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SSRC Postdoctoral Fellowship for Transregional Research: Inter-Asian Contexts and Connections

12/17/2011 FYI No comments

Call for Applications
SSRC Postdoctoral Fellowship for Transregional Research: Inter-Asian Contexts and Connections

Deadline is February 13th 2012.

The SSRC is pleased to announce a pilot post­doc­toral fel­low­ship pro­gram that will sup­port tran­sre­gional research under the rubric Inter-Asian Contexts and Connections. Its pur­pose is to strengthen the under­stand­ing of issues and geo­gra­phies that don’t fit neatly into exist­ing divi­sions of acad­e­mia or the world and to develop new approaches, prac­tices, and oppor­tu­ni­ties in inter­na­tional, regional, and area stud­ies in the United States. Funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, these fel­low­ships will help junior schol­ars (those at the post­doc­toral stage, one to seven years out of the PhD) com­plete first books and/or under­take sec­ond projects. In addi­tion to fund­ing research, the pro­gram will cre­ate net­works and shared resources that will sup­port Fellows well beyond the grant period.

The Postdoctoral Fellowship for Transregional Research will thus pro­vide promis­ing schol­ars impor­tant sup­port at crit­i­cal junc­tures in their careers. As stressed by SSRC pres­i­dent Craig Calhoun, “Recent PhDs have writ­ten bril­liant dis­ser­ta­tions bring­ing new excite­ment to the social sci­ences and human­i­ties by tak­ing on the intel­lec­tual chal­lenges of inno­v­a­tive tran­sre­gional work. We want to help them com­plete, con­sol­i­date, and expand the work they’ve undertaken.

The intel­lec­tual thrust of the pilot project will be the re-conceptualization of Asia as an inter­linked his­tor­i­cal and geo­graphic for­ma­tion stretch­ing from the Middle East through Eurasia, Central Asia, and South Asia to Southeast Asia and East Asia. Proposals sub­mit­ted for the fel­low­ship com­pe­ti­tion should bear upon processes that con­nect places and peo­ples (such as migra­tion, media, and resource flows) as well as those that recon­fig­ure local and trans-local con­texts (such as shift­ing bor­ders, urban­iza­tion, and social move­ments). The broad focus of the pro­gram is intended to advance tran­sre­gional research as well as to estab­lish struc­tures for link­ing schol­ars across dis­ci­plines in the arts, the human­i­ties, and the social sci­ences. Fifteen fel­low­ships will be awarded over the two-year course of the pilot program.

Also see Postdoctoral Fellowship for Transregional Research — Answers to Frequently Asked Questions

Holly Danzeisen
Social Science Research Council
One Pierrepont Plaza, 15th Floor
Brooklyn, NY 11201
Phone: 212.377.2700
Fax: 212.377.2727
Email: transregional@​ssrc.​org
Visit the web­site at http://​www​.ssrc​.org/​f​e​l​l​o​w​s​h​i​p​s​/​t​r​a​n​s​r​e​g​i​o​n​a​l​-​r​e​s​e​a​r​c​h​-​f​e​l​l​o​w​s​h​ip/

AAS/SSRC Dissertation Workshop, Toronto

10/26/2011 FYI No comments

The Association for Asian Studies and the Social Science Research Council have announced plans for the first jointly orga­nized AAS/SSRC Dissertation Workshop, which will be held in con­junc­tion with the AAS annual con­fer­ence in Toronto in March 2012. The work­shop will be orga­nized and led by David Szanton and will fol­low the same basic model used in pre­vi­ous AAS workshops.

The work­shop title is “Rewriting History: Nationalism, Identity, and the Politics of the Past.” Radical and con­ser­v­a­tive schol­ars, nov­el­ists and biog­ra­phers, gov­ern­ments, edu­ca­tion min­istries, and tourist agen­cies are all writ­ing and rewrit­ing national his­to­ries and nar­ra­tives. Attempts to strengthen or legit­i­mate spe­cific inter­ests have entailed the redis­cov­ery, rein­ter­pre­ta­tion and even the rein­ven­tion of val­ues and iden­ti­ties, past social forms, vic­to­ries and defeats, as well as nat­ural and human trauma. Rewriting the past and cre­at­ing her­itage are ancient and seem­ingly uni­ver­sal phe­nom­ena, rais­ing dif­fi­cult ques­tions about what we can know and the pol­i­tics of his­tor­i­cal writ­ing. Issues of rewrit­ing his­tory are not lim­ited to the con­cerns of his­to­ri­ans; they are as salient to anthro­pol­o­gists, polit­i­cal sci­en­tists, spe­cial­ists on reli­gion, cul­tural stud­ies, and oth­ers across the human­i­ties and social sci­ences. Read more

Postdoctoral Fellowship for Transregional Research: Inter-Asian Contexts and Connections

09/17/2011 FYI No comments

Sounds like an excit­ing opportunity!

New SSRC Fellowship Opportunity — Postdoctoral Fellowship for Transregional Research: Inter-Asian Contexts and Connections

Fellowship Date: 2011-10-21
Date Submitted: 2011-09-08
Announcement ID: 187804

The SSRC is pleased to announce a pilot post­doc­toral fel­low­ship pro­gram that will sup­port tran­sre­gional research under the rubric Inter-Asian Contexts and Connections. Its pur­pose is to strengthen the under­stand­ing of issues and geo­gra­phies that don’t fit neatly into exist­ing divi­sions of acad­e­mia or the world and to develop new approaches, prac­tices, and oppor­tu­ni­ties in inter­na­tional, regional, and area stud­ies in the United States. Funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, these fel­low­ships will help junior schol­ars (those at the post­doc­toral stage, one to seven years out of the PhD) com­plete first books and/or under­take sec­ond projects. In addi­tion to fund­ing research, the pro­gram will cre­ate net­works and shared resources that will sup­port Fellows well beyond the grant period.

The Postdoctoral Fellowship for Transregional Research will thus pro­vide promis­ing schol­ars impor­tant sup­port at crit­i­cal junc­tures in their careers. As stressed by SSRC pres­i­dent Craig Calhoun, “Recent PhDs have writ­ten bril­liant dis­ser­ta­tions bring­ing new excite­ment to the social sci­ences and human­i­ties by tak­ing on the intel­lec­tual chal­lenges of inno­v­a­tive tran­sre­gional work. We want to help them com­plete, con­sol­i­date, and expand the work they’ve undertaken.

The intel­lec­tual thrust of the pilot project will be the re-conceptualization of Asia as an inter­linked his­tor­i­cal and geo­graphic for­ma­tion stretch­ing from the Middle East through Eurasia, Central Asia, and South Asia to Southeast Asia and East Asia. Proposals sub­mit­ted for the fel­low­ship com­pe­ti­tion should bear upon processes that con­nect places and peo­ples (such as migra­tion, media, and resource flows) as well as those that recon­fig­ure local and trans-local con­texts (such as shift­ing bor­ders, urban­iza­tion, and social move­ments). The broad focus of the pro­gram is intended to advance tran­sre­gional research as well as to estab­lish struc­tures for link­ing schol­ars across dis­ci­plines in the arts, the human­i­ties, and the social sci­ences. Fifteen fel­low­ships will be awarded over the two-year course of the pilot program.

Application infor­ma­tion can be found on the pro­gram web­site, and pre­lim­i­nary pre-proposals are due October 21, 2011

Holly Danzeisen
Social Science Research Council
One Pierrepont Plaza, 15th Floor
Brooklyn, NY 11201
Phone: 212.377.2700 x3662

Email: transregional@​ssrc.​org
Visit the web­site at http://​www​.ssrc​.org/​f​e​l​l​o​w​s​h​i​p​s​/​t​r​a​n​s​r​e​g​i​o​n​a​l​-​r​e​s​e​a​r​c​h​-​f​e​l​l​o​w​s​h​ip/

[App] SSRC Korean Studies Dissertation Workshop, July 2011

02/21/2011 FYI No comments

I par­tic­i­pated in this work­shop in 2008, and highly rec­om­mend it.

APPLICATION DEADLINE: APRIL 27, 2011

Call for Applications: 2011 SSRC Korean Studies Dissertation Workshop

The Social Science Research Council (SSRC) and the Korea Foundation are pleased to announce the fourth annual Korean Studies Dissertation Workshop.
When: July 6 – 11, 2011
Where: Pacific Grove, CA — Asilomar Conference Center

Application Deadline: April 27, 2011

http://​www​.ssrc​.org/​f​e​l​l​o​w​s​h​i​p​s​/​k​s​dw/

MISSION
The Social Science Research Council Korean Studies Dissertation Workshop seeks to cre­ate a sus­tained net­work of advanced grad­u­ate stu­dents and fac­ulty engaged in research on Korea. The four-day work­shop pro­vides an infor­mal set­ting for par­tic­i­pants to give and receive crit­i­cal feed­back on dis­ser­ta­tions in progress.

FORMAT
Individual stu­dents will lead dis­cus­sions of their projects with men­tor fac­ulty and peers from var­i­ous dis­ci­plines to receive cre­ative and crit­i­cal input on improv­ing their field­work plans or writ­ing strate­gies. Last years men­tors were Nancy Abelmann (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), Sun Joo Kim (Harvard University), Seungsook Moon (Vassar College), and Jun Yoo (University of Hawaii at Manoa).

ELIGIBILITY

  • Only full-time advanced grad­u­ate stu­dents, regard­less of cit­i­zen­ship, who are enrolled at US or Canadian insti­tu­tions are eligible.
  • Participants may be in any social sci­ence or human­i­ties field.
  • Applicants must have an approved dis­ser­ta­tion prospec­tus but can­not have com­pleted writ­ing for final submission.
  • Special con­sid­er­a­tion will be given to stu­dents from uni­ver­si­ties that are not major Korean Studies institutions.

For the appli­ca­tion and more infor­ma­tion, please visit us on the web at http://​www​.ssrc​.org/​f​e​l​l​o​w​s​h​i​p​s​/​k​s​dw/.

Korean Studies Dissertation Workshop
Social Science Research Council
One Pierrepont Plaza, 15th Floor
Brooklyn, NY 11201
Tel: 718−517−3640
Fax: 212−377−2727
Email: korea@​ssrc.​org