Center For East Asian Studies Newsletter

2011 - 2012: Issue No. 4, September 30, 2011

The weekly CEAS Newsletter notifies East Asianists in our region of events and opportunities of interest. Notices appear under six headings:

1. University of Pennsylvania East Asia Events
   
2. Regional East Asia Events
   
3. Employment and Internship Opportunities
   
4. Fellowship and Award Opportunities
   
5. East Asia Study Opportunities and Queries
   
6. Conferences and Workshops

If you have notices in these categories that you would like posted here, please send them to meljen@sas.upenn.edu.

* Indicates notices appearing here for the first time.

To get the latest information and updates on CEAS events, please follow us on Twitter (@PennCEAS) or visit our Events page.

(I) University of Pennsylvania East Asia Events

* "Chinese Restaurants" - Film Screening with Speakers

Date:	Sunday, October 2, 2011
Time:	2:00 pm
Location:	Penn Museum | 3260 South Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104
	While the Chinese restaurant is ubiquitous in nearly every corner of the globe, the nature of the food changes according to local taste, while the restaurant owners change by adapting to local cultural norms. Dr. Jane Kauer, Penn Anthropology Department, an expert on food and culture, and Dr. Emily Hannum, Penn Sociology, present an episode of this celebrated 2008 series by Canadian writer, director and producer Cheuk Kwan.
	Please visit the Penn Museum website for more information.
	* Co-sponsored by CEAS, Penn Museum, Penn Anthropology Department

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* YONG CAI, Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill - "(Re)emergence of of Late Marriage in China"

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* KENGO KUMA, of Kengo Kuma and Associates- "Anti-Object"

Date:	Wednesday, October 5, 2011
Time:	6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Location:	Meyerson Hall Lower Gallery | 210 S. 34th Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104
	An "object" is a work of architecture that is expressly designed for maximum isolation. While not exclusive to any particular architectural style, objects have been the organizing principle for many modernist and postmodernist works. Indeed, they might even be said to be the very strategy by which modernism succeeded in conquering the world. Why is objectification so widespread? In Anti-Object, Kengo Kuma argues it is because it shares the aims of the prevailing economic system. He suggests and illustrates his alternative to objectification through a discussion of the various stratagems of his work.
	* Sponsored by PennDesign

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YEONG-KUANG GER, National Taiwan University & Control Yuan, Republic of China - "The Rise of China and Taiwan's Response: Implications for the United States"

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AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR CHINESE STUDIES - 53rd Annual Conference | hosted by University of Pennsylvania

Date:	Friday October 14 - Sunday October 16, 2011
Location:	University of Pennsylvania
Information:	Please visit the AACS Conference website for more information about the schedule and registration.
	Note: This conference registration fee is waived for all Penn students

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WU YU-SHAN, Director and Distinguished Research Fellow, Institute of Political Science, Academia Sinica (Taipei) - "Power Transition in East Asia and Taipei’s Rapprochement with Beijing: Hedging, Pivot-playing, or Bandwagoning?"

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NORIKO HORIGUCHI, University of Tennessee - "Women Adrift: The Literature of Japan's Imperial Body"

Date:	Friday, October 21, 2011
Time:	2:00 pm
Location:	Stiteler Hall B21 | 208 S. 37th Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104
	In her presentation at the CEAS Humanities Colloquium at Penn, Horiguchi will demonstrate how women’s actions and representations of women’s bodies redrew the border and expanded, rather than transcended, the empire of Japan. Based on a chapter from her book, Women Adrift: The Literature of Japan’s Imperial Body (forthcoming from the University of Minnesota Press, December 2011), Horiguchi specifically analyzes the boundary-crossing writings of a prominent female author Hayashi Fumiko (1904–1951). In Hayashi’s writings—and in Naruse Mikio’s postwar film adaptations of Hayashi’s novels—Horiguchi reveals how women asserted their own agency by transgressing the borders of nation and gender. At the same time, we see how Hayashi’s work, conducted under various colonial conditions, ended up reinforcing Japanese nationalism, racialism, and imperial expansion. In her reappraisal of the paradoxical positions of Hayashi and her female characters, Horiguchi complicates narratives of Japanese empire and of women’s role in its expansion.
	*CEAS Humanities Colloquium

(II) Regional East Asia Events

* Half the Sky: Women in the New Art of China - featuring 60 works of art by 22 Chinese Women Artists

Date:	From now until November 12, 2011
Gallery Hours:	Monday-Friday, 11:00 am - 5:00 pm
Location:	New Leonard Pearlstein Gallery (3401 Filbert Street), Drexel University

* ROBERT D. MOWRY, Alan J. Dworsky Curator of Chinese Art and Head of the Department of Asian Art, Arthur M. Sackler Museum - "First Under Heaven: Korean Ceramics of the Goryeo Dynasty (918–1392)"

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* RHI JUHYUNG, Seoul National University- "Does Iconography Really Matter? Iconographic Specification of Buddha Images in Pre-Esoteric Buddhist Art"

ADAIR LINN NAGATA, Intercultural Communication Institute - "Intercultural Communication: Learning NOT to Disturb the WA (Japanese harmony)"

Confucius Classroom Opening at Berks County Intermediate Unit - November 9, 2011

All events are free and open to the public. For more information please contact Sue Calvin at suecal@berksiu.org.

(III) Employment and Internship Opportunities

* Yale University - seeking Council on East Asian Studies Programs Coordinator

The Council on East Asian Studies at Yale University (CEAS) is seeking applicants for the position of CEAS Programs Coordinator to perform high-level administrative services to support the mission and overall programming operations of CEAS, including comprehensive coordination of events, student grant competitions, CEAS postdoctoral associates and visiting scholars programs, and exchange programs with international universities; as well as the compilation of annual reporting and grant materials related to programming for CEAS stewardship activities.  Yale University is an affirmative action/equal opportunity employer. Yale values diversity in its faculty, staff, and students and strongly encourages applications from women and members of underrepresented minority groups.

For more information and to apply for the position, please:

1. Go to: http://www.yale.edu/hronline/stars/application/

2. Click on "External Applicants" on the upper left-hand corner.
3. Click on "Search Openings."
4. In the blank space of "STARS Requisition Number," enter "13766BR."

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* University of Southern California - seeking Assistant Professor in Early Modern and/or Modern Japanese Literature

The Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of Southern California (Los Angeles, CA) is currently conducting a search for a tenure-track assistant professor in Early Modern and/or Modern Japanese Literature.

Applications should be complete by November 4, 2011, as files will begin to reviewed on that date. 

Should you have any questions about the search, please contact Lori Meeks (meeks@usc.edu) or Akira Lippit (lippit@usc.edu), who is serving as chair of the search committee.

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Indiana University - seeking Associate Director for East Asian Studies Center

The East Asian Studies Center at Indiana University invites applications for the position of Associate Director. This is a full-time, 12-month position reporting to the Center Director. The East Asian Studies Center has significant national presence as a U.S. Department of Education Title VI National Resource Center (NRC) in a consortium with the East Asian center at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). It is also a coordinating site for the National Consortium for Teaching about Asia (NCTA).

The Associate Director directs the Center’s day-to-day operations, supervises full- and part-time staff, provides regular reports to the Director on the status of programs and finances, and makes recommendations to the Director for program modifications and budget adjustments; manages the logistical, financial, and PR effort for all Center activities, ensuring compliance with university and sponsoring agencies’ regulations and policies; serves as a lead writer on grant proposals, including the NRC and NCTA grants; serves as the NCTA national co-director, represents IU at national NCTA meetings, and oversees NCTA programming; collaborates with faculty and staff in various campus units to strengthen the presence of East Asian studies and to promote internationalization in general; coordinates Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) fellowships; assists the Director in development efforts; oversees data collection; writes the Center’s biannual newsletter.

Qualifications: Successful candidates will have a Master’s degree in a relevant field (Ph.D. strongly preferred); administrative experience required; grant proposal writing experience preferred; high degree of initiative and ability to work in a multi-faceted Center facing frequent grant deadlines; excellent communication and organizational skills.

Application procedures: Applicants must submit a curriculum vitae, a cover letter, contact information for three (3) references, and a letter of recommendation from a former supervisor that can attest to the candidate’s record as an organizational leader. Applications received by September 30, 2011 will be assured of consideration. To apply, please send materials to:

(IV) Fellowship and Award Opportunities

* Michigan Journal of Asian Studies - Call for Submissions, deadline: October 10th

Michigan Journal of Asian Studies is a new journal at the University of Michigan, supported by the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures, dedicated to publishing undergraduate and graduate work on the broad topic of Asia (East, Southeast, South, and Central). Asia is becoming the new frontier in the world, and we feel that although "Asia" is widely reported on in the news, often it is lumped into one mass, and its contours are not addressed adequately in scholarly journals. We would like to change that. We are currently accepting submissions for our first issue - our deadline is October 10th. This is a great opportunity for your students to be published in an academic journal on an area of the world that is rapidly growing in importance. Our submission guidelines can be found on our website: www.m-jas.org.  All questions, comments, and submissions can be sent to michiganjournalofasianstudies@umich.edu.

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* Associated Colleges in China (ACC) - Fulbright Scholarships and International Travel Funds Available, deadline: October 15th

ACC Fulbright scholarships ($2000-$6000) and international travel funds ($600-$1400) are available for the upcoming spring term. The deadline for the ACC spring term is fast-approaching: October 15th. Any students who are interested in applying for the Spring term at ACC and are interested in a Fulbright scholarship or international travel funds, should contact the ACC office at acchina@hamilton.edu immediately.

The application forms for the spring term and for Fulbright scholarships are available at website, www.hamilton.edu/china.

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* Alliance for Global Education - Scholarship for $7,000 to the Globalization Then and Now: Xi'an and the Silk Road program, deadline: November 1

The Alliance for Global Education is offering a special scholarship to study abroad in China during spring 2012.  This $7,000 merit and need-based scholarship is open to all spring 2012 applicants to the Globalization Then and Now: Xi'an and the Silk Road program, hosted by Shaanxi Normal University. 

Applicants must be accepted into the Xi’an program, demonstrate financial need, and show a vested interest in the specific coursework and experiential components of the program.  Students from non-traditional majors or minority backgrounds are encouraged to apply.

Scholarship applications for Xi'an must be submitted by November 1, 2011.  For more information on the program visit http://www.allianceglobaled.org/china/xian/globalization-then-and-now. 

Additional need-based scholarships of up to $4,500 are available to students who have been accepted into any Alliance program at our sites in Beijing, Shanghai, or Xi’an.

Please refer your students to http://www.allianceglobaled.org/finances/alliance-scholarships to apply and for more information on other financial aid opportunities.

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Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Fellowship - deadline: November 1

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2012 Critical Language Scholarship (CLS) Program - Deadline: November 15, 2011

The United States Department of State is pleased to announce the scholarship competition for the 2012 Critical Language Scholarship (CLS) Program for overseas intensive summer language institutes in thirteen critical need foreign languages. CLS institutes provide fully-funded group-based intensive language instruction and structured cultural enrichment experiences for seven to ten weeks for U.S. citizen undergraduate and graduate students. Students may apply for one language, and will be placed at institute sites based on language evaluations after selection.

Interested applicants should review the full eligibility and application information on the CLS Program website: www.clscholarship.org/applicants.htm. Arabic, Chinese, Persian, Russian, and Japanese institutes have language prerequisites, which can be found here: http://www.clscholarship.org/applicants.htm#prerequisites.

Students from all academic disciplines, including business, engineering, law, medicine, sciences, and humanities are encouraged to apply. While there is no service requirement attached to CLS Program awards, participants are expected to continue their language study beyond the scholarship period, and later apply their critical language skills in their future professional careers.

The CLS Program has planned outreach events at universities across the U.S. in fall 2011. Check out the CLS webpage or our Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/CLScholarship, as we may be coming to your institution!

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AsiaNetwork - Freeman Foundation Student-Faculty Fellow Program - deadline: December 1

Sponsor: AsiaNetwork
Title: Student-Faculty Fellows Program
E-mail: vanjsymons@augustana.edu
Web Site: http://www.asianetwork.org/
Program URL: http://www.asianetwork.org/programs/freeman/2012sff/2012program.html
SYNOPSIS:  The sponsor provides a summer fellowship program for student-faculty teams to encourage undergraduate research in Asia during the summer of 2012.
Deadline(s): 12/01/2011

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Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Fellowship - deadline: December 1

Sponsor: Social Science Research Council
Title: Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Fellowship
E-mail: japan@ssrc.org
Web Site: http://fellowships.ssrc.org
Program URL: http://www.ssrc.org/fellowships/jsps-fellowship/
SYNOPSIS:  The sponsor provides recent PhD recipients and ABDs with opportunities to conduct research in Japan under the leadership of a host researcher. Fellows are encouraged to advance their own research and at the same time closely collaborate with young Japanese researchers and contribute to Japanese research communities. Applications are welcome from all social science and humanities disciplines and need not be explicitly related to the study of Japan.

Deadline(s to apply): 12/01/2011

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Blakemore Language Grants for Advanced Study of Asian Languages - deadline: December 30

The Blakemore Foundation is now accepting applications for its 2012 Blakemore Freeman Fellowships and Blakemore Refresher Grants.

Blakemore language grants are awarded to individuals pursuing academic, business or other professional careers (e.g. science, medicine, law, engineering, journalism, the fine arts, public service) who would benefit from improved fluency in an East or Southeast Asian language.

Blakemore Freeman Fellowships fund a year of advanced language study at the Inter-University Center for Japanese Language Studies in Yokohama (IUC), the Inter-University Program for Chinese Language Studies at Tsinghua University in Beijing (IUP), the International Chinese Language Program at National Taiwan University in Taipei (ICLP), and similar programs in other countries of East and SE Asia. Where there is no structured advanced-level language program at an educational institution in the country, the grant may provide for the financing of private tutorials under terms set forth in the application instructions. 

Blakemore Refresher Grants are shorter-term language grants restricted to former Blakemore Fellows, college professors, post-doctoral professionals and graduates of the academic year programs at the IUC, the IUP and the ICLP. The grants cover tuition and a stipend for related educational expenses, basic living costs and transportation, but do not include dependent expenses.

For application forms, eligibility and selection criteria, and further information see www.blakemorefoundation.org

Deadline for Applications                                       
·  Postmarked by December 30, 2011

Grants Awarded
·  Late March/early April 2012

(V) East Asia Study Opportunities and Queries

* University of Virginia’s M.S. in Commerce. - Information Session & Dinner

Date:	Tuesday, October 4th, 2011
Time:	6:00 pm
Location:	Houston Hall, Griski Room
Website:	http://www.commerce.virginia.edu/mscommerce
UVA Representative:	Emma Candelier, Associate Director of Graduate Recruiting

The one-year degree is designed specifically for non-business majors and features tracks in either Financial Services or Marketing & Management, as well as a month of global immersion in Europe, China or Southeast Asia.

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Japanese Language Proficiency Test - Last test date of 2011

(VI) Conferences and Workshops

Teaching About Asia Workshop for K -12 Teachers: The Many Faces of Modern Asia - Sponsored by the Mid-Atlantic Region Association for Asian Studies

Date: Friday, October 21, 2011
Time: 9:00 a.m. - 3:30 p.m.
Location: Frist Campus Center, Multipurpose Room, B Level, Princeton University
Directions: For directions to Princeton University, campus maps, and visitor parking:
http://www.princeton.edu/main/visiting/

Help your students understand the complexities of modern Asia:
In the 21st century, Asia has emerged as the fastest developing region of the world. Some facts:
• Two out of the three largest economies in the world, China and Japan, are in Asia. In addition, India and South Korea are major centers of technological innovation.
• China and India are two of the world’s major military powers.
• Asian countries represent major producers of nuclear power, for both military and civilian use.
• Asian crisis hotspots continue to command our attention - such as the persisting conflicts between  India/Pakistan/Afghanistan, or between North and South Korea. Recent natural disasters - from Japan to Bangladesh, and Indonesia to China - have claimed hundreds of thousands of lives, and uprooted and displaced millions more.

In addition to talks and discussions, the workshop program will include a choice of tours of the highlights of the Asian Collection in the Princeton Art Museum, or of a special exhibit by the Cotsen Collection of Princeton University’s Firestone Library, featuring children’s and youth literature, periodicals, and posters from 20th century Asia.

Registration:
The registration fee of $15 includes Friday lunch and refreshments, workshop handouts, workshop participation  certificate, and, if desired, free attendance of the following Mid-Atlantic Region Association of Asian Studies Conference on October 22-23 (excluding Saturday lunch and dinner).

For online workshop registration and further information on the MAR-AAS conference: http://www.ucis.pitt.edu/asc/maraas/

Alternatively, registration checks payable to MAR-AAS may be sent to:

On-site registration will be possible on the day of the event from 8:30 - 9:00 a.m.

Professional Development Credit:
Each participant will receive a certificate for 6 hours of professional development credit, meeting state requirements.

Inquiries may be directed to Dr. Lesley Solomon, Workshop Coordinator, at lesley86@hotmail.com.
The Teaching About Asia Workshop is part of the 40th Annual Conference of the Mid-Atlantic Region Association for Asian Studies  October 21 - 23, 2011

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40th Annual Mid-Atlantic Region Association for Asian Studies Conference at Princeton University -"Human Rights and Social Justice in Asia"

October 22 - October 23, 2011 | Princeton University, Princeton NJ

Human Rights and Social Justice in Asia is the theme for the next MAR/AAS Conference, hosted by Princeton University.

Questions may be directed to the 2011 Program Co-Chairs:

Dr. Charles Desnoyers, LaSalle University [desnoyer@lasalle.edu]
Dr. A. Maria Toyoda, Villanova University [amaria.toyoda@villanova.edu]
or sent to midatlanticAAS@gmail.com

To register for the conference, please go to the MAR/AAS conference website.

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The Eagle and the Dragon: Stability and Economic Development in Sub-Saharan Africa, November 3 - 4, 2011 | Lexington, Virginia

Take a fresh look at the relationships among the U.S., China, and nations in Sub-Saharan Africa.  Join experts in exploring what drives current American and Chinese interests in Africa and how they can work individually and together for political stability and economic development.

Join top-tier experts for a two-day conference, 3 & 4 November, “The Eagle and the Dragon: Stability and Economic Development in Sub-Saharan Africa.”  The meeting will take place at the Center for Leadership and Ethics, Virginia Military Institute (VMI) in Lexington, Virginia.

Participants include:

• Ambassador Johnnie Carson, U.S. Assistant Secretary of State
• Kwesi Aning, Ph. D., Kofi Annan International Peacekeeping Training Centre (KAIPTC) in Accra, Ghana
• Deborah Bräutigam, Ph. D., author, The Dragon's Gift: The Real Story of China in Africa (Oxford University Press, 2009)
• Raymond Gilpin, Ph. D., Associate Vice President, Sustainable Economies Centers of Innovation, United States Institute of Peace

Registration is now open.  Learn more about the conference here.

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Call for Papers: Myths and Orthodoxies in East Asian Art and History, Princeton University Graduate Symposium - deadline: November 6

Graduate Student Symposium in East Asian Art
Saturday, 3 March 2012
101 McCormick Hall, Princeton University
9:30 am – 5:00 pm

Organized by the P.Y. and Kinmay W. Tang Center for East Asian Art
Cosponsored by the Princeton University Art Museum

Keynote Speaker: Professor Donald F. McCallum, Department of Art History, UCLA Asuka Myths and Orthodoxies: Ikarugadera – Umayado no ōji – Hōryūji

Myths and orthodoxies have given rise to compelling beliefs and canonical lineages in the arts and art histories of East Asia. The narratives of myths and orthodoxies uphold certain “truths” at the expense of others and serve the needs of those who perpetuate them. But what kind of history becomes an “orthodoxy,” and what sort of story can we call a “myth”? How do these stories sustain their power, and when do they lose power? Who decides? How do visualized myths and orthodoxies shape what we believe?  Do we believe the textual or the spoken more readily than the visual? Do visual materials help create, communicate, and maintain myths and orthodoxies in ways that text can never accomplish? How do the uses of “myth” and “orthodoxy” in discussions of historiography change our understanding of history and art history? Does identifying myths and orthodoxies tend to serve a revisionist purpose? When something is called a myth, is the validity of its message automatically called into question? How do orthodoxies remodel their self-evident “truths” as they progress through time?

We invite graduate students in East Asian art history and related fields to submit abstracts of 300–400 words for papers that will address myths and orthodoxies in their various forms. Please send your abstract with a copy of your curriculum vitae by  Monday, 7 November 2011, to:

Center for East Asian Studies University of Pennsylvania 642 Williams Hall | 255 S. 36th Street Philadelphia, PA 19104-6305 Tel: 215-573-4203 | Fax: 215-573-2561 E-mail: ceas@ccat.sas.upenn.edu