out in paperback is Safe for Democracy: The Secret Wars of the CIA (Ivan Dee Publisher). In addition Prados is author or editor of sixteen other books, with titles on national security, the American presidency, intelligence matters, diplomatic history and military affairs, including Iraq, Vietnam, and World War II.
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East Eats West
Monday November 9, 2009
3:30pm-5:00pm
Thomson Hall, Room 317, University of Washington, Seattle
Andrew Lam is co-founder of New America Media, the country's first and
largest national collaboration and advocate of 2000 ethnic news
organizations. He's the author of "Perfume Dreams: Reflections on the
Vietnamese Diaspora" and "East Eats West," due out in 2010.
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CALL FOR PAPERS - Explorations in Southeast Asian Studies
Monday November 9, 2009
The journal "Explorations in Southeast Asian Studies" is edited and
published by graduate students at the University of Hawai’i at Manoa.
"Explorations" showcases student research on Southeast Asia from a
diverse range of disciplinary perspectives and welcomes submissions
from graduate students currently enrolled in a formal program of study
in the US and abroad. We welcome submissions from all disciplines,
including history, Asian studies, languages and literature, social
sciences and the humanities.
Submissions must be written with an interdisciplinary audience in
mind, avoiding technical or other jargon, and should address themes of
interest for specialists in Southeast Asian studies. Submissions will
be considered on a rolling basis until November 9, 2009. Submissions
received after the deadline will not be considered. Please submit your
work by email as a Word document (.doc, not .pdf) to
explore@hawaii.edu.
Please submit your submission following the Chicago Manual of Style
guidelines, with endnotes, a complete bibliography of all works used
and an abstract. Submissions should not exceed 30 pages in length and
are expected neither to be currently under review by another
publication nor to have been previously published elsewhere.
We also consider the following types of submissions: reviews of
current books,films or exhibitions, original translations of poetry or
short stories into English from a Southeast Asian language, photo
essays, “Notes from the Field” pieces (i.e. informal essays on
firsthand research experiences) and short reviews of new research tools
and resources.
"Explorations" is supported by the Center for Southeast Asian Studies,
the Southeast Asian Studies Student Association and the Student
Activities and Program Fee Board at the University of Hawai’i. The
journal is produced through a blind review process by volunteer
editors with the guidance of a faculty advisor. The editorial board
consists of graduate students from a range of disciplines whose
interests lie within Southeast Asia. The journal is published online
and in hard copy and is distributed to major Southeast Asian studies
centers and libraries, both nationally and internationally.
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Film Showing: Dung Dot (Don’t Burn It, It's Already on Fire) A film in Vietnamese with English subtitles
Tuesday November 10, 2009
4:30PM
Odegaard Undergraduate Library, Room 220
Directed by pre-eminent Vietnamese film maker Ðặng Nhật Minh, the film is based on the published diary of Dr Đặng Thùy Trâm. The diary became a best-seller in Vietnam, published as Nhật kỳ Đặng Thùy Trâm, and has been much acclaimed in translation as Last Night I Dreamed of Peace.
Synopsis
“The film "Don’t Burn it" is the story of a female doctor, Đặng Thùy Trâm, from Hanoi. During the war, she headed an infirmary in a war-ravaged area where, according to her diary, "death can be easier than having a meal." The diary, returned to her family by an American veteran, documents her love for people, her burning longings for her family and relatives, and her dreams about peace. This war diary has the strength to bring people of different colors and political viewpoints closer. It is a rarity. If one can call this film propaganda, it must be propaganda about the love among human beings.”
Đặng Nhật Minh is perhaps the best known Vietnamese director outside of Việt Nam. His award winning films include: "When the Tenth Month Comes" (Bao giờ cho đến tháng mười), selected the best Asian film of all time on CNN; "Nostalgia for the Countryside," [Thương nhớ đò̂ng quê] which received the NETPAC Special Mention at Rotterdam International Film Fest; and "Guava Season”[Mùa ổi], (2000), which was recognized at film festivals in Locarno, Singapore, Rotterdam, and Oslo. He worked as the Vietnamese director for "The Quiet American," Phillip Noyce’s film based on the Graham Greene novel. He is also a journalist, writer, and former General Secretary of the Association of Vietnamese Filmmakers.
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Ray McGovern on "Why Accountability for Torture Is Crucial for Human Rights, Our Security and Our Souls"
Thursday November 12, 2009
7:00pm
Kane 220
Ray McGovern was a CIA analyst for 27 years. He is active in Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS) and has been an outspoken critic of the flawed intelligence used to justify the Iraq war and of the use of torture. He has written:
On April 16, President Barack Obama released ... documents [which] reveal that top CIA officials solicited and obtained from handpicked Department of Justice lawyers legal opinions based on an extraordinary premise; namely, that so-called "enhanced interrogation techniques" did not amount to torture unless they caused "pain equivalent to organ failure or death." With that very high threshold, the CIA was given free rein to use harsh techniques like waterboarding and sleep deprivation, to name just two of the torture techniques that find antecedents in the Spanish Inquisition. Several detainees died in CIA custody; the murders appear to qualify as capital offenses under 18 U.S.C. 2441, the War Crimes Act passed into law in 1996 by a Republican-controlled Congress.
Co-sponsors include ACLU-Washington; American Friends Service Committee - Pacific NW; Amnesty International Group 4, Seattle; Amnesty International Puget Sound; Backbone Campaign; Sound Nonviolent Opponents of War (SNOW); UW Amnesty International; UW Center for Global Studies; UW Center for Human Rights; UW Jackson School of International Studies; UW Latin American Studies Program; UW Law, Societies & Justice program; UW Southeast Asia Center; United Nations Association Greater Seattle Chapter; Washington Association of Churches; and Western Washington Fellowship of Reconciliation.
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CALL FOR PAPERS - Engaging the Classics in Malay and Southeast Asian Studies: Where to from here?
Sunday November 15, 2009
A Conference-Workshop organized by the Institute of Southeast Asian
Studies and Malay Studies Department, National University of Singapore,
with support from Majlis Ugama Islam Singapura (MUIS) and Jamiyah
Institute of Southeast Asian Studies
Heng Mui Keng Terrace, Pasir Panjang, Singapore
17-18 June 2010
Call for Papers
Southeast Asian Studies as a discipline is certainly no stranger to
self-critique. From the examination of colonial values in its early
anthropological investigations, the inherent Cold War strategic interests
in area studies, to the perceived threat or challenges posed by
postmodernism and cultural studies, Southeast Asian Studies has
occasionally taken a critical look at its own methodological and
theoretical predispositions and practices.
However, while the intellectual trends and political influences on
Southeast Asian Studies have been interrogated, far less scholarly
attention has been paid to the authorial capital and status of Southeast
Asian works themselves. The high levels of authorial capital enjoyed by
key texts in Southeast Asian Studies – otherwise known as
“classics” – need to be subjected to closer scrutiny and
re-evaluation given the Western dominance over Southeast Asian Studies,
the exclusion of non-English texts from the canons, and the absence of
new and regionally-cognizant ways of framing Southeast Asian subjects.
Such classics include the early colonial works of giants like Furnivall
and Firth, the contributions of Geertz, Anderson and Scott during the
height of area studies in the 1970s to 1980s, as well as the
interventions of Southeast Asians themselves like Thongchai, Ileto,
Rafael, Sartono, and Alatas.
This conference-workshop is jointly organized by the Institute of
Southeast Asian Studies (ISEAS) and the Malay Studies Department,
National University of Singapore. It seeks to achieve three broad
objectives: firstly, to interrogate the authorial capital of these
classics as well as to re-assess their contemporary relevance; secondly,
to offer younger Southeast Asian scholars (or “home scholars”, to
borrow Thongchai’s term) the platform to creatively appropriate or
re-interpret such classics for alternative and novel modes of
intellectual inquiry; and thirdly, to identify or lay the conceptual
pathways for emerging classics.
This two-day conference-workshop, to be held at ISEAS, will endeavor to
address the following issues:
1. How may the categories “classics” or “canons” be defined? Is
there a need to re-assess the criteria for defining the classics or
canons in the field?
2. How do local scholars engage the classics and what are the outcomes of
such engagement? Are there classics in the vernacular worth highlighting,
and if so, how are their insights translatable to other Southeast Asian
contexts?
3. In general, the classics engage with issues related to social change
and the transformation of Southeast Asia, such as the impact of
colonialism and global capitalism on local economies and societies,
especially the agricultural sector, and the transition to modern
nation-states. Are these issues still relevant today? Are there other
issues that should capture our imagination and occupy our scholarly
efforts?
4. In engaging the classics, what are the implications on the trajectory
of the development of Southeast Asian Studies? Is there scope for
suggesting a new canon of “emerging classics”? If so, what are they
and in what way(s) do they define our reflections on Southeast Asia?
Southeast Asian Studies scholars are invited to submit abstracts (250
words) to the conference-workshop organizers. Papers should attempt to
address one, if not more, of the issues laid out above. The deadline for
the submission of abstracts is 15 November 2009. Selected participants
will be notified by 15 December 2009. Full length papers (6,000-8,000
words) are due on 1 May 2010.
ISEAS, the Malay Studies Department and MUIS are pleased to announce that
there are modest funds available to provide for the air-travel and
accommodations of paper presenters from Southeast Asia. Selected papers
will be published in an edited volume by ISEAS.
Abstract submissions should be sent to:
engagingtheclassics@gmail.com
Any conference-related inquiries may be sent to any of the following
conference organizers:
Rommel A. Curaming (mlsrc@nus.edu.sg)
Syed Mohd Khairudin Aljunied (mlsasmk@nus.edu.sg)
Hui Yew-Foong (yfhui@iseas.edu.sg)
Terence Chong (terencechong@iseas.edu.sg)
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“East Timor in the 21st Century: Global Rights and Responsibilities” A conference to build understanding and solidarity
Friday November 13, 2009 to Sunday November 15, 2009
Seattle, Washington, USA
The East Timor and Indonesia Action Network (ETAN) is proud to
announce East Timor (Timor-Leste) in the 21st Century: Global Rights
and Responsibilities, a solidarity conference for activists, advocates
and scholars interested in East Timor. The conference will be held
November 13-15, 2009, in Seattle, Washington. Exact location will soon
be announced.
East Timor in the 21st Century: Global Rights and Responsibilities
will include panel discussions, workshops, film screenings, art
showings, and strategic organizing discussions. Please join us in
building solidarity with the East Timorese!
Have you been to Timor with the Peace Corps, the UN, a humanitarian
NGO, as a tourist, or on some other capacity? Were you active in
support of East Timor’s self-determination in the 1990s (or before)
and want to learn more about what has happened since? Whether your
interest in East Timor is as an activist or academic, or you are just
curious, ETAN wants your participation!
Call for Proposals: Are you interested in sharing what you know about
East Timor? Is there a topic you want to learn more about? ETAN is
seeking proposals and ideas for workshops, panels, speakers, art
presentations, films and other ideas.
Please submit your suggestions and proposals by June 30, 2009. We
prefer proposals for complete sessions. In your proposal, please
include a description of the session with suggested presenters and
session length.
Themes addressed may include, but do not need to be limited to:
* Justice and Accountability for the East Timorese people
* East Timor since the referendum – an overview
* East Timorese welfare: malnutrition, maternal and infant care,
education, water and sanitation, housing, unemployment
* Government and politics
* Arts and culture
* Gender and women's rights
* International financial institutions and East Timor
* International aid
* The United Nations in East Timor
* Resource and oil issues
* Trade, fair and otherwise, and Timor Leste
* East Timor's security forces (military and police)
* Learning from other solidarity efforts
* Ecological issues
* Language issues
* The international financial crises and East Timor
Please be sure to include an email address and phone number where you
can be reached. Proposals and suggestions can be e-mailed to
conference@etan.org
Conference Background: In 1975, Indonesia invaded and began a brutal
24-year occupation of East Timor. With U.S. military assistance,
Indonesia’s illegal occupation took the lives of up to 180,000 people.
In 1999, after years of struggle, the East Timorese voted
overwhelmingly for independence. This conference will mark 10 years
since that historic vote and the 18th anniversary of the November 12,
1991 Santa Cruz massacre, which energized international solidarity.
Following the 1999 independence vote, the Indonesian military and its
militias committed devastating acts of violence, killing 1400,
destroying at least 75% of the country’s infrastructure, and forcibly
deporting hundreds of thousands. For two-and-one-half years, East
Timor was officially administered by the United Nations. In 2002, East
Timor finally achieved its independence – and celebrated the
successful outcome of years of pain and struggle.
Although East Timor stands proudly as an independent nation, the
population still faces significant problems in achieving true
self-determination, as well as justice for past wrongs. The range of
problems that plague the world's newest state include grinding
poverty, youth gangs, violence against women, and difficulties in
providing basic education, health and other services. There has also
been a lack of accountability and justice for those responsible for
egregious abuses committed during Indonesia's occupation and several
violent events since.
International activism played an important role in the struggle for
East Timor's independence. This activism continues to play a vital
role in the struggle for human rights and economic and social justice
in independent East Timor. Activists in Seattle have a particularly
strong record of East Timor solidarity organizing, including the long
running Seattle ETAN chapter, an ongoing sister-city school project
with Kay Rayla High School, and the formation of the Seattle-East
Timor Relief Association (SETRA), which supports health, education
and rural development projects in Timor-Leste through the sale of Fair
Trade organic East Timor coffee.
Ten years after the referendum, activists, advocates, scholars and
others will meet to learn from each other. At East Timor in the 21st
Century: Global Rights and Responsibilities we hope to re-energize
U.S. solidarity efforts for East Timor.
Further details about registration, accommodation and travel will be
available soon on ETAN's website, www.etan.org. For more information,
e-mail conference@etan.org or write ETAN, PO Box 21873, Brooklyn, NY
11202.
For those planning to come to the conference we urge you be conscious
of the environment and utilize the most environmental friendly travel
options possible. Please contact ETAN if you’re interested in
organizing group travel, such as carpooling, from your area
John M. Miller etan@igc.org
National Coordinator
East Timor & Indonesia Action Network (ETAN)
PO Box 21873, Brooklyn, NY 11202-1873 USA
Phone: (718)596-7668 Mobile phone: (917)690-4391
Skype: john.m.miller
Web site: http://www.etan.org
Send a blank e-mail message to info@etan.org to find out
how to learn more about East Timor on the Internet
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CALL FOR PAPERS - Inter-Asia Popular Music Studies Conference 2010 in Hong Kong
Monday November 30, 2009
The 2nd Inter-Asia Popular Music Studies Conference 2010 in Hong Kong:
Call for Papers
Date: June 22 (Tues) - 23 (Wed), 2010
Venue: NAH 208, Humanities Bldg
New Asia College The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, N.T.,
Hong Kong (http://mmlab.itsc.cuhk.edu.hk/CMT/CM.aspx?lang=e&bldgId=119).
* About the campus map, transportation and shuttle bus, see below:
http://www.cuhk.edu.hk/v6/en/campus_map/campus_map.html.
http://mmlab.itsc.cuhk.edu.hk/CMT/T.aspx?lang=e
http://mmlab.itsc.cuhk.edu.hk/CMT/SBS.aspx?lang=e
Organized by:
Inter-Asia Popular Music Studies Group (http://interasiapop.org/)
School of Journalism and Communication, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Institute for East Asian Studies, Sungkonghoe University
Conference theme:
Genres of Popular Music in Asia
Key Note Speaker
Motti Regev (The Open University of Israel)
Statement:
We are pleased to announce the 2nd Inter-Asia Popular Music Conference
in Hong Kong in collaboration with School of Journalism and
Communication in the Chinese University of Hong Kong at 22-23 June
2010. After having the first conference at Osaka in 2008, we move
forward to having the next one at Hong Kong, the birthplace of one of
the most popular and most globalized sounds of Asia: Cantopop.
The studies on Asian popular music are still in its embryonic stage.
There is no institution devoted to popular music studies within Asian
universities, neither is there is a journal which specializes on Asian
popular music. What we have now is an online based, transnational
research portal, Inter-Asia Popular Music Studies Group in 2007 plus a
rapidly growing research network that at the moment includes 80
scholars not only in Asia but also in Europe, America and Oceania.
Although the organization has just taken its first steps, there is no
doubt that the academic interest in Asia popular music is rising both
inside and outside Asia. There is a growing feeling that Asian popular
music has not received sufficient attention from international popular
music studies and that the existing paradigms of popular music studies
may not be that adequate for Asian popular music. This conference will
be the unique event to engage with all the scholarly debates
surrounding the emerging field of of Inter-Asia popular music studies.
The 2nd conference has a main theme entitled `Genres of Popular Music
in Asia'. The 2nd IAPMS Conference will focus on different genres of
Asian popular music. The central theme is on the emerging specific
Asian music genres as a consequence of globalization/inter-Asian
cultural flow/hybridization between indigenous and global culture.
Rather than just introducing different kinds of music genres in Asia
(melody, lyrics, etc), the paper submitted should focus on how these
musical genres intersect/ engage with different social, cultural and
political arenas. Genres of Asian popular music can cover pop, rock,
hip-hop, reggae and any other traditional musical expressions in Asia.
But we welcome any paper if it seriously studies Asian popular music.
Deadlines
30 November 2009: paper proposal
31 January 2010: acceptance of papers
31 March 2010: registration
31 May 2010: submission of full paper
22-23 June 2010: conference days
Call for papers
The organizers of Inter-Asia Popular Music Studies Conference 2010 in
Hong Kong would like to invite paper presenters to send their
abstracts (not more than 250 words) before 30 November, 2009 to;
asianpopstudies@gmail.com
If you have any inquiries, please feel free ask
asianpopstudies@gmail.com or to local host Anthony Fung
anthonyfung@cuhk.edu.hk
Registration Fee
Waged members: 240 HK$ (=30 US$)
Unwaged members: 120 HK$ (=15 US$)
Organizing Committee
Anthony FUNG (Chinese University, Hong Kong/China)
Angel Lin (City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong/China)
Eric Ma (Professor, Chinese University, Hong Kong/China)
Philip Benson (The Hong Kong Institute of Education, Hong Kong/China)
Masashi Ogawa (The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong/China)
You Fai CHOW (University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands)
Jeroen de Kloet (University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands)
Yoshitaka MORI (Tokyo University of the Arts, Japan)
Tunghung HO (Fu-jen University, Taiwan)
Kai Khiun LIEW (National University of Singapore, Singapore)
Viriya Sawnagchot (Wathansala Centre for Cultural Studies, Thailand)
Hyunjoon SHIN (Sungkonghoe University, Korea)
Jung-Yup LEE (University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA/Korea)
Notes
1) Please use the specific form (download) when you submit paper
proposal, which is attched. If you organize panel with more than two
people, just fill in `the panel title' as well as paper title in the
form (There is no need for further description about the panel).
2) English is the only language in the conference as there is no
common language among Asian languages. Translation service can be
provided only during questions and answers, if the presenters need it.
3) Please observe that this conference is deliberately scheduled right
after the ACS Crossroads 2010 Conference in Hong Kong. For more
information on that conference please go to
http://www.crossroads2010.org/.
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December 2009
EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY - Assistant Professor (tenure-track) position with a specialization in Hmong studies or related highland societies in Southeast Asia, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Tuesday December 1, 2009
The University of Wisconsin-Madison seeks candidates for an assistant professor (tenure-track) position with a specialization in Hmong studies or related highland societies in Southeast Asia and/or adjacent regions.
Appointment to begin August 2010. Ph.D. required. Previous teaching experience at the college/university level desirable but not required. Duties include teaching at the undergraduate and graduate level, conduct scholarly research in area of expertise, and perform university and professional service as appropriate. The successful candidate will be expected to do collaborative work in the Center for Southeast Asian Studies and participate in program activities. The tenure home for the appointment will reside in a department appropriate to the candidate's discipline, i.e., social sciences or arts and humanities.
To ensure full consideration, applications must be received by December 1, 2009. Applications and three letters of reference, in PDF format, should be sent via email to Dr. Michael Cullinane at mmcullin@wisc.edu and Professor Kris Olds at kolds@wisc.edu. For additional information, see http://www.ohr.wisc.edu/pvl/pv_062881.html
and http://hmongstudiesmadison.wordpress.com/. The University of Wisconsin-Madison is an equal opportunity employer and encourages women and minorities to apply. A criminal background check may be required prior to employment.
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Three Cups of Tea: Islam and Schooling in Asia
Tuesday December 8, 2009
5:00-8:00 PM
Thomson Hall, UW Campus
Three Cups of Tea: Islam and Schooling in Asia
Islam, Asia, Modernity Professional Development for Educators Workshop
Muslim societies in Asia are fast changing, and often at the crossroads of global social, economic and geopolitical conflicts. Long standing educational systems and traditions are evolving in multiple ways as these societies became more integrated into the global economy. Local institutions, national bureaucracies, international non-governmental organizations, and other actors are influencing how schools educate both male and female students.
This workshop will focus on Pakistan, Indonesia and Xinjiang, China, and how different influences are coming to bear on educational systems in these areas.
Join us for this engaging 3 hour workshop intended for educators of grades 6-12.
Each attendee will receive at least 20 copies of Greg Mortenson's award winning book
Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace...One School at a Time
Space is limited, so register early.
Date: Tuesday, December 8
Time: 5:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Location: Thomson Hall, UW Campus, Seattle
Cost: $25.00
Dinner will be provided.
Clock hours available at no extra charge
To register: visit
https://catalysttools.washington.edu/webq/survey/snodgras/85759
where you will enter information about yourself. Then mail your payment of $25.00 to:
South Asia Center, University of Washington, Box 353650, Seattle, WA 98195. Questions or inquiries, please call 206-543-4800 or contact snodgras@u.washington.edu.
Your registration is not complete until full payment of $25.00 is received.
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CALL FOR PAPERS - 3rd International Conference on The History of Medicine in Southeast Asia (HOMSEA 2010)
Wednesday December 30, 2009
National University of Singapore
3rd International Conference on
The History of Medicine in Southeast Asia
(HOMSEA 2010)
To be held in Singapore
22-25 June 2010
to coincide with IAHA 2010 (International Association of Historians of
Asia)
Organised by:
Department of History, STS Research Cluster & Asia Research Institute
(ARI)
National University of Singapore
With support from:
The National University of Singapore
The Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine
University College London (UCL)
The Canada Research Chair in Health Care Pluralism
Université de Montréal (Canada)
The International Institute for Asian Studies (IIAS, The Netherlands)
Program Committee:
Professor Harold Cook, Wellcome Trust for the History of Medicine at UCL
Professor Rethy Chhem, Medical University of Vienna/ Institute for
History, Philosophy and Ethics of Medicine, Ulm University
Dr. Laurence Monnais, University of Montreal, CRC in Health Care
Pluralism
Dr. John DiMoia, National University of Singapore
Dr. Liew Kai Khiun, National University of Singapore
and other members of the LOC (Local Organizing Committee)
All proposals on the subject of the history of medicine and health in
Southeast Asia will be considered, but preference will be given to those
on the theme of:
New Medicines, Markets, and the Development of Medical Pluralism
The theme “New Medicines, Markets, and the Development of Medical
Pluralism” intends to explore how both local and metropolitan actors in
Southeast Asia have contributed historically to the growth and
development of medical markets throughout the region, here implying both
traditional pharmacopeia as well as the arrival of newer pharmaceuticals
in colonial and post-colonial settings. With a time frame preceding
formal colonial intervention in the region and ranging up to the present,
with the creation of a local infrastructure for biomedical and biotech
work, participants are encouraged to submit individual papers and panels
with possible themes including:
Women and Health in Southeast Asia
Medical pluralism in Southeast Asia: A Historical Perspective
Medical markets in SEA
Southeast Asian Biopoleis (including the growth of biomedical
infrastructure, Science Parks, and Local Production
Facilities—identification of pharmacopoeia, drug development)
New Sources, New Methodologies, New Historiographies
As the HOMSEA meeting will coincide with the IAHA 2010 meeting in
Singapore, those interested in expanding the discussion either
geographically—to include North East Asia and South
Asia—chronologically, or methodologically are encouraged to apply to
HOMSEA as well as the IAHA meeting to broaden the scope of discussion.
Please see the IAHA website at:
http://www.fas.nus.edu.sg/hist/iaha/index.htm
Please submit a one-page proposed abstract for a 20-minute talk, and a
one-page CV by 30th December 2009 to: Laurence Monnais
(laurence.monnais-rousselot@umontreal.ca)
Please note that it may be possible to subsidize some of the costs of
participation for scholars from less wealthy countries.
For further information about funding and the general organization of the
meeting, please contact: John DiMoia (hisjpd@nus.edu.sg)
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January 2010
GRANTS/FELLOWSHIPS/FUNDING - Academia in the Public Sphere: Islamic Traditions and Muslim Societies in World Contexts
Monday January 18, 2010
The SSRC is pleased to announce the availability of grants to support public engagement by academic experts on Islamic traditions and Muslim societies. The grants program seeks to encourage projects permitting the dissemination of academic research on Islamic traditions and Muslim societies to targeted constituencies, with particular emphasis on media and policymakers. With this program the SSRC looks to nurture the public relevancy of area studies research by promoting strategic partnerships that will break down barriers and build connections between academic researchers, journalists, policymakers, and practitioners. The SSRC also seeks to assist faculty in developing the necessary skills they require to be able to engage specialized nonacademic audiences on the topic of Islam in the world.
Application Deadline: January 18, 2010
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CALL FOR PAPERS - Party Politics in Southeast Asia: Theoretical and Comparative Dimensions
Sunday January 31, 2010
Gothenburg, Sweden
Party Politics in Southeast Asia: Theoretical and Comparative Dimensions
Panel accepted for the 6th EUROSEAS Conference,
26-28 August 2010, Gothenburg, Sweden
Convenors:
Dr. Dirk Tomsa (School of Asian Languages and Studies, University of
Tasmania), email: dirk.tomsa@utas.edu.au
Dr. Andreas Ufen (GIGA Institute of Asian Studies, Hamburg), email:
ufen@giga-hamburg.de
Southeast Asia is characterized by a broad diversity of political
systems, ranging from electoral democracies to competitive authoritarian
regimes, one-party states, an absolute monarchy and a military
dictatorship. In view of this immense variety it is hardly surprising
that the parties and party systems of Southeast Asia also have very
little in common. In fact, they seem to be as varied as the broader
political systems in which they are embedded. For scholars of comparative
politics, this poses a dilemma as useful variables are often hard to come
by. Indeed, up to this point only a very small number of comparative
studies on Southeast Asian party politics exist.
This panel seeks to explore the possibilities of comparing parties and
party systems across the region by critically investigating the
usefulness of a number of relevant theoretical tools such as, for
example, party and party system institutionalization theory or the social
cleavage model developed by Lipset and Rokkan. Furthermore, the panel
will also examine other aspects of party politics in Southeast Asia,
including the organizational dimension of parties, the role of
institutions such as electoral or party laws, coalition theory, party
typologies, the impact of political culture on party dynamics etc.
The goal of the panel is not simply to highlight deficiencies in existing
theories, but rather to identify starting points for convergence between
established models in order to develop better tools for the comparative
analysis of Southeast Asian party politics. Moreover, the panel also
seeks to explore the possibilities and limitations of interdisciplinary
approaches. To this end, we invite innovative research from a broad range
of academic disciplines, especially political science, area studies,
sociology and anthropology. In particular, we invite contributions that
engage with one or several of the following questions:
- How can Southeast Asian parties be classified?
- What functions do Southeast Asian parties serve?
- What factors shape the emergence and development of parties and party
systems in Southeast Asia?
- What impact do social cleavages have on the formation and development
of parties and party systems in Southeast Asia?
- Are there any regional trends in Southeast Asian party politics that
could facilitate the development of new region-specific theoretical
models?
- What is the relationship between party and party system
institutionalization and how do these processes affect the future of
democracy in Southeast Asia?
- Can parties play a role in conflict prevention/resolution in fragmented
or divided societies?
Please submit abstracts of no more than 250 words and some brief
biographical data to both panel convenors by 31 January 2010. For further
information, please check the conference website at:http://www.euroseas.org/platform/en/content/the-6th-euroseas-conference-gothenbu
rg-2010
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March 2010
FILM SCREENING: "Berbagi Suami"
Thursday March 11, 2010
7:00pm
Kane Hall, 210
LOVE FOR SHARE [BERBAGI SUAMI]
Introduced by Francisco Benitez, Assistant Professor, Department of Comparative Literature
Indonesia, 2006, 120 minutes
Polygamy in Indonesia goes under the microscope in this drama about three wives in three different marriages, each from vastly different backgrounds and places. Salma, a gynecologist, is married to a successful television host who takes a second, and then a third wife. Initially crushed by this discovery, Salma decides to accept her lot as a good Muslim wife, but when her husband falls ill, she is forced to confront his other wives and the absurd reality of her situation. Siti, a small-town girl, understands too late the real intentions of her “uncle,” who brought her to Jakarta with the promise of putting her through beauty school. An unexpected and intimate bond with one of her uncle's two wives, however, emboldens her to pursue her freedom. Finally, Ming is the prettiest waitress at a popular roast duck stall, where she carries on a surreptitious romance and eventually becomes the second wife of the stall's chef. Unaware of one another's stories, these three women cross paths as they contend with the trials and injustices of polygamy. Indonesian with English subtitles.
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Ongoing Events
CCSEAS 2009 Conference Call for Papers
The Canadian Council for Southeast Asian Studies is pleased to announce
that its biennial conference, Engaging Southeast Asia: Centres and
Peripheries, will be held at The University of British Columbia on
October 15-17, 2009. The keynote address at the conference will be
delivered by Alexander Woodside, UBC professor emeritus and
distinguished historian of Vietnam.
The CCSEAS conference is Canada's largest meeting of researchers
concerned with Southeast Asia and the region's connections with the rest
of the world. The conference will feature leading researchers from
across the country and around the world. We look forward to welcoming
all researchers, students, policy-makers and activists with an interest
in Southeast Asia.
While individual paper proposals will be accepted, the program committee
encourages participants in the conference to organize sessions around
focused research themes. These might take the format of a paper session,
featuring three paper presentations of 15-20 minutes each. Or, they may
take the form of a panel discussion, with up to five panelists giving a
brief presentation and then discussing a specific issue.
The deadline for submission of organized sessions and paper abstracts is
April 1st 2009.
Full details on the conference, and instructions for abstract
submission, are available at the conference website:
http://www.yorku.ca/ycar/CCSEAS_conference/home.html
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| Southeast Asia Center | |
| University of Washington | |
| 303 Thomson Hall | |
| Box 353650 | |
| Seattle, WA 98195 | |
| (206) 543-9606 tel | |
| (206) 685-0668 fax | |
| ► | seac@u.washington.edu |
| Laurie Sears, Director |
| Rick Bonus, Director of Graduate Studies |
| Sara Van Fleet, Associate Director |
| Tikka Sears, Outreach Coordinator |
| Marjorie McKinley, Program Coordinator |
| McKay Caruthers, Graduate Student Assistant |