LA LETTRE DU 15 DÉCEMBRE 2016

Périodiques

Pacific Affairs : an international review of Asia and the Pacific, vol. 89, no. 4 (december 2016)

Table of contents : http://www.pacificaffairs.ubc.ca/current-issue-2/

2 articles à signaler :

• • • Perilous Waters: People Smuggling, Fishermen and Hyper-Precarious Livelihoods on Rote Island, Eastern Indonesia by Antje Missbach

    • Good Gifts, Bad Gifts and Rights: Cambodian Popular Perceptions and the 2013 Elections by Astrid Norén-Nilsson

Moussons, no. 28 (2016)

Revue en ligne et en libre accès

Site : https://moussons.revues.org/

Sommaire

In memoriam

• • • Denise Bernot (1922-2016) par Bénédicte Brac de la Perrière

Articles

• • • Novembre 1947 et les démocrates par Alexandre Barthel

    • Are Thai Peasants still Farmers? The Socioeconomic Transformation of Two Villages of Northeastern Thailand par Bernard Formoso

    • Reframing the “Traditional” Vietnamese Village: From Peasant to Farmer Society in the Mekong Delta par Trần Hữu Quang et Nguyễn Nghị

    • « Édifier un mode de vie civilisé » dans une commune tày du nord du Vietnam : assimilations, adaptations et accommodements par Emmanuel Pannier

    • Comment les musulmans d’Arakan sont-ils devenus étrangers à l’Arakan ? par Alexandra de Mersan

    • La fabrication des offrandes à Tenganan Pegeringsingan (Bali) et la mise en mouvement du monde par Aurélie Méric

    • Essai de reconstruction critique du Poème de séparation du prince Aphay (นิราศเจ้าฟ้าอภัย/níʔrâ:t câw fá: ʔa: phaj/) par Gilles Delouche

    • The Philippine Enigma by Niels Mulder

Note

• • • La fin d’un oubli : chronique de la (re)découverte de la tombe d’Henri Maitre par Nicolas Vidal

Comptes rendus d’ouvrages

Sojourn vol. 31, no. 3 (november 2016)

Site : https://bookshop.iseas.edu.sg/publication/2197

Table of contents

Articles

• • • « Just Like Old Friends »: The Significance of Southeast Asia to Modern Chinese Islam by John Chen

    • The International Coordinating Committee for Angkor: A World Heritage Site as an Arena of Competition, Connivance and State(s) Legitimation by Philippe Peycam

    • Two Rituals, a Bit of Dualism and Possibly Some Inseparability: « And so that’s how we say that Chams and Khmers are one and the same » by Emiko Stock

    • The Supernaturalization of Thai Political Culture: Thailand’s Magical Stamps of Approval at the Nexus of Media, Market and State by Peter A. Jackson

    • « When ASEAN Comes »: In Search of a People-Centred ASEAN Economic Community in Greater Mekong Borderscapes by Indrė Balčaitė

Sojourn Symposium

• • • The Divine Eye and the Diaspora: Vietnamese Syncretism Becomes Transpacific Caodaism. By Janet A. Hoskins. Review essays by Hue-Tam Ho Tai and Justin McDaniel, with a response from Janet A. Hoskins by Hue-Tam Ho Tai, Justin McDaniel, Janet A. Hoskins

Book Reviews

Notes and comments

• • • The Institutional Dynamics of the Contemporary Thai Sangha A New Research Agenda by Erick White

    • Preliminary Comments on Mobilizing the Masses, 1953 by Alex-Thai D. Vo

    • New European–Southeast Asian Research on the Region: Conclusions of the SEATIDE Project on « Integration in Southeast Asia, Trajectories of Inclusion, Dynamics of Exclusion » by Andrew Hardy

South East Asia Research, vol. 24, no. 4 (december 2016)

Site : http://ser.sagepub.com/content/24/4?etoc

Table of contents

• • • Dreaming about the neighbours: Magic, Orientalism, and entrepreneurship in the consumption of Thai religious goods in Singapore by Andrew Alan Johnson

    • Air crafting: Corporate mandate and Thai female flight attendants’ negotiation of body politics by Arratee Ayuttacorn

    • ‘To build a generation of stars’: Megachurch identity, religion and modernity in Indonesia by Jeaney Yip and Chang-Yau Hoon

    • Transition into marriage in Greater Jakarta: Courtship, parental influence, and self-choice marriage by Ariane J. Utomo, Anna Reimondos, Iwu D. Utomo, Peter F McDonald and Terence H. Hull

    • Unpacking the figure of the backpacking neighbourhood Phạm Ngũ Lão in the making of Hồ Chí Minh city by Marie Gibert and Emmanuelle Peyvel

Book Reviews

Livres

Ward Berenschot, Henk Schulte Nordholt, and Laurens Bakker (eds), Citizenship and Democratization in Southeast Asia, Brill, 2016

Citizenship and Democratization in Southeast Asia redirects the largely western-oriented study of citizenship to postcolonial states. Providing various fascinating first-hand accounts of how citizens interpret and realize the recognition of their property, identity, security and welfare in the context of a weak rule of law and clientelistic politics, this study highlights the importance of studying citizenship for understanding democratization processes in Southeast Asia. With case studies from Thailand, Indonesia, the Philippines and Cambodia, this book provides a unique bottom-up perspective on the character of public life in Southeast Asia.

Table des matières sur :http://www.brill.com/products/book/citizenship-and-democratization-southeast-asia#TOC_1

Sélection d'articles

Bigger than Ahok: explaining the 2 December mass rally by Greg Fealy, 07/12/2016, Indonesia at Melbourne

On 2 December, a vast number of Muslims crowded into Jakarta’s central park, Medan Merdeka, and surrounding suburbs for what organisers called “Defending Islam Action III” (Aksi Bela Islam III). This was the third and largest mass event since early October to demand action against Jakarta’s Christian Chinese governor, Basuki “Ahok” Tjahaja Purnama, for alleged blasphemy against Islam.

As with previous “actions”, this event combined speeches to the crowd with Friday prayers and chants in praise of God. The previous rally, on 4 November, had attracted an estimated 150,000 to 250,000 people. Last Friday’s rally was at least twice that size, with considered estimates ranging from 500,000 to 750,000, making it probably the largest single religious gathering in Indonesian history. Drone photos graphically captured the size of the crowd, with streets and parkland jammed with people sitting on prayer mats amid falling rain. Large numbers came from outside Jakarta, including many from outside Java. Unlike the 4 November rally, which ended in violent clashes between police and demonstrators, the 2 December event concluded peacefully in the early afternoon, as scheduled.

Lire la suite sur : http://indonesiaatmelbourne.unimelb.edu.au/bigger-than-ahok-explaining-jakartas-2-december-mass-rally/

After a Decade of Listening, a Khmer Pronunciation Guide by Michelle Vachon and Van Roeun, 26/10/2016, Cambodia Daily

After nearly a decade of painstakingly listening to Cambodians —from people in cafes in casual conversation to academics opining in their fields—a pair of linguists has produced a definitive guide to Khmer pronunciation.

For good measure, Jean-Michel Filippi and Hiep Chan Vicheth have also captured Phnom Penh’s unique colloquialism, where a bowl of noodle soup is katieu, not kuytieu, and a population of 2 million has impacted spoken Khmer in myriad ways.

The “Khmer Pronouncing Dictionary,” which offers a guide to enunciating both formal and informal Khmer—specifically that variation spoken in the capital—is being made available today on the website for Unesco, the U.N. agency dedicated to cultural protection.

Lire la suite sur : https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/decade-listening-khmer-pronunciation-guide-119745/

Modern World Tugs at an Indonesian Tribe Clinging to Its Ancient Ways by Jon Emont and Sergey Ponomarev, 02/12/2016, New York Times

« Mr. Kapik and his wife, Teu Kapik Sikalabai, are among the last of the Mentawai people living traditional lives deep in the forest on the remote island of Siberut.

They, and others like them, have for decades resisted Indonesian government policies that pressured the forest-bound indigenous groups to abandon their old customs, accept a government-approved religion and move to government villages. That shift, along with the inevitable lure the modern world has for their children, has led to major disjunction between generations of Mentawai… »

Lire la suite sur : http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/02/world/asia/modern-world-tugs-at-an-indonesian-tribe-clinging-to-its-ancient-ways.html?_r=1

A Malay work on Islamic law from Aceh: Mirat al-tullab by Annabel Teh Gallop, 05/12/2016, Asian and African studies blog (British library)

In the 16th century the sultanate of Aceh on the north coast of Sumatra grew to become the most powerful Muslim kingdom in Southeast Asia and a great centre for the study and teaching of Islam. One of the most famous scholars and writers from Aceh was Abdul Rauf (‘Abd al-Ra’ūf ibn ‘Alī al-Jāwī al-Fanṣurī al-Sinkīlī), who was born at Singkel on the west coast of Sumatra in around 1615. Like many intellectuals from the Malay world, Abdul Rauf undertook the hajj pilgrimage and spent several years en route studying with a succession of teachers, first in Yemen and then in Jeddah, Mecca and Medina in the Arabian peninsula. After nineteen years in the Middle East, in 1661 Abdul Rauf returned to Aceh during the reign of the first queen, Sultanah Tajul Alam Safiatuddin Syah (r.1641-1675), daughter of Aceh’s most famous ruler, Iskandar Muda (r.1607-1636).

Lire la suite sur : http://blogs.bl.uk/asian-and-african/2016/12/a-malay-work-on-islamic-law-from-aceh-mirat-al-tullab.html

Interview : Erik Harms pour « Luxury and Rubble » in today’s Saigon by Mike Cummings, 06/12/2016, YaleNews

“Luxury and Rubble,” a new book by Yale anthropologist Erik Harms, tells the tale of two urban developments in Ho Chi Minh City, the Vietnamese city formerly called Saigon.

Phú Mỹ Hưng, a luxurious commercial and residential development, provides a home to members of Vietnam’s rising upper middle class. Thủ Thiêm, a similar development under construction in a nearby district, required the mandatory eviction of 14,600 households.

Harms conducted intensive ethnographic research with residents of the existing luxury development, where he lived for nine months, and also with those being displaced. His book draws contrasts and connections between the two. It shows the human costs of master-planned urban development while exploring the effects of privatization in a socialist country.

“Luxury and Rubble: Civility and Dispossession in the New Saigon” is published by the University of California Press. It is also available to anyone as a free e-book, thanks in part to the support of Yale’s Department of Anthropology, Council of Southeast Asian Studies, Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center for International and Areas Studies, and Frederick W. Hilles Publica­tion Fund.

Harms, an associate professor of anthropology and Southeast Asian studies, spoke to YaleNews about the project. An edited version of the conversation follows.

Lire la suite sur : http://news.yale.edu/2016/12/06/qa-anthropologist-erik-harms-luxury-and-rubble-today-s-saigon

Télécharger Luxury and rubble : Civility and Dispossession in the New Saigon sur : http://www.luminosoa.org/site/books/detail/20/luxury-and-rubble/

Séminaires/Conférences

Anthropologie et histoire : Chine et Asie du Sud–Est - Des cultures maritimes, des Voyages et leurs conséquences

INALCO / EHESS « CENTRE CHINE »/ MUSÉE DU QUAI BRANLY

2016-2017

Nicole REVEL & Danielle ELISSEEFF

Prolongeant la réflexion de l’année 2015-2016 sur les supports matériels et immatériels de la mémoire collective, et en abordant quelques exemples sur les territoires des îles et du littoral se déployant entre la Chine et l’Asie du Sud-Est continentale et insulaire ces trois journées proposent une réflexion anthropologique et historique sur les voyages et leurs conséquences dans des temps différents : les routes et les relations interculturelles, les échanges matériels et immatériels, le commerce et les conflits qu’ils ont pu susciter.

Le rythme de ces rencontres : 1 journée/trimestre avec 4 intervenants par séance.

Journée 1, Mardi 10 Janvier 2017 Salle de cours 1

Journée 2, Mardi 28 Février 2017 Salle de cours 1

Journées 3 Mardi 18 Avril 2017 Salle de cours 1

Le matin de 10h à 12h30

L’ après-midi de 14h à 17h30

Pour connaitre le programme complet

Conférence du CASE : KIT YOUNG : "Singing and Playing The Royal Classical Canon of Burmese Music: The Mahagita"

6 janvier 2017 - 10h-12h – EHESS– 198 avenue de France, 75013 Paris – salle 638

The Mahagita, a compendium of song texts from the Burmese royal court starts with a genre of song called “Kyo” the earliest of which dates to the late Inwa era (1364-1555). The Kyo songs were used as repertoire to teach singing and the Burmese Harp. They evolve to more complex forms added since the mid 1700’s.

Mahagita songs embody elements of Buddhist devotion. The accomplished singer uses Burmese aesthetic principles of vocal practice to express the sublimity of sacred realities. Distinct from chant, this is a culture of song where depictions of both the secular and sacred complement one another in the imagination. Buddhist devotion is heard as poetry: metaphor, sometimes admonition, celebration - less so didactic teaching. Through an imagery of the royal court, forests, lakes, palace moats, spires of barges, heavenly beings, storms, mythical beasts, are descriptors of Buddhist practice full of references, symbols, moral tenets, customary acts of devotion, cosmic relationships from the world of Buddhism.

We will listen to some of the Kyo, songs while reading text in translation, notice what musical ornamentation occurs at specific intervals in songs then journey further into a Patpyo song “A Tain Ma Thi” that speaks of the incomparable attributes of the Buddha.

Kit Young, pianist and composer, is an outstanding connoisseur of Burmese music. She has been researching and performing Burmese music since 1987. In 2003, she co-founded Gitameit Music Center in Yangon and Mandalay when living in Myanmar.

Appel à contributions

Call for Papers : International Max Planck Workshop : « Sangha Economies: Temple Organisation and Exchanges in Contemporary Buddhism », 21-22 september 2016, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle/Saale, Germany

Organisers: Saskia Abrahms-Kavunenko, Christoph Brumann, Beata Świtek - Research Group “Buddhist Temple Economies in Urban Asia”

Site de l'appel à contributions : http://www.eth.mpg.de/3534110/buddhist_temple_economies

Deadline for abstracts submission : 01/03/2017

No other “world religion” has given monasticism such a central role as Buddhism in which the sangha – the community of monks and, where recognised, nuns – is one of the « three jewels » (together with the Buddha and his teachings). While the first monks where itinerant mendicants, their successors settled down, eventually establishing prosperous and often very long-lived institutions. When these house hundreds or even thousands of monks or nuns, it is only natural that economic and management concerns arise. But these are no less pressing when, as in Japan, most temples are sustained by just a single priest and his family.

Questions pertaining to the economic organisation of Buddhist monasteries and temples have been neglected for a long time, reflecting the otherworldly orientation of Buddhist doctrine that sees the attachment to worldly riches as a hindrance for salvation and enlightenment. In recent years, however, there is a perceptible turn towards “managing monks” (Jonathan Silk), with several historical studies showing how economic pursuits were part and parcel of Buddhist monasticism from early on. Contemporary Buddhism is increasingly being scrutinised for its economic entanglements, both in theological attempts to construct a Buddhist economic ethics and in empirical investigations.

Call for Papers: Conference & Workshop, « Art, Institutions, and Internationalism: 1933–1966 », 7-8 march 2017, City University of New York

Date of submission : 13 january 2017

The PhD Program in Art History, in collaboration with The Center for Humanities at The Graduate Center, CUNY, is seeking new and in-progress research papers that explore links between art production and art institutions internationally between the 1930s and the 1960s. This program includes a one-day public conference and a one-day closed-door workshop session focusing on new methodologies for research in this emerging field.

Inspired by recent initiatives that have expanded the field of artistic modernism geographically, this conference examines the shifting stakes and definitions of internationalism before and after World War II. Much scholarship of this period has focused on questions of universalism, or attempts to transcend the cultural, linguistic, and political boundaries of the nation-state. Instead, this conference takes internationalism as its starting point, inviting scholars to explore instances of material exchange of art and ideas among nations during this period.

While we particularly encourage papers exploring issues of cultural nation building during the transition from colonial to post-colonial statehood in Africa, Asia, and the Middle East, we also invite research on art and internationalism that emerges from Europe and the Americas.

Lire la suite sur : http://www.centerforthehumanities.org/programming/call-for-papers-art-institutions-and-internationalism-1933-1966

Call for Papers : Verge : Studies in global Asia, vol. 4, no. 2 : Indigeneity

A new journal that includes scholarship from scholars in both Asian and Asian American Studies published by the University of Minnesota Press.

Submission deadline : 15 juin 2017

Site : http://www.upress.umn.edu/journal-division/journals/verge-studies-in-global-asias

Indigeneity

Edited by Charlotte Eubanks (Penn State University) and Pasang Yangjee Sherpa (The New School)

In this special issue, we are interested in charting the interactions between notions of indigeneity and Asian-ness. Possible topics include, but are not limited to: conversations between Asian American and First Nations peoples, and tensions between identity, land, and language; indigenous activism in response to climate change and international development (whether in the Himalayan region, the Gobi desert, or the littoral zones of Pacific islands); the place of indigenous cultural production vis-a-vis the/a State (e.g. the circulation or suppression of Chukchee literature in Eastern Siberia, the questions of ownership over cultural property in Vanuatu, the display of native artifacts in national museums, and so on); practices of resistance and policies of assimilation, both historical and contemporary (Ainu in Japan and Eastern Russia, aboriginal groups in Taiwan, the Orang Asli in peninsular Malaysia, designated ‘national minorities’ in the PRC, the Dravidian/Aryan divide in South Asia, etc); historical encounters of indigenous groups with expanding states and empires; the many problematics, demographic and otherwise, of categorizing Pacific Islanders with Asian Americans; practices of indigenous knowledge in Asia and Asian America; the human geography of settler and indigenous communities (i.e. the displacement of Hawaiians by Asian settlers, the legal rubric and social position of ‘Asians’ in East Africa and ‘overseas Chinese’ in South-East Asia vis-a-vis ‘local’ communities, claims to biculturalism in Aotearoa New Zealand); the creation of land reservations for indigenous peoples (in the Philippines, for instance); the international politics of indigenous rights; archeology and the deep histories of indigenous artwork and artefacts; the digitalization of indigenous ‘ways of knowing’; and so forth.

We welcome approaches from across the qualitative social sciences and the humanities and especially encourage papers grounded in a particular discipline, time, and place but which speak to questions, concerns, and topics of debate that are of relevance to a wide range of scholars.

Call for papers – ASIAN REVIEW

Asian Review, the blind-peer reviewed journal of the Institute of Asian Studies at Chulalongkorn University, celebrates its 30^th year of publication in 2017. The journal, now published twice a year, is committed to interdisciplinary approaches to the study of Asia, and publishes articles from a wide range of academic disciplines in the humanities and social sciences to promote an understanding of contemporary Asia. Areas of special concern include cultural studies, ethnicity, development, economics, foreign affairs, language, literature, migration, politics and religion.

From 2017, the journal will publish one thematic issue and one general issue. Papers for the general issue may be sent to ias@chula.ac.th

Pour en savoir plus : https://carnetcase.hypotheses.org/1959#more-1959

Call for papers – panel session(s) at the International Conference:The Value of Life: Measurement, Stakes, Implications

Wageningen University, The Netherlands

Please submit your proposal by 15 January 2017 to centreforspaceplacesociety@gmail.com

Le site de l’annonce

Date: Tuesday 28-30 June 2017

Place: Wageningen, the Netherlands

Organisers: Bram Büscher (Wageningen University) and Philip Fountain (Victoria University of Wellington)

« From just a dollar a day… »: Life, Death and Development

NGO development fundraising campaigns have long drawn direct links between giving donations and matters of life and death. Such appeals have an undeniable affective power, in no small part because of the logics of responsibility that are implied for potential donors by granting them the obligation to adjudicate over the fate of distant others. The immediacy implied in such campaigns is clearly mythical in that it occludes attention to the plethora of intermediary dynamics that shape gift trajectories and, relatedly, because it erases broader political and economic contexts impinging on the desired outcome. But such advertising remains potent for analysis precisely because they invite critical investigations into the ways in which development and humanitarianism impinges on questions of life and death, and the ethics that underlie these disparate interventionary projects. This panel takes up the task of assessing the intersections of life, death and development in diverse sites, and how this might change our ideas about (bio)power, politics and political economy.

Call for Papers – Simas: Histories, Practices, and Politics

Co-editors:

Jason A. Carbine, Whittier College, jcarbine@whittier.edu

Erik Davis, Macalester College, davise@macalester.edu

Prompting critical reflection across disciplinary boundaries (e.g., religious, historical, legal, political, art, economic, and ritual studies), as well as regional (e.g., South and Southeast Asian) and global distances, this collection addresses the topic of simas. Common in the Theravada and Sasana Buddhist cultures of Sri Lanka and mainland Southeast Asia, simas are traditionally consecrated boundaries for ordinations and other monastic rituals. Simas are thought to legitimate lineage, and function in many other social, religious, cultural, and political ways. The focus of a growing body of scholarly inquiry (from the seminal studies by Petra Kieffer-Pülz, to essays, dissertations, masters theses, etc.), a great deal of research remains to be done on this crucial, “local” category of Buddhist thought and practice. Papers may adopt any disciplinary or interdisciplinary method and mode of analysis (e.g., text-comparative, historical, ethnographic, art-historical, and political-analytical methods), and examine simas anywhere in the world, past or present. Papers that address ordination structures other than simas, such as kaidans, would also be welcome for consideration.

Call for Papers – ICAAL 2017, 7th International Conference on Austro-Asiatic Linguistics (ICAAL)

First call for papers

Deadline: 13 janvier 2017

From September 29 – October 1, 2017, the Department of Linguistics at the Christian-Albrechts-Universität in the port city of Kiel in northern Germany will be hosting the biennial 7th International Conference on Austro-Asiatic Linguistics (ICAAL).

Abstracts are now being accepted for contributions for this conference. Abstracts should not exceed 750 words plus references, tables and maps and should be sent as PDF files by Friday, January 13, 2017 to the following address: ICAAL2017@isfas.uni-kiel.de

Abstracts should contain no direct references to the contributor(s). Instead, contributors should submit a second file in addition to the abstract containing the name(s) of the contributor(s) and the title of the abstract. Notices of acceptance will be sent out no later than January 31, 2017.

Presentations will be for 30 minutes each, followed by 15 minutes for discussion. Following the presentations, the conference will close on the final day with an open discussion on the concrete results of the conference, the state of the field of Austro-Asiatic studies, as well as directions for future research.

Conference convenor: John Peterson

Scientific committee: Nick Enfield, Mathias Jenny, Nicole Kruspe, John Peterson, Paul Sidwell

Contributions on any aspect of the languages belonging to the Austro-Asiatic phylum will be considered for acceptance. This includes – but is by no means limited to! – the following topics:

• language documentation and description

• phonetics & phonology

• historical linguistics

• areal linguistics

• linguistic relativity

• formal linguistics

• writing systems

All questions concerning the conference should be sent to John Peterson at the following address:

jpeterson@isfas.uni-kiel.de

The conference website can be found under the following address:

http://www.isfas.uni-kiel.de/de/linguistik/icaal2017

Call for Submissions : The Philippine Journal of Linguistics (PJL)

The Philippine Journal of Linguistics (PJL) is the refereed journal of the Linguistic Society of the Philippines. It publishes original theoretical and applied research on various areas of linguistics including language learning and pedagogy. As such, it welcomes articles that are related but not limited to the following areas of research:

Vers le site de la revue

Postes/Bourses

Instructor: Human Geography of Southeast Asia

The Department of Geography at the University of Colorado Boulder invites applications for a non-tenure track full-time instructor position in Human Geography with a regional specialization in mainland Southeast Asia. A PhD in Geography or related field is required at the time of appointment. The appointment begins August 2017. In partnership with the Center for Asian Studies, this position is partially funded by a CAS grant to build capacity in Southeast Asian Studies on campus. We seek a human geographer to develop courses in SE Asian area studies, including a regional survey course and a course in the candidate’s topic of specialization. Additional teaching will help maintain the continuity of the human geography curriculum, including introductory-level courses in human, regional, or nature-society geographies. Preference will be given to candidates with strong field research and teaching experience, including language training, in mainland Southeast Asia, and a research specialization complementing the Department’s existing strengths in development studies, cultural, political, and population geographies, as well as political ecology.

Applications are accepted electronically at CU Careers, posting number 07659, and should include a CV, letter of application, evidence of teaching effectiveness, and statement of teaching experience, philosophy, and proposed contribution. Review of applications will begin on January 15, 2017 and continue until the position is filled.

For further information and informal inquiries, please contact the chair of the search committee, Professor Tim Oakes (toakes@colorado.edu)

Site : http://geography.colorado.edu/news_events/news_story/1263/postition_opening_instructor_human_geography_in_se_asia

Project Officer EU SHARE at DAAD Regional Office in Jakarta

PROJECT OFFICER – EU SHARE at DAAD Regional Office Jakarta The EU SHARE Project at the DAAD Regional Office in Jakarta is seeking at the soonest a qualified candidate for a position of Project Officer for the EU Support to Higher Education in the ASEAN Region (SHARE) project. The main task is to support the administrative and financial management of events and activities (workshops, trainings, high-level conferences, etc.) to harmonise higher education in ASEAN in SHARE result area 2a and 2b. The activities will take place throughout the ASEAN region.

Vers le site de l’annonce

Academic Position : Global Studies – Lesley University (Cambridge, MA)

No specific deadline. Job originally posted 7 November 2016

Web announcement: https://lesley.interviewexchange.com/jobofferdetails.jsp;jsessionid=52A77328C0CD62B246577900DD65D660;jsessionid=2D8D215647DE96438516F4E1D7E36A90;jsessionid=F0AD27623E44B47DD307350E46216198?JOBID=78591&CNTRNO=13&TSTMP=1479763556101

The social sciences division of the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences is seeking a faculty member to teach in the interdisciplinary field of global studies. Area of specific disciplinary background is open, but the division seeks in candidates with training in one or more of the following fields: human/world geography, political science, sociology, anthropology or women’s studies, who have had international or transnational research experience. Area of geographic specialization is open.

Academic Position: Human Geography (Mainland Southeast Asia focus) – University of Colorado-Boulder

Review of applications will begin on January 15, 2017

Web announcement: cuhttps://cu.taleo.net/careersection/2/jobdetail.ftl?job=07659&lang.taleo.net/careersection/2/jobdetail.ftl?job=07659&lang

The Department of Geography invites applications for a non-tenure track full-time instructor position in Human Geography with a regional specialization in mainland Southeast Asia. In partnership with the Center for Asian Studies (CAS), this position is partially funded by a grant to build capacity in Southeast Asian Studies on campus. Preference will be given to candidates with strong field research and teaching experience, including language training, in mainland Southeast Asia, and a research specialization complementing the Department’s existing strengths in development studies, cultural, political, and population geographies, as well as political ecology.

Postdoctoral Research Position – Cham Studies Durham University, UK

Deadline: 2 January 2017

Web announcement: https://webmail.cnrs.fr/owa/redir.aspx?C=LXTuFQ1iyr510sZMSFmA7VhoE1w4jxP71bsjFUOIGzUi1HeEnh7UCA..&URL=https%3a%2f%2frecruitment.durham.ac.uk%2fpls%2fcorehrrecruit%2ferq_jobspec_details_form.jobspec%3fp_id%3d003886

Opportunity for a post-doctoral research associate to work together with Dr Claire Sutherland (Durham University, UK) and Dr Edyta Roszko (University of Copenhagen) on a project entitled ‘Reframing centuries of Cham forced displacement: Connections, interactions and networks across the South China Sea’. Start date: April 2017.

Postdoctoral Fellowships Centre for Liberal Arts and Social Sciences – Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

Deadline: January 18, 2017

Web announcement: http://class.cohass.ntu.edu.sg/Research/Pages/Postdoctoral-Fellowship-Openings.aspx

The Centre for Liberal Arts and Social Sciences in the College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences invites applications for postdoctoral/research fellowships for the Academic Year 2017. Applications are welcome for the following research themes listed below: Global Asia; Health and Society; Science, Technology, and Society; Water Research; Humanities and Social Sciences.

Postdoctoral Fellowship – Digital Humanities Asia, Stanford University

Applications should be submitted via https://academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/8685 by 11:59 pm EST on Friday, February 17, 2017.

The Digital Humanities Asia (DHAsia) program at Stanford University invites applications for a 12-month Postdoctoral position during the 2017-2018 academic year. This position is funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Sawyer Seminar program, with further support provided by Stanford University. The successful applicant is expected to begin on or by October 1, 2017.

Stanford University is a globally recognized leader in the fields of Digital Humanities, GIS, text analysis, social network analysis, Text Technologies, and natural language processing. The Center for Spatial and Textual Analysis (CESTA), the Center for Interdisciplinary Digital Research (CIDR), the Literary Lab, and more attract scholars from around the world who are eager to learn from our experiences and implement our methods. Flagship projects, such as Mapping the Republic of Letters, the Çatalhöyük Living Archive, Kindred Britain, the ORBIS Geospatial Network Model of the Roman World have all begun to reshape not just the methods that we as Humanists bring to bear on our questions, but the very questions we ask.

At home within this rich DH ecology at Stanford, Digital Humanities Asia (DHAsia) seeks to advance a new era in Non-Western Digital Humanities, with a focus on East, South, Southeast, and Inner-Central Asia. We seek energetic and creative applicants who demonstrate innovative thinking and a proactive approach to the questions that digital humanities methods, approaches, tools, and theories raise in their academic disciplines.

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Postdoctoral fellowship in Asian Borderlands, Aarhus University

The Department of Anthropology, School of Culture and Society, Faculty of Arts, Aarhus University invites applications for a two-year postdoctoral fellowship. The appointment begins on 1 September 2017 or as soon as possible thereafter.

The position

The position is affiliated with the AUFF Starting Grant research project “The Rise of Special Economic Zones in Asian Borderlands – RisezAsia” (http://projects.au.dk/risezasia/). Theoretically the project wishes to develop tools for critical engagement with the unique forms of exclusion and marginalisation in borderlands instigated by special economic zones (SEZs). Secondly, in addition to its contribution to theoretical framings of borderland political economy, the research attempts to document the processes through which Asian borderlands are currently experiencing some of the largest land-grabs in modern history. Through the creation of new SEZs, millions of hectares of land are being annexed by mining and plantation companies for industrial exploitation, and remote borderlands are being populated by thousands of labour migrants. These large-scale acquisitions of land, population movements and the infrastructure projects they result in have a large impact on these ecologically vulnerable border zones and their populations.

Applicants must propose a country and a borderland research site and describe how the research priorities of the RisezAsia project will be relevantly addressed in the subproject. Fieldwork is envisaged.

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Fellowships – Getty Fellowships in Heritage Conservation

Completed application materials must be submitted on or before 31 January 2017.

The Getty Conservation Institute (GCI) has recently announced a new employment opportunity for emerging conservation professionals: GCI Professional Fellowships. Made possible through one-time funding, the Getty Conservation Institute is making available three Professional Fellowships, each of three-year duration, from June 2017 to May 2020. The successful candidates will work at the Getty Center in Los Angeles, California, USA.

The GCI Professional Fellowships are designed to provide emerging practitioners with in-depth opportunities to build and strengthen their skills and experience as conservation professionals, while working under the guidance of experienced GCI staff. GCI Professional Fellows will participate in the ongoing work of the GCI as full members of the Getty’s professional community. Professional development will be encouraged and assisted through participation in professional meetings, conferences, or workshops. Fellows’ research outcomes will be disseminated through publications and conference presentations.

The three fellowships available relate to the following areas:

• Managing Collections Environment initiative

• Asian and European Lacquer Analysis project

• Conserving Modern Architecture initiative

Each of the links above provides access to detailed information about the full position descriptions and requirements, as well as documentation requested to submit an application.

For additional information, please visit https://www.getty.edu/conservation/professional_fellowships.html

Ressources

« Read rare, old publications on biodiversity for free » by Audrey Tan, 09/12/2016, The Straits Times

Singapore’s National Library Board became the first Southeast Asian partner to join the Smithsonian initiative, which now has 16 members, including Harvard University, and the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew, London

In 1854, tigers roamed Singapore and, on average, a person was killed every day. This was the account of famed British naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace, who detailed his observations in The Malay Archipelago, The Land Of The Orangutan And The Bird Of Paradise.

Until recently, the public had limited access to the 1874 book and other manuscripts that tell the stories of old Singapore. Many of them are among the rare collection of the National Library Board’s (NLB’s) Lee Kong Chian Reference Library and not available for loan.

But Wallace’s book and more than 100 other manuscripts from Singapore are now just a click away.They have been scanned and are published at www.biodiversitylibrary.org. It is part of an international initiative known as the Biodiversity Heritage Library driven by the Smithsonian Institution.

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« O graceful fawn, o gentle doe: Deer in Thai manuscript art » by Jana Igunma, 12/12/2016, Asian and African Studies (British Library)

Among the most gorgeous images in Thai manuscript painting are those of forest animals. Illustrations of the heavenly forest Himmaphan (Pali: Himavanta), which in Buddhist cosmology is thought to surround the base of the mythical Mount Meru, are unthinkable without squirrels, rabbits, birds, lions, tigers, monkeys, elephants and deer. Scenes involving birds, elephants and deer, usually against a background of trees, plants and rocks, express an atmosphere of tranquillity and peace. Deer seem to be of particular importance as they often feature in funeral books containing extracts from the Pali canon. In Thai Buddhism, symbolic meanings of deer include harmony, happiness and serenity, but also sensitivity and watchfulness. According to the Buddhist scriptures, there could have been no better place for Gautama Buddha to give his first sermon than in the tranquil landscape of the Deer Park at Sarnath.

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Southeast Asian Art and Archaeology : eVols of the University of Hawaii at Manoa

54 ouvrages classiques sur l’art et l’archéologie de l’Asie du Sud-Est publiés de 1901 à 1960 à télécharger sur : https://evols.library.manoa.hawaii.edu/handle/10524/12264/browse?type=dateissued&sort_by=3&order=DESC

Derniers titres entrés dans cette bibliothèque numérique : https://evols.library.manoa.hawaii.edu/handle/10524/12264

Expositions/Iconographie/Blog

«How Myanmar’s art scene is reinventing itself » by Mayo Martin, 09/12/2016, Channel NewsAsia

From dealing with censors to coping with rising costs, how are Myanmar’s artists faring as the country opens up to the world? Channel NewsAsia’s Mayo Martin looks at the challenges the artists face.

SINGAPORE: For filmmaker Midi Z, it was a night to remember.

The 33-year-old Myanmar-born Taiwanese director was already known for critically acclaimed movies such as Return To Burma and Ice Poison. But until last month, he had not been able to show any of his films in his home country.

So when his latest effort, The Road To Mandalay, was screened at the Memory! International Heritage Film Festival in Yangon on Nov 7, Midi Z, who had left the country at the age of 16 to study in Taiwan, was very thrilled.

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Musée : Islamic Arts Museum Malaysia

The Islamic Arts Museum Malaysia (IAMM) is one of the world’s youngest museums. As such, it is invested with vigour and a strong sense of purpose. There are few institutions in Asia committed to giving this level of exposure to different Islamic cultures.

The IAMM is in a constant state of renewal: the collection keeps growing and our displays try to keep pace with this expansion. The look of the galleries has been changing and will no doubt continue to do so, until we have achieved the unachievable – a setting that truly does justice to some of mankind’s finest and most diverse works of art.

Le site du musée