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Position, Assistant Professor of Japanese (3-year term), Grinnell College
For details, see https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=57406
GRINNELL COLLEGE. The Department of Chinese and Japanese invites applications for a three-year appointment in Japanese beginning Fall 2019. Assistant Professor (Ph.D.) preferred; Instructor (ABD) or Associate Professor possible. Research and teaching interests might include, but are not limited to: Japanese Language at all levels, Japanese Literature and Culture, Japanese Linguistics, Japanese Pedagogy, or Second Language Acquisition.
TOC, Pacific Affairs, Vol. 91, No. 3 (September 2018)
We are pleased to announce the publication of the latest issue of Pacific Affairs (Volume 91, No. 3, September 2018)
PERSPECTIVES
Call for Sessions: RC21 Urban Conference at Delhi
RC21 Urban Conference at Delhi
September 18th – 21st , 2019
In and Beyond the City: Emerging Ontologies, Persistent Challenges and Hopeful Futures
Across the globe, cities surpass their own contours. Urban cores expand and intensify in size and height, and we see connectivities, nodes and enclaves involving new technologies, information flows, migrations, time/space compressions and everyday rhythms and experiences that defy known cartographies and categories.
Dissertation Planning Grants for Sri Lanka
The American Institute for Sri Lankan Studies (AISLS) announces the continuation of its annual competition for dissertation planning grants. Applicants must be graduate students enrolled at a US university. AISLS dissertation planning grants enable graduate students in the humanities and social sciences who intend to do dissertation research in Sri Lanka to make a six to eight week pre-dissertation visit to investigate the feasibility of their topic, to sharpen their research design, or to make other practical arrangements for future research. The grant is especially int
Fellowships for Research in Sri Lanka
The American Institute for Sri Lankan Studies (AISLS) announces the continuation of its fellowship program. AISLS fellowships support two to six months of research in Sri Lanka by scholars who already hold a PhD or the equivalent at the time they begin their fellowship tenure. Projects may be broken up into two or more visits, but only one return airfare will be provided. Proposals in all fields in the social sciences and humanities are eligible. Projects in other areas (e.g.
Position, Postdoctoral Fellowship, Center for Chinese Studies, University of California - Berkeley
For details, see https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=57139
The Center for Chinese Studies at UC Berkeley is pleased to invite applications for a one-year fulltime postdoctoral fellowship. The term of the appointment is August 1, 2019 to July 31, 2020. The deadline to apply is January 31, 2019.
Call for Graduate Applications: University of Colorado Boulder Graduate Degrees in Chinese & Japanese (MA and PhD)
Celebrating a history of over 30 years, the Department of Asian Languages and Civilizations
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Recent Reviews
Davis on Veluthat, 'Notes of Dissent: Essays on Indian History'
Kesavan Veluthat. Notes of Dissent: Essays on Indian History. New Delhi: Primus Books, 2018. 214 pp. $54.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-93-8655270-9.
Reviewed by Donald Davis (University of Texas at Austin) Published on H-Asia (August, 2018) Commissioned by Sumit Guha (The University of Texas at Austin)
Printable Version: http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showpdf.php?id=52450
Damodaran on Ramesh, 'Indira Gandhi: A Life in Nature.'
Jairam Ramesh. Indira Gandhi: A Life in Nature. New Delhi: Simon & Schuster, 2017. 464 pp. $28.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-81-933552-4-4.
Reviewed by Vinita Damodaran (University of Sussex) Published on H-Asia (August, 2018) Commissioned by Sumit Guha (The University of Texas at Austin)
Printable Version: http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showpdf.php?id=50474
Bachulska on Wardęga, 'China–Central and Eastern Europe Cross-Cultural Dialogue: Society, Business and Education in Transition'
Joanna Wardęga, ed. China–Central and Eastern Europe Cross-Cultural Dialogue: Society, Business and Education in Transition. Chinskie Drogi Series. Krakow: Jagiellonian University Press, 2017. 456 pp. $55.00 (paper), ISBN 978-83-233-4111-6.
Reviewed by Alicja Bachulska (War Studies University) Published on H-Asia (July, 2018) Commissioned by Sumit Guha (The University of Texas at Austin)
Recent Threads
Position, Assistant Professor of Japanese (3-year term), Grinnell College
For details, see https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=57406
GRINNELL COLLEGE. The Department of Chinese and Japanese invites applications for a three-year appointment in Japanese beginning Fall 2019. Assistant Professor (Ph.D.) preferred; Instructor (ABD) or Associate Professor possible. Research and teaching interests might include, but are not limited to: Japanese Language at all levels, Japanese Literature and Culture, Japanese Linguistics, Japanese Pedagogy, or Second Language Acquisition.
TOC, Pacific Affairs, Vol. 91, No. 3 (September 2018)
We are pleased to announce the publication of the latest issue of Pacific Affairs (Volume 91, No. 3, September 2018)
PERSPECTIVES
Call for Sessions: RC21 Urban Conference at Delhi
RC21 Urban Conference at Delhi
September 18th – 21st , 2019
In and Beyond the City: Emerging Ontologies, Persistent Challenges and Hopeful Futures
Across the globe, cities surpass their own contours. Urban cores expand and intensify in size and height, and we see connectivities, nodes and enclaves involving new technologies, information flows, migrations, time/space compressions and everyday rhythms and experiences that defy known cartographies and categories.