CFP, IGHSC 2017 “Crossing Borders, Challenging Boundaries”
Olaus Magnus, Carta marina, 1539. (reprint, 1962 Från Schweiz), Uppsala universitetsbibliotek förvärvade, Sweden.
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Member book: Malik, Pashtun Identity and Geo-politics in Southwest Asia: Pakistan and Afghanistan since 9/11
My new book, Pashtun Identity and Geopolitics in Southwest Asia: Pakistan and Afghanistan since 9/11, has just been published by Anthem in London (2016). Based on archival research at the British Library, Bodleian and in South and Central Asia besides interviews in Britain, United States, Brussels, and the Sub-continent, this volume reviews the various hypotheses about Pashtuns (Pathans) varying from their Semitic origins to Aryan roots.
Symposium, The Everyday Politics of Digital Life in China at the University of Pittsburgh (Oct 7-8)
The Asian Studies Center at the University of Pittsburgh announces a symposium on "The Everyday Politics of Digital Life in China."
CFP Social Policies and the Welfare State in the Global South in the 19th and 20th century
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October 31, 2016
Position, Assistant Professor, History of Modern Japan and East Asia, Kyushu University
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Kyushu University, Faculty of Social and Cultural Studies
Assistant Professor, History of Modern Japan and East Asia
The Faculty of Social and Cultural Studies, Kyushu University, seeks applicants for the following faculty position:
1. Title: One full-time position for Assistant Professor
2. Field: History of Modern Japan and East Asia
Position, Instructor, Chinese Applied Linguistics, University of British Columbia
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University of British Columbia, Asian Studies
Chinese Applied Linguistics Instructor
The Department of Asian Studies, at The University of British Columbia, Vancouver campus seeks to make a full-time appointment in the field of Chinese Applied Linguistics at the rank of Instructor, tenure-track, with responsibility for teaching as well as coordinating portions of the Chinese-language program, the largest of its kind in North America.
Position,Instructor, Japanese Applied Linguistics, University of British Columbia
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University of British Columbia, Asian Studies
Japanese Applied Linguistics Instructor
CFP Asian Popular Culture / The Asian American Experience Southwest Popular / American Culture Association (SWPACA)
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November 1, 2016
CFP Asian Popular Culture / The Asian American Experience Southwest Popular / American Culture Association (SWPACA)
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CONF, East Asia as Method: Culture, Knowledge, Space, October 7-8, UC Berkeley
East Asia as Method: Culture, Knowledge, Space
Conference/Symposium | October 7 – 8, 2016 | 9 a.m.-6 p.m.
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Recent Reviews
Reviewer:
Kate Imy
Imy on Prenderghast, 'Britain and the Wars in Vietnam: The Supply of Troops, Arms and Intelligence, 1945-1975'
Gerald Prenderghast. Britain and the Wars in Vietnam: The Supply of Troops, Arms and Intelligence, 1945-1975. Jefferson: McFarland, 2015. 328 pp. $49.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-7864-9924-3.
Reviewed by Kate Imy (Rutgers)
Published on H-Asia (September, 2016)
Commissioned by Sumit Guha
Reviewer:
John Nelson
Nelson on Takenaka, 'Yasukuni Shrine: History, Memory, and Japan's Unending Postwar'
Akiko Takenaka. Yasukuni Shrine: History, Memory, and Japan's Unending Postwar. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2015. 287 pp. $57.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8248-4678-7.
Reviewed by John Nelson
Published on H-Asia (August, 2016)
Commissioned by Douglas Slaymaker
Reviewer:
Usha Sanyal
Sanyal on Gupta, 'Education, Poverty and Gender: Schooling Muslim Girls in India'
Latika Gupta. Education, Poverty and Gender: Schooling Muslim Girls in India. Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge, 2015. 206 pp. $160.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-138-90084-4.
Reviewed by Usha Sanyal (Queens University of Charlotte)
Published on H-Asia (August, 2016)
Commissioned by Sumit Guha
Schooling Muslim Girls
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CFP, IGHSC 2017 “Crossing Borders, Challenging Boundaries”
Olaus Magnus, Carta marina, 1539. (reprint, 1962 Från Schweiz), Uppsala universitetsbibliotek förvärvade, Sweden.
Member book: Malik, Pashtun Identity and Geo-politics in Southwest Asia: Pakistan and Afghanistan since 9/11
My new book, Pashtun Identity and Geopolitics in Southwest Asia: Pakistan and Afghanistan since 9/11, has just been published by Anthem in London (2016). Based on archival research at the British Library, Bodleian and in South and Central Asia besides interviews in Britain, United States, Brussels, and the Sub-continent, this volume reviews the various hypotheses about Pashtuns (Pathans) varying from their Semitic origins to Aryan roots.
Symposium, The Everyday Politics of Digital Life in China at the University of Pittsburgh (Oct 7-8)
The Asian Studies Center at the University of Pittsburgh announces a symposium on "The Everyday Politics of Digital Life in China."
CFP Social Policies and the Welfare State in the Global South in the 19th and 20th century
Your network editor has reposted this from H-Announce. The byline reflects the original authorship.
Type:
Conference
Date:
October 31, 2016
Position, Assistant Professor, History of Modern Japan and East Asia, Kyushu University
For details, see https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=53671
Kyushu University, Faculty of Social and Cultural Studies
Assistant Professor, History of Modern Japan and East Asia
The Faculty of Social and Cultural Studies, Kyushu University, seeks applicants for the following faculty position:
1. Title: One full-time position for Assistant Professor
2. Field: History of Modern Japan and East Asia