CFP: Visualizing Global Asia at the Turn of the 20th Century (3 Nov; 29 Apr-1 May; Yale)

Visualizing Global Asia at the Turn of the 20th Century

An Academic Conference sponsored by the Visualizing Cultures Project and the Center for East Asian Studies, Yale University Yale University, New Haven, April 29 May 1, 2010
Coordinators Peter C. Perdue [Yale] and John W. Dower [MIT]

The Visualizing Cultures project
[http://visualizingcultures.mit.edu] and the Council on East Asian Studies at Yale University [http://research.yale.edu/eastasianstudies]
invite contributions to an academic conference focused on the relationship between visual imagery and social change in modern Asia. We will assemble scholars of history, art history, history of photography, and history of technology specializing in China, Korea, Japan, United States, Europe and the Philippines to discuss how to integrate visual and textual media in research and teaching, using to the fullest the opportunities presented by the Internet.

This will be one of the first academic conferences devoted to image- driven scholarship and teaching about Asia in the modern world. The topic is "Visualizing Global Asia at the Turn of the 20th Century". Images presented must be available for online publication.

John Dower, professor of Japanese history at MIT, and Shigeru Miyagawa, professor of linguistics and foreign languages and literatures at MIT, founded the Visualizing Cultures project to investigate the impact of visual media on cross-cultural interaction between Asia and the West. This project has expanded the scope of traditional historical study beyond written texts, creating truly visual narratives that integrate large numbers of graphics, including popular and commercial images with scholarly commentary. The Visualizing Cultures platform allows educators to download and use freely all content, for non-commercial purposes. The Visualizing Cultures team has worked with scholars to create truly innovative and elegant online publications.

So far, the project has produced units on subjects like the Perry mission to Japan, Sino-Japanese and Russo-Japanese wars, the Yokohama treaty port, Felice Beato's pioneer photographs of Japan, consumer culture and the Shiseido cosmetics firm, and the Canton trade system in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. New units in production include John Thomson's standard-setting photography of China, the Opium War, the histories of Beijing and Shanghai, interwar Tokyo, and the U.S.-Philippines relationship from 1898 through World War Two. Visualizing Cultures uses rare publications as well as archival materials from a variety of museums and art collections, including the Smithsonian Institutions Freer and Sackler Galleries, Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Peabody Essex Museum, Hong Kong Museum of Art, Yales Beinecke Library, Shiseido archive in Japan, Hood Museum of Art at Dartmouth, and Smith College Museum of Art.

We invite interested researchers to submit contributions for presentation at the conference at Yale in Spring 2010. These presentations should integrate visual and textual content. We especially encourage contributions that use rare materials from archives and museum collections. Many of the contributions may become the basis for new units on the Visualizing Cultures website. Please contact the organizers for further information.

Contact emails: peter.c.perdue at yale dot edu; Visualizing Cultures c/o Director Scott Shunk: shunk at mit dot edu

CFP: IAHA (International Conference of Historians of Asia) (30 Sept; 22-25 June; Singapore)

Call for papers: 21st Conference of the International Association of Historians of Asia (IAHA) 22-25 June 2010.
DEADLINE 30 Sept. 2009

A warm invitation is extended to all historians and scholars of Asia to come to the dynamic city of Singapore in late June 2010 to attend IAHA 2010. At this conference the Steering Committee will seek to showcase the latest scholarly research and developments that have taken place on a wide range of Asian topics in both the humanities and social sciences. IAHA 2010, generously supported by the Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, the Department of History, the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences and the Asia Research Institute at the National University of Singapore will delve into the past and look into the future. It will provide scholars with the opportunity of evaluating and discussing the emerging themes related to the continent with a large body of delegates from around the world. We would like you to be involved too, so please come and join us!

Our Programme Committee has already identified a number of themes which we would like delegates to explore in their papers and panels (see below), but we are open to other suggestions as well:

Asia's Political/Economic History

Agriculture; Ancient History; Archeological Perspectives; Asian Diasporas; Border & Boundaries; Maritime History; Nation-Building; Trade/Trade Networks; Societies on the Margins

Asian Cultural History

Asian Identities in the Past; Crime and Criminal Activities; Film & Music; Food; Gender; Literature & Art; Popular Culture; Religion/Missionary Activities; Sport

Current Issues & the Past in Asia

Financial Crises; History of the Asian Press; Human Rights; Labour & Labour Movements; Law of the Sea; Piracy; Protest Movements; Terrorism & History

Historiography/Heritage
Archives & the Maintenance of Documents; Asian Historiography; Asia in Museums/Museums in Asia; Educational History; Memory & Heritage; The Idea of Asia

History of Science
Biosciences & Modern Asia; Environmental History; Medicine & Public Health (Biomedicine, Forms of Traditional Practice, Western Medicine); Technology (Traditional to Colonial & Post-Colonial)

Military History
All forms of military involvement in Asia stretching from the distant past to the present will be considered

Proposals for individual papers, panels and colloquia, along with titles and short abstracts, are strongly encouraged from all interested parties and should be sent to the Chair of the Programme Committee to arrive no later than 30 September 2009.

An early bird registration fee of S$300 is offered to all delegates if they make payment by 28 February 2010. Thereafter, the registration fee will be S$350.*

Tentative Programme:

Tuesday, 22 June 2010

6 pm
Opening Event
Address by University Professor Wang Gungwu
National University of Singapore

8 pm
Dinner for all participants

Wednesday, 23 June 2010, 9am till Friday 25 June 2010, 5pm

Paper Presentations and Panel Discussions

Friday, 25 June 2010

5 pm
IAHA Business Meeting


Venue:
River View Hotel
382 Havelock Road
Singapore 169629

Tel: +65-6732 9922
Fax: +65-6732 1034
Website: www.riverview.com.sg

Accommodations:

Delegates will arrange their own accommodations. A listing of accommodations in Singapore can be found on this site:

http://www.visitsingapore.com/publish/stbportal/en/home/where_to_stay/accommodation_in_singapore.html

IAHA 2010 promises to be a vibrant gathering in a safe but vivid environment. This is a conference that shouldn't be missed. Do, please, think about coming here. We would love to have you with us.

Best wishes

The Steering Committee of IAHA 2010

* Conference package will include Opening Event Dinner, 3 lunches, 6 tea/coffee breaks and a conference bag.



Jointly Organized By:
Department of History | Journal of Southeast Asian Studies
Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore

CFP: "Bridges and Borders in East Asia" Harvard Grad Conf (30 Nov; 27 Feb-1 Mar; Cambridge, Mass.)

12th Annual Harvard East Asia Society Graduate Student Conference
Bridges and Borders in East Asia

Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA
February 27 - March 1, 2009


The Harvard East Asia Society (HEAS) Graduate Student Conference invites
graduate students from around the world, conducting research in all
disciplines, to submit abstracts for our 2009 conference:

Bridges and Borders in East Asia

The East Asian landscape is dominated by barriers that separate culture from
culture and state from state, from the Korean Demilitarized Zone to the
Great Wall to the Taiwan Strait. But borders are permeable and mutable,
constantly shifting in position and meaning; frontiers connect the same
spaces that they partition. The 2009 Harvard East Asian Society Conference
Committee welcomes submissions addressing this theme of borders and
border-crossings. We are looking for any work that bridges divides between
people, spaces, eras, ideas, cultures or disciplines. Often, the first
bridges to be built are the first to be burned. Walls are enduring symbols
of stasis; they are nonetheless sites of exchange. We look forward to
exploring these paradoxes of social, cultural, physical and intellectual
space.

The HEAS Graduate Student Conference is an annual conference which aims to
provide an interdisciplinary forum for graduate students to exchange ideas
and discuss current research on East Asia. The conference is an opportunity
for young scholars to present their research to both their peers and eminent
scholars in East Asian Studies. All panels will be moderated by Harvard
University faculty.

We welcome submissions from graduate students in all disciplines. Papers
should be related to this year's theme and to East Asia, Inner Asia,
Singapore, or Vietnam. We will consider submissions of individual papers and
panel proposals.


Eligibility and Application Guidelines:
1. Applicants must be currently enrolled in a program of graduate study ("postgraduate" in British degree classification systems)
2. Papers must be related to the conference theme AND to one or more of the countries of East Asia that share the Chinese cultural tradition, including Japan, Korea, Inner Asia, Singapore and Vietnam
3. Abstracts must be no longer than 250 words, submitted exactly as directed on the HEAS Conference website
4. Deadline for abstract submission: November 30, 2008 (Sunday)
5. Detailed instructions and more information are available on our website:
http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/~heas/conference/


Inquiries:
For general conference inquiries, please contact: heasconference at gmail.com
For abstract submission inquities, please contact: heas.abstracts at gmail.com


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12th Annual Harvard East Asia Graduate Student Conference
heasconference at gmail.com
www.hcs.harvard.edu/~heas/conference

CFP: International Conference on Inter-Asian Connections (14 Sept; 21-24 Feb; Dubai)

Note that funding to attend the conference seems available from SSRC, so don't let the location put you off.

The Social Science Research Council (SSRC) is pleased to announce an open call for individual research paper submissions from researchers in any world region, to participate in a 4-day thematic workshop at an international conference on "Inter-Asian Connections."

To be held in Dubai, February 21-24, 2008, the conference will host concurrent workshops showcasing innovative research from across the social sciences and related disciplines, on themes of particular relevance to Asia, reconceptualized as a dynamic and interconnected historical, geographical, and cultural formation stretching from the Middle East through Eurasia and South Asia, to East Asia.

The conference structure and schedule has been designed to enable intensive 'working group' interactions on a specific research theme, as well as broader interactions on topics of mutual interest and concern to all participants. Accordingly, there will be public keynotes, plenaries, and roundtables addressing different aspects of Inter-Asian research in addition to closed workshop sessions. The concluding day of the conference will bring all the workshops together in a public presentation and exchange of research agendas that have emerged over the course of the deliberations in Dubai.

Individual paper submissions are invited for the following workshops:

Sites of Inter-Asian Interaction

Networks of Islamic Learning across Asia: The Role of International
Centers of Islamic Learning in Building Ties and Forging New Identities

Distant Divides and Intimate Connections: Migrant Domestic Workers in
Asia

Law-in-Action in Asian Societies and Civilizations

Multiple flexibilities: nation-states, global business and precarious
labor

Neoliberal Globalization and Governmentality: State, Civil society and
the NGO Phenomena in Asia

Initiatives of Regional Integration in Asia in Comparative
Perspective: Concepts, Contents and Prospects

Border Problems: Theory, Culture, and Political Economy

Post-collective Economic Lives and Livelihoods: Studies of Economy,
Institution and Everyday Practice in Post-socialist Eurasia and Asia

Transnational Circuits: 'Muslim Women' in Asia

Inter-Referencing Asia: Urban Experiments & the Art of Being Global

Descriptions of the individual workshops, along with information on the
application process, are available at:
http://www.ssrc.org/program_areas/global/papers/.

Application materials are due on Friday, September 14, 2007. Junior and
senior scholars are encouraged to apply, whether graduate students and
faculty affiliated to colleges and universities, or researchers in NGOs
or other research organizations.

Selection decisions will be announced on October 19, 2007. Accepted
participants are required to submit a 20-25 page research paper by
January 14, 2008.

The SSRC will make every effort to subsidize the travel and
accommodation costs associated with attending the conference, and we
will issue a formal announcement about availability and levels of
financial assistance for individual participants in the coming months.
In the meantime, prospective participants are encouraged to seek out
alternative sources of funding that may be available from their home
institutions or other agencies.

For additional inquiries, please contact the SSRC at
intl_collaboration@ssrc.org.

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Shabana Shahabuddin
Social Science Research Council
International Collaboration Program
810 Seventh Avenue, 31st Floor
New York, NY 10019
intl_collaboration@ssrc.org