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Announcements
Music & Ritual in China and
East Asia
13th CHIM,
16 – 19 October, 2008
Annandale-on-Hudson, NY, USA
The 13th International CHIME Conference
will take place at Bard College,
Annandale-on-Hudson, NY, USA, from 16
to 19 October 2008. The theme is Music
and Ritual in China and East Asia. The
deadline for submitting papers has now
passed, but we welcome everyone interested
(scholars, musicians and general
afficionados alike) to attend this meeting.
A preliminary list of speakers and topics
will soon be published on the CHIME
website: http://home.wxs.nl/~chime.
We have just posted information on the
CHIME website about local accommodation.
We strongly recommend early booking,
since the meeting will take place during
the crowded autumn season, when
lots of ‘leaf-peepers’ visit upstate New
York for outdoor tours.
We look forward to an exciting programme
of papers, discussion panels
and concerts (ranging from contemporary
Chinese music to traditional ensemble
music from Vietnam). For more
details, visit our website, or contact the
conference’s Chair, Professor Mercedes
Dujunco, Bard College Music Program,
P.O. Box 5000, Annandale-on-Hudson,
NY 12504-5000, USA, tel. (+1)-845-
758.6822, ext. 6294, fax 845-758.7896, e-
mail: dujunco@bard.edu.
CHIME, European Foundation for
Chinese Music Research
P.O. Box 11092, 2301 EB Leiden,
The Netherlands
Visiting address Chime: Gerecht 1,
2311 TC Leiden
Tel 071-5133974 / 5133123
Fax: 071-5123183
E-mail: chime@wxs.nl
Website: http://home.wxs.nl/~chime
Symposium
Age and power: Ageing and
deciding in the city
8 - 9 October, 2008
Rouen, France
The Madrid Plan of Action adopted within
the Second UN Assembly on aging in
2002 called on member States to consider
the social and economic challenges of
the global population aging. In its statements
and resolutions the UN emphasized
the importance of senior citizens’
participation to decision-making within
the public and the private spheres.
In September 2007 at the University Paris
Descartes/ La Sorbonne (France) 75 contributors
from eight different countries
convened to analyze macro-social perspectives
on the issue and share experiences
on national policies in this field.
To foster a larger international debate on
this topic, a second symposium will take
place on the 8 th and 9 th of October 2008
in Rouen (France, Normandy). This scientific
meeting will be open to researchers
in the in the field of citizenship, social
movements and seniors’ participation to
public and private decisions. The focus
of the symposium will be centered on
the integration of the elderly into the
public policy sphere at the local level.
The micro-level of decision will also be at
stake, and participants to the symposium
are welcome to propose contributions
on empowerment and power relations
between older persons and individuals
interacting directly with them (social
workers, caregivers, volunteers, family
members).
This issue of power in the field of ageing
raises the question of capabilities of elderly
individuals to influence decisions at
various stages of decision-making processes.
A comparative approach seems
relevant when considering countries with
different traditions of state intervention.
How do power relations between older
people and local power holders work
in centralized countries with a strong
Welfare state such as France, or in federal
countries with a lesser interventionist
approach, like the USA? What is the
power of local government and to what
extent are senior citizens entitled and
able to participate in decision-making
processes? What is the status of elderly
persons as individuals, but also as
citizens and members of a social group
within local communities?
The 2008 conference is a multidisciplinary
scientific event across many disciplinary
boundaries It aims to combine the
diversity of perspectives and approaches
from different social sciences.
The international conference is divided
into four main issues.
- The first topic involves many levels of
integration of elderly citizens in institutional
arrangements within different
fields encompassing aging issues like
public transportation, housing, safe
neighborhoods, and a senior friendly
environment.
- Resources and capacities, discusses
material or cultural resources necessary
for a genuine implementation of
senior citizen’s inclusion within decision-making
processes.
- Power as a culture of relationship, provides
an interpretation of power and
participatory processes as a malleable
culture of social relations and interactions,
and not only as a result of structural
and institutional arrangements.
- Choices in situations of mobility/
immobility relates to different methods
of senior integration in the design
of responses to their needs for mobility
and social inclusion in different
situations of constraint due to age or
impairments.
This congress gives an opportunity to
debate conceptual frameworks, but also
to discuss field research results on the
issue. It aims
to create a better understanding of the
differences and similarities between
countries based on economic, cultural
and institutional differences.
The official languages are French and
English. Plenary sessions and roundtables
will be translated to help intercultural
and comparative perspectives.
Host institutions & Organisers :
- UMR CNRS I.D.E.E.S. (Identité
et Différenciation de l’Espace, de
l’Environnement et des Sociétés /CIR-
TAI
- University of Rouen & Le Havre (NOR-
MANDY)
- REIACTIS (Réseau International
d’Étude sur l’Age, la Citoyenneté et
l’Intégration Socio-économique /
International Research Network on
Age citizenship and Socio-economic
integration)
Place :
Maison de l’Université, Place Émile Blondel,
76821 Mont Saint-Aignan, Rouen,
Normandy
Contact : 2008symposium@gmail.com
Arthur M. Sackler Gallery,
Smithsonian Institution
Washington DC
Until 2010
Taking Shape: Ceramics in Southeast
Asia
The exhibition presents 200 diverse and
visually striking pots, jars, bottles and
bowls from Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia,
Thailand, Burma (Myanmar), and southern
China, within a narrative that focuses
on the interplay of earthenware and
stoneware ceramics within the region; the
cross-fertilization of ideas about ceramic
use, form, glaze, and decoration; and
the dispersal of ceramics through local,
regional, and international trade.
Mainland Southeast Asia is one of the few
areas of the world hosting parallel traditions
of both earthenware and stoneware
technologies. The exhibition includes a
short video showing earthenware and
stoneware production processes (also
viewable online) and samples of earthenware
cooking pots and stoneware mortars
to handle.
Taking Shape draws on a group of nearly
800 ceramics donated to the Sackler by
brothers Osborne and Victor Hauge and
their wives Gratia and Takako. The Hauges
were drawn to types of pottery that few
other collectors paid attention to, such as
cooking pots from the central highlands
of Vietnam and storage jars from Laos
and Thailand. Many are wares that had
not yet been identified when the Hauges
found them in the 1960s and early 1970s.
The collection’s incomparable variety and
depth will allow the museum to chart new
territory in public programs and scholarly
projects.
Currently in preparation is an online
catalogue of the Hauge collection and
related materials in the adjacent Freer
Gallery of Art. The dynamic and interactive
site will invite user commentary and
will grow and evolve as new discoveries
and research are incorporated. The site
will make information on the museum’s
Southeast Asian ceramics available
around the world as at the same time as
it solicits information “from the field”
and becomes, we hope, a sort of gathering
place for people interested in the varied
dimensions of meaning of ceramics
in Mainland Southeast Asia. We trust it
will serve as a resource for teaching. The
site will include a steadily-growing library
of specially-commissioned essays, translations
of key texts from Japanese, Thai,
and other languages, and reprints of
hard-to-find publications. It will also offer
a extensive bibliography. The Web-based
catalogue will launch in late spring.
The full collection may be studied by
appointment. Please contact Louise Cort,
Curator for Ceramics, cortlo@si.edu.
Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian
Institution
1050 Independence Avenue SW
Washington DC 20560
T +1 202 633 0396
www.asia.si.edu/exhibitions/current/TakingShape.htm
Call for papers
Rethinking Visual Narratives
from Asia:
Intercultural and Comparative
Perspectives
Department of Fine Arts, University of
Hong Kong
8-9 June 2009
The Department of Fine Arts at the University
of Hong Kong will host an international
conference on Rethinking Visual
Narratives from 8-9 June 2009. The conference
will bring together approximately
fifteen scholars presenting new and original
research to discuss how visual narratives
function in different cultures and
exploring connections and interactions
both within Asia and between Asia and
the West. The papers and discussion will
consolidate academic understanding of
visual narrative theories and augment
them through analysis of their potential
as a tool for exploring inter-cultural interactions
and questioning cross-cultural
assumptions. The focus will be on the
visual with a cross-cultural dimension
and dating to any time period within a
broadly defined art historical discipline
and material culture studies.
Possible panel topics include, but are not
limited to:
The place of narrative: architecture and
the disposition of imagery
Theories of narration
Word and image: illustration and interpretation
Printed texts and images: semiotic dialogue
The social embeddedness of narrative
Narratology
The role of non-narrative or anti-narrative
elements in imagery
Papers will be hosted on the conference
website by the end of April 2009. It is
expected that a conference proceedings
will be published.
Abstracts due on 5 September 2008 by
email to -
Dr. Alexandra Green
Research Assistant Professor
Department of Fine Arts, University of
Hong Kong
Email: greenar@hkucc.hku.hk
Call for papers
The First International Graduate
Students
Conference on Indonesia
2009
15 -18 December, 2009
Yogyakarta, Indonesia
Deadline abstracts: November 2008
We are very pleased to inform you that
the Academy Professorship Indonesia in
Social Sciences and Humanities (KNAW-
AIPI) and the Graduate School of Gajah
Mada University Yogyakarta will organize
the First International Graduate Student
Conference on Indonesia. The international
conference will be held on December
15-18, 2009 at Gajah Mada University,
Yogyakarta, Indonesia, with the theme:
“(Re) Considering the Contemporary
Indonesia: Striving for Democracy, Sustainability
and Prosperity”.
The Steering Committee of the international
conference are glad to invite the
Indonesian/foreign graduate students to
participate by submitting their abstracts
by the end of November, 2008.
The Steering Committee will do review
on the abstracts related to the theme of
the conference from various disciplinary
backgrounds with the focus on social-cultural-humanities
dimension of the contemporary
Indonesia. The information
and the form for abstract submission can
be downloaded at http://www.api.pasca.
ugm.ac.id/en/program_api.php
We would appreciate any collaborative
assistant from your behalf, in particular
in assisting and facilitating your graduate
students to participate in that conference.
Should you have any queries,
please don’t hesitate to contact us at the
address below. Thank you very much for
your kindly thought and collaboration
Sincerely yours,
Director, The Graduate School
Gadjah Mada University
Prof. Dr. Irwan Abdullah
Academy Professor in Social Sciences
and Humanities,
Director, The Graduate School
Gadjah Mada University
MA. Yunita T. Winarto, Ph.D.
For further information:
Siti Nur Hidayah, M. A (Organizing Committee)
Academy Professorship in Social Sciences &
Humanities,
The Graduate School Gadjah Mada University,
4th Floor, Room 402 Jl. Teknika Utara.
Pogung, Sleman
Yogyakarta 55281, Indonesia
Phone/Fax: +62 274 564239 (ext. 401),; +62
274 7110145
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