Welcome to H-Asia, a member of H-Net Humanities & Social Sciences Online. The primary purpose of H-ASIA is to enable historians and other Asia scholars to easily communicate current research and teaching interests; to discuss new articles, books, papers, approaches, methods and tools of analysis; to test new ideas and share comments and tips on teaching. H-Asia is especially committed to discussing region wide, comparative and professional issues important to scholars of Asia.
Selected from: H-Net Reviews <hbooks@mail.h-net.msu.edu>
Reviewed for H-Buddhism by Franz A. Metcalf
Wilson, Jeff. _Mindful America: The Mutual Transformation of
Buddhist Meditation and American Culture_. Oxford: Oxford
University Press, 2014. 287 pp. $30.00, ISBN 978-0-19-982781-7.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=42265
Collaborative East Aian Lit Panel (non-guaranteed):
Translation as Method in East Asia
Papers engaging translation to approach literary and socio-cultural phenomena in East Asia. 300-word abstract and CV by March 15, 2015; Heekyoung Cho (hchohcho@uw.edu)
The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology
Issue 16/2 April 2015
http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rtap20/current#
Special Issue: Paradise Contested: Culture, Politics and Changing Land and Water Use in Bali
INTRODUCTION
Paradise Contested: Culture, Politics and Changing Land and Water Use in Bali
Rachel P. Lorenzen & Dik Roth
Original Articles
Global Environmental Histories from Below
Call for Papers
Special Issue of
Resilience: A Journal of the Environmental Humanities
http://www.resiliencejournal.org
Robert Morrissey and Roderick Wilson, editors
Call for Papers
Uberoi Seminar at Shawnee State University, OHIO, USA
Early Bird Registration is now open for the Asian Studies Conference Japan (ASCJ) to be held on June 20-21 at Meiji Gakuin University in Tokyo, Japan. It will remain open until April 20. Please go to the ASCJ webpage (http://www.meijigakuin.ac.jp/~ascj/index.html) for instructions on how to register. Accepted panelists are required to register by April 20 to be included in the program.
Please address any questions to me at <ascj20xx@gmail.com>.
This meeting now has an assigned room for the EMJNet meeting, Columbus A.
See you there!
From H-Net Job Guide https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=50624
GIGA German Institute of Global and Area Studies
Research Fellow
Institution Type: Other
Location: Germany
Position: Research Professional, Temporary
CALL FOR PAPERS:
Interrogating the In-between: UNSW Humanities and Languages Postgraduate Research Conference 2015
School of Humanities and Languages, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
University of New South Wales, Sydney
Friday June 12th 2015
For full details, see H-Net Announcements: http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=220679
One-Day Seminar on Marquez and Literatures from India by Department of Comparative Literature
Location: India
Call for Papers Date: 2015-03-02 (in 2 days)
Date Submitted: 2015-02-24
Announcement ID: 220679
Marquez and Literatures from India on 25th March [Wed], 2015
Sunila S. Kale. Electrifying India: Regional Political Economies of Development. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2014. 264 pp. $45.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8047-8796-3.
Reviewed by Sudha Mahalingam (Member, Petroleum and Natural Gas Regulatory Board, India Retd.)
Published on H-Asia (February, 2015)
Commissioned by Sumit Guha
Electricity Policy in India
Ananya Vajpeyi. Righteous Republic: The Political Foundations of Modern India. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2012. 368 pp. $39.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-674-04895-9.
Reviewed by Dilip Menon (University of Witwatersrand)
Published on H-Asia (February, 2015)
Commissioned by Sumit Guha
Sugawara no Takasue no Musume. The Sarashina Diary: A Woman's Life in Eleventh-Century Japan. Translated, with an introduction, by Sonja Arntzen and Ito Moriyuki. Translations from the Asian Classics Series. New York: Columbia University Press, 2014. Illustrations, maps. 322 pp. $40.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-231-16718-5; $39.99 (e-book), ISBN 978-0-231-53745-2.
Selected from: H-Net Reviews <hbooks@mail.h-net.msu.edu>
Reviewed for H-Buddhism by Franz A. Metcalf
Wilson, Jeff. _Mindful America: The Mutual Transformation of
Buddhist Meditation and American Culture_. Oxford: Oxford
University Press, 2014. 287 pp. $30.00, ISBN 978-0-19-982781-7.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.php?id=42265
Collaborative East Aian Lit Panel (non-guaranteed):
Translation as Method in East Asia
Papers engaging translation to approach literary and socio-cultural phenomena in East Asia. 300-word abstract and CV by March 15, 2015; Heekyoung Cho (hchohcho@uw.edu)
The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology
Issue 16/2 April 2015
http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rtap20/current#
Special Issue: Paradise Contested: Culture, Politics and Changing Land and Water Use in Bali
INTRODUCTION
Paradise Contested: Culture, Politics and Changing Land and Water Use in Bali
Rachel P. Lorenzen & Dik Roth
Original Articles
Global Environmental Histories from Below
Call for Papers
Special Issue of
Resilience: A Journal of the Environmental Humanities
http://www.resiliencejournal.org
Robert Morrissey and Roderick Wilson, editors
Call for Papers
Uberoi Seminar at Shawnee State University, OHIO, USA
