Sunday, January 23, 2011

Fw: H-ASIA: CFP RMMLA Asian Comparative Literature and Film panel

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Subject: H-ASIA: CFP RMMLA Asian Comparative Literature and Film panel


> H-ASIA
> January 23, 2011
>
> CFP: RMMLA Asian Comparative Literature and Film panel
> *************************************************************************
> From: Daisy Yan Du <du2@wisc.edu>
>
> Asian Comparative Literature and Film panel at RMMLA Convention, October
> 6-8, 2011 in Scottsdale, Arizona.
>
> We invite proposals for papers that explore cultural, aesthetic or
> literary topics in East Asian literature, film and other media from an
> interdisciplinary, cross-cultural perspective. Papers that are concerned
> with the movement of texts and ideas across borders or between East and
> West, as well as the translation of traditional literary works into
> popular literary or cinematic expressions, or the impact of globalization
> upon the dissemination of popular culture are welcome, but submissions
> need not be limited to them. New comparative research on any period of
> East Asian Literature and/or Film welcome. Please submit a proposal of no
> more than 250 words by March 1, 2011.
>
> Chair:
> Géraldine Fiss
> University of Southern California
> East Asian Languages and Cultures
> Taper Hall of the Humanities 372
> Los Angeles, CA 90089
> (626)500-6223
> gfiss@college.usc.edu
>
> Alternate Chair:
> Daisy Yan Du
> University of Wisconsin, Madison
> du2@wisc.edu
>
> Ed. note: RMMLA = Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association
> http://rmmla.wsu.edu/
>
> ML
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Fw: H-ASIA: TOC South Asian History and Culture, 2.1

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Subject: H-ASIA: TOC South Asian History and Culture, 2.1


> H-ASIA
> January 23, 2011
>
> TOC South Asian History and Culture, 2.1
> **********************************************************************
> From: boria majumdar <cristorian@yahoo.com>
>
> South Asian History and Culture
>
> The Editors David Washbrook, Boria Majumdar, Sharmistha Gooptu and Nalin
> Mehta are pleased to announce the first issue of their second year, now
> available online from Taylor and Francis at
> http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/rsac.
>
> Table of contents
>
> A book also travels: circulating small booklets in Dalit poorva
> Badri Narayan
>
> Muslim resistance to communal separatism and colonialism in Bihar:
> nationalist politics of the Bihar Muslims
> Mohammad Sajjad
>
> South Asia and the Cold War: Vice President Nixon's forgotten trip to
> Ceylon
> Elliott L. Watson
>
> 'Regarded, paid and housed as menials': nursing in colonial India,
> 1900–1948
> Madelaine Healey
>
> Architecture and world making: production of sacred space in San
> Francisco's Vedanta temple
> Arijit Sen
>
> Review Essay
>
> Arvind Kumar
> Subaltern citizens and their histories: investigations from India and the
> USA, edited by Gyanendra Pandey
>
> Book Reviews
>
> Dhrub Kumar Singh; Ravindra Karnena; Sabyasachi Dasgupta; M. Raisur
> Rahman; Shad Naved; Chandra Mallampalli; Pramod Parajuli; Babli Sinha
>
> For submission please contact Dr. Sharmistha Gooptu,
> sharmishthag@yahoo.com
>
> Boria Majumdar, D.Phil. University of Oxford.
> Senior Research Fellow, University of Central Lancashire
> Adjunct Professor, University of South Australia
> Principal Trustee and Secretary, South Asia Research Foundation
> General Editor, Sport in the Global Society, Contemporary Perspectives
> (Routledge)
> Executive Editor, Sport in Society (Routledge)
> Executive Editor, Soccer and Society (Routledge)
> Joint Editor, South Asian History and Culture (Routledge)
> Joint Editor, South Asian History and Culture Books series (Routledge)
>
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Fw: H-ASIA: RESOURCE The Electronic Anthropologist: on sources of information, strategies, techniques and timing of online research [A Farewell Gift]

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Subject: H-ASIA: RESOURCE The Electronic Anthropologist: on sources of
information, strategies, techniques and timing of online research [A
Farewell Gift]


> H-ASIA
> January 23, 2011
>
> WWW Resource The Electronic Anthropologist: on sources of information,
> strategies, techniques and timing of online research [A Farewell Gift]
> ************************************************************************
> Ed. note: Here is further notice of the pending retirement of Dr. T.
> Matthew Ciolek, and a chance to revisit an area in which he has made so
> many contributions to scholars and scholarship. His observations are
> grounded in a quarter-century of taking the pulse of the internet. He
> has put us all in his debt. FFC
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------
> From: Reviews of Internet resources for Asian Studies
> <asia-www-monitor@anu.edu.au>
>
> The Asian Studies WWW Monitor: Jan 2011, Vol. 18, No. 1 (320)
> --------------------------------------------------------------
> 21 Jan 2011
>
> The Electronic Anthropologist: on sources of information, strategies,
> techniques and timing of online research [A Farewell Gift]
>
> www.ciolek.com - Asia Pacific Research Online, Canberra, Australia.
>
> Supplied-note:
> "With 5,869 reviews of the Asian Studies internet resources
> successfully dispatched, the time has come to say goodbyes -
>
> (1) So, thank you, all my 9,260 wonderful online- and off-line
> collaborators, colleagues and friends.
>
> (2) It was your steadfast love of information that has sparked and
> guided my electronic labours.
>
> (3) Now I take my egret-plumed hat off, and lower it to the
> flagstones with a mighty sweep.
>
> (4) I bow to You All most deeply. I promise to answer (alas,
> inevitably with a delay) all your private messages that have reached
> me in these last days. I bow to You again and present a compact,
> 43KB, parting gift (below). Have fun with it, if/when so inclined.
>
> (5) Now, My Unforgettable Monitorians, au revoir: I am signing off
> for good - tmc."
>
> Self-description:
> "Information of relevance and value to social scientists is scattered
> - as individual items as well as clusters and collections - across
> three vast and vastly different habitats of knowledge. The first of
> them is formed by the overlapping networks of interconnected,
> data-swapping computers. There the information is stored as
> electronic bits. The second habitat is a great planetary labyrinth of
> interacting and competing museums, archives, and libraries. This is
> the physical world where information is stored as tangible objects -
> books, manuscripts, microfilms, artifacts - and kept on shelves, or
> in vaults. Finally, there is the boundless archipelago of groups and
> clusters of people themselves. Researchers, experts, archivists,
> journalists, court-clerks, shamans, interested laymen, students,
> librarians, managers, and so forth form the third habitat of
> knowledge. There the information is stored in biological form, either
> etched in the memories of people, or created by them afresh.
> This article is concerned with research uses of the first of those
> three informational environments, that is, with quests for digital
> pointers and digital contents that are available via the Internet. It
> represents an abridged extract from an extensive 2009 work [approx.
> 145KB] entitled 'The logistics of effective online information
> seeking,' a research paper with a number of technical appendices, now
> available online at
> http://www.ciolek.com/PAPERS/logistics-of-online-information-seeking.html
> address.
>
> [The article evaluates] methods of electronic investigation that
> people can undertake within the domain of the Internet. Therefore,
> the questions posed by this paper are not 'what are the best ways to
> obtain information online?', or 'what are the best sources of
> electronic information?', but rather - 'under what methodological
> circumstances is our online research most likely to succeed?' So it
> is not an enumeration of tools and opportunities, but rather a
> meta-assessment of these."
>
> Site contents:
> 1. Introduction
> (# The habitats of scholarly information, # Earlier studies of
> information-seeking practices);
>
> 2. Internet, The Electronic Environment of Information
> ["Two things about the Internet, the electronic environment of
> information, are immediately apparent to any observer: its dire lack
> of organization and its enormous physical size. The Internet is a
> highly unpredictable and confused place, and the materials it carries
> are of very uneven quality."];
>
> 3. The Logistics of Online Information Seeking
> (# The First Logistical Element: Research Strategy [Confirm, Link,
> Deliver, Chase, Form, Match, Explore, Mull], # The Second Logistical
> Element: Online Resources [Databases, Search engines, Online
> directories, Repositories, "Flowing" websites, "Frozen" websites,
> Collaborative environments, Gatherings, Feeds], # The Third
> Logistical Element: Work Schedules [Urgent, Standard, Long-term], #
> The Fourth Logistical Element: Data-Gathering Techniques [Ask, Query,
> Search, Browse, Track, Comb, Monitor, Collect input, Trigger input,
> Invite input]);
>
> 4. Six Constraints of Information Seeking
> ["None of the above four logistical aspects of online research - the
> strategies, online resources, work schedules, and data-gathering
> techniques - ever occurs alone. On the contrary - they always work in
> concert, as a dynamic system. Together they form six unique
> combinations, in some of which these variables seem to 'work together
> especially well', that is, when they appear to be supportive of each
> other, and appear (in the experience of this author) to be
> productive."];
>
> 5. Conclusions
> ["[W]hile at the surface level the Internet appears to be defined
> mostly by our interactions with the disembodied, cold-headed
> technology, ultimately the full research value of the Net is best
> realised through multifaceted intellectual relationships that we can
> form with other human beings that are contactable online. Seen from
> this point of view, the modern Internet becomes a virtual bridge
> which links the three habitats of information. Firstly, the Internet
> almost instantaneously connects the researcher with the online
> containers of digital information he or she seeks. Secondly, it spans
> the gap between a researcher and the pointers to the masses of
> analogue data preserved in libraries, archives, historical monuments,
> and museums. Thirdly, the Net is a superb tool for the closure of the
> gap between a researcher and the wealth of skills and wisdom of his
> or her colleagues, no matter who they are, and where they work."];
>
> 6. Acknowledgments;
>
> 7. Bibliography [43 specialist publications from the years 1995-2008,
> including online research notes of that mysterious, motley and
> seminal man himself, Francesco Vianello, aka Fjalar Ravia
> (1952-2009)].
>
> URL http://www.ciolek.com/PAPERS/e-anthropologist.html
>
> Internet Archive (web.archive.org) [the site was not archived at the
> time of this abstract]
>
> Link reported by: T. Matthew Ciolek (tmciolek--at--coombs.anu.edu.au)
>
> * Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online
> guide]:
> Study
> * Publisher [academic - business - govt. - library/museum - NGO - other]:
> Academic
> * Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting -
> marginal]:
> rating not available
> --------------------------------------------------------------
> Src: The Asian Studies WWW Monitor ISSN 1329-9778
> URL http://coombs.anu.edu.au/asia-www-monitor.html
> URL http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/asia-www-monitor
> The e-journal [established 21 Apr 1994 - closed down 21 Jan 2011]
> has provided free abstracts and reviews of new/updated online resources
> of interest to Asian Studies.
> At the day of its closure, the email edition of this Journal had over
> 9,260 subscribers.
> The AS WWW Monitor did not necessarily endorse contents,
> or policies of the Internet resources it dealt with.
>
> Any questions related to the past or future of the e-journal are to be
> directed
> exclusively to the following email address: web.cap@anu.edu.au
>
> - regards -
>
> Dr T. Matthew Ciolek mattew.ciolek--at--anu.edu.au
> ANU College of Asia and the Pacific,
> The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia
> also, Asia Pacific Research Online at www.ciolek.com
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Fw: H-ASIA: Integrating and Developing European Asian Studies (IDEAS) [Initiative] WWW

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From: "Frank Conlon" <conlon@U.WASHINGTON.EDU>
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Sent: Monday, January 24, 2011 12:23 AM
Subject: H-ASIA: Integrating and Developing European Asian Studies (IDEAS)
[Initiative] WWW


> H-ASIA
> January 23, 2011
>
> Integrating and Developing European Asian Studies (IDEAS)[Initiative]
> *************************************************************************
> From: Reviews of Internet resources for Asian Studies
> <asia-www-monitor@anu.edu.au>
>
> The Asian Studies WWW Monitor: Jan 2011, Vol. 18, No. 1 (320)
> --------------------------------------------------------------
> 21 Jan 2011
>
> Integrating and Developing European Asian Studies (IDEAS)
>
> IDEAS consortium, at several locations, incl. Dept. of Political
> Science and Contemporary History, University of Turku, Turku, Finland.
>
> Self-description:
> "The overall objective of Integrating and Developing European Asian
> Studies (IDEAS) [a 30 months' project, launched 1 Jan 2010 - ed.] is
> to make progress in coordinating and bringing together academic
> research, researchers and policy-makers. IDEAS will make use of the
> expertise and resources of a recently created network, the European
> Consortium for Asian Field Study (ECAF)
> [http://www.ecafconsortium.com], [...]. IDEAS is a Coordination and
> Support Action (Coordination Action) funded by the European
> Commission under the 7th Framework Programme's 8th thematic priority
> 'Socio-economics sciences and humanities.'"
>
> Site contents:
> * Organization [Organization chart of IDEAS, Advisory Board];
> * Work Packages
> (# Work Package 1: Combining strengths of the ECAF network [= a
> comprehensive Europe-wide assessment of Asian Studies resources.];
> # Work Package 2: Sharing access to a network of 22 field research
> centres located in Asia [= assessment of facilities of the network of
> French, German and Italian-owned field research centres across Asia
> run by ECAF.];
> # Work Package 3: Sharing and exchanging access to knowledge
> resources [= work on the integration of ECAF network library
> resources through the creation of an IT platform which will offer
> cross-lingual access to a wide range of text, audio, video resources
> to be made available via the IDEAS project web portal.];
> # Work Package 4: Creating interconnections between EU Asian Studies
> and policymakers needs [= assessment of the current practices and
> needs of national and European policy-makers and potential other
> end-users of research, and facilitation connections and engagement
> between them and the ECAF network.]);
> * Calendar (incl.: # January 2011 5th IDEAS steering committee
> meeting 11th-13th January 2011, Istituto Italiano per l'Africa e
> l'Oriente, Rome; # February 2011 IDEAS Stakeholder Conference Towards
> a more profound understanding of Asia for decision-makers in Europe 7
> February 2011, Hamburg Chamber of Commerce; # March 2011 IT Seminar 2
> (WP3) Istituto Italiano per l'Africa e l'Oriente, Rome;
> * Newsletter [incl. July 2010, IDEAS Newsletter 1/2010 [PDF format]);
> * Contact (## Members of the IDEAS Consortium: # Ecole francaise
> d'Extreme--Orient (EFEO), Coordinator, France; # University of Turku,
> Finland; # Institute of Ethnology, Hungarian Academy of Sciences,
> Hungary; # British Academy, United Kingdom; # Asien-Afrika-Institut
> (AAI), University of Hamburg, Germany; # Istituto italiano per
> l'Africa e l'Oriente (IsIAO), Italy; # National Institute for
> computer sciences and control (INRIA), France; ## Individual IDEAS'
> officers).
>
> URL http://www.ideasconsortium.eu
>
> Internet Archive (web.archive.org) [the site was not archived at the
> time of this abstract]
>
> Link reported by: Marita Siika (marsiika--at--utu.fi)
>
> * Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online
> guide]:
> Corporate Info.
> * Publisher [academic - business - govt. - library/museum - NGO - other]:
> Academic
> * Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting -
> marginal]:
> Useful
> --------------------------------------------------------------
> Src: The Asian Studies WWW Monitor ISSN 1329-9778
> URL http://coombs.anu.edu.au/asia-www-monitor.html
> URL http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/asia-www-monitor
> The e-journal [est. 21 Apr 1994] provides free abstracts
> and reviews of new/updated online resources of interest to Asian Studies.
> The email edition of this Journal has now over 9,260 subscribers.
> The AS WWW Monitor does not necessarily endorse contents,
> or policies of the Internet resources it deals with.
>
> - regards -
>
> Dr T. Matthew Ciolek tmciolek--at--coombs.anu.edu.au
> Head, Internet Publications Bureau, RSPAS,
> ANU College of Asia and the Pacific,
> The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia
> ph +61 (02) 6125 3124 fax: +61 (02) 62571893
> also, Asia Pacific Research Online at www.ciolek.com
>
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Fw: H-ASIA: CFP - Religious Publishing in Early Twentieth-century China, AAR, Nov 2011

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From: "Andrew Field" <shanghaidrew@GMAIL.COM>
To: <H-ASIA@H-NET.MSU.EDU>
Sent: Monday, January 24, 2011 5:26 AM
Subject: H-ASIA: CFP - Religious Publishing in Early Twentieth-century
China, AAR, Nov 2011


H-ASIA
Jan 24 2011

CFP - Religious Publishing in Early Twentieth-century China, AAR, Nov
2011
********************************************
From: Gregory Scott <gas2122@columbia.edu>

Call for Papers - Religious Publishing in Early Twentieth-century China

a panel proposal to be submitted for the

Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Religion, San Francisco,
November 18-21, 2011

We are organizing a panel on religious publishing and print culture in
early twentieth-century China to be submitted for this year's AAR
conference. The production and circulation of religious texts in China
underwent a tremendous expansion in the first decades of the twentieth
century, enabled both by newly introduced mechanized print technology,
and by the formation of professional organized institutions for
authoring, editing, printing, distributing, and retailing religious
books. What effect did this flood of printed material have on
religious traditions and reform movements in China? How did the
authors, publishers, and printers understand the significance of their
work? How were new types of religious texts received by religious
publics, and how were oral and performative traditions influenced?
These are some of the questions we hope to explore in our panel.

Paper proposals are welcome from scholars working on topics including
but not limited to canon formation, publishing enterprises, editing
religious texts, and religious reading publics, relating to Buddhism,
Daoism, Christianity, Islam, and popular religions in China from
approximately 1900 to 1950 CE. Our goal is to have a range of
religious traditions represented in the panel and to have an
interdisciplinary discussion of how publishing played a role in their
modern history and how their print cultures were intertwined.

Anyone interested in participating in this panel proposal is welcome
to contact us:

Rostislav Berezkin, Ph.D., Post-doctoral Fellow, Institute of Modern
History, Academia Sinica
rostislavberezkin@yahoo.com

Gregory Adam Scott, Ph.D. Candidate, Columbia University
gas2122@columbia.edu

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Fw: Buzz from naresh gupta

 
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