Fw: H-ASIA: Chinese characters for leiwen (response)

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From: "Ryan Dunch" <Ryan.Dunch@UALBERTA.CA>
To: <H-ASIA@H-NET.MSU.EDU>
Sent: Saturday, May 21, 2011 4:48 AM
Subject: H-ASIA: Chinese characters for leiwen (response)

> H-ASIA
> May 20, 2011
>
> Chinese characters for leiwen (response)
> ************************************************************************
> From: Rui Oliveira Lopes <rui-o-lopes@idearte.org>
>
> Dear Colleague,
>
> I believe that leiwen is not a thunder pattern but a cloud pattern
> instead. Thus I think that the correct Chinese characters for leiwen are 纇
> (lei), which means knot and 雯 (wen), which means cloud patterns or
> coloring of cloud. The reliefs on bronze surfaces give the light and
> shadow contrast and the intermingled clouds resemblance rope knots.
>
> In my opinion, the characters 雷 (thunder) 文 (culture) does not make much
> sense, even considering that 文 character was often inscribed on oracle
> bones and bronze vessels. The cloud pattern is an archetypal image that
> represents the ancestral world, the world of the spiritual ancestors and
> the world beyond the living. The inhabitants of this world beyond are the
> dragons and the birds (that have the ability to fly into the sky) which
> were often depicted in bronze vessels over the cloud pattern. In Chinese
> art, since Han dynasty, probably under the influence of Buddhism, cloud
> patterns became the vehicle of the Heavenly Gods and Goddess when they
> came and descend from sky to intervene in the living world.
>
> I hope this could be helpful.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Rui Oliveira Lopes
> Assistant Researcher, Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Lisbon
> Tel: 00 351 96 261 73 10
> mail: rui-o-lopes@idearte.org
> rui.o.lopes@gmail.com
>
>
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Fw: H-ASIA: CONF Cultural Translation: East Asia and the World, Taipei May 28-29, 2011

----- Original Message -----
From: "Frank Conlon" <conlon@U.WASHINGTON.EDU>
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Sent: Saturday, May 21, 2011 12:31 PM
Subject: H-ASIA: CONF Cultural Translation: East Asia and the World, Taipei
May 28-29, 2011

> H-ASIA
> May 21, 2011
>
> Conference: Cultural Translation: East Asia and the World, Taipei, May
> 28-29, 2011
> *************************************************************************
> From: Alexander Huang <acyhuang05@gmail.com>
>
> Cultural Translation: East Asia and the World, International Conference
> National Taiwan University, May 28-29, 2011
>
> http://homepage.ntu.edu.tw/~ntuihs/en/index.htm
>
> Features speakers and participants include Michel Hockx (SOAS, London),
> Zhang Longxi (City University of Hong Kong), Wilt Idema (Harvard), Shigeru
> Miyagawa (MIT), Sung-sheng Yvonne Chang (UT Austin), Brett de Bary
> (Cornell), Kathy Foley (UCSC), Nicholas Kaldis (SUNY Binghamton), and
> others.
>
> Cultural translation has come to shape the world we live in. Cultural
> translation encompasses a broad range of cultural and artistic activities
> taking place in the contact zones between different historical moments of
> the same culture, between national spaces, or between genres and forms of
> expression including textual and visual cultures. How do ideas and genres
> migrate across these boundaries? What driving forces are at work behind
> the
> formation of the culture of translation and the translation of cultures?
> This interdisciplinary conference will bring together specialists of East
> Asian humanities to explore the issues of identity formation, localization
> and globalization, and transnational cultural flows in both pre-modern and
> postmodern times.
>
> Free and open to the public.
>
> Venue: New Agricultural Chemistry Building, Fifth Floor, Conference Room
> IV,
> National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
>
> Campus Map and Conference program available on the conference website.
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Fw: H-ASIA: Attention U.S. Colleagues: Fulbright-Hays Doctoral and Faculty Research Awards Programs Cancelled Query (and Response)

----- Original Message -----
From: "Frank Conlon" <conlon@U.WASHINGTON.EDU>
To: <H-ASIA@H-NET.MSU.EDU>
Sent: Saturday, May 21, 2011 9:58 PM
Subject: H-ASIA: Attention U.S. Colleagues: Fulbright-Hays Doctoral and
Faculty Research Awards Programs Cancelled Query (and Response)

> H-ASIA
> May 21, 2011
>
> Query re: early post (and response) on cancellation of Fulbright-Hays
> Doctoral and Faculty Research Awards Programs
> ************************************************************************
> Ed. note: When Phil Brown's posting came in last night, I was shocked to
> learn of this development. Jared Phillips asks for more details--and here
> is the official note on the cancellation. FFC
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> From: Jared Phillips <jmp006@uark.edu>
>
> Hi all-
>
> Is there any explanation for why they have been cancelled?
>
> Thanks-
>
> Jared Phillips
> PhD Student
> Department of History
> University of Arkansas
> jmp006@uark.edu
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Ed. note: Here is the Education Department's notice:
>
> http://www2.ed.gov/programs/iegpsddrap/applicant.html
>
> Applicant Information
>
>
> Timeline
> Current competition: FY 2011. Cancelled.
>
> CANCELLATION NOTICE: On September 17, 2010 a notice was published in the
> Federal Register inviting applications for new awards under the
> Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad (DDRA) Program for FY
> 2011. The notice announced "an estimated $5,800,000 for awards under this
> competition. The actual level of funding, if any, depends on final
> Congressional action. However, we are inviting applications to allow
> enough time to complete the grant process if Congress appropriates funds
> for this program."
>
> Congressional action on the FY 2011 budget substantially reduced funds
> available for grants from the Title VI Programs, including new grants
> under the DDRA Program. Therefore, no new awards will be made under the
> DDRA Program in FY 2011.
>
> Federal Register Notice
> NOTE: The notice below is being withdrawn by the Department of Education.
> A notice of withdrawal will be published soon in the Federal Register.
>
> Notice Inviting Applications for New Awards for FY 2011 (September 17,
> 2010) PDF
>
> Current Application
> The FY 2011 grant competition has been cancelled.
>
> Application Contact
> Amy Wilson
> International Education Programs Service
> U.S. Department of Education
> 1990 K Street, N.W., Room 6084
> Washington, DC 20006-8521
> Telephone: (202) 502-7689
> E-mail: ddra@ed.gov
>
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Fw: H-ASIA: Member update: "youtube" Broadcast of "Thesis Defense-The Political History of Japan between the two World Wars"[e.f]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Frank Conlon" <conlon@U.WASHINGTON.EDU>
To: <H-ASIA@H-NET.MSU.EDU>
Sent: Saturday, May 21, 2011 11:53 PM
Subject: H-ASIA: Member update: "youtube" Broadcast of "Thesis Defense-The
Political History of Japan between the two World Wars"[e.f]

> H-ASIA
> May 21, 2011
>
> Member update: A Youtube Broadcast of "Thesis Defense-The Political
> History of Japan between the two World Wars."
> **********************************************************************
> Ed. note: I am sure we all will join in congratulting Habib for the
> successful defense of the thesis and for prevailing in a challenging
> situation. FFC
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> From: Habib al Badawi <habib.badawi.2@gmail.com>
>
> Hello from Lebanon:
>
> I'm happy to share the successful result of my M.A thesis The Political
> History of Japan between the two World Wars with you after our
> correspondents for several times in the past two years during writing my
> book in Arabic which I will translate it to English as soon as possible.
> In this achievement you played an important part by your unlimited
> encouraging, Iaddress you by quoting from Sir. William Shakespeare :"Upon
> your sword, Sit laurel victory! and smooth success, Be strew'd before your
> feet!" (Antony and Cleopatra, 1.3.121-123), there for I'm always thankful
> for your time, kindness & decency.
>
> The result of my "Thesis Defense" is the perfect score 270\300. I cited
> in from 275 English books & 52 documents (out of 300) trying to reveal
> both
> Japanese & Western point of view on most of the political improvements,
> economical bombasts, sociological changes and military incidents during
> three historical eras of Japanese history including: Meiji period, Taisho
> period and the first phase of the Showa period.It was the best day in my
> life because it was the harvest of five years of hard work, the result was
> a
> celebration of success, achievement and the peaceful Arab-Japanese
> friendly
> relations.I adore those kind people and there decedents, everyone can find
> the courtesy in there behaviour.
>
> Mr.Yasuhiro Mitsui the cultural attache in the Japanese embassy at Beirut
> attended the event, after receiving my degree ,I dedicated my achievement
> to
> the victims of 15 March 2011 Tsunami in Japan. I should mention that I
> created this facebook community =Solidarity with Japan= to morally support
> Japan against the catastrophic natural disaster, there are more than 2600
> members in our group.
> .
> http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_195172373848321&id=20639301272625
> 7&notif_t=like#!/home.php?sk=group_195172373848321&notif_t=group_activity
>
>
> The "Thesis Defense" is on "youtube", it is in Arabic language while the
> PowerPoint is in English, sorry I couldn't put English subtitles because
> it
> is a personal effort without any official support from Lebanon or Japan.
>
> 1- Japan between Two World Wars Part 1 of 5 by Habib Albadawi
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P1URj92QHpM
>
> 2- Japan between Two World Wars Part 2 of 5
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=orrvMEciTdo
>
> 3- Japan between Two World Wars part 3 of 5
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SDrJMC8mUgo
>
> 4- Japan between Two World Wars Part 4of 5
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDOPIaeDd08
>
> 5- Japan between Two World Wars Part 5of 5
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYpUF5Wkx4M
>
> Now I'm preparing for my Ph.D dissertation* , this time I will write
> from the beginning two identical versions in Arabic & English languages.
> Again I'm looking for your moral & educational support especially by
> on-line
> (or pdf.s) references,maps & documents. I'm doing my best to "find my spot
> under the sun" inspired by Thomas Edison who said:"have more respect for
> the
> fellow with a single idea who gets there than for the fellow with a
> thousand
> ideas who does nothing", that why I will perform perfectly* to achieve my
> Doctoral Quest [from Lebanon to the World].
>
> Best Regards
>
>
> Habib
> --
> Habib alBadawi
> American University Beirut
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Fw: H-ASIA: CFP The Body in IR, New England conf ISA, Providence, 4-5 Nov. 2011

----- Original Message -----
From: "Frank Conlon" <conlon@U.WASHINGTON.EDU>
To: <H-ASIA@H-NET.MSU.EDU>
Sent: Saturday, May 21, 2011 11:57 PM
Subject: H-ASIA: CFP The Body in IR, New England conf ISA, Providence, 4-5
Nov. 2011

> H-ASIA
> May 21, 2011
>
> Call for papers: for a 'mini-conference' on the Body in International
> Relations, ISA-NE conference. Providence, November 4-5, 2011
>
> (x-post H-Human-Rights)
> ***********************************************************************
> From: Renée Marlin-Bennett <marlin@jhu.edu>
>
> Dear Colleagues,
>
> I would like to invite those whose research looks at the body in global
> relations to consider participating in a "mini-conference within a
> conference" that I will be proposing for ISA-NE 2011 (November 4-5,
> Providence, Rhode Island). Increasingly, scholars are turning to
> questions of embodiment and the flesh-and-blood human beings by whom,
> upon whom, and through whom global relations happens. Since we tend to
> focus on many different substantive areas (migration, human security, the
> environment...), a small conference like ISA-NE provides a nice venue for
> coming come together, learning from each other, and finding points of
> synergy that will push our research program on the body in global
> relations forward.
>
> I hope to propose a couple of linked panels and/or roundtables, as well
> as a session with a more innovative format. There would be opportunity
> for building this intellectual community outside of formal sessions, as
> well.
>
> Please contact me (as far in advance of the June 20 proposal deadline as
> possible) with your ideas and paper topics.
>
> Renée Marlin-Bennett
> Professor of Political Science
> Johns Hopkins University
> Baltimore, MD USA
> marlin@jhu.edu
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Fw: H-ASIA: Fulbright-Hays Grants Cancellations Summary

----- Original Message -----
From: "Frank Conlon" <conlon@U.WASHINGTON.EDU>
To: <H-ASIA@H-NET.MSU.EDU>
Sent: Sunday, May 22, 2011 2:49 AM
Subject: H-ASIA: Fulbright-Hays Grants Cancellations Summary

> H-ASIA
> May 21, 2011
>
> Fulbright-Hays Grants Cancellations Summary
> **********************************************************************
> From: Carol Henderson <chenderson96@aol.com>
>
> Programs that have been canceled for FY 2011 include:
>
> American Oversease Research Councils
> Fulbright-Hays Faculty Research Grants
> Business and International Education
> International Research and Studies Programs
> Undergraduate International STudies and Foreign Language Program
>
> Here's a link to the Dept of Education Website with links to information
> on the status of programs:
>
> Fulbright-Hays - Dept of Ed Programs Status
> http://www2.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ope/iegps/index.html
>
>
> Carol E. Henderson
> Dept of Sociology and Anthropology
> Rutgers University-Newark
> Newark, NJ 07102
>
> chenderson96@aol.com
> cehender@andromeda.rutgers.edu

Fw: H-ASIA: Attention U.S. Colleagues: Fulbright-Hays Doctoral and Faculty Research Awards Programs Cancelled (comment)

----- Original Message -----
From: "Frank Conlon" <conlon@U.WASHINGTON.EDU>
To: <H-ASIA@H-NET.MSU.EDU>
Sent: Sunday, May 22, 2011 2:51 AM
Subject: H-ASIA: Attention U.S. Colleagues: Fulbright-Hays Doctoral and
Faculty Research Awards Programs Cancelled (comment)

> H-ASIA
> May 21, 2011
>
> Comment on the cancellation of Title VI funded programs
> ************************************************************************
> From: Anthony D'Costa <promothesdcosta@gmail.com>
>
> This is very unfortunate. I was a recipient of a Faculty Research Abroad
> fellowship in 1992. This was the only Fulbright award that a non-American
> citizen was eligible for. I have benefited tremendously from such an
> award
> in terms of research publications on the Indian auto industry and Japanese
> industrial practices in India through field research in India and Japan.
> Through this fellowship I have also contributed to the intellectual
> interest
> in the political economy of changing Indian industries. Elimination of
> the
> Fulbright Program is short sighted despite the alleged short-term
> financial
> gains that might accrue in these times of belt tightening. More
> importantly
> the long-term damage to the intellectual growth of US-based young scholars
> is likley to be substantial. American scholars, including me, need to
> ensure that the Fulbright programs are reinstated immediately or else we
> will be witness to the gradual withering of interdisciplinary
> international
> studies in the social sciences and history. .
>
> Yours, Anthony
>
> xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Anthony P. D'Costa
> Professor of Indian Studies and Research Director
> Asia Research Centre
> Copenhagen Business School
> Dalgas Have 15
> DK-2000 Frederiksberg, Denmark
> Ph: +45 3815 2572
>
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Fw: H-ASIA: Attention U.S. Colleagues: Fulbright-Hays Doctoral and Faculty Research Awards Programs Cancelled --includes CAORC funds

----- Original Message -----
From: "Frank Conlon" <conlon@U.WASHINGTON.EDU>
To: <H-ASIA@H-NET.MSU.EDU>
Sent: Sunday, May 22, 2011 2:54 AM
Subject: H-ASIA: Attention U.S. Colleagues: Fulbright-Hays Doctoral and
Faculty Research Awards Programs Cancelled --includes CAORC funds

> H-ASIA
> May 21, 2011
>
> Further comment on the cancellation of Title VI funded programs - CAORC
> (American Overseas Research Centers
> ************************************************************************
> From: John Rogers <rogersjohnd@aol.com>
>
> A total of six Department of Education international education
> competitions have been canceled because of the Congressional funding cuts
> to Title VI/Fulbright-Hays. They are listed on this Department of
> Education web page:
> http://www2.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ope/iegps/index.html
>
> H-Asia readers may want to note that among the canceled competitions is
> that for American Overseas Research Centers. Since the current four-year
> cycle for ORC support ends in September, this means that beginning October
> all ORCs that currently have grants will lose their funding. At present,
> holders of these grants include the Center for Khmer Studies, American
> Institute of Indian Studies, American Institute of Pakistan Studies,
> American Center for Mongolian Studies, and the American Institute for Sri
> Lankan Studies. The loss of these funds will have a serious impact on
> these organizations.
>
> I can only hope that Congress will in the FY 2012 reverse these cuts to
> international education.
>
>
> John D. Rogers
> United States Director
> American Institute for Sri Lankan Studies
> Belmont, MA
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