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Topics of the day:

1. H-ASIA: CFP panel proposal AAS "Gunkanjima: Environment, Culture,
Heritage, conference in San Diego, Mar 21-23, 2013
2. H-ASIA: Protest of suggested closure of Linguistics Department at La
Trobe
University (further response)
3. H-ASIA: CFP Kritika Kultura monograph series
4. H-ASIA: Response to RESOURCE Asian Americans: A Mosaic of Faiths, Pew
Forum on Religion and Public Life
5. H-ASIA: CFP Panel: The Rise of "Information" in Twentieth Century East
Asia, AAS 2013
6. H-ASIA: CFP 43rd Annual Urban Affairs Association Conference [With
special
track on Urban Issues in Asia and the Pacific Rim], April 3-6, 2013
7. H-ASIA: ECSAS 2012 - 22nd European Conference on South Asian Studies,
Lisbon, 25-28th July
8. H-ASIA: Film Screening on India, Lisbon, Grande, July 26, 2012

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Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2012 21:16:23 -0700
From: Frank Conlon <conlon@U.WASHINGTON.EDU>
Subject: H-ASIA: CFP panel proposal AAS "Gunkanjima: Environment, Culture,
Heritage, conference in San Diego, Mar 21-23, 2013

H-ASIA
July 21, 2012

Call for papers: participants for proposed panel: "Gunkanjima:
Environment, Culture, Heritage" for the Association for Asian
Studies conference, San Diego, March 21-23, 2013


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From: Mark Pendleton <m.pendleton@sheffield.ac.uk>

Dear all,

My colleague Peter Matanle and I are looking for presenters for a
potential panel focussing on Gunkanjima (Hashima) for AAS in San
Diego next year. Further details below.

If anybody is working on issues related to Hashima - historical or
contemporary - we'd be interested in hearing from you in the next
week or so. Apologies for the late notice.

Thanks and regards,

Mark Pendleton
Lecturer in Japanese Studies
The University of Sheffield
www.sheffield.ac.uk/seas

Gunkanjima: Environment, Culture, Heritage A Proposed Panel for
Association for Asian Studies conference, San Diego, 2013

Co-organisers: Dr Peter Matanle and Dr Mark Pendleton, The University
of Sheffield

A small island off the coast of south-western Japan named Hashima, or
colloquially Gunkanjima (Battleship Island), has outsized influence in
East Asian environmental, cultural and economic history. As a coal
mine from the late nineteenth century, Hashima played a major role in
Japan's development. At one time it was reputedly home to the densest
population of any community on earth and was overrun by development
such that almost no greenery remained. It housed Japan's first
high-rise ferro-concrete housing complexes and was a key early site in
the extraction of subterranean resources. Its use of enforced
labourers--about five hundred of whom were Korean--also gives it
significance in terms of Japan's colonial past.

As the island fell into ruin in the decades since the mine closed in 1974,
it has become a site for both cultural production and heritage tourism,
and is gaining in symbolic importance in Japan's, and East Asia's,
contested environmental and economic history. It has featured in cinematic
representations, including the 2003 sequel to the Fukasaku Kenji film
'Battle Royale' and the latest Bond film, 2012's 'Skyfall', as well as
serving as a dramatic backdrop for a 2009 music video from Japanese rock
band B'z. Urban explorers, or haikyo (ruins) enthusiasts, have been
travelling to and documenting the site from the 1990s, and, over the last
few years, the island has become one of the key sites for the proposed
UNESCO World Heritage listing of the Modern Industrial Heritage Sites in
Kyushu and Yamaguchi. Commercial tourism to the island has also begun.
Others see the island's history as symbolic of humankind's exhaustion of
the Earth's natural endownment.

Given this wide-range of historical and contemporary usages, Hashima
provides an important location for exploring the environmental, economic
and cultural heritage of Japan. Co-organisers Dr Peter Matanle and Dr Mark
Pendleton, both from the University of Sheffield, have interests in
environmental history (Matanle), and cultural heritage and memory studies
(Pendleton). Matanle will present on the environmental and economic
symbolism of Hashima for the past and future of East Asian development,
while Pendleton will focus on the relationship between haikyo enthusiasts,
the proposed UNESCO world heritage listing and the postwar decline of
Japan's industrial capitalism. We are seeking additional panelists to
join this panel.

We would welcome proposals from presenters who are working on the history
of production and resource extraction on the site, including the colonial
legacies of enforced labour on the island; who can explore the cultural
uses of Gunkanjima in film or contemporary art; or who have researched the
site itself and people's interactions with it through processes of travel
or tourism. Given the limited time before the AAS deadline (2 August), we
would ask that a 250 word abstract be forwarded to the co-organisers at
the latest by Friday, 27 July to p.matanle@sheffield.ac.uk and
m.pendleton@sheffield.ac.uk. We will respond with a decision by
Monday, 30 July to all enquiries. Submissions from postgraduate
students and early-career researchers are particularly welcome.


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Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2012 09:09:41 -0400
From: Linda Dwyer <dwyer@MAIL.H-NET.MSU.EDU>
Subject: H-ASIA: Protest of suggested closure of Linguistics Department at
La Trobe University (further response)

H-ASIA
July 22, 2012

Protest of suggested closure of Linguistics Department at La Trobe
University (further response)
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From: "Ian Welch" <ian.welch@anu.edu.au>

Perhaps some enrolment statistics might help clarify why such decisions
are being made world-wide, not just at LaTrobe or elsewhere in Australia.
If courses cannot attract students it is hard to justify continuance. The
real answer seems to be changes in delivery of courses (online comes
immediately to mind) and concentration in one campus through
cross-accreditation. One solid program is probably the way of the future,
rather than small efforts hither and yon. Student preference is, in the
end, the major issue that is producing these pressures.

Ian Welch, Canberra

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Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2012 09:20:43 -0400
From: Linda Dwyer <dwyer@MAIL.H-NET.MSU.EDU>
Subject: H-ASIA: CFP Kritika Kultura monograph series

H-ASIA
July 22, 2012

CFP Kritika Kultura monograph series
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From: Ma. Socorro Perez <maperez@ateneo.edu>

The phenomenon of globalization and the resulting transnational circuiting
of goods, commodities, and people has engendered a contemporary condition
of diaspora or the dispersal of immigrants to different parts of the
globe. Borders and boundaries heretofore perceived as physically real and
tangible have become porous. The displacement of people has caused, among
other consequences, n"schizoid" or shifting identities or subjectivities.
Literary and cultural studies scholars and critics have theorized and
debated on the category "diaspora," spawning crucial developments, like
the emergence of categories such as "nostalgia," "homeland," "diasporic
identity," "hybridity," "ethnicity," "authenticity," etc., and in turn,
such categories have been the subject of reconceptualization and
refunctioning by the specificities of the diasporic community.

Kritika Kultura is interested in the complex dialectics and dynamics of
these current debates borne out of the theorization and foregrounding of
methodological approaches to diaspora and its related categories, and the
discursive practices that emerge a result of the dialectics between a
diasporic community vis-à-vis the vagaries of the hegemonic, majority
culture and nation-state.

Kritika Kultura's Monograph Series invites scholars in the Humanities,
Social Sciences, History, Urban and Cultural Studies, etc., working on the
rubric of diaspora, particularly on Filipino diaspora all over the globe
to participate in the current dialogue and scholarship that interrogates
the trajectory of diaspora and its related categories.

Below are some topics or key issues that can be addressed:
1. Intrication of the politics of place and identity
2. Negotiation or reterritorialization of a contested and diasporic
space, like narrative-making and "definitional ceremonies"
3. Making sense of diasporic condition by the immigrant subjects 4.
Intersection of global economy, transnational circuiting of goods,
services, and market in the diasporic formation
5. Reproduction of diasporic identity vis-à-vis the demands and
pressures of the new host country and the originary country
6. the currency of roots, origin, and "authenticity" for diasporic
communities
7. how the categories of identification, such as gender, class,
race, and ethnicity function in the constitution and regulation of
immigrants
8. Emergence of new diasporic languages

Submission Guidelines
1. Kritika Kultura's Monograph Series accepts papers on an ongoing
basis, but for possible publication of papers for the Dec 2012 Issue, we
invite scholars to submit papers before the second week of September,
2012.
2. Please email a soft copy of the full paper, an abstract, and a 5-

10 sentence bionote to maperez@ateneo.edu or to Kritika Kultura
website: http://kritikakultura@ateneo.edu.net/.
Email: kritikultura@gmail.com
3. Papers submitted maybe in Word, using Times New Roman, 12 font
size. 4. Kritika Kultura is an ISI, Thompson-Reuters ika kultura
website refereed online journal

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Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2012 09:43:35 -0400
From: Linda Dwyer <dwyer@MAIL.H-NET.MSU.EDU>
Subject: H-ASIA: Response to RESOURCE Asian Americans: A Mosaic of Faiths,
Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life

H-ASIA
July 22, 2012

Response to RESOURCE Asian Americans: A Mosaic of Faiths, Pew Forum on
Religion and Public Life
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From: Ian Welch [ian.welch@anu.edu.au]

Anyone who still holds to the "cultural imperialism" thesis in respect of
missionary efforts should look carefully at the tables. The link to
Christian missionary efforts in the century from 1850-1950 is obvious.
Those who disregard missionary history might also think twice about the
significance of the tables in shaping attitudes of people in Asia towards
the "West."

Ian Welch, Canberra

Ed. Note: This is an interesting report that provides a sweeping overview
of the phenomenon of religiosity in the Asian American diaspora. What is
missing, of course, is context. Missing is the long history of the
transnational nature of religiosity that began with missionary efforts in
Asia. In my own work I had encountered Taiwan residents of the US who
were active in visiting Buddhist temples in the US, while maintaining a
flow of religious goods from Taiwan as they and friends visited Taiwan for
festivals and vacations. Also missing is the motivation and understanding
of religiosity. For some, a religious choice is a sub-ethnic and
political choice, as membership in a particular Christian group, Methodist
or Baptist, also signaled belonging to particular political affiliations.
For others, selections of religious community were based on finding
harmony with social values left behind. For example, one family became
Mormon in order to reinforce the importance of geneology and family
descent in life abroad. For many, religiosity is a primarily a way of
forming a supportive community in a strange, new land. LD

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Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2012 10:02:30 -0400
From: Linda Dwyer <dwyer@MAIL.H-NET.MSU.EDU>
Subject: H-ASIA: CFP Panel: The Rise of "Information" in Twentieth Century
East Asia, AAS 2013

H-ASIA
July 22, 2012

CFP Panel: The Rise of "Information" in Twentieth Century East Asia, AAS
2013
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From: "Anatoly Detwyler" <adetwyler@gmail.com>


Dear H-ASIA Colleagues

Xiao LIU (Berkeley, EALAC) and I are seeking co-panelists for our proposed
AAS panel on modern dispensations of "information" discourse in East Asia.
Please see below for the abstract. If interested, please contact me
directly (ad2515@columbia.edu) with a project title and abstract of
approximately 250 words, by July 27th.

Thanks,
Anatoly Detwyler
PhD student (ABD), EALAC,
Columbia University

The Rise of "Information" in Twentieth Century East Asia

Throughout the twentieth century the concept of "information" has opened
new possibilities for the development of science, technology, and
communication, thereby ushering in new modes of interconnectivity and
labor collectively defined as the "Information Age." Today iterations of
information and its technologies are ubiquitous. However, histories of
local discourses and practices reveal the ambiguities and heterogeneous
dynamics of this often taken-for-granted term. Our panel traces the
historical processes by which information came to be understood, adopted,
and deployed in East Asia, as well as its broader cultural dispensations:
When and where did "information" arise become an object of intellectual,
cultural, economic, or state attention? In what ways was "information"
translated, localized, or contested as a modern entity? How did such
discourse precipitate new ways of conceiving media, knowledge production,
and politics? Anatoly Detwyler's paper introduces a vital link between
the rise of modern journalism and literary practice in Republican China,
and looks at how 1930s literary texts explored their embedded-ness within
a broader information system. Xiao Liu analyzes 1980s Chinese science
fiction and qigong fever in tandem to examine the role of "information" in
contemporary debates about the limits of science and China's post-Mao
transformations.

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Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2012 10:16:26 -0400
From: Linda Dwyer <dwyer@MAIL.H-NET.MSU.EDU>
Subject: H-ASIA: CFP 43rd Annual Urban Affairs Association Conference [With
special track on Urban Issues in Asia and the Pacific Rim], April 3-6, 2013

H-ASIA
July 22, 2012

CFP 43rd Annual Urban Affairs Association Conference [With special track
on Urban Issues in Asia and the Pacific Rim], April 3-6, 2013
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From: Deidre Beadle [dbeadle@uaamail.org]


Subject: CFP 43rd Annual Urban Affairs Association Conference [With
special track on Urban Issues in Asia and the Pacific Rim],San Francisco,
April 3-6, 2013

Dear Editor,

I thought this conference would be of interest to our members. Please
circulate. Thank you.

Kind regards,
Deidre Beadle
Executive Assistant
Urban Affairs Association
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Doctoral Candidate
University of Delaware
School of Public Policy & Administration
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43rd Annual Urban Affairs Association Conference
Building the 21st Century City: Inclusion, Innovation, and Globalization
[With special tracks on Media & Urban Life, and Urban Issues in Asia
and the Pacific Rim]

San Francisco, California
The Fairmont Hotel
April 3-6, 2013


We invite you to submit a proposal for participation in the 2013 Urban
Affairs Association Conference. UAA conferences are attended by scholar
and practitioners from a variety of disciplines and are noted as a
welcoming context for a diverse array of perspectives.

Call for participation:
http://urbanaffairsassociation.org/pdfs/2013_call.pdf
*Deadline for submission of proposals is October 1, 2012*

Join us as we explore the challenges and SUCCESSES of urban populations
and places!

Conference Theme
The urban context represents a multiplicity of social, economic, and theme
focuses on highlighting urban successes facilitated by governments,
individual residents, neighborhood groups, non-profits, and others across
the globe. Issues raised by the conference theme are those that are
relevant to the San Francisco context and other urban cities. These 21st
century issues are broadly framed as:

Who has access in richly diverse cities? How is that access gained? When
faced with exclusion, how can/have marginalized groups penetrate local
institutions and have a voice in larger society?

Partnerships/Collaborations
In what ways have cities used the technology within their borders and
across their regions to improve quality of life for their citizens? What
are some successful outcomes of innovative strategies that have been
transferred from one context (i.e., local, regional, or national) to
another?

Global Cities
How have cities taken advantage of their role in the international economy
to improve quality of life in the future? How have the successes and
failures of nations shaped policy practices in other nations – socially,
economically, politically, and environmentally?

New Urban Challenges
What are some 21st century challenges, at the local, regional, national,
and/or the global level, that have arisen as policymakers, practitioners,
and individuals work to improve the lives of urban populations?

Special Conference Tracks

Urban Issues in Asia and the Pacific Rim
This track covers a variety of urban issues affecting urban populations
and places in Asia and/or the Pacific Rim such as poverty, governance,
sustainable development, environmental degradation, and technological
innovations, to name a few.

Media and Urban Life
This track captures the diverse perspectives of scholars and practitioners
from a variety of fields (e.g., communication, journalism, urban affairs,
public policy, law, political science, sociology, criminal justice,
architecture, and city/regional planning) as they explore the intersection
between media and urban life – i.e, physically, political, and socially.

Visit the UAA website (http://urbanaffairsassociation.org/) for more
information on these two special tracks.

In addition to exploring the topics that frame the conference theme and
special tracks, we encourage proposals that focus on the broad array of
research topics typically found at UAA conferences:
• Arts, Culture, Media
• Disaster Planning for Urban Areas, Disaster Management, Emergency

Preparedness, Cities and Security
• Economic Development, Redevelopment, Tourism, Urban Economics,
Urban Finance
• Education, Schools, Universities
• Environmental Issues, Sustainability, Urban Health, Technology
and Society
• Globalization, International Urban Issues
• Governance, Intergovernmental Relations, Regionalism, Urban
Management
• Historic Preservation, Space and Place
• Housing, Neighborhoods, Community Development
• Human/Social Services, Nonprofit Sector
• Immigration, Population and Demographic Trends
• Infrastructure, Capital Projects, Networks, Transport, Urban
Services
• Labor, Employment, Wages, Training
• Land Use, Growth Management, Urban Development, Urban Planning •
Poverty, Welfare, Income Inequality
• Professional Development, The Field of Urban Affairs
• Public Safety in Urban Areas, Criminal Justice, Household
Violence
• Race, Ethnicity, Gender, Diversity
• Social Capital, Democracy and Civil Society, Social Theory,
Religion and the City
• Urban Design, Urban Architecture
• Urban Indicators, Data/Methods, Satisfaction/Quality of Life
Surveys
• Urban Politics, Elections, Citizen Participation
• Urban Theory, Theoretical and Conceptual Issues in Urban Affairs

Important Dates:

The online proposal
(http://urbanaffairsassociation.org/conference/conference2013/submit-proposal/) system will open on July 16, 2012.Proposal Deadline: October 1, 2012Proposal Decision Date: Acceptance or rejection notices will be sent byNovember 19, 2012****************************************************************** To post to H-ASIA simply send your message to: <H-ASIA@h-net.msu.edu> For holidays or short absences send post to: <listserv@h-net.msu.edu> with message: SET H-ASIA NOMAIL Upon return, send post with message SET H-ASIA MAIL H-ASIA WEB HOMEPAGE URL: http://h-net.msu.edu/~asia/------------------------------Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2012 10:23:39 -0400From: Linda Dwyer <dwyer@MAIL.H-NET.MSU.EDU>Subject: H-ASIA: ECSAS 2012 - 22nd European Conference on South AsianStudies, Lisbon, 25-28th JulyH-ASIAJuly 22, 2012ECSAS 2012 - 22nd European Conference on South Asian Studies, Lisbon,25-28th July.**************From: claudiapereir@GMAIL.COM*The 22nd European Conference on South Asian Studies, ECSAS 2012, will behosted by ISCTE-IUL on the 25th to 28th July 2012.*The ECSAS2012 will bring together some of the most relevant researchers onSouth Asia, such as keynote speakers Tanika Sarkar's from Jawaharlal NehruUniversity, Delhi and David Washbrook from Trinity College, CambridgeUniversity. Scholars and students from any field of research related tothe South Asian region are invited to participate in the 22nd EuropeanConference on South Asian Studies (ECSAS), registering on the website:http://ecsas2012.iscte.pt/, where all information about the congress canbe found.All information can be found here: www.ecsas2012.iscte.pt****************************************************************** To post to H-ASIA simply send your message to: <H-ASIA@h-net.msu.edu> For holidays or short absences send post to: <listserv@h-net.msu.edu> with message: SET H-ASIA NOMAIL Upon return, send post with message SET H-ASIA MAIL H-ASIA WEB HOMEPAGE URL: http://h-net.msu.edu/~asia/------------------------------Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2012 10:32:59 -0400From: Linda Dwyer <dwyer@MAIL.H-NET.MSU.EDU>Subject: H-ASIA: Film Screening on India, Lisbon, Grande, July 26, 2012H-ASIAJuly 22, 2012Film Screening on India, Lisbon, Grande, July 26, 2012**********From: claudiapereir@GMAIL.COMDear colleagues and friends,For those staying in Lisbon, taking part of ECSAS 12<http://ecsas2012.iscte.pt> or having Summer vacations in Portugal, wewould like to invite you to the Screening Series "From the inside lookingout… Filmic visions of South Asia's tacit "other"" that will be hosted bythe ECSAS2012 Conference, Lisbon, ISCTE/IUL, 26th of July 2012.More information :http://ecsas2012.iscte.pt/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=18&Itemid=21Please notice that the series is open and free of cost.Sincerely,Paolo Favero and Giulia Battaglia"From the inside looking out...filmic visions of South Asia's tacit'other'"26th July 2012 - Grande Auditório ISCTE-IULTaking off from the contemporary experimentation with new filmmakingpractices this screening series aims to invert and comment uponconventional visual representations of the Indian Subcontinent.Movingbetween different genres, such as documentary, fiction, animation and artfilm the series shows the complexity of themes and aesthetics thatcharacterize contemporary filmmaking in and on the subcontinent.A gazingupon South Asia's tacit other.Curated by: Paolo Favero (CRIA, Lisbon, Portugal) - Giulia Battaglia(SOAS, London, UK)****************************************************************** To post to H-ASIA simply send your message to: <H-ASIA@h-net.msu.edu> For holidays or short absences send post to: <listserv@h-net.msu.edu> with message: SET H-ASIA NOMAIL Upon return, send post with message SET H-ASIA MAIL H-ASIA WEB HOMEPAGE URL: http://h-net.msu.edu/~asia/------------------------------End of H-ASIA Digest - 21 Jul 2012 to 22 Jul 2012 (#2012-198)*************************************************************