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Open Positions and Fellowships
Lecturer in Southeast Asian Studies
Department of Pacific and Asian Studies
University of Victoria, Canada
October 2009 to March 2010
The successful candidate must have native
or near native proficiency, should ideally hold at least an MA in a field
related to the study of Indonesia, and preferably have prior experience in
teaching Indonesian/Malay, and Southeast Asian culture and literature. The
successful candidate will be expected to teach Indonesian-Malay, and Southeast
Asian culture and literature.
more info | Deadline: August 14, 2009
Visiting Coordinator
Asian Educational Media (AEMS)
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
The Asian Educational Media Service (AEMS), an educational outreach program based at the
University of Illinois, seeks a Coordinator who will lead the service in its mission to
promote Asian studies through the use of audiovisual media. The position offers a full-time,
12-month, one-year, non-tenure track appointment as a visiting academic professional in the
Center for East Asian and Pacific Studies (EAPS), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
There is the possibility of making the position permanent, pending sufficient funding.
more info| Deadline: August 17, 2009
Visiting Assistant Coordinator
Asian Educational Media (AEMS)
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
The assistant coordinator will serve as librarian and
information specialist for the service, supporting its mission to promote Asian studies
through the use of audiovisual media. The position offers a full-time, 12-month, one-year
non-tenure track appointment as a visiting academic professional in the Center for East
Asian and Pacific Studies (EAPS), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
more info | Deadline: August 17, 2009
(Senior) Research Fellowships, One-Year Visiting (Senior) Research Fellowships and Postdoctoral Fellowships
Asia Research Institute
National University of Singapore
more info | Deadline: October 1, 2009
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Call for Abstracts/Papers
The Utopia of Tradition
12th Conference of the International Association for the Study of Traditional Environments (IASTE), Beirut, Lebanon
December 15-18, 2010
more info | Deadlines: February 12, 2010
21st Conference of the International Association of Historians of Asia
Department of History
National University of Singapore
June 22-25, 2010
At this conference the Steering Committee will
seek to showcase the latest scholarly research and developments that
have taken place on a wide range of Asian topics in both the humanities
and social sciences. It will provide scholars with the opportunity of
evaluating and discussing the emerging themes related to the continent
with a large body of delegates from around the world.
more info | Deadline: September 30, 2009
Ports of Call - Cultures of Exchange
Comparative Literature
Graduate Student Conference
University of California at Los Angeles
March 11- 13, 2010
As gateways to other worlds and world-systems, port cities, such as Tangier, Istanbul, London, Manila, and Kobe., one of Japan's most important ports, are sites of economic and cultural exchange. They are at the cutting edge of global trends and transnational movements that promote the export and import of goods, people, ideas, and ideologies.
more info | Deadline: October 1, 2009
The Modernization process in Japanese literature and in the literatures of the E
University of Social Science & Humanities of Ho Chi Minh City (USSH-HCMC)
Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
March, 2010
CONFERENCE TOPICS
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Introduction
on new poetry, new novel, new drama in either Vietnam, or China, or
Japan, or Korea at the end of 19th century and the first haft of 20th
century: tendencies, authors, works.
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Modernization process of literature in Vietnam, China, Japan, Korea: side by side comparison.
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Modernization in literature Vietnam, China, Japan, Korea as a whole process: general view.
more info | Deadline: August 31, 2009 |
Call for Chapters
Women and the Media in Asia
This call for chapters is from Dr. Youna Kim at the American University of Paris. She
invites contributions that explore everyday media culture and the
issues of women as 'consumers', women as 'representations' and women as
'creators', to offer an understanding of changing lives and frustrated
desires, contradictions and dispersed sites of female individualization
that are refracted into various degrees and forms.
more info | Deadline: December 30, 2009
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2009-2010 Graduate Paper Prize Competition
The Vietnam Studies Group
The Vietnam Studies Group (VSG) announces that it is accepting submissions for its third annual graduate student paper prize competition. The competition encourages the direct involvement of graduate students in the growth of Vietnamese studies and supports their professional development. The competition is open to full and part time graduate students, regardless of their disciplinary specialization.
more info | Deadline: January 1, 2010
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SEA Publications
Monologue, Dialogue, and Tran Vietnam
By O. W. Wolters
Cornell University has been able to publish electronically O. W. Wolters' manuscript (O. W. Wolters, "Monologue, Dialogue, and Tran Vietnam") that he left behind when he died. It is available here.
 Race and Multiculturalism in Malaysia and Singapore
Daniel P.S. Goh, Matilda Gabrielpillai, Philip Holden, Gaik Cheng Khoo (Eds.)
Routledge Publication, 2009
more info
 Legends from Serene Lands: Classical Vietnamese Stories
Pham Duy Khiem, translated from French by Harry Aveling
New Delhi, Prestige Books, 2009
more info
 State of Vaccination: The Fight Against Smallpox in Colonial Burma
Atsuko Naono
New Delhi, Orient Longman Ltd. 2009
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SEA Film Series
Now in its fifth year!
We've
had another amazing year of films from Southeast Asia! Our mailing list
continues to grow and now reaches 320 fans of Southeast Asian film.
Since the beginning of the fall 2008 semester, we screened 37 films
attended by more than 1,500 people! Thanks to everyone for their
support! We'll be bringing back more films from Southeast Asia this
summer, and we look forward to seeing everyone at the first screening
of the fall 2009 semester. Stay tuned for announcements as that day
approaches!
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