Other: East Asia Ethnography Dissertation Workshop (2 Mar; 4-5 May; Urbana)

East AsiaEthnography Dissertation Workshop
May 4-5, 2007
Center for East Asian and Pacific Studies, Universityof Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

The Universityof Illinois Urbana-Champaignand Indiana University Title VI National Resource Center Consortium (IL/IN NRC Consortium) announces a summer dissertation workshop in the field of East Asian Ethnography and invites applications from doctoral students in anthropology or other related disciplines who are writing ethnography-based dissertations.

This workshop is designed to enable students just beginning to write or those who are more advanced in their writing to engage in intensive discussions with faculty and each other. Possibilities for creating continuing networks among interested students and faculty will also be explored. Each student will be given time to present a chapter from his/her work in progress, and faculty members will then respond to the presentation.

The workshop will begin after breakfast on Friday, May 4 and conclude at noonon Saturday, May 5. Eight students will be selected for participation, and they will be mentored at the workshop by three faculty from the Consortium universities: Dr. Roger Janelli, Professor, folklore and ethnomusicology, IndianaUniversity; Dr. Sara Friedman, Assistant Professor, anthropology, IndianaUniversity, and Dr. Karen Kelsky, associate professor, anthropology and EALC, Universityof Illinois.

All application materials must be received by Friday, March 2, 2007. The application consists of two items: 1) a current CV, and 2) an 8-10 page double-spaced dissertation proposal or an 8-10 page excerpt from the dissertation in progress. Participants will be selected on the basis of their submitted materials and the potential for useful exchanges among them. Selected participants will submit the chapter or other excerpt to be examined at the Workshop no later than April 15, 2007. The Consortium will cover transportation costs (maximum $500) to Champaign, ILas well as housing for two nights and meals.

Submit application materials to:
IL/IN Consortium 2007 Summer Dissertation Workshop
Center for East Asian and Pacific Studies
230 International Studies Building
910 S. Fifth St.
Champaign, IL 61820

Questions may be directed to Anne Prescott, Associate Director, Center for East Asian and Pacific Studies (EAPS), 217-244-4601; aprescot@uiuc.edu.

FACULTY BIOS
Sara Friedman is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at IndianaUniversity. She received her Ph.D. from CornellUniversity. Courses taught include Cross-Cultural Gender Formations, China Through Anthropological Eyes, The Anthropology of Citizenship, and Research Methods in Cultural Anthropology. She was an An Wang Postdoctoral Fellow, Fairbank Center for East Asian Research, Harvard University and received a Woodrow Wilson Dissertation Grant in Women s Studies. Her research interests include marriage and the state, gender and sexuality, kinship, media and representation, transnationalism, tourism, and language politics. Recent major publications include Intimate Politics: Marriage, the Market, and State Power in Southeastern China, forthcoming, Harvard University Press; “Embodying Civility: Civilizing Processes and Symbolic Citizenship in Southeastern China,” The Journal of Asian Studies 63:3(2004); and “Spoken Pleasures and Dangerous Desires: Sexuality, Marriage, and the State in Rural Southeastern China,” East Asia, special issue: East Asian Sexualities, Louisa Schein, ed. 18:4 (2000).

Roger Janelli is Professor of Folklore and Ethnomusicology at IndianaUniversity. He received his Ph.D. from the Universityof Pennsylvania. Courses taught include Korean Folklore, East Asian Folklore and Ethnography, and Folk Belief and Popular Religion. He has been honored as a Research Fellow, TokyoUniversityand Visiting Research Professor, YonseiUniversity. His research interests include Korean culture and social organization, East Asian ethnography, religion, political economy, and responses to globalization in East Asia. Recent major publications include "Transforming Filial Piety in South Korea," in Filial Piety in Contemporary East Asia with Dawnhee Yim, Charlotte Ikels, ed. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2003; "Gender Construction in the Offices of a South Korean Conglomerate," in Under Construction: The Gendering of Modernity, Class, and Consumption in the Republic of Korea, with Dawnhee Yim, Laurel Kendall, ed. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press; The Anthropology of Korea: East Asian Perspectives. Senri Ethnological Series, No. 49. Osaka: National Museum of Ethnology, Coedited with Shima Mutshuhiko; 1993, "Toward a Political Economy of Korean Shamanism," with Yim Suk-jay and Dawnhee Yim, in Shamans and Cultures, Mihaly Hoppal and Keith Howard, eds. Budapest: Akadamiai Kiado, and Los Angeles: International Society for Transoceanic Research; and Making Capitalism: The Social and Cultural Construction of a South Korean Conglomerate, with Dawnhee Yim, Stanford: Stanford University Press.

Karen Kelsky is Associate Professor of EALC and Anthropology. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Hawaii. Her research interests includecontemporary Japanese culture, transnational social movements, Japanese alternative communities, gender, and race. Her work to date has focused on transnational cultural politics of gender and racial identity in Japan. Her first book, Women on the Verge: Japanese Women, Western Dreams (Duke, 2001), concerned the gender politics of Japan's "internationalization." Projects in progress are a book entitled Alternative Japan: The Global Life and Times of the Japanese New Age Counterculture on the emergence and contemporary activities of the postwar beatnik, hippie, new age and environmentalist/antiwar counterculture in Japan, and an exploration of queer Japan and the lesbian and FTM urban subcultures in Tokyo and Osaka.