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The Eastern Sociological Society will hold its Annual Meeting on March 18–21, 2010 at the Hotel Park Plaza in Boston, MA. The mini-conference is entitled: “China in the 21st Century”. Opening sessions start Thursday, March 18 and continue on Friday, March 19, 2010. The Conference organizer and coordinator is Rebecca S. K. Li. For more information contact Rebecca S. K. Li at: lirebecc@tcnj.edu, or visit the website at: http://www.essnet.org/.
This one-day seminar will be held at Temple University's Center for Vietnamese Philosophy, Culture and Society (Center for the Humanities at Temple, 10th floor Gladfelter Hall) on March 25, 2010.
For further information, please contact Ken MacLean, Clark University and Vietnam Scholars Group, Executive Committee Member at KMacLean@clarku.edu.
Brown University,
Providence, Rhode Island,
March 26-27, 2010
With keynote speaker Edward Slingerland, Associate Professor of Asian Studies and Canada Research Chair in Chinese Thought and Embodied Cognition at University of British Columbia and author of What Science Offers the Humanities: Integrating Body & Culture (Cambridge University Press, 2008)
The Religious Studies Department at Brown University invites proposals/papers for an interdisciplinary graduate student conference on the theme of cognitive science and the humanities. The conference aims to create a forum for discussion of the emerging role of theories of cognitive science in the study of religion and the humanities in general and hopes to provide students with an opportunity to engage in a critical conversation about the prospects and limitations of cognitive theory and to apply the theory to any historical, philosophical, anthropological, political, and other questions. The department seeks papers from a wide range of scholarly fields in the humanities and social sciences and also encourages collaborative projects. Possible topics may include, but are not limited to:
- theoretical considerations of the prospects and/or limitations of theories of cognitive science in the humanities
- considerations of the role of cognitive science in the study of religion, history, sociology, anthropology, political science, etc.
- applications of theories of cognitive science to particular areas in the study of religion, for example Early Christianity, Buddhism, etc.
- applications of theories of cognitive science to problems in philosophy, theology, and ethics
- applications of theories of cognitive science to historical, sociological, anthropological, and other problems
- topics addressing the impact insights from cognitive science may have on the production and/or consumption of art
- papers more broadly concerning the intersection of science and humanities, including other areas of the physical or life sciences
Proposals or papers with an abstract of no more than 250 words should be submitted as an email attachment (preferably as a PDF document), along with author's/authors' CV(s), to rsgradconference@brown.edu, with "Cognitive Science and the Humanities" in the subject line by January 15, 2010.
More information is available at http://www.brown.edu/Departments/Religious_Studies/news/
Saturday, April 10, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Content-based instruction (CBI) is an instructional setting where a target language is used as a communication and thinking tool to acquire specific academic knowledge and to enhance critical thinking. In addition, community-based instruction is often incorporated to enhance their linguistic exposure and motivation. Despite these qualities, implementation of CBI in Japanese is not without its challenges at the U.S. institutions. The following topics will be discussed:
- What is content-based instruction (CBI)? Is it a language course or a content course?
- What are benefits in interdisciplinary approach for language instruction?
- What can we do in CBI?
- Who should be teaching CBI?
- How can we collaborate with other teachers and organizations?
- Where and how can we locate resources in our communities (especially in the Midwest region), and incorporate into classroom?
Professor Nobuko Chikamatsu, the keynote speaker, is the Associate Professor of Modern Languages at DePaul University. She specializes in Japanese language issues and pedagogy and teaches Japanese language at all levels, including content-based advanced courses such as The War and Japanese Mind, and Japanese American History in U.S./Chicago. Her articles have appeared in Modern Language Journal, Studies in Second Language Acquisition, Foreign Language Annals and others.
Registration Information: Please contact Katrina Brown or Brian Richardson, University of Wisconsin, Center for East Asian Studies,
333 Ingraham Hall, 1155 Observatory Drive, Madison, WI 53706; Tel: (608) 262-3643 or eas@intl-institute.wisc.edu. Register online at http://eastasia.wisc.edu/ with credit card or complete and send the paper Registration Form and registration fee to the Center for East Asian Studies.
An International Conference to be held at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand from 12-13 April 2010, sponsored and organised by The New Zealand Contemporary China Research Centre in association with The Asian Studies.
Over the last thirty years, the impressive growth performance of China and India has caused a new wave of global anxiety about the rise of power and wealth outside the developed world. More pointedly, scholarly interests and debates have focused on how the rising China and India would change the international political and economic structure, and whether India or China would outperform the other in a long run. What is missing amidst the anxieties and fanfare about the two new “giants” is a genuine scholarly interest in an understanding of how the impressive growth and social transformation has been achieved in these two unique countries. With “Japan as No 1” in the 1950s and 1960s, the “four little dragons” in the 1960s and 1970s, the extension of the “East Asian miracle” to the rest of the Pacific Asia in the 1980s and 1990s, and now China and India, scholars must have enough empirical evidence to revisit some of the long-troubling issues in post-War development research and debate: Is the developmental state essential for economic growth? Is export concentration inevitable? Are corporate groupings necessary? Does law matter? How do cultural and social relations contribute to economic and social development?
Moreover, China and India are two major world civilizations that have taken very different paths in modern development. Modern state building started in each of these countries under a set of very different conditions. China and India have been problematic cases in modern development. With the two countries reaching a new historical phase of their modern development, it would be useful to revisit the scholarly debate on modern development again and hopefully to lift it to a new level: how colonial experiences, nationalism, communism and socialism affect a nation’s modern development? How traditional social structure, values and relations transform or persist in modern development and how these shape the emergent modern state? Are there different types of modernity or different models of modern developments?
The conference is designed to bring leading scholars in the field to address these issues. We are very pleased to have Professor Wing Thye Woo of UC Davis; Professor Pranab Bardhan, UC Berkeley; Professor Zhenglai Deng of Fudan University; Professor Prasenjit Duara of National University of Singapore; Professor B. Sudhakara Reddy of Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research; Professor Fu Jun of Peking University; Professor Sun Shihai of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences; Dr John Alexander Michael of University of Madras, Professor Sheng Kaiyan of Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences; Professor Guo Sujian of Fudan University; Professor Dilip K. Das, of Conestoga College; Professor Heng Quan of Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences.
We are inviting paper proposals on any aspects of the conference theme and welcome participation of scholars in related disciplines. We will publish selected papers as an edited volume by an international publisher. Those interested to give a paper at the conference shall forward their paper proposals (title and a 150-word abstract, with full contact details) to Professor Xiaoming Huang (xiaoming.huang@vuw.ac.nz) and Professor Sekhar Bandyopadhyay (Sekhar.Bandyopadhyay@vuw.ac.nz), co-chairs of the conference organizing committee, no later than 30 January, 2010. Registration details for the conference and acceptance letters will be sent shortly after that. For those who require a formal letter for travel and visa purposes, please send your proposal early and indicate accordingly. We look forward to your participation.”
University of Warwick, 22–24 April, 2010
This international conference to be held at the University of Warwick will bring together experts in a wide range of disciplines and geographical areas to explore the cultural and intellectual dimensions of the movement of ceramics in the early modern world. How exactly did Chinese ceramics filter into different societies to become part of everyday lives across the globe, and why were some places resistant to their impact? Did a potter in Europe, South America or the Middle East attempting to incorporate Chinese styles into local manufacture consider their place of origin? What effects did ceramics have on the nature of global connections, and who were the brokers and dealers involved in these processes? This conference will provide an opportunity to move beyond object-based analyses and reflect on such questions in light of recent developments in the field of global history.
Further details of the objectives of the conference including a call for papers are now available through the Global Jingdezhen project website: http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/history/ghcc/research/globalporcelain/.
For further information, please contact Dr Stephen McDowall (s.j.mcdowall@warwick.ac.uk).
An Academic Conference sponsored by the Visualizing Cultures Project and the Center for East Asian Studies, Yale University
Yale University, New Haven, April 29 – May 1, 2010
Coordinators Peter C. Perdue [Yale] and John W. Dower [MIT]
The Visualizing Cultures project [http://visualizingcultures.mit.edu] and the Council on East Asian Studies at Yale University [http://research.yale.edu/eastasianstudies] invite contributions to an academic conference focused on the relationship between visual imagery and social change in modern Asia. We will assemble scholars of history, art history, history of photography, and history of technology specializing in China, Korea, Japan, United States, Europe and the Philippines to discuss how to integrate visual and textual media in research and teaching, using to the fullest the opportunities presented by the Internet. This will be one of the first academic conferences devoted to image-driven scholarship and teaching about Asia in the modern world. The topic is “Visualizing Global Asia at the Turn of the 20th Century.” Images presented must be available for online publication.
John Dower, professor of Japanese history at MIT, and Shigeru Miyagawa, professor of linguistics and foreign languages and literatures at MIT, founded the Visualizing Cultures project to investigate the impact of visual media on cross-cultural interaction between Asia and the West. This project has expanded the scope of traditional historical study beyond written texts, creating truly visual narratives that integrate large numbers of graphics, including popular and commercial images with scholarly commentary. The Visualizing Cultures platform allows educators to download and use freely all content, for non-commercial purposes. The Visualizing Cultures team has worked with scholars to create truly innovative and elegant online publications.
We invite interested researchers to submit contributions for presentation at the conference at Yale in Spring 2010. These presentations should integrate visual and textual content. We especially encourage contributions that use rare materials from archives and museum collections. Many of the contributions may become the basis for new units on the Visualizing Cultures website. Please contact the organizers for further information.
Contact emails: peter.c.perdue@yale.edu; Visualizing Cultures c/o Director Scott Shunk: shunk@mit.edu
Friday, May 7 – Saturday, May 8, 2010
Institute of East Asian Studies, University of California, Berkeley
The Berkeley China Initiative is pleased to announce the call for papers for, “PRODUCING KNOWLEDGE ABOUT CHINA,” a two day conference to be held Friday, May 7 – Saturday, May 8, 2010 at the Institute of East Asian Studies, University of California, Berkeley.
Over the past thirty years China has undergone an unprecedented transformation. Recently, many conferences have explored the various salient dimensions of this transformation, including industrialization, urbanization, migration, mobility, media and communication, urban architecture, energy consumption, the environment, public health, food security, law, legal and public culture and practices, global connections, regional and ethnic politics, the changing forms and norms of everyday Chinese life and so forth.
Building upon on-going research and discussions, this conference aims to evaluate how China’s recent transformation might have necessitated a parallel transformation of the multi-faceted ways in which we produce knowledge and represent understanding about China’s past, present, and future. We invite participants to examine this production of knowledge in a multidisciplinary way, with cross-fertilization across disciplines and times, and drawing on substantive empirical work to engage the broader issue of how we produce knowledge about China. The conference seeks to serve as a forum for inter-disciplinary dialogue and evaluative examination on the question of how China studies has been placed and pursued in North America in recent decades.
Interested contributors are requested to submit a brief proposal that addresses the theme outlined above in the context of China’s 20th and 21st centuries. Please send a 300-word proposal, short bio, and contact information to bci@berkeley.edu by Monday, February 1, 2010.
The Historical Society for Twentieth Century China (HSTCC) will host its bi-annual meeting June 26–27, 2010. In keeping with our tradition of rotating among North America, Europe, and Asia, the 2010 meeting will take place at Saint Joseph's University in Philadelphia.
The theme of the conference will be "A Century of Change Since the 1911 Revolution: Crises and Responses in 20th Century China." All interested participants are encouraged to submit panel proposals (no more than 2 pages or 500 words) or individual paper proposals (no more than 1 page or 250 words), as well as current CV, by December 1, 2009. Inquiries and paper submissions may be directed to James Carter (jcarter@sju.edu), and additional information, including registration and accommodation details, will be posted on the HSTCC website: http://www.towson.edu/hstcc/.
The HSTCC, now in its 26th year, is an affiliated organization of both the AAS and the AHA. It is affiliated with the journal Twentieth-Century China, which all members receive as part of their dues-paying membership. Information about new and renewing memberships can be found on the HSTCC website.
29 June – 1 July, 2010, City University of Hong Kong
Vietnam and China have achieved remarkable economic growth in recent decades.
Although leaders in both countries embrace various kinds of economic and administrative reforms, they have avoided political reforms that could diminish their
power. Authoritarian politics remains the norm in these one-party states. On the surface,
Vietnam seems to have all the stability ruling parties in the region crave, though a recent
wave of repression is indicative of a more complex picture on the ground. In China and
Viet Nam there is rampant corruption, frequent mass protests, and occasional heavyhanded
crackdowns on journalists, lawyers and writers. Social “disharmony” is in fact
widespread in China, but seems not to threaten the dominant order. In Viet Nam, power is
clearly more dispersed in the political system today compared to 10 or 20 years ago. On a
deeper level, however, the dynamics of authoritarianism in both countries is more
complex and interesting than is frequently assumed. The situation in North Korea is
murkier in some respects, though clearer in others. North Korea is clearly East Asia’s
most repressive regime; but the qualities of North Korean authoritarianism are perhaps
less well understood than they should be.
This conference will examine contemporary authoritarianism in East Asia through a
investigation of its core political institutions, including the communist party, representative institutions, welfare institutions, but also media, and incipient secondary
forms of association. Core political institutions in each of these societies no doubt serves
authoritarian rule but political institutions are also sites of intense contention within the
state and between the state and broader social forces. The aims of this conference are
empirical not political. Through analysis and discussion, we hope to provoke serious
thinking about the properties of authoritarian rule in East Asia. One way to think about
this is from the perspective of resilience and decay: Will institutional adaption bring
sufficient resilience to stem political decay? Or will authoritarian regimes disintegrate as
economic growth unleashes greater domestic demand for political participation while
making the state more vulnerable to global forces? Surely, there are other ways to think
about authoritarianism. An informed discussion of the macro- and micro-foundations of
political institutions in Viet Nam, China, and North Korea will be helpful in this regard.
Please send relevant abstracts or papers to Josephine Yim at searc@cityu.edu.hk by no later than 31 January 2010. Language: English
Following the success of the 2009 Melbourne Conference on China, The Asia Institute at the University of Melbourne is pleased to announce the 2010 Melbourne Conference on China, to be held at the University of Melbourne on Monday, 19 July 2010 and Tuesday, 20 July 2010.
We welcome researchers, specialists, policy makers, policy advisers and educators working in anywhere in the world and in any area of China studies to come to the southern hemisphere to meet in Melbourne, Australia, to explore the various questions posed by the ongoing and rapid changes that have affected Chinese elite groups and their rivals in the past, the present and, most importantly, in the future.
Please submit an abstract of up to 500 words, no later than Friday, 30 April 2010, to Conference-on-China@unimelb.edu.au.
An international conference organised by Hans van de Ven, University of Cambridge and Zheng Yangwen, University of Manchester, to be held on 30-31 July 2010 in Singapore or Xiamen.
Some four hundred pieces of ceramics from the oldest shipwreck found in Southeast Asia were on display in Singapore in June 2005. The ceramics did not bear any resemblance to the familiar Ming or Qing wares. Neither did they look like the Song or Yuan wares. Made in a kiln in Changsha during the Tang dynasty, these were the long vanished 长沙窑or “Changsha ceramics”. The “Tang cargo”, as named by excavators and archaeologists, originated from Yangzhou, the Changsha ceramics in other words travelled a long way from South China to North China from where they were sent across the seas. They were re-packaged into large jars made in Vietnam and were destined for Arabia as the porcelains were painted with Arabic characters. The vessel bears the hallmarks of Arab shipping technology whereas the wood used to build it was from India.
This “Tang cargo” example lends force to the new perspective that this conference wishes to advance, namely the significance of water in shaping China’s history. Whereas the Great Wall is often used as a symbol of a closed-off China resisting engagement with the outside world, the Grand Canal, a comparable feat of engineering with probably a more profound social and cultural impact, is rarely pressed into service as a symbol of anything except for chronic mismanagement and corruption. Yet it illustrates that there was a ‘China on the Water’, not just a ‘Walled Kingdom’.
This conference aims to investigate how the water world shaped China. Islam and Christianity came via the water world; so did fragrances, tobacco and opium, maize, clocks, bicycles and ballet. We are interested in how waterways linked China with other parts of the world from the Tang dynasty onward. We are also interested in how water structured Chinese localities socio-culturally, religiously, materially, and architecturally, and the technologies that sustained China’s water-borne worlds, ranging from ships (junks), harbours, Custom Houses, warehouses, docks, and sluices to lighthouses and other aids to navigation, as well as structures to control rivers and canals. This conference seeks to bring the significance of waterways back into our historical perspectives; it aims at revising historical approaches that have dictated the study and research of China. For conference themes and the full Call for Papers, seehttp://www.ccs.humanities.manchester.ac.uk/research/conferences.html.
Inquiries and abstracts of no more than 250 words, plus 5 lines of biographical information, should be sent to David.Woodbridge@postgrad.manchester.ac.uk before 30 September 2009. Those accepted to present at the conference will be notified before the end of 30 December 2009. The organizers aim to publish selected conference papers in an edited volume/s. Accommodation and food will be provided during the conference but paper presenters must look for their own funding for travel.
August 2, 2010, Los Angeles, CA
The Association for Asian Performance (AAP) invites submissions for its 10th annual conference in Los Angeles, at the Hyatt Century Plaza Hotel, on
August 2, 2010. The AAP conference is a one-day event, preceding the annual ATHE (Association for Theatre in Higher Education) conference and held at the ATHE conference hotel. Proposals are invited for papers, panels, workshops and roundtable discussions. The deadline for proposals is March 15th, 2010.
- Proposals for individual papers should include a brief abstract. Individual presentations should be limited to 20 minutes so that there will be time left for questions and discussion. Visual materials (slides, video etc.) are strongly encouraged.
- Panels should be composed of three paper presenters and one discussant or four paper presenters. Proposals for panels should provide a brief statement that explains the session as a whole and the proposed subject of each paper.
- Roundtables offer an opportunity for participants to discuss a specific theme, issue or significant recent publication. A maximum of six active participants is recommended. While a roundtable proposal will not be as detailed as a panel proposal, it should explain fully the session’s purpose, themes or issues and scope.
- Proposals for workshops by performance practitioner(s) with expertise in specific Asian performance traditions are welcomed, particularly workshops that overlap with a panel theme or paper presentation. Workshop proposals should include an abstract explaining methods and goals. Workshops should be designed to run no longer than 80 minutes.
We encourage suggestions for innovative alternatives to the panels, individual papers and roundtables described above.
Proposals should include the following: (1). Title of panel, roundtable or paper; (2). Names of all the presenters, including chair and/or organizer and discussant (for panels and roundtables.) A few biographical sentences about each presenter; (3). Affiliation, specialization (field/region), mailing address, phone numbers and e-mail addresses of al participants; and (4). Explanation of the session (for panels, workshops and roundtables); abstract of each panel presentation or each paper.
Proposals should be emailed to the conference organizer, Claudia Orenstein, corenste@hunter.cuny.edu
If you need help locating other scholars to participate in a panel or roundtable, please submit a preliminary description of your proposal before February 1 so we can post it on the AAP website. Alternatively, you can post your suggestions for a panel there directly by logging on to the site at:
http://www.yavanika.org/aaponline/
All presenters are expected to join AAP. Membership is $40 per year ($25 for students) and includes a subscription to the Asian Theatre Journal.
We are planning a workshop on the Liao dynasty to be held at Yale University and/or Bard Graduate Center in the fall of 2010. We hope to produce a book that does for the Liao what Perspectives on the Tang did for the Tang: namely to introduce the field to outsiders while introducing the latest research. Our focus will be on new discoveries and new approaches. We are particularly interested in the following topics: Writing (update on the deciphering of Khitan scripts, the importance of epitaphs in both Chinese and Khitan); Material and visual culture (including architecture, urban culture, and painting); Foreign relations and cultural interaction (in particular with people from the east and west); and Religion (including both Daoism and Buddhism). Please send paper proposals (maximum 1,000 words) to: valerie.hansen@yale.edu and louis@bgc.bard.edu by January 1, 2009.
Representations of Prostitution, Sex Work and Sex Trafficking between the 19th and 21st Centuries
The Women’s Library, London, September 9–10, 2010
Provisional Keynote Speakers:
Jane Arthurs, University of the West of England;
Marianne Hester, University of Bristol;
Russell Campbell, University of Wellington;
Kirsten Pullen, Texas A&M University.
The figure of the prostitute is a malleable cultural symbol, used to address social fears and desires (Matlock, 1994; O’Neill, 2001). Representations of prostitutes enable us to understand attitudes towards female mobility, sexuality, ethnicity, and emancipation that cross national divides and affect all gender identities. The global centrality of such representations is growing, as debates about sex work, tourism and trafficking recur in a variety of border-crossing forms. When considered from a global and historical perspective, portrayals of prostitution are many and varied, intersecting with different cultural and historical moments, in different forms and for different audiences, and functioning in dramatically different ways. Studies of the narratives of the prostitute, sex worker and sex trafficking within specific representational and key national contexts point to a need for further collaboration to understand the extent of their transnational nature, and the way in which representational forms may differ. This conference aims therefore to bring together studies of the representation of prostitution from a range of cultures, including Europe, North Africa, the US, Latin America, China, Japan, Korea, and India. In this transnational context we will examine how various representational forms inflect the figure differently since little attention has been paid to the evolution of the prostitute’s representation over the past two centuries from the novel and stage towards the globalized modes of film, television and the internet.
We would welcome proposals on any aspect of the conference theme, particularly in the light of the following questions:
1) Which features of the representation of prostitution cross a selection of different media and national contexts, and which do not?
2) How have new representational forms affected portrayals of prostitution? To what extent is there continuity between nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first century approaches?
3) What are the contentious issues around the representation of prostitution, and what strategies might one devise to negotiate them? How do different understandings of feminism inflect the way we interpret images of prostitution?
4) How do representations of prostitution overlap with other discourses about gender?
5) How can we develop a transdisciplinary methodological approach to the study of gender representation, in particular to the representation of prostitutes, by bringing medical history, philosophy, sociology, politics, and geography together with more traditional studies of representation?
Please send abstracts of 500 words to the organizers Danielle Hipkins and Kate Taylor at prostitutionconference@hotmail.com by February 28, 2010.
This panel is designed to appeal to a wide spectrum of approaches from scholars of modern Japan. Although conceived of as “area-focused”, the issue of the nature and timing of “the contemporary” in modern Japan resonates with debates on the nature of postmodernity in the West. Proposals for papers concerning the nature of “the contemporary” and/or of “modernity” and its relationship to “postmodernity” in Japan as it relates to literature, film or criticism are welcome.
The Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association conference takes place October 14-16, in Albuquerque, New Mexico. For information on the conference, please see
http://rmmla.wsu.edu/conferences/conf10Albuquerque/default.asp
In order to present their papers, all panel members must be members of the RMMLA by April 1, 2010. Please see http://rmmla.wsu.edu/member/join-renew.asp for details.
The deadline for proposal submissions is March 1, 2010. Please include the following in your proposal: name,
institutional affiliation,
area of study,
e-mail, paper title,
abstract of 250-500 words,
AV requirements.
Please e-mail proposals to: Peter Tillack,
Assistant Professor of Japanese,
Department of Modern Languages and Literatures,
Montana State University tillack@montana.edu.
“Sustainable Asia: Challenges and Opportunities”
October 22-24, 2010
Pennsylvania State University, State College, Pennsylvania
DEADLINE FOR PAPER SUBMISSIONS: MAY 1, 2010
To propose a panel or an individual paper, please send a completed proposal form along with a one-page abstract for each proposed paper by May 1, 2010 to David Kenley, the MAR/AAS 2010 Program Chair, as indicated below. Inquiries are also welcome.
Proposals may be submitted by mail, fax or e-mail (as an attachment). Acceptance notices will be sent to you by June 1, 2010. Further details and online applications are available on the conference website, http://www.maraas.org (click on “Conferences”).
In order to submit a proposal for the 2010 meeting, you should be a 2010 MAR/AAS member or submit a membership application to Executive Secretary, Dr. Diane Freedman, MAR/AAS, Department of Social Science W2-40, Community College of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA 19130. Annual membership is $10.00. To obtain MAR/AAS membership information, go to (www.maraas.org) or contact Dr. Diane Freedman (215-751-8547, dfreedman@ccp.edu).
The deadline for conference pre-registration for presenters will be June 20. Pre-registration by this date is necessary if you wish your name to appear in the program. The fees for pre-registration will be $50.00 for current members, $60 for non-members, $30 for current member students, and $35 for non-member students. When non-members pay the registration fee, the membership fee for 2011 will be complimentary. Information regarding registration, travel and lodging, and conference events will be available at the MAR/AAS website: http://www.maraas.org.
We welcome participation from faculty, graduate students, undergraduate students, independent scholars, and professionals, and especially encourage panels with innovative combinations of individuals and fields. Some travel assistance is available on a competitive basis for graduate students and international scholars. Include your request for travel funding with your paper proposal.
Program Chair: David Kenley, History Department, Elizabethtown College, One Alpha Drive, Elizabethtown, PA 17022; kenleyd@etown.edu; 717-361-1238 (o); 717-361-1390 (fax).
A three-day Conference, 11-13 November, followed by a two-day PhD course, 14-15 November 2010. Organized by ADI – Asian Dynamics Initiative, University of Copenhagen
The opening day of the conference is allocated to a big public event with invited keynote speakers. The following two days will be made up of 10-12 parallel panels and workshops under the common theme ‘Asian Diversity in a Global Context’. The goal is to generate deeper and fuller insights into the political, social, cultural and economic changes facing Asia in the 21st century. Finally, PhD students will have the opportunity to participate in an intensive PhD course over two days.
Call for papers: The conference welcomes papers relating to one of the themes of the conference’s panels and workshops. Instructions on submission of abstracts can be found on the individual panel/workshop subsites. PhD students are also invited to submit abstracts for the PhD course. Deadline for submission of abstracts: 1 March 2010
Detailed information on the conference’s panels, workshops, PhD course, submission of abstracts, venue and more can be found on the conference website: http://asiandynamics.ku.dk/asian_diversity_conference/
'Asian Diversity in a Global Context' is the third in the series of annual conferences initiated by ADI and the University of Copenhagen in 2008.
ADI - Asian Dynamics Initiative – is an interdisciplinary research priority area based in the Faculties of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Copenhagen. ADI aims at expanding research and teaching on Asia as well as strengthening the university's global networks in studies of Asia. http://asiandynamics.ku.dk/english
Hosted by the Asia-Europe Institute, University of Malaya, Malaysia. February 15-18, 2011.
The core emphasis of the conference is on understanding Asian perspectives on leadership and learning. Leadership and learning, like various other concepts, are often viewed/treated as global. As a response and reaction to the predominant presence of social theories rooted in the West, there is a growing recognition of and movement towards understanding theories through the wide range of diverse contextual and cultural perspectives available in the East. The significant role of culture is highlighted to an extent that some Asian researchers suggest that effective leadership in one culture may be counterproductive in another. It is in this connection that the conference is strategically an important initiative, as it aims at contributing to the knowledge on leadership and learning in Asia.
Thus, the questions that the conference intends to address are: Are the west-inspired theories on leadership and learning relevant for Asia in general and different contexts in Asia in particular? Is there a need to develop theories specific for Asia in general and different contexts in Asia in particular? Are there existing theories on leadership and learning with an Asian origin, which have not received much attention or have not been acknowledged so far?
Deadlines: Abstracts due March 31, 2010. Notification of acceptance: June 15, 2010. Full papers due: December 15, 2010.
Please visit also the Conference Website at http://ellta.org/ for more and continued information update about submissions, the journal Special Issues, members of the International Advisory Board etcetera.
Contact us via the following e-mail addresses: inquiries@ellta.org or ellta.conference@gmail.com.
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