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• Media Fellowships 2010
• Standing up for Science media workshop
• Digital researcher, 15 March 2010

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The focus of each AMC meeting is on poster sessions & talks from delegates, in a non-intimidating environment (hence ‘alternative’). There will also be a session dedicated to first year PhD students, who are invited to present either the main aims of their project or focus on a particular result that they have achieved thus far. The final program will thus reflect the research of this year’s applicants and is not limited by a particular theme.

For more information and to apply please visit the AMC website http://tiny.cc/AMC2010
Or contact them on AMC.oxford@googlemail.com

You are eligible to apply for the scheme if you:

• are a scientist, clinician, social scientist or engineer
• have a minimum of 2 years postgraduate experience in your field
• are a resident of the UK
• Work at any level in an academic or research institution, industry, civil service or any other similar organisation

Hosts have included The Guardian, Nature, BBC News and the Times.
For details about the scheme, including an online application form, visit
http://www.britishscienceassociation.org/mediafellows

Please be aware that: questions will be answered in the order they are posted, the clinic will start at 12.30pm and end at 1.30pm (questions will be accepted until 1.25pm), guidance will be generic as it is a University-wide resource, and the clinics are to complement (not as an alternative to) the on-line course or in-sessional classes.

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[BBC News, 9 February]

2009 will see the 50th anniversary of the Cuban Revolution. The workshop will take that anniversary as a starting point to look more broadly at popular movements throughout world history. These can range from the social, cultural, ideological and religious aspects of political mobilisation, to broader themes examining concepts such as democracy, liberty, or justice and their role in revolutions. We are particularly interested in papers which focus on trans-national and cross-border movements.

There is no limit on the time period or scope of the paper. Paper presentations should last no longer than 20 minutes. The Graduate Workshop in World History is a postgraduate seminar held at the Modern History Faculty, University of Oxford, UK, and aims to be a forum for the free exchange of ideas between postgraduate students. We strongly encourage submissions from postgraduate students at any stage of their studies. We regret travel grants are not available.

Please submit a short abstract of no more than 300 words to M. Ali Raza at muhammad.raza@sant.ox.ac.uk by November 15, 2008. Please include your name, institutional affiliation, e-mail address and other contact information.

M. Ali Raza
St. Antony’s College, Oxford
Email: muhammad.raza@sant.ox.ac.uk

The twelfth issue of eSharp will consider the cultural and personal consequences of scientific and mechanistic innovation. We welcome articles which examine and engage with the effects, influences or application of technology in any area of the arts, humanities, social sciences and education, and we encourage submissions from postgraduate students at any stage of their research.

In keeping with the interdisciplinary nature of the journal the ideas of technology, innovation and culture can be interpreted as broadly as authors wish, and may consider, but are by no means limited to, themes such as:
• cyberspace and identity
• politics, surveillance and privacy
• the history, art and literature of the industrial and digital revolutions
• digital media and technologies of exhibition
• new technologies and the law
• cybernetics, gender and the body
• the movable type revolution
• digital narratives and virtual worlds
• education and innovation
• dystopias, dyschronias and utopias
• forensic and corpus linguistics

Submissions must be based on original research and should be between 4,000 and 6,000 words in length. Please accompany your article with an abstract of 200 to 250 words and a list of three to five keywords to indicate the subject area of your article. For more information, a full list of guidelines and our style sheet, please visit www.glasgow.ac.uk/esharp.

Please email submissions and any enquiries you may have to submissions@esharp.org.uk.

The deadline for submission of articles is Friday 12 September 2008.

eSharp
16 University Gardens, Room 301
University of Glasgow
Glasgow
G12 8QL
Email: submissions@esharp.org.uk
Visit the website at http://www.gla.ac.uk/esharp

Amy Lloyd – Doctoral Student, University of Cambridge

Please note that this call includes journalists, professional academics and graduate students. FFC

The Asian Studies Center at Michigan State University, in cooperation with MSU’s Department of Journalism, is hosting a one day conference on “The Media and Human Rights in Asia” on Feb. 23, 2008. The evening before, Feb 22, will feature a talk and film showing by Ellen Bruno, film-maker who has produced controversial films on human rights issues in Asia. We are seeking paper proposals from graduate students, faculty and practicing journalists who deal with Asia and human rights issues. Please send all proposals to Marilyn McCullough (email is fine) by January 25. In addition to an invited keynote speaker we will feature panels for graduate students, faculty and, journalists.

Marilyn McCullough, Assistant Director, Asian Studies Center, 301 International Center, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, 48824
phone: 517-353-1680
Fax: 517-432-2659
Email: mccull67@msu.edu

Indiana University Bloomington, May 8-9, 2008

The Illinois/Indiana East Asia National Resource Center Consortium (IL/IN East Asia NRC) is pleased to announce its second annual IL/IN National Dissertation Workshop in the field of East Asian education. The workshop will be held May 8-9, 2008 on the campus of Indiana University Bloomington. Doctoral students in education, history, sociology, anthropology, and other disciplines whose dissertation projects concern education in East Asia are invited to apply. The workshop is designed to enable students just beginning work on their dissertations, as well as those farther along, to engage in intensive discussions of their own and each other’s projects. Possibilities for continuing networks among interested students and faculty will also be explored. The workshop will be limited to 8 participants, and the cost of the workshop, meals, accommodations, and travel costs (airfare or mileage up to $500) will be covered by the IL/IN East Asia NRC.

Faculty leaders: The workshop will be led by a team of multidisciplinary faculty covering the areas of China, Japan, and Korea: Nancy Abelmann, Harry E. Preble Professor of Anthropology, Asian American Studies, and East Asian Languages and Cultures and Director, Center for East Asian and Pacific Studies, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Gary DeCoker, Professor of Japanese Studies and Director, Japan Study, Earlham College; and Heidi Ross, Professor of Education Leadership and Policy Studies, School of Education, Indiana University Bloomington and Director, East Asian
Studies Center, Indiana University.

Eligibility and application: Applicants must be enrolled full-time in a doctoral program and must have drafted a dissertation research proposal, although they need not have advanced to candidacy. Those in the early phases of writing are also encouraged to apply. In order to prepare the ground for a productive exchange, participants must come to the workshop having read and commented on the other participants’ proposals. The application deadline is March 1. Application materials consist of 2 items: (1) a current CV and (2) an 8-10-page double-spaced dissertation proposal (including a description of the specific issues being addressed, the intellectual approach, and the materials being studied) or an 8-10-page excerpt from the dissertation in progress. Applications should be submitted by e-mail attachment to easc@indiana.edu. Applicants will be informed whether or not they have been selected for the workshop by late March.

- 1 BASF Dissertation Scholarship

- 1 Scholarship in the graduate program (Promotionskolleg) funded by the state of Baden-Württemberg

The HCA is a central academic institution of the University of Heidelberg, encouraging higher education, promoting advanced research, and facilitating public debate. Ten disciplines provide the institutional framework of the HCA, manifesting a concentration of interdisciplinary expertise about the United States that is unique in Europe. These disciplines are American literature, economics, geography, history, law, musicology, philosophy, political science, religious studies, and sociology.

The Program: The Ph.D. in American Studies is a three-year structured graduate program conducted in the English language. Required classes include method and theory, academic writing, and presentation and media skills. Throughout the three year period, students are required to attend the program’s Ph.D. colloquium. Regular progress reports and orientation talks with advisors are an integral part of the program.

Upon completing the program, the candidate will be awarded the academic title of Dr. phil or Ph.D.

Eligibility: Candidates must apply and be accepted to the three-year Ph.D. program at the HCA. To be eligible for the Ph.D. program, candidates must have completed their M.A. degree.

The scholarships will be awarded based on the academic ranking of all applicants to the program. The ranking is generated based on academic achievement, which is judged by a panel of academics of the University of Heidelberg and the HCA.

Provisions: The BASF Dissertation Scholarship, funded by the BASF AG, consists of a monthly stipend of € 1,000. The Scholarship in the graduate program funded by the state of Baden-Württemberg consists of a monthly stipend of € 820. It also allows an annual average of € 410 for travel und research expenses. Both scholarships are awarded for a maximum of 36 months, subject to the successful completion of annual reviews.

The Jolanta and Soheyl Ghaemian Travel Fund: Ph.D. students pursuing research related to the United States at the University of Heidelberg are entitled to apply for grants from the Jolanta and Soheyl Ghaemian Travel Fund. Established by the Ghaemian Foundation as part of its commitment to promote arts and sciences in Heidelberg, the Fund is meant to facilitate research and scholarly exchange in the field of American Studies by providing grants for travel to a library, archive or academic conference. The Fund is able to make annual allocations up to a total amount of € 15,000. It is administered by the HCA.

Application Requirements: To apply for the Ph.D. in American Studies, please submit the following materials to the HCA by February 15, 2008:

• Completed application form
• Curriculum Vitae
• Notarized copy of secondary school diploma
• Notarized copies of university level degrees (bachelor’s, master’s, etc.)
• Proof of English competency (if not a native speaker)
• Two letters of recommendation
• Letter of intent from a professor at the University of Heidelberg stating the professor’s willingness to supervise the project
• Exposé of the project (not to exceed 15 pages, 1.5 spacing, font size 12)

For more information and application forms see our website at www.hca.uni-heidelberg.de or e-mail us at phd@hca.uni-heidelberg.de

Thomas Gijswijt
Heidelberg Center for American Studies
Hauptstr. 120
69117 Heidelberg, Germany
0049-6221-543878

Email: tgijswijt@hca.uni-heidelberg.de
Visit the website at http://www.hca.uni-heidelberg.de

Marking the completion of the Asia Research Institute’s ASEAN Research Scholars Programme 2008, the Forum provides a platform for communication and cooperation among the postgraduate students as they mature into the next generation of academic leaders.

Postgraduate students working on Southeast Asia are invited to submit abstracts based either on work in progress that is at an advanced stage (i.e. already completed data collection and analysis), or on completed work. NUS students are encouraged to take advantage of this unprecedented opportunity to interact and exchange ideas with students from ASEAN as well as those from other regions whose interests focus on Southeast Asia.

This two-day workshop, the third of an annual series of forums for graduate students who work on Southeast Asia, will be organised thematically. Themes will include (but are not limited to) issues in religion, politics, economy, gender, culture, migration, and population and social change.

In addition to student presentations, experts of the region will also be invited to give keynote speeches, sharing their insights on challenges and issues facing contemporary social science scholarship.

Registration fees and Singapore expenses will be covered for those whose abstracts are accepted for presentation. If necessary, students may also apply for some funding to cover regional travel costs.

SUBMISSION OF PAPER PROPOSAL
Graduate students should submit a 400-word abstract of their proposed paper using the PROPOSAL FORM

(http://www.ari.nus.edu.sg/showfile.asp?eventfileid=363)

to Ms Valerie Yeo: valerieyeo@nus.edu.sg no later than 16 May 2008. Successful applicants will be notified by 2 June 2008. The abstract should clarify the substantive issues which your paper will address and be firmly grounded in
your own research project. Using the format given, the abstract should include information on objectives, methods, and findings, as well as explain the original contribution the research makes to the field of study.

Please include your name, institutional affiliation, e-mail address and other contact information. One confidential letter of recommendation from a supervisor should also be forwarded to this address by the same date.

Those selected have to submit full-length papers, of around 5,000 words in length, by 11 July 2008.

CONTACT DETAILS
Convenors from Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore:
Chee Heng Leng
Patrick Daly
Wasana Wongsurawat

Ms Valerie Yeo
Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore
469A Tower Block, #10-01, Bukit Timah Road, Singapore 259770
Tel (65) 6516 5279
Fax: (65) 6779 1428
Email: valerieyeo@nus.edu.sg
Website:
http://www.ari.nus.edu.sg/events_categorydetails.asp?categoryid=6&eventid=747

We seek submissions for an interdisciplinary graduate student conference the purpose of which is to challenge the divisions present within discipline of History and between History and other disciplines. This conference, to be held April 4th-6th, 2008 and supported by the Department of History at the University of Washington, seeks to stimulate dialogue by bringing scholars from a wide variety of disciplines together to enrich each other’s work with outside perspectives and methodologies.

While papers that focus on crossing these inter- and intradisciplinary divides are ideal, the thematic and interdisciplinary structure of the conference itself will help to put the various papers in dialogue with each other. We therefore invite proposals on all historic topics, regions, and time periods from historians and non-historians. Papers will be on panels of 3-4 other papers with a commentator. Presentations will be limited to 20 minutes.

Possible topics of proposals may include but are not limited to:
Religious Encounters and Exchanges
Imagined Communities, Imagined Borders
Defining Masculinity and Femininity
Systems of Power
The Performance of History
History as Literature/Literature as History
Borderlands and Cultural Contact
Gendered Space and Power
Social Networks and Nexuses
Interpreting Artistic Expression Historically

Papers selected for their exceptional merit and interest will be submitted to and published by Istoria, the Department of History’s electronic journal.

Please submit an abstract of no more than 250 words and a title by January 18th, 2008 to TalkingAcrossBorders@gmail.com or by mail to: Christopher Herbert, Conference Committee Chair, Department of History, University of Washington, 315 Smith Hall, Box 353560, Seattle, WA, 98195-3560, USA.

Professor Huw Bowen (University of Swansea) has organised two workshops for postgraduate students and early career researchers. The workshops will be on the theme ‘British Asia and the British Atlantic, c.1600-1820: two worlds or one?’. The first workshop will take place at Swansea University on 8 – 9 February 2008, and the second at Warwick University on 15 March 2008.

Postgraduate students and early career researchers wishing to present short (20-minute) summary papers at either of the meetings should send details of their research and proposed paper to Professor Huw Bowen (h.v.bowen@swansea.ac.uk). The deadline for submissions is 15 December 2007.

For more details see the call for papers (rtf file, 11KB) at http://www.history.ac.uk/news.html#britasia

Closing date for receipts of abstracts: 20 February 2008

“Is this the Asian Century?”
1-3 July 2008, Sebel Albert Park Hotel, Melbourne

This conference will bring together specialists to assess trends in Asian law, medicine and health, science, ethics/human rights, politics, regional security, economics, culture, religion, environment, media, the performing arts and many
other fields. Given the theme we encourage cross-country and inter-regional analysis. To assess how Asia is progressing, we need to think broadly about Asia and compare trends in India and China, the new giants of Asia, with the older industrial power of Japan and newly emerging economies of Singapore, Thailand and Indonesia. We also need to link up these trends with events outside Asia.

Join us either as a presenter of a conference paper or as a participant to debate what is happening in the Asian region and its impact on the rest of the world. In some fields, trends in Asia are driving world affairs but in other areas Asia lags behind. What is the case in your field? Will this be the Asian century?

Conference website: http://www.conferenceworks.net.au/asaa/

Register now: http://www.secureregistrations.com/Asian

Abstracts: http://www.conferenceworks.net.au/asaa/speakers.php

The Twelfth Asian Studies Conference Japan welcomes proposals for panels, roundtables, and individual papers. The deadline for submission of proposals is November 25, 2007. The conference will be held on the campus of Rikkyo University in Tokyo on June 21-22, 2008. Details on the conference and proposal submission forms can be found on the ASCJ website: http://www.meijigakuin.ac.jp/~ascj/

Everyone world-wide interested in Asian Studies is invited to participate.

Patricia Sippel
Toyo Eiwa University
Yokohama
E-mail: psippel@toyoeiwa.ac.jp

NeoAmericanist is an online, open-access journal for the study of America focused on publishing top quality student essays and reviews from around the world. For more information about the journal visit www.neoamericanist.org.

NeoAmericanist Executive Editorial Staff: neoamericanist@uwo.ca.

Visit the website at http://www.neoamericanist.org