Arts of China Consortium(formerly Chinese and Japanese Art History WWW Virtual Library) CALLS FOR PAPERS/PARTICIPATION |
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Listings below are organized chronologically by submission deadline; calls with no deadlines are at the bottom of list.
[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)
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.
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.
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
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.
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).
[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
[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
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
- Visual Studies: a national or transnational project?
- Local variants of visual studies and their potential of application: What are the possibilities of localizing visual studies?
- Pluralist aesthetics: an oxymoron or a reform?
- The visual and/or the aesthetic: Do visual studies allow for an aesthetics?
2) Defining art(s) in the 21st century
- Recent perspectives in definitions of art
- Art without the aesthetic? Defining conceptual and post-conceptual art practices
- The legacy of Institutionalism; reappraisal of institutional/procedural approaches?
- Artworks or images: making sense of aesthetic canons
3) Appreciating the Visual
- The fate of aesthetic autonomy after the visual turn
- How has the digital revolution changed our appreciation of the image?
- Aesthetic blindness: individual or social disease?
- Aesthetic alienation or aesthetic distance? Aesthetic experience in the age of spectacles
- Perception and/or sensation: contemporary perspectives on phenomenology of the aesthetic visual experience
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.
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
[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.
[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.
[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.
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.
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.
[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.
[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.
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.
[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.
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.
[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.
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.
[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.
[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.
[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.
[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.
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;
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.
2) Identity and images;
3) Representation of culture as translation and
4) Hybridity and agency.
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.
[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>
First International Meeting [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 Architecture in 19th-century Photographs The Changing Status of Women in Architecture between the Wars Fictionalising the City Museum of Architecture /
Architecture in the Museum Village Architecture in the Age of a Sustainable Future Roundtable: Setting a Research Agenda for 19th and 20th Century Colonial Architecture and Urban
Planning: Current and
Emerging Themes and Tools University of California, Berkeley [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 University of Glasgow [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 Session List Images of Corporal Mortification and Corruption, Martyrdom and Mercy: 1250–1550 "The Rules of (Collective) Art": Interpretation,
Social Engagement and Authorship in
Contemporary Community-based Art Objects, Art History and Display Exhibitions as Research: Theory, Practice,
Problems Materiality and Waste: Poetics of the Concrete
in Modern Life Poster Session Supplementary Conflicts: Domesticities and
Life Histories in Wartime China and the West: The Reception of Chinese
Art across Cultures from the 19th Century to
the Present Reading to Attention Digital Continuities: From the History of Digital
Art to Contemporary Transmedial Practices "Untitled": What’s in a Name? Imperial Tensions: Visual Cultures of Coercion,
Silence and Display [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. [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, 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 [from MCLC]
China Scolarship Questions about the journal can also be sent to Alex Des Forges at mailto:desforgs@netspace.org [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 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!
[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 Paul Waley
Book review editor:
Philippe
Pelletier Editorial secretariat:
Marie-Pierre Fuchs
GUIDELINES FOR SUBMISSION OF MANUSCRIPTS EJEAS Institut d'Asie
Orientale - ISH 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.
[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: [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 [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 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, 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 Please do not submit articles electronically. We can only accept
material submitted in hard copy.
[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:
[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 [Book Review Editor] [Subscriptions] Individual membership (domestic and foreign) is $20. [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: Topics to be covered will include: 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 or Joanne Morra Reviews Editor: Simon
Ofield [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
[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 [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.
[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 Visit the Call for Papers website at http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/authors/rcuv-cfp.html. [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 [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. [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 [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
[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 [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. Persimmon: Asian
Literature, Arts, and Culture [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 [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 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 [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 To subscribe, please go to Brill's website; for
inquiries please contact hgew@brill.nl.
Editors Axel Schneider, Chinese Department, Leiden University, The
Netherlands Associate editors Tony Ballantyne, History Department, University of Otago, New
Zealand Editorial board Frank Ankersmit, History Department, Groningen, The
Netherlands [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. [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 Books for review should be sent to: Professor Yu-long Ling [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 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.
[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 [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 [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." [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" For more information, and to consult our style guide, please
visit the SEN
website. SEN Editors [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 [from H-ASIA, 6/4/04] Advisory Board: Anthony J. S. Reid, Wang Gungwu, Claudine
Salmon, Philip Kuhn 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 Hong LIU [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. [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). [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 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. [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: 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. Thank you so much for taking the time to read this message and
for your continued support [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 [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
[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) 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. [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. [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. [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 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 Journal Office tel (direct) +1 (614) 688-3092 [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 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 [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 [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. [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. [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 For further information, please contact the Series Editor, Martha Ann Selby, or AAS Publications
Manager, Jonathan Wilson. [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 Dr Peter Marshall
Prof. Philip Soergel
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. [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.
[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.
[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. [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
Louis P. Nelson [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: 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. [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:
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
[from Brill @ AAS, 4/4/08]
Brill Asian Studies – Contemporary China 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.
[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.
[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.
[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: [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 [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:
Shanker Thapa University of Bristol [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:
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) [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:
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.
University of Bristol [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 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
[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. [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) 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.
[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
[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 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.
[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
[courtesy of M. Richter, 3/19/09]
Guimarães, Portugal
17-20 June 2010
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Berkeley-Stanford Graduate Student Conference in Modern Chinese Humanities
16-17 April 2010
Program Director
Center for Chinese Studies
2223 Fulton Street, Room 505
University of California
Berkeley, CA 94720-2328
Association of Art Historians 36th Annual Conference
15-17 April 2010
Conference and Bookfair Administrator: Dr Ailsa Boyd, University of Glasgow, Department of History of Art
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.
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.
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).
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Gendai Bijutsu Kondankai: Post-1945 Japanese Art
Discussion Group
Reiko Tomii and Miwako Tezuka
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- 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.
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La Jolla, California 92093-0410
USA
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
Events Editor: Rob Stone.
Japan Forum
Contemporary Japan Centre
University of Essex
Wivenhoe Park
Colchester CO4 3SQ
Essex
UK.
The China Review: An Interdisciplinary Journal
on Greater China
The Chinese
University Press
The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Shatin, New
Territories
Hong Kong, SAR
http://www.cuhk.edu.hk/cupress/.
Research Unit on Taiwanese Culture and Literature, Ruhr
University
Cultural Values: Journal for Cultural
Research
Department of Politics and International Relations
University
of Lancaster
Lancaster, LA1 4YL
UK.
Asiatica Venetiana
Prof. Marco Ceresa
Dipartimento di Studi sullAsia Orientale
Palazzo Vendramin ai
Carmini
Dorsoduro 3462
30123 Venezia
Italy
Association for Art History
China: An International Journal
China: An International
Journal
East Asian Institute
AS5, Level 4
7 Arts
Link
Singapore 117571
tel +(65) 6779-1037
fax +(65) 6779-3409.
Women's Arts News
WomensArtNews@aol.com.
International Journal of Asian Studies
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
Persimmon: Asian Literature, Arts, and
Culture
Caroline
Herrick
46 East 92nd Street
New York, NY 10128
tel/fax (212) 831-4751
The Tibet Journal
c/o Library of
Tibetan Works & Archives
Gangchen Kyishong
Dharamsala, H.P. 176215
India. Tel:
tel + 01892 22467
fax + 01892 23723
Chinese Historical Review
Chinese Historical Review
205 Keith
Hall
Department of History
Indiana University of Pennsylvania, PA 15705
USA.
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.
Historiography East & West
Susanne Weigelin-Schwiedrzik, Institute for Chinese Studies,
University of Vienna, Austria
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
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
Art on the line
American Journal of Chinese Studies
Editor, American Journal of
Chinese Studies
Department of Political Science
The University of
Texas at San Antonio
San Antonio, TX 78249.
Head, Social Science
Division
Franklin College
501 East Monroe Street
Franklin, IN
46131-2598.
Art Journal
Executive Editor, Art
Journal
c/o State University of New York, New Paltz
Art Dept., FAB
225
New Paltz, NY 12561.
Melbourne Art Journal
Melbourne Art Journal
School of Fine
Arts
Classical Studies and Archaeology
University of
Melbourne
Parkville, Victoria
3010 Australia.
Journal of Song Yuan Studies
Editor,
Journal of Song Yuan
Studies
Department of History
Ursinus College
Collegeville,
PA 19426-1000
(610) 409-3595.
Journal of Chinese Overseas
Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism
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"
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
Journal of Women's History
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
Southeast Asia and China: Historical and Contemporary
Perspectives
Series Editors: Geoff Wade and Hong Liu
Asia
Research Institute
AS7 Level 4, Shaw Foundation Building
5 Arts
Link
National University of Singapore
SINGAPORE 117570
Department
of Chinese Studies
AS7 Level 3, Shaw Foundation Building
5 Arts
Link
National University of Singapore
SINGAPORE 117570.
Bulletin of the Museum of Far Eastern Art
Asia-Pacific Cultural Studies
Resources for Teaching about Asia
St.
Olaf College
Department of History
1520 St. Olaf Avenue
Northfield MN
55057
tel (507) 646-3427
fax (507) 646-3462.
electronic journal of contemporary japanese
studies
Book reviews editor (David Envall)
Film reviews editor
(Tim Iles)
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.
Dr Peter Matanle
General
Editor
ejcjs
Lecturer
National Institute of Japanese Studies
and School of East Asian Studies
University of Sheffield
Avista Forum Journal
209 Solano SE
Albuquerque, NM
87108
e-mail afj@avista.org.
China aktuell
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
Journal of Multicultural Discourses
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
CAA News
"Asian Interactions and Comparisons" series
Twentieth-Century China
November and April. The journal has been edited by
Christopher A. Reed of The Ohio State University's Department of History since
Spring 2004.
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
History Dept.
fax (614) 292-2282, Attn: Twentieth-Century China
e-mail tcc-osu@osu.edu
Food, Culture, and Society
- 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
Tibetan Museum Society
tel (703) 836-0141
fax (703) 836-2774.
International Journal of Cultural Property
Lotus Leaves
"Asia Past and Present: New Research from AAS"
AAS Publications Manager
Association for
Asian Studies
1021 East Huron Street
Ann Arbor, MI 48104 USA.
"Religious Cultures in the Early Modern World,
1400-1800"
Department of Historical Studies
University of Bristol
13 Woodland Road
Bristol BS8 1TB
UK
Department of History
University of Warwick
Coventry CV4 7AL
UK
Department of History
University of Maryland
2115 Francis Scott Key
Hall
College Park, MD 20742-7315
USA.
Columbia University Traditional China Seminar
Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies
Transculturalisms, 1400-1700
Perspectives in Vernacular
Architecture
Associate Professor of Architecture
110 Gerlinger Hall
University of Oregon
Eugene, OR 97403-1246
School of Architecture
Campbell Hall
University of Virginia
Charlottesville, VA 22904-4122.
Early Modern Japan
"Silk Roads and East-West Exchanges"
Director
Needham Research Institute
Cambridge CB3 9AF
tel +44 (0)1223 311545
fax +44 (0)1223 362703
"Ideas, History, and Modern China"
Edited by Ban WANG, WANG Hui, and Geremie Barmé
History and Theory Reading Group
Howard Hsueh-Hao Chiang
History of Science
129 Dickinson Hall
Princeton University
Princeton, NJ 08544
Journal of Daoist Studies
darkmatter
e-mail <editors@darkmatter101.org>
"Media, Culture and Social Change in Asia" series
Professor of International Studies
Director, Institute for International Studies
UTS
P. O. Box 123
City Campus
Sydney
NSW 2007
tel +61-2-95149939
Buddhist Rituals
Associate Professor
Department of History
Tribhuvan University
Kirtipur, Kathmandu
Nepal
Palgrave Studies in Intellectual and Cultural History
21-23 January 2009
Javed Majeed, Queen Mary College, University of London
Suzanne Marchand, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge
Culture, Society and Masculinities
Women and Gender in Contemporary Chinese Studies
21-23 January 2009
School for Policy Studies
University of Bristol
Bristol BS8 1TZ
UK.
The Sheng Yen Series in Chinese Buddhist Studies
Encyclopedia of World History
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)
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>
Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal
Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal
Center for Renaissance & Baroque Studies
Taliaferro Hall 0139
University of Maryland
College Park, MD 20742-7727
Frontiers of History in China
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>
Euro-Sinica
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.
[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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