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You are invited to read an article titled "High Time Jewish Studies Got Introduced in Indian Academia" that I published in the magazine Swarajya on June 23, 2017. It draws attention to the need for Jewish Studies as an academic discipline in Indian academia, how it can be introduced and why it is a good time to do so. Your feedback would be greatly welcomed.
Ed. note: The post refers to Manan Ahmed Asif. A Book of Conquest: The Chachnama and Muslim Origins in South Asia. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2016. Find a review on this title by Andre Wink at https://networks.h-net.org/node/22055/reviews/180166/wink-asif-book-conquest-chachnama-and... (ML)
Life, Science and Power in History
Call for papers for a special issue of the EASTS Journal
Deadline for submissions: September 30, 2017
For full details, see https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=55061
One Position: Open rank – Assistant Professor, Associate Professor, or Professor
DHAsia 2018 | Call for Proposals Digital Humanities Asia Harnessing Digital Technologies to Advance the Study of the Non-Western World April 26-29, 2018 Stanford University
Dear colleagues
I am pleased to announce the publication of my book, The Diplomat-Scholar: A Biography of Leon Ma. Guerrero. Singapore: ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute. 360 pp with index. ISBN: 978-981-47-6243-4
Here comes the latest edition of the Journal of Current Chinese Affairs, the only true OPEN ACCESS journal in the field of Modern China Studies! All articles are ready to be downloaded free of charge.
Table of contents: Journal of Current Chinese Affairs 1/2017
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Assessing the Administration of President Ma Ying-jeou
Guest edited by Sabrina Habich-Sobiegalla and Stefan Fleischauer
For full details, see https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=55058
Assistant Professor (Chinese History) (Ref: AsstProf/LCS/0617)
Department of Literature and Cultural Studies
For full details, see https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=55059
The Graduate School of East Asian Studies at Freie Universitaet Berlin (Germany) is inviting applications for a postdoctoral research fellowship limited up to 2 years with a focus on Japan beginning on 1 November 2017. Salary terms of E 13 TV-L in the German public sector.
Chitralekha Zutshi. Kashmir's Contested Pasts: Narratives, Sacred Geographies, and the Historical Imagination. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2014. xv + 360 pp. $49.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-19-945067-1.
Reviewed by Umair A. Muhajir (http://qalandari.blogspot.com)
Published on H-Asia (June, 2017)
Commissioned by Sumit Guha
Bradley R. Simpson. Economists with Guns: Authoritarian Development and U.S.-Indonesian Relations, 1960-1968. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2008. viii + 367 pp. $60.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8047-5634-1.
Reviewed by Jaroslaw Suchoples (Independent Scholar)
Published on H-Asia (June, 2017)
Commissioned by Frank Dhont
Walter Hauser, Kailash Chandra Jha, eds. and trans. Culture, Vernacular Politics, and the Peasants: India, 1889-1950: An Edited Translation of Swami Sahajanand's Memoir. Delhi: Manohar Publishers, 2015. 708 pp. n.p. (cloth), ISBN 978-93-5098084-2.
Reviewed by Donald W. Attwood (McGill University)
Published on H-Asia (June, 2017)
Commissioned by Sumit Guha
Attwood on Hauser Peasants and Politics
You are invited to read an article titled "High Time Jewish Studies Got Introduced in Indian Academia" that I published in the magazine Swarajya on June 23, 2017. It draws attention to the need for Jewish Studies as an academic discipline in Indian academia, how it can be introduced and why it is a good time to do so. Your feedback would be greatly welcomed.
Ed. note: The post refers to Manan Ahmed Asif. A Book of Conquest: The Chachnama and Muslim Origins in South Asia. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2016. Find a review on this title by Andre Wink at https://networks.h-net.org/node/22055/reviews/180166/wink-asif-book-conquest-chachnama-and... (ML)
Life, Science and Power in History
Call for papers for a special issue of the EASTS Journal
Deadline for submissions: September 30, 2017
For full details, see https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=55061
One Position: Open rank – Assistant Professor, Associate Professor, or Professor
