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  • FLAS applications
    1/27/2012CEAPS writer CEAPS by CEAPS published by CEAPS
    In an effort to streamline FLAS administration and make the application process easier for students, the Center for East Asian and Pacific Studies (CEAPS) will NOT require newly admitted students (admitted for AY 2012-13) to fill out FLAS applications online. If you would like CEAPS to consider newly admitted students for FLAS awards, please only submit a letter of nomination from your unit/department (presumably from the student's advisor), and forward that with the applicant's file (which should already include their statement of purpose, transcripts and test scores) to CEAPS. FLAS APPLICATION DEADLINE: Friday February 10, 2012 by 5:00pm Graduate Students please consult home department for earlier deadlines CEAPS FLAS website: http://www.eaps.illinois.edu/resources/students/flas/ FLAS website: http://www.flas.illinois.edu
  • Freeman Undergraduate Initiative II Study Trips
    1/19/2012
    The Center for East Asian and Pacific Studies announces a new program for faculty-led short term undergraduate study abroad in Asia, supported by generous funding from the Freeman Foundation. We invite proposals for 2-3 week excursions, which may be linked to existing courses or conceptualized as specially-designed intensive study summer programs linked to broader curricula. The goal of the study trips is to further classroom education with the broad, liberalizing knowledge gained through experiential study. Proposals should consist of: 2-3 pages of narrative describing the rationale and goals of the program; a possible itinerary; and a preliminary budget. Trips may be proposed to Japan, China, or Korea; ideally, they will draw upon the University's international partnerships in higher education or develop new ones. This new initiative is modeled on the highly successful Inner Mongolian Summer Theater trip administered by CEAPS and co-sponsored by the Freeman Foundation and Theater Department, which has produced a blossoming relationship between UIUC and Inner Mongolian University and also resulted in the exchange of students and scholars beyond the limited scope of summer study. CEAPS expects to make 2-3 awards of up to $20,000 for study travel undertaken in Summer 2012 and Winter 2012. Applicants are encouraged to work with their home units or colleges to supplement that amount as necessary. For programs to be undertaken in the Summer, please submit proposals by Feb. 20, 2012; for Winter, by April 20. Proposals may be e-mailed to Lucretia Williams (lawillia@illinois.edu). More information can be found at our website; inquiries may also be made to Elizabeth Oyler (eaoyler@illinois.edu) or Jeff Friedman (jbfried@illinois.edu)
  • CALLIGRAPHY AND COOKING WORKSHOPS OFFERED AT JAPAN HOUSE THIS SEMESTER
    1/18/2012Japan House writer Japan House by Japan House published by Japan House

    CALLIGRAPHY AND COOKING WORKSHOPS OFFERED AT JAPAN HOUSE THIS SEMESTER

    Space is limited----reserve your place now!

    Professor Emeritus, and Founding Director of Japan House, Shozo Sato, returns to campus this spring.  His final directorial performance at Krannert Center for the Performing Arts will be of his  highly respected Kabuki adaption of Shakespeare's Macbeth from March 29-April 7, 2012.  He will also be narrating a free kabuki performance by children from the Damine elementary School and adults from their small community near Nagoya City, Japan.  Professor Emeritus Sato will also be working with ARTD 299 class at Japan House and conducting a presentation on Kabuki at the Japan House Spring Open House on April 7, 2012 at 11:00 a.m.
    He has also graciously agreed to conduct a series of five workshops on calligraphy to be offered at Japan House on Sundays at 1:00 p.m.  The five Sundays are January 29, February 12 and 26, and March 11 and 25, 2012.  Space is LIMITED to 20 participants.  You may sign up for any number of the workshops.  If you sign up for all five, one workshop will be free.  NO previous experience is necessary.  The cost is $20 per workshop for Tomonokai members or $25 for non-members.  There is also a supplies fee of $5 per session for brushes and ink.  Call Japan House at 217-244-9934 with your credit card information.

    Japan House is also pleased to offer a very special series of Cooking Workshops conducted by Tamaki Levy.  Japanese appetizers will be featured in the first workshop on Tuesday, February 7, 2012 at 5:30 p.m.  The cost is $25 for each workshop for Tomonokai members and $30 for non-members.  Space is limited to 16 participants to ensure lots of hands-on participation!  The second workshop is on Tuesday, March 6, 2012 at 5:30 p.m. and will focus on Japanese entrees, while the last workshop, on Tuesday, April 3, 2012 at 5:30 p.m. will teach to create delicious Japanese sweets!
    Reservations are made when we receive payment.  You may call with your credit card information (217-244-9934) or send a check (payable to Japan House) to Japan House, 2000 S. Lincoln Avenue, Urbana, IL 61802.

  • AAS/SSRC Dissertation Workshop
    12/8/2011Association for Asian Studies writer Association for Asian Studies by Association for Asian Studies published by Association for Asian Studies

    Dear AAS Members,
     
    We encourage everyone to bring the following announcement for the AAS/SSRC joint dissertation workshop initiative planned for Toronto to your students’ attention. The deadline is January 3, 2012. 
     
     
    AAS/SSRC Dissertation Workshop
    Rewriting History: Nationalism, Identity, and the Politics of the Past
    Toronto, March 12-15, 2012
    The Association for Asian Studies and the Social Science Research Council are pleased to announce plans for the first jointly organized AAS/SSRC Dissertation Workshop, which will be held in conjunction with the AAS annual conference in Toronto in March, 2012. The workshop will be organized and led by David Szanton, and follow the same basic model used in previous AAS workshops.  
     
    Radical and conservative scholars, novelists and biographers, governments, education ministries, and tourist agencies are all writing and rewriting national histories and narratives. The attempt to strengthen or legitimate specific interests has entailed the rediscovery, reinterpretation and even the reinvention of values and identities, past social forms, victories and defeats, as well as natural and human trauma. Rewriting the past and creating heritage are of course ancient and seemingly universal phenomena, raising difficult questions about what we can know and the politics of historical writing.  Issues of rewriting history are not limited to the concerns of historians; they are as salient to anthropologists, political scientists, specialists on religion, cultural studies, and others across the humanities and social sciences.  The goals and modes of these reinterpretations may be scholarly, political, and/or popular.  Clearly, all across Asia the past is not dead.
     
    This workshop is intended to bring together doctoral students in the humanities and social sciences who are (1) developing dissertation proposals or are in early phases of research or dissertation writing; and who are (2) also dealing with the kinds of issues mentioned above in the context of contemporary or historic Asian states and societies.
     
    The workshop will be limited to 12 students, ideally from a broad array of disciplines and working on a wide variety of materials in a variety of time periods, and in various regions of Asia. It also will include a small multidisciplinary and multi-area faculty with similar concerns.
     
    The workshop will be scheduled for the days immediately preceding the 2012 AAS annual conference in Toronto.  It will cover two and one-half days of intense discussion beginning the evening of Monday, March 12, and running through noon of Thursday, March 15.
     
    Pending receipt of outside foundation funding, participants also will be invited back for a post-fieldwork workshop.  The second workshop will be held 24 months later, after many or most participants have completed a significant amount of fieldwork or archival research and are at varying stages in the writing process. This follow-up workshop is intended to help participants shape and articulate the key focus of their dissertations as they begin writing. 
     
    The organizers will be able to provide at least limited financial support for participants including three night’s accommodations, meals and partial “need-based” travel funds.  Students are encouraged to approach their home institutions for additional support.  Additional support may become available pending outside funding.  It is hoped that participants also will attend the AAS annual meeting immediately following the workshop.
     
    Applicants need not have advanced to candidacy but must have at least drafted a dissertation research proposal. Applications are also welcome from doctoral students in the early phases of writing their dissertations. Application instructions and forms are available on the SSRC website (http://www.ssrc.org/fellowships/aasworkshop/), and must be submitted by January 3, 2012.
     
    Workshop participants will be selected on the basis of the submitted projects, the potential for useful exchanges among them, and a concern to include a wide range of disciplinary perspectives, intellectual traditions, and regions of Asia. Applicants will be informed whether or not they have been selected for the workshop by late January. 
     
    For further information about the workshop structure or eligibility, please contact David Szanton Szanton@berkeley.edu.  Questions concerning administrative matters or the application process should be directed to Nicole Restrick Restrick@ssrc.org. 
     

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  • Korea Foundation Post-Doctoral Fellowships 2012-2013
    11/29/2011CEAPS writer CEAPS by CEAPS published by CEAPS

     

    The Center for East Asian and Pacific Studies at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign welcomes applications for postdoctoral study at the University of Illinois funded by the Korea Foundation’s Postdoctoral Fellowship Program. Applicants will apply simultaneously to the Korea Foundation and the University of Illinois; selection by the University of Illinois does not guarantee Korea Foundation selection, but the University of Illinois will advise the Korea Foundation of its selected candidate(s).

     

    To be eligible:

     

    *Scholars must be from the humanities and social sciences.

     

    *Scholars must have received their Ph.D. in a subject related to Korea within five years of their application

     

    *Scholars must not currently hold a regular faculty position

     

    *Scholars must have received their Ph.D. degree prior to the start of their fellowship research.

     

    Also, only Korean Nationals who are permanent residents of a foreign country are eligible to apply for the postdoctoral fellowship

     

    The post-doctoral stipend for a 12-month period will be determined in accordance with University of Illinois regulations. This fellowship cannot be combined with other sources of support, including other fellowships and grants.

     

    In order to apply to the University of Illinois for institutional affiliation as a Korea Foundation Post-Doctoral Fellow, submit all application materials to both the Korea Foundation and to the University of Illinois. For information on required Korea Foundation application materials and application procedures go to

     

    http://www.kf.or.kr/  “Support for Korean Studies Overseas”- “Fellowship” Tab

     

    For information on University of Illinois procedures and requirements go to:

     

    http://www.eaps.illinois.edu/resources/faculty/funding/korea.html.

     

     

    Materials MUST BE RECEIVED BY the University of Illinois NO LATER THAN January 31, 2012. The Korea Foundation application deadline is Jan 31, 2012. Please send application materials to attn: Korea Foundation Post-Doctoral Fellowship, Center for East Asian and Pacific Studies, University of Illinois, 230 International Studies Building, 910 S. Fifth St., Champaign, IL 61820.

     

    For more information contact Jeffrey Friedman, Associate Director, Center for East Asian and Pacific Studies, jbfried@illinois.edu.