Fw: H-ASIA: CFP 2011 Sri Lanka Graduate Student Conf, New York City, March 25-26, 2011

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Subject: H-ASIA: CFP 2011 Sri Lanka Graduate Student Conf, New York City,
March 25-26, 2011

> H-ASIA
> January 25, 2011
>
> Call for papers: "Sri Lanka: Remaking Society?" 2011 Sri Lanka Graduate
> Student Conference, New York City, March 25-26, 2011
> DEADLINE FEBRUARY 14, 2011
> (courtesy Charles Hallisey)
> ************************************************************************
> From: Charles Hallisey <cshallisey@gmail.com>
>
> Graduate students working on any academic approach to the study of
> religion
> in Sri Lanka are invited to the second Sri Lanka Graduate Student
> Conference
> to be sponsored by the American Institute for Sri Lankan Studies and
> described below. For more information about the American Institute for
> Sri
> Lankan Studies, including fellowship programs and other resources for
> graduate students, see:
>
> http://www.aisls.org/
>
> "Sri Lanka: Remaking Society"
>
> 2011 Sri Lanka Graduate Student Conference
>
> The 2011 Sri Lanka Graduate Conference will be on March 25th and 26th at
> the India-China Institute, the New School for Social Research, New York
> and funded by the American Institute for Sri Lankan Studies. As with the
> highly successful first Graduate Conference in April 2010, this workshop
> will bring together graduate students both in the final writing up stage
> and pre-research/planning stages from a variety of disciplines and
> institutions.
>
> In 2011 we will look at Sri Lanka's (contemporary and historical)
> variegated social formations and their processes, flux, renewals, and
> aphasias. We particularly welcome panel proposals focusing on the
> following broad themes:
> family, marriage, and kinship; civil society actors and institutions;
> notions of the civic and/or the public in Sri Lanka; intersections of
> gender, caste, class; aesthetics and aesthetic production; ecology and
> environment; displacement, resettlement and return; citizenship and/or
> transnational communities; reconciliation; youth, generation, and youth
> cultures; education, law, religion (or intersections between).
>
> The workshop aims to enhance intellectual exchange on Sri Lanka, emphasize
> the production of empirical and non sectarian knowledge, focus attention
> on
> recent potential transformation of key concepts, and strengthen and build
> a
> new cohort of researchers (and research) across disciplines and
> institutions
> as well as strengthen relationships between American graduate students and
> local intellectual circles in Sri Lanka. The workshop takes place over 2
> days. The first day will be open to the public and comprise of three
> student
> panels. The second day will be two private sessions, a small closed
> pre-dissertation development seminar for selected participants (see below
> for details), and a roundtable discussion for all participants. The
> pre-dissertation development seminar is to assist graduate students in
> developing their research projects. This will be a closed session for 6
> participants. Students in Masters and PhD programs across the humanities
> and
> social sciences are encouraged to apply. You can find this information
> also
> at https://sites.google.com/site/srilankagraduateconference/home
> We would like to invite paper presenters as well as graduate students who
> wish to participate without giving a paper. Please send emails with "Sri
> Lanka Graduate Student Workshop" in the subject line. *Panel proposals and
> single papers proposals are due on February 14th.*
>
> Those interested in the Pre-dissertation Development Seminar should email
> a 300 word explanation of your interests and why you would like to
> participate for the same dates. Please send all emails to Sharika
> Thiranagama (thiranas@newschool.edu), Mark Balmforth
> (markusiusgotm@hotmail.com) and Mariyahl Hoole (mmh2192@columbia.edu )
> cc'ing everyone in your emails. Those who wish to *participate in the
> conference without presenting* must send expressions of their interest by
> *February 21st.
>
> *We have some limited funding for travel from outside the New York area,
> please let us know if you are unable to access departmental funding by
> *February 14th*. Places are limited so please apply soon.
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Fw: H-ASIA: REVIEW H-Net Review Publication: 'The Place of Environmental Movements in the United States and Japan'

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Subject: H-ASIA: REVIEW H-Net Review Publication: 'The Place of
Environmental Movements in the United States and Japan'

> H-ASIA
> January 25, 2011
>
> Book Review (orig pub. H-Environment) by Colin Tyner on Pradyumna P.
> Karan, Unryu Suganuma, eds. Local Environmental Movements: A Comparative
> Study of the United States and Japan.
>
> (x-post H-Review)
> ************************************************************************
> From: H-Net Staff <revhelp@mail.h-net.msu.edu>
>
> Pradyumna P. Karan, Unryu Suganuma, eds. Local Environmental
> Movements: A Comparative Study of the United States and Japan.
> Lexington University Press of Kentucky, 2008. xii + 303 pp. $55.00
> (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8131-2488-9.
>
> Reviewed by Colin Tyner (University of California, Santa Cruz)
> Published on H-Environment (January, 2011)
> Commissioned by Dolly J??rgensen
>
> The Place of Environmental Movements in the United States and Japan
>
> In her history of contemporary environmental protest in Japan from
> 1981, _Environmental Protest and Citizen Politics in Japan_, Margaret
> A. McKean drew attention to the role that environmental campaigns
> have played in creating a new political dynamic at the local level in
> Japan. Coming out of a conference held at the University of Kentucky
> in 2003, which examined the dynamics of environmental groups'
> influence over policymaking in Japan and the United States, Pradyumna
> P. Karan and Unryu Suganuma's _Local Environmental Movements in the
> United States and Japan _suggests that an examination of
> environmental movements, which often work outside governmental and
> nongovernmental organizations, while converging on the same
> discursive and material space, provides social scientists with the
> opportunity to analyze "politics in the raw" (p. 5). Because "there
> is no one, single environmental movement and ... the differences
> between the many environmental movements far outweigh their
> similarities" (p. 4), Karan and Suganuma argue further that an
> examination of these political performances, which implicate multiple
> stakeholders within any given locality, requires a flexible
> methodological tool kit and attention to complex assemblages of the
> actors, goals, values, and the mode of action in each of the case
> studies presented in the book.
>
> This is, indeed, a very complex book, covering seventeen case studies
> of local environmental movements active, or once active, in the
> United States and Japan from the 1960s to 2008. The chapters are
> assembled loosely in five thematic sections. The first section
> includes an introductory chapter and comparative histories of
> environmental movements in the United States and Japan. In their
> essay, Richard Forrest, Miranda Schreurs, and Rachel Penrod attempt
> to situate the particularity of local movements into a national
> framework by nationalizing local ecologies and movements under a
> tidal wave of historical context. As a cautionary tale, they
> highlight the importance of reflecting on the complexity of
> situations rather than pushing for cross-national similarities or
> relying on facile generalizations. The final two chapters of this
> section examine the ways in which certain movements have attempted to
> work their political goals in conversation with the language of
> international environmentalism. Stanely D. Brunn explores the role
> that _National Geographic_ has played in bringing environmental
> problems into popular consciousness through its textual, broadcast,
> and online media. Kim Reimann offers a methodologically savvy essay
> exploring how environmental groups in Japan have begun to use what
> she calls "postmaterialist protest frames," such as the language of
> "biodiversity" or cultural artifacts, to protect threatened wetlands
> near the city of Nagoya (p. 45). Instead of focusing on human costs
> of polluting the environment, which characterized the environmental
> movement in Japan in the 1960s and 1970s, Reimann argues that
> environmental groups have used these discursive frames to engage
> conversations with national and international nongovernmental
> organizations with similar conservationist and preservationist goals.
>
>
> The second section covers frictions produced in communities that host
> the facilities of national nuclear and chemical weapons programs. The
> first two chapters (chapters 5 and 6) examine how communities hosting
> nuclear facilities in both countries came to terms with the effects
> of nuclear radiation. David Zurick's essay investigates the political
> movement opposed to the proposed construction of a biological weapons
> incinerator at the Blue Grass Army Depot in central Kentucky. John
> Metz's well-researched and well-written chapter examines the
> community relations of the U.S. Department of Energy through nine
> "site-specific advisory boards" (p. 77). If there is a common thread
> that runs through all of the chapters in this section, it is that the
> community-based movements that developed in opposition to these
> national facilities were made possible because of the community
> members' unwillingness to put up with the environmental and financial
> costs of hosting them.
>
> The third section deals with both successful and unsuccessful
> environmental movements to protect fragile terrestrial and littoral
> landscapes. The chapters help to illustrate how movements to preserve
> built environments are often produced by the coming together of a
> number of social worlds, many of which would not come into contact
> otherwise. Don Carey and Karan's case study shows how groups of
> conservative and progressive actors in the Bluegrass region of
> Kentucky worked together to hold back the colonization of the rolling
> landscape by developers. Kenji Yamazaki and Tomoko Yamazaki show that
> the activist successes preserving what is left of the Sanbaze
> tidelands in Tokyo Bay depended on them framing their preservationist
> arguments in a way that "can be understood by the general public,"
> thereby achieving some kind of "consensus among interested parties"
> (p. 203). All of the case studies in this section illustrate how
> environmental movements often have trouble functioning within overly
> complex institutional structures of local, regional, and national
> governments. Masao Tao, for example, describes how the fractured
> policymaking process in municipal politics in Kyoto has worked to
> undermine efforts of preservationists to preserve much of the urban
> environment.
>
> The fourth and largest section of the book examines the ways in which
> environmental movements evolved in the context of mega-projects, such
> as the building of hydroelectric dams, airports, and reclamation
> projects. Two standout chapters are Akiko Ikeguchi and Kohei
> Okamoto's discussion of the movement to preserve the tidal flats near
> the port of Nagoya , and Suganuma's investigation of the local and
> international movement to protect the Shiraho Sea from the proposed
> construction of an airport on Ishigaki Island. Ikeguchi and Okamoto
> bring up the salient point that one of the reasons that political
> movements to preserve ecological spaces like the Fujimae Tidal Flats
> developed is because they are valued not only by activists for
> cultural or biological reasons but also by industrialists who view
> the tidal flats as easily reclaimable land. Both chapters demonstrate
> well that much of the success of environmental movements in Japan and
> elsewhere relies on the ability of the members of the movement to
> enlist members from multiple and dynamic interests of the social
> worlds directly engaged or implicated in the preservation, or
> destruction, of the local environment.
>
> The final section, which is ostensibly on movements that developed in
> militarized island environments, examines human conflict with human
> and nonhuman invasive species that have established themselves on the
> islands of Okinawa and Hawai'i. Jonathan Taylor reviews how Okinawan
> movements to protect the environment and remove the bases from the
> prefecture are intertwined, while Christopher Jasparro's chapter on
> alien-species control in Hawai'i shows how civilian and military
> personnel have worked together to protect biodiversity within the
> Nu'upi Wildlife Management Area, which is partially on U.S. military
> land. The essays are housed under the section heading "Protesting the
> Effect of Military Activity," although, really, Talyor's chapter on
> Okinawa is the only one that deals explicitly with protest against
> military activity. In contrast, Jasparro's chapter deals less with
> protest against the military than it does with how the military
> partially enabled the removal of invasive species from the Nu'upi
> Wildlife Management Area, providing significant amounts of scientific
> expertise (including Jasparro's), volunteers, and funding.
>
> The lack of continuity in this collection of case studies might
> dissuade some reviewers from assigning _Local Environmental Movements
> in the United States and Japan_ to undergraduates. However, the
> chapters read alone demonstrate what can be gained from examining the
> history of environmental movements locally. Most contributors ask
> critical questions that are attentive to the historical contingencies
> through which the social movements have developed in complex
> socio-natural ecologies that are particular to each case study. The
> different ways in which these movements have unfolded cannot be
> simply attributed to variations in preexisting cultural ideas about
> nature. Rather, the chapters show that ideas about nature and
> grassroots politics are shaped as much by relationships between
> actors as they are by grand historical narratives, culturalist
> premonitions, or crude stereotypes. For this reason alone, this
> collection of essays is well worth the read.
>
> Citation: Colin Tyner. Review of Karan, Pradyumna P.; Suganuma,
> Unryu, eds., _Local Environmental Movements: A Comparative Study of
> the United States and Japan_. H-Environment, H-Net Reviews. January,
> 2011.
> URL: https://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=31284
>
> This work is licensed under a Creative Commons
> Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States
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Fw: H-ASIA: CONF "Butcher and Bolt" or "Hearts and Minds." British Ways of Countering Colonial Revolt, London 15 September 2011, IHR

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Subject: H-ASIA: CONF "Butcher and Bolt" or "Hearts and Minds." British Ways
of Countering Colonial Revolt, London 15 September 2011, IHR

> H-ASIA
> January 25, 2011
>
> Conference: 'Butcher and Bolt' or 'Hearts and Minds.' British Ways of
> Countering Colonial Revolt: Some Historical Perspectives, Institute for
> Historical Research, London, September 15, 2011
>
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>
> 'Butcher and Bolt' or 'Hearts and Minds.' British Ways of Countering
> Colonial Revolt: Some Historical Perspectives.
>
> Location: United Kingdom
> Conference Date: 2011-09-15
> Date Submitted: 2011-01-25
> Announcement ID: 182424
>
> Organized by Dr Matthew Hughes of the Department of Politics and History,
> Brunel University, and funded by Brunel University and the US Marine Corps
> University Foundation, this conference examines the British way' in
> fighting colonial and neo-colonial rebellions. The conference will be held
> at the Institute for Historical Research in central London. The papers
> focus on military and political operations, contrasting British brutality
> (butcher and bolt) against the idea of minimum force (hearts and minds),
> questioning in the process the notion that there was British
> exceptionalism when it came to fighting rebel forces. The speakers cover
> the period from the nineteenth century to the Troubles of Northern
> Ireland, and include Dr Peter Lieb (Sandhurst), Dr Karl Hack (Open
> University), Dr Daniel Whittingham (Kings), Dr Simon Robbins (Imperial War
> Museum), Dr Huw Bennett (JSCSC), Dr Paul Dixon (Kingston), Professor Ian
> Beckett (Kent) and Dr Rod Thornton (Nottingham). Conference keynote papers
> include: Professor David French (University College London)Nasty, not
> nice: British counter-insurgency doctrine and practice, 1945-1967';
> Professor David Cesarani (Royal Holloway College The Farran affair and the
> failure of British counter-insurgency in Palestine, 1945-47'; Professor
> David Anderson (Oxford University) Torture and British counterinsurgency
> in Kenya'; Professor Caroline Elkins (Harvard University)The Mau Mau
> Emergency: Rethinking British counter-insurgency at the end of Empire.'
> The conference fee includes tea/coffee, lunches and a drinks reception.
>
> For more information, a full list of conference speakers, and a delegate
> application form go to:
> http://www.brunel.ac.uk/about/acad/sss/depts/politics/news
>
> Dr Matthew Hughes
> Department of Politics and History
> Brunel University, UB8 3PH
> UK
> 00 44 (0) 1895 266872
> Email: matthew.hughes@brunel.ac.uk
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Fw: H-ASIA: CFP

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Sent: Wednesday, January 26, 2011 4:24 AM
Subject: H-ASIA: CFP

> H-ASIA
> January 25, 2011
>
> Call for papers: 2011 Melbourne Conference on China The City, the
> Countryside and the World Chinas urban and rural transformations and
> their global connections, August 6-7. 2011, University of Melbourne
>
> ***********************************************************************
> From: H-Net Announcements <announce@MAIL.H-NET.MSU.EDU>
>
> 2011 Melbourne Conference on China The City, the Countryside and the World
> Chinas urban and rural transformations and their global connections
>
> Location: Australia
> Conference Date: 2011-08-06
> Date Submitted: 2011-01-24
> Announcement ID: 182406
>
> Announcement and Call for Papers
> 2011 Melbourne Conference on China
> The City, the Countryside and the World Chinas urban and rural
> transformations and their global connections
>
> Date: Saturday, 6 August and Sunday, 7 August 2011 Venue: The University
> of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia Organiser: Asia Institute, Faculty of
> Arts, the University of Melbourne
>
> Background
>
> The Asia Institute at the University of Melbourne is pleased to announce
> the 2011 Melbourne Conference on China, to be held at the University of
> Melbourne on Saturday, 6 August and Sunday, 7 August 2011. We invite
> researchers, policy makers and advisers, educators, industry
> representatives, representatives of professional and other bodies, and
> independent scholars and experts working anywhere in the world and in any
> area of China studies to meet in Melbourne - the New Gold Mountain for
> Chinese settlers in the 1850s, and now Australias capital of culture - to
> consider the complex developments (both contemporary and historical) in
> Chinas cities and countryside and in Chinas wider global setting, and to
> explore the interactions between these different domains.
>
> Context
>
> The changes that have taken place in China in the past few decades are
> widely acknowledged as being amongst the most rapid, far-reaching and
> momentous in human history. At the core of these changes are two major
> transformations: a closer and transformed relationship between the cities
> and the countryside, and a fundamentally altered relationship between
> China and the outside world. What happens in China's rural and urban areas
> now has a direct effect on almost every part of the planet, while the
> growing impact of global processes can now be felt even in the most remote
> parts of China's countryside. Some previous accounts of China's mid-20th
> century political upheavals have interpreted the success of the Chinese
> revolution as the product of two factors: the successful mobilisation of
> rural grievances, and nationalist resentment at China's subordinated
> position in the worlds political and economic order. One current
> interpretation of the contemporary Chinese state is that the state derives
> its legitimacy from its success in transforming the Chinese economy from a
> predominantly agricultural economy to a predominately urban and industrial
> one, and from integrating China into the global economy.
>
> Theme
>
> This conference will engage with current research on rural and urban
> social, political, economic, cultural, environmental and other conditions
> in China and on the relationship between China and the rest of the world.
> It seeks to unite specific studies on particular aspects - rural, urban,
> or global - with examination of the interrelationships between them. The
> organisers welcome empirical studies on any aspect of this broad topic,
> and also look forward to receiving proposals that situate recent
> developments within a longer historical perspective, to explore how the
> current ordering of these relationships might be seen not so much as a
> radical break with the past but as a successor to much older patterns of
> interaction between the cities and the countryside and between China and
> the outside world.
>
> The conference takes a multi-disciplinary approach. It seeks to bring
> together researchers from the humanities and social sciences and from
> areas such as economics, law, education, health, logistics, engineering,
> architecture and planning, and environmental studies. The key objective of
> the 2011 Melbourne Conference on China is to explore the interplay between
> rural, urban and global phenomena from a plurality of perspectives so as
> to integrate diverse forms of analysis in a productive dialogue. It is
> expected that a selection of the conference papers will be published.
>
> Suggested Topics
>
> The issues to be discussed include, but are not limited to, the following:
>
> 1. New developments in urban and rural China and their world contexts
> Socio-economic transformations occurring in Chinas urban, rural and
> global environments, and the interrelationships between them
> China's massive engineering projects and their impacts on rural, urban
> and global social and physical environments
> The impact of modern technologies and the promotion of science education
> on Chinese society in urban, rural and global settings
>
> 2. Planning, architecture and built environments in the city and the
> country and beyond
> New urban and rural planning concepts, approaches and problems, and new
> architectural styles that evoke the dream of an age of Pax Sinica
> Cultural and philosophical dimensions of the Chinese built environment in
> Chinas modern history and during its most recent transformations
> Spatial, formal and symbolic characteristics of the new Chinese built
> environment, from the countryside to the cities
>
> 3. Rural, urban and global governance and institutions
> Institutional changes and new public policies resulting from
> industrialisation, urbanisation, economic growth, and other forms of
> commercialisation and their effects in the countryside, the cities and in
> the wider world
> New systems of law and governance - in particular a stronger awareness of
> rights in urban and rural China -as well as the impact of these systems on
> Chinas engagement with the world
> Connections and disconnections between regional systems and regional
> development strategies, socio-cultural development, urbanisation and
> eco-environmental protection
>
> 4. Health - rural, urban and global dimensions
> Urban, rural and global health issues, especially the health effects of
> Chinas rapidly growing and massive cities in both a domestic and a global
> context
> Large-scale epidemics, such as the emerging risk of HIV/AIDS epidemics,
> in the countryside, the cities and their global implications
>
> 5. Environmental sustainability as an urban, rural and global question
> Environment as a local, national and global concern and its impact on
> Chinas socio-political stability
> Chinas low carbon development, especially the development of Chinas low
> carbon cities and low carbon economy, and the concept of low carbon life
>
> 6. Mobility, migration, ethnic and diaspora issues from the country to
> the city to the world:
> Emerging trends in and patterns of internal migration, international
> migration and other demographic aspects of Chinas urban and rural and
> global realities
> Ethnic minorities in urban and rural China and in the international
> diaspora, especially the development of ethnically-defined economies,
> ethnic entrepreneurship, ethnic education, and the protection of ethnic
> and linguistic heritage
> Brain-drain phenomena domestically and internationally, and their impact
> on human resource development and on structures of human, cultural and
> intellectual capital
> Education and its role as an upward social mobility mechanism in the
> cities and the countryside and as a cause of urbanisation and global
> mobility
> Transnational marriages and the formation of Western, African, and Asian
> minority communities in China
>
> 7. Media and Chinese perceptions of others world contexts and local
> realties
> The changing nature of Chinas mass media, social media and media use in
> rural, urban, national and international settings
> Urban and rural Chinese peoples perceptions of their neighbouring
> countries, big and small, rich and poor
> Information technologies, and their impacts on rural and urban lives in
> China and global linkages
>
> 8. Culture, religion and gender from the villages to the cities to the
> world stage
> The revival of the Confucian tradition at local, regional, national and
> international levels and its relationship to other social phenomena
> Chinese traditional and popular culture in rural, urban, national and
> international settings
> Religious activities in cities, the countryside and the diaspora, and
> their relationship to Chinese secularism
> Gender and sexuality in urban and rural areas, and changing attitudes to
> gender-related issues
>
> Papers or presentations examining any other aspect of these broad themes
> from any other perspective not mentioned above are also welcome.
>
> Leading scholars and policy advisers from Australia, China, the United
> Kingdom, the United States and other parts of Asia have been invited to
> address the conference.
>
> Expressions of Interest
> Please submit an abstract of up to 500 words, no later than Friday, 20 May
> 2010, to the following email address: Conference-on-China@unimelb.edu.au
>
> The abstract must be in English and must contain the proposed title of the
> paper, the authors name and home institution and a brief bio of no more
> than 150 words, along with contact details, including postal address in
> English (or Chinese if applicable). All submissions will be acknowledged
> in writing upon receipt via email. Other inquiries may also be sent to the
> above email address, or to the contact people listed below.
>
> Each presentation will be for 20 minutes, followed by 10 minutes for
> discussion. The conference will be conducted in English, but a few
> sessions will be bilingual and conducted in both English and Chinese.
>
> Venue and Accommodation
>
> All sessions will be held on the University of Melbourne campus on
> Saturday, 6 August 2011 and Sunday, 7 August 2011.
>
> Those attending the conference will be responsible for organising their
> own travel and accommodation, and some meals. The Conference Organising
> Committee will soon post more information about hotels located within a 15
> minute walking distance of the University of Melbourne.
>
> Deadlines: Submission of abstracts: Friday, 20 May 2011 Notification of
> acceptance: Friday, 27 May 2011 Conference programme: Friday, 10 June 2011
> Standard registration: Friday, 24 June 2011
>
> Registration: All attendees should send a completed registration form (by
> email contact person to be advised) after receiving notification of
> acceptance.
>
> A standard conference fee of AU$100 is payable when you register.
> Postgraduate students are entitled to a discount of 50% on their
> registration fee.
>
> More information about the registration form and fee, as well as hotels
> located within walking distance of the University of Melbourne, will be
> available in February 2011 on the official Asia Institute website at:
> http://www.chinastudies.unimelb.edu.au/conferences/2011/index.html
>
> Contacts: Conference Organising Committee, Asia Institute, the University
> of Melbourne, Victoria 3010, Australia. Email
> Conference-on-China@unimelb.edu.au
>
> If you have questions about the conference, feel free to email Dr Gao Jia
> at jia@unimelb.edu.au or Dr Lewis Mayo at lmayo@unimelb.edu.au
> Program and Website:
>
> The Programme: Please visit the conference website for updates. The first
> draft program is expected after Friday, 10 June 2011.
> Information relating to this conference may be found on various websites,
> but the official Asia Institute website provides the most up-to-date
> source: http://www.chinastudies.unimelb.edu.au/conferences/2011/index.html
> Dr Gao Jia at jia@unimelb.edu.au or
> Dr Lewis Mayo at lmayo@unimelb.edu.au
>
> Asia Institute
> The University of Melbourne
> Victoria 3010, Australia
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Fw: H-ASIA: CFP XII Biennial Conf. European Soc for Central Asian Studies, Cambridge UK, Sep 20-22, 2011

----- Original Message -----
From: "Frank Conlon" <conlon@U.WASHINGTON.EDU>
To: <H-ASIA@H-NET.MSU.EDU>
Sent: Wednesday, January 26, 2011 4:29 AM
Subject: H-ASIA: CFP XII Biennial Conf. European Soc for Central Asian
Studies, Cambridge UK, Sep 20-22, 2011

> H-ASIA
> January 25, 2011
>
> Call for papers: XII biennial conference of the European Society for
> Central Asia Studies, University of Cambridge, UK, September 20-22, 2011
>
> ***********************************************************************
> From: H-Net Announcements <announce@MAIL.H-NET.MSU.EDU>
>
> XII biennial conference of the European Society for Central Asia Studies,
> University of Cambridge, UK
>
> Location: United Kingdom
> Conference Date: 2011-09-20
> Date Submitted: 2011-01-14
> Announcement ID: 182104
>
> XII ESCAS Biennial Conference, University of Cambridge, 20 22 September
> 2011 Central Asia: a maturing field
>
> CALL FOR PAPERS
>
> The European Society for Central Asian Studies (ESCAS) invites proposals
> for individual papers, panels and round-table discussions for the twelfth
> ESCAS biennial conference scheduled for 20--22 September 2011 at the
> University of Cambridge, UK. The Conference will be hosted by the
> Cambridge Central & Inner Asian Forum
> (http://www.cambridge-centralasia.org/)
> ESCAS welcomes proposals relating to all aspects of research in the arts,
> humanities and social sciences on Central Asia namely the republics of
> Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan, together
> with Xinjiang, Mongolia, Afghanistan and adjacent regions of Russia, China
> and Iran.
>
> Scholars and practitioners of anthropology, archaeology, architecture, art
> & art history, cinema, development studies, economics & finance, history,
> musicology, philology, political science, sociology and other related
> disciplines are encouraged to participate. We particularly welcome
> proposals which will cross disciplinary boundaries, bringing together
> experts from different fields.
>
> The conference will offer an opportunity to reflect on how far the study
> of Central Asia has come in the twenty years since the break-up of the
> USSR which transformed our field, and to both celebrate and critique the
> research which has flowed from this.
>
> SUBMISSION OF PROPOSALS
>
> We encourage the submission of pre-organised panels and discussion groups,
> and these may be given some preference in the selection process. Each
> panel will have three speakers, who will have half an hour to deliver
> their papers, followed by half an hour of questions and general
> discussion. Panel proposals should include a clear theme and rationale for
> bringing the speakers together. They should not include a discussant, but
> may nominate a chair if desired. Round-table discussions should include
> five or six contributors plus a chair, and will last for an hour and a
> half. Individual papers will be assigned a panel by the conference
> organisers.
>
> TIMETABLE
>
> The website for the submission of proposals is www.escas.org, which will
> be live from 15th January 2011
>
> The deadline for proposals will be 15th March 2011.
>
> Notification of acceptance will be by the 30th April 2011.
>
> All conference attendees and delegates will be required to pay the
> registration fee by 15th August 2011
>
> Registration will begin at 10am on Tuesday 20th September 2011, with the
> first keynote speech at 11.30am. The Conference will include the General
> Assembly of ESCAS at lunchtime and a gala dinner and concert in the
> evening on Day 2 (21st September 2011), and a second keynote speech on Day
> 3 (22nd September 2011), when proceedings will end by 5.30pm.
> PUBLICATION ARRANGEMENTS
>
> All participants may, if they wish, submit written versions of their
> papers to the ESCAS editorial committee to be considered for inclusion in
> the published proceedings of the conference, which will appear as a volume
> of Cambridge Central Asia Reviews from Cambridge Scientific Publishers
> (http://www.cambridgescientificpublishers.com/)
>
> VISA ARRANGEMENTS
>
> Those participants requiring UK visas will be provided with mailed or
> faxed visa invitations by the host organisation, the Cambridge Central &
> Inner Asia Forum. The process will begin immediately upon acceptance of
> the proposed paper, panel or round-table.
> REGISTRATION INFORMATION
>
> The conference organisers are hoping to subsidise or pay in full the cost
> of participation for delegates from Central Asia, and also to find general
> subventions to reduce the conference fee required from other participants.
> At this stage we cannot guarantee this, however, so the registration fees
> currently stand as follows:
> 1 - Full fee: Three days attendance, all meals and three nights
> accommodation: GBP 400
>
> 2 - Day delegate fee: Three days attendance, lunch & dinner: GBP 210
>
> 3 - Single day fee: One days attendance, lunch & dinner: GBP 75
>
> ESCAS members will receive a GBP 50 discount on the first and second
> options.
>
> Any revisions to these fees will be circulated well before the 15th August
> deadline for payment.
>
> CONTACT
>
> Preliminary communications regarding the conference should be sent to:
> escas2011@gmail.com
>
> Information on ESCAS membership can be found at our current website:
> http://www.escas.pz.nl
> We hope to hear from you soon.
>
> Dr Zifa Auezova, ESCAS President
>
> Professor Siddharth (Montu) Saxena, Director, Cambridge Central & Inner
> Asia Forum.
>
> ESCAS Board: Matteo Fumagalli (Budapest), Maria Keller (Frankfurt),
> Alexander Morrison (Liverpool), Catherine Poujol (Paris), Tommaso
> Trevisani (Berlin), Cholpon Turdalieva (Bishkek), Anne-Marie Vuillemenot
> (Louvain).
>
> Alexander Morrison
> School of History
> University of Liverpool
> 9 Abercromby Square
> Liverpool
> L69 7WZ
> Email: escas2011@gmail.com
> Visit the website at http://www.escas.org
>
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Fw: H-ASIA: Donating books

----- Original Message -----
From: "Monika Lehner" <monika.lehner@UNIVIE.AC.AT>
To: <H-ASIA@H-NET.MSU.EDU>
Sent: Tuesday, January 25, 2011 3:56 PM
Subject: H-ASIA: Donating books

> H-ASIA
> January 25, 2011
>
> Donating Books (Anthropology/Culture)
> ***********************************************************************
> From: "Helen G. Byrd" <Hbyrd@Rollins.edu>
>
> Rollins College, the Anthropology Department has about 150 books we are
> looking to donate. Some of the books are old and some are current. Would
> anyone be interested in these Anthropology/Culture books?
>
> Thanks.
> Helen Byrd
> Anthropology and Sociology Departments
> Rollins College
> 1000 Holt Avenue - Campus Box 2761
> Winter Park, FL 32789
> USA
> Phone 407 646-2670
> Email: hbyrd@rollins.edu
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