6th Biennial Graduate Texas Asia Conference - 2019
CALL FOR PAPERS
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Two new essays on Thích Nhất Hạnh
I would like to announce two new essays on Thích Nhất Hạnh.
"Thích Nhất Hạnh’s Propagation of Mindfulness in the West," in
CFP: The Vietnam Studies Group 2020 Graduate Paper Prize Competition
Deadline: Friday, July 19, 2019
Relocating Governance in Asia: state and society in South- and Southeast Asia, c. 1800-2000
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January 22, 2020 to January 24, 2020
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Call for Contributions: Virtual Workshop 'ASIA.LIVE: Locating Livestreaming in Asia'
List members may be interested in the following upcoming event, for which we are inviting audiovisual submissions, with the option for contributors to later also submit accompanying research articles for publication.
Hosts: Leiden University, the Leiden Asia Centre, and Asiascape: Digital Asia.
Organisers: Florian Schneider, Dino Ge Zhang, Gabriele de Seta.
Date: 13 September 2019
Abstract Deadline: 20 June 2019
Latest issue Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology (20/3 June 2019) now online
The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology
Volume 20 Issue 3 (June 2019)
New Book, Caumanns, Sernesi, and Solmsdorf (eds), Unearthing Himalayan Treasures, Festschrift for Franz-Karl Ehrhard
Poted on behalf of Dr. Marti Sernesi
Dear colleagues,
I am very glad to announce the publication of the felicitation volume in honour of Professor Franz-Karl Ehrhard:
Unearthing Himalayan Treasures: Festschrift for Franz-Karl Ehrhard. Edited by Volker Caumanns, Marta Sernesi, and Nikolai Solmsdorf. Marburg: Indica et Tibetica Verlag, 2019. xxiv, 488 pp. ISBN 978-3-923776-62-7.
The volume includes twenty-six contributions on the religious and literary traditions of Tibet and the Himalayas: please see the table of contents below.
435: the updated count of ethnic-minority intellectuals in Xinjiang now in mass detention
Today the Uyghur Human Rights Project updated its count of confirmed detentions/forced disappearances of ethnic-minority intellectuals (artists, authors, academics etc.), a key part of Chinese authorities' forced-assimilation campaign targeting the ethnic minorities of Xinjiang, western China, including with mass internments in concentration camps, mass surveillance, blanket criminalization of everyday religious practices, forced marriages, and more.
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S. Akbar Zaidi
Zaidi on Hyder and Bhagavan, 'Hidden Histories'
Syed Akbar Hyder, Bhagavan,Manu (eds.). Hidden Histories. New Delhi: Primus Books, 2018. 328 pp. $64.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-93-8655284-6.
Reviewed by S. Akbar Zaidi (Columbia University) Published on H-Asia (April, 2019) Commissioned by Sumit Guha (The University of Texas at Austin)
Printable Version: http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showpdf.php?id=53364
Reviewer:
Shrabani Basu
Basu on Das, 'India, Empire, and First World War Culture: Writings, Images, and Songs'
Santanu Das. India, Empire, and First World War Culture: Writings, Images, and Songs. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018. xxiii + 466 pp. $27.99 (paper), ISBN 978-1-107-44159-0.
Reviewed by Shrabani Basu (Historian and journalist) Published on H-Asia (April, 2019) Commissioned by Sumit Guha (The University of Texas at Austin)
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Swami Narasimhananda
Narasimhananda on Sathaye, 'Crossing the Lines of Caste: Visvamitra and the Construction of Brahmin Power in Hindu Mythology'
Adheesh A. Sathaye. Crossing the Lines of Caste: Visvamitra and the Construction of Brahmin Power in Hindu Mythology. New York: Oxford University Press, 2015. 336 pp. $36.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-19-934111-5.
Reviewed by Swami Narasimhananda (Prabuddha Bharata) Published on H-Asia (March, 2019) Commissioned by Sumit Guha (The University of Texas at Austin)
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6th Biennial Graduate Texas Asia Conference - 2019
CALL FOR PAPERS
Two new essays on Thích Nhất Hạnh
I would like to announce two new essays on Thích Nhất Hạnh.
"Thích Nhất Hạnh’s Propagation of Mindfulness in the West," in
CFP: The Vietnam Studies Group 2020 Graduate Paper Prize Competition
Deadline: Friday, July 19, 2019
Relocating Governance in Asia: state and society in South- and Southeast Asia, c. 1800-2000
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Type:
Call for Papers
Date:
January 22, 2020 to January 24, 2020
H-Net This Week - Double Edition (Roundup from around the Commons for May 3 - 16, 2019)
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