Position, Fellow, Institute for Advanced Study, School of Historical Studies
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INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY, School of Historical Studies,
Opportunities for Scholars 2019-2020.
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Recent Posts
CFP: Pearl S. Buck Living Gateway Conference
Posting for a colleague. Please see https://pearlsbuckconference.wvu.edu/proposals
New Book, Jones and Ferdoush, Borders and Mobility in South Asia and Beyond
List members may be interested in this new book published in the Amsterdam University Press Asian Borderlands Series:
Borders and Mobility in South Asia and Beyond, Edited by Reece Jones and Md. Azmeary Ferdoush
Amsterdam University Press
ISBN: 9789462984547
Release date: 23-04-2018
Haedback
278 pages
Description:
Member book, Khanikar, State, Violence, and Legitimacy in India
Dear colleagues,
I am happy to inform you that my book titled State, Violence, and Legitimacy in India, is now published, from Oxford University Press.
State, Violence, and Legitimacy in India
Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780199485550
Publication date: 05/06/2018
Hardback
288 pages
Position, PhD position on the project ‘ROADWORK: An Anthropology of Infrastructure at China’s Inner Asian Borders’
PhD position on the project ‘ROADWORK: An Anthropology of Infrastructure at China’s Inner
CFP: Japan NOW: A Snapshot of Contemporary Japanese Language, Culture, and Society
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The Department of Asian Studies at Palacký University Olomouc is currently inviting papers for its 12th Annual Conference on Asian Studies (ACAS) to be held on November 9–10, 2018 in Olomouc, Czech Republic.
CFP: Hate Speech in Asia and Europe: A Comparative Approach
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The 2nd International Workshop
ANN: European Foundations of 'the caste system', CIRHS (summer course)
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CERTIFICATE COURSE by CIRHS (summer course)
ANN: Women in Chinese Art Symposium, Headley Lecture Theatre, Ashmolean Museum
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Women in Chinese Art Symposium
ANN: Chinese objects and their lives (June 15-16) - AFEC 2018 INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP
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Over the last twenty years, material culture studies have occupied a growing place in the social sciences. How does this growing interest in objects and material culture reveal itself in Chinese studies?
Pages
Recent Reviews
Reviewer:
Lakshmi Subramaniam
Subramaniam on Agmon, 'A Colonial Affair: Commerce, Conversion, and Scandal in French India'
Danna Agmon. A Colonial Affair: Commerce, Conversion, and Scandal in French India. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2018. 236 pp. $55.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-5017-0993-7.
Reviewed by Lakshmi Subramaniam (Institute of Advanced Studies, Nantes) Published on H-Asia (June, 2018) Commissioned by Sumit Guha (The University of Texas at Austin)
Reviewer:
Prachi Deshpande
Deshpande on Crooks and Parsons, 'Empires and Bureaucracy in World History: From Late Antiquity to the Twentieth Century'
Peter Crooks, Timothy Parsons, eds. Empires and Bureaucracy in World History: From Late Antiquity to the Twentieth Century. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016. 496 pp. $34.99 (paper), ISBN 978-1-316-61728-1.
Reviewed by Prachi Deshpande (CSSSC Kolkata) Published on H-Asia (May, 2018) Commissioned by Sumit Guha (The University of Texas at Austin)
Reviewer:
James Hudson
Hudson on Lary, 'China's Civil War: A Social History, 1945-1949'
Diana Lary. China's Civil War: A Social History, 1945-1949. New Approaches to Asian History Series. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015. xii + 283 pp. $29.99 (paper), ISBN 978-1-107-67826-2; $88.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-107-05467-7.
Reviewed by James Hudson (University of Tennessee) Published on H-Asia (April, 2018) Commissioned by Sumit Guha (The University of Texas at Austin)
Recent Threads
CFA - The 2018 Abe Fellowship Program
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The Social Science Research Council (SSRC) and the Japan Foundation Center for Global Partnership (CGP) announce the annual Abe Fellowship Program competition. Funding for the Abe Fellowship Program is provided by CGP.
Position, Senior and Postdoctoral Short-Term Fellowships, Max Weber Stiftung India Branch Office
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The M.S. Merian - R. Tagore International Centre for Advanced Studies “Metamorphoses of the Political: Comparative Perspectives on the Long Twentieth Century” (ICAS:MP), a project under the aegis of the Max Weber Stiftung India Branch Office, advertises multiple junior and senior fellowships for autumn 2018/2019.
Position, Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore
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All positions are for outstanding, active researchers from around the world, to work on an important piece of Asia-related research in the social sciences or humanities.
'Mass Media, Consumerism and National Identity in Postwar Japan' at TUFS
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Dear colleagues,
The CAAS Unit at Tokyo University of Foreign Studies (Institute of Japan Studies) is pleased to announce a book review workshop on Dr Martyn Smith's recently published Mass Media, Consumerism and National Identity in Postwar Japan (2018, Bloomsbury).
Call for Panelists: 2019 AAS Annual Conference, Denver, CO; March 21-24
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We are seeking presenters for a panel tentatively titled "Nation Building in Twentieth Century India." Historians have long examined how political figures played a key role in the emergence of free India.