Welcome to H-Asia, a member of H-Net Humanities & Social Sciences Online. The primary purpose of H-ASIA is to enable historians and other Asia scholars to easily communicate current research and teaching interests; to discuss new articles, books, papers, approaches, methods and tools of analysis; to test new ideas and share comments and tips on teaching. H-Asia is especially committed to discussing region wide, comparative and professional issues important to scholars of Asia.
- Quick guide: How to post / reply on H-ASIA - Click for instructions
- Trouble shooting: What to do if a contribution has not appeared online - Click for instructions
- Questions? Contact the editors at editorial-asia@mail.h-net.msu.edu
Recent Posts
Japanese Studies Seminar at Osaka University: Sam Timinsky "Japanese Salarymen's Shifting Masculinities: Men's Cooking in Weekly Magazines"
Dear Colleagues:
We have the following seminar at Osaka University on 9 June 2017. His seminar paper is available (participants only).
If you have any question, contact: Yone Sugita (sugita@lang.osaka-u.ac.jp)
Best,
Yone
International Studies Seminar, Osaka University
Date: 9 June 2017 (Friday)
Time: 10:30-12:00
Venue: Academic Exchange Seminar Room, 3rd floor,
Building E, Osaka University Minoh Campus
Reframing the Archive: The Reuse of Film and Photographic Images in Postcolonial Southeast Asia Symposium
Registration Open for 'Reframing the Archive' Symposium and Film Screening, SOAS, University of London
22-23 June 2017
Member book, Sher Banu A. L. Khan, Sovereign Women in a Muslim Kingdom: The Sultanahs of Aceh, 1641−1699
Dear colleagues,
I am pleased to announce the publication of my book.
Re: Re-Envisioning Japan: Japan as Destination in 20th Century Visual and Material Culture
Ed. note: This post was edited for clarity. ML
--
This is the new URL for the site: https://rej.lib.rochester.edu/
That's the only thing that needs to be changed.
Best, Iskandar
Re: CFP: American Journal of Indic Studies
Thanks Prof. Vemsani for sharing the call for papers for AJIS. Below is some more info about the editorial board for this new journal (also at http://aaindicstudies.org/publication/)
Editorial Advisor:
Arvind Sharma
Executive Editor:
Pankaj Jain
Editor-in-Chief:
Lavanya Vemsani
Editorial Ombudsman:
Jeffery D. Long
Assistant Editor:
Anjali Kanojia
CFP: OTHER ASIANS, ASIA’S OTHERING-Inclusionary Utopias, Exclusionary Politics
Call for papers
International Conference
OTHER ASIANS, ASIA’S OTHERING
Inclusionary Utopias, Exclusionary Politics
Organized by Monash Asia Institute, Monash University
30 & 31 October 2017
Monash University Caulfield Campus, Melbourne
Pages
Recent Reviews
Muhajir on Zutshi, 'Kashmir's Contested Pasts: Narratives, Sacred Geographies, and the Historical Imagination'
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
Suchoples on Simpson, 'Economists with Guns: Authoritarian Development and U.S.-Indonesian Relations, 1960-1968'
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
Attwood on Hauser and Jha, 'Culture, Vernacular Politics, and the Peasants: India, 1889-1950: An Edited Translation of Swami Sahajanand's Memoir'
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
Recent Threads
Asif on V.S. Naipaul's 'Among the Believers'
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)
Call for paper- Life, Science and Power in History (deadline: 30 SEP 2017)
Life, Science and Power in History
Call for papers for a special issue of the EASTS Journal
Deadline for submissions: September 30, 2017
Position, Open Rank in Modern History, National Chengchi University (Taipei)
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
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