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Call for Papers - ASIAN POSTMODERNITIES AND THEIR LEGACIES

2011-12-28T05:15:00.000-08:00

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.

The Argument Room, 17th November at 6:30pm

2011-11-08T08:22:00.001-08:00

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

EXTENDED DEADLINE ASEN CONFERENCE CALL!

2011-11-08T08:21:00.001-08:00

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!

call for papers: knowledge in a box

2011-11-08T08:19:00.000-08:00

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

Harvard East Asia Society Conference: Abstract Deadline Approaching

2011-11-08T08:17:00.000-08:00

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:

heasconference@gmail.com

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For abstract submission inquiries, please contact:

heas.abstracts@gmail.com

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Harvard East Asia Graduate Student Conference heasconference@gmail.com <mailto:heasconference@gmail.com>

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www.hcs.harvard.edu/~heas/conference

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UK Feminist research methods workshop

2011-11-08T08:16:00.000-08:00

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

CFP: Lesbian Lives XIX

2011-11-02T03:22:00.000-07:00

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 30^th November 2011.

Visit http://www.ucd.ie/socialjustice/womensstudies/ for conference updates. Follow us on Facebook

Call for CCPN Research Assistants & Assistant Editors for CCPN publications, LSE

2011-11-01T08:40:00.000-07:00

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.

What are the tasks?

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.

How to apply?

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: 11^th 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.

Pragmatism and Non-Interference: Explaining China's Soft Power in Africa

2011-11-01T08:39:00.000-07:00

Time: 18:00-20:00 16th Nov (Wednesday) 2011

Venue: NAB107 <http://www2.lse.ac.uk/mapsAndDirections/findingYourWayAroundLSE.aspx>

Speaker: Dr Max Rebol (Pacific Forum Center for Strategic and International Studies, CSIS)

Chair: Dr Xiangqun Chang (CCPN, LSE)

Abstract: If we see Chinese Soft Power in Africa as deriving from the fact that China does not interfere in domestic affairs, it seems that this kind of Soft Power mostly appeals to the most autocratic regimes. In fact this argument has been put forward by several authors in trying to explain good relations between the PRC and countries such as Sudan, DRC, Zimbabwe or North Korea. Others have argued the other way around, talking about the attraction of Chinese culture traditions as well as its development record in the last 30 years. This talk will try to bridge the gap between these two seemingly opposites. Taking China Africa relations as an example, it will argue that the relevant values consist of two different levels, which are described as active and passive values. The active values refer to a set of parameters, including culture, traditions and the general relation between state and people which is unique to China. The passive values refer to the respect that China pays to the values of the partner country, treating it equal and not in a teacher-student relation. In general this refers to the fact that China's active values are not claimed to be universal; In particular it refers to the Chinese Non-interference policy.

Speaker's Biography: Max Rebol a current non-resident Handa Fellow at Pacific Forum Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS). He is a recent PhD graduate from the School of International Relations and Public Administration of Fudan University, Shanghai. His dissertation on China- Africa relations looks especially at the question of transferability of the Chinese experience for which he conducted research in China as well as East Africa. Previous research focused on the rise of Chinese soft power, China's foreign aid system, China's stance on non- interference as well as China - Africa relations. For the PhD studies he was awarded the CSC Scholarship by the Chinese Government. He received a Master degree from the London School of Economics and Political Science where he studied Development Management. He was a trainee at the European Commission, Directorate General for External Relations was previously working at the European Chamber of Commerce in Shanghai. Max is fluent in English, German and Chinese.

Note: This is a public seminar, as first come first serve basis, but students of the MSc China in Comparative Perspective are prioritised

Also see CCPN website: http://www.lse.ac.uk/collections/CCPN/newsAndEvents/CCPN.htm .

Call for contributions for Bijiao: China in comparative perspective book review 2012 issue

2011-11-01T08:37:00.000-07:00

The Bijiao editorial team has a number of books still available for review and inclusion in the second issue of the online journal Bijiao: China in comparative perspective book review.

The next issue is due in June 2012 (please note that the journal will be published annually from now on, rather than bi-annually as previously announced). Deadline for submission of reviews is 31^st March 2012.
If you are interested in reviewing one of the titles listed below, please get in touch with the Editor, Dr Geoffrey Gowlland (g.k.gowlland@lse.ac.uk). In your email, please let her know in a couple of sentences why you are interested in the book, and how it is related to your research or studies.

If you are interested in reviewing a title not listed above, you may also get in touch with your suggested title and say a few words about why you think the publication would be of interest to readers of the JCCP, and we might be able to order a review copy for you.

For more information please contact the Editor or editorial team (jccp@lse.ac.uk), or refer to CCPN website for details of the journal and style for the review articles: http://www2.lse.ac.uk/anthropology/research/CCPN/publications/Journals/bookReview/bookReview.aspx

A list of books to be reviewed

· Gaston, N. & Khalid, A. M. 2010. Globalization and Economic Integration: Winners and Losers in the Asia-Pacific. Edward Elgar Publishing.

· Hua, Shiping, 2009, Chinese utopianism - A Comparative Study of Reformist Thought with Japan and Russia, 1898-1997, Woshinton, D. C. Woodrow Wilson Centre Press

· Horesh, N. 2009, Shanghai’s Bund and Beyond: British Banks, Banknote Issuance, and Monetary Policy in China, 1842-1937. Yale Univ Press

· Leon, Arnoldo De, 2002, Racial Frontiers - Africans, Chinese, and Mexicans in Western America 1848-1890, Albuqerque: University of New Mexico

· Mendes, E., and S. Srighanthan. 2009, Confronting discrimination and inequality in China: Chinese and Canadian perspectives. Univ of Ottawa Press

· Özbilgin, M. & Syed, J. 2010. Managing cultural diversity in Asia. Edward Elgar Publishing.

· Scotton, J. F, and W. A Hachten. 2010. New media for a new China. Wiley-Blackwell

· Standaert, N. 2008. The interweaving of rituals: funerals in the cultural exchange between China and Europe. Univ of Washington Press

· Wu, D. & Cheung, S. C. H. 2002. The Globalization of Chinese food. Richmond: Curzon.

· Xiang Biao. 2007. Global“ body shopping”: an Indian labor system in the information technology industry. Princeton University Press.

Call for Papers: Queer Interventions and Intersections

2011-11-01T08:34:00.000-07:00

The theme of the second volume of Trans-Scripts, the interdisciplinary journal in the humanities and social sciences at University of California Irvine, is "Queer Interventions and Intersections." We welcome a wide range of submissions from a variety of disciplines. Founded in 2010, Trans-Scripts is a student-run and edited interdisciplinary journal, and the editorial collective of graduate students come from diverse academic fields, including English, History, Culture & Theory, Comparative Literature, Women’s Studies, and African-American Studies. Faculty advisors represent an even more varied range of disciplines. All submissions will be reviewed by both students and faculty to ensure the highest quality of work. Though primarily a forum for student work, faculty are welcome to contribute as well. We also publish editorials by renowned experts on each theme covered.

For more information, the Trans-Scripts journal can be accessed at the following website:

http://www.humanities.uci.edu/collective/hctr/trans-scripts/index.html.

UC Berkeley Call for Scholars

2011-11-01T08:33:00.000-07:00

SCHOLARS IN RESIDENCE PROGRAM 2012-2013

and

AFFILIATED SCHOLARS PROGRAM

This announcement concerns two of its programs:

1. THE BBRG SCHOLARS-IN-RESIDENCE PROGRAM

(APPLICATIONS ARE DUE BY MARCH 15, 2012)

Among its programs and activities, the BBRG has a Scholars-in-Residence Program. Under the auspices of this Program, each year the BBRG hosts a new group of approximately ten competitively selected scholars from the U.S. and abroad for a period of one academic year.

The BBRG Scholars-in-Residence Program is open to senior and junior faculty (tenured and untenured), visiting scholars, postdoctoral scholars and independent scholars, from any country, whose work is centrally on gender and women. Applicants must have received their Ph.D. at least one year prior to the projected beginning of their residency at BBRG.

The BBRG provides its Scholars-in-Residence with the following: visiting scholar status at University of California, Berkeley; access to University of California, Berkeley libraries and library privileges; a library orientation session customized for the purposes of the Scholar In Residence's research; the possibility of University of California, Berkeley student research assistants; shared office space; shared computer and internet access; a BBRG Scholars Writing/Reading Group which meets bi-monthly; and a forum for BBRG Scholars-in-Residence to present their scholarly or creative work to the Berkeley campus community and the public.

BBRG is non-stipendiary, and thus Scholars-in-Residence provide their own financial support during the residency. There are fees associated with residency at BBRG. Please see the website for full details.

FULL PROGRAM DETAILS AND APPLICATION INSTRUCTIONS CAN BE FOUND HERE: http://bbrg.berkeley.edu/scholarprog.html

2. THE BBRG AFFILIATED SCHOLARS PROGRAM

(APPLICATIONS ARE ACCEPTED THROUGHOUT THE ACADEMIC YEAR)

Among the BBRG programs and activities is the BBRG Affiliated Visiting Scholars Program, designed to accommodate scholars who would like to spend a relatively short period of time in residence, ranging from one month to six months. The BBRG Affiliated Visiting Scholars Program is open to senior and junior faculty (tenured and untenured), visiting scholars, postdoctoral scholars and independent scholars, from the U.S. and abroad, whose work is centrally on women and gender. Applicants must have the Ph.D. in hand one year prior to the beginning of the appointment. The BBRG accepts applications for the BBRG Affiliated Visiting Scholars Program throughout the academic year.

Affiliated Visiting Scholars who are in residence for less than one month will have access to a shared office, and shared computer and internet access. Those who are here for periods of between one month and six months may have access to UC Berkeley library privileges, a shared office, and shared computer and internet access. Affiliated Visiting Scholars are invited to participate in the BBRG Scholars’ Writing/Reading Group, and may request that the BBRG organize a public presentation wherein the scholar would present her or his scholarly or creative work to the Berkeley campus community and the public, in a panel format along with other scholars, time permitting.

Affiliated Visiting Scholars provide their own financial support during the residency. There are fees associated with residency at BBRG. Please see the website for full details.

*Non-U.S. scholars will need a J-1 visa to visit BBRG. This paperwork takes three months to complete. Please plan accordingly.

FULL PROGRAM DETAILS AND APPLICATION INSTRUCTIONS CAN BE FOUND HERE: http://bbrg.berkeley.edu/affiliated.html

Women, Religion, and Space in China: Islamic Mosques & Daoist Temples, Catholic Convents & Chinese Virgins

2011-11-01T08:31:00.000-07:00

A new book by (WAGNet co-founder/chair) Maria Jaschok and Jingjin Shui is now available from Routledge. According to the publisher:

"What enables women to hold firm in their beliefs in the face of long years of hostile persecution by the Communist party/state? How do women withstand daily discrimination and prolonged hardship under a Communist regime which held rejection of religious beliefs and practices as a patriotic duty? Through the use of archival and ethnographic sources and of rich life testimonies, this book provides a rare glimpse into how women came to find solace and happiness in the flourishing, female-dominated traditions of local Islamic women’s mosques, Daoist nunneries and Catholic convents in China. These women passionately – often against unimaginable odds – defended sites of prayer, education and congregation as their spiritual home and their promise of heaven, but also as their rightful claim to equal entitlements with men."

Documentary on Chinese Woman Revolutionary Qiu Jin

2011-11-01T08:30:00.000-07:00

AUTUMN GEM explores the extraordinary life of Qiu Jin (1875-1907), a radical women's rights activist who attempted an armed uprising against the Qing Dynasty. She became the first female martyr for China's 1911 Revolution and is celebrated as a national heroine today.

The hour-long film contains interviews with scholars, archival materials, and readings of Qiu Jin's original writings in Chinese with English subtitles. It has screened at over 100 schools and educational venues, including Stanford University, UC Berkeley, UC Irvine, Princeton, Brown, Connecticut College, University of Maryland, University of British Columbia, and Australian National University.

As this year is the centenary of the 1911 Revolution that ended imperial rule in China, it's a great time to recognize the role of Qiu Jin in the country's transition to a modern nation. Please feel free to visit our website at http://autumn-gem.com for more information. Details on ordering the institutional DVD and study guide ($175) can be found here: http://autumn-gem.com/buy/

Women, Religion and Space in China: Publication and discount offer

2011-08-13T12:05:00.000-07:00

Women, Religion, and Space in China
Islamic Mosques & Daoist Temples, Catholic Convents & Chinese Virgins
Maria Jaschok and Jingjun Shui

Now available from Routledge

What enables women to hold firm in their beliefs in the face of long years of hostile persecution by the Communist party/state? How do women withstand daily discrimination and prolonged hardship under a Communist regime which held rejection of religious beliefs and practices as a patriotic duty? Through the use of archival and ethnographic sources and of rich life testimonies, this book provides a rare glimpse into how women came to find solace and happiness in the flourishing, female-dominated traditions of local Islamic women’s mosques, Daoist nunneries and Catholic convents in China. These women passionately – often against unimaginable odds – defended sites of prayer, education and congregation as their spiritual home and their promise of heaven, but also as their rightful claim to equal entitlements with men.

2011| 276 pages | Hardback: 978-0-415-87485-4| £80.00 £64

For 20% discount, use code ERJ67 when ordering on www.routledge.com

GENDER EQUALITY IN THE 21ST CENTURY – CONFUSION TO CONSENSUS

2011-08-13T12:03:00.000-07:00

CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT:
GENDER EQUALITY IN THE 21ST CENTURY – CONFUSION TO CONSENSUS
16-18 NOVEMBER 2011, Cumberland Lodge, The Great Park, Windsor SL4 2HP UK
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CONFERENCE DESCRIPTION:
The changes to men and women’s roles seen over the past sixty years have lead to a challenging paradox. While some argue that the lack of women in boardrooms and Parliament is evidence of continued discrimination against women, others argue that it is men, particularly white men, who are discriminated against in a newly ‘feminised’ world.

· Should we be introducing gender quotas or does this disadvantage men and risk undermining the efforts of those who succeed?

· Should systems be put in to place to create absolute equality, for example in relation to pensions and paternity leave, or should we work under the assumption that men and women are equal but different?

· What are the implications of assuming that all men and all women face the same obstacles irrespective of age, race, ethnicity, sexuality, class, ability or education?

· Should we be concerned about the prevalence of sexual images of both men and women and the messages they convey?

This conference aims to bring together interested parties in order to discuss these issues and more, in order to help identify ways to turn this confusion into consensus.

SPEAKERS INCLUDE:
Naomi Eisenstaedt, Former Director, Social Exclusion Task Force and Sure Start Unit
Yvonne Galligan, Professor of Comparative Politics and Director of the Centre for Advancement of Women in Politics, Queen's University, Belfast
Jen Lexmond, Senior Researcher, Demos
Katherine Rake OBE, Chief Executive, Family and Parenting Institute
Jessica Ringrose, Senior Lecturer in Sociology of Gender and Education Institute of Education, University of London
Sarah Veale, Head, Equality and Employment Rights Department, TUC

REGISTRATION:
Conference rates are inclusive of registration, accommodation in historic surroundings, and food from award-winning chefs.
Standard Rate: £360 Charitable/Academic Rate: £240 Student Rate (shared accommodation): £85

Please distribute this information to interested colleagues, if appropriate to do so.

Many thanks,

Janis Reeves,
Conference Co-ordinator, Cumberland Lodge
A Forum for Creative Debate
Cumberland Lodge
The Great Park
Windsor
Berkshire SL4 2HP

Tel: 01784 497794
Fax: 01784 497799
www.cumberlandlodge.ac.uk

CfP Querelles. Yearbook for Women's and Gender Studies

2011-07-10T13:36:00.000-07:00

Querelles. Yearbook for Women's and Gender Studies invites contributions
for Vol. 16(2011)

Submission Deadline: August 31st 2011

Topic: Multi-directional Transfers. Internationalization of Gender Studies

Edited by Doerte Segebart, Berlin, and Doris Wastl-Walter, Bern

Internationality is one of the almost unquestioned qualities of modern
academia, another “excellence criterion" next to innovation, visibility,
interdisciplinarity, and equal opportunity. Internationalization can be
just another criterion that must be met or it might increase the
pressure that so many already feel. However, it is possible that it
offers chances and risks that have yet to be sufficiently discussed.
Gender research and those various institutions working in the field of
gender studies are also involved in internationalization debates or
processes. Although the internationalization of gender studies is an
important step towards the discussion and application of feminist
approaches and practices on local, regional, national, and/or global
levels, its impacts remain under-researched.
Vol. 16(2011) of the Yearbook is addressed to these problems.
Contributions from all disciplines and all areas are welcome.

Please find the complete call for papers at:
http://www.querelles.de/index.php/qjb/pages/view/call2011en

With this edition the Yearbook also implements another innovation: the
conversion to an open access periodical. This process is financially
supported by Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft.

For further information about the topic, the Yearbook and to view the
submission guidelines, please visit http://www.querelles.de or contact
the editorial office anita.runge@fu-berlin.de

The 1st issue of the China in Comparative Perspective Book Review has been published

2011-07-10T10:52:00.000-07:00

Dear all,

The China in Comparative Perspective Network (CCPN) is the first of its kind in the world. As an 'advanced study on China' the CCPN encourages inter-disciplinary, inter-institutional, trans-national, and comparative approaches, and engages collaborative studies with academic, government, business and public on China in its Asian and global contexts. Its academic activities embrace a taught course, a journal, a laboratory for fostering researchers, a global network on networking, an International collaborative research base, a News and Events section, and a wide variety of Online resources.

CCPN is planning the publication of the Journal of China in Comparative Perspective (JCCP), which will publish original multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary research on contemporary China. It will be one of the first journals to publish articles that use the methodological lens of comparative analysis and research. The JCCP aims to bring out the best in academic scholarship, transcending traditional academic boundaries in an innovative manner.

Due to financial difficulties, the first issue of the JCCP was postponed until 2012. In the interim, the journal Bijiao: China in Comparative Perspective Book Review was created to publish reviews of books received by the CCPN. The response to the initial call for reviewers was overwhelming: within a few days, most of the books we proposed had been assigned. This testifies to the high scholarly demand for works that put the current developments in China in comparative perspective with other areas of the world.

Two books we proposed in the call for reviews proved to be particularly popular, as they address two of the hottest topics in public debate about China: democracy (Political Change in China: Comparisons with Taiwan) and the economic boom (Billions of Entrepreneurs: How China and India are Reshaping their Futures and Ours). In both cases, we decided to ask two authors to review the book in order to bring different opinions and perspectives to the table. We are also publishing here two review essays, the first covering a comparison of two books on civil society in Asia, and the second covering an in-depth review of the book Economic Reform in China and India.

We hope this issue will bring to the fore the richness of the current literature addressing China in a comparative perspective.

Geoffrey Gowlland

Editor

P.s. you can download it from CCPN website:
http://www2.lse.ac.uk/anthropology/research/CCPN/publications/Journals/bookReview/bookReview.aspx

It is also available in its Chinese site: http://www2.lse.ac.uk/anthropology/research/CCPN/ChineseSite/Publications/Journals/bookReviews/bookReview_cn.aspx

Call for Papers - Gender & Development - Business & Enterprise

2011-07-10T10:51:00.000-07:00

The March 2012 issue of the international journal Gender & Development, (published for Oxfam GB by Routledge/Taylor and Francis) will look at Business and Enterprise. There is now growing recognition that business can – and must - be part of the solution to global poverty and inequality. By enabling poor women and men to obtain decent employment, affordable goods, services and credit, as well as improving incomes through access to markets, businesses – the ‘private sector’ - can contribute to human development.

Development and feminist policymakers and practitioners, and researchers, including private sector workers themselves, are all invited to share insights in this Business and Enterprise issue of Gender & Development. The journal is essential reading for all concerned with gender-fair development. It is currently read in over 90 countries, and our content is published as an online and print journal at www.genderanddevelopment.org

A key focus in this issue will be the impact on development, gender equality and women’s rights of progressive businesses, which are integrating social and environmental responsibilities into their core business operations and decision-making processes, for example through Corporate Social Responsibility and Ethical Trading Initiatives. Article ideas might include:

· Examples of companies and jobs offering women ‘decent work’, discussing the reasons for these initiatives/charting their impact on livelihoods, working conditions, rights, equality.

· Have new business strategies such as Corporate Social Responsibility, etc, actually improved conditions for female workers? Have multi stakeholder initiatives such as the UK Ethical Trading Initiative delivered promised benefits for women workers? What can concrete case studies tell us about the impact of these on women's lives?

· Home-based workers – case studies of initiatives which focus on the particular challenges of decent work for women homeworkers

· What are the effects of efforts to make goods and services affordable to poor women and men and their dependents in developing countries, on the target markets, and on local economies?

Another focus in this issue will be the scope offered by small and medium enterprise to provide decent work for women in developing countries, and the barriers to entry and growth of women-owned businesses. We will focus on ways in which NGOs and businesses can support women to scale-up their operations, increase their bargaining power in markets, diversify the goods and services they offer, and gain access to the resources they need to turn their activities into successful enterprises. Ideas:

· Examples of development/business initiatives promoting female entrepreneurs in the small and medium-sized enterprise sector – particularly focusing on the following:

o Constraints and opportunities for women starting and growing SMEs

o Do women-owned SMEs perform differently from men-owned businesses, in terms of wages/working conditions for their employees, product lines, ways of doing business?

All articles need to be based on first-hand experience, or research on-the-ground in particular country contexts. We particularly welcome contributions from development practitioners with first-hand experience to share. Don’t worry if you think you are not a writer for a journal – we will help you with style and language! For full guidelines and more information on the journal visit www.genderanddevelopment.org

Please send a paragraph outlining your proposed idea for an article for this issue to csweetman@oxfam.org.uk, as soon as possible, and before the commissioning deadline: 8 August 2011. If we are able to offer space for your contribution, we will write to you by 15 August to say so. Commissioned articles will need to be completed for a deadline of 15 October 2011.=

8th European Feminist Research Conference

2011-06-22T08:26:00.001-07:00

CALL FOR PAPERS

Violence Revisited: Security, War and Peace Narrated

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>From May 17 until May 20, 2012 the 8th European Feminist Research Conference will take place in Budapest, Hungary. The conference is organized by the Central European University’s Department of Gender Studies, and ATGENDER, the European Association for Gender Research, Education and Documentation.

The overall conference theme is “The Politics of Location Revisited: Gender@2012”.

One strand for presenting papers is “Violence Revisited: Security, War and Peace Narrated”. For this strand we seek papers that address questions connected to different issues of wars, terrorism, extremism, security questions as well as peace studies. How are these issues narrated in the scholar literature? What are important historiographical narratives in the ways that the history of violence has and is being told? What are the gendered implications intrastate conflicts and political violence? What are the ways of renegotiating of gender relations in times of military conflict, collaboration, resistance and agency? Likewise, we are interested in empirical studies of different kinds that deal with the subject around the key words of conflict studies, genocide, trauma, violence, resistance. What are the transnational (global) networks and possibilities of pacifism? How does all this influence the politics, methods and ethics of feminist research? We are especially interested in “gendered” experiences shaped by particular practices and discourses of masculinity in conflict situations.

The strand is coordinated by Andrea Petö (petoa@ceu.hu),
Mimoza Pachuku (mimoza.pachuku@gmail.com) and
Nadezda Petrusenko (nadezda.petrusenko@sh.se).

Please contact us with questions or ideas.

More details about the conference: http://www.8thfeministconference.org/index.php?menu=3
Note that the deadline for the call for papers is July 31, 2011.

2011 LSE-PKU Summer School

2011-06-22T08:25:00.001-07:00

Note: Application deadline now extended to 30 June 2011. Applications may be considered after this date if space allows.

The 2011 LSE-PKU Summer School is a two-week programme based at Peking University, running from Monday 8 to Friday 19 August. Participants take one course from the list below, each designed and taught by members of academic staff from the London School of Economics and Political Science and Peking University, two of the world's leading institutions for teaching and research.

CCPN and LSE-PKU Summer School

The LSE academic staff, e.g. Professor Stuart Corbridge, Professor Danny Quah, Professor Michael Cox, Professor Arne Westa, Dr Fei Qin and Dr Bingchun Meng, also play important roles as Academic Committee Members |or Core Members |of China in Comparative Perspective Network (CCPN), a platform for promoting LSE China related studies and activities.

Participants

The LSE-PKU Summer School| attracts students and professionals from around the world, over 275 participants of 52 nationalities in 2010. More than a quarter of participants are graduate professionals working in a wide range of related fields, including business, finance, public policy, international affairs, NGOs, media and law. The students who attended in 2010 came from over 120 university and other higher education institutions in 27 countries.

Courses

Wealth, Well-Being and the Dynamics of Development New
China's Economic Growth, Investment and Foreign Trade
The Global Economy
Power Shift? The Decline of the West and the New International Relations of the 21st Century New
New China: New Asia - International Relations of East Asia
Post-Crisis: What Next for the International Financial and Monetary Systems? New
Inside the Dragon: Politics and Policy in 21st Century China New
A Rule of Law? The Dynamics of Chinese Commercial Law in an International Context New
Management, Entrepreneurship and Global Leadership
Global Media Industries New

The courses total 48 contact hours (usually 36 hours of lectures and 12 hours of classes), and are formally assessed to allow the award of an official transcript. Many previous participants have been able to receive academic credit for the programme from their home institutions. All courses are taught in English, and there is the opportunity for participants to undertake ten hours beginners Chinese language tuition alongside the programme.

Costs and application

The programme tuition fee is £1050, with a discounted rate of £950 available to any current students. A £40 application fee, transport and accommodation costs are additional.

Accommodation of this standard is likely to cost around £450 for fourteen nights. It is recommended that participants budget approximately £300 for meals and other additional expenses during the LSE-PKU Summer School.

Applications can be submitted on line:

http://www2.lse.ac.uk/study/summerSchools/LSEPKUProgramme/HowToApply/Onlineapp.aspx|

Please refer to programme website |for lots of more detailed information.

Organization and contacts

The LSE-PKU Summer School is jointly administered by the Academic Partnerships Office at LSE and the Office of International Relations at Peking University.

Address:

LSE-PKU Summer School Office
W400, Level 4, Tower 3
London School of Economics
and Political Science (LSE)
Houghton Street
London WC2A 2AE
UK
Email: lse-pku.programme@lse.ac.uk|
Telephone: +44 (0)20 7955 6455
Websites: http://www.lse.ac.uk/LSEPKUSummerSchool |

Conference: Changing approaches to gender, sexuality and violence in contemporary China

2011-05-18T07:47:00.000-07:00

The University of Bristol, Centre for Gender and Violence Research presents:

'Changing approaches to gender, sexuality and violence in contemporary China - issues and effects'

9 June 2011
University of Bristol - 10G4/5 Woodland Road

The conference focuses on rapidly emerging areas of social change and debate in contemporary China, examining tensions and complexities of Chinese experiences and approaches to gender, sexuality and violence.

10.00- 10.15
Welcome & introduction - Professor Marianne Hester (University of Bristol) and Dr Alessandra Aresu (Universities of Bristol & Westminster, UK)

10.15 - 10.30
Opening speech - Professor Harriet Evans (University of Westminster, UK).

10.30 - 11.15
'Gender and child maltreatment in China and UK' - Professor Marianne Hester (University of Bristol, UK)

11.15 - 11.30
Coffee

11.30 - 12.15
'Sexual abuse against children in China' - Professor Chen Jingqi (Peking University, China)

12.15 - 13.00
'Asking children about abuse in China' - Professor Bu Wei, (Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, China)

13.00 - 13.45
Lunch

13.45 - 14.30
'"Don't blame yourself, learn how to protect yourself!': Sexuality and violence prevention in China' - Dr Alessandra Aresu (Universities of Bristol & Westminster, UK)

14.30 - 15.15
Gender and psychological violence in Chinese intimate relationships' - Dr Ye Qihua (Wuhan Zhongnan University, China)

15.15 - 15.30
Tea

15.30 - 16.15
'China remasculinizing: postsocialist symbolic violence against women?' - Dr Derek Hird (University of Westminster, UK)

16.15 - 16.45
Commentary and close - Professor Harriet Evans.

All welcome

Places are limited. Please register by emailing melanie.turner@bristol.ac.uk mentioning "China Conference".

Poster Power: Images from Mao's China, Then and Now

2011-05-18T07:44:00.001-07:00

If you're in London, you might be interested in the free exhibition Poster Power: Images from Mao's China, Then and Now at the University of Westminster, from 11 May to 14 July 2011, featuring selected examples from the University's collection of 1950s-1970s Chinese posters, plus modern artifacts and digital installations inspired by them. More information available at http://www.westminster.ac.uk/about/news-and-events/events/2011/poster-power

Scholarships & Fee Waivers - China Media Centre (Westminster University)

2011-05-05T09:10:00.000-07:00

The China Media Centre expects to be able to offer support to PhD candidates in the course of this year in the form either of scholarships (approximately 15,000gbp plus tuition) or tuition fee waivers of three years' duration.

Applicants must fill all the normal conditions required of aspirant candidates by the University of Westminster and detailed on the website.

In addition, candidates will normally be expected to have

(1) An academic MA, or be prepared to undertake an MA
(2) A research proposal related to China and to the general area known as CCI (Creative and Culture Industries) of which media comprise a part.

The CMC can offer unrivalled access to Chinese organisations concerned with media, Chinese language training where necessary and membership of the UK’s leading media research unit, CAMRI, with its scholars knowledgable about India, the Arab world, Africa and of course the UK.

If you are interested in applying, please send your initial proposal and CV to us.

Contact

Alja Kranjec (BA Sino Japanology & Sinology, Ljubljana)
China Media Centre,
University of Westminster,
London HA1 3TP
Email: a.kranjec@westminster.ac.uk; cmc-office@westminster.ac.uk
Telephone: +44 (0) 20 8357 7354
Fax: +44 (0) 20 8357 7358
Website: www.chinamediacentre.org

CFP: The 4th International Forum for Contemporary Chinese Studies (IFCCS4)

2011-05-05T09:07:00.000-07:00

The 4th International Forum for Contemporary Chinese Studies (IFCCS4)

Theme: China: Prospects and Challenges to 2020
Date: 11-13 September 2011
Venue: Sir Clive Granger Building, University of Nottingham, UK
Organizer: School of Contemporary Chinese Studies (with its China Policy Institute and Nottingham Confucius Institute), The University of Nottingham
Co-organisers:
Asia Research Centre, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
School of Sociology and Anthropology (SSA), Sun Yat-sen University, China
Sponsors: The Globalisation and Economic Policy Centre (GEP)
Hanban / Confucius Institute Headquarters
China in Comparative Perspective Network (CCPN) and Confucius Institute for Business London (CIBL), LSE

Previous IFCCS conferences, held at the Nottingham in 2008 and 2009 and in Xi’an in 2010, attracted around 200 delegates from 18 countries, including Chinese State Councillor LIU Yandong at the 2008 event and Mr MA Jiantang, Commissioner of the National Bureau of Statistics of China at the 2010 event. The organiser of the IFCCS conference series is the University of Nottingham’s School of Contemporary China Studies, a leading centre for research, teaching and policy analysis on contemporary China in Europe. With the cooperation of the Asia Research Centre, London School of Economics and Political Science, and the School of Sociology and Anthropology, Sun Yat-sen University, the fourth annual conference of the IFCCS will be held on 11 – 13 September 2011 at the University of Nottingham, UK.

1. Aims and Objectives

China’s 12th Five Year Plan (2011-2015) represents a possible turning point in its economic policies from a growth-driven to a more balanced development strategy, paying serious attention to the country’s structural changes, equality and the population’s quality of life. China is aiming to become an ‘all-round Xiaokang Society’ by 2020, meaning that everyone will be able to enjoy the comfortable lifestyle of a middle-income economy. By that time, China may overtake the US to be the world’s largest economy as well.

Serious questions remain regarding China in the context of the world economy. On the one hand, the world community is highly uncertain, even anxious, about how China will use its increasing influence as a leading great power. On the other hand, China itself is often frustrated by the Western mistrust of its intention to ‘develop peacefully‘. Internal developments in China’s trade, finance and monetary policies, food security, energy consumption, environmental protection and population movement can have a tremendous impact on the global economy, while changes and disruptions in the rest of the world could seriously destabilise China’s domestic dynamics or even threaten its sustainable growth.

Hence, today we have to analyse China’s development in a global context, and we have to take the China factor into account when considering global issues. China and the world need to strive towards a mutual understanding if we are to see a sustainable peace and development globally, but to do so, great challenges exist. How should the world understand the domestic and international challenges China now faces? How can the world reach an understanding of China’s values and core interests? What should China do to promote such an understanding? How should China shoulder more global responsibilities as its power and capacity increase? How can China solve its domestic problems without having a negative impact on other countries? How can China take on more international obligations as it struggles to solve its own domestic problems? How should the world engage a China that is contributing to the global imbalances of trade and finance?

The fourth annual conference of the International Forum for Contemporary Chinese Studies (IFCCS4) invites scholars to address all these critical issues. Our main objectives are:
• To exchange views on the challenges that China faces and its relations with the international community;
• To facilitate critical a review of the experiences and lessons learned regarding China’s reform and development;
• To develop interdisciplinary communication, interaction and cooperation in the areas of China’s rise and international relations, low-carbon economy, internal and international migration, civil society and governance;
• To explore the methodological issues behind the development of Contemporary Chinese Studies;
• To build collaborative networks in the study of contemporary China.

Each of the previous IFCCS conferences, held at the Nottingham in 2008 and 2009 and in Xi’an in 2010, attracted around 200 delegates from 18 countries, including Chinese State Councillor LIU Yandong at the 2008 event and Mr MA Jiantang, Commissioner of the National Bureau of Statistics of China at the 2010 event. The organiser of the IFCCS conference series is the University of Nottingham’s School of Contemporary Chinese Studies, the most dynamic centre for research, teaching and policy analysis on contemporary China in Europe.

With the cooperation of the Asia Research Centre, London School of Economics and Political Science, and the School of Sociology and Anthropology, Sun Yat-sen University, the fourth annual conference of the IFCCS will be held on 11th – 13th September 2011 at the University of Nottingham, UK.

2. Themes and panels

Scholars are invited to submit papers on the following themes:
• China’s Economic Performance and Challenges to 2020
• China’s Contribution to Global Environmental Protection
• Citizenship, Civil Society and Government Reform
• Accommodating China as a Global Power

The above themes will be addressed by a combination of plenary sections for keynote speeches, roundtable and parallel discussions in the following topics:
• “China experience” or “China model” – economic, political or social-culture?
• Civil society and good governance
• Chinese data, fieldwork and comparative perspective
• Soft power and EU-China relationship
• Publication in top international journals
• Network and relationship studies on China
• Public goods, policies and management
• University engagement with Chinese community
• PhD colloquium

3. Guest Speakers

The following leading figures and prominent scholars will be invited to address the conference, such as:
• Mr Xiaoming Liu, H.E. Chinese Ambassador to the UK
• Professor Tiejun Wen, Renmin University
• Professor Danny Quah, London School of Economics
• Professor Yang Yao, Peking University
• Professor Peter Van der Veer, Max Planck Institute

4. A PhD colloquium

PhD students working on issues related to contemporary China are invited to submit proposals for a PhD colloquium to be held alongside the main conference.
A review panel will choose the three best PhD papers; a prize of £300 will be awarded by SCCS to the authors of each of the three best papers.

5. Conference Organising Committee:

Chair: Professor Shujie Yao, Head of School of Contemporary Chinese Studies,
(SCCS), University of Nottingham (UoN)

Members:
Professor Athar Hussain, Director of Asia Research Centre, LSE
Professor Daming Zhou, Deputy Director of SSA, Sun Yat-sen University
Professor Steve Tsang, Director of China Policy Institute, UoN
Dr Bin Wu, Senior Research Fellow, SCCS, UoN
Dr Zhengxu Wang, Deputy Director of China Policy Institute, UoN
Dr Xiangqun Chang, Research fellow and Coordinator of China in Comparative Perspective Network (CCPN), LSE
Dr Jing Zhang, Lecturer, SCCS, UoN.

Conference secretary General, Dr Bin WU (bin.wu@nottingham.ac.uk)

PhD Colloquium organiser, Dr Jing ZHANG (j.zhang@nottingham.ac.uk)

Conference administrator, Jenny Hall (jenny.hall@nottingham.ac.uk)

6. Outcomes

The Academic Advisory Committee will be in charge of selecting suitable topics and papers prior to the conference. Selected papers will be published as working papers as part of the China Policy Institute’s online Discussion Paper Series, considered for compilation into edited volumes by a leading publisher such as Routledge, and for special issues of leading international journals such as Asian Survey and the Journal of Contemporary China.

7. Registration and Sponsorship

The standard registration fee is £80. A discounted rate of £60 is available for external scholars who register before 15 July 2011. The registration fee for PhD students is £40 (please indicate PhD status on the application form).

8. Deadlines

Submission of abstracts 31 May 2011
Notification of acceptance 30 June 2011
Early registration (online or by email) 15 July 2011
Submission of full papers 31 July 2011
Draft programme issued 31 August 2011

9. Contact

For abstract/paper submission: ifccs4@nottingham.ac.uk
For general enquiries: Dr Bin Wu, bin.wu@nottingham.ac.uk
For local information: Ms Jenny Hall, ifccs4@nottingham.ac.uk
Web address: www.nottingham.ac.uk/chinese

Download

Click HERE to download the Call for Paper
Click HERE to download the Call for Paper of "China in comparative perspective" panel
Click HERE to download the Call for Paper of "Network and relationship studies on China" panel

Related webpages

Click HERE to go to the Official website
Click HERE to see it at Asia Research Centre website
Click HERE to see the Chinese version at CCPN website
Click HERE to see it on Sun Yat-Sun University website

Call for Papers: Querelles

2011-05-05T09:05:00.000-07:00

the editors of the 2011 issue of "Querelles" on "Multi-directional Transfers. Internationalization of Gender Studies" are looking for contributions also on China. Please see their CFP at http://www.querelles.de/index.php/qjb/pages/view/call2011en

China Postgraduate Network Annual Conference @ London School of Economics, June 30 and July 1, 2011

2011-04-13T08:51:00.000-07:00

The Fourth Annual Conference of the China Postgraduate Network will be held at the London School of Economics on June 30 and July 1, 2011.

The China Postgraduate Network is an inter-disciplinary network of graduate, postgraduate and postdoctoral scholars engaged in all aspects of Chinese Studies at British universities. We are affiliated to the British Association of Chinese Studies (BACS), a non-political organisation whose members are drawn from the academic community and also industry, the media and government.

The conference deliberately has no particular theme, and welcomes proposals for panels or individual papers on any topic relating to the study of China. Participation is open to all disciplines, including - but not limited to - anthropology, archeology, art, business, economics, environmental studies, geography, history, international relations, linguistics, literature, philosophy, politics, public health, religious studies and sociology.

Accommodation for the duration of the conference will be provided for those travelling from outside London to present papers, and extended stays in central London at extremely competitive rates can be arranged for participants.

Further information and the online application form for submission of abstracts may be found at:

LSE.AC.UK/CPN

Note that the deadline for online submission of abstracts is May 4, 2011.

Please address any queries to mail@dwroberts.com.

Ford Foundation China gender and sexuality call for proposals

2011-04-08T14:35:00.000-07:00

Ford Foundation Request for Proposals (Closed April 24th)

Building capacity in gender and sexuality education: developing training material
and running trainings of trainers

Purpose: This request for proposals – “Building capacity in gender and sexuality
education: developing training material and running trainings of trainers” – aims to
support educators to take on the realities of young people in China today. Falling
under the Ford Foundation China ‘Sexuality and Reproductive Health Education’
program, the overall goal is to strengthen the capacity of educators to improve
gender and health outcomes for young people in China.

Currently, young people learn about sexuality and reproductive health through a
range of channels such as: the internet, media, fiction, peers, parents, schools,
colleges and universities. Content varies. Some messages are more empowering, some
more about control. Some challenge gender and sexuality stereotypes, others
reinforce these. Some educational initiatives use participatory approaches; others
are more top-down. With this request for proposals, the Ford China office Sexuality
and Reproductive Health Education (SRHE) aims to support more empowering,
participatory and gender aware SRHE which responds to young people’s realities and
ultimately improves their well-being.

Call for papers - Culture and the State in Contemporary China workshop

2011-04-08T14:33:00.000-07:00

Postgraduate Workshop on Culture and the State in Contemporary China
Contemporary China Studies Programme, University of Oxford
3 June 2011

This workshop is organized by postgraduate students and seeks to promote interdisciplinary dialogue between researchers working on different aspects of contemporary Chinese culture from the fields of politics, sociology, anthropology, art history, history, literature, cultural studies, etc. The workshop intends to provide a platform for postgraduates to meet, share ideas, and receive feedback from faculty members and peers.

Suggestions of possible topics/approaches:
* Intellectual culture, cultural theory, cultural critique and ideology
* Arts and visual culture: literature, cinema, theatre, design, the creative arts
* Media culture: the Internet, virtual networks, blogs, online activism
* Consumer culture, popular culture, urban culture, leisure, cultural economy
* Culture, power, urban spaces: cityscape, urban planning, stagings of power, museums studies, public spaces
* Cultural tourism, ethnic culture, regional culture
* Globalization, transnational culture, cultural identity

Other topics or approaches are encouraged. Historical and cross-national comparisons are welcome, although contemporary China (or at least post-1949 China) should be the main focus.

The one-day workshop is sponsored by the Contemporary China Studies Programme, University of Oxford and will take place at Oxford on 3 June 2011. Interested participants please submit your abstract of no more than 500 words to Karita Kan, Department of Politics and International Relations (karitakan@gmail.com<mailto:karitakan@gmail.com>) by 25 April 2011. Successful applicants will be notified by 29 April and are expected to submit the full paper for a presentation of 15-20 minutes by 20 May.

--
Karita Ching-Yeung Kan
Department of Politics and International Relations
St Antony's College
University of Oxford

CFP: Gender studies in the age of globalization

2011-04-08T14:28:00.000-07:00

GENDER STUDIES

IN THE AGE OF GLOBALIZATION

June 2-3, 2011

(Conference venue: Spiru Haret University, Faculty of Letters,

13 Ion Ghica Street, Bucharest)

Invited speakers:

Anna Babka (University of Vienna)

Efstratia Oktapoda (Université Paris-Sorbonne, Paris IV)

Ileana Orlich (Arizona State University)

Najib Redouane (California State University, Long Beach)

The rise of gender studies at the end of the 1980s and all through the 1990s coincided with the acceleration of the globalization process made possible mainly by the rise of the new democracies and the new permeability of borders in a postcolonial and postcom- munist world, as well as by the unprecedented impact of the revolution in communication and information technology, with the Internet and the world wide web transforming the world into what McLuhan described as “the global village” (1962).

Using “gender studies” as an umbrella term, which has come to include women’s studies, men and masculinity studies and queer studies, the aim of the Conference is to examine from a variety of disciplinary and interdisciplinary perspectives:

1) gendered aspects of the process of globalization, such as the gendered experiences of the relation between the local/ the national and the global, transnational processes and gendered borders;

2) various ways in which globalization has impacted the construction of gender identities and sexualities, the intersection of gender with other categories of identity such as race, sexuality, age, class and nationality, the construction and representation of ‘masculinity’ and ‘femininity’ as identity categories, gender relations as strategies and counter-strategies of power, gender regimes, the relation of gender to social and cultural institutions;

3) the performativity of gender, gender politics, and the representation of gender in culture, literature, visual arts, film, popular culture, the media. The conference aims also to discuss new developments in gender theories and new modes of gender knowledge and critique under the impact of globalization.

We invite proposals from a wide range of areas including the humanities – literature, law, history, philosophy, religion, and visual and performing arts (including music and theatre), anthropology, area studies, communication studies, cultural studies, and linguis- tics, social sciences, behavioral sciences, science and technology, medicine and public health, democracy studies.

Presentations should be in English or French, and will be allocated 20 minutes each, plus 10 minutes for discussion. Prospective participants are invited to submit abstracts of up to 100 words (including 5 keywords) in Word format, with an indication of their insti- tutional affiliation, and a telephone number and e-mail address at which they can be contacted.

Proposals for workshops and panel discussions (to be organized by the participants) will be also considered.

All accepted papers submitted in English or French will be published in a conference proceedings book edited by Addleton Academic Publishers (New York)

Deadline for proposals: April 30, 2011.

Please send proposals (and inquiries) to genderstudies.conference@gmail.com

UN women internship for Chinese students

2011-04-08T14:22:00.000-07:00

United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN Women) China office is looking for a bilingual (Chinese and English speaking) intern that works from May throughout August. The intern will be involved in the ongoing process of each development project that UN Women is working on and deal with multi-administrative tasks such as organizing workshops, ensuring logistics and translating, etc.

Please kindly note that this is full-time internship and candidates have to be enrolled in a graduate programme to be eligible to apply.

If interested, please send your CV and letter of motivation to Ms. Guo huiping.guo@public.un.org.cn<mailto:huiping.guo@public.un.org.cn> before 10th, April, 2011. Please kindly indicate your time of availability and briefly explains on the letter of motivation the biggest gender issues in China.

Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted for interview.

<http://www.unwomen.org/>

cfp Gender, sexuality and political economy

2011-03-07T05:29:00.001-08:00

Call for Papers ‘Gender, Sexuality and Political Economy’ -
An interdisciplinary workshop at Manchester Metropolitan Univ., UK 24th-25th May, 2011

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Confirmed Keynote Speakers:

Prof. Floya Anthias (Roehampton University, UK)
Prof. Rosemary Hennessy (Rice University, USA)
Prof. Sylvia Walby (Univ. of Lancaster, UK)
Dr. Jon Binnie (Manchester Metropolitan University, UK)
Dr. Encarnación Gutiérrez Rodríguez (University of Manchester, UK)

Workshop Themes:

This workshop aims to explore politics and cultures of gender, feminism(s) and sexuality from the angle of political economy. We see a divide between approaches which emphasise human action and agency and those focussing on persistent or ‘structural’ inequalities. While gender inequalities are more commonly theorised from within structuralist or materialist frameworks, less work has been undertaken exploring power relations around sexuality in connection with questions of political economy. This has implications concerning how to theorise strategies for change. We consider gender and sexuality as distinct yet closely connected categories. Yet in many sociological approaches they still appear as separate, with attempts to explain gender inequalities often marginalising heteronormativity, and work on sexualities having little to say about subordination of women. In this workshop, we would like to bring work on gender and sexuality in dialogue. We hope the workshop will explore possible complementarities and overlaps (or incommensurabilities) between approaches within feminism(s), women’s studies, transgender studies, lesbian, gay, bisexual and queer studies. Our aim is to strengthen understanding of the current conditions for collaborative agency and coalitional struggles. The current socio-economic crisis of course provides an urgent context for discussion of such questions and for renewed interest in 'older' sociological questions and preoccupations. The focus on the political economy could be regional (in any part of the world) or global. We would like to create a space for, among other, a debate of cuts in state expenditure, neoliberal programmes and policies, growth in class and socio-economically-based inequalities, resource wars and conflicts.

-- Please send an abstract of not more than 300 words to:
Susie Jacobs (s.jacobs@mmu.ac.uk) and Christian Klesse (c.klesse@mmu.ac.uk). The deadline for submission of abstracts is Monday, 14th March, 2011.

The workshop will run for 1 1/2 days on 24th and 25th May at Manchester Metropolitan University, All Saints Campus. The conference fee is £ 40 (£ 15 for postgraduate students), which includes coffees/teas and lunch on the second day.

We look forward to hearing from you –

Susie Jacobs and Christian Klesse
Department of Sociology, Manchester Metropolitan University M15 6LL

CALL FOR PAPERS -EDUCATION AND GENDER - UNIVERSITY OF PORTO MAY 2011

2011-02-04T07:51:00.001-08:00

Call for Papers
5th EDUC 8 WORKSHOP:
Why does gender still matter in education?Contributions and challenges for educational research June 29, 30 and July 1 2011

Keynote speakers
Elisabeth de Sotelo from University of Koblenz-Landau (Germany) Helena Costa Araújo, University of Porto (Portugal)

INTRODUCTION
Within the next Educ8 group workshop we want to focus on gender inequalities in education and youth research. Discussion of gender inequality in education is not new and has been on the research and political agenda of democratic countries for years; nonetheless equality is still not achieved. As much as formal and non formal education, it is known invisibilization of women at the official curricula, gender stereotypes at text books, girls achievements and boys academic failure at schools, difficulties by women teachers to access to decision posts within school (head team) and training in gender equality in education
(coeducation) also new emphases of gender issues are emerging as violence in school, multiple inequalities or intercultural topics.

ORGANIZATION OF THE WORKSHOP
This workshop will be organized in different sessions:
* Lectures delivered by keynote speakers
* Paper discussions
* Open topic - burning issues about research questions

PARTICIPANTS:
The workshop is aimed at doctoral students and early career researchers interested in relationships between research and policies. The workshop structure will offer the opportunity for dialogue with leading researchers in a supportive environment and will provide an opportunity for discussing current educational priorities.

ACCOMMODATION AND FEES
The workshop fee is 150 Euros. Fees include two lunches, coffee and welcome dinner. These costs do not include accommodation and travel expenses to Porto, which you should plan on your own. We will give information about accommodation which can be booked through us .

EXTENDED DEADLINE February 15th

For more information: http://www.york.ac.uk/res/educ8group/CFP_2011Portugal.pdf

UC BERKELEY CALL FOR CANDIDATES

2011-01-31T03:20:00.001-08:00

The BEATRICE BAIN RESEARCH GROUP (BBRG) is the University of California, Berkeley's critical feminist research center, established in 1986 to support and coordinate feminist scholarship across disciplines. The BBRG is particularly interested in enabling research on gender in its intersections with sexuality, race, ethnicity, class, nation, religion, postcoloniality, globalization and transnational feminisms.

This announcement concerns two of its programs:

1. THE BBRG SCHOLARS-IN-RESIDENCE PROGRAM
(APPLICATIONS ARE DUE BY MARCH 15, 2011)

Among its programs and activities, the BBRG has a Scholars-in-Residence Program. Under the auspices of this Program, each year the BBRG hosts a new group of approximately ten competitively selected scholars from the U.S. and abroad for a period of one academic year.

The BBRG Scholars-in-Residence Program is open to senior and junior faculty (tenured and untenured), visiting scholars, postdoctoral scholars and independent scholars, from any country, whose work is centrally on gender and women. Applicants must have received their Ph.D. at least one year prior to the projected beginning of their residency at BBRG.

The BBRG provides its Scholars-in-Residence with the following: visiting scholar status at University of California, Berkeley; access to University of California, Berkeley libraries and library privileges; a library orientation session customized for the purposes of the Scholar In Residence's research; the possibility of University of California, Berkeley student research assistants; shared office space; shared computer and internet access; a BBRG Scholars Writing/Reading Group which meets bi-monthly; and a forum for BBRG Scholars-in-Residence to present their scholarly or creative work to the Berkeley campus community and the public.

BBRG is non-stipendiary, and thus Scholars-in-Residence provide their own financial support during the residency. There are fees associated with residency at BBRG. Please see the website for full details.

FULL PROGRAM DETAILS AND APPLICATION INSTRUCTIONS CAN BE FOUND HERE: http://bbrg.berkeley.edu/scholarprog.html

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2. THE BBRG AFFILIATED SCHOLARS PROGRAM
(APPLICATIONS ARE ACCEPTED THROUGHOUT THE YEAR)

Among the BBRG programs and activities is the BBRG Affiliated Visiting Scholars Program, designed to accommodate scholars who would like to spend a relatively short period of time in residence, ranging from two weeks to one semester. The BBRG Affiliated Visiting Scholars Program is open to senior and junior faculty (tenured and untenured), visiting scholars, postdoctoral scholars and independent scholars, from the U.S. and abroad, whose work is centrally on women and gender. Applicants must have the Ph.D. in hand one year prior to the beginning of the appointment. The BBRG accepts applications for the BBRG Affiliated Visiting Scholars Program throughout the academic year.

Affiliated Visiting Scholars who are in residence for less than one month will have access to a shared office, and shared computer and internet access. Those who are here for periods of between one month and six months may have access to UC Berkeley library privileges, a shared office, and shared computer and internet access. Affiliated Visiting Scholars are invited to participate in the BBRG Scholars’ Writing/Reading Group, and may request that the BBRG organize a public presentation wherein the scholar would present her or his scholarly or creative work to the Berkeley campus community and the public, in a panel format along with other scholars.

Affiliated Visiting Scholars provide their own financial support during the residency. There are fees associated with residency at BBRG. Please see the website for full details.

*Non-U.S. scholars will need a J-1 visa to visit BBRG. This paperwork takes three months to complete. Please plan accordingly.

FULL PROGRAM DETAILS AND APPLICATION INSTRUCTIONS CAN BE FOUND HERE: http://bbrg.berkeley.edu/affiliated.html

University of Warwick PhD studentship (overseas fees only)

2011-01-31T03:17:00.000-08:00

Full-time 3-year PhD Studentship

(Overseas Fees only, maintenance not included)

Jointly offered by the History Department, the Global History and Culture Centre, and the ERC Project ‘Europe’s Asian Centuries, Trading Eurasia 1600-1830’

The deadline for applications is 25 February 2011.

Applications from students are invited for a 3-year full-time overseas fees only PhD studentship commencing in Autumn 2011. The successful candidate will work with Dr Anne Gerritsen to explore a topic related to the work of the Project. He or she will register for a PhD research degree in Global History. This studentship offers its holder a unique opportunity to work with experts in global history and culture, and to develop expertise and a professional profile.

The successful candidate should

· have a good undergraduate degree and be in possession of a Masters degree in History or related field;

· be admitted for the PhD in the Graduate School of the University of Warwick;

· be interested in developing a research project in one of the following areas: the material culture of global connections; the visual and material culture of late imperial China; the trade and consumption of Asian commodities; the production and/or consumption of porcelain in the early modern world; the history of late imperial China in global perspective;

· be able to conduct research and writing in English.

Global History and Culture Centre (www.warwick.ac.uk/go/globalhistory):

The GHCC is an interdisciplinary research centre set within the History Department. It has an active membership from History, English, Art History, Sociology, Economics and Politics. The GHCC provides a focus for the interdisciplinary study of global history and culture at an international level. It encourages the development of research projects in the field of Global History and Culture that will benefit both the University and the wider academic community. Its activities include symposia, conferences, day schools and seminar series; honorary visiting fellowships, postgraduate exchanges and postdoctoral fellowships. It runs a regular seminar series and hosts a number of externally-funded research projects including ‘Global Jingdezhen: Local Manufactures and Early Modern Global Connections’ (AHRC) ‘Everyday Technology in Monsoon Asia, 1880-1960’ (ESRC), ‘Chinese Cities: a Comparative View’ (ESRC), ‘Connected Histories / Connected Sociologies: Rethinking the Global’ (ESRC), ‘Kenya: Between Democracy and Authoritarianism’ (British Academy)’, ‘Global Textiles’ (Leverhulme Trust), and ‘Writing the History of the Global: Challenges for the 21st Century’ (British Academy).

The Project:

This is a major European Research Council Fellowship project whose goal is to bring to bear global perspectives and interdisciplinary method on histories of industrialisation, consumer society and material culture. It investigates the key connector that transformed the early modern world: the long-distance trade between Asia and Europe in material goods and culture. That trade stimulated Europe’s consumer and industrial revolutions, re-orientating the Asian trading world to European priorities. With a team consisting of the project leader, 3 postdoctoral fellows, a museums advisor, a PhD student, and a project administrator, it investigates the long-distance trade between Asia and Europe (seventeenth to early nineteenth centuries) in material goods and culture. This project addresses the part played by mercantile with Asia in the early modern period as a fundamental origin of the Industrial Revolution.

The Award:

The studentship is funded full-time for 3 years, although the award does not include a maintenance award. The award covers the postgraduate fees only for an overseas (Non-EU) student. For 2011/12, the fees have been set at £12,325.

Application:

Please send the following documentation by the deadline below by email to Mrs Amy Evans amy.evans@warwick.ac.uk , or by post to Mrs Amy Evans, Global History and Culture Centre, Department of History, University of Warwick, Coventry CV4 7AL.

1. letter of application

2. research proposal

3. CV

4. Writing sample

Informal inquiries about the studentship may be directed to Dr Anne Gerritsen (A.T.Gerritsen@Warwick.ac.uk)

The deadline for applications is 25 February 2011.

For details: see http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/history/people/staff_index/agerritsen/studentship/

LSE China Development Forum 2011 - Registration Deadline 16th Jan

2011-01-13T06:44:00.000-08:00

LSE China Development Forum 2011 - China's Global Integration
Date: 22nd of January, 2011
Time: 9:00am to 18pm
Place: London School of Economics & Political Science, Old Theatre
Website: www . lsecds . org/cdf

A reminder to all: Deadline for Registration: 16th Jan 2011 Subject to Availability. Only limited places left.

The LSE China Development Forum is a prestigious annual conference organized by the LSE China Development Society in the aim of creating a platform for students, academics and professionals to exchange opinions on critical subjects related to China, bridging China and the rest of the world through in-depth discussions and debates, and serving the interest of our forum attendants by providing a range of learning, networking and career opportunities that connects global experts with future leaders.

LSE China Development Forum 2011 - "China's Global Interaction" will address the issues arising from China's increasing international responsibilities and involvement. This year, we have seen attacks on China's foreign currency policy, China's economy surpassing that of Japan, the debacle arising in Copenhagen climate summit, China's strained relationship with South Asia and many other interesting spectacle, thus an examination on the possible shift in the paradigm of China's integration with the world provide an exciting platform for discussion.

Notable Speakers Include:

Liu Xiaoming, China’s Ambassador to the UK
Amir Dossal, Former Executive Director of UN Office of Partnership
Li Junfeng, Deputy Director, Energy Research Institute, NDRC
Neil Hirst, Former Director of Global Energy Dialogue, IEA
Jeffrey Currie, Global Head of Commodity Research, Goldman Sachs
Bret Clayton, Group Executive Business Support & Operations, Rio Tinto
James Kynge, China Bureau Chief, Financial Times
John Allen, Chairman & CEO, Greater China Corporation
Jonathan Woetzel, Co-founder, Mckinsey & Company Shanghai Office
Zhang Weiguo, Former Director General, Department of International Affairs, CSRC

For the full speaker list and conference programme, please find the attached pdf informational file or visit our website www . lsecds . org/cdf.

We would like to warmly welcome you to join us in this thought provoking and intellectually stimulating day and explore what lies ahead for China global integration. Due to expected high demand, we would encourage potential participants to register and confirm their place as early as possible to avoid disappointment. Group discount purchase is also available on our online system. Registration and ticketing is done electronically through www . lsecds . org/cdf.

We look forward to meeting you at the CDF2011

CFP: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Violence and Politics

2011-01-13T06:43:00.000-08:00

Dr. Cristina Flesher Fominaya is organizing a section on Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Violence and Politics, ECPR General Conference Reykjavik 2011, and would be most grateful if you could circulate the information below to any interested parties. The deadline for online submission to any of the panels is February 1, 2011. ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

The link to the section, panels, and conference page is below:

http://www.ecprnet.eu/conferences/general_conference/reykjavik/section_details.asp?sectionid=47

Here is the description of the section:

Section ID: 47
Section Title: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Violence and Politics
Panels: 5 - List of Panels

Section Chair(s)

Name: Cristina Flesher Fominaya (c.flesher@abdn.ac.uk)
Institution: ABERDEEN, University of

Section Abstract

Violence has been at the center of political studies for centuries. Despite the increasing democratization of States across the world, political violence continues to pose one of the most pressing challenges today. Within the social sciences, political science and sociological approaches to violence and politics have been enriched by insights from cultural studies, gender studies and memory studies, among others, yet the treatment of political violence remains at the margins of many disciplines, and is often treated within narrow disciplinary boundaries. This section seeks to bring the theoretical and empirical analysis of political violence from margin to center, and address not only the dynamics of political violence itself, but also its aftermath in post-conflict contexts.

There are five panels:

Gender, Violence and Politics

Perpetrators of Political Violence

Political Violence and Memory

Victims of Political Violence

Violence and Social Movements

Please click on the link above to get detailed information on each of these.

The conference will be held at the University of Iceland, from August 25th - 27th 2011.

Call for contributions, Bijiao: China in comparative perspective book review journal

2011-01-07T03:27:00.000-08:00

The CPPN will soon be launching a new online book review journal, entitled Bijiao: China in comparative perspective book review (《比较:中国比较研究书评》） (ISSN 2045-0680).

The journal has already received a number of books for review. If you are interested in reviewing one of the titles listed below, please get in touch with the Editor, Dr Geoffrey Gowlland (g.k.gowlland [at] lse.ac.uk; and jccp@lse.ac.uk). If you are interested in reviewing a title not listed here, you may also get in touch with your suggested title and a few words about why you think the publication would be of interest to readers of the journal. We might be able to order a review copy for you.

The deadline for the 1^st issue is 30^th April 2011.

Call for Applications - Feminist Critical Analysis, Dubrovnik 2011

2010-12-10T10:07:00.000-08:00

Feminist Critical Analysis
Inter-University Center (IUC), Dubrovnik
May 30th to June 3rd, 2011

The Center for Gender and Politics of the Belgrade University (Political Science Department), Women’s and Gender Studies at Rutgers of the State University of New Jersey, and the Department of Gender Studies of the Central European University (CEU) in Budapest are pleased to announce the next annual postgraduate course in “Feminist Critical Analysis: Witnessing the Past, Remembering the Future”. The course will be held at the Inter-University Centre, Dubrovnik (www.iuc.hr) from May 30 to June 3 2011.

The course is co-directed by Dasa Duhacek, Center for Gender and Politics, University of Belgrade, Ethel Brooks, Women’s and Gender Studies Department, Rutgers University and Allaine Cerwonka, Gender Studies Department, Central European University (CEU).

The course is built on the intellectual dialogue among a diverse body of scholars from different geographical locations and the participating faculty is drawn from different universities.

TOPIC
After more than a decade of our Feminist Critical Analysis courses, organized on a wide range of major themes, that resonated not only regionally, but also with a broader international academic community, in the year 2011 the course Feminist Critical Analysis: Witnessing the Past, Remembering the Future will address a number of issues that will both take us into the past - while critically assessing it - but will also allow us to look toward the future.

By addressing time, highlighting women’s time, and exploring the myriad, seductive and sobering ways that temporality plays out we will follow complex paths of discussion: we will continue to insert our concerns into the current debates of memory and witness studies; and, in the process, we hope to add yet more elements to the diverse and growing ‘feminist memoir projects.’

Memory has on the one hand been a part of the philosophical inquiry since its beginnings, but, on the other hand it has forcefully been placed on the agenda of contemporary theory by the unbearable weight of trauma, urgency of testimony and the necessity of witnessing – all brought about by the unimaginable horrors of genocides, feminocides, slavery... Since it is a truism that the history of memory has been male, despite the female figure of Mnemosyne (and Clio), attention will also be given to Lemosyne and the history of forgetting. The history of memory has introduced countless forms, figures and tropes: from a wax tablet to a blank paper, from an inscriptional mode to its designations through spatial metaphors, from loci memoriae to sites of commemoration. Memory has been a pathway to the inner self but has especially in the histories of the present introduced the complexities of collective memories; it has alerted us to “estranged conceptual prisms…” that painfully point to our failures “to contain and account for what has happened in contemporary history.”

Contemporary theory has through feminist theoretical contributions and other entry points, such as the issues of the body, space, and many others, highlighted the irreplaceability of the gender perspective; and, has, within this framework, appended memories of the past to the understanding of the future.

ELIGIBILITY
IUC courses are conducted at a postgraduate level. All postgraduate students interested in the topic may apply for participation. Participants should seek funds from their own institutions to cover travel and accommodation costs. Limited financial support is available for participants from Central and Eastern Europe. All meetings are conducted in English.

APPLICATION PROCEDURE
A short narrative (up to 250 words) explaining your interest in the topic and your C.V. with your current complete contact information should be submitted by e-mail; deadline for application is Friday, January 21st 2011. Submissions will be reviewed by the selection committee and results will be announced by mid February. The number of participants is limited to 15 students from different countries.

Please send your applications to Center for Gender and Politics, University of Belgrade at with Dubrovnik 2011 in the subject heading.

Center for Gender and Politics
Faculty of Political Sciences
Jove Ilica 165
11000 Belgrade
phone/fax: +381 11 2491 219 www.zenskestudie.edu.rs
e-mail: studijeroda@fpn.bg.ac.rs

Call for Applications - Women's Human Rights Education Institute

2010-12-09T08:17:00.001-08:00

http://learnwhr.org/programs/whri-six-week-institute/

CALL FOR APPLICATIONS - WOMEN'S HUMAN RIGHTS EDUCATION INSTITUTE BUILDING A PEACEFUL WORLD IN AN ERA OF GLOBALIZATION Six-Week Women’s Human Rights Education Institute (WHRI)

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Facilitators: Alda Facio with: Debby Danard, Mary Eberts, Angela Lytle, Angela Miles

Offered in Partnership with Fundacion Justicia y Genero, Costa Rica

Monday, May 2 - Friday, June 10, 2011

Limited to twenty Canadian and international participants

OVERVIEW

This unique educational institute brings feminist perspectives and an activist orientation to the inextricably related issues of peace, human rights and life-sustaining development. Participants will gain an understanding of the global economic, ecological, legal, cultural and political contexts of this work, as well as of the groundbreaking work that is currently being done and has been done over decades by women and men around the world. Participants will develop a practical understanding of the UN Human Rights system and how to apply a women’s human rights framework to a multiplicity of issues. Participants will also develop practical facilitation skills to help them become human rights educators in their own regions and organizations.

Important milestones such as the U.N. Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW), the U.N. Convention on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD), the U.N. Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, The African Protocol on Women’s Rights, the Inter-American Convention on the Prevention, Punishment and Eradication of Violence Against Women, UN Security Council Resolutions 1325 and 1820, the Beijing Platform for Action, and the Jakarta Principles, among others, will be featured as resources for social change. Effective ways of using them as tools for education and practice will be explored.

FRAMEWORK

The six-week WHRI brings together a balance of academic/theoretical inquiry and engaged, activist praxis. Human rights, peace, and emerging alternatives to globalization are examined both as interconnected elements of a socially just and sustainable world and as alternative ways of knowing, acting, being, and interacting. Women’s human rights are both the subject and the guiding framework of the institute. This is reflected in the teaching principles and methodology. The WHRI aims to create a safe, supportive, and celebratory space that allows for collective sharing and knowledge-building alongside skills training . Classes are participatory, incorporate a broad variety of readings, videos, and activities, and in an effort to promote integration and well-being, participants are offered gentle yoga classes twice a week.

All instructors have extensive activist experience at local, national and international levels and are known for their theoretical, academic and policy contributions in these areas. To maximize each individual’s learning opportunity, participants are limited to TWENTY and come from all regions of the world, many with a great deal of experience in the field of women’s human rights.

Participants will have the unique opportunity of having an extended period of time to learn from their instructors and a multi-national group of participants, to theorize about their own work through the lens of women’s human rights, to develop new techniques as women’s human rights educators, and to prepare an action plan for how to implement their learning. Those who enrol in the six-week institute should apply with a seed idea for a women’s human rights project they will implement after the institute ends, or a description of a project/program in process that will be augmented by their learning at the institute. Each participant will receive feedback on her/his plan during the institute, and should submit a report on her/his implementation activities six to eight months after the WHRI ends. The best among these reports will be made available on our website; thus course participants will help to build a body of theory and praxis on women’s human rights education and activism that will be available for others working in this field.

Possible project areas include: developing and executing a training on women’s human rights within one’s home institution/at the grassroots level; using the most recent CEDAW committee’s concluding observations for one’s home country as the basis for a campaign to promote awareness/implementation domestically. If you have any questions about the post-WHRI process, please contact Program Director Angela Lytle at info@learnwhr.org.

Course Topics May Include:

* The UN System and Women’s Human Rights
* Globalization and Feminist Frameworks
* Activism and Education for Women’s Human Rights
* Bodily Integrity
* Violence and Peace
* Cultural Rights and Women’s Human Rights
* Sexual and Reproductive Rights
* Alternative Visions for a Global System based on Human Rights and Equality

Note: The one-week CEDAW for Change module is embedded within the six-week WHRI, and thus all participants in the WHRI will automatically be enrolled. Some additional participants will join the institute only for the one-week CEDAW for Change session.

UC BERKELEY CALL FOR CANDIDATES

2010-12-09T08:15:00.001-08:00

BBRG Invites applications for the following programs:

SCHOLARS IN RESIDENCE PROGRAM
and
AFFILIATED SCHOLARS PROGRAM _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

The BEATRICE BAIN RESEARCH GROUP (BBRG) is the University of California, Berkeley's critical feminist research center, established in 1986 to support and coordinate feminist scholarship across disciplines. The BBRG is particularly interested in enabling research on gender in its intersections with sexuality, race, ethnicity, class, nation, religion, postcoloniality, globalization and transnational feminisms.

This announcement concerns two of its programs:

1. THE BBRG SCHOLARS-IN-RESIDENCE PROGRAM
(APPLICATIONS ARE DUE BY MARCH 15, 2011)

Among its programs and activities, the BBRG has a Scholars-in-Residence Program. Under the auspices of this Program, each year the BBRG hosts a new group of approximately ten competitively selected scholars from the U.S. and abroad for a period of one academic year.

The BBRG Scholars-in-Residence Program is open to senior and junior faculty (tenured and untenured), visiting scholars, postdoctoral scholars and independent scholars, from any country, whose work is centrally on gender and women. Applicants must have received their Ph.D. at least one year prior to the projected beginning of their residency at BBRG.

The BBRG provides its Scholars-in-Residence with the following: visiting scholar status at University of California, Berkeley; access to University of California, Berkeley libraries and library privileges; a library orientation session customized for the purposes of the Scholar In Residence's research; the possibility of University of California, Berkeley student research assistants; shared office space; shared computer and internet access; a BBRG Scholars Writing/Reading Group which meets bi-monthly; and a forum for BBRG Scholars-in-Residence to present their scholarly or creative work to the Berkeley campus community and the public.

BBRG is non-stipendiary, and thus Scholars-in-Residence provide their own financial support during the residency. There are fees associated with residency at BBRG. Please see the website for full details.

FULL PROGRAM DETAILS AND APPLICATION INSTRUCTIONS CAN BE FOUND HERE: http://bbrg.berkeley.edu/scholarprog.html

2. THE BBRG AFFILIATED SCHOLARS PROGRAM
(APPLICATIONS ARE ACCEPTED THROUGHOUT THE YEAR)

Among the BBRG programs and activities is the BBRG Affiliated Visiting Scholars Program, designed to accommodate scholars who would like to spend a relatively short period of time in residence, ranging from two weeks to one semester. The BBRG Affiliated Visiting Scholars Program is open to senior and junior faculty (tenured and untenured), visiting scholars, postdoctoral scholars and independent scholars, from the U.S. and abroad, whose work is centrally on women and gender. Applicants must have the Ph.D. in hand one year prior to the beginning of the appointment. The BBRG accepts applications for the BBRG Affiliated Visiting Scholars Program throughout the academic year.

Affiliated Visiting Scholars who are in residence for less than one month will have access to a shared office, and shared computer and internet access. Those who are here for periods of between one month and six months may have access to UC Berkeley library privileges, a shared office, and shared computer and internet access. Affiliated Visiting Scholars are invited to participate in the BBRG Scholars’ Writing/Reading Group, and may request that the BBRG organize a public presentation wherein the scholar would present her or his scholarly or creative work to the Berkeley campus community and the public, in a panel format along with other scholars.

Affiliated Visiting Scholars provide their own financial support during the residency. There are fees associated with residency at BBRG. Please see the website for full details.

*Non-U.S. scholars will need a J-1 visa to visit BBRG. This paperwork takes three months to complete. Please plan accordingly.

FULL PROGRAM DETAILS AND APPLICATION INSTRUCTIONS CAN BE FOUND HERE: http://bbrg.berkeley.edu/affiliated.html

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Faculty Position Openings in the School of Business Sun Yat-sen University

2010-11-18T08:18:00.000-08:00

Sun Yat–sen University, founded by Dr. Sun Yat-sen in 1924, is well known for its academic excellence and ranks among the top 10 Universities in China.

The School of Business, founded in 1985, is one of the leading business schools in mainland China. The school consists of six departments: Business Administration, Accounting, Tourism and Hotel Management, Marketing, Finance and Investment, and Management Science. The school’s programs excel at every academic level (from undergraduate to Ph.D.) with a total enrollment of about 3,000 students each year.

Faculty Openings are available and the school invites applicants for untenure-track positions at the rank of Associate or Assistant Professor. We seek applicants who will teach and conduct research in the following areas: Management, Accounting, Finance, Management Science , and Marketing.

A successful candidate must meet the following minimum qualifications:

Applicants must complete all degree requirements for a doctorate by December 30, 2011 to be appointed at a rank of Assistant Professor. At the associate level, candidates should have a Ph.D. Degree and a record of successful research and publications.
Applicants must have a demonstrated commitment and ability/potential to conduct high-quality scholarly research publishable in reputable international journals.
Applicants must also demonstrate teaching excellence as indicated by teaching letters of recommendations or teaching assessments.

Benefits:

Six-year contract with competitive salary
Start-up research grant and relocation allowance

Application Procedure is as follows:

Letter of application with current curriculum vitae
Statement regarding research and teaching interests
Summary of teaching evaluations, if available
Three references
Send to bshr@mail.sysu.edu.cn

call for papers BICC final conference

2010-11-18T08:13:00.000-08:00

Britain and China, pasts, presents and futures, from the nineteenth century to the twenty-first

1^st Call for papers

University of Bristol, 24^th-26^th August 2011

For nearly a century China’s relationship with Britain and its empire was politically its most important, setting the agenda, for good and for ill, for its relations with other powers. Chinese and Britons encountered each other in the Chinese treaty ports like Shanghai or Tianjin, in the colony of Hong Kong, in port cities across the British empire, in rural Australia and urban Canada, and in London’s Limehouse. They encountered each other on battlefields and in brothels, in chapels and in clinics, in factories and on steamships. Very large numbers of Britons visited or worked in China sometimes for very long periods, some for several generations. Major British trading firms and financial institutions which emerged in the nineteenth century still play key roles today in East Asia. And Chinese students came to British universities. Chinese Merchants lived and traded in British empire cities. British Chinese fortunes helped reshape the Scottish landscape as opium traders returned and bought estates. Chinese-Australian entrepreneurs and others reshaped Chinese cities. The legacies of this complex set of relationships, overshadowed as the twentieth century progressed by China’s relations with Japan, the U.S. and the U.S.S.R., have nonetheless been long lasting.

Convened by the British Inter-university China Centre This conference will assess that relationship and its legacy today. It will explore the diplomatic and politic relationship between the British and Chinese states, but is concerned equally centrally with the encounters over two centuries between Britons and Chinese, and between British and Chinese culture. It will also explore the current and potential future course of Sino-British relations, and the place of this history within that. And more than ever before, many thousands of Chinese and British nationals live in each others’ countries, fashioning a new set of relationships between the two cultures and societies. Academic interest in the wide history of such Sino-British encounters has been growing over the last decade. This conference will bring together this new and developing scholarship, and map out new agendas for understanding the often brittle relationship between Britons and Chinese.

We welcome proposals from across disciplines for both panels (to include 3 speakers, and discussant) and for individual papers. Potential topics and disciplinary approaches include, but are by no means limited to: diplomatic and political relations; commercial interaction; conflicts; British empire and Chinese migration; the Britain-British India-China nexus; cultural relations; literatures; travel writing; prominent or marginal individuals or groups; Chinese studies in Britain, and British studies in China; the histories of the treaty ports, and of Chinatowns; Weihaiwei; Hong Kong; Taiwan; Tibet.

Individual paper abstracts (max: 500 words), or Panel proposals (3 paper abstracts plus panel rationale, 500 words), should be sent in to BICC Administrator, Daniel Holloway daniel.holloway@area.ox.ac.uk, no later than 31^st January 2011. Please list the title of the paper at the top of the abstract, and at the end list name, institutional affiliation and contact information.

The organisers expect to be able to contribute to some, though not necessarily all, travel and accommodation expenses.

Job Openings in I-Shou University in Taiwan

2010-11-18T08:10:00.000-08:00

I-SHOU UNIVERSITY INTERNATIONAL COLLEGE

KAOHSIUNG, TAIWAN

JOB OPENINGS

The International College is seeking faculty members for the following cross-college and specialist areas:

a. English reading, writing, and composition, English for Business and for Tourism and Hospitality.

b. Business Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility.

c. Management Information Systems.

d. Operations Management, Human Resources, and Organizational Development.

e. Economics or Finance or both, with additional strengths in Quantitative Statistics.

f. Restaurant/food and beverage operations, lodging operations, and casino and gaming management.

Applicants must hold an appropriate doctoral degree; those with professional qualifications and/or experience will be preferred. All teaching in the International College is in English, so applicants must be fluent but not necessarily native speakers. Openings available for February and August 2011.

Further information about the positions can be obtained from chime108@isu.edu.tw

Cheers to everyone,

T.K. Peng

Associate Dean, College of Management

I-Shou University

HKU Studentships in Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies

2010-11-03T07:30:00.000-07:00

1. Master of Philosophy (MPhil) and Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)

The Department of Comparative Literature at the University of Hong Kong offers studentships in conjunction with its Master of Philosophy (MPhil) and Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) programmes. We are looking for exceptional candidates with a strong research plan in any of the following areas:

* Visual Cultures and Film Studies
Critiques of space; feminist film theory; film language; new media and aesthetics; media and popular culture studies; contemporary visual culture; Chinese language cinemas; cinemas of Asia and the diaspora; poetics and politics of documentaries

* Feminism and Gender Studies
Chinese feminism; queer theory; feminist cultural studies; gender and sexuality; women's writing

* Postcolonial and Global Studies
Colonial, postcolonial, and global studies, especially of greater China and South East Asia; postcolonial theory; orientalism; colonial discourse analysis; cultural identity and representation; cultures of cities; the Cold War and postcolonialism

* Literature and Cultural Theory
East-West literary/cultural relations; problems of aesthetics; reception studies; critical and post-structuralist theory; Marxism; literary and cultural theory; theories of representation; psychoanalysis; Chinese modernism;

* Hong Kong and China Studies
Hong Kong cultural policy; Hong Kong, Taiwan, and P.R.C. cultural, film, and literary studies; urban Chinese cultures; cultural memory in Chinese cinemas; historiography of Maoist and post-Mao eras; Chinese revolutionary culture

The current faculty includes: Ang Sze-wei, Esther Cheung, Gina Marchetti, Mirana May Szeto, Sebastian Veg, Daniel Vukovich, Esther Yau, and Winnie Yee.

Application period for admission in 2011-12:

* Main Round: September 1 - December 8, 2010
* 1st Clearing Round: December 9, 2010 - April 30, 2011
* 2nd Clearing Round: May 1 - August 31, 2011

2. Hong Kong PhD Fellowship Scheme 2011-12

The Hong Kong PhD Fellowship Scheme is launched by the Research Grants Council (RGC) of Hong Kong. The Fellowship Scheme aims to attract the outstanding students in the world (including those from Hong Kong and Mainland China) to pursue their PhD degree programmes in Hong Kong.

The Fellowship will provide each awardee with a monthly studentship of HK$20,000 and a conference and research related travel allowance of HK$10,000 per year for a period up to three years. For HKPF awardees who are admitted to a 4-year PhD programme in 2011-12, the University will provide a monthly stipend and travel allowance at the same level as the HKPF for their fourth year of study.

A total of 135 PhD Fellowships will be awarded to all institutions for the academic year 2011-12.

Application period for admission in 2011-12:
* Initial Application to Research Grants Council (RGC): September 6 - December 1, 2010 (HKT 12:00nn or GMT +8 hours)
* Full Application to HKU: September 6 - December 8, 2010

* For more information on the application process to the University of Hong Kong, visit http://www.hku.hk/gradsch/web/apply/

* For more information on specific requirements for the Department of Comparative literature, visit http://www.hku.hk/complit/postgrad/mphilphd_guidelines.htm

* For more information on graduate studies in the Department of Comparative Literature, contact: Gina Marchetti at marchett@hku.hk

Understanding China and Engaging with Chinese People--- the 100th Anniversary of the birth of Professor Fei Xiaotong, 5th Dec. CCPN, LSE

2010-10-21T06:43:00.001-07:00

The London School of Economics and Political Science is holding an international conference to commemorate the birth of Professor Fei Xiaotong (Fei Hsiao-Tung 1910-2005), the famous sociologist, anthropologist, social activist and senior Chinese political leader, an Honorary Fellow and among the School’s most distinguished alumni. The conference, entitled “Understanding China and Engaging with Chinese People”, will take place at LSE on the 5th December 2010.

The Conference will examine the importance and relevance of Fei Xiaotong’s academic contributions and policy studies, and focus on China both as a part of global society and as a culture undergoing dramatic change. It will explore relationships and interactions between Han and ethnic minorities and Chinese and non-Chinese people, in a search for dynamic, integrated, multi-faceted insights. Comparative and historical perspectives are both represented. The aim of the Conference is to advance mutual understanding between human beings as a process of the “cultural awareness” promoted by Professor Fei Xiaotong in his later years.

The Conference is a public event, open to academics, politicians, policy makers, consultants, professionals and practitioners of different kinds of business. It is jointly organized by Asia Research Centre, Department of Anthropology, China in Comparative Perspective Network (CCPN), Confucius Institute for Business London (CIBL) at LSE, together with Zhejiang UK Association (ZJUKA), and the School of Sociology and Anthropology, Sun Yat-sen University, China. It is supported by the Chinese Embassy in the UK, and sponsored by Hanban, Tsinghua University, and Sun Yat-sen University. The Sino-UK Educational Service Centre will take responsibility for logistics.

Time and date: 9:00am-18:00pm, 5th December 2010, Sunday

Venue：G108, LSE

Chairs: Professor Stephan Feuchtwang and Dr Kent Deng, LSE

Convenors: Dr Xiangqun Chang, LSE

Professor Daming Zhou, Sun Yat-sen University, China

Contact details: +44(0)2080994815; +44 (0) 20 7955 7603; ccpn@lse.ac.uk

Call for voluntary research assistantships for China in Comparative Perspective Network (CCPN), LSE

2010-10-21T06:42:00.000-07:00

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, networking, accessing facilities, implementing projects, to online discussion or debating, engaging with the media and the public for dissemination, etc.

What are the tasks?

From 2010 to 2011 the academic year we are offering 10 voluntary research assistantships to work on projects in the areas below:

(1) Archiving resources for the CCPN ‘Online resources’ and related projects

· Books, papers, projects, events, institutions, etc. for comparative studies between China and other countries and regions on any topics in any disciplines

· Books, papers, journals, projects, events, institutions, etc. for relationship research, networks studies, and social capital between Chinese with Chinese including Chinese ethnics, overseas Chinese, and non Chinese

· Books, papers, journals, projects, events, institutions, etc. on China’s governance models, Chinese management models, and China model

· Books, papers, journals, projects, events, institutions, etc. for the project on China urbanization

· Books, papers, journals, projects, events, institutions, etc. for building up a new sub-webpage ‘Global Migration and Migrants Studies Network’ at the CCPN

(2) Participating in preparation of a project application on Comparative studies between Chinese and Indian migrants in the UK

(3) Updating existing membership database, managing emailing lists, writing a summary report of CCPN members based on the info

How do the Assistants work with the CCPN advisor?

We will provide instructions or guidance to all the CCPN Research Assistants. 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.

Beyond the projects of the Comparative Studies on the New Migration from BRICs to the UK, the CCPN online archiving project (updating emailing lists, database for website, etc.), running the CCPN Research Interests Blog, Discussion Board, or Facebook, development of the CCPN website, etc. 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.

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 with Dr Xiangqun Chang, and Dr Xi Lin who will assist Dr Chang working on the ‘Researchers Fostering Laboratory’ of the CCPN.

If you have enquires please send email to x.chang@lse.ac.uk.

What can you gain 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’ on your CV (the list of CCPN Research Assistants can be found from the CCPN website).

As a CCPN RA you can receive limited advice from the CCPN Advisor and connections for further developing your own research interests is your gain (not our requirement).

Toward the end of the term of the assistantship you are expected to write a seminar paper or report. The CCPN can:

• publish each piece of webpage or sub-page under your name as it becomes ready
• arrange seminars for you at LSE if your work is interesting enough
• publish your working papers on the website (if your work is of sufficient standard)
• write references for you based on your performance
• consider your RA post as high priority for a project you are involved in and if our application is successful

How to apply?

This offer is open to all students and researchers who are interested in pursuing China related researches. The work arrangements are flexible (immediate start).

Deadlines for application: 22nd October 2010

If you are interested in any of the above work please send the followings to ccpn@lse.ac.uk:

your CV
a brief proposal including your brief research interests, reasons for apply the posts and how you would like to carry out the task(s) which you choose from the advertised for 2010-11.)

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.

new position (China political economy) - University of Waterloo, Canada

2010-10-21T06:41:00.001-07:00

Applications are being accepted for a tenure-stream assistant or tenured associate professor in the field of Chinese politics, political economy and the emerging role of China in the world. The competition will close Feb.1, 2011, or when the position is filled. The successful candidate will have a completed PhD and be able to teach courses at the graduate and undergraduate levels. The UW Department of Political Science is home to several rapidly expanding graduate programs in political science, global governance and public service. The ideal candidate will play a key role in departmental graduate expansion, particularly in the areas of China's political and economic emergence in global affairs. The successful candidate will be expected to develop an active, externally-funded research program and to collaborate in the academic life of the department. Excellence in teaching is also expected and the candidate will supply a teaching dossier, including teaching philosophy, peer and/or student evaluations, and course syllabi.

The completed application must contain all of the following information: a letter of application describing qualifications and the proposed research program; curriculum vitae; teaching dossier; three letters of reference, and a sample of academic writing. Salary will be commensurate with qualifications and experience.

Applications should be forwarded to

Richard Nutbrown

(nutbrown@uwaterloo.ca),
Chair, Department of Political Science,
University of Waterloo, 200 University Ave. W, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, N2L 3G1
on or before February 1, 2011.

All qualified applicants are encouraged to apply:
however, Canadians and permanent residents will
be given priority. The University of Waterloo encourages applications from all qualified individuals, including women, members of visible minorities, native peoples, and persons with disabilities.

Beatrice Bain Research Group-- call for candidates

2010-10-21T06:39:00.000-07:00

BBRG Invites applications for the following programs:

SCHOLARS IN RESIDENCE PROGRAM
and
AFFILIATED SCHOLARS PROGRAM

The BEATRICE BAIN RESEARCH GROUP (BBRG) is the University of California, Berkeley's critical feminist research center, established in 1986 to support and coordinate feminist scholarship across disciplines. The BBRG is particularly interested in enabling research on gender in its intersections with sexuality, race, ethnicity, class, nation, religion, postcoloniality, globalization and transnational feminisms.

________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
This announcement concerns two of its programs:

1. THE BBRG SCHOLARS-IN-RESIDENCE PROGRAM
(APPLICATIONS ARE DUE BY MARCH 15, 2011)

Among its programs and activities, the BBRG has a Scholars-in-Residence Program. Under the auspices of this Program, each year the BBRG hosts a new group of approximately ten competitively selected scholars from the U.S. and abroad for a period of one academic year.

The BBRG Scholars-in-Residence Program is open to senior and junior faculty (tenured and untenured), visiting scholars, postdoctoral scholars and independent scholars, from any country, whose work is centrally on gender and women. Applicants must have received their Ph.D. at least one year prior to the projected beginning of their residency at BBRG.

The BBRG provides its Scholars-in-Residence with the following: visiting scholar status at University of California, Berkeley; access to University of California, Berkeley libraries and library privileges; a library orientation session customized for the purposes of the Scholar In Residence's research; the possibility of University of California, Berkeley student research assistants; shared office space; shared computer and internet access; a BBRG Scholars Writing/Reading Group which meets bi-monthly; and a forum for BBRG Scholars-in-Residence to present their scholarly or creative work to the Berkeley campus community and the public.

BBRG is non-stipendiary, and thus Scholars-in-Residence provide their own financial support during the residency. There are fees associated with residency at BBRG. Please see the website for full details.

FULL PROGRAM DETAILS AND APPLICATION INSTRUCTIONS CAN BE FOUND HERE: http://bbrg.berkeley.edu/scholarprog.html

2. THE BBRG AFFILIATED SCHOLARS PROGRAM
(APPLICATIONS ARE ACCEPTED THROUGHOUT THE YEAR)

Among the BBRG programs and activities is the BBRG Affiliated Visiting Scholars Program, designed to accommodate scholars who would like to spend a relatively short period of time in residence, ranging from two weeks to one semester. The BBRG Affiliated Visiting Scholars Program is open to senior and junior faculty (tenured and untenured), visiting scholars, postdoctoral scholars and independent scholars, from the U.S. and abroad, whose work is centrally on women and gender. Applicants must have the Ph.D. in hand one year prior to the beginning of the appointment. The BBRG accepts applications for the BBRG Affiliated Visiting Scholars Program throughout the academic year.

Affiliated Visiting Scholars who are in residence for less than one month will have access to a shared office, and shared computer and internet access. Those who are here for periods of between one month and six months may have access to UC Berkeley library privileges, a shared office, and shared computer and internet access. Affiliated Visiting Scholars are invited to participate in the BBRG Scholars’ Writing/Reading Group, and may request that the BBRG organize a public presentation wherein the scholar would present her or his scholarly or creative work to the Berkeley campus community and the public, in a panel format along with other scholars.

Affiliated Visiting Scholars provide their own financial support during the residency. There are fees associated with residency at BBRG. Please see the website for full details.

*Non-U.S. scholars will need a J-1 visa to visit BBRG. This paperwork takes three months to complete. Please plan accordingly.

FULL PROGRAM DETAILS AND APPLICATION INSTRUCTIONS CAN BE FOUND HERE: http://bbrg.berkeley.edu/affiliated.html

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Beatrice Bain Research Group
616 Barrows Hall, MC 2050
University of California
Berkeley, CA 94720-2050
Email: bbrg@berkeley.edu
Web: http://bbrg.berkeley.edu/

5th WAGNet Graduate Workshop 2011: CFP

2010-07-29T03:00:00.000-07:00

28-30 January 2011
at
University of Westminster
&
Royal Holloway (University of London)
London -UK

The WAGNet graduate workshop is for PhD candidates who are at an advanced stage of their research and working on any aspect of ‘women and gender in 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, junior and senior scholars working in the field of China-related women and gender studies. All too rarely do Ph.D. candidates 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 junior/senior academic discussant.

The workshop, accommodation and meals during the workshop are free of charge. 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 and a curriculum vitae by e-mail to Dr. Alessandra Aresu, wagnet_workshop@hotmail.com. One letter of reference from the candidate’s supervisor or someone who is familiar with their PhD is also required and should be sent from the referee directly to Dr. Aresu in pdf or word format. Deadline for submission: 10th of September 2010.

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. Applications from students in the early stages of their PhD research will not normally be considered.

This is the fifth in a series of very successful WAGNet graduate workshops. Previous workshops were held in Leiden, Oxford, Prague and Bristol (for details on the last workshop in Bristol see www.wagnet.ox.ac.uk/publications/papers/miaoshanreview.htm).

The workshop is sponsored by the University of Westminster and the Royal Holloway (University of London)

Call for participants: Survey of Chinese Professionals

2010-07-29T02:10:00.000-07:00

Fiona Moore, the WAGNet webmaster, is looking for ethnic Chinese professionals (primarily, but not exclusively, in the UK) who would be willing to answer a short survey questionnaire, and/or to provide a 30-45 minute interview, about their ethnic identity and knowledge-related activities in the workplace, interviews to be held at the location and time of the participant’s choosing. All material will remain confidential and no participant will be identified.

If you wish to participate in the survey, the questionnaire is available online at: http://tinyurl.com/38o72x6. If you do not wish to fill out the questionnaire but would be willing to be interviewed, or if you would like more details about the project, please contact her directly at fiona.moore@rhul.ac.uk.

Please feel free to pass this request on to any friends or colleagues who you feel might be interested.

IWPR Position Announcement: Communications Fellow

2010-07-29T02:06:00.000-07:00

Institute for Women’s Policy Research
Washington, D.C.

Posted July 16, 2010

The Institute for Women’s Policy Research (IWPR) seeks an energetic, creative
and resourceful Communications Fellow to serve as a general communications
assistant on a variety of communications and outreach activities including press
relations, print and online products, and dissemination of IWPR products. The
Communications Fellow will work with the Communications Manager in coordination
with other IWPR staff to assist with the carrying out of all communications
responsibilities, and in its effort to improve conditions for women by sharing
its information with a growing audience of advocates, policy makers, thought
leaders, and members of the public. The Communications Fellow will report to
the Communications Manager.
IWPR is a dynamic, nonprofit, women’s policy research organization located in
central DC near two metro stops (Farragut North and Dupont Circle). This
position offers great exposure to policy issues affecting women and families
and provides opportunities to engage with a variety of people, including major
media outlet reporters, members of Congress and their staff members, policy
experts, and national leaders of women’s and other nonprofit organizations.
Communications Responsibilities Include:
Media Relations
* Contribute to press releases/media advisories and distribute to press
lists including Business Newswire
* Assist with press conferences/events
* Field press calls and track media contact information and press hits
Events assistance
* Assist with planning, coordination, and publicizing of events and staff
speaking engagement
* Disseminate information at IWPR events and capture and share
information from events, through photography, video, and web dissemination

Targeted Outreach:
* Prepare and send informational materials for press, policy makers,
partner organizations, and other target audiences
* Help identify potential new audiences for communication available to
IWPR that suit our work and mission
Online networking and Web Maintenance
* Write and update website content in coordination with other IWPR staff
* Perform regular website maintenance and track website statistics (e.g.,
site hits, top downloads, social media stats)
* Help to expand social media presence and grow outreach efforts to new
audiences and maintain social network activity to build relationships,
engage audiences, and promote IWPR’s work online
Publications
* Copy edit publications and other communications products
· Assist with design and layout IWPR publications and liaison with
printer and mail house
* Assist with the production of quarterly newsletter
* Maintain publications inventory and production schedule
The Communications Fellow is also responsible for a portion of general office
work, including such tasks as responding to information requests, photocopying,
answering telephones, and other duties as assigned.
Qualifications

Applicants should have at least a bachelor's degree in communications, media,
journalism, public relations, marketing, or related discipline. Graduate work
is not required. Applicants should have strong writing and editing skills;
knowledge of women's issues; familiarity with Microsoft Word and Excel is
required; and experience with Adobe Creative Suite, website maintenance, and
professional use of online social networking and digital media is preferred.
Applicants should also have a team orientation, ability to work in a fast-paced
environment, attention to details and deadlines, ability to relate well to
people from a wide range of backgrounds, and ability to multitask.
Compensation

The Communications Fellow salary is $22,000 over the 9 month period, plus
health insurance, a public transportation stipend, vacation, and other
benefits. The position is full-time and generally spans the academic year
(September-May), but start and end dates are somewhat flexible. IWPR is an
Equal Opportunity Employer and people of color are especially encouraged to
apply.

To Apply:
Email a cover letter, a resume, two 1-5 page writing samples, and three
references with contact information to jobs@iwpr.org.
Applicants may also mail application materials to:
Recruiter - Communications Fellow
Institute for Women's Policy Research
1200 18th Street NW, Suite 301
Washington, DC 20036

Please note that only complete applications will be considered. Applicants
will be contacted only if selected for an interview. Questions may be addressed
to Recruiter via E-mail at jobs@iwpr.org.

About IWPR:
The Institute for Women’s Policy Research (IWPR) conducts rigorous research and
disseminates its findings to address the needs of women, promote public
dialogue, and strengthen families, communities, and societies. The Institute
works with policymakers, scholars, and public interest groups to design,
execute, and disseminate research that illuminates economic and social policy
issues affecting women and their families, and to build a network of
individuals and organizations that conduct and use women-oriented policy
research. IWPR’s work is supported by foundation grants, government grants and
contracts, donations from individuals, and contributions from organizations and
corporations. IWPR is a 501 (c) (3) tax-exempt organization that also works in
affiliation with the women’s studies and public policy programs at The George
Washington University.

To learn more about IWPR, please visit http://www.iwpr.org.

Source reading with Dorothy Ko at Warwick University

2010-04-06T07:52:00.000-07:00

Professor Dorothy Ko (Columbia University) will be Visiting Scholar at the Institute for Advanced Studies at the University of Warwick from 24 to 28 May 2010. On Wednesday 26 May, she will lead a Chinese-language source-reading session for postgraduate and early-career postdoctoral researchers. The texts will date from the Ming and Qing periods and will relate to technology, material culture and consumption. The relevant texts will be distributed beforehand, and Professor Ko will introduce them in the context of her recent work. The session will be followed at 5pm by a public lecture (title to be confirmed).

We are pleased to be able to provide a small number of bursaries to help cover participants' travel costs within the UK. In order to be considered, please submit a short CV and letter of application, including your current dissertation or research topic and a budget of projected travel costs to/from the University of Warwick. Applications should reach Amy Evans (amy.evans@warwick.ac.uk) no later than 30 April 2010.

For further information on Professor Ko's schedule at Warwick, please see the Global Jingdezhen webpage http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/history/ghcc/research/globalporcelain/

BACS CONFERENCE 2010: WAGnet panel

2010-03-17T09:04:00.001-07:00

Prof. Marianne Hester and Dr. Alessandra Aresu would like to organize a
WAGNet panel for the next BACS (British Association for Chinese Studies)
conference in Bristol, UK, 8-9 September 2010 (See all the details at
www.bacsuk.org.uk/cmsAdmin/uploads/BACS_Conference_Call_for_Papers_2010.pdf)

The theme of the panel is “WOMEN AND GENDER IN CONTEMPORARY CHINA:
gendering, sexuality and violence”.

If you are interested please send a message by the 20th of March to
Marianne.Hester@bristol.ac.uk and Alessandra.Aresu@bristol.ac.uk

Looking forward to your responses,

Alessandra Aresu

Postdoc:: Women in China:: HKU

2010-03-17T09:01:00.000-07:00

Postdoctoral Fellowship at HKU 2-3 year term commencing Feb 28 2011

Applications are called for a new 3 year post-doctoral fellowship in Modern China Studies to work with Professor Louise Edwards in the School of Modern Languages and Studies.

Closing date: April 16 2010.

See HKU website for more HR details:

https://extranet.hku.hk/cgi-bin/apptunit/senior/show_vacancy_new.pl?rf2010-104-0000-20100416-A

Position description: China and Women's Rights in a Transnational Frame

The appointee will work on a project focusing on women’s rights within a transnational frame, with a particular focus on China’s interactions with global norms, discourses and programs designed to improve the status of women. Where country-specific case studies dominate the majority of scholarly work on women’s status, this project will emphasis the interactions between regions and nations across a number of frames: engagement with international agencies, interactions between formal government ‘offices for the status of women’ of different nations; connections between women’s status-oriented Non-Governmental Organizations and collaborations between grass-roots, ‘project specific’ women’s status organizations. Over the period of the applicant’s tenure, the appointee will examine how nation-based bodies (with China as the core site of comparison) have influenced each other’s programs through international and transnational activism.

The appointee will have expertise in a relevant field within China Studies (e.g. gender, history, politics) but should ideally also be capable of adopting a transnational perspective in order to explore the links Chinese people have with Europe, the Americas and Asia

For inquiries of an academic nature contact: Louise Edwards at ledwards@hku.hk.

HR inquires visit HKU website.

Chinese Women Organizing (July 2010): Second CFP

2010-03-17T08:58:00.000-07:00

Second Call for Papers
4-7 July 2010 Symposium in Beijing
“ChineseWomen Organizing: Looking Back, Looking Forward”

Beijing Foreign Studies University, Oxford University & Freie Universität Berlin

In June 1999, the University of Oxford held an international Symposium on Chinese
Women’s Organizations. About 50 Chinese and international scholars and women
activists took part in the event. Since China opened up to the outside world, especially
after the Fourth World Conference on Women (Beijing, 1995), Chinese women have
been making tremendous progress in terms of protecting their own rights and interests,
promoting their own development and strengthening the capacity of women’s
organizations in China. From international and comparative perspectives, the scholars
reflected on the experience and highlighted the vibrancy and diversity of Chinese
women’s organizations. They also explored current issues and pondered the likely
prospects of Chinese women’s organizations. The proceedings of the Symposium
resulted in the publication of Chinese Women Organizing: Cadres, Feminists, Muslims,
Queers (by Ping-Chun Hsiung, Maria Jaschok, and Cecilia Milwertz, with Red Chan,
editors, Oxford and New York: Berg) in 2001.
Ten years have passed, during which time China and the international society have
undergone profound changes. Women’s organizations in China have accomplished
significant objectives. Not only have they been promoting the integration of gender
concerns into the mainstream of policy-making processes, but they have also taken the
initiative to participate in worldwide women’s activism as well as in a series of activities
launched by the UN around the theme of gender equality.
We want to ask, what changes and developments have taken place since the Oxford
Symposium in 1999 as regards Chinese women’s organizations? What progress has been
made in the fields of women and gender studies? What are our challenges? These issues
do not only draw the attention of women’s organizations, but they are also a key
component of good governance in China and important topics on the agenda of women’s
organizations and activism worldwide. Besides, in recent years, Chinese universities and
research institutes have begun to conduct teaching and research on global women’s
issues, with most productive outcomes. Therefore, with regard to all of these evolving
global political and economic transformations, the time has come to update ourselves on
the current trends in both Chinese women’s organizations and global women’s studies.

And this is indeed the purpose of our proposed 2010 Symposium. Undoubtedly, the past
ten years of theory-building, of theoretical application and practical implementation in
women and gender studies will add fresh and stimulating dimensions to our Symposium.
We propose two themes for our Symposium:

1. The development of Chinese women’s organizations, including the current status of
various women’s organizations in China, experience gained, existing problems and their
likely causes, major challenges, and developing trends, among other issues.
2. International women’s studies. We propose two aspects for exploration: one is the
study of women in the context of international relations (IRs), including new research
findings concerning women’s participation in IR, the women’s movements worldwide
and gender analysis of IR theories.

The other aspect concerns development projects and emerging methodologies, such as
employment of gender-sensitive participatory methodology and action/research
approaches in development projects. Proposed topics for interrogation include evaluating
the impact of gender differences in development programs, critical approaches to the
application of the principle of ‘objectivity’ in development programs, and ways to
promote interaction between research and research outcomes in the hope of affecting
profound social change.
We are inviting you because we believe that your scholarship will have much to
contribute to our Symposium. We hope that you are able to accept our invitation to join
what is promising to become an exciting exchange of new knowledge and thoughtprovoking
interpretations.

The deadline for abstract submission is March 31, 2010. Abstracts should be
approximately 500-800 words (written either in English or Chinese) and provide an
overview of the paper and its relevance to the proposed themes of the Symposium. All
submitted abstracts will be peer-reviewed. An official invitation letter will be sent in
May 2010 to those whose papers we have been able to accept.

The conference will cover the costs concerning
1. accommodation and meals for all the invitees
2. train tickets for Chinese participants (within China)

The deadline of submitting abstracts is the end of March, we should decide who will be
invited shortly after that.Our plan is to hold the two-and-a-half-day Symposium in early
July 2010, to be hosted by Beijing Foreign Studies University. After the conference,
following the usual process of refereeing, a number of papers will be selected for
publication.

For papers in the Chinese language, please send your abstract to Dr. Li Yingtao at Beijing
Foreign Studies University, via liyingtao@bfsu.edu.cn.
For papers in the English language, please send the abstract to Dr. Maria Jaschok at the
International Gender Studies Center, University of Oxford, via
mjaschok@googlemail.com or Dr. Bettina Gransow at the Institute of East Asian Studies,
Freie Universität Berlin (Free University of Berlin) via gransbbm@gmx.de.

We are looking forward to your participation and contribution with much pleasure
and anticipation!

The Organizing Committee representing:
Center of Gender and Global Studies,
Beijing Foreign Studies University
International Gender Studies Center
University of Oxford
East Asian Institute,
Freie Universität Berlin

We acknowledge most gratefully the financial support of FUB and Ford Foundation, Beijing

4th Christina Conference on Gender Studies (Helsinki, Finland 20.-22.5.2010)

2010-02-24T06:11:00.001-08:00

The 4th Christina Conference on Gender Studies
Gender, Nature and Culture
Helsinki, Finland
20.-22. May 2010

Registration for the 4th Christina Conference on Gender Studies is now open. For more information, please visit http://www.helsinki.fi/genderstudies/conference/

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The 4th Christina conference explores the complex connections among gender, nature and culture. Recent research has increasingly viewed nature and culture as inherently entangled and inseparable, suggesting that nature is often understood through discourses of gender and, conversely, that gender is made sense of through historically contingent assumptions about nature. Building on this growing body of scholarship, the conference asks how this mutual intertwining of nature, culture and gender has been theorized, represented and experienced in the past as well as the present. The conference aims to be a meeting point for researchers from different disciplines.

Keynote speakers:

* Rosi Braidotti. Utrecht University, the Netherlands
* Sarah Franklin, London School of Economics, UK
* Marja-Liisa Honkasalo, Linköping University, Sweden
* Priscilla Wald, Duke University, USA

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Early bird (by 31 March 2010)
Participant 125€
Student (including postgraduate students) 50€

Full fee (from 1 April 2010)
Everyone 150€

Please note that the fee does not include Friday night’s conference dinner (additional 35€)

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http://www.helsinki.fi/genderstudies/conference/

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Sincerely,

Nina Järviö
Conference secretary
4th Christina Conference on Gender Studies: Gender, Nature and Culture

Department of Philosophy, History, Culture and Art Studies Faculty of Arts P.o. Box 59 (Unioninkatu 38 E), FI-00014 University of Helsinki

ISHR Vacancies: two positions in Geneva

2010-02-24T06:10:00.001-08:00

ISHR currently has two vacancies in its Geneva Office for the following positions:

* Human Rights Officer, International Human Rights Defenders Programme
* Human Rights Officer, Regional and National Human Rights Defenders Programme

Please visit www.ishr.ch/vacancies to download the job descriptions and application details.

Candidates are invited to submit their applications as soon as possible, latest by 12 March 2010.

Please feel free to circulate this e-mail as you see fit.

Best regards,
The International Service for Human Rights

Our mailing address is:
International Service for Human Rights
1, Rue de Varembe
Geneva, Geneva -

CFP - Conference on Migration at ISS July 2010

2010-02-24T06:08:00.000-08:00

CALL FOR PAPERS

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE: MIGRATION, GENDER AND HUMAN SECURITY IN AN ERA OF GLOBAL STRUCTURAL CHANGE AND CRISIS

Deadline for Submission: 1 April 2010

Venue: International Institute of Social Studies (ISS), Erasmus University Rotterdam (Address: Kortenaerkade 12, The Hague, The Netherlands)
Dates: 1st and 2nd of July, 2010

Three conference themes

Theme 1:
Securitisation and the framing of migration policy in an era of economic downturns: A comparison between Europe and Asia

Theme 2:
Environmental Crisis, Gender and Migration: The Politics of Knowledge and its Translation into Practice

Theme 3:
Conceptualizing Human Security: Ethical-Political Dimensions of migration and global justice

Please send an abstract of 500 words to the coordinator of the scientific committee Truong@iss.nl.

Call for papers - Women in Asia 2010

2010-02-01T03:49:00.000-08:00

Call for papers - Women in Asia 2010

The Call for Papers and Online Registration are now open for the 10th
Women in Asia Conference.

The College of Asia and the Pacific (CAP) at The Australia National
University (ANU) is hosting the Tenth International Women in Asia (WIA)
Conference, to be held from 29 September to 1 October 2010 at the ANU,
Canberra.

The WIA conferences have been held regularly since 1981 and are
supported by the Women's Forum of the Asian Studies Association of
Australia. These are international conferences, with attendees from
throughout Australia and the Asian regions, including those who are
working on or in the region.

Participants include academics and students; representatives of NGOs and
other organisations involved in aid and development; artists and
performers; and interested members of the general public. The conference
provides excellent opportunities for networking and getting to know
others in the field.

The theme for the 2010 conference – the tenth anniversary WIA conference
– is Crisis, Agency, and Change. We hope that this will stimulate
discussion across disciplines and across regions on the impact of
crises, whether personal or collective, on women; on the representation
of women and crisis; and on women's agency, actions, and activism in
response to crisis and in efforts to achieve change.

Call for Papers: Contributions are invited from a broad range of
participants from various disciplines. Participants are encouraged to
submit proposals for panels (with 3-4 papers per panel). Individual
proposals for papers are also welcome, as are innovative suggestions for
films, exhibitions and other presentations.

Tenth International Women in Asia Conference Organising Commitee Dr Tamara Jacka (Chief Organiser), Senior Fellow, Department of
Political and Social Change, School of International, Political and
Strategic Studies, College of Asia and the Pacific;
Dr Ruth Barraclough, Lecturer, School of Culture, History and Language,
College of Asia and the Pacific;
Dr Bina D'Costa, Research Fellow, Centre for International Governance
and Justice, Regulatory Institutions Network, College of Asia and the
Pacific;
Dr Carol Hayes, Senior Lecturer, School of Culture, History and
Language, College of Asia and the Pacific;
Kumiko Kawashima (Liaison Officer), PhD candidate, Department of
Political and Social Change, School of International, Political and
Strategic Studies, College of Asia and the Pacific.

Conference Enquiries: Immediate enquiries can be addressed to
wia@anu.edu.au

For details, please go to: http//asiapacific.anu.edu.au/wia2010/index.php.

China: Past, Present and Future Interdisciplinary Seminar Series 2009-2010

2010-01-21T05:52:00.000-08:00

Royal Holloway's Interdisciplinary Seminar on China resumes this year with much input from WAGNet members.

China: Past, Present and Future
Interdisciplinary Seminar Series 2009-2010

Thursdays 17.30-19.00 (Windsor Building 0-05)

Spring Term

21 Jan Dr. Yuka Kobayashi (SOAS)

China's Contemporary Foreign Trade Relations

4 Feb Dr. Anne Gerritsen (Warwick)

Jingdezhen's China: Porcelain in Local and Global Context

18 Feb Prof. Raj Brown (Royal Holloway)

Muslims and China’s Borders and Borderlands

11 Mar Dr. Elisabeth Hsu (Oxford University)

Strategies of Chinese medical treatment: three examples in rural Anhui

25 Mar Zheng Yu (Royal Holloway, PhD candidate) & Ren Yanxiang (Beijing University)

Dynamic Hybridisation: the case of Japanese subsidiaries in China &

The European arms purchase by Chinese Ministers in late Qing Dynasty

29 Apr Prof. Vivienne Shue (FBA. Leverhulme Professor and Director, Contemporary China Studies Programme, Oxford)

Small Mercies: Poverty/Charity, State/Market, and the Provision of Social Welfare in Urban China (Chaired by Dr. Catherine Wang)