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Research Fellow in East or SEA Prehistory
Australian National University

Department of Archaeology and Natural History, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University College of Asia and the Pacific

Position available for archaeology with strong background in an area of  East or Southeast Asian Prehistory

Location: Canberra/ACT
Term of Contract: Fixed Term of 5 Years
Grade:    Level B
Salary Package:    $68,767 - $81,135 pa plus 17% superannuation

Closing Date: 5 December 2008

Position Overview: This position is intended for an archaeologist who has a demonstrably strong background in an area of East or Southeast Asian prehistory. We wish to encourage particularly applicants who seek to enhance the theoretical sophistication of Southeast Asian archaeology, as in (but by no means restricted to) the deployment of evolutionary approaches, theory of social change, modelling of innovation and dispersal of technology. Methodological competence in an area of archaeological science such as materials sourcing, isotopic analyses, chronological methods, lithic or ceramic analyses, archaeozoology or archaeobotany, application of remote sensing techniques or GIS would be an advantage. A current field research program in East or Southeast Asia is essential. A background demonstrating successful direction of multi-year projects including, where appropriate, the cooperation and/or training of local people, would be an advantage. You will have a PhD in archaeology, publications in an area of East or Southeast Asian prehistory and will be expected to apply for external funding to maintain field and analytical research programmes. You should also be willing to undertake undergraduate teaching if required, to supervise PhD students and to contribute to administrative activities within the Department. Ability in a language relevant to the candidate’s field research area is desirable.

The Department's research interests include the colonization and subsequent prehistory of the Indo-Pacific region, emphasizing first settlement, culture change in colonising communities, materials movement and exchange following colonisation, cultural and environmental transformations following the appearance of agriculture, and the development of societal complexity.

Enquiries: Sue O'Connor, T: 6125 2245, E: <Sue.Oconnor at anu.edu.au>
More information here: http://jobs.anu.edu.au/PositionDetail.aspx?p=338
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Anthropology of the Asia Pacific Region
The University of Sydney

School of Social and Political Sciences, Faculty of Arts, Reference No. 142453

The Faculty of Arts, ranked in the top fifteen Arts faculties internationally, prides itself on a long standing tradition of intellectual rigour and a vibrant research and teaching environment. We offer the most comprehensive and diverse range of humanities and social sciences in the Asia Pacific region and it is in this spirit that we have created our newest school, Social and Political Sciences (SSPS), incorporating the departments of Anthropology, Sociology and Social Policy, Political Economy, and Government and International Relations, as well as the Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies. SSPS is experiencing significant growth and change during its first year of existence, attracting high-calibre students to innovative social science courses at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels.

Australia's foundation Department of Anthropology, established in 1925, is entering an exciting phase of growth and renewal. Following the recent appointment of the Professor of Anthropology and the formation of the School of Social and Political Sciences, we offer opportunities to join a dynamic group committed to intellectual excellence in anthropology and its intersections with interdisciplinary fields such as development studies, health and healing, urban studies and migration. We are seeking to appoint two anthropologists who will enhance the Department's position as an international leader in teaching and research focussed on societies and cultures of the Asia Pacific region including Australia.

The Department has responsibility for the Anthropology and Culture and Development majors in the Bachelor of Arts. Anthropology also contributes a major to the Bachelor of International and Global Studies, and core teaching and electives to the Masters degree in Development Studies. The successful applicants will contribute strongly to the department's teaching and research strengths and will work collaboratively with colleagues to foster new research initiatives and curriculum innovation.

Successful applicants will have:

Essential:
• a PhD in anthropology;
• demonstrated experience and commitment to ongoing ethnographic field research;
• a strong record of peer-reviewed publications relative to opportunity;
• demonstrated experience and commitment to innovative teaching and curriculum development at undergraduate and postgraduate levels;
• commitment to a sustained and active research program including research grant applications;
• demonstrated administrative skills;
• evidence of capacity for collaboration in teaching and research.

Desirable:
• a record of successful honours and research student supervision;
• competence in an Asia Pacific language.

These positions are full-time continuing, subject to the completion of a satisfactory probation period for new appointees.

Remuneration package: $88,465 - $105,052 p.a. (which includes a base salary Lecturer Level B $74,755 - $88,771 p.a., leave loading and up to 17% employer’s contribution to superannuation).

For more information and to apply, please visit http://positions.usyd.edu.au/aas1

Specific enquiries about the role can be directed to the Chair of the Department, Neil Maclean, via email: <neil.maclean at usyd.edu.au>. General enquiries can be directed to Cameron Burgess on (+61 2) 9351 5880.

Closing Date: 3 December 2008
Website here.
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Intelligence Specialist (GMI Analyst)—Southeast Asia (WTST 29407)
U.S. Department of the Army

Strategic Studies Detachment--PACOM, 5th Psychological Operations Battalion (Airborne), 4th Psychological Operations Group (Airborne), Fort Bragg, NC

Duty position is located within a military installation, (Fort Bragg, North Carolina) of approximately 65,000 soldiers. Duties will be performed in an office environment located in a secure area with restricted access. You will work for the 4th PSYOP Group (ABN). ***A strong candidate for this position will have in-depth knowledge of Southeast Asia (Indonesia or Malaysia) that includes a comprehensive understanding of the political, social, cultural, economic, and communications environment in Indonesia or Malaysia. The candidate must also possess strong listening, speaking, and reading comprehension skills in Bahasa Indonesia or Bahasa Malay. The candidate should also have the ability to conduct research and analysis and write high quality studies and assessments drawn from a broad range of data and sources. For more information write to Norman Gardner, Supervisory Intelligence Specialist, e-mail: <gardnen at soc.mil>.
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Intelligence Specialist (GMI Analyst)—Philippines (WTST 08029615)
U.S. Department of the Army

Strategic Studies Detachment--PACOM, 5th Psychological Operations Battalion (Airborne), 4th Psychological Operations Group (Airborne), Fort Bragg, NC

Duty position is located within a military installation, (Fort Bragg, North Carolina) of approximately 65,000 soldiers. Duties will be performed in an office environment located in a secure area with restricted access. You will work for the 4th PSYOP Group (ABN). ***A strong candidate for this position will have in-depth knowledge of the Philippines that includes a comprehensive understanding of the political, social, cultural, economic, and communications environment in the Philippines. The candidate must also possess strong listening, speaking, and reading comprehension skills in Tagalog (or other Philippines-related languages such as Tausug, Yakan, Maranao, Cebuano, or Maguindanao). The candidate should also have the ability to conduct research and analysis and write high quality studies and assessments drawn from a broad range of data and sources. For more information write to Norman Gardner, Supervisory Intelligence Specialist, e-mail: <gardnen at soc.mil>.
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Asia Pacific Leadership Program Fellowships
East-West Center, Honolulu

The East-West Center is pleased to announce new fellowships for the Asia Pacific Leadership Program for 2009-10. Entering its eight year, the Asia Pacific Leadership Program (APLP) is the center of excellence for leadership education in the Asia Pacific region.

The APLP is a graduate certificate program combining the development of regional expertise with the enhancement of individual leadership capacity. All participants receive an APLP Entrance Fellowship valued at approximately $15,000.

Deadline: December 1, 2008
Website: http://www.eastwestcenter.org/aplp
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International Fellowships
American Association of University Women

Targeted Fields: Open to all fields.

Open To: Prospective/Current Graduate Students. Postdoctoral Scholars.

Citizenship: No citizenship requirements. But U.S. citizens or residents are not eligible.

Eligibility Requirements: Must hold the equivalent of a U.S. bachelor's degree. Applicants must intend to return to home countries after graduation. Preference is given to applicants who show prior commitment to the advancement of women and girls. Open only to women.

Stipend: Yearly stipend of $20,000 for the doctorate fellowship and $30,000 for the postdoctoral fellowship.

Deadline: 12/1/2008

Program Description: 57 fellowships will be awarded for full-time study or research to women who are not U.S. citizens or permanent residents. Both graduate and postgraduate study at accredited institutions are supported.

For More Information:
AAUW Educational Foundation
Dept. 60
301 ACT Drive
Iowa City, IA 52243-4030
(319) 337-1716 ext. 60
<aauw at act.org>
http://www.aauw.org/
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Franklin R. Buchanan Prize for Outstanding Curriculum Publication on Asia
Association for Asian Studies

Established in 1995 by the AAS Committee on Educational Issues and Policy and the Committee on Teaching about Asia, the prize is awarded annually to honor an outstanding curriculum publication on Asia targeting any educational level, elementary through university.

The winning submission will reflect current scholarship, present
innovative teaching strategies, and make a significant impact on the intended audience. Submissions must have been published after January 1, 2007, and include extensive teaching strategies in order to be considered. Various formats are acceptable, including print, CD, video, and online formats. Submissions that address underrepresented regions of Asia are encouraged.

The 2009 Buchanan Prize will be awarded to the author of the work at the AAS Annual Meeting in Chicago, March 26 - 29, 2009. The prize includes a $1,000 monetary award and a one-year membership to AAS.

For more information and a submission form, please contact:
Kathleen Woods Masalski,
Chair of the 2009 Buchanan Prize Committee
Phone: (413) 585-3751
E-mail: <kmasalsk at smith.edu>

Deadline: November 1, 2008
Website: http://www.aasianst.org/publications/book-prizes.htm
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Call for Papers
Languages of Southeast Asia

UCLA – UC Berkeley Joint Conference on Southeast Asian Studies
University of California, Los Angeles
January 30-February 1, 2009
Web announcement here.

Keynote speakers: Bernard Comrie (Max Planck Institute / UC Santa Barbara) Andrew Simpson (University of Southern California) John Hartmann (Northern Illinois University)

The linguistic map of Southeast Asia is extraordinarily rich, embracing a wide range of ethnic and typological groups, including Austronesian, Hmong-Mien, Mon-Khmer, Tai-Kadai, Tibeto-Burman, and many language families of New Guinea. The shifting boundaries of Southeast Asian polities over time, historic cross-regional migration, and colonization have all added to the complexity of language genealogies in the region, making Southeast Asia a particularly fertile field not only for the study of specific language types and groups but also for the testing and development of theoretical frameworks and models of linguistic analysis. Recent outward migrations to the US, Europe and elsewhere, and the concomitant rise in Hmong, Khmer, Lao, Tagalog and other heritage language groups, present further opportunities for the study of Southeast Asian languages.

Despite the critical place of language studies in the development of area studies, and the diverse implications and applications of linguistics for other fields, the conversation between scholars of Southeast Asian linguistics and specialists in Southeast Asian area studies is surprisingly thin. And, within the U.S., Southeast Asian language communities such as Hmong, Khmer, Vietnamese, Lao and Tagalog risk being sidelined in the emerging body of scholarship on Heritage Language learning and teaching, whose focus gravitates towards larger communities such as Spanish and Chinese speaking communities.

This conference aims to bridge this gap. By providing a forum for presentations of new research and the exchange of ideas, we aim to create fresh conversations between scholars and teachers of Southeast Asian languages.  Building on the 2000 UCLA Conference on Heritage Language Research Priorities, we also hope to stimulate new research linkages with scholars and teachers working among Heritage language communities.

We invite papers on Southeast Asian languages in any area of linguistics­phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics, typology, diachronic and comparative linguistics, sociolinguistics, anthropological linguistics, discourse analysis, conversation analysis­or language teaching. We particularly encourage papers that engage with other disciplines. Submissions from early career researchers and graduate students are strongly encouraged. In addition, a special poster session for undergraduate research will be held. Limited competitive financial assistance for travel is available.

Abstracts of no more than 500 words should be sent to the UCLA Center for Southeast Asian Studies <cseas at international.ucla.edu> by Monday, November 3, 2008. Include name, affiliation and full contact information. Please indicate whether the submission is for a talk or for the undergraduate poster session. Notification of acceptance will be sent out by December 1, 2008.

The Center for Southeast Asian Studies at UCLA and the Center for Southeast Asia Studies at UC Berkeley are a consortium U.S. Department of Education Title VI National Resource Center for Southeast Asian Studies.
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Call for papers
Agent Orange: Landscape, Body, Image

May 7-9 2009
UC Riverside

Since the 1960’s, use of chemical defoliants in the Vietnam War commonly known as Agent Orange served as a cause célèbre, focusing public attention in Vietnam and the world on environmental destruction and associated birth deformities. Agent Orange, especially through images and media reports, symbolizes both the widespread tragedy of war and its silent legacies that persist for generations not only in damaged ecosystems but also in the genetic and social landscapes of human bodies. As one of the more discussed and researched aspects of the Vietnam War, the study of Agent Orange’s social and physical traces highlights the complexity involved in analyzing the technologies of modern warfare. The nature of the chemicals’ production and distribution as well as the series of scientific and political efforts made to remediate damaged places and bodies points to a phenomena that transcends national and disciplinary boundaries.

The proposed conference investigates the enormous legal, medical, environmental, and social ramifications of Agent Orange, as it continues to affect populations both inside and outside Vietnam. It explores the lingering effects of Agent Orange as it surfaces in multiple discussions and discourses in the arts, humanities, and sciences. By bringing together a diverse and international set of artists, activists, scholars, and veterans, the conference aims to explore how people interpret and represent the war’s continued manifold legacies and its in/visible impact on the land and human body. As part of this objective, we consider the ways in which Agent Orange has been the subject of various and oft conflicting discourses and representational practices, and has been understood by different communities in complex and multi-layered ways that challenge conventional forms of knowledge. The goal of this conference is not to reproduce existing scientific, political, or disciplinary perspectives on Agent Orange, but rather, to consider the kinds of situated knowledge produced about technologies of war through visual, discursive, and performative modes of representation.

Papers are sought that can contribute to such a discussion on one of three interdisciplinary panels, each organized around one of the following themes: landscape, body, or image. Topics may consider science, technology and ecology in relation to knowledge production of chemical weapons; visual and representational strategies used to examine and document Agent Orange; and institutional projects and practices that address community and bodily rehabilitation. Accompanying film viewings and an extended art exhibit will include the works of Goro Nakamura, Tran Van Thuy, Dinh Q. Le, among others.

Abstracts of 200 words should be sent via email to <aoconference2009 at gmail.com> by Sunday, November 23, 2008. Accepted submissions will be notified by December 15. Questions can be directed to the conference organizers: David Biggs (dbiggs at ucr.edu), Christina Schwenkel (cschwenk at ucr.edu) and Lan Duong (lduong at ucr.edu). This conference is supported with funding from UCOP’s Pacific Rim Research Foundation, UCR’s Center for Ideas and Society, and the Department of Media and Cultural Studies, and Program of Southeast Asia Text, Ritual and Performance (http://seatrip.ucr.edu) at UC Riverside.
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Call for Papers
The Future of Nationalism

2009 USC Comparative Literature Symposium University of Southern California, Los Angeles Friday, February 27, 2009

We now invite complete submissions for our annual symposium featuring guest speaker and respondent Naoki Sakai, professor of Comparative Literature and Asian Studies at Cornell University.  Professor Sakai is the author of Translation and Subjectivity: On “Japan” and Cultural Nationalism.  This 1997 book argues that national identity and cultural politics are in fact “all in translation.”  Sakai maintains that discrete languages exist only in relation to other, “foreign” languages, and that both the proper and the foreign are effects of a particular assumption about the capacity of “translation” to transmit identical content across otherwise insurmountable differences.

The book extends the argument to the subject of the nation and, specifically, to Japan and the West being configured as two distinct and opposing entities.  Translation and Subjectivity, in addition to Deconstructing Nationality, co-edited by Professor Sakai, and recent publications of the book series Traces all offer new ways of thinking about translation, colonialism, and comparative cultural critiques.

To speak today of nationalism, postnationalism, and transnationalism is to ask: how do these classifications determine behavior, perception and identification.   There are more and more instances of multiple, conflicting, and even threatening definitions of nationalism and its expressions.  With the rise of globalization, where is the future of nationalism heading?

The authors of the papers selected for the Symposium are expected to participate in all symposium events on February 27, 2009.  The symposium schedule consists of a morning seminar, led by Professor Sakai.  The three selected symposium papers will be posted online for everyone to read in advance of the seminar.  It will begin with Professor Sakai’s response to the papers and then open to a discussion of their arguments in conjunction with his own published work.  After a catered lunch, we will reconvene for a lecture by Professor Sakai on his current research.  There will be a light reception afterwards in closing.  The authors of the chosen papers are invited guests at the Comparative Literature graduate student dinner with Professor Sakai, later that evening.

Submissions should speak directly to our theme, “The Future of Nationalism.”  Graduate and undergraduate students are invited to submit essays no longer then 15 pages, double-spaced.  Three papers will be selected to feature subjects from different national and cultural traditions, and all should include the comparative analysis of literature or literary theory.

Possible topics may include:
-       National borders: crossing, trespassing, and bridging
-       Multicultural nationalisms
-       Contested citizenship
-       Internationalism and/ or cosmopolitanism
-       National translations, practices, and definitions
-       Radical vs. traditional expressions of nationalism
-       Gender and race in relation to nationalism
-       National belonging and un-belonging, inclusion and exclusion
-       The evolution and/or dissolution of the nation-state
-       Multiethnic, multicultural, and multinational subjects blurring the definitions of nationalism, and thus the conception of nation.

Deadline: Completed papers must be received by midnight, Sunday, January 11, 2009.  Please email all submissions as Microsoft Word attachments to Symposium Director, Allyson Salinger Ferrante at <salinger at usc.edu>.

Please include with your submission:
-       Name and school affiliation
-       Email and postal addresses
-       Telephone number

The selection of papers will be announced in late January 2009.

The USC Comparative Literature Symposium is an annual event organized by the department’s graduate students and funded by multiple USC College departments, centers, and the USC College Graduate Student Professionalization Initiative.

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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