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USC Korean Studies postdoctoral fellowships, 2012 – 2013

01/01/2012 FYI No comments

The USC Korean Studies Institute post­doc­toral fel­low­ships, 2012 – 2013

Funded by an insti­tu­tional grant from the Academy of Korean Studies, the USC Korean Studies Institute is accept­ing appli­ca­tions for its 2012 – 2013 post­doc­toral fel­lows pro­gram. Up to two post­doc­toral fel­low­ships will be offered. The post­doc­toral pro­gram is open to schol­ars from all fields whose research per­tains to Korea or that involves Korea as part of a com­par­a­tive or inter­dis­ci­pli­nary research. We par­tic­u­larly encour­age pro­pos­als from the social sci­ences and non-traditional fields, such as Korean-American studies.

In addi­tion to a salary and ben­e­fits, the KSI will pro­vide each fel­low with office space at the KSI and a small research bud­get. The fel­lows are expected to par­tic­i­pate in Institute pro­grams and sup­port the activ­i­ties of the KSI. The Fellow must have a Ph.D. in hand, and should be within 5 years of receiv­ing the Ph.D., by the begin­ning of the appointment.

To apply, please send a let­ter of appli­ca­tion, c.v., the­sis abstract, two let­ters of rec­om­men­da­tion (to be sent directly by the ref­er­ees), and a writ­ing sam­ple to Elaine Kim, Associate Director, USC-Korean Studies Institute, (elaineek@​dornsife.​usc.​edu). The dead­line for the receipt of all mate­ri­als is February 1, 2012. It is strongly encour­aged that appli­cants apply by email, although we will accept hard­copy appli­ca­tions, as well.

Information about USC Korean Studies Institute pro­grams can be found at our web­site, http://​dorn​sife​.usc​.edu/​k​s​i​/​h​o​me/.

USC strongly val­ues diver­sity and is com­mit­ted to equal oppor­tu­nity in employ­ment. Women and men, and mem­bers of all racial and eth­nic groups, are encour­aged to apply.

NEH: Spatial Narrative and Deep Maps: Explorations in the Spatial Humanities

12/12/2011 FYI No comments

Summer 2012 NEH Institute for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities
Spatial Narrative and Deep Maps: Explorations in the Spatial Humanities

June 18 – 29, 2012
Call for Proposals: Applications due Friday, February 3, 2012

The Virtual Center for Spatial Humanities (VCSH), a mul­ti­dis­ci­pli­nary col­lab­o­ra­tion among Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis (IUPUI), Florida State University, and West Virginia University, is pleased to announce an NEH Advanced Institute for sum­mer 2012 designed to advance explo­ration of key top­ics in the spa­tial human­i­ties. The insti­tute will offer schol­ars the oppor­tu­nity to dis­cover the ben­e­fits of a spatial-analytical approach to human­i­ties schol­ar­ship and to explore how to bend geo-spatial tech­nolo­gies, includ­ing GIS and Web 2.0 tools, to the needs of the human­i­ties. Two areas of empha­sis will be spa­tial nar­ra­tives and deep maps. Fellows par­tic­i­pat­ing in the pro­gram will learn both by engag­ing with a vari­ety of exist­ing projects as well as through the pro­duc­tion of a pro­to­type project in col­lab­o­ra­tion with the VCSH team. Fellows also will have an oppor­tu­nity to present their own work and to con­tribute to schol­arly and Web prod­ucts that result from the institute.

The insti­tute will meet in Indianapolis from June 18 to 29, 2012 and will be admin­is­tered by IUPUI’s Polis Center. It will draw upon a mul­ti­dis­ci­pli­nary fac­ulty from the three col­lab­o­rat­ing insti­tu­tions, as well as lead­ing schol­ars in the field of spa­tial human­i­ties from the US and UK, and will be sup­ported tech­ni­cally by the advanced tech­nol­ogy group of the Polis Center. The insti­tute sched­ule will allow time for fel­lows to inter­act with the staff and to seek advice for their own projects or project ideas, but the pri­mary focus will be on how to use geo-spatial tech­nolo­gies to enhance the nar­ra­tive and ana­lyt­i­cal tra­di­tions of the human­i­ties. The fel­lows will work with project staff to develop a pro­to­type deep map to sup­port multi-scalar and con­tin­gent analy­sis of prob­lems of inter­ests to human­ists. To focus this work, the insti­tute will explore the spa­tial con­texts of American reli­gion, using the Digital Atlas of American Religion, an NEH-supported project of VCSH, and the multi-faceted evi­dence from the Polis Center’s six-year study of the inter­sec­tion of reli­gion and urban cul­ture in a mid-sized American city.

About the fellowships:

Up to 12 fel­low­ships will be awarded to indi­vid­u­als or teams who demon­strate seri­ous inter­est in the appli­ca­tion of geo-spatial tech­nolo­gies to prob­lems in the human­i­ties. While schol­ars in all human­i­ties dis­ci­plines are eli­gi­ble to apply, we are espe­cially inter­ested in col­lab­o­rat­ing with those who have expe­ri­ence in one or more geo-spatial tech­nolo­gies as well as schol­ars who have thought about the spa­tial dimen­sions of American religion.

During the insti­tute, fel­lows will explore cen­tral issues in the spa­tial human­i­ties, includ­ing such top­ics as data­base struc­tures and infor­ma­tion archi­tec­tures, inter­ac­tive design, and col­lab­o­ra­tive research, while sit­u­at­ing these con­cerns within the fields of American his­tory and reli­gious stud­ies. Guest lec­tur­ers dur­ing the sum­mer include Ian Gregory (his­tor­i­cal GIS and dig­i­tal human­i­ties, Lancaster University), Anne Knowles (his­tor­i­cal geog­ra­phy, Middlebury College), Katy Börner (infor­mat­ics and advanced visu­al­iza­tion, Indiana University), and Art Farnsley (soci­ol­ogy of reli­gion, IUPUI), among oth­ers. Institute lead­ers are David Bodenhamer (his­tory, IUPUI), John Corrigan (reli­gious stud­ies, Florida State), and Trevor Harris (geog­ra­phy, West Virginia University).

All fel­lows will par­tic­i­pate in a two-week res­i­dency June 18 – 29 at IUPUI. The res­i­dency will include col­lo­quia and work­ing ses­sions in which par­tic­i­pants col­lec­tively will develop project foun­da­tions and address rel­e­vant issues in spa­tial human­i­ties. Fellows also will be pro­vided the oppor­tu­nity to present their own projects. Applicants need not be pro­fi­cient with geo-spatial tech­nolo­gies but must demon­strate some level of engage­ment with them as well as with spa­tial ques­tions and analy­ses. Evidence of the capac­ity for suc­cess­ful col­lab­o­ra­tion and for schol­arly inno­va­tion is required. Fellowship awards will include a stipend of $3,000 for each par­tic­i­pant, as well as a travel allowance. Accommodation and meal costs will be the respon­si­bil­ity of each fel­low, but the insti­tute will seek to arrange low-cost hous­ing for par­tic­i­pants. We wel­come schol­ars from all career lev­els, from advanced grad­u­ate stu­dent to full professor.

About the proposals:

Proposals should include the following:

  • Two to three-page state­ment of how par­tic­i­pa­tion in the insti­tute will fit the schol­arly and pro­fes­sional goals of the applicant.
  • One-page descrip­tion of the applicant’s expe­ri­ence with geo-spatial tech­nolo­gies and spa­tial analysis.
  • Brief CV (max­i­mum of three pages).
  • Letter of sup­port from depart­ment chair for non-tenured fac­ulty or from dis­ser­ta­tion advi­sor for doc­toral candidates.

Projects that artic­u­late a clear under­stand­ing of the poten­tial of spa­tial human­i­ties and the prob­lems asso­ci­ated with the use of geo-spatial tech­nolo­gies in human­i­ties schol­ar­ship will be regarded favor­ably.
Electronic appli­ca­tions are required. Submit to ddearth@​iupui.​edu.

Deadline for appli­ca­tions: Friday, February 3, 2012. Fellowship recip­i­ents will be noti­fied in mid April, 2012.

Questions may be directed to ddearth@​iupui.​edu.

CFP: Religion and Civilization in International History, Harvard

12/06/2011 FYI No comments

Call for Papers
ConIH 12: The Twelfth Annual Harvard Graduate Student Conference on International History
“Religion and Civilization in International History“
March 8 – 9, 2012

Proposal dead­line extended to December 30, 2011

The ConIH Committee invites grad­u­ate stu­dents to sub­mit pro­pos­als for the Twelfth Annual Graduate Student Conference on International History to take place at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts on March 8 – 9, 2012.

Historical actors have used reli­gion and civ­i­liza­tion as potent tools for the cre­ation and recre­ation of cul­tural and polit­i­cal iden­ti­ties, as well as other types of social cohe­sive­ness. Studying reli­gion and civ­i­liza­tion, as dis­tinct but often closely related con­cepts, raises ques­tions about the the­o­log­i­cal under­pin­nings of the inter­na­tional order and inter­na­tional law, as well as the civ­i­liza­tional ref­er­ences that reli­gious move­ments use to define their transna­tional mis­sions within national, impe­r­ial, and other supra­na­tional frame­works. ConIH con­se­quently invites grad­u­ate stu­dents from all con­ti­nents and dis­ci­plines to sub­mit stud­ies that explore the inter­na­tional dimen­sions of reli­gion and civilization.

We wel­come sub­mis­sions that exam­ine reli­gion and civ­i­liza­tion in inter­na­tional con­texts. Possible paper top­ics include, but are not lim­ited to, the role of reli­gion and civ­i­liza­tion in shap­ing the rela­tions between states, transna­tional elites, dias­po­ras, and polit­i­cal and reli­gious minori­ties; the cre­ation of new ortho­dox­ies and het­ero­dox­ies; sec­u­lar­ism; impe­r­ial frame­works; polit­i­cal resis­tance; nar­ra­tives on the ascen­dancy and decline of civ­i­liza­tions; eco­nomic struc­tures; transna­tional net­works; and inter­na­tional devel­op­ment.
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CFP: Transforming Lives: Hmong Women, Gender and Power

12/04/2011 FYI No comments

Call for papers: Transforming Lives: Hmong Women, Gender and Power
An edited vol­ume of essays
Abstract Deadline: January 31, 2012

Chia Youyee Vang, Faith Nibbs, and Ma Vang, Editors

In the lim­ited pop­u­lar and aca­d­e­mic nar­ra­tives about Hmong refugees/Americans, dis­cus­sions about Hmong women often asso­ciate them with the fam­ily, which rein­forces a link with domes­tic­ity and repro­duc­tion. Hmong women are also por­trayed as vic­tims of their patri­ar­chal soci­ety. These rep­re­sen­ta­tions can under­score per­cep­tions of Hmong cul­ture as hin­der­ing wom­ens assim­i­la­tion into American soci­ety and per­pet­u­at­ing vio­lence against women. The few mono­graphs that have been pub­lished about Hmong women view them within the lim­ited frame­work of tra­di­tion ver­sus moder­nity and also inter­pret Hmong cul­ture as oppres­sive to women. Existing schol­ar­ship thus misses the oppor­tu­nity to explain the com­plex­ity of Hmong American women in the con­text of glob­al­iza­tion, and to sit­u­ate them within the grow­ing body of schol­ar­ship that high­lights the trou­ble­some place of Asian women at the inter­sec­tion of racial dif­fer­ence and pro­duc­tive worker to empha­size ways they empower their lives and com­mu­ni­ties. We pro­pose a col­lec­tion of essays that goes beyond por­tray­als of vic­tim­hood in war, vio­lence, and dis­place­ment to fore­ground ways in which Hmong (refugee) women exert agency and trans­form both their own lives and those of oth­ers. This vol­ume will inter­ro­gate the racial and gen­dered log­ics of dis­place­ment and migra­tion, as well as the par­a­digms of cul­ture and patri­archy.
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Assistant Professor / Faculty Fellow in Korean Studies, NYU

11/21/2011 FYI No comments

Note: This is a 3-year posi­tion, begin­ning September 1, 2012.

The Department of East Asian Studies at New York University invites appli­ca­tions for appoint­ment as an Assistant Professor/Faculty Fellow in mod­ern Korean stud­ies. The appoint­ment will be for three years begin­ning September 1, 2012, sub­ject to bud­getary and admin­is­tra­tive approval. Candidates must have received a Ph.D. within five years of the date of appoint­ment and have a strong com­mit­ment to teach­ing. Fields of exper­tise sought include literature/film/media stud­ies, but we encour­age all appli­cants engaged with crit­i­cal and method­olog­i­cal issues con­nected to Korean and East Asian Studies.

Application must include a let­ter of appli­ca­tion, cur­ricu­lum vitae, a 20 – 30 page writ­ing sam­ple, sam­ple syl­labi for both under­grad­u­ate and grad­u­ate courses, and 3 let­ters of rec­om­men­da­tion. The search com­mit­tee will begin review­ing appli­ca­tions on January 20, 2012, and will con­tinue until the posi­tion is filled. To apply, com­plete appli­ca­tion here.

NYU is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer.

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