Fw: H-ASIA: Summer Programme 2012 - World Wide Asia: Asian Flows, Global Impacts, Leiden, Aug 27-Sep 1, 2012 Deadline 16 Nov. 2011

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Global Impacts, Leiden, Aug 27-Sep 1, 2012 Deadline 16 Nov. 2011

> H-ASIA
> September 9, 2011
>
>
> IIAS Summer Programme 2012: World Wide Asia: Asian Flows, Global Impacts,
> Leiden, August 27-September 1, 2012
> DEADLINE 16 NOVEMBER 2011 09:00 (CET)
> **********************************************************************
> From: M C van den Haak <M.C.van.den.Haak@iias.nl>
>
> IIAS Summer Programme in Asian Studies
>
>
> World Wide Asia: Asian Flows, Global Impacts
>
>
> A four-day master class followed by a two-day international conference
>
> Date: 27 August - 1 September 2012
>
> Venue: Leiden, the Netherlands
> <http://maps.google.nl/maps?q=leiden&hl=nl&sll=52.469397,5.509644&sspn=5
> .060825,14.227295&vpsrc=0&z=13>
>
>
> Deadline for applications: 16 November 2011, 9.00 am (CET)
>
> Programme
>
> The second IIAS <http://www.iias.nl/> Summer Programme in Asian Studies
> will partner with the Leiden Global Interactions Research Group (LGIG)
> <http://research.leiden.edu/research-profiles/global/> at Leiden
> University <http://www.leiden.edu/> to critically explore Asian
> migrations as a globalizing force. The flows of people, goods, capital and
> ideas within and from the Asian continents have been transforming the
> global landscape for centuries. Arguably, this influence has become more
> recognizable and acute in the present day.
>
> The study of Asian mobilities can provide important insights into the
> conditions, processes and effects of globalization and historical global
> forms. In order to gain a nuanced understanding of Asia's role in the
> transformation of the global, the workshop and conference will focus on
> exploring the social, historical, political and economic conditions that
> give rise to particular forms of Asian migration and the diverse impacts
> they have in various local and global arenas. This master class seeks to
> cultivate Asian perspectives on historical and contemporary forms of
> migration and their impact on shaping global-local landscapes,
> practices, relationships and structures.
>
> The programme invites applications from PhD candidates and advanced
> research master's students whose work deals with some aspect of Asian
> migration. Students from Asia and non-European/Atlantic institutions are
> especially encouraged to apply.
>
> The programme will be run by three leading scholars in the fields of
> global migration history, the history of globalization, and modern Asian
> history: Prof. Leo Lucassen
> <http://hum.leiden.edu/history/staff/lucassen.html> (Leiden University
> <http://www.leiden.edu/> ),
> Prof. Adam McKeown
> <http://www.columbia.edu/cu/history/fac-bios/McKeown/faculty.html>
> (Columbia University <http://www.columbia.edu/> ) and
> Prof. Radhika Singha <http://www.gmw.ethz.ch/people/singha/SinghaCV.pdf>
> (Jawaharlal
> Nehru University <http://www.jnu.ac.in/> ), respectively.
>
>
> These scholars will combine their expertise to provide participants with
> an intensive and interactive experience. The master class will focus on
> student works. Students will, therefore, be expected to provide a working
> research paper and will have the opportunity to present their work and get
> productive critical feedback from the conveners and their student peers.
>
> The programme will close with a two-day conference on the same theme of
> Asian Migrations, featuring international scholars. Summer Programme
> participants will be given opportunities to meet and interact with the
> conference panelists and a select number of students may be invited to
> present their research in one of the conference sessions. All students
> will be invited to attend the conference and participate in the
> discussions.
>
>
> Information and Application form:
> Please visit www.summerprogramme.asia:
> <http://www.summerprogramme.asia/>
> for more information on the Summer Programme, the requirements and the
> application form.
>
> For questions, please contact Ms Martina van den Haak at
> M.C.van.den.Haak@iias.nl <mailto:M.C.van.den.Haak@iias.nl>
>
> The International Institute for Asian Studies (IIAS) is a postdoctoral
> research centre based in the Netherlands. The Institute encourages the
> interdisciplinary and comparative study of Asia and promotes national
> and international cooperation. The Institute focuses on the human and
> social sciences and on their interaction with other sciences.
>
> Martina van den Haak
> IIAS Main Office
> Leiden | P.O. box 9500
> 2300 RA | Leiden
> <http://www.iias.nl/>
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Fw: H-ASIA: CFA Tools and Resources for Study of Women in South Asian Islamic Societies, Chicago, Dec 2, 2011 (AIIS, AIBS, AIPS)

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Subject: H-ASIA: CFA Tools and Resources for Study of Women in South Asian
Islamic Societies, Chicago, Dec 2, 2011 (AIIS, AIBS, AIPS)

> H-ASIA
> September 9, 2011
>
> Call for Applications:
> Tools and Resources for Study of Women in South Asian Islamic
> Societies, co-sponsored by the American Institute of Bangladesh
> Studies, American Institute of Indian Studies and American Institute
> of Pakistan Studies (funding by Carnegie Corporation), University of
> Chicago, Friday, December 2, 2011
> APPLICATION DEADLINE OCTOBER 31, 2011
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> Ed. note: Thanks to Keith Snodgrass for forwarding this item to share
> on H-ASIA. For more information go to the link noted in post. FFC
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
> From: Keith Snodgrass <snodgras@u.washington.edu>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: AIBS <aibsinfo@aibs.net>
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>
> Dear Colleagues,
>
> A Faculty Development Workshop co-sponsored between AIBS, AIPS, and
> AIIS (funded by the Carnegie Corporation of New York) will be held
> at the University of Chicago, Friday, December 2, 2011.
>
>
> Faculty Development Workshop: Tools and Resources for Study of Women in
> South Asian Islamic Societies: Call for Applications
>
> The American Institute of Indian Studies, the American Institute of
> Pakistan
> Studies, the American Institute of Bangladesh Studies and the University
> of
> Chicago South Asia Language and Area Center will hold an all-day workshop
> on
> Friday December 2, 2011 that will provide tools and resources for
> promoting
> the study of women in Islamic Society in South Asia. The focus would be to
> provide a complex and nuanced overview of women and the impacts of women's
> political participation in South Asian Muslim societies. It will emphasize
> their pro-active efforts at community organizing, educational reform,
> anti-corruption, human rights, and public health.
>
>
> Who is Eligible to Participate?
>
> Thirty faculty members will be selected to participate in the workshop.
> The
> workshop is targeted at faculty at community colleges, small liberal arts
> colleges, religious-affiliated colleges, minority-serving colleges, and
> small public colleges in the greater Chicago area and northern Illinois.
>
>
>
> How to Apply?
>
> Please go to http://southasia.uchicago.edu/outreach/islam_workshop.shtml
> and
> fill out the simple application which will require a brief statement of
> purpose about your goals for attending the workshop and how you would like
> to use the tools and resources that will be discussed. The deadline for
> applications is October 15, 2011. All applicants will be informed about
> whether they have been selected no later than October 31, 2011.
>
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Fw: H-ASIA: AJISS-Commentary No.129 on Reconciliation in Thailand by Akira Suehiro

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Subject: H-ASIA: AJISS-Commentary No.129 on Reconciliation in Thailand by
Akira Suehiro

> H-ASIA
> September 9, 2011
>
> AJISS-Commentary No.129 on Reconciliation in Thailand by Akira Suehiro
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> From: Japan Institute of International Affairs <e-commentary@jiia.or.jp>
>
> Editor: Akio Watanabe
> Editorial Board: Hideki Asari, Masashi Nishihara, and Taizo Yakushiji
> Online Publisher: Yoshiji Nogami
>
> AJISS-Commentary No.129
> "Prospects for Reconciliation in Thailand" by Akira Suehiro
>
> [Akira Suehiro is Director of and Professor at the Institute of Social
> Science, The University of Tokyo. The views expressed in this piece are
> the author's own and should not be attributed to The Association of
> Japanese Institutes of Strategic Studies.]
>
> http://www.jiia.or.jp/en_commentary/201109/09-1.html
>
> Beating pre-election estimates, the pro-Thaksin Phue Thai (PT) Party swept
> the board in Thailand's general election on July 3. PT amassed a total of
> 265 of the 500 seats in parliament, compared with the 159 secured by the
> Democrat Party. On the following day, PT began negotiations with five
> minor parties, including Chart Thai Pattana, to form a coalition
> government that eventually had a solid majority of 300 seats. On August 5,
> Yinluk Shinawatra, born in 1967 and the youngest sister of former Prime
> Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, was elected to lead the new Cabinet. She is
> the first female prime minister in Thailand, which has had 27 prime
> ministers.
>
> Since the September 2006 coup that ousted Thaksin, battles have continued
> between the pro-Thaksin United Front for Democracy Against Dictatorship
> (UDD), known as the "red shirts", and the "yellow-shirt" People's Alliance
> for Democracy (PAD). These battles culminated in bloodshed in 2010, with
> 92 people killed and more than 800 injured in the three months from March
> to May. It is wrong, however, to depict Thailand's political turmoil as
> one between PT represented by the red shirts and the Democrat Party
> represented by the yellow shirts. PT's supporters include not only the red
> shirts but also low-income dwellers in Bangkok and citizens in rural areas
> outside the southern region. Meanwhile, the yellow shirts have started
> this year targeting their criticism not just at PT but also at the
> government led by the Democrat Party's Abhisit Vejjajiva. More
> importantly, the yellow shirts advocated boycotting the July election,
> thus denying the very foundation of democratic principles. The myth that
> the yellow shirts are a pro-democracy force has been shattered.
>
> The biggest factor contributing to PT's victory was the spread of
> democracy from the capital region into rural areas. This allowed rural
> residents to express their frustration at the widening economic
> disparities by ballot rather than the traditional method of making a
> direct plea to the king (thawai thika) or submitting a petition to
> political leaders (kho-rong). This is attested to by the high voter
> turnout of 71.4%, the second highest on record after the general election
> in December 2007.
>
> Let's take a closer look at the results of the 375 seats allocated for
> single-seat constituencies by comparing them with pre-election estimates.
> PT made headway in the northeast region where the party won 103 seats as
> compared with the estimated 70 (of the 126 seats in total), in the north
> where it won 49 as compared with 36 (of the 61 seats in total) and in the
> central region where it won 42 as compared with 36 (of the 102 seats in
> total). In contrast, the Democrat Party suffered a crushing defeat as it
> saw its seats drop from 25 to 4 in the northeast, from 17 to 13 in the
> north and from 42 to 25 in the central region. Even in Bangkok where a
> clear-cut victory was expected for the Democrats, the party secured only
> 23 of the 33 seats. PT's overwhelming strength in rural districts can be
> attributed less to Thaksin's popularity than to the strong frustration
> felt by people at the failure of the Abhisit government to narrow the
> economic gap.
>
> In May, just before the election, the Abhisit government introduced a
> series of electoral reforms. Amendments to election law increased the
> number of proportional-representation seats from 100 to 125 while reducing
> the number of proportional-representation districts across the country
> from eight to one. They also changed the existing multiple-seat
> constituencies into single-seat constituencies. These reforms, however,
> all backfired on the Democrats. In proportional representation, PT with
> Yinluck as its head appealed to the voters with slogans calling for "the
> first female prime minister in Thailand" and "social reconciliation under
> the female prime minister," effectively dispelling the Democrats' attacks
> that PT was Thaksin's proxy party and that the red shirts were a group of
> terrorists. The national leader's popularity has a decisive impact on
> election outcomes in Thailand. The high expectations of the newcomer
> Yinluck far outstripped the popularity of her predecessor, Abhisit
> Vejjajiva, who in people's eyes epitomized the political elite.
>
> Where will Thai politics lead? The instability that has characterized Thai
> politics since the 2006 coup will continue for the time being. It is
> unclear how effectively Yinluck, whose political expertise is unknown, can
> mitigate the domestic conflict. If the new government insists on a
> political comeback for Thaksin and seeks to hold accountable those
> responsible for the 2010 bloodshed, frictions with the military and the
> royalists will grow. On the other hand, if the government carries out PT's
> election pledges of raising the minimum wage to 300 baht a day (the
> current minimum wage in Bangkok stands at 215 baht) and doubling the
> initial salaries of civil servants to 15,000 baht, and couples these with
> economic policies that could add to inflationary pressures, the economy
> could become unstable. This would inevitably be reflected in political
> instability.
>
> Thailand is no longer a developing country; it is a middle-income country.
> The percentage of the population deemed poor dropped from 21% in 2000 to
> 8.5% in 2007. The challenge the country is facing is no longer poverty
> itself but widening domestic gaps in income and employment due to
> inequality of opportunity. This also includes the problems of the social
> security system, which has not yet taken into account the rapidly ageing
> and shrinking population, and the mismatch of education and labor markets
> that is coming to light as an increasing number of people receive higher
> education. Thais expect the new government to address these "middle-income
> country" challenges. What is required is not mere cosmetic political
> reconciliation but rather earnest effort toward resolving the new social
> problems underlying the political conflict.
>
>
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> Association of Japanese Institutes of Strategic Studies (AJISS) consisting
> of three leading Japanese think tanks: Institute for International Policy
> Studies (IIPS), The Japan Institute of International Affairs (JIIA), and
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