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Listings below are organized chronologically by submission deadline; calls with no deadlines are at the bottom of list.

Trans-Asia Photography Review

[from H-ASIA, 3/2/09]

New online peer-reviewed journal seeks papers about all aspects of Asian photography. Possible topics include:

Deadline for receipt of papers: June 1, 2009.

Please refer to http://asianphotos.hampshire.edu/ for more information, or contact us at asianphotography@hampshire.edu.

Raymond Lum
Harvard University Library
(and review editor of Trans-Asia Photography Review)

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Southwest Conference on Asian Studies

36th Southwest Conference on Asian Studies (SWCAS)
University of Texas at Austin
16-17 October 2009

[from H-ASIA, 3/8/09]

Individual and panel paper proposals are being invited for SWCAS 2008. Proposals in all fields and disciplines of Asian studies are welcome.

Submission Guidelines

INDIVIDUAL PAPER PROPOSALS should include the full title and brief abstract of the paper (less than 250 words) and the participant's name, institutional affiliation, position, mailing address, phone number, and e-mail address.

COMPLETE PANEL PROPOSALS consist of 3 - 4 papers plus a chair. A panelist may serve also as the chair. All proposals should include: full title of panel; a brief description of overall panel (less than 250 words); a brief abstract for each paper (less than 250 words), along with that panelist's name, institutional affiliation, position, mailing address, phone number, and e-mail address

The deadline for proposals is June 1, 2009.

E-mail all proposals to the Program Chair, Paul Clark. Applicants can expect a response within two weeks regarding whether their abstract/panel has been accepted.

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American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies

41st Annual Meeting
Albuquerque, NM
18-21 March 2010

[from H-NET, 4/10/09]

ASECS, the leading interdisciplinary organization for scholars, curators, artists, and performers concerned with the long eighteenth century, has emerged over the past decade as a central international forum for historical, critical, and theoretical engagement with the fine and performing arts. ASECS invites proposals for sessions addressing the arts at its annual conference.

Deadline for receipt of proposals: June 1, 2009
Please e-mail to: asecs@wfu.edu (preferred), or mail to:

ASECS Business Office
P. O. Box 7867
Wake Forest University
Winston-Salem, NC 27109
tel (336) 727-4694
fax (336) 727-4697.

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"Extra/Ordinary Dress Code: Costuming and the Second Skin in Asia"

City University of Hong Kong
8-10 December 2009

[from H-ASIA, 4/12/09]

The English Department of Hong Kong City University is proud to announce its symposium, "Extra/Ordinary Dress Code," to be held at the City University of Hong Kong from Tuesday, December 8, through Thursday, December 10, 2009.

"Extra/Ordinary Dress Code" brings together scholars, writers and artists from diverse nationalities and disciplines for discussions of popular culture and performative fashion styles in all their aesthetic, cultural, ritual, social, and historical dimensions.

"Extra/Ordinary Dress Code" is the only scholarly event in Hong Kong to explicitly address an international perspective on the transformative power of costume and dressing up, including a focus on the Asian Cosplay cultural phenomenon by embracing novel interdisciplinary approaches encompassing theory and practice across emerging critical fields.

We are currently looking for proposals for presentations and papers from scholars and artists on the following themes:

The symposium will explore the role of fashion, body modification and appearance in forming our individual and collective identities in the various domains of everyday life. Dressing up in costume transforms the identity of the wearer enabling them to re-present their ordinary self through an assumed persona. This transformative power of costume and its ambiguities and multiple motivations form a central theme in this symposium across the key notions of costume play, presentation of the costumed self and consumption practices.

We desire to expand notions of fashion, the fashion system and and the fashion industry to include the entire spectrum of costuming and presentation of self--from unisex black business suits and stereotypical fashion victims to baggy-pant wearing tomboys, sports fans, punks, goths, hip hopsters, skaters and spectacular Cosplayers.

Through varied academic and artistic projects Extra/Ordinary Dress Code will explore local and global aspects of high end fashion and street style, by focusing on modes of dress, self presentation, aesthetic trends and cultural politics across a range of situated contexts. The symposium will reflect on issues of gender, age, ethnicity, consumption habits, sexuality, lived experiences and the ways in which fashion as a material and virtual commodity is used both as an expression of individual identity and collective culture, in addition to its role as an agent of the creative industries.

Please submit to extraordinarydresscode@yahoo.com an abstract of 200 words, in addition to a 50-word bio including your name, affiliation and contact e-mail address. Deadline for submissions: June 15, 2009.

We look forward to reading your submissions!
Anne Peirson-Smith and Katrien Jacobs

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"Cultures of Ceramics in Global History, 1300-1800"

University of Warwick
UK
22-24 April 2010

[from H-ASIA, 4/15/09]

This international conference to be held at the University of Warwick, UK, will bring together experts in a wide range of disciplines and geographical areas to explore the cultural and intellectual dimensions of the movement of ceramics in the early modern world. How exactly did Chinese ceramics filter into different societies to become part of everyday lives across the globe, and why were some places resistant to their impact? Did a potter in Europe, South America or the Middle East attempting to incorporate Chinese styles into local manufacture consider their place of origin? What effects did ceramics have on the nature of global connections, and who were the brokers and dealers involved in these processes? This conference will provide an opportunity to move beyond object-based analyses and reflect on such questions in light of recent developments in the field of global history.

Further details on the objectives of the conference including a call for papers are now available through the Global Jingdezhen project website. Abstracts must be received by 15 June 2009.

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"The Tangut Language and the Religions and Cultures of Northern China in the Age of the Xixia, the Liao, and the Jin"

Academia Sinica and Foguang University
Taiwan
17-22 December 2009

[from H-ASIA, 5/5/09]

The Department of Buddhist Studies of Foguang University, the Institute of Linguistics of the Academia Sinica, announce a conference provisionally entitled "The Tangut Language and the Religions and Cultures of the Northern China in the Age of the Xixia, the Liao, and the Jin. The conference will take place from 17 through 22 December, 2009 at the Institute of Linguistics (Academia Sinica, Nangang, Taipei) and at Foguang University (Jiaoxi).

The conference organizers solicit scholarly contributions on issues related the languages, cultures, and religions of Northern China in the period from the end of the Tang dynasty (around the year 881 which marked the beginnings of the Tangut statehood) until the Mongol conquest, with primary focus on the languages, cultures and religions of the Tangut kingdom, and the Khitan and Jurchen Empires. Papers are especially sought on such particular subjects as religious practices at Wutaishan and other specific North China locales in the period prior to the Mongol invasion, the stone sutras of Fangshan, the Tangut inscriptions in Baoding, and intercultural and religious exchange throughout the Northern Asia during the specified period. Papers on topics that extend into the Yuan and Ming may also be considered.

The conference will consist of two sessions: one, devoted primarily to the linguistics, will be held at the Academia Sinica, while the second, devoted to the religious and cultural issues, will be held on the campus of Foguang University in Jiaoxi.

The Organizing Committee invites letters of intent, with the abstracts of proposed presentations from the participants, to be submitted by June 15, 2009. These letters and abstracts will be evaluated by members of the Organizing Committee. The full texts of presentations will be due by October 15 2009, and the final decision on the participation based on the evaluations of the full texts (or abstratcts) will be announced on November 15, 2009. Requests for information, abstracts should be send to:

Linguistics: Lin Yingchin
Cultures and religions: Kirill Solonin

The Organizing Committee is seeking funding from a variety of sources. The amount of financial support for the selected participants will be announced in the future.

Letter of Intent
Full Name
Academic affiliation
Degree
Contact Information
Suggested title of the presentation
Abstract (no more than 500 words).

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Japan Studies Association Journal

[from ASDP-L, 5/22/09]

JSAJ publishes essays on a wide variety of topics related to Japanese Studies across the disciplines, combined with Pedagogical Notes and Essays which reflect on aspects of teaching Japanese material, and book reviews and review essays of relevant research for our membership and for all those engaged in infusing Japanese and Asian material into their curricula.

In our next volume, we expect to publish a number of essays derived directly or indirectly from the June 2008 JSA Faculty Workshop "International Crossroads at Fukuoka, Japan: East Asian and Western Connections, Past and Present." We welcome papers and inquiries and proposals related to this topic, as well as general submissions devoted to other topics.

General guidelines

Deadline for all submissions in completed form is June 15, 2009. The issue will be presented at the JSA Conference in January 2010.

John H. E. Paine
Editor, Japan Studies Association Journal
Depts. of English and Foreign Languages
Belmont University
1900 Belmont Blvd.
Nashville, TN 37212
tel (615) 794-2341

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Review of Culture: Macao History and Culture

[from H-ASIA, 3/21/09]

For the past 20 years, Review of Culture (RC) has served the needs of Chinese, Portuguese and English readers by issuing both Chinese and International (Portuguese and English) editions. A major academic quarterly dealing with Macao history and culture, RC aims to foster the exchange of ideas relating to Chinese and Western cultures, to reflect the unique identity of Macao and to stimulate ideas and discussions of topics related to Macao culture and history, establishing an intellectual forum for "Macao Studies." RC - International edition is putting out this call for papers.

Please contact us with projects and articles that fall within our editorial guidelines. In a nutshell: Macao Studies, (Related) Sinology, Asia/China-Europe/West Encounter in the field of Humanities. More on the RC editorial guidelines in our on-line edition.

At the moment, a line of research we are pursuing is Anglo-American presence in Macao and the South China Seas and Sino-American historic relations. [Deadline 19 June 2009.]

We accept (preferably) original articles but we also consider papers that were only presented in public lectures/conferences and not yet published.

After approval of a paper we usually ask for a set of materials, as follows:

Since it was founded, in 1987, hundreds of researchers worldwide had contributed to RC. I sincerely hope you or a fellow researcher of your group of contacts can become another valuable contributor.

Kind regards,

Paulo Coutinho
Executive Editor
Revista de Cultura / Review of Culture
International edition
Cultural Affairs Bureau of Macau SAR

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"The Aesthetic Dimension of Visual Culture"

Institute of Art History
Prague, Czech Republic
20-21 October 2009

[from conference website, 4/11/09]

International 2-day conference to be held at the Conference Centre of the Institute of Art History, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, and organized by the Institute and the Aesthetics and Film Studies Departments of the Faculty of Philosophy and Arts, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic.

The contemporary situation in humanities and social sciences is often characterized by the so called "visual turn," or the increasing emphasis of theory on the power and scope of the visual in everyday life, science, and art. Reflection of this increased influence of image, pictoriality, and visually mediated information and expression has resulted also in the formation of the notion of visual culture and the field of Visual Studies. The rise of Visual Studies involves several fundamental problems related to the status of aesthetics. Theoreticians of visual culture often suspect philosophical aesthetics of committing the sins of ahistorism and blindness towards cultural differences; according to the culturalist perspective, aesthetic experience is to be conceived as conforming to the ruling cultural ideology. Aesthetics is also often seen as irresponsive to the challenges of new media, post-conceptual art practices and the digital revolution. On the other hand, aesthetic vocabulary has far from vanished from contemporary debates on the nature and various shapes of our visual experiences, a fact especially pertinent where a dissatisfaction with vulgar value relativism prevails. The driving thought behind this conference has been to provoke a debate among scholars coming from different quarters on the aesthetic dimension of the visual. Therefore, participants from different fields--aesthetics, film studies, art history and theory, literary theory and philosophy, but also culture studies, visual and media studies, sociology, psychology and cognitive science--are invited to consider the following proposed topics organized into three thematic groups:

1) Debating Disciplines: Pluralist Aesthetics / Local Visual Studies

2) Defining art(s) in the 21st century

3) Appreciating the Visual

Invited are abstracts of no more than 200 words (in English) on these or broadly related topics. Speakers will receive 30 minutes for presentation. We also invite PhD students to present their work. PhD student submissions should be clearly marked as such. Selected papers will be published in conference proceedings.

Please send abstracts to Jakub Stejskal by 20 June 2009.

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"The Aesthetics of Marble from Late Antiquity to the Present"

Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz, Max-Planck-Institut
Florence, Italy
27-29 May 2010

[from H-ARTHIST, 5/27/09]

Although numerous studies, conferences, exhibitions and publications have explored the origin, the extraction, the transportation, and the use of marble and other veined stones, relatively little has been done on the resulting compositions, on their meanings, their effect and reception, in short on the aesthetics of marble. Yet the recourse to the natural patterns of stone in architecture and painting is of great interest for the history and theory of the visual arts, as it mediates between nature and artifice, iconicity and aniconism, as well as between material, structure, ornament, and iconography. The two-day conference "The Aesthetics of Marble" will take place at the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz from 27 to 29 May 2010 and aims at mapping this emerging field of research. It intends to take a culturally and chronologically ample view of the phenomenon and wishes to bring together a broad array of approaches from the history of art, architectural history, archaeology, material and conservation studies, anthropology, psychology, etc. Case studies are especially welcome and should help to test the heuristic efficacy of close observation and formal analysis, image theory, typology, reception aesthetics and history, or other methods. Areas and subjects of research could include marble facing in architecture (from Hagia Sophia to Mies van der Rohe's Barcelona Pavilion and beyond) or in the applied arts; the conservation, restoration, reconstruction and interpretation of marble surfaces (e.g. the Getty Villa); the perception and use of stones as pictures (e.g. pietra paesina) and the painting or writing on stone; the poietics, autopoietics and acheiropoietics of marble and other veined stones; the relationship between their use or display and the issue of iconicity v. aniconism within and across religions or quasi-religions (including Modernism); cultural transfer and the transformation of practices (e.g. in post-Conquest America); the history and phenomenology of the perception of coloured stone and its impact upon the uses of specific materials for specific functions; the transmateriality of stones and the metamorphotic nature attributed to them; ekphraseis, stone theories and marble fictions. Scholars interested in participating in the conference are invited to send a 250-words proposal, a CV and a list of publications to the following addresses by 20 June 2009.

Prof. Gerhard Wolf
Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz
Max-Planck Institut
Via G. Giusti 44
I-50121 Firenze

Prof. Dario Gamboni
Université de Genève, Unité d'histoire de l'art
Uni Bastions
CH-1211 Genève 4

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Museums in China Networking Event and Tour

[courtesy of K. McLoughlin, 6/3/09]

China-UK: Connections through Culture is a joint initiative between the Department for Culture, Media and Sport, the Foreign & Commonwealth Office and the British Council with support from the Scottish Government and Welsh Assembly Government. It aims to build lasting relationships between cultural organisations in the UK and China. As part of the China-UK: Connections through Culture programme, the British Council will be running a networking event and study tour in China from 12-21 October 2009 and is inviting applications from museums in the UK.

The networking event and tour will provide UK museum professionals with a unique opportunity to make contact and develop partnerships with leading national and regional museums in China. It has the support of the Chinese State Administration of Cultural Heritage, part of the Ministry of Culture. The tour will focus on visiting museums in Beijing and major regional centres which have important collections, and a strong interest in hosting international exhibitions. The programme will be finalised shortly, but will include visits to the following:

Each visit will include a meeting with senior officials and an opportunity to view the collections. The tour will be accompanied by British Council staff and interpreters, and a briefing on working with Chinese museums will be provided at the British Council in London before departure.

The British Council will be hosting a reciprocal tour of UK regional museums by Chinese museum directors and managers in December 2009.

Travel and Accommodation

The British Council will handle all travel arrangements and cover the costs of travel, accommodation and subsistence. Participating museums will be expected to make a contribution of £250 towards the cost of the trip.

Applications

Applicants will need to demonstrate an interest in working in China, but will not need to have existing contacts. The group will be restricted to ten delegates, so unfortunately applications are limited to one per museum. Early application is advised and some applications may be unsuccessful. Please request an application form from:

Jane Weeks
Museums and Heritage Adviser
British Council
mobile +44 (0)7811 71639.

The deadline for applications is Friday 26 June 2009. If you would like any further information, please contact Jane Weeks.

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Japanese Studies

[from H-ASIA, 2/24/09]

The editors of Japanese Studies seek articles for a special issue focused on the historical relationship between Taiwan and Japan. We are particularly interested in moving beyond the traditional focus on the period from 1895 to 1945 and on the colonial state as the central actor.

Past studies have tended to concentrate on the period of formal colonization, overlooking what came before 1895 and after 1945. We invite papers that explore the shifting nature of the interaction between Taiwan and Japan across the early modern and modern periods from 1600 to the current day. The editors also welcome papers that provide new and innovative ways to consider the colonial period by situating a broad array of actors, operating both in Japan and Taiwan, within the historical narrative. To this end, we invite papers that consider such topics as:

Queries regarding submissions and all other matters should be addressed to Judith Snodgrass (editor) or guest editor, Adam Clulow. Papers should normally be between 4000-8000 words, and will need to include an abstract of 100-150 words to facilitate the review process. For further details of the journal, notes for authors, and a free sample copy, see http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/carfax/10371397.html. For online submission go to http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/cjst.

All papers published in Japanese Studies are refereed internationally. The deadline for submissions is June 30, 2009. The special issue is scheduled to appear in 2010.

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Museum History Journal

[from CAA, 3/8/09]

The Museum History Journal is accepting manuscripts for volume 3, no. 1 (published in January 2010) – deadline: 1 July 2009; and for volume 3, no. 2 (published in July 2010) – deadline: 1 December 2009.

The Museum History Journal is a refereed international publication. Our disciplinary scope includes anthropology and archaeology, as well as art; and various settings including galleries. A variety of scholarly approaches, such as historical, cultural, social, and intellectual are accepted. Areas of interest encompass: the historical impact of museums; studies of architecture and display spaces; histories of exhibitions; biographies of significant figures in relation to museums; and critical institutional histories.

Author guidelines are at http://www.lcoastpress.com/journal.php?id=6. Manuscripts should be submitted electronically to Hugh Genoways; book-review recommendations or offers to review books may be sent to Juliet Burba.

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"Visual Arts & Global Trade in Early American Republic"

Salem, MA
6 March 2010

[from H-NET, 5/21/09]

American participation in global trade increased dramatically during the Early Republic. American ships ventured beyond the Cape of Good Hope and Cape Horn to expand direct contact with China, India, Indonesia, Southeast Asia, the Philippines, and other parts of the Pacific world. This trade brought widespread access to Asian arts and other visual materials and profoundly influenced American visual arts. While much of the literature on the arts of the Early Republic has focused on building nationalism in the wake of the Revolution, this conference investigates the state of early American internationalism. How did global trade contribute to knowledge and culture in the Early Republic, particularly in the arts? We invite papers and proposals that examine the impact of global trade from the 1780s to the 1840s on all aspects of visual art production: painting, sculpture, architecture, garden design, ceramics, furniture, silver, wallpaper, textiles, fashion, and other media. We also invite papers on the transmission of artistic ideas—through eyewitness accounts, illustrated books and prints, imported images and objects, museum collections, patronage, art markets, and other topics.

Honoraria and travel support for speakers are available through a generous grant from the Terra Foundation for American Art. Organizing institutions include Salem State College, the Salem Maritime Historical Site (National Park Service), and the Salem Athenaeum. The conference will provide opportunities to tour Salem’s magnificent Federalist architecture and museum collections.

To submit proposals for papers, please send an abstract (300 to 500 words) and a brief CV via e-mail to pjohnston@salemstate.edu. Proposals may also be submitted by mail to:

Visual Arts and Global Trade conference
c/o Patricia Johnston
Art Department
Salem State College
352 Lafayette Street
Salem, MA 01970
tel (978) 542-6488
fax (978) 542-6597 .

Proposals must be received by July 15, 2009. Speakers should be willing to revise their papers for later publication. Text and visuals for presentations are due in December 2009.

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Midwest Conference on Asian Affairs

Miami University
Oxford, OH
16-18 October 2009

[from H-ASIA, 5/12/09]

Miami University in Oxford, Ohio will host the 58th Midwest Conference on Asian Affairs on October 16-18, 2009.

We invite submissions from all academic disciplines on topics examining Asia. Proposals for panels and individual papers are due July 30, 2009. All proposals should be submitted electronically by following the appropriate link on the MCAA website.

Presenters must be members of MCAA and must pre-register by September 15, 2009. The membership fee is collected as part of the registration fee for the conference. Registration information is also available on the website.

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"Research Training in Old Chinese Phonology and Palaeography"

[from H-ASIA, 5/19/09]

We invite applications from graduate students (at any level) for participation in a graduate workshop Research Training in Old Chinese Philosophy and Palaeography, to be held in Oxford from 25 August to 03 September. The workshop is funded by the Arts & Humanities Research Council (AHRC) and British Inter-university the China Centre (BICC). For UK-based graduate students, we cover travel expenses, accommodation and board. For this workshop, we accept up to 20 participants, 10 of which from the UK.

The Oxford workshop is the second of a series of five workshops on different aspects of Early China and Old Chinese. This meeting will to a comparatively large extent have the structure of a taught class and will be held partly in Chinese. The specialists of this meeting are William H. Baxter (Michigan), world leading expert in Old Chinese Phonology, and Chén Jiàn í¬ôò (Shàngh®£i), world leading expert in Old Chinese Palaeography. The programme for this workshop can be found on http://bicc.banksidesystems.net/BICCResearchProjects/ResearchTraininginOldChinese/OxfordOldChinesePhonologyandPalaeography/tabid/576/Default.aspx.

Applications should include a brief CV, detailing gender, university and departmental affiliation (no longer than one page), proficiency in English and Chinese as well as a brief letter stating your interest in participating (no longer than one page). Letters of recommendation are welcome but not obligatory.

The deadline for applications is 26 July 2009. Successful candidates will be informed soon thereafter.

The workshop series Collaborate Research Training in Old Chinese arose from concerns that the study of Old Chinese, Chinese philosophy and classical Chinese literature are under serious threat in the United Kingdom. Classical Sinology in the UK has become marginalised, and its international visibility is minimal. As individual institutions in the UK tend to be rather small, no institution, if operating in isolation, can host the critical mass of experts in the different fields of traditional Sinology, or is equipped with the relevant research tools needed to provide substantial training in Old Chinese. The workshops series for intensive graduate research training aims to correct this state of affairs. Our idea is to connect the various UK centres for the study of Old Chinese into a nationwide network to facilitate specialised research-training in Old Chinese phonology, palaeography, grammar, literature, philosophy, and religion, and strengthen the international visibility of traditional Sinology in the UK at large.

An essential element of our programme is to open up research areas for graduate students that until recently were little studied in the UK. All in all, five research clusters that constitute the basis for a comprehensive study of Old Chinese will be covered in a series of five workshops over the period of two years (January 2009 to September 2010). These are (1) Philosophy and Religion; (2) Old Chinese Phonology and Palaeography, (3) Text and Textuality; (4) History and Historiography; (5) Art and Archaeology.

Twice a year, workshops of three to ten days will be held at different institutions across the UK. Each of these meetings will focus on one research cluster. Recognised specialists will each cover one of the different aspects that constitute such a research cluster. Depending on the complexity, each specialist will be given up to half a day to introduce the relevant research tools, read a selection of texts with the participants, and discuss the texts' theoretical implications. Each meeting will close with a round-table discussion involving all the specialists and participants. This will fuse the various research fields to create an integrated picture describing the different aspects and problems of the field. We invite both UK-based and international specialists to introduce their field of research. It will thus be possible to inform participants regarding the latest issues and research strategies in the study of Old Chinese, and train them to be competent researchers in a way that could never happen in one individual institution in the UK.

Meetings will be held in Edinburgh, Oxford, Cambridge and London. The workshop outputs will be digitised and embedded in the online learning and research tools of the British Inter-university China Centre (BICC). This archive will make the workshop materials accessible to students at all UK Higher Education Institutions.

The workshop series is especially geared towards masters' and doctoral students of Old Chinese in the UK, but it should also appeal to post-doctoral researchers. To facilitate student participation, this programme covers travel expenses, food and board for each meeting. Students from abroad are also welcome to participate, as this programme should be a platform that enables UK graduate students to build up international connections, which can be vital for carrying out further research. Overseas students will be expected to meet their own costs, or have their institutions do so.

Each meeting will invite up to 20 participants. Participant groups will be fluid over the duration of the programme, matching different students to their specific training needs. It is the particular strength of this programme not only to inform its participants about the latest trends in scholarship, but also to introduce them to and train them in the use of the relevant research tools, to which most students would otherwise have no access since only few institutions can host the critical mass of specialists necessary to allow such multi-facetted research training.

The research clusters are organised as follows:
(1) Philosophy and Religion in Premodern China (held in Edinburgh, 29.01-02.02. 2009)
(2) Old Chinese Phonology and Palaeography (to be held in Oxford, 25.08-03.09.2009)
(3) History and Historiography (to be held in Cambridge, Spring 2010)
(4) Text and Textuality (to be held in Oxford, 24.06-27.06.2010)
(5) Art and Archaeology (to be held in London, Autumn 2010)

Convenor of this programme is Dr Dirk Meyer, BICC CDF University Lecturer in Chinese Philosophy, University of Oxford. Co-ordinators of this programme are Dr Dirk Meyer, Oxford, and Professor Joachim Gentz, Edinburgh, Research Fellow and Senior Lecturer in Chinese Studies. Applications for the workshop Old Chinese Phonology and Palaeography (to be held in Oxford, 25.08-03.09.2009) should go to Dr Dirk Meyer.

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College Art Association

[from CAA News, March 2009]

CAA Seeks Award Nominations for 2010

Recognize someone who has made extraordinary contributions to the fields of art and art history by nominating him or her for one of twelve CAA Awards for Distinction for 2010. Award juries consider your personal letters of recommendation when making their selections. In the letter, state who you are; how you know (of) the nominee; how the nominee and/or his or her work or publication has affected your practice or studies and the pursuit of your career; and why you think this person (or, in a collaboration, these people) deserves to be recognized. We also urge you to contact five to ten colleagues, students, peers, collaborators, and/ or coworkers of the nominee to write letters. The different perspectives and anecdotes from multiple letters of nomination provide juries with a clearer picture of the qualities and attributes of the candidates.

All nomination campaigns should include one copy of the nominee’s CV (limit: two pages). Nominations for book and exhibition awards should be for authors of books published or works exhibited or staged between September 1, 2008, and August 31, 2009. No more than ten letters per candidate are considered. Visit www.collegeart.org/awards to read descriptions of all twelve awards. You may also write to Lauren Stark, CAA manager of programs, for more information. Deadline: July 31, 2009, for the Morey and Barr Awards; August 31, 2009, for all others.

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"Asian Connections"

China-South Asia International Cultural Forum
Delhi, India
4-5 December 2009

[from H-ASIA, 6/3/09]

We invite paper proposals in the realm of modern economic, cultural and political linkages between Asian societies (not necessarily on China and India). While much study has taken place on the early and early modern history of relations of these societies, for example in the maritime history of the Indian Ocean, these panels will focus on more modern and contemporary relationships. Moreover, non-state relationships and connections emphasizing flows and connections of people, economic and popular cultural relationships will be favoured over diplomatic, state-to-state or high cultural/intellectual relationships between nations.

In recent years, ASEAN +3 and the East Asian Summit (ASEAN+6) have been emerging as the core of regional activity. Our conception of Asia, however, does not refer to a well bounded entity or a cartographic whole. Rather we seek to discover the areas and nodes of dense interactions across the region. This conception of a region is not static but changes as others with growing inter-connections are brought into the sphere of co-ordination or potential co-ordination. The goal is to see processes of regional formation (or deformation) in Asia.

We are planning to accept 6-8 papers divided into 2 or 3 panels. Complete papers of no more than 20 pages must be submitted by Nov 4, 2009. The selected presenters will receive economy class travel fare and lodging expenses for three nights. While we reserve the right to choose individual papers, scholars may refer to other submissions that cohere with their topics (which we will consider in forming panels). Interested scholars should submit a proposal abstract of 300-500 words and a short 2-3 CV to the following address by July 31, 2009 (e-mail submission will be accepted):

Prasenjit Duara, c/o Brenda Lim
Director of Research
Humanities and Social Sciences
National University of Singapore
University Hall #05-02G
Singapore 119077
tel +(65) 6516 6012
fax +(65) 6872 0830/6775 6467
e-mail: <dprpd@nus.edu.sg>
Adm Officer Brenda Lim on leave until July 1. Till then please communicate with Christy Lim.

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"The Construction of 'East Asian Race' in Europe, Racism, and the East Asian Response"

[from H-ASIA, 5/11/09]

We are soliciting essay proposals for a multidisciplinary edited volume(s) on the European/Western construction of race regarding East Asians (primarily, Chinese, Japanese, Koreans) in the last half millennium and the East Asians’ self-images and their later response (accommodation, emulation, opposition) to Western racial construction and racism since the late nineteenth century.

The book is designed to illuminate a central albeit somewhat neglected theme in both the history of racism in Europe/the West and the modern history of East Asia.

Essays from all fields are welcome. The range of topics may include (but is certainly not limited to) one or more of the following themes. Each theme can be examined in the frame of either a single nation or an entire region:

A. Evolution of Racial Constructions of East Asians in Europe/ the West
- The construction of race and technology
- The construction of race and power
- The construction of race and perceptions of racial hierarchy
- The construction of race and aesthetics
- The construction of race and visual representations of East Asians
- The construction of race and the taxonomical revolution
- The construction of race in travel literature
- The construction of race in Encyclopedias and lexicons
- The construction of race and gender (the beholder / the object)

B. Self-perceptions, impact and response
- Chinese self-perceptions before 1840
- Japanese self-perceptions before 1853
- Impact of ‘Western’ racial thinking on Social Darwinian thought in East Asia
- Western racial impact on eugenic policies in East Asia
- Western racial impact on aesthetic view in East Asia
- Western racial impact on body transformations in East Asia
- Western racial impact on transformations of nutrition in East Asia
- Western racial impact on body ideals in East Asia
- Western racial impact on intermarriage in East Asia
- Western racial impact on tendencies of self-Orientalizing by East Asians
- Western racial impact on the racial construction of minorities in East Asia
- Western racial impact on world perception and hierarchy in East Asia
- Western racial impact on foreign policy in East Asia
- Western racial impact on immigration in East Asia

C. Racism
- The interrelations between racial construction of East Asians and racism
- Racial construction and dehumanization of East Asians in modern times
- Racism and combat behavior in the East Asian arena
- Racism and self-images of East Asians (in literature, film, art, etc.)
- Culture and societal form and the differing response to Western racism in East Asia
- The impact of Western racial thought on modern racism in East Asia
- The legacy of Western racism in contemporary East Asia

150-250 word abstracts (in English) are due by August 1, 2009; completed essays (5000-8000 words) are due May 1, 2010.

The editorial committee includes Prof. Walter Demel (Universität der Bundeswehr München) and Prof. Rotem Kowner (University of Haifa).

Please send your abstract to the entire committee. We will notify contributors regarding inclusion in the anthology by September 1.

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"Crossing Borders in Southeast Asian Archaeology"

13th International Conference of the European Association for Southeast Asian Archaeologists
Berlin, Germany
27 September - 1 October 2010

[from EurASEAA, 5/2/09]

We are pleased to announce that the 13th International Conference of the European Association of Southeast Asian Archaeologists (EurASEAA) will be held in Berlin in 2010, organized jointly by the Institute of Ancient Near Eastern Archaeology at the Free University of Berlin, the Ethnological Museum, and the German Archaeological Institute (DAI).

The conference brings together archaeologists, art historians, and philologists who share a common interest in Southeast Asia’s past from prehistory to the historical period. Its aim is to facilitate communication between different disciplines, to provide a survey of present work in the field and to stimulate future research. Papers are now invited for all topics on Southeast Asian archaeology, in particular to the main conference theme "Crossing Borders in Southeast Asian Archaeology." This subject has been chosen to reflect the conference’s interdisciplinary approach but more to encourage participants to broaden their thematic context. Southeast Asia exhibits incredible diversity. Different geographic and climatic environments bounded by mountains and upland valleys, river systems and deltas, coast lines and islands have led to the development of myriad cultural, political, and ethnic groups. However, contacts between all these different life zones were always possible and highly effective. Their study provides a fascinating glimpse of the dynamics of communication from prehistory to pre-colonial times. Participants of the EurASEAA13 conference are encouraged to reflect on the transfer of knowledge, language, material culture, or whatever else they find as evidence for trans- and interregional interaction in their current research. Papers on South Asia and Southern China which are important for long-distance exchanges will be considered if they are closely related to Southeast Asian themes.

Colleagues who wish to participate in the conference should submit the title of their paper and an abstract of about 150 words by 1 August 2009. Participants and visitors can register online. Presentations are limited to 20 minutes. We encourage the presentation of posters as well as the proposals of panels. We are applying for funding from various organizations to provide travel grants to participants. To qualify for a grant we expect you to submit an abstract of your intended paper and your CV.

Submissions with either (or both) a content or theoretical pedagogical focus are welcomed. Submitted articles should also include abstracts and be submitted electronically.

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East-West Connections

[from ASDP-L, 3/22/09]

East-West Connections: Review of Asian Studies is a peer-reviewed and fully refereed journal that appears annually. Sponsored by the Asian Studies Development Program and the Association of Regional Centers of Asian Studies, East-West Connections is a seriously minded, yet interesting, academic journal that is accessible to a wide range of readers from a variety of disciplines.

In general, the editorial board of East-West Connections takes seriously a broad array of contemporary engagements within Asian studies that opens up discussions in individual fields that cross fertilize with others. Innovative submissions from authors are especially welcomed.

Submissions with either (or both) a content or theoretical pedagogical focus are welcomed. Submitted articles should also include abstracts and be submitted electronically.

Prospective authors should consult the East-West Connections guidelines before submitting a manuscript for consideration. The deadline for initial submission of manuscripts for our next two issues is August 15, 2009.

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Society of Architectural Historians

63rd Annual Meeting
Chicago, IL
21-25 April 2010

[from SAH, 6/6/09; papers/panels relating to China and Japan listed below]

Members and friends of the Society of Architectural Historians are invited to submit abstracts by 15 August 2009 for the thematic sessions listed below. Abstracts of no more than 300 words should be sent directly to the appropriate session chair; abstracts are to be headed with the applicant’s name, professional affiliation [graduate students in brackets], and title of paper. Submit with the abstract a short curriculum vitae, home and work addresses, email addresses, telephone and fax numbers. Abstracts should define the subject and summarize the argument to be presented in the proposed paper. The content of that paper should be the product of well-documented original research that is primarily analytical and interpretative rather than descriptive in nature.

Papers cannot have been previously published, nor presented in public except to a small, local audience. Only one submission per author will be accepted. All abstracts will be held in confidence during the selection process. In addition to the thematic sessions listed below, two open sessions are announced. With the author’s approval, thematic session chairs may choose to recommend for inclusion in an open session an abstract that was submitted to, but does not fit into, a thematic session. Thematic session chairs will notify all persons submitting abstracts to thematic sessions of the acceptance or rejection of their proposals by 12 September 2009. Those submitting to the Open Session will be notified by 22 September 2009. All session chairs have the prerogative to recommend changes to the abstract in order to coordinate it with a session program, and to suggest editorial revisions to a paper in order to make it satisfy session guidelines; it is the responsibility of the session chairs to inform speakers of those guidelines, as well as of the general expectations for both a session and participation in the annual meeting. Authors of accepted proposals must submit the complete text of their papers to their session chair by 12 January 2010. Session chairs will return papers with comments to speakers by 6 February 2010. Speakers must complete any revisions and distribute copies of their paper to the session chair and the other session speakers by 27 February 2010. Session chairs reserve the right to withhold a paper from the program if the author has refused to comply with those guidelines.

Please Note: Each speaker is expected to fund his or her own travel and expenses to Chicago. SAH has a limited number of fellowships for which Annual Meeting speakers may apply. However, SAH’s funding is not sufficient to support the expenses of all speakers or of the chosen recipients of a fellowship. For information about SAH Annual Meeting fellowships, please visit our website.

The Source of the Soul: Water for Pre-Industrial Gardens
Writing in the 16th century, Giovanvittorio Soderini, stated that “water, whether natural or artificial, is the soul of villas [and] pleasure gardens” and that it needed to be used abundantly, as it had been in ancient Rome. Clearly, water is fundamental to gardens and fountains, as it provides the soul, or anima that animates them. Indeed, without water there would be only sculpture. Yet, the sources of water for pre-industrial gardens and fountains have not been systematically studied. This is a crucial lacuna, since every water supply in a pre-industrial society is site specific, thus, every design response must be as well. Many landscape scholars have failed to consider how water’s source, flow, pressure, and other qualities made possible a fountain display, or indeed might underlie a garden's structure. Even David Coffin who devotes an important chapter to waterworks in his 1991 book, Gardens and Gardening in Papal Rome, fails to systematically address the water sources for the gardens he discusses. Recently Yvonne Elet, Marcello Fagiolo, Claudia Lazzaro, and James Wescoat, among others have grappled with this topic for Renaissance and Islamic gardens, and their work provides a solid foundation for future research. Important questions still remain. From where did water derive for pre-industrial gardens and how might its source, whether a spring, cistern, well, aqueduct, or river, have affected the topos and design of individual fountains or the topographic manipulation of entire gardens? What role did water play in real estate decisions, or how to include water features in a garden? What technical problems were faced and what strategies employed to site and design waterworks with a limited water supply, often with very low pressure? How might a garden's narratives and sensory experiences reflect its particular water source? Papers exploring relationships between water source, garden structure, and fountain design between 1300 and 1700 from any culture are welcome. Those incorporating geological and archaeological sources (in addition to maps, manuals, diaries, other texts, and images) are especially welcome. In all cases, the water supply must provide the interpretive lens. Please submit proposals to: Katherine Rinne, Associate Fellow, IATH, University of Virginia, 1800 Virginia Street Berkeley, CA 94703; (510) 849-1525.

Architectural-ized Asia
Born of a Greek term referring to Anatolia, the roots of "Asia" are, from the very beginning, the projection of the Otherness. The immense plain and thousands of islands in the eastern section of Eurasia are grouped together, and many disparate cultures and traditions are thrown into the same pot with thousands of years of history. From Siberia to the Red Sea, from East Timor to the Ural Mountains, or from Colombo to Mongolia, how has "Asia" ever managed to become Asian? In contrast to general understanding, the making of Asia in architectural history is a major enterprise that continued from nineteenth-century European discourses to post-World War II's nationalist narratives. Considered a more neutral term, "Asia" is adopted and now used widely in place of "the Orient." And yet, the identity of Asia is simultaneously complicated by the actuality of its vast landscapes and the complexity of its historical settings. Courses on Asian architecture thus normally represent the continent with selected parts and only highlight its characteristics through particular examples identified by locations and traditions in design. Moreover, the lack of sustaining historical records and scholarly works on transcontinental design makes Asian architectural history incomparable to the long tradition of architectural history in Europe. In short, the wholeness of Asia cannot exist in architectural discourse, and narratives of Asian architectural history are always nominally pieced together with stereotypes and essentialized cultural forms. Identity politics is a longstanding problem in architectural history, but its discussion has often remained within the scale of national identity. This session proposes an opportunity to expand the discussion pan-nationally and pan-historically by focusing on “Asia” as the subject of inquiry. Proposals can be of diverse aspects, from those that work on case studies to those that offer new methodological perspectives. Case studies of buildings at the margins of "Asia" (both geographically and politically) are notably welcome. Ultimately, this session seeks papers that aim to offer new ways of reorganizing our museographical understanding of the Asian continent through a re-reading of architecture. Please submit proposals to: Vimalin Rujivacharakul, Assistant Professor of Art and Architectural History; Department of Art History, Old College #318, University of Delaware, DE 19716, USA; (302) 831-8415.

Images: Print and Pixel
Ours is a world inundated with images in print and pixels, informational and commercial, images that have come to rival—if not yet quite conquer—the “reality” in which we live. The resulting elevation of vision as our predominant sense informs how we act and think as members of the general public, and concomitantly, how we research, develop, and present our ideas as scholars. The internet has provided an almost boundless range of images and image qualities, and sites such as GoogleEarth, Flickr, and the SAH’s recently launched SAHARA, now overshadow the age-old resources of books and slide libraries. Today, the opportunities given architectural, landscape, and urban history by these new resources are enormous, with millions of photos, panoramic sweeps, film clips, and archival materials now available online. If this plethora of images and their attendant platforms for presentation have offered enormously augmented possibilities, our study and regard for these—the potentials they offer as well as their limitations—has not always kept pace. This session will address the subject of the image and its presentation at both theoretical and practical levels. Welcome are proposals for papers addressing the very nature of images (as opposed to words or sounds) as used in our fields, as well as the more pragmatic issues involved with their procurement and display—in research, discussions of sources, application and techniques of presentation. How do images, especially digital, speak today? How do they interact with words? How do we select and use images in our teaching and research? How do/should we today construct presentations with the aid of digital technologies to most effectively advance research and teaching? Could/should the “lecture” or the conference paper be regarded as an opera integrating word, image, and sound? Is there a danger of becoming too involved with the presentation, thus diminishing the content of a talk? At what points does scholarship and teaching become mere entertainment, and a distraction rather than an aid? Papers may discuss ways in which digital technologies affect instruction, but should focus on their use in the discipline of architectural history and its related fields. Please send proposals to Marc Treib, 2154 Blake Street, Berkeley, CA, 94704.

Sensational Space: Architecture and the 7 Senses
This session will explore the relationship between the built environment and the senses. In so doing, the session hopes to pose historiographic questions through a series of historical case studies. Western culture has long claimed the existence of five senses – and of these sight has been privileged and intellectualized over that of taste, touch, smell, and hearing. Given this, architectural historians must be concerned with the repercussions for the discipline. To what extent have the non-visual aspects of architectural experience been written out of the historical narrative? What are the problems of writing them back in? How is this history distinct from cultures where other and more senses are acknowledged, accepted, privileged? Thanks to the theoretical work in sensory anthropology over the past two decades (led by David Howes and others), there has been a sensory turn in various disciplines. However this has only recently and sporadically begun to impact spatial studies. The work of Emily Thompson, Iain Borden, Douglas Kahn, Alain Corbin, Leigh Schmidt, Anna Barbara, and Constance Classen have expanded the way in which we think about space. While several of these pioneering scholars do not identify themselves as architectural historians, they have encouraged historians to consider the complexities of hearing, touching, smelling and moving through space and discussing these experiences in historical terms. Equally provocative has been the art and design practices of individuals such as Judith Cardiff, Diller + Scofidio, Richard Long and others who have encouraged us to interact with space in self-consciously different ways. Proposed papers should explore historical case studies across time and space. Papers might deal with the haptic experience of the built environment, the importance of sensory design in facilities for primary school education, the de-sensualized spaces of penitential architecture, the increasing multi-sensory experience of museums, the intentional heightening of sensory experience in Slow Cities, and so forth. Please send paper proposals and a current CV in hardcopy form to Prof. Medina Lasansky, Architecture Department, 143 E. Sibley Hall, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853 or via fax (607) 255-0291. For questions contact DML34@Cornell.edu, (607) 254-8771.

Expanding Expressionism: The Role of Expression in Architectural Theory and Practice
Architecture's ability to "express" character, function, emotion, structural ideas, social hierarchies, political ideology, or other abstract notions, has long been recognized. Historians and theoreticians of architecture have identified "expression" as key to understanding aspects of Egyptian, late-Roman, Gothic, Baroque, Romantic, and many non-Western architectures. And yet it was only in the early twentieth century that the term "Expressionism" began to be used overtly to define a movement or specific approach to architecture, narrowly associated with the works of Bruno Taut and colleagues in Germany and Holland. The 100th anniversary of German Expressionist art, as well as the expressive formal tendencies of some of today's computer-generated architecture, has renewed scholarly interest in the role that "expression" has played in the development of architecture before and after the iconic Expressionist period, around the world. Despite, or perhaps because of our awareness of the rich and eclectic roots and progenies of "Expressionism," the term remains vague and ill-defined. This session seeks to deepen and expand our understanding of expression in architecture beyond the focus on Germany in the years after World War I. We seek papers on a range of theoretical or interpretive models and definitions of "expression" in architecture throughout history. Papers should discuss specific theories, critiques, or examples of "expression" or related terms in architecture. They may address issues such as how expression in architecture was different from expression in the other arts? How did architects distinguish an expressive architecture from one that symbolized, represented, or embodied a certain character, function, or style? What role did emotions, the senses, the body, and form play in creating and experiencing expressionist architecture? What characterized the periods, architects, or buildings that intentionally "expressed" ideas or emotions more powerfully and provocatively than others? We encourage comparative and inter-disciplinary papers that investigate multiple ideas of "expression" in architecture and related fields. Send inquiries and proposals to: Kai Gutschow, School of Architecture -CFA201, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15213-3890; fax (412) 268-7819.

Geography in Modern Architectural Theory and History
This session seeks to illuminate geographical disciplinary turns in the history of architectural theory, while also considering how forms of inquiry from the history of human geography have influenced and may continue to influence architectural thought. Geographical concepts intersect with the history of architectural theory from the origins of the field in Renaissance humanist literature and extend into the concepts of Buckminster Fuller, among numerous others. We can detect a pronounced engagement with human geographical thought in post-1960s architectural theory and a parallel turn to architectural theory in contemporaneous human geographical literature. Several key post-war examples illustrate these points of connection: In the 1960s, Aldo Rossi turned to French urban geography to elucidate his concept of the urban artifact, while the French urban geographer Jean Gottmann examined the typology of the skyscraper as a form illustrating life in his “megalopolis.” In the 1970s, architectural historians and theorists absorbed “Berkeley School” geographic concepts in explorations of “ordinary” and “cultural landscapes.” In the late-1980s and 1990s ideas from neo-Marxist geographers within the “Los Angeles School” influenced interrogations of the privatization of urban space and gentrification within architectural and urban theory. These latter examples typify recent American architectural/geographic methodologies -- methods that employ geography to illuminate economic and political realities that might have appeared peripheral in then contemporaneous architectural thought. Ultimately the session seeks to better understand the history of connections between architectural theory and geography, in the work of major and under-historicized figures. The goal is to critically examine earlier methods, consider their disciplinary presumptions, and discuss what might remain to be staged in the interaction between architecture and geography. In terms of historical research, the session is particularly interested in twentieth century efforts, but proposals examining late-19th century work will also be considered. Please send proposals to: David Gissen, Assistant Professor of Architecture and Visual Studies, The California College of the Arts, 1111 Eighth Street, San Francisco, CA, 94107-2247; tel (410) 236-8095; fax (415) 703-9524.

Open Sessions I and II
Please send proposals for papers on any topic in architectural, urban, or landscape history to: Dorothy Metzger-Habel, History of Art, School of Art, University of Tennessee, 1715 Volunteer Boulevard, Knoxville, TN 37996-2410, tel (865) 974-3408, fax (865) 974-3198; and to Despina Stratagakos, University at Buffalo, SUNY, Department of Architecture, 112 Hayes Hall, Buffalo, NY, 14214-3087, tel (716) 829-3483 x313.

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"The Semiotics of Shipwreck"

A Symposium on the Representation and Resonance of Maritime Disaster
National Maritime Museum
London, UK
19-20 November 2010

[from H-ARTHIST, 6/6/09]

Ever since human beings first began seafaring, they have been fascinated, and haunted, by shipwrecks. For maritime societies especially, these tragedies at sea have been a constant source of anxiety, since they are disasters that potentially devastate not only individuals but also the community or nation as a whole. It is perhaps not surprising, then, that shipwreck is also one of the oldest motifs in art and literature. It can be traced as far back as the second millennium BCE, when a fragmentary Egyptian papyrus tells of a sailor shipwrecked on an island that is home to a giant snake. Thereafter it becomes a key topos in the romance genre, from Heliodorus to Shakespeare and beyond, and recurs frequently in poetry, from Homer?s Odyssey and Horace?s Odes through to Byron's Don Juan and Hopkins's The Wreck of the Deutschland. It has a Biblical presence, for example in the account of St Paul?s shipwreck. In painting, meanwhile, shipwreck and its aftermath have been taken up by artists ranging from Vernet and Gericault to Sydney Nolan. And the shipwreck scenario may fairly (if a little paradoxically) be said to have launched the modern novel, in English at least: shipwrecks are of course central to both Defoe?s Robinson Crusoe and Swift's Gulliver's Travels. This fascination with the shipwreck scenario continues right down to the present day, notwithstanding the fact that shipwrecks are today much more infrequent than they were in the past. Although air crashes may have replaced shipwrecks as a key instigator of action in many narrative forms (as in Golding's Lord of the Flies or the TV series Lost), ours is still a culture obsessed, for example, with the mythology of the 1912 Titanic disaster, and James Cameron's 1997 treatment of this tragedy remains the highest-grossing film of all time.

Over the years, accounts and metaphors of shipwreck have taken diverse forms and served various purposes; the iconicity that attaches to the shipwreck motif has also varied significantly across time and between different cultures. Thus in some forms it is fused with Protestant traditions of spiritual autobiography, and comes to denote a cataclysmic, transformative event in the life of an individual. In others, meanwhile, the topos is informed by Horace?s famous metaphor of the ship of state, and becomes associated with an act of collective memorialization and mourning. The aim of this symposium is to explore the shifting and multiple semiotics of shipwreck; to trace the evolution of the shipwreck motif over time and across different cultures; and to trace the circulation of accounts and representations of specific shipwrecks (e.g., the Titanic, the Grosvenor and so forth) through culture.

To this end, we invite papers that address the question of the representation of shipwreck from any disciplinary angle, and with regard to any time period or culture. We are especially interested in papers that address the following themes (to supplement papers that have already been confirmed):

For more information, or to offer a paper, please contact Dr Carl Thompson at the Centre for Travel Writing Studies, Nottingham Trent University.

The closing date for paper proposals is August 15th 2009.

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"The Story of Things: Reading Narrative in the Visual"

Manchester Metropolitan University
Manchester, UKk
29 January 2010

[from H-ARTHIST, 6/12/09]

The production, consumption and interpretation of narratives in visual form is central to contemporary cultures. Within this context, the notion of narrative finding expression in the visual can be traced, for example, in the growth of the graphic novel form, the positioning of cinema as subject matter for art practice and the persistence of the artist's book as an art form. Visual narratives demand specific forms of readerly interaction and critical response. They require a shift of reading focus from text to text-and-image or to image-only, and therefore require different critical apparatus and analytical skills.

This one-day conference will investigate the reading of narrative in visual contexts, encouraging interdisciplinary approaches in addressing the following specific clusters of concerns:

These areas of related interest will facilitate aesthetic and theoretical interrogations of visual narrative.

Papers are invited which explore or respond to issues of visual narrative production, consumption and interpretation in relation to these and other connected areas of concern. We encourage contributions from artists, academics and other practitioners. Please send proposals (250 words) for papers (20 mins) to Jonathan Carson by Tuesday 1st September, 2009.

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College Art Association

[from CAA News, September 2008]

Conference Exhibition Proposals

CAA invites curators to submit proposals for exhibitions whose openings coincide with upcoming Annual Conferences. The exhibition must be held in the conference city and be on view during the conference dates: New York, February 2011. Deadline: September 1, 2009.

There are no limitations on the theme or media of work to be included in the exhibition, except that it must be a group show. of contemporary art comprising about fifteen artists. CAA’s Exhibitions Committee reviews and evaluates proposals based on merit. CAA provides support for the exhibition with a grant of up to $10,000. An additional grant of $5,000 is available for an exhibition catalogue to be printed in sufficient numbers for distribution to all Annual Conference attendees. Preference is given to those proposals that include both an open call and some CAA members among the exhibiting artists.

Proposals must be submitted by e-mail and should include the following:

Please send your proposal to Emmanuel Lemakis, CAA director of programs.

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"The Art Work between Technology and Nature"

Statens Museum for Kunst
Copenhagen, Denmark
21-23 January 2010

[from H-ARTHIST, 4/7/09]

Occasioned by the exhibitions Nature Strikes Back! and Impact: Living in the Age of Climate Change, running in parallel to the UN climate change conference in Copenhagen, this art historical conference will explore the relationship between art, nature and technology. The present climatic crisis foregrounds the observation that during the last century human technology has come to play a crucial role in the overall behaviour of nature, both as a disturber of ecological balances and as a potential healer of them.

Parallel to this development, art seems to have become more closely involved with both nature and technology, challenging on the one hand conceptions of art contemplating nature as a distant landscape and, on the other, art as being foreign to the social interaction and physical dynamics of technology. These approaches often highlight art's critical and reflective function, and yet in art's very interchange with nature and technology there are certain reminiscences from the ancient and medieval periods in which art and technology were aspects of a common area of cultivated products and their methods—the Latin ars and the Greek technik—and in which this area was thought to function according to principles imitating nature.

Send a proposal of no more than 400 words to Professor Jacob Wamberg. Deadline for abstracts: 4 September 2009.

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"In the Image of Asia: Moving across and between Locations"

Australian National University
Canberra, Australia
13-15 April 2010

[from ANU, 6/6/09]

Convened by: Dr Fuyubi Nakamura, RSH, ANU & Dr Ana Dragojlovic, RSPAS, ANU

This interdisciplinary conference explores how "Asia" has been imagined, imaged, represented and transferred visually across linguistic, geopolitical and cultural boundaries. It aims to challenge established assumptions (and consumptions) of cultural products of "Asia," from arts, artefacts and film to performance. Despite the constant movement of people and objects in the globalized world, ‘location’ still remains an important reference point in identifying images of/from "Asia." The particular focus is on the role of "long-distance cultural specialists" (Harris 2006)--understood in this context as artists, writers, anthropologists and intellectuals, whose works have the distinctive feature of bridging or traversing different worlds. These members of the Asian diasporas, subaltern intellectuals and transnational cultural workers use their artistic and intellectual mobility to represent their "native culture" in the "host culture" or elsewhere. Hence a critique on authenticity, indigeneity, hybridity and inter-cultural influence and borrowing--all of which inevitably leads to questions on power and agency--can benefit from a dialogue between theories in art history, cultural studies, postcolonial studies, and anthropology.

Effectively a globalised examination of localized cultural "Asia", this conference is an interdisciplinary dialogue along the following themes:

1) Locations of cultures;
2) Identity and images;
3) Representation of culture as translation and
4) Hybridity and agency.
It seeks to develop an analytical apparatus to capture the complex positioning of "cultural translators" and "cultural products" across borders. As such, this conference will shed fresh light on the diverse, polyphonic cultural productions of "Asia" against the backdrop of shifting power dynamics between "east" and "west," "north" and "south" in a transnational era.

Keynote addresses
Clare Harris (University of Oxford), to be confirmed.

Provisional speakers include:
Chihiro Minato (Tama Art University)
John Clark (University of Sydney)
Morgan Perkins (State University of New York College at Potsdam)
Jan Mrazek (National University of Singapore)

We invite proposals for papers dealing with any of the themes of the conference. Please send proposals of 250 words max, with your name and affiliation to Fuyubi Nakamura or Ana Dragojlovic by 11 September 2009.

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Journal of Asia Pacific Studies

[from H-ASIA, 5/8/09]

ISSN 1948-0105 (Online)
ISSN 1948-0091 (Print)
First Issue to be released December 2009
Call for papers deadline: September 20, 2009

The Journal is a peer-reviewed publication concentrating on publishing original research dealing with the Asia Pacific Region, published by the Journal of Alternative Perspectives in the Social Sciences, Inc.

Managing Editor
Journal of Asia Pacific Studies
1420 High Point Way SW, Suite B
Delray Beach, Florida, 33445
USA
e-mail <editor@journal.vpweb.com>

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European Architectural History Network

First International Meeting
Guimarães, Portugal
17-20 June 2010

[from H-ARTHIST, 3/30/09, and EAHN, 6/20/09; sessions and roundtables relating to China or Japan listed below]

The call for papers for the First International Meeting of the European Architectural History Network has been issued. Papers are sought for the twenty-five sessions and roundtables at the conference which will cover architecture of all periods, from antiquity, medieval, and early modern, up through the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, as well as topics from allied disciplines.

The call for papers can be viewed on the conference website or downloaded at http://www.eahn2010.org/EAHN2010_CPF.pdf. Complete details for submissions are included in the CFP, with proposals and supporting material to be sent directly to the chair(s) of each session or roundtable. The deadline for paper proposals is 30 October 2009.

Local Dynamics in Global Empires
Traditionally, the architecture produced in imperial contexts has been interpreted as being more or less derivative in relation to its European counterparts and consequently almost unfailingly retardataire. More recently, however, reception theory, a critical revision of transfer models, and closer attention paid to extra-European, local dynamics has shown that often aesthetic choices were made not as mere reactions to changes in European fashion but rather as responses to local circumstances engendered by the colonial order as it developed. The set of open-chapels in colonial New Spain or the Jesuit church in Portuguese-ruled Macao, for instance, while still owing to European architectural tradition, are probably better understood in the context of local circumstances than within the framework of the global transfer of European architectural forms. Papers in this panel may address (but do not have to be limited to) issues such as responses to political and economic structures pre-existing the arrival of the Europeans or created by the European presence, adjustments to local religious practices and beliefs, or adaptations to specific cultural or social phenomena that stem from the colonial framework. This panel invites papers that analyse architectural phenomena on any European imperial context in any period.
Please send paper proposals and short CVs by e-mail to: Prof. Nuno Senos, Centro de Historia de Além-Mar, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Av. de Berna 26C, 1069-061 Lisbon, Portugal; tel +351 (21) 797 21 51; fax + 351 (21) 790 83 08.

Architecture in 19th-century Photographs
Heavily represented in collections of nineteenth century photographs, architectural photography provides inroads into major themes of the period: industry and technology, exploration and exoticism, documentation and preservation, history and nationalism, etc. However, most histories of photography use the progressive development of the medium as the organizing structure for the presentation of the material. Architecture lent itself to the long exposure times required by the early photographic processes and was used extensively as subject by the first generation of photographers. Architectural photography was the focus of three major exhibitions organized between 1982 and 1994 which gave pride of place to photographic technique. Since then, despite the musings of Susan Sontag, the theorizing of Roland Barthes, and three decades of post-colonial, post-structuralist and gender-conscious criticism, the study of architectural photography continues to privilege technical virtuosity. Because the history of architectural photography parallels both the development of photographic techniques and the expressive modalities assumed by the medium, a thematic exploration of the subject is overdue. This session invites papers that consider thematic questions related to the photography of architecture in the nineteenth century. For instance: the significance of the structures scrutinized by photography, the role of the photographs as commodities on the intellectual and cultural market as it relates to architecture, the impact of the medium on the practice and study of architecture, the fascination for and consumption of photographs of exotic architecture by the "armchair tourist," the institutional and cultural reasons for the absence of women from nineteenth century architectural photography, vernacular architecture in photographs, commodification of architecture for the Baedeker- or Cook-guided middle and even lower-class tourist, photography and historic preservation or urban renewal. Exploration of these questions is intended to focus on how nineteenth century architecture photography eschews the tropes of functionality to reflect the aesthetic and intellectual concerns of the time. A genuine understanding of the first decades of architectural photography needs to account for the relevant technical parameters of production but also demands that each photographic image of architecture be studied as a primary visual document and an aesthetic object. It is this multi-faceted enquiry, which is invited in this session on nineteenth-century architectural photography.
Please send paper proposals and short CVs by e-mail to Dr. Micheline Nilsen, Indiana University South Bend, AA107, 1700 Mishawaka Avenue, South Bend, IN 46634-7111 USA; tel +1 (574) 520-4277; fax +1 (574) 520-4317.

The Changing Status of Women in Architecture between the Wars
Women made remarkable advancements in the field of architecture in the wake of World War I. They also suffered decided setbacks as a result of it. This was true not just of women in Europe and North America, but throughout the world, as prestigious schools of architecture, well-guarded portals to the profession, were forced to open up to women. This session invites papers that might focus on the case of specific individuals, such as women admitted to professional schools of architecture during the War when the enrollment of men was down, but then denied acceptance into the profession after the War because of commonly held assumptions of the architect as male: a female architect was simply an oxymoron. On a broader level, one might consider national differences, with, for example, a cross-cultural analysis of admission standards, curricular restrictions, and general public acceptance of "women architects." How did the acceptance of women in architecture differ from country to country, such as Finland and France, or Turkey and China? How was the cause of women in architecture helped--or hindered--by war? How did women excluded from admission into professional schools of architecture become recognized architects anyway via other, more traditional avenues such as interior design or the decorative arts? A number of women participated in the 1925 Paris Exposition des Arts Décoratifs et Industriels Modernes. What was their contribution, their role, and was their progress in architecture helped or hindered by the Exposition? We know that in European countries such as France professionally trained women denied jobs in Paris sought work instead in the colonies; who were these women, what kind of work did they pursue, and how were they accepted by the local population? What happened to women in architecture during the '30s, or again, for example, in France, the Vichy years and the Occupation? According to some sources, though the profession of architecture "feminized" in the interwar period, many professional schools retained their reputation of misogyny even after WWII. Why was this? Was it as has been suggested because of an entrenched male political establishment that continued to suppress women, or was it because of something deeper, on a more sub- or unconscious level, and having to do with sexual identity, and conceptions of "masculinity" and "femininity" on the part of the general public?
Please send paper proposals and short CVs by e-mail to: Meredith L. Clausen, Professor, Architectural History, Box 353440, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195; tel +1 (206) 616-6751; fax +1 (206) 6885 1657.

Fictionalising the City
This session focuses issues connected to a particular form of urban representation, namely those of fiction. How does this special kind of mediation affect our perception of and response to the actual, real city and its built environment, its identity, its preservation problems and its development seen from the point of view of architectural history? Real cities are frequently represented in fiction media, such as novels and movies. Irrespective of whether a city representation in fiction is used as a passive backdrop or as a dynamic actant, it may influence how inhabitants and visitors perceive the actual city and its environment. Thus the fictional representation and the real city become conflated, and people will see the city not as it is but filtered through this lens. How does this influence the perceptions and re-representations of a specific city in reality and in other media than in fiction? How may it condition our responses to a certain city - our fears, our delight, our way of understanding it, maybe our way of developing it? Has this influenced the canonization of certain milieus as more worthy of visit than others? Is fiction of implicit importance to urban historiography? Consumers of mediated fictional representations of cities are beginning to wield an indirect economic power over the actual city. A tangible example is guided tours through cities following routes determined by popular novels and movies. Architourism not only takes note of the city as such and traditional sights, today it also often involves re-representing the city as fiction authors, movie producers, and painters have represented it. Today, tours take visitors through the Oxford of Inspector Morse, rather than the Oxford of research and learning. Cultural Heritage has so far been created through an active selection of memories, traditions and associations from history considered to be of contemporary relevance. The growing interest in fiction and its city representations in tourism has added another possible selection criteria which may change the landscape of Cultural Heritage in a city and through that the identity of its citizenry. To go a step further: Are there even instances where fiction has determined the preservation of a milieu?
Please send paper proposals and short CVs by email to: Britt-Inger Johansson, Assistant Professor, Dept of Art History, Uppsala University, Box 630, 751 26 Uppsala, Sweden; tel +46 (18) 471 28 87; mobile +46 708 506 875; fax +46 (18) 471 28.

Museum of Architecture / Architecture in the Museum
From the first public museums of architecture in 18th century France to the recent Deutsches Architekturmuseum in Frankfurt, one thing has been clear: museums of architecture, unlike museums of art, do not contain their object within the space of the gallery. Thus we expect to find in a museum of architecture drawings, models, casts, photographs, and fragments, but not an actual building. For, how can a building be displayed inside of another and maintain its objecthood as distinct from that of its container? Where does the frame of a museum end and where does its exhibit, the work of architecture, begin? This session will examine how techniques of reproduction and display have transformed architecture’s object during the past 200 years. Scale models had been commonly used, at least since the Renaissance, to conceive a building before its construction. Yet the very idea of producing replicas of monuments and disseminating them in greater numbers belongs to a more recent modernity. We invite participants to reflect on different types of museums and to consider how in the age of European nationalism and colonialism architecture museums helped re-map a vast geography, from Greece to Bengal and beyond. Case studies may include, among others, Alexandre Lenoir’s Musée des monuments français, James Fergusson’s Museum of Architecture in London, Viollet-le-Duc and his students’ Musée de sculpture comparée du Trocadéro, the full-scale architectural reconstructions of Berlin’s Pergamon Museum or the “period rooms” of the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Theoretical essays that investigate the relation of key texts and images to museums, and their role in constructing architecture’s disciplinary and aesthetic autonomy are welcome too. Participants may also critically engage the modernist white cube, which seeks to maintain a disjunction between the work and its frame, as well as more recent approaches that reconceptualize architecture and the city as a mnemonic object.
Please send paper proposals and short CVs by e-mail to Can Bilsel, Associate Professor and Chair, Department of Art, University of San Diego, 5998 Alcala Park, San Diego, California 92110, USA; tel +1 (619) 260 7987; fax +1 (619) 260 6875; and to Alexis Sornin, Head, Study Centre, Canadian Centre for Architecture, 1920, rue Baile, Montréal, Québec H3H 2S6, Canada; tel +1 (514) 939 7000; fax +1 (514) 939 7020.

Village Architecture in the Age of a Sustainable Future
This session focuses on the public buildings of village architecture. Around 1900, in many areas of Europe including France and Eastern Europe, local and national governments addressed the issue of bringing rural societies and agricultural regions into the modern world. Architects were brought in to participate in the execution of these policies and, as a result, village architecture became the subject of architectural discourse. Public buildings constructed at this time reflected the context of regionalism as broadly conceived in varied forms, based on traditional cultural practices and a vernacular architecture then being defined. Village extensions and alterations were also developed within the frame of regional politics; among others, this encompassed villages in the ethnically mixed parts of Europe. The study of these phenomena raises many complex issues for both architectural history and contemporary conservation. We invite papers that discuss any one of several topics, such as the survey of such architecture and assessment of its value to architectural history; the identification of architects involved with governmental and local projects; the distinction between vernacular/artistic and national/ethnic elements of village buildings in relation to the mapping of ethnic distribution; current perspectives on promoting a sustainable future for villages; the assessment of current needs for public buildings; consideration of local attitudes toward national and ethnic characteristics of buildings; proposals for renovation and re-use of village architecture. We hope to compose a session in which are reflected perspectives from architecture, art history, cultural heritage, politics, and society with case studies drawn from a variety of regions.
Please send paper proposals and short CVs by e-mail to Prof. Katalin Keseru, Institute of Art History, University Eotvos Lorand, 1088 Budapest, Muzeum krt 6-8. Hungary; tel +36 (30) 311 0852; fax +36 1 411 6565.

Roundtable: Setting a Research Agenda for 19th and 20th Century Colonial Architecture and Urban Planning: Current and Emerging Themes and Tools
Research on colonial architecture and urban planning has come a long way since the 1970s studies on colonial cities and the early inventories of built colonial legacies. Today, the building and planning practices of all former European colonial powers have been the subject of (some) investigation and the first comprehensive bibliographies on the topic have been compiled. Critical readings have also emerged that ask new and stimulating questions, widening our view on the particular production and role of buildings, neighborhoods, cities, and infrastructures that shaped colonial environments and societies in the 19th and 20th centuries. To a large extent, colonial architecture and urban planning still are researched through a national perspective, focusing on export-import relations between mother country and colony. Yet more recent research is starting to challenge such bi-directional framework, arguing for an approach that allows (1) to map and analyze more complex and diverse spheres of influence and networks of expertise at work in colonial contexts and (2) to acknowledge the various agencies within colonial societies in producing and shaping their environments, in order to break free from the ‘colonizer’-‘colonized’ dichotomy and from all too elementary understandings of issues like ‘segregation’. The proposal for this round table starts from the assumption that much is to be gained from more comparative research that looks across colonial borders and investigates trans-regional as well as transnational phenomena in order to understand to what extent building and planning policies in a colonial context were underscored by ideas, ideologies and practices shared among diverse colonial powers while simultaneously being shaped by local political, economical, social and cultural characteristics. By bringing together participants from different countries, and researching colonial contexts in various geographical settings, we aim to discuss methodological challenges (linguistic barriers; accessibility of local archives; collaboration with local scholars; the use of visual and oral history) as well as the development of new research tools that could facilitate interdisciplinary and comparative research on this topic.
Please send proposals for presentations/discussion positions and short CVs by e-mail to: Prof. Johan Lagae, Department of Architecture and Urban Planning, Ghent University, Jozef Plateaustraat 22, 9000 Gent, Belgium; tel +32 (0)9 264 3908; fax +32 (0)9 264 41 85; and to Dr. Pauline van Roosmalen, IHAAU, Delft University of Technology, Gillis van Ledenberchstraat 27-2, 1052 TX Amsterdam, The Netherlands; tel +31 (0)20 68 10 727.

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Berkeley-Stanford Graduate Student Conference in Modern Chinese Humanities

University of California, Berkeley
16-17 April 2010

[from H-ASIA, 6/3/09]

The joint organizing committee of the Berkeley-Stanford Graduate Conference Modern Chinese Humanities invites currently enrolled graduate students to submit paper proposals for its inaugural meeting on April 16-17, 2010, at the Center for Chinese Studies at the University of California, Berkeley.

The conference will bring together a keynote speaker and approximately twelve graduate students to present innovative research on any aspect of modern Chinese cultural production in any humanistic discipline. We encourage interdisciplinary scholarship within and between literary and cultural studies, cultural history, art history, film and media studies, musicology and sound studies, as well as the interpretative social sciences.

Conference registration is free; lodging in Berkeley will be provided by the Berkeley-Stanford organizing committee for all conference presenters. Please submit a 300-word paper proposal and a short bio by e-mail attachment to ccs@berkeley.edu by October 31, 2009.

Elinor Levine
Program Director
Center for Chinese Studies
2223 Fulton Street, Room 505
University of California
Berkeley, CA 94720-2328

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Association of Art Historians 36th Annual Conference

University of Glasgow
15-17 April 2010

[from AAH, 6/6/09; sessions of possible relevance to China and Japan listed below]

Various critical themes have shaped AAH conferences in recent years, and provided a focus for disciplinary self-reflection. We seek to continue in this reflective spirit, but rather than organiSe papers thematically, this call for papers is a general one from which different themes are expected to emerge.

The year 2010 marks the beginning of a new decade in 21st-century art historical investigation and an ideal moment for a reassessment of historical objects, issues, and methods, as well as acknowledging newer works of art and criticism developed across disciplines, periods, media and practice boundaries. Papers that address or employ new methods and issues are welcome, but equally important will be state-of-the-discipline investigations and critical assessments that may be uni- or multi-disciplinary, object-based, pedagogical, interrogative, theoretical, or performative. While we hope that the full historical and methodological range of the discipline will be represented, and the proposal of sessions devoted to the widest possible range of periods and cultures is encouraged, the 2010 conference particularly welcomes proposals related to medieval and Renaissance topics.

2010 marks the 20th anniversary of Glasgow as European City of Culture, and the city as a whole will be hosting this conference, from its collections to historic buildings. Though the majority of sessions will take place on the Gilmorehill campus of the University of Glasgow, one afternoon of the conference will be hosted by The Glasgow School of Art, in conjunction with the Centre for Contemporary Arts. Sessions for the GSA will demonstrate the diversity of current critical and analytical approaches to contemporary practices in art and architecture, and may be couched in practice-led and performative strategies of inquiry.

Deadline for the submission of paper proposals is 9th November 2009.

For other queries about the conference or bookfair please contact the convenor and/or administrator at aah2010@arthist.arts.gla.ac.uk.

Conference Convenor: Dr John Richards, University of Glasgow, Department of History of Art
Conference and Bookfair Administrator: Dr Ailsa Boyd, University of Glasgow, Department of History of Art

Session List

Images of Corporal Mortification and Corruption, Martyrdom and Mercy: 1250–1550
Emily Jane Anderson (University of Glasgow); Robert Gibbs (University of Glasgow)
The psychological implications of the new religiosity with which the devotional image was in accord are just as complex as the social conditions from which the religious individual developed his self-awareness. What took place in the thirteenth century was one of the most comprehensive transformations European society ever underwent. While the symptoms were often only visible in images at a later date, the impulses to modify images reach back to the thirteenth century. [Hans Belting (trans. M. Bartusis and R. Meyer), The Image and Its Public in the Middle Ages: Form and Function of Early Paintings of the Passion. New Rochelle, New York: 1990.]
This session will explore images which illustrate the mortification of the flesh, bodily corruption, disfigurement, disease, decay, physical degradation and death. Such images have been used to convey messages of strength, the triumph of faith over fear and pain, the incorruptibility of the spirit, salvation, celebration and optimism. Images of suffering are often coupled with those of compassion and protection. Issues surrounding the role of gender within images of martyrdom and mercy will be investigated. Papers are invited which engage with related imagery (e.g. depictions of justice, punishment, vengeance, restraint and clemency) from both religious and secular contexts and which explore the relationship between text and image. We encourage submissions illustrating examples from a wide range of media (panel and wall painting, manuscript illumination, sculpture, architectural structures and contexts, decorated household, religious and civic objects and textiles) and originating from a variety of geographical locations.

"The Rules of (Collective) Art": Interpretation, Social Engagement and Authorship in Contemporary Community-based Art
Robin Baillie (National Galleries of Scotland); Ken Neil (Glasgow School of Art)
This session will build a frame of reference around such artworks by calling for papers from art historians, art critics, theorists, artists and educationalists involved in this field. The session will seek to map out the shifting boundaries of classification and meaning which arise from contemporary art production in collaboration with communities. We are interested in papers which make reference to new approaches to critical evaluation in this area that may be influenced by social geography, cultural sociology and social anthropology, as well as by contemporary developments in art theory. At stake in socially engaged artistic processes is the "consecrated value" of the art object (modernist and postmodernist) and the definition of the authorship of contemporary artworks produced through community collaboration. The work of Pierre Bourdieu, for example, specifically his examination of 19th-century literary modernism in The Rules of Art, 1996, has led to challenges to traditional modernist notions of the work of art, its intention and its audience. Ultimately, these artworks, and the processes out of which they are made, require a reappraisal of the concepts and methods available to art historians in assessing their impact and artistic value. This session will help further that investigation.

Objects, Art History and Display
Museums and Exhibitions Members Group Session
Heather Birchall (M&E Group); Marika Leino (M&E Group)
This session will consider how past and present museum display has been subject to the changing narratives, art historical and other, that have shaped the meanings, as well as the fortunes of objects, during their history. The shifting status of individual works of art, or types of object, has presented museum curators and academics with complex scenarios requiring levels of interpretation both in public display and academic discourse. From their potential commission/purchase and initial use and display, objects have often been transplanted from their original contexts, they may have been in and out of fashion, displayed in public or private collections and sometimes discarded or disposed of, creating a multifaceted picture which often requires extensive unravelling. This session will particularly welcome papers considering the art-historical and museological challenges of presenting such fluctuating object narratives to a wider public. The academic sessions will be held in conjunction with related talks and ‘behind the scenes' tours by museum professionals at different Glasgow museums, which will take place during the M&E Group strand. (this is currently under discussion with the Glasgow Museums).

Exhibitions as Research: Theory, Practice, Problems
Stacy Boldrick (The Fruitmarket Gallery); Stephanie Straine (The Fruitmarket Gallery)
Ideally, exhibitions always present audiences with new research. When exhibitions are outcomes of individual academic research projects, however, the research undergoes a process of translation. Under the guidance of curators and other museum and art gallery staff, art historians discover how to turn their work into a phenomenological and conceptual experience that communicates not only with their academic peers but also with public audiences, not only through the act of writing about objects and ideas, but also through encountering them and placing them in space and time. As a collaborative situation, the process of exhibitionmaking can, for some academics, become a form of research in itself. In this session, the term "research" is inclusive, incorporating conventional art historical research, research conducted by artists and curators, and other research practices. Forms of research may range from traditional scholarship which informs large-scale survey or blockbuster exhibitions such as Gothic: Art for England, 1400–1547 (V&A, 2003) and Babylon: Myth and Reality (British Museum, 2008/9), and more focused academic exhibitions such as Freud’s Sculpture (Henry Moore Institute, 2006) and Close-Up: Proximity and defamiliarisation in art, film and photography (The Fruitmarket Gallery, 2008/9), to artist-led research as in Tacita Dean’s An Aside (Hayward National Touring Exhibitions, 2005). This session will consider how research is translated in exhibitions of art from any period, from medieval to modern and contemporary. Questions include: How can display be used to express an argument, explore a concept or even work against the presentation of research? How can interpretation support or extend academic research? What role can contemporary art play to inform exhibitions of historic objects, and vice versa?

Materiality and Waste: Poetics of the Concrete in Modern Life
Maura Coughlin (Bryant University); Jaimey Hamilton (University of Hawai'i)
This panel invites interdisciplinary visual culture studies approaches to the mundane, concrete, local, overlooked and discarded materials of modern and contemporary life. While the abstract "deterritorialisation" processes and increasingly global commodity cycles of production and obsolescence often seem to characterise this long epoch, this panel explores the importance of understanding the local specificity of material objects and concrete experiences. Along with Henri Lefebvre, Michel de Certeau, and other philosophers of the everyday, cultural anthropologist Tim Dant suggests that we form lived and embodied relationships with material objects. Can we discuss these relationships without necessarily dismissing them as framed by nostalgia, imposed from outside authority, or generalised by international or global culture? What is or can be considered ‘material’ in our modern life? In what ways do messages and meanings of art and other aspects of visual culture invoke materiality? How do they depend upon both the concreteness of physical matter and the multivalence of their histories, uses, metaphors, allegories, etc.? How can materialist methodologies help us to understand the interaction between people and things – and articulate the power, politics, and poetics of a phenomenological basis of subjectivity in material culture? Papers could offer methodologies applied to visual culture, specific artistic approaches, or topics that include, but are not limited to representations or use of waste, filth, trash, obsolescence, commodities, the discarded, junk, thrift, bricolage and the material basis of subjectivity.

Poster Session
Veronica Davies (The Open University); Janet Stiles Tyson (Independent Art Historian)
Building on experience gained in the successful inauguration of a Poster Session at AAH09, we are inviting submissions to a Poster Session for AAH10 in Glasgow, for which participants will prepare materials that lend themselves to visual display. This can be a combination of visual, textual, and other media, whose presentation focal point will be a freestanding panel or allotted area of reserved wall space at the conference venue. These displays then can be viewed by conference delegates: authors also can make themselves available, at times of their choosing, to discuss the display content. The poster session will therefore provide delegates with an opportunity to participate in the conference as authors, whose ideas might not fit neatly into conventional presentation formats. We are calling for abstracts for the poster session, prepared in the same way as conventional proposals, bearing in mind the conference’s wide-ranging engagement with methodologies and issues: a particular welcome is extended to medieval and renaissance topics. Guidelines on parameters for display and on effective presentation of visual and textual material will be made available to selected session participants. Joint authorship of posters would also be welcomed.

Supplementary Conflicts: Domesticities and Life Histories in Wartime
Paul Fox (University College London); Gil Pasternak (University College London)
This session will explore personal visual responses to conflict, defined as the activities of any armed grouping prepared to use lethal force to achieve political aims. The personal, we argue, emerges as either complementary or subversive in relation to given historical narratives. Either way, it destabilises any tendency to accede unreflexively to the authority of the professional historian. Considering the personal offers an insight into the relationship between the historical constituted as narrative and the autobiographical as fantasy (rather than as fiction). This is not to suggest that life history provides a greater insight into human experience than do other types of historical accounts. Rather, this session will hold that the autobiographical, as manifested through responses to conflict, is just one productive source that provides access to the dynamics between the experience of ordinary people and subsequent wider accounts of the same perceived event. This session will aim to investigate the role played by visual culture in developing supplementary historical topoi that accompany, and may challenge, both popular and official historical accounts. We propose to explore personal visual responses to conflict produced in, or in relation to, the domestic sphere and everyday life, defined as visual representations of subject-positions played out in the social and political spheres. Although personal visual responses to conflict constitute a challenging field for academic research, we argue that ignoring such responses conceals their bearing upon subject- and identity-formation. Thus, in this session we particularly seek to explore the role personal responses to conflict play in the mediation of history and ideology, in the negotiation between private and public narrations of history, between individual and collective identities, and personal and socio-cultural values. We invite proposals for papers that span the widest possible range of periods, cultures and modes of visual expression. In particular, we welcome contributions that engage with subject matter offering alternatives to accounts which work out of the themes of "victimhood" and "trauma," both of which have received generous attention in recent years. As such, we wish to broaden the terms on which the disciplines of art history and visual culture deal with the experience of conflict and its representation.

China and the West: The Reception of Chinese Art across Cultures from the 19th Century to the Present
Michelle Huang (University of St Andrews); Sarah Ng (University of Oxford)
The art of China had long been perceived by collectors and scholars in Europe and America as the parent art of Asia. With China’s long history and rich culture, Chinese art, since it emerged in the West through trade, war, and international exposition, has been enthusiastically appreciated by connoisseurs, artists, and museums. Bequests from private collectors, and their collaborations with national museums, both played an important role in acquiring specimens of Chinese art in all kinds. The choice of collectibles and exhibits is one of the most significant catalysts for the development of national taste, and a strong influence on the general public’s understanding of the subject. By looking at the meeting points between the histories of art in China and the West, this session investigates the cultural interaction between China and the West from the 19th century to the present. It will explore the Western/ Chinese perception of Chinese/ Western art, the roles of collectors, connoisseurs, and museums in shaping the conception of art, the influence of Western/ Chinese art on the art development in China/ the West. China’s rapid economic growth and its development of cultural policies and institutions have recently received much attention in the world, and these allow collaborative works between artists and museums, in China and abroad. This session encourages discussion on the collecting and display of ancient and modern Chinese art, the perception of the contemporary Chinese art, and the impact of collaboration across cultures.

Reading to Attention
Sharon Kivland (Sheffield Hallam University, University of London); Forbes Morlock, Syracuse University London and the Institute for Creative Reading)
A return to reading. A new attention to reading. In a variety of formats, this panel asks what it is to read attentively. It wants--after attention’s own roots--to see what reading can stretch to. A reader is on duty, and set free. Reading is at the core of all the disciplines of the arts and humanities, but its centrality to research is not measured. Part of this immeasurability lies in reading's pleasures--the pleasure of the activity, our pleasure in its objects. These pleasures, though, are inseparable from its disciplines, its rigours. Hence, the call to attention. Too often, "reading" is interpretation, reaching through the text or image/object to something inside or behind or beneath it, imagining that what is latent will be of greater interest or importance that what is manifest. This panel invites practitioners of all sorts to return to the light, to the words on the page, to the surface of the image, to the form of the object (whatever form it takes). Specifically, its three coordinated sessions invite presentations that address--in any form--what it is to read, to attend to the word or the image/object. The first session will take up reading the verbal text, the second reading the work of visual art, and the third will return us to practice in the form of a reading group. Contributions to these allied discussions in any form are welcome. The wording here is open in the hope that different readers will find something of their practice reflected in it. Readings attentive, inattentive, and wild--all are invited.

Digital Continuities: From the History of Digital Art to Contemporary Transmedial Practices
Nick Lambert (Birkbeck College, University of London)
Over the past two decades, a distinct history of digital art has emerged from the general narrative of postwar Art and Technology, with its own movements, controversies and currents. During the same time period, a variety of New Media, intermedia and transmedial practices have gained recognition across a broader constituency than historic "computer art" ever had. To some degree, the growth of New Media is motivated by these concerns stemming from the artistic discovery of the digital medium. Our session will examine this evolution of digital artforms into a range of diverse manifestations across the cultural sphere. Is it purely a case of technological expediency, stemming from the growth of digital imaging and virtual reality? To what extent should we look for a digitalspecific artform, or should we accept that artists from a variety of practices are now working with digital as they would with any other tool or medium? And to what extent does it fall within the rubric of Art History, or does it instead represent the expansion of the field into looking at non-art imagery, as James Elkins has suggested? In this way, the session connects to the AAH10 aim of acknowledging newer works of art and criticism, as well as assessing the state of the discipline. The contributors to this panel represent a range of theorists, historians, curators and practitioners of digital art.

"Untitled": What’s in a Name?
AAH Student Session
Catriona McAra (University of Glasgow); Rosalind McKever (Kingston University)
As art historians, critics, and researchers we are surrounded by titles, names, and classifications. Names secure and give substance to our critical operations; but names can also constrain investigation if one relies on given solutions without reassessing historical objects and methods. But what happens when the title is questionable, anachronistic, or purposely absented? From collaborative works that lack designated authors to the untitled work, the enquiring viewer is prematurely left alone to fill in the blanks--a productive insecurity in the face of that which cannot be named, grasped, or conveyed that leaks into, and has an impact upon, the doing and teaching of art and its histories. We would like to invite papers on naming as a activity shared by art historians, critics, curators, and artists; thereby also addressing questions of authority, validity, critique, and resistance that become integral to the act of giving--or retracting--titles. Possible areas of enquiry can include: measuring the name: navigating classification and reconfiguring value; the untitled work as a site of frustration, opportunity, and challenge; the function of names and classifications in reception, historiography, and methodology; legitimising nomenclature: claiming and re-claiming the utility of art and history; and choosing names and choosing sides: the vocabulary of cross-disciplinary studies. With this session, we hope to open up a space for critical reflection on the work of art history, wherein the validity and function of the name/title must be constantly kept in check, while navigating research through identification and classification that we see ourselves reconfiguring.

Imperial Tensions: Visual Cultures of Coercion, Silence and Display
Matthew Potter (University of Leicester); Daniel Rycroft (University of East Anglia)
Barringer and Flynn’s "Colonialism and the object" (1998) applied developments in new museology and postcolonial theory to analyse the impact of ideology on the collection and display of colonial objects. At the heart of this and other related cultural studies has been a critique of projects that sought to construct funds of knowledge via educational and scientific pedagogies whilst simultaneously enacting imperial control. Keeping in view more recent shifts in museum ethnography and indigenous studies, which enable institutional silences to be apprehended productively, a key question emerges: how representative of the violence of imperialism and colonialism were these displays? In broaching this topic art historians may actively engender new multidisciplinary formations, to invoke research in visuality, materiality, spatiality and temporality that contest existing epistemologies. Which objects are most representative of colonial coercion? Do national and universal museums generate cultures of silence around such objects? Were objects of imperial violence admissible for public display during the imperial heyday, or was there an obligation to sanitise history and obscure evidence of conflict? How did the metropolitan visualisation of coercion function within popular cultures of imperialism? In raising these questions, the panel seeks not only to identify the way objects were created and/or collected in colonial contexts and the visual history of empire between c.1750 and c.1950, but also to assess how such cultures of display were received amongst imperial interest groups, journalists, artistic communities and the wider public of empire.

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Gendai Bijutsu Kondankai: Post-1945 Japanese Art Discussion Group

[from H-ARTHIST, 2/24/03]

We are currently preparing to launch a networking group among art historians, graduate students, curators, critics, dealers/gallerists/auctioneers, and others who are specifically interested in post-1945 Japanese art. Our objective is to enrich the field of contemporary art proactively by such network and discussion platform that we will call PoNJA-GenKon.

If you are interested in becoming part of our initiative or simply want to know more about our prospects, please e-mail us at Post1945JA@aol.com.

As the first phase of this project, we would like to identify who is working in this growing field. By contacting us at above address, you will receive a brief e-mail questionnaire. We hope to set up a mailing list shortly.

Reiko Tomii and Miwako Tezuka

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Cr

[from H-ARTHIST, 2/19/03]

Cr is a Dutch interdisciplinary journal on the subject of conservation and restoration of cultural heritage (works of art, historic interiors, architecture, as well as books, photographic and archive materials). Cr was founded in 2000 after an initiative by four restorers' associations and has since been published four times a year. The journal is aimed at professionals working in museums, libraries and archives (conservation specialists, curators, art historians and others interested in the subject). Cr offers information on an academic level and makes developments in the field accessible to a wide audience. Articles are published in Dutch or English (with a summary in the other language). The editorial board consists of conservation specialists and experts on relevant fields of study. All contributions are peer-reviewed.

Cr is seeking contributions relating to:

- case studies of recent conservation projects,
- scientific, technical and material research,
- historical techniques practised by artists or in studios,
- art historical research as part of a conservation project,
- new conservation materials and methods,
- policies and ethics concerning conservation,
- etc.

Reports on recent conferences and reviews of recent publications in relevant fields of study are also very welcome.

The editors regret that they are not able to offer authors a fee for their contribution, as Cr is published by a non-profit organisation, which is still relying on subsidies.

For more information, please contact the editor, Catrien Deys.

Cr
P. O. Box 76709
NL 1070 KA
Amsterdam
The Netherlands

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China Scholarship

[from MCLC]

    1. China Scholarship (Zhongguo xueshu) is a new journal to be published by the Commercial Press (Shangwu yinshu guan) in Beijing at the beginning of the new millenium. Funded by the Harvard-Yenching Institute, and edited by a board of international scholars, it will be published four times a year, each issue containing approximately 250,000 words.
    2. The goal of China Scholarship is to improve the quality of research in humanities and social sciences in China; promote the scholarly accomplishment of the Chinese-speaking world; enhance the intellectual cohesiveness of Cultural China; and strengthen in-depth scholarly exchange between China and the rest of the world. It is our objective to make Chinese a working language for the international scholarly community, and to establish the contemporary reconstruction of Chinese culture in the global context.
    3. Essays and articles, essay-length book reviews, book reviews, and scholarly news are the four categories under which submissions will be considered for publication. There is no limit on the length of submissions.
    4. China Scholarship pursues creative interaction between human and social sciences. It welcomes discussions in the humanities with social relevance, and those in social sciences with humanistic vision. Interdisciplinary work will be encouraged.
    5. Two-way anonymous peer review will be rigorously applied to all submissions. Substantial research and intellectual creativity are the criteria according to which submissions are reviewed.
    6. The editorial work will be carried out jointly by a board of editors, consisting of younger generation scholars, and an advisory committee, constituted by the leading scholars in their respective fields. The editor in general is responsible for the overall process of the editorial operation.
    7. A contribution fee, in the range of 100 -200 RMB per 1,000 words, will be paid to the contributor at the publication of the submitted text. The copyright belongs to the Commercial Press.
    8. China Scholarship sincerely invites submissions and promises fair and timely review of each submission. The editorial office will acknowledge receipt of submission and inform the contributor within a month about the status of the submission after a preliminary review. Anonymous peer review follows, the results of which will be mailed to the contributor.
    9. China Scholarship, though published in Chinese, welcomes submissions in all languages. Once accepted, a foreign-language submission will be translated either by the author him/herself or by the journal. However contributors must indicate that the text has never been submitted to any other journal.
    10. Please send all submissions and editorial correspondence to:

China Scolarship
Commercial Press
36 Wangfujing Dajie
Beijing, China 100710
fax: (86-10) 6901-3392
dongliu@public2.east.net.cn

Questions about the journal can also be sent to Alex Des Forges at mailto:desforgs@netspace.org

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Resources for Scholarship on Asia

[from Asian Studies Newsletter, Fall 2004]

The purpose of this series is to produce early publication of important new materials in formats that are easily accessible and affordable.

Authors will include scholars whose writings fill gaps in scholarship on any part of Asia. The format of publications in the series will be determined by both content and the immediacy of the materials presented, and likely will include both print and electronic formats.

We anticipate that two or more titles will be published each year covering such areas as major new bibliographies, guides to specific Asian materials, historical studies of the field of Asian studies, data collections, and works on new or largely unexplored areas of Asian studies, such as photographs and other graphic images, electronic resources, Asian diasporas, guides to regional resources on Asia, and other topics that will be revealed in proposals by potential authors.

Proposals for publication in this new series should be sent (preferably in paper) to:

Ria Koopmans-de Bruijn
C. V. Starr East Asian Library
310 Kent Hall, Mail Code 3901
Columbia University
1140 Amsterdam Avenue
New York, NY 10027.

Proposals should include a statement of the author's view of what contribution the publication will make to Asian studies; a curriculum vitae; a plan of the work; samples of the proposed text; and an indication of when the manuscript might be completed. Queries and other correspondence can be sent to rkb7@columbia.edu.

The AAS Editorial Board retains the right of acceptance or refusal of proposals.

This initiative by AAS presents an exciting opportunity for members to make significant contributions to Asian studies. Please consider taking advantage of the opportunity!

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European Journal of East Asian Studies

[from H-ASIA]

ANNOUNCEMENT & CALL FOR PAPERS

A group of European scholars are launching a new academic journal in the field of East Asian studies. The journal is based at the Institut d'Asie Orientale, in Lyon, but it enjoys the support of nine other European research institutions. It will be published and distributed by Brill (Academic Publishers). The following text provides a summary of the goals of the journal.

Europe is home to a very large community of scholars working on East Asia whose research activities cover a broad spectrum of studies, in terms of countries, periods, and disciplines. There is, however, no internationally recognised journal in Europe encompassing within its covers the whole range of East Asian studies as there is in the United States. We believe that European East Asia scholars, by virtue of their own history, intellectual traditions, and specific relations with the region, offer a different perspective to that of American scholars and make an original contribution to East Asian studies. Until now, they have been able to reach international recognition principally through publications in American journals, for which most of them compete at an obvious linguistic disadvantage. A European journal will be better equipped to take into account this issue of language. It should be made clear here that we do not claim any kind of Euro-centred intellectual superiority, nor do we want to give the impression of an anti-American posture. On the contrary, we acknowledge the overwhelming contribution of American scholars to contemporary East Asian studies. The sole purpose of the initiators of this project is to create a new intellectual arena that will publish the best contributions of European scholarship on contemporary East Asia, without excluding contributions from other parts of the world. We believe in intellectual competition and stimulation. The journal will, therefore, welcome high-quality research, whatever its origin. The journal will be interdisciplinary in nature, dedicated to the publication of scholarly research across the range of the social sciences -- including sociology, geography, anthropology, economics, political science, and law -- as well as modern history. We take the term "modern" to refer approximately to the last two hundred years. The journal makes no commitment to any particular trend in scholarly research, but it will be receptive to all the current approaches in Asian studies. Our geographical compass will take in "East Asia" in a broad sense, that is to say the groups of countries usually included in Southeast Asia (Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Burma, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore, and the Philippines) and Northeast Asia (China, Japan, Korea, Taiwan). One of the major obstacles that has prevented the emergence of such a journal is undeniably the absence of a common language among European scholars. The initiators of this project believe that English has become the universal language in East Asian studies. The journal will be devoted mainly to original research based on the first-hand study of primary materials and/or fieldwork. It will also welcome theoretical essays that offer new, synthetic visions and perspectives from the field. We hope to strike a balance between coherence (to make the journal attractive to a wide readership) and spontaneity (to allow for competition and attract first-rate contributions). To this end, we shall publish six papers per issue (initially with two issues per year). Three of them may be devoted to a "special theme" (a list of three themes is offered below) while another three will be individual contributions. These are of course guidelines, conceived as a general strategy for the initial issues. Research notes will also be welcome, though under a specific format. The journal will include a section for book reviews, concentrating on significant works written by European scholars. The first issue will be published in early 2001.

The European Journal of East Asian Studies welcomes from today the submission of manuscripts from scholars on all aspects of East Asian societies as defined in the announcement. Authors should feel free to contact the editors for further information: EJEAS@ish-lyon.cnrs.fr.

Special themes: besides papers on any topic within the fields defined in the previous sections above, the editors will invite contributors to submit papers on special themes. These themes will be defined in a separate announcement.

EDITORS

Christian Henriot
Institut d'Asie Orientale
Lyon, France

Paul Waley
School of Geography
University of Leeds
Leeds, Great Britain

Book review editor:

Philippe Pelletier
Institut d'Asie Orientale
Lyon, France

Editorial secretariat:

Marie-Pierre Fuchs
Institut d'Asie Orientale
Lyon, France

GUIDELINES FOR SUBMISSION OF MANUSCRIPTS

Manuscripts should normally not exceed 10,000 words in length. Articles should be typewritten double-spaced with footnotes, references, tables, charts, photographs and other illustrations on separate pages. Footnotes and bibliography should follow the style sheet of the journal. Copies of the style sheet may be obtained from the editors upon request. An abstract of 100-150 words should also be provided for on-line diffusion and promotion. Manuscripts should be submitted in triplicate to the editorial office:

EJEAS Institut d'Asie Orientale - ISH
14, av Berthelot
69363 Lyon cedex 07
France
tel +33 (0) 472 72 65 40
fax +33 (0) 472 72 64 90.

A copy of the final revised manuscript saved on an IBM or Mac compatible disk should be included with the final revised hard copy. Submission of a manuscript is taken to imply commitment to publish in the journal and that it is not currently being considered elsewhere. Manuscripts should not have been published elsewhere in substantially similar form or with substantially similar content. Authors in doubt about what constitutes prior publication should consult with the editors. Manuscript review procedure: all articles received are sent anonymously to two referees who are asked to respond within 30 days. Our policy is to respond to authors within two months. Book reviews and correspondence concerning reviews should be sent to the book review editor, Philippe Pelletier, at the editorial address above. Unsolicited book reviews are not accepted. Inquiries about materials for possible publication and correspondence to the editors should be sent to the EJEAS editorial postal and e-mail address above. We kindly urge authors NOT to use the editors' personal e-mail address for correspondence related to the journal.

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Journal of Imperial and Post-Colonial Historical Studies

[from H-ASIA, 10/17/00]

The editors of the Journal of Imperial and Post-Colonial Historical Studies (JIPCHS) seek to encourage new and different questions of long-standing intellectual problems, including the application of methods used by scholars from a wide array of disciplines, as well as the application of historical methods to those disciplines. We have chosen the themes of imperial and post-colonial studies because they lend themselves readily to a broad range of perspectives and approaches, and, significantly, because they are applicable to every region where a human society has developed at some point in time. They encourage discussions of state formation and diplomacy, yet do not preclude issues of race, gender, or class.

JIPCHS is a new semi-annual journal for recent Ph.D.'s and graduate students to expand the limits of colonial and post-colonial studies by incorporating interdisciplinary methods into their works. Comparative approaches are especially encouraged. JIPCHS welcomes a wide range of academic inquiry from scholars around the world. Contributors address issues of statecraft, social change, cultural interaction, and economic relations within the historical context of imperialism and colonialism in any region of the world and in any time period, from antiquity to the present. Topics for consideration include, but are not limited to: colonization and decolonization, domination and resistence, film/cinema, foreign policy, information media (print and/or electronic), intellectual movements/history, literature, medicine/medical history, methodologies, migration, missionaries and/or religious change, servitude, state formation and expansion, women and states/law.

JIPCHS is a fully-refereed publication that uses a double-blind (i.e., anonymous) process to evaluate manuscript submissions. Manuscripts will be sent to at least two scholars and/or advanced graduate students who are specialists in the field addressed by the manuscript. Copies and/or summaries of the anonymous readers' reports will be sent to authors. Evaluations, accordingly, will require three to five months, although in some exceptional cases they may take longer. Copies of manuscripts will be returned only to those authors who provide self-addressed, stamped envelopes. If a manuscript is accepted for publication it will be edited for organization, clarity, and consistency. Copy-edited versions will be sent to the authors for approval before the finished article goes to press.

Send three (3) copies of the manuscript and all correspondence to:

Journal of Imperial and Post-Colonial Historical Studies
c/o Department of History
301 Morrill Hall
Michigan State University
East Lansing, MI 48824-1036
jipchs@pilot.msu.edu.

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Ming Studies Dissertation List

[from H-ASIA, 03/16/00]

Ming Studies is a refereed journal concerned with scholarship on all aspects of Chinese society and culture from the 14th to the 17th century. It is published twice a year and carries articles, book reviews, news of the field, and biographical material. It also publishes once a year listings of recently completed Ph.D. dissertations and dissertation projects related to the Ming. The latest lists of theses and dissertation projects has just been published in No. 38 (Fall 1997) No. 40 (Fall 1998) of the journal. It covers theses completed until 1997/8. Ming Studies plans to publish a continuation of this list in issue No. 42, and I would be grateful if you could provide with me with information regarding more recent completed Ph.D. theses as well as current dissertation projects.

For completed dissertations, please submit: Author's full name, permanent mailing address or e-mail address, dissertation title and subtitle (for foreign-language dissertations, the original title and an English translation), university and department to which the thesis was submitted, name of advisors, type of doctoral degree received and calendar year awarded, a dissertation abstract, and a statement indicating how people may obtain copies of the thesis.

For dissertations in progress, please submit: Author's full name, permanent mailing address or e-mail address, dissertation topic and working title, university and department to which the thesis will be submitted, anticipated date of completion, and a one-page abstract of the dissertation project.

Please send your information to:

Dietrich Tschanz or Scott Hall
Room 330, EALC
Rutgers University
43 College Ave
New Brunswick, NJ 08901-1164.

Taiwan Journal of Religious Studies

[from H-ASIA, 6/15/00]

The newly established Taiwan Journal of Religious Studies is now welcoming submissions of the following types of articles in the general field of religious studies: Original Research Article (under 30,000 words); Research Note (under 10,000 words); Review Article (under 10,000 words); Book Review (under 3,000 words); Comments and Replies; Field Report. The articles are peer-reviewed. Two issues of the Journal will be published each year by Taiwan Association for Religious Studies.

Guidelines for Submission of Manuscripts

Completed manuscripts, either in English or in Chinese, and inquiries about material for possible publication, and any correspondence should be sent to:

Dr. Mu-chou Poo, Editor
Taiwan Journal of Religious Studies
Institute of History and Philology
Academia Sinica
Taipei, Taiwan
tel (886-2) 2652-3155
fax (886-2) 2786-8834
alternate e-mail: tars@gate.sinica.edu.tw

Manuscripts should be sent to the editor in the form of three hard copies and a disk (preferably Word 5.0 and above, or WordPerfect 5.1 and above). All copies should be double-spaced, including extracts, notes, and references. Research articles should also include an abstract of less than 500 words. As the articles are to be reviewed anonymously by peer scholars, please take care not to reveal the author's identity as far as possible in the manuscript, but use a cover sheet to state the author's name and professional corresponding address. After the manuscript is accepted, the editor may ask the author to submit a revised version of the manuscript according to the Journal's style sheet, which is available upon request. All manuscript submitted to this Journal are expected not to have been published and not to be under review elsewhere. The editor is responsible for the final selection of the manuscript and reserves the right to reject any material deemed inappropriate for publication. Responsibility for opinions expressed and for the accuracy of facts published rests solely with the individual authors. The author will receive 2 copies of the current Journal and 30 copies of off-prints when his/her manuscript is published.

Archives of Asian Art

Archives of Asian Art, published by the Asia Society, invites the submission of scholarly manuscripts on any aspect of Asian art. For a copy of our "Notes to Contributors" and "Style Sheet," contact:

Marsha Weidner
Chair of the Editorial Board
Kress Foundation Department of the History of Art
Spencer Museum of Art
University of Kansas
Lawrence, KS 66049.

Please do not submit articles electronically. We can only accept material submitted in hard copy.

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Journal of Visual Art Practice

[from CAA News, July 2000]

JVAP is a new refereed journal publishing scholarly research and informed commentary on various aspects of visual art practice seen from a broadly educational perspective. It welcomes contributions from art educators, scholars, art practitioners, and others concerned with contemporary art practice seen from such a perspective. The journal will seek to represent the full spectrum of intellectual positions and modes of educational practice that are oriented by, or have developed out of, the traditional notions of "fine art" practice, or in reaction to them. The journal will publish both scholarly papers and more speculative pieces designed to futher understanding and debate.

Editorial Address:
Iain Biggs
Facult of Art, Media, and Design
University of the West of England
Bower Ashton Campus
Clanage Rd.
Bristol BS32JT
United Kingdom
tel +44 (0) (117) 966-0222 x4767

Early Medieval China

[from Asian Studies Newsletter, Fall 2000]

Early Medieval China (ISSN 1529-9104) is a refereed, international journal published by The Early Medieval China Group, Incorporated. The journal was founded in 1994 with the purpose of advancing the understanding ain all disciplines of the "Period of Disunity," and of developments during the later Han and Tang dynasties that are related to the era. Each annual issue contains scholarly articles, book reviews, and news on conferences that concern the medieval period. Also featured are comprehensive bilbliographic essays about recent research and issues in the field. Among the contributors for Vol. 6 (Fall 2000) are Chen Guocan, Richard B. mather, and Victor Xiong. We plan future issues that will be dedicated wholly to specific disciplines such as literature, religion, history and historiography.Authors are usually informed within two months whether their contribution is acceptable. Manuscripts and requests for guidelies should be sent to the appropriate Editor:

Cynthia L. Chennault
Dept. of AALL
Grinter Hall 470
University of Florida
Gainesville, FL 32611-5565

[Book Review Editor]
Alan Berkowitz
Dept. of Modern Languages and Literatures
Swarthmore College
Swarthmore, PA 19081

[Subscriptions]
Early Medieval China
c/o Ken Klein
East Asian Library
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, CA 90089-0182

Individual membership (domestic and foreign) is $20.

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Journal of Visual Culture

[from H-ASIA, 4/23/00]

The past two decades have witnessed an explosion of interest, research, and writing on visual culture within the Humanities and Social Sciences.

The Journal of Visual Culture is a new international, refereed journal being launched in April 2002 as a site for astute, informative, and dynamic thought on the visual.

The journal will publish work from a range of methodological positions, on various historical moments, and across diverse geographical locations. It will promote research, scholarship, and critical engagement with visual cultures.

Interdisciplinary Coverage

The Journal of Visual Culture will be essential reading for academics, researchers and students engaged with the visual within the fields and disciplines of:

  • film, media, and television studies
  • art, design, fashion, and architecture history
  • visual culture
  • cultural studies and critical theory
  • gender studies and queer studies
  • ethnic studies and critical race studies
  • philosophy and aesthetics
  • photography, new media, and electronic imaging
  • critical sociology
  • history
  • geography/urban studies n comparative literature and romance languages
  • the history and philosophy of science, technology, and medicine

Topics to be covered will include:

  • technologies for seeing, machines of the visible,architectures of vision
  • gazes, glances, voyeurism, narcissism
  • the public sphere, privacy, the visible and everyday life
  • appearances, surfaces, textures, touch, transparency
  • performance, the erotic, the pornographic
  • the eye, ocular regimes, optics, blindness, the obscene
  • blackness, whiteness, colour, lightness, darkness
  • the ornamental, iconoclasm, idolatry, aura
  • spectacle, simulation
  • displays, exhibitions, collections, installations
  • seeing, scenes, screens
  • land/city/media-scapes
  • detection, the hidden, invisibility, blindspots, resemblance, vanishing points, peripheries, misrecognition, curiosity
  • cartographies, topographies
  • image, imagination, dreaming, fantasy
  • censorship, editing
  • forgery, the alchemical, anamorphosis
  • perception, projection, disclosure, illusion
  • monuments, museums, archives
  • copy, reproduction, the microscopic, the macroscopic
  • aesthetics, mimesis, tropes, figures
  • style, technique, gesture

Call for Papers

Articles are now being sought for early issues of the journal.

Articles should be between 5-7000 words. Reviews (which must be approved in advance with either the Reviews or Events Editor) should be between 800-1200 words. Four copies of the manuscript should be submitted, typed in double-spacing on one side of A4 paper only and must include an abstract of 100-150 words on a separate sheet. Authors will be asked to provide a diskette of the final version. Submissions will be refereed anonymously by at least two referees.

The journal uses the Harvard system of referencing with author's name and date in the text and a full reference literature in alphabetical order at the end of the article. Articles for the journal should be addressed to either:

Raiford A. Guins
University of California, San Diego
Department of Literature, 0410
9500 Gilman Drive
La Jolla, California 92093-0410
USA

or

Joanne Morra
School of Art
Publishing and Music
Oxford Brookes University
Headington Hill Campus
Oxford OX3 0BP
UK
tel +44 (0)1865 484960
fax +44 (0)1865 484952

Reviews Editor: Simon Ofield
Events Editor: Rob Stone.

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Japan Forum

[from H-ASIA, 12/17/00]

The editors of Japan Forum are pleased to announce that the journal will shortly be moving to three issues per annum and would be delighted to receive articles for publication consideration.

Since its launch in 1989 by the British Association for Japanese Studies, Japan Forum has developed into a major international journal. It documents research in the multidisciplinary field of Japanese Studies, with articles ranging from archeology, language, history, literature and culture to economics, politics and law.

A special feature of the journal is that it includes articles by world renowned scholars as well as younger researchers. All articles are independently refereed before publication.

All manuscripts and/or enquiries should be sent, in the first instance, to the Secretariat of BAJS c/o:

Lynn Baird
Contemporary Japan Centre
University of Essex
Wivenhoe Park
Colchester CO4 3SQ
Essex
UK.

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The China Review: An Interdisciplinary Journal on Greater China

[from Asian Studies Newsletter 46/1]

The China Review is a continuation of China Review, an annual publication of The Chinese University Press since 1990. The new journal will be published twice a year in March and September; like its predecessor,it is a scholarly journal covering various disciplines of study on Greater China and its people, namely, domestic politics and international relations; society, business and economic development; modern history, the arts and cultural studies. Teachers, scholars, researchers, journalists and students interested in the developments of China will find this publication a comprehensive and indispensable tool.

The China Review welcomes the submission of high-quality research articles, research notes and book reviews dealing with the political, economic and social aspects of modern and contemporary China. Research article manuscripts should not be longer than 10,000 words in length. Research notes should normally be 3,000 words, and book reviews between 800 and 1,000 words. They should be submitted in electronic format with three typewritten hard copies, double-spaced, with footnotes grouped together at the end of the paper. The style of the text and footnotes should conform to those used in The Chicago Manual of Style (14th edition, 1993). The China Review does not accept manuscripts that have already been published or are being considered for publication elsewhere. Manuscripts will be refereed by external readers. All manuscripts should be submitted to:

The China Review Editorial Board
The Chinese University Press
The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Shatin, New Territories
Hong Kong, SAR
http://www.cuhk.edu.hk/cupress/.

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Research Unit on Taiwanese Culture and Literature, Ruhr University

[from MCLC, 2/5/02]

The Research Unit on Taiwanese Culture and Literature (TCL), Department of Chinese Language and Literature, Ruhr University Bochum, Germany now offers the opportunity to publish articles on Taiwanese culture and literature on-line via our website at http://www.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/slc/taiwan.html.

The first contribution is a short biographical study on the Taiwanese author Meng Yao by Edel Marie Lancashire (U.K.): "Meng Yao. A Tribute."

Scholars working on subjects relating to Taiwanese culture and literature are most welcome to submit proposals. Please visit our website for details.

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Cultural Values: Journal for Cultural Research

[from H-ARTHIST, 4/5/02]

We would like to invite you to contribute to Cultural Values: Journal for Cultural Research, which is an international journal, based in Lancaster University's Institute for Cultural Research. The journal publishes essays that address the broad conjuncture between culture and the many domains and practices in relation to which culture has usually been defined: including, for example, media, politics, technology, economics, society, art and the sacred. "Culture" denotes a shifting multiplicity of signifying practices and value systems that provide a potentially infinite resource of mobilisation, investigation and critique as well as ethnographic or market research into cultural identity, cultural autonomy, cultural emancipation, cultural difference and all the cultural aspects of power. Domains of social practice such as economics, education and politics, for example, are not distinguished by being clearly differentiated from the cultural. They enjoy a synergistic and symbiotic relation with it through their common preoccupation with the complex and dynamic forces of cultural production, reproduction and resistance locally and globally. Here, especially, the cultural becomes indistinguishable from questions concerning the governable. The desire not to be governed, or to be governed differently, thus becomes impelled to think culture differently from the accepted accounts of cultural identity, cultural recognition and cultural resistance that once fuelled cultural critique of governing practices. In this confluence of the cultural and the governable the very parameters and character of the cultural in relation to allied domains of social practice becomes re-problematised once more.

The journal publishes original essays by established and emerging writers globally who are developing the future of cultural theory and research in the 21st century. We encourage writing that explores every aspect of cultural experience, experiences that occur in the correlation between fields of knowledge, types of normativity, and forms of subjectivity in different domains and locations around the world.

Please submit a 200-word abstract of your paper by e-mail as soon as possible. Completed papers (three copies) should be sent to the Editor at the address below. Rejected manuscripts will not normally be returned.

Michael Dillon
Department of Politics and International Relations
University of Lancaster
Lancaster, LA1 4YL
UK.

Visit the Call for Papers website at http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/authors/rcuv-cfp.html.

Asiatica Venetiana

[from H-ASIA, 6/7/04]

Asiatica Venetiana, the publication of the Department of East Asian Studies, University of Venice, is now accepting contributions of articles, notes, reviews for its double 2003-2004 edition (issue 8/9).

Submissions in English, Italian, and French are encouraged in all fields of East Asian, South Asian, and Southeast Asian Studies. For details and guidelines. contact Prof. Marco Ceresa.

Redazione di Asiatica Venetiana
Prof. Marco Ceresa
Dipartimento di Studi sullAsia Orientale
Palazzo Vendramin ai Carmini
Dorsoduro 3462
30123 Venezia
Italy

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Association for Art History

[from CAA News, March/April 2002]

The Association for Art History (AAH) announces two calls for papers. For the upcoming issue of our new, revised newsletter, we would like articles or manuscripts of fairly wide interest. We are also actively working to organize an AAH journal, which will publish the investigations of curators, collectors, academics, and independent scholars and critics, as well as more technically oriented essays. Acceptable submissions should be centrally concerned with one or more works of art and/or architecture. We seek articles that are short, longer, and longest (40,000-word max). Articles may range the entire history of the world's art and architecture. For more information and to submit manuscripts, please call Carole Gras Bennett at (812) 855-5193; fax (812) 855-9556; aah@indiana.edu; www.indiana.edu/~aah.

China: An International Journal

[from Asian Studies Newsletter, Spring 2002]

A new journal, China: An International Journal, published by the East Asian Institute at the National University of Singapore, welcomes the submission of theoretically and empirically-based research articles, review articles, short comments and notes. Manuscripts towards East Asian specialists are preferred, but pieces written for a wider audience will also be considered. All submissions must be fully documented and of enduring value. Published twice yearly in March and September, the CIJ focuses on contemporary China, including Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan, covering the fields of politics, economics, society, law, culture, and international relations. For editorial matters and inquiries, please contact:

The Editors
China: An International Journal
East Asian Institute
AS5, Level 4
7 Arts Link
Singapore 117571
tel +(65) 6779-1037
fax +(65) 6779-3409.

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Women's Arts News

[courtesy of Women's Studio Center, 10/4/03]

Women's Arts News is seeking biographical articles, 700 words max., about well-known women visual artists and writers from any time period, art movement or style (fine arts inlcudes - painting, sculpting etc, decorative arts, design, photography, and architecture).

Due to limited space articles must be no more than and as close to 700 words as possible.

Women's Arts News is a monthly publication, September through June, produced by Women's Studio Center Inc, Long Island City, NY.

Circulation is throughout the US but mostly in the New York City Tri-State Area. Articles should be written for a general audience, artists, etc. There should be more biographical and factual information and none or less anaylisis of the artwork.

For information, guidelines and a hard copy of Women's Arts News, please contact Melissa Wolf, Managing Editor, at (718) 361-5649 or
WomensArtNews@aol.com.

International Journal of Asian Studies

[from H-ASIA, 6/16/02]

International Journal of Asian Studies is a new international and interdisciplinary English-language periodical publishing research on Asia, primarily in the social sciences and humanities. Sponsored by the Institute of Oriental Culture at the University of Tokyo, and with Professor Takeshi Hamashita as Editor-in-Chief, it will be published by Cambridge University Press. The first issue is due to appear in 2003. The journal will consist of several papers around a central theme, as well as independent papers, review articles and book reviews. The themes for the first two issues are "Trans-Asian Networks" and "Gender in Asia: Women, Family Relations and Inheritance." Submissions are invited from scholars interested in these topics, but general submissions are also very welcome.

The Journal examines Asia on a regional basis, emphasising patterns and tendencies that go beyond the borders of individual countries. For example, intra-Asian networks have played a major role in the shaping of modern Asia, but their internal operations and position within worldwide networks remain poorly understood. Modern and contemporary Asia has witnessed dynamic transformations in cultures, societies, economics and politics, and so confronts issues of collective identity formation, ecological crisis, rapid economic change and resurgence of religion. The clarification of past experiences can help produce a deeper understanding of contemporary change. Therefore the Journal is particularly interested in locating contemporary changes within a historical framework, especially using interdisciplinary approaches, and so promotes comparative studies involving the various regions of Asia. By doing so it hopes to foster a move away from the explicit or implicit yardstick of European experience.

Articles should not be more than 12,000 words, including footnotes and references. Review articles should not exceed 8,000 words. Two copies of the manuscript should be submitted, together with an abstract of not more than 150 words and a brief profile about the author, printed on separate sheets. The author's name, address, email address and title of manuscript should appear on a coversheet. Alternatively, manuscripts may be sent as a file attachment to the e-mail address below. In this case, to prevent virus contamination, could you inform the editors in advance that you will be sending an attachment, and send it only after you have heard back from us.

Full information in English about the Journal, as well as a guide to submissions, is contained in the Institute's web page.

Professor Haruka Yanagisawa
Dr Gaynor Sekimori
Editorial Office
International Journal of Asian Studies
Institute of Oriental Culture
University of Tokyo
7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku
Tokyo 113-0033
Email: ej@ioc.u-tokyo.ac.jp

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Persimmon: Asian Literature, Arts, and Culture

[from H-ASIA, 7/12/02]

Persimmon magazine is seeking someone to write a brief report (500 words) on current trends in the fine arts and popular culture in Taipei for the City Scan section of our next issue. The deadline for the report is the beginning of August, and there is a small honorarium. If any list members are in Taipei and would like to do this, or know of someone there who might be interested, please contact me directly.

Persimmon: Asian Literature, Arts, and Culture, a New York-based magazine, is published three times a year (in February, June, and October) by Contemporary Asian Culture, Inc., a not-for-profit educational organization whose mission is to provide to readers in the West insights into contemporary Asian culture and social issues.

Many thanks.
Caroline Herrick

Persimmon: Asian Literature, Arts, and Culture
46 East 92nd Street
New York, NY 10128
tel/fax (212) 831-4751

The Tibet Journal

[from http://www.lib.virginia.edu/area-studies/Tibet/Tserials/TibetJour/tibjsub.html]

The Tibet Journal welcomes the submission of articles and research paper in English and Tibetan, adequately substantiated or otherwise documented, with the Wylie romanization system of The Tibet Journal. Articles should be typed and double-spaced. We request that all contributions sent to the journal have the print and diskette copy (ASCII Text Format or WP 5.1). Contributors will receive a copy of the Journal, and up to 15 off-prints of the particular article. Unaccepted articles will be returned upon request. The Journal encourages readers' comments on articles published in recent issues. Address articles, rejoinders, editorial enquires, and books for reviews to:

Managing Editor, The Tibet Journal
c/o Library of Tibetan Works & Archives
Gangchen Kyishong
Dharamsala, H.P. 176215
India. Tel:
tel + 01892 22467
fax + 01892 23723

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Chinese Historical Review

[from H-ASIA, 5/24/03]

The Chinese Historical Review (ISSN 10043-643X) invites manuscripts of original research, reviews, and research notes concerning all aspects and time periods of Chinese history, China-foreign relations, and the Chinese diaspora. Manuscripts with comparative perspectives on history are also welcome.

Manuscripts should not exceed 8,000 words in length, excluding notes, tables, and other forms of data. All texts, including footnotes and quotations, should be double-spaced with at least 1.5-inch margin on both sides of the page. Footnotes should be consecutively numbered and should be placed as a separate section at the end of the text. The style of text, footnotes, punctuations, and capitalization must conform to The Chicago Manual of Style (14th ed., 1993).

Manuscripts shall be submitted in both text and electronic format. Send three copies of the manuscript to:

The Editors
Chinese Historical Review
205 Keith Hall
Department of History
Indiana University of Pennsylvania, PA 15705 USA.

The electronic version of the manuscript, saved in Microsoft Word format, should be sent as an attachment to wangxi@iup.edu, hanchao.lu@hts.gatech.edu, and baumler@iup.edu. All relevant correspondence should be sent to the same addresses. No manuscript will be considered for publication if it is concurrently under consideration elsewhere.

Originally created by the Chinese Historians in the United States, Inc. in 1988, The Chinese Historical Review (formerly Chinese Historians) has been a
vigorously [refereed] and edited journal, featured with articles on the history of China, China-foreign relations, the Chinese diaspora, and comparative studies of history, as well as extensive book reviews covering contemporary historical scholarship published in Chinese language. It has served as a vital academic bridge between the United States and China.

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Historiography East & West

[from H-ASIA, 6/6/03]

At the beginning of the 21st century, history has regained its central position in the discourse on the future of humankind; scholarly interest in the writing of and reflections on history has grown beyond the much-debated Western tradition. It is under these circumstances that the new journal Historiography East & West has been initiated as a truly comparative and multi-lingual on-line journal. Historiography East & West deepens our understanding of representations of "history" by comparing historiographical practices and traditions from all over the world, thus integrating them into the ongoing debates on general issues of history-writing as well as reflections on history and memory. The editorial board of the journal thus includes scholars from Europe, Asia and the US willing to guarantee the high standards of the journal as well as to contribute to cross-cultural understanding based on mutual respect.

The editorial board of Historiography East & West is committed to the idea of opening a worldwide discussion on issues of history writing and therefore invites contributors to submit their manuscripts in Chinese, Dutch, English, French, German, and Japanese. Manuscripts will go through a process of peer review and, once accepted for publication, will be accompanied by summaries in English and Chinese to make readers aware of their contents who are not able to read them in their respective language of publication. Outstanding articles first published in the online journal will be selected for republication in a book every other year.

Since the idea of launching Historiography East & West originates from a conference on "Modern Chinese Historiography and Historical Thinking" organized by the Center for Chinese Studies of Heidelberg, Germany in May 2001, the first two volumes of the new journal will mostly draw on the papers from the conference. Starting from Vol. 3:1 the journal is open to any contributions related to the above-mentioned topics.

Core features

  • Multi-lingual with Chinese and English as main publication languages, and Dutch, French, German, and Japanese as secondary publication languages;
  • All articles come with a summary in Chinese, English, and the working language of the author;
  • Editorial board of internationally renowned scholars from Europe, Asia and the US;
  • Managing editors: Axel Schneider (Leiden), Susanne Weigelin-Schwiedrzik (Vienna)
  • Peer-reviewed
  • On-line only
  • Two issues per year
  • Institutions EURO 45; individuals EURO 25
  • ISSN 15701867

To subscribe, please go to Brill's website; for inquiries please contact hgew@brill.nl.

Editors

Axel Schneider, Chinese Department, Leiden University, The Netherlands
Susanne Weigelin-Schwiedrzik, Institute for Chinese Studies, University of Vienna, Austria

Associate editors

Tony Ballantyne, History Department, University of Otago, New Zealand
Li Hongyan, Institute for Modern History, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, China
Brian Moloughney, History Department, University of Otago, New Zealand
Peng Minghui, History Department, Cheng-chi University, Taiwan
Peter Zarrow, Institute for Modern History, Academia Sinica, Taiwan

Editorial board

Frank Ankersmit, History Department, Groningen, The Netherlands
Timothy Cheek, Institute of Asian Research, University of British Columbia, Canada
Paul A. Cohen, Fairbank Center, Harvard University, USA
Sebastian Conrad, History Department, Free University, Berlin, Germany
Benjamin Elman, East Asian Studies Department, Princeton University, USA
Hon Tzeki, History Department, State University of New York at Geneseo, USA
Joshua Fogel, Institute for Advanced Study, School of Historical Studies, Princeton University, USA
William C. Kirby, History Department, Harvard University, USA
Rikki Kersten, Japanese Department, Leiden University, The Netherlands
J?rn R?sen, Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities at the Scientific Center of Northrhine Westfalia, Essen, Germany
Frederic Wakeman, History Department, University of California, Berkeley, USA
Yeh Wen-hsing, History Department, University of California, Berkeley, USA

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Art on the line

[from H-ARTHIST, 6/14/03]

September 2003 sees the launch of a new electronic journal designed especially for historians and theorists in the fields of visual culture, including art, architecture, design and film.

Art on the line is professional, peer-reviewed and will be an international forum for original and innovative research into visual culture. Drawing together research currently underway in art history departments, museums and fine art departments it aims to push the boundaries of art historical studies into the broader field of cultural studies. Its editorial objectives are to encourage dialogue and debate and extend the understanding of visual culture across a broad chronological and geographical context.

The journal will publish a wide range of research articles, news and a broad spectrum of reviews, including books, exhibitions and electronic resources such as databases and web pages. In short, Art on the line aims to provide readers with up to the minute information and scholarly research in an easily accessible electronic format.

The title, Art on the line, can have many layers of meaning, but is intended primarily to reflect both the means of delivery, i.e., online, and its proximity to the margins of art history as a discipline. The journal is quarterly, international and published by the Western Academic & Specialist Press. If there is sufficient demand, an annual compilation of the key parts of the journal will be published in print.

The editors welcome submissions on any aspect of visual culture and articles will be peer reviewed by at least two academic referees. Other submissions for reviews and news items will be considered by the editor or one of his associates. From time to time Art on the line will publish special issues focusing on a single theme or subject - this might involve special research undertaken in collaboration with a current exhibition or conference - and all proposals are welcomed. Please contact the editor in the first instance.

For further information about the journal and author guidelines visit http://www.waspress.co.uk/journals or contact Mike.OMahony@bristol.ac.uk.

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American Journal of Chinese Studies

[from Asian Studies Newsletter, Fall 2006]

The American Journal of Chinese Studies (AJCS) is the official publication of the American Association for Chinese Studies and is published twice a year in April and October. The language of publication is English. The AJCS is especially interested in receiving manuscripts dealing with Taiwan. The journal also has an interest in mainland China o r locales with significant Chinese population or influence. The AJCS publishes articles in all social science disciplines, including history. Contemporary subjects in the humanities also will be considered. Manuscripts are refereed for acceptance. All opinions expressed in the AJCS are the author's and should not be imputed to the association. The AJCS is widely indexed.

Manuscripts should not exceed 25 pages, should be typed, and double-spaced. Footnotes are to be typed at the bottom of the text. There is not a separate listing for references. Each manuscript should include a 200- to 250-word abstract. For transliteration, the Wade-Giles system is recommended for information pertinent to the Republic of China and the Pinyin system for the People's Republic of China. For additional information on styling, consult The Chicago Manual of Style and previous issues of the journal.

Please send two copies of your double-spaced manuscript, a DOS formatted disk, and a short biographical note to:

Professor Thomas J. Bellows
Editor, American Journal of Chinese Studies
Department of Political Science
The University of Texas at San Antonio
San Antonio, TX 78249.

Books for review should be sent to:

Professor Yu-long Ling
Head, Social Science Division
Franklin College
501 East Monroe Street
Franklin, IN 46131-2598.

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Art Journal

[from CAA]

What would you do with 6 pages in Art Journal? The Art Journal Editorial Board invites writers and artists to submit articles, interviews, conversations, and other texts, as well as proposals for forums and artist projects. Founded in 1941, Art Journal is a quarterly devoted to 20th- and 21st-century art. One of the most vital, intellectually compelling, and visually engaging periodicals in the field, it publishes contributions by art historians, artists, curators, and critics--and has quickly become one of the places to be seen and read. Art Journal is committed to providing a serious forum for scholarship and exploration in the visual arts and seeks to broaden the kinds of writing and artist projects it publishes. Step into the spotlight; send in your submissions now! Please mail all submissions to:

Patricia C. Phillips
Executive Editor, Art Journal
c/o State University of New York, New Paltz
Art Dept., FAB 225
New Paltz, NY 12561.

Do not send materials to the CAA office. Please consult www.collegeart.org/caa/publications/AJ/AJgdlnscontrib.htm for submission guidelines. For queries, please write to artjournal@collegeart.org.

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Melbourne Art Journal

[from CAA]

This journal is published by the Membership of the Ian Potter Museum of Art, University of Melbourne. MAJ is a refereed art history journal, indexed by BHA, that publishes the Sir Joseph Burke Lecture and Margaret Manion Lecture, as well as articles in wide range of areas of art history, including museology. Contributions are accepted from any source. It is published annually (issue 4 will be published shortly). Contact:

David Marshall, Editor
Melbourne Art Journal
School of Fine Arts
Classical Studies and Archaeology
University of Melbourne
Parkville, Victoria
3010 Australia.

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Journal of Song Yuan Studies

[from H-ASIA, 8/25/05]

Authors are invited to send their manuscripts for review by the Journal of Song Yuan Studies, which is currently accepting submissions for volume 36 (2006).

Journal of Song Yuan Studies is an annual publication devoted to promoting scholarship in all disciplines related to middle period China, with an especial focus on the Song, Liao, Jin, Xia, and Yuan dynasties.

Scholars are encouraged to submit manuscripts of articles, bibliographies, and research notes. All submissions are evaluated by referees. Except for bibliographies, manuscripts should be in English, typed double-spaced (including quotations), and submitted either as electronic files to hclark@ursinus.edu or in triplicate to the address below; the former is preferred. Article submissions should conform, as much as possible, to the guidelines in The Chicago Manual of Style. All contributors to the Journal receive 25 off-prints of their work.

Hugh R. Clark
Editor, Journal of Song Yuan Studies
Department of History
Ursinus College
Collegeville, PA 19426-1000
(610) 409-3595.

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Journal of Chinese Overseas

[from H-ASIA, 3/14/08]

Journal of Chinese Overseas (JCO) launched in May 2005, is an internationally-refereed journal published in English twice a year in May and November. It carries academic articles on Chinese overseas worldwide. Topics on China, Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan where the emigrant communities originate, and articles on people of non-Han origins in diaspora who can trace their ancestry to China will also be considered. In addition to well-researched articles, the journal also publishes research reports and book reviews.

Published for the Chinese Heritage Centre by NUS Press (formerly SUP) under the auspices of the International Society for the Study of Chinese Overseas

Articles and reports for submission and enquires may be sent to: cbtan@cuhk.edu.hk (Prof. Tan Chee-Beng) or jco@ntu.edu.sg.

Enquiries about book reviews may be sent to qianj@hku.hk (Dr. James K. Chin).

For more information, please visit www.chineseheritagecentre.org and click on "Our Publications."

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Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism

[from H-ASIA, 1/15/04]

Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, a biannual, fully-refereed journal published in the Department of Government at the London School of Economics, invites the submission of high-quality articles of no more than 8,000 words on issues pertaining to ethnicity, nationalism, conflict, identity and related topics.

The editors welcome submissions of both theoretical and empirical work, work in progress as well as contributions from professionals and postgraduate students.

Recent articles include:

Yilmaz Colak, "Nationalism and State in Turkey: Drawing the Boundaries of 'Turkish Culture' in the 1930s"
Niall Finneran, "The Persistence of Memory: Nationalism, Identity and the Represented Past. The Ethiopian Experience in a Global Context"
Snezhana Dimitrova, "Traumatizing History: Textbooks in Modern Bulgarian History and Bulgarian National Identity (1917-1996)"
Emma Haddad, "The Refugee: Forging National Identities"

For more information, and to consult our style guide, please visit the SEN website.

SEN Editors
Association for the Study of Ethnicity and Nationalism
Department of Government
London School of Economics
Houghton Street
UK - London WC2A 2AE
tel +44 (020) 7955 6801
fax +44 (020) 7955 6218

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Journal of Women's History

[from H-ASIA, 9/9/05]

The Journal of Women's History has entered its second year at the University of Illinois, and we continue to seek submissions on a range of subjects animating women's and gender history. In particular, we are interested in enhancing the Journal's consideration of international, transnational, and global issues, from pre-modern times through the recent past.

Our first History Practice section, vol. 17.4, features reflections upon the ways in which colleagues' teaching of gender and women's history has been impacted by war. The second History Practice, with contributions from scholars based in the United States, Africa, India and Japan, focuses on women historians and conditions of work in the 21st century. We welcome suggestions for future History Practice themes.

Vol. 18: 1 features our first Book Forum, in which scholars examine Leslie Peirce's Morality Tales: Law and Gender in Ottoman Court of Aintab (California, 2003). We plan to continue to spotlight books that have had a significant impact on women's history within the past decade, as well as new titles whose thematic concerns, method, and theoretical groundwork speak to a broad and diverse women's history audience.

We hope that whether you are a just beginning your career as a historian or are a senior scholar in the field, you will consider submitting your work for consideration at the Journal of Women's History. Please see our website for submission guidelines and contact us at womenshistory@uiuc.edu if you have any questions.

Jean Allman and Antoinette Burton, editors
Marilyn Booth, Book Review Editor
Jennifer Edwards and Rebecca McNulty, Managing Editors
Journal of Women's History
The University of Illinois
810 South Wright
Urbana, IL 61801
e-mail: womenshistory@uiuc.edu

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Southeast Asia and China: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives

[from H-ASIA, 6/4/04]

Advisory Board: Anthony J. S. Reid, Wang Gungwu, Claudine Salmon, Philip Kuhn
Series Editors: Geoff Wade and Hong Liu

This series deals with regional relations and the movement of ideas, goods, capital and people between Southeast Asia and China. The editors seek manuscripts that illuminate the processes and networks linking China and Southeast Asia, and particularly works that offer innovative approaches to region and regional relationships. Submissions that fall within the following categories are welcome, and the editors will be pleased to discuss other proposals that fit the general scope of the project.

+ Studies of the historical and contemporary relations between the polities of Southeast Asia and those of East Asia. Both overland and maritime interactions are of interest.

+ Studies of the trading, financial and other economic networks which have long interlinked these regions. Topics such as the mining and plantation industries in Southeast Asia, which involved capital and labour from East Asia, also fall within the scope of the series.

+ Works illuminating past and present cultural, linguistic and intellectual interactions between China and Southeast Asia.

+ Investigations of the evolution of the political and cultural borders separating East Asia from Southeast Asia.

+ Monographs or collected studies on Chinese communities in Southeast Asia and Southeast Asian communities in East Asia.

+ Studies and/or translations of Chinese texts relating to Southeast Asia and of Southeast Asian texts dealing with East Asia.

The language of the series will be English, but outstanding works in other languages will also be considered for publication, either in the original language or in translation. Prospective contributors should submit a preliminary enquiry to the Series Editors at the following addresses:

Geoff Wade
Asia Research Institute
AS7 Level 4, Shaw Foundation Building
5 Arts Link
National University of Singapore
SINGAPORE 117570

Hong LIU
Department of Chinese Studies
AS7 Level 3, Shaw Foundation Building
5 Arts Link
National University of Singapore
SINGAPORE 117570.

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Bulletin of the Museum of Far Eastern Art

[from MFEA, 7/6/04]

The BMFEA publishes articles by scholars worldwide on all aspects of ancient and classical East Asia and adjacent regions, including archaeology, art, and architecture; history and philosophy; literature and linguistics; and related fields.

Contributions seriously engaging contemporary critical thought in the humanities and social sciences are especially welcome.

All contributions, for general issues (no deadline) as well as for special thematic issues, are peer-reviewed. The new Editorial Advisory Board mainly consists of scholars based at European centers for Asia research. The Editors are Magnus Fiskesjö, Director, Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities (Editor), and Martin Svensson Ekström, Department of Oriental Languages, Stockholm University (Editor). Contact editors: +46-8-5195 5751 or by e-mail bmfea@ostasiatiska.se.

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Asia-Pacific Cultural Studies

[from ASDP-L, 7/7/04]

Dear Colleagues,

We'd like to announce a new e-journal, and a call for papers.

Asia-Pacific Cultural Studies (APCS), a new, refereed, e-journal with an interdisciplinary orientation focussing on the Asia-Pacific, seeks academic articles, photographic articles, book, film, DVD, website, creative arts and music reviews of materials relating to the Asia-Pacific. APCS accepts international submissions of original articles and reviews relating to the Asia-Pacific region, and concerned primarily with any of the following disciplines: history, political studies, literature, anthropology, sociology, linguistics, psychology, economics, gender studies, queer theory, diasporic studies, popular culture and environmentalism. While English language is the preferred medium, the editors will consider submissions in Asian and Pacific languages.

For further information on submission guidelines, please see the nascent website at http://www.arts.auckland.ac.nz/apcs/index.cfm?fuseaction=editorial.

Please direct any inquiries to Yongjin Zhang (School of Asian Studies/Politics, University of Auckland) or Matt Allen (School of Asian Studies/History, University of Auckland).

Resources for Teaching about Asia

[from AAS, 11/2/04]

The purpose of this series is to produce early publication of important new teaching materials that are easily accessible and affordable. Authorship is open. The intended audience is primarily undergraduates at two- and four-year colleges, but could obviously include advanced high school students and other teachers as well. The format of publications in the series will be determined by the content, and likely will include both print and electronic formats.

In the series, we plan to publish a variety of teaching materials including short (50+ pages) pamphlets on key turning points or thematic issues in the study of Asia, basic documents for students to read and analyze, maps, photos and other teaching aids, and other topics that will be revealed in proposals by potential authors.

Proposals for publication should be sent (preferably in paper) to:

Robert Entenmann
St. Olaf College
Department of History
1520 St. Olaf Avenue
Northfield MN 55057
tel (507) 646-3427
fax (507) 646-3462.

Proposals should include a statement of the author's view of what contribution the publication will make to Asian studies; a curriculum vitae; a plan of the work; samples of the proposed text; and an indication of when the manuscript might be completed.

The AAS Editorial Board retains the right of acceptance or refusal of proposals.

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electronic journal of contemporary japanese studies

[from H-ASIA, 7/4/06]

Dear Colleagues,

First of all, thank you to everyone for your continued support of the electronic journal of contemporary japanese studies. As a result of the generosity and kindness of everyone involved the journal has continued to grow year on year and we are approaching publishing our 100th publication. So, well done to everyone, especially the members of our editorial board, our contributors, and our reviewers, and thank you again.

Just to remind you, our publication is unique in the field of Japanese studies and is one of a growing community of academic journals worldwide that operate on an open access model; where it is free for anyone with an internet connection to view our publications. We do not make any financial charges to readers or contributors and the journal is financed purely through the goodwill of its community of contributors and through any earnings that can be made by internet publishing (which is hardly anything at present). ejcjs is also committed to sustainable living such that copies of the journal are only made available electronically. Printing for private and educational purposes is at the discretion of readers, though we would hope that all prints would be done on recycled paper. I would encourage anyone with a commitment to these principles to think seriously about making a zontribution to our journal. You can do so in the following ways.

1. Articles for peer review, and discussion papers. These should be of a good academic standard, be in good English (we cannot afford to hire professional proof readers), and be on any subject that relates to contemporary Japan and its place in the world. Please contact the editor (me) if you think you may have something suitable for us. Alternatively, you can read more details about what we are looking for on the following page: http://www.japanesestudies.org.uk/contents/inforcontributors.html.

2. Book reviews and film reviews. Please contact the following for information:
Book reviews editor (David Envall)
Film reviews editor (Tim Iles)

3. Japanese studies news to include in our Bulletin. Please take a look at the bulletin first, and then contact its editor (Stephanie Assmann).

4. Editorial Board Members. We are looking for active and enthusiastic scholars who are hoping to make a contribution to their field. In particular, we are looking for younger/emerging scholars who are ambitious to move up in their careers. Membership of ejcjs has been beneficial to past and present board members' careers and we hope that this will continue to be the case. All applicants for membership of the board should show commitment and quality by first submitting a peer reviewed article. Please also submit a curriculum vitae and emphasise what kind of contributions you can make to expanding the quality and size of our journal. Please e-mail me directly.

5. Advertising. We are now able to host advertisements from selected and relevant institutions. We have to do this because the journal's costs are rising with expansion and higher levels of technological usage. Please contact me directly if you wish to cooperate with ejcjs in this manner. Just to let you know a little more about us:

ejcjs has a full listing in the Directory of Open Access Journals and the International Bibliography of the Social Sciences. ejcjs is permanently preserved at research libraries worldwide by the LOCKSS electronic data storage system. ejcjs receives an average of more than 500 unique visitors per day from more than 150 countries. Approximately 20 per cent of our visitors are repeats. ejcjs is ranked 4 in the world for "japanese studies" by Google out of more than 90 million websites (and ranked 1 by Google UK). There are now more than 900 discrete links to ejcjs from elsewhere in the internet. ejcjs was recently awarded a 5 star rating by the Asian Studies WWW Monitor and was assessed by its editor as being a "magnificent online resource." Advertising in ejcjs would be most suitable for the following institutions and organisations:

a) Universities and departments of Japanese studies hoping to recruit students, especially those at masters and PhD levels.
b) Research institutes and other academic institutions with Japanese studies as a main focus that are hoping to raise their profile on the internet.
c) Publishers (paper and electronic) that publish in the fields of Japanese studies, Asian studies, and social sciences.

Thank you so much for taking the time to read this message and for your continued support

Dr Peter Matanle
General Editor
ejcjs
Lecturer
National Institute of Japanese Studies and School of East Asian Studies
University of Sheffield

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Avista Forum Journal

[from CAA News, November 2004]

AVISTA, the Association Villard de Honnecourt for the Interdisciplinary Study of Science, Technology, and Art, seeks contribution on the history of art for its annual publication, the Avista Forum Journal (AFJ). Our focus is on the history of medieval technology and science, including the history of architecture, art history, archaeology, numismatics, medicine, and other material culture as studied from a technical or scientific point of view. AFJ publishes shore essays of 1,000-2,500 words in length. Essays from new scholars and graduate students are encouraged, as are short source documents and commentaries. Authors retain copyright and are welcome to use AFJ to establish priority of a discovery and then expand their work for republication elsewhere. For information or to send submissions, contact:

Anne van Arsdall
209 Solano SE
Albuquerque, NM 87108
e-mail afj@avista.org.

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China aktuell

[from H-ASIA, 5/5/07]

China aktuell - Journal of Current Chinese Affairs is an internationally refereed academic journal published bimonthly by the GIGA Institute of Asian Studies in Hamburg, Germany, since 1972. The journal focuses on current developments in Greater China and is devoted to the transfer of scholarly insights to a wide audience. With a circulation of 1,200 copies, making it one of the world's most widely distributed periodicals on Asian affairs, China aktuell reaches a broad readership in the academia, administration and business circles. China aktuell is devoted to the transfer of scientific insights to a wide audience. The topics covered should therefore not only be orientated towards specialists in Chinese affairs, but should also be of relevance to readers with a practical interest in the region.

We invite submission of articles on contemporary China including Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan that are concerned with the fields of international relations, politics, economics, society, education, environment or law. Articles should be theoretically grounded, empiri­cally sound and reflect the state of the art in contemporary Chinese studies. All manuscripts will be peer reviewed for acceptance. We respond within three months.

Research articles should not exceed 10,000 words (including footnotes and references; stylesheet: www.duei.de/ias/stylesheet). Articles to be published should be written in German or English and submitted in electronic form exclusively to this publication: CHINA-aktuell@giga-hamburg.de.

Dr. Karsten Giese
GIGA Institute of Asian Studies
GIGA German Institute of Global and Area Studies
Rothenbaumchaussee 32
D-20148 Hamburg
GERMANY
tel +49 40 4288740
fax +49 40 4107945

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Journal of Multicultural Discourses

[from H-ASIA, 2/26/05]

Editor-in-Chief: Shi-xu, Zhejiang University, China

It is fair to say that existing journals on discourse, and on language and communication more generally, are largely oriented to the Western intellectual world. The philosophies, theories, methods, issues and data that they treat and the authors that they give voice to tend to be Western in origin and/or in orientation. Consequently, the voices and concerns of the non-Western world are repressed or ignored. In this sense, the scholarly discourses remain largely univocal or, one might argue, a-cultural, though often under the guise of universality.

The international context, both academic and ordinary, has changed, however. The subjugated non-Western, non-White and Third World cultures are crying out to reclaim identities; the worsening cultural division and domination call for culturally democratic dialogue and exchange. In discourse scholarship and especially in critical approaches to social science, too, there is increasing awareness of the need to complement the celebrated interdisciplinarity with cultural equality and diversity.

To break free from traditional cultural bondages and to facilitate the politics of cultural solidarity and common cultural prosperity, Multilingual Matters, a market-leading publisher in the field, is launching a new journal in discourse studies, entitled Journal of Multicultural Discourses (ISSN 1744-7143). Edited by Shi-xu, Professor and Director of the Institute of Discourse and Cultural Studies, Zheijang University, China, who is also the first Chinese person to edit an international journal in the social sciences, the journal will appear in early 2006. Volume 1 will consist of two issues, with 4 issues per volume from Volume 2 (2007) onwards. Journal of Multicultural Discourses publishes following six broad types of articles:

(1) On forms of discourse studies from diverse cultural traditions: e.g., explorations in the histories, philosophies, theories, methods, principles and strategies of particular cultures;

(2) On issues, concerns, texts and contexts and hence, discourses, of diverse cultures and communities: e.g. studies of culture-specific questions, experiences, problems, aspirations, circumstances that are reproduced in and through discourses in the non-Western, non-White and Third-World countries and areas as well as the West;

(3) On historically-conscious, critical comparisons of culturally variable versions, accounts, narratives about the "same" or similar events or situations: e.g., culturally sensitive critiques of varied discourses about terrorism, the environment, human rights or development;

(4) On representations of one's own and other cultures in everyday and scientific communication and especially those discourses that repress, exclude or otherwise discriminate against other cultures: e.g. critical analyses of imperialist discourses of non-Western, non-White and Third World cultures and populations;

(5) On how to conduct culturally non-oppressive but inclusive dialogue on language, communication and discourse studies and on how to generate culturally mutually beneficial scholarly discourses: e.g. deliberations and proposals on how the international scholarly community may come to terms with culturally different intellectual traditions and aspirations;

(6) On how to identify, create and promote helpful ways of speaking of "other" cultures, communities and populations as well as one's "own"-- e.g., formulations and justifications for ways of speaking in education and in society that enhance cultural pluralism, harmony and progress.

The journal features divergent disciplines, ranging from discourse studies, cultural studies, communication studies, anthropological linguistics, literary criticism, to critical pedagogy.

Call for Papers

The Editor encourages the submission of high quality papers on topics relevant to the interest of the Journal of Multicultural Discourses. Reviews of important, up-to-date, relevant publications and proposals for special issues on relevant topics are also welcome. Manuscripts should be presented according to the guidelines for authors of journal papers that can be found at www.multilingual-matters.com and they should be sent to:

Professor Shi-xu (PhD, Mr)
Director, Institute of Discourse and Cultural Studies
Zheijian University
388 Yuhangtang Road
310058 Hangzhou
CHINA
tel +86(0)571 88206208
fax +86(0)571 85029729
e-mail: submissions@multilingual-matters.com

A Call for Papers (printed and electronic) and a special foundation subscriber offer price for the first two volumes will be circulated later in 2005.

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CAA News

[from CAA News, March 2005]

In addition to reporting on CAA's many activities, CAA News publishes articles on critical and current issues in the fields of art and art history. The July 2004 issue was dedicated to environmental, health, and safety issues for artists, art schools, and art departments; last September, we investigated the uses of slides and digital images in the classroom

CAA News solicits your texts on four topics for future newsletters: one issue will explore pedagogy in art-history survey courses and in foundation studio-art courses; a second will look at censorship in art and scholarship; a third will examine the work, duties, and challenges of a department chair; and the fourth will investigate workforce issues as they affect adjunct, part-time, and graduate-assistant faculty in the arts.

Additionally, we welcome your thoughts on other pertinent matters that you face in the art, academic, and museum worlds. Please share your suggestions with Christopher Howard, Editor, at caanews@collegeart.org.

CAA News seeks article ideas, drafts, and completed texts; length may be between 500 and 1,500 words. Submissions are subject to editing and revision, and we cannot return submitted materials. The editor will work with authors on securing photographs or other images.

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"Asian Interactions and Comparisons" series

[from Asian Studies Newsletter, Winter 2004]

The Association for Asian Studies in conjunction with the University of Hawai'i Press invites manuscripts (monographs, translations, edited volumes) for its series, "Asian Interactions and Comparisons." Manuscripts should be book-length works which treat more than one of the civilizations, countries, or cultures of Asia--irrespective of discipline or time period under stud. Five books have thus far been published in this series, and six more are in press.

Inquiries should be addressed to the series editor, Joshua A. Fogel.

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Twentieth-Century China

[from H-ASIA, 6/10/05]

Twentieth-Century China would like to welcome Geremie Barme, John Fitzgerald, and Christian Henriot to its editorial board. Published by the University of Michigan's Center for Chinese Studies, Twentieth-Century China is a refereed semi-annual scholarly journal with issues appearing in
November and April. The journal has been edited by Christopher A. Reed of The Ohio State University's Department of History since Spring 2004.

At the same time, we would like to issue A CALL FOR SCHOLARLY SUBMISSIONS relating to the historical study of China's long twentieth century dating from the last decade or so of the Qing dynasty to the present).

Under its former title Republican China, the journal served for many years as an important venue for the dissemination of high-quality research and professional information of interest to scholars focusing on the history of the 1911-1949 period. Founded in 1983 by Lloyd Eastman, one of the American pioneers of Republican Chinese history, Republican China was successively edited by John Israel, R. Keith Schoppa, Herman Mast III, Roger B. Jeans, and then, from 1992, by Stephen C. Averill.

Since assuming its current title in November 1997 under Stephen C. Averill's stewardship, the journal has expanded its coverage to include topics concerning both end of the Qing dynasty and the post-1949 period. The journal considers manuscripts from a wide range of disciplinary perspectives, but editorial inclinations are particularly receptive to insightful, empirically-oriented, Chinese document-based studies that have historical depth.

The editor invites submission of article-length manuscripts (not exceeding 10,000 words/35 pages double-spaced including notes). The journal seeks original scholarly contributions that challenge old paradigms, propose new ideas and theses, set forth innovative research and methodologies, or engage significant historiographic or interpretive issues regarding China's long twentieth century as seen through mainland, Taiwan, Hong Kong, or diasporic activities.

Comparative empirical and/or theoretical studies that are rooted in Chinese experience but touch on non-China-related subjects are welcome. In addition, proposals for reviews of significant non-English Western-, Chinese-, Japanese-, or Korean-language works relating to twentieth-century China, translations of influential articles, or symposium-style special issues are encouraged. The journal also seeks to provide a forum for scholarly conference and project announcements and similar activities that promote the academic pursuits of the journal's readers around the world.

For further information about the journal, past issues, subscriptions, or submissions requirements, please consult the journal web site at http://www3.cohums.ohio-state.edu/projects/twentiethcenturychina/index.htm.

On editorial matters, please consult the following:

Twentieth-Century China
Christopher A. Reed
Chief Editor & Associate Professor of Modern Chinese History
Anne Collinson, Managing Editor
Department of History
The Ohio State University
230 West 17th Avenue
Columbus, OH 43210
USA

Journal Office tel (direct) +1 (614) 688-3092
History Dept. fax (614) 292-2282, Attn: Twentieth-Century China
e-mail tcc-osu@osu.edu

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Food, Culture, and Society

[from H-ASIA, 3/12/06]

Food, Culture, and Society is the official journal of the Association for the Study of Food and Society (ASFS). ASFS is a multidisciplinary international organization. Its members approach the study of food from numerous disciplines in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences, as well as in the world of food beyond the academy. FCS is published three times a year by Berg Publishers.

"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and not clothed." Dwight D. Eisenhower

"War is a beastly business, it is true, but one proof that we are human is our ability to learn, even from it, how better to exist." M.F.K.Fisher

Historically, war has been both an agent of destruction and a catalyst for innovation. We invite essays that look at the myriad ways that war has affected food production, distribution, and consumption. Some sub-topics include:

- the provisioning of military personnel and civilian war workers
- the agro-ecological effects of warfare
- government food policies during wartime
- how military needs have affected food technologies
- civilian adaptations to wartime deprivation
- inequities in wartime food consumption
- the impact of occupying armies on local foodways (and vice versa)
- cultural representations of food and war
- wartime food propaganda
- food, war, and the body

Approaches may incorporate a variety of fields, including literature, film, visual and performing arts, historical studies, and the social sciences. And for the sake of perspective and comparison, we especially welcome articles that look at non-western and pre-modern case studies.

Warren Belasco, Food, Culture and Society editor

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Tibetan Museum Society

[courtesy of Bob Tagert, 4/11/06]

The Tibetan Museum Society announces a call for quality manuscripts and research papers. This peer-reviewed, on-line journal, and website of fine art, religious study and historical appreciation, welcomes contributions of factual articles, notes and images based on new research of Mongolia and the Greater Himalayan Region. "Our international audience consists of historians, social scientists and those who appreciate exceptional Asian art," said Delgermaa Dagva, Board Chair, and Executive Director of the Society.

Subjects written thus far have included Buddhism in Mongolia after 1990, by Karénina Kollmar-Paulenz, Professor for the History of Religions University of Berne, Switzerland, and The Zanabazar Art Exhibit at the Chojin Lama Museum, with images and an introduction by Don Croner, Explorer at Large and author of Travels in Northern Mongolia.

Articles that do not exceed 3,500 words are preferred and shorter pieces in the range of 600 words, accompanied by high-resolution images of art, are also encouraged. Contributions directly e-mailed to the Society's Board of Directors will receive immediate review.

"To publish articles from a diverse pool of international experts and to highlight research that is recognized as an outstanding contribution in the field and study of Himalayan Art, is our prime web objective," stated Mrs. Dagva, who herself is a practicing Buddhist of Mongolian descent.

Bilingual researchers and writers are greatly appreciated for both original submissions and translation of existing material. Manuscripts should be submitted exclusively to the Tibetan Museum Society or else clearly identified as being a part of multiple submissions. According the Society's Editorial Review Board, emphasis will be placed on content, rather than adherence to style, however The Chicago Manual of Style (University of Chicago Press) may be used as a reference in preparation of manuscripts. References at the end of the text should be listed alphabetically according to the author's last name, followed by the year of publication, as in Smith, J. 1989. Citation in the text should list author, date, and applicable page numbers, as in (Smith 1989, xx). For use of illustrations or reproduced artwork, permission must be obtained by the author and noted on the manuscript. We reserve the right to make editorial changes in style and format; however, the author will receive a pre-publication draft for approval.

Accepted contributions are normally published within one to two months of approval. Accepted authors will receive a complimentary one-year membership to the Society, which includes invitations to Society functions and mixers.

Visit http://www.tibetan-museum-society.org/ for more information. For immediate consideration, contact:

Delgermaa Dagva
tel (703) 836-0141
fax (703) 836-2774.

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International Journal of Cultural Property

[from H-ASIA, 4/21/06]

The International Journal of Cultural Property, published by Cambridge University Press, is now accepting submissions on for the broad spectrum of views surrounding cultural property, cultural heritage, and related issues. It is a vital, international, and multidisciplinary forum aiming to develop new ways of dealing with cultural property debates, to be a venue for the proposal or enumeration of pragmatic policy suggestions, and to be accessible to a wide audience of professionals, academics, and lay readers. Original research papers, case notes, documents of record, chronicles, conference reports, and book reviews on a range of topics are welcome.

Contributions are welcome from the wide variety of fields implicated in the debates--law, anthropology, public policy, archaeology, art history, preservation, ethics, economics; museum, tourism, and heritage studies--and from a variety of perspectives and interests--indigenous, Western, and non-Western; academic, professional and amateur; consumers and producers--to promote meaningful discussion of the complexities, competing values, and other concerns that form the environment within which these disputes exist. Manuscripts may be submitted by e-mail to the Editor.

Tables of Contents and articles are available via Cambridge Journals Online (CJO).

For further information, please see http://journals.cambridge.org/jid_JCP.

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Lotus Leaves

[from H-ASIA, 12/3/07]

The Society for Asian Art was founded nearly 50 years ago to persuade Avery Brundage to give his huge private collection to the City of San Francisco. The Brundage Collection became the basis for San Francisco's Asian Art Museum. The Society has continued to support the museum, especially through education. This outreach includes a twice yearly scholarly publication, Lotus Leaves, which is distributed to all the Society's members. The audience includes collectors, art historians, art dealers, museum docents, scholars, and others interested in a wide variety of subjects relating to Asian Art. We welcome suggestions and submissions of articles of approximately 1500 words, and we provide a small honorarium to authors.

For more information, please contact Dr. Robert Oaks, editor.

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"Asia Past and Present: New Research from AAS"

[from AAS, 5/17/06]

The Board of Directors of the Association for Asian Studies recently voted to resume publication of scholarly books under the Association's own imprint in a new series—"Asia Past and Present: New Research from AAS."

This series succeeds a distinguished and successful predecessor, "AAS Monographs and Occasional Papers," which brought out fifty-nine titles between 1951 and 2000. The new enterprise will be overseen by the AAS Editorial Board and the Series Editor, Martha Ann Selby, professor of Asian Studies at the University of Texas, Austin.

The Board expects to publish two to three books a year, each of them fully refereed and selected on the basis of exemplary, original, and enduring scholarship. Although submissions in all arenas of Asian studies are welcome, the Board particularly hopes to support work in emerging or under-represented fields, such as South Asia, premodern Asia, language and literature, art history, and literary criticism. In addition to monographs, the Board will consider translations, essay collections, and other forms of scholarly research.

Authors interested in publishing in this new series should first consult the "Author Guidelines" and send both a completed "Author Questionnaire" and an extended excerpt of their manuscript (10,000–15,000 words, including a full Table of Contents) to:

Jonathan Wilson
AAS Publications Manager
Association for Asian Studies
1021 East Huron Street
Ann Arbor, MI 48104 USA.

  • Authors must be current members of AAS.
  • Please DO NOT send complete manuscripts (excerpts will not be returned).
  • If, after initial evaluation, your manuscript is selected to be sent for review, you must at that time be prepared to provide a complete manuscript. Only complete manuscripts will be reviewed.

For further information, please contact the Series Editor, Martha Ann Selby, or AAS Publications Manager, Jonathan Wilson.

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"Religious Cultures in the Early Modern World, 1400-1800"

[from H-ASIA, 6/13/06]

Pickering & Chatto Publishers invite submissions for a new monograph series on "Religious Cultures in the Early Modern World, 1400-1800."

Few serious scholars now doubt the central importance of religious attitudes, beliefs and values for the ways early modern people organised their social, political and cultural lives, or the potency of religion, both as a source of social cohesion, and a force for social conflict. Over the past few decades, a traditional preoccupation with "ecclesiastical history" and the fortunes of institutions has given way to a more integrated approach to the belief-systems, Christian and non-Christian, that structured the early modern world, and religious history has been enriched by its engagement with the approaches and methodologies of other disciplines. This important new series aims to provide a showcase for writing on all aspects of the social, cultural and political history of religion in the early modern period. Its remit stretches broadly over time, from the early fifteenth to the later eighteenth centuries, and extends widely geographically, to encompass both European and non-European societies.

Submissions are invited from established scholars, as well as advanced PhD and post-doctoral candidates, working in the field of "religious history" in its most inclusive sense. Works accepted into the series will be scholarly monographs (80–100,000 words) of high quality and originality, which, while they may focus on particular themes, persons or locations, will demonstrate an ability to address wider themes and concerns in this exciting and vibrant sub-discipline of historical writing.

Proposals should be sent (in hard copy and by electronic attachment) to one of the series editors:

Dr Fernando Cervantes
Department of Historical Studies
University of Bristol
13 Woodland Road
Bristol BS8 1TB
UK

Dr Peter Marshall
Department of History
University of Warwick
Coventry CV4 7AL
UK

Prof. Philip Soergel
Department of History
University of Maryland
2115 Francis Scott Key Hall
College Park, MD 20742-7315
USA.

The editors will require a detailed proposal of at least 8–10 pages (including chapter outlines), along with the text of a sample chapter. It is envisaged that contracts will be offered to the most promising authors on this basis.

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Columbia University Traditional China Seminar

[from H-ASIA, 8/8/06]

To the Greater NY/NJ/New England China Studies Community:

There are slots open in this year's calendar of the Columbia University Traditional China Seminar. The seminar meets from 7:30 to 9:00 p.m. on the evening of the last Thursday of each month of the fall and spring school year. We provide dinner for the speaker, transportation and housing in an on-campus hotel, and dinner the day of the seminar for those coming from outside the NY metro area. The possible topics for the seminar can cover from pre-Han to the end of the Qing and fit into most if not all social science and liberal arts disciplines. Please contact Murray A. Rubinstein, (845) 528-8431.

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Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies

[from Asian Studies Newsletter, Spring 2006]

The Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies (HJAS) publishes articles and book reviews on a wide range of topics concerning the humanities, broadly construed, in East Asia. The Editor welcomes article manuscripts. Authors who are interested in having their work considered should submit two copies with everything (text, block quotations, notes) double-spaced and notes placed at the end. On matters of style, please consult recent back issues of HJAS or write to the Editor for a style sheet. For manuscripts that are accepted, final drafts may be prepared with either MAC or IBM programs, preferably. No unsolicited book reviews will be accepted. For inquiries, write to the Editor.

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Transculturalisms, 1400-1700

[from CAA, 5/11/06]

Ashgate Publishing Co. is pleased to announce a new book series: Transculturalisms, 1400–1700.

Series Editors: Ann Rosalind Jones (Smith College); Jyotsna G. Singh (Michigan State University); & Mihoko Suzuki (University of Miami)

This series, published by Ashgate, will present studies of the early modern contacts and exchanges among the states, polities and entrepreneurial organizations of Europe; Asia, including the Levant and East India/Indies; Africa; and the Americas. We are particularly interested in work on and from the perspective of the Asians, Africans, and Americans involved in these interactions.

We welcome proposals for both single-author volumes and essay collections. Please note, however, that we are unable to place individual essays.

For more information, please contact the Publisher, Erika Gaffney.

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Perspectives in Vernacular Architecture

[from Asian Studies Newsletter, Fall 2006]

Dedicated to the study of ordinary architecture, Perspectives in Vernacular Architecture, the scholarly refereed journal of the Vernacular Architecture Forum, invites submissions of articles that explore the ways the built environment constructs the everyday. The editors encourage the submission of articles employing cross-disciplinary methodologies and engaging topics within and beyond North America. We are particularly interested in articles that incorporate field work as a component of the research. All manuscripts should conform to the Chicago Manual of Style. Contributors agree that manuscripts submitted to the PVA will not be submitted for publication elsewhere while under review by PVA. Two hard copies of the manuscript and photocopied reproductions of the illustrations should be sent directly to each of the two editors. Please feel free to direct any inquires to either editor via e-mail:

Howard Davis
Associate Professor of Architecture
110 Gerlinger Hall
University of Oregon
Eugene, OR 97403-1246

Louis P. Nelson
School of Architecture
Campbell Hall
University of Virginia
Charlottesville, VA  22904-4122.

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Early Modern Japan

[from H-ASIA, 9/21/07]

Early Modern Japan: An Interdisciplinary Journal is a refereed, on-line publication sponsored by the Early Modern Japan Network (EMJNet), a sub-committee of the Northeast Asia Council of the Association for Asian Studies. We welcome submissions from all disciplines related to Early Modern Japan (roughly the sixteenth to nineteenth centuries). We publish in the following broad categories:

  • Scholarly articles. Manuscripts are sent out to at least two referees for evaluation, comment and suggestions.
  • Translations. As with scholarly manuscripts, translations are sent to referees for evaluation.
  • Research notes, pedagogically oriented pieces, and professional news.
  • Book reviews. Those interested in reviewing books for /EMJ/ should contact our review editor, Carol Tsang, at emj4reviews@verizon.net.

As an on-line publication, we have no restrictions regarding length and the publication of illustrations--something that gives authors great flexibility.

Potential authors can contact Philip Brown, and potential contributors can follow the Early Modern Japan: An Interdisciplinary Journal link on the EMJNet web site to get to a style sheet and submission guidelines.

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"Silk Roads and East-West Exchanges"

[from H-ASIA, 2/5/08]

The Needham Research Institute is currently in discussions with a project which aims to produce a large amount of web-based material on certain historical and cultural topics, and to make this material available in a novel and flexible way. We have been asked to assist them with a pilot stage of their project, which calls for the production of about twenty articles in English accessible to an educated but non-specialist audience on topics within the following range:

  • International currents of exchange and contacts in culture, trade and technology between East Asia and the rest of the world, by the "Silk Roads" and other routes, mainly during the Tang and Song periods but also during earlier and later periods.
  • Important personalities, places and events relevant to these topics.

Article length from 2,000 to 10,000 words.

Delivery of articles within 6 months.

The material need not be original, in the sense of embodying new research, but you have to be able to deliver it copyright free, so it cannot simply consist of the unaltered text of an article you have already published and of which you have assigned the copyright to a journal. It would be fine, for instance, to use the text of a conference presentation on an appropriate subject and at an appropriate level. A good graduate student dissertation might also be acceptable for present purposes. The point is to provide the project with material that can be used to test the way the system is set up and cross-referenced.

For once, the payment is quite generous. Final amounts remain to be fixed, but if we were to obtain 20 articles of 10,000 words each the project organisers would pay a fee of about GBP 600 for each article on final delivery.

If you or someone you know is interested in contributing material of this kind, please get in touch with me as soon as possible indicating what the topic would be, why you are qualified to write on it, the length intended, and by when you could RELIABLY deliver the text.

Christopher Cullen
Director
Needham Research Institute
Cambridge CB3 9AF
tel +44 (0)1223 311545
fax +44 (0)1223 362703

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"Ideas, History, and Modern China"

[from Brill @ AAS, 4/4/08]

Brill Asian Studies – Contemporary China
Edited by Ban WANG, WANG Hui, and Geremie Barmé

With China's economic boom, continuous political stability, and increasing influence, it is time to ask if the trajectories of the Chinese Revolution—its troubled interaction with the world market, its national independence movements, its pursuit of egalitarianism, communism, and socialism, and its post-socialist reform—could be understood as a meaningful and consistent historical experience. It is important now to see how China's past efforts have contributed or obstructed its progress since the Qing empire was thrust into the international system of nation-states in the late 19th century. This series aims to place the study of China in the contexts of the international system of nation-states, global capitalist and market expansion, imperialist rivalry, the Cold War, and recent waves of economic globalization. It welcomes analytical attempts to frame intellectual, historical, and cultural analysis conducive to dialectical relations between these categories. Ideas will not be studied in the abstract but be set in motion and intertwined with praxis through analysis of historical contexts and enriched by close analysis of aesthetic texts, such as literature, narratives, and phenomena of everyday life.

For more information, please contact Mr. Matt Kawecki.

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History and Theory Reading Group

[from H-ASIA, 4/18/08]

The History and Theory Reading Group provides a forum for theoretically inclined historians and theorists who are deeply engaged with the study of history in the Princeton, Columbia, NYU, and other New Jersey/New York communities to meet informally on a regular basis. Each session is devoted to thematic or topical discussions of the intersections between critical theory and historical problems. The group normally meets in New York City , but the exact location and readings for each meeting will be determined in light of the interest of those present. The Group Coordinator is responsible for managing a mailing list for announcements, information, and readings to be distributed in an orderly manner. To request participation in the Reading Group and the mailing list, please send an e-mail to the Group Coordinator, Howard Chiang, with a brief self-introduction and statement of interest. The Group welcomes scholars from a diverse range of disciplinary and institutional backgrounds, but the core focus of the readings and discussions will be on both historical and theoretical issues, with an emphasis on how they relate to one another and other disciplinary concerns.

  • Broad inter-related themes to be discussed include but are not limited to: historiography and historical methodology (evidence, proof, argumentation, etc.)
  • diplomatic, political, economic, social, cultural, conceptual, intellectual, and world history;
  • historicism and causality; interpretation and narration; description and analysis
  • translation, exchange practices, and global circulation
  • quantitative and qualitative reasoning, formal modeling, ethnography, and philosophy
  • nationalism and transnationalism; imperialism, colonialism, and post-colonialism
  • gender and sexuality; race and ethnicity; the mind and the body recuperation and regulation; inclusion and exclusion
  • revolutions and transformations; continuities and ruptures; conjunctures and divergences
  • modernity and temporality
  • regions, geography, locality, spatiality, architecture, communities, and area studies
  • synchronism, modularity, and conceptions of space and time
  • state and society; art and culture; politics and the public sphere
  • nation, civilization, and empire
  • citizenship and diasporas
  • hegemony, violence, and fragments
  • power and knowledge (condition and systems of language, discourse, resistance, etc.)
  • linguistics, semiotics, and hermeneutics
  • structuralism and post-structuralism
  • science, medicine, and technology
  • religion and faith; creation and origins; secularism and death
  • epistemology, ontology, and metaphysics
  • objectivity and subjectivity; collectivity and individuality; self and the other
  • love, desire, passion, feelings, sentimentality, sensibility, emotions, etc.
  • friendship, intimacy, marriage, and the family
  • urbanity, rural development, and political economy
  • work and labor; capital and noncapital; social obligation and moral economies
  • liberalism, industrialism, Enlightenment, and their critics...
Howard Hsueh-Hao Chiang
History of Science
129 Dickinson Hall
Princeton University
Princeton, NJ 08544

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Journal of Daoist Studies

[from ASDP-L, 4/29/08]

The Journal of Daoist Studies (JDS) is an annual publication dedicated to the scholarly exploration of Daoism in all its different dimensions. Each issue has three main parts: Academic Articles on history, philosophy, art, society, and more (6-8,000 words); Forum on Contemporary Practice on issues of current activities both in China and other parts of the world (800-1,200 words); and News of the Field, presenting publications, dissertations, conferences, and websites.

Facilitators: Livia Kohn, Russell Kirkland, Ronnie Littlejohn

Editorial Board: Shawn Arthur, Stephan-Peter Bumbacher, Yi Hsiang Chang, Shinyi Chao, Chen Xia, Donald Davis, Catherine Despeux, Jeffrey Dippman, Ute Engelhardt, Stephen Eskildsen, Norman Girardot, Jonathan Herman, Adeline Herrou, Jiang Sheng, Paul Katz, Sung-Hae Kim, Russell Kirkland, Louis Komjathy, Lü Xichen, Victor Mair, Mei Li, James Miller, David Palmer, Fabrizio Pregadio, Michael Puett, Robert Santee, Elijah Siegler, Julius Tsai, Robin Wang, Michael Winn, Yang Lizhi, Zhang Guangbao

Submissions: To submit an article, a practice note, or a news item for publication in JDS, please contact us at daojournal@gmail.com . Articles are reviewed by two anonymous readers and accepted after approval. A model file with editorial instructions is available upon request. Deadline for articles is November 15 for publication in February of the following year.

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darkmatter

[from H-ASIA, 5/2/08]

darkmatter Journal is an online project committed to producing incisive post-colonial cultural critique. We are interested in interrogating contested issues of multiculture, while eschewing current orthodoxies. darkmatter seeks to promote critical knowledge production from a range of contributors exploring the politics of everyday life.

darkmatter editors:
e-mail <editors@darkmatter101.org>

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"Media, Culture and Social Change in Asia" series

[from H-ASIA, 5/22/08]

This call is for excellent new manuscripts in the field of Asian media and society. We look for books which make exciting and innovative connections between media, communications and the way people live in the Asia Pacific region. Works on new media are particulary welcome at this time, as are historically nuanced works. We also particularly welcome new work on India and the SE Asian region. Authors from the region are important to the series as its aims include the building of a strong scholarly field of interest in Asia-Pacific.

The site for the Series is http://www.routledge.com/books/research/Media,+Culture+and+Social+Change+in+Asia+Series.

First ideas should be sent to me directly, marked 'SERIES' and please expect a three work turnaround for initial feedback.

Stephanie Hemelryk Donald, FRSA MA DPhil
Professor of International Studies
Director, Institute for International Studies
UTS
P. O. Box 123
City Campus
Sydney
NSW 2007
tel +61-2-95149939

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Buddhist Rituals

[from H-ASIA, 7/29/08]

After successful editing of Northern Buddhism in History, a collection of papers written by Buddhist scholars from eight different countries, Dr. Shanker Thapa of Tribhuvan University, Kathmandu is planning to edit another book on Buddhist Rituals. Interested scholars, historians, anthropologists, Ritual experts and others are cordially invited to contribute papers in the forthcoming volume.

This book is going to be published by Vajra Publications, Kathmandu. It is tentatively scheduled to come out in Aug-Sept 2009. The preliminary broader themes identified so far are:

  • Theoretical Aspect of Ritual
  • Conceptual Basis of Buddhist Rituals
  • Rituals in Mahayana, Theravada or esoteric Buddhism
  • Rituals and Tantra
  • Changing aspect of Buddhist Rituals
  • Ritual Books in Buddhism
  • Buddhist deities and Rituals
  • Ritual Transformation of Buddhism
  • Country specific Buddhist Rituals
  • Rituals in History
  • Ritual in contemporary Buddhism etc.

Shanker Thapa
Associate Professor
Department of History
Tribhuvan University
Kirtipur, Kathmandu
Nepal

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Palgrave Studies in Intellectual and Cultural History

University of Bristol
21-23 January 2009

[from H-ASIA, 8/19/08]

As editors of the above series, we would like to bring to your attention an exciting new publishing venture in intellectual and cultural history whose aims are:

  • To encourage interdisciplinarity in intellectual and cultural history.
  • To provide a space for its globalization.

We welcome proposals for monographs which combine rigorous use of contextual analysis with strategies of textual interpretation drawn from literary studies, or analyses of ideas which draw on the methodologies of the social sciences, history of science, or history of art. We are aiming at a global coverage, and want to include monographs and volumes of essays not only on Europe and North America, but on Asia, Africa, Latin America, and the Middle East as well. Alongside nationally focussed monographs, a key part of the series will be work which focuses on processes of intellectual and cultural exchange between different regions of the world.

We hope you will visit our website to find details on how to submit a proposal. It is a great time to be an intellectual and/or cultural historian, and we are confident that Palgrave's global presence and commitment to this project will make this series a successful one.

Anthony La Vopa, North Caroline State University, Raleigh (Emeritus)
Javed Majeed, Queen Mary College, University of London
Suzanne Marchand, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge

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Culture, Society and Masculinities

[from H-ASIA, 9/1/08]

Culture, Society and Masculinities (CS&M) is a new peer-reviewed journal to be launched Spring 2009 (ISSN print: 1941-5583; ISSN online 1941-5591).

The journal envisions bringing together synoptic as well as "micrographic" ideas and views on men/boys, masculinity and genders. It will provide a forum for emergent explorations of masculinity/ies, specifically those that situate local (micro-ethnographic) findings and theories in broader historical, political and/or sociological frameworks.

Important themes, for instance, include the overarching relevance of South/North, East/West and local/global relations, as well as the Anglo-American hegemony in theory building around themes of masculinity/gender. We are especially inviting comparative views and work that rethinks, elaborates or critiques existing ideas and concepts of locality, globalization and regionalization in/of gender studies, both as a subject area and as a field of academic and political performance.

Priority is given to reviews and critical discussions in theory development, policy trends and/or area studies. Pertinent fields of research include but are not limited to:

  • ethnic, cross-cultural and trans-cultural studies
  • globalization studies, migration studies, and tourism studies
  • cultural, social, historical, comparative and philosophical anthropology
  • cultural psychology
  • culture & health studies
  • postcolonial studies
  • international relations and conflict studies
  • gender policy studies
  • social/human geography
  • international media studies; and
  • (art) historical studies.

Manuscripts, review essays and book reports are currently being solicited for the second issue, to be published in Fall 2009. CS&M is published semi-annually, in print and digital format, by the Men's Studies Press. The primary language will be English.

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Women and Gender in Contemporary Chinese Studies

University of Bristol
21-23 January 2009

[courtesy of EACS, 10/17/08]

This is the fourth in a series of very successful WAGNet graduate workshops. Previous workshops were held in Leiden, Oxford and Prague.

The Bristol workshop is for PhD students who are at an advanced stage of their research and working on any aspect of "women and gender in contemporary Chinese studies." Participants will be expected to present a paper that treats issues of "women" and "gender" as central and significant categories of analyses.

Students will get the opportunity to present their projects to other graduate students and more senior scholars working in the field of China-related women and gender studies. All too rarely do Ph.D. students have an opportunity for critical exposure of their thesis prior to submission and defence. The workshop is therefore designed to facilitate in-depth discussions and each presentation will be commented on by a senior academic discussant.

The workshop, accommodation and meals during the workshop are free. Some travel bursaries are also available.

Students wanting to participate should submit an outline of their project (750 words) including information on the state of their research, a curriculum vitae, and one letter of reference from someone who is familiar with their PhD (under separate cover). The application documents should be sent to:

Professor Marianne Hester
School for Policy Studies
University of Bristol
Bristol BS8 1TZ
UK.

Places are limited and successful applicants will be allocated places on a "first come first serve" basis.

The organisers will discuss the applications, and make a selection based on the merit of the outline, the recommendation, and the stage of the research.

The workshop is sponsored by the British Inter-University China Centre at the Universities of Bristol, Oxford and Manchester.

WAGNet panel: Anne Gerritsen, Marianne Hester, Maria Jaschok, Nicola Spakowski

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The Sheng Yen Series in Chinese Buddhist Studies

[from H-ASIA, 12/5/08]

The Sheng Yen Education Foundation and the Chung-Hwa Institute of Buddhist Studies of Taiwan are delighted to announce the establishment of an endowed monograph series with Columbia University Press: The Sheng Yen Series in Chinese Buddhist Studies. It will support publication of monographs and translations relating to all aspects of Chinese Buddhist Studies. The endowment will support the publication of one to two books each year. Appropriate monographs, as well as translations of Chinese Buddhist classics, are welcome for consideration.

Please submit inquiries to the series editor Chun-fang Yu or Columbia University Press editor Wendy Lochner.

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Encyclopedia of World History

[from H-ASIA, 4/4/09]

ABC-CLIO, the leading publisher of academic reference works, is in the process of developing a comprehensive 21-volume Encyclopedia of World History. We are seeking interested scholars to prepare 500-1500 word articles on Asian history and culture.

Compensation: Contributors will have their names associated with the entries they contribute and will receive access to the e-book version of the encyclopedia for personal use. Contributors assigned 3,000 words or more will also receive a credit of $300 towards purchase of ABC-CLIO, Greenwood Press, and Praeger books. In order to meet review standards, we do require that contributors hold a Ph.D, ABD, or have recognized expertise in the field.

Please see list of open topics. [Those relating to art and archaeology include:]

to 4000 BCE: Jomon in Japan (200 words)
1000 BCE - 300 CE: New types of defensive architecture in the East (500 words)
1000 BCE - 300 CE: Drawloom technology in China of the Chu and later periods (500 words)
1000-1500: The cities of Japan and Korea (500 words)
1000-1500: Animal art of Inner Asia (500 words)
1000-1500: From Song through early Ming: From delicate ceramics to Massive Imperial Structures (750 words)
1000-1500: War through artistic eyes: From Japan to Western Europe (800 words)
1900-1945: Asian visual arts (1000 words)
1900-1945: Official and nationalistic art in Asia and Oceania (e.g., anti-Japanese arts in Korea, etc.) (600 words)

If you are interested in writing one or more of the entries, please send a CV to Fred Nadis, Project Editor, and/or Jeanie Azizian, Project Coordinator.

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Daoism: Religion, History and Society

[from Asian Studies Newsletter, Fall 2008]

While studies on Daoism have grown very fast over the past few decades, they do not have a distinct identity of their own within the larger academic world, and lack a forum where concerned scholars can debate and further define the state and the the future of the field. In this connection, the Centre for the Studies of Daoist Culture (The Chinese University of Hong Kong) and the École Française d'Extrême-Orient have decided to join their efforts in creating a new academic journal, Daoism: Religion, History and Society.

Our Editorial Committee has Professor Lai Chi-tim as the Chief Editor and Professor Vincent Goossaert as Co-editor. The editors plan to publish one issue a year, both on paper and electronically, and to carry book reviews and bibliographic essays. Publication and distribution will be carried out by The Chinese University Press.

A major distinguishing feature of the journal is its resolutely bilingual English-Chinese character. Each issue will have articles in both languages, with an abstract in the other language. The editorial team (an editorial committee formed of nine scholars and English and Chinese copy editors) will work in both languages. We thereby aim to provide a forum where scholars of both the Chinese-speaking and Western worlds can share their views.

The scope of the journal is broadly defined as all social sciences and humanitites approaches to Daoism. The editors particularly seek articles exploring Daoism in its social and historical contexts, from the pre-modern to the contemporary period, rather than exegetical or philosophical spiritual pieces. Innovative research based on new documents and/or fieldwork will be most welcome. In any case, submissions will be evaluated on the basis of scholarly quality; the editorial committee will first screen them for inherent quality and fit with the journal's scope, and then, if accepted at this first stage, be sent to two external referees on a double-blind basis. The editors are definitely favoring quality over quantity. Both individual submissions and projects of guest-edited special issues are welcome.

You are cordially invited to submit your papers to:

Daoism: Religion, History and Society
Centre for the Studies of Daoist Culture
The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Shatin, New Territories
Hong Kong
e-mail <daoist@cuhk.edu.hk>

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Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal

[from H-ASIA, 2/2/09]

Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal (EMWJ) invites submission of essays related to women and gender covering the years 1400 to 1700. EMWJ is the only journal devoted solely to the interdisciplinary and global study of women and gender during the years 1400 to 1700. The editors encourage submissions that appeal to readers across disciplinary boundaries. Essays may cover but are not limited to such topics as literature, history, art history, history of science, music, politics, religion, theater, cultural studies, and any global region.

Editors will accept submissions on a continuous basis, and are now soliciting submissions for Volume 4.

For manuscript submissions, please send an electronic copy to emwjournal@umd.edu and five paper copies addressed to:

Editors
Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal
Center for Renaissance & Baroque Studies
Taliaferro Hall 0139
University of Maryland
College Park, MD 20742-7727

All manuscripts must be printed double-spaced (including documentation), on one side of letter-size paper, and should not exceed 35 pages (8750 words) including notes. Documentation should appear as endnotes without bibliography upon first submission, and MUST follow Chicago Manual of Style, 15th edition (2003), chapters 16 and 17 (NOT author-date style). For a brief guide to the appropriate notation style for EMWJ manuscript submissions, please visit our website. All manuscripts are subject to editorial modification.

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Frontiers of History in China

[from H-ASIA, 2/28/09]

Frontiers of History in China is an English-language quarterly academic journal of history, jointly published, since 2006, by the Higher Education Press of China and Springer. FHC welcomes original research, mainly in the field of Chinese history of all historical periods, including research articles, review articles, and book reviews. External referees will review all articles anonymously.

Article manuscripts, including notes, references, and tables, should be approximately 8,000-12,000 words in length. Authors should provide an abstract of 150-200 words and no more than 6 keywords. All manuscripts must be typed in 12-point font and double-spaced. Documentation should follow the style of footnotes (author, date, and page or section) recommended by the Chicago Manual of Style, and include a complete list of references at the end of the paper. Chinese names and places should follow the Pinyin system.

Electronic submission is acceptable. All submissions and correspondence with the editors should be sent to:

The Editorial Office
Frontiers of History in China
College of History and Culture
Sichuan University
Chengdu 610064
CHINA
tel +86 (28) 8541 5832, 8541 8393
e-mail <lishiqianyan@126.com>

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Euro-Sinica

[courtesy of M. Richter, 3/19/09]

A monograph series published by Peter Lang, Berne, Switzerland

I would like to call your attention to the possibility of publishing your monographs, essay collections, and selected papers of symposia at Euro-Sinica. These two terms should not be understood geo-politically, but culturally. The term "Euro" includes all regions that have a European heritage and primarily use a European language to communicate. The other term, "Sinica," is intended to include the countries that are culturally rooted in the teachings of Buddhism, Confucianism, and Daoism. Up to now, the Series has published books in the three largest European languages: English, French, and German. These books are focused on aspects of transcultural studies mostly in the fields of literature and intellectual history. However, other areas connected with culture are also of great interest.

Euro-Sinica has no hidden agenda; it openly promotes communication between different cultures. Studies in all aspects, both positive and negative, of our transcultural past and present are welcome. The newest monograph published is entitled Drawing the Dragon. Western European Reinvention of China (2009) by Zhijian Tao, a resident of Canada. The next book, a collection of selected papers of a symposium titled "East Asian Culture in Western Perceptions" held in Riga last year, will be published this Fall.

If you have a publication project related to EURO-SINICA transcultural studies, please do not hesitate to contact Adrian Hsia, Editor, Euro-Sinica.

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"Key Issues in Asian Studies"

[from AAS, 6/6/09]

A monograph series published by Peter Lang, Berne, Switzerland

"Key Issues in Asian Studies" is a series of booklets engaging major cultural and historical themes in the Asian experience. They complement the AAS teaching journal, Education about Asia, and serve as vital educational materials that are both accessible and affordable for classroom use.

Manuscripts submitted to the series should tackle broad subjects or major events in an introductory but compelling style appropriate for survey courses. Topics (for example) might include: Asia in the World Literature Classroom, East Asia’s Economic Rise, The British Raj and South Asia, Islam in Asia, The Meiji Restoration, The Cultural Revolution, and The Vietnam War. Manuscripts on contemporary affairs that are narrow in focus or without historical context will not be suitable for the series. This series is particularly intended for use in undergraduate humanities and social science courses, as well as by advanced high-school students and teachers engaged in teaching Asian studies in a comparative framework. Authors should assume little prior audience knowledge of the subjects of their manuscripts. They should present various points of view in jargon-free prose meant to encourage debate and discussion. The AAS plans to publish 2–3 "Key Issues" booklets each year.

Authors who wish to submit a proposal should consult the "Key Issues Author Guidelines." If you have questions about "Key Issues" please contact the "Key Issues" series Editor, Lucien Ellington.

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