CFP: Contributors are invited for the volume New Directions

Call for papers: contributors are invited for the volume New Directions
in Travel Writing and Travel Studies - Carmen Andras, editor 
Travel studies have recently gained an important place among academic fields owing to
their inter- and trans-disciplinary character. Contributions are invited to Carmen Andras at mailto:carmen_andras@yahoo.com on the subject of travel from the perspectives of history, literature, [...]

Saint Augustine: Reading

“The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only one page,” (Saint Augustine: Quote World).

Robert Louis Stevenson: Travel

“I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move,” (Robert Louis Stevenson: Quote Garden).

Cebu Pacific Air: Is it safe? Part 1

A week ago today, I accompanied my mom in going home to Zamboanga City in Mindanao. With our limited budget, we opted to fly Cebu Pacific Air. I’ve been consistently using this airline in almost all my domestic travels in the Philippines. Up to that point it was truly worthy of its slogan “now every [...]

Medical Tourism

Medical tourism is getting to be the “in” thing for us. This could be another sunshine industry for our country, for our economy, to spur more development for us. There are two significant bills waiting in the wings of the Philippine Senate to regulate and put order to the medical tourism industry. [...]

Dateline: Zamboanga

I’m right here in Zamboanga City, Mindanao, Philippines, the land of my birth. Its been quite some time since I visited my hometown. A lot has changed since I was a kid. I visited a couple of schools and will tell you my thoughts and observations in succeeding postings. One big [...]

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 [...]

Silk Road Summer Program

Silk Road Summer Program - Application: Deadline January 24, 2008
We are now accepting applications for the Wittenberg in China: On the Silk Road program mid-May through mid-June 2008
http://www.wittenberg.edu/silkroad
On the Silk Road is a unique, interdisciplinary, month-long summer study abroad program designed to introduce students to some of the peoples, cultures and history of China through [...]

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 [...]