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EASt opens one doctoral position
EASt, the Research centre on East Asia at the Maison des Sciences Humaines of the Université libre de Bruxelles (MSH-ULB), seeks to hire one doctoral research fellow starting from October 2017.
Dear Colleagues,
we are happy to announce the publication of the second issue of Interdisziplinäre Zeitschrift für Südasienforschung (The Interdisciplinary Journal for Research on South Asia).
The current issue contains the following interesting articles:
For details, see: https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=55224
The Department of History at the College of the Holy Cross invites applications for a full-time tenure-track appointment for an assistant professor in East Asian History beginning in August 2018. We welcome applications from scholars whose primary regional focus is either imperial or modern China.
Crosspost from PMJS
From: Brett de Bary (bmd2@cornell.edu)
JBACS: Journal of the British Association for Chinese Studies, new issue (Volume 7, July 2017) now out!
Please download here: http://bacsuk.org.uk/journal/journal-current-and-past-entries
Editors: Sarah Dauncey (University of Nottingham) and Gerda Wielander (University of Westminster).
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PROGRAM: Global Cultural Encounters, 1750s-1950s – Between the Material and Immaterial
The conference will take place in 1014 Tisch Hall, History Department, Central Campus at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
Wednesday, August 2, 2017
3:00–3:30 Registration
3:30–3:45 Welcome Address
Geoff Eley (University of Michigan), History Department Chair
3:45–4:00 Opening Remarks
I would like to announce the publication of Vamping the Stage: Female Voices of Asian Modernities, the first book-length study of women, modernity, and popular music in Asia (University of Hawai'i Press, 2017).
Lakshmi Subramaniam. The Sovereign and the Pirate: Ordering Maritime Subjects in India's Western Littoral. New Delhi: Oxford University Press (India), 2016. 296 pp. $50.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-19-946704-4.
Reviewed by Johan Mathew (Rutgers University)
Published on H-Asia (August, 2017)
Commissioned by Sumit Guha
Piracy and Sovereignty in the Indian Ocean
Pamela D. McElwee. Forests Are Gold: Trees, People, and Environmental Rule in Vietnam. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2016. 312 pp. $30.00 (paper), ISBN 978-0-295-99548-9.
Reviewed by Nga Dao (York University)
Published on H-Asia (July, 2017)
Commissioned by Sumit Guha
Environmental Governance in Vietnam
Anjali Nerlekar. Bombay Modern: Arun Kolatkar and Bilingual Literary Culture. FlashPoints Series. Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 2016. xix + 292 pp. $99.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8101-3274-0; $34.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-8101-3273-3.
Reviewed by Madhuri Deshmukh (Oakton Community College)
Published on H-Asia (July, 2017)
Commissioned by Sumit Guha
News has surfaced in the past day that Cambridge University Press has accepted demands from Chinese state agencies to remove published content from its databases available within the People's Republic of China.
‘Meiji Japan in Global History’
Date: 8 September 2017Time: 10:00 AM to 5:00 PM
Venue: SOAS University of London, Main College Buildings, Russell Square Room: 116
Type of Event: Publication Workshop
Co-Convenors:
Catherine L Phipps, University of Memphis
Christopher Gerteis, SOAS University of London
The Pacific Historical Review recently published the following articles that may interest H-ASIA list subscribers:
- “‘Into the Dark Cold I Go, the Rain Gently Falling’: Hawai’i Island Incarceration,” by Kelly Y. Nakamura
- “From Memory Making to Money Making? Japanese Travel Writers’ Impressions of Cross-Cultural Interaction in the Southwestern Pacific Islands Battle Sites, 1962-2007,” by Ryota Nishino
It’s a pleasure to announce the publication of my new book.
The Chinese Typewriter: A History
Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2017
Featured in Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute
504pp. ISBN-10: 0262036363. ISBN-13: 978-0262036368.
