Funding Opportunities The Department of History at the University of Macau is pleased to announce studentship and assistantship opportunities for promising candidates for its MA program in Chinese History and the History of East-West Interactions. Each year the Department of History offers studentships, assistantships, and research assistantships. Most of these awards range from 9 – […]
We are pleased to announce another faculty publication: War, Guilt, and World Politics after World War II by Thomas U. Berger, Associate Professor in the Department of International Relations, was released in June by Cambridge University Press. This book examines how governments in post-1945 Austria, Germany, and Japan have wrestled with the difficult legacy of […]
Director Dion Samsoondar, accompanied by Professor Frank Korom, talks about his film “Hosay Cedros: Uniting a diaspora” on CCN TV6’s Morning Edition, April 2012.
The Asian Civilisations Museum (ACM) invites researchers to apply for fellowships in Peranakan material culture, Christianity in Asia (up to 1800), or areas related to the museum’s collections in general, including Buddhist studies. We prize multi-disciplinary work, cross-cultural studies, and research on ongoing projects at the ACM. The geographical areas of research should be Southeast […]
We’re happy to announce that Assistant Professor of Religion Teena Purhoit’s book–The Aga Khan Case: Religion and Identity in Colonial India–has just been released by Harvard University Press. The book presents an alternative to the Arab-centric view that dominates understanding of Islam in the west. She argues for a view of Islam as a “heterogeneous […]
The Berkeley-Stanford Graduate Student Conference in Modern Chinese Humanities takes place April 26-27, 2013 at Stanford University. Initiated in 2010, the annual conference brings together current graduate students from across the U.S. and around the world to present innovative research on any aspect of modern Chinese cultural production in the humanistic disciplines. The conference provides […]
The United States-India Educational Foundation (USIEF) announces an open competition for the support of projects through the Obama-Singh 21st Century Knowledge Initiative (OSI). Announced by the US and Indian governments, OSI aims to strengthen collaboration and build partnerships between American and Indian institutions of higher education. Accredited US post-secondary educational institutions meeting the provisions described […]
The Boston-area South Asian Studies Consortium invites papers for its first symposium to be held on November 17, 2012 at MIT. The symposium will be held in memory of the late Jalal Alamgir, professor of political science at UMass-Boston. The purpose of the symposium is to showcase scholarship and foster dialog on South Asian Studies […]
On Thursday, July 12, faculty and leadership of the Center for the Study of Asia and the International Center for East Asian Archaeology and Cultural History and members of the Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in Boston gathered to celebrate the renewal of a remarkable partnership between Boston University and the Taiwan Ministry of Education. […]