Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg (HWK), Institute for Advanced Study Call for Applications: Fellowship North-Western Germany
The HWK announces the launch of a focus program in the area of European studies in 2010. The HWK-Europe-Fellowships are dedicated to foster the studies of European history, politics, culture and societies and to broaden the knowledge about Europe in the world.
The Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg (HWK), Institute for Advanced Study, is a non-profit foundation, incorporated under German civil law by the German federal states of Lower Saxony and Bremen and by the City of Delmenhorst. One of its primary objectives is to augment the nationally and internationally recognized research potential of the universities and research institutions in the region, especially the Universities of Bremen and Oldenburg. The HWK accomplishes its mission by appointing advanced researchers from universities and research institutes from all over the world as Research Fellows. At most Institutes for Advanced Study, the work of the Fellows remains largely independent of the faculties and institutes at local or regional universities. By contrast, the work of the HWK follows a different principle: mostly, Fellows are selected for their ability to work with colleagues at nationally and internationally recognized research centers in north western Germany (although they are not necessarily required to do so). The Institute offers excellent working and living conditions and supports international conferences and workshops.
The Fellowships are intended for scholars of social sciences and neighboring disciplines (such as economy, law studies, history, ethnology, philosophy, anthropology, psychology, etc.) who want to pursue a project on Europe and whose research will benefit from the possibility to study Europe from within. The HWK strongly encourages the application of researchers who plan to set up a temporary study group on their topic at the HWK.
Applicants should at least hold a PhD or equivalent qualification. A Fellowship is to last between 3 and up to 10 months, the fellowship can be split into two or more stays at the institute. The HWK allows for different financial solutions regarding reimbursement of fellows, such as direct compensation or reimbursement of the home institution.
We request that you submit the following materials:
A formal covering letter to the Rector of the HWK or the Research Manager responsible for the Social Sciences at the HWK,
an exposé of the planned research project written by the applicant containing a detailed work schedule,
an abstract (1500 characters incl. blanks) of the research exposé
a curriculum vitae,
an up-to-date list of publications,
where available, a letter of recommendation from cooperation partners in the vicinity of the HWK,
one (recent) article, paper or monograph published by the applicant,
if a study group is planned, a short outline on the working schedule of the group and a (preliminary) list of possible participants.
In order to pool applications to be reviewed by the Scientific Advisory Board there are two deadlines each year: February 28 and August 31.
The AAALS calls for papers for its 27th Annual conference to be held in conjunction with ANSZANA in Forth Worth, TX, from February 17 to 19, 2011.
As always, the conference will be collegial and open-minded, welcoming papers from many different approaches and contexts.
Since this will be our first official conference as the American Association for Australasian Literary Studies, we particularly invite material on New Zealand literature and film and its international connections.
We also are especially interested in papers on Indigenous Australian literature and Maori literature in New Zealand.
Welcome as well will be papers dealing with the two giants of Australian literature we have recently lost, Peter Porter and Randolph Stow, and writers whose centennials are in or near 2011, such as Elizabeth Riddell, Allen Curnow, Denis Glover, William Hart-Smith, and Patrick White.
As always, submissions on any other aspect of Australian, New Zealand, or South Pacific literature, culture, or film is welcomed: local, regional, national, international, transnational, as well as comparative après on Australian literature with respect to other traditions.
Please send 200 word abstracts to Nicholas Birns at birnsn@newschool.edu by December 1, 2010.
From South China to North America: New Perspectives on Chinese American Transnationalism
The School of Modern Languages and Cultures' American Studies Programme and the Hong Kong-America Center are co-organizing a two-day conference entitled “From South China to North America: New Perspectives on Chinese American Transnationalism” on June 9 and 10, 2010, at the University of Hong Kong. A post-conference workshop in China sponsored by the Institute of Overseas Chinese Studies at Jinan University in Guangzhou and the Guangdong Qiaoxiang Culture Research Center at Wuyi University in Jiangmen will follow from June 11 to 13.
The Conference brings together scholars from the United States, Canada, mainland China, and Hong Kong who specialize in the fields of Chinese American and diaspora studies. These historians, anthropologists, sociologists, political scientists, and literary and cultural critics will explore new patterns and themes of scholarship related to the flow of people, resources and ideas between Southern China and North America over the past two hundred years.
List of Participants:
Dr. James K. Chin (HKU)
Prof. Cindy Chu Yik-Yi (HKBU)
Prof. Louise Edwards (HKU)
Dr. Staci Ford (HKU)
Prof. Evelyn Hu-Dehart (Brown)
Prof. Madeline Hsu (Texas at Austin)
Prof. Gray Kochhar Lindgren (University of Washington & HKU)
Ms. Heidi Kong (UBC & Sun Yat-sen)
Prof. Robert G. Lee (Brown)
Prof. Li Jinzhao (Beijing Foreign Studies U)
Prof. Haiming Liu (Cal Poly Pomona)
Dr. Liu Jin (Wuyi)
Prof. Long Denggao (Tsinghua)
Prof. Andrea Louie (Michigan State)
Prof. Kam Louie (HKU)
Dr. Nicole Newendorp (Harvard)
Prof. David Pong (U of Delaware & CUHK)
Prof. Jay Qian Suoqiao (CityU)
Prof. Edward Rhoads (Texas at Austin – retired)
Dr. Glenn Shive (HKAC)
Prof. Elizabeth Sinn (HKU)
Prof. Chee-Beng Tan (CUHK)
Ms. Tan Jinhua (Wuyi & HKU)
Prof. Wan Xiaohong (SCNU)
Prof. Wing-kai To (Bridgewater & HKU)
Prof. Wu Jinping (Jinan)
Prof. Hon-ming Yip (CUHK)
Prof. Philip Yuen Sang Leung (CUHK)
Prof. Zhang Guoxiong (Wuyi)
Host: Department of Media, Music and Cultural Studies, Macquarie University Venue: Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia.
It wasn’t so long ago that with heroin chic and SM clubbing, what had been considered unacceptable became a voguish pretext for mass marketing. Now, with global hysteria about paedophilia and violent computer games and increasing calls for internet censorship, the unacceptable is being reinvented as an object of policing.
The issue of what is ‘fit to present’ has always haunted culture, especially in its relationship with social institutions: the proscription of heresy, the erasure of bodies (because of their age, race or gender), the silencing of sexualities, the purging of languages, the classification of desires as pathologies … marking things as unacceptable has been a key strategy in governing the media, education, the arts as well as the practice of everyday life. Conversely, resistance to the banning of texts and practices has long been one of the hallmarks of movements for liberalisation.
Understanding how bodies, images and practices are judged unacceptable is key to understanding how culture, communication and creativity fit into society.
Issues:
• What is now unacceptable?
• Did the unacceptable ever go away or did it merely shift from what was outlaw to an object of voyeurism?
• How does what is deemed unacceptable reflect the racial, gender and sexual fault-lines of a society?
• From incineration to pathologization: how have strategies for policing the unacceptable evolved?
Abstracts are sought that engage with topics such as (but not limited to):
• Body modification
• Pornography
• Transgression in the Arts
• Political censorship
• Youth Culture and Behaviour
• Free speech
• Hate speech
• Excommunication
• Sexual Subcultures
• Outlaw Fashion
• Social Networking sites
• Political and aesthetic avant-gardes
• Gangs
• Imposture
• Homophobia
• Drug culture
• Infidelity
• Secret Lives
• Welfare dependency
• Internet censorship
• Religious cults
• Violence
• Worklessness
• Control of school and higher education curriculums
• Obesity
• Behaviour in Public Space
• Racism
Please send abstracts of 300 words, or panel proposals, via email to
unacceptableconference@gmail.comby Friday, 30th September 2010.
Sponsored and hosted by the Department of Media, Music, Communication and Cultural Studies, Macquarie University, Australia.
Australians Abroad: An interdisciplinary conference
University of Queensland, 10-11 February 2011
Hosted by the School of Languages and Comparative Cultural Studies, UQ
CALL FOR PAPERS:
If myths of national identity have focused on travel to Australia (‘discovery’, invasion/settlement, transportation, migration), it is worth noting that travel from Australia has been a significant phenomenon for just as long. From Yolngu people accompanying Macassan fisherman to the islands of Indonesia, from those First Fleeters who made the return journey ‘home’ to Europe, to today’s travellers, tourists and expatriates, residents of Australia have left its shores for a multitude of destinations and reasons and in very different roles. Descendants of migrants and refugees, soldiers, nurses, artists, authors, brides, chaperones, utopians, sportspeople, students, teachers, backpackers, cruise-ship travellers, journalists, IT professionals: some have sought to rejoin family, others to escape it; some have sought renown, others have been head-hunted.
We invite papers that explore the conference theme from a variety of disciplinary perspectives including: auto/biography, travel writing, history, language learning, intercultural communication, sociology, tourism, literary/cultural studies.
Possible topics might include:
analyses of fiction, memoirs, letters, diaries, interviews relating to travel by Australians
patterns of travel/writing, configurations of gender and desire at different times, in different places
Aboriginal travel to various destinations and its purposes
the search for Utopia and its construction by Australians
contemporary discourses displacing the ‘cultural cringe’ of the 1960s as the motivation for travel
reflections on Australia from an overseas vantage point
Australian experiences in non-English speaking territory, language-learning memoirs, the relation between language and cultural identity
the extent to which belonging is sought in the destination culture, accommodation to local cultures
representations of particular cultures by Australians
New Zealand travel/expatriate experiences (this might form a panel broadening the conference theme to Australasians Abroad)
Abstracts of 250 words or panel proposals (3 x 20 minute papers on a common theme with an abstract for each) with full contact details should be sent by 31 August 2010 to Dr Juliana de Nooy at: j.denooy@uq.edu.au
Keynote speaker: Emeritus Professor Ros Pesman, author of Duty Free: Australian Women Abroad and co-editor of Australians in Italy: Contemporary lives and impressions and The Oxford book of Australian travel writing.
Other keynote speakers will be confirmed shortly. Conference registration will open in October 2010 and will include earlybird registration fees. Participation by postgraduate students is
particularly welcome.
Expressions of Interest – The Chinese in Australian Politics
Call for EOI for One Day research colloquium
Cosmopolitan Civil Societies Research Centre Conference Room
(Level 3, 645 Harris St Ultimo 2007)
September 8 2010 University of Technology Sydney
A collaboration of the UTS China Research Centre, Cosmopolitan Civil Societies Research Centre, and the Social and Political Change Academic Group
“The Chinese”, a concise label for very diverse phenomena, have become key players in Australian political life. Yet very little is known about their engagement with the Australian political system. This colloquium seeks to scope the parameters of a research agenda, which may include (and are not exhausted by):
the new Chinese “empire” and Australia
political culture, political socialization and political participation
the many meanings of Chinese in politics – old Australians, post-White Australia, diasporic, mainland, June 4 and after, Han nationalist, reluctant Chinese (Uighurs, Tibetans etc) etc.
Chinese media and culture in Australia
Gender and politics within and between communities
Chinese education in Australia
Australian government strategies and studies of (the) Chinese in Australia
Chinese governments and Australian politics (nations, regions, cities)
Chinese corporations and Australian politics
Patronage politics and political culture
Political philosophies, one party states and multicultural democracy
Chinese students in Australia
Internal political differences and alliances in Australia among Chinese.
We welcome expressions of interest from participants wishing to offer a paper: these can be works in progress, scoping proposals, provocations or research reports.
Selected papers will need to be prepared in advance and will be circulated to participants ahead of time. Each presenter will have 10 minutes to speak to their paper, and there will be a discussant from among the participants who will then respond. This will be followed by Q-and-A, and a short discussion period.
Expressions of interest with an abstract of no more than 200 words should be sent to Claire Moore at UTS by May 22. Successful proposals will be notified by June 10. Full papers are due August 1. People participating in the colloquium may be invited to act as discussants on other papers. Participation is not limited to successful paper presenters, though overall numbers are limited.
The colloquium is convened by Prof Stephen Fitzgerald, Assoc Prof Feng Chongyi, Dr Karen Wang and Prof Andrew Jakubowicz. For more information please contact one of the convenors.
Building on Diversity – Sharing our experiences, challenges and solutions.
A conference bringing together multicultural organisations, relevant government departments and other stakeholders to showcase multicultural service excellence and to strengthen partnerships
“This one day conference aims to bring together ethno-specific and multicultural organisations,
relevant government departments and other stakeholders to showcase service excellence and
the benefits of communities responding to needs and to facilitate a dialogue for meeting our
future challenges.” – Elizabeth Drozd Chair, Conference Steering Committee
What the Conference Will Cover:
• Best Practice Service Delivery
• Building on Capacity
• Partnership and Collaboration
• Leadership and Future Sustainability
DAREBIN ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT CENTRE
CNR BELL ST AND ST.GEORGES RD. PRESTON WHEN : Wednesday 23 June 2010
A touring exhibition funded by Arts Queensland’s creative communities project. Developed and coordinated by the Museum Resource Centre of Far North Queensland in partnership with the Cooktown and District Historical Society.
To be launched by Cr Val Schier, Mayor of Cairns Regional Council Friday 28 May 6pm for 6.30pm
RSVP by 26 May to Tel 07 4046 4810 or
email marketing@cairnsregionalgallery.com.au
Invitation to Submit an Article for Aboriginal History 2011
The 2011 volume will commemorate the 30th anniversary of the publication of the special edition of Aboriginal History (1981) which focussed on Asian-Aboriginal connections and interactions. We hope to bring together articles which reflect the development of scholarship
in this field over the last 30 years and include a range of contributors.
Articles of 6000 – 8000 words will be considered.
All papers will be blind peer-reviewed. Submission date: 30 June 2010
Please indicate your interest in contributing to Aboriginal History 2011 by email to Christine Choo or Peta Stephenson with the working title of your article.
