SEAP e-newsletter vol. 10212011

Southeast Asia Program Brown Bag Lecture Series

 

Thursday, October 27 - “Facing Water Scarcity in Asia: Implications for Rice Production,” Randy Barker (Professor Emeritus, Applied Economics and Management, Cornell University) and Gil Levine (Professor Emeritus, Biological and Environmental Engineering, Cornell University), 12:15 PM -to- 1:30 PM, 102 Mann Library *please note venue change*  *co-sponsored by the Cornell International Institute for Food, Agriculture and Development, East Asia Program and South Asia Program*

Randy Barker and Gil Levine – professor emeriti - have been conducting research and teaching courses together in water management for almost half a century. Barker is an agricultural economist, Levine is an agricultural engineer.  The focus of their work has been Asia where approximately 80 percent of the developed water resources are used for irrigation and more than half the irrigated area is planted to rice.  This fall they have joined colleagues to offer a graduate seminar “Water management in an era of growing water scarcity.”    It may be hard living here in Ithaca to think of water scarcity.  The area of greatest water scarcity is in Asia. Approximately 40 percent of the world’s population and an even greater percentage of the world’s poor depend directly or indirectly for their food security on the eight rivers of the Himalayan Watershed (from the Yellow River in China to the Indus in Pakistan). In this seminar will discuss some of the major issues in rice production and water management facing the region focusing on some of perceptions and misconceptions.    As with the two earlier Mann Library, CIIFAD, Asian Area Studies seminars, we will focus on rice. Lunch will be served before the seminar allowing you to sample several varieties of rice.   Handouts will be available to illustrate once again how Cornell University, centrally isolated in upstate New York, has become a world leader in rice research. 

 

Conferences

 

Saturday, October 22 - 7th Cornell-Yale Northeastern Conference on Indonesia, 8:00 AM -to- 5:30 PM, Kahin Center, 640 Stewart Ave.

The Cornell University Indonesian Association (CIA) and the Yale Indonesia Forum (YIF) invite you to participate in our seventh biannual Northeast conference on Indonesia. We are honored to have Professor Emeritus Benedict Anderson returning as our keynote speaker.  This conference was inspired by the 80th anniversary of the Second Youth Congress, where Indonesian intellectuals from diverse cultures and language groups declared their unity with the Indonesian national identity that constitutes “one land, one people, and a unifying language of Indonesia.”  The Cornell-­Yale conference continues this aspiration by serving as a forum for the exchange of knowledge about today’s Indonesia with the Indonesian language as its main medium of communication.  It brings together seasoned professors, and up-and-coming researchers, students from the physical and social sciences and humanities to share and learn each other’s studies, research, and novel ideas for the advancement of today’s Indonesia. 

 

 

 

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

 

The Fourth International Conference on Hmong Studies, (The Center for Hmong Studies, Concordia University, St. Paul, MN) – Call for papers deadline: October 31, 2011

 

"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

 

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 (International Relations Program, Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, MA) – Application Deadline: November 1, 2011

 

2012 Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans (Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans, New York NY) – Application Deadline: November 1, 2011

 

Postdoctoral Fellowship, Asian Studies (Asian Studies Program, Hamilton College, Clinton, NY) – Application Deadline: November 1, 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

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

 

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