Asia Writes

18 March 2013

Deadline: 25 March 2013

EAI is a leading independent think-tank located in Seoul. Through conducting academic, survey and policy research, EAI offers practical solutions and directions on the current issues affecting the Korean Peninsula and the East Asia region. With its vast international network, EAI often collaborates with other leading research institutions on a diverse range of policy-relevant issues.

East Asia Institute (EAI) is currently looking for a full-time English Editor.

OVERVIEW:

• Position: English Editor
• Deadline: March 25, 2013
• Tentative schedule for interview: March 28-29, 2013

EDUCATION/EXPERIENCE REQUIREMENTS: Masters-level degree preferred in the social sciences. Experience in editing or research work in political science or international relations favored.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Editing EAI products, including translated works
• Producing the monthly English newsletter
• Conducting multimedia interviews with international scholars
• Managing the project on U.S.-China Relations Series

APPLICATION PROCEDURE
Please send the following documents to Mr. Yang Gyu Kim at ygkim@eai.or.kr

• Resume
• Cover letter with self-introduction

After reviewing applications, we will contact the selected interviewees individually.

CONTACT INFORMATION:

For queries/ submissions: ygkim@eai.or.kr

Website: http://www.eai.or.kr

14 March 2013

Deadline: 29 March 2013

The East Asia Institute(EAI) invites undergraduate and master's degree students (including recent graduates) to share their visions on the critical challenges facing the global society through the "EPIK Young Leaders Conference 2013: Essay Competition." The EPIK Young Leaders Conference has become an academic forum for sharing a global mindset among next generation leaders since its successful start in 2010.

In light of the global challenges lying ahead, the role of youth in addressing them has been growing. This essay competition strives to offer a great opportunity for students not only to present their innovative ideas but also to enrich the extensive networks with each other by exchanging their views. We encourage you to think analytically, creatively, and strategically while participating the "EPIK Young Leaders Conference 2013: Essay Competition."

The EAI hopes that the participants will be able to share their thoughts on various areas including, but not limited to, international politics, security, economics, business management, and science as well as to ponder their roles in this ever changing world. Participants will also develop their academic ability to express ideas and share their visions.

THEME

"When is Conflict Better than Cooperation?"

Conflict, in all-encompassing spectrum, is inevitable. Following the growth of multiple actors and entities with heterogeneous interests, our world today is witnessing more and more conflicts on the individual, national as well as the international level. Tensions among countries have always formed and shifted power orders in both regional and international level, which more than often led to physical or non-physical wars. Tensions are also increasingly notable within countries as we witness civil wars, ethnic strife, group conflicts, and protests. Moreover, technological developments and practices have stirred up controversies and tensions, often conflicting with human rights values.

Traditionally, conflict - both violent and non-violent - has been accounted for hindering peaceful communication, optimal resolution, and synergetic outcomes. As a consequence, cooperative behavior was almost always preferred over contradictory behavior.

Conflict, however, could be a source of creation and constructive transformation. On one hand, conflict may generate new outcomes by challenging traditional norms, ideas and beliefs. On the other hand, conflict may be a valuable pathway towards positive change. For instance, the Civil Rights Movement in America during the 50s and 60s challenged the idea of inequality, and the efforts led to improvements in the legal rights of the oppressed minorities. Also, cartel activities are frequently blamed to disrupt competition and drive the society off the utility maximization. The list goes on.

In this regard, the 2013 EPIK Young Leaders Conference would like to hear your thoughts and opinions on the question, When is conflict better than cooperation? You are encouraged to engage with the question in any academic field of your choice. The following tracks are for your guidance, but they should not restrict your other methodologies.

• Theoretical track: What are the intrinsic values of conflict and how does it compare to the values of cooperation? Can conflict be better than cooperation? If so, when is it better than cooperation?
• Empirical track: Does the empirical evidence tell us that conflict is better than cooperation? If so, what are the conditions under which conflict is better than cooperation? You can either provide illustrative case studies and historical examples or quantitative analyses of data.

Selected papers will be presented at the conference with notable experts and peer readers in the summer of 2013.

ELIGIBILITY CONDITION

The competition is open to domestic/overseas undergraduate and master's degree students (including the recent graduates who completed the program within the previous 2 years), who were born in between 1979 and 1996. The participants must submit an attested copy of their student Identity Card (or Degree Certificate for graduates) along with required documents.

DEADLINES AND REQUIREMENTS

1. First Round

• Deadline: March 29, 2013
• Result Announcement: April 19, 2013
• Required Documents:
• Application - Abstract should not exceed 400 words.
• Resume
• Copy of a student Identity Card or Degree Certificate for graduates

2. Second Round

• Deadline: June 7, 2013
• Result Announcement: June 28, 2013
• Required Document: First draft
• Essays should not exceed 5,000 words (excluding abstract and references).
• Essays must be submitted and formatted in Microsoft Word
• Use Times New Roman, 11-points, 1.5 interlinear spacing. Text should be justified.

3. Third Round

• Deadline: July 19, 2013
• Finalist Announcement: July 26, 2013
• Required Documents
• Final draft after consultation with the reviewers
• PowerPoint (or other types of visual aids) for presentation

4. Essay Presentation and Award Ceremony

• Date: Thursday, August 8, 2013 1PM
• Venue: Hotel Kukdo, Seoul, Republic of Korea
• Finalists will attend the conference and present their papers followed by discussion with members of EPIK spiders.

AWARD

One first-place winner and one second-place winner will be selected and announced at the conference on Thursday, August 8, 2013. The finalists' papers will be published online as a series of EPIK Journals Online at EAI website.

• 1st-place winner: 2,000,000 KRW
• 2nd-place winner: 1,000,000 KRW

*Travel expenses will not be covered by EAI.

IMPORTANT

• All requirements must be submitted by each deadline only electronically to epik2013@eai.or.kr.
• Papers that poorly address the theme with irrelevant ideas and/or not meeting all requirements will be disqualified from the contest.
• About plagiarism policy, refer to plagiarism.org.
• Essays must be written by one person. Co-authored essays are not accepted.
• Only original and unpublished essays will be considered for the competition.

CONTACT INFORMATION:

For queries/ submissions: epik2013@eai.or.kr

Website: http://epik.eai.or.kr/

30 September 2012

Deadline: 1 October 2012

Global Voices (GV) is seeking a part-time Editor to oversee our ongoing coverage of Chinese-language citizen media.

The Editor will direct the Chinese-language coverage and recruit and coordinate volunteer contributions. The Editor will produce and/or edit several in-depth stories per week, as well as shorter posts linking and pointing to important topics, events, and writing as it occurs. The work will involve translation, analysis, and editing, to elucidate and identify trends, ideas, and social and political currents within East Asian citizen media.

The Editor will be chiefly responsible for providing as broad and complete coverage as possible of citizen media of Chinese-language media, as follows:

• Recruiting: recruiting authors to cover the countries in their region; for managing authors’ output and editing and publishing posts; and maintaining a regional Google Group.
• Posting to the Global Voices web site:
• 4-6 posts per week. These can either be written by volunteer authors or the Editor, in recognition of the fact that some posts (especially those which need to be translated) require substantial editing.
• 5-10 “updates” per week. These posts can also either be written by volunteer authors or the Editor. They are short and typically include only one link.
• Special coverage: In times of emergency, posting as much as possible, as soon as possible, as needed.

Interested candidates please send CV and Letter of Interest explaining why you'd be a good candidate for the job.

CONTACT INFORMATION:

For queries/ submissions: adminjob@globalvoicesonline.org

Website: http://globalvoicesonline.org

12 September 2012

Leading U.S. news and data firm, SNL Financial is expanding its service in Asia and is seeking freelance, financial reporters throughout East/Southeast Asia to supplement its news coverage of Asian financial institutions.

Candidates must be fluent in both spoken and written English, as well as in one or more of the following: Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese, Indonesian/Malay and Thai. The position entails daily researching and writing. Candidates must be able to read financial news stories in an Asian language and concisely summarize them into English. Stories must be submitted daily by 6 a.m. HKT.

This position offers a competitive monthly retainer and also affords the opportunity to produce occasional proprietary reports on the region's financial institutions space. Our real-time, web-based news service reaches an influential readership that include the major players at leading global financial institutions. Our massive database, with comprehensive coverage of the market, regulatory and corporate data that impacts our sectors, offers ample opportunities to enhance and drive our reporting. Our Asian coverage includes banks and financial services companies headquartered in China, Japan, South Korea, Indonesia, Thailand and Vietnam, among other geographies.

Requirements: Familiarity with financial markets in the region; an ability to quickly and accurately summarize source material in one language into another; and computer proficiency.

Interested candidates should send CV and writing samples to Mark Roberts.

CONTACT INFORMATION:

For queries/ submissions: mroberts@snl.com

Website: http://www.snl.com/

15 May 2012

Deadline: 19 - 28 June 2012

The East Asia Writing Project Summer Institute for teachers and students returns to Hong Kong International School in June 2012.

The EAWP Writing Workshop is a practical, interactive writing course for teachers and students. The workshop focuses on the development of confident, independent writers, joining teachers and students in a common course, with some separate specialized modules.

Pedagogical modules for teachers include organization strategies for creating a writing workshop in your classroom, teaching writing in context with appropriate and efficient response, teaching students how to be effective responders, and designing assignment-specific assessment strategies.

Student modules teach participants how to transfer writing strategies for nbarrative and personal pieces to other forms and genre, with a focus on writing on demand - exams, college applications, SAT writing samples, and academic essays for any discipline.

LOCATION: Hong Kong International School, 1 Red Hill Rd., Tai Tam, Hong Kong

REGISTRATION: Registration fee is HKD 8500. This fee covers all course materials, snacks, events. Registration form is separate.

ACCOMMODATION: Cosmopolitan/Cosmo Hotel information available separately from Jacqueline Hutchings (conference@hkis.edu.hk)

Link: registration information and form

CONTACT INFORMATION:

For inquiries: contact Karen Rohrs at kcrohrs@hkis.edu.hk

Website: https://sites.google.com/site/eastasiawritingproject/

03 May 2012

Deadline: 15 October 2012

We have been asked by Routledge to serve as editors of the ROUTLEDGE HANDBOOK OF EAST ASIA AND THE ENVIRONMENT. The book is intended to be a key resource for readers interested in the social, cultural and policy aspects of the environment in East Asia (East, Northeast and Southeast Asia).

We have received proposals for most of the chapters. (If you previously sent us a proposal, we’ll be in touch very soon. We expect to decide the lineup of contributors by early May.)

We still have a few topics to cover. If you or someone you know might be interested in writing on one or more of the following topics, please get in touch with us as soon as possible.

+ Culture and the Environment in East Asia (this might include religion and Asian philosophies, and a discussion of growing consumption/consumerism)

+ Human health and the environment in East Asia (ideally discussing environment-human relationships impacting health)

+ Air pollution in East Asia (this could include national cases/examples, but we hope this will also look at transboundary air pollution, such as regional air pollution and/or acid rain in NE Asia and smoke haze in SE Asia)

+ Water pollution in East Asia (ideally comparative and/or transnational analysis)

+ Garbage and waste pollution/management (ideally including controversies over solutions, such as incineration, recycling, taxes and “confronting consumption”)

We also welcome proposals for chapters on other topics, especially if they have regional coverage (that is, we discourage proposals focused on single country cases).

Each chapter should provide a comprehensive review of the issues, focusing on how society and policymaking combine in efforts within and among countries of the region to respond to environmental and resource challenges. Chapters should be 7,000-8,000 words in length (including references), with a planned deadline of late October 2012.

PAUL G. HARRIS, Hong Kong Institute of Education
Email: pharris@ied.edu.hk
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GRAEME LANG, City University of Hong Kong
Email: graeme.lang@cityu.edu.hk
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CONTACT INFORMATION:

For inquiries/ submissions: pharris@ied.edu.hk, graeme.lang@cityu.edu.hk

Website: http://www.routledge.com

09 April 2012

Deadline: 1 May 2012

The 2nd ANNUAL FOBISSEA SHORT STORY COMPETITION 2012

Entry is now open for the 2nd Annual Short Story Competition for FOBISSEA schools.

This year’s theme is ‘LOST’ and can be interpreted in any way the writer wishes to pursue, although they must keep to the general theme. It could be, for example, Lost Love, A Lost Object, Lost Memories, Being Lost, Lost Somewhere, etc.

This year, we are very honoured to have the shortlisted stories judged by Australian author John Marsden. John has been the recipient of numerous Australian and International literature awards and is the author of the widely acclaimed Tomorrow Series, with Tomorrow, When the War Began made into a successful film. He has written or edited over 40 books and has sold over 5 million books worldwide.

There will be two categories: Secondary with a word limit of 1000 words, open to Years 7 to 13. The new Primary competition is open to students from Year 3 to 6. The winners and two runners-up in each category will receive trophies and have their stories published on the FOBISSEA website.

Schools are encouraged to run their own ‘in house’ competitions to find the eventual winning entries. Please note that each school can only enter ONE story for Primary and ONE story for Secondary.

Rules and Procedure

1. All entries must have a cover page. This must include:

• The title of the story.
• The category entered (Primary or Secondary).
• The student’s name.
• The student’s school and school address.
• The contact teacher’s name and email.
• The word count.

2. Pages must be numbered.

3. The story must be written in Times New Roman, Size 12.

4. The story must be double-spaced.

5. The story must be written on one side of the page only.

6. There must not be any illustrations, pictures, marks etc on the story’s pages.

7. The story must be original and in English. It must not have been published previously.

8. By entering the competition, the writer agrees that their work can be published on the FOBISSEA website and used in other FOBISSEA media.

9. All entries must be received on or before 1st May via email as a Word file. Please save the file using the School’s name and category, i.e. Shrewsbury International School: Primary.

10. The Judges’ decision is final.

After May 1st, the stories will be shortlisted by members of the organising committee. Six entries will be chosen in each category and sent to John Marsden. It is anticipated that the judging process will take around one month. Winners will be announced via email and on the FOBISSEA website. Trophies will be sent out soon after.

CONTACT INFORMATION:

For inquiries: email David Carr at david.c@shrewsbury.ac.th

Website: http://www.fobissea.org

16 March 2012

Deadline: 31 March 2012

The Permanent Seminar on the Histories of Film Theories will hold the first-ever conference devoted to the histories of film theory in East Asia. The Scientific Board invites proposals for 20-minute papers concerning any aspect of and period of the history of film theory in Korea, Japan, and Sinophone Asia

HISTORIES OF FILM THEORIES IN EAST ASIA
September 27-30, 2012
Ann Arbor, MI
Coordinated by A. M. Nornes

CALL FOR PAPERS: Deadline for 200-word proposals in MS-Word: March 31, 2012
Send to amnornes@umich.edu

The history of film theory has largely been a Euro-American story. However, the Scientific Board of the Permanent Seminar recognizes that it actually has a global dimension that has yet to be adequately mapped. It plans to bring its annual conference to the University of Michigan—this will be the first, broad scholarly gathering devoted to the histories of film theory in East Asia. Our scope is broad. It encompasses classical philosophical approaches to film aesthetics (“essence”), questions of media ontology (“relationship to reality”), intermediality (“the other arts”), spectatorship and questions of perception and psychology (“individual viewers”) as well as sociological approaches to film (“society at large”).

Over the last two decades, Film Studies has matured into a dynamic field characterized by vital debates between well-defined theoretical paradigms. At the same time the field has seen a turn to history on several levels. Film theorists have increasingly become interested in the history of their own approaches to film, situating film theory within the broader histories of philosophy, psychology and other disciplines and fields that have traditionally provided key concepts and arguments to film theory. Among of the indicators for this new interest is the Permanent Seminar for the History of Film Theory, an international association of film theorists founded by Jane Gaines and Francesco Cassetti in 2008. It holds a biennial conference that alternates with smaller workshops on narrow themes.

The Michigan conference will feature a keynote speech by Aaron Gerow (Yale), panels, a special film screening with professional benshi Kataoka Ichiro, and breakaway sessions. The breakaway sessions will be devoted to two groups of scholars that are currently working on volumes of theory in translation from Chinese (eds., Jason McGrath [Minnesota] and Guo-Juin Hong [Duke]) and Japanese (eds., Aaron Gerow [Yale], Iwamoto Kenji [Waseda] and Markus Nornes [UM]) respectively; thus, the conference will provide a much needed forum for these groups to meet and discuss their book projects, which will eventually commemorate this field-changing conference.

CONTACT INFORMATION:

For inquiries: amnornes@umich.edu

For submissions: amnornes@umich.edu

Website: http://filmtheories.org

07 March 2012

Deadline: 28 March 2012

Session in East Asian Languages and Literatures at the 69th Annual Convention of South Central Modern Language Association (SCMLA), November 8-10, 2012 in San Antonio, TX.

The topic for the session in East Asian Languages and Literatures in 2012 is OPEN. Any paper exploring the linguistic, literary, cinematic, aesthetic or cultural topics in China, Japan, Korea, or East Asia in general is welcome.

Please send your paper or a 500-word abstract to Takeshi Kimoto at takeshi.komoto@ou.edu by March 28, 2012. Abstracts as well as papers are acceptable.

CONTACT INFORMATION:

For inquiries: takeshi.komoto@ou.edu

For submissions: takeshi.komoto@ou.edu

Website: http://www.southcentralmla.org/

19 February 2012

Deadline: 1 March 2012

Literary Criticism and East Asia

Papers of broad interest to MLA members concerning critical movements, individual critics, or distinctive functions of literary criticism in modern and contemporary East Asia. Please send proposals of 500-2500 words by 1 March 2012 to Marshall J. Brown (mbrown@u.washington.edu) and Melek Ortabasi (mso1@sfu.ca).

Note: This is a *guaranteed* session sponsored by the Division of Literary Criticism as part of a cross-divisional and cross-disciplinary effort to bring the richness of East Asian literary studies to a wider audience.

CONTACT INFORMATION:

For inquiries: mbrown@u.washington.edu, mso1@sfu.ca

For submissions: Marshall J. Brown (mbrown@u.washington.edu) and Melek Ortabasi (mso1@sfu.ca)

Website: http://www.mla.org/convention

02 July 2011

The field of Asian bilateral and multilateral integration is ever increasing, and so is the academic output in the field. www.asianintegration.org extends this invitation for scholars and practitioners to review books for our website on East Asian economic integration. If you are interested in reviewing books for www.asianintegration.org, please send an e-mail message
mentioning "book reviews" as well as the title(s), you want to review, with a short biographical note and a specification of your area of interest to Dr. Bernhard Seliger (Seliger@hss.or.kr).

Currently, the following books are available for review

Asia's Flying Geese: How regionalization Shapes Japan, Walter F. Hatch, Cornell University Press, 2010, US, 291 pages, 24.95 $

Asia's Free Trade Agreement: How is business responding, Edited by Masahiro Kawai and Ganeshan Wignaraja, 2010, UK, £75

Asian Cross-border marriage Migration: Demographic Patterns and Social Issues, edited by Wen-Shan Yang and Melody Chia-Wen Lu, Amsterdam University Press, 2010, Amsterdam, 49.50 $

Asian Regionalism and Japan: The Politics of Membership in Regional Diplomatic, Financial and Trade Groups, Shintaro Hamanaka, Routledge, 2009, UK, 234 pages, 75£

Asian Regionalism In The World Economy: Engine for Dynamism and Stability, ed. By Masahiro Kawai, Jong-Wha Lee and Peter A. Petri, Carl J. Shapiro, Edward Elgar, 2010, UK, 95£

Australia's Foreign Economic Policy and ASEAN, Jiro Okamoto, ISEAS, Singapore, 2010, 297 pages, 44.60£

China and Asian Regionalism, by Yunling Zhang, World Scientific, 2009, Singapore, 240 pp., US$96

China, the Developing World, and the New Global Dynamic, edited by Lowell Dittmer and George T. Yu, Rienner, 2010, UK, 250 pages, 22.50$

China-ASEAN Relations and the Law, Zou keyuan, Chandos Publishing, UK, 2009, 65£

China's pan-Pearl River delta : regional cooperation and development, ed. by Anthony G. O. Yeh and Jiang Xu, Hong Kong University Press, 2011, Hong Kong, 243 pages, 35.00$

Comparative Regionalism, edited by Fred H. Lawson, Ashgate, UK, 2008, 567 pages, 165£

Competitiveness of the ASEAN Countries: Corporate and Regulatory Drivers, Edited by Philippe Gugler and Julien Chaisse, Edward Elgar, 2010, UK, 315 pages, 79.95£

Cross Regional Trade Agreement: Understanding Permeated Regionalism in East Asia, edited by Saori N. Katada Mireya Solis, Springer, 2008, Berlin, 167 pages, 119 $

Cultural Expertise and Litigation: Patterns, Conflicts, Narratives, Livia Holden (ed.), Routledge, 2011, UK, 264 pages, 75.00£

Currency and Contest in East Asia, William W. Grimes, Cornell university press, US, 2009, 248 pages, 39.95$

East Asian Economies and New Regionalism, Edited by Shigeyuki Abe and Bhanupong Nidhipraba, Trans Pacific Press/Kyoto University Press, Melbourne, Austrailia, 2008, 304 pages, $89.95

East Asian regionalism from a legal perspective: current features and a vision for the future, edited by Tamio Nakamura, Routledge, 2009, Abingdon, 286 pages, 75£

East Asian Regionalism, Christopher M. Dent, Routledge, UK, 2010, 320 pages, 22.99£

Economic Integration in East Asia, Edited by Masahisa Fujita and Koji Nishikimi, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, UK, 2008, 349 pages, $15

Intercultural Relations in Asia. Migration Work and Effectiveness, ed. by Chan-Hoong Leong, John W Berry, World Scientific, 2009, Singapore, 296 pp., US$96

International Relations in Southeast Asia: between Bilateralism and Japan's Aggressive Legalism: Law and Foreign Trade Politics beyond the WTO by Saadia M. Pekkanen, Stanford University press, US, 2008, 409 pages, 29.95$

Know Your ASEAN, Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, Singapore, 2007, 50 pages, AS $14.95

Looking North, looking South: China, Taiwan and South Pacific, ed. by Anne-Marie Brady, 2010, World Scientific, US, 94$

Maritime Security in the South China Sea, edited by Shicun Wu and Keyuan Zou, Ashgate, UK, 2009, 272 pages, 55£

New Dynamics Between China and Japan in Asia: How to Build the Future From the Past?, ed. by Faure, Guy, World Scientific, 2010, Singapore, 350 pages, 108$

Policy and Economic Performance in Divided Korea during the cold War Era: 1945-91, Nicholas Eberstadt, AEI, 2010, US, $25

Regionalism in China-Vietnam Relations: Institution-building in the Greater Mekong Subregion, Oliver Hensengerth, Routledge, 2010, UK-US-Canada, 212 pages, 80£

Regionalism in East Asia: Why Has it Flourished Since 200 and How Far Will It Go?, ed. by Pomfret, Richard, World Scientific, 2011, Singapore, 183 pages, 78$

Snow on the pine: Japan's quest for a leadership role in Asia, Kyoko Hatakeyama, Craig F Freedman, World Scientific, US, 124$

Southeast Asia and the Rise of China. The Search for Security, Ian Storey, Routledge, 2011, UK, 370 pages, 85£

Statecraft and spectacle in East Asia: studies in Taiwan-Japan relations, ed. by Adam Clulow, 2010, UK, 134 pages, 80£

Strange Parallels Southeast Asia in Global Context, c. 800-1830 (Volume2: Mainland Mirrors: Europe, Japan, China, South Asia, and the Islands), Victor Lieberman, Cambridge University press, 2009, UK, 947 pages, 75£

The EU-Japan Security Dialogue. Invisible but Comprehensive, Olena Mykal, Amsterdam University Press, 2011, Amsterdam, 320 pages, 44.50

The Making of the ASEAN Charter, edited by Tommy Koh, Rosario G Manalo and Walter Woon, World Scientific, 2009, Singapore, 214 pages, 51 $

The New Central Asia: the regional impact of international actors, ed. By Emilian Kavalski, World Scientific, US, 99$

The New Political Economy of Southeast Asia, edited by Rajah Rasiah and Johannes Dragsbaek Schmidt, Edward Elgar, 2010, UK, 79.95£

The Politics of Economic Regionalism: Explaining Regional Economic Integration in East Asia, Kevin G. Cai, Palgrave, 2010, 196 pages, $80

The Rise of Asia: Trade and investment in global perspective, Edited by Prema-chandra Athukorala, Routledge, 2010, UK, 75 £

The Rise of China and Structural Changes in Korea and Asia, edited by Takatoshi Ito and Chin Hee Hahn, Edward Elgar, 2010, UK, 345 pages, 89.95 £

The Role of the European Union in Asia, edited by Bart Gaens, Juha Jokela and Eija Limnell, UK, 2009, page 260, 55£

Towards Monetary and Financial Integration in East Asia edited by Koichi Hamada, Beate Reszat and Ulrich Volz, UK, 409 pages, 95£

Trade Facilitation and Regional Cooperation in Asia, Edited by Douglas H. Brooks and Susan F. Stone, Edward Elgar, 2010, UK, 201 pages, 59.95£

Trade Law And Regulation In Korea, Edited by Seung Wha Chang, Won-Mog Choi, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, 2011, 224 pp, 65£

Free Trade Agreements in The Asia Pacific, edited by Christopher Findlay and Shujiro Urata, World Scientific, 2010, Singapore, 299 pages

Cur bing the Global Economic Downturn: Southeast Asian Macroeconomic Policy, edited by Aekapol Chongvilaivan, ISEAS, 2010, Singapore, 198 pages, 25$

How Asia Can Shape The World: From the Era of Plenty to the Era of Scarcities, Joergen Oerstrem Moeller, ISEAS, 2011, Singapore, 540 pages

Dealing with Multiple Currencies in Transitional Economies: The Scope for Regional Cooperation in Cambodia, the Lao People's Democratic Republic, and Vietnam, edited by Giovanni Capannelli and Jayant Menon Asian Development Bank, 2010, Philippines, 408 pages

Dr. Bernhard Seliger
Resident Representative
Hanns Seidel Foundation
Seoul Office
501, Soo Young Bldg.
64-1 Hannam-1-Dong
Yongsan-Gu
Seoul
Republic of Korea

Contact Information:

For inquiries: Seliger@hss.or.kr

For submissions: Seliger@hss.or.kr

Website: http://www.asianintegration.org

09 June 2011

Deadline: 2 December 2011

The William F. Sibley Memorial Translation Prize was established by the Department of East Asian Languages & Civilizations and the Committee on Japanese Studies of the Center for East Asian Studies at the University of Chicago in honor of their late colleague William F. Sibley. The competition is held annually and judged by members of the Committee on Japanese Studies.

In keeping with William Sibley's lifelong devotion to translation and to the place of literature in the classroom, up to three awards of $2500 each will be given each year for previously unpublished translations. In order to encourage variety of time period and genre, the annual competitions will alternate between categories. In all cases, the word limit for submissions is 15,000.

For 2011, we solicit translations of poetry, essays, and drama of modern and pre-modern (pre-Meiji) works.

In the case of poetry, the submission is likely to consist of a selection of poems. In the case of prose, short pieces by a single writer or on a single subject may be combined as long as the word limit is observed. "Essays" include criticism, reportage, or aesthetic treatises. "Drama" includes film scenarios (but not subtitles). New translations of works that have previously been translated are acceptable (the introductions to these should cite the previous translations and provide a rationale for the new rendition), and applicants in general are encouraged to think of translation as a creative act.

Each submission must be accompanied by an introduction of no more than 800 words, situating the work for the general reader. The introduction should help readers understand why they should care about the work translated.

Translations will be evaluated, in a blind review process, according to three criteria: significance of the original work; quality of the translation; and quality of the introduction.

Co-translations will be accepted, but the committee will only consider one submission per person per year.

Applications should include:

• A cover letter with the applicant's full name, mailing address, email, and telephone number. The cover letter is the only place the applicant's name should appear since the review process is blind.

•A single printed version of both the English translation and the Japanese original, as well as a digital copy of each.

•If applicable, proof of permission to translate and publish to the web must accompany the application. It is the responsibility of applicants to secure permission from copyright holders for any works not in the public domain.

The deadline for the 2011 competition is Friday, December 2, 2011.

Mail materials to:

Chair, Selection Committee, Sibley Memorial Translation Prize
Committee on Japanese Studies
5835 S. Kimbark Ave.
Judd Hall 302
Chicago, IL 60637

For additional inquires, contact Sarah Arehart at sarehart@uchicago.edu or 773-702-2715.

Contact Information:

For inquiries: sarehart@uchicago.edu

For submissions: Chair, Selection Committee, Sibley Memorial Translation Prize, Committee on Japanese Studies, 5835 S. Kimbark Ave., Judd Hall 302, Chicago, IL 60637

Website: http://ceas.uchicago.edu/

07 June 2011

Deadline: 1 July 2011

We take great pleasure in announcing that the Fourth East Asian Conference on Comparative Literature, sponsored by the Comparative Literature Association of the Republic of China (CLAROC), will be hosted by Soochow University in Taipei, Taiwan, on March 10, 2012. The theme for this conference is "Obsession in Context.¨

Obsession is usually associated with excessiveness or a lack of temperance. As a concept, therefore, it is by definition contextualized: excess as determined by normal self-control, intemperate fixation as determined by reasonable balance. Interestingly, the usually negative association with morbid deviancy is more than ¡§balanced¡¨ by an obverse concern with the driving intensity of obsession, as if without such animating intensity we can only be left with an uneventful backdrop of bland normalcy. Thus territorialization (obsedere: to besiege, to occupy) is inherently associated with the deterritorialization of excess (excedere: to depart, to go beyond). This duality can be used to explain our fascination with and perennial debates about Oedipus' status as a tragic hero, or about Antigone's status as a model of ideal desire.

The elucidation of this problematic of duality in obsession is of particular interest to comparative literature, a field traditionally defined by a kind of transgressive enclosure of literature in normative cultural contexts. There is enclosure because the object of comparison is necessarily situated within restrictive cultural particularities, but such enclosure can be transgressive when it becomes the ground of differentiation to escape the flatness of the larger context of globality. Instances of this shift to comparative contextualization can be found in other contexts as well. One recurrent discursive topos in Buddhism, for example, is to use local ¡§grasping¡¨ (conformance to a mundane life style) as a possible way to prevent excessive global attachment (a straightjacketing fixation on enlightenment that ¡§out-grasps¡¨ grasping).

We, therefore, invite papers investigating all aspects of obsession with a view to furthering our understanding of (1) its imbrication with the dynamics of contextual conformance and transgression and (2) its relevance to the contextuality of literary comparison and thus to the ongoing search for a disciplinary paradigm in comparative literature.

Possible topics include but are not limited to the following:

• Obsession and repetition
• Technology and excess
• The allure of production/productivity
• Affect and habit
• Cult, fashion, and fandom
• Obsession and the canon
• Power and resistance
• Obsessive love and hate
• Addictions
• Sainthood and martyrdom
• Crime and conspiracy
• Philosophical approaches to obsession

Our working deadline for proposals is July 1, 2011, and notice of acceptance will be announced in late June. Please send your proposal in English (500 words maximum) and brief curriculum vitae to complit@scu.edu.tw

Contact Information:

For inquiries: complit@scu.edu.tw

For submissions: complit@scu.edu.tw

28 May 2011

Deadline: 6 June 2011

We invite proposals for papers that explore cultural, aesthetic or literary topics in East Asian literature, film and other media from an interdisciplinary, cross-cultural perspective. Papers that are concerned with the movement of texts and ideas across borders within East Asia or between East and West, as well as the translation of traditional literary works into popular literary or cinematic expressions, or the impact of globalization upon the dissemination of popular culture are welcome, but submissions need not be limited to them. New comparative research on any period of modern East Asian Literature and/or Film welcome. Please submit a proposal of no more than 250 words by June 6, 2011.

Geraldine Fiss
East Asian Languages and Cultures
University of Southern California
3501 Trousdale Parkway, THH 372
Los Angeles, CA 90089-0357
(626) 500-6223
Email: gfiss@usc.edu

Contact Information:

For inquiries: gfiss@usc.edu

For submissions: gfiss@usc.edu

Website: http://www.pamla.org/

25 March 2011

Requirements:

We are looking for a writer with strong English skills and an art history background or strong interest in East Asian Art who is competent and interested in doing projects with us.

Our company is in the process of building an online portal for Asian Brushpainting.
This portal is mainly focusing on Chinese and East-Asian art forms such as Sumi-e and Calligraphy.

It is aiming at providing artists with the opportunity to purchase relevant supplies for these art forms but also create interesting and relevant content for the portals and thus drive traffic.

The tasks would involve the following:

Define content structure for a blog/shop dedicated to Calligraphy.

Content could include such categories as:

# Basic Knowledge
# Historic Background
# Main calligraphy schools / styles
# Introducing the tools
# Basic Tutorial(s)
# Advanced Tutorial(s)

Write about 60 articles of 250-500 words per article

# 10-20 articles during the first 2 weeks
# 5-10 articles per week later

Articles to interact with visual content:

Consider in your articles where it would make sense to insert an illustration, picture or video on the text and think about a rough script for these; our photographers / illustrators and video-guys would then prepare these so we can embed that content in the written content

Skills:

>> Ability to structure tasks and texts
>> Excellent work ethic and reliable
>> Great communication skills to communicate with international team
>> Ability to quickly acquire know-how in a new field and translate these into well sounding texts

Starting Time: As soon as possible

Period: 1 month

Payment: USD 1,000

Apply here.

10 March 2011

Deadline: 3 April 2011

The Stanford Journal of East Asian Affairs showcases outstanding papers on East Asia and Southeast Asia written by undergraduate and graduate students; it is one of the few publications in existence with such a mission. SJEAA accepts original articles from all academic disciplines pertaining to China/Hong Kong/Taiwan, Japan, Korea and Greater East Asia (including Southeast Asia). Published editions of the journal include topics such as politics, international relations, economics, history, literature, and the arts. Supported by the Stanford Center for East Asian Studies, SJEAA is currently distributed internationally and regularly receives submissions from leading universities in the US and abroad.


We are now accepting submissions for the next issue.

Submission Deadline: April 3, 2011 (midnight, Pacific Daylight Time)

We also accept book review submissions for books whose first publication date is between 2009 and 2011. Book reviews should be above 900 words in length.

What and how to Submit

* To submit your work, e-mail your submission as a Word document (doc-format, not docx-format) to sjeaa-submissions@lists.stanford.edu. All other inquiries should be directed to sjeaa-inquiries@lists.stanford.edu.

* Your subject line should fit the following format:
[region (China / Japan / Korea / Southeast Asia)] [author name] [paper title]
(e.g. [China] [Paul Simon] [Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon: Filmed Narratives of Cross-Strait Relations])

* You will need to include a short abstract on the first page of your article briefly summarizing the key points and findings of your paper. These abstracts may or may not be published with the research article itself, should your article be selected for publication. Please look to the abstracts published at the beginning of articles in previous issues for examples of what is appropriate.

* Together with your Word document, attach the following cover sheet.

* Please rename the cover sheet from "SJEAAcoversheet.doc" to "ARTICLE_NAMEcoversheet.doc".

* Figures and pictures must be supplied by the author as separate files in the highest resolution obtainable (in order to obtain the best print quality). This may have to involve scanning in the original source at a high resolution. Furthermore, they must be such that they show up okay in black-and-white printing.

* Allow two weeks to receive confirmation of receipt.

* Submissions are welcomed from undergraduate and graduate students in the U.S. and abroad.

Guidelines and Requirements

* A quality article should make a clear and compelling argument, convey the topic’s significance within the broad context of its field, provide a balanced analysis, demonstrate knowledge of the subject area, and be written in a coherent and engaging manner.

* As a generalist publication, SJEAA asks that authors avoid technical jargon as much as possible. Authors should assume an audience who is familiar with the East Asian region but who may not be specialists in a particular field.

* Authors should follow the Chicago Manual of Style (The University of Chicago Press) format for references and endnotes. The Manual should also be consulted for questions of style, grammar, punctuation, and form.

* Submissions must be at least 4000 words and should be less than 8000 words (counting the article's body without the abstract, subheadings, captions, block quotes, and references) on single-spaced pages. Submissions above 8000 words will be considered but may be at a disadvantage due to their length; if accepted, such submissions will need to be shortened to 8000 words during the editing process, and thus we strongly recommend that authors shorten long articles (such as theses, dissertations, or chapters thereof) down to 8000 words for submission already.

* Please ensure that the title is clearly marked on each page.

* Authors must provide complete references with their submissions, including page citations.

* Pictures are okay if relevant. No pictures of an article's author, though.

* The paper format of a submission should be "Letter", not "A4".

* Submissions will be evaluated on an anonymous basis. To avoid potential conflicts of interest, information identifying the author should only be included on the cover sheet and must not appear in the Word document. If possible, authors should use Word's "Prepare -> Inspect Document" feature to remove hidden personal information in the document. This feature is available in Word 2007; for older versions there is an official (and freely downloadable) plug-in for that purpose.

* We accept manuscripts with the understanding that its content is original and that it has not been accepted for publication or review elsewhere.

* The final decision to publish an article or refuse publication rests solely with the Editorial Board.

More information here.

14 February 2011

Deadline: 30 March 2011

EPIK YOUNG LEADERS CONFERENCE 2011: ESSAY COMPETITION

The East Asia Institute (EAI) invites undergraduate and graduate students to share their thoughts on the critical challenges facing our global society through the "EPIK Young Leaders Conference 2011: Essay Competition." The EPIK Young Leaders Conference, as an academic forum for sharing a global mindset among young people, has now become an annual event following the success of its inaugural conference last year.

In light of the global challenges lying ahead, the role of youth in addressing these challenges grows important. This essay competition strives to offer a great opportunity for students not only to present their innovative ideas but also to enrich the extensive networks with each other by exchanging views. We encourage you think analytically, creatively, and strategically while participating in the "EPIK Young Leaders Conference 2011: Essay Competition."

THEME: "Sustainable Future"

Participants can choose any topic pertaining to the main question, "In this age of uncertainty, what is a new, sustainable vision for our future? What can you and the young people of the world do to realize that vision?"

GUIDELINE

1. Essays must be submitted by undergraduate and graduate students aged 18-35.
2. Essays must be approximately 5,000 words in English.
3. Essays must be written by one person. Co-authored essays are not accepted.
4. Entries must be submitted by email (epik2011@eai.or.kr) only.
5. Email entries must be in MS Word format.
6. All submissions must be original and unpublished.
7. The EPIK Young Leaders Conference is conducted in English.
8. After two rounds of competition, the finalists will have an opportunity to get feedback from the advisory committee members and present their papers at the conference on August 17, 2011.

DEADLINE/ SUBMISSION:

Application must be submitted now through March 30, 2011.
Application includes a 400 word proposal, resume and cover letter. [Download]

IMPORTANT DATES:

1. First Round
March 30, 2011: Application deadline
April 20, 2011: The first selections to be announced.

2. Second Round
June 20, 2011: Deadline for the first draft (approximately 5,000 words)
July 10, 2011: The final selections to be announced.

3. Final Essay Submission
August 10, 2011: Deadline for the final draft (approximately 5,000 words) after consultation with the advisory committee members

4. EPIK Young Leaders Conference 2011
August 17, 2011: Essay presentation and award ceremony

AWARDS

1st prize: 1,000,000 KRW (one person)
2nd prize: 500,000 KRW (two persons)

PLEASE SEND YOUR APPLICATION TO: epik2011@eai.or.kr

More information here.

28 December 2010

Deadline: 20 January 2011

Call for Papers for a Special Issue of East Asian Science, Technology and Society: Nationalism and Science in East Asia

Deadline for abstracts (500 words): January 20, 2011

We invite papers that will examine the relationship between science and nationalism in East Asia. Science and nationalism are arguably the two most vital features of modernity, yet their relationship to each other has received surprisingly little scholarly attention. The small body of scholarship that does exist tends to focus on non-Eastern Asian nations.

The purpose of this subject issue is two folded. First, it seeks to explore, deepen, and complicate our understanding of the historical and current development, promotion, and practice of science, technology, and medicine in relation to nationalism, and vice versa, particularly in the context of East Asian. Second, it aims to generate active discussions that draw insights and questions from rich scholarships on nationalism, STS, and East Asian studies.

Questions that papers may explore include, but not limited to:

— how science (and technology & medicine) and nationalism has mobilized each other

— what role science (and technology & medicine) has played in national identity building

— how did colonial and postcolonial politics shape the way in which science (and technology & medicine) and nationalism interact with each other

— how does science (and technology & medicine) invoke nativist, essentialist, religious nationalist, and modernist debates about state formation and nation building?

— what role does nationalism play in shaping the way in which science (and technology & medicine) is promoted, developed, and practiced?

We welcome papers from various disciplines, including STS, history, literature, and anthropology.

The full paper is due on March 15.

Abstracts should clearly address the theme and focus of the subject issue and should be sent to the editors:

Hiromi Mizuno (mizuno@umn.edu) and Shigeru Nakayama (nakayama.hs@nifty.com)

East Asian Science, Technology and Society (EASTS) is an interdisciplinary, quarterly journal based in Taiwan and co-edited by editorial boards in Taiwan, Japan, South Korea, and the West. For more about the journal:

http://www.springer.com/social+sciences/journal/12280

More information here.

13 November 2010

Brill is happy to announce its new book series, the Eurasian Studies Library (ESL).

Scope: Historical, socio-cultural, and political studies stretching from Eastern Europe to East Asia with the emphasis on cross-cultural encounter, empires and colonialism, gender and nationalities issues, various forms of Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, and other religions from the Middle Ages to the end of the Soviet Union.

Editors-in-Chief: Sergei Bogatyrev & Dittmar Schorkowitz

We are actively seeking new monographs for the series. Should you be interested in proposing your work or idea, please feel free to visit us next week at the ASEEES Convention in Los Angeles, booth #108.

Series homepage: www.brill.nl/esl

Slavic Program homepage: www.brill.nl/Slavic

Ivo Romein
Editor, Slavic & Eurasian Studies, Brill

More information here.