Stanford University’s Sohaib and Sara Abbasi Program in Islamic Studies, the Center for South Asia, and the Division of International, Comparative, and Area Studies invite applications for a one-year postdoctoral position under the general rubric “Literary Cultures of Muslim South Asia.” Candidates must specialize in literary or cultural studies connected to a major language of […]
The Japan Information & Culture Center (JICC), Embassy of Japan is seeking unpaid, part to full-time interns (12-35hrs/week) for Summer 2013. Internship start/end dates and hours are customized with the academic schedule of the chosen candidate. The JICC is a part of the Public Affairs section of the Embassy of Japan in Washington, DC. Our […]
The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future at Boston University is now accepting applications for the 2013 Pardee Graduate Summer Fellowships. The deadline for applications is Friday, March 15. The 10-week fellowship is an intensive, interdisciplinary research and writing program during which each Summer Fellow conducts independent research and produces […]
The Center for Jain Studies at Claremont Lincoln University invites you to study Jain Dharma at the International School for Jain Studies (ISJS) in India this summer. Faculty, graduate students, and undergraduate students with an academic background, or strong interest, in the Indic traditions are encouraged to apply for this heavily subsidized immersion experience. Prospects […]
The Center for the Study of Asia presents Rafting to Bombay – Irez Laufer’s moving film about his father’s return to his childhood home in India, where his family found refuge after escaping from Nazi-occupied Poland. The screening takes place as part of Boston’s South Asian Film Festival with sponsorship from the South Asian Arts […]
The objective of this meeting is to offer a cultural yet technically informed reading of youth internet interactions in a global context. These interactions are usually treated as either quantifiable and measurable phenomena, or analyzed for their contents, but with little consideration for the specific forms of sociability that the web encourages. These are some […]
The Center for Jain Studies at Claremont Lincoln University invites you to study Jain Dharma at the International School for Jain Studies (ISJS) in India this summer. Faculty, graduate students, and undergraduate students with an academic background, or strong interest, in the Indic traditions are encouraged to apply for this heavily subsidize immersion experience. Prospects have […]
At the invitation of Professor Dana Robert, Co-Director of the Center for Global Christianity and Mission at Boston University School of Theology, who earlier this year visited East Rock Institute (ERI), Dr. Hesung Chun Koh, ERI Chair, and Young-aie Kim, Manager of the National Library of Korea & ERI Digitization Project, met with Boston University’s Asian Studies Faculty. […]
By Kevin Liang, CAS History Major On November 8th, 2012, the Boston University Center for the Study of Asia (BUCSA) hosted a successful program, part of the BU Taiwan Forum sponsored by the Taiwan Economic and Cultural Office in Boston. Professors Tonio Andrade from Emory University, Xing Hang from Brandeis University, and Michael Szonyi from […]