Seven Postdoctoral Fellowships In The Humanities, University of Oxford
The University of Oxford Humanities Division is delighted to announce $1.8 million in funding from the Andrew W Mellon Foundation for postdoctoral fellowships. Six fixed-term research and teaching appointments in the selected broad research areas are available from 1 October 2009 for two years, and one post for one year. A further five posts will be available from October 2011 in other research areas and will be advertised closer to the time.
Although the major part of the fellowship will be devoted to research, the aim is also to equip the fellows in all aspects of an academic career, and the fellowship will also involve a limited amount of teaching and some administrative duties. An academic mentor will be assigned to each fellow, and support for further development in academic practice, learning and teaching will be available through the Oxford Learning Institute and the Division’s Teaching Development Coordinator. The fellowship will have a college association, and a £4000 p.a. research allowance will be available for the two-year posts.
How to apply:
Applicants must have completed their doctorates and be starting out on preparing a second research theme as well as showing the potential for future academic leadership. Each area will be interpreted broadly and applicants with ‘interdisciplinary’ research agendas will not be disadvantaged; selection committees will be looking primarily for academic excellence.
The posts will be tenable in the following research areas.ASIA, C. 1700 TO THE PRESENT – Faculty of Oriental Studies;
• ETHNOMUSICOLOGY – Faculty of Music;
• HISTORY OF HINDU RELIGIOUS CULTURES IN SOUTH
• LATE ANTIQUE OR EARLY ISLAMIC HISTORY – Faculties of Classics; and Oriental Studies (one-year post, available at £28,839 p.a.);
• PHILOSOPHY OF COGNITIVE SCIENCE – Faculty of Philosophy;
• SEMANTICS – Faculties of Philosophy; and Linguistics, Philology and Phonetics;
• SOCIOLINGUISTICS – Faculties of English Language and Literature; and Linguistics, Philology and Phonetics;
• TRANSNATIONAL HISTORY – Faculty of History.
For further particulars for each post and details of how to apply, see http://www.humanities.ox.ac.uk/vacancies
The closing date is 12 noon on Friday 6 March 2009.
Call for Papers – ‘South Asian Diaspora’ (Routledge)
Please find attached Call for Papers of a new Routledge journal titled South Asian Diaspora. The journal details can be found in the following website: http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/19438192.asp
Attached pdf: call-for-papers
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Research Analysts South Asia at the FCO
Research Analysts South Asia (India/ Bangladesh and Pakistan)
Informing British Foreign Policy
£29,539 – £53,783 plus an additional £3,000 location allowance
Help inform and influence British foreign policy with your expert knowledge and analytical skills. The Foreign Office’s Research Analysts are looking for experts on Asia, Counter-Terrorism and the work of international institutions and the issues they address.
This is a unique opportunity to become one of our most influential voices in your field. You’ll immerse yourself in the full range of issues affecting UK policy in your specialist subject area. Based on your deep knowledge, you’ll provide critical insight, analysis and advice to policy-making departments.
By developing close working relationships with FCO and Government policy makers, you’ll be able to directly impact UK policy. You’ll also forge close contacts with external academic bodies and think tanks. Overseeing an effective archive will be an essential part of your remit.
You will bring highly developed research and analysis skills, and (a) a post-graduate degree in the relevant subject area; or (b) a degree plus substantial subsequent experience in the field and research experience. You’ll be able to master large amounts of data quickly, drawing sound, accurate and relevant conclusions from them, allied with the ability to present arguments clearly both orally and in writing. Experience of working flexibly, in a team and using your initiative is essential.
What can you expect in return? A challenging and diverse working environment in which to develop your expertise, with regular opportunities for travel and exchanging ideas with the wider expert and policy community.
Flexible working is encouraged and a London allowance is provided.
To find out more detail about the individual jobs and their requirements visit http://www.fco.gov.uk
Apply now at: http://www.fco.gov.uk/en/about-the-fco/working-for-us/careers/
Closing date for applications: 16 February 2009.
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SAMAJ – South Asia Multidisciplinary Academic Journal
SAMAJ is pleased to announce the publication of its latest yearly Special Issue on ”’Outraged Communities’: Comparative Perspectives on the Politicization of Emotions in South Asia”, with articles by Nosheen Ali, Amélie Blom, Thomas Blom Hansen, Pierre Centlivres, Christophe Jaffrelot, Nicolas Jaoul, Ali Riaz, Charlène Simon and Lionel Baixas.
This issue is accessible in full at: http://samaj.revues.org/sommaire234.html
The next issue, edited by Balveer Arora, Stéphanie Tawa Lama-Rewal and Gilles Verniers, will be devoted to “Indian Elections 2009: Perspectives from the States”.
SAMAJ also features free-subject articles, such as our latest one: ‘Questioning the Role of the Indian Administrative Service in National Integration’ (Dalel Benbabaali).
SAMAJ is a multidisciplinary, peer-reviewed, on-line journal, devoted to social science studies on South Asia. For more information, please visit our website http://samaj.revues.org/
SAMAJ Editorial Board
(Nosheen Ali, Luc Bellon, Amélie Blom, Miniya Chatterji, Jérémie Codron, Gilles Dorronsoro, Nicolas Jaoul, Loraine Kennedy, Aminah Mohammad-Arif, Christine Moliner, Mariam Mufti, Stéphanie Tawa Lama-Rewal and Ingrid Therwath)
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South Asian Studies for young scholars – August 17-19, 2009
On August 17 -19, 2009, the Swedish South Asian Studies Network (SASNET) organizes a three day long Nordic multidisciplinary conference on South Asian Studies for Young Scholars. The conference will take place at Falsterbo conference retreat outside Malmö in the southern part of Sweden.
The aim of the Nordic Conference on South Asian Studies for Young Scholars is to gather master students, doctoral students, postdoctoral researchers and other junior scholars in the Nordic countries (including Denmark, Finland , Iceland , Norway and Sweden) who focus on South Asia in their research studies. The conference will provide an opportunity for young scholars to present their future and ongoing research projects, establish contacts with colleagues in the Nordic countries, and discuss the challenges and opportunities of career planning and conducting research in South Asian Studies. The conference will also give young scholars a chance to learn about ongoing Nordic network activities in South Asian Studies and together with senior colleagues discuss important issues related to funding, publication, academic networking, teaching and practical implications of conducting research in the South Asian region.
The conference is open for master students, doctoral students, postdoctoral researchers from all disciplines who have research interest in the South Asian Studies and are affiliated to universities in the Nordic countries. The working language of the conference is English.
Keynote speakers
Prof. Vinayak Chaturvedi, University of California Irvine
Prof. Pamela Price, Oslo University
Dr. Mirja Juntunen, Nordic Center in India
Editor Teddy Primack, Academic Documents Associates
The deadline for registration is May 15, 2009
For more information, contact the planning committee at: contact@sasnetconference.se
For full details: http://www.sasnetconference.se/
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Religion and Globalization in Asia: Prospects, Patterns, and Problems for the Coming Decade
March 13 & 14, 2009 University of San Francisco, Lone Mountain Campus
Presented by The Kiriyama Chair for Pacific Rim Studies at the USF Center for the Pacific Rim
Join us in beautiful San Francisco as keynote speakers Mark Juergensmeyer (UC Santa Barbara), Saskia Sassen (Columbia), Nayan Chanda (Yale)-and nine other presenters — explore the dynamics of globalizing forces on the established and emerging religions of South and East Asia.
One of our central concerns will be to understand “the dialectical tension of codependence and codeterminism between religion and globalization.” How do communication technologies, capital flows, security issues, transnationalism, immigration and migration, and identity politics contribute to social conditions in which some kinds of religious belief and practice prosper and proliferate, while others are adversely affected?
Conference Description:
Few scholars or policy makers twenty years ago could have imagined that the first decades of the 21st century would be a time of explosive and wide-spread religiosity. As modernity progressed and societies became more secular and democratic, religion was supposed to loosen its hold on the ways men and women envisioned their place in the world. On the contrary, the dynamics of globalization-such as communication technologies, immigration and migration, capital flows, transnationalism, and identity politics-have contributed to social conditions in which religious belief and practice not only survive but prosper and proliferate.
Please visit the conference website: http://www.pacificrim.usfca.edu/religionandglobalization.html
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Journal of South Asian Popular Culture 4th International Conference – Call for Papers
The University of Manchester, UK, Mon 6 – Tues 7 July 2009
Keynote Speakers
Purnima Mankekar, UCLA (USA)
Rosie Thomas, University of Westminster (UK)
SAPC’s 4th meeting invites interdisciplinary contributions from across subjects in the arts, humanities and social sciences to engage with notions of popular culture. ‘South Asian popular culture’ is defined in a broad and inclusive way to incorporate lived and textual cultures, the mass and new media, different ways of life, and discursive modes of representation. Central to the formation of popular cultures are articulations of the economic, social and political spheres and the conference especially welcomes papers that will highlight these issues. Full details: 4th-conf-cfp
For further information and to send your paper or panel abstracts please contact:
Dr Rajinder Dudrah, Drama, Martin Harris Building, University of
Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester, M13-9PL, UK.
Email: rajinder.dudrah@manchester.ac.uk
Deadline for the submission of abstracts: 23 February 2009
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Call for Papers: At Home in the World: South Asians and the BBC World Service 1932-2008
A Special Issue of South Asian Diaspora will be published in 2010 on:
“At Home in the World: South Asians and the BBC World Service 1932-2008”
Guest Editors: Marie Gillespie, Sharika Thiranagama, Gerd Baumann
The South Asian Diaspora, shaped by dispersions of people, goods, ideas and beliefs that flowed from and through the Indian Subcontinent is currently one of the world’s largest diasporas. India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Bhutan and the Maldives
Call for Papers: At Home in the World: South Asians and the BBC World Service 1932-2008 http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/cfp/rsadcfp1.pdf
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Nordic conference on South Asian Studies for Young Scholars
On August 17 – 19, 2009, the Swedish South Asian Studies Network (SASNET) will organize a three day long Nordic multidisciplinary conference on South Asian Studies for Young Scholars. The conference will take place at Falsterbo conference retreat outside Malmö in Sweden.
The aim of the Nordic Conference on South Asian Studies for Young Scholars is to gather master students, doctoral students, postdoctoral researchers and other junior scholars in the Nordic countries (including Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden) who focus on South Asia in their research studies. The conference will provide an opportunity for young scholars to present their future and ongoing research projects, establish contacts with colleagues in the Nordic countries, and discuss the challenges and opportunities of career planning and conducting research in South Asian Studies. The event will also give young scholars a chance to learn about ongoing Nordic network activities in South Asian Studies and together with senior colleagues discuss important issues related to funding, publication, academic networking and practical implications of conducting research in the South Asian region. To achieve the overall objective the conference will include plenary and thematic sessions in which the participants will address themes and questions related to South Asian Studies from both disciplinary and interdisciplinary angles.
The conference is open for master students, doctoral students, postdoctoral researchers in all disciplines who have special research interest in the South Asian region and are affiliated to universities in the Nordic countries. The conference fee is 150 SEK (15 Euro) and participants are responsible for their own travels, while SASNET will provide free board and lodging at Falsterbo conference retreat.
Registration will be open between February 1 and May 15 on a conference website to be announced in the beginning of 2009.
Welcome!
For more information about the conference, contact Kristina Myrvold at:
Kristina.Myrvold@teol.lu.se
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Making Britain Events
Inter-University Postcolonial Seminar Series: Spring 2009
Making Britain: South Asian Resistances, 1870–1950
This series of seminars co-ordinated by Dr Sumita Mukherjee and Dr Rehana Ahmed will be addressing various forms of resistance by South Asians in Britain during this period. It forms part of the regular series organised by the Open University Postcolonial Research Group in association with the Institute of English Studies
Venue: NG15 (North Block, Institute of English Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E
Time: 17.30 – 19.00
Tuesday 27 January Anne Kershen ‘The Alien in the Aliens Act: Defining the Outsider’
Anne Kershen has been Director of the Centre for the Study of Migration at Queen Mary, University of London, since its foundation in 1995. Based in the Department of Politics, she is currently Director of the Masters in Migration and Masters in Migration and Law programmes. She has published widely, her most recent book being Strangers, Aliens and Asians: Huguenots, Jews and Bangladeshis in Spitalfields 1660–2000 (Routledge, 2005). She is currently researching the impact of post-accession migrants on communities with no history of previous immigrant settlement, her spatial focus being Shropshire.
Tuesday 3 February Jacqueline Jenkinson ‘The Role of South Asian Sailors in the 1919 Port Riots’
Jacqueline Jenkinson is Lecturer in History at Stirling University. Her two main research interests are the social history of medicine, on which she has written several books – the most recent being Scotland’s Health: 1919–1948 (Peter Lang, 2002) – and the history of minority ethnic populations in Britain. She has published several articles on the 1919 port riots; the most recent, on the riot in Glasgow, appeared in the journal Twentieth Century British History in January 2008. Her book on the riots, Black 1919: Riots, Racism and Resistance in Post-Colonial Britain, is published by Liverpool University Press in March 2009.
Tuesday 10 February Prabhjot Parmar ‘Strategies of Containment: Censorship and the Indian Soldiers in Britain During the First World War’
Prabhjot Parmar is a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) postdoctoral fellow in the Department of English at Royal Holloway, University of London. Recovering the marginalized experiences of Indian soldiers who fought in the First World War, her postdoctoral project examines their letters as cultural artifacts within the context of war testimonies. She is the co-editor of When Your Voice Tastes Like Home: Immigrant Women Write and has published articles on the literary and cinematic representations of Partition. Currently she is teaching at the University of Western Ontario in Canada.
Tuesday 24 February Michèle Barrett ‘“Sending them Missing”: Race, Religion and the Imperial War Graves Commission’
Michèle Barrett is Professor of Modern Literary and Cultural Theory at Queen Mary, University of London. She is a noted social and cultural theorist, with expertise in ideology, aesthetics, gender, and post-structuralist ideas. Her recent work has focused on the literature and art of the First World War period. She has been awarded a Leverhulme Fellowship to study shell shock, and a British Academy grant to research the colonial politics of commemoration. Casualty Figures: Five Survivors of the First World War (Verso, 2008) is her most recent book.
All are welcome; booking is not required.
For further information visit, Making Britain: South Asian Visions of Home and Abroad, 1870-1950
http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/south-asians-making-britain/index.html
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Shared Idioms, Sacred Symbols, and the Articulation of Identities in South Asia, Edited by Kelly Pemberton & Michael Nijhawan, Routledge 2008
About the book
How do text, performance, and rhetoric simultaneously reflect and challenge notions of distinct community and religious identities? This volume examines evidence of shared idioms of sanctity within a larger framework of religious nationalism, literary productions, and communalism in South Asia. Contributors to this volume are particularly interested in how alternative forms of belonging and religious imaginations in South Asia are articulated in the light of normative, authoritative, and exclusive claims upon the representation of identities. Building upon new and extensive historiographical and ethnographical data, the book challenges clear-cut categorizations of group identity and points to the complex historical and contemporary relationships between different groups, organizations, in part by investigating the discursive formations that are often subsumed under binary distinctions of dominant/subaltern, Hindu/Muslim or orthodox/heterodox. In this respect, the book offers a theoretical contribution beyond South Asia Studies by highlighting a need for a new interdisciplinary effort in rethinking notions of identity, ethnicity, and religion.
Table of Contents
Introduction: Towards an Integrative Hermeneutics in the Study of Identity Kelly Pemberton & Michael Nijhawan Part I: Landscapes of Translation: Linguistics, History, and Culture in Focus Chapter 1: A House Overturned: A Classical Urdu Lament in Braj Bhasha Amy Bard & Valerie Ritter Chapter 2: The Politics of Non-Duality: Unravelling the Hermeneutics of Modern Sikh Theology Arvind Mandair Chapter 3: Who are the Vellalas? 20th Century Constructions and Contestations of Tamil Identity in Maraimalai Adigal (1876-1950) Srilata Raman Chapter 4: Can a Muslim be an Indian and not a Traitor or Terrorist? Huma Dar Chapter 5: Variants of Cultural Nationalism in Pakistan: a Reading of Faiz Ahmad Faiz, Jamil Jalibi, and Fahmida Riaz Amina Yaqin Part II: Landscapes of Ritual Performance: Ritual, Agency, and Memory in Focus Chapter 6: Ambivalent Encounters: The Making of Dhadi as a Sikh Performative Practice Michael Nijhawan Chapter 7: Ritual, Reform, and Economies of Meaning at a South Asian Sufi Shrine Kelly Pemberton Chapter 8: Gendered Ritual and the Shaping of Shi`ah Identity Diane D’Souza Chapter 9: History, Memory, and Other Matters of Life and Death Christian Lee Novetzke
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