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3-year term, assistant professor in Women and Gender Studies, University of Toronto

03/26/2012 Job No comments

Please cir­cu­late widely this announce­ment for a three-year con­trac­tu­ally lim­ited term appoint­ment at the rank of Assistant Professor at the Women and Gender Studies Institute at the University of Toronto. The posi­tion is for a scholar in gen­der and sex­u­al­ity stud­ies with pre­ferred foci in the areas of new media stud­ies, per­for­mance stud­ies, cul­tural pro­duc­tion, or cul­tural stud­ies whose schol­ar­ship com­ple­ments the Institute’s strengths in transna­tional and post­colo­nial fem­i­nist studies.

The Women and Gender Studies Institute (WGSI) at the University of Toronto, St. George cam­pus, invites appli­ca­tions for a three-year con­trac­tu­ally lim­ited term appoint­ment at the rank of Assistant Professor. This appoint­ment will begin on July 1, 2012 and end on June 30, 2015.

WGSI is seek­ing appli­cants with demon­strated schol­ar­ship in gen­der and sex­u­al­ity stud­ies with pre­ferred foci in the areas of new media stud­ies, per­for­mance stud­ies, cul­tural pro­duc­tion, or cul­tural stud­ies whose schol­ar­ship com­pli­ments our Institute’s strengths in transna­tional and post­colo­nial fem­i­nist stud­ies.
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CFP — Foodways: Diasporic diners, transnational tables and culinary connections

02/16/2012 CFP No comments

I got hun­gry just think­ing about this CFP.

CALL FOR PAPERS

FOODWAYS: DIASPORIC DINERS, TRANSNATIONAL TABLES AND CULINARY CONNECTIONS

Centre for Diaspora and Transnational Studies, University of Toronto

Please join us for the 2012 Annual Conference of the Centre for Diaspora and Transnational Studies, University of Toronto

Thursday October 4 – Sunday, October 7, 2012
Abstracts due: March 16, 2012

More infor­ma­tion on the con­fer­ence can be found on the Diasporic Foodways blog

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Description:
This con­fer­ence seeks to address ques­tions sur­round­ing the dynam­ics of the food ‘we’ eat, the ways in which ‘we’ eat, the mean­ing ‘we’ give to eat­ing, and the effect of eat­ing in a transna­tional world. Recognizing that culi­nary cul­ture is cen­tral to dias­poric iden­ti­fi­ca­tions, the focus is on the place of food in the endur­ing habits, rit­u­als, and every­day prac­tices that are col­lec­tively used to pro­duce and sus­tain shared senses of cul­tural iden­tity. Yet even as it does this work, food and the prac­tices of pro­duc­tion, prepa­ra­tion and con­sump­tion that revolve around it, can­not help but be drawn into wider cul­tures and cul­tural pol­i­tics of con­sump­tion increas­ingly grounded in the pur­suit of qual­i­ties of dif­fer­ence, acts of dis­tinc­tion and ques­tions of jus­tice. This focus on food, cook­ing, and eat­ing in dias­pora and its role in con­nect­ing and chang­ing peo­ples, places, tastes, and sen­si­bil­i­ties around the world yields insight not only to sub­stances that peo­ple con­sider essen­tial to the main­te­nance of iden­tity, but to the pro­duc­tion of new cul­tural polit­i­cal for­ma­tions in a transna­tional world and to the role of cul­tural (re)production in the expan­sion of con­sump­tion under con­tem­po­rary cap­i­tal­ism. A focus on food also reveals the dynamic role of his­tor­i­cal path­ways in under­stand­ing cul­tural for­ma­tions as they have existed through time, and in posi­tion­ing the present as a moment in a con­tin­u­ing process of struc­tured mobil­ity that directs the move­ment of peo­ple, what they eat, and how they under­stand them­selves and the world around them. It also yields insight into the mul­ti­ple places and ways in which food assumes value and how that value is often reliant upon the con­tin­ued repro­duc­tion of ties that bind peo­ple, place, and prac­tice across space and time. A great deal of aca­d­e­mic work explores this inter­play of food, prac­tice, iden­tity and sub­ject for­ma­tion, much of it bound together by a com­mit­ment that through a fuller under­stand­ing of those rela­tions, we bet­ter under­stand our­selves, our pasts, and the com­plex­i­ties of the spaces and lives we inhabit and enact in a transna­tional world. This con­fer­ence seeks to enhance that under­stand­ing.
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CFP: Buddhism and the Political Process, University of Toronto

10/12/2011 FYI No comments

The Department of Humanities, University of Toronto Scarborough
is pleased to present

A Call for Papers
The Tung Lin Kok Yuen Conference:

*BUDDHISM AND THE POLITICAL PROCESS*

April 13 – 15, 2012
University of Toronto Scarborough

For more infor­ma­tion: http://www.utsc.utoronto.ca/~humdiv/prg_bs.html**

The Weberian per­spec­tive on Buddhism as a tra­di­tion in “…oppo­si­tion to the spirit of pol­i­tics in its most acute form” has, despite a great deal of empir­i­cal evi­dence to the con­trary, held sway for a cen­tury. Silverstein’s view that “…Buddhists never made the intel­lec­tual leap from free­dom in the reli­gious realm to free­dom in the polit­i­cal world” is a good recent exam­ple of this way of thinking.

Yet reli­gious sys­tems are not iso­lated phe­nom­ena but aspects of the total cul­ture in which they are located. The apo­lit­i­cal read­ing of Buddhism has his­tor­i­cal roots coin­cid­ing with European colo­nial rule that, in the words of Paul Mus, was only aware of “a kind of rump Buddhist soci­ety.” It was also asso­ci­ated with a pri­mor­dial­ism that regarded Buddhism as a set of unchang­ing prac­tices, or clas­si­cal state­ments, tend­ing to sup­port a study of Buddhist his­tory con­ducted in purely Buddhist terms.

Buddhist polit­i­cal influ­ence has been strong in the con­tem­po­rary period. The elec­tion of nine Sri Lankan monks rep­re­sent­ing the *Jathika Hela Urumaya*(National Sinhala Heritage Party) to the national par­lia­ment in April 2004 and Myanmar’s 2007 “saf­fron rev­o­lu­tion” are glar­ing exam­ples. Less well known are the lob­by­ing activ­i­ties of the Buddha Light Mountain (*Foguangshan *) monas­tic order in Taiwan’s 1996 Presidential elec­tion or the role played
by promi­nent reli­gious per­son­al­i­ties in oust­ing the Thaksin Shinawatra gov­ern­ment in Thailand in 2006.

The pro­posed con­fer­ence aims to con­struct a bridge between the dis­ci­plines of Buddhist stud­ies and polit­i­cal sci­ence, with addi­tional con­tri­bu­tions from anthro­pol­o­gists, soci­ol­o­gists and his­to­ri­ans, on the rel­e­vance of Buddhist cat­e­gories and prac­tices for the polit­i­cal process. Read more

Assistant Professor, Chinese Buddhism, University of Toronto

09/16/2011 FYI No comments

JOB GUIDE NO.:
https://​www​.​h​-net​.org/​j​o​b​s​/​j​o​b​_​d​i​s​p​l​a​y​.​p​h​p​?​i​d​=​4​3​141

University of Toronto
Department for the Study of Religion and the Department of East Asian Studies

Assistant Professor (tenure stream), Chinese Buddhism

Institution Type: College / University
Location: Ontario, Canada
Position: Assistant Professor

The University of Toronto invites appli­ca­tions for a tenure stream posi­tion, Assistant Professor, located jointly in the Department for the Study of Religion (60%) and the Department of East Asian Studies (40%).

Candidates should have demon­strated exper­tise in one or more areas of research method­ol­ogy. Expertise in the rel­e­vant source lan­guages is essen­tial. Major area of spe­cial­iza­tion should be Chinese Buddhism. A PhD, excel­lent record of research and pub­li­ca­tion and excel­lence in teach­ing is required.

The suc­cess­ful can­di­date will teach under­grad­u­ate and grad­u­ate courses in both depart­ments on the St. George (down­town) cam­pus, total­ing two courses per semes­ter, and will be expected to con­tribute to a devel­op­ing doc­toral pro­gram in Buddhist Studies within the Department for the Study of Religion. Salary com­men­su­rate with qual­i­fi­ca­tions and experience.

For more infor­ma­tion about the depart­ment for the Study of Religion please visit our home page. For infor­ma­tion about the East Asian Studies Department please click here.

The University of Toronto offers the oppor­tu­nity to teach, con­duct research and live in one of the most diverse cities in the world. The University of Toronto is strongly com­mit­ted to diver­sity within its com­mu­nity and espe­cially wel­comes appli­ca­tions from vis­i­ble minor­ity group mem­bers, women, Aboriginal per­sons, per­sons with dis­abil­i­ties, mem­bers of sex­ual minor­ity groups and oth­ers who may con­tribute to fur­ther diver­si­fi­ca­tion of ideas. All qual­i­fied can­di­dates are encour­aged to apply; how­ever, Canadians and per­ma­nent res­i­dents will be given priority.

Contact: Qualified can­di­dates are encour­aged to apply online at
http://​www​.jobs​.utoronto​.ca/​f​a​c​u​l​t​y​.​htm
Job Number 1100719

Applicants should sub­mit as a sin­gle PDF file a let­ter of appli­ca­tion, cur­ricu­lum vitae and evi­dence of teach­ing effec­tive­ness. Arrange for three let­ters of ref­er­ence to be sent to Professor John S. Kloppenborg, Chair, Department for the Study of Religion, Jackman Humanities Building, Suite 309, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, M5R 2M8. Applications should be received by November 1, 2011. Candidates invited for an inter­view will be asked to send sam­ples of their pub­lished work. The appoint­ment will be effec­tive July 1, 2012.

Closing Date November 1, 2011

Website: http://​www​.reli​gion​.utoronto​.ca/​c​h​i​n​e​s​e​-​b​u​d​d​h​i​s​m​-3/
Primary Category: Religious Studies and Theology
Secondary Categories: East Asian History / Studies

Posting Date: 09/16/2011
Closing Date 11/01/2011

Korea Foundation Chair in Korean Studies, University of Toronto

08/22/2011 FYI No comments

Korea Foundation Chair in Korean Studies

The Faculty of Arts and Science of the University of Toronto invite appli­ca­tions and nom­i­na­tions for the Korea Foundation Chair in Korean Studies. This is an endowed chair, open to all ranks and will be appointed to a depart­ment in the Social Sciences or the Department of East Asian Studies. This tenure-stream appoint­ment will be effec­tive July 1, 2012.

The Korea Foundation Chair in Korean Studies will be join­ing one of the lead­ing pro­grams in Korean stud­ies in North America. The suc­cess­ful can­di­date should pos­sess proven excel­lence or out­stand­ing poten­tial in research. A demon­strated com­mit­ment to excel­lent under­grad­u­ate teach­ing and grad­u­ate edu­ca­tion is required. Preference will be given to a scholar work­ing in Korean lan­guage and able to com­ple­ment the research and teach­ing spe­cial­ties of the Faculty. The chairholder will be respon­si­ble for con­tin­ued devel­op­ment and sup­port for teach­ing and research in stud­ies related to Korea. Salary will be com­men­su­rate with qual­i­fi­ca­tions and expe­ri­ence. Further infor­ma­tion about Korean Studies can be obtained at the fol­low­ing: www​.utoronto​.ca/​csk.

Applications will only be accepted online at:

http://​www​.job​.utoronto​.ca/​f​a​c​u​l​t​y​.​htm

We also require appli­cants to sub­mit online: a cov­er­ing let­ter, a cur­rent CV, a sub­stan­tial writ­ing sam­ple, and evi­dence of teach­ing abil­ity and expe­ri­ence. Please have your three ref­er­ees send their let­ters of rec­om­men­da­tion by mail or faxed directly to:

Professor Ito Peng
Associate Dean, Interdisciplinary and International Affairs
Faculty of Arts & Science
University of Toronto
100 St. George Street, Suite 2005
Toronto, ON M5S 3G3
Fax: 416−978−3887

Deadline for receipt of appli­ca­tions is October 31, 2011.

The University of Toronto is strongly com­mit­ted to diver­sity within its com­mu­nity and espe­cially wel­comes appli­cants from vis­i­ble minor­ity group mem­bers, women, Aboriginal per­sons, per­sons with dis­abil­i­ties, mem­bers of sex­ual minor­ity groups, and oth­ers who may con­tribute to the fur­ther diver­si­fi­ca­tion of ideas. It also offers the oppor­tu­nity to teach, con­duct research and live in one of the world’s most cos­mopoli­tan and cul­tur­ally diverse cities. All qual­i­fied can­di­dates are encour­aged to apply; how­ever, Canadians and per­ma­nent res­i­dents will be given priority.