Making Modernity in East Asia Lecture Series (Feb 2): Hallam Stevens - Fairchildren and Factory Girls: Gender, Family, and Space in the Singapore Electronics Industry
Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences
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Hagley History Hangout/New Episode
Railroads unite. Across time and space the railroad has tied together diverse peoples and places with literal and figurative bonds.
[Sci-Tech Asia Virtual Seminar] "Hacking (for Creating and Severing) Ties" by Luis Felipe Murillo (University of Notre Dame)
We're happy to announce the fifth and last webinar of our Innovation, Automation, and the Digital Economy Webinar Series! All welcome!
Hacking (for Creating and Severing) Ties
January 27th 2023, 2:00pm - 3:30pm (Lisbon time, WET, GMT, UTC+0)
Chair: Gonçalo SANTOS (University of Coimbra)
Abstract
TOC: Taiwan Historical Research, Vol. 29, No. 4 (Dec. 2022)
The Institute of Taiwan History at Academia Sinica is pleased to announce the latest issue of Taiwan Historical Research (Vol. 29, No. 4, December 2022) is available online. The papers are written in Chinese with English abstracts. This quarterly peer-reviewed journal is published in Taiwan. Please visit: https://www.ith.sinica.edu.tw/quarterly_history_look.php?l=e&id=688
Table of Contents
杜正勝，《流求與「流求論」》
Cheng-sheng Tu, “Liu-k’iu and ‘Liu-k’iu Hypotheses’”
Malaysia and Singapore Society of Australia (MASSA) 2023 Symposium
Date: 7-8 July 2023
Location: New Era University College, Kajang, Malaysia.
Convenor: Dr Jason Ng Sze Chieh, New Era University College.
"Do we want to wait until a German scientist is arrested in China?"
DER SPIEGEL reported on 26 November 2022 that Germany's China policy is causing tensions between the Chancellory and Foreign Office.
Who will define the contours of the traffic light coalition's approach to autocratic China? Is the new China strategy—expected to be finalised by Spring 2023—more likely to reflect Chancellor Scholz' business-friendly approach or Foreign Minister Baerbock's value-based vision?
TRACING THE DIVINE WORD IN CHINA
Over the course of almost two years, a team of three editors and one research assistant compiled data on more than 700 missionaries of the Divine Word (S.V.D) in China, a male Catholic order, and its female counterpart, the Sisters Servants of the Holy Spirit (S.Sp.S). In this presentation, they will share some facts and figures from the several decades of these two orders' missionary work in China, and introduce some of the individual missionaries.
Deadline approaching: 1 February 2023 - ICAS Book Prize 2023, call for submissions of Books and Articles
The secretariat of the ICAS Book Prize 2023 welcomes you to submit the titles of your Asia-related publications in the Humanities and Social Sciences in the following categories:
Deadline 1 February 2023
CFP - The World of the Orient, No. 2, 2023
The journal The World of the Orient
Pages
Recent Reviews
Reviewer:
Emily Mokros
Mokros on Barish, 'Learning to Rule: Court Education and the Remaking of the Qing State, 1861–1912'
Daniel Barish. Learning to Rule: Court Education and the Remaking of the Qing State, 1861–1912. Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute Series. New York: Columbia University Press, 2022. xiii + 257 pp.
Reviewer:
Francis R. Bradley
Bradley on Tan-Tangbau, 'Playing Jazz in Socialist Vietnam: Quyền Văn Minh and Jazz in Hà Nội'
Stan BH. Minh Tan-Tangbau.
Playing Jazz in Socialist Vietnam: Quyền Văn Minh and Jazz in Hà Nội.
Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2021. 320 pp.
$99.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-4968-3633-5; $30.00 (paper), ISBN 978-1-4968-3634-2. 
Reviewer:
Divya Cherian
Cherian on Nath, 'Climate of Conquest: War, Environment, and Empire in Mughal North India'
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)
Recent Threads
Conference-Energy in Asia, February 23 and February 24 (in-person and online)
Energy in Asia
A Conference organized and sponsored by EnviroLab at Claremont McKenna College and the UCLA Center for Korean Studies and to be held at UCLA, February 23 and February 24 (all events in PST)
Main Conference Room (11360), Young Research Library (YRL), UCLA
Call for Applications: DFG Research Training Group GRK 2833 "East Asian Futures" (EAF)
The DFG Research Training Group GRK 2833 „East Asian Futures“ at Ruhr University Bochum and University of Duisburg-Essen,
Germany, solicits applications for its doctoral programme:
For doctoral researchers, seven DFG-funded positions (0.75 FTE) and six affiliated fellowships
For postdocs, one full DFG-funded position and three affiliated fellowships.
Deadline for applications: 31 March 2023. Start of the programme: 1 October 2023.
CALL FOR PAPERS: SUN YAT-SEN JOURNAL OF HUMANITIES, NSYSU, TAIWAN
The following is an open call for academic articles to be submitted to the Sun Yat-sen Journal of Humanities (SYSJH), a leading journal of humanistic inquiry in Taiwan based at National Sun Yat-sen University, Kaoshiung. With a publishing history that stretches back to 1993, SYSJH is a bi-annual, peer-reviewed, bilingual publication listed in MLA International Biography, Emerging Sources Citation Index, and Taiwan Humanities Citation Index (THCI).
16th International Confernce on Daoist Studies , 8-11 June, 2023 - Leeds (UK)
Daoism, Psychology and Psychotherapy