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> March 30, 2011
>
> Call for papers: Gender, Language and Class: Border Crossings in
> Modern Chinese Poetry, Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association
> Convention, Scottsdale AZ, October 6-8, 2011
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> From: Andrea Lingenfelter <ondi@speakeasy.org>
>
> Call for Papers: Session on Gender, Language, and Class: Border Crossings
> in
> Modern Chinese Poetry
>
> Conference: The Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association Convention
>
> Conference date: October 6-8, 2011
> Location: Scottsdale, Arizona
> Proposal deadline: April 15, 2011
> Website: http://rmmla.wsu.edu/conferences/conf11Scottsdale/default.asp
>
>
>
> Gender, Language, and Class: Border Crossings in Modern Chinese Poetry
>
> We invite papers that explore various forms of border-crossings in
> modern Chinese poetry. Topics include but are not limited to gender
> subjectivity, translation, poetic experimentation, fusion of genres,
> class differences and global circulation.
>
> If interested in presenting a paper in this session, please send query or
> abstract to me at ondi@speakeasy.org
>
> Abstracts should run 100-250 words.
>
> Andrea Lingenfelter
> Western Michigan University
> (ondi@speakeasy.org)
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>
> Position: Teaching Fellow in History (field open, World, Asia etc),
> Rowand University
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> JOB GUIDE NO.: https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=42394
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>
> Rowan University, History
>
> Teaching Fellow
>
>
> Institution Type: College / University
> Location: New Jersey, United States
> Position: Other Teaching
>
>
>
>
> Rowan University's Psi Iota branch of Phi Alpha Theta (PAT), the national
> history honors society, is sponsoring two Teaching Fellow positions for
> the 2011-2012 academic year, one in American history and the other field
> open. The positions are designed for A.B.D. candidates finishing doctoral
> work, but they are also available to recent Ph.D.s. Fellows will have an
> office and computer, access to the University's libraries and databases,
> secretarial support, and a modest fund for research or travel related
> expenses. The Fellows will receive a combination of salary and honorarium
> totaling at least $11,100 for teaching two (2) upper division courses in
> their area of specialty during the 2011-2012 academic year. Depending
> upon circumstances, Fellows may have the opportunity to teach an
> additional course in the summer of 2012; in that case, compensation might
> reach as much as $14,600. Fellows will be expected to deliver a public
> lecture, as well as a presentation of their research for advanced
> undergraduates in history. They will also have the opportunity to share
> their research with faculty members in the History Department's
> works-in-progress seminar. Fellows will be expected to interact with the
> Psi Iota branch of PAT at Rowan. Applicants should send a copy of their
> curriculum vitae, sample syllabi or course outlines for their proposed
> upper division courses, graduate school transcripts, and two letters of
> recommendation. The committee will begin reviewing applications on 22
> April 2011 and hopes to make a final decision by May 15. Candidates may
> accept this fellowship in conjunction with another one so long as it does
> not interfere with the requirements listed above. Please address all
> correspondence to Janet Moore Lindman, Department of History, Rowan
> University, 201 Mullica Hill Road, Glassboro, NJ, 08028. Email
> applications are also welcome at lindman@rowan.edu.
>
>
> Contact: Janet Moore Lindman, Department of History, Rowan University, 201
> Mullica Hill Road,Glassboro, NJ, 08028. Email applications are also
> welcome at lindman@rowan.edu.
>
> Website: www.rowan.edu
> Primary Category: American History / Studies
>
> Secondary Categories: World History / Studies
>
> Posting Date: 03/29/2011
> Closing Date 05/30/2011
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>
> Position: Peaced Studies & Conflict Resolution, Chair/Professor,
> The Ohio State University, Merschon Center for International Security
> Studies
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>
> Ohio State University, Mershon Center for International Security Studies
>
> Chair in Peace Studies and Conflict Resolution
>
>
> Institution Type: College / University
> Location: Ohio, United States
> Position: Full Professor
>
>
> The Mershon Center for International Security Studies at The Ohio State
> University is seeking candidates to fill an endowed Chair in Peace Studies
> and Conflict Resolution. The holder of the chair will be expected to lead
> an active multidisciplinary program in conflict resolution involving
> research, teaching, and public service.
>
> The center is open to candidates in numerous fields including Political
> Science, Sociology, Psychology, Philosophy, History, Economics and Law. A
> distinguished record of publication, teaching, and service is expected.
> The successful candidate will be appointed as a tenured professor at The
> Ohio State University, salary and rank will be commensurate with the level
> of distinction.
>
> Applications will be accepted until the position is filled. The Ohio State
> University is an Equal Opportunity, Affirmative Action Employer. Women,
> minorities, veterans, and individuals with disabilities are encouraged to
> apply.
>
>
> Contact: Applicants should submit a letter of interest, current curriculum
> vitae, and the names of three references to mershon.peace@osu.edu.
> Questions should be directed to Courtney Sanders, Peace Chair Search,
> Mershon Center for International Security Studies, 1501 Neil Ave.
> Columbus, Ohio 43201-2602.
>
> Website: http://mershoncenter.osu.edu
> Primary Category: Social Sciences
>
> Secondary Categories: African American History / Studies
> African History / Studies
> American History / Studies
> Anthropology
> Area Studies
> Asian American History / Studies
> Asian History / Studies
> Atlantic History / Studies
> Black History / Studies
> British History / Studies
> Colonial and Post-Colonial History / Studies
> Communication
> Contemporary History
> Cultural History / Studies
> Diplomacy and International Relations
> Early Modern History and Period Studies
> East Asian History / Studies
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> Posting Date: 03/30/2011
> Closing Date 06/27/2011
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> Announcement - India's World Conference, New York City, May 10-11, 2011
>
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>
> India's World Conference May 10-11, NYC
>
> Location: New York, United States
> Conference Date: 2011-05-10
> Date Submitted: 2011-03-22
> Announcement ID: 184059
>
> The Center for Public Scholarship at The New School presents the 24th
> Social Research conference,
> INDIA'S WORLD
> May 10-11, 2011
> John Tishman Auditorium, 66 West 12th Street, NYC
> Program: www.newschool.edu/cps/indias-world/program/
> Join us as speakers discuss key issues of contemporary Indian life to
> connect the dots between government, economy, policy, and culture in India
> and in India's world today. The mission of the conference is to engage
> both experts and the public in discussions that will deepen our
> understandings of the ways in which the country and people of India are
> influenced by the world and the world, by India.
>
> Keynote on May 10, 6:00 p.m.:
> Amitav Ghosh, author of The Glass Palace, The Hungry Tide, and Sea of
> Poppies, among others.
>
> May 11 sessions will feature:
> Ajit Balakrishnan, Rediff.com (on Internal and Global Dimensions of
> India's IT Revolution) Aromar Revi, Indian Institute of Human Settlements
> and TARU (on India's Gray Educational Markets)
> Sabyasachi Bhattacharya, Tata Institute (on Tensions Between Research,
> Graduate Training, and Undergraduate Teaching in the Natural and Physical
> Sciences) Sheldon Pollock, Columbia University (on Crisis in the Classics)
> Lawrence Cohen, UC Berkeley (on Different Kinds of Waiting: The Verdict of
> Surgery in Contemporary India)
> Ranjani Mazumdar, Jawaharlal Nehru University (on Surveillance, Terrorism
> and Cinema of the Contemporary)
> Wendy Doniger, University of Chicago Divinity School (on Puritanism,
> Censorship and Self Censorship in Colonial and Post Colonial Hinduism)
> Mukulika Banerjee, London School of Economics (on Elections as Communitas)
> Gopal Guru, Jawaharlal Nehru University (on Mobile Dalit in Incredible
> India: The Limits of Liberalism)
> Suvir Kaul, University of Pennsylvania (on The Crisis in Kashmir With
> Regard to Partition, Sovereignty, and National Security in India)
>
>
> *Open to the public
> *Free for students
> *$15 for non-students
> *RSVP now to cps@newschool.edu
>
> Dr. Arien Mack directs the conference series and organized this conference
> in collaboration with Dr. Arjun Appadurai the India China Institute.
> Please share this announcement with any friends or colleagues who might be
> interested in attending.
>
>
> Roberta Sutton
> The Center for Public Scholarship
> Email: cps@newschool.edu
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>
> Position: World, Military, Diplomatic, International History, Assistant
> or Associate Professor, Hawaii Pacific University
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> JOB GUIDE NO.: https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=42386
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>
> Hawaii Pacific University
>
> Assistant/Associate Professor of World, Military, Diplomatic or
> International History
>
>
> Institution Type: College / University
> Location: Hawaii, United States
> Position: Assistant Professor, Associate Professor
>
>
> The Department of History at Hawai'i Pacific University invites
> applications for a career-track* faculty position at the rank of
> Assistant/Associate Professor of World, Military, Diplomatic, or
> International History, beginning Fall 2011. The successful applicant will
> contribute to both BS and MA programs in Diplomacy and Military Studies,
> the BA in History, and the forthcoming MA in World History. Teaching
> responsibilities will include undergraduate and graduate courses in World
> Military/Diplomatic and/or international history. Standard teaching load
> is four courses per semester. The successful applicant may be asked to
> teach in HPU's Military Campus Program.
>
> Minimum Qualifications: A Ph.D. in World, Military, Diplomatic, or
> International History and one year teaching experience required.
>
> Desired Qualifications: Graduate-level teaching experience, experience or
> willingness to each online, willingness to assume leadership roles within
> the department, and pre-modern specialization are a plus.
>
> To Apply: Applicants should apply online at http://www.hpu.edu/employment.
> Required supporting documents - cover letter, curriculum vitae, three
> letters of reference, a statement of teaching philosophy, select syllabi
> from courses taught, , samples of scholarship, may be submitted
> electronically as Word or PDF files put together in a ZIP file named with
> the last name and position number (ex: Jones ####) and e-mailed to
> HR@hpu.edu. Paper submissions of supporting documents are also accepted at
> Human Resources: Hawai'i Pacific University HR Department; 1132 Bishop
> Street, Suite 310; Honolulu, HI 96813. E-mail: hr@hpu.edu. FAX:
> 808-544-1192. Deadline to apply: May 1, 2011.
>
> Department Contact: Dr. Russell Hart, Chair, Department of History,
> 808-543-8043.
>
> Hawai'i Pacific University is a non-profit, co-educational university
> accredited by the Western Association of Schools and Colleges. It is the
> largest private university in Hawai'i with an enrollment of 9,000
> students. The Department of History offers bachelor degrees in Diplomacy
> and Military Studies and History, a MA degree in Diplomacy and Military
> Studies and a pending MA in World History. Visit our website,
> http://www.hpu.edu/CHSS/History/index.html for additional information.
>
> *In lieu of a tenure system, HPU uses a "career-track" system consisting
> of 5 years of renewable reappointments (two 1-year and a 3-year contract)
> culminating in "career" status consisting of a series of 5-year contracts.
>
>
> Contact: Department Contact:
> Dr. Russell Hart
> Chair, Department of History
> (808) 543-8043
>
> Website: http://www.hpu.edu
> Primary Category: Diplomacy and International Relations
>
> Secondary Categories: Military History
> World History / Studies
>
> Posting Date: 03/29/2011
> Closing Date 05/01/2011
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>
> Professor Kenneth Pyle is awarded the 2011 Thomas S. Foley Award
> *****************************************************************
> From: John Findlay <jfindlay@u.washington.edu>
>
> Dear colleagues:
>
> I am pleased to relay the news that our colleague Ken Pyle has been
> awarded
> the 2011 Thomas Foley Award, which recognizes "the person(s) or
> organization
> that best exemplifies [former] Ambassador Foley's commitment to promoting
> improved understanding of cultural and economic issues between the people
> of
> Washington State and Japan." This award is presented each year by the
> Japan
> America Society of the State of Washington.
>
> Text of press release:
>
> Press Release
>
> Japan-America Society of the State of Washington
> 1511 Third Ave, Suite 805
> Seattle, WA 98101
> http://www.jassw.org
>
> For Immediate Release
>
> University of Washington Professor Kenneth B. Pyle Named
> 2011 Recipient of Thomas S. Foley Award
>
> SEATTLE, WA (March 29, 2011) - The Japan-America Society of the State of
> Washington announced today that Professor Kenneth B. Pyle, Ph.D. is the
> recipient of the 2011 Thomas S. Foley Award. This annual award is named in
> honor of Washington State native, the Honorable Thomas S. Foley, Speaker
> of the U.S. House of Representatives (1989-1995) and U.S. Ambassador to
> Japan (1998-2001). This is the sixth year the award has been presented to
> the person(s) or organization that best exemplifies Ambassador Foley's
> commitment to promoting improved understanding of cultural and economic
> issues between the people of Washington State and Japan.
>
> "Dr. Pyle's contributions in the field of education, including many years
> of teaching and publishing on a myriad of related topics, epitomize the
> contributions which this award is meant to recognize," states Douglas S.
> Palmer, chairman of the board of the Japan-America Society of the State of
> Washington. "We could not be more pleased to include him on the roster of
> awardees."
>
> Dr. Pyle is the Henry M. Jackson Professor of History and Asian Studies at
> the University of Washington. He is Founding President of The National
> Bureau of Asian Research, an independent non-partisan research institute
> to promote an informed and effective American policy toward Asia.
>
> Author and editor of numerous works on modern Japan, his most recent book
> is Japan Rising: The Resurgence of Japanese Power and Purpose. He also was
> founding editor of the Journal of Japanese Studies.
>
> Among Dr. Pyle's many honors, one is extraordinary. The Japan Foundation
> in 2008 awarded its Special Prize for Japanese Studies to Dr. Pyle in
> ceremonies that included an audience with the Emperor and Empress of
> Japan.
>
> Presentation of the Thomas S. Foley Award will be made at the
> Japan-America Society's Annual Dinner on April 12st at Bell Harbor
> Conference Center in Seattle. For more information please visit the
> Society's website at www.jassw.org.
>
>
> John Findlay
> University of Washington
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> March 30, 2011
>
> Third European Congress on World and Global History: Connections and
> Comparisons, London, April 14-17, 2011
>
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> Third European Congress on World and Global History: Connections and
> Comparisons, 14-17/4/11
>
> Location: United Kingdom
> Conference Date: 2011-04-14 (in 15 days)
> Date Submitted: 2011-03-24
> Announcement ID: 184107
>
> III ENIUGH Kongress
>
> Every three years ENIUGH organizes the European Congress in World and
> Global History. Since the inaugural congress in 2005 it has developed into
> an outstanding meeting place for scholars in the fast developing fields of
> world, global and transnational history and the adjacent disciplines. The
> number of participants has increased steadily, and the success of the
> congress can be explained, among other factors, by its openness both to
> young and experienced scholars alike. It has become a forum for
> researchers to present and discuss their latest findings as well as to
> inform each other about new organisational patterns in the fields of
> teaching and research. It offers information and expertise on
> undergraduate and graduate teaching as well as PhD-programmes and provides
> the opportunity to develop emerging research agendas in transnational
> teams and to get the latest news about European and various national
> funding schemes.
>
> The third congress will take place 14 to 17 April 2011, in London, at the
> London School of Economics and Political Science, which has been among the
> pioneering institutions in research, teaching and journal-publication in
> global history. The congress theme of 'Comparisons and Connections' is
> meant to be both generic and specific. It is intended to be generic enough
> to attract participants from all the overlapping approaches which share a
> commitment to transcend national historiographies, whether under such
> headings as (to give only an incomplete list) 'world' or 'global' history,
> 'transnational' history, or histoire croisée. To judge from the nearly
> ninety panels accepted for the congress, this aim has been achieved. The
> theme is also specific, in that 'comparisons and connections' encapsulates
> a (broad) agenda shared by many scholars around the world concerned with
> global or transnational history.
>
> The range of themes will focus on different themes, include the
> entanglements between polities, societies, communities and individuals
> situated in, or spanning, different regions of the world, the interactions
> between humanity and the environ¬ment, including those which developed
> over the very long term, through the cultural and economic histories of
> material and social life, the histories of empires, large-scale crises,
> interna¬tional organisations, and the intercontinental sources and
> consequences of revolutions, whether political, technological, the social
> or ideological exchanges on oceans as spaces of sustained interaction
> between communities from different continents, the experience and the
> consequences of migration, and the description of the periods of
> de-globalisation and globalisation.
>
> The congress will be opened by two keynote lectures:
>
> Prof. Maxine Berg (University of Warwick): Europe's Asian Centuries:
> Material Culture and Useful Knowledge 1600–1800
>
> Prof. Michel Espagne (CNRS, Paris): Global History and the
> Conceptualisation of Cultural Transfers
>
> A further feature will be the roundtable on 'Empires and colonies' on
> Friday evening, hosted by the German Historical Institute. Three
> outstanding scholars in the field – Frederick Cooper (New York
> University), John Darwin (University of Oxford), Regina Grafe
> (Northwestern University) – will discuss various, possibly contradicting
> approaches to imperial and colonial history, chaired by Peer Vries
> (University of Vienna).
>
> The complete program is displayed and available for download at:
> www.eniugh.org/congress
>
>
> ENIUGH
> c/o University of Leipzig
> Global and European Studies Institute
> Emil-Fuchs-Straße 1
> 04105 Leipzig
> Germany
>
>
> Email: congress(at)eniugh.org
> Visit the website at http://www.eniugh.org
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> Comment re: Gandhi racist and bisexual? How book reviews can distort the
> book
> *************************************************************************
> From: oeendrila lahiri <oeendrila@gmail.com>
>
> The furore over this book [Joseph Lelyveld, _Great Soul..._] that has led
> to the Indian state banning the book can be justified insofar as
> sensationalist fabrications or misrepresentations are concerned. But I
> think we should also consider why charges of homosexuality evoke such
> intolerant measures as if it were the same as charges of rape, murder or
> other criminal acts. The man in question may be Gandhi, but so what?
>
> It is an opportune moment to reflect upon what we, even in the 21st
> century, take to be taboo insofar as nationalist politics and national
> figures are concerned.
>
> Oeendrila Lahiri
> JNU
> Delhi
> ------------------------------------------------------------------
> Ed. note: Oeendrila Lahiri raises a valid point with respect to the
> way some have reacted to the alleged contents of Lelyveld'b book, I
> would note that the thrust of the discussion has focussed primarioly
> upon how a book review (I have learned that there was a review in
> the Wall Street Journal) and the 'news' item in the Daily Mail are
> examples where in the content (or non-content) of a book are twisted
> out of shape. In this particular instance, my own view is that the
> review by Andrew Roberts in the Wall Street Journal constitutes an
> occasion for an unprovoked assault on the reputation of Mahatma
> Gandhi. This reminds me of similar attacks on Gandhi's reputation
> at the time of the widespread successs of the Attenborough film
> "Gandhi"--which provoked a number of neo-conservative comments that
> belittled Gandhi's achievements, primarily by concentrating upon
> his faults and alleged faults. I think the Indian politicos are
> making loud noises for their own perceived interests. I suspect
> the real audience for these new canards lies in the conservative
> blogosphere where things like this can go viral. FFC
>
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> Comment on Gandhi racist and bisexual? How book reviews can distort the
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> From: Ananya Vajpeyi <ananya.vajpeyi@gmail.com>
>
> The real culprit I suspect is neither Lelyveld's book nor the Daily Mail's
> sudden mandate as a forum for book reviews, but this rather fanciful piece
> below:
>
> http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703529004576160371482469358.h
> tml
>
> I don't think scholars of modern India, Indian nationalism or Gandhi's
> life
> and work have to take any of this nonsense seriously. It's interesting
> that
> even 63 years after Gandhi's death, some people have trouble accepting the
> fact that frail, abstinent, celibate and eccentric though he might have
> been, he managed to bring an end to the British Empire in India, South
> Africa and the world. Colonialism's apologists and imperialism's
> revivalists
> can malign, besmirch and fabricate all they like; the fact is, the sun
> set,
> and the ship sailed. Goodbye Britannia, and good riddance -- as we say, in
> English.
>
> Yours,
>
> AV.
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