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HSEPP Newsletter Sept2016
Dear HSEPP Members and Friends,
Here’s our HSEPP September 2016 Digest. You are all welcome to share your suggestions, publications and information with us and to come to present a research paper to the HSEPP conference. Scholars and researchers who wish to give a lecture presenting need to send us a bio data, presentation title and abstract in English and French, as well as a proposed date. For any questions, please feel free to contact us. Lectures can be given in Khmer, French, or English.
HSEPP Newsletter Sept2016HSEPP JOB ANNOUNCEMENT
The Human Science Encounters in Phnom Penh is looking for a new coordinator
Part-time job (1 day per week)
Salary : 100USD/ month
Start from: 2 January 2016
Place : Phnom Penh
More information : Full announcement attached.
UPCOMING CONFERENCES
‘‘The S’aoch: an Ethnic Minority in Kampot Province’’ by Jean Michel-Filippi
Dates : 7 October 2016
Language : Khmer and English
Venue: Dancing Hall, Royal University of Fine, Phnom Penh
Organizer : YOSOTHOR and RUFA
Presentation : Not far from the crossroads of Kampot and Kampong Som, a tiny ethnic minority, still lives in the village of Samrong Leu. The term “S’aoch” is used by the outsiders, researchers included, to designate them. Theyaccept reluctantly this naming, “an itchy skin disease” in Khmer, and prefer designating themselves as “cu’ung” or as “Khmer deum” (Khmer of the origin).The aim of our presentation consists in describing in the most accurate way the prehistory, the past and the current situation this quickly vanishing minority. We intend to contribute to a better knowledge of this minority through quoting and analyzing several testimonies selected in various periods such as Zhou Daguan’s descriptions of the Chong (13th century) or Adhémar Leclère (19th century).Through this presentation, we will attempt to analyze in a deeper way the processes and the reasons that lead to the disappearance of an ethnic minority.
More information :See flyer attached.
CSEAS Fridays at Noon Lecture Series
From subjects to relations: Bioethics and postcolonial politics in an HIV prevention trial in Cambodia by Jenna Grant
Date : Friday, October 14, 2016, 12:00-1:00 PM
Language : English
Venue : School of Social Work Building, 1080 South University Ave, University of Michigan, United States
Abstract : Over the past decade and a half, an increasing number of clinical trials have been conducted in Cambodia, making the country a source of data about HIV, malaria, and other conditions. Has Cambodia also shaped the practice of clinical trials? If so, how, and to what effect? I take up this question of how contexts shape scientific practices by exploring Cambodia’s first experimental trial, the Cambodia Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis trial. The trial was designed to test the safety and efficacy of tenofovir as a prevention for HIV infection, and was cancelled in 2004. Debates about ethics of the trial invoked international bioethics guidelines, as well as historical relations of vulnerability and responsibility between foreigners and Cambodians, and between Cambodian leaders and Cambodian subjects. These debates shifted the object of concern in classical bioethics, from the experimental human subject to the relation between subjects and researchers. This case illuminates how a postcolonial field of articulation in Cambodia reformulates classical bioethics.
More information : http://www.ii.umich.edu/cseas/news-events/events.detail.html/31890-4437247.html
“In the Realms of Ritual and Enchantment: Imagination and Recovery in the Aftermath of the Khmer Rouge” by Eve Zucker
Date : November 30, 12:00 noon
Language :English
Venue : Yale University, Room 203, Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse Avenue, New Haven, CT 06511, United States
Abstract : Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in the foothills of the Cardamom Mountains in Cambodia and insights from Graeber, Bloch, Bauchelard and others—this talk explores role of the imagination in recovery from in the aftermath of the war and genocide. It suggests that the generative quality of the imagination makes it a unique site for restoring humanity and remaking social worlds. Imagination is considered in both its transcendental and transactional forms through the stories, rituals and everyday lives.
More information : http://cseas.yale.edu/programevents/events#Sept
CALL FOR PANEL PROPOSITION
Call for panel for the 6th Congress of Asian studies 2017
6th Congress of Asian studies 2017
Date of the congress : 26 to 28 June 2017
Languages :English and/or French
Venue : Science Po, Paris
Presentation : the overall objectives of the conference are to present the latest research and current debates within the field of Asian studies, to promote transdisciplinary and transcultural exchanges, and to foster international collaborations.
How to submit a proposal : Proposals must be submitted online on the conference website ( http://congresasie2017.sciencesconf.org), first by coordinators of the panel and then by each speaker participating in the panel. Coordinators need to submit: title and summary of the panel (max. 300 words), keywords, list of speakers. Speakers need to submit: title and abstract of their presentation (max. 200 words).
Deadline for submission : 31 October 2016
More information : Click here for detail information.
CALL FOR PAPER
CFP Congrès Asie : Peut-on faire le bilan du Tribunal hybride des Khmers rouges à Phnom Penh, 2007-2017 (Les Cours extraordinaires auprès des Tribunaux Cambodgiens – CETC)?
En lien avec le Congrès Asie 2017
Langue : Français
Résumé : Appel à candidatures pour former un panel qui aborderait les thèmes soulevés par le Procès des Khmers rouges.
Mots-clefs : Communisme. Génocide-politicide. Crimes contre l'humanité. Entreprise criminelle concertée. Camps de travail. Communes populaires. Tortures. Ruralisation. Prisons. Guerre froide. Totalitarisme.
Argumentaire : Ce qu'on appelle le Tribunal des Khmers rouges a fait l'objet de nombreuses critiques d'ordre pratique, juridique et politique. On a souligné qu'il vient trop tard, a état établi trop loin du centre de la capitale et traîne en longueur. On lui reproche d'avoir limité les responsabilités pour les crimes dans le temps (du 17 avril 1975 au 7 janvier 1979) et dans l'espace en écartant les interférences de pays étrangers, comme le Vietnam, la Chine ou les Etats-Unis. Surtout, les juristes lui reprochent de ne pas avoir respecté les standards internationaux d'administration de la justice. On l'accuse de s'être laissé manipuler par le pouvoir en place à Phnom Penh qui a refusé de laisser témoigner des acteurs essentiels du drame, de pousser les juges à insister longuement sur le « génocide » des Vietnamiens, par exemple, et passer sous silence les centaines de milliers de victimes cambodgiennes du réseau de prisons qui couvrait tout le pays, ou même à n'évoquer que très peu la famine généralisée, le travail forcé et l'abolition de l'enfance. Il reste que le procès a eu des conséquences bénéfiques pour le pays : celui de Duch surtout, qui a parlé non seulement tout au long de son procès mais, par deux interventions au cours du 2e procès, a fait des fracassantes révélations sur le mode de chasse à l'ennemi et de gouvernance de l'État révolutionnaire. Un dialogue intergénérationnel a pu s'établir et les Khmers sont beaucoup mieux renseignés sur nature et le pourquoi de cet État totalitaire.
Deadline : 14 octobre 2016
Contact : henri2locard@gmail.com
GLOBAL ASIAS 4 CONFERENCE PENN STATE UNIVERSITY, March 31-April 1, 2017
Language: English
Abstract : Penn State’s Department of Asian Studies announces Global Asias 4, a biennial conference hosted to complement the work of our journal Verge: Studies in Global Asias (published by the University of Minnesota Press). By bringing into relation work in both Asian Studies and Asian American Studies, Verge covers Asia and its diasporas, East to West, across and around the Pacific, from a variety of humanistic perspectives—anthropology, art history, literature, history, sociology, and political science—in order to develop comparative analyses that recognize Asia’s place(s) in the development of global culture and history. In that expansive and multidisciplinary spirit, we invite proposals for the specific panels and roundtables listed below for the conference, to be held March 31-April 1, 2017.
Keywords : Immigration & Migration History / Studies, Cultural History/Studies
Submission conditions : Please submit materials (250-word abstract and brief c.v.) to specific roundtable and panel organizers directly
Deadline : November 1, 2016.
Contact : tina.chen@psu.edu
More inforamtion : https://networks.h-net.org/node/22055/discussions/142843/cfp-global-asias-4-conference
Reconsidering Urban Boundaries in Contemporary Southeast Asian Cities
Related to the AAS in Asia conference in Seoul on the 24-27th June 2017
Session organizers : Danielle Labbé and Gabriel Fauveaud (Université de Montréal)
Abstract : Southeast Asian cities experienced unprecedented changes since the 1990s. Over the two last decades, new built forms and functions (e.g., masterplanned communities, multifunctional high-rise towers, shopping malls, etc.) and market-oriented planning strategies played important roles in transforming inner-cities and peripheral zones, public and private spaces along with urban dwellers’ sense of urbanity. In exploring these transformations, a significant part of the literature relies on concepts and interpretations derived from the Western urban experience (e.g. fragmentation, socio-spatial inequalities, privatization of planning, etc.) that emphasize the emergence of new socio-spatial boundaries in Southeast Asian cities (e.g. gated enclaves, exclusive access to new technologies) and the hardening of existing ones (e.g. individual vs community, public/private, urbanites/rural migrants). In this panel, we are inviting papers that look beyond and interrogate the divisive, segregative and isolating aspects of new socio-spatial, infrastructural, technological and political-institutional forms and functions in contemporary Asian cities. The session seeks promote comparative study grounded in diverse theoretical and methodological approaches. Contributions from a variety of disciplinary perspectives (geography, urban planning, anthropology, history, area studies, etc.) by senior or junior scholars with research focused on any Asian urban region(s) are most welcome. The panel will offer a broader discussion of opportunities and challenges of urban scholarship in the region’s rapidly changing contexts.
Deadline : November 20th
How to submit a paper : If you are interested in presenting a paper, please send a 250-words abstract to Danielle Labbé ( danielle.labbe@umontreal.ca ) and Gabriel Fauveaud ( gabriel.fauveaud@umontreal.ca ) by November 20th. Note that we cannot offer financial assistance to participants. However, interested participants can apply for travel support to the conference organization.
More information : http://www.asian-studies.org/Conferences/AAS-in-ASIA-Conferences/Seoul-2017home#
Prier aux Suds : les lieux de culte entre territorialisations, cohabitations et mobilités du religieux
Title in English: Praying in the South: worshipping places between territorialisations, cohabitation and religious mobilities
Langue : Français
Résumé : Ce numéro 275 desCahiers d’Outre-Merpropose d’interroger le religieux dans les sociétés contemporaines des « Suds » et dans les territoires investis par leurs migrations. À travers une approche comparative croisant des religions et des terrains divers, il s’agira d’évaluer dans quelle mesure les lieux cultuels au sens large (lieux de pratiques rituelles, centres de la vie communautaire, lieux d’étude, lieux de pèlerinage, géosymboles religieux de toutes dimensions) sont au cœur de dynamiques et d’enjeux territoriaux et migratoires profondément renouvelés par les transformations contemporaines des modes de croire, d’adhérer, de pratiquer, de circuler à travers les frontières classiques des territoires mais aussi des grandes familles religieuses.
Processus de soumission : Les textes complets (50 000 signesmaximum comprenant la bibliographie, les résumés, mots clés et présentation du/des auteurs) doivent être envoyés conjointement à maud.lasseur@gmail.com et pytrouillet@gmail.com
Deadline : lundi 20 février 2017
Lien : http://calenda.org/374341
CALL FOR APPLICATION
Asia Research Institute Job Opportunities 2017/18
Language : English
Presentation: All positions are intended for outstanding active researchers from around the world, to work on an important piece of Asia-related research in the social sciences and humanities.
(i.e. Senior Research Fellow, Research Fellow, Postdoctoral Fellow, or Visiting Senior Research Fellow Sabbatical). Apart from the quality of research, positions will be awarded on the basis of the relationship of the research topic to ARI’s specific cluster of research as listed in
Research Clusters and Their Focus (click here). Applicants need to indicate the particular Research Cluster to which they are applying. In cases where there may be overlapping research interests, you may list up to a maximum of 2 clusters only.
During their term at ARI, recipients are expected to submit a working paper (not more than 10,000 words) to the ARI Working Paper Series. Candidates are also required to deliver research seminar(s) to the staff and to acknowledge ARI’s contribution for research in their publications.
Application process: Interested applicants are invited to email their applications, consisting of:
- A completed application form ( please click here to download the application form). Please ensure you complete all sections of the form and submit it to us in MS Word or equivalent editable formats only. If a section is not applicable to your application, please state ‘NA’.’.
- Curriculum Vitae ;
- Synopsis of the proposed research project (maximum of 8-10 single-lined pages);
- At least one short sample of published work, preferably in English.
- It is primarily your responsibility to ensure that a minimum of two letters of reference are sent to us in confidence via email reporting on your academic standing and on the applicant’s research project by 14 October 2016 .
- Reference letters must clearly state your name, position and cluster applied for.
- Closing date for applications is 14 October 2016 . You may wish to check with your referees that they have submitted their references before the closing date.
More information : https://ari.nus.edu.sg/Page/ARI-JobOpportunities2016-17
Contrats post-doctoraux FMSH-EFEO 2017
Présentation : La Fondation Maison des sciences de l’homme (FMSH) et l’Ecole Française d’Extrême Orient (EFEO) proposent des contrats post-doctoraux d’un montant mensuel de 1500 euros net d’une durée de 3 à 6 mois, permettant à des post-doctorants affiliés à une institution française d'effectuer un séjour d'étude en Asie dans les Centres de l'EFEO. Seront soutenus des projets de recherche en sciences humaines ou sociales relatives aux civilisations des pays d'Asie. Les projets interdisciplinaires sont bienvenus. Cet appel s’inscrit dans le cadre du Programme Atlas de mobilité post-doctorale de courte durée lancé par la FMSH et ses partenaires.
Durée de la mobilité : 3 à 6 mois
Période du séjour : Entre janvier et décembre 2017
Date limite de candidature: jeudi 10 novembre 2016
Contactes : à la FMSH : Marion FANJAT mfanjat@msh-paris.fr , à l'EFEO : Claire PRILLARD claire.prillard@efeo.net
Pour en savoir plus : http://www.efeo.fr/base.php?code=636
The Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation Program in Buddhist Studies
Language : English
Presentation : The American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) announces the fourth year of an initiative supporting research and teaching in Buddhist studies, funded by a three-year grant of $6.7 million from The Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation. In cooperation with the Foundation, ACLS offers an integrated set of fellowship and grant competitions that will expand the understanding and interpretation of Buddhist thought in scholarship and society, strengthen international networks of Buddhist studies, and increase the visibility of innovative currents in those studies.
The Foundation offers five competitions to support research and teaching:
- The Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation Dissertation Fellowships in Buddhist Studies
- The Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowships in Buddhist Studies
- The Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation Collaborative Research Fellowships in Buddhist Studies
- The Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation Research Fellowships in Buddhist Studies
- The Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation New Professorships in Buddhist Studies
Deadline : 15th November 2016
Contact : BuddhistStudies@acls.org
More information : http://www.acls.org/programs/buddhist-studies/
Asian Graduate Student Fellowships 2016
Language : English
Presentation : The Asia Research Institute (ARI) of the National University of Singapore (NUS) invites applications from citizens of Asian countries currently enrolled in a fulltime Master’s or PhD degrees at a university in an Asian country (except Singapore) for consideration for the award of Asian Graduate Student Fellowships. Offered to graduate students working in the Humanities and Social Sciences on Southeast Asian topics, the fellowship will allow the recipients to be based at NUS for an ‘in residence fellowship’ for a period of eight (8) weeks. The aim of the fellowship is to enable scholars to make full use of the wide range of resources held in the libraries of NUS and the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies. The fellowship will commence on 23 May 2016 , and scholars are expected to make a presentation on their work at the “Singapore Graduate Forum on Southeast Asian Studies” to be organized in the middle of July 2016.
Citeria : Interested applicants are invited to e-mail:
- Eligible candidates must have completed their fieldwork by the time the Fellowship starts in May 2016.
- Basic proficiency of the English Language
Deadline : Please send the complete application documents to Mdm Kalaichelvi by 15 November 2015 . Referees’ must send their letters of reference in confidence to the same e-mail address.
More information : https://ari.nus.edu.sg/Page/AGSF2016
PUBLICATIONS
RACHEL HUGHES, 2003, Nationalism and memory at the Tuol Sleng Museum of genocide crimes, Phnom Penh, Cambodia, [in] Contested Pasts: The Politics of Memory, 2003, pp. 175 - 192
MATTHEW PHILIPPS, 2017, Ancient Ceremony, Modern Spectacle: Thailand's Royal Barge Procession in historical context', [in] Peter Lambert and Björn Weiler (ed.) How the Past was Used: Essays in Historical Culture, Proceedings of the British Academy, Oxford: Oxford University Press, (forthcoming)
TALLYN GRAY, 2016, No Justice without Narratives: Transition, Justice and the Khmer Rouge Trials, [in] Transitional Justice Review, Volume 1, Issue 5, Western University, Centre for Transitional Justice, London, Ontario, Canada, (forthcoming)
TALLYN GRAY, 2015, Re-Imagining the Community? Cambodian Cham Muslims: Experience, Identity, Intergenerational Knowledge Transfer and the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia, [in] South East Asia Research, 23, 1, pp.101-119
ALVIN LIM, 2017, Ethnic Identities in Cambodia, [in] K. Brickell & S. Springer (Eds.), "The Handbook of Contemporary Cambodia", New York, Routledge, pp. 359-367
MATT REEDER, 2015, What to do with the Testimony of a Brahmin? A Day in the Manuscript Room of the National Library of Thailand, [in] Southeast Asia Program, Cornell University, Fall Bulletin, pp.11-15
LINDA SAPHAN, 2016, Gendered Modernity in Cambodia: The Rise of Women in the Music Industry, [in] Khmer Scholars Journal [on line], 28 p.
DOMINIC GOODALL, 2015, On K. 1049, a tenth-century cave-inscription from Battambang, and on the sectarian obedience of the Śaiva ascetics of non-royal cave-inscriptions in Cambodia, [in] Udaya Journal of Khmer Studies [on line], No.13, Yosothor, Cambodia.
GRÉGORY MIKAELIAN, 2015, គំនិតថាប្រទេសខ្មែរចុះស្រុតឱនថយនិងប្រឹងងើបឡើងវិញនៅសម័យកណ្តាល, [in] Udaya Journal of Khmer Studies [on line], No.13, Yosothor, Cambodia.
FRÉDÉRIC BOURDIER, 2015, L’idée de condition humaine chez les Tampuan du nord-est cambodgien, [in] Udaya Journal of Khmer Studies [on line], No.13, Yosothor, Cambodia.
