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In this issue: summer programs and jobs. For more information, visit us online at the new cseashawaii.com.
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CSEAS News
Summer Session I - ASAN 310: Asian Humanities (CRN 92069)
University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, Honolulu, HI
Instructor: V Pollard (pollard@hawaii.edu)
Image: Auke Cornelis Sonnega, "Land of My Dreams" (1938)
ASAN 310 is a multidisciplinary examination of literature, philosophy,
and religion shaping Asian beliefs and values. Students will read novels about Indonesia (by
Pramoedya Ananta Toer), China (by Wang Shuo), and India (by Farahad
Zamar). We will also engage shorter works by writers from the
Philippines, Okinawa and other countries. Semester activities include a field trip to the Honolulu
Academy of Arts... more info
Fall 2010 Course List - UPDATED
University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
The Fall 2010 Southeast Asian Studies course list now online with new IPLL class... download
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Featured Events
Hawaiʻi
 A Celebration of Islamic SEA Music and Dance
Shangri La, Honolulu, HI
5:00pm, Saturday, 8 May 2010
Celebrate the dance and musical traditions of Islamic Southeast Asia
as performed by students and scholars from the University of Hawai'i
and members of Hawaii's Southeast Asian community in a special evening
at Shangri La... more info
 99th Graduation Commencement Exercises
Stan Sheriff Center, University of Hawai'i at Mānoa, Honolulu, HI
Saturday, 15 May 2010
Celebrate the degree candidacy of Mānoa's Spring 2010 Graduating Class. ... more info
 Exhibition Special Event - Cambodian Wedding Tradition
Presented by Chhany Sak Humphrey, Associate Professor
East-West Gallery, Honolulu, HI
2:00pm, Sunday, 16 May 2010
Public presentation with slides, commentary, and Cambodian wedding costume demonstration... more info
Around the World
Curator's Tour - Identity and Mimicry
Singapore Art Museum, SINGAPORE
7:30pm, Friday, 7 May 2010
Join guest curator Tang Fu Kuen on an exploration into Ming Wong's
psyche and gain insights into the artist's works... more info
Joint Workshop - Indigenous
Peoples in Southeast Asia and Pacific Islands. New laws and discourses. New
realities?
Organised by Center for Asia-Pacific Area Studies (CAPAS), Academica
Sinica, Taipei and International Institute for Asian Studies (IIAS), Leiden,
the NETHERLANDS
18 - 19
May 2010
This workshop seeks to discuss the present position of indigenous peoples in Southeast
Asian countries and the Pacific Islands from a legal and social
perspective, as well as discuss the region's indigenous peoples' movement from a sociological perspective... more info
Save
the Date - Ubud
Writers & Readers Festival
Bali, INDONESIA
6 - 10
October 2010
This year's theme is "Bhinneka Tunggal Ika: Harmony in Diversity"... more info
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Educational Programs
UH Summer Outreach College Course - Balinese Gamelan Ensemble (P10906)
Location: UH Mānoa, Honolulu, HI
5:30-6:20pm, 2 June - 14 July 2010 (MW)
Explore Balinese music through hands-on experience with the different instruments in a Gamelan ensemble. No musical background is required... more info
Human Trafficking: Power and Justice
School of Public Affairs, American University
Location: Bangkok, Pattaya, Chiang Mai or Chiang Rai, THAILAND
23 July - 8 August 2010
Deadline: 30 May 2010
Two academic, for-credit hybrid courses (taught online, on-site and in
the classroom) will be enhanced by additional lectures by local
academics, government officials, business leaders, NGO activists, and
other guest speakers... more info
Summer
Institute for Teachers on Genocide and Human Rights (Focus on Africa and
Southeast Asia)
Location: Northern
Illinois University
14 - 17 June 2010
Registration Deadline: 4 June 2010
By studying with some of the leading scholars and teachers in the
field of genocide, human rights, and violence, you will be better prepared to
offer instruction to your students and shape the next generation's efforts to
stop the violence. All K-16 educators are welcome to attend. Resource and
curriculum materials will focus on the middle/high school/community college
levels... more info
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Employment Opportunities
FEATURED: Graduate Assistants (2), Muslim Societies in Asia and the Pacific (MSAP)
School of Pacific and Asian Studies (SPAS), University of Hawai'i - Mānoa
Location: Honolulu, HI USA
Deadline: 17 May 2010
The Muslim Societies in Asia and the Pacific seek two (2) graduate assistants for the 2010-11 academic year... more info
PhD Position - SE Asian Pop Music, "Articulating Modernity: the Making of Popular Music in 20th Century Southeast Asia and the Rise of New Audiences"
Joint project between Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies
(KITLV) and the Netherlands Institute for War Documentation (NIOD)
Location: NETHERLANDS
Deadline: 10 May 2010
The project analyzes the interplay between the production of popular
music, the articulation of modernity, and the emergence of new audiences,
lifestyles and related processes of social differentiation in 20th century
(pen)insular Southeast Asia... more info
Lecturer/Senior Lecturer - Southeast Asian History, School of History, Philosophy, Religion and Classics
University
of Queensland
Location: St Lucia, AUSTRALIA
Deadline: 15 May 2010
The candidate should have wide expertise in
Asian history and be a specialist in Southeast Asian history and have an interest, at least at a
teaching level, in the history of the Middle East and the wider Islamic world... more info
Curator of Islamic Arts
Doris Duke Foundation for Islamic Art at Shangri La
Location: Honolulu, HI
Deadline: 7 June 2010
The Curator of Islamic Arts has primary responsibility for the research
and interpretation of the collection, and will provide the vision for
and manage collections-based activities that support the organization's
mission.. more info
Southeast
Asian Art Curator
Rijksmuseum
Location: Amsterdam, NETHERLANDS
Deadline: 1 September 2010
This one-year to permanent-track position is responsible for the collection of art originating from both the islands
and mainland of Southeast Asia... more info
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Fellowships & Scholarships
Bridging Cultures Program
National Endowment for the Humanities
Deadline: 1 June 2010
The NEH is
offering grants of up to $250,000 to plan and
implement a forum and workshop on one of two themes: "Civility and Democracy"
or "The Muslim World and the Humanities"... more info
Richard Maass Research Grant
Manuscript Society
Deadline: 1 June 2010
The $5,000 grant is
named for Richard Maass, one of the society's founders, and is to be used for
expenses directly related to research using original manuscripts. Applicants
must be enrolled in an advanced degree program, with preference given to Ph.D.
students. For
details, e-mail George.Vogt@ohs.org.
2011-12 Fulbright Scholarship Program
Council for International Exchange of Scholars
Deadline: 2 August 2010
The core Fulbright Scholar Program sends 800 U.S. faculty and
professionals abroad each year. Grantees lecture and conduct research
in a wide variety of academic and professional fields... more info
Teaching and Research Scholarships for U.S. Faculty and Professionals - Indonesia
American-Indonesian Educational Foundation (AMINEF) and Fulbright Scholar Program
Deadline: 2 August 2010
8 "All Disciplines" awards to teach, conduct
research, or a combination of the two in a fascinating multicultural and
multi-religious nation... contact mzdanovich@iie.org
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Call for Submissions
Book Reviewer - Asia-Pacific World: The Journal of the International Association for Asian Pacific Studies
New journal Asia-Pacific World seeks book reviewer for the title "Southeast Asia in World
History"
by Craig A. Lockard (Oxford University Press, 2009)... more info
Portuguese and Luso-Asian Legacies in Southeast Asia,
1511-2011
Location: Singapore and Melaka
Conference
Dates: 23 - 30 September 2010
Deadline: 10 May 2010
In recognition of the half-millennium that has transpired since Afonso de Albuquerque's conquest of Melaka in 1511, the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies issues this call for papers for a three-day interdisciplinary international conference of about 25 scholars
to explore the legacies and evolution of Portuguese and Luso-Asian peoples and communities in Southeast Asia over the past 500 years... more info
Conference and Journal - Space and Flows: Urban and Extraurban Studies
Location: University of California - Los Angeles
Conference Dates: 4-5
December 2010
Deadline: 13 May 2010
Presenters may submit their
written papers for publication in the peer reviewed 'Spaces and Flows: An
International Journal on Urban and Extraurban Studies'. You also
have the ability to upload your presentation to the Space and Flows YouTube
channel... more info
Inter-Asian Connections II
Location: Singapore
Conference Dates: 8-10 December 2010
Deadline: 31 May 2010
Descriptions
of the individual workshops, including details on the workshop directors, and
information on the application process are available at conference website... more info
Modern Art Asia (August)
Deadline:
18 June 2010
Modern
Art Asia invites graduates working on the arts and material cultures of Asia
from the eighteenth century to the present to submit previously unpublished
papers of 4,500-10,000 words for peer-review. 'Asia' is broadly defined to
include Central, East, South and Southeast Asia, as well as Asia Pacific... more info
Changing
Ways of Life of Ethnicities in the Mekong Region
Mekong
Sub-region Social Research Center (MSSRC), Faculty of Liberal Arts, Ubon
Ratchathani University, Thailand
Location: THAILAND
Conference Dates: November 11-12, 2010
Deadline: 30 June 2010
Mekong scholars, existing ethnicity institutes, students and
policy makers discuss how the livelihoods or ways of life of
the ethnicities have been vulnerable to changes... more info
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Coming Soon - CSEAS Alumni Profiles
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CSEAS Admissions
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Explorations - Online
Explorations, the graduate student journal for Southeast Asian studies, is now available online>>>
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Film Series
The SEA Film Series continues tonight 5 May 2010 at 6:30 PM in the Korean Studies Auditorium with the film,
Pisay>>>
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