Thursday, May 19, 2011

Fw: H-ASIA: RESOURCE Online Mongolian Language Course - Fall 2011

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> H-ASIA
> May 19, 2011
>
> Online Mongolian Language Course - Fall 2011
>
> ***********************************************************************
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>
> Online Mongolian Language Course - Fall 2011
> Seminar Date: 2011-08-29
> Date Submitted: 2011-05-18
> Announcement ID: 185313
>
> The American Center for Mongolian Studies is pleased to announce the fall
> semester of "Mon 101: Introduction to Mongolian Language and Culture", an
> online Mongolian course being offered at University of Maine at Augusta
> (UMA) from August 29 to December 17, 2011. The course is co-organized by
> UMA and ACMS. The course is open to anyone (you do not need to be a
> student at UMA to participate), and it is the first semester in a two
> semester offering of beginner Mongolian.
>
> Brian White
> American Center for Mongolian Studies
> 1155 Observatory Dr. Rm. 333
> Madison, WI 53706
> Email: info@mongoliacenter.org
> Visit the website at http://www.mongoliacenter.org/mon101
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Fw: H-ASIA: New online content JCSAA 1-2011 - Journal of Current Southeast Asian Affairs

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Subject: H-ASIA: New online content JCSAA 1-2011 - Journal of Current
Southeast Asian Affairs


> H-ASIA
> May 19, 2011
>
> New online content JCSAA 1-2011 - Journal of Current Southeast Asian
> Affairs: Table of Contents: 1/2011 Journal of Current Southeast Asian
> Affairs
> *********************************************************************
> From: Dr. Marco Buente <buente@giga-hamburg.de>
> and: Christine Berg <berg@giga-hamburg.de>
>
>
> Journal of Current Southeast Asian Affairs is
> OPEN ACCESS <http://www.currentsoutheastasianaffairs.org>
>
>
> Content Alert: Issue 1/2011
>
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------------
>
> ## Research Articles ##
>
> Vedi R. Hadiz
> Indonesian Political Islam: Capitalist Development and the Legacies of
> the Cold War
> <http://hup.sub.uni-hamburg.de/giga/jsaa/article/view/409/407>
>
>
> Guido Benny and Kamarulnizam Abdullah
> Indonesian Perceptions and Attitudes toward the ASEAN Community
> <http://hup.sub.uni-hamburg.de/giga/jsaa/article/view/410/408>
>
>
> Sai Khaing Myo Tun
> A Comparative Study of State-Led Development in Myanmar (1988–2010) and
> Suharto's Indonesia: An Approach from the Developmental State Theory
> <http://hup.sub.uni-hamburg.de/giga/jsaa/article/view/411/409>
>
>
> ## Analyses ##
>
> Niels Mulder
> The Crux Is the Skin: Reflections on Southeast Asian Personhood
> <http://hup.sub.uni-hamburg.de/giga/jsaa/article/view/412/410>
>
>
> Hans-Dieter Evers and Azhari Karim
> The Maritime Potential of ASEAN Economies
> <http://hup.sub.uni-hamburg.de/giga/jsaa/article/view/413/411>
>
>
> ## Book Reviews ##
>
> Adam Fforde: Coping with Facts: A Skeptic's Guide to the Problem of
> Development
> (Michael Waibel)
> <http://hup.sub.uni-hamburg.de/giga/jsaa/article/view/414/412>
>
> _______________________________________________________________________
>
> Authors are warmly invited to submit their manuscripts to the journal
> directly through the new web interface on
> <http://www.currentsoutheastasianaffairs.org> or by email to:
> <jcsaa@giga-hamburg.de>
>
>
>
> Dr. Marco Buente (Senior Research Fellow /
> Editor Journal of Current Southeast Asian Affairs )
>
> GIGA Institute of Asian Studies /
> GIGA German Institute of Global and Area Studies
> Rothenbaumchaussee 32 . D-20148 Hamburg . Germany
> www.giga-hamburg.de/ias
> fon: ++49 - 40 - 42 88 74 23 fax: ++49 - 40 - 410 79 45
> email: buente@giga-hamburg.de
>
> and
>
> Christine Berg, M.A. / Editorial Management / Publications
> GIGA German Institute of Global and Area Studies/
> Leibniz-Institut für Globale und Regionale Studien
>
> Neuer Jungfernstieg 21 / D-20354 Hamburg
> Tel. +49 40 42825-583, Room 315
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Fw: H-ASIA: CFP "Orientalismi italiani" edited volume

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Subject: H-ASIA: CFP "Orientalismi italiani" edited volume


> H-ASIA
> May 19, 2011
>
> Call for paper: "Orientalismi italiani" edited volume
> ***********************************************************************
> From: H-Net Announcements <announce@MAIL.H-NET.MSU.EDU>
>
> Call for paper 'Orientalismi italiani'
>
> Location: Italy
> Publication Date: 2011-06-15 (in 27 days)
> Date Submitted: 2011-05-18
> Announcement ID: 185307
>
> Orientalismi italiani – Call for paper
>
> Curatore: Gabriele Proglio
>
> Le ricerche sulla costruzione dell'immaginario europeo dell'Oriente si
> sono moltiplicate dal 1978, anno di uscita di Orientalism di Edward Said.
> La traduzione italiana fu data alle stampe dai tipi di Bollati Boringhieri
> solo nel 1991: un ritardo importante che, probabilmente, è indicativo
> della mancata recezione di questo tipo di studi.
>
> Molti studiosi dopo il lavoro di Said posero attenzione alle geografie
> immaginarie o, per riprendere una felice definizione di Vico, al "mondo
> delle narrazioni". Ciononostante ci pare che le fonti in questo ambito di
> ricerca siano ancora poco indagate. Come fu raccontato l'Oriente? Quale la
> relazione tra narratore e narrazione orientalista? Quali i progetti
> sottesi a questi testi? L'intento di questo volume è di raccogliere
> contributi sugli orientalismi italiani, cioè su come viaggiatori,
> missionari, avventurieri, esploratori, militari e mercanti raccontarono
> l'Oriente.
>
> In quale epoca? In epoca moderna e contemporanea. La pubblicazione è però
> aperta a scritti che si riferiscano ad epoche precedenti: l'intento è di
> non porre dei confini temporali, ma di scorgere le
> continuità-discontinuità di narrazioni tra passato e presente. Ciò
> significa parlare di 'italiani' ante-litteram, non solo nel senso della
> formazione dell'Unità nazionale, ma anche di processi che, nati ben prima
> del 1861, furono ereditati e riutilizzati nella formazione
> dell'immaginario soggettivo e intersoggettivo. Inoltre, viene utilizzato
> il plurale – orientalismi italiani – proprio per indicare la multiforme
> presenza di soggetti che, con differenti progetti, narrarono in modi
> molteplici gli Orienti ad est, ma anche a sud della penisola.
> Se nominare – cioè definire tramite il racconto, con la scrittura –
> significa descrivere, l'intento dei viaggiatori è di organizzare quanto
> scoperto secondo una gerarchia conosciuta, quella eurocentrica. In tal
> senso tutto, tanto gli usi e le abitudini legati alla 'razza' e al genere,
> quanto la ricostruzione del passato dei popoli orientali, serve ad imporre
> vincoli di soggezione, di dipendenza. Nulla viene lasciato al caso: non ci
> si dimentica di classificare l'invisibile sia nel senso del non-visibile
> in Europa (animali, piante, luoghi…), sia del non percepibile in Oriente.
> Le pagine, percorrendo questa seconda declinazione, si riempiono di mostri
> e di magia; si cercano spiegazioni sopranaturali di eventi climatici e
> ambientali non conosciuti in Europa.
>
> Dunque la conoscenza di nuovi territori e il relativo racconto non hanno
> solamente il compito di scoprire, ma anche di classificare, cioè di porre
> un ordine, di creare nuove categorie: passo imprescindibile per far
> attecchire progetti coloniali, economici, politici e religiosi.
>
> Sono benvenuti interventi che affrontano una o più delle seguenti
> tematiche:
>
> * Relazioni fra biografia del viaggiatore, racconto e motivazioni
> politiche, religiose, economiche
> * 'Razza' e/o genere: la narrazione come forma di potere
> * Cibo e alimentazione
> * Memoria e passato: cercare le origini delle civiltà per proporre una
> gerarchia eurocentrica
> * La donna orientale
> * L'invisibile: mostri, spiritismo, incantesimi e magia, ma anche eventi
> sopranaturali
>
> Il volume, pubblicato dalla casa editrice Antares, accoglierà saggi di una
> lunghezza massima di 40.000 battute, in italiano e in inglese. Scadenze:
> Gli abstract (massimo 300 parole) e un breve CV devono essere inviati
> entro e non oltre il 15 giugno 2011 all'indirizzo
> gabriele.proglio@unito.it
> 30 giugno – comunicazione accettazione degli abstract
> 30 settembre invio del saggio
> La pubblicazione del volume è prevista per fine ottobre-metà novembre.
>
> Email: gabriele.proglio@unito.it
>
>
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Fw: H-ASIA: NBR Report on Taiwan's future

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Subject: H-ASIA: NBR Report on Taiwan's future


> H-ASIA
> May 19, 2011
>
> NBR Report on Taiwan's Future
> ***********************************************************************
> From: Tracy Timmons-Gray <ttimmonsgray@nbr.org>
>
> Dear H-Asia members,
>
> NBR has just released a new report about the future of Taiwan and how
> accommodating China may mean losing Taipei's freedom. A summary and a
> link to the report are below.
>
> (This report will be free to access through July 18, 2011.)
>
> "Taiwan's Future: Narrowing Straits,"
> By Robert G. Sutter (NBR Analysis, May 2011)
>
> Link to report: http://m.nbr.org/ix2J0A
>
>
> REPORT SUMMARY
>
> Indigenous weakness and eroded U.S. support give Taiwan little choice
> other than continued accommodation of overwhelming and ever-increasing
> Chinese leverage.
>
> Main Argument
>
> Cross-strait relations continue to improve because this trend is
> perceived as being in the interests of the three main actors: the
> governments of China, Taiwan, and the U.S. The Taiwan presidential
> election of 2012 is unlikely to seriously alter recent improvements.
> Many in Taiwan and abroad favor what they erroneously see as a status
> quo in which the Taiwan administration enjoys independence of action.
> However, China's economic, military, and diplomatic leverage over Taiwan
> increasingly constrains Taipei to follow a path leading to accommodation
> of and eventual reunification with China. Taiwan's weak
> self-strengthening and a marked decline in U.S. support for the island's
> freedom of action further bind it to the recent trajectory of
> accommodating China.
>
> Policy Implications
>
> - Policy elites in Taiwan and the U.S. privately may be aware of the
> implications of Chinese leverage in determining Taiwan's future and
> perhaps may favor Taiwan's eventual reunification with China. However,
> other stakeholders in the media, among politicians and interest groups,
> and in the general public are not. Without a clearer view of existing
> realities, these groups may lash out in ultimately futile but highly
> disruptive ways as their preferred status quo wanes.
>
> - A similar backlash can be anticipated from like-minded stakeholders
> within the Taiwan and U.S. administrations who cling to unrealistic
> expectations that Taiwan can preserve freedom of action amid the
> increasingly constraining circumstances caused by a rising China, a
> weakened Taiwan, and declining U.S. support.
>
> - U.S. allies and friends in Asia, notably Japan, will require
> extraordinary reassurance that U.S. government encouragement of
> conditions leading to the resolution of Taiwan's future and
> reunification with China does not forecast a power-shift in the region.
> Perceptions of such a shift would require dramatic and probably
> disruptive policy changes by regional states, ranging from bandwagoning
> with China to indigenous rearmament to become less reliant on declining
> U.S. power and resolve.
>
> Read the full report at: http://m.nbr.org/ix2J0A
>
>
> (Free through July 18)
>
> Tracy Timmons-Gray
> The National Bureau of Asian Research (NBR)
> Seattle, WA
>
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Wednesday, May 18, 2011

Fw: Buzz from naresh gupta

 
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