Fw: H-ASIA: TOC: Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, vol 42, issue 2 now available

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Subject: H-ASIA: TOC: Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, vol 42, issue 2
now available

> H-ASIA
> May 13, 2011
>
> Table of contents: Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, volume 42, issue 2
> now available
> *************************************************************************
> From: Martine Walsh <mwalsh@cambridge.org>
>
> JOURNAL OF SOUTHEAST ASIAN STUDIES
> Volume 42 - Issue 02 - June 2011
>
> http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayIssue?jid=SEA&volumeId=42&issueId=02
>
>
>
> Editorial
> Editorial Foreword
> Maurizio Peleggi
> Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, Volume 42, Issue 02, June 2011, pp 189
> - 191
> doi:10.1017/S0022463411000087 Published online by Cambridge University
> Press 12 May 2011
> Link to abstract:
> http://journals.cambridge.org/abstract_S0022463411000087
> ____________________________________
>
> Research Articles
> Sheltered by dhamma: Reflecting on gender, security and religion in
> Cambodia
> Alexandra Kent
> Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, Volume 42, Issue 02, June 2011, pp 193
> - 209
> doi:10.1017/S0022463411000014 Published online by Cambridge University
> Press 12 May 2011
> Link to abstract:
> http://journals.cambridge.org/abstract_S0022463411000014
> ____________________________________
>
> Bureaucratic migrants and the potential of prosperity in upland Laos
> Sarinda Singh
> Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, Volume 42, Issue 02, June 2011, pp 211
> - 231
> doi:10.1017/S0022463411000026 Published online by Cambridge University
> Press 12 May 2011
> Link to abstract:
> http://journals.cambridge.org/abstract_S0022463411000026
> ____________________________________
>
> Laotian textiles in between markets and the politics of culture
> Annabel Vallard
> Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, Volume 42, Issue 02, June 2011, pp 233
> - 252
> doi:10.1017/S0022463411000038 Published online by Cambridge University
> Press 12 May 2011
> Link to abstract:
> http://journals.cambridge.org/abstract_S0022463411000038
> ____________________________________
>
> "Creative industries": Economic programme and boundary concept
> Anna-Katharina Hornidge
> Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, Volume 42, Issue 02, June 2011, pp 253
> - 279
> doi:10.1017/S002246341100004X Published online by Cambridge University
> Press 12 May 2011
> Link to abstract:
> http://journals.cambridge.org/abstract_S002246341100004X
> ____________________________________
>
> The "other" Muhammadiyah movement: Singapore 1958?2008
> Syed Muhd Khairudin Aljunied
> Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, Volume 42, Issue 02, June 2011, pp 281
> - 302
> doi:10.1017/S0022463411000051 Published online by Cambridge University
> Press 12 May 2011
> Link to abstract:
> http://journals.cambridge.org/abstract_S0022463411000051
> ____________________________________
>
> The blessings and perils of female rule: New perspectives on the reigning
> queens of Patani, c. 1584?1718
> Stefan Amirell
> Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, Volume 42, Issue 02, June 2011, pp 303
> - 323
> doi:10.1017/S0022463411000063 Published online by Cambridge University
> Press 12 May 2011
> Link to abstract:
> http://journals.cambridge.org/abstract_S0022463411000063
> ____________________________________
>
> Notes
> Tarumanagara: What's in a name?
> Robert Wessing
> Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, Volume 42, Issue 02, June 2011, pp 325
> - 337
> doi:10.1017/S0022463411000075 Published online by Cambridge University
> Press 12 May 2011
> Link to abstract:
> http://journals.cambridge.org/abstract_S0022463411000075
> ____________________________________
>
> Book Reviews pp 339-371
> ____________________
> Martine Walsh
> Senior Commissioning Editor
> HSS Journals
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Fw: H-ASIA: CFP Bangkok symposium on Haunting and Globalization

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Subject: H-ASIA: CFP Bangkok symposium on Haunting and Globalization

> H-ASIA
> May 13, 2011
>
> Call for papers: Bangkok symposium on Haunting and Globalization:
> Symptoms of the Present, Chulalongkorn University, July 25, 2011
>
> ************************************************************************
> From: arnika fuhrmann <fuhrmann.arnika@googlemail.com>
>
> Haunting and Globalization: Symptoms of the Present
>
> A symposium at the Faculty of Arts, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok
>
> July 25, 2011
>
>
> Keynote speaker: Esther Cheung (University of Hong Kong)
>
> This symposium seeks to address political, aesthetic, and affective
> phenomena of the global present through a focus on the notion of haunting,
> critically deployed. Although globalization is a popular research topic,
> the
> ways in which shifting properties of personhood, institutions, temporal
> frames, and materialities that emerge in contexts of globalization affect
> the states of mind of people living in the present deserve additional
> attention. The symposium uses the notion of haunting to think about how
> something acquires a (memorable) shape, however tentative, and how various
> transformations and states of mind of the globalized present may be
> conceptualized.
>
>
> We invite 3–4 additional contributions that critically deploy notions of
> haunting, or temporal difference. These may or may not complement three
> existing papers on the transnational cinemas of Thailand and Hong Kong and
> one ethnographically based paper on masculinity and spectral parenthood in
> Thailand. The contributions might address new forms of political violence
> and solidarity; affective, textual, and material aspects of urban
> spatiality
> and migration; ways in which new media extend or constrain forms of
> relating; formations of new artistic and cinematic genres; manifestations
> of
> risk societies; the notion of liquid time; methods of localization; or any
> other phenomenon of the global present. We welcome contributions from a
> variety of disciplines and approaches in the humanities and social
> sciences.
>
> Please send an abstract of approximately 250 words to fuhrmann@hku.hk by
> June 1, 2011.
>
>
> Arnika
>
> --
> Arnika Fuhrmann
> Research Scholar
> Society of Scholars in the Humanities
> Department of Comparative Literature
> Room 215a, Main Building
> University of Hong Kong
> Pok Fu Lam Road
> Hong Kong
> +852 3563 5402
> fuhrmann@hku.hk
> fuhrmann.arnika@googlemail.com
> www.asianfilmfestivalberlin.de
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Fw: H-ASIA: International School for Advanced Studies in Cultural Studies "Critique/Crisis", Palermo, Summer school (comment)

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Subject: H-ASIA: International School for Advanced Studies in Cultural
Studies "Critique/Crisis", Palermo, Summer school (comment)

> H-ASIA
> May 13, 2011
>
> Comment on posting for "Critique/Crisis" summer school
> ************************************************************************
> Ed. note: My editorial note on gettng to finally use "hendiadys" in an
> H-ASIA post (May 13), prompted several members to respond privately on
> the wonder of it all as we push outward our lexical horizons. Here is
> but one example. FFC
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> From: Ian Welch <ian.welch@anu.edu.au>
>
> Most of us engaged in copulative conjunctions when younger, as opportunity
> allowed, but I never knew I was engaging in hendiadys. Apparently people
> have been hendiadysing for a very long time indeed.
>
> Which is just as well, or we might not be here to critique the crisis of
> modernity in Europe. Fortunately, as you hint, there has been a lot more
> hendiadysingness in Asia than elsewhere and, I must add, not only in
> summer. What a corker word.
>
>
> Ian Welch, Canberra
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Fw: H-ASIA: CFP NYCAS FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS--DEADLINE EXTENDED TO JUNE 1

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Subject: H-ASIA: CFP NYCAS FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS--DEADLINE EXTENDED TO JUNE
1

> H-ASIA
> May 13, 2011
>
> Final Call for Papers: NYCAS (New York Conference on Asian Studies),
> Buffalo, September 16-17, 2011 deadline extended to June 1
> ************************************************************************
> From: Ron Knapp <knappr@newpaltz.edu>
>
> NYCAS - New York Conference on Asian Studies
> The University at Buffalo, State University of New York
> September 16-17, 2011
> Conference theme: Asia at Work and Play
>
> FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS--DEADLINE EXTENDED TO JUNE 1, 2011
> NOW is the time to submit a paper or panel for NYCAS 2011!
> Please forward this CFP to others who might be interested. THANKS
>
> The University at Buffalo, State University of New York, will host the
> 47th
> annual meeting of the New York Conference on Asian Studies (NYCAS),
> September
> 16-17, 2011.
>
> The NYCAS 2011 program committee invites proposals for panels,
> roundtables, and
> individual papers on all aspects of Asian and Asian-American history,
> culture,
> and contemporary life, representing disciplines in the humanities, social
> sciences, and professional schools. Interdisciplinary proposals are also
> welcome.
>
> We encourage scholars from New York State, neighboring states and
> provinces,
> and beyond to share their research at the conference.
>
> In formulating proposals, participants are encouraged to consider the
> NYCAS
> 2011 theme —ASIA AT WORK AND PLAY— which calls attention to the ways in
> which
> the labor and creativity of people in and from Asia have transformed the
> world.
> The conference will feature an address by Dr. Gail Hershatter, noted
> historian
> of Chinese gender and labor and president of the Association for Asian
> Studies,
> as well as a wide range of presentations and performances.
>
> Panels and roundtables will be held at the Ramada Hotel and Conference
> Center,
> adjacent to the university's North Campus, at 2402 North Forest Road in
> Amherst, New York. A block of rooms has been reserved at the Ramada for
> conference participants.
>
> On Friday evening, September 16, NYCAS attendees will enjoy a plenary
> speech by
> Melissa Chiu, Vice President for Global Art Programs at the Asia Society,
> and
> an exhibition opening of work by students from the Central Academy of Fine
> Arts
> in Beijing. The Friday evening events will be held at the Center for the
> Arts,
> University at Buffalo North Campus, and cosponsored by the Confucius
> Institute
> at the University at Buffalo.
>
> A Saturday morning teacher workshop on "The Arts in Asia" is also planned.
> On
> Saturday evening,the UB Art Galleries will host a reception in honor of
> Vietnamese-American artist Dinh Q. Lê, whose new video installation on
> Saigon
> life will be premiered at UB during the NYCAS meeting.
>
> SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
> All panel, roundtable, and paper proposals must include the name and full
> contact information of all participants, and should be submitted online by
> visiting http://www.asianstudies.buffalo.edu/conferences/nycas2011.shtml
> and
> clicking the link at the top that says "Propose a panel, roundtable, or
> paper."
>
> INDIVIDUAL PAPER proposals should include the full title and a brief
> abstract
> of 200 words or less. Individual papers will be assigned by the NYCAS 2011
> program committee to a panel according to topic and should be short enough
> to
> present in 15-20 minutes. Word-for-word reading of papers is discouraged.
>
> A PANEL consists of 3 or 4 papers organized around a common topic or
> theme, and
> a chair (who may also be one of the panelists). All panel proposals should
> include a title and brief abstract of the panel (200 words or less), and a
> title and brief abstract of each paper. Panels will run for 90 minutes,
> and
> paper presentations should be short enough to allow for questions and
> discussion. Creative panel formats that encourage discussion and exchange
> are
> especially welcomed.
>
> ROUNDTABLE format may vary, but could include introductory remarks by each
> roundtable participant, followed by comments and discussion among
> participants
> and the audience. All roundtable proposals should include a title, content
> summary, and description of the anticipated contributions of each
> roundtable
> participant.
>
> NYCAS 2011 website:
> http://www.asianstudies.buffalo.edu/conferences/nycas2011.shtml
>
> Please address all inquiries to nycas2011@buffalo.edu
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Upcoming NYCAS Conferences
>
> NYCAS 12 State University of New York at New Paltz
> September 28-29, 2012
> Theme: "Contesting Tradition"
> Contact for 2012 conference: nycas2012@gmail.com
>
> NYCAS 13 Binghamton University, State University of New York
> September 27-28, 2013
> Theme: "Consuming Asia"
>
> NYCAS 14
> Hofstra University
>
> PLEASE FORWARD TO OTHERS WHO MAY BE INTERESTED IN PARTICIPATING IN NYCAS
> 2011
> IN BUFFALO.
>
> Ron Knapp
> Executive Secretary
> New York Conference on Asian Studies--NYCAS
> http://www.asianstudies.buffalo.edu/nycas/index.shtml
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Fw: H-ASIA: Seeking information on Munshi Naulakshur

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Subject: H-ASIA: Seeking information on Munshi Naulakshur

> H-ASIA
> May 13, 2011
>
> Seeking information on Munshi Naulakshur
> ***********************************************************************
> From: Dr H.Bellenoit <bellenoi@usna.edu>
>
> Dear Colleagues,
>
> I am seeking some information on one Munshi Naulakshur, who seems to have
> run in the gentry-service circles of Faizabad and Lucknow c. late 1700s
> and early 1800s. I've been able to glean some insight from translating his
> 'Allah Khud'ai', but as you know, Indo-Islamic authors - unlike the
> British - rarely spoke of themselves directly.
>
> Any suggestions for further reading in English, Urdu or Persian, or
> general biographical information, would be most useful.
>
> Thanking you,
> ----------------------------------------------
> Dr Hayden Bellenoit
> Assistant Professor of History
> U.S. Naval Academy
> Annapolis, MD 21402
> +1 410 293 6299
> bellenoi@usna.edu
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Fw: H-ASIA: Freer and Sackler Northern Qi Symposium, Jun 3-5, Registration Now Available

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Subject: H-ASIA: Freer and Sackler Northern Qi Symposium, Jun 3-5,
Registration Now Available

> H-ASIA
> May 13, 2011
>
> Freer and Sackler Norther Qi Symposium, Washington, June 3-5, 2011
> Registration now available
> ************************************************************************
> From: "Micklewright, Nancy" <MicklewrightN@si.edu>
>
> Symposium: Art and Material Culture of the Northern Qi Period
> Freer Gallery of Art, Meyer Auditorium
> June 3-5, 2011
>
> The brief Northern Qi dynasty witnessed tremendous change in Chinese art
> and material culture. In fact, many researchers have described it as one
> of the most pivotal periods in all of Chinese history, forming the roots
> of the cosmopolitan culture that matured during the later Sui (581-618)
> and Tang (618-907) dynasties.
>
> Inspired by the Sackler's presentation of Echoes of the Past: The Buddhist
> Cave Temples of Xiangtangshan, this symposium investigates artifacts from
> the Northern Qi period (550-77), the intellectual and ethnic contexts of
> their production, and current efforts to preserve and analyze this
> material. It begins with a keynote address by Professor Wu Hung of the
> University of Chicago that frames key issues associated with the era.
> Other leading specialists then present nine papers introducing new
> findings in Buddhist and mortuary remains. On the final day, a survey of
> existing scholarship precedes a roundtable discussion to identify topics
> for future research on the Northern Qi.
>
> Please visit the website for the conference program and registration
> information. http://www.asia.si.edu/events/XTSsymposium.asp
>
>
>
> Nancy Micklewright
> Head, Scholarly Programs and Publications
> Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery
> Smithsonian Institution
> micklewrightn@si.edu
> 202.633.0401
>
> PO Box 37012, MRC 707
> Washington DC 20013-7012
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Fw: H-ASIA: CFP UPDATE Masks of Modernity: Un/covering Global Modernisms, collection of essays

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Subject: H-ASIA: CFP UPDATE Masks of Modernity: Un/covering Global
Modernisms, collection of essays

> H-ASIA
> May 13, 2011
>
> UPDATED Call for papers: The Masks of Modernity: Un/covering Global
> Modernisms, anthology
>
> ***********************************************************************
> From: H-Net Announcements <announce@MAIL.H-NET.MSU.EDU>
>
> UPDATE] The Masks of Modernity: Un/covering Global Modernisms
>
> Call for Papers Date: 2011-05-15 (in 2 days)
> Date Submitted: 2011-05-09
> Announcement ID: 185098
>
> The Masks of Modernity: Un/covering Global Modernisms
>
> Proposal deadline: May 15, 2011.
>
> The success of Modernist studies is attributable in part to its early
> recognition of its global scope and ambitions. However, despite laudable
> attempts to engage cultural difference and cultural studies texts within
> the discipline, a disconnect remains between Northern European/U.S.
> transatlantic Modernist studies and global modernisms proper—from Hispanic
> and Brazilian "Modernismos" to Asian Modernisms to African Modernist
> works. In the history of Modernism/Modernity, for example, only one
> article has ever addressed the Spanish American modernist tradition. Very
> few have included examples of Asian or African modernisms. Our proposed
> collection seeks to develop a conversation about global modernisms in the
> broadest and most comparative sense.
>
> The theme of masks serves as a common ground for various global
> modernisms. From Japanese Kabuki masks, African spiritual masks, Mexican
> pre-Columbian masks, to the masks of Greek Theater, masks have played a
> prominent role in Modernist literary, cultural, and artistic discourses.
> We think of masks not only as a search for identity through connection
> with the past and incorporated into various works of the Modernist period,
> but also as a universal construct of modern existence, a simulacrum,
> representing that which we must be to survive, that which we aspire to be
> in our dreams, or that which we fear we truly are. In this sense, we might
> understand masks as a metaphor, a façade that serves to reveal, veil, or
> underscore the "truth," to describe the tensions and contradictions of
> Modernism in a given cultural context.
>
> The proposed anthology will be produced in English, and seeks to explore
> representations of masks in Modernist texts in all of their varieties.
> Imaginative, interdisciplinary and cultural studies approaches are
> encouraged. We also ask that your abstract specifically mentions the
> Modernism studied in your investigation and/or discipline. Please email
> 300-500-word proposals and a brief biography by May 15 to Andrew Reynolds,
> areynolds@wtamu.edu or Bonnie Roos, broos@wtamu.edu. Please forward as
> appropriate.
>
> Possible topics might include (but are in no way limited to) the
> following:
>
> • Masks in art, literature, cinema, dance, architecture, cultural studies,
> etc.
> • The "Masking" of Eurocentrism through foreign experience and exoticized
> representations
> • The use of fashion, kitsch and the everyday to "mask" artistic and
> literary intentionality
> • The theme of masks and play as a Modernist trope
> • Western vs. Non-Western masks during Modernism
> • Modernism "masking" colonialist and imperialist regimes
> • Masks as a part of ritual and performance in Modernist art and
> literature
> • Masks and the intersection of art and the body during Modernism
> • Visual and literary abstraction vs. realism through the use of masks
> • "Masking" gender roles during Modernism
> • The use of masks in folk traditions as represented in Modernism
> • Psychoanalysis as a method of seeing behind the mask
> • Robotics, Prosthesis or Cybernetics as masks of self
> • "Passing" as a form of Modernist mask
> • The mask as an iteration of the posthuman, decentered subject
> • Masking as a representation/precursor of the collective mind
> • Using masks to produce virtual and artificial spaces
> • Costuming, cosmetics and design
>
>
> Andrew Reynolds & Bonnie Roos
> Email: areynolds@wtamu.edu, broos@wtamu.edu
>
>
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Fw: [Y-Indology] Huffington Post: "Gandhi's Dharma and the West"

 

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Subject: [Y-Indology] Huffington Post: "Gandhi's Dharma and the West"

 

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Fw: H-ASIA: The Atomic Age from Hiroshima to the Present Symposium, University of Chicago, May 21, 2011

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Subject: H-ASIA: The Atomic Age from Hiroshima to the Present Symposium,
University of Chicago, May 21, 2011

> H-ASIA
> May 13, 2011
>
> Symposium "The Atomic Age from Hiroshima to the Present", University of
> Chicago, May 21, 2011
> ************************************************************************
> From: Sarah Jane Arehart <sjfitche@uchicago.edu>
>
> The Atomic Age from Hiroshima to the Present:
> Exploring Nuclear Weapons and Energy through Documentaries and Discussion
>
> The University of Chicago hosts a free symposium exploring nuclear energy,
> weaponry, and research with documentary screenings and panel discussions
> by experts
>
> Saturday, May 21, 2011
> 8:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
> International House, the University of Chicago, 1414 E. 59th St., Chicago
> IL. 60637
>
> FOR MORE INFORMATION and to RSVP
> This event is free and open to the public, but RSVPs are required. Lunch
> will be provided free of charge.
>
> For full information and details, visit
> http://lucian.uchicago.edu/blogs/atomicage/aboutsymposium/ or call
> 773-702-2715.
>
> DESCRIPTION
> For over a year, the University of Chicago has been planning and
> organizing this symposium bringing together filmmakers and experts for a
> day of film screenings and discussion about nuclear energy, weaponry,
> and research. When the organizers selected the title "The Atomic Age from
> Hiroshima to the Present," we had no expectation, indeed, no wish, that
> "the present" would include an actual nuclear catastrophe. The recent
> events at the Fukushima Daiichi plant in Japan, following upon the 25th
> anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster, give new urgency to all
> participants as we explore the atomic age-weaponry and energy, from the
> Cold War era to our present predicament. As we enter the eighth decade of
> the nuclear era, how can we think about-and act upon-the relationship
> between nuclear weapons and nuclear energy, in the classroom and in
> our communities?
>
> The goal of this symposium is to foster dialogue and provide resources and
> information for the classroom and the community. The symposium will
> feature new documentaries by two women filmmakers, one from the U.S. and
> one from Japan. They will be joined by a panel of experts for discussion
> after each screening, with a roundtable to conclude the day.
>
> FILMS
>
> Atomic Mom by M.T. Silvia explores the impact of nuclear testing in the
> U.S. through a focus on the filmmaker's mother, Pauline H. Silvia, a
> scientist who worked at the Nevada Test Site. Learning about her mother's
> past takes Silvia to Hiroshima, where she meets another "atomic" mother,
> Emiko Okada, a survivor of the atomic bombing. The contrasting stories of
> the two women overlap to dramatize the costs of nuclear actions and
> nuclear secrecy.
>
> Ashes to Honey: Toward a Sustainable Future by Hitomi Kamanaka explores
> the decades-long, bitterly divisive struggle among residents over whether
> to build a nuclear power plant on an island in the Inland Sea of western
> Japan. With preparations for plant construction underway, Kamanaka takes
> us to Sweden to learn about an alternative energy policy in practice.
>
> PARTICIPANTS
>
> M.T. Silvia, filmmaker (Twitter)
> Hitomi Kamanaka, filmmaker (Twitter)
> Kennette Benedict, (Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists)
> David Kraft (Nuclear Energy Information Service)
> Joseph Masco (Anthropology, University of Chicago)
> Sidney Nagel (Physics, University of Chicago)
> Robert Rosner (Astronomy & Astrophysics, and Physics, University of
> Chicago)
> Norma Field (East Asian Languages & Civilizations, University of Chicago)
> Yuki Miyamoto (Religious Studies, DePaul University)
> Tomomi Yamaguchi (Sociology & Anthropology, Montana State University)
> (Twitter: Japanese / English)
>
> SPONSORS
> University of Chicago Center for East Asian Studies, International House,
> Rockefeller Memorial Chapel, the Human Rights Program, the Center for
> Gender Studies, and the Department of Anthropology.
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