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CFP: Constructions of Race and Racism in East Asia: East-West Perspectives

01/02/2012 FYI No comments

As always, I don’t know any­thing beyond the CFP below, so please con­tact the orga­niz­ers for more infor­ma­tion.

Call for papers
Conference on ‘Constructions of Race and Racism in East Asia: East-West Perspectives’
12 – 14 September 2012, Munich

We wel­come papers for a con­fer­ence on Constructions of Race and Racism in East Asia, which will be held at the University of the Armed Forces, Munich, Germany from September 12 to 14, 2012.

This con­fer­ence fol­lows an ear­lier book project enti­tled “Race and Racism in Modern East Asia: Western Constructions and Eastern Reactions” (Brill, 2012). In that project, about half of the par­tic­i­pants sur­veyed and exam­ined the roots of racial con­struc­tions of East Asians (prin­ci­pally, Chinese, Japanese and Koreans) in the West and their man­i­fes­ta­tions dur­ing the last 150 years, whereas the other half focused upon the char­ac­ter­is­tics of local racial con­struc­tions and indige­nous racism in mod­ern East Asia, with par­tic­u­lar atten­tion to the man­i­fes­ta­tions of racial thought and racism as the result of the eth­nic encounter dur­ing Japanese colonialism.

During the com­ing con­fer­ence, we would like to exam­ine the fol­low­ing top­ics in the con­text of East Asia:

  • Sources of mod­ern racism – the inter­play between indige­nous and for­eign perspectives
  • The link between nation­al­ism and racism
  • Racial the­o­ries in a transna­tional perspective
  • The impact of racial thought on mutual images
  • Gender and racial thought

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Guest Professorship in Korea Studies, Eberhard Karls University Tuebingen, Germany

06/09/2011 FYI No comments

The Department of Chinese and Korean Studies of the Institute of Asian and Oriental Studies (AOI), Eberhard Karls University Tuebingen, Germany, invites appli­ca­tions for the position

Guest Professorship in Korea Studies

The posi­tion offered is avail­able the aca­d­e­mic year for 2011 – 2012, start­ing 01.10.2011

In research and teach­ing, the ideal can­di­date is expected to spe­cial­ize in his­tory, con­cen­trat­ing on mod­ern and con­tem­po­rary his­tory. The per­son selected must have flu­ency in spo­ken and writ­ten Korean and German. The posi­tion includes six hours of teach­ing. The can­di­date is expected to par­tic­i­pate in research projects to be estab­lished at the AOI as well as in inter­fac­ulty institutions.

Requirements for an appoint­ment are: a) out­stand­ing Ph.Dissertation in the field of History b) inter­na­tional rec­og­nized pub­li­ca­tions c) expe­ri­ence in German-Korean aca­d­e­mic rela­tions d) didac­tic qualification.

The per­son selected is pro­vided a round trip econ­omy class air­fare. He/She is pro­vided a monthly salary of 2,211 Euro to 3,050 Euro depend­ing on his/her qual­i­fi­ca­tion for the whole aca­d­e­mic year (12 months) directly by the Korea Foundation as well as funds nec­es­sary to cover relo­ca­tion, pur­chase of books and other mate­ri­als needed to pre­pare for teach­ing courses. The hous­ing costs in Tuebingen up to 500 Euro per month are pro­vided from the University of Tuebingen.

The University of Tuebingen is an equal-opportunity employer and wishes to increase the num­ber of female schol­ars in research and teach­ing. Therefore, appli­ca­tions from female schol­ars with suit­able qual­i­fi­ca­tions are explic­itly encour­aged. With equal qual­i­fi­ca­tions, pri­or­ity will be given to phys­i­cally chal­lenged appli­cants. Read more

[App] Korean Studies Postdoc in Berlin, Germany

03/15/2011 FYI No comments

Call for Application

Post-Doctorate Scholarship
For the Project “Circulation of Knowledge and Dynamics of Transformation“
At the Freie Universität Berlin, Germany

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The Institute of Korean Studies at the Freie Universität Berlin (directed by Prof. Dr. Eun-Jeung Lee) is invit­ing appli­ca­tions for one post-doctorate schol­ar­ship (2,000 Euro per month) in the project “Circulation of Knowledge and Dynamics of Transformation”. The project is dri­ven by the con­sor­tium, con­sist­ing of the Korean Studies insti­tutes at the Freie Universität Berlin and the Ruhr Universität Bochum, which is respec­tively spe­cial­ized in study­ing the pre-modern as well as the mod­ern processes of social change in Korea.

We, the research team at the Freie Universität, wel­come appli­ca­tions from researchers famil­iar with social sci­en­tific analy­ses on the dynam­ics of mod­ern Korean soci­ety; and also ask for a very good com­mand of the English language.

The schol­ar­ship will be given for a year at first and is extend­able for the next two years accord­ing to the per­for­mance of the researcher (total three years), start­ing from 1 May 2011.

The project is funded by the Academy of Korean Studies. For fur­ther and more detailed infor­ma­tion about the project, please see: www​.bb​-kore​anstud​ies​.de

A suc­cess­ful appli­ca­tion should include a research project out­line (max­i­mum three pages), a CV, sam­ples of pub­li­ca­tion (max­i­mum two pieces) and a cover let­ter. Deadline for appli­ca­tions: 5 April 2011.

Please send appli­ca­tion to: info@​bb-​koreanstudies.​de

[CFP] Transnational Religion workshop in Germany

12/21/2010 FYI One comment

I hope to attend this work­shop in 2011.

Call for Papers
Transnational Religion, Missionization, and Refugee Migrants in Comparative Perspective
6 – 7 October 2011

Organizers: Alexander Horstmann and Jin-Heon Jung (MMG-MPI)
International Workshop Series/Book Project
Max-Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, Gttingen, Germany

*For a full CFP, please visit http://​www​.mmg​.mpg​.de/​e​v​e​n​t​s​/​a​r​c​h​i​v​e​-​w​o​r​k​s​h​o​p​s​-​c​o​n​f​e​r​e​n​c​e​s​/​2​0​1​1​/​w​o​r​k​s​h​o​p​-​m​i​s​s​i​o​n​i​z​a​t​i​o​n​-​r​e​f​u​g​e​es/

The ever-growing scale of vio­lent mass dis­place­ment, rou­tine mea­sures of the de facto seal­ing of bor­ders and the crim­i­nal­iza­tion of migrant labor are phe­nom­ena that are cre­at­ing impor­tant fields for schol­arly engage­ments. Although refugee stud­ies have sought answers to the com­plex nature and causes of forced migra­tion, to the dilemma of human­i­tar­i­an­ism and to the mod­ern modes of gov­ern­ing refugees-migrants, our knowl­edge about the iden­tity processes of the refugee migrants or about the strate­gies and moti­va­tion of human­i­tar­ian orga­ni­za­tions is still limited.

Refugee camps have become impor­tant sites of pros­e­ly­ti­za­tion and Pentecostals, Buddhist mil­lenar­ian move­ments and Islamic revival­ist move­ments have become ever more promi­nent in con­texts of vio­lent mass dis­place­ment. Christian churches, Buddhist monas­ter­ies and Muslim mosques are eas­ily the most cen­tral place for social inte­gra­tion and spir­i­tu­al­ity of refugee migrants and the first shel­ter in hos­tile envi­ron­ments. Moreover, the nar­ra­tives of suf­fer­ing, the dynam­ics of polit­i­cal mobi­liza­tion in exile enhance and rein­force religious-mythical and nation­al­ist iden­ti­fi­ca­tion. However, reli­gion has not arrived yet on the map in refugee stud­ies. But in the sec­u­lar and struc­tural­ist social sci­ence approach to refugee stud­ies, schol­ars con­sider reli­gion only a by-product of iden­tity and gender.

We believe that reli­gion pro­vides a priv­i­leged win­dow to shed light on and are a dri­ving engine of iden­ti­fi­ca­tion processes of refugee migrants in transna­tional and polit­i­cal com­mu­ni­ties. We there­fore put reli­gion in the cen­ter of inquiry and explore the find­ings that such a per­spec­tive will engen­der. We thus invite papers to the fol­low­ing ques­tions: How do the tra­jec­to­ries of refugee migrants in reli­gious mis­sion­ary groups unfold and how are they being mobi­lized? How are the sub­jec­tiv­i­ties and iden­ti­fi­ca­tions of refugee migrants influ­enced by reli­gious groups and what kind of oppor­tu­ni­ties come with mem­ber­ship in them? What is the rela­tion­ship of human­i­tar­ian orga­ni­za­tions, reli­gious groups and refugee migrants? What is the ide­ol­ogy of human­i­tar­ian orga­ni­za­tions and reli­gious groups, their men­tal maps? How do human­i­tar­ian orga­ni­za­tions and reli­gious groups par­tic­i­pate in the gov­er­nance of the refugee migrants?

The papers given in the sym­po­sium will be pub­lished in an edited vol­ume. Interested schol­ars are encour­aged to send a short pro­posal of 250 words and short bio­graph­i­cal infor­ma­tion to the orga­niz­ers by 15 February 2011 to MisRef@​mmg.​mpg.​de. We will con­tact selected par­tic­i­pants 1 March 2011, and we may able to cover the par­tic­i­pants all travel expenses. Inquiries about the work­shop can be sent to the same address.