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[justinm at ucr.edu]

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justin

Professor of Political Science
Australian National University

The Australian National University’s Department of Political 
and Social Change seeks an outstanding scholar for 
appointment as Professor of Political Science. The position 
is primarily for research. It carries only modest teaching 
responsibilities but the successful candidate will serve as 
Head of Department.  Applicants should have a distinguished 
publication record, extensive experience in postgraduate 
education and supervision, and demonstrated achievement in 
academic leadership.  Significant research experience on 
Southeast Asia as well as ability in one or more regional 
languages are also essential.  In addition to pursuing his 
or her own research interests, the appointee will work with 
other Department members and provide academic leadership; co-
operate in the multidisciplinary environment of the Research 
School of Pacific and Asian Studies and the College of Asia 
and the Pacific; liaise with relevant bodies locally, 
nationally and internationally; and promote the work of the 
Department. For selection criteria, other details, and 
application procedure, please go to 
http://info.anu.edu.au/hr/jobs/ or contact Gabrielle 
Cameron, T: +61 2 6125 4444, E: Gabrielle.Cameron at anu.edu.au 
or Professor Robin Jeffrey, T: +61 2 6125 2221, E: 
director.rspas at anu.edu.au. Closing Date: 30 March 2007. 
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Call for Papers
Panel Title: The Cold War in Southeast Asia (1948-90): New 
Sources and Interpretations

EUROSEAS 2007: Naples, 12-15 September 2007
Chair: Anthony Reid, Director Asia Research Institute

The goal of this Panel is to bring together scholars working 
of diverse aspects of the history of the Cold War in 
Southeast Asia so as to explore new resources, new 
perceptions and new possibilities in this area. In the light 
of the emergence of hitherto closed archival materials in 
China, Russia and in Southeast Asia itself, the appearance 
of new memoirs by revolutionary strategists and fighters, 
and a willingness on all sides to examine anew the history 
of the years 1948-90, it is hoped that through new 
interpretations of the period it will be possible to better 
address and overcome the cleavages which emerged in 
Southeast Asia during those years.

Papers could address any of the following areas of 
investigation:

1) The collection, translation and analysis of the fast-
disappearing memories of key members of the Communist Party 
of Malaya and the Sarawak Communist Party, analogous figures 
in the labour movement and various fronts, and of the key 
figures involved in their suppression. We are looking 
particularly for hitherto obscure evidence of connections 
between Southeast Asia and China, and among SE Asian parties 
and peoples.

2) Ditto for communist and united front movements in 
Thailand, Indonesia and Burma and, if papers are offered, 
Vietnam, the Philippines, Laos and Cambodia.

3) Accessing the newly-opening archives of Beijing, and 
those of Taiwan, on the relations of the CCP and the KMT to 
Southeast Asian movements on both sides of the Cold War.

4) Documenting the cultural expressions of both the 
political left and the right in the 1950s-1970s, including 
the Southeast Asian expressions of socialist realism and the 
Cultural Revolution, and the invasion of US popular culture 
and its local adaptations.

5) The battle for history, in terms of the textbook 
constructions of the new states on both sides of the bamboo 
curtain of their respective histories and identities.

6) Analysis of the way in which the Cold War affected the 
longer-term adjustments of Asian states to modernity, 
including the international diplomatic and security systems, 
national integration and majority-minority relations, 
national culture, and the viability of the new states in 
themselves.

Please submit expressions of interest or proposals and short 
(up to 350 words) abstracts to:
Geoff Wade
Asia Research Institute
National University of Singapore,
AS7, 5 Arts Link, Level 4
Singapore 117570
Email: arigpw at nus.edu.sg
Tel: (+65) 6516 4562

Further details of the conference are available at: 
http://www.euroseas.org/2007/indexe.php

NB: Unfortunately, the organizers have no financial 
assistance to offer to participants in this panel.
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Call for Papers
Graduate Student Conference - Cornell University Southeast 
Asia Program

The Cornell Southeast Asia Program invites submissions for 
its 9th Annual Southeast Asian Studies Graduate Student 
Conference. This year's conference will take place at the 
Kahin Center for Advanced Research on Southeast Asia, 
Cornell University, Ithaca, NY on March 16-18, 2007.

We welcome submissions from graduate students engaged in 
original research related to Southeast Asia. Graduate 
students working in the following disciplines as well as 
other related fields that contribute to the understanding of 
Southeast Asia are encouraged to apply:

History, literature, art history, sociology, musicology, 
religion, anthropology, archeology, architectural history, 
gender studies, political science, economics, and 
linguistics.

We ask that interested graduates students submit a one-page 
abstract describing their paper and a curriculum vitae by 
January 15, 2007.

Abstracts and CVs must be written in English and formatted 
as either a MS Word or PDF document. Selected authors will 
be asked to give a 20-minute presentation on their paper 
(not including a 10-minute discussion session).

Submissions should be sent to swl3 at cornell.edu and 
tnp5 at cornell.edu.

Authors of accepted submissions will be given until February 
23, 2007 to send in the full version of their final paper.

A limited number of modest travel grants are available. 
Please indicate in your email when you submit the abstract 
if you would like to apply for a travel grant.

This year's keynote speaker will be Patricia Spyer, 
Professor of the Anthropology of Contemporary Indonesia, 
Leiden University, The Netherlands.  Patricia Spyer is the 
author of The Memory of Trade: Modernity's entanglements on 
an Eastern Indonesia Island (Duke, 2000) and editor of 
Border Fetishisms: Material Objects in Unstable Spaces 
(Routledge, 1998).  Her current research focuses on the role 
of mass and small media in the dynamics of the violence and 
reconciliation processes in the Moluccas, Indonesia.

More details about the conference including abstract format 
and submission guidelines may be found here:
http://www.einaudi.cornell.edu/southeastasia/academics/studen
t_symposium.asp
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Call for Papers
Regional Animalities: Humans & Animal Relations in Southeast 
Asia

FOCAS, Forum On Contemporary Art & Society 6: [FOCAS, Forum 
On Contemporary Art & Society, is a not-for-profit dialogue 
and publishing initiative that engages issues of 
contemporary art, politics and social change—primarily but 
not exclusively—in Southeast Asia. FOCAS is dedicated to 
interdisciplinary criticalexchange among scholars, activists 
and practitioners.]

FOCAS is back with our sixth volume, Regional Animalities: 
Humans & Animal Relations in Southeast Asia. For this 
volume, we are collaborating with Documenta 12, the 
international contemporary art event based in Kassel, 
Germany. Both the publication as a whole and selected 
articles from the forthcoming issue will be featured in 
documenta 12 magazines, the online editorial project 
bringing together independent publishing initiatives on art 
and culture from around the globe. 

In this context we are sending out a call for visual or 
textual responses from practitioners, scholars, writers and 
activists, to the themed sections detailed below:

Please send a maximum 500-word proposal or a file with 
maximum 5 low-resolution images to focas at pacific.net.sg. 
Deadline for submissions: 30th December 06. Deadline for 
final input: 1st March 07.

I. Main Themed Section: Regional Animalities

The main theme for this sixth issue in the focas publication 
series concerns ways in which human animal exchanges and 
relationships are imagined, represented and performed in a 
range of different artistic and cultural political contexts—
primarily, but not exclusively, in Southeast Asia.

We encourage input from art writers, practitioners and 
activists, as well as writers from the social and natural 
sciences. 

Proposals may choose to respond to, reject or transcend the 
following:
• How do a multiplicity of real and imagined beasts brush, 
buzz, slink, stink and scuttle in and out of the everyday 
fantasies and signifying practices of contemporary Southeast 
Asian societies?
• How are these phantoms and presences projected through 
human-human exchanges?
• How do human-animal and animal-animal exchanges subvert, 
rupture, invade and expand upon human symbolic orders and 
signifying practices?
• Which animals are eaten? Which are adored? Which animals 
are feared? Which animals are expelled? Which animals are 
sacred? Which profane? Which animals persist? Which animals 
are lost?
• What historical/"indigenous" assumptions, representations, 
embodiments of other living creatures exist in human 
cultures in the region? How do these relate to contemporary 
animal rights and conservation discourses?
• How do vernacular attitudes to animals bleed into "shark 
tales", "Hello Kitties" and other animated icons?
• How have various creatures been represented and received 
in global and vernacular, experimentary and commercial 
cultural production, such as visual art, film, television, 
animation, advertising and fashion?
• How do animals remap/reinvent human territories, spaces 
and places, waters and skies, cities and kampungs, 
skyscrapers and rubbish mountains?
• How have recent outbreaks and invocations of SARS, bird 
flu and dengue fever recast human animal relations in the 
region?

II. Art & Activism in Singapore 2004­6:
Artists, Animals, Transients & The Death Penalty

In the past two years in Singapore, three civil society 
movements have gained considerable visibility in an 
otherwise infamously disciplined social, political and media 
arena:

• The animal welfare movement, buoyed by the public outcry 
over the Singapore Government's culling of stray cats during 
the SARS outbreak in 2003.
• A movement to lobby for basic labour and health rights for 
transient workers.
• Artist and activist mobilisations against the mandatory 
death penalty for drug trafficking in Singapore—a hitherto 
no-go area for activist groups as it was considered just too 
difficult an issue to tackle.

A number of the same actors, musicians, artists, are active 
in all three camps. In this section we are soliciting and 
commissioning reports on artist/activist involvement in all 
three issues.

There are indeed links between the treatment of migrant 
workers, hoarded onto open trucks like livestock, and a 
dehumanisation/animalisation process in the ways in which 
death row
prisoners (a number of whom are migrant drug peddlers) are 
impounded and eventually hanged.

But what is also immediately apparent with these 
juxtapositions is how juicy, pleasurable, rich and evocative 
the writing and making of art about animals, conservation  
and animal welfare is, in contrast to a tired greyness of 
writing on labour and the absolute authority of (human) 
death, which overshadows attempts to respond to the death 
penalty in Singapore in art or theory. Indeed, there have 
been discussions in the editorial as to whether we even 
should be speaking of the death penalty in an art context. 
However reflexively and sensitively we handle this, are we 
inevitably just going to fuel the ravenous hunger of 
contemporary art and theory for the latest trauma of the 
human Other.

III. FOCAS on Censorship focas will be continuing to debate 
and document instances of censorship in the art and writing 
in Southeast Asia. This section will be compiled in 
collaboration with the international organisation Reporters 
Without Borders.
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CALL FOR PAPERS AND PANEL PROPOSALS
8th Annual Association of Pacific Rim Universities Doctoral 
Student Conference
Topic: The Emerging Future of the Pacific Rim: Alliances, 
Collaboration, and Networking

The 8th Annual Association of Pacific Rim Universities 
Doctoral Student Conference (APRU DSC) will take place from 
30 July to 3 August 2007 at the Mita campus of Keio 
University, Japan. Doctoral students from all disciplines, 
including the social sciences, the humanities, and the 
natural sciences are invited to attend and present a paper 
related to their doctoral research. The main title of the 
conference is "The Emerging Future of the Pacific Rim: 
Alliances, Collaboration, and Networking." We need to 
collaborate and network with one another so as to meet the 
challenges of the diverse problems in the Pacific Rim in 
this global age. Our purposes are: 1) to deepen and widen 
our research interests through discussions with other 
participants from diverse academic backgrounds; 2) to 
develop our intellectual curiosity by sharing our 
experiences as students with our international colleagues; 
and 3) to build lifelong friendships among PhD students with 
bright futures. The conference will be composed of plenary 
sessions, workshops, contributed paper sessions, and panel 
sessions. Papers presented in the contributed paper and 
panel sessions are expected to be drawn from all academic 
disciplines including, but not limited to, the following 
disciplines: Anthropology, Archaeology, Arts, Biology, 
Business, Chemistry, Commerce, Computer Science, Earth 
Sciences, Economics, Education, Engineering, Health Care, 
History, Information Technology, International Relations, 
Law, Life Sciences, Linguistics, Literature, Mathematics, 
Medicine, Philosophy, Psychology, Physics, Political 
Science, and Sociology.

Paper presenters at the DSC will either present their paper 
in a contributed paper session organized by the Keio 
Organizing Committee, or in a panel session organized by a 
doctoral student, but not both. The panel sessions are a new 
initiative to encourage doctoral students to form panel 
sessions focused on a specific area or issue so as to 
generate more focused discussions. Participants in this 
conference are strongly encouraged to organize their own 
panel sessions with the idea of getting three or four papers 
in a session focused on one area or one question/issue. The 
Keio Organizing Committee hopes the planning of these panel 
sessions will encourage doctoral students to talk to one 
another before they submit their papers. The official 
language of the conference is English. Abstracts, paper 
presentations and all conference materials will be in 
English. Approximately 80 doctoral students will be selected 
to present papers at the Doctoral Student Conference at Keio 
University. Information about registration will be provided 
on the conference web site in due course.

The key dates for the conference are as follows:
31 December 2006: Deadline for the on-line submission of 
panel proposals (at most 500 words)
10 January 2007: Notification of acceptance of panels
10 February 2007: Deadline for the on-line submission of 
abstracts (at most 250 words)
10 March 2007: Notification of acceptance of abstracts
25 June 2007: Deadline for the submission of full papers
30 July ~ 3 August 2007: Doctoral Student Conference at Keio 
University

Notes for Abstracts
1. Abstracts and any accompanying paper should be submitted 
in English using the On-Line Registration system.
2. Each abstract should contain a 250 word description of 
the paper, and include details of the title, the author’s 
name, institutional affiliation, nationality, and 
discipline, at most 5 keywords, and a panel preference 
(optional). The keywords are designed to provide a guide to 
the areas/issues covered by the paper, and will be used by 
the Keio Organizing Committee to allocate papers to 
appropriate sessions.
3. The Keio Organizing Committee will upload details of the 
accepted panels on 7 December 2006 onto the conference web 
page.
4. Where there is more than one author, the author 
presenting the paper at the DSC should be clearly indicated 
in the abstract.
5. In principle, the person presenting the paper must be a 
doctoral student enrolled at a university that is a member 
of the Association of Pacific Rim Universities (APRU) at the 
time they submit their abstracts.
6. The Keio Organizing Committee will allow a small number 
(up to around five) of doctoral students enrolled at 
universities that are not members of APRU to present their 
papers at the DSC conference. In this case, the papers 
should have some connection to the Asian-Pacific region, and 
students must provide a letter of recommendation from a 
member of the faculty or department where they are enrolled.
7. If the total number of submissions exceeds 80, the Keio 
Organizing Committee reserves the right to screen abstracts 
on the basis of the quality of the abstract (and, if 
submitted, any accompanying paper), taking into account the 
need for a balance in presentations across countries, 
universities, and disciplines. In the case of applications 
from students enrolled at universities that are not members 
of APRU, the Keio Organizing Committee will also take into 
account the relationship of the paper’s content to the Asian-
Pacific region, and whether there is any exchange agreement 
between Keio and the student’s university.
8. Abstracts that are accompanied by a full or partial paper 
will be given preference in the screening process.
9. Information on the submission of full papers will be 
announced later.

Notes for Panel Proposals
1. Panel Proposals should be submitted using the On-Line 
Registration system.
2. You may organize a panel for the DSC of about 3 or 4 
papers, which will be independent from the sessions 
organized by the Keio Organizing Committee.
3. Each panel proposal should include a title for the panel 
title, the organizer’s name, and the details of all 
presenters.
4. Panel members should contain presenters from at least 
three different universities or three disciplines.
5. It is expected that panel organizers will chair the 
panels they organize, and be involved in the selection of 
papers for their panels.

Correspondence
All correspondence should be directed to the International 
Center of Keio University at dsc07-info at adst.keio.ac.jp

Financial Support
DSC participants will be provided with six nights of free 
accommodation for the nights of 29, 30, 31 July and 1, 2, 3 
August at a hotel near the Mita campus of Keio University. 
No registration fees will be charged for the 8th Annual 
Association of Pacific Rim Universities Doctoral Student 
Conference.

Further information
For further information, please see the conference web site: 
http://www.ic.keio.ac.jp/apru/index.html
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COUNCIL OF AMERICAN OVERSEAS RESEARCH CENTER FELLOWSHIPS FOR 
ADVANCED MULTI-COUNTRY RESEARCH 

Targeted Fields: Humanities. Life Sciences. Physical 
Sciences. Social Sciences. School of Public Affairs. 

Open To: Students Working on Doctoral Dissertation. 
Postdoctoral Scholars. 

Citizenship: Open only to U.S. citizens. 

Eligibility Requirements: Doctoral candidates who have 
completed all PhD requirements with the exception of the 
dissertation, and established postdoctoral scholars. 
Preference will be given to candidates examining comparative 
and/or cross-cultural questions requiring research in two or 
more countries. 

Stipend: Stipend of up to $9,000. 

Deadline: 1/12/2007 

Program Description: Ten awards will be given to scholars 
who wish to carry out research on broad questions of multi-
country significance. Tenure must be of at least 3 months 
duration. 

For More Information:
Council of American Overseas Research Centers (CAORC)
Multi-Country Research Fellowship Program
Smithsonian Institution
P.O. Box 37012
NHB Room CE-12, MRC 178
Washington, DC 20013-7012
(202) 633-1599
fellowships at caorc.org
http://www.caorc.org/
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Dr. Justin McDaniel
Dept. of Religious Studies
2617 Humanities Building
University of California, Riverside
Riverside, CA 92521
951-827-4530
justinm at ucr.edu