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Call for Papers
ASEAN International Relations Students Conference (AIRSC)
Jakarta, Indonesia
October 21-22, 2008
more info | Deadline: August 12, 2008
European Studies in Asia- 1st Young Academics Workshop "How is the EU perceived in Asia: Media, Public and Elite Perceptions
Bruges, Belgium
September 1-4, 2008
more info | Deadline: July 31, 2008
Teaching Asian Art: Content, Context, and Pedagogy
A New Anthology
Edited by Sheng Kuan Chung
Assistant Professor of Art Education & Program Coordinator
Department of Curriculum and Instruction
University of Houston
This upcoming anthology published by the National Art Education Association will introduce American art teachers and students to Asian artistic practices and traditions from, but not limited to, the following Asian cultural locations: Burma, Cambodia, China, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Laos, Malaysia, Mongolia, Philippines, Taiwan, Thailand, Tibet, and Vietnam.
more info | Deadline: August 31, 2008
Asian Affairs: An American Review
Asian Affairs: An American Review, a
peer-review journal, is seeking Southeast Asia-related submissions. The journal addresses issues that significantly affect
political, economic, and security policies in both domestic and international
contexts. The audience includes scholars, policymakers, government officials,
business executives, and others engaged in contemporary studies of Asian
countries, intra-Asian relations, and America's
ties with Asia.
Please send submissions to David Hillis at <dhillis@heldref.org>.
Each submission will be reviewed by two of our editors, and the first-named
author will be notified of acceptance, rejection, or need for revision. Authors
may purchase preprint issues for $5. Authors receive free online access to the
issue in which their article is published.
Submissions should be as clearly written as the subject allows. Conclusions
should follow logically from facts and analyses presented. Endnotes should be
typed on a separate page and adhere to the guidelines found in The Chicago
Manual of Style, 15th edition, University of Chicago Press, 2003. Accuracy
of endnotes is the responsibility of the author(s). All text, tables, and notes
should be typed double-spaced with letter quality type and wide margins. Please
await acceptance before sending final files; instructions for preparing files
will be included in the acceptance letter.
website
Asian American Literature - The Voice of Southeast Asian Diaspora
Northeast Modern Language Association
February 26- March 1, 2009
Boston University, Massachusetts
more info | Deadline: September 15, 2008
DIWA: Illuminating Pilipina Voices
more info | Deadline: August 4, 2008
Waters in South and Southeast Asia: Interaction of Culture and Religion
South and Southeast Asian Association for the Study of Culture and Religion, Bali, Indonesia
June 3-6, 2009
more info | Deadline: February 15, 2009
Life Stories of Women from Burma
AAS (Association for Asian Studies) Annual Meeting
Chicago, Illinois
March 26-29, 2009
Papers to be presented at a panel at the annual
meeting of the Association for Asian Studies. The full AAS Call for Papers is posted online.
Due to Burma's former
isolation and persistent authoritarian control by military juntas since 1962,
the outsider's understanding of Burma
is essentially piecemeal and monolithic. The country is often represented as
constituting an oppressive state vis-à-vis the oppressed general public, which
suffers from great poverty. Although the country has been partially opened to
foreign visits and investment since 1988, external attention has largely
centered on the ruling regime. Most scholarly work has focused on the regime's
policy-making and the intricate political struggles between different military
factions and groups. What emerges is a lack of academic exploration of the
'different versions of reality' seen from the perspectives of the diverse
ethnic groups that make up the Burmese people. Research into the life stories
of Burmese people of different ethnicities, with different positions, age and
gender has particular significance that would help to reveal the multiplicities
of Burma's
social history.
Based on these considerations, this panel aims to explore the individual life
stories of women from different ethnic groups, a subject that has been scarcely
investigated up until the present time. The exploration is based on the
narratives of individual subjects and uses multi-disciplinary interpretations
that draw on anthropology, literature, history and ethnomusicology. The stories
being narrated not only convey valuable data; they also reveal the informants'
self-reflective commentaries on their experiences, and the underlying cultural
meanings of the commentaries. While relating their stories, the informants also
articulate their self-identity(ies) against the backdrop of the processes and
changes they have undergone. The genre of narratives, therefore, embraces a
subjective truthfulness voiced by the informants themselves. In contrast to
general studies of Burmese society that center on social structure derived from
macro-data and statistics, this panel focuses on individual subjectivity in
order to examine closely the lives of the informants on the one hand; and on
the other, the intricate interactions between them and the different social
contexts and situations in which they find themselves. The individual subjects
dealt with are located both inside and outside Burma.
Please e-mail a brief CV and abstract of no more than 250 words by 1 August
2008 to: Wen-Chin Chang <wencc@gate.sinica.edu.tw>,
Assistant Research Fellow, Center for Asia-Pacific Area Studies, Academia
Sinica.
Textual Traditions and Transmission in Southeast Asian Languages
I am writing to see whether there is any interest
in putting together a panel for the AAS meeting next year in Chicago to serve
as a forum to discuss recent work on textual traditions and textual
transmission. I had planned to make a Burma-specific panel (so far I do not
have enough commitments), but I would like to ask for contributions from other
Southeast Asianists.
I had originally planned this panel with another colleague (who now has too
many obligations), and together we hoped to bring together any work that would
push our understandings of pre-modern texts in Mainland Southeast Asia away
from seeing them as the equivalents of books. This might, for example, be
work that explores the role of translation in textual traditions; manuscripts
(or texts, however you want to call them) as a medium of interaction between
the written and the spoken; or interactions between texts across languages.
While we did not mean to exclude Pali traditions, we especially wanted to
encourage anyone working with indigenous languages.
If anyone is interested in such a panel, or could help me organize, please
contact me at: <mramyong@gmail.com>.
Patrick A
McCormick
PhD Candidate
History Department
University of Washington
Seattle WA
USA
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Islamic Women Waging Peace: Notes from the Field
An evening forum featuring Siti Musdad Mulia and Mariam Mansury
Siti Musdah Mulia is the first
woman to earn a Ph.D. in Islamic political thought from the State
Islamic University, and the first woman appointed a research professor
by the Indonesian Institute of Sciences. A prominent Muslim feminist, Mulia has used her knowledge of the Quran to advocate for women's rights.
Mariam Mansury is the Women
Waging Peace Network Coordinator and advocate for The Initiative for
Inclusive Security, a program of the Hunt Alternatives Fund. Mansury
manages The Women Waging Peace Network, which unites over 800
demonstrated women peace builders in over 40 conflict areas, and she
leads the Initiative's advocacy around women in Afghanistan.
Monday, July 28, 2008
5:30 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.
East West Center Art Gallery
$10 co-sponsor members
$12 non members
RSVP by Thursday, July 24
more info
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Conference Announcement
World Eco-Fiber and Textile (WEFT) Forum 2008September 12-14, 2008
Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia
more infoThe Theory and Practice of the Communicative Approach in Southeast Asian Language Teaching
July 18-20, 2008University of Wisconsin-Madison
more info
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Open Positions and Fellowships
Tenure-Track Cultural Studies Faculty
Columbia College Chicagomore info | Deadline: September 30, 2008
Vietnam Country DirectorEast Meets West Foundationmore info
Southeast Asia Fellowship Program
East West Center in Washington D.C.
more info | Deadline: October 1, 2008 |
Online Resources
This is to announce that the latest issue of the Committee of Research Materials on Southeast Asia (CORMOSEA) Bulletin is available on our website.
This issue focuses on the Philippines. We hope that the next issue will focus on research collections in Indonesia. I am always looking for interesting field reports from students who are using library collections or other documentary sources in Southeast Asia. I particularly welcome reports from national or local archives in Southeast Asia.
Judith Henchy
CORMOSEA
Bulletin Editor
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SEA Books
A Chain of Kings: The Makassarese Chronicles of Gowa and Talloq
By William Cummings
Leiden, KITLV Press, 2007, 123 pp.
more info
A Study of Personal and Cultural Values: American, Japanese and Vietnamese
By Roy D'Andrade
Basingstoke, Palgrave, 2008, 192 pp.
more info Houses in Motion: The Experience of Place and the Problem of Belief in Urban Malaysia
By Richard Baxstrom
Stanford, Stanford University Press, 2008, 304 pp.
more info
 Malaya's Secret Police 1945-1960: The Role of the Special Branch in the Malayan Emergency
By Leon Comber
Singapore, Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 2008, 324 pp.
more info
Economic Integration in Asia and India
By Masahisa Fujita
Basingstoke, Palgrave, 2008, 224 pp.
more info
A Dragon Lives Forever: War and Rice in Vietnam's Mekong Delta
By Thomas Hargrove
College Station, Texas A & M University Press, 2008, 480 pp.
more info
For ordering information, contact the publishers or the Asian Experts at asiabook@gil.com.au
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SEA Film Series
We
had a successful year in which we screened 35 films in our weekly
Wednesday series. We look forward to an exciting slate of films beginning in
September, 2008. See you at the movies!
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