Fall Semester Countdown
Welcome to your weekly UHM CSEAS announcement! We're counting down to the new semester and preparing to bring you another slate of exciting programs. If you're interested in participating in our SEA Speaker Series or would like to be featured as part of our Alumni Spotlight, please contact us at cseas@hawaii.edu. We hope you enjoy this offering of news, events, resources and more - and mahalo for your readership and support!
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CSEAS News
 Vincent Pollard Memorial
Rainbow Shower Tree (next to Henke Hall)
University of Hawaii at Mānoa
9:45 am, Monday, 30 August 2010
Vincent Kelly Pollard was a lecturer with Asian Studies and a cooperating graduate faculty member at UH Mānoa. Pollard was a popular teacher and a prodigious scholar and writer with a worldwide reputation in all aspects of Asian contemporary affairs, including film and popular culture. Please join his former students, colleagues and friends at this memorial gathering to remember his life and achievements... more info
Featured Fall Course - ASAN 491S-002: Vietnamese Cinema
University of Hawaii at Mānoa
23 August - 9 December 2010
Part four of the popular Southeast Asian Cinema courses, with a special focus on Vietnamese Cinema... more info
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Featured Events
Hawaiʻi
 Language Learning Center Newsletter - SUBSCRIBE TODAY
University of Hawai'i
Honolulu, HI
The National Foreign Language Resource Center is preparing to send out the new semester's Language Learning Center Newsletter - full of information about upcoming workshops; on-coming resources; local, national, and international foreign language-related conferences, and much more. To subscribe, please contact mastersn@hawaii.edu... more info
 First Day of Instruction - FALL 2010
University of Hawai'i
Honolulu, HI
Monday, 23 August 2010
Individual campuses establish dates and deadlines for registration,
advising, commencement and other academic activities... more info
 Member Gallery Talk - Sanit Khewhok
Honolulu Academy of Arts
Honolulu, HI
6:00 pm, Wednesday, 25 August 2010
Khewhok is the 11th recipient of the Catharine E. B. Cox Award for Excellence in the Visual Arts. As it Happened embodies Khewhok's past and present and invites viewers to witness his evolution as an artist... more info
Around the Country
 Lao Cooking Class
Legacies of War
Washington, D.C., USA
1:00 - 4:00 pm, Saturday, 7 August 2010
Registration fee: $40 (students) / $75
This class offers an opportunity to learn key utensils and ingredients, test out recipes, and take home a Sap Lai Starter Kit. As there is limited space, RSVP to Heather Hammel at Legaciesofwar1@gmail.com... more info
 Culture Fix: Courtly and Urban Batik Textiles from Java
Fowler Museum - UCLA Campus
Los Angeles, CA, USA
12:00 pm, Wednesday, 11 August 2010
Roy Hamilton, senior curator of Asian and Pacific collections, explores examples of courtly and urban batik textiles from Java... more info
3rd Annual Myanmar (Burma) Film Festival
Los Angeles, CA, USA
14 - 15 August 2010
The two-day festival will show two new Myanmar (Burmese) films, "Yin Khon Hnin Si" and "A Story Long Ago," sponsored by the Network of Myanmar American Association (NetMAA)... more info
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Educational Programs
FEATURED: First Annual International Guitar Festival - GUITARRA 2010
University of Santo Tomas
Manila, PHILIPPINES
23 - 27 August 2010
Lectures, masterclasses, workshops
and concerts will be imparted by a roster of Filipino and international
guitarists/artists... more info
Philippine Dance Gathering & Workshops (PDGW)
San Diego, CA, USA
25 - 29 August 2010
PDGW is a unique, groundbreaking folk and traditional arts project. Confirmed Artists and Presenters include Dr. Ricardo Trimillos of the University of Hawaii at Mānoa... more info
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Employment Opportunities
FEATURED: Assistant Professor (tenure-track) - Performing Arts, Asian Studies Program (Ref#0084385)
University of Hawai'i at Mānoa Location: Honolulu, HI, USA
Deadline: Continuous - application review begins 1 February 2011 We seek a dynamic, committed teacher and scholar in the performing arts of Asia for the Asian Studies Program... more info Assistant and Associate Professor - Asian History or Studies, National
University of Singapore
Location: SINGAPORE
Term: 2011 - 2012
Deadline: 30 September 2010
One appointment will be at the Assistant Professor (tenure track)
level; another at either Assistant or Associate
Professor level (tenured or tenure track)... more info
Assistant Professor - Diasporas in Asian History since 1500
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Location: Madison, WI, USA
Deadline: 1 November 2010
Diasporas may include populations moving within or between Southeast,
East, and South Asia, or Asian populations settling in other parts of
the world... more info
Assistant Professor (tenure-track) -
Asian History, prior to 1800
Boston College
Location: Boston, MA, USA
Deadline: 1 November 2010
The successful candidate will offer broad and specialized courses in
the history of Asia at the undergraduate and graduate levels and will
be expected to participate in the Department's History Core
Program... more info
Post Doctoral Research Associates and/or Visiting Scholars
Niehaus Center for Globalization and Governance (NCGG), Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University
Term: 2011 - 2012 Academic Year
Location: Princeton, NJ, USA
Deadline: 15 January 2011
This fellows
program is targeted at developing a generation of scholars able to analyze and make policy
recommendations about the regional political economy in the Middle East, East, South, or Southeast
Asia, Africa and Latin America... more info
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Fellowships & Scholarships
FEATURED - Southeast Asia Fellowship Program Fall 2011
East-West Center
Washington, D.C., USA
Benefits: USD $2,500 to $4,500 (dependent upon experience) while in residence; round trip airfare to Washington, D.C. Residency
at the Center will start in September 2011
Term: Three (3) months)
Deadline: 15 October 2010
The East-West Center in Washington (EWCW) is accepting applications
from scholars and analysts who wish to undertake policy-relevant
research and writing in one of the following areas: 1. International
relations of Southeast Asia; 2. Political change in Southeast Asia; and
3. ASEAN integration and community-building efforts... more info
Post-Doctoral Fellowship and a Visiting Scholarship
Institute for East Asian Studies at Sogang University (SIEAS)
Benefits: Monthly stipends of USD $2000-3000, various facilities including office space, computer and access to library
Terms: 3 - 12 months
Three or four positions are open for qualified scholars from Korea and abroad. Please send your letter of application, curriculum vitae and research proposal to Professor LEE Hanwoo at eastasia@sogang.ac.kr.
Senior and Post-doctoral Fellowships
Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore, SINGAPORE
ARI has position openings for outstanding active researchers from around the world, beginning between April 2011 and September 2011... more info
Mellon Fellowships for Assistant Professors - School of Historical Studies
Institute for Advanced Study
Location: Princeton, NJ, USA
Term: 1 July 2011 - 30 June 2012, with the option of
staying through 15 August 2012
Deadline: 1 November 2010
The School is interested in all fields of historical research, including the Islamic world and modern
international
relations... more info
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Call for Submissions
FEATURED - 70 Years of Asian Studies
Association for Asian Studies and the International Convention of Asian Scholars
Location: Honolulu, HI, USA
Conference Dates: 31 March - 3 April 2011
Deadline: 5 August 2010
Please consider the special UHM CSEAS request for scholars interested in joining panels on Southeast Asian Cinema... more info
Buddhist Dynamics in Pre-Modern Southeast Asia
Nalanda-Sriwijaya Centre, Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, SINGAPORE
Conference Dates: 10 - 11 March 2011
Deadline: 31 August 2010
The conference aims to bring together international scholars engaged in research on Buddhist archaeological, textual, or art historical sources produced across the region from the early first millennium C.E. until circa the 18th century... more info
11th International Conference on Thai Studies
Mahidol University and the Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia
Location: THAILAND
Conference Dates: 26 - 28 July 2011
Deadline: 15 January 2011
To submit abstracts, please send a Microsoft word file (.doc) and a PDF file of abstracts in English, in email attachments, to thaistudies2011@gmail.com.
New Annual Lecture Series - De-Centering the Nation State: Historical Methodology within a Pacific Geography
Department of History, University of Hawai'i at Mānoa
Location: Honolulu, HI, USA
Dates: TBD 2010-2012
The inaugural workshop is intended to have scholars cultivate a deeper understanding of history, place, and
intellectual practice in Asia and the Pacific Islands... more info
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Fall 2010 CSEAS Course List
The Fall 2010 Southeast Asian Studies course list available online>>>
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Alumni Spotlight
Margaret (Maggie) Bodemer completed her dissertation entitled "Museums, Ethnology and the Politics of Culture in Contemporary Vietnam" as of May 2010. Congratulations to Maggie and our best wishes on her future endeavors!
CSEAS is proud to promote our alumni achievements and projects. Email updates to us at cseas@hawaii.edu>>> |
CSEAS Leadership Change
Mahalo nui to Dr. Barbara Watson Andaya for her leadership and guidance; read more about the CSEAS leadership change>>>
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CSEAS on LinkedIn
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CSEAS Survey
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CSEAS Admissions
Thinking about a graduate degree in Southeast Asian Studies? For program deadlines and updates, check out the CSEAS site>>>
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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 thanks everyone for their support over the past year. Hundreds of people attended the free films that highlighted the stories of Southeast Asia and the filmmakers that tell them in such unique ways. We look forward to seeing everyone again in the fall semester. Have a great summer! We'll see you at the movies!
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Radio - NEW
Looking for a place to listen to radio from across Southeast Asia? Stream radiotime>>>
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