Center For East Asian Studies Newsletter

2011 - 2012: Issue No. 6, October 14, 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.

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

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 program 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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* MYENG K HA, Commissioner for the Busan Jinhae Free Economic Zone Authority (BJFEZ), Korea - "The Future Lies in Korea - With a Focus on the Busan Jinhae Free Economic Zone  (BJFEZ)"

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ROSELYN HSUEH, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Temple University - "China's Regulatory State: A New Strategy for Globalization"

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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

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4th Annual Lawrence J. Schoenberg Symposium on Manuscript Studies in the Digital Age - "Writing the East: History and New Technologies in the Study of Asian Manuscript Traditions"

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YOUNG MOK-KIM, Consul General of the Republic of Korea, New York - "Emerging Asia: Challenges and Opportunities for the US"

Date:	Wednesday, October 26, 2011
Time:	4:30 pm
Location:	Silverstein Forum, Stiteler Hall
	Ambassador Young-mok Kim was appointed to the Consul General of the Republic of Korea in New York in August 2010. He has held many positions related to either Korea-U.S. bi-lateral relations or to the security of the Korean peninsula. He served as political secretary at the Korean Embassy in Washington D.C. and assumed the posts of Director, Deputy Director General of the North American Affairs Bureau of MOFA (1992 and 1998) and Director-General of the Office of Planning for the Light Water Reactor Project (1995). He served in New York as Minister at the Permanent Mission of the Republic of Korea to the United Nations in New York (1999-2002). He was then appointed as Deputy Executive Director of the Korean Peninsula Energy Development Organization (KEDO), in charge of policy toward North Korea and the nuclear power project implementation. He participated in a number of negotiations with North Korea on nuclear program, and he was one of the early members in designing the mission of Korea Energy Development Organization(2003-2005). Ambassador Kim also served in Côte d'Ivoire, Singapore, and he assumed the post of Ambassador to the Islamic Republic of Iran (2007-2010).
	*Korea Current Affairs Forum, James Joo Jin-Kim Program in Korean Studies, co-sponsored by Penn Lauder-CIBER, the Christopher H. Browne Center for International Politics, and the International Relations Program

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* PETER DUUS, William H. Bonsall Professor of Japanese History, Emeritus; Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution - "Rediscovering America: Japanese Perspectives on the American Century"

Date:	Thursday, October 27, 2011
Time:	12:00 pm
Location:	College Hall, Room 209
	Early impressions of Japanese visitors to the United States were naive – and usually positive. The country and its people often appeared to them exotic, confusing or opaque but rarely threatening. By the turn of the twentieth century, however, their observations became more complex, tinged with criticism, resentment and often hostility. Some have characterized this as the beginning of Japan’s “love-hate” relationship with the United States but that hardly does justice to the ambivalence of Japanese perspectives on the United States during the American Century.  It oversimplifies their range, and it ignores the fact that positive and negative perspectives often went hand in hand. As one postwar visitor noted, “Can someone close to us sometimes be our enemy and our conqueror, sometimes our lover and our teacher, and moreover our dominator too? . . .For the Japanese, the United States of America is a country just like such a person.”  The talk will explore the ambivalence reflected in accounts of visitors to America as it emerged as a hegemonic world power and as a society that often awed and appalled them.
	* Co-sponsored by CEAS and the Japan America Society of Greater Philadelphia

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MARY GALLAGHER, Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Michigan - "Bottom-Up Implementation?  Legal Mobilization as Law Enforcement in China"

Date:	Thursday, October 27, 2011
Time:	4:30 pm
Location:	Jon M. Huntsman Hall 245
	Mary Gallagher is an Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Michigan, where she is also the Director of the Center for Chinese Studies, and a faculty associate at the Center for Comparative Political Studies at the Institute for Social Research. Professor Gallagher received her Ph.D. in Politics in 2001 from Princeton University and her B.A. from Smith College in 1991. She was a foreign student in China in 1989 at Nanjing University. She also taught at the Foreign Affairs College in Beijing from 1996-1997. She was a Fulbright Research Scholar from 2003 to 2004 at East China University of Politics and Law in Shanghai, China. It was funded by the Fulbright Association and the National Science Foundation. Her research areas are Chinese politics, comparative politics of transitional and developing states, and law and society. The underlying question that drives her research in all of these areas is whether the development of markets is linked to the sequential development of democratic politics and legal rationality. Put simply, she is interested in the relationships between capitalism, law and democracy. Her empirical research in China is used to explore these larger theoretical questions.
	* Annual CEAS-Lauder Lecture, co-sponsored by CEAS and Penn Lauder-CIBER

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DONALD TREIMAN, Distinguished Professor of Sociology Emeritus at the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) and a Faculty Associate of UCLA’s California Center for Population Research - "The Determinants and Consequences of Hukou (Registration Status) Mobility in China"

Date:	Monday, October 31, 2011
Time:	12:00 pm
Location:	McNeil 103
	* Co-sponsored by CEAS Issues in Contemporary East Asia Colloquium Series, Penn Population Studies Center

(II) Regional East Asia Events

* AUTHOR'S TALK & A SPECIAL SYMPOSIUM ON THE LEGACY OF C. C. WANG - Through a Chinese Connoisseur’s Eye: Private Notes of C.C. Wang

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* Contemporary Chinese Art Exhibition Opening at TCNJ - October 26

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* Korean Painting, Hankookwah and Calligraphy: The Expression of Nonstop Silence - Art Exhibition open until October 30, 2011

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Foreign Policy Research Institute & Reserve Officers Association Conference - "Contested Terrain: China's Periphery and International Relations in Asia"

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

* JET Programme Information Session at University of Pennsylvania

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* Wharton China Business Society presents: Teach For China Info Session with Recruiting Manager

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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.

(IV) Fellowship and Award Opportunities

* Center for Historical Studies, Twentieth-Century Japan Research Awards - deadline to apply: November 18, 2011

The Nathan and Jeanette Miller Center for Historical Studies and the University of Maryland Libraries invite applications for one grant to support research in the library’s Gordon W. Prange
Collection and East Asia Collection on topics related to the period of the Allied Occupation of Japan and its aftermath, 1945-1960. The grant must be used by October 31, 2012.

E-mail: umdhistorycenter@gmail.com
Web Site: http://www.history.umd.edu/HistoryCenter/index.htm
Program URL: http://www.history.umd.edu/HistoryCenter/images/20th%20c%20Awards_announcement%202012.pdf

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* Japan Foundation, Japanese Studies Fellowship Program--Scholars & Researchers - deadline to apply: 12/01/2011

Support is provided to scholars and researchers involved in Japanese studies in the fields of the humanities and the social sciences to conduct research in Japan.  The duration of the award is two to twelve months.

E-mail: info@jfny.org
Web Site: http://www.jpf.go.jp/e
Program URL: http://www.jpf.go.jp/e/program/intel.html

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* Reischauer (Edwin O.) Institute of Japanese Studies, Postdoctoral Fellowships in Japanese Studies - deadline to apply: January 3, 2012

The sponsor will offer several postdoctoral fellowships in Japanese studies to recent PhDs of exceptional promise, to give them the opportunity to turn their dissertation into publishable manuscripts.

E-mail: tgilman@fas.harvard.edu
Web Site: http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~rijs/fellowships/postdoctoral.html

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Boren Scholarships Program - deadline to apply: February 9, 2012

The sponsor provides up to $20,000 to U.S. undergraduate students to study abroad in areas of the world that are critical to U.S. interests and underrepresented in study abroad, including Africa, Asia, Central & Eastern Europe, Eurasia, Latin American, and the Middle East. Boren Scholars study less commonly taught languages, including but not limited to Arabic, Chinese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, and Swahili.

E-mail: boren@iie.org

Program URL: http://www.borenawards.org/boren_scholarship/basics.html

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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

(V) East Asia Study Opportunities and Queries

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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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