THE ASIA HOUSE FELLOWSHIP PROGRAMME



The Asia House Fellowship Programme


A unique opportunity to join the global conversation

Asia House has launched a new Fellowship Programme to develop the next generation of business and policy leaders. This is a unique 12-month opportunity for two postgraduate candidates who share Asia House’s vision for a strong and dynamic relationship between Asia, the Middle East and Europe.

The Fellows will each conduct a major research project on the issues driving change across Asia and the Middle East. Their research will be published and distributed by Asia House to its wide network of senior business and policy figures and will inform the Asia House programme of engagement with global leaders.


Research topics

Two funded Fellowships are available in 2022. Applications are invited for original research which will drive forward the debate shaping global trade. The research will ideally fall under one of the following broad categories:
  • Geopolitics and trade
  • Technology and data
  • Energy and sustainability

Download the Asia House Fellowship Programme brochure here.


Benefits and Eligibility

The Fellowships offer a 12-month opportunity to focus on a large piece of research that will be distributed among Asia House’s international network of leading figures from government, trade, business, and technology – including our founding stakeholders: HSBC, Standard Chartered and Prudential.

Fellows will receive research support, a mentorship scheme and leadership advice, alongside the opportunity to be part of Asia House’s renowned business and policy programme and build professional contacts across our network. Fellows will also receive a stipend of circa £24,000.

The Fellowship is open to all nationalities, with the roles expected to be remote. To be eligible, candidates must:
  • Be fluent in written and spoken English.
  • Have a completed Masters and/or PhD by October 2022.
  • Be self-driven and enthusiastic, with leadership potential.
  • Have a keen interest and knowledge of economic/political/commercial issues affecting Asia and/or the Middle East.

How to apply

To apply, please send the following to: fellowship@asiahouse.co.uk
  • A personal statement (one page max) about yourself and why you want to be an Asia House Fellow.
  • CV (no more than two pages) which must include details of your academic research background and any leadership experience.
  • An outline of your proposed research project (maximum two pages).
  • Two professional/academic references.
Closing date: 31 January 2022

More information can be found in the Asia House Fellowship Programme brochure

If you have any queries about the Fellowship Programme, please contact fellowship@asiahouse.co.uk

CFP: ART AND RESILIENCE IN RESPONSE TO THE ASIAN CRISIS, 1997-1998


Art Journal,

Art and Resilience in Response to the Asian Crisis, 1997-1998
  

We are developing a special issue to be submitted to Art Journal, titled Art and Resilience in Response to the Asian Crisis, 1997–1998.

Between 1997 and 1998, a series of currency devaluations in East and Southeast Asia caused an economic crisis that led to the widespread reversal of billions of dollars in foreign investment across Thailand, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Hong Kong, and South Korea. The financial and economic crisis became a multifaceted event which affected governance at all levels—regional, national, and even global—and produced social and political strife in many of the affected countries. For example, the upheaval in Indonesia weakened the Suharto government which had ruled for thirty years. Malaysia did not experience a change in government at the time, but the crisis resulted in protests, political reshuffling, and the emergence of the Reformasi movement. In South Korea, with elections a month away when the crisis struck, the government was unable to act decisively until the opposition party’s Kim Dae Jung was sworn in as president in February 1998. In Thailand, Prime Minister Yongchaiyudh was forced to resign after eleven months in office.

In response to the resulting social and political events in their countries, artists from East and Southeast Asia produced art works and exhibitions. In Malaysia, for instance, in 1998, the artists’ collective Artist Pro Activ (APA) organized the multidisciplinary arts festival APA Fest as a response to the volatile economic and sociopolitical conditions that erupted there. In Indonesia, an exhibition entitled Reformasi Indonesia! (2000) displayed “protest art” produced by twelve contemporary Indonesian artists, focusing on the turbulent period of reformasi. In Thailand, failed finance companies sold off art masterpieces they had collected before the crisis at reduced prices to help meet massive corporate debts. In South Korea, previously planned large exhibitions were canceled, but new alternative art spaces were established, filled with exhibitions by artists who had returned to their home country from Europe and America due to the crisis.

This Special Issue solicits papers that discuss national social and political responses to the Asian economic crisis in the context of art history and visual culture at large, including art and art history, performance art, film, and media studies. Broadly, it seeks papers on social and political responses to the Asian crisis in the arts and visual culture and its effect on the art market and the creative industry in general.

Papers for this Special Issue may address, but are not limited to, the following topics:
  • The study of art and visual culture that expresses the concern with conflicts of national identity and community, cultural knowledge, power, and faith during the precarious times of the 1997–98 Asian crisis
  • How the multilayered crisis intensified or accelerated crucial developments in the arts and visual culture, including the larger scope of cultural and visual history
  • Artistic reactions to the political, social, and economic impact of the Asian financial crisis in terms of art-making, exhibition, creative production, networking, and even regional solidarity
  • How the Asian crisis affected art, visual art, and material culture through the art market and creative industries
Please submit inquiries, 300-word abstracts, and brief CVs to coeditors Sarena Abdullah (sarena.abdullah@gmail.com) and/or Suzie Kim (skim8@umw.edu) by November 20, 2021. Authors will be informed of the acceptance of their abstracts by December 15, 2021. Finished papers are due May 31, 2022, to be e-mailed to the coeditors above. Accepted articles should be between 6,000 and 8,000 words in length, including notes, and prepared according to Art Journal style requirements (see this link).

The coeditors will review all papers before submitting them to Art Journal. Please be aware that Art Journal has the right to reject or accept submitted papers through its double-blind peer review process. For further information about the journal, please visit this link.


Contact Info:


CFP: ENCYCLOPEDIA, THE ONLINE STATE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF IOWA


EncyclopedIA,

the Online State Encyclopedia of Iowa


The Department of History at the University of Northern Iowa is actively seeking contributors for the launch of Iowa’s online state encyclopedia in 2022. This digital resource will explore the history of Iowa, using chronological, thematic, and geographic lenses while also thoughtfully considering the diversity of Iowans and embedding the voices, history, and perspectives of those who have been traditionally underrepresented. Submissions will be peer reviewed by the EncyclopedIA Editorial Board prior to acceptance and publication, and documentation of the peer-review process and digital publication will be provided to item writers to add to their professional portfolio.

Audience and Purpose: EncyclopedIA entries will be written to be accessible to the general public as well as educators responsible for integrating Iowa history into their elementary and secondary school classrooms. The state encyclopedia is an outgrowth of Teaching Iowa History, an award-winning, NEH grant-funded project under the leadership of the Iowa Museum Association that supports K-12 educators teaching Iowa history using primary sources. Topics for primary entries in EncyclopedIA will be drawn from the Iowa History Tagging Framework, supporting the K-12 Iowa Social Studies Standards in Iowa History.

Content and Entries: EncyclopedIA entries will vary in length and scope to explore different elements of the history of Iowa and its many communities and people.
  • A-level entries (approximately 3,000 words) cover Iowa History Eras, Themes, and Counties as referenced in the Iowa History Tagging Framework. These topics consider broad processes, developments, and subjects in state history as they have impacted Iowa and Iowans, some over hundreds of years. See Eras and Themes lists below.
  • B-level entries (1,000-1,200 words) cover topics that examine particular elements of A-level subjects in greater depth and detail. Topics under the Thematic column of the Iowa History Tagging Framework offer examples. For example, nested under the Agriculture theme, topics include Science and Technology of Ag and Farmers and Farm Life. See the list below for details.
  • C-level entries (300-700 words) focus on particular persons, places, things, structures, groups, or events that can be linked to broader topics in Iowa history. For example, if the A-level article is Agriculture and the B-level article is the Science of Ag, a supporting C-level article could be Norman Borlaug.
  • D-level entries (200-500 words) offer descriptions of objects and artifacts in publicly accessible collections in Iowa.

Initial Call:

While we welcome expressions of interest in any potential content area and type, in this first call, we are seeking expressions of interest in contributing A- and B-level entries to facilitate the launch of the project. 

The topics:

A-level (approx. 3,000 words): 19 items

Eras

First Iowans (10,000 BCE-1673)
Native Americans & Europeans (1674-1802)
Territorial Iowa (1803-1846)
Statehood and the Civil War Era (1847-1868)
Statewide Settlement (1869-1896)
Prosperity to the Depression (1897-1939)
World War II to the Urban State (1940-1963)
Expansion, Confrontation & the Farm Crisis (1964-1980)
Iowa in a Global World (1991-present)

Themes

Agriculture
Arts & Culture
Business & Industry
Communities
Education
War & Conflict
Environment
Government
People
Transportation

B-level (1,000-1,200 words): 64 items
  • Science & Technology of Ag, Farmers/Farm Life, Ag Economics, Agricultural Products/Types, Early Agriculture (nested under “Agriculture” theme)
  • Civil Rights, Health & Wellness, Sports & Recreation, Religion, Visual Arts, Performing Arts, Literature, Destinations/Attractions, Cultural Events, Media/Communication (nested under “Arts & Culture” theme)
  • Early Business and Industry, Types of Business and Industry, Workers (nested under “Business & Industry” theme)
  • Towns, Cities, Rural Life, Suburbs (nested under “Communities” theme)
  • Before Formal Education System, One-room Schools, K-12 Education (Development of High Schools), Higher Education (nested under “Education” theme)
  • Early Wars, 1763-1848, Civil War, Spanish-American War, WWI, WWII, Korea, Vietnam, Gulf War, Gulf War II / War on Terror, The Military in Iowa (nested under “War & Conflict” theme)
  • Geology, Plants & Animals, Weather, Environments, Natural Disasters (nested under “Environment” theme)
  • Path to Statehood, Judicial System, Forms of Government, Lawmaking, Political System, Services (nested under “Government” theme)
  • Ancient Iowans, Native Americans, Immigrants, Settlers / Pioneers, Early Explorers, Disaster and Crisis, African American Experience, Women’s Experience, Aging Population, Communal Groups, Innovators (nested under “People” theme)
  • Early Transportation, Rail, Automobiles and Trucking, River, Air, Road Systems (nested under “Transportation” theme)
Contributor Proposals:

We welcome expressions of interest in authoring entries on these topics that celebrate, explore, and recover/uncover the rich history of the state and its many different communities and peoples. In addition to established academics, we encourage proposals for contributions from those in early stages of their careers (including graduate students and postdocs) as well as from public history professionals and independent scholars. For additional information and to express interest in contributing content, please contact Dr. Jennifer McNabb, Head of the UNI Department of History, at iaencyclopedia@uni.edu

If interested in contributing, please submit the following:
  • a current C.V.
  • a description of qualifications in Iowa history
  • proposed entries from the A- and/or B-level topics you would like to contribute. Special attention will be paid to proposals that indicate the intention of centering the diversity of Iowa history and its untold stories.

Contact Info:

Jennifer McNabb, Ph.D., Professor and Head of Department of History, University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls, IA 50613-0701


Contact Email:

iaencyclopedia@uni.edu

CFP: THE 2022 GRADUATE STUDENT RESEARCH AND PUBLICATION WORKSHOP, THE GW INSTITUTE FOR KOREAN STUDIES


The 2022 Graduate Student Research and Publication Workshop


The GW Institute for Korean Studies (GWIKS) is announcing a call for papers for the Graduate Student Research and Publication Workshop for 2022.


About this Workshop

The GWIKS Graduate Student Research and Publication Workshop offers a venue for Korean Studies graduate students to present and receive feedback on their ongoing work. This workshop distinguishes itself from others in that it focuses on not only providing advice to students on their research but also mentoring them through the academic publishing process. It brings together scholars of different disciplines in the field and editor of prominent journals. Since the job market is becoming more competitive and job candidates are expected to have at least one or two publications, the aim of the workshop is to help graduate students build relationships with their disciplinary peers and also prepare them early for their ongoing academic careers.

We welcome applications from M.A. or Ph.D. students working on all aspects of Korea, even those that fall outside of the traditional Korean Studies disciplines of history, literature, and the social sciences. We also particularly encourage graduate students outside of the U.S. and English-language academic world to apply.


Application Details

The workshop will take place VIRTUALLY on Friday, January 14 and Saturday, January 15, 2022. Applications are open to all current M.A. or Ph.D. graduate students working on a Korea-related topic.

Interested students should submit the following to gwiks@gwu.edu by October 31, 2021 at 11:59 PM:

1) A paper abstract and proposal of 2-3 pages (in English)

2) A current CV

Successful candidates will be notified in mid-November. There will be a $500.00 prize for the student awarded the 'Best Research Paper'.

For questions on the workshop, please reach out to Jack Davey at daveyja@email.gwu.edu.


About the GWIKS

The GW Institute for Korean Studies (GWIKS), a university wide Institute housed in the Elliott School of International Affairs at the George Washington University was founded in 2016. The establishment of the GWIKS was made possible by a generous grant from the Academy of Korean Studies (AKS). The mission of GWIKS is to consolidate, strengthen, and grow the existing Korean studies program at GW, and more generally in the greater D.C. area and beyond. The Institute enables and enhances productive research and education relationships within GW, and among the many experts throughout the region and the world.


gwiks@gwu.edu


1957 E Street, NW, Suite 503, Washington, DC 20052

CFP: HEALTH INFRAESTRUCTURE AND ASIA'S EPIDEMIOLOGICAL TRANSITIONS: HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES WORKSHOP



Health Infraestructure and Asia's Epidemiological Transitions:

Historical Perspective Workshop


This workshop is jointly organised by the Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore, and the German Institute for Japanese Studies, Tokyo.

The contemporary syndemic of infectious diseases, chronic health conditions, poverty, rising heat, and the lack of access to education and information has brought into focus the fragilities of existing health care systems primarily based on medical centers and reliant on a small core of professionals. This suggests a need to investigate the historical evolution of not only health care systems but also the infrastructures that underlay them; how they have succeeded or failed to cope with epidemiological and other transitions in the long twentieth century that brought us to the present moment.

“Infrastructure” in Science and Technology Studies draws attention to institutions, materials, spaces, routines, and conventions that come together to shape and enable systems. Sociologists of health have adopted the concept of “care infrastructure” to engage with the interactions between material and social elements of present-day home care and selfcare practices against the backdrop of the perceived transition from the age of pestilence to the age of chronic non-communicable diseases. “Health infrastructure” can also broadly encompass historical variations of the socio-technical relations behind all kinds and scales of routine and emergency health services, with an emphasis on integrating those relations within the larger forces of changing demographics, inequality, environmental conditions, political claim making, and state-society as well as international relations.

This workshop will investigate Asian experiences, and in particular those of East and Southeast Asia, in crafting health infrastructure over the long twentieth century. Asia has long been stigmatized as a source of global contagion, yet relatively little research about the fallout of epidemics in the region is available for an English readership. There has also been relatively little historical examination of the everyday health challenges faced by communities in Asia. With many lower-and middle-income countries in the region having faced epidemiological transitions, especially also due to the increasing impact of climate change, and its extensive internal and international migration and trade networks, Asia provides important ground for the comparison of different health infrastructures, their developments, and their ability to cope with crises.

The workshop seeks to bring together scholars with different geographic foci within Asia to engage in a comparative and connective dialogue, and produce new ways of understanding the dynamics of health and disease under the processes of decolonization and development, but also with an eye to drawing lessons from the past that could lead to formulating better health policies in the present.

Participants are encouraged, but not limited, to using historical studies and ethnography to discuss the following thematic questions:
  • Are there particular types or elements of health infrastructure that we can characterize as more common or characteristic of this part of the world, and if so, what were their historic drivers and outcomes?
  • How was health infrastructure shaped by the political claims and rights of different social groups (e.g., migrants, minorities)? How has it been influenced by demographic and epidemiological shifts and complexities?
  • How have forces operating at a global level influenced the construction and operation of local health infrastructures?
  • How did encounters between indigenous and foreign medical knowledge and methods of health provision reshape the meaning of health infrastructure in postcolonial Asia?
  • How have health infrastructures developed under decolonisation, the Cold War, geopolitical tensions, the rise of Third Worldism, and neoliberal globalisation?
  • What health conditions were highlighted within Asian health infrastructures and how were they measured? What do those choices tell us about assumptions about the health issues that were of importance and relevance in Asia?

SUBMISSION OF PROPOSALS

Submissions should include a title, an abstract of no more than 250 words and a brief biography including name, institutional affiliation, and email contact. Please note that only previously unpublished papers or those not already committed elsewhere can be accepted. By participating in the workshop, you agree to participate in the future publication plans of the organisers.

Please use the paper proposal form and send it in doc/docx format to Sharon at arios@nus.edu.sg by 31 October 2021. Successful applicants will be notified by end November. Once accepted, a completed draft paper (5,000-8,000 words) will be due by 13 March 2022. These drafts will be circulated to fellow panelists and organisers in advance. Drafts need not be fully polished. We expect that presenters will be open to feedback and willing to revise their papers for potential inclusion in a special issue submission (in collaboration with the workshop organisers and other participants).

COVID-19 related note: We intend to hold this workshop on location in Singapore. Accepted participants will be provided a subsidy for a round-trip economy-class airfare to Singapore, lodging, and some meals. But under some circumstances remote participation may also be a possibility. Should travel to Singapore be impossible due to the virus, we plan to proceed with the workshop remotely.


KEYNOTE SPEAKER

Assoc Prof Kavita SIVARAMAKRISHNAN, Associate Professor in Sociomedical Sciences, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University


WORKSHOP CONVENORS



Assoc Prof Gregory CLANCEY

Contact Info:

Sharon Ong (she/her)
Senior Executive, Events

Contact Email:

arios@nus.edu.sg

CFP: OMNES THE JOURNAL OF MULTICULTURAL SOCIETY, 12 (1)


OMNES: The Journal of Multicultural Society, 12(1)

ISSN: 2093-5498 (Print) / 2671-969X (Online)


We are currently accepting manuscripts for OMNES: The Journal of Multicultural Society Vol.12 No.1 that will be published on January 31, 2022. To be considered for the upcoming issue, OMNES 12(1), please submit your manuscript by October 31, 2021.


About the Journal

OMNES, meaning “everyone” in Latin, is a peer-reviewed biannual publication. We welcome manuscripts that deal with themes concerning the global movement of people, human security related to migration, multicultural or multiracial society, cultural diversity, refugees, social integration, nationalism, culture, identity, civil rights and other relevant topics. We are seeking an interdisciplinary approach in the area of politics, economy, society, culture, language, literature, history, philosophy, and the arts.

OMNES publishes rigorous theoretical or empirical research articles, review articles, research notes, and book reviews. The editors invite submissions from researchers in all fields of social science and humanities.

OMNES is indexed and abstracted in Korea Citation Index (KCI) as of 2016.


Contributor’s Guide

Deadline: October 31, 2021

Date of Publication: January 31, 2022

Subject area: General topics within the scope of OMNES

Manuscript style: The 6th edition of the APA Style

Submission: Submissions should be made via e-mail (omnes@sm.ac.kr) or submission system.


Authors are requested to submit four files: 1) A blinded manuscript without any authors’ names and affiliations in the text, 2) a cover letter, 3) authors’ checklist, and 4) a copy of the plagiarism check result (less than 10%). Authors’ checklist can be downloaded from our website.


Contact Info:

For further details, please contact the managing editor at omnes@sm.ac.kr.

Tel. No. 82-2-6325-3156

Details are available on our website.

Please refer to the Notes for Contributors for specific information.

Contact Email: omnes@sm.ac.kr

CFP: KOREA EUROPE REVIEW ISSUE 2 «IMPOSSIBLE TRIANGULATION»


Korea Europe Review,

Issue 2 «Impossible Triangulation»


The Korea Europe Review is now inviting submission proposals for Issue 2 forthcoming in May 2022.

The issue is titled “Impossible Triangulation” in which we seek to explore the complex and increasingly multidimensional field of regional, international and global discourses, networks, alliances and power shifts afflicting the Korean peninsula.

We are especially interested in:

a) an evaluation of present developments of new old and new forms of political, cultural, social, economic, and epistemic hegemony in South-East Asia, both on a theoretical-conceptional level as well as in terms of concrete phenomena of transregional, international and indeed global power structures. This also includes the critical assessment of the possible future impact of these developments for the Korean peninsula but also for the larger (and indeed international) context of the so-called South-East Asian “security triangle”.

b) on a soft-power level, the creation of new boundaries through the appropriation, translation and reconfiguration of linguistic, cultural and religious practices and techniques as well as historical narratives throughout South-East Asia and its wider neighborhood (e.g. China’s “Belt and Road Initiative”, India’s “Act East Policy”, Taiwan’s “New Southbound Policy”, South Korea’s “New Southern Policy, or the “Indo-Pacific Vision of Japan, the US and Australia).

The deadline for submissions for the second number of the Korea Europe Review has been extended. We welcome your abstracts for articles until 15 October 2021 and full articles by 15 January 2022.

If you have any queries concerning your proposal or are unsure whether it fits KER’s thematic scope, please contact our editors at editors@korea-europe-review.org

Please note that in addition to calls with particular thematic foci, the Korea Europe Review welcomes submissions on a continual year-round basis.

For more information, please visit our website.
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