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The Ireland India Institute is pleased to announce that its sixth annual South Asia Conference, South Asia in Transformative Times, is now accepting abstract proposals until 16 December 2022. Details at https://irelandindia.ie/2022/11/04/call-for-papers-south-asia-in-transformative-times/
Dear colleagues and friends,
I would appreciate if you could circulate the following new publication and book talk to those who might be interested.
The World Social Science Association's Asian Studies section is happy to announce that the panel and paper proposals deadline has been extended to January 15th, 2023!
The conference will be held in Tempe, AZ, from April 12th through April 15th at Tempe Mission Palms.
The WSSA especially welcomes submissions from graduate students and early career scholars.
More information can be found here on the WSSA's conference homepage.
The Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians (JSAH) is a leading English-language journal on the history of the built environment. Below is a call for proposals for an upcoming roundtable on built spaces, landscapes, and environment of Asian Americans and Pacific Islander Americans (AAPI). Below is a call for essay proposals for an upcoming roundtable to be published in JSAH.
CfP: Panel at the Annual Conference of the Film and Media Studies Association of Canada (FMSAC)
Submission Deadline: March 3, 2023
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The Pennsylvania State University invites applicants for its annual Global Asias Summer Institute, to be held June 19–23, 2023. SI2023, co-directed by Nicolai Volland (Penn State) and Leo Ching (Duke), will focus on the topic of “Archipelagic Asias.”
Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences
(This issue was originally published on the Global Taiwan Institute's website and the full articles are available at: https://globaltaiwan.org/issues/vol-7-issue-23/)
Editor's Column
Implications of Taiwan’s 2022 “Nine-in-One” Local Elections for 2024
By: Russell Hsiao and Katherine Wagner
Call for Papers for a workshop organised by the South Asia Study Circle (CEAS) and the Anthropology of Religion Network (NAR) at the Centre for Research in Anthropology (CRIA), Lisbon, 29-30 June 2023.
Event: The BRI in National Peripheries: Gwadar and the limits of outsourced development
Pratyay Nath. Climate of Conquest: War, Environment, and Empire in Mughal North India. United Kingdom: Oxford University Press, 2019. xli + 325 pp. $50.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-19-949555-9.
Reviewed by Divya Cherian (Princeton University) Published on H-Asia (October, 2022) Commissioned by Sumit Guha (The University of Texas at Austin)
Usha Sanyal. Scholars of Faith: South Asian Muslim Women and the Embodiment of Religious Knowledge. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2020. 409 pp. $65.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-19-012080-1.
Reviewed by Gail Minault (University of Texas at Austin) Published on H-Asia (September, 2022) Commissioned by Sumit Guha (The University of Texas at Austin)
Christina Elizabeth Firpo. Black Market Business: Selling Sex in Northern Vietnam, 1920-1945. Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute Series. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2020. Illustrations, maps. xiii + 259 pp. $27.99 (e-book), ISBN 978-1-5017-5266-7; $42.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-5017-5265-0.
Reviewed by Johanna Ransmeier (The University of Chicago) Published on H-Asia (August, 2022) Commissioned by Bradley C. Davis (Eastern Connecticut State University)
The Ireland India Institute is pleased to announce that its sixth annual South Asia Conference, South Asia in Transformative Times, is now accepting abstract proposals until 16 December 2022. Details at https://irelandindia.ie/2022/11/04/call-for-papers-south-asia-in-transformative-times/
Dear colleagues and friends,
I would appreciate if you could circulate the following new publication and book talk to those who might be interested.
The World Social Science Association's Asian Studies section is happy to announce that the panel and paper proposals deadline has been extended to January 15th, 2023!
The conference will be held in Tempe, AZ, from April 12th through April 15th at Tempe Mission Palms.
The WSSA especially welcomes submissions from graduate students and early career scholars.
More information can be found here on the WSSA's conference homepage.
The Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians (JSAH) is a leading English-language journal on the history of the built environment. Below is a call for proposals for an upcoming roundtable on built spaces, landscapes, and environment of Asian Americans and Pacific Islander Americans (AAPI). Below is a call for essay proposals for an upcoming roundtable to be published in JSAH.
CfP: Panel at the Annual Conference of the Film and Media Studies Association of Canada (FMSAC)
