ASEASUK Conference 2011 at Cambridge - Call for papers

9th-11th Sept 2011, Magdalene College, Cambridge CB3 0AG

ASEASUK (the Association of South-East Asian Studies in the United Kingdom) is seeking proposals for panels for their 2011 conference.

Proposals for panels should be sent to Dr Carol Tan, School of Law, SOAS ct9@soas.ac.uk by the deadline of 25 March 2011.

Those interested in presenting papers in any of the following panels should contact the individual panel convenors before the deadline of 30 June 2011. Further details and update, please click the link below:

http://aseasukmembers.org.uk/conf/2011-panels

Asia Pacific Disaster Report 2010 - Protecting Development Gains

Author(s): UNESCAP, UNISDR
Economic Sector(s): (1) Water resources planning, development and management; (2) Land use planning and development; (3) Information and communication technologies; (4) Urban development; (5) Social and human sciences; (6) Meteorology; (7) Policies, planning and legislation; (8) Assessment and monitoring; (9) Awareness and education

To view full text, click the link below:
http://www.unescap.org/idd/pubs/Asia-Pacific-Disaster-Report-2010.pdf

Recommendation forms

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Asian Borderlands: Enclosure, Interaction and Transformation

2nd Conference of the Asian Borderlands Research Network

Chiang Mai University (RCSD), Thailand
5 - 7 November 2010

State-centered views of the world continue to predominate, but it is increasingly apparent that these restrict perspectives on dynamics within broader regional fields. In an attempt to leapfrog a definition of the world in terms of national economies, societies, cultures and histories, ‘borderland' centered perspectives have emerged. But whereas borderland studies have quickly developed in Africa, Europe and North America, the field is still in its infancy in Asia. ‘Asian Borderlands: Enclosure, Interaction and Transformation' intends to encourage scholarship that looks across Asian borders.

The conference takes its cue from an important new book by James C. Scott, The Art of Not Being Governed: An Anarchist History of Upland Southeast Asia (Yale UP, 2009). In this book, Scott focuses on the mountainous regions of the Himalayas and its lower ranges that run from the Central Highlands in Vietnam, most of Laos, Northern Thailand, Southwest China, Northern Burma, Northeast India, Eastern Bangladesh, Bhutan, Nepal and Tibet. The 200 million people living in this huge region (over 15 million km²) are geographically dispersed and culturally diverse, yet they share crucial cultural, economic and social characteristics: hill agriculture, physical mobility, relatively egalitarian social structures, as well as commonalities in material culture and outlook. National borders often appear utterly arbitrary to them as many groups spill across two or more national borders. In this way they distinguish themselves from the lowland populations who dominate the states in which they live. Scott refers to this region as ‘Zomia', a term coined by Willem van Schendel (2002/2005).

What is the viability and relevance of a concept such as Zomia for the study of Asian borderlands? To what extend are people in such border zones sharing ideas, practices and attitudes? Why and how do they remain different? How are relationships, alliances and conflicts between hills and plains people defined? In what ways are cultural and social dynamics in and beyond such a region influenced by political boundaries? How do people engage in, and are engaged by, processes of modernization and globalization?

Please contact Ms. Martina van den Haak, m.c.van.den.haak@iias.nl if you require further information.

Convenors:
Dr. Chayan Vaddhanaphuti, Chiang Mai University
Dr. Erik de Maaker, Leiden University
Dr. Mandy Sadan, School of Oriental and African Studies
Prof. Willem van Schendel, University of Amsterdam

http://www.asianborderlands.net/asian-borderlands-enclosure-interaction-and-transformation

SOAS Endangered Languages Archive (ELAR)

Endangered Languages Archive (ELAR)

School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, London,
UK.

Endangered Languages Archive (ELAR) - Hans Rausing Endangered
Languages Project, School of Oriental and African Studies, London ELAR
preserves and disseminates digital documentation of endangered
languages around the world. ELAR provides archiving for all endangered
language documentation, especially the outcomes of ELDP-funded [=
Endangered Languages Documentation Programme funded - ed.] projects.
ELAR also provides training and other archive-related services. ELAR
currently has about 70 deposits. [Several of them] have been released
for access, subject to depositors' conditions.

For more information, see http://elar.soas.ac.uk/

New scanning service - SOAS Library

The Centre for Digital Africa, Asia and the Middle East at SOAS is
pleased to announce the launch of a new scanning service.

You can now obtain electronic copies of all SOAS Library material,
copyright permitting. (See http://www.soas.ac.uk/infocomp/copyright/
for further information on copyright).

Scanning is an environmentally friendly, fast and flexible way of
making and storing copies of source materials used in the course of
research and learning. It reduces the need for paper copies and allows
you to study reference-only material on almost any computer.
Similarly, it enables core texts to be provided electronically via the
BLE and accessed off-campus.

Students and individuals can request scans by filling in a form
available from the Library Enquiry Desk or by downloading from
http://www.soas.ac.uk/library/using/services/scanning-service/file61411.pdf.
(we are working on an on-line version but it isn't ready yet).

Charges start at 5p per sheet for simple scanning. For a further 5p
per sheet it may also be possible to run scans through OCR software to
produce full-text searchable documents. These costs (which are in line
with current photocopying rates) may be met from research funds,
departmental allocation or personally. The scan will normally be a
single PDF file per publication and, where possible, electronic copies
of documents will be emailed; larger files may be stored on memory
stick if you provide us with one, or, for a small additional cost, a
CD/DVD.

For more about this service see
http://www.soas.ac.uk/library/using/services/scanning-service/

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or our blog http://blog.cedaame.soas.ac.uk/
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Universe Digital Library (UDL)

UDL Online Theses and Dissertations [from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia]

Self-description:
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SOAS Politics and Economics Library News: New Zealand Asia Information Service (NZAIS)

SOAS Politics and Economics Library News: New Zealand Asia Information Service (NZAIS): "NZAIS is a freely available resource for researchers focusing on business information and engagement between New Zealand and Asia. The ser..."

New Book Publications on Southeast Asia: General (Last updated 13.10.10)

Here's a list of selected new books or new edition of old books published in 2010. I intend to continue uploading the list from time to time, and here's a list of books covering the whole region of Southeast Asia.

Arts
- Douglas, Gavin 2010. Music in mainland Southeast Asia : experiencing music, expressing culture. New York : Oxford University Press.

Economics and Development
- Ritchie, Bryan 2010. Systemic vulnerability and sustainable economic growth : skills and upgrading in Southeast Asia. Cheltenham : Edward Elgar.

- Leung, Suiwah, Benedict Bingham and Matt Davies (ed.) 2010. Globalization and development in the Mekong economies. Cheltenham : Edward Elgar.

Foreign Relations
- Bateman, Sam and Joshua Ho (ed.) 2010. Southeast Asia and the rise of Chinese and Indian naval power : between rising naval powers. Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge.

- Tarling, Nicholas 2010. Southeast Asia and the great powers. London ; New York : Routledge.

History
- Guan, Ang Cheng 2010. Southeast Asia and the Vietnam War. London ; New York : Routledge.

Human Rights
- Yukiko Nishikawa 2010. Human security in Southeast Asia. Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge.

Politics and government
- Case, William (ed.) 2010. Contemporary authoritarianism in Southeast Asia : structures, institutions and agency. London : Routledge.

- Bateman, Sam and Joshua Ho (ed.) 2010. Southeast Asia and the rise of Chinese and Indian naval power : between rising naval powers. Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge.

- Tarling, Nicholas 2010. Southeast Asia and the great powers. London ; New York : Routledge

- Paul, Erik C. 2010. Obstacles to democratization in Southeast Asia : a study of the nation state, regional and global order. Basingstoke [England] ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan.

- Ang, Cheng Guan 2010. Southeast Asia and the Vietnam War. London ; New York : Routledge.


Religions
- Swearer, Donal K. (2nd ed) 2010. The Buddhist world of Southeast Asia. Albany : State University of New York Press.

- Bouma, Gary D., Rod Ling, and Douglas Pratt 2010. Religious diversity in Southeast Asia and the Pacific : national case studies. Dordrecht [Netherlands] ; London : Springer.

- Saravanamuttu, Johan (ed.) 2010. Islam and politics in Southeast Asia. London ; New York : Routledge.

Information on E-Resources

SOAS Library provides access to many resources in electronic format which complement the Library's print collection and support research into the regions of Africa, Asia and the Middle East. The following links are some select list of e-resources particularly relating to Southeast Asian and Pacific studies.

Please note that some are only accessible on-site of the library and some are only available to SOAS students and staff with a SOAS username & password.

• Select list of e- journals (Southeast Asia and Pacific)
• Selection of e-publications relating to South East Asia (Most of them are free-access)
  
• General information on e-resources
  

Coverage of the SOAS SEA Collection

The SOAS Southeast Asia Collection includes publications on Southeast Asia as a whole (including material on ASEAN, APEC, the Pacific Rim and the Asia-Pacific region) and the individual countries and regions of Southeast Asia - Brunei, Burma (Myanmar), Cambodia, East Timor; Indonesia (including separate sections on Indonesian provinces), Laos, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam. The main strengths of the collection are in languages, linguistics and literatures; anthropology and ethnic minorities; religion; economics, finance and statistics; development issues; politics and government; law, including customary law; human rights; history and biography; film, the press and media studies.

The SOAS SEA section also covers the collection on the islands of the Pacific Ocean (including Papua New Guinea, Australia and New Zealand). The main emphasis of this collection is on language, linguistics and anthropology.

Southeast Asia Digital Library

The Southeast Asia Digital Library began work in 2005 as a result of funding provided by the United States Department of Education’s TICFIA (Technological Innovation and Cooperation for Foreign Information Access) Program.

The project is based at Northern Illinois University Libraries in DeKalb, Illinois, USA and collaborates actively with the Committee on Research Materials on Southeast Asia (CORMOSEA) and partner institutions. Click here for the homepage of Southeast Asia Digital Library.

Related web links:
TICFIA
CORMOSEA

SEALG Meeting and EUROSEAS Conference, Gothenburg 2010

This year the SEALG (South East Asia Library Group) annual meeting was held in conjucntion with the EUROSEAS (the European Association for South East Asian Studies) conference in Gothenburg, Sweden.

The Annual Meeting of the SEALG was helod on 27-28 August at the Gothenburg University Library. On the 27th, we met Siv Tranefeldt, a subject librarian of the library, who welcomed us with a nice reception of fruits and cold drinks, and then took us on a library tour. The impession of the Gothenburg University library is that it has been recently refurbished, with extension of the library building. Some significance of the 'new look' of the library include the glass roof (photo above), which was built to prevent sound/ noice coming from the reception and staff room on the lower floor, and the preservation of its written card catalogue system. For more photos taken during the library tour and the SEALG meeting, see in the link to flickr at the end of this article. The library had also arranged two presentations on their library system: E-resources and Opac system, jointly presented by Annica Rydholm and Helen Gravas. The focal point of the presentation is that the library has increased its usage of e-resources. In the evening, SEALG members shared dinner at the the Svarta Oliver, a great restaurant in the heart of Gothenburg as recommended by staff member of the Gothenburg University Library.

On the 28th, SEALG members met again at the Gothenburg University Library. We exchanged our work experiences and knowledge as well as current and update library news. In the second part of the meeting, Jana Iguma (British Library) gave her presentation on the 15th century manuscript of Chinese-Lao Glossary, now housed at the British Library.

Apart from the SEALG meeting, some SEALG members also participated in the EUROSEAS Conference. Doris Jedamski (University Library, Leiden, Netherlands) gave her presenation on 'Changing and continuity: Crime and espionage novels in (colonial) Indonesia before and after 1945' and Jotika Khur-Yearn (SOAS, University of London, UK) gave his presentation on 'Shan popular literature: Buddhist stories and folk tales', both presented in the panel: Popular Literature of Southeast Asia.

The next SEALG Annual Meeting is to be held at the Cambridge University, UK (to be confirmed).

Related web links:
www.sealg.org

www.euroseas.org

www.gu.se/english/about_the_university/organisation/library

www.flickr.com/photos/gothenburg/library