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Melammu Online

Posted: 12 Dec 2012 08:27 AM PST

[First posted in AWOL 22 September 2011. Update 12 December 2012]

The Melammu Project: The Intellectual Heritage of Assyria and Babylonia in East and West
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The Assyrian and Babylonian Intellectual Heritage Project (Melammu) investigates the continuity, transformation and diffusion of Mesopotamian culture throughout the ancient world from the second millennium BC until Islamic times. A central objective of the project is to create an electronic database collecting the relevant textual, art-historical, archaeological, ethnographic and linguistic evidence and making it easily accessible on the Internet. In addition, the project organizes annual symposia focusing on different aspects of cultural continuity and evolution in the ancient world.

This is the website of the Melammu Project. It features information about its symposia and proceedings, the Melammu Database, bibliographies of Melammu-related themes and pdf files of relevant articles.


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Digitized Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum (CIL) at Arachne

Posted: 12 Dec 2012 07:11 AM PST

 [First posted in AWOL 30 January 2012.  Most recently updated 12 December 2012]

Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum (CIL)
The Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum (CIL) is a comprehensive collection of ancient Latin inscriptions from all corners of the Roman Empire. Public and personal inscriptions throw light on all aspects of Roman life and history. The Corpus continues to be updated with new editions and supplements by the Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften. http://cil.bbaw.de/cil_en/index_en.html
http://cil.bbaw.de/cil_en/dateien/cil_baende.html
This digitized version of the CIL will initially comprise of the more than 50 parts (of vols. I-XVI + auctaria and of v. I (edition altera)) published before 1940. Available funding covers the digitization of the volumes with an imperfect OCR searching capability. The goal is to eventually create a keyword searchable database to contain also future volumes of the CIL as they fall outside of copyright restrictions and to eventually do the same for the Inscriptiones Graecae.
The printed version of the CIL presently consists of 17 volumes in approximately 70 parts, recording some 180,000 inscriptions. Thirteen supplementary volumes have plates and specialized indices. The first volume, in two sections, covered the oldest inscriptions, to the end of the Roman Republic; volumes II to XIV are divided geographically, according to the regions where the inscriptions were found and within these divisions also by inscription type. A two-volume "Index of Numbers," correlating inscription numbers with volume numbers, was published in 2003.

Background

In 2009 the Heads of the libraries of the American Academy in Rome, Rebecka Lindau, and École Française de Rome, Yannick Nexon, met to discuss the possibility of digitizing the volumes of the Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum currently out of copyright. This had been a desire of both for a long time. Soon the Deutsches Archäologisches Institut and the Head of its library, Thomas Fröhlich, joined the project. Providing a server to host the volumes was more of a challenge. The DAI and Reinhard Foertsch at the University of Cologne came to the rescue with their object database Arachne, which is dynamically connected to international aggregators such as Claros.net or the multinational European project CARARE, and freely available on the Web http://www.arachne.uni-koeln.de/drupal/.
Title Parts
vol. I Inscriptiones Latinae antiquissimae ad C. Caesaris mortem.1863
vol. I² Inscriptiones Latinae antiquissimae ad C. Caesaris mortem. pars I Fasti consulares ad a. u. c. DCCLXVI. Elogia clarorum virorum. Fasti anni Iuliani. Cura TH. MOMMSEN, W. HENZEN, CHR. HUELSEN. 1893
pars II, fasc. I Inscriptiones Latinae antiquissimae. Cura E. LOMMATZSCH. 1918
pars II, fasc. II Addenda. Nummi. Indices. Cura E. LOMMATZSCH, H. DESSAU.
vol. II Inscriptiones Hispaniae Latinae. Edidit AEM. HÜBNER. 1869
Supplementum. 1892
vol. III Inscriptiones Asiae, provinciarum Europae Graecarum, Illyrici Latinae. Edidit TH. MOMMSEN. 1873 pars I Inscriptiones Aegypti et Asiae. Inscriptiones provinciarum Europae Graecarum. Inscriptionum Illyrici partes I-V
pars II Inscriptionum Illyrici partes VI. VII. Res gestae divi Augusti. Edictum Diocletiani de pretiis rerum. Privilegia militum veteranorumque. Instrumenta Dacica
Supplementum. Inscriptionum Orientis et Illyrici Latinarum supplementum. Edid. TH. MOMMSEN, O. HIRSCHFELD, A. DOMASZEWSKI pars I (fasc. I-III. 1889 1893). 1902.
Supplementum. Inscriptionum Orientis et Illyrici Latinarum supplementum. Edid. TH. MOMMSEN, O. HIRSCHFELD, A. DOMASZEWSKI pars II (fasc. IV-V). 1902 (impr. iter. 1967)
vol. IV Inscriptiones parietariae Pompeianae Herculanenses Stabianae. Edid. C. ZANGEMEISTER, R. SCHOENE. 1871
Supplementi pars I Tabulae ceratae Pompeiis repertae. Edidit C. ZANGEMEISTER. 1898
Supplementi pars II Inscriptiones parietariae et vasorum fictilium. Edidit A. MAU. 1909
vol. V Inscriptiones Galliae Cisalpinae Latinae. Edidit TH. MOMMSEN. pars I Inscriptiones regionis Italiae decimae. 1872 (impr. iter. 1959)
pars II Inscriptiones regionum Italiae undecimae et nonae. 1877
vol. VI Inscriptiones urbis Romae Latinae. Collegerunt G. HENZEN, I. B. DE ROSSI, E. BORMANN, CHR. HUELSEN, M. BANG. pars I Inscriptiones sacrae. Augustorum, magistratuum, sacerdotum. Latercula et tituli militum. Edid. E. BORMANN et G. HENZEN. 1876
pars II Monumenta columbariorum. Tituli officialium et artificium. Tituli sepulcrales reliqui: A-Claudius. Edid. E. BORMANN, G. HENZEN, CHR. HUELSEN. 1882
pars III Tituli sepulcrales: Claudius-Plotius. Edid. E. BORMANN, G. HENZEN, CHR. HUELSEN. 1886
pars IV, fasc. I Tituli sepulcrales: Plotia-Zozon. Inscriptiones varii argumenti. Fragmenta. Edidit CHR. HUELSEN. 1894
pars IV, fasc. II Additamenta. Edidit CHR. HUELSEN. 1902
pars IV, fasc. III Additamentorum auctarium. Edidit M. BANG. 1933
pars V Inscriptiones falsae. Edid. E. BORMANN, G. HENZEN, CHR. HUELSEN. 1885
pars VI, fasc. I Index nominum. Edidit M. BANG. 1926
vol. VII Inscriptiones Britanniae Latinae. Edidit AEM. HUEBNER. 1873
vol. VIII Inscriptiones Africae Latinae. Collegit G. WILMANNS. Edidit TH. MOMMSEN. 1881 pars I Inscriptiones Africae proconsularis et Numidiae
pars II Inscriptiones Mauretaniarum
Supplementi pars I Inscriptiones Africae proconsularis. Edid. R. CAGNAT, I. SCHMIDT. 1891
Supplementi pars II Inscriptiones provinciae Numidiae. Edid. R. CAGNAT, I. SCHMIDT. Commentariis instruxerunt I. SCHMIDT, H. DESSAU 1894
Supplementi pars III Inscriptiones Mauretaniae. Miliaria et instrumentum domesticum. Edid. I. SCHMIDT, R. CAGNAT, H. DESSAU. 1904
Supplementi pars IV Inscriptiones Africae proconsularis. Edid. R. CAGNAT, H. DESSAU. 1916
vol. IX Inscriptiones Calabriae, Apuliae, Samnii, Sabinorum, Piceni Latinae. Edidit TH. MOMMSEN. 1883
vol. X Inscriptiones Bruttiorum, Lucaniae, Campaniae, Siciliae, Sardiniae Latinae. Edidit TH. MOMMSEN. 1883 pars I
pars II
vol. XI Inscriptiones Aemiliae, Etruriae, Umbriae Latinae. Edidit E. BORMANN. pars I Inscriptiones Aemiliae et Etruriae. 1888
pars II, fasc. 1 Inscriptiones Umbriae, viarum publicarum, instrumenti domestici. 1901
pars II, fasc. 2 Addenda ad partes priores et indicum capita tria. 1926
vol. XII Inscriptiones Galliae Narbonensis Latinae. Edidit O. HIRSCHFELD. 1888
vol. XIII Inscriptiones trium Galliarum et Germaniarum Latinae. Edid. O. HIRSCHFELD et C. ZANGEMEISTER. pars I, fasc. 1 Inscriptiones Aquitaniae et Lugudunensis. Edidit O. HIRSCHFELD. 1899
pars I, fasc. 2 Inscriptiones Belgicae. Edidit O. HIRSCHFELD. 1904
pars II, fasc. 1 Inscriptiones Germaniae superioris. Edidit C. ZANGEMEISTER. 1905
pars II, fasc. 2 Inscriptiones Germaniae inferioris. Miliaria Galliarum et Germaniarum. Edid. TH. MOMMSEN, O. HIRSCHFELD, A. DOMASZEWSKI. 1907
pars III, fasc. 1 Instrumentum domesticum I. Edidit O. BOHN. 1901
pars III, fasc. 2 Instrumentum domesticum II. Edidit O. BOHN. Insunt signacula medicorum oculariorum. Edidit AEM. ESPÉRANDIEU. 1906
pars IV Addenda ad partes primam et secundam. Edid. O. HIRSCHFELD et H. FINKE. 1916
pars VI Signacula publice laterculis impressa. Edidit E. STEIN. Accedunt signacula laterculis a privatis impressa. Edidit E. VOLKMANN. 1933
vol. XIV Inscriptiones Latii veteris Latinae. Edidit H. DESSAU. 1887
Supplementum Ostiense. Edidit L. WICKERT. 1930.
Supplementi Ostiensis fasciculus II. Indices topographicos composuit L. WICKERT. 1933
vol. XV Inscriptiones urbis Romae Latinae. Instrumentum domesticum. Edidit H. DRESSEL pars I Edidit H. DRESSEL. 1891
pars II, fasc. 1 Edidit H. DRESSEL. 1899
vol. XVI Diplomata militaria. Post TH. MOMMSEN edidit H. NESSELHAUF. 1936
Priscae Latinitatis monumenta epigraphica. Tabulae lithographae. Edidit FR. RITSCHL. 1862 (impr. iter. 1961 et 1968) ISBN 3-11-001417-3. Accedunt: Priscae Latinitatis epigraphicae supplementa quinque. Edidit FR. RITSCHL. 1862-1864
Auctarium Exempla scripturae epigraphicae Latinae a Caesaris dictatoris morte ad aet. Iustiniani. Edidit AEM. HUEBNER. 1885

Mappa

Posted: 12 Dec 2012 03:20 AM PST

 [First posted in AWOL 10 January 2012. Updated 12 December 2012]

Mappa: Metodologie applicae alla predittività del potenziale archeologico
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 Un network di sistemi e procedure standardizzate per la redazione e la gestione dei dati archeologici: questo è il nostro obbiettivo! La città, lo spazio geografico su cui lavoreremo.
Archeologi, geologi e matematici insieme per studiare strumenti di calcolo predittivo applicabili al potenziale archeologico di un'area urbana e creare un prodotto funzionale alla tutela, alla ricerca e alla governance della città e del suo patrimonio sepolto.
La sfida: realizzare il primo open digital archaeological archive italiano, rendendo accessibili tutti i dati pubblici delle indagini archeologiche, convinti che garantire l'accesso e la condivisione del patrimonio storico comune sia il mezzo migliore per sviluppare una società della conoscenza veramente libera e democratica.
Utilizzare le diverse potenzialità della rete come mezzo di comunicazione in progress delle fasi di lavoro e dei risultati e come strumento di ricerca in sé.
Formare nuove figure professionali con un profilo interdisciplinare che possano dialogare trasversalmente con la comunità scientifica e la società civile.
MAPPAproject è tutto questo… follow us!

A network of systems and standardised procedures for drawing up and handling archaeological data: this is our aim! The city will be our geographical area of work.
Archaeologists, geologists and mathematicians will combine their expertise to study predictive calculation instruments applied to the archaeological potential of an urban area and to create a product which will contribute to the protection, research and governance of the city and of its underground archaeological heritage.
Our challenges are:
To create the first Italian open digital archaeological archive and make all public data relating to the archaeological investigations accessible. We are convinced that ensuring access and sharing historical heritage is the most effective means for developing a truly free and democratic knowledge-based society.
To use the web's wide-ranging potential as a means for communicating project work progress and results, and as a research tool.
To train new professional figures with inter-disciplinary skills who will be able to liaise transversally with the scientific community and civil society.
The MAPPA project is all this… follow us!

Pubblicazioni


La filosofia del progetto prevede la comunicazione e diffusione dei risultati della ricerca in un'ottica di sviluppo di una società della conoscenza veramente libera e democratica.
Mappa si configura come il primo vero progetto open data archeologico italiano e prevede, già a partire dalle primissime fasi di lavoro, la condivisione di tutti i dati. Saranno riportati in questa pagina, a partire dal secondo mese di progetto, i report, le fasi di avanzamento, i dati ed i prodotti della ricerca.
The project's philosophy is based on the disclosure and diffusion of the research results and is geared towards the development of a truly free and democratic knowledge-based society.
MAPPA is the first open-data archaeological project in Italy and provides sharing of project data starting from the very early stages of the project. Research reports, work progress, data and products will be reported on this page from month two of the project.
VOLUMI:
  • Anichini F., Fabiani F., Gattiglia G., Gualandi M.L. 2012,  MAPPA. Metodologie Applicate alla Predittività del Potenziale Archeologico, vol.1, Roma                                                                                                MAPPA vol.1
  • Anichini F., Fabiani F., Gattiglia G., Gualandi M.L. 2012,  MAPPA. Methodology Applied Archaeological Potential Predictivity, vol.1, Roma                                                                                                 MAPPA vol. 1 eng.
ARTICOLI:
  • Anichini F., Bini D., Bini M., Dubbini N., Fabiani F., Gattiglia G., Giacomelli S., Gualandi M.L., Pappalardo M., Paribeni E., Sarti G., Steffè S. 2011, Progetto MAPPA. Metodologie Applicate alla Predittività del Potenziale Archeologico, in MapPapers 1-I, pp.1-22  MapPapers 1-I
  • Anichini F., Bini D., Bini M., Dubbini N., Fabiani F., Gattiglia G., Giacomelli S., Gualandi M.L., Pappalardo M., Paribeni E., Sarti G., Steffè S. 2011, MAPPA Project. Methodologies Applied to Archaeological Potential Predictivity, in MapPapers 1en-I, pp.23-43   MapPapers 1en-I
  • Anichini F., Bini M., Fabiani F., Gattiglia G., Giacomelli S., Gualandi M.L., Pappalardo M., Sarti G. 2011, Definizione dei parametri del potenziale archeologico di un'area urbana, in MapPapers 2-I, pp.44-46   MapPapers 2-I
  • Anichini F., Bini M., Fabiani F., Gattiglia G., Giacomelli S., Gualandi M.L., Pappalardo M., Sarti G. 2011, Definition of the parameters of the Archaeological Potential of an urban area, in MapPapers 2en-I, pp.47-49   MapPapers 2en-I
  • Anichini F., Bini D., Bini M., Dubbini N., Fabiani F., Gattiglia G., Giacomelli S., Gualandi M.L., Pappalardo M., Rossi V., Sarti G., Steffè S. . 2011, Acquisizione dei dati archeologici, geomorfologici e stratigrafici per l'area urbana e periurbana di Pisa ed analisi preliminari, in MapPapers 3-I, pp.50-58   MapPapers 3-I
  • Anichini F., Bini D., Bini M., Dubbini N., Fabiani F., Gattiglia G., Giacomelli S., Gualandi M.L., Pappalardo M., Rossi V., Sarti G., Steffè S. . 2011, Acquisition of archaeological, geomorphological and stratigraphic data for the urban and peri-urban area of Pisa and preliminary analysis, in MapPapers 3en-I, pp.59-67    MapPapers 3en-I
  • Bini D., Dubbini N., Steffè S. 2011, Modelli matematici per la determinazione del potenziale archeologico, in MapPapers 4-I, pp.68-76                                                                                                                                  MapPapers 4-I
  • Bini D., Dubbini N., Steffè S. 2011,Mathematical models for the determination of archaeological potential, in MapPapers 4en-I, pp.77-85                                                                                                                            MapPapers 4en-I
  • Anichini F., Fabiani F., Gattiglia G., Gualandi M.L. 2012, Un database per la registrazione e l'analisi dei dati archeologici, in MapPapers 1-II, pp.1-20                                                                                                   MapPapers 1-II
  • Anichini F., Fabiani F., Gattiglia G., Gualandi M.L. 2012,  A database for archaeological data recording and analysis, in MapPapers 1en-II, pp.21-38                                                                                                      MapPapers 1en-II
  • Bini D., Dubbini N., Steffè S. 2012, Sulle due questioni principali inerenti le applicazioni dei modelli page rank per la determinazione del potenziale archeologico, in MapPapers 2-II, pp.39-44  MapPapers 2-II
  • Bini D., Dubbini N., Steffè S. 2012, On the two main issues about the application of page rank for the determination of archaeological potential, in MapPapers 2en-II, pp.45-50   MapPapers 2en-II
  • Opening the Past. Archaeological open data, in MapPapers 3-II, pp.51-93   MapPapers 3-II OPENING THE PAST
  • Amorosi A., Bini M., Fabiani F., Giacomelli S., Pappalardo M., Ribecai C., Ribolini A., Rossi V., Sanmartino I., Sarti G. 2012, I carotaggi MAPPA: un'integrazione interdisciplinare, in MapPapers 4-II, pp.96-148   MapPapers 4-II
  • Amorosi A., Bini M., Fabiani F., Giacomelli S., Pappalardo M., Ribecai C., Ribolini A., Rossi V., Sanmartino I., Sarti G. 2012, MAPPA cores: an interdisciplinary approach, in MapPapers 4en-II, pp.149-200       MapPapers 4en-II
  • Bini M., Kukavicic M., Pappalardo M., Remote sensing study on the Pisa plain, in MapPapers 5en-II, pp. 201-211     MapPapers 5en-II
  • Bini M., Kukavicic M., Pappalardo M., Interpretazione di immagini satellitari della Pianura di Pisa, in MapPaper 5-II, pp. 212-222    MapPapers 5-II
  • Grava M., Un livello informativo per la cartografia storica di Pisa, in MapPapers 6-II, pp. 223-234    MapPapers 6-II
  • Grava M., An information layer for the historical mapping of Pisa, in MapPapers 6en-II, pp. 235-246    MapPapers 6en-II
  • Amorosi A., Giacomelli S., Ribecai C., Rossi V., Sammartino I., Sarti G., Il sottosuolo dell'area urbana e periurbana di Pisa: architettura deposizionale ed evoluzione paleoambientale durante il medio-tardo olocene, in MapPapers 7-II, pp. 247-256       MapPapers 7-II
  • Febbraro M., Susini F., Archeologia dell'architettura e della città. Un esempio di analisi degli elevati applicata ad un centro urbano: il caso di Pisa, in MapPapers 8-II, pp. 266-276      MapPapers 8-II
  • Bini M., Bisson M., Capitani M., Noti V., Pappalardo M., Geomorphological evidence fron the MAPPA-Web-GIS: explanatory notes, in MapPapers 9en-II, pp. 295-300 MapPapers 9en-II

Pisa 9 giugno 2012: Opening the Past. Archaeological Open Data 

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Linear B tablets as never before seen (RTI)

Posted: 11 Dec 2012 11:21 AM PST

On behalf of John Bennet
Linear B tablets as never before seen

The Ashmolean Museum of the University of Oxford has recently launched a website on the "Sir Arthur Evans Archive" providing a first, basic, overview of its holdings. Although not to item level, the website is a welcome addition and promises to be a very useful tool for Aegean Archaeology (especially for those interested in Minoan archaeology and its history). The website is based on the work of Dr Yannis Galanakis (formerly the curator for the Bronze Age Aegean collections and the Sir Arthur Evans archive at the Ashmolean and currently Lecturer in Aegean Archaeology at the University of Cambridge). One of the innovations of the website, instigated by Dr Galanakis in collaboration with Oxford's RTI team (Dr Jacob Dahl, Klaus Wagensonner and Nicholas Reid), is the digitization of the museum's small, but representative, Linear B collection from Knossos. The technology applied (RTI: Reflectance Transformation Imaging) allows for the best possible reading of these tablets online as it were under a completely new light:  



With the RTIViewer (free to download - following instructions in the webpage given above), you can access the Linear B photographs by cutting and pasting the url into the application (using the globe and folder icon to the right of the main screen of the RTIViewer). The images can be enlarged to magnificent effect and the lighting changed to make readings clearer and to see fingerprints and erasures. This resource should prove extremely useful for teaching and this form of visualisation may pave the way for future research in the field. For comments on the web site please contact the Ashmolean's webmaster at webmaster@ashmus.ox.ac.uk.
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Fw: H-ASIA: CFP "Entangled Landscapes: Rethinking Landscape Exchange between China and Europe in 16th - 18th C, Zurich, 10-12 May 2013

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> history of the contacts between the built landscapes of early modern China
> and Europe. Using an entangled landscapes approach, we will consider the
> representations that best illustrate the complexity of these interactions.
> The symposium will include an exhibition at ETH Zurich (May 10-June,
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Fw: H-ASIA: New additions to the New Asia Books Review

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H-ASIA
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New additions to the New Asia Books Review
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From: Zweegers, S.I. <s.i.zweegers@iias.nl>

'New Asia Books' is an initiative by The International Institute for Asian
Studies (IIAS) in Leiden, the Netherlands (www.iias.nl). Visit
www.NewAsiaBooks.org to browse academic English language books published on
Asia in the previous 12 months.

Review copies of publications marked as "available for review" can be
requested using the online form (go to "write a review" on the site).
Reviews are posted online at NewAsiaBooks.org upon submission to the IIAS
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Selected reviews are also printed in the IIAS' quarterly publication The
Newsletter (www.iias.nl/publications). Please refer to our online
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New reviews recently posted on NewAsiaBooks.org
(and published in The Newsletter):

Terminology and the translational ambiguities of public health
Reviewer: Vivek Neelakantan
Reviewed publication: Leung, Angela K.C. & Charlotte Furth (eds.) 2010.
Health and Hygiene in Chinese East Asia: Policies and Publics in the Long
Twentieth Century. Durham: Duke University Press. 337 pp. ISBN
9780822348269 (paperback).
http://tinyurl.com/d4enctu
Also published in The Newsletter #62 (IIAS): http://tinyurl.com/bl7tmap

Ahmedabad: a cautionary tale
Reviewer: Ward Berenschot
Reviewed publication: Spodek, H. 2011. Ahmedabad: Shock City of Twentieth
Century India. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. 320 pages. ISBN:
9780253355874 (hardback)
http://tinyurl.com/bhkhvsy
Also published in The Newsletter #62 (IIAS): http://tinyurl.com/b4aebnk

The routine of atrocities
Reviewer: Alex de Jong
Reviewed publication: Barnett, Louise. 2004. Atrocity and American Military
Justice in Southeast Asia. New York: Routledge, 278 pages, ISBN 0415556406
(hardcover)
http://tinyurl.com/crxnjqz
Also published in The Newsletter #62 (IIAS): http://tinyurl.com/cmj5ag9

Engaging the nation across borders
Reviewer: Chiara Formichi
Reviewed publication: Caroline S.Hau & Kasian Tejapira (eds.) 2011.
Traveling Nation-Makers: Transnational Flows and Movements in the Making of
Modern Southeast Asia. Singapore: NUS Press, in association with Kyoto
University Press. Kyoto CSEAS Series on Asian Studies 3. 320 pages ISBN:
9789971695477
http://tinyurl.com/c7akbgh
Also published in The Newsletter #62 (IIAS): http://tinyurl.com/c28jdgn

A reconciliation of historiographies
Reviewer: William Noseworthy
Reviewed publication: Wilcox, Wynn. 2011. Allegories of the Vietnamese
Past: Unification and the Production of a Modern Historical Identity. New
Haven: Yale University Press. Monograph 61/Yale Southeast Asia Series.
ISBN: 9780938692966
http://tinyurl.com/cyal5nl
Also published in The Newsletter #62 (IIAS): http://tinyurl.com/dxrjt7u

Oral and written traditions
Reviewer: George Kam Wah Mak
Reviewed publication: Børdahl, Vibeke & Margaret B. Wan (eds.) 2010. The
Interplay of the Oral and the Written in Chinese Popular Literature.
Copenhagen: NIAS Press. xvii+269 pp. ISBN: 9788776940553 (Paperback)
http://tinyurl.com/cakxdhl
Also published in The Newsletter #62 (IIAS): http://tinyurl.com/c3gftms

The China Wave
Reviewer: Gunjan Singh
Reviewed publication: Zhang Weiwei. 2012. The China Wave: Rise of a
Civilizational State. New Jersey: World Century Publishing. 230 pp. ISBN:
9781938134029 (paperback)
http://tinyurl.com/d8k7s2f

Hollywood, East Asia and the enigmatic signifier
Reviewer: Gwenola Ricordeau
Reviewed publication: King, Homay. 2010. Lost in Translation: Orientalism,
Cinema, and the Enigmatic Signifier. Durham: Duke University Press. 205 pp.
ISBN 978-0-8223-4743-9 (paperback)
http://tinyurl.com/cpmn2er

Sonja Zweegers
Editor, The Newsletter
International Institute for Asian Studies (IIAS) www.iias.nl


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Fw: H-ASIA: Dissertation Reviews seeking Field Editor, Japan Studies

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> H-ASIA
> December 12, 2012
>
> Dissertation Reviews seeking Field Editor in Japan Studies
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> From: Thomas S. Mullaney <tsmullaney@stanford.edu>
>
> Dissertation Reviews (www.dissertationreviews.org) is a web platform
> featuring friendly, non-critical overviews of recently defended Ph.D.
> dissertations. Each review provides a summary of the author's main
> arguments, the particular scholarly conversation in which s/he is
> engaging,
> and the main source bases for the research. By focusing on the window of
> time between dissertation defense and first book publication, our goal is
> to offer scholars a glimpse of the immediate present of each field. Such
> awareness, we feel, leads to more dynamic, informed, collegial, and
> innovative scholarly communities.
>
> We are looking for a dynamic, early- to mid-career scholar to join our
> team
> in the position of Field Editor for the popular series Japan Studies
> Dissertation Reviews.
>
> _Description_
> As a Field Editor, you would collaborate closely with the editorial staff
> to develop our Japan Studies series. Specifically, you would:
> - Work with editorial staff to learn about recently defended dissertations
> in your field?- Liaise with dissertation authors and reviewers in your
> field?- Draw upon and expand your knowledge of the field in order to pair
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Fw: H-ASIA: CONF. Urban Violence in the Middle East (SOAS, Feb. 13-16)

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H-ASIA
December 12, 2012

CONF. Urban Violence in the Middle East (SOAS, Feb. 13-16)
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From: Rasmus Christian Elling <mail@rasmuselling.com>

CONFERENCE
Urban Violence in the Middle East: New Histories of Place and Event

SOAS, University of London, 13–16 February 2013
Venue: Room G2, SOAS Main Building

Conveners: Nelida Fuccaro (SOAS) and Rasmus Christian Elling
(SOAS/University of Copenhagen)

In spite of its relevance to contemporary events, the history of public
violence in Middle Eastern cities has not yet been the subject of
systematic academic debate. Building on a workshop held at the Zentrum
Moderner Orient Berlin in December 2011, this international conference
explores the violent histories of some of these cities from the 18th to the
late 20th centuries through a variety of actors, themes and historical
processes.

Covering the Middle East, North Africa and Central Asia, papers feature
crowds and elites; urban space, discipline, discourse and ritual
performance; empire, colonialism, war and revolution. Speakers include
established and young Middle Eastern historians, and a number of academics
specialising in other disciplines and regions in order to foster
comparative and interdisciplinary understandings of urban violence.

Admission is free, however, pre-registration is required. To register
please telephone +44 (0)20 7898 4330 or email lh2@soas.ac.uk.
For more information and provisional program:
http://www.soas.ac.uk/uvme/

KEYNOTE/PUBLIC LECTURE
"Fighting for Space: Theatres of Violence and Emerging Publics" by Prof.
Charles Tripp (SOAS)

Wednesday 13 February 2013, 5.30pm
Khalili Lecture Theatre
School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS)

The talk will centre on struggles to control public space in the city and
seek to understand their significance for the emergence of an unruly,
plural public. Taking examples largely from recent political events in the
Middle East, it will look at the nature of the challenge to established
authority represented by people's efforts to define and to occupy public
space.

Rasmus Christian Elling (PhD)
Assistant Professor, University of Copenhagen
mail@rasmuselling.com


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