From: "Monika Lehner" <monika.lehner@UNIVIE.AC.AT>
To: <H-ASIA@H-NET.MSU.EDU>
Sent: Friday, December 02, 2011 10:06 PM
Subject: H-ASIA: Call for Applications: AAS/SSRC Dissertation Workshop
> H-ASIA
> December 2, 2011
>
> Call for Applications: AAS/SSRC Dissertation Workshop
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> From: "Asian Studies" <asianstudies@ssrc.org>
>
> AAS/SSRC Dissertation Workshop
>
> Rewriting History: Nationalism, Identity, and the Politics of the Past
> Toronto, March 12-15, 2012
>
> Application Now Available Online at:
> http://www.ssrc.org/fellowships/aasworkshop/
>
> The Association for Asian Studies and the Social Science Research Council
> are pleased to announce plans for the first jointly organized AAS/SSRC
> Dissertation Workshop funded by the Henry Luce Foundation. The workshop
> will be held in conjunction with the AAS annual conference in Toronto in
> March, 2012, and will be organized and led by David Szanton, and follow
> the same basic model used in previous AAS workshops.
> Radical and conservative scholars, novelists and biographers, governments,
> education ministries, and tourist agencies are all writing and rewriting
> national histories and narratives. The attempt to strengthen or legitimate
> specific interests has entailed the rediscovery, reinterpretation and even
> the reinvention of values and identities, past social forms, victories and
> defeats, as well as natural and human trauma. Rewriting the past and
> creating heritage are of course ancient and seemingly universal phenomena,
> raising difficult questions about what we can know and the politics of
> historical writing. Issues of rewriting history are not limited to the
> concerns of historians; they are as salient to anthropologists, political
> scientists, specialists on religion, cultural studies, and others across
> the humanities and social sciences. The goals and modes of these
> reinterpretations may be scholarly, political, and/or popular. Clearly,
> all across Asia the past is not dead.
> This workshop is intended to bring together doctoral students in the
> humanities and social sciences who are (1) developing dissertation
> proposals or are in early phases of research or dissertation writing; and
> who are (2) also dealing with the kinds of issues mentioned above in the
> context of contemporary or historic Asian states and societies.
> The workshop will be limited to 12 students, ideally from a broad array of
> disciplines and working on a wide variety of materials in a variety of
> time periods, and in various regions of Asia. It also will include a small
> multidisciplinary and multi-area faculty with similar concerns.
> The workshop will be scheduled for the days immediately preceding the 2012
> AAS annual conference in Toronto. It will cover two and one-half days of
> intense discussion beginning the evening of Monday, March 12, and running
> through noon of Thursday, March 15.
> Participants of this workshop will be invited back for a post-fieldwork
> workshop to be held in 2014. The second workshop will be held 24 months
> later, after many or most participants have completed a significant amount
> of fieldwork or archival research and are at varying stages in the writing
> process. This follow-up workshop is intended to help participants shape
> and articulate the key focus of their dissertations as they begin writing.
> The organizers will be able to provide financial support for participants
> including three night's accommodations, meals and travel funds. It is
> hoped that participants also will attend the AAS annual meeting
> immediately following the workshop.
> Applicants need not have advanced to candidacy but must have at least
> drafted a dissertation research proposal. Applications are also welcome
> from doctoral students in the early phases of writing their dissertations.
> The application is available on the SSRC website
> (http://www.ssrc.org/fellowships/aasworkshop/) and must be submitted
> online by January 3, 2012.
> Workshop participants will be selected on the basis of the submitted
> projects, the potential for useful exchanges among them, and a concern to
> include a wide range of disciplinary perspectives, intellectual
> traditions, and regions of Asia. Applicants will be informed whether or
> not they have been selected for the workshop by late January.
>
> For further information about the workshop structure or eligibility,
> please contact David Szanton
> Szanton@berkeley.edu<mailto:Szanton@berkeley.edu>. Questions concerning
> administrative matters or the application process should be directed to
> Nicole Restrick Restrick@ssrc.org<mailto:Restrick@ssrc.org>.
>
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