Postdoc Fellowships Research Islamic Architecture

The Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture at MIT (AKPIA@MIT) is pleased to announce its postdoctoral fellowship program for the academic year 2008-2009. The fellowship program is intended for scholars with Ph.D. in any field related to architecture - including architectural, art, and urban history, design, technology, computation, urban planning, anthropology, and archeology - who [...]

Parents

This is worth reading … A simple man tells how his booking an air ticket for his father, his first flight, brought emotions and made him realize that how much we all take for granted when it comes to our parents. My parents left for our native place on Thursday and we went to the [...]

Lydia M. Child: Genius

“Genius hath electric power which earth can never tame,” (Lydia M. Child: Quotations Page).

Quotations: Government

A couple of relevant quotes from Quote Garden for these difficult but exciting times:
“In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?” ~ St. Augustine
“The government, which was designed for the people, has got into the hands of the bosses and their employers, the special interests. An invisible empire has been set [...]

Bryn Mawr College - Mellon Post-doctoral Fellow in Transnational Feminisms

GENDER AND SEXUALITY STUDIES POST-DOC IN TRANSNATIONAL FEMINISMS
Bryn Mawr College’s Gender and Sexuality Studies Program seeks to sponsor a one year renewable Mellon Post-doctoral Fellow in Transnational Feminisms, beginning Fall 2008. We seek a scholar committed to the theory and practice of Transnational Feminisms in the Humanities or humanistic Social Sciences, whose research methodologies [...]

Johann von Goethe: Ideas

“The mark of highest originality lies in the ability to develop a familiar idea so fruitfully that it would seem no one else would ever have discovered so much to be hidden in it,” (Johann von Goethe: www.quoteland.com).

Ph.D. Scholarship Program

The ZEIT-Stiftung Ebelin und Gerd Bucerius is calling for applications for “Settling Into Motion” – The Bucerius Ph.D. Scholarships in Migration Studies. The scholarship program seeks to address the ongoing transformations in societies where migration is just one factor among others generating change. For 2008 applications relating to migration and urban transformations are especially welcome.

Within [...]

Digital Asia Workshop

Digital Asia: Documentary Digital Video Workshop

The Center for East Asian and Pacific Studies (EAPS), the Asian Educational Media Service (AEMS), and Applied Technologies for Learning in the Arts & Sciences (ATLAS) at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, invite applications for a weekend workshop on documentary digital video for scholars in Asian Studies, May 16-17, 2008, [...]

Postdoc: Humanities or Social Sciences, Stanford University

Stanford University , Humanities or Social Sciences - Post-Doctoral Fellowships in Introduction to the Humanities

Stanford University is now accepting applications for 8 to 10 postdoctoral fellows for 2008-09. Fellows lead seminar discussions for Introduction to the Humanities (IHUM) courses that fulfill Stanford’s liberal arts requirement for freshmen, following the curricular tradition first established at [...]

Asian Visual Cultures Workshop

Asian Visual Cultures Workshop
University of California, Irvine
April 13, 2008
Call for Papers:
Graduate students of the departments of East Asian Languages and Cultures, Comparative Literature, and Visual Studies at the University of California, Irvine invite submissions from graduate students, independent scholars, and visual artists/filmmakers for a one-day workshop on Asian Visual Cultures. This workshop aims to create [...]