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Two Japan Studies Association Workshops: (1) Freeman Foundation Summer Institute on Japan: May 25 June 12, 2015 - (2) Remembering Hiroshima-Nagasaki 1945-2014: June 28 - July 5, 2015
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Two Japan Studies Association Workshops Freeman Foundation Summer Institute on Japan: May 25 – June 12, 2015 |
Lecture - March 14, 2015 - 'Tokyo Void: Possibilities in Absence' by Dr Heike Rahmann (RMIT University)
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Public lecture: 'Tokyo Void: Possibilities in Absence' by Dr Heike Rahmann (RMIT University)
CFP - Conference: Sant-Mahatmachi Bhumi - Histories of interactions, Connections and Subjectivities in Aurangabad Region
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Rural South Asian Studies & Aurangabad History Society
CFP Deadline Extended - 4th International Congress of Bengal Studies, Tokyo U. - 30th April, 2015
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4th International Congress of Bengal Studies |
CFP Deadline Extended - 4th International Congress of Bengal Studies, Tokyo U. - 30th April, 2015
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4th International Congress of Bengal Studies |
Volume 42.2 (2014) of the Journal of Chinese Religions is now available
Volume 42.2 (2014) of the Journal of Chinese Religions is now available in print, and online at http://www.maneyonline.com/loi/jcr. It contains two research articles and seventeen book reviews.
Research Articles:
"Healing Breaths and Rotting Bones: On the Relationship between Buddhist and Chinese Meditation Practices during the Eastern Han and Three Kingdoms Period," by Eric M. Greene
"Spirits and the Soul in Confucian Ritual Discourse," by Thomas Wilson
TOC - Journal of Contemporary China - Volume 24, Issue 92, March 2015
The March 2015 issue of the Journal of Contemporary China (JCC) is now available online.
If the library of your institution subscribes to the JCC, you can view the full text of the article and others online at: http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/cjcc20/current
For your convenience, below is the Table of Contents of the March 2015 issue of the Journal of Contemporary China.
TOC Pacific Affairs March 2015
Feelings of Home Amongst Tamil Migrant Workers in Singapore’s Little India
Wajihah Hamid, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Keywords: Tamil migrant workers, Singapore, Little India, transnational home, policing, governmentality
Pages
Recent Reviews
Mahalingam on Kale, 'Electrifying India: Regional Political Economies of Development'
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
Menon on Vajpeyi, 'Righteous Republic: The Political Foundations of Modern 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
Chance on Sugawara no Takasue no Musume, 'The Sarashina Diary: A Woman's Life in Eleventh-Century Japan'
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.
Recent Threads
Two Japan Studies Association Workshops: (1) Freeman Foundation Summer Institute on Japan: May 25 June 12, 2015 - (2) Remembering Hiroshima-Nagasaki 1945-2014: June 28 - July 5, 2015
From H-Net Announcements: http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=220910
Two Japan Studies Association Workshops Freeman Foundation Summer Institute on Japan: May 25 – June 12, 2015 |
Lecture - March 14, 2015 - 'Tokyo Void: Possibilities in Absence' by Dr Heike Rahmann (RMIT University)
From H-Net Announcements: http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=220729
Public lecture: 'Tokyo Void: Possibilities in Absence' by Dr Heike Rahmann (RMIT University)
CFP - Conference: Sant-Mahatmachi Bhumi - Histories of interactions, Connections and Subjectivities in Aurangabad Region
From H-Net Announcements: http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=220826
Rural South Asian Studies & Aurangabad History Society