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1. Call for Papers: Western Conference of the Association for Asian Studies
2. Call for Papers: Brecht in / and Asia
3. Conference Announcement: Association for Asian Studies Annual Meeting
4. Announcement and Call for Papers: Policies for Teachers and Educational Leaders in the World and in Vietnam
5. Conference Announcement: Southern Thailand: Anatomy of an Insurgency, 2004-2009

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Call for Papers
Western Conference of the Association for Asian Studies

We invite proposals for papers and panels on all aspects of Asian Studies for WCAAS 2009, October 22-24, at the University of Arizona.

Proposals should be received by April 15, 2009. Either send them to:

Program Committee, Department of East Asian Studies
Learning Services Building, Room 102
PO Box 210105
University of Arizona
Tucson, Arizona, 85721-0105

or submit them electronically in PDF or Word file format to: <wcaas at email.arizona.edu>

We welcome papers from faculty as well as graduate students, and also those who venture outside traditional disciplinary configurations. Those considering contributing are welcome to contact faculty of the University of Arizona whose interests they feel are compatible with theirs for suggestions about organizing panels and roundtables (see department website at http://eas.web.arizona.edu/).

INDIVIDUAL PAPER proposals should include the full title and a brief abstract of the paper (less than 250 words) and the participant's complete name, institutional affiliation, position, mailing address, phone number, and e-mail address.

PANEL SESSION proposals should include a panel title and a description of the focus of the panel (less than 250 words). Normally panels should consist of three papers and a discussant (who may serve as chair). All panel proposals should also include: each participant’s complete name, institutional affiliation, position, mailing address, phone number, and e-mail address; and brief abstract of each paper (less than 250 words).

ROUNDTABLE/OPEN FORUM: All roundtable proposals should include: full title of roundtable discussion topic, a brief abstract (less than 250 words) explaining its purpose, its issue(s)/theme(s), and scope, and each participant’s complete name, institutional affiliation, position, mailing address, phone number, and e-mail address.
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Call for Papers
Brecht in / and Asia

13th Symposium of the International Brecht Society
19-23 May 2010
University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu

The International Brecht Society invites scholars and artists in theater,performance, and other cultural fields as well as doctoral students to an interdisciplinary symposium in Spring 2010 on the topic Brecht in / and Asia.

Please submit proposals for 20-minute presentations (250-350 words), abstracts for the poster sessions (100-150 words), workshop descriptions (100-150 words), or suggestions for panels (with three participants) by July 1, 2009 to:

Dr. Markus Wessendorf
Dept. of Theatre and Dance
University of Hawai’i at Manoa
1770 East-West Road
Honolulu, HI 96822 USA
Email: <wessendo at hawaii.edu>
Fax: 001 808 956-4234

More information on the cultural program as well as other details of the symposium can be found on the conference website: http://manoa.hawaii.edu/brecht2010.
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Conference Announcement
Association for Asian Studies Annual Meeting

The full schedule for the upcoming Association for Asian Studies annual meeting in Chicago, March 26-29, 2009, has been posted on their website: http://www.asian-studies.org/annual-meeting/index.htm#Schedule.  The conference has numerous panels and papers on Southeast Asian topics.
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Announcement and Call for Papers
Policies for Teachers and Educational Leaders in the World and in Vietnam in an Era of Globalization and International Integration

Two-day workshop in November, 2009 at the Faculty of Education, Vietnam National University, Hanoi, Vietnam

For more information please contact me at <hoangdanlieu at yahoo.com>

Hoang Dan Lieu
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Conference Announcement
Southern Thailand: Anatomy of an Insurgency, 2004-2009

10-11 March 2009
Seminar Rooms I & II
Institute of Southeast Asian Studies
Singapore

The conflict in the Southern Thai provinces of Pattani, Yala and Narathiwat has now entered its sixth year with no sign of an early end to the violence despite the adoption of new counter-insurgency strategies in 2008. Since January 2004 the violence has claimed over 3,200 lives and wounded 5,400, making the Thai insurgency one of Southeast Asia's most serious and intractable security problems. The conflict poses an on-going threat to political stability and investor confidence in Thailand.

"Southern Thailand: Anatomy of an Insurgency", a two-day conference to be held on 10-11 March 2009, is organized by the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (ISEAS), Singapore. The primary aim of the conference is to provide a comprehensive and up to date overview of political violence in Thailand's southern border provinces. The conference will explore contested "root causes" of the violence, state responses since 2004, counter-insurgency methods, the roles of the bureaucracy, media and civil society, regional perspectives and possible pathways to peace.

ISEAS has brought together leading experts on the insurgency from Thailand, the United States, Singapore and Australia to provide an in-depth examination of this multifaceted and complex conflict. The conference will be invaluable to academics, journalists, security practitioners and policy-makers from Singapore and around the region. ISEAS expects lively and substantive discussions during the course of the two-day conference.

Participants to the Conference will be charged a nominal fee of S$100.00 and will be provided with Conference materials, lunch, and coffee/tea breaks.  Acceptances will be on a first-come-first-served basis. Please send in your response to Mrs Betty Kwan by Thursday, 5 March 2009. For further enquiries, please contact Betty at email: <betty at iseas.edu.sg>, tel: 6870-2472, or fax: 6775-6264/6259.
 
The tentative programme and registration form are available here: http://www.iseas.edu.sg/iframes/10-11mar09.htm
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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