A clearinghouse of information on Southeast Asian studies, including conference announcements, prizes, and events postings.
Tuesday, March 22, 2016
Monday, March 21, 2016
Call For Papers - Reframing Asian Popular Music in Time-Place
December 11 - 12, 2016
Monash Asia Institute
Melbourne, Australia
Deadline: May 15, 2016
Web announcement: interasiapop.org/
The organizers propose a rethinking of the existing way of addressing Asian pop in terms of nationality and/or ethnicity, with a research agendum of "Asian pop in particular time and place" presented instead. Here, Asian pop will appear in the form of, say, '1920s Osaka', '1940s Shanghai', '1950s Bangkok', '1970s Manila', '1980s Beijing', '1990s Tainan', '2000s Bandung' rather than the classification of K-pop, J-pop, Canto-pop and so on. Any paper that examines popular music's contribution to construction of life (and death) of people in a particular time-place will be welcomed.
Call For Papers - Imagining Asia(s): Networks, Actors, Sites
October 10 - 11, 2016
ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute, Singapore
Deadline: April 1, 2016
Web announcement: www.iseas.edu.sg/centres/
This conference seeks to map critically the configuration of contact zones in which mobile bodies, minds, and cultures interact to foster new images, identities, and imaginations of Asia. Convened by ISEAS and Nalanda University.
Symposium on Indonesian Language Teaching
Friday, April 1, 2016
1:00 p.m. - 4:45 p.m.
University of Washington, Thomson Hall, Room #317
Seattle, WA 98195
https://www.washington.edu/
Free and open to the public.
1:00 p.m. - 4:45 p.m.
University of Washington, Thomson Hall, Room #317
Seattle, WA 98195
https://www.washington.edu/
Free and open to the public.
Sponsored by the Consortium for the Teaching of Indonesian (COTI), the symposium will include papers on:
· Content Based-Instruction in Indonesian Classroom
· Curriculum Development: The Importance of the Balance between Language, Culture, and Communication
· Indonesian Jump Started Course
· Jatuh Bangun: Lessons (not) Learned from Growing a Language Program
· Who are the Native Speakers of Indonesian?
· Common Grammatical Errors by Intermediate High Level Students at the DLI Monterey
· Challenges in Moving up to High Advanced Proficiency level: Frequently Uncorrected Learners Errors
Conference Announcement - Making Southeast Asian Cultures: From Region to World
UC Berkeley-UCLA Southeast Asian Studies Conference
April 22-23, 2016
UC Berkeley
Free and open to the public.
Web announcement with full program cseas.berkeley.edu/making-
The conference seeks to understand the production of Southeast Asian cultures by drawing on different humanities and social science disciplines such as art history, film and visual studies, literary studies, music, anthropology, history, geography, architecture and urban studies. By self-consciously adopting a world perspective and transnational frame in the study of Southeast Asia, the conference hopes to correct the normative Eurocentrism of the disciplines, their methodological nationalism, and the relative undertheorizing of Southeast Asia in Asian studies.
Professional Position: Program Officer for Indonesia and Timor-Leste World Education
Deadline: March 27, 2016
World Education is seeking a Program Officer to provide administrative, financial and technical backstopping support to projects in Indonesia and Timor-Leste. The position is based at World Education headquarters in Boston with travel to Asia.
5th Annual IPSA-NUS Summer School for Social Science Research Methods, July 4-15, 2016
The 5th Annual IPSA-NUS Summer School for Social Science Research Methods will be held at the National University of Singapore, July 4-15, 2016.
This year's Methods School offers 15 quantitative, qualitative, and formal methods courses, such as Bayesian Analysis, Case Study Analysis, Data Visualization, Experimental Methods, Game Theory, Mixed Methods, Network Analysis, and Quantitative Text Analysis. All courses are taught by highly experienced international faculty and provide participants with rigorous, hands-on training in state-of-the-art research methods.
For more information on the various Methods School courses and instructors, early registration discounts, and more, visit our website (http://methods-school.nus.
Friday, March 18, 2016
Call for Papers: Midwest Conference on Asian Affairs 2016
CALL FOR PAPERS: MCAA Conference 2016
The Center for East Asian and Pacific Studies at University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign is pleased to host the 65th Annual Meeting of the Midwest Conference on Asian Affairs, October 14-16, 2016. The MCAA seeks to promote Asian studies both at the university level as well as at the secondary and primary levels. Our primary mission is to encourage scholarly interchange between Asianists located in the Midwest, though scholars from all regions are invited to participate.
We welcome proposals for panels, roundtables, individual papers, and “diamond presentations” in all disciplinary fields dealing with China and Inner Asia, Northeast Asia, South Asia, Southeast Asia, the Asian Diaspora, and topical and comparative panels. Faculty, graduate and undergraduate students, and independent scholars are encouraged to participate and attend.
Proposals are due March 31, 2016. Reviews of proposals will begin in April, and you will be contacted of the results by May 1, 2016, if not sooner. Persons presenting papers must be members of MCAA and must pre-register by May 31, 2016 in order to be included in the conference.
The MCAA also awards a number of student prizes at the graduate and undergraduate level. More information about the deadlines for these prizes will be posted soon. Please keep an eye on the website.
For details on how to submit a proposal and for additional information about this meeting, please visit the 65th Annual MCAA website: http://www.eaps.illinois.edu/mcaa-2016/
Thursday, March 17, 2016
Monday, March 14, 2016
Digital Library of Northern Thai Manuscripts
The University of Pennsylvania and National Library of Laos have launched the Digital Library of Northern Thai Manuscripts at lannamanuscripts.net as a resource for the study of traditional literature from this region. At present, the digital library contains images of over 4,200 manuscripts which can be searched and viewed online or freely downloaded, and to which more manuscripts will be added.
The database contains four collections: digitized microfilms from the Preservation of Northern Thai Manuscripts Project (with permission of Chiang Mai University Library), digitized microfilms and also handwritten copied of manuscripts made in the early 1970s during research conducted by Harald Hundius, and directly-digitized manuscripts made during the current digital library project.
All digitization was funded by the German Federal Foreign Office, and the digital library project was funded by The Henry Luce Foundation, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the University of Pennsylvania Libraries and the School of Arts and Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania. The project was implemented by the National Library of Laos, based on the existing Digital Library of Lao Manuscripts (laomanuscripts.net).
We hope that the digital library will be a useful resource for the study of traditional literature from this region. In order to make it as widely available as possible, your assistance in announcing it through your own networks would be greatly appreciated. Feedback on the site is welcome.
Justin McDaniel (DLNTM Project Leader, University of Pennsylvania)
Harald Hundius (DLNTM Local Project Leader, National Library of Laos)
David Wharton (DLNTM Technical Director, National Library of Laos)
Call for Papers: Council on Thai Studies (COTS) 2016 meeting
Oct. 28 – 29, 2016
Northern Illinois University
Deadline: July 1, 2016
Web announcement: www.cseas.niu.edu/cseas/
Thursday, March 10, 2016
Monday, March 7, 2016
Call for Applications | Graduate Student Research Funding
Deadline: Thursday, 15 March 2016 (late applications will not be accepted)
The Urban Climate Change Resilience in Southeast Asia Partnership (UCRSEA) invites graduate students to apply for funding to carry out field or desk-based research related to urbanization and climate change resilience in Cambodia, Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam and/or Lao PDR. Preference will be given to applicants who apply to do research in one or more of the project’s secondary cities of focus: Koh Kong and Battambang, Cambodia; Dawei and Bago, Myanmar; Khon Kaen and Mukdahan, Thailand; and Lao Cai and Ninh Binh, Vietnam.
The UCRSEA partnership addresses vulnerabilities to climate change in urbanizing areas of Southeast Asia with the goal of enhancing resilience and, hence, economic and social well-being. The project is a collaboration between academics in Canada and partners located in Cambodia, Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam. Initiating partners include the Thailand Environmental Institute Foundation (TEI), the University of Toronto and York University.
Who is eligible to apply
To be eligible, you must meet all of the following requirements:
§ Be a graduate student (master’s or PhD level) enrolled at a tertiary institution in Canada OR a citizen of Cambodia, Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam or Lao PDR and enrolled at a tertiary institution in one of these countries.
§ Your proposed graduate research must meet UCRSEA’s research funding criteria, available here.
§ You must have an approved research proposal. Applications for exploratory fieldwork are not eligible.
§ You must not have previously received funding from UCRSEA for fieldwork.
Eligible expenses
Research grants can be applied towards costs associated with field research in partner countries, desk-based research in Canada or partner countries (e.g. GIS, policy research), and/or the dissemination of research findings. Research funds may not be used to fund applicants’ salaries, tuition fees or other training costs. Funding will normally range between $2,000 to $4,500 CAD.
Eligible expenses include:
§ Field research expenses such as travel, living expenses while conducting research, survey costs, equipment costs and honoraria for local research assistants
§ Expenses associated with presentations at conferences or other events, such as transportation, accommodation, meals, and conference registration fees
Other benefits for funding recipients
As a funding recipient, you will have the opportunity to benefit from the guidance of our partner institutions, and will also be invited to participate in a monthly Virtual Seminar series on urbanization and climate change with graduate students from across the world. You may also have the opportunity to participate in project workshops and/or other professional training.
How to apply
Please submit your application by e-mail to the Program Manager (Canada) at ucrsea@gmail.com with the subject line “UCRSEA – Application for Graduate Research Funding.”
Applications are due Tuesday, 15 March 2016 for research beginning in Spring or Summer 2016.
Your application should include:
1. Funding Application Form (Applicants in Canada) (Applicants in Southeast Asia) outlining your expenses and revenues from other sources.
2. Research Proposal (2 page max.), including:
§ A description of your research questions, conceptual framework, and methodology, illustrating how your project will contribute to the literature and its relevance to UCRSEA research questions and core principles;
§ A timeline of your research or dissemination activities, clearly specifying the period for which you are seeking funding; and
§ A list of any skills you expect to develop during your research or dissemination activities (language, GIS, interviewing, workshop facilitation, etc.)
3. Your CV
4. Academic transcripts containing all grades obtained during your current degree program to date (can be an unofficial copy)
Please submit documents 1 through 4 as one single electronic document (.docx, .doc, or .pdf format)
5. Letter of Reference
Each applicant should have their academic supervisor submit a letter directly to ucrsea@gmail.com that:
§ details the student’s research plan
§ attests to the accuracy of the submitted budget
§ confirms the status of the student’s research proposal
All applicants will be notified of the Selection Committee’s decision within two months of the deadline.
Please direct your questions to ucrsea@gmail.com
For more details, visit: http://
2016 Lee Kong Chian Research Fellowship, The National Library, Singapore
Deadline: April 30, 2016
Web announcement: http://www.nlb.gov.sg/Careers/
Web announcement: http://www.nlb.gov.sg/Careers/
This six-month fellowship aims to facilitate new research and publishing about Singapore and Southeast Asian culture, economy and heritage.
Call for Papers: Trans-Asia Human Mobilities and Encounters: Exchange, Commodification and Sustainability
January 23-24, 2017
Chulalongkorn University
Deadline: April 30, 2016
Organized by Monash Asia Institute, Monash University & Institute of Asian Studies, Chulalongkorn University
Web announcement: artsonline.monash.edu.au/mai/
While regional labor migration and human trafficking have been significant issues in Asia, this conference aims to critically examine other kinds of growing human mobility and encounter such as tourism, educational exchange and retiree temporary migration.
Universal Periodic Review in Southeast Asia: An Evidence-Based Regional Assessment
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Call for Applications | Graduate Student Research Funding
Deadline: Thursday, 15 March 2016 (late applications will not be accepted)
The Urban Climate Change Resilience in Southeast Asia Partnership (UCRSEA) invites graduate students to apply for funding to carry out field or desk-based research related to urbanization and climate change resilience in Cambodia, Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam and/or Lao PDR. Preference will be given to applicants who apply to do research in one or more of the project’s secondary cities of focus: Koh Kong and Battambang, Cambodia; Dawei and Bago, Myanmar; Khon Kaen and Mukdahan, Thailand; and Lao Cai and Ninh Binh, Vietnam.
The UCRSEA partnership addresses vulnerabilities to climate change in urbanizing areas of Southeast Asia with the goal of enhancing resilience and, hence, economic and social well-being. The project is a collaboration between academics in Canada and partners located in Cambodia, Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam. Initiating partners include the Thailand Environmental Institute Foundation (TEI), the University of Toronto and York University.
Who is eligible to apply
To be eligible, you must meet all of the following requirements:
- Be a graduate student (master’s or PhD level) enrolled at a tertiary institution in Canada OR a citizen of Cambodia, Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam or Lao PDR and enrolled at a tertiary institution in one of these countries.
- Your proposed graduate research must meet UCRSEA’s research funding criteria, available here.
- You must have an approved research proposal. Applications for exploratory fieldwork are not eligible.
- You must not have previously received funding from UCRSEA for fieldwork.
Eligible expenses
Research grants can be applied towards costs associated with field research in partner countries, desk-based research in Canada or partner countries (e.g. GIS, policy research), and/or the dissemination of research findings. Research funds may not be used to fund applicants’ salaries, tuition fees or other training costs. Funding will normally range between $2,000 to $4,500 CAD.
Eligible expenses include:
- Field research expenses such as travel, living expenses while conducting research, survey costs, equipment costs and honoraria for local research assistants
- Expenses associated with presentations at conferences or other events, such as transportation, accommodation, meals, and conference registration fees
Other benefits for funding recipients
As a funding recipient, you will have the opportunity to benefit from the guidance of our partner institutions, and will also be invited to participate in a monthly Virtual Seminar series on urbanization and climate change with graduate students from across the world. You may also have the opportunity to participate in project workshops and/or other professional training.
How to apply
Please submit your application by e-mail to the Program Manager (Canada) at ucrsea@gmail.com with the subject line “UCRSEA – Application for Graduate Research Funding.”
Applications are due Tuesday, 15 March 2016 for research beginning in Spring or Summer 2016.
Your application should include:
1. Funding Application Form (Applicants in Canada) (Applicants in Southeast Asia) outlining your expenses and revenues from other sources.
2. Research Proposal (2 page max.), including:
- A description of your research questions, conceptual framework, and methodology, illustrating how your project will contribute to the literature and its relevance to UCRSEA research questions and core principles;
- A timeline of your research or dissemination activities, clearly specifying the period for which you are seeking funding; and
- A list of any skills you expect to develop during your research or dissemination activities (language, GIS, interviewing, workshop facilitation, etc.)
3) Your CV
4) Academic transcripts containing all grades obtained during your current degree program to date (can be an unofficial copy)
Please submit documents 1 through 4 as one single electronic document (.docx, .doc, or .pdf format)
5. Letter of Reference
Each applicant should have their academic supervisor submit a letter directly to ucrsea@gmail.com that:
- details the student’s research plan
- attests to the accuracy of the submitted budget
- confirms the status of the student’s research proposal
All applicants will be notified of the Selection Committee’s decision within two months of the deadline.
Please direct your questions to ucrsea@gmail.com
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