The Human Sciences Encounters in Phnom Penh

NEW PODCASTS ON HSEPP PODOMATIC

"Dissemination and regulation of abortion pills in Southeast Asia: Products, actors and logics in action. By Pascale Hancart Petitet"

http://hs-encounters.podomatic.com/entry/2016-02-28T23_40_08-08_00

"Trafficking and Protection: Two reintegrative pathways for sexualized Cambodian young women. By Luke Bearup"

 http://hs-encounters.podomatic.com/entry/2016-02-18T22_16_51-08_00

UP COMING CONFERENCES

* 2016 Sizihwan International Conference on Asia-Pacific Studies

Kaohsiung, Taiwan, 10-12 November, 2016.

Conference theme: “Norms and Institutions in the Asia-Pacific”

Deadline of abstract submission: May 15, 2016.

http://icaps.nsysu.edu.tw/files/14-1122-144964,r11-1.php?Lang=zh-tw

* The 13th Asia Pacific Sociological Association Conference , Cambodia, 24-25 September, 2016 :“Globalization, Mobility and Borders: Challenges and Opportunities in the Asia-Pacific”at Royal University of Phnom Penh, Cambodia.

Abstract – please submit your abstract of no more than 300 words to apsaconference2016@gmail.com  by 30 June 2016

Result of selection process will be announced by 31 July 2016

For further information please contact  apsaconference2016@gmail.com

CALL FOR APPLICATIONS

* Graduate Student Research Funding

 Deadline: Thursday, 15 March 2016 (late applications will not be accepted)

 The Urban Climate Change Resilience in Southeast Asia Partnership (UCRSEA) invites graduate students to apply for funding to carry out field or desk-based research related to urbanization and climate change resilience in Cambodia, Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam and/or Lao PDR. Preference will be given to applicants who apply to do research in one or more of the project’s secondary cities of focus: Koh Kong and Battambang, Cambodia; Dawei and Bago, Myanmar; Khon Kaen and Mukdahan, Thailand; and Lao Cai and Ninh Binh, Vietnam.

 The UCRSEA partnership addresses vulnerabilities to climate change in urbanizing areas of Southeast Asia with the goal of enhancing resilience and, hence, economic and social well-being. The project is a collaboration between academics in Canada and partners located in Cambodia, Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam. Initiating partners include the Thailand Environmental Institute Foundation (TEI), the University of Toronto and York University.

 Who is eligible to apply

 To be eligible, you must meet all of the following requirements:

Be a graduate student (master’s or PhD level) enrolled at a tertiary institution in Canada OR a citizen of Cambodia, Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam or Lao PDR and enrolled at a tertiary institution in one of these countries.

For more details, visit: http://urbanclimateresiliencesea.apps01.yorku.ca/research-funding/ 

* Khmer Language and Culture Study Program Summer in Phnom Penh, Cambodia

June 20 – July 29, 2016

Application deadline extended: March 31, 2016

The CKS Khmer Language and Culture Study Program provides an opportunity for faculty, post-graduate researchers and undergraduates from U.S. universities to participate in an intensive six-week study abroad program, between June 20 – July 29, 2016, in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. This ongoing program is administered in collaboration with the University of Hawai’i, Manoa’s Khmer Language Program (ASK). This CKS program is designed for those who wish to develop Khmer language skills and understanding of contemporary Cambodian society for academic and professional purposes, but who have not completed two years of formal language training. Beginners are welcome to apply. The program is therefore intended to complement the Advanced Study in Khmer (ASK) program and is structured along similar lines. CKS can cover tuition fees and some program costs such as local travel and fieldtrips for up to eight eligible participants. 

For more details please contact Ms. Tith Srey Pich: juniorfellowships@khmerstudies.org

Eligible individuals include:Citizens, nationals or permanent residents of the United States.Heritage (Khmer-American) or non-heritage learners.Those working or studying full time in social sciences, humanities, foreign languages, and area studies.

Tuition and Administration charges are $3,400 per participant (a $3000 tuition & administration fee and a $400 program fee). CKS can cover tuition fees and some program costs such as local travel and fieldtrips for up to eight eligible participants.

For information about the program, including eligibility requirements, the application process and FAQ's please download the Khmer Language Program Eligibility Requirements You can download the Khmer Language Progam Application Form If you have any further questions please email the Center for Khmer Studies at: juniorfellowships@khmerstudies.org Tel: (855) 063 964 385 Fax: (855) 063 963 035

PUBLICATIONS

* Bulletin n°21 de l'AEFEK     

http://aefek.free.fr/

- L'éducation monastique et scolaire dans le Cambodge rural à la fin de l'époque coloniale

- Le Slach voor ponumpingh (1644), 1è représentation cartographique de la cité de Phnom Penh

* Mekong Review (a new magazine)

Forwarded from Thongchai Winichakul. Minh Bui Jones, the editor, has launched a new magazine called Mekong Review. This issue features articles by Paul Fuller, Penny Edwards, Kenneth Wong, among others. See www.mekong-review.com

* Southeast Asian migration : people on the move in search of work, refuge, and belonging by Um, Khatharya, Gaspar, Sofia Brighton : Sussex Academic Press, 2016

Southeast Asian Migration : an introduction, by Sofia Gaspar and Khatharya Um -- Growing up in a transnational family : experiences of family separation and reunification of Filipino migrants' children in Italy, by Itaru Nagasaka -- Single or Chimeric Ethnic Identity? : self-identifications of 1.5 generation Filipinos in France, by Asuncion Fresnoza-Flot -- Intergenerational Conflicts in Vietnamese Families in Poland, by Grazyna Szymanska-Matusiewicz -- Children of Hmong Refugees from Laos : Transnational Lives and the Politics of Negotiating Place, by Chia Youyee Vang -- Transforming Intimate Spheres and Incorporating New Power Relationships : Religious Conversions of Filipino Workers in the United Arab Emirates, by Akiko Watanabe and Naomi Hosoda -- Negotiating Transnational Belonging : The Filipino Channel, "Global Filipinos," and Filipino American Audiences, by Ethel Regis Lu -- Unseen : Undocumented Cambodian Migrant Workers in Thailand, by Sary Seng -- The Marginalization and Mental Health of the Politically Displaced : A Review from the Thai-Myanmar Border, by Andrew George Lim -- Crossing Borders : Citizenship, Identity and Transnational Activism in the Cambodian Diaspora, by Khatharya Um.

* Aséanie 32 Décembre 2013

* Southeast Asian Ministers of Education Organization Regional Centre for Archaeology Rock Art and the Sacred Landscapes of Mainland Southeast Asia. Noel Hidalgo Tan.

/https://www.academia.edu/4831157/Rock_Art_and_the_Sacred_Landscapes_of_Mainland_Southeast_Asia

* Tonle Sap pulsing system and fisheries productivity. Marko Keskinen. 

https://www.academia.edu/22337858/Tonle_Sap_pulsing_system_and_fisheries_productivity

* Memory and sovereignty in post-1979 Cambodia: Choeung Ek and local genocide memorials. Rachel Hughes

 https://www.academia.edu/3264263/Memory_and_sovereignty_in_post-1979_Cambodia_Choeung_Ek_and_local_genocide_memorials?auto=view&campaign=weekly_digest

* Introduction to Contemporary Cambodia. Simon Springer

https://www.academia.edu/21832025/Introduction_to_Contemporary_Cambodia?auto=view&campaign=weekly_digest

* Hybrid Lives in Postnormal Times. Alvin Lim

https://www.academia.edu/21987010/Hybrid_Lives_in_Postnormal_Times?auto=view&campaign=weekly_digest

* What would be the three key preconditions for jumpstarting or scaling up the transfer of environmentally sound technologies for climate change to developing countries? Rafael Martins

https://www.academia.edu/213838/What_would_be_the_three_key_preconditions_for_jumpstarting_or_scaling_up_the_transfer_of_environmentally_sound_technologies_for_climate_change_to_developing_countries?auto=view&campaign=weekly_digest

* Integration of Socio-Economic and Hydrological Information in the Tonle Sap Lake, Cambodia. Olli Varis

https://www.academia.edu/645150/Integration_of_Socio-Economic_and_Hydrological_Information_in_the_Tonle_Sap_Lake_Cambodia?auto=view&campaign=weekly_digest

* Socio-economic analysis of the Tonle Sap region, Cambodia: building links and capacity for targeted poverty alleviation. Olli Varis

https://www.academia.edu/645159/Socio-economic_analysis_of_the_Tonle_Sap_region_Cambodia_building_links_and_capacity_for_targeted_poverty_alleviation?auto=view&campaign=weekly_digest

* The Tonle Sap Lake, Cambodia: water-related conflicts with abundance of water. Olli Varis

https://www.academia.edu/645162/The_Tonle_Sap_Lake_Cambodia_water-related_conflicts_with_abundance_of_water?auto=view&campaign=weekly_digest

* The Uncertainties of Aid Work. Anne Meike Fechter

https//www.academia.edu/22807377/The_Uncertainties_of_Aid_Work

* Storytelling Domestic Violence: Feminist Politics of Participatory Video Drama in Cambodia. Katherine Brickell & Bradley Garrett.

https://www.academia.edu/10416856/Storytelling_Domestic_Violence_Feminist_Politics_of_Participatory_Video_Drama_in_Cambodia?auto=view&campaign=weekly_digest

* Should ethnic Lao people be considered indigenous to Cambodia? Ethnicity, classification and the politics of indigeneity. Ian Baird

https://www.academia.edu/22380656/Should_ethnic_Lao_people_be_considered_indigenous_to_Cambodia_Ethnicity_classification_and_the_politics_of_indigeneity?auto=view&campaign=weekly_digest

* Results of the 1995-1996 Archaeological Field Investigations at Angkor Borei, Cambodia. James Bayman

https://www.academia.edu/22305930/Results_of_the_1995-1996_Archaeological_Field_Investigations_at_Angkor_Borei_Cambodia?auto=view&campaign=weekly_digest

* Matt O'Lemmon's review of Courtney Works' dissertation" Tides of Empire: Merit, Morality, and Development in Rural Cambodia"

http://dissertationreviews.org/archives/13517

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