ACLS is accepting applications for the Buddhism Public Scholars Fellowships, placing recent PhDs in professional positions at museums, libraries, and publications worldwide. Fellows apply their expertise in Buddhist traditions to public-facing projects. One-year positions (renewable) offer competitive compensation: up to USD 75,000 (US), GBP 57,000 (UK), or CAD 84,000 (Canada).
Dr. Anke Hein (Oxford University) is offering an internship opportunity (with funding) on Tracing elusive female scholars in Chinese archaeology in the summer through UNIQ+ Internship Program.
The Marco Polo Centre for Global Europe-Asia Connections (MaP) at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice invites applications for a funded Visiting Scholar position with Publication Grant. The position is open to early-career and established scholars working on Asia-Europe connections, including history, literature, art history and archaeology, religion, linguistics, anthropology, and area studies. The selected scholar will spend at least 45 consecutive days at MaP before July 2027 and work on an advanced manuscript intended for publication in the Marco Polo Book Series OA Gold. The grant provides up to €10,000, including support for travel, subsistence, and publication expenses. Applications are due by 5 June 2026, 12:00 noon.
Ideal Homes Domestic Materiality and Past Identities
Briefing: What happened is, we grew lonely living among the things, so we gave the clock a face, the chair a back, the table four stout legs which will never suffer fatigue.
Even what was beyond us was recast in our image Lisel Mueller. “Things” Mobile societies of the past may well have defined their sources of security and socialisation in different terms than later agricultural peoples, as an entire landscape was ‘home’ for them.
Funded by the John Templeton Foundation, the Database of Religious History at the University of British Columbia is actively recruiting experts to fill out entries on East Asian religion. Entries may be written in Chinese OR English.
Benefits of Writing an Entry: Contribute to an international database on world history; Receive a publication credit; Honorarium available while funds last for complete entries finished within 60 days.
Entry Requirements: Introductory paragraph (approx. 400 words); All quantitative questions answered; As many qualitative comments as possible (no set word count); Approximately 20-40 pdf pages (number will vary based on topic).
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The Society for Archaeological Sciences (SAS) will offer one award every year for the best published paper on science-based archaeological research in ceramics in honor of Charles C. Kolb. The purpose of the award is to promote and acknowledge research excellence in the field of archaeological ceramics and highlight the key role of interdisciplinarity.
We would like to invite you to submit an abstract for th
Lia Wei, Estelle Bauer (both from National Institute for Oriental Languages and Civilizations, Paris), and Shao-Lan Hertel (Director of the East Asian Art Museum in Cologne) are proposing a panel on East Asian visual and material culture at the next Congrès International d'Histoire de l'Art held in Lyon, June 2024. If you are interested in participating as speaker in this panel, please see the information below. Please noted that the submission deadline is 15 September 2023 (a bit of flexibility might be allowed).