Asia-Pacific Week at the ANU will be held from 8-11 February 2010. Applications close 31 October. Tyrell Haberkorn and I will be convening the Southeast Asia group and we encourage PhD, Masters and advanced Undergraduate students to apply. It will be lots of fun!
Here are the details from the Asia Pacific Week website. Go online to apply.
Asia-Pacific Week is a conference and summer school that brings together hundreds of PhD candidates from Australia and overseas to workshop projects, benefit from master classes and form networks committed to understanding the world’s most dynamic region. … Asia Pacific Week is a container for a number of “Graduate Summer Schools” focusing on different areas of the Asia-Pacific region (the Pacific Islands, China, Japan, Indonesia, South Asia and Southeast Asia).
During a week of activities, graduate students have a chance to present their research interests, meet other students and academics, participate in a wide range of training activities, be introduced to the rich holdings on Asia and the Pacific at the ANU Library and the National Library of Australia and participate in a stimulating program of events including cross-area workshops, keynote speeches, seminars and master classes, film screenings, cultural performances and social events.
How to participate.
We provide a limited number of small grants to partially cover travel, accommodation and board while in Canberra. The number and amount can vary from program to program, but candidates who are accepted can count on room and board for the four days of Asia-Pacific Week (8-11 February) and a contribution towards their domestic travel. (Please note that no financial help is available for travel from overseas).
Undergraduate and Masters students
A small number of bursaries will be made available for advanced undergraduate students and Masters students to attend the event as observers. Bursaries will only cover accommodation
3 responses so far ↓
1 Luke Corbin // Oct 15, 2009 at 2:48 pm
I am an undergraduate student graduating with a Bachelor of Creative Arts from La Trobe University in mid 2010. My major is Cinema Studies and the remainder of my units are creative-writing and film-making based. I am living in China during semester 2 of next year, and then I will be completing my honours year in 2011.
I focus on S.E. Asia wherever I can in my academic studies and I am working towards a Masters or phD thesis on Norodom Sihanouk’s film ouvre. I am also planning a major documentary project for 2012. I have been to S.E. Asia four times focusing on Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam (ex-Indochina). I worked in Vietnam for six months of 2008. I do a lot of extra reading, churning through at least one major S.E. Asia related academic text each month.
I am interested in attending this conference as an undergraduate observer but the application form on the website doesn’t give sufficient fields for my unique experience, level of tuition or direction. I concede that, for the purposes of this conference, my academic experience may be problematised by my creative studies.
From the background I have given, and as a scholar familiar with these processes, what is your opinion the best approach for me to attend this conference?
2 Frank G Anderson // Oct 15, 2009 at 2:49 pm
15 October 2009
Request for input/assistance -
There is an upcoming international conference on http://www.lscac.msu.ac.th/, titled Language, Society and Culture in Asian Contexts. Mahasarakham, January 6-7, 2010. The title caught my eye and I then inquired with the organizers with the following:
“12 October 2009
Greetings.
An American living in Korat, I recently completed and this month am publishing a new English language book, Lady Mo and Herosim at tung Samrit. The work involved in this was challenging and rewarding.
I am interested in possibly attending the coming January conference Language, Society and Culture in Asian context, but the topic would possibly be somewhat unique. It might fit under several categories, including cultural diversity.
The subject matter is specific to open publication of information as a whole, but in regard to selective publication of newsstories and other subject that are often printed in English but not in Thai, or printed in Thai but not in English.
The selective publication of material here in Thailand often forestalls the opportunity for readers of the other language to be informed, but also provides a safeguard that allows publication (in the language that will least likely be upsetting to society as a whole) while at least paying lip service to freedom of the press.
I cite, for example, a recent headlines in a local thai language newspaper that said, “Terrorists infiltrate mobs,” alluding to both international terrorists and Red-shirts that were reportedly going to infiltrate large gatherings during the October 2009 ASEAN summit. The same day this headline appeared in Thai, however, nothing in English was mentioned in either of the country’s two English language dailies – the Bangkok Post and The Nation.
Kindly advise if you may be interested in a special paper and presentation in this subject are – that is, selective linguistic publication for socio-political purposes.
Thank you in advance.
Sincerely,
Frank G Anderson”
Based on this, I received notification that they would be interested in seeing a paper on this for presentation at the conference. So, in addition to my own research and whatever lies around handy, does anyone here on this website have recollections or specific references where a news report in Thailand was carried by the Thai press but not the English and perhaps less often, by the English but not the Thai?
Some of the material I am collating for the paper deadline on 30 October includes local online Thai language resources such as Same Sky and Prachaitai, this website and others, with reference to Thainess in three of its major aspects – illusory, mandated and genuine.
Anything anyone can send along or provide references to will be deeply appreciated. Kindly allow me at least three or four days to complete my paper before the deadline, which would mean that material should reach me no later than 25 October.
Thanks to everyone in advance. I know most of you have a lot on your plate but here is a chance to get an interesting subject out in the open.
Frank
3 Andrew Walker // Oct 15, 2009 at 10:30 pm
Hi Luke, thanks for your interest. Just fill out the form as best you can and you can email me with any additional information. Best wishes, Andrew Walker
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