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1) Subject:Inter-Asian Connections Conference
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Date: 07 Aug 2010
From:<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; white-space: normal; ">Shabana Shahabuddin <<a href="mailto:shahabuddin@ssrc.org" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">shahabuddin@ssrc.org</a>></span>
Subject:Inter-Asian Connections Conference
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; white-space: normal; "><div style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><em><b><i><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; font-weight: bold; ">**********************************************************************</span></font></i></b></em><o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><strong><b><font size="1" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial; ">CALL FOR PAPERS</span></font></b></strong><b><font size="1" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial; font-weight: bold; "><br>DEADLINE: Monday, May 31, 2010<br><i><span style="font-style: italic; ">Inter-Asian Connections II: <u1:place u2:st="on"><u1:country-region u2:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Singapore</st1:place></st1:country-region></u1:country-region></u1:place> (December 8-10, 2010)</span></i> <o:p></o:p></span></font></b></div><div style="margin-right: 6pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><font size="1" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial; ">The Hong Kong Institute for Humanities and Social Sciences (HKIHSS) at the University of Hong Kong, the National University of Singapore (NUS), and the Social Science Research Council (SSRC) (the Organizers) are pleased to announce an open call for <b><i><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; ">individual research paper submissions</span></i></b> from researchers in any world region, to participate in a 3-day thematic workshop at an international conference, “Inter-Asian Connections II: Singapore.”<o:p></o:p></span></font></div><div style="margin-right: 6pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; "><font size="1" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial; ">To be held in <u1:country-region u2:st="on"><u1:place u2:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">Singapore</st1:country-region></st1:place></u1:place></u1:country-region>, December 8-10, 2010, the conference will host concurrent workshops, coordinated by individual directors and showcasing innovative research from across the social sciences and related disciplines. Workshops will focus on themes of particular relevance to Asia, reconceptualized as a dynamic and interconnected historical, geographical, and cultural formation stretching from the Middle East through Eurasia and South Asia, to <u1:place u2:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">East Asia</st1:place></u1:place>.<o:p></o:p></span></font></div><div style="margin-right: 6pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; "><font size="1" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial; ">The conference structure and schedule have been designed to enable intensive ‘working group’ interactions on a specific research theme, as well as broader interactions on topics of mutual interest and concern. Accordingly, there will be a public keynote and a plenary session in addition to closed workshop sessions. The concluding day of the conference will bring all the conference participants together for a public presentation and exchange of research agendas that have emerged over the course of the conference deliberations.</span></font><o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-right: 6pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; "><font size="1" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial; ">Individual paper submissions are invited from </span></font><font size="1" face="Arial"><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial; ">junior and senior scholars, whether graduate students or faculty, or researchers in NGOs or other research organizations, </span></font><font size="1" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial; ">for the following five workshops:<o:p></o:p></span></font></div><div style="margin-right: 6pt; margin-left: 0.5in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; "><font size="1" face="Wingdings"><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Wingdings; ">§</span></font><font size="1"><span style="font-size: 7pt; "> </span></font><b><font size="1" face="Arial"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial; font-weight: bold; ">Regional Knowledge Hubs in <u1:place u2:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Asia</st1:place></u1:place>: the Social Sciences and Humanities in Science and Technology Human Capital (STHC)</span></font></b><font size="1" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial; "><o:p></o:p></span></font></div><div style="margin-right: 6pt; margin-left: 0.25in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; "><font size="1" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial; "> Workshop Directors – V.V. Krishna (<u1:placename u2:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">National</st1:placename></u1:placename> <u1:placetype u2:st="on"><st1:placetype w:st="on">University</st1:placetype></u1:placetype> of <u1:country-region u2:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">Singapore</st1:country-region></u1:country-region>) and Tim Turpin (<u1:place u2:st="on"><u1:placetype u2:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placetype w:st="on">University</st1:placetype></st1:place></u1:placetype> of <u1:placename u2:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">Western Sydney</st1:placename></u1:placename></u1:place>)<b><span style="font-weight: bold; "><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></font></div><div style="margin-right: 6pt; margin-left: 0.5in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; "><font size="1" face="Wingdings"><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Wingdings; ">§</span></font><font size="1"><span style="font-size: 7pt; "> </span></font><b><font size="1" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial; font-weight: bold; ">Inter-Asian temple and trust networks within and out of <st1:place w:st="on">Southeast Asia</st1:place><o:p></o:p></span></font></b></div><div style="margin-right: 6pt; margin-left: 0.25in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; "><font size="1" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial; "> Workshop Director – Kenneth Dean (<u1:place u2:st="on"><u1:placename u2:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">McGill</st1:placename></st1:place></u1:placename> <u1:placetype u2:st="on"><st1:placetype w:st="on">University</st1:placetype></u1:placetype></u1:place>)<o:p></o:p></span></font></div><div style="margin-right: 6pt; margin-left: 0.5in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; "><font size="1" face="Wingdings"><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Wingdings; ">§</span></font><font size="1"><span style="font-size: 7pt; "> </span></font><b><font size="1" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial; font-weight: bold; ">How <u1:place u2:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Asia</st1:place></u1:place> Became Territorial </span></font></b><o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-right: 6pt; margin-left: 0.5in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; "><b><font size="1" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial; font-weight: bold; "> </span></font></b><font size="1" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial; ">Workshop Directors – Itty Abraham (<u1:placetype u2:st="on"><st1:placetype w:st="on">University</st1:placetype></u1:placetype> of <u1:placename u2:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">Texas</st1:placename></u1:placename> at <u1:city u2:st="on"><u1:place u2:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Austin</st1:city></st1:place></u1:place></u1:city>) and See</span></font><font size="2" color="blue" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: blue; "> </span></font><font size="1" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial; ">Seng</span></font><font size="2" color="blue" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: blue; "> </span></font><font size="1" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial; ">Tan (S. Rajarantnam School of International Studies, Nanyang Technological University)<b><span style="font-weight: bold; "><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></font></div><div style="margin-right: 6pt; margin-left: 36.75pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18.75pt; "><font size="1" face="Wingdings"><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Wingdings; "><span>§<font size="1" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "> </span></font></span></span></font><b><font size="1" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial; font-weight: bold; ">Reproduction Migration in <u1:place u2:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Asia</st1:place></u1:place><font color="black"><span style="color: black; "><o:p></o:p></span></font></span></font></b></div><div style="margin-right: 6pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; "><font size="1" color="black" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial; color: black; "> </span></font><font size="1" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial; "> Workshop Directors – Biao Xiang (<u1:placetype u2:st="on"><st1:placetype w:st="on">University</st1:placetype></u1:placetype> of <u1:placename u2:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">Oxford</st1:placename></u1:placename>) and Mika Toyota (<u1:placename u2:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">National</st1:placename></u1:placename> <u1:placetype u2:st="on"><st1:placetype w:st="on">University</st1:placetype></u1:placetype> of <u1:country-region u2:st="on"><u1:place u2:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">Singapore</st1:country-region></st1:place></u1:place></u1:country-region>)<o:p></o:p></span></font></div><div style="margin-right: 6pt; margin-left: 0.5in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; "><font size="1" face="Wingdings"><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Wingdings; ">§</span></font><font size="1"><span style="font-size: 7pt; "> </span></font><b><font size="1" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial; font-weight: bold; ">Old Histories, New Geographies: Contrapuntal Mobilities of Trade in <u1:place u2:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Asia</st1:place></u1:place><o:p></o:p></span></font></b></div><div style="margin-right: 6pt; margin-left: 0.25in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; "><font size="1" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial; "> Workshop Directors – Engseng Ho (<u1:place u2:st="on"><u1:placename u2:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">Duke</st1:placename></st1:place></u1:placename> <u1:placetype u2:st="on"><st1:placetype w:st="on">University</st1:placetype></u1:placetype></u1:place>) and Lakshmi Subramanian (Jamia Millia Islamia)<o:p></o:p></span></font></div><div style="margin-right: 6pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; "><font size="1" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial; ">Descriptions of the individual workshops, including details on the workshop directors, and information on the application process are available at<a href="http://www.ssrc.org/pages/conference-on-inter-asian-connections-ii-singapore-december-8-10-2010/" title="http://www.ssrc.org/pages/conference-on-inter-asian-connections-ii-singapore-december-8-10-2010/" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">http://www.ssrc.org/pages/conference-on-inter-asian-connections-ii-singapore-december-8-10-2010/</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></font></div><div style="margin-right: 6pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; "><font size="1" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial; ">Application materials are due <b><i><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; ">Monday, May 31, 2010. </span></i> </b></span></font><font size="1" face="Arial"><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial; ">Please note that an individual cannot apply to more than one workshop. </span></font><font size="1" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial; ">Selection decisions will be announced on <b><i><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; ">June 25, 2010</span></i></b>. Accepted participants are required to submit a 20-25 page research paper by <b><i><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; ">October 15, 2010</span></i></b>.</span></font><font size="1" face="Arial"><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial; "><o:p></o:p></span></font></div><div style="margin-right: 6pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; "><font size="1" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial; ">The Organizers will make every effort to ensure some level of funding for participants toward the travel/accommodation costs associated with attending the Inter-Asian Connections II conference. However, we are unable to guarantee any financial assistance at this point, and we encourage participants to seek funding from external agencies (such as their home institutions). We will be able to confirm details about funding availability after the selection process has been completed.<o:p></o:p></span></font></div><div style="margin-right: 6pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; "><font size="1" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial; ">For additional inquiries, please contact the Organizers at <a href="mailto:interasia@ssrc.org" title="mailto:interasia@ssrc.org" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">interasia@ssrc.org</a>.</span></font><o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-right: 6pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; "><strong><b><i><font size="1" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial; font-style: italic; ">This event is organized and co-sponsored by The Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences (HKIHSS) at the University of Hong Kong, the National University of Singapore (NUS), and the Social Science Research Council (SSRC)<font color="black"><span style="color: black; ">.</span></font></span></font></i></b></strong><o:p></o:p></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: 800;"><i><br></i></span></font></div></span>
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