Penn Center For East Asian Studies Newsletter
2006-07: Issue no. 17, January 19, 2007The CEAS Newsletter weekly notifies East Asianists in our region of events and opportunities of interest. Notices appear under six headings:
- University of Pennsylvania East Asia Events
- Regional East Asia Events
- Employment and Internship Opportunities
- Fellowship and Award Opportunities
- East Asia Study Opportunities and Queries
- Conferences and Workshops
send them to proberts@sas.upenn.edu.
* Indicates notices appearing here for the first time.
(I) University of Pennsylvania East Asia Events
Thursday, January 25, 3:00PM, Silverman 240A, *Politics and the Judicial Function in the US and Japan and their Relevance to Chinese Legal Evolution
Frank Upham, NYU Law School
The talk presents three models of the judicial role in modern societies: the protection of rights through the resolution of individual disputes; the creation and diffusion of social norms; and direct involvement in political and governmental functions. I argue that the rights protection model in its formalist and technical version is what most observers and rule of law advocates believe is law's fundamental social function and that it is this model that the current Chinese government is attempting to create with its current "rule of law" movement. I speculate that the Chinese government hopes to build a legal system that will be technically competent in controlling and diffusing social conflict while remaining politically neutral. I then turn to Japan and the US respectively to illustrate the norm creation and administrative roles of courts, both of which are deeply political. In the course of these descriptions, I argue that contrary to popular perception, Japanese courts are in important ways more activist and socially intrusive than American ones, but my fundamental point is that any effective legal system must play all three of these roles and that any attempt to create a technically proficient but politically neutral legal system is likely to fail, whether in China or elsewhere.
Issues in Contemporary East Asia
Co-Sponsored by the Chinese Legal Studies Association
Thursday, February 8, 3:00PM, Silverman 240A*, The Japanese Post Office as a Social Welfare Institution: What Will (or Will Not) Change With Privatization?
Patricia Maclachlan, University of Texas
Since the early 1870s, the Japanese post office has assumed a number of social welfare functions. The postal insurance system, for instance, provides ordinary citizens with affordable life insurance, while the mail service assists the handicapped and promotes local businesses. Local postmasters and their employees, meanwhile, perform a number of volunteer functions for local residents, including //himawari// services for the elderly. Together, these and other social welfare services have contributed significantly to community development and the well being of local residents. What will happen to them as the postal system is gradually privatized? To answer this question, this presentation will explore the political compromises behind Prime Minister Koizumi's 2005 postal privatization legislation and the future of the privatization process, in addition to the social, cultural, and political history of this distinctive Japanese institution.
Issues In Contemporary East Asia
Tuesday, February 13, 4:30PM, Logan Hall 402*, Nagasaki, August 9, 1945: Memories of Someone Who Witnessed the Bomb
Akiko Seitelbach
Humanities Colloquium
Thursday, February 22, Penn Museum*
Asia Day -- for High School Students, by invitation
Monday, March 26 – Tuesday, March 27*, FEW Lecturer
Patricia Ebrey
Thursday, March 29, 3:00PM, Silverman 240A*, Women Executives in Corporate Japan: Navigating the Tensions between Family and Fortune
Glenda Roberts, Professor at the Graduate School of Asia-Pacific Studies, Department of International Relations, at Waseda University in Tokyo
Issues in Contemporary East Asia Lecture Series
Saturday, March 31, 9:00AM – 6:00PM, Logan Hall 17*
Acting Modern: A Symposium for the Exhibition /Dramatic Impressions/ *
The Center for East Asian Studies and the Department of the History of Art are also co-sponsoring a symposium in conjunction with the exhibition, to be held *March 31, 2006*. The papers will engage issues concerned with Osaka print production and subjects; the Shin-hanga revival of woodblock printing in the early twentieth century; the 1923 Great Kantô earthquake; and Kabuki in the twentieth century; among others. There will also be a collector's and curators' forum on the exhibition. /Speakers will include/: C. Andrew Gerstle, SOAS, University of London; Sarah Thompson, MFA Boston; Kendall Brown, CSU Long Beach; Gennifer Weisenfeld, Duke; Shirley Luber, Philadelphia; and Yoshie Endô, Frank L. Chance, and Julie Davis from the University of Pennsylvania.
The symposium is free and open to the public. More information on the symposium will be posted soon at: http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/ceas/events.htm
Thursday, April 5, 7:00PM, Perelman Quadrangle (Hall of Flags Rain Location),* Tamagawa University Taiko Drummers
The performers are students of the College of Arts at Tamagawa University in Tokyo. The college of Arts strives to explore the connection of art to society and to increase appreciation of the arts. The College aims to train artistic professionals who will serve as bridges between people and the arts within society.
Companies of Tamagawa University performing arts students have performed worldwide since 1961, in locations as diverse as Mexico, Greece, London, Canada, Malaysia, Indonesia, Africa, Russia, and the U.S. The group has a special affinity for Philadelphia, having performed here previously in 1999, 2003, 2004 and 2005. Tamagawa University hopes that their 2007 tour will serve as a bridge for cultural exchange and strengthen the friendship between Philadelphia and Japan.
Sponsored with the JASGP Subaru Cherry Blossom Festival
Monday, April 9, 5:30PM*, *Ross** Gallery*, 2007 Cherry Blossom Festival Opening Reception
Thursday, April 16, 2:00PM, Huntsman Hall 240, *Japan - Meeting the Challenges in 2007: Prospects for Continued Economic Reform, Dealing with North Korea, and Responding to the Rise of China**
Ambassador Sakurai, Japanese Consul General
Co-sponsored by the Lauder Institute and Penn Lauder CIBER
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The Penn Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations is presenting the following series of lectures on modern Chinese Literature this spring:
January 19, Friday, 2:00 p.m.
Fisher-Bennett Hall 401
Dr. Larissa Heinrich (University of New South Wales)
"Dissecting the Self: Lu Xun's Anatomical Aesthetics."
Abstract: Literary scholars have already noted the curious prominence of tropes of dissection in modern Chinese literature, ascribing its appeal to the metaphorical affinity of dissection for the new Republican-era project of “objectifying the inner world.” But there was another reason for the popularity of tropes of anatomy and dissection in modern Chinese literature: Modern Chinese writers like Lu Xun and Yu Dafu, finding traditional Chinese literature to be lacking in adequately detailed descriptions of the human body, turned to anatomy and anatomical descriptions for inspiration. My talk will begin by introducing the terms of this new dissection-based aesthetics by describing an influential early Western-style anatomical textbook and its refiguring of traditional Chinese modes for describing the human body. It will then discuss the significance of this “refigured” anatomical aesthetics for modern Chinese literature by analyzing several examples of “anatomical aesthetics” in the writing of Lu Xun. It will conclude with a brief discussion of what “dissection” meant in Lu Xun's time.
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February 2, Friday, 2:00 p.m.
Fisher-Bennett Hall 401
Dr. Haiyan Lee (University of Colorado at Boulder)
"The Benighted and the Enchanted: Religion in Modern Chinese Literature"
Abstract: Born in the Chinese enlightenment, modern Chinese literature is
fundamentally opposed to religion and insistently configures religion as
the “superstition” of the Other—the uneducated masses, women, and ethnic
minorities—and as the sign of their overdetermined malaise: backwardness,
passivity, abjection, isolation, masochism, and alienation. In this paper, I
examine how modern writers construct religion as “an estranged heterotopia” in
which gods and ghosts and those who worship or manipulate them are “strangers”
to the secular imagination. The heterotopia of religion proves not only
unsettling, but also peculiarly magnetic, condensing nostalgia, hope, and
promise for the disenchanted modern intellectual. Reading closely four key
texts from the long twentieth century—“The New Year's Sacrifice,” The White-
Haired Girl, Soul Mountain, and Wolf Totem—I rechart a literary history that
foregrounds literature as an intellectual practice in the century-long quests
for agency, authority, shared meaning, and total renewal.
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February 9, Friday, 2:00 p.m.
Fisher-Bennett Hall 401
Dr. Weihong Bao (The Ohio State University)
“'Transparent Shanghai': Cityscape, Vertical Montage, and a Left-wing Culture of Glass in 1930s Chinese and International Cinema"
Abstract: Chinese left-wing cinema has been pitted against other domestic film practices in the same period, namely, popular cinema in the 1920s and 1930s on one hand, and modernist films flaunted by the Shanghai sensationalist school (Xinganjue pai) on the other. Such tripartite division not only fails to account for their historical permeation but also the entwinement of aesthetics, politics, and consumption under the condition of semi-coloniality. In this talk, I will resituate left-wing cinema in conversation with both popular and high modernist practices, particularly in their articulations of competing notions of transparency. These notions of transparency function as modes of knowledge and experience in coping with the drastic transformation of social landscape and that of perception itself; moreover, they participated and changed the profile of an international “culture of glass” advocated by European architects and avant-garde filmmakers. I will navigate my discussion by an analysis of Cityscape (Yuan Muzhi, 1935) and explore how left-wing cinema locates the “vertical montage” of sound and image as a means of transparency that holds claims to its particular politicized mode of perception. Meanwhile, this cinematic transparency recast the dynamics among Soviet, American, and European cinema in their international circulation, at the emergence of sound.
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February 16, Friday, 2:00 p.m.
Fisher-Bennett Hall 401
Dr. Xiaojue Wang (Wellesley College)
"Envisioning History: Literature and Visuality in an Age of Crisis"
Abstract: This talk considers how history was fashioned and visualized in the literary and visual representation of traditional costume in modern Chinese literature, film, and art. In a century of Chinese modernization and revolution, tradition had been smashed and the past demolished. It was impossible to envision history without seeing its ghost. How was history envisioned and fabricated in different textual and visual compositions pertinent to traditional costume? In what ways were the figure of history and the textile superficiality of costume interwoven?
In order to address these questions, I examine four examples of visual exposures of historical apparitions as related to traditional costumes: Shen Congwen's study of a Taiping Rebellion jacket in the Museum of National History, Zhang Ailing (Eileen Chang)'s configuration of the Qing-style dress in her writings, the burning of opera costumes in the literary and filmic versions of Farewell, My Concubine, and the contemporary artist Wang Jin's installation and performing art “A Chinese Dream.” In their distinctive literary and visual texts, these writers and artists have fashioned a spectral vision of modern China. Each is significantly different from the others, but together they point to the centrality of vision and visuality in the construction of history in an age of crisis.
(II) Regional East Asia Events
P. Y. and Kinmay W. Tang Center for East Asian Art presents
Lecture
Tuesday, 20 February 2007
Vannessa Tran, artist, Seattle, Washington; Fellow in The Council of the Humanities and the Tang Center for East Asian Art
The Nature of Painting
4:30 p.m., 106 McCormick Hall
Sponsored by The Council of the Humanities, the Tang Center, the Program in Visual Arts, and the Princeton University Art Museum
Please visit our web site at:
http://web.princeton.edu/sites/TangCenter/index.html
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Princeton Buddhist Studies Workshop 2006-07 Schedule
Tsering Shakya, University of British Columbia
“The 13th Dalai Lama's Nation Building Project and the Bonpo Community”
February 13, Tuesday, 4:30 pm, 202 Jones Hall
Steven Heine, Florida International University
“Zen Writes, Zen Rites, Zen Rights: Traditionalism v. Criticism”
March 8, Thursday, 4:30 pm, 202 Jones Hall
Paul Groner, University of Virginia
Ryoo Dokaku ???? (1630-1707), Ascetic Philanthropist and Marginally Literate Bibliophile? The Creation of Japan's First Public Library”
March 30, Friday, 4:30 pm, 1879 Hall, Room 137
James Benn, McMaster University
Buddhist Laymen and Tea during the Tang Dynasty”
April 11, Wednesday, 4:30 pm, 202 Jones Hall
For questions, please contact bbermel@princeton.edu.
(III) Employment and Internship Opportunities
* Chinese Language Instructor/Assistant Professorship
Valparaiso University invites applications for a full-time, tenure-track
position in Chinese language at the Instructor/ Assistant Professor
level starting in August 2007. Candidates should be ABD or possess
Ph.D. in Chinese language, linguistics, or literature, and have native
or near-native fluency in Mandarin and English. Candidates should have
a record of excellence in university-level teaching. Responsibilities
include teaching 3-4 courses of language and Chinese Studies courses
each semester, primarily in a new M.A. program in Chinese Studies.
Valparaiso is a comprehensive university of 3800 students, 50 miles from
Chicago. Candidates should be sympathetic to the values embodied in the
tradition of Valparaiso as a Lutheran community. Send letter of
application, CV including official transcripts, and three letters of
recommendation to Dr. Randa Duvick, Chair, Department of Foreign
Languages and Literatures, 112 Meier Hall, Valparaiso University,
Valparaiso, IN 46383. Review of applications will begin February 20, 2007.
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Seniors: Spend a year in Hunan, China with WorldTeach!
About the China Year Program
We are moving into our fourth year partnering with the Hunan Department of Education in China, where we have sent over a hundred volunteers to teach English in the public schools of Hunan province. There is currently a huge demand for English teachers in China. In many parts of the country, only students from the most elite schools have the opportunity to learn English from a native speaker. The WorldTeach Hunan Program was established to bring volunteer English teachers to a broader range of students through the Province's public schools.
Our partner generously subsidizes our volunteers, facilitating the participation of all qualified individuals. The program fee is $500 plus a $500 returnable deposit, which covers pre-departure information and preparation, round-trip international airfare from a US departure city, visa, intensive in-country orientation training, health insurance, meals and housing during orientation and throughout your teaching service, and 24 hour in-country support. Once in-country, the volunteers will also receive a monthly stipend of approximately $300USD. Please read more about our costs and services at http://www.worldteach.org/program_information/costs.html.
More information about the China Year program can be found at: http://www.worldteach.org/programs/china_year/, or call 800-4-TEACH-0 to speak with a WorldTeach representative.
About WorldTeach
WorldTeach is a non-profit, non-governmental organization that provides opportunities for individuals to make a meaningful contribution to international education by living and working as volunteer teachers in developing countries. Based at the Center for International Development at Harvard University, WorldTeach offers the benefits of a well-established volunteer organization, while also providing more comprehensive, personalized support and training as a small NGO. In each of our programs, volunteers are placed in schools and host communities in developing countries that specifically request WorldTeach volunteers and would otherwise be unable to afford or locate qualified teachers. Volunteers receive training, language preparation, and field support, empowering them to make an impact that will last long after they leave.
Become a WorldTeach volunteer. Change the world, one student at a time.
WorldTeach
c/o Harvard Center for International Development
79 John F. Kennedy Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
Tel. 1-800-4-TEACH-0 (1-800-483-2240)
Fax. 617 495-1599
Email: info@worldteach.org
www.worldteach.org
(IV) Fellowship and Award Opportunities
Embassy of the Republic of Indonesia: Darmasiswa Scholarship Program
Celebrate the International week as an opportunity to promote international cooperation through education and culture exchanges. The Ministry of National Education of the Republic of Indonesia is offering Darmasiswa Scholarship Program for academic year 2007/2008 to American students wishing to study in Indonesia. The program is aimed to provide a better understanding and knowledge about Indonesian languages and cultures and to establish a better and stronger cultural relation. This is a non-degree program with three different options: Darmasiswa Regular (one year program), Darmasiswa Plus (one year program), and Darmasiswa Short Course (6 months program).
The Ministry invites the applications from your campus to participate in the program. The Ministry waives all academic tuition fees and provides a modest “Indonesian student rate” living cost.
Shall you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact my office at telephone: 1 202 7755 230/232, fax: 1 202 7755 235, email: h_iskandar@embassyofindonesia.org , or website: www.darmasiswa.depdiknas.org and www.embassyofindonesia.org .
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United States Department of Education
The Cultural Division of the Taipei Economic and Cultural Representative Office in the Unites States (TECRO – Headquarters in Taipei, Taiwan) is offering a one-year CHINESE LANGUAGE SCHOLARSHIP to U.S. undergraduate and graduate students. TECRO has asked the U.S. Department of Education to assist in the selection of recipients for the awards.
The one-year scholarship covers a monthly stipend of NT$25,000.000 (NT$32.5 = US$1), subject to change. Successful applicants are responsible for housing costs (in Taipei), health insurance coverage and all travel costs.
Scholarship application forms are not yet available online. However, information on the Center of Chinese Language and Culture – Mandarin Training Center – National Taiwan Normal University may be accessed at the following website: http://mtc.ntnu.edu.tw/index.htm
We are soliciting your assistance in identifying highly qualified students at your institution who meet the eligibility requirements stated in the announcement. The selection must be completed by the spring of 2007. Since there is a brief window of time to receive applications, we request that you send us a list of your recommended students with their applications postmarked no later than February 15, 2007. We regret that we cannot accept any applications that are postmarked later than this date.
If you have any questions regarding this program, please feel free to contact Demetria Glasco, Fulbright-Hays Seminars Abroad Program/Bilateral Projects, International Education Programs Service (IEPS), U.S. Department of Education, 1990 K Street, N.W. – 6th Floor, Washington, D.C. 20006/8521. Telephone: 502-7622, or 502-7700 (general office number) or email demetria.glasco@ed.gov
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United States Department of Education
The Government of the People's Republic of China, through its China Scholarship Council, is offering a one-year CHINESE CULTURAL SCHOLARSHIP U.S. undergraduate and graduate students. TECRO has asked the U.S. Department of Education to assist in the selection of recipients for the awards.
The one-year scholarship is offered to U.S. undergraduate and graduate students who are interested in studying Chinese language at a Chinese university during the academic year 2007-2008.
The one-year scholarship covers tuition, instructional materials, housing, and medical care in addition to a monthly stipend for living expenses in China (equivalent to approximately 100 US$). Successful applicants are responsible for all travel costs.
Scholarship application forms are not yet available online.
We are soliciting your assistance in identifying highly qualified students at your institution who meet the eligibility requirements stated in the announcement. The selection must be completed by the spring of 2007. Since there is a brief window of time to receive applications, we request that you send us a list of your recommended students with their applications postmarked no later than February 15, 2007. We regret that we cannot accept any applications that are postmarked later than this date.
If you have any questions regarding this program, please feel free to contact Demetria Glasco, Fulbright-Hays Seminars Abroad Program/Bilateral Projects, International Education Programs Service (IEPS), U.S. Department of Education, 1990 K Street, N.W. – 6th Floor, Washington, D.C. 20006/8521. Telephone: 502-7622, or 502-7700 (general office number) or email demetria.glasco@ed.gov
(V) East Asia Study Opportunities and Queries
The University of Michigan would like to announce the 2007 summer courses in Chinese Studies and Social Theory to be offered this summer at Peking University:
Session I: July 2-27, 2007
? New Directions in Chinese Social Scientific History: James Lee and Pär Cassel, University of Michigan, Department of History
? Feminisms and Feminist Theory: Sidonie Smith, University of Michigan, Department of English and Women's Studies
Session II: July 30 – August 24, 2007
? Religion & Society in the Pre-Modern and Modern World : James Robson, University of Michigan, Department of Asian Languages and Cultures
? Urban Imaginaries – City as Fact, City as Theory: Patricia Yeager, University of Michigan, Department of English and Women's Studies
Fellowship and Course Application Information
Funding, covering roundtrip airfare and fees may be available for selected students enrolling in two of the four courses: New Directions in Chinese Social Scientific History and Religion and Society in the Pre-Modern and Modern World. To be eligible for funding, applicants must be US citizens. Deadline for applying is February 1, 2007.
For more information, please contact Maryellen Bartolome (mbartolo@umich.edu).
Maryellen Bartolome
Student Services Coordinator
University of Michigan
Center for Chinese Studies
1080 S University, Suite 3668
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1106
Tel: 734-936-1603
Fax: 734-764-5540
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Foreign Language Program at International House in Philadelphia:
Winter 2007
Korean, Part 1; Mandarin, Part 1; Mandarin, Part 2; Mandarin, Part 4;
Registration: Monday, January 29 - Wednesday, February 7
Call 215-895-6541 by February 7 to reserve your spot.
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Volunteer Translators Needed for Philadelphia Anti-Trafficking Coalition
I am currently working with the Philadelphia Anti-Trafficking Coalition, an organization that provides direct services to immigrants, refugees, and victims of human trafficking. The Special Immigrant Populations Project works with individuals to meet both immediate, short-term needs like safe housing, medicial attention, and counseling, as well as long-term needs like education and job training. Among the keys to successful resettlement of these clients is allowing them to hear information and ask questions in their own language, especially during the early stages of assistance.
As such, we are seeking to grow our list of individuals who are able to serve as interpreters on a volunteer basis.
Our clients speak a variety of languages, including: Mandarin, Korean, Vietnamese, Russian, Arabic, Burmese, and several others.
Essentially, we are seeking to engage the assistance of volunteer interpreters on two different levels of involvement.
1) To be accessible for a 5 minute introductory phone call, at short notice, during business hours or early evening, wherein the trafficking victim will be informed by the translator of some basic information.
2) For those who wish to be more involved, a subsequent meeting to take place in Center City, which can be arranged with several days' notice, that will be more in-depth and essential to communication between the trafficking victim and the Anti-Trafficking Coalition.
I am currently searching through various departments at the University of Pennsylvania, where I am both a student and an employee, to determine if any faculty, staff, or students are interested in assisting with this work.
If you would like more information, please do not hesitate to contact me, either via email or phone (917) 355-6463. Thank you for your time and consideration.
Best wishes,
Catherine Daly
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Study Abroad in Mongolia
Summer Programs
2007/2008
Sponsored by:
NUM National university of Mongolia
www.num.edu.mn and
MIBES The Institute for mongolian Biodiversity and Ecological Studies
www.hovsgolecology.org
Language of Instruction:
English
Duration:
May-September
Credits:
Upon succesful completion of the course and field trip study, students will earn 3 credits. However, the home college or university faculty of the relevant department must approve each course fo credit.
Accommodation:
Most students live in shared apartments or foreign student dormitory with international students or host country students. In the field, students sleep in a tent or Yurt(Ger), traditional dwellings of the nomads.
Cost: (from $2500)
Includes: program fees, in country transportation, accommodation and daily breakfast and all meals outside of UlanBaatar.
Excludes: International and domestic airfare, visa fee, travel insurance
Application deadline:
April 15
Scholarships and financial Aid
Unfortunately NUM is unable to provide financial aid or scholarship to international students unless the student is majoring in Mongolian studies. Please contact with your home college or university's Financial Aid or Study Abroad office.
Contact
USA The Institute for Mongolian Biodiversity and Ecological Studies
The Academy of Natural Sciences
1900 Benjamin Franklin Pkwy, Philadelphia, PA 19103
Tel: 610-329-5916, 610-328-1634,
Fax: 1-215-1028
mtuya11@rcn.com and cgoulden@acnatsci.org
Visit website GEF World Bank- Hovsgol Ecology Project: www.hovsgolecology.org/
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Call for Academic Papers on Korea
In December 2006, the Korea Economic Institute of America (KEI) initiated an Academic Paper Series-a program to generate monthly academic papers followed by a public discussion of topical issues related to the Korean Peninsula. As a result of this initiative, KEI has commissioned three papers and published two, “Kim Jong-il: Strategy and Psychology” <http://www.keia.org/2-Publications/Mazarr.pdf> by Professor Michael Mazarr and “Restructuring the U.S. Military Presence in Korea: Implications for Korean Security and the U.S.-ROK Alliance” <http://www.keia.org/2-Publications/Roehrig.pdf> by Professor Terence Roehrig.
KEI intends to commission nine to ten papers in 2007 on original subjects of current interest to serious Korea watchers. Papers must be written exclusively for KEI and must not have appeared in publication. Papers should be approximately 4,000 - 5,000 words in length. KEI will edit and distribute the finished paper as a KEI Academic Paper to over 2,000 government officials, think tank experts, and scholars around the United States and the world. KEI will also collate and publish all of the KEI Academic Papers in a single volume on an annual basis.
Authors of papers selected by KEI for the KEI Academic Paper Series will receive an honorarium of $2000. KEI will arrange a mutually convenient date for authors to participate in a discussion with Korea analysts, government officials, and journalists of their selected paper at KEI conference facilities in Washington, DC, preferably during the month KEI publishes the paper. KEI will provide travel and accommodation expenses for the discussion program.
Interested authors should submit the following information by January 26, 2007:
· Full Name
· Academic/Institutional Affiliation
· CV
· Paper Topic Proposal, including a brief description and proposed outline
· Earliest/latest date paper can be available
KEI will announce the chosen paper topics by February 1, 2007, with the expectation that the chosen authors will complete their first draft and transmit it to KEI by March 5, 2007.
After scheduling the March through June 2007 KEI Academic Papers, KEI will repeat the call for Academic Papers later in the year in June 2007 for the remainder of the year.
Please submit proposals to Scott Rembrandt, KEI Director of Academic Affairs at SR@keia.org <mailto:SR@keia.org>. Authors will be notified as quickly as possible once KEI selects their proposed topic.
(VI) Conferences and Workshops
Call For Papers
7th ANNUAL GRADUATE STUDENT CONFERENCE
Department of East Asian Studies, University of Toronto
EVENT, MOMENT, WORLD:
(RE)THINKING ASIA & EAST ASIAN STUDIES
Saturday, March 10, 2007
With Keynote Address by and round table discussion with Dr. Harry Harootunian, Professor of History and East Asian Studies at New York University
Our work as scholars is inevitably influenced by the events that occur in the world around us. These events, such as the War on Iraq, the nuclear testing by North Korea, the rise of ultra-nationalisms in Japan, or the protests in China of last year, shape the very framework within which we come to understand our research. One of the most pressing problems that we must face as scholars, especially in our current geo-political moment, and the central problem that our conference hopes to address, has to do with how we confront our own agency as East Asian scholars in the reproduction of some of the ideologies that maintain this framework. Where do we position ourselves in relation to our contemporary moment when it simultaneously structures and is structured by the work that we do?
With this in mind, we welcome submissions that take a variety of perspectives on the notions of "event," "moment," and "world." Some examples of the kinds of more specific questions one might address with these themes would be: How are we to understand what constitutes something's "eventness"? How are the nation and nationality implicated in the production of our contemporary moment or of any moment in history? How does the writing of moments and events from the past produce effects on the contemporary moment, or vice versa? How is this organization affected by the ethnographic gaze or the presence of the nationalized other? These represent just a small sampling of the possibilities that can be explored in relation to a variety of fields of study including, but not limited to, Anthropology, Art History, Cultural Studies, Education, History, Language Pedagogy and Linguistics, Literature, Political Science, Religious Studies, Sociology, Women's Studies, Philosophy, Comparative Literature, and Economics.
We will be holding a round table discussion entitled "The State of East Asian Studies in North America" after all the panel presentations have been given. During this time we hope to provide presenters, discussants, and guests alike a forum in which they can discuss questions related to understanding our role as East Asian scholars in North America in light of our contemporary moment.
We would like to invite all those interested in presenting papers at our conference to submit a one-page abstract (approximately 250 words) and brief biographical information by December 30, 2006. The deadline for submitting completed papers is January 28, 2007. Presenters will be given 15 minutes to present their work. Panelists are also encouraged to submit as panels of three.
Please e-mail your submissions and enquiries to conference coordinator Sean Callaghan at easgsc@chass.utoronto.ca.
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The Japan Anthropology Workshop (JAWS)
18th Conference
University of Oslo
Museum of Cultural History
March 14-17
Participation is open to scholars and students from all over the world. The conference theme is "Japan and materiality in a broader perspective." A "broader perspective" may include any aspect of what is tangibe or physical, but proposal topics are not limited to this. Any panel and individual paper proposal which lays out Japanese contexts with the general scope of anthropological portrayal is equally welcome.
Prospective panel conveners are invited to post individual calls for papers on the conference website: a topic for a conference activity such as plenum arrangement, panel/workshop presentation, roundtable discussion, or media event. Abstracts must be received no later than November 21, 2006. Please visit the website www.khm.uio.no/jaws-2007 for more information.
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Conference for the Teaching of Chinese Language and Culture (K-12)
March 16-18, 2007
Mission Bay Conference Center at UCSF
1675 Owens Street
San Francisco, CA 94107
Hosted by The Institute for the Teaching of Chinese Language and Culture at Chinese American International School (CAIS)
· Conference Website: www.cais.org/conference
· Register Today
· Submit a Presentation/Workshop Proposal (due Dec. 1)
As part of the 25th anniversary celebration of Chinese American International School, The Institute is hosting the first national professional development resource
specifically focused on Chinese language programs at the pre-collegiate level. The three-day conference's strands will include: |
Chinese Immersion Programs
Bringing Chinese Culture to the Classroom
Elementary/High School Chinese Programs
Administrators
Chinese Language Teacher Candidates
Assessment
Please go to our Conference Website to register to attend the
conference, or to submit a proposal for a conference presentation.
Conference Website: www.cais.org/conference
Chinese American International School (CAIS) is the nation's pre-eminent and
oldest school offering Mandarin-English immersion education. Founded in
1981, CAIS is a preK-8th grade independent school in San Francisco,
California that offers a bilingual and multicultural learning experience for
American students of all backgrounds. CAIS celebrates its 25th anniversary
this year promoting Chinese language and cultural education.
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Graduate Student Conference - Cornell University Southeast Asia Program
The Cornell Southeast Asia Program invites submissions for its 9th Annual
Southeast Asian Studies Graduate Student Conference. This year's conference
will take place at the Kahin Center for Advanced Research on Southeast Asia,
Cornell University, Ithaca, NY on March 16-18, 2007.
We welcome submissions from graduate students engaged in original research
related to Southeast Asia. Graduate students working in the following
disciplines as well as other related fields that contribute to the
understanding of Southeast Asia are encouraged to apply:
History, literature, art history, sociology, musicology, religion,
anthropology, archeology, architectural history, gender studies, political
science, economics, and linguistics.
We ask that interested graduates students submit a one-page abstract
describing their paper and a curriculum vitae by January 15, 2007.
Abstracts and CVs must be written in English and formatted as either a MS
Word or PDF document. Selected authors will be asked to give a 20-minute
presentation on their paper (not including a 10-minute discussion session).
Submissions should be sent to swl3@cornell.edu and tnp5@cornell.edu.
Authors of accepted submissions will be given until February 23, 2007 to
send in the full version of their final paper.
A limited number of modest travel grants are available. Please indicate in
your email when you submit the abstract if you would like to apply for a
travel grant.
More details about the conference including abstract format and submission
guidelines may be found here:
http://www.einaudi.cornell.edu/southeastasia/academics/student_symposium.asp
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
