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Clemson University Center for International Trade (CUCIT)
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Fellowships
for Intensive Chinese and Japanese at Cornell University
A limited number of undergraduate and graduate fellowships are available
through Cornell University for the intensive study of CHINESE or
JAPANESE. Cornell University offers a Full-Year Chinese and Japanese
language program (FALCON) during which students spend six hours a day,
five days a week, studying language only, and thus are able to complete as
much as 1200 hours of supervised classroom and laboratory work in one
year. Practice sections are restricted in size and are conducted by native
speakers. One lecture daily is conducted in English to provide necessary
analysis and explanation.
Program Home: http://lrc.cornell.edu/falcon
Scholarships: http://lrc.cornell.edu/falcon/financialaid.html
Contact: falcon@cornell.edu
Call
for Papers for an International
Multidisciplinary Research
Conference on "The Roles and Representations of Walls in the Reshaping of
Chinese Modernity" to be held in Buffalo, N. Y., October 22-23, 2005.
In 1984 Deng Xiaoping, the
chief architect of China's open policy, called on fellow Chinese to "love
their country and restore its long walls."
Since then, historians and artists in China and abroad have examined and
depicted the roles of walls in China's past history and in its recent
efforts to re-conceptualize "modernity." The Asian
Studies Program at
the University at Buffalo is pleased to announce plans for an
international, multi-disciplinary research conference on: "The Roles
and
Representations of Walls in the Reshaping of
Chinese Modernity" to be held at the Center for the Arts, the Anderson
Gallery, and the Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo on October 22- 23,
2005. The conference will coincide with and complement the
opening in Buffalo of "The Wall: Reshaping Contemporary Chinese Art," the
largest exhibition of Chinese avant garde art and film ever to show
outside the People's Republic of China. The exhibition will be
co-sponsored by the UB Art Galleries, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, and the
Millennium Art Museum in Beijing.
The conference, like the exhibition, will examine the significance of
various kinds of walls in China from early times to the present. It
will
investigate historical walls, including "long walls" (changcheng)
designed to defend one state or region from another, city walls
(chengqiang) that provided security and symbolized identity, and
institutional and domestic walls that delineated public and private
spaces. The conference will also consider developmental walls,
including dams to control floods and produce power, boundaries to
distinguish groups and define territories, laws to regulate commerce and
control communications, and military formations to guard borders and/or
extend frontiers. Finally, we shall address cultural walls, including
abstract intellectual and linguistic distinctions that shape Chinese (and
others') mental apprehensions and aesthetic evaluations of the world.
Such metaphorical walls include discourses regarding: historical periods,
social systems, economies, ecologies,
technologies, genders, and disciplines.
The exhibition and resulting catalogue will feature current trends in the
representation of walls in Chinese art, including performance and
installation art, and in film. The conference and ensuing book will
interpret aesthetic trends, as well as related historical and
historiographical themes, in the larger contexts of Chinese and world
history. As a basis for comparisons and contrasts, papers on the
functions of walls in other times and places (such as in ancient and
medieval Europe, the Delhi Sultanates, Koryo Korea, Kamakura
Japan, "Cold War" Korea and Germany, and contemporary Israel/Palestine
and India/Pakistan) will be considered.
Interested scholars should please submit proposals of about 150 words
indicating the main question(s) to be addressed, the principal
hypotheses to be examined, and the important sources to be used,
together with a one-page curriculum vitae to burkman@buffalo.edu.
Proposals received by January 25, 2005 will be considered for
inclusion in applications for additional funding; those received
before February 15, 2005 will be considered for approval at a planning
meeting to be held on February 19. A preliminary roster of the
conference will be made available by March 1, at which time a list of
common questions and readings will be provided to all participants.
Subsequent proposals received before July 1 may still be considered if
consistent with the developing themes of the conference and feasible in
light of the projected budget. Participants will be encouraged to apply
for travel and per diem funds from their home institutions. The
conference will cover these and other expenses, including translations and
interpretations, to the extent necessary. The penultimate roster for the
conference, including panel topics, chairs, presenters, and discussants,
will be announced by July 30, 2005. We have plans for a conference volume
in English and, hopefully, a companion volume in Chinese.
Please address any questions you may have to
Thomas W. Burkman (Asian
Studies) (burkman@buffalo.edu),
Minglu Gao (Art History)
(mgao@buffalo.edu), and/or
Roger V. Des Forges (History)
(rvd@buffalo.edu).
Other members of the planning
committee are:
Huang Bingyi (Yale University),
Chiao-mei Liu (National Taiwan
University), and
Haun Saussy (Stanford University and Yale University).