Wednesday, November 30, 2011

Fw: H-ASIA: NEW LIST H-HORN on Horn of Africa & Red Sea world

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> November 30, 2011
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> Announcing a new list: H-HORN: H-Net's network on the Horn of Africa
> and the Red Sea World
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> ANNOUNCING: H-Horn: H-Net's network on the Horn of Africa and the Red
> Sea world
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Fw: H-ASIA: CFP British Assn for Japanese Studies, Norwich, 6-7 Sep 2012

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From: "Frank F Conlon" <conlon@U.WASHINGTON.EDU>
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Sent: Wednesday, November 30, 2011 1:46 PM
Subject: H-ASIA: CFP British Assn for Japanese Studies, Norwich, 6-7 Sep
2012


> H-ASIA
> November 30, 2011
>
> Call for papers: British Association for Japanese Studies
> Conference 2012
>
> ***********************************************************
> From: H-Net Announcements <announce@MAIL.H-NET.MSU.EDU>
>
> British Association for Japanese Studies Conference 2012
>
> Location: United Kingdom
> Call for Papers Date: 2012-09-06
> Date Submitted: 2011-11-24
> Announcement ID: 189990
>
> British Association for Japanese Studies Conference 2012
> Date: Sep 6-7 2012
> Venue: The University of East Anglia in Norwich/UK
> (Acc.+parking available)
>
> Keynote speaker: Media theorist Prof. Yoshimi Shunya,
> University of Tokyo
>
> • Call for papers: Papers are welcome from all fields
> within the Japanese Studies. The organisers especially
> welcome entire panels with normally three speakers in
> one field. Please send an abstract of your paper or
> panel (100-150 words) together with your
>
> • Registration: Download form from uea.ac.uk/cjs or
> send an email to bajsconference2012@gmail.com with all
> relevant data (title, first and family name, affiliation,
> email, mobile phone, attendance from – to, conference
> dinner on 6 Sep y/n, B&B accommodation on 6 Sep y/n,
> give a paper y/n, organise a panel y/n)
> Further details will be given in January 2012. If you
> have any queries, please contact the UEA Centre for
> Japanese Studies at cjs@uea.ac.uk or at 0044-1603-591819.
>
>
> Dr Ulrich Heinze
> Centre for Japanese Studies
> University of East Anglia
> NR1 7TJ, Norwich/UK
> 0044-1603-591819
> Email: bajsconference2012@gmail.com
> Visit the website at http://www.uea.ac.uk/cjs
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Fw: H-ASIA: Territories, Cities and Urban Societies in South Asia,14th Workshop Young Researchers of AJEI, Mumbai 11-15, 2012

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Sent: Wednesday, November 30, 2011 2:05 PM
Subject: H-ASIA: Territories, Cities and Urban Societies in South Asia,14th
Workshop Young Researchers of AJEI, Mumbai 11-15, 2012


> H-ASIA
> November 30, 2011
>
> Territories, Cities and Urban Societies in South Asia,14th Workshop
> Young Researchers of AJEI, Mumbai 11-15, 2012
>
> ***********************************************************************
> Ed. note: This announcement was submitted to H-Net on Nov. 23, but the
> office closure over the Thanksgiving holiday led to a delay in its
> appearance. The inconvenience is regretting--I would suggest that
> interested parties immediately contact the organizers. FFC
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
> From: H-Net Announcements <announce@MAIL.H-NET.MSU.EDU>
>
>
> Location: India
> Call for Papers Date: 2011-11-30
> Date Submitted: 2011-11-23
> Announcement ID: 189967
>
> The Association of Young Indian Studies (AJEI) gathers students from
> various academic fields related to social sciences, from MA level to
> postdoctorate, working on South Asia. Every year, the Association
> organizes a one-day seminar in France and a four-day workshop in India
> that brings together young researchers and experienced scholars to discuss
> the work presented by the former. The 14th edition of the workshop will
> take place in Mumbai, from 11th to 15th March 2012 in partnership with the
> Department of Humanities and Social Sciences of the Indian Institute of
> Technology of Bombay (IIT-B). This year, the topic will be Territories,
> Cities and Urban Societies in South Asia.
>
> The 14th workshop of the AJEI proposes to analyze the different aspects of
> urban development in South Asia as well as to bring attention to the
> social consequences of urban management and development. This implies
> taking into account all the main actors and focusing on the case of Indian
> megacities and metropolis, along with small and medium-sized towns. The
> latter are facing an urban dynamic stressing slightly different issues.
> The major themes in focus for the workshop will be: (1) spatial
> transformations and their social implications; (2) urban policies; (3) the
> socio-spatial mobility generated by urban development; (4) the question of
> urban cultures and identities. Papers from a variety of disciplinary
> perspectives (urban planning, economics, geography, sociology, social
> anthropology, public policy, etc.) can rely on one or several of these
> axes. They can either be presented as a localized ethnographic study or as
> a more macroscopic one.
>
> Proposals for papers should be sent either in French or in English before
> 30th November at the following address: ateliers@ajei.org. Each
> presentation (in English) will last 20 minutes. Please mention along with
> your abstract and title, your full name, discipline, level of studies,
> institution of affiliation and research topics.
>
>
> Ingrid Le Gargasson
> AJEI
> Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales/CEIAS
> Paris
> Email: ingridl@ehess.fr ou ateliers@ajei.org
>
> Visit the website at http://http:www.ajei.org/?q=node/1088
>
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Fw: H-ASIA: Japanese Media & Popular Culture Master Class, Montreal, 6 Feb. 2012

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Sent: Wednesday, November 30, 2011 1:39 PM
Subject: H-ASIA: Japanese Media & Popular Culture Master Class, Montreal, 6
Feb. 2012


> H-ASIA
> November 30, 2011
>
> Call for participants: Japanese Media and Popular Culture
> Master Class, Montreal, February 6, 2012
> ***********************************************************
> From: H-Net Announcements <announce@MAIL.H-NET.MSU.EDU>
>
> Japanese Media and Popular Culture Master Class - Call for
> Participants
>
> Location: Quebec, Canada
> Call for Papers Date: 2012-02-06
> Date Submitted: 2011-11-29
> Announcement ID: 190091
>
> JAPANESE MEDIA AND POPULAR CULTURE MASTER CLASS
> CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS
>
> In conjunction with the conference Experiencing the
> Media Mix: Anime, Manga, Video Games [concordia.ca/pcs]
> and the Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec
> Manga Year series of exhibitions [manga.banq.qc.ca/en.html],
> Concordia University is pleased to present a day-long
> Japanese Media and Popular Culture master class on Monday,
> February 6, 2012.
>
> The master class is an opportunity for twenty graduate
> students from across Canada, who are studying themes
> related to Japanese media and popular culture, to gather
> with their peers and discuss research topics, methodologies
> and sources with a group of leading scholars in diverse
> disciplines, including anthropology, game studies, history,
> media studies, and sociology.
>
>
> One half of the master class program will feature invited
> speakers Ian Condry (Massachusetts Institute of Technology),
> Margherita Long (University of California, Riverside), Tom
> Looser (New York University) and Thomas Lamarre (McGill
> University). The second half will feature guests from the
> Concordia academic community: Mia Consalvo, Matthew Penney,
> Bart Simon and Marc Steinberg. Following short presentations
> by the scholars, the day will be organized into breakout
> sessions to enable students to engage with the experts, and
> each other, in small groups.
>
> Experiencing the Media Mix conference keynote speaker
> Otsuka Eiji, a leading Japanese theorist of manga, anime,
> fan cultures and media mix practice, and also the creator
> of hit manga such as MPD Psycho, Leviathan, and The Kurosagi
> Corpse Delivery Service, will host a special one-hour Q&A
> section for Master Class participants.
>
> Concordia University invites interested students at the
> graduate level to submit a CV, one page statement of
> interest, and letter of support from an advisor. The
> advisor's letter must be signed on university letterhead.
> All documents must be sent electronically to
> masterclass@graduatestudies.concordia.ca.
>
> The deadline to receive applications and letters of
> reference is December 21, 2011. There is no participation
> fee, and funding support of $250 is available for
> participants traveling from outside the greater Montreal
> area. Space is limited and applicants will be informed
> whether they have been selected by January 10, 2012. The
> classes will be conducted in English.
>
> EVENT DESCRIPTION
>
> Experiencing the Media Mix: Anime, Manga, Video Games
>
> Media mix is the Japanese term for the strategy of
> promoting transmedia synergy: the proliferation of work
> across different media platforms, from films to video
> games, comic books to amusement rides, novels to soundtracks.
> But the Japanese media mix is not only the object of
> industrial production and marketing practice, it is also
> an increasingly significant part of our collective media
> environment. We play, read, watch, write, copy and comment
> across media platforms on a daily basis: we experience the
> media mix. As such it is a phenomenon whose study demands
> new methodologies, new approaches, and new ways of thinking
> about both the Japanese media sphere and our own media
> environment.
>
> Experiencing the Media Mix: Anime, Manga, Video Games is
> a three-day event composed of a symposium, a keynote lecture,
> game-play performance, and master classes featuring local
> and international renowned scholars. It will provide a
> dynamic, interdisciplinary and international milieu to
> shed light on the centrality of media connectivity and
> the importance of experience within the phenomenon of the
> media mix, and the forms of anime, manga and video games
> so central to it.
>
> APPEL DE CANDIDATURES
>
> MASTER CLASS SUR LES MÉDIAS ET LA CULTURE POPULAIRE
> AU JAPON
>
> En parallèle avec la conférence Experiencing the Media
> Mix: Anime, Manga, Video Games [concordia.ca/pcs] et la
> série d'expositions de la Grande Bibliothèque dans le
> cadre de son année Manga [manga.banq.qc.ca/en.html],
> l'Université Concordia est heureuse d'offrir un master
> class sur le thème des médias et de la culture populaire
> au Japon, le lundi 6 février 2012.
>
> Ce master class sera une occasion exceptionnelle pour
> vingt étudiants des cycles supérieurs de partout au
> Canada de rencontrer et d'échanger avec des anthropologues,
> sociologues, et historiens, ainsi qu'avec des spécialistes
> des études du jeu et des études des médias.
>
> L'activité mettra en vedette les conférenciers Ian Condry
> (MIT), Margherita Long (UC Riverside), Tom Looser (NYU)
> et Thomas Lamarre (McGill), ainsi que Mia Consalvo, Matthew
> Penney, Bart Simon et Marc Steinberg de l'Université
> Concordia. De brèves présentations magistrales suivies
> d'ateliers en petits groupes permettront aux étudiants
> de nouer le dialogue avec ces professeurs-chercheurs de
> renom dans ce domaine passionnant.
>
> De plus, le mangaka et théoricien japonais Otsuka Eiji,
> créateur des mangas à succès MPD Psycho, Leviathan et
> The Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service et invité d'honneur
> de la conférence Experiencing the Media Mix, animera une
> période de questions d'une heure réservée aux participants
> au master class.
>
> Concordia encourage les étudiants intéressés à soumettre
> leur CV, leur déclaration d'intérêt et une lettre d'appui
> de leur directeur de thèse ou de mémoire sur papier à
> en-tête de l'université. L'activité est entièrement gratuite
> et un soutien financier de 250 $ est offert aux participants
> en provenance de l'extérieur du Grand Montréal. La date limite
> de soumission des candidatures et des lettres d'appui est
> le 21 décembre 2011. Ne tardez pas car le nombre de places est
> limité. Tous les documents doivent être envoyés par voie
> électronique à : masterclass@graduatestudies.concordia.ca.
> Le comité de sélection communiquera ses décisions aux candidats
> au plus tard le 10 janvier 2012. Les classes seront données
> en anglais.
>
> DESCRIPTION DE L'ÉVÉNEMENT
>
> Experiencing the Media Mix: Anime, Manga, Video Games
>
> Au Japon, la combinaison des médias désigne une stratégie
> favorisant la synergie transmédiatique, c'est-à-dire la
> prolifération d'une Ĺ“uvre sur différentes plateformes, des
> films aux jeux vidéo en passant par les bandes dessinées,
> les manèges, les romans et les bandes sonores. Cette
> combinaison est non seulement le résultat de la production
> industrielle et des pratiques de marketing, mais elle occupe
> aussi une place de plus en plus déterminante dans notre
> environnement médiatique collectif. En effet, nous jouons,
> lisons, regardons, écrivons, copions et commentons chaque
> jour grâce à des plateformes médiatiques. Bref, nous vivons
> la combinaison des médias. L'étude de ce phénomène exige
> donc un renouvellement des méthodes, des approches et des
> façons d'envisager la sphère médiatique japonaise ainsi
> que notre propre cadre médiatique.Experiencing the Media Mix:
> Anime, Manga, Video Games est un événement de trois jours qui
> comprendra un symposium, une conférence principale, une
> démonstration de jeux et des master classes mettant en
> vedette des experts locaux et mondiaux de renom. Ce milieu
> dynamique, interdisciplinaire et international offrira
> l'occasion d'éclairer le rôle central de la connectivité
> des médias ainsi que l'importance de l'expérience dans la
> combinaison des médias, d'une part, et les formes – anime,
> manga et jeux vidéos – sur lesquelles elle repose, d'autre
> part.
>
>
> Lorena Marzitelli
> School of Graduate Studies
> Concordia University
>
> Email: lorena@alcor.concordia.ca
> Visit the website at http://concordia.ca/pcs
>
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