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Newsletter HSEPP August 2015

31 August 2015

CALL FOR PROPOSALS

AAS-in-ASIA 2016 Conference 
Kyoto, Japan 

The Association for Asian Studies (AAS) and Doshisha University are pleased to invite colleagues in Asian studies to submit proposals for organized panels and roundtables (no individual paper proposals accepted) to be presented at the third AAS-in-ASIA Conference to be held June 24-27, 2016 at Doshisha University in Kyoto, Japan.  
The Program Committee for the AAS-in-ASIA conference seeks proposals dealing with all regions of Asia on subjects covering a wide range of scholarly disciplines and professional fields under the theme "Asia in Motion: Horizons of Hope."  
Panels are welcomed from scholars throughout the field of Asian studies, wherever they may be based academically, and are especially encouraged from scholars representing academic communities that are relatively underrepresented in international meetings. 
The deadline for proposal submissions is October 30, 2015 at 5:00 p.m. Eastern Standard Time.  All proposals must be submitted electronically via the proposal submission website.  
Full Conference details can be found on the conference website. Please visit  http://aas-in-asia-doshisha.com/ for more information on this special conference being held in Kyoto. 

Proposals instructions http://www.aas-in-asia.org/2016-Call-for-Proposals-Main.htm

 

 

 

Vitality and Viability: Arts Ecosystems in Asia

 

January 14-16, 2016

Phnom Penh, Cambodia

Deadline: October 18, 2015

Web announcement:  www.cambodianlivingarts.org/our-work/events/ancer-2016/

 We invite young researchers from across the Asia-Pacific in the fields of arts management, cultural policy, and related fields to submit proposals to present their research at a panel session at this conference. The panel session is specifically convened to focus on the work of young researchers including academics, arts practitioners, arts and cultural professionals with a research practice, doctoral and postgraduate students, and arts educators with an interest in questions of arts management and policy. The intention is to initiate a gathering of a community of young researchers from the region, nurturing the space for critical thinking for a new generation and providing a networking platform.

Sponsored by the Asia Pacific Network for Cultural Education and Research (ANCER) organized by Cambodian Living Arts.

 

 

KHMER LANGUAGE CLASSES

 

Fall Semester Online Khmer Language Classes

University of Hawai‘i at Manoa Outreach College

 

Online courses offered:

CAM 103 (2 credits) Conversing in Khmer I

CAM 105 (2 credits) Reading/Writing Khmer

 

Dates: August 24 to December 15, 2015.

The tuition of each online course (2 credits) is: $830 ($410/credit), plus $10 ($5/credit) Outreach Online Course Fee.

 

•   Khmer Online Course (Tuition & Fees, Course Characteristics, How to participate...): khmer.hawaii.edu/KhmerOnline.html

•   How to Register (Application Forms, Check Class Availability, Deadlines...):  khmer.hawaii.edu/Apply.html

•   University of Hawai‘i Outreach College:  www.outreach.hawaii.edu/

Information: Dr. Chhany Sak-Humphry,  sak@hawaii.edu  

 

              

         PUBLICATIONS

 

The structural violence of patient participation in Cambodian HIV services, Qualitative Health Research, doi: 10.1177/1049732315583269

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           By Eve Bureau

 

Les actions de développement face au problème de l’enfant-vagabond (Cambodge)

Par Steven Prigent

Full document attached.

 

Asia Exchange Report ‘Memory for Change’: Memorialisation as a Tool for Transitional Justice

            By Laura McGrew

https://www.academia.edu/15279988/Asia_Exchange_Report_Memory_for_Change_Memorialisation_as_a_Tool_for_Transitional_Justice?auto=download&campaign=upload_em

Southeast Asian urbanism: from early city to Classical state

By  Miriam Stark (University of Hawaii at Manoa, Anthropology)

https://www.academia.edu/15256478/Southeast_Asian_urbanism_from_early_city_to_Classical_state?auto=download&campaign=upload_email

 

Violent Erasures and Erasing Violence: Contesting Cambodia's Landscapes of Violence

By  James Tyner 

https://www.academia.edu/15169782/Violent_Erasures_and_Erasing_Violence_Contesting_Cambodias_Landscapes_of_Violence

 

Violence, Surplus Production, and the Transformation of Nature during the Cambodian Genocide

By  James Tyner

https://www.academia.edu/8583126/Violence_Surplus_Production_and_the_Transformation_of_Nature_during_the_Cambodian_Genocide

 

Memory and the everyday landscape of violence in post-genocide Cambodia

By  James Tyner

https://www.academia.edu/6656855/Memory_and_the_everyday_landscape_of_violence_in_post-genocide_Cambodia

 

Best Practices in Compensation and Resettlement for Large Dams: The Case of the Planned Lower Sesan 2 Hydropower Project in Northeastern Cambodia

By  Ian Baird

https://www.academia.edu/1049246/Best_Practices_in_Compensation_and_Resettlement_for_Large_Dams_The_Case_of_the_Planned_Lower_Sesan_2_Hydropower_Project_in_Northeastern_Cambodia

 

From Funan to Angkor: Collapse and Regeneration in Ancient Cambodia

            By Miriam Stark

https://www.academia.edu/12802870/From_Funan_to_Angkor_Collapse_and_Regeneration_in_Ancient_Cambodia

 

Life after Collective Death in Southeast Asia, Part II: Helping and being helped , SEAR, 21, 3, 2013

By Anne Yvonne Guillou and Silvia Vignato

https://www.academia.edu/9937445/Introduction._Life_after_Collective_Death_in_Southeast_Asia_Part_II_Helping_and_being_helped_SEAR_21_3_2013

 

The Khmer Witch Project: Demonizing the Khmer by Khmerizing a Demon (2015) In: DORISEA Working Paper Series, No. 19.

By Benjamin Baumann

ABSTRACT

This paper outlines an anthropological reading of Thai ghost films and their uncanny protagonists as a dialectic synthesizing ethnographic material with film analysis in an attempt to operationalize the premises of the ontological and spectral turns. The paper is the first systematic study of Phi Krasue—one of Thailand's most iconic uncanny beings—and its cinematic and vernacular ghostly images...

https://www.academia.edu/14330324/The_Khmer_Witch_Project_Demonizing_the_Khmer_by_Khmerizing_a_Demon_2015_In_DORISEA_Working_Paper_Series_No._19

A very interesting and provocative article by Benjamin Baumann now available as part of the DORISEA Working Paper Series (a great series).

https://hu-berlin.academia.edu/BenjaminBaumann 

 

 

Southeast Asia: Trends in U.S. and Chinese Economic Engagement

 

http://www.gao.gov/products/GAO-15-724
GAO-15-724: Published: Aug 13, 2015. Publicly Released: Aug 13, 2015.

 

 

North Korea Sanctions: United States Has Increased Flexibility to Impose Sanctions, but United Nations Is Impeded by a Lack of Member State Reports

http://www.gao.gov/products/GAO-15-485
GAO-15-485: Published: May 13, 2015. Publicly Released: May 13, 2015.

 

 

Introducing a Second Collection of Papers from the Fourth International Conference on Lao Studies (4ICLS)

           By Ian Baird and Christine Elliotte

https://www.academia.edu/15067885/Introducing_a_Second_Collection_of_Papers_from_the_Fourth_International_Conference_on_Lao_Studies_4ICLS_

 

 

Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press,

Year                : 2015

Description     : 57 pages: illustrations; 24 cm.

Language       : English

Series              : Global Asia ; 3; IIAS publications; Variation: Global Asia (Amsterdam, Netherlands) ; 3.; IIAS publications series.; Monographs.

Content          :Introduction -- Populations on the move in the borderlands of Northeast Cambodia : socio-economic changes and identity creation / Frédérc Bourdier -- The Burmese 'adaptive colonization' of Southern Thailand / Maxime Boutry -- The "interstices" : a history of migration and ethnicity / Jacques Ivanoff -- Borders and cultural creativity : the case of the Chao Lay, the sea gypsies of Southern Thailand / Olivier Ferrari.

Standard N0 : ISBN: 9789089646590;  9089646590 ((pdf)); 9789048523320