Thursday, October 30, 2014

Looking for Scholars! Call for Paper Proposals

Call for Paper Proposals

Writers’ Workshop and Publication Project:

Chinese Natural Resource Extraction in Southeast Asia: Cooperation or Conflict?

Date: May 25-26th, 2015

Venue: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (ISEAS), 30 Heng Mui Keng Terrace, Singapore

Convenors: Jason Morris-Jung & Zhao Hong

Application deadline is January 15, 2014



Southeast Asia has long been a region for Chinese trade and procurement of natural resources.  However, China’s rapid rise as a regional political and economic power has generated both new opportunities and complex tensions over resource extraction in Southeast Asia.  Academic literature on Chinese resource extraction in Africa and Latin America has highlighted the vast complexity and rapidly shifting context of Chinese resource extraction abroad, notably due to the wide range of Chinese actors and institutions involved in resource extraction projects, their variegated relations with different local actors, and the evolving business, regulatory and discursive contexts in which they are taking place.  In Southeast Asia, these issues are further accentuated and, in many cases, complicated by regional economic integration and competitiveness, growing geo-political competition, and historical patterns of cooperation and conflict with transnational Chinese communities. Taking stock and critically assessing how these new trends and phenomena are taking shape in Southeast Asia will provide important academic insight and policy lessons for the future prospects of Chinese natural resource extraction in Southeast Asia and beyond.

The Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (ISEAS) would like to invite proposals for a Writers’ Workshop and publication project on Chinese natural resource extraction in Southeast Asia.  Proposals may address the following topics:

Challenges and opportunities of Chinese natural resource extraction for regional political and economic integration both with and within Southeast Asia
Responsiveness and adaptability among Chinese firms to diverse economic, political and socio-cultural contexts of resource extraction in Southeast
Diverse forms of local-level cooperation, contestation or other forms of confronting Chinese resource extraction projects
Nationalist discourses and racialized politics (re)emerging in Southeast Asian countries through Chinese resource extraction projects

Writers’ Workshop and Publication Project

ISEAS will convene a Writers’ Workshop with a view to developing a set of high quality research papers for joint publication in a relevant peer-reviewed journal and/or an ISEAS book volume.

The main purpose of the Workshop will be for participating writers to discuss and provide constructive feedback on each other’s paper.  Papers will be collected and circulated to all participants one month prior to the Workshop for each participant to read and prepare comments for all papers in advance.  During the workshop, each participant will be allocated 45-60 minutes to hear and discuss comments from other participants on their own papers.

The Workshop will be held at ISEAS over a period of one and a half days.

Implementing organization

The Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (ISEAS) is a leading international research center and think tank in the study of socio-political, security, and economic trends and developments in Southeast Asia.  Its aims are to stimulate scholarly debate, enhance public awareness, and search for viable solutions to the problems confronting the region.  The proposed research is part of ISEAS’s broader research and policy interests in examining the political and economic implications of the “rise of China” in Southeast Asia.

Eligibility and selection criteria

ISEAS invites academics (faculty or students), researchers, and practitioners from diverse backgrounds with relevant research or experience to submit paper proposals.

Selected candidates will be expected to participate in the full project all the way to publication.

Travel costs and funding

A limited Travel Fund will be available to support travel costs for participants, who are unable to find other sources of support.  Applicants seeking travel cost support should include a brief statement of need in their application materials.  ISEAS travel funds to Singapore may also be used in conjunction with other travel grants or research plans in the region, whose dates may extend beyond or before the Workshop.    

While attending the Writers’ Workshop, ISEAS will cover costs for two nights of accommodation in Singapore, and meals during the workshop sessions.

Application deadline and procedures

Applications should be sent by email China-SEAsia@iseas.edu.sg by January 15, 2014. 

Applications should contain:

(1) Abstract for proposed paper (no more than 300 words)
(2) Curriculum Vitae or short bio of relevant experience (no more than 300 words)
(3) Short statement of need and amount requested for travel support, if applicable

Selected applicants will be contacted by January 31, 2014.

Conference Annoucement- Deadline Nov 1st

Call for Papers
Identities in the Making: Dutch Colonialisms and Postcolonial Presents

Graduate Student Conference
University of California, Berkeley
December 3 - 4, 2014

With a keynote lecture by Prof. Rudolf Mrazek (University of Michigan), and a panel discussion on 'zwarte piet'
Sponsored by the Dutch Studies Program, UC Berkeley
Students wishing to participate can send a 250-word abstract and a short CV to dutchstudiesconference@gmail.com byNovember 1, 2014.

Dutch colonial history gives Dutch culture a global dimension: the Dutch colonial presence stretched from Suriname and the Caribbean to Southeast Asia, early settlements could be found in New York and South Africa and some Caribbean islands are still a part of the Dutch kingdom. The multiethnic society found in the Netherlands today, with its postcolonial diaspora communities and other immigrants, is heavily entangled with the country's colonial past.

This conference aims to explore the importance of the formation and representation of identities in the colonial history and postcolonial present of the Netherlands and its former colonies. How could identities be enunciated in the colonial regime of representation? How did the postcolonial nations denounce their former colonizers in the articulation of their national identities? And what role does the colonial legacy play in narratives of 'Dutchness' in the Netherlands today?

Graduate students are invited to submit a paper that explores the making of post/colonial identities in relation to Dutch colonial history. Presenters may have a wide variety of disciplinary backgrounds, such as literature, history, media, art history, anthropology and political science and are invited to interpret the conference topic liberally. Possible topics may include, but are not limited to:

- formation and representation of post/colonial identities: in literature, art, museums, etc.
- diasporic identities: Dutch Caribbean, Surinamese, Indonesian, Moluccan, etc.
- history and experience of slavery
- early Dutch settlements: Dutch New York, South Africa
- rise of nationalism in the colonies
- race and ethnicity in Dutch multicultural society
- applicability of postcolonial theories of identity on Dutch context
- Dutch racism
- memories of empire and colonial legacies
- colonialism and globalization

Participants have the opportunity to submit their papers, in extended and annotated form, to the peer-reviewed journal Dutch Crossing, which will publish a selection of the conference proceedings.
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Fellowships - Thailand Studies Program

Fellowships
Thailand Studies Programme
Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, Singapore

The Thailand Studies Programme (www.iseas.edu.sg/thai.cfm) of the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (ISEAS) in Singapore welcomes expressions of interest from scholars and researchers in Thailand interested in fellowships of from six-months to a year in duration at the Institute.  The focus of the programme is on political dynamics, social change and cultural trends of greatest importance to Thailand in the medium- and long-term future. While at ISEAS, Visiting Fellows will contribute to this broad research agenda, in consultation with the programme's coordinators.

For further information, please contact Terence Chong (terencechong@iseas.edu.sg) or Michael Montesano (michael.montesano@gmail.com). 

Graduate Program Announcement

Graduate Programs in “New Directions in Environmental Governance:  Remaking Public and Private Authority in Southeast Asian Resource Frontiers”
York University and University of Ottawa

Drs. Peter Vandergeest, Robin Roth (Department of Geography, York University), and Melissa Marschke (School of International Development and Global Studies, University of Ottawa) are recruiting several MA and up to two PhD students beginning September 2015 as part of the SSHRC-funded project "New Directions in Environmental Governance:  Remaking Public and Private Authority in Southeast Asian Resource Frontiers."

Students will be provided with fieldwork funding, guidance, and opportunities for both in-depth fieldwork and research dissemination on a multi-sited research project in Southeast Asia. The study will examine the emerging relationships between private, public, and local authorities in forestry and fisheries, defined to include plantations and aquaculture.  The focus will be on how emerging governance arrangements for forestry and fisheries remake the ways that farmers, fishers, and workers access land and natural resources in the Southeast Asia uplands and coastal zones.

Applicants must have an appropriate background in a relevant field, including Human Geography; Development Studies, Political Ecology; Environmental Studies; Anthropology; or Southeast Asian Studies. Applicants with previous research or applied experience will be particularly competitive. 

Interested applicants should send a letter of interest and current CV to Peter Vandergeest (pvander@yorku.ca), Robin Roth (rothr@yorku.ca) and/or Melissa Marschke (melissa.marschke@uottawa.ca) by November 5, 2014.

The deadline for admission to York's Graduate Program in Geography is January 14, 2015. More information on the department can be found at: www.yorku.ca/gradgeog/.   The deadline for admission to U Ottawa’s Graduate Program in International Development and Global Studies is January 15, 2015. More information can be found at: socialsciences.uottawa.ca/dvm/graduate-studies 

Wednesday, October 22, 2014

CFP: Identities in the Making: Dutch Colonialism and Postcolonial Presents

Call for Papers
Graduate Student Conference
"Identities in the Making: Dutch Colonialisms and Postcolonial Presents"
University of California, Berkeley
December 3 – 4, 2014

Including a keynote lecture by Prof. Rudolf Mrazek (University of Michigan), and a panel discussion on ‘zwarte piet’

Sponsored by the Dutch Studies Program, UC Berkeley

Dutch colonial history gives Dutch culture a global dimension: the Dutch colonial presence stretched from Suriname and the Caribbean to Southeast Asia, early settlements could be found in New York and South Africa and some Caribbean islands are still a part of the Dutch kingdom. The multiethnic society found in the Netherlands today, with its postcolonial diaspora communities and other immigrants, is heavily entangled with the country’s colonial past.

This conference aims to explore the importance of the formation and representation of identities in the colonial history and postcolonial present of the Netherlands and its former colonies. How could identities be enunciated in the colonial regime of representation? How did the postcolonial nations denounce their former colonizers in the articulation of their national identities? And what role does the colonial legacy play in narratives of ‘Dutchness’ in the Netherlands today?

Graduate students are invited to submit a paper that explores the making of post/colonial identities in relation to Dutch colonial history. Presenters may have a wide variety of disciplinary backgrounds, such as literature, history, media, art history, anthropology and political science and are invited to interpret the conference topic liberally. Possible topics may include, but are not limited to:

  • formation and representation of post/colonial identities: in literature, art, museums, etc.
  • diasporic identities: Dutch Caribbean, Surinamese, Indo, Moluccan, etc.
  • history and experience of slavery
  • early Dutch settlements: Dutch New York, South Africa,
  • rise of nationalism in the colonies
  • race and ethnicity in Dutch multicultural society
  • applicability of postcolonial theories of identity on Dutch context
  • Dutch racism
  • memories of empire and colonial legacies
  • colonialism and globalization
Participants have the opportunity to submit their papers, in extended and annotated form, to the peer-reviewed journal Dutch Crossing, which will publish a selection of the conference proceedings.

Students wishing to participate can send a 250‐word abstract and a short CV todutchstudiesconference@gmail.com by November 1, 2014. Presentations should last no longer than 20 minutes.

Keynote Speaker: Rudolf Mrazek (Emeritus Professor of History, University of Michigan). Prof. Mrazek has published extensively on the history of colonial and modern Indonesia. He is the author of Engineers of Happy Land. Technology and Nationalism in a Colony (2002) and Sjahrir: Politics and Exile in Indonesia(1994). Throughout the 1990s, Prof. Mrazek interviewed elderly Indonesian intellectuals about their memories of colonial Indonesia, which he collected in the unconventional A Certain Age. Colonial Jakarta through the Memories of its Intellectuals (2009). Prof. Mrazek will speak on December 3.

Panel Discussion: The conference will also include a panel discussion from the seminar ‘Blackness in European Folklore Tradition –The Dutch Case: Black Pete’ that will discuss the controversial Dutch blackface tradition of ‘zwarte piet’ from several perspectives and shed light on its historical and political contexts. With Dr. Kwame Nimako (UC Berkeley),Quinsy Gario (Dutch activist and artist, via Skype), and others. The panel will meet on December 4 at 6:00 p.m.

Monday, October 20, 2014

CFP: Shari'a and its Implementations in Southeast Asia


I am proposing a panel titled Shari'a and its implementation in Southeast Asia for the upcoming AAS-Asia Conference, Motion: Ideas, Institutions, Identities Conference, which will take place in Taiwan, June 22-24, 2015. The aim of this post is to find people planning to attend this conference, who would be interested in creating a panel that would focus on the subject from a  variety of angles: Law, Social Sciences, Sociology etc.
The aim of the panel would be to determine how important is the Sharia law in southeast Asia, if de facto it is possible  to establish a solid jurisprudence based only on the Quran and Al-fiqh, also what I would like to analyze during the panel is the influence of religious law on the status of non-Muslim citizens in countries of SEA, what is their status and how it is internationally perceived within Asia. How the  Asian Muslim community stands out, and what are the jurisprudential implications of shari’a changes made to the local/national law, lastly is it a question of faith or just a way to gain political support, and what are other secondary reasons.
Those of you that would be interested in joining the panel please contact me at mac_mackowiak@wp.pl
Should you have any other questions feel free to write .

Best,
Maciej Mackowiak
Adam Mickiewicz University
Faculty of Law
Faculty of Malay Philology

Thursday, October 16, 2014

CFP: Global Asias Conference by Verge: Studies in Global Asias

April 9-11, 2015 at Penn State
Location: Pennsylvania, United States
Call for Papers Date: 2014-11-15

Penn State’s Department of Asian Studies announces Global Asias 3, a conference to celebrate the launch of a new journal, Verge: Studies in Global Asias (published by the University of Minnesota Press). By bringing into relation work in both Asian Studies and Asian American Studies, Verge covers Asia and its diasporas, East to West, across and around the Pacific, from a variety of humanistic perspectives—anthropology, art history, literature, history, politics, sociology—in order to develop comparative analyses that recognize Asia’s place(s) in the development of global culture and history.  In that expansive and multidisciplinary spirit, we invite proposals for the specific panels and roundtables listed below for the conference, to be held April 9-11, 2015.  Please submit materials (250-word abstract and brief c.v.) to specific roundtable and panel organizers directly by November 15, 2014.
Thanks to the generous support of the College of the Liberal Arts and the Department of Asian Studies, Penn State will cover lodging and food costs for all conference presenters.  In addition, we will provide all conference participants with a 1-year subscription to Verge: Studies in Global Asias.  General questions can be directed to Tina Chen (tina.chen@psu.edu) or Eric Hayot (ehayot@psu.edu).

ROUNDTABLES
Colonialism, Globalization, and the Asian City
Shuang Shen (sxs1075@psu.edu) and Madhuri Desai (msd13@psu.edu)
This roundtable examines the cultural dimension of globalization as it is manifested in Asian cities and urban Asian diasporas. Studying the city from both historical and contemporary perspectives and at multiple scales, including the local, the national, the regional and the global, we invite presentations that reflect on the spatial implications and legacies of the complex condition of colonialism, ways in which political and social transformations were mediated through the built environment, how the flows of population, technology, and media shape Asian cities and ethnic urban communities, and how these movements follow, reproduce, or challenge ideological demarcations along the lines of race, gender, and class.  While this roundtable is focused on the Asian city, we also invite proposals that explore the urban experiences and environment of Asian immigrant communities in former metropolitan centers.
Empires and Asian Imperialism: Past and Present
Erica Brindley (efb12@psu.edu) and On-cho Ng (oxn1@psu.edu)
The nature of Asian empires in the past, as well as the definition of imperialism in contemporary times, is a topic of ongoing discussion among scholars from a wide range of fields. We invite submissions that explore issues concerning the mechanics and influence of empires, imperial authority, and imperial types of influence over indigenous cultures and frontiers in Asia, as well as their diasporas abroad and in the USA.  In addition to questions concerning the long history of Asian imperialism and comparisons with other empires, we also solicit submissions that speak to questions concerning contemporary Asian diasporas and their reactions to various forms of imperialism in the modern age.
Between Asia and Latin America
Andrea Bachner (asb76@cornell.edu) & Pedro Erber (pre5@cornell.edu)
Asia and the Americas no longer occupy the disconnected extremes of an imagined map. Nor do they continue to embody the antipodes of East and West, framing Europe as the symbolic center. Yet, most approaches to the cultural interactions of the Transpacific remain limited by a focus on the Northern part of the Americas, often equating the label of “American” implicitly (or explicitly) with the US. This roundtable will approach the intercultural study of Asia and Latin America with the aim of rethinking the Transpacific as a method, a lens for comparison rather than simply an area or a region. We invite interventions that approach the real and imagined spaces of the Transpacific between Asia and Latin America from a wide variety of perspectives and disciplines and that pay attention to alternative links between Asia and Latin America: from diaspora, textual circulation, and cultural exchanges to uneven dialogues, compelling analogies, or conceptual affinities.
PANELS
Radicalism in/of Asia
Shaoling Ma (sum36@psu.edu)
“They just don’t get it” is the contentious epitaph of radicalism. To be radical is to establish oppositional identities alongside collective ones so much so that the process also ends up shaping the issue at hand – the “it” that only “we” get. To approach Asia from the viewpoint of radicalism does not simply entail an exploration of social and cultural movements whether formal or informal, real or imaginary; it also means to reexamine the discursive lens that helped construct the politics of recognizing Asia both from within and without. Hence to discuss radicalism in Asia is also to acknowledge the radicalisms of “Asia” in its multiple valences. In the context of global branding and the mass commodification of politics, the danger of any radicalism is that it can always be co-opted by the hegemonic configurations that it sought to challenge. But can there be radicalism without the risk of normalization?

Visualizing Identity
Chris Reed (creed@psu.edu) & Chang Tan (cut12@psu.edu)
We invite papers addressing art and other forms of visual culture in which the complication and fluidity of “Asian” identities is at stake. Topics might include the ways ideas of national art in Asia took shape through influences across national borders, and how conceptions of Asian-ness in contemporary art and visual culture continue to be defined through communication with “the other.”  We especially welcome papers covering the 19th century to the present, a period during which the formation of national, ethnic and geopolitical identities became a key issue not only in countries of Asia, but also within Asian diasporas across the globe. This panel will examine how art and visual culture played—and continue to play—a crucial role in this process, at once articulating and dissembling this complex web of identities. 

Asia in the Global Food Chain
Jessamyn Abel (jessamyn.abel@psu.edu)
The global expansion of food supply networks, while delivering a variety of foods around the world, has also heightened concerns about food safety and security.  In the market-opening mood of the 1990s, worries about Japan’s food security fueled support for import barriers on staple foods, and the looming threat of an influx of foreign rice sent Japanese consumers into an anxious frenzy of stock-piling domestic grain.  More recently, one tainted food scandal after another has inspired bans on imports of food from China, while spurring wealthy Chinese to import suitcases-full of goods like infant formula.  For centuries, the absence, availability, and provision of food has been a key element in the vibrancy of overseas Asian communities and the ability of immigrants to feel “safe at home” in their adopted country.  This panel will explore the intersection between issues of food safety and security and Asia’s place in global networks of immigration and trade.

Transnational Social Movements
Maia Ramnath (mar57@psu.edu)
This panel will highlight various efforts at social change, anti-systemic resistance and radical aspiration that have reached outside and beyond national frames.   Historical or contemporary movements could be looked at thematically and comparatively, or by situating localized conflicts in a broader, transregional web of causality.  This may involve following exilic or migratory activist trajectories through personal or organizational connections, or contagious eros effects; or following ideas that travel, taking on new implications in new contexts not through one-way diffusion but through a dialogical encounter of intellectual and cultural resources emerging from multiple contexts.  Since the late 19th century, conscious internationalisms have been expressed through multiple forms of Pan-Asianism, Pan-Islamism, left radicalism, Afro Asian solidarities, or geostrategic alignments.   Today, inter-Asian relationships have new shapes and meanings in a reconfigured [post-cold war, “war on terror”-stamped, economically east-shifting] world.

Cosmopolitanism and Language in Global Asia
Nicolai Volland (nmv10@psu.edu) & Xiaoye You (xuy10@psu.edu)
This panel queries the role and function of languages--literary and otherwise--at the intersection of politics, societies, and cultural production in global Asia. In a fragmented yet highly interconnected world, how do languages bridge and divide, imagine and transform, construct and deconstruct Asia both in the region and beyond? We invite papers from literature, linguistics, history, anthropology, and other relevant disciplines that reflect on the meaning of languages in and for the multiple communities that form the tapestry of global Asia. We are particularly interested in contributions that explore the emergence, but also the limits, of new forms of cosmopolitanism in global Asia, past and present.

Asia and the Global Economy
Boliang Zhu (bxz14@psu.edu)
We invite submission of papers that address the interaction between Asian countries and the global economy. We are particularly interested in topics related to the role of Asian countries in the world economy and the consequences of globalization on domestic politics in Asian countries.  Paper submission is open to all relevant disciplines.
Tina Chen
Pennsylvania State University
Email: tina.chen@psu.edu

CFP: Identity, Ethnicity and Nationhood before Modernity: Old Debates and New Perspectives

Oxford, 24–26 April 2015
Location: United Kingdom
Call for Papers Date: 2014-11-01 (in 17 days)
Call for Papers
Identity, Ethnicity and Nationhood before Modernity: Old Debates and New Perspectives
24–26 April 2015
The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities, Oxford, UK

In spite of the stream of publications over the last thirty years on ancient and medieval ethnicity and national identity, the dominant paradigm in ethnicity and nationalism studies remains modernist – the view that nationhood is an essentially modern phenomenon and was non-existent or peculiarly unimportant before the 18th century. We believe it is time to reopen this debate. Scholars working on pre-modern collective identities too often avoid the challenge of modernism, either by using allegedly unproblematic terminology of ethnicity or by employing the vocabulary of nationhood uncritically. This conference, therefore, aims at tackling these difficult theoretical issues head on. This can only truly be achieved by bringing together a range of researchers working on ancient, late antique, early medieval, high medieval, late medieval, and early modern ethnicity and nationhood. Thus we hope to reinvigorate discussion of pre-modern ethnicity and nationhood, as well as to go beyond the unhelpful chronological divisions which have emerged through surprisingly fragmented research on pre-modern collective identities. Overall, the goal of our conference is to encourage systemic conceptual thinking about pre-modern identity and nationhood, and to consider the similarities and differences between the construction and use of ethnic and national categories both within those periods, and in comparison with modernity.

The conference invites paper proposals from prospective speakers in all periods of ancient, medieval and early modern history; sociology and social anthropology; and literary studies. We also warmly invite papers from modernists that aim to compare pre-modern and modern ethnicity and nationhood. Priority will be given to papers that situate their particular studies within the broader conceptual debate on pre-modern and modern identity.
Keynote lectures will be given by Caspar Hirschi, Len Scales, Walter Pohl, Susan Reynolds and Tim Whitmarsh. 

To stimulate discussion, these keynote lectures will be responded to by some of the leading experts on modern national identity and nationalism – Monica Baár, Stefan Berger, John Breuilly and Oliver Zimmer – as well as by Azar Gat, the author of a recent book on the long history of political ethnicity and nationhood.
Prospective speakers are invited to submit abstracts of approximately 300 words. Submissions should include name, affiliation and contact details. The deadline for submissions is 1 November 2014. For more information about the conference, or to submit an abstract, please email the organizing committee atilya.afanasyev@history.ox.ac.uk or nicholas.matheou@pmb.ox.ac.uk.

We intend to publish selected papers from the conference as a special journal edition.

The conference is supported by The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities (TORCH) and the Faculty of History, University of Oxford.
Organizing Committee: Ilya Afanasyev, Seth Hindin and Nicholas Matheou.
Ilya Afanasyev
Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities
Radcliffe Observatory Quarter
Woodstock Road
Oxford OX2 6GG
UNITED KINGDOM
Email: ilya.afanasyev@history.ox.ac.uk

Conference: Cultures of Violence from the colonial wars to the present

Location: Germany
Call for Papers Date: 2014-11-11 (in 27 days)
A conference by the German Historical Institute Warsaw with the German Committee for the History of the Second World War and the Chairs for Eastern European History and German History of the Twentieth Century
4-6 June 2015, Senate Hall of the Humboldt University of Berlin.
Organisers: Dr. Stephan Lehnstaedt (DHI Warsaw), Prof. Dr. Sönke Neitzel (London School of Economics).
Are there specific national characteristics for the waging of war, or even national cultures of violence? And are there “spaces of violence” in which war is conducted in a particularly criminal or “chivalrous” way? This joint conference of the German Historical Institute Warsaw with the German Committee for the History of the Second World War and the Chairs for Eastern European History and German History of the Twentieth Century with a Focus on National Socialism at the Humboldt University of Berlin seeks answers to these questions.
Four periods will be assessed:
  • Imperialist wars since the end of the nineteenth century in Europe and in the colonies,
  • The First World War, including its post-history, especially in Eastern Europe (e.g., the Polish-Soviet War, the Russian Civil War, the Freikorps “wars”),
  • The Second World War,
  • The colonial wars for independence after 1945.
The case studies should fall within these periods, yet explicitly cover a broad geographical, thematic, and methodological spectrum. The following list of conceivable topics is meant to be illustrative, not exclusive:
  • Protagonists of violence, structures of command, and their consequences;
  • Perceptions of the self and others, images of men and women, stereotypes and ideologies;
  • Dealing with civilian and military casualties / adversaries, the methods and aims of occupation;
  • Specific military operations, meaning strategies, practices, and techniques of violence in their situational effects.
These perspectives should be explored particularly within armies and paramilitary formations in England, Germany, France, Russia / Soviet Union, and the USA, as well as spaces in Poland and Eastern Europe, the Balkans, Africa, Western Europe, and Asian spaces of violence such as China. Contributions that adopt a new perspective, or include spaces and groups that have previously received little or no attention, are particularly welcome. Presentations should be based on the applicant’s own current research.
In the individual panels, proven researchers will compare the presentations in summary remarks. At the panel discussion at the end of the conference, invited experts will then comment on the presentations in a diachronic manner, once again returning to our guiding questions regarding national cultures and spaces of violence.
The languages of the conference are German and English. The organisers will reimburse travel costs (second-class railway travel within Germany; economy class flights outside of Germany) and provide accommodations.
Proposals for twenty-minute talks must be submitted by 30 November 2014. Please include a brief curriculum vita as well as an explanation of how your presentation fits the temporal and content-based premises noted above (100-200 words). Send your proposal to: lehnstaedt@dhi.waw.pl;s.neitzel@lse.ac.uk, who will also respond to enquiries. Participants will be notified in early December 2014. We intend to publish the results of the conference.
Professor Soenke Neitzel
London School of Economics
Houghton Street
London WC2A 2AE
Email: s.neitzel@lse.ac.uk

Extended CFP: Migration in Global History: Peoples, Plants, Plagues, and Ports

Nanyang Technological University
Singapore
29-31 May 2015
In response to a number of requests for extensions, the congress committee for the 3rd Congress of the Asian Association of World Historians (AAWH) has decided to extend the abstract and panel proposal deadline to 1 November 2014(Singapore, GMT+8). All proposals should be submitted to2015AAWH.Congress@ntu.edu.sg, with the subject line “2015 AAWH Congress Proposal” by the new submission date in order to receive full consideration.
The Asian Association of World Historians (AAWH) invites proposals for panels and papers at its Third Congress to be held 29-31 May 2015 at the Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. Proposals must be submitted by 1 November 2014 in order to receive full consideration.
The theme of the Congress is Migration in Global History: Peoples, Plants, Plagues, and Ports. Understood in the broadest sense, “migration” brings into focus questions about the movement of peoples, businesses, capital, ideas, goods, diseases, technologies, diverse forms of knowledge, artistic styles, ecologies, as well as medical and scientific discoveries and practices across global borders. Ports such as Singapore’s facilitated these movements, which enmeshed the globe in profound change. The 2015 AAWH Congress considers these subjects in their global, world, transregional, interdisciplinary, comparative, international, and big historical contexts, and welcomes proposals related to the Congress theme.
While the Congress committee welcomes panels and papers that address Migration in Global History, it will also consider proposals related to other topics on the history of the Asia-Pacific from global and world perspectives, including (but not limited to) the interdisciplinary history of science, technology, medicine, business, and the environment. Proposals addressing the epistemology and methodology of teaching and writing global, world, transnational, and big history are also welcomed.
Panels should comprise three or four papers with a chair and commentator. Roundtables involving a chair and three to five participants are also welcomed. Alternative arrangements will be considered. All of these should be elaborated in the proposal, which should also include a 250-word rationale for the panel, an abstract of each paper not exceeding 500 words, and a 1-page CV of each presenter. Please include audiovisual requests, if you have any.
All proposals should be submitted to 2015AAWH.Congress@ntu.edu.sg, with the subject line “2015 AAWH Congress Proposal.” If you wish to submit your proposal by postal service, it should be dispatched to:
2015 AAWH Congress Committee
History General Office
School of Humanities and Social Sciences
Nanyang Technological University
HSS-05-35
14 Nanyang Drive
Singapore 637332
Republic of Singapore
The deadline for submissions is 1 October 2014. Decisions on participation will be made known in November 2014 and further instructions on registration will be given thereafter.
CONTACT INFORMATION
If you have questions about the program or anything else related to conference logistics, please contact the 2015 AAWH Congress Committee at2015AAWH.Congress@ntu.edu.sg.
VENUE INFORMATION
The Congress will be held at the Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. For information on how to get to the university campus, visithttp://www.ntu.edu.sg/AboutNTU/visitingntu/Pages/location.aspx. More information will be provided when registration begins in 2014.
TRAVEL ASSISTANCE
Participants are eligible to apply for grants to subsidize the cost of attending the 2015 AAWH Congress. Priority will be given to scholars from late developing countries who receive no or limited financial support from their home institutions. The Congress organizers will reimburse the scholar upon submission of receipts. Funds will not be awarded unless the organizing committee accepts the applicant’s panel or paper proposal. Graduate students who are applying for financial support need to produce an official letter from their graduate advisors confirming the unavailability of institutional financial support for their attendance at the Congress. The application deadline is 1 November 2014 and documents should be submitted in combination with the proposal application. For more information, please contact the 2015 AAWH Congress Committee at2015AAWH.Congress@ntu.edu.sg and write in the subject line of the email: “2015 AAWH Travel Assistance.” 

Monday, October 13, 2014

CFP: Panel on Language and Culture in Modern Asia (AAS in Asia 2015)


A fourth and final presenter is being sought for a panel proposal for the upcoming AAS-in-Asia Conference in Taipei, Taiwan, to take place in June 2015.
The panel deals with transformations in language culture in Asia under modernization, from the late 19th century and on.
We invite papers that deal with any region within Asia (e.g., Southeast Asia, South Asia, East Asia) and from a variety of disciplinary perspectives (e.g., history, economics, linguistics).
Please submit a paper abstract or an email of inquiry as soon as possible, and by latest Tuesday, October 14.
In addition, we are also seeking an individual interested in serving as discussant for the panel. Please send an email if you are interested.
Satoko Kakihara
Email: satoko.kakihara@gmail.com

CFP: Southeastern Regional Conference of the Association of Asian Studies


The University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, is the host for the 54thd annual meeting of the Southeast Conference of the Association for Asian Studies (SEC/AAS), to be held January 16-18, 2015.
(See the SEC/AAS website:http://www.uky.edu/Centers/Asia/SECAAS for further information.)
Proposals for panels on specific Asia-related topics are expressly solicited; panels devoted to teaching Asian subjects at the secondary or college level are also requested.  Individual paper proposals are also welcome.  Only one paper per participant will be accepted.
Annual SEC/AAS dues for 2014-2015 are required for submissions to be considered.  Dues are $20; student dues are $10.  Dues checks made payable to SEC/AAS should be sent to Dr. Charlotte Beahan, Department of History, 6-B Faculty Hall, Murray State University, Murray, KY 42071-3341, using the posted membership form.  Note that dues do not cover the cost of conference registration.
We urge you to submit proposals by e-mail but regular mail or fax with the information in the box below is acceptable. Proposals should be submitted by October 31, 2014 to the Program Chair, Dr. Xiaoyuan Liu,xyliu.virginia@gmail.com (Please put SEC/AAS proposal and your name on the subject line.)
SEC/AAS regrets that it is unable to provide financial assistance to scholars from abroad.

 (Attention graduate students!): SEC/AAS will make available three grants of $200each to ease the cost of participation by graduate students presenting papers at the conference.  Indicate graduate student status and whether you would like to be considered for an award along with your personal information (from the text box, below) when submitting your proposal to the program chair.
Preference in the awards will be given to graduate students traveling from beyond the immediate region of the conference location. Graduate students should also consider entering their papers in the SEC graduate prize competition; the winner has a chance of appearing on a panel at the 2016 AAS national meeting.

All paper/panel submissions should include the following information for all presenters, chairs, and discussants:
  • Name of the presenter
  • Position/title/affiliation
  • Regional and discipline specializations
  • E-mail and mailing address
  • Home and office phone & fax numbers
  • Also, graduate students who wish to be considered for the SEC/AAS travel grants (above) should so indicate.

I.  INDIVIDUAL PAPER proposals should also include the following:
Personal information (from text box), title of paper, region and discipline of the paper, a 200- to 250-word abstract or summary of the paper, and any audiovisual (AV) or other equipment required for the presentation of the paper. (Please note that equipment requests may only be acted upon if submitted along with the paper proposal.  Satisfying equipment needs at the last minute may not be possible).

II.  PANEL/ROUNDTABLE proposals should also include the following:
Name of panel organizer or chair (and personal information, in text box); panel title, summary of panel, including discipline and region; names of panel presenters (along required personal information, from text box); for each paper: paper titles and 200- to 250-word abstracts or summaries; name of discussant or chair (along with personal information); a statement as to whether each panelist/discussant/chair has agreed to participate; AV or other equipment required for presentations.
(Note that equipment requests may only be acted upon if submitted along with proposals.  Satisfying equipment needs at the last minute may not be possible).

III.  DISCUSSANT/CHAIR: Those interested in volunteering to serve as a discussant or a chair for panels put together from individual papers should include their personal information (as above) and their area(s) of expertise.

IV.  OUTREACH SESSION:  Those interested in offering a Teaching Methods & Materials Outreach Session should include personal information for each presenter (as above) and indicate the topic, target audience, time requirements, and AV needs.

Monday, October 6, 2014

CFPapers: Special Issue: Southeast Asia in the Humanities and Social Science Curricula


Association of Asian Studies
Education About Asia

EAA seeks submissions for a special section to be published in spring 2015 entitled "Southeast Asia in the Humanities and Social Sciences Curricula," with a particular interest in obtaining feature-length manuscripts and teaching resources essays onSingapore, Indonesia, and Malaysia. Manuscripts selected for publication should be written in prose that is accessible for high school and/or undergraduate instructors and students. The number of endnotes in manuscripts should be minimal. EAA is especially appreciative of manuscripts that are potentially useful at both the undergraduate and secondary school levels. Please consult the EAA website www.asian-studies.org/EAA/Themes.htm for information on guidelines etc. Prospective authors are encouraged to send manuscript ideas or questions to the editor, Lucien Ellington, via email at l-ellington@comcast.net. The deadline for initial submission of manuscripts is November 20, 2014.

CFP: Changing Asia in the Globalized World: Boundaries, Identity, and Transnationalism


York Centre for Asian Research (YCAR) Third International Graduate Student Conference
May 1-2, 2015
York University
Glendon Campus, Toronto, Canada

The concept of “Asia” implies a fixed geographical, demographic, economic, political, and cultural region. However, viewed from multiple perspectives, its “essence” becomes indeterminate and boundaries fuzzy. From colonization to decolonization, from military invasion to cultural inter-penetration, from international power struggle to regional association, Asia and Asian Diasporas are affected by and affecting globalization in various ways.

Interested participants should submit by email a paper title, abstract with keywords (250 words maximum) along with brief biographical information (name, affiliation, stage of graduate study) by November 1, 2014. Please email submissions to the conference organizers at: ycargrst@yorku.ca. More information about the conference can be found on the web site:ycar.apps01.yorku.ca/events/ycar-graduate-student-conference-2015/.