The University Research Priority Program Asia and Europe (University of Zurich) in collaboration with The Institute of East Asian Studies, Department of Sinology (University of Zurich),
invite proposals for the Graduate Student Workshop:
ASIAN POSTMODERNITIES AND THEIR LEGACIES
March 30-31, 2012
(Workshop venue: University of Zurich)
This workshop will focus primarily on new perspectives on contemporary Chinese and (South) East Asian societies derived from cultural, postcolonial, literary, visual and gender studies. It will however be open to other approaches (e.g. historical, political or geographical).
A preliminary list of related issues and research questions to be discussed at the conference is as follows:
■ Political legacies
■ Spatial legacies
■ Artistic legacies
■ Embodied legacies
■ Ethical legacies
Key themes: spaces & boundaries, environmental issues, body & gender, theories & methods
The workshop is intended to provide a forum for graduate students in the humanities and social sciences who are (1) developing dissertations proposals or are already in more advanced phases of research or dissertation writing; and who are (2) also dealing with the abovementioned issues in the context of contemporary Asian states and societies.
The workshop aims to produce a volume or a thematic journal issue, as well as exploring possibilities for interdisciplinary, comparative research projects on the Asian postmodernities and their legacies.
Interested participants; please submit your abstract of no more than 500 words with the completed registration form to Justyna Jaguscik, URPP Asia and Europe University of Zurich (justynaa.jaguscik@uzh.ch) by 15 January 2012.
Wednesday, December 28, 2011
Tuesday, November 08, 2011
The Argument Room, 17th November at 6:30pm
You are invited to visit The Argument Room at
www.theargumentroom.net
for a live broadcast on 17th November at 6.30pm.
Writer and Broadcaster, Beatrix Campbell proposes that:
‘There is widespread cultural and institutional resistance towards the achievement of gender equality’
Join the debate via the free livestream at www.theargumentroom.net or on Twitter @argumentalism.
The Argument Room is an interactive debating forum that explores how the drive for social change and social justice is informed by creative practice. For more information and to register for the livestream visit www.theargumentroom.net
The Argument Room is a collaboration between Rideout, People’s Palace Projects and the Drama Department at Queen Mary, University of London.
Best,
Poppy Spowage
Project Manager
The Argument Room
poppy@theargumentroom.net
020 7882 5618
www.theargumentroom.net
twitter.com/argumentalism
www.theargumentroom.net
for a live broadcast on 17th November at 6.30pm.
Writer and Broadcaster, Beatrix Campbell proposes that:
‘There is widespread cultural and institutional resistance towards the achievement of gender equality’
Join the debate via the free livestream at www.theargumentroom.net or on Twitter @argumentalism.
The Argument Room is an interactive debating forum that explores how the drive for social change and social justice is informed by creative practice. For more information and to register for the livestream visit www.theargumentroom.net
The Argument Room is a collaboration between Rideout, People’s Palace Projects and the Drama Department at Queen Mary, University of London.
Best,
Poppy Spowage
Project Manager
The Argument Room
poppy@theargumentroom.net
020 7882 5618
www.theargumentroom.net
twitter.com/argumentalism
EXTENDED DEADLINE ASEN CONFERENCE CALL!
The Association for Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism (ASEN) would like to remind you to submit your abstract for its 22nd Annual Conference entitled:
Nationalism, Ethnicity and Boundaries
The conference will take place from the 27-29th March, 2012 at the London School of Economics.
Confirmed keynote speakers include: Rogers Brubaker, Miguel Centeno, Mary Fulbrook, Richard Jenkins, Michele Lamont and Wendy Pullan. There will also be workshops with Jon Fox, Michael Banton, Liam O'Dowd, James Anderson and Jennifer Todd.
Proposals are invited for papers focusing on the following themes:
Partition, secession and irredentism
The legality of boundaries and citizenship rules Boundary surveillance and enforcement Border controls, passports and identity documents Territorial and non-territorial sub-national claims Social and symbolic boundaries and everyday practices Symbolic boundaries and identity formation The mechanisms of boundary formation, transgression and change Interactions between physical and symbolic boundaries
Abstracts should be submitted online no later than November 6, 2011. To submit your 250 word abstract, please follow this link:
http://www2.lse.ac.uk/researchAndExpertise/units/ASEN/Conference/Abstract.aspx
Successful submissions will be announced in December, 2011.
Please see that attached documents for the complete call for papers and the conference poster.
The ASEN conference team looks forward to reading your abstract!
Nationalism, Ethnicity and Boundaries
The conference will take place from the 27-29th March, 2012 at the London School of Economics.
Confirmed keynote speakers include: Rogers Brubaker, Miguel Centeno, Mary Fulbrook, Richard Jenkins, Michele Lamont and Wendy Pullan. There will also be workshops with Jon Fox, Michael Banton, Liam O'Dowd, James Anderson and Jennifer Todd.
Proposals are invited for papers focusing on the following themes:
Partition, secession and irredentism
The legality of boundaries and citizenship rules Boundary surveillance and enforcement Border controls, passports and identity documents Territorial and non-territorial sub-national claims Social and symbolic boundaries and everyday practices Symbolic boundaries and identity formation The mechanisms of boundary formation, transgression and change Interactions between physical and symbolic boundaries
Abstracts should be submitted online no later than November 6, 2011. To submit your 250 word abstract, please follow this link:
http://www2.lse.ac.uk/researchAndExpertise/units/ASEN/Conference/Abstract.aspx
Successful submissions will be announced in December, 2011.
Please see that attached documents for the complete call for papers and the conference poster.
The ASEN conference team looks forward to reading your abstract!
call for papers: knowledge in a box
CALL FOR PAPERS
KNOWLEDGE IN A BOX:
HOW MUNDANE THINGS SHAPE KNOWLEDGE PRODUCTION
Organizing committee:
Susanne Bauer, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin, Germany
Maria Rentetzi, National Technical University of Athens, Athens, Greece
Martina Schlünder, Justus-Liebig-University, Giessen, Germany
The topic:
We invite proposals from scholars in the history of science, technology, and medicine, science and technology studies, the humanities, visual and performing arts, museum and cultural studies and other related disciplines for a workshop on the uses and meanings of mundane things such as boxes, packages, bottles, and vials in shaping knowledge production. In keeping with the conference theme, we are asking contributors to include specific references to the ways in which boxes have played a role—commercial, epistemic or otherwise—in their own particular disciplinary frameworks.
Boxes have always supported the significance of the objects they contained, allowing specific activities to arise. In the hands of natural historians and collectors, boxes functioned as a means of organizing their knowledge throughout the eighteenth century. They formed the material bases of the cabinet or established collection and accompanied the collector from the initial gathering of natural specimens to their final display. As “knowledge chests” or “magazining tools” the history of box-like containers also go back to book printing and the typographical culture. The artists’ boxes of the early nineteenth century were used to store the paraphernalia of a new fashionable trend. In the late nineteenth century the box became the pharmacist’s laboratory and a device for standardizing and controlling dosage of oral remedies. In the twentieth century radiotherapy the box was elevated to a multifunctional tool working as a memory aid to forgetful patients or as “knowledge package” that predetermined dosages, included equipment, and ready-made radium applicators.
Focusing on medicine, boxes have played a crucial role since the eighteenth century when doctors ought to bring instruments to their patient’s house for surgical or obstetrical interventions. In modern operating rooms boxes organize the workflow and build an essential part of the aseptical regime. Late twentieth century biomedical scientists store tissue samples in large-scale biobanks, where samples contained in straws are placed in vials, then the vials in boxes which in turn are stacked up in "elevators". This storage system facilitates retrieval with barcodes, indexing each individual sample so that additional variables can be retrieved from a database. Thus the container and its content are tied up in a close epistemic and material relationship.
As it is usually the case the box embodies the knowledge that goes into the chemical laboratory and its function; it classifies objects into collections of natural history; it meaningfully orders letters in a printer’s composition or painting equipment for the artist’ convenience; it standardizes pharmaceutical dosage forms and allows pharmacists to control the production and consumption of their remedies; in the commercial world it misleads or informs customers; it persuades consumers for the integrity of the product that they enclose; it hides the identity of the object(s) that contains, it shapes professional identities and is essential for mobilizing, transporting, accumulating and circulating materials and the knowledge they produce and embody.
Furthermore, if we do understand matter and materiality not as given, solid, continuous, and stable but rather as something being done, performed, shaped and embedded in practices, then we should examine closer how bottles and boxes themselves materialize differently in a set of diverse practices. How do they change their ontologies by migrating from the kitchen to the laboratory, from the workshop to the operating room?
We welcome innovative understandings of the role that boxes and containers have played historically and continue to play in technology, medicine, and science. We see the workshop as contributing to an ongoing interest in science and technology studies on the importance of mundane things in scientific practice and technological innovations.
Dates:
July 26-29, 2012
Submission guidelines:
Deadline for proposals: January 15, 2012
Please submit a 300-words abstract along with your name, institutional affiliation, email and phone number as a word or pdf attachment to the organizers of the conference
Proposals will be reviewed and notification of the outcome will be made in February 15, 2012. We are pursuing publication outlets for selected papers from the workshop. Therefore we expect full papers from those that will participate by May 30, 2012. Details will be provided after notification.
Conference registration fee: 50 euros
Place:
The venue of the conference is a wonderful tobacco warehouse renovated to host the tobacco museum of the city of Kavala in northern Greece.
Contact info:
For further information please contact the organizers:
Susanne Bauer sbauer@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
Maria Rentetzi mrentetz@vt.edu
Martina Schlünder m.schluender@gmx.de
KNOWLEDGE IN A BOX:
HOW MUNDANE THINGS SHAPE KNOWLEDGE PRODUCTION
Organizing committee:
Susanne Bauer, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin, Germany
Maria Rentetzi, National Technical University of Athens, Athens, Greece
Martina Schlünder, Justus-Liebig-University, Giessen, Germany
The topic:
We invite proposals from scholars in the history of science, technology, and medicine, science and technology studies, the humanities, visual and performing arts, museum and cultural studies and other related disciplines for a workshop on the uses and meanings of mundane things such as boxes, packages, bottles, and vials in shaping knowledge production. In keeping with the conference theme, we are asking contributors to include specific references to the ways in which boxes have played a role—commercial, epistemic or otherwise—in their own particular disciplinary frameworks.
Boxes have always supported the significance of the objects they contained, allowing specific activities to arise. In the hands of natural historians and collectors, boxes functioned as a means of organizing their knowledge throughout the eighteenth century. They formed the material bases of the cabinet or established collection and accompanied the collector from the initial gathering of natural specimens to their final display. As “knowledge chests” or “magazining tools” the history of box-like containers also go back to book printing and the typographical culture. The artists’ boxes of the early nineteenth century were used to store the paraphernalia of a new fashionable trend. In the late nineteenth century the box became the pharmacist’s laboratory and a device for standardizing and controlling dosage of oral remedies. In the twentieth century radiotherapy the box was elevated to a multifunctional tool working as a memory aid to forgetful patients or as “knowledge package” that predetermined dosages, included equipment, and ready-made radium applicators.
Focusing on medicine, boxes have played a crucial role since the eighteenth century when doctors ought to bring instruments to their patient’s house for surgical or obstetrical interventions. In modern operating rooms boxes organize the workflow and build an essential part of the aseptical regime. Late twentieth century biomedical scientists store tissue samples in large-scale biobanks, where samples contained in straws are placed in vials, then the vials in boxes which in turn are stacked up in "elevators". This storage system facilitates retrieval with barcodes, indexing each individual sample so that additional variables can be retrieved from a database. Thus the container and its content are tied up in a close epistemic and material relationship.
As it is usually the case the box embodies the knowledge that goes into the chemical laboratory and its function; it classifies objects into collections of natural history; it meaningfully orders letters in a printer’s composition or painting equipment for the artist’ convenience; it standardizes pharmaceutical dosage forms and allows pharmacists to control the production and consumption of their remedies; in the commercial world it misleads or informs customers; it persuades consumers for the integrity of the product that they enclose; it hides the identity of the object(s) that contains, it shapes professional identities and is essential for mobilizing, transporting, accumulating and circulating materials and the knowledge they produce and embody.
Furthermore, if we do understand matter and materiality not as given, solid, continuous, and stable but rather as something being done, performed, shaped and embedded in practices, then we should examine closer how bottles and boxes themselves materialize differently in a set of diverse practices. How do they change their ontologies by migrating from the kitchen to the laboratory, from the workshop to the operating room?
We welcome innovative understandings of the role that boxes and containers have played historically and continue to play in technology, medicine, and science. We see the workshop as contributing to an ongoing interest in science and technology studies on the importance of mundane things in scientific practice and technological innovations.
Dates:
July 26-29, 2012
Submission guidelines:
Deadline for proposals: January 15, 2012
Please submit a 300-words abstract along with your name, institutional affiliation, email and phone number as a word or pdf attachment to the organizers of the conference
Proposals will be reviewed and notification of the outcome will be made in February 15, 2012. We are pursuing publication outlets for selected papers from the workshop. Therefore we expect full papers from those that will participate by May 30, 2012. Details will be provided after notification.
Conference registration fee: 50 euros
Place:
The venue of the conference is a wonderful tobacco warehouse renovated to host the tobacco museum of the city of Kavala in northern Greece.
Contact info:
For further information please contact the organizers:
Susanne Bauer sbauer@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
Maria Rentetzi mrentetz@vt.edu
Martina Schlünder m.schluender@gmx.de
Harvard East Asia Society Conference: Abstract Deadline Approaching
15th Annual Harvard East Asia Society Graduate Student Conference Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA February 24 - February 26, 2012
The Harvard East Asia Society (HEAS) Graduate Student Conference invites graduate students from around the world, conducting research in all disciplines, to submit abstracts for our 2012 conference.
Over the past decade, East Asia has experienced unprecedented change, which has had an immense impact on every aspect of the region. As a result, scholars worldwide are exploring and engaging in meaningful discussion on every subject to do with East Asia, past and present.
The HEAS Graduate Student Conference is an annual event which provides an interdisciplinary forum for graduate students to exchange ideas and discuss current research on East Asia. The conference allows young scholars to present their research to both their peers and to eminent scholars in East Asian Studies. All panels will be moderated by Harvard University faculty. The conference will also allow participants to meet others in their field conducting similar research and to forge new professional relationships.
We welcome submissions from graduate students in all disciplines. Papers should be related to East or Inner Asia, including East Asian interactions with the wider world.
Eligibility and Application Guidelines:
1. Applicants must be currently enrolled in a program of graduate study ("postgraduate" in British degree classification systems).
2. Papers must be related to East or Inner Asia.
3. Abstracts must be no longer than 250 words, submitted exactly as directed on the HEAS Individual Paper Application Form.
4. Deadline for abstract submission: NOVEMBER 18, 2011
Inquiries:
For general conference inquiries, please contact:
<mailto:heasconference@gmail.com>
<mailto:heasconference@gmail.com>>
For abstract submission inquiries, please contact:
<mailto:heas.abstracts@gmail.com>
<mailto:heas.abstracts@gmail.com>>
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www.hcs.harvard.edu/~heas/conference
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UK Feminist research methods workshop
DECERe (UEA) is running a feminist research methods workshop at UEA on the 9th December. We will have a range of key note speakers and masterclasses on feminist research methods (including feminist approaches to project management and securing feminist research funding). Key note speakers include Professor Yvonne Tasker (UEA), Dr Anne Humbert (Middlesex), Dr Fiona Poland (UEA) and Dr Natasha Mauthner (Aberdeen).
Further details and online booking here: http://business.uea.ac.uk/diversity-and-equality-in-careers-and-employment/feminist-research-methods-workshop
Wednesday, November 02, 2011
CFP: Lesbian Lives XIX
Call for Papers
Lesbian Lives XIX
‘Masquerades’
Friday 17 – Saturday 18 February 2012
University College Dublin (UCD), Ireland
Conference convenors of this two-day international and interdisciplinary conference now welcome proposals from academics, scholars, students, activists, documentary and film-makers, writers and artists for (A) individual papers, (B) sessions, (C) round table discussions, (D) workshops,
and (E) visual presentations.
A. Individual Papers: Individual papers should last 20 minutes (c. 2,400 words). Individuals should submit: (1) paper title, (2) abstract (c. 100 words), (3) biography (c. 100-150 words), (4) institutional affiliation and address, (5) audio-visual requirements.
B. Sessions: Panels of academic papers should include 3 speakers and 1 moderator. Each paper should last for 20 minutes (c. 2,400 words), with a further 30 minutes for questions and discussion. Proposers should submit (1) session title, (2) paper titles, (3) abstracts for each paper (c. 100 words), (3) biography for each participant (c. 100-150 words), (4) institutional affiliation and address for each participant, (5) audio-visual requirements.
C. Round Table Discussions: Round table discussions should include 6 speakers and 1 moderator. Each paper should last for 10 minutes (c. 1,200 words), with a further 30 minutes for questions and discussion. Proposers should submit (1) round table title, (2) rationale for round table (c. 100 words), (3) biography for each participant (c. 100-150 words), (4) institutional affiliation and address for each participant, (5) audio-visual requirements.
D. Workshops: Workshops last 90 minutes. Proposers should submit (1) workshop title, (2) rationale for workshop (c. 100 words), (3) biography (c. 100-150 words), (4) institutional affiliation and address (if relevant)
E. Visual presentations; documentary, video, art or media presentations by individuals or groups are welcomed.
Proposals are welcomed on (though are by no means limited to) the following issues:
Masks, Hiding, Secrets and Lies, Passing, Pretence, Vision, Bodies, Gender, Sexualities, Performance, Closet, Histories, Literature, Politics, Identity, Stories, Inner & Outer Worlds, money, Family, Marriage, Relationships, Butch Fem, Trans, Life & Stage, Structure, Institutions
E-mail proposals to be sent to lesbian.lives@ucd.ie or posted to:
Lesbian Lives XVIII:
‘Masquerades’
Women’s Studies,
James Joyce Library Building,
University College Dublin
Belfield, Dublin 4
Ireland.
The closing date for the submission of proposals is Friday 30th November 2011.
Visit http://www.ucd.ie/socialjustice/womensstudies/ for conference updates. Follow us on Facebook
Tuesday, November 01, 2011
Call for CCPN Research Assistants & Assistant Editors for CCPN publications, LSE
The China in Comparative Perspective Network (CCPN: www.lse.ac.uk/ccpn) set up a ‘Researchers Fostering Laboratory’ (RFL) in 2008. It is to provide real opportunities for researchers and students from all levels who are interested in China related studies to build up their experience by exploring and developing different kinds of projects. In addition to basic skills which can be learnt within an academic discipline, training in research methodologies, experience doing course projects, and participating in students societies activities, etc., the CCPN’s innovative ‘Researchers Fostering Laboratory’ is designed to help students and researchers to practice and exercise the above methods and skills in different research processes, ranging from archiving data, designing projects, applying for grants or fundraising, editing and proofreading for publications, networking, accessing facilities, implementing projects, to online discussion or debating, engaging with the media and the public for dissemination, etc.
For the 2010-11 academic year, we offer 10 voluntary research assistantships working on the following areas:
• Participating a project ‘Comparative Studies on the New Migrants from BRIC counties in America, Australia, Japan and the UK (2009-13), by conducting a questionnaire survey, archiving materials, such as books, papers, journals, projects, events, institutions, etc.
• Proofreading for CCPN website, and papers to be published on the Working Paper Series, see: http://www2.lse.ac.uk/anthropology/research/CCPN/publications/WPS/WPS.aspx
• Developing ‘Chinese business consultancy’ focus on network and relations studies as Knowledge Transfer
• Anything else which would enchant ‘China in Comparative Perspective’, see www.lse.ac.uk/ccpn
How do the Assistants and Assistant Editors work with the CCPN advisor?
Beyond the above listed tasks if you want to develop your own research interests, the CCPN Advisor will in return provide limited advice on research, and will offer connections to individuals who might give further advice.
We will provide instructions or guidance to all the CCPN Research Assistants and Assistant Editors. They will have clear descriptions for the content of each project, requirements, and duties, etc. The voluntary research assistants will be responsible to Dr Xiangqun Chang, who will offer advice or connections to relevant institutes or individuals.
The work arrangements are flexible: you can complete the tasks in your own time while keeping to the given schedule. The allocated work will take each RA a few hours per week on average over the period of eight months. All the work can be done via email communication. If you have enquires please send email to x.chang@lse.ac.uk.
What can you benefit from this?
There is no monetary payment for this work. But from being a multi-faceted researcher with all-round abilities which could help you with whatever career you may chose in the future, you can add ‘CCPN research assistant’ or ‘CCPN assistant editor’ on your CV (the list of CCPN Research Assistants can be found from the CCPN website).
As our RA, you will be able to access to some advice from the CCPN Advisor and connections for further developing your own research interests.
Toward the end of your assistantship, you are expected to write a seminar paper or report. The CCPN will consider to:
• publish a webpage or sub-page under your name
• run a seminar at LSE for you if your work is good enough
• publish your essay as a CCPN working paper if your work is of a high quality
• provide you a reference as our RA
Please note this post is renewable.
This offer is open to all students, researchers and professionals who are interested in pursuing China related work. The work arrangements are flexible (immediate start). Deadlines for application: 11th Nov 2011
If you are interested, please send the following documents to ccpn@lse.ac.uk:
- your research proposal and your plan to carry out some of the CCPN tasks (no more than one page)
- your CV
If you don’t receive a reply one month after the deadline, you should assume that your application is unsuccessful. Please be aware that we won’t send you a separate notice.
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