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01 Nov

Call for Papers: TAG 2020 at Stanford University

By Andrew Womack Conferences 1 Comment

TAG 2020 at Stanford University

May 1-3, 2020

TAG 2020 Stanford aims to facilitate archaeological conversation across a range of topics, formats, and media. The conference will include a variety of events: a full-day plenary debate on the “Potentials and Limits of Big Data” in archaeology; two days of thematically open, concurrent breakout sessions; and a range of art exhibitions to stimulate conversations about the intersections of ethics, politics, and archaeological practice. In the spirit of the Stanford Archaeology Center, a space that fosters collaboration and discussion among archaeologists in different disciplines, we welcome sessions and papers on all current archaeological topics.

17 Oct

Position, Assistant Professor, Asian Environmental Studies, Vanderbilt University

By Andrew Womack Jobs 0 Comments

The Asian Studies Program at Vanderbilt University is accepting applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor in Asian Environmental Studies to begin in the Fall 2020 semester. Regional specialization is open to any area(s) of East, South, and Southeast Asia. Academic training may come from any discipline(s) in the humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences.

17 Oct

Furman University Professor in Archaeology of East Asia

By Andrew Womack Jobs 0 Comments

The Department of Asian Studies and Anthropology Program at Furman University invite applications for a full-time, tenure-track, Archaeology of East Asia position beginning August 2020 at the assistant, associate or full level.

We seek an archaeologist with teaching and research specialization in East Asia and/or Southeast Asia and experience directing or running a field school and/or willingness to start one.

09 Oct

The Forbidden City (China) and Parthenon (Greece) display dramatically different conservation approaches, reflecting varied cultural understandings of what counts as “authentic” in the presentation of the past.

Call for Papers: Understanding Authenticity in China’s Cultural Heritage

By Andrew Womack Conferences 0 Comments

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. Please join us at Oxford on May 28th-30th, 2020, for a discussion on the construction of “authenticity,” both historically and today, in relation to China’s cultural heritage (those objects and texts concerned with China’s past). Applications are now invited for the presentation of papers (~20-30 minutes in length) on this theme.

29 Sep

Grants in Modern Chinese History or Archaeology from the Esherick-Ye Family Foundation

By Andrew Womack Grants 0 Comments

The Esherick-Ye Family Foundation is pleased to announce its fourth annual competition for small grants of up to $5,000 to support projects in modern Chinese economic, social, and political history or in archaeology.

Grants will support travel to China for research or field work. Grants are available for graduate students and untenured faculty.

Established in 2016 by Joseph W. Esherick and Ye Wa, the Esherick-Ye Family Foundation supports solid, careful, empirically based, and clearly reasoned scholarship—the sort of work that Esherick encouraged from the students he mentored at the University of California, San Diego, and that Ye Wa has promoted in archaeology.

27 Sep

University of Texas - Austin, Asian Studies: Assistant or Associate Professor, Asian Humanities (China/Japan)

By Andrew Womack Jobs 0 Comments

The Department of Asian Studies at the University of Texas at Austin invites applications for a faculty position in Asian Humanities at either the assistant (tenure-track) or associate (tenured) level with a regional specialization in either China or Japan, to begin August 2020. We seek applicants with research interests in literature, intellectual history, visual culture, or other fields in the humanities, focusing on premodern, modern, or contemporary periods. The successful candidate will be expected to engage in scholarly research, to teach two courses per semester, to supervise students at the undergraduate, M.A., and Ph.D. levels, and to contribute to the intellectual life and service needs of the department and the university.

24 Sep

Obituary for James Stoltman of the University of Wisconsin, Madison

By Andrew Womack Noteworthies 0 Comments

It is with sadness that I have to convey the news of James Stoltman's passing, on September 11, 2019, in Madison, Wisconsin, at age 84. Unbeknown to most, he had cancer, but did not show any signs of the illness until very late, and this summer was still working on ceramic petrography for a Chinese project. Jim Stoltman has been a pioneer in ceramic petrography in the US, on the tracks of Anna Shepard, studying and confirming her work. He was instrumental in presenting a methodology of point counting technique as applied to ceramic analysis (e.g.1989), thus promoting quantitative analysis in petrography. He has been a prolific writer, specialized in North American archaeology, publishing many petrographic studies on Mississippian and Hopewell ceramics, as well as being involved in Belgium, and in Chinese projects for several years, notably at Anyang. Jim was Emeritus Professor at the Department of Anthropology at UW-Madison where he taught for many years. He was an avid tennis player, traveler, very positive person and great colleague.

We will miss him a lot.

Isabelle Druc

20 Sep

Cover for Pillage is Prohibited conference

'Pillage is formally prohibited.' Provenance Research on East Asian Art #3

By Andrew Womack Conferences 0 Comments

Mesdames et Messieurs, chers collègues,

Nous sommes très heureux de vous faire parvenir le programme du premier atelier international de recherche 'Pillage is formally prohibited'. Provence Research on East Asian Art sur la translocation des objets chinois, japonais et coréens à l'Europe et aux Etats Unis qui aura lieu le 8 et 9 novembre 2019 au Musée d'art asiatique de Berlin (Museum für Asiatische Kunst, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin).

Nous serions très heureux d'accueillir de nombreux collègues français.
Veuillez vous inscrire sous cet email.

Avec nos salutations distinguées

04 Sep

Vacancy for Curator: Korean Collections

By Andrew Womack Jobs 0 Comments

Project Curator: Korean Collection
Asia
Full time
Fixed term until 22/03/2021
£30,000 per annum
Application deadline: 12 Noon, on Friday 13 September 2019

04 Sep

SPENGLER, Robert N.: Fruit from the Sands The Silk Road Origins of the Foods We Eat from University of California Press

By Andrew Womack [East] Asia General 0 Comments

The foods we eat have a deep and often surprising past. From almonds and apples to tea and rice, many foods that we consume today have histories that can be traced out of prehistoric Central Asia along the tracks of the Silk Road to kitchens in Europe, America, China, and elsewhere in East Asia. The exchange of goods, ideas, cultural practices, and genes along these ancient routes extends back five thousand years, and organized trade along the Silk Road dates to at least Han Dynasty China in the second century BC.

Call for Papers: TAG 2020 at Stanford University

TAG 2020 at Stanford University

Position, Assistant Professor, Asian Environmental Studies, Vanderbilt University

Furman University Professor in Archaeology of East Asia

Call for Papers: Understanding Authenticity in China’s Cultural Heritage

Grants in Modern Chinese History or Archaeology from the Esherick-Ye Family Foundation

University of Texas - Austin, Asian Studies: Assistant or Associate Professor, Asian Humanities (China/Japan)

Obituary for James Stoltman of the University of Wisconsin, Madison

'Pillage is formally prohibited.' Provenance Research on East Asian Art #3

Vacancy for Curator: Korean Collections

SPENGLER, Robert N.: Fruit from the Sands The Silk Road Origins of the Foods We Eat from University of California Press

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