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[Conference/Debate] - Chinese Students, Teachers and Scholars Abroad: Myths and Realities
23 May 2013 > 24 May 2013 Contact name : Gao Minghui Geo-cultural area : China Location : University of Helsinki Overview : The academic and student mobility and migration of Chinese nationals have increased steadily over the last decades. Chinese students, teachers and scholars are now “familiar faces” in international higher education, especially in Australia, Europe and North America. According to the Chinese Ministry of Education, more than 100,000 Chinese have studied abroad annually since 2002, and the figure is still expected to rise in the near future. |
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[Conference/Debate] - Third Asian Conference on Asian Studies
24 May 2013 > 26 May 2013 Contact name : The International Academic Forum Geo-cultural area : Asia Location : Ramada Osaka Hotel Osaka Japan Overview : The International Academic Forum in conjunction with its global partners, is proud to announce the Third Asian Conference on Asian Studies to be held from May 24-26 2013, at the Ramada Osaka, Osaka, Japan. |
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[Conference/Debate] - EMC's The European-Chinese Cooperation: Political, Economic and Cultural Dimensions
05 June 2013 > 09 June 2013 Contact name : Institute for Cultural Diplomacy Geo-cultural area : China, Europe Location : ICD Berlin Germany Overview : Europe Meets China: A Forum for Young Leaders (EMC) is a network of students and young professionals who have an interest in exploring and strengthening the relations between Europe and China. Participants join the forum by taking part in a EMC Weeklong Seminar, following which they are encouraged to conduct their own research and organize their own activity in the field. ICD Weeklong Seminars are targeted at students and young professionals with an interest in the European-Chinese relationship. |
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[Conference/Debate] - 9th Lodz East Asia Meeting “Central Europe and East Asia”
06 June 2013 > 07 June 2013 Contact name : Lodz East Asia Meeting Geo-cultural area : North-East Asia Location : Faculty of International Relations and Political Studies University of Lodz ul. Narutowicza 59a 90–131 Lodz Poland Overview : The conference is an annual gathering of scholars interested in Asian affairs, especially their political and economic aspects. After the 2012 edition’s success, when over 30 foreign guests participated (among others, from Japan, China, Taiwan, USA, Russia, Germany, Slovakia, Czech Republic) we wish to continue the Lodz East Asia Meeting as an international event. This way it gives a valuable opportunity for the exchange of ideas between scholars from different countries. This is of significant importance to young researchers, who always make up a significant number of the participants. For them, it represents a chance to develop international contacts and become more familiar with different methodological approaches. |
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[Conference/Debate] - The Eighth International Convention of Asia Scholars (ICAS 8)
24 June 2013 > 27 June 2013 Contact name : Thomas Voorter Geo-cultural area : Asia Location : Venetian Macao Resort Hotel Estrada da Baía de N. Senhora da Esperança, s/n, Taipa, Macao SAR, P.R. China Overview : ICAS 8 will be hosted by the University of Macau (UM) and will be held in the Venetian Macao-Resort-Hotel. Some 1,500 Asia specialists are expected to attend. This city is located in the heart of East Asia and successfully merges its long history of culture and tradition with diversity and cosmopolitanism. |
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[Conference/Debate] - Moving signs and shifting discourses: Text and image relations in East Asian art
26 June 2013 > 28 June 2013 Contact name : Shao-lan Hertel, M.A. Geo-cultural area : North-East Asia Location : June 26, 2013: Institute of Art History, Department of History and Cultural Studies Freie Universitaet Berlin Koserstr. 20 14195 Berlin, Germany June 27-28, 2013: Museum fuer Asiatische Kunst, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin Lansstr. 8, 14195 Berlin, Germany Overview : The International Conference "Moving signs and shifting discourses: Text and image relations in East Asian art" addresses acts of visual and textual communication embedded in and transmitted by artifacts in East Asia. Text and image relations are understood in this context as the relation of visual and textual signs and semiotic systems within a single artwork as well as the negotiation of meaning in the dialogue between artworks and their audience. Centering on the inherent relationship between text and image among art theories and practices in East Asia, the conference aims at a wide array of regionally and historically interwoven topics ranging from characteristics of narratology and figuration in artifacts over aspects of iconicity and literaricity to intermedia relations between literature and art. |
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[Conference/Debate] - Dynamics of Religion in Southeast Asia
26 June 2013 > 29 June 2013 Contact name : Dr. Karin Klenke Geo-cultural area : South-East Asia Location : Georg-August University of Goettingen Goettingen Germany Overview : In global comparison, Southeast Asia stands out as a region marked by a particularly diverse religious landscape. Various “ethnic religions” interact with so-called “world religions”, all of the latter – with the exception of Judaism – being represented in the region. While religion has oftentimes been viewed as an antithesis to modernity, scholarship has shown that religion shapes and is intertwined with modernization processes in crucial ways and that its role in contemporary Southeast Asian societies is intensifying. |
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[Conference/Debate] - Victorian Orientalism(s)
28 June 2013 > 29 June 2013 Contact name : Eleonora Sasso Geo-cultural area : Asia Location : University of Catania School of Foreign Languages and Literatures Via Orfanotrofio, 49 97100 Ragusa Ibla Italy Overview : The Victorian Orientalism(s) joint international conference between the Centre for the Study of Text and Print Culture at Ghent University (Belgium) and the School of Foreign Languages and Literatures of Ragusa (University of Catania, Italy) aims to discuss the continuing relevance of Edward Said's Orientalism (1978) as a paramount attempt to define the latent and manifest traces of the East in Western literature and culture. |
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[Conference/Debate] - The 7th EuroSEAS Conference, Lisbon 2013
01 July 2013 > 31 July 2013 Contact name : Paulo Castro Seixas Geo-cultural area : South-East Asia Location : Lisbon, Portugal |
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[Conference/Debate] - Colonial (Mis)understandings: Portugal and Europe in Global Perspective, 1450-1900
7 July 2013 > 20 July 2013 Contact name : NomadIT, Conference Administrators Geo-cultural area : Asia, Pacific - Oceania, America Location : Centro de História de Além-Mar Universidade Nova de Lisboa Avenida de Berna, 26 C 1069-061 Lisbon Portugal Overview : Since the fifteenth century, an extended geographical, natural, scientific and political reality has posed a continuous challenge to the ways in which the world has been understood historically. And misunderstood. The aim of this conference is to address the processes of interpretation, both explicit and implicit, recognized and obscured, that were initiated by European Expansion. Imperial spaces, whether governed by the Portuguese, Spanish, Dutch, English, French or other Europeans, set the stage for contact, confrontation, and conflict in colonized spaces such as Brazil, Mexico, Indonesia, India, or Martinique where regimes of translation, circulation, and resistance emerged. How many implicit misunderstandings or tacit silences characterized human interactions in the face of a new, shared, and connected reality? |
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[Conference/Debate] - The 2013 Conference on Human Development in Asia
06 August 2013 > 08 August 2013 Contact name : John Carmelo Geo-cultural area : Asia, Pacific - Oceania, South-East Asia Location : Hiroshima, Japan Overview : The Conference on Human Development in Asia invites scholarly interactions among academics, researchers, doctoral students, and representatives from industry, entrepreneurs, and non-profit and non-governmental organization professionals to join us from August 6-8, 2013 in Hiroshima, Japan. |
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[Conference/Debate] - The 2nd Pacific Rim Energy and Sustainability Conference
27 August 2013 > 29 August 2013 Contact name : PRESCO 2013 Coordinator Geo-cultural area : Asia, Pacific - Oceania, South-East Asia Location : KKR Hotel Hiroshima 19-65 Higashi-hakushimacho, Naka-ku, Hiroshima-city, Hiroshima Overview : Despite efforts since the late 1980’s by the global community, especially the United Nations, to take a proactive stance on the sustainability of energy resources, the stark reality is that global consumption of energy has not diminished. In fact, CO2 emissions from fossil fuels have increased nearly 30% since 2000, and roughly 85% of global energy now comes from fossil fuels. Moreover, recent spikes in world oil prices, as well as energy related crises such as the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, and the nuclear meltdown at the Fukushima Dai-Ichi plant in Japan have focused attention on challenges with the existing energy landscape. |
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[Seminars] - Security, Borders and Mobility
02 September 2013 > 15 September 2013 Contact name : EISS Geo-cultural area : Asia Pacific, Other Location : BSIS Boulevard de la Plaine 5 1050 Bruxelles Belgium Overview : This summer school will engage with questions of fundamental rights and liberties in relation to security, borders and mobility. The questions addressed will include: 1. What is the relation between security and liberties? Should we seek to find an appropriate balance between security and liberties, or is it a question of political judgment to untie liberty from security? 2.Where is the location of borders? What is the relation between territorial, legal and technological borders? Are borders specific sites for security measures? What is their impact on liberties? And conversely what are the liberties which structure our understanding of the role of borders? 3. Who is mobile/ immobile? What are the criteria applied to distinguish between desired and undesired movement? What is the relation between mobility, freedom of circulation and speed? What is the relation between mobility, information gathering on travelers and differential forms of surveillance? |
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[Conference/Debate] - Max Weber and China: Culture, Law and Capitalism
05 September 2013 > 06 September 2013 Contact name : SOAS Geo-cultural area : China Location : Room: Khalili Lecture Theatre College Buildings Russell Square London United Kingdom Overview : Max Weber is not only celebrated as a founder of modern social science but also for his view that modern capitalism was the achievement of a uniquely Western rationalism. His celebrated study of China argued that its legal institutions and ethical and religious culture had prevented a similar development there. But he also drew on his knowledge of China in developing his ideas of bureaucracy, authority and legitimacy. |
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| [Conference/Debate] - 2013 Coffee Break Conference
05 September 2013 > 07 September 2013 Contact name : Claudia Castiglioni Geo-cultural area : Asia Location : University of Turin Turin Italy Overview : http://asiatica.wikispaces.com/2013+CONFERENCE+IN+TURIN The Organizing Committee of the Coffee Break Conference announces that the CBC 4 will be held at the University of Turin (Piemonte, NE Italy) from 5th to 7th September 2013. Several panels, workshops and round tables are being proposed for this occasion. The general topic of the CBC 4, as always, concerns the Asiatic studies from every point of view and within every framework and approach. |
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[Conference/Debate] - Asian Migration and the Global Asian Diasporas
06 September 2013 > 07 September 2013 Contact name : Ms Irene Chan, Research Assistant Geo-cultural area : Asia Location : City University of Hong Kong 7/F, Block 2, To Yuen Building 31 To Yuen Street Kowloon Tong Hong Kong SAR China (PRC) Overview : Asia, as both a migrant generating and migrant receiving region, offers rich experiences for migration and diaspora studies. Since the late 19th century there has been continuous movement of people across countries within the region as well as from Asia to other parts of the world due to colonial rule, warfare, political turmoil, the Cold War, and poverty in various places in Asia. Asian migration is not only large in scale, but also extremely diverse in experience. Large migrant groups to the West, such as the Chinese, Indians and Vietnamese have received much attention as settlers in other countries. Yet much recent research suggests they must also be understood as diasporic communities in continuous transnational movement. There are also many other smaller migrant populations, often minorities in their own countries, whose migration trajectories represent the interaction of very specific historical conditions as well as general global changes. |
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| [Conference/Debate] - 8th Pan-European Conference on International Relations
18 September 2013 > 21 September 2013 Contact name : ECPR Geo-cultural area : Asia, Europe, Africa Location : Warsaw Poland Overview : ‘The world in crisis’ is a phrase that we often hear, especially in recent years – be it the eurozone crisis, the global economic crisis after the collapse of Lehman Brothers, the crisis of legitimacy for a number of states in North Africa and the Middle East, the crisis of US hegemony, climate change and (un)sustainable development, and so on. Curiously, this has led to remarkably little self-reflection among International Relations communities, especially with regard to two key aspects of the phrase: (1) whose ‘world’ is it that is in crisis, and (2) what is labelled as a ‘crisis’ and what is not. |
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| [Conference/Debate] - International conference 'The Forbiden City, Imperial Palaces and Royal Courts: Symbols of Imperial and Monarchical Power Compared'
25 September 2013 > 28 September 2013 Contact name : Dr. MA Li Geo-cultural area : China Location : Amphi I Centre universitaire du Musée 34, Grande-Rue 62200 Boulogne-sur-mer France Overview : Imperial palaces and royal courts are symbols of supreme power. Their modes of organization constitute models of hierarchical society. These places of power and their system of operation are directly linked to the organization of a society and the whole existence of a country. This conference will be held in French, English and/or Chinese. |
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[Conference/Debate] - International Conference on Regional Towns and Migration: Interrogating Transnationalism and Development in South Asia
10 October 2013 > 11 October 2013 Contact name : Prof. Carol Upadhya Geo-cultural area : South Asia Location : University of Amsterdam Amsterdam The Netherlands Overview : A two-day *International Conference on Regional Towns and Migration: Interrogating Transnationalism and Development in South Asia* is being held on 10-11 October 2013 at the University of Amsterdam, organised by the Provincial Globalisation programme. This international collaborative research programme explores transnational flows of migrant resources into India through a series of regional-level studies centred on ‘provincial’ towns and their rural hinterlands. Our aim is to develop a fresh perspective on questions of migration and development in contemporary India. |
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[Conference/Debate] - Chinese Cinemas in and outside China
11 October 2013 > 13 October 2013 Contact name : Chinese Film Forum UK Geo-cultural area : China, Taiwan Location : Cornerhouse Manchester United Kingdom Overview : Following two highly successful symposia, the Chinese Film Forum UK, a research network supported by the AHRC, is hosting an international conference on Chinese cinemas in and outside of China. Plenary speakers: Professor Rey Chow, Duke University Dr Song Hwee Lim, University of Exeter |
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| [Conference/Debate] - Patterns of Early Asian Urbanism
11 November 2013 > 13 November 2013 Contact name : Ms Martina van den Haak Geo-cultural area : Asia Location : National Museum of Antiquities Rapenburg 28, Leiden Netherlands Overview : The International Institute for Asian Studies (IIAS), together with Leiden University's Faculty of Archaeology and the Archaeology Unit of the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, Singapore, are hosting an international conference on the theme of 'Early Urbanism' of pre-modern Asian cities. This international event forms part of the activities connected with the IIAS 2013 Cambodian-Angkor Festival and the IIAS Asian Cities (http://www.iias.nl/research/cities) and Asian Heritages (http://www.iias.nl/research/heritages) research clusters. |
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[Conference/Debate] - South Asia and the Long 1930s: Appropriations and Afterlives
06 December 2013 > 07 December 2013 Contact name : Sanjukta Sunderason Geo-cultural area : South Asia Location : Leiden University Leiden The Netherlands Overview : South Asian Studies at Leiden University are pleased to announce a conference on the theme of South Asia and the Long 1930s: Appropriations and Afterlives, to be held 6 and 7 December 2013. Placing a particular focus on the political, social, cultural and ideological currents of 1930s, we wish to bring together South Asianists across disciplines, to both contextualise the international flow of ideas, commodities and affinities that marked this interwar period, and rethink the afterlives of the 1930s in the unfolding dialectics of decolonisation in South Asia. We welcome abstracts that will comment on the layers, dimensions and fluidities of the period, focussing on (either/all of) the following three key themes: A. The Market and the Ordinary; B. International Affinities and C. Aesthetics and Politics |
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[Conference/Debate] - Network and Identity: Exchange Relations between China and the World
18 December 2013 > 20 December 2013 Contact name : Ghent Centre for Buddhist Studies Geo-cultural area : China, India, Japan Location : Het Pand conference centre Ghent University Ghent Belgium Overview : The Ghent Centre for Buddhist Studies Studies (Ghent University, Belgium) and the Buddhism in Motion Group of the KHK Dynamics in the History of Religions between Asia and Europe (Ruhr University Bochum, Germany) are pleased to announce the International Conference 'Network and Identity: Exchange Relations between China and the World'. |
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[Conference/Debate] - European Social Science History Conference, Vienna, 23-26 April 2014
23 April 2014 > 26 May 2014 Contact name : ESSHC Conference Secretariat Geo-cultural area : Asia Location : Vienna University Universitätsring 1 1010 Vienna Austria Overview : The International Institute for Social History will organize the Tenth European Social Science History conference in Vienna, 23-26 April 2014. Information on the venue and a timeline of important deadlines and dates are available on the website. |
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| [Conference/Debate] - Remembering in a Globalizing World: The Play and Interplay of Tourism, Memory, and Place
08 September 2014 > 10 September 2014 Contact name : Dr. Anne Hertzog Geo-cultural area : Asia Pacific, Other Location : Le Chambon sur Lignon France Overview : This conference seeks to uncover the role of tourism in this process of historicisation through diverse epistemological approaches. The aim of this conference is to examine the ways in which memory is appropriated in tourism, both at the individual and collective level, in the articulation of identities, the construction of imaginaries about people and places, the re-invention of the past as an instrument of rule and dominance and as form of resistance. In the context of increasing mobilities - particularly in the forms of neo-nationalism and transnationalism - the conference seeks to confront the rise of memory and its social values in touristic practice. |
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