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Xinjiang concentration camps
At my university, Cornell U, on Sept. 10, we held a roundtable discussion on the Xinjiang concentration camps tragedy.
Call for panel & roundtable proposals: AAS-in-Asia 2019 (July 1-4, 2019, Bangkok, Thailand)
On behalf of the Program Committee for the Association for Asian Studies, we are pleased to issue the Call for Proposals for the next AAS-in-Asia Conference, to be held July 1-4, 2019 at the Royal Orchid Sheraton Hotel in Bangkok, Thailand. This conference will be hosted by AAS and Thammasat University in collaboration with Chulalongkorn University, Mahidol University, Kasetsart University, and Chiang Mai University.
CFP, 'Colonial Institutions and the Uses of Law in Early Modern South Asia' (Nijmegen, 28 January 2019)
Indian Ocean World in the 18th Century (IOW18) Workshop Series
New content on the ejcjs
New content on the ejcjs
The electronic journal of contemporary japanese studies is pleased to announce the publication of Volume 18, Issue 2, with content from contributors around the world.
<http://www.japanesestudies.org.uk/ejcjs/vol18/iss2/index.html>
Peer-reviewed articles
Barbara Greene: Moyashimon And Agrarian Nationalism: The Transition From Policy To Pop Culture
Discussion papers
H-Net Job Guide Weekly Report for H-Announce: 3 September - 10 September
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The following jobs were posted to the H-Net Job Guide from 3 September 2018 to 10 September 2018. These job postings are included here based on the categories selected by the list editors for H-Announce.
H-Net This Week (Roundup from around the Commons for the week of August 31 - September 6, 2018)
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Recent Reviews
Reviewer:
Donald Davis
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
Reviewer:
Vinita Damodaran
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
Reviewer:
Alicja Bachulska
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
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.