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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> H-ASIA
> December 12, 2012
>
> Call for papers for symposium "Entangled Landscapes: Rethinking the
> landscape exchange between China and Europe in 16th-18th centuries"
> Zurich, May 10-12, 2013
> [and notice of an exhibition ETH Zurich (May 10-June, 2013): "Constructing
> Qing Imperial Landscapes: Exhibition of the Qing Yangshi Lei Archives."]
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> Entangled Landscapes: Rethinking the landscape exchange between China and
> Europe in 16th-18th centuries
>
> Location: Switzerland
> Conference Date: 2013-05-10
> Date Submitted: 2012-12-08
> Announcement ID: 199395
>
> Date: May 10-12, 2013
> Venue: Rietberg Museum, Zurich
>
> Abstract: The symposium will seek to improve our understanding of the
> 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,
> 2013): "Constructing Qing Imperial Landscapes: Exhibition of the Qing
> Yangshi Lei Archives."
>
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Fw: H-ASIA: New additions to the New Asia Books Review

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H-ASIA
December 12, 2012

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
editor.

Selected reviews are also printed in the IIAS' quarterly publication The
Newsletter (www.iias.nl/publications). Please refer to our online
guidelines for contributions: www.iias.nl/contribute

--------------------------
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
> ************************************************************************
> 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
> dissertations with appropriate reviewers?- Act as the public face of
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> _Eligible Candidates_
> All early- and mid-career faculty, post-doc, and advanced Ph.D. students
> in
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> As the the ideal candidate, you are:
> - A scholar with robust training in Japanese History or historically
> minded
> cultural studies
> - Committed to the development of ever more dynamic, collegial, and
> innovative scholarly communities?- Enthused by the idea of becoming more
> informed about current, cutting-edge research in your field?- Responsible
> and reliable?- A professional, consistent communicator?- An active member
> of your field's scholarly networks (i.e., conferences, listservs, etc.)
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> _Application Items_
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Fw: H-ASIA: CONF. Urban Violence in the Middle East (SOAS, Feb. 13-16)

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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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Fw: H-ASIA: CFP Authoritarianism and Beyond? (deadline December 15)

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December 12, 2012

CFP Authoritarianism and Beyond? (deadline December 15)
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From: Philip Michael Fountain <aripmf@nus.edu>

Call for Papers (submission deadline approaching)

2013 Annual Soyuz Symposium
"Authoritarianism and Beyond? Lessons from Postsocialist Societies"

Harriman Institute, Columbia University, New York, March 22–23, 2013

Theme:
Authoritarianism has become the common denominator for political regimes of
many contemporary postsocialist societies. Authoritarianism highlights
strong presidential authority, lack of democratic succession of rule and
insufficient public representation. Within this analytic, authoritarianism
is the opposite of liberal democracy, deficient in terms of active civil
society and critical public sphere, and plagued by state-led oppression and
violence.

The 2013 SOYUZ symposium invites papers that would extend interpretive work
on authoritarianism beyond this dualistic framework. We solicit
field-research-based presentations from across the disciplines exploring
political and social processes in postsocialist societies in ways to
complicate this top-down understanding of the state-society relationship.

What kinds of alternative analytical frameworks are there to approach these
processes? What kind of interpretation might the understanding of politics
drawing, for example, on Foucault or Agamben offer to this conversation?
Overall, we seek to extend the scope of this symposium beyond the concerns
of postsocialist societies and to explore analytical limits and
possibilities of the term authoritarianism itself.

Possible topics include, but are not limited to:
- working through/making sense of authoritarian pasts
- specters of the state
- agencies of state: law, the military, borders, and taxation
- the role of media and cultural production
- conjuncture of capitalism and authoritarianism
- non-state authoritarianism
- neoliberalism as a type of authoritarianism

Keynote Speakers: John Borneman, Professor of Anthropology at Princeton
University, and Alexander Cooley, Tow Professor of Political Science at
Barnard College

SOYUZ, the Research Network for Postsocialist Cultural Studies, is an
interdisciplinary forum for exchanging work based on field research in
postsocialist countries, ranging from Eastern Europe and the former Soviet
Union to Africa, Southeast Asia and South America. The Symposium has met
annually since 1991 and offers an opportunity for scholars to interact in a
more intimate setting.

The deadline for abstracts is: December 15, 2012

Please send abstracts of 250 words by email to Zhanara Nauruzbayeva (
zn2123@columbia.edu). Please include your full name, paper title, and
academic affiliation. Write "SOYUZ 2013" in the subject line.

Papers will be selected and notifications made by January 15, 2013.


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Fw: H-ASIA: Bibliography of East Asian Regionalism and Integration

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December 12, 2012

Bibliography of East Asian Regionalism and Integration (2007-2012)
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From: Bernhard Seliger <seliger@hss.or.kr>

Dear list members,

East Asian Integration Studies Website www.asianintegration.org is proud to
present the sixth (and vastly amended) edition of the Recent Bibliography
of East Asian Regionalism and Integration (2007-2012), compiled by Dr.
Bernhard Seliger.

You can download the bibliography at our website at:

http://asianintegration.org/images/documents/bibliography%20of%20east%20asian%20integration%206-1-10122012.pdf

With this website and bibliography we hope to stimulate research into East
Asian integration. There is no claim for this list to be complete and we
welcome amendments. Please send them to seliger@hss.or.kr. There will be
regular updates of the bibliography in the future.

Help from Noa Sharabi, as well, on previous issues, from Wing Cheng,
Annegrit Reuter, Anna Benzin, Anna Tutsch and Hyun-Woo Noh, is gratefully
acknowledged.

Also, we are constantly looking for reviewers. The field of Asian bilateral
and multilateral integration is ever increasing, and so is the academic
output in the field. If you are interested in reviewing books for
www.asianintegration.org, please send an e-mail message mentioning "book
reviews" with a short biographical note and a specification of your area of
interest to Dr. Bernhard Seliger (Seliger@hss.or.kr).

Currently, the following books are available for review:

[Ed. note: Interested readers should write directly to Dr. Seliger for the
list, which is too long to reproduce here. RD]

Dr. Bernhard Seliger
Hanns Seidel Foundation Korea Office
Seoul
Republic of Korea
e-mail: seliger@hss.or.kr
website: www.hss.or.kr


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Fw: H-ASIA: CFP China: The Politics of Memory & WW II, Intl. Workshop, Hong Kong, 3-5 April 2013

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Hong Kong, 3-5 April 2013


> H-ASIA
> December 11, 2012
>
> Call for papers: International Workshop China: The Politics of Memory and
> World War II, University of Hong Kong, April 3-5, 2013
> DEADLINE 31 JANUARY 2013
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> CHINA, THE POLITICS OF MEMORY, AND WORLD WAR II: INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP,
> 3-5 APRIL 2013 CALL FOR PAPERS
>
> Location: Hong Kong
> Call for Papers Date: 2013-01-31
> Date Submitted: 2012-12-06
> Announcement ID: 199337
>
> The Department of History and the Journalism and Media Studies Centre of
> the University of Hong Kong are co-sponsoring an international workshop on
> China, the Politics of Memory, and World War II. It will be held at the
> University of Hong Kong from 3-5 April 2013, to coincide with the first
> visit of Prof. Odd Arne Westad of LSE, Visiting Research Professor in the
> Department of History, 2013-2016. In the second decade of the twenty-first
> century, the memory of World War II is still hotly contested in China and
> Asia. The origins of the war, the Nanjing Massacre, comfort women,
> Japanese wartime behavior in Asia, the use of atomic weapons,
> collaboration, the status of the Diaoyu/Senkaku islands, US policies in
> Asia, the relationship of the war to colonialism, and the impact of the
> war upon political forces within China, all remain contentious topics. The
> organizers encourage complete panels or papers that deal with all aspects
> of memories of World War II and Asia, whether historical, literary,
> cultural, social, and economic. Panels and papers with a comparative
> dimension involving other theaters of the war are also encouraged.
>
> Please send a one-page abstract and short resume to Priscilla Roberts,
> Department of History, University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam Road, Hong Kong,
> fax: +852 2858-9755, e-mail: proberts@hku.hk, no later than 31 January
> 2013. Decisions on submissions can be expected by mid-February 2013.
>
> Priscilla Roberts
> Department of History
> Room 1064, Run Run Shaw Tower
> Centennial Campus,
> University of Hong Kong,
> Pokfulam Road,
> Hong Kong.
> Phone: +852 3917-2863
> Fax: +852 2858-9755
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