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PhD fellowship: Corporate Buddhism (University of Copenhagen)

Seeking PhD-fellow
3-year PhD-scholarship is available in connection with the interdisciplinary research project Buddhism, Business and Believers at the University of Copenhagen. The topic of the PhD-project is “Corporate Buddhism – Secularized Buddhist practices and value creation in the corporate world”. The application deadline is the 24th of November. For more details on the position, see: http://jobportal.ku.dk/phd/?show=764921 

Position, Professorship in Modern Asian History, National University of Singapore

For full details, see: https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=51384

The George E. Bogaars Professorship in History

The Department of History at the National University of Singapore (NUS) will make a tenured appointment at the senior Professorial level in Modern Asian History.

Position, Chair in US International Relations, San Diego State University

For full details, see: https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=51459

San Diego State University, History Department
Dwight E. Stanford Chair in US International Relations

The Department seeks to hire a tenured associate or full professor in the history of U.S. International Relations in the 20th and 21st centuries with a preference for a specialist in the history of U.S. International Relations in the Pacific Rim.

Position, Assistant Professor of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, College of William and Mary

For full details, see: https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=51475

The Asian and Middle Eastern Studies (AMES) Program at the College of William and Mary seeks applications for a tenure-track position at the Assistant Professor level. The successful applicant will be jointly appointed in a home department and AMES. AMES is a concentration within the interdisciplinary major of Global Studies, and is supported by 32 faculty affiliates from eleven departments.

TOC : Pacific Affairs, vol. 88, no. 3 - Special Issue on Flooding in Asia's Urban Transition

Announcing the publication of the latest issue of Pacific Affairs (Volume 88, No 3, September 2015).  

http://www.pacificaffairs.ubc.ca/current-issue-2/

 

Special Issue: Governing Flooding in Asia’s Urban Transition

Guest Editors: Michelle Ann Miller and Mike Douglass

 

Introduction: Governing Flooding Asia's Urban Transition

CFP: Utopia Before Capitalism: Perfect Worlds in Religious Imaginations

Dear Colleagues,

Please consider submitting an abstract to a proposed seminar on religious utopias for the American Comparative Literature Association's conference at Harvard University on March 17-20, 2016. Description is below. The submission deadline is September 23, 2015.

Utopia Before Capitalism: Perfect Worlds in Religious Imaginations

Organizers: Ryan Jones (McGill University) and Ben Van Overmeire (University of California, San Diego)

CFP: "Visions of progress, voices of dissent: the emergence, development and early reception of modern South Asian theatres", Panel for ECSAS 2016, Warsaw

Papers are invited for the panel entitled “Visions of progress, voices of dissent: the emergence, development and early reception of modern South Asian theatres” at the 24th European Conference on South Asian Studies (ECSAS) to take place at the University of Warsaw, Poland, 27-30 July 2016.

Pages

Recent Reviews

Author: 
Hui Faye Xiao
Reviewer: 
Ping Zhu

Zhu on Xiao, 'Family Revolution: Marital Strife in Contemporary Chinese Literature and Visual Culture'


Hui Faye Xiao. Family Revolution: Marital Strife in Contemporary Chinese Literature and Visual Culture. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2014. 224 pp. $75.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-295-99349-2; $30.00 (paper), ISBN 978-0-295-99350-8.

Reviewed by Ping Zhu (University of Oklahoma)
Published on H-Asia (August, 2015)
Commissioned by Douglas Slaymaker

Author: 
Kim M. Phillips
Reviewer: 
Liam M. Brockey

Brockey on Phillips, 'Before Orientalism: Asian Peoples and Cultures in European Travel Writing, 1245-1510'


Kim M. Phillips. Before Orientalism: Asian Peoples and Cultures in European Travel Writing, 1245-1510. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014. 328 pp. $79.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8122-4548-6.

Reviewed by Liam M. Brockey (Michigan State University)
Published on H-Asia (August, 2015)
Commissioned by Sumit Guha

Brockey on Before Orientalism

Author: 
Catherine Becker
Reviewer: 
Padma Kaimal

Kaimal on Becker, 'Shifting Stones, Shaping the Past: Sculpture from the Buddhist Stupas of Andhra Pradesh'


Catherine Becker. Shifting Stones, Shaping the Past: Sculpture from the Buddhist Stupas of Andhra Pradesh. New York: Oxford University Press, 2014. 352 pp. $99.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-19-935939-4; $35.00 (paper), ISBN 978-0-19-935940-0.

Reviewed by Padma Kaimal (Colgate University)
Published on H-Asia (August, 2015)
Commissioned by Sumit Guha

Buddhist Stupas in Andhra

Recent Threads

PhD fellowship: Corporate Buddhism (University of Copenhagen)

Seeking PhD-fellow
3-year PhD-scholarship is available in connection with the interdisciplinary research project Buddhism, Business and Believers at the University of Copenhagen. The topic of the PhD-project is “Corporate Buddhism – Secularized Buddhist practices and value creation in the corporate world”. The application deadline is the 24th of November. For more details on the position, see: http://jobportal.ku.dk/phd/?show=764921 

Position, Professorship in Modern Asian History, National University of Singapore

For full details, see: https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=51384

The George E. Bogaars Professorship in History

The Department of History at the National University of Singapore (NUS) will make a tenured appointment at the senior Professorial level in Modern Asian History.

Position, Chair in US International Relations, San Diego State University

For full details, see: https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=51459

San Diego State University, History Department
Dwight E. Stanford Chair in US International Relations

The Department seeks to hire a tenured associate or full professor in the history of U.S. International Relations in the 20th and 21st centuries with a preference for a specialist in the history of U.S. International Relations in the Pacific Rim.

Position, Assistant Professor of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, College of William and Mary

For full details, see: https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=51475

The Asian and Middle Eastern Studies (AMES) Program at the College of William and Mary seeks applications for a tenure-track position at the Assistant Professor level. The successful applicant will be jointly appointed in a home department and AMES. AMES is a concentration within the interdisciplinary major of Global Studies, and is supported by 32 faculty affiliates from eleven departments.