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Subject: H-ASIA: ANN: Fellowships and CFP: Moralism, Fundamentalism, and the
Rhetoric of Decline in Eurasia,
> H-ASIA
> January 5, 2012
>
> ANN: Fellowships and CFP: Moralism, Fundamentalism, and the Rhetoric of
> Decline in Eurasia,
> 1600–1900
> ***********
> From: Andrea S. Goldman [goldman@history.ucla.edu]
> Dear H-Asia editors:
>
> I would appreciate it if you could post the following announcement to the
> H-Asia list. Please note that the call is for both paper presenters and
> the Ahmanson-Getty postdoctoral fellowships, which for 2012-13 will be
> related to the theme of the core program workshops. One does not need to
> apply for the fellowship to be considered for participation in the
> workshops.
>
> ******************************************************************** Call
> for papers: Three Workshops on the theme of "Moralism,
> Fundamentalism, and the Rhetoric of Decline in Eurasia, 1600–1900" And
> related Postdoctoral Fellowship announcement
>
> DEADLINE February 1, 2012
>
> UCLA Center for 17th and 18th Century Studies Call for Program
> Participants and Fellows 2012-2013 Core Program
>
> Moralism, Fundamentalism, and the Rhetoric of Decline in Eurasia,
> 1600–1900
>
> Directed by Andrea S. Goldman (UCLA) and Gabriel Piterberg (UCLA)
>
> Sessions will take place at the UCLA William Andrews Clark Memorial
> Library
>
> This Clark Center project explores responses to crises and upheavals in
> early modern landed empires, with special focus on the Ottoman and Qing
> empires. In particular, we will investigate the perceptions of temporary
> collapses of state power in the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries.
> Detecting tendencies toward moralism and perceived decline in elite
> discourses and state policies, we will look at the ways such concerns were
> expressed in the domains of institutional and educational reforms, sexual
> mores, and cultural representation. We will also examine how social
> boundaries were both rigidified and contested at such moments of
> transition. We hope to discern shared patterns across Eurasia as well as
> trajectories specific to each political entity.
>
> Session 1: Moralism and the Rhetoric of Decline in Seventeenth-Century
> Eurasia; Nov. 16-17, 2012
>
> The background for this conference is the sixteenth-century price
> revolution in Eurasia and the attendant political and social crises of the
> first half of the seventeenth century. It will focus on two phenomena.
> The first is the religious movements and discourses of moral purification,
> which ranged from sexual mores to people's attire when they appeared in
> the public domain. Papers on this theme will consider whether this may
> have been a reaction to what Walter Andrews has termed The Age of Beloveds
> (2005). The second phenomenon is the proliferation of literatures of
> decline, in which bureaucrats and intellectuals tried to diagnose what was
> wrong with their states and societies, and to prescribe solutions
> accordingly. Papers on this topic will go beyond the limitations of
> content analysis and positivist reading, and will consider its social,
> literary and rhetorical dimensions.
>
> Session 2: Urban Discontent in the Long Eighteenth Century across Eurasia;
> Feb. 8-9, 2013
>
> This conference will examine various social and literary expressions of
> discontent in the main urban centers across these landed empires. Topics
> may include urban violence, sexual mores, literary lampoons, as well as
> states' responses to such challenges to their authority.
>
> Session 3: Imperialism and Fundamentalism in Nineteenth-Century Eurasia;
> May 17-18, 2013
>
> This conference will explore the connections between encounters with
> Western imperialism and the rise of fundamentalist religious and cultural
> movements in the Ottoman and Qing empires. Discussions will occasion a
> revisiting of the term fundamentalism: its history and what it means in
> various contexts (and these in particular). While typically scholarship on
> indigenous responses to imperialism and crises of state power have focused
> on the local reformers and modernizers, the papers for this session will
> look at the equally new turn to—or invention of—traditions, whether
> religious, intellectual, or literary, in the Eurasian landed empires on
> the verge of modernity. These developments, it will be suggested, helped
> to forge impressions both internally and abroad of these societies as
> moribund and "traditional" by the turn of the twentieth century. Topics
> may include Neo-Confucian revivalism in the late Qing, "preserving
> character" (xizi) associations in late nineteenth-century China,
> experiments with old-style poetry, changes in the Ottoman shadow puppet
> theater (karagöz), Salafi Islam, and Sultan Abdülhamid II's pan-Islamic
> foreign policy.
>
> Conference Participants
>
> If you are interested in participating in any of the sessions listed
> above, please contact either Andrea S. Goldman (goldman@history.ucla.edu)
> or Gabriel Piterberg (gabip@history.ucla.edu) for further information.
>
> Ahmanson-Getty Postdoctoral Fellowships
>
> This theme-based resident fellowship program, established with the support
> of the Ahmanson Foundation of Los Angeles and the J. Paul Getty Trust, is
> designed to encourage the participation of junior scholars in the Center's
> yearlong core programs. Scholars will need to have received their
> doctorates in the last six years, (no earlier than July 1, 2006 and no
> later than September 30, 2012). Scholars whose research pertains to the
> announced theme are eligible to apply. Fellows are expected to make a
> substantive contribution to the Center's workshops and seminars. Awards
> are for three consecutive quarters in residence at the Clark. Stipend is
> $38,496 for the three-quarter period together with paid medical benefits
> for scholar.
>
> Application Deadline: February 1, 2012
>
> For more information, visit www.cs1718cs.ucla.edu/fellowships.htm.
>
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