We are pleased to announce plans for a ninth consecutive AAS Dissertation Workshop “Popular Culture and Social Change” which will be held in conjunction with the annual meeting in Philadelphia next spring, March 28-31, 2010. The workshop will again be organized and led by David Szanton, and follow the model used in previous workshops.

No longer are Asian Studies largely focused on courts and peasants, ancient cultures, classical texts, and traditional forms. Today all across the humanities and social sciences scholars are approaching and re-interpreting a rapidly changing Asia through various forms of popular culture (film, sports, TV, music, dance, radio, online networks, fiction, fashion, cuisine, fan clubs, martial arts, bars, drugs. etc.), concerned with how it is both producing and marking social, and cultural change all across the region. Intergenerational differences and tensions are growing all across the region, often with serious political consequences. Popular culture, as an alternative “unofficial view of the world,” as a form of subtle or overt resistance to the hegemonic, has become an important lens for approaching and analyzing Asia's rapidly expanding middle classes, urbanization, consumerism, differentiation and stratification, political mobilization, geographical mobility, diasporic influences, and both transnational and globalizing sensibilities.

This workshop is intended to bring together doctoral students in the humanities and social sciences who are (1) developing dissertation proposals or are in early phases of research or dissertation writing; and who are (2) also dealing with the kinds of issues mentioned above in the context of contemporary or historic Asian states and societies. Participants will be provided meals and hotel accommodations, as well as limited travel subsidies. The application deadline is December 11, 2009.

For full details regarding eligibility, application procedures, etc., please refer to the announcement on the AAS website (http://www.asian-studies.org/News/dissertation-workshop.htm).

Anthem Press, an independent international publisher of academic, educational and reference works, would like to welcome submissions of proposals for challenging and original academic monographs and edited volumes, major works, handbooks/companions or course textbooks/readers. As a matter of course, we pride ourselves in publishing our scholarly monographs and edited volumes in hardback, paperback and ebook international editions. Moreover, if indeed there is demand, we now publish a low-cost edition for developing countries.

Should you wish to send in a book proposal or have any other queries, please contact us at: proposal@wpcpress.com

Critical Language Scholarships for intensive summer institutes

30 full-tuition fellowships to study critical languages summer 2010

The United States Department of State is pleased to announce the upcoming scholarship competition for overseas intensive summer language institutes in thirteen critical need foreign languages for summer 2010.

The on-line application for CLS Program awards will be available November 9, 2009, and the deadline to apply will be December 18, 2009.

The selection process will be administered by the Council of American Overseas Research Centers (CAORC) with awards approved by the U.S. Department of State, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs. The CLS Program will be administered by CAORC and the American Councils for International Education for the following languages: Arabic * Azerbaijani * Bangla/Bengali * Chinese * Hindi * Indonesian * Japanese * Korean * Persian * Punjabi * Russian * Turkish * Urdu

See the following page for more details: https://clscholarship.org/home.php

Kathryn Davis Fellowships for Peace:

30 full-tuition fellowships to study critical languages summer 2010

Eligibility: To be eligible for fellowships, candidates must be admitted to the fall 2009 semester at the Monterey Institute in the areas of international policy, environmental policy, public administration (MPA), international business (MBA), or teaching a foreign language.

For More Information: Please visit the Middlebury website. http://www.middlebury.edu/academics/ls/fellowships_scholarships/kwd.htm

Deadline: Febuary 1, 2010

Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Abroad Fellowship Program

Eligibility: Individual doctoral students who conduct research in other countries, in modern foreign languages and area studies for periods of six to 12 months.

Types of Projects: Projects that deepen research knowledge on and help the nation develop capability in areas of the world not generally included in U.S. curricula. Projects focusing on Western Europe are not supported.

For More Information: E-mail questions to ddra@ed.gov or visit the IEPS Web site at www.ed.gov/programs/iegpsddrap for information, including: application deadline, application package, previous fellowships, technical assistance, and program statute and regulations.

Deadline: December 1, 2009

Fulbright-Hays Faculty Research Abroad Fellowship Program

Eligibility: A faculty member is eligible to receive a fellowship if he or she:

* Is a citizen or national of the United States or is a permanent resident of the United States.
* Is employed by an institution of higher education.
* Has been engaged in teaching relevant to his or her foreign language or area studies specialization for the two years immediately preceding the date of the award.
* Proposes research relevant to his or her modern foreign language or area studies specialization,which is not dissertation research for a doctoral degree.
* Possesses sufficient foreign language skills to carry out the research project.

Types of Projects: This program funds fellowships through institutions of higher education (IHEs) to faculty members who propose to conduct research abroad in modern foreign languages and area studies to improve their skill in languages and their knowledge of the culture of the people of these countries.

For More Information: E-mail questions to fra@ed.gov  or visit the IEPS Web site at www.ed.gov/programs/iegpsfra  for information, including: application deadline, application package, previous fellowships, technical assistance, and program statute and regulations.

Deadline: December 1, 2009

First Annual Jeremy Ingalls Poetry in Translation Award

Eligibility: This competition is open to all women writers for a translation of a poem by a Japanese woman into English, regardless of the translator’s nationality. Permission to translate the poem submitted is the translator’s responsibility.

Guidelines: A minimum of 9 (nine) lines and a maximum of 30 (thirty) lines, on one page. A Prose Poem (300 word limit), an excerpt of a longer poem (include the longer poem, with the excerpt highlighted), or a series of short forms (Haiku, etc) are also acceptable. See the website for full guidelines.

How to Submit: Submit one poem, along with its English translation on a separate page, and $15 entry fee on-line to www.korepress.org (All entrants will be notified of results via email.) Submissions will be accepted from Oct 15 to November 15, 2009.

About the Judge: Sawako Nakayasu’s books have been published by Burning Deck Press, Quale Press, and Verse Press. Her translations include For the Fighting Spirit of the Walnut by Takashi Hiraide (New Directions, 2008) which won the 2009 Best Translated Book Award from Three Percent, as well as Four From Japan (Litmus Press, 2006). She has received fellowships from the NEA and PEN. Visit her website: http://www.factorial.org/sn/sn_home.html

What: $1,000.00 and Publication of a single poem in Japanese and English by a woman, awarded to a woman translator

When: Deadline for Submissions: November 15th, 2009 Announcement of the Prize and Publication: Early 2010

Where: Submissions Accepted Online Only: www.korepress.org

Who: Final Judge: Sawako Nakayasu

"Study East Asia in the Heart of East Asia"

Academy of East Asian Studies(AEAS) at Sungkyunkwan University offers
MA & Ph.D courses for East Asian Studies(History, Literature & Politics)

About Sungkyunkwan University

Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU) is one of the top three private universities in South Korea. Inheriting the glorious tradition of the Sungkyunkwan, founded in 1398 as the royal academy of the Joseon dynasty, SKKU is distinguished by its dedication to the education of the core values of Confucianism, including benevolence, righteousness, propriety, and wisdom. SKKU is devoted to join the group of world’s best 100 research universities, which is the goal of SKKU Vision 2010+, by providing excellent education and research opportunities, inviting prominent scholars and promising students from overseas, and establishing exchange programs with other prestigious universities in the world

Strengths of Academy of East Asian Studies

Academy of East Asian Studies (AEAS), the research center affiliated with SKKU, is recognized by its successful combination between education and research. The AEAS and its excellent faculty are dedicated to interdisciplinary approaches in their education and research. The AEAS includes faculty, research space and library facilities within its own center, a strong evidence that it already established an excellent infrastructure for East Asian Studies

Admission

1. Applying to the AEAS through SKKU admission webpage (http://grad.skku.edu)
2. Notification of admission, approximately two months after application.
3. Sending Certificate of Admission to individual students
4. Visa application to Korean consulate
5. Registration at AEAS administration office

Volunteer/Internship Opportunites in South India

The Center for Coordination of Voluntary Works and Research (CECOWOR) is a nonprofit organization that serves marginalized peoples in the state of Tamil Nadu, India. CECOWOR conducts a variety of development and education programs to enhance the health and livelihood of women, children, and therural poor.

CECOWOR is assisted in part by the Volunteer and Cultural Exchange Program, which invites volunteers and interns of all backgrounds, ages, and skills to participate in CECOWOR's activities on a short- or long-term basis.

We invite you to visit our website, www.cecowor.in/, to learn more about our work and presence in Tamil Nadu. If you have any questions, or wish to arrange a volunteer opportunity, please contact Mr. Micheal Susairaaj, CECOWOR Director, at cecowor@gmail.com.

 

 

JCCP Call for Articles (London School of Economics)

The editors of the newly launched Journal of China in Comparative Perspective (JCCP) invite submissions of articles in English up to 8.000 words in length including notes and list of references. The articles must be original and not previously published. They should be sent electronically in either word or rtf format to the journal’s official email address: jccp@lse.ac.uk. The journal is peer-reviewed, and will be published biannually by the London School of Economics.

The JCCP was founded to encourage and publish original multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary comparative research on China. Comparison includes taking China as a case study of some more generally applicable theory, or drawing from comparative data about China and some other country or countries some analytic conclusions. The comparison may be regional or global; and it may be historical or contemporary. It may also involve a comparison of perceptions - China's perceptions of others and others’ perceptions of China in the context of China's encounter with the outside world in the political, economic, military and cultural sense.

Submitted articles are blind read by two editors who decide whether the articles are suitable or not for publication, with or without revision. If these reviews are positive the article is sent to a third editor for further review before being returned to you, the author, for revision and final submission.

For more details on style guidelines, as well as on the journal’s editorial team and statement of aims, please visit http://www.lse.ac.uk/collections/CCPN/jccp.htm.