Philippine Journalism Review

Dear all: We will be very happy to publish your research on journalism, subject to the refereeing process. Our friends in the academe who need a refereed publication for promotion or tenure may also be interested in this. Please help disseminate this call for papers. If you want to post it on your school’s bulletin [...]

Harvard-Yenching Library travel grants

The Harvard-Yenching Library is pleased to announce its Travel Grant Program for the 2007-2008 academic year. The purpose of the grant is to assist scholars from outside the metropolitan Boston area in their use of the Harvard-Yenching Library’s collections for research. There will be seventeen grants of $400 each (six in Chinese studies, [...]

Wanted: Book Review Editor, Journal of American Ethnic History

The Immigration and Ethnic History Society is now seeking a Book Review Editor (BRE) for its quarterly Journal of American Ethnic History (JAEH). The BRE is responsible for selecting, requesting, receiving, and distributing books for review; identifying and recruiting reviewers; and editing, proofreading, assembling, and arranging book reviews and review essays for each journal issue.
The [...]

Education: Henry Brooks Adams

Two quotations on education from Quoteworld.org: “Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of facts.”
“A teacher affects eternity he can never tell, where his influence stops.”

Genius: Oscar Levant

“There’s a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line,” (Oscar Levant, 1906-1972: Quotations Page).

Early History of Public Health Associations in China

Early history of Public Health Associations in China
I would welcome hearing from H-Asia readers who have an interest in, or who can suggest any sources of information regarding, the early history of public health associations in China. It has come to my attention, with respect to Jiangsu Province, that a “Kiangsu Public Health Association” was [...]

Ideas: Howard Aiken

“Don’t worry about people stealing an idea.  If it’s original, you will have to ram it down their throats,” (Howard Aiken: Quoteland.com).

Laughter: Wystan Hugh Auden

“In those whom I like, I can find no common denominator; in those whom I love I can: they all make me laugh,” (Wystan Hugh Auden: Quoteworld.org).

SSRC/JSPS Fellowships for Recent Ph.D.s and ABDs

SSRC/JSPS Fellowships for Recent PhDs and ABDs
The JSPS Postdoctoral Fellowship Program for ABDs and recent PhDs provides promising and highly qualified researchers in the humanities and social sciences with the opportunity to conduct extended research at leading universities and research institutions in Japan. Fellowship terms are for single continuous stays from 1 to 12 months [...]

Dean Gooderham Acheson

“A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer,”(Dean Gooderham Acheson: Quoteworld.org).