SEAP e-newsletter vol. 10282011

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**Support for the Flood Victims in Thailand**

The Southeast Asia Program at Cornell University offers our condolences to those in Thailand affected by the recent flooding. If you wish to donate to victims of the flood, you can do so through the Royal Thai Embassy.  Please send a check or money order (payable to Royal Thai Embassy) to Consular Affairs Section, Royal Thai Embassy, 1024 Wisconsin Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C., 20007.  Information on donations is available through the Embassy's Twitter feed, @ThaiEmbDC.

 

Southeast Asia Program Brown Bag Lecture Series

 

Thursday, November 3 - “'Banks Not Bombs': Islamic Capitalism, Shariah Elites, and Malaysia's Islamic Future”, Patricia Sloane-White (Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Delaware), 12:15 PM -to- 1:30 PM, Kahin Center, 640 Stewart Ave. *co-sponsored by the Department of Anthropology*

Malaysia’s Malay-Muslim-led government and its Central Bank have together created a Malaysian Islamic financial industry of remarkable depth and breadth—today the second largest in the world. Malaysia has a distinct advantage in capturing a vast share of this booming market: investing into it an enormous amount of human and financial capital, and allowing interpretations for Shariah contracts that make its Islamic financial products the most innovative and sophisticated (and often most controversial) in the world. This talk draws on extensive anthropological research conducted among the elite Shariah scholars who, based on Malaysia’s Shafi’e interpretations, assure the Islamicity of the increasingly complex products and services on offer to what Malaysian Islamic marketers call the “global Shariah-sensitive investor.” I call these progenitors, promoters, and guarantors of Malaysia’s Islamic market the “Shariah elite,” Islamic bankers and scholars who believe that via the grand-scale Malaysian and global Islamic capitalism they are creating, the best of Islam will be realized. Not only do Shariah elites offer their Islamic alternative as a much-needed corrective to the flaws they perceive in the capitalist West, they promise to rehabilitate Islam in the eyes of the West, presenting Islam via “Banks Not Bombs.”

 

Job postings

 

Assistant Professor, Southeast Asian Literature/Religion/Culture – Application Deadline: December 1, 2011

The Department of Asian Studies at Cornell University seeks applicants specializing in the literature(s) and/or religion(s) and/or culture(s) of one or more Southeast Asian countries, to begin July 1, 2012.  This is an assistant professor position designated broadly in Southeast Asian humanities.  Scholars with a strong record in research and publishing are especially encouraged to apply, particularly if they have developed interdisciplinary and comparative approaches to their academic work.  Specializations that support and complement existing strengths of the department in literature, religion, cultural studies, and intellectual history are welcome, and specializations in Islamic cultures or media studies are especially encouraged.  Ph.D. required.  Submit a letter of application to include statement of research and teaching, curriculum vitae, a writing sample, and three letters of recommendation electronically at https://academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/1223.  Cornell University is an affirmative action/equal opportunity employer and educator.

 

 

Events

 

Monday, November 7 – A Taste of Culture Fall '11, Memorial Room, Willard Straight Hall, Cornell University

The Taste of Culture is a semi-annual food festival that is a popular school-wide event attended by hundreds in the Cornell Community.  Sponsored by the Translator-Interpreter Program (TIP) and the Language Pairing Program (LPP), it is a night where the Cornell community can come together to enjoy a night of free food and learn more about cultural diversity.  Various student organizations across campus participate by providing food and information about their culture and heritages.

 

 

Call for Papers/Conferences

 

"Place: Connections and Dislocations in Asia,"  4^th Annual Arizona State University Graduate Conference on Asian Studies (Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ) – Conference dates: November 4-5, 2011

 

Localizing Global Justice: Rethinking Law and Human Rights in Southeast Asia, (Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University, New York, NY) – Conference dates: November 4-5, 2011

 

"Long Live Shame! The Good Side of Nations and Nationalism", Jessie and John Danz Lecture, (Room 120, Kane Hall, University of Washington, Seattle, WA) – Conference dates: November 8, 2011

 

2012 East Coast Asian American Student Union (ECAASU) Conference, (Duke University, Durham, NC) – Call for papers deadline: November 15, 2011

 

Architectures of Mobility: Structures, Circuits, Deformations, 3rd Annual Transnational Asia Graduate Student Conference (Chao Center for Asian Studies, Rice University, Houston, TX ) – Call for papers deadline: November 28, 2011

 

Theravada Civilizations Project Doctoral and Post-doctoral Workshop, (University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada) – Call for papers deadline: December 15, 2011

 

Fellowships/Job postings

 

Assistant Professor (The International Institute and the Division of Social Sciences, University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA) – Application Deadline: Open until filled

 

Assistant Professor, Transnational Studies (Department of American Studies, University of Maryland, College Park, MD) - Application Deadline: November 15, 2011

 

Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Professor of Contemporary Islamic Religion and Society (Harvard Divinity School, Cambridge, MA) – Application Deadline: November 30, 2011

 

Assistant Professor, South Asian or Southeast Asian Art (Department of History of Art, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA) – Application Deadline: December 1, 2011

 

Assistant Professor in Burmese Language (Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures and the Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL) – Application Deadline: December 1, 2011

 

UCLA Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Humanities (The Division of Humanities, University of California – Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA) – Application Deadline: December 1, 2011

 

Blakemore Foundation - Grants for Advanced Language Study (The Blakemore Foundation, Seattle, WA) – Application Deadline: December 30, 2011

 

2012-2013 Walter H. Shorenstein Fellowships (The Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center, Stanford University, Stanford, CA) – Application Deadline: December 31, 2011

 

 

Call for Papers/Conferences

 

Indonesian Urban Cultures and Societies, 3rd International Graduate Student Conference on Indonesia, (Graduate School of Gadjah Mada University, Sekolah Pascasarjana UGM) Conference date: November 8, 2011

 

World Wide Asia: Asian Flows, Global Impacts, IIAS Summer Programme in Asian Studies, (Leiden University, The Netherlands) – Application deadline: November 16, 2011

 

The Politics, Practices, and Poetics of the Archive Singapore, 7th Annual Southeast Asian Cinemas Conference, (Singapore) – Call for Papers deadline: November 30, 2011

 

Job Postings

 

Executive Director and Operations Manager (two separate professional positions) (Focus on the South, Bangkok, Thailand) – Application Deadline: November 15, 2011