Graduate Student Research and Programming

This page will include information about research grants, fellowships, conferences, etc. Please check back for further updates.

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We are pleased to announce that NCCSAS is initiating a grant competition for South Asia-related travel from graduate students of the Consortium. The competition is open to registered graduate students for up to $500 dollars for conference and research travel.

The requests should have a focus on South Asia and relate to the Consortium’s mission of promoting South Asian area studies and languages. Please send in a brief description of your request along with a budget description to Ms. Pamela Smith (ps122@notes.duke.edu) by February 15th for travel between February 15 and July 31, 2011. The sooner we hear from you the better!

Programming:

NCCSAS Graduate Student Open House--Oct 29th

You are invited to the our Graduate Student Open House.

When: Friday, October 29th

Time: 5-7 pm

Where: 103 Giles Residence Hall on Duke University's East Campus (residence of Drs. Sumathi Ramaswamy and Rich Freeman)

Please join us in welcoming our new Executive Director, Dr. Sumathi Ramaswamy (Professor of History at Duke). In addition, this an opportunity for you to meet other graduate students interested in South Asia and for us to learn more about research and programming opportunities that you would like to see across the consortium campuses.

Food and beverages will be served. Please RSVP to Alicia Jones at alicia.jones@duke.edu.

Research:

AISLS: expansion of multi-country fellowship program

The Council of Overseas American Research Centers (CAORC) is pleased to announce the expansion of the Multi-Country Research Fellowship Program. Starting with the 2010-11 cycle, U.S. citizens enrolled in a master's degree granting program are eligible to apply for Multi-Country Research Fellowship. Full details and application materials for the 2010-2011 cycle of the Multi-Country Research Fellowship will be available October 2010.

The CAORC Multi-Country Fellowship Program supports advanced regional or trans-regional research in the humanities, social sciences, or allied natural sciences for U.S. master's students, doctoral candidates, and scholars who have already earned their Ph.D. Preference will be given to candidates examining comparative and/or cross-regional research. Applicants are eligible to apply as individuals or in teams.

Scholars must carry out research in two or more countries outside the United States, at least one of which hosts a participating American research center. Approximately ten awards of up to $12,000 each will be given in the doctoral candidate/post-doctoral scholar competition. Approximately four awards of up to $8,000 each will be given in the master's student competition.

To receive notifications via email about the Multi-Country Research Fellowship Program please go to http://www.caorc.org/programs/multi-email.htm

For more information about CAORC, visit http://www.caorc.org.

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Call for Papers: The 2nd Annual Transnational Asia Graduate Student Conference

Date: Friday, February 18-Saturday, February 19, 2011
Sponsor: Chao Center for Asian Studies, Rice University, Houston, TX

*Deadline for Abstract Submission of between 250-300 words: October 1, 2010*
Send Abstracts to: transnationalasia@gmail.com.

We will confirm accepted abstracts by October 15.

Phenomena that accompany the movement of individuals, ideas, and goods across the boundaries of nation-states are often glossed as "transnational". Individuals in Asia are evermore bound to each other and to the rest of the world. This increase in transnational encounters has both tested and strengthened national boundaries. We are interested in how intra- and inter- regional, transnational flows impact Asian societies and their interlocutors. While telecommunications technology and convenient air travel facilitate the forging of trade, educational, and cultural links, they may also presage the development of new conflicts and frictions. Our Transnational Asia Conference seeks a cross-disciplinary approach for exploring the processes and effects of "transnationalism" within contemporary and historical periods. We also aim to interrogate the very usefulness of the concept itself.


We particularly encourage interdisciplinary scholarship and participation of graduate students in ALL fields, including the sciences. We strive to be a multi-field conference as well as representing the regional and national diversity of Asia.

Although we welcome papers on other topics, potential areas of focus include:

o Media and technology
o Gender and sexuality
o Migration
o Health and the body
o Scientific collaboration
o Language and linguistic practice
o The meaning and theory of transnationalism
o Environmental practices and the natural world
o Religion and spiritual practices
o Money matters: capitalism, socialism, investing
o Food and drink
o Colonial encounters

Works in progress and experimental approaches are encouraged. This conference intended to function in part as a workshop space, to allow graduate students to develop their projects with feedback from mentors and peers.

Although travel stipends will NOT be available for this conference,limited accommodations (with Rice graduate students) may be available upon request. Breakfast, lunch, and dinner will be provided on the day of the conference.

More information about the Chao Center for Asian Studies and our 2010
conference may be found here:
http://chaocenter.rice.edu/Content.aspx?id=54
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Call for papers: Yale MODERN SOUTH ASIA WORKSHOP 2011

Abstracts are invited for the 2011 Yale Modern South Asia Workshop to be held on 9-10 April 2011 in New Haven, CT.

This two-day workshop will feature the ongoing work of advanced graduate students, postdoctoral scholars and junior scholars who challenge theoretical and/or methodological conventions. The workshop will bring together a community of young scholars for interdisciplinary conversation on topics of current interest in modern South Asian studies. Papers from all disciplines in the Humanities and Social Sciences will be present, particularly those that will foster cross-disciplinary dialogue and exchange within the large area studies rubric of South Asia. Session organization will reflect the subject matter. Past papers have tackled issues ranging from film and ethnomusicology to state formation and election.

Abstracts of no more than 250 words, along with full contact information, academic affiliation, discipline, one-page CV, and year in graduate program/year of PhD should be submitted by email to southasia.workshop@yale.edu by October 15, 2010. Successful candidates will be informed by November 15, 2010. Final papers of 7000 words must be submitted by January 30, 2011. Complete papers will be placed in a secure website to facilitate discussion amongst the entire group. Accommodation will be provided to all selected candidates, and travel costs of up to $400 will be reimbursed on production of receipts.

Sponsored by the South Asian Studies Council at the Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies at Yale.

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The Center for India and South Asia announces the 2010 Call for Submissions

The UCLA Center for India and South Asia announces the Sardar Patel
Award for the best dissertation submitted at any American university
on the subject of modern India between September 1, 2009-August 31,
2010. The amount of the award is $10,000. Submission materials must
be postmarked no later than October 15, 2010.

For detailed information about the Sardar Patel award, please see
the attachment or
http://www.international.ucla.edu/southasia/patel/

Additionally, if you have any questions regarding the award, please
feel free to contact me at 310-267-4602 or
jespinosa@international.ucla.edu.

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Call for Papers SEC/AAS Conference--Deadline October 31, 2010

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is host of the 50th
annual meeting of the Southeast Conference of the Association for Asian
Studies (SEC/AAS), to be held January 14-16, 2011 at the Fedex Global
Education Center on the UNC-CH campus. The conference theme is
“Transnational Asia: Art, History, Popular Culture and Political
Economies.” Conference highlights include keynote lectures by AAS
President and anthropologist, Professor K. Sivaramakrishnan Yale
University, and Professor Wu Hung, Harrie A. Vanderstappen Distinguished
Service Professor of Art History, University of Chicago; a workshop for
educators, “Teaching the Silk Road: Culture, Commerce, and Art;” film
and book exhibits, and over thirty-five panels. Visit
http://www.uky.edu/Centers/Asia/SECAAS/

For detailed guidelines and requirements regarding proposal submission
for individual papers, panels, roundtables, and outreach sessions, visit
http://www.uky.edu/Centers/Asia/SECAAS/callpapers.html
Only one paper per participant will be accepted. Annual SEC/AAS dues for
2010-2011 are required for submissions to be considered. Dues are $20;
student dues are $10. Dues checks made payable to SEC/AAS should be
sent to Charlotte Beahan, Department of History, 6-B Faculty Hall,
Murray State University, Murray, KY 42071-3341, using the membership
form (http://www.uky.edu/Centers/Asia/SECAAS/member_application.html).
Note that dues do not cover the cost of conference registration.

We urge you to submit proposals by e-mail or post; and full required
paper/panel submission information as listed on the conference website.
Proposals should be submitted by October 31, 2010 to the Program
Chair, Dr. Jan Bardsley. (Please put SEC/AAS proposal and your name on
the subject line of emails), SEC/AAS regrets that it is unable to
provide financial assistance to scholars from abroad.

Completed proposals should be sent to:

Dr. Jan Bardsley
Department of Asian Studies
UNC-Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3267
bardsley@email.unc.edu
Tel: 919-962-1534

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3rd Annual Arizona State University Graduate Conference on Asian Studies Oct 8-9 2010

Marginalization and Othering: Asian centers, peripheries, and interstices

Asian societies are often perceived as being more focused on social harmony and cohesion in contrast to the Euro-American societies which are perceived as being focused on individual freedom and realization. Nevertheless, marginalization is a well-known social phenomenon in Asia, as those that do not conform to the perceived standard are excluded from a conceptual center group and relegated to the margins of society.

Among the many forms of marginalization that are present in Asia, we may find not only social marginalization from within Asian societies but also global marginalization brought about by European colonization, localized hegemonic systems (such as Sinitic cultural hegemony in East Asia), and marginalization by dominant modes of knowledge creation. How can those who have been marginalized speak or write about their marginal experience, as marginal experience itself includes lack of these and other skills considered important by the dominant groups? If the academy succeeds in appreciating the knowledge sytems of the marginalized then it will have access to different modes of knowledge creation and aesthetics which have been previously excluded, and which certainly contribute to the philosophical goal of academia: the dissemination and creation of knowledge for the benefit of human civilization.

The 3rd Annual Arizona State University Graduate Conference on Asian Studies seeks to address and confront all problems of marginalization in and of Asia, including but not limited to the above discussed modes of marginalization as well as such theoretical constructs as “knowledge societies”, those societies on the peripheries which have their own ways of life that integrate unique knowledge systems and cognitive modes. Interested graduate students currently enrolled in Masters or Doctoral programs are welcome to submit proposals. Submissions from places, societies, and groups which have traditionally received little attention in academia are welcomed, as are novel approaches, methodologies, and theoretical standpoints.

A proposal should consist of a 250 word abstract, institutional affiliation, and the full name of the presenter, and should be emailed to the organizing committee of the 3rd Annual Arizona State University Graduate Conference on Asian Studies at asianstudiesconference@gmail.com .

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