[Tlc] TLC-conferences

[justinm at ucr.edu]

Several conferences and other opportunities below. Lots of
great things happening soon.
Thanks,
justin

1)
European Association of Southeast Asian Archaeologists (EurASEAA)

12th International Conference, Leiden, the Netherlands, 1 - 5
September 2008

We invite papers on all aspects of Southeast Asian
archaeology, including art history, epigraphy, and
numismatics. Papers on China and India that closely relate to
Southeast Asian themes, may also be presented by agreement and
if time permits.

Deadline to send in abstracts: 1 February 2008
Abstracts should be no longer than 200 words.

To qualify for a grant: please submit an abstract of your
intended paper, your CV, and a short letter of motivation.

For further information
Website:  http://www.iias.nl/euraseaa12/
Email : <Euraseaa12 at let.leidenuniv.nl>
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2)
18th Annual Conference on Southeast Asian Language Teaching
and Applied Linguistics

July 18-19, 2008,  University of Wisconsin -Madison

The theme for the conference is "The Theory and Practice of
the Communicative Approach in SEA Language Teaching." Papers
and presentations about language teaching, approaches, and
materials development relevant to Southeast Asian languages
and cultures are welcome. Each presentation should take no
more than thirty minutes (20 minutes for presentation and 10
minutes for questions and discussion).

Abstract Deadline:  April 30th, 2008
Notification of Acceptance:  May 16th, 2008

Please submit a one-page abstract (8.5"x11", or A4) which
should include the title, a brief description of not more than
100 words, and your address, phone, fax, and e-mail.
1)      By e-mail: Send an email attachment (Microsoft Word)
of your abstract /proposal to: Lopao Vang
<orchidhomes at tds.net>  & Bac Hoai Tran 
<bact at calmail.berkeley.edu>
      2)   By postal mail/fax:  Send your hard copy to:
                         Lopao Vang
                         Center for Southeast Asian Studies-SEASSI
                         207 Ingraham Hall, 1155 Observatory Drive
                         Madison, WI 53706 U.S.A.
             Fax:  (608) 263-3735 (The fax cover page should
have Lopao Vang’s name on it.)
 For more information about the conference, please contact: 
Bac Hoai Tran   bact at calmail.berkeley.edu or Lopao Vang
orchidhomes at tds.net

The conference announcement, hotel information, and updates
are also available from COTSEAL’s e-journal website:   
http://www.seasite.niu.edu/jsealt/
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3)
A mini-Conference on Nom Studies

April 11-12, 2008, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA 
Webpage:
http://www.temple.edu/vietnamese_center/nomstudies/2008_Nom_Conference.html

The Center for Vietnamese Philosophy, Culture & Society of
Temple University invites scholars, researchers, consultants,
and other experts to submit original and unpublished works
conveying innovations, ideas, multidisciplinary problems,
position papers, field studies, case studies, etc., in
formulating the scope and areas of Nom studies.  Nom studies
can be tentatively thought of as multi-disciplinary research
in Vietnamese studies recorded in the ideographic script used
in Vietnam from the tenth century to the 1920's.
 
January 31, 2008: Deadline for abstracts and invited session
proposals.

Center for Vietnamese Philosophy, Culture & Society
Attn: Nom Mini-Conference
Gladfelter Hall 1014, 1115 Berks Street
College of Liberal Arts, Temple University,
Philadelphia, PA 19122.
Email: <2008-Nom-Conf at googlegroups.com>
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4)
Cornell Southeast Asian Studies Graduate Conference

The Cornell Southeast Asia Program invites submissions for its
10th Annual Southeast Asian Studies Graduate Conference. This
year this annual event will be held at the Kahin Center for
Advanced Research on Southeast Asia at Cornell University in
Ithaca, New York on March 14-16, 2008. We welcome submissions
from graduate students at any stage 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, linguistics and literature.

SUBMISSION DEADLINE: January 31, 2008

Please see
http://www.einaudi.cornell.edu/southeastasia/symposium/2008.asp
for further information and future updates.
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5)
Integration - at what price? Uplands regions in Southeast Asia
and beyond
Proposed Working Group 32, IRSA 2008

I would like to invite you to submit proposals for paper
contributions to the working group - Integration - at what
price? Uplands regions in Southeast Asia and beyond - which I
will convene at the XII World Congress of Rural Sociology in
Goyang, Korea, 6-11 July 2008. Please find below a short
outline of the Working Group. The topic is still tentative,
please feel free to address also other aspects! If you would
like to participate in this working group and present a paper,
please submit a one-page abstract via the IRSA web site
(http://www.irsa-world.org/index.html) no later than 15
January 2008. Given sufficient interest and excellent
contributions, I will explore opportunities to publish the
contributed papers as a special issue of a journal.
 
Potential contributors are invited to address the following
(or related) questions: What are the impacts of ongoing and
anticipated increasing integration (economic, cultural,
political) on local upland (and hybrid or mestizo) cultures
and livelihoods, identities and communities? What limits and
counter-trends does integration face (participation vs.
marginalisation)? What localised responses and more general
strategies (e.g. social movements) to encounter projects of
external influence are emerging? Which forms of resource use
are driving the state and other stakeholders' interest in
upland areas (e.g. agriculture, hydropower, forest and  nature
protection, land for settlers)? How important is the national
level for analyses of rural uplands integration in the era of
globalisation?  There are debates about regional paradigms
such as an emerging 'Asian paradigm' of rural development. Do
these paradigms contribute to ‘regimes of truth’, which
delimit the possibilities of debating the integration of
marginal rural people into contemporary states and societies?

Rupert Friederichsen, M.Sc
Teaching Fellow in Development Geography
University of Sheffield
Telephone: +44114 222 7979
Email:   R.Friederichsen at Sheffield.ac.uk
Internet:
http://www.shef.ac.uk/geography/staff/friederichsen_rupert/index.html
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6)
New Directions in the Study of Material Religion

Co-hosted by the Religion Cluster of the Faculty of Arts and
Social Sciences, and The Religion and Globalisation in Asian
Contexts Cluster of the Asia Research Institute (ARI),
National University of Singapore

Date: 14 - 16 August 2008, National University of Singapore
Website:
http://www.ari.nus.edu.sg/events_categorydetails.asp?categoryid=6&eventid=764

With strong interest from an internationally regarded
publisher, we seek to put together an edited volume on the
topic of material religion.  This project, in brief, seeks to
(1) trace the different ways in which the divine, in many
religious traditions, is manifested in physical, tangible form
and (2) to determine the ways in which scholars can
effectively appreciate the wider political, social and
cultural meanings that are brought to light through the study
of material forms of religion. 

Please send a title, abstract and short biography to convenor
Dr Julius Bautista at <seabj at nus.edu.sg> by 29 February 2008.
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7)
Moving Tides: Rearticulating Space in Asia and the Pacific

The 19th Annual University of Hawai‘i at Manoa School of
Pacific & Asian Studies Graduate Student Conference
Wednesday, March 12 - Friday, March 14, 2008

The 2008 SHAPS Graduate Student Conference is an event open to
students from ALL disciplines. Our aim is to provide a forum
for graduate students from a broad range of specialties to
discuss their latest innovative research relating to Asian
and/or Pacific Islands Studies. UH-Manoa students and students
from other colleges and universities -- local, mainland, and
international -- are all encouraged to participate.

Abstract submission deadline: Monday, January 28, 2008
Website: http://www.hawaii.edu/shaps/gradconf/2008/index.html
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8)
Foodscapes of Southeast Asia

The York Centre for Asian Research (YCAR) and Founder’s
College, York University, Toronto, Canada will host Foodscapes
of Southeast Asia on Friday, February 29, 2008.

This event will explore the relation between food consumption
and food production in Southeast Asia. Attention will also be
drawn to the multi-sensorial aspects of food. While the
academic discourse on food is often text-based, knowledge
about food is also coded in taste and vision; and our personal
experiences with food reflect the integration of these
different approaches to knowledge production. We will have at
least one multimedia presentation entitled "Doing Lunch in
Salaya."

The afternoon ends with a presentation by photographers and
cookbook writers, Jeff Alford and Naomi Daguid, best-selling
authors of Seductions of Rice, Hot Sour Salty Sweet, and
Mangoes and Curry Leaves. They will present "Hot Sour Salty
Sweet: A Culinary Journey along the Mekong River," followed by
a special Southeast Asian meal.

If you would like to present a paper, please send a title and
short abstract to <ycar at yorku.ca> by January 18, 2008. Works
in progress by graduate students are particularly welcome.
For information about the program, please contact Penny Van
Esterik at <esterik at yorku.ca>, or 77782.
If you are interested in attending, please contact Alicia at
<ycar at yorku.ca> or 416 736 2100 ext 44068 for more details.
Website:
http://www.yorku.ca/ycar/Events/YCAR%20Events/Foodscapes_of_Southeast_Asia_29Feb2008.pdf

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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