08 June 2012 | Issue #73
Information, literature and dialogue on the Muslim cultures of Asia and the Pacific
School of Pacific and Asian Studies (SPAS), University of Hawai'i at Mānoa (UHM)
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Aloha!
Salaam (peace) and welcome to the Muslim Societies in Asia and the Pacific (MSAP) newsletter. Find our continuing feature of Hawai'i-based resources and our regular list of events, jobs, papers and conferences.
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Shangri La
The theme this year for Shangri La's Scholars-in-Residence Program is Beyond "Decline" and Before "Modern": Later Islamic Art, c. 1722-1940. Three scholars to come.
 An Ottoman Velvet From: Metropolitan Museum of ArtTitle: Ottoman Velvets circa 1730: Demand, Creativity, and Improvement
Scholar: Dr. Amanda Phillips
Where: Shangri La, Hawai'i
Residency: 25 June - 13 July 2012
Book: Narrative Illustration In
Persian Lithographed Books
by Dr. Ulrich Marzolph
Title: The Art of Illustration in Lithographed Books and Other Expressions of Qajar Art Scholar: Dr. Ulrich Marzolph
Where: Shangri La, Hawai'i
Residency: 17 Sept. - 05 Oct. 2012
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Tile Work from Esfahan, Safavid era
Title: The Role of Qajar Tilework in the Late Islamic Art and Culture of Iran
Scholar: Jennifer Scarce
Where: Shangri La, Hawai'i
Residency: 26 Nov. - 14 Dec. 2012
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Employment Opportunities
Lecturer, Early Islamic History University of Oxford, UK
Assistant Professor, South and East Asian HistoryUniversity of Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
Visiting India Scholar SearchCleveland State University, Ohio, USA
Deadline: 15 June 2012
Postdoctoral Opportunity, Digital Humanities and Asian Studies - Focus Indonesia
KITLV (Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies)
Netherlands
Lecturer, Islamic Studies
University of Arizona, USA
Assistant Professor, Middle Eastern History
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Virginia, USA
Research Associate and Visiting Faculty, Women's Studies in Religion Program,
Harvard Divinity, USA
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Conference/Exhibitions
Exhibition: The Prince and the Pasha
Ann Dunham's Legacy: A Collection of Indonesian Batiks Islamic Arts Museum, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Contemporary Iranian Art Exhibition: Rostam 2 - The Return Los Angeles County Museum of Art California, USA
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Call for Papers New Wave Iranian Cinema
Persian Film Festival and Sydney Society for Literature and Aesthetics
Sydney, Australia
Secularism, Religion and LawFourth Rethinking Religion in India Conference
Hubli, India
Deadline: 15 Aug. 2012more info
Ready for Democracy? Religion and Political Culture in the Orthodox and Islamic Worlds
Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, USA Deadline: 02 March 2013 more info |
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Featured Films
(Available at
AsiaPacificFilms.com)
Piusi Tak (A Poet)
Indonesia,1999
by Garin Nugroho
watch>>> Gonah-E Maryam
(Maryam's Sins)
Iran, 2004
by Parisa Shahandeh
 Sara
Iran, 1992
by Dariush Mehrjui
 Train to Pakistan
India, 1997
by Pamela Rooks
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Publications
Kiarostami Abbas:
The Evidence of Film
by Jean-Luc Nancy,
2001
Yves Gavaert Publishing
more info
Mute Dreams, Blind Owls, and Dispersed Knowledges:
Persian Poesis in the Transnational Circuitry
by Michael M. J. Fischer,
2004
Duke University Press
more info
To Live as Brothers: Southeast Sumatra in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
by Barbara Andaya,
1993
University of Hawaii Press
more info
 A History of Malaysia
by Barbara Andaya,
2007
University of Hawai'i Press
more info
Leaves of the Same Tree: Trade and Ethnicity in the Straits of Melaka
by Leonard Andaya,
2008
University of Hawai'i Press
more info
The Flaming Womb: Repositioning Women in Early Modern
Southeast Asia
by Barbara Andaya,
2008
University of Hawaii Press
more info
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Grants/Fellowships
Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Islamic Feminist Studies
Wheaton College, USA
Deadline: Rolling
more info
Postdoctoral Fellowships, Empires of 18th Century Asia - The Mughal Period
National University of Singapore
Deadline: 15 July 2012
more info
Graduate Degree Fellowship
East-West Center
Honolulu, Hawai'i, USA
Deadline: 01 Nov. 2012
more info
Asia Pacific Leadership Program (APLP)
East West Center
Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
Deadline: 01 Dec. 2012
more info |
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