This international conference will encourage the sharing of interdisciplinary understandings of the opportunities, barriers and challenges in formal and informal education that are associated with the migration and movement of people, ideas and resources.

The deadline for abstract submission for individual papers is 16 March 2012.

Eligibility: Fulltime post-graduate students working on a Japan-related degree. Advanced English and Japanese language skills required.

The School for Oriental and African Studies, London,  with support from the Nippon Foundation, will host a one week intensive translation workshop from 17 to 21 September 2012. The workshop is open to post-graduate students in the humanities and social sciences who seek to further develop advanced Japanese-to-English translation skills. Fulltime post-graduate students working on a Japan-related degree, regardless of citizenship, are welcome to apply.

The workshop is designed to develop advanced skills particular to translating scholarly work from first draft to final publication. In order to provide the optimum opportunity to produce first-class work, participants will be expected to complete a full draft of their translation assignment, which will be a long selection from one of several books being translated this year, in advance of the workshop week.

Participants will work in teams to critique and revise their translation under the guidance of Japanese Studies faculty from the social sciences and humanities. The workshop experience will include roundtable discussions of general difficulties in translation; small group discussions based on broad disciplinary distinctions to particular translations; and one-on-one sessions between students and faculty. Participants will receive a modest bursary, student hall (dormitory) accommodations, and reimbursement for economy transport to and from London. Participants are expected to have read and prepared remarks on the work of the other members of their translation team prior to arriving in London.

Applicants should not propose a particular article or book for translation. Translation assignments will be selected by the workshop organizers and sent to each participant after acceptance. Applicants should submit a cover letter summarizing their particular interests and reasons for wanting to participate in the workshop, a current CV, and a letter of reference attesting to their scholarly potential and advanced reading and writing levels in Japanese and English. Post-graduate training in relevant discipline, and or equivalent professional experience preferred.

Applications must be submitted via email to christopher.gerteis(at)soas.ac.uk by the application deadline (ONLY electronic applications will be considered). Letters of recommendation attesting to the applicant’s language skills and scholarly potential should be sent via confidential email to christopher.gerteis(at)saos.ac.uk or by post direct to Dr. Christopher Gerteis, Department of History, School of Oriental and African Studies, Thornhaugh Street, London WC1H 0XG, United Kingdom.
All application materials must be received by 15 March 2012. Successful candidates will be notified during the week of 15 April 2012.
Email: christopher.gerteis(at)soas.ac.uk
Visit the website at http://www.soas.ac.uk/history/conferences/previous/japantranslationworkshop/

An International Symposium on “Religion, Spirituality and Education for Human Flourishing,” will be held from February 24-26, Dar Moulay Boubkar, Marrakech, Morocco. Dar Moulay Boubkar, Marrakech, Morocco. This symposium is co-convened by the Guerrand-Hermès Foundation for Peace and the UN Alliance of Civilizations ‘Education about Religions and Beliefs’ (ERB) Project.

The symposium will collect a select group of academics and practitioners to consider the part that education about religions can play in cultivating human values and spirituality.  Abstracts for the symposium were collected towards the end of last year, and selected participants were  notified earlier this year.

Under various names, such as ‘education about religion’, ‘faith education,’ ‘religious studies,’ and ‘religious education,’ the teaching of religious beliefs has already been integrated into the national curricula of many countries. However, the focus of religious education is generally to impart knowledge about religions, and perhaps gesture towards some inter-religious understanding. This way of approaching religious education tends to regard religion as an academic subject, and because such education is at arms-length, the spiritual and experiential aspects of religion are not made directly available to students.
The Symposium will aim to go beyond the current knowledge-centered approaches to religious education and offers a space to discuss and debate the following questions:

• In what ways can education of/from religions better contribute to young people’s spirituality and to the flourishing of their lives?
• How can these contributions of religions be better integrated in schooling?

Submission Deadline: March 16 (Fri), 2012: Applications after the deadline will not be considered. An e-mailed application without a hard copy will not be accepted.
Result Notification: The result of your application will be notified individually in April, 2012.
Contact Information for Inquiries and Submission
• E-mail: grant(at)aks.ac.kr
• Postal Address:
Promotion for Korean Studies Abroad Division, Center for International Affairs, The Academy of Korean Studies, 50 Unjung-dong(or 323 Haogae-ro), Bundang-gu, Seongnam-si, Gyeonggi-do 463-791, Republic of Korea
• Tel: 82-31-709-9843
• Fax: 82-31-709-9945
We cordially ask you to contact grant(at)aks.ac.kr for inquiries.  Please refer to the website and download the attached file for details

http://intl.aks.ac.kr/english/viewtopic.php?t=401

• Postal Address:
Promotion for Korean Studies Abroad Division, Center for International Affairs, The Academy of Korean Studies
50 Unjung-dong(or 323 Haogae-ro), Bundang-gu, Seongnam-si, Gyeonggi-do 463-791, Republic of Korea
• Tel: 82-31-709-9843
• Fax: 82-31-709-9945
Email: grant(at)aks.ac.kr
Visit the website at http://intl.aks.ac.kr/english/viewtopic.php?t=401

The Israeli Inter-University Academic Partnership in Russian and East European Studies is offering for the academic year 2012-2013 postdoctoral and doctoral fellowships for researchers in the field of Russian and East European Studies. These highly competitive fellowships are offered to researchers across many disciplines (including, but not limited to, the Humanities and Social Sciences), and will be awarded on the basis of academic excellence. Postdoctoral fellows must have received their Ph.D. degree no earlier than 2005. They will receive the sum of $25,000. Doctoral fellows will receive $12,500. The fellows will be selected by an international academic committee and then placed by the committee in one of the participating universities in the Partnership (Bar-Ilan University, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Tel Aviv University, University of Haifa). Postdoctoral fellows will be required to teach one full-year course in their area of expertise and will also be required to present one public lecture at their host institution during the fellowship year. Accepted fellows may apply for one additional year of funding. Applicants are requested to submit a curriculum vitae (no longer than four pages), a detailed statement of current research interests (up to 2000 words), one writing sample (no longer than 25 pages) and two letters of recommendation (to be submitted directly by the recommenders). In addition, Postdoctoral fellows must state if they are applying for other sources of funding for the fellowship period.
APPLICATION DEADLINE: MARCH 15, 2012.

Postdoctoral and Doctoral Fellowships in Russian and East European Studies
The Cummings Center for Russian and East European Studies
Tel Aviv University
Gilman Building, 470
Tel Aviv 69978
Israel

Email: crees(at)post.tau.ac.il
Visit the website at http://humanities.tau.ac.il/cummings/

This symposium will focus on patterns and networks of cultural interaction, exchange, mutual curiosity and overlap between Europe and the region today called “Southeast Asia” as well as Sri Lanka (Ceylon) from approximately 1800 to 1940. Papers on themes that are often overlooked or obscured when focusing on the frameworks of empires and nation-states, or ones that complicate such frameworks, are particularly encouraged. For example, studies in material culture and consumer culture can focus on the circulation of the motifs and patterns of tiles, textiles or prints through commercial and cultural networks. In architecture, “hybrid” styles of architecture such as the “Sino-Portuguese” architecture or “Sino-colonial” architecture found in Phuket, Thailand and similar styles found in Malaysia and Singapore—many examples of which are shophouses built by ethnic Chinese groups— show patterns of both local cultural exchange as well as broader interaction between Europe and Southeast Asia. Topics on contemporary heritage issues in both Europe and Southeast Asia are also welcome.

Topics include:

• Material culture
• Consumer culture
• World fairs or Universal Expositions, colonial exhibitions and similar settings in Europe and Southeast Asia
• Architecture
• Contemporary issues of cultural heritage
• Theoretical issues regarding cultural exchange, heritage and agency

The airfares of all participants will be covered by Seattle University, and in some cases, lodging as well.

No registration fee is required.

Proposals for papers should be sent by e-mail to Hazel Hahn at: hahnh(at)seattleu.edu

H. Hazel Hahn
Associate Professor of History
Pigott-McCone Endowed Chair 2010-12
Seattle University
Seattle, WA 98122
USA

H. Hazel Hahn
Seattle University
Seattle, WA 98122
USA

Email: hahnh(at)seattleu.edu

Leena Messina
Programs Manager
Humanities Research Centre
Research School of Humanities and the Arts
College of Arts and Social Sciences
Sir Roland Wilson Building #120, McCoy Circuit,
The Australian National University
Canberra ACT 0200 Australia
T: + 61 2 612 54357 (Phone and Voicemail)
F: + 61 2 612 51380
Email: leena.messina(at)anu.edu.au
Visit the website at http://hrc.anu.edu.au

• The ways that combatants and civilians drew upon religious ideals and institutions to sustain them in an age of total war, and especially how soldiers, sailors, and aviators behaved religiously in the course of their service.
• The roles religious organizations and values played in fostering ethical conduct during the war, providing humanitarian relief, and protecting non-combatants and conscientious objectors, as well as analyses of various kinds of religious justifications for violence, including genocide.

Among the questions the organizers seek to address:

1. Did religious leaders and institutions foster a climate that encouraged rather than retarded the drift to total war?
2. Are there really no atheists in foxholes?
3. What was the legacy of the war for religious institutions and ideals, especially in the defeated Axis Powers?
4. How did religious institutions discredited by their support of the Axis Powers seek to regain their legitimacy?
5. What kinds of compromises did persons negotiate with their religious beliefs in wartime?
6. In what way was pre-existent religious rhetoric deployed to characterize enemies as evil?
7. How did the war diminish and exacerbate the perception of religious differences?

Contributions from a variety of disciplinary perspectives are invited. The conference organizers hope to provide travel funding to graduate students and junior scholars to encourage their participation. Plans call for the publication of an anthology drawn from the conference proceedings edited by John Corrigan and G. Kurt Piehler.

Those seeking to participate in the conference should submit a 750 word abstract along with a short 3-5 page c.v. via Microsoft word attachment or PDF File to G. Kurt Piehler at kpiehler(at)fsu.edu by March 15, 2012. For further information about the conference, please contact John Corrigan at jcorrigan(at)fsu.edu or G. Kurt Piehler at kpiehler(at)fsu.edu.

G. Kurt Piehler
Director
Institute on World War II and the Human Experience
Department of History
Florida State University
401 Bellamy Hall
113 Collegiate Loop
Tallahassee, FL 32306-2200
Telephone: (850) 644-9541

Email: kpiehler(at)fsu.edu
Visit the website at http://ww2.fsu