Center For East Asian Studies Newsletter

2011 - 2012: Issue No. 7, October 21, 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

Spring 2012 Course Listings related to East Asia have now been updated and can be found on our Academics page, and here.

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

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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** UPDATED ** 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
NEW Time:	2:00 pm
NEW Location:	College Hall 200
	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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** UPDATED ** 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 (lunch will be provided)
Location:	College Hall, Room 209 (History Lounge)
	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

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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** UPDATED ** 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

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

* Harvard University’s Program on U.S.-Japan Relations -Advanced Research (postdoctoral) Fellowships - deadline to apply: January 15, 2012

During the 2012-13 academic year, Harvard University’s Program on U.S.-Japan Relations will offer Advanced Research (postdoctoral) Fellowships for social scientists. Projects that focus on Japan or Japan's international role from a comparative, historical, or global perspective are welcome. Knowledge of the Japanese language is not required. Awards ($50,000) are for the academic year (September-May). Fellows are required to teach one undergraduate course, either in the fall or spring semester.

The application deadline is January 15, 2012. The application form and more details about the application process are available at: http://www.wcfia.harvard.edu/us-japan/application/postdoc_application.htm.

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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 to apply: November 1

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2012 Critical Language Scholarship (CLS) Program - deadline to apply: 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 to apply: December 1, 2011

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 to apply: December 1, 2011

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

* Wharton Asia Economic Review (WAER): Seeking journal submissions for Fall 2011 issue - deadline to submit: November 18, 2011

The Wharton Asia Economic Review (WAER) is seeking submissions for our Fall 2011 issue. WAER is an undergraduate academic journal of the Wharton China Business Society at the University of Pennsylvania. WAER is committed to providing thoughtful analyses of how social, economic, political, and international changes affect business and commerce throughout Asia, and how Asia, in turn, affects the business world. Thus, we encourage any students who have written academic papers or theses related to social, economic, and political issues in Asia to submit them to WAER for possible publication.

This year, WAER is also expanding our scope of analysis to include not only formal academic papers, but also interest pieces, opinion editorials, or political cartoons. We believe that breadth is just as important as depth when it comes to analyzing economics in Asia.

Feel free to submit work that you think will contribute to a better understanding of the business dynamic in Asia. The deadline for submission is November 18, 2011. Submissions should be emailed as Word documents and citations should be formatted in the APA style. Please email any submissions to contact.waer@gmail.com. For more information about WAER and to read our past issues, please visit http://www.whartonchina.com/journal/.

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Japanese Language Proficiency Test - Last test date of 2011

(VI) Conferences and Workshops

CALL FOR PAPERS: Myths and Orthodoxies in East Asian Art and History, Princeton University Graduate Symposium - deadline to apply: November 6, 2011

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:

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* CALL FOR PAPERS: Imperial China and Its Southern Neighbours An International Conference - deadline: November 19th, 2011

Organized by: the Nalanda-Sriwijaya Centre, ISEAS, Singapore Location: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, Singapore
Dates: 28-29 June, 2012

Download the entire text of the Call for Papers here.

This 2-day conference will examine the following questions and problems that are germane to understanding the relationship between north and south:  geographical terminology (e.g., China, Jiangnan, East Asia, the East Asian Heartland, the Extended East Asian Heartland, the Yellow River Valley, the Yangtze River Valley, Southern China, Lingnan); transmission of literary themes and genres; linguistic interactions; artistic and musical interplay; folkloristic motifs; trade and migration patterns; religious missions and pilgrims; etc.  The timeframe of the conference covers from the earliest periods of interaction between the Yellow River Valley and the lands to the south up to the end of the Qing Dynasty (1911).

Paper proposals are invited from scholars engaged in any aspect of related studies.  Proposals should be received by no later than 19 November 2011, and successful applicants will be informed of their acceptance by 10 December 2011.  Proposals should include a title and a 400-word abstract, together with a short biography of the applicant.

Selected papers from the conference will be published in a volume edited by Victor H. Mair.

All participants will be provided with three nights accommodation in Singapore.  Requests for assistance with airfares, especially from participants based in Asian countries, will be sympathetically considered.

Proposals should be directed to:
Imperial China and Its Southern Neighbours Conference
Nalanda-Sriwijaya Centre
Institute of Southeast Asian Studies
30 Heng Mui Keng Terrace
Singapore  119614
e-mail:  nscconferences@iseas.edu.sg
(Please note the conference title in the Subject line of your email)

Organizing committee:
Victor H. Mair
Tansen Sen
Geoff Wade
John Miksic
Lu Caixia

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