New Book: Craft Production in the Mongol Empire. Karakorum and its Artisans
Author: Susanne Reichert
Abstract
02
Feb
SEAA News Blog
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02
Feb
New Book: A Layered History of Karakorum. Stratigraphy and Periodization in the City Center.
Author: Susanne Reichert
Abstract
02
Feb
Job Posting: Assistant Professor in Museums and Heritage
Assistant Professor in Museums and Heritage
Department of Archaeology, Durhan University
Full Time
Permanent
£33,797 - £49,553 per annum
Application Deadline: 7:59:00 PM on March 26, 2021
29
Jan
Understanding Authenticity in China’s Cultural Heritage
Understanding Authenticity in China’s Cultural Heritage
Conference at the University of Oxford, 16-20 March, 2021
Organized by Christopher Foster and Anke Hein
Contact: understandingauthenticity@gmail.com
What we deem to be genuine or fake is not an objective determination, but something that we agree upon as communities. Debates about authenticity, moreover, are often intimately bound to question who owns the past and its representation. The “Understanding Authenticity in China’s Cultural Heritage” conference this March will explore these issues and more. From contesting narratives about the mother trees of Big Red Robe tea, to the restoration of Qin terracotta soldiers; from the experience of visiting a replica Eiffel Tower in Hangzhou, to US-China diplomatic tensions over "originality" and "shanzhai 山寨 (imitation)” – "Understanding Authenticity in China's Cultural Heritage” brings together specialists from a broad range of fields and backgrounds, to explore how questions about “authenticity” impact their work on objects, texts, and intangible cultural heritage in China.
Please join us online March 16th- 20st, 2021, for a discussion on the construction of “authenticity,” both historically and today, in relation to China’s cultural heritage. Registration is free, attendance is open to all, via submission of a short survey at the following link: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/X8T7T2C
29
Jan
Research Assistant Position: Beijing Branch of the German Archaeological Institute (DAI)
Research Assistant Position: Beijing Branch of the German Archaeological Institute (DAI)
Applications accepted in English for English speakers, however the advertisement has only been posted in German as follows:
Stellenausschreibung
An der Eurasien-Abteilung, Außenstelle Peking des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts (DAI) ist zum nächstmöglichen Zeitpunkt die Stelle
eines wissenschaftlichen Mitarbeiters (m/w/d)
(Kennziffer: 81/2020)
19
Jan
PhD Opportunity: The Asian Sphere: Trans-Cultural Flows Program
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the University of Haifa
The Asian Sphere: Trans-Cultural Flows Program
An Inter-University and Interdisciplinary Graduate Program
Call for Enrollment of Doctoral Students (2021-22)
The Asian Sphere offers a unique opportunity for outstanding candidates at the PhD level to enroll in an international multidisciplinary inter-university graduate program focusing on the Asian continent.
The Asian Sphere is a joint Israeli program of the Hebrew University and the University of Haifa funded by the Humanities Fund of the Council for Higher Education in Israel and Yad Hanadiv. It is a structured graduate program of excellence that focuses on various aspects of the entire Asian continent as a continuous civilizational zone. It addresses cross-regional contacts and processes among Asian societies, cultures and states, as well as between Asia and other continents throughout history until present time. The program’s courses are taught in English.
Apart from a dynamic and exceptional environment of learning and research, the program offers scholarships for outstanding graduate students. The scholarships for PhD students are of the amount of 60,000 NIS per year for three years.
The Asian Sphere accepts students from different disciplines in the humanities and social sciences, including Asian Studies, Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies, Archaeology, Geography Political Science, International Relations, Cultural Studies, History, Art History, Religious Studies, Philosophy, Anthropology, Sociology, Economics, Media Studies, Gender Studies, and Environmental Studies,. Research topics are open and can deal with past or current societies. The core of the Asian Sphere teaching activity revolves around advanced seminars on trans-regional, trans-continental and trans-cultural themes, mostly taught by two or more internationally renowned scholars. In addition, students who are accepted to the program will participate in a yearly academic retreat, research trips in Israel and abroad, academic conferences and other activities.
For further information, visit our web site: http://asian-sphere.huji.ac.il/
17
Jan
Eurasian Archaeology Seminar Series HT2021
The Oxford Centre for Asian Archaeology, Art, and Culture presents the following speakers as part of its Euarsian Archaeology Seminar Series from January 18 to March 8, 2021. Talks are open to everyone via MS Teams. The links to the talks is available via the following: https://seaa-web.org/sites/default/files/eurasian_archaeology_seminar_series_ht2021.pdf
17
Jan
Understanding Authenticity in China’s Cultural Heritage Seminar Series
Oxford University and SOAS will jointly organize Understanding Authenticity in China’s Cultural Heritage Seminar Series via Zoom from January 27 to February 24, 2021. To receive the links for the talks, please register by sending an email to Drs Chris Foster & Anke Hein at: understandingauthenticity@gmail.com
15
Jan
Job Posting: Vacancy for Curator: Early China Collections, the British Museum
Role Summary
Curator: Early China Collections
Asia
Full-Time
Permanent
£30,348 per annum
Application Deadline: 12pm on 20 January 2021
The British Museum is seeking a Curator: Early China Collections to join the Asia department. The main purpose of this role is to undertake research into and make publicly accessible areas of the Early China Collections in support of the Museum Operating Plan and all relevant Museum strategies.
11
Jan
Opening of the “Ceramic Stories” Exhibition at the Ceramic Specimen Collection in the Social Sciences Centre, Southern University of Science and Technology
By Gao Dalun, translated by Anke Hein
As the saying goes, “if you plant one seed of millet in the spring, you will harvest ten thousand grains in autumn.” After a year and a half of meticulous preparation, the archaeological ceramic specimen database of the Social Science Center has finally reached a preliminary completion. To display the full cultural and academic value of this archaeological achievement, allow for more people to learn about and make use of the collection to carry out archaeological research, and to stimulate the public's interest in archaeology and history, the Social Center held an opening ceremony for the "Ceramic Stories" exhibition on December 5, 2020. More than 40 researchers from archaeological and cultural institutions across the country gathered at the Southern University of Science and Technology to celebrate the completion of the collection. Among them were Prof. Zhou Yongming, Director of the Center for Social Sciences, Prof. Chen Yuehong, Dean of the School of Humanities and Social Sciences of the Southern University of Science and Technology, Prof. Gao Dalun, former head of the Sichuan Provincial Institute of Archaeology and leading director of the Ceramic Specimen Collection at the Social Science Centre, Dr Yegor Grebnev, former doctoral and postdoctoral student at the University of Oxford and now postdoctoral researcher at the Southern University of Science and Technology in Shenzhen, and various researchers focusing on ceramic studies, among them Gao Xuyang, DPhil student at the School of Archaeology, University of Oxford, who assisted in preparing the exhibition.