[Tlc] TLC-opportunities

[justinm at ucr.edu]

FYI. Lots of information below!
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justin


(1) Tour Guide Positions: Vietnamese, Indonesian and Khmer speakers

National Geographic Student Expeditions and Putney Student Travel seek qualified college graduates to lead groups of high school students on our programs in Europe, Latin America, the Caribbean, Africa, Asia, and the U.S. Fluency in the language(s) is required. You must be able to motivate students in a wide range of situations and have a capacity to organize, lead, and work well with others. Leaders receive a stipend and all expenses are paid during travel. You are responsible for health insurance and certification in basic first aid. There is an Orientation in Vermont May 29-31 (NGSE) and June 11-14 (PST). Please submit your resume and cover letter indicating which programs you feel qualified to lead to Britt Doran jobs at goputney.com. For more information, please go to: http://www.goputney.com/Jobs/index.htm.

We are especially interested in:
-male Vietnamese speakers
-male Indonesian speakers
-male and female Khmer speakers
-photographers

For more information please contact:
Britt Doran
Putney Student Travel & National Geographic Student Expeditions
Putney, VT
802 387 5000
http://www.goputney.com/
http://ngstudentexpeditions.com/

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(2) International Travel Grants for U.S. Middle and High School Teachers to Cambodia

Under the Teaching Excellence and Achievement Program (TEA) the U.S. Department of State and IREX (the International Research & Exchanges Board) announce a competition for middle and high school teachers from the United States to participate in a two-week professional exchange program in Argentina, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bangladesh, Cambodia, Colombia, El Salvador, Georgia, Ghana, Guatemala, Honduras, India, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Nicaragua, Senegal, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Ukraine.

Eligible applicants must be:

--Secondary-level (middle or high school), teaching professionals with five or more years of classroom experience in disciplines including English as a Foreign Language, English Language or Literature, and social sciences (including social studies, civics, and history),

--U.S. citizens, and

--Able to travel in spring 2010.

The program is fully funded and provides: visa support, round-trip domestic airfare, lodging and meals to attend the TEA U.S. Conference, round-trip airfare from the U.S. to the assigned country, emergency medical evacuation plan, and lodging and a daily stipend in host country.

Application Deadline: April 27, 2009

Applications can be downloaded at: http://www.irex.org.

For more information, you may contact Anne MiIazzo at (202) 628-8188 ext 197 or tea at irex.org.

For more international travel grant opportunities, please check http://www.irex.orgin May 2009.

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(3) Research Fellowship for Study of Buddhist Art

The Asian Civilisations Museum (ACM), Singapore is pleased to offer research fellowship grant from June 2009 to May 2010 in the field of Buddhist art and iconography. ACM promotes research on Asian art history, archaeology and material culture, and has earned a reputation in the museum arena for its gallery displays and exhibitions.

The position of Junior Research Fellow is open and we welcome applications from post-field PhD candidates. The fellowship is for the duration of one year (June 2009-May 2010) and the monthly stipend is S$3,000. For overseas scholars, the cost of relocation and airfare are capped at a total of S$3,000 as a one off payment.

Application closes on 9th April 2009. For more information and the application form, please visit:

http://www.acm.org.sg/pressroom/newsdetail.asp?generalNewsID=30

For enquires, please do not hesitate to contact us at: nhb_acm_rpu at nhb.gov.sg

Soh Gek Han
Research and Publication Unit
Asian Civilisations Museum
1 Empress Place
Singapore 179555
Email: nhb_acm_rpu at nhb.gov.sg

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(4) Fellowships for the Study of Buddhism

University of Hamburg

The Center for Buddhist Studies at the University of Hamburg offers fellowships for up to a maximum of twenty-four months to support MA and doctoral students doing research in Buddhist studies and other fields related to Buddhism.

Candidates of all faculties from German/EU or overseas universities are welcome to apply. The deadline is 15 May 2009.

For more information: http://www.buddhismuskunde.uni-hamburg.de/index.php?id=3&L=1 or contact:

Dr Barbara Schuler
Associate Director
Center for Buddhist Studies
Asia-Africa-Institute
University of Hamburg
Edmund-Siemers-Allee 1
20146 Hamburg
Germany
phone: ++49 (0)40 42838 4831

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(5) Rotary World Peace Fellowships

Do you know someone who is interested in expanding their knowledge of peace building, conflict resolution, and mediation? If you do, recommend him or her for a Rotary World Peace Fellowship! Rotary, one of the world's largest humanitarian service organizations has partnered with eight leading universities around the globe to host the Rotary Centers for International Studies in peace and conflict resolution.

Each year, Rotary selects up to 110 Fellows to study peace and conflict resolution at universities around the world.

Some of the program highlights include:

* A choice of either a three-month certificate course or master's degree program.
* The opportunity to study at one of eight universities around the world (including Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand)
* Training in the root causes of conflict, theories of international relations, and effective models of cooperation, conflict resolution and negotiation.
* Full funding for tuition, housing expenses, and airfare.
* Access to a growing network of committed alumni employed around the world in diplomacy, government, non-governmental organizations and private corporations.

The master's level degree program is aimed at mid-career professionals in government, nongovernmental organizations and private corporations. The certificate program is for professionals currently holding a mid- to upper-level position with a minimum of five years of experience in the field of peace and conflict resolution.

Applicants are encouraged to apply now via their local Rotary Club. All applications must be received by Rotary Headquarters by 1 July 2009.

For more information or to find the nearest Rotary club, please visit the Rotary Centers website: http://www.rotary.org/rotarycenters

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(6) Research Training for Graduate Students

Department of Anthropology
Summer Institute in Museum Anthropology-Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C.
June 29 - July 24, 2009

I am pleased to announce a new research training initiative being launched by the Smithsonian Department of Anthropology with support (pending) from the National Science Foundation.

The Summer Institute in Museum Anthropology is an intensive four-week training program that will teach graduate students how to use museum collections in research, incorporating Smithsonian collections as an integral part of their anthropological training. Support from the Cultural Anthropology Program at NSF will cover full tuition and living expenses for 12 students each summer.

Candace Greene
Director, Summer Institute in Museum Anthropology
Ethnologist, Collections and Archives Program
Department of Anthropology
National Museum of Natural History
Smithsonian Institution

More information at http://anthropology.si.edu/summerinstitute/

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(7) Deadline Extension for Laos Long-Term Posts, Bali Service-Learning and Vietnam Summer Programs

VIA (Volunteers in Asia) is still accepting applications for long-term volunteer positions in Laos PDR and summer positions in Bali and Vietnam in 2009! Applications will be accepted until Friday, April 10, 5 pm PST or until the positions are filled.

Laos Long-Term Volunteer Posts
For 45 years, VIA has been partnering with Asian institutions in need of native English-speaking volunteers. VIA provides extensive training and a wide array of support to all volunteers (including accommodation, a monthly stipend, and airfare back to the US upon completion of service). VIA supports 1-2 year volunteers at a small number of educational and community organizations in the captivating Lao PDR:

Dream Center is an English Teaching post at a private school with curriculum in English, computers, Chinese, Korean. Although the Korean director is Korean wanted to set up a non-profit, it's very difficult in Laos. The Dream Center is run as a private school offering low tuition and donating profits to support Laos schools in rural areas with the aim of increasing the livelihood and welfare of Lao people in the region. The school serves a broad demographic including students and adults working in tourism, government, and business. Huoai Xai, Bokeo Province is a scenic and peaceful bordertown in the northwestern corner of Laos. The quiet Mekong river runs along Huay Xai, and Thailand is a short boat ride away. The region is rural and mountainous with a large percentage of people belonging to minority ethnic groups. There is a small community of expatriates who work for international NGOs. Chiang Mai is only five hours away by bus, and it's also the jumping off point for river travel to Luang Prabang. Because Huay Xai is rural, it is a bit spread out and lacking public transportation; it's important that the volunteer be comfortable with the idea of riding a motorbike. We can help the volunteer become more accustomed to riding in Chiang Mai.

Community Environment Promotion and Cultural Association (CEPCA), in Vientiane, is a non-profit association (NPA) under the umbrella of the Laos Union of Science and Engineering Associations (LUSEA), which is home to most of the fledgling national quasi-NGOs in Laos. They do training on environmental education, environmental journalism, and advocacy training for local villagers on environmental rights, such as land rights, and training journalists to report on environmental and development issues. This year they received two major grants to create an environmental magazine and for various training programs. A major role of the volunteer will be donor relations and report writing, starting with learning about CEPCA's activities to report to the granting institutions. This post will offer firsthand experience in how a small national NGO operates. They are a small office and work tends to come in floods or trickles, depending on activities. The present volunteer also teaches English to a class drawn from the local NGO community and the director is talking about possibly sharing the volunteer with LUSEA from time to time when things slow down, so this position gives great access to a wide range of NGOs in Laos. CEPCA provides a basic apartment for the volunteer.

Eligibility: VIA long-term programs are open to US residents who speak English with native fluency and have a bachelor's degree (by summer 2009). Local language skills, teaching experience, and development experience are not required.
Dates:
April 17 - 19: Spring Orientation in Marin, California
July 14: Arrive for Training in Chiang Mai, Thailand

Program Fee: $2000

Bali Service-Learning Program
The VIA Bali Service-Learning program is an 8-week group cultural immersion and service opportunity. Volunteers will live with Balinese families, learn about the community and culture, and engage in service projects at the invitation of local groups. The island of Bali, known for its verdant rice terraces and unique form of Hinduism, is a magnet for anthropologists, cultural tourists, volcano-climbers and art-lovers.

Dates:
June 23 - 24: Training in VIA's San Francisco Office
June 25: Depart for Bali

Program Fee: $1700 for undergrads, $2200 for others

Teach in Hue Program
The Teach in Hue program is a 7-week group program based in Hue, the cultural and historical capital of Vietnam. Volunteers team-teach English and American culture classes to Vietnamese university students and learn about culture and development in Vietnam by volunteering at local non-profits. The program is and is open to any undergraduates or college grads.

Dates:
July 1: Arrive in Hanoi for orientation
July 7: Travel to Hue for program
August 14: Last day of program

Program Fee: $1500 for undergrads, $2000 for others

Viet-Am Service Learning Program
The Viet-Am Service leanring program is a 6-week summer program exclusively for Americans of Vietnamese heritage. Volunteers work with a local non-profit organization that focuses on women's empowerment and anti-human trafficking in An Giang Province and teach English to at-risk middle school students. Volunteers must possess strong Vietnamese language skills (fluency not required).

Dates:
July 1: Arrive in Hanoi for orientation
July 7: Travel to An Giang for program
August 9: Last day of program

Program Fee: $500 for undergrads, $1500 for others

VIA (Volunteers in Asia) is a non-profit, non-governmental organization headquartered in San Francisco that aims to increase understanding between the US and Asia through programs promoting cross-cultural education and service. For more information, please visit the VIA website at www.viaprograms.org or e-mail us at info at viaprograms.org.

-- 
Daniel Mandell
Regional Asia Program Director
Volunteers in Asia (VIA)
San Francisco, CA USA
Chiang Mai, Thailand

+66 81 366 3325 mobile

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(8) SEASSI Program

The Southeast Asian Studies Summer Institute (SEASSI) offers
university-level instruction in Burmese, Filipino, Hmong, Indonesian,
Khmer, Lao, Thai and Vietnamese languages at multiple levels.
Instruction is also offered in Javanese if enrollments are sufficient.

In addition, a special focus is made on Heritage language instruction at
SEASSI in Filipino, Hmong, Khmer, Lao and Vietnamese languages and
cultures. Heritage instruction is specifically geared toward
native-speakers of those five languages who wish to learn to read or
write and/or improve their formal speaking skills. If you already
possess basic or intermediate-level reading and writing skills in your
Southeast Asian language, there are higher level classes available at
SEASSI in all of the above five languages. If you cannot speak or
understand the language of your parents/grandparents at all, SEASSI also
offers beginning level classes, for which no previous knowledge of the
language is required. Deadline to apply is April 13th.

To see examples of Filipino, Hmong, Khmer, Lao and Vietnamese teaching
materials used at SEASSI, student work, photos, and videos of classroom
activities and student projects, visit:

http://www.seassi.wisc.edu/heritage/index.html

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(9) Summer Travel Study: Thailand Sustainable Ecosystems

University of California, Los Angeles
Program dates: June 23- July 27, 2009

Participate this summer in a community-based, integrated, social and natural science field research program. You'll engage in sustainability research, intercultural activities, and fieldwork. The academic portion of the program focuses on social and ecological theories, research methods, and analysis along with international policy and practice. And you'll use that knowledge as you join Thai villagers and organizations in community service. You'll learn both with and from the Thai community groups, in particular, those developing sustainable communities, restoring tsunami-damaged ecosystems, regenerating coastal biodiversity, and building resilience to climate change. This is a project-based, learning process-oriented community service course.

Directed by Michael Silverman, UCLA Institute of the Environment, and Rebecca Shipe, UCLA Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and Institute of the Environment. The program provides a total of nine (9) upper-division quarter units for two courses, Environment 123 and Environment 131SL. Financial aid is available to qualified UCLA students. All other students should inquire about financial aid at their home institution.

http://www.ieo.ucla.edu/TravelStudy/IOE-Thailand/overview.htm

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(10) Summer Program in Bali, Indonesia

Colorado College

Topics in Ethnomusicology: Arts and Culture of Bali
Colorado College Summer Programs
June 26-July 17, 2009
1 unit of credit (4 semester hours)
Instructors: I Made Lasmawan and Elizabeth Macy

The course explores the arts and culture of Bali, Indonesia, on location in Bali. Music, dance, theater, and visual arts are ubiquitous in Bali, where artistic production is far out of proportion to the size and population of the island. The unique history and culture of Bali are best understood through the arts, which connect past to present, self to community, and religion to reality.

Program Fee (in addition to tuition of $2,545): $2,100 includes lodging, most meals, course-related activities, and transportation in Bali. Does not include airfare. A non-refundable $500 deposit is due upon enrollment for the course.

Click here to go to the Website

contact: emacy at earthlink.net

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(11) Summer Study in Vietnam

De Anza College
July 6 - July 30, 2009

De Anza College in Cupertino, CA had its first study-trip to Vietnam back in 1998, and this year is the third consecutive summer program we'll conduct there. For three weeks in July, participants will study and travel from Sapa to Chau Doc. Students will earn up to 8 (quarter) credits for two courses. Courses offered: Poli Sci 03 (International Relations) & Sociology 05 (Globalization of Sociology)

This year we'll also add an equal number of Vietnamese students from Hoa Sen University in Saigon who will take the same curriculum and travel with De Anza students for the whole time we're in Vietnam. The cross-fertilization promises to be both interesting and beneficial.

Registration will close on May 15, 2009 and the group is limited to 18 students. Cost: US$3,500 including air fare, all transportation, food and lodging. We also have a small number of scholarships, up to $1,000 each, for students who need them.

For more information, please contact Vu-Duc Vuong • email : vuduc.vuong at gmail.com • (415-407-6282)

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(12) Council on Thai Studies

The annual meeting of the Council on Thai Studies - COTS 2009

October 23-24, 2009 at Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, Illinois.

The theme for COTS 2009 is Thailand's Responses to Globalization: Globalization vs. Traditionalism. The conference explores issues concerning the dynamic interaction between local national processes and globalization processes in terms of Thai responses; highlighting cultural, economic, environmental, socio-political and other responses. While this year's conference is organized around this theme, papers and panels addressing topics outside the main theme are also STRONGLY encouraged. Papers are welcome from ALL disciplines.

Deadline for abstracts is August 20, 2009. Abstracts should not be
longer than 350 words.

For further details and paper proposal information please see:
http://www.cseas.niu.edu/outreach/COTS2009/

Andrea K. Molnar (PhD)
Associate Professor
Department of Anthropology
Northern Illinois University
DeKalb, IL. USA. 60115
Tel:(1) 815-753-8578
Fax: (1) 815-753-7027
e-mail: akmolnar at niu.edu

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(13) Call for Papers: NEXT: Emerging Voices of Religious Studies Scholarship

Borders and Transcultural Studies Research Circle in conjunction with Global Studies and the Institute for Research in the Humanities

The University of Colorado at Boulder Department of Religious Studies Graduate Student Journal announces a call for papers for our upcoming 3rd Edition of NEXT: Emerging Voices of Religious Studies Scholarship. The deadline for submissions is April 10th, 2009.

The NEXT journal holds as self-evident the fact that graduate students who matriculate from a discipline are the next generation of scholars who will be shaping their field. By design, this journal facilitates students’ ability to communicate, disseminate ideas, critiques and direction that will shape the future for the academic study of religious traditions.

The theme of this edition of the journal will be centered on issues regarding religion in the public sphere. Variations on this theme include, but are not limited to:

-Religion and Modernity

-Religion and Politics

-Religion and the Media

-Religion and Nature

-The Ethics of Applied Scholarship

Analysis of theory and methodology is used to better articulate certain topics of religious phenomenon within a global context. We expect that the papers within this journal will further discussion concerning theoretical and methodological issues in the academic study of religion and related fields.

Papers are to be no more than 20 pages long, double spaced (not including bibliography). Book reviews will also be considered. Please send submissions to sosrjournal at gmail.com in Microsoft Word format and include reliable contact information and institutional affiliation.

More information may be found on our website:

http://www.colorado.edu/ReligiousStudies/Nextpage.htm

Borders and Transcultural Studies Research Circle in conjunction with Global Studies and the Institute for Research in the Humanities have organized two workshops intended for graduate students in the Humanities who are about to write the dissertation proposal or who are already in the stage of writing their thesis. Both workshops will take place in April. We would like to invite graduate students and their respective advisers to participate. For further information go to: http://global.wisc.edu/graduate-workshop/ (under "Upcoming Workshops") or email Paula Di Dio (mpdidio at wisc.edu).


Paula Di Dio
Project Assistant, Border and Transcultural Studies Research Circle
PhD Student, Department of Spanish and Portuguese
University of Wisconsin-Madison
mpdidio at wisc.edu

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(14) 4th Asian Graduate Forum on Southeast Asian Studies

Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore
13-17 July, 2009

The Asia Research Institute (ARI) of the National University of Singapore (NUS) invites applications from postgraduate students who are engaged in research on Southeast Asia to attend the 4th Asian Graduate Forum on Southeast Asian Studies on 13 - 17 July 2009. This 3-day forum will be part of ARI's 5-day Graduate Development Institute and Forum, which in addition to the forum will include two full days of sessions aimed to develop graduate student understandings of academia and relevant skills, through roundtable discussions with faculty, focused practical seminars and breakout group discussions.

Deadline: April 15, 2009

For more information, click here.

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(15) The Phantasm in Southern Thailand

International Conference 11-12 December, 2009 at Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok, Thailand.

History Writings on Patani and the Islamic World. Deadline for submissions is May 31, 2009. Papers may be presented in Thai or English. All abstracts should be no more than one page in length. Please send abstracts to:

davisakd.puaksom at gmail.com or

history at chula.ac.th

For more details see http://www.patani-conference.net



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Dr. Justin McDaniel
Dept. of Religious Studies
3046 INTN
University of California, Riverside
Riverside, CA 92521
951-827-4530
justinm at ucr.edu