New Fellowship Opportunity For Arts Practitioner / Writer

The Stanford Institute for Creativity and the Arts (SiCa) and the Stanford Humanities Center intend to offer one residential fellowship at Stanford for academic year 2008-09 to a practitioner who is also a writer, scholar, or critic pursuing a research project in the arts. This fellow will be the first in a pilot fellowship program [...]

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, [...]

CFA: AIIS Fellowship Competition

AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF INDIAN STUDIES FELLOWSHIP COMPETITION
The American Institute of Indian Studies invites applications from scholars from all disciplines who wish to conduct their research in India. Junior fellowships are given to doctoral candidates to conduct research for their dissertations in India for up to eleven months. Senior long-term (six to nine months) and short-term [...]

Transformations: Researching Asia

Call for Papers: TRANSFORMATIONS: RESEARCHING ASIA
York Centre for Asian Research Graduate Student Conference - York University, Toronto, Canada September 26 to 28, 2008
Call for Papers deadline: April 1, 2008
What does it mean to “research Asia”? Asian Studies is a growing field within and, [...]

CFP: Still the Asian Century?

CALL FOR PAPERS: Still the Asian Century?
10-12 September 2008
A conference jointly sponsored by the International Political Economy Research Group and the Asia Research Group, Department of Political Science and International Studies, University of Birmingham.
During the 1980s and 1990s it became commonplace to think that Asia was on its way to becoming the world’s most dynamic [...]

CFP: Future Meetings from the Immigration and Ethnic History Society

The IEHS Program Committee is soliciting sessions or single papers for the following meetings:
2009 AHA (deadline Feb. 15, 200 - New York City, Jan 2-5, 2009 - Theme: “Globalizing Historiography”
http://www.historians.org/annual/proposals.htm
2009 OAH (deadline Feb. 15, 200 - Seattle, WA, Mar 26-29, 2009 - Theme:  “History Without Boundaries”
http://www.oah.org/meetings/2009/call.html
Suggestions for other conferences at which the IEHS [...]

CFP: Human Rights, Individualism and Globalization

International and Interdisciplinary Conference
Human Rights, Individualism and Globalization
April 10-12, 2008
Sponsored by the Center for Spirituality, Ethics and Global Awareness and the Bethany College School of Arts and Sciences
Bethany College, Bethany, WV, USA
Call for Papers
Some Suggested Topics: Cultural Narcissism; The Lonely
Planet-Literature; Film and Art; Alienable Vs Inalienable Human Rights; Documenting Human Rights Abuse; Film; Art; Literature; [...]

Technology: Richard Feynman

“For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled,” (Richard Feynman, 1918-1988: The Quotations Page).

Students 2.0

Just came across an announcement for a new site — from their announcement: “Administered, designed, edited, and written by a global mix of students of varying ages, interests, voices, and points of view, Students 2.0 will feature content written by both staff writers and guest contributors. From Hawaii and Washington, from St. Louis and Chicago, [...]