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Thailand Global Roundtable
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Round Table Series with Faculty and Graduate Students with International Academic InterestsIn these highly interactive brown bag events, faculty and graduate students are invited to present on activities, projects, and international academic interests on selected countries. This year's focus is the Pacific and Asia and spring semester includes Korea, Japan, Australia and New Zealand, and Thailand. Please bring your lunch and a friend and be prepared to enjoy a lively exchange! Register for each event online here. Thursday, April 30, 2009
12:00 - 1:15 p.m.Kuykendall 106 Events Room & Gallery
This event is sponsored by the Office of Faculty Development & Academic Support (OFDAS), the Office of the the Assistant Vice Chancellor for International & Exchange Programs (OIEP), and the School of Pacific & Asian Studies (SPAS). |
Conference Announcement
International Conference & Summer School on Indonesian Studies (ICSSIS)
Faculty of Humanities, University of IndonesiaDepok, Indonesia, July 21-29, 2009International Conference and Summer School on Indonesian Studies (ICSSIS)
is a week-long program of intensive research activities designed to
bring together scholars, researchers, and students from around the
world as well as gathering to attend the International Conference for
Indonesian Studies. This event provides a wonderful opportunity for
students to present their theory or argument in a friendly and
professional environment and to develop an international and
inter-disciplinary network.
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Culinary Arts Program
Kapi'olani Community College
Public Culinary Series
These series of classes are designed for those of you who are interested in learning proper cooking or baking techniques and skills. Classes are held in the culinary arts laboratories and lecture rooms. In most cases, you have the opportunity to prepare and produce certain foods, sample, and discuss methods and techniques with the chef instructor. The culinary series are modular. This means you may pick and choose classes that fit your personal interests. In order to ensure individual attention and safety, class enrollment is limited. To enroll, please call 808-734-9211.
Thai Basics
Thai food is amazing! The incredible aromas and flavors that come from balancing ingredients like lemongrass, kaffir lime, coconut milk, chilies and spicy curry will lift your taste buds to new heights! And believe it or not, it's easier than you think to cook. We'll start with the basics: tom yam goong (spicy shrimp soup), green papaya salad and other classic Thai dishes.
Course No. 092LRCB6
Course Fee: $68
Sec Days Dates Time Room
A S Aug 15 8:00 am-12:00 pm `Ohia 109/112
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Open Positions and Fellowships
Indonesia Program Director
Volunteers in Asia (VIA)
VIA (Volunteers in Asia) is seeking to fill the position of Indonesia Program Director, who oversees VIA's volunteer programs in Indonesia. This includes recruitment, selection, training, maintaining field relations, and developing programs. The Program Director also manages the VIA Indonesia Country Representative, a full-time employee based in Indonesia.
more info | Deadline: May 18, 2009
Thailand/Southeast Asian Teaching Fellow
St. Lawrence University in Canton, New York
St. Lawrence University in Canton, New York is seeking to fill a one-year fellowship with the possibility of renewal, in Thai/Southeast Asia Studies. The candidate's duties include teaching, activities to support the new abroad program in Thailand, and curricular development. Graduate degree or ABD in Southeast Asian Studies in any academic field required. Experience teaching Thai language preferred. The candidate will teach the following:
- Fall 2009 ASIA 147 Modern Southeast Asia (field open, based on the disciplinary expertise/focus of the candidate)
- Spring 2010 ASIA/THAI 101 Elementary Thai language, a half-credit course in the second half of the fall semester 2009 called "The Cultures of Thailand" or "Modern Thailand" which would include some introductory language training. This course is intended for but not limited to the students going on the Thai program in Spring 2010.
- Independent study work with students returning from Thailand in Spring 2010 if they want to continue with the Thai language, (these could be full credit or half-credit independent study classes, using self-study materials as appropriate).
In addition, the candidate will perform the following in support of our new abroad program in Thailand and curricular development in Thai/Southeast Asian studies:
- Work with our Center for Intercultural and International Studies staff to support the new semester program in Thailand
- Work with the department of Modern Languages and Literatures on self-study materials in the Thai language at elementary, intermediate and advanced levels
- Organize and lead a faculty reading seminar on Southeast Asia each semester
- Be a resource person for individual faculty seeking to develop courses or units in courses on Southeast Asia/Thailand
- Bring one Thailand-related speaker or cultural event to campus per semester
Interested applicants should send a letter of interest, curriculum vita, including a list of three references with contact information to Anne Csete, Search Chair, History Department, St. Lawrence University, Canton, NY 13617. Review of applications will begin on April 27, 2009 and continue until the position is filled.
Buddhist Lodge Fellowship
Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, Singapore
The United States Indonesia Society (USINDO) invites applications for its 2009 travel/study grant for post-doctoral scholars, Ph.D. candidates, senior academics, and otherwise professionally qualified candidates to engage in field research in Indonesia on an economic or political-economic topic.
more info | Deadline: June 1, 2009
Sumitro Fellowships for Research in Indonesia
United States Indonesia Society (USINDO)
The United States Indonesia Society (USINDO) invites applications for its 2009 travel/study grant for post-doctoral scholars, Ph.D. candidates, senior academics, and otherwise professionally qualified candidates to engage in field research in Indonesia on an economic or political-economic topic.
more info | Deadline: May 1, 2009
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| Call for Papers/Abstracts/Panels
Vietnam Update 2009: Migration Nation
The Australian National University, Canberra
November 19-20, 2009
Migration has played a significant role in defining the shape of contemporary Vietnamese society. In the nation's recent past, millions have migrated domestically and internationally as a result of conflict, ideological struggle, and epochal nation-building projects. In the wake of reform, comparable numbers are on the move in association with a new migratory scenario characterized by underdevelopment, inequality, opportunity, and the aspiration to social mobility. For the 2009 update, the organizers seek papers that consider these and other contemporary and historical Vietnamese migratory flows in a critical and comparative light.
more info | Deadline: May 15, 2009
Amerasia Journal: Call for Abstracts "Global Community Formations and Asian American Futures"
Amerasia Journal, UCLA Asian American Studies Center, and the U.C. Berkeley Center for Globalization and Information Technology
Consulting Guest Editors: Michel Laguerre, Professor and Director, Berkeley Center for Globalization and Information Technology, and author of Global Neighborhoods: Jewish Quarters in Paris, London, and Berlin, 2008; and Dr. Joe Fong, Ph.D. from University of California at Berkeley, Research Associate at BCGIT, and author of Complementary Education and Culture: in the Global/Local Chinese Community, 2003.
Amerasia Journal Editor: Adjunct Prof. Russell C. Leong, English and Asian American Studies, project director
Review & Publication Deadlines:
Due date July 15, 2009: 2-page abstracts.
Due date of final papers: Feb. 1, 2010
Publication date of issue: Fall/Winter 2010
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Viral Ports, Virtual currents: Interconnections of Media, the Arts and the Everyday in Southeast Asia and Its Diasporas
University of California, Riverside
October 2-4, 2009
Keynote speaker: Rolando Tolentino
This conference reflects on Arjun Appadurai's call for a "new architecture of area studies" which is driven by the concept of process geographies-areas are spaces of action, interaction, and motion (Burgess 2004: 127). The theme of 'arts and media in everyday life' engages with these geographies in motion by highlighting the dynamic, multidirectional networks of culture within Southeast Asia and through its diasporic communities throughout the world in addition to addressing complexities that make a contribution to developing new approaches of thinking.
more info | website | Deadline for Viral Videos: September 4, 2009 | Deadline for Papers: June 16, 2009
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SEA Publications
 Garuda in Asian ArtEtsuo Yamamoto and D.P. Sharma Delhi, Bharatiya Kala Prakashan. 2008 more info
 Buddhist Art in Southeast Asia: The Indian Influence on the Art of Thailand
Reginald le May
New Delhi, Aryan Books International. 2004 more info Buddhist Iconography in Thailand: A Southeast Asian PerspectiveBhattacharyya, A.K. Kolkata, Punthi-Pustak. 2007 more info Dictionary of South and Southeast Asian Art Gwyneth Chaturachinda, S. Krishnamurty and P. W. Tabtiang New Delhi, Penguin Books India Pvt. Ltd. 2004 more info Hindu and Buddhist Monuments and Remains in Southeast AsiaAmar Nath Khanna New Delhi, Aryan Books International. 2008 more info |
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SEA Film Series
Now in its fifth year!
The Film Series is returning to the Korean Studies Building in January 2009! See you there...and bring a sweater.
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