The Asian Studies WWW Monitor: late Apr 2003
Vol. 10, No. 9 (193)

24 Apr 2003

Asian Studies Online - a Timeline of Major Developments
Internet Publications Bureau, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia
Self-description: "This section of the Asian Studies WWW Virtual Library (coombs.anu.edu.au/WWWVL-AsianStudies.html) tracks the history of Asian Studies' computer and online resources. The page offers an chronological list [with more than 250 items - ed.] documenting the earliest Asian Studies' experiments with computerised files and networking, the pioneering online publications, as well as subsequent key transformations and developments. Information about the Asian Studies' online projects is placed within the context of major developments in the world of computers, networks and telecommunications since the early 1970s till the present day. ... Please mail tmciolek@coombs.anu.edu.au if you know details (e.g. the date of establishment, names of the editors, scope of the resource etc.) of additional pioneering, influential, most useful, etc. online Asian Studies facilities. I am interested in all types of resources regardless of whether they are currently active or not. I am especially interested in data dealing with the early (i.e. pre-WWW) developments; and with online materials from countries other than the US or Australia, and/or in languages other than English. Your factual input is warmly invited, and your addenda and/or corrections will be fully acknowledged."
Site contents: 1970; 1971; 1972; 1973; 1974; 1975; 1976; 1977; 1978; 1979; 1980; 1981; 1982; 1983; 1984; 1985; 1986; 1987; 1988; 1989; 1990; 1991; 1992; 1993; 1994; 1995; 1996; 1997; 1998; 1999; 2000; 2001; 2002; 2003; References; Acknowledgments. .
URL http://coombs.anu.edu.au/asian-studies-timeline.html
Internet Archive (www.archive.org) [the site was not archived at the time of this abstract.]
Link reported by: T.Matthew Ciolek (tmciolek@coombs.anu.edu.au)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Online Guide
* Publisher [academic - business - government - library/museum - NGO - other]: Academic
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Useful
* External links to the resource [over 3,000 - under 3,000 - under 1,000 - under 300 - under 100 - under 30]: under 30

24 Apr 2003

The Center for India Studies
Department of Asian & Asian American Studies, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, USA
Site contents: About the Center; Events; Courses & Programs; Course Schedule; Faculty; Research Projects (The Kannada language; Indian/South Asian Diaspora); Ananya: Portrait of India; Outreach; Scholarships; Executive Committee; Links (Web Resources, Student Associations in the US, Community Links, Academic Links).
[The Center is organizing a one-day Symposium on India Studies on Saturday, May 10, 2003, at the Charles WangCenter at Stony Brook. Intended for the general public, it will feature interesting and informative presentations on a wide range of subjects relating to India and Indian America. - ed.]
URL http://naples.cc.sunysb.edu/CAS/india.nsf
Internet Archive http://web.archive.org/web/*/naples.cc.sunysb.edu/CAS/india.nsf
Link reported by: Yvette Rosser (y.r.rani@mail.utexas.edu), forwarded by h-asia@h-net.msu.edu
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate Info.
* Publisher [academic - business - government - library/museum - NGO - other]: Academic
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Useful
* External links to the resource [over 3,000 - under 3,000 - under 1,000 - under 300 - under 100 - under 30]: under 30

22 Apr 2003

LTTE Proves Chandrika Right
Institute For Topical Studies, Chennai, India
Supplied note: "The latest paper of the Institute For Topical Studies, A-2/3, Bharathi Dasan Colony, K.K.Nagar, Chennai---600078, India, (Tele.Fax.No. 44-4895235) on the above subject is now available at the Web site of the South Asia Analysis Group (SAAG), New Delhi, at [the URL below] - br."
Extract: "President Chandrika Kumaratunge of Sri Lanka, who had been repeatedly expressing her unhappiness and concern over the way the Government of Prime Minister Ranil Wickremasinghe had been negotiating with the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) and blindly trusting its promises of good behaviour, must be feeling vindicated by the LTTE's suspension of its participation in the negotiations on April 21, 2003 . - b.raman."
The author of the paper, Mr B. Raman, is Additional Secretary (retd), Cabinet Secretariat, Govt. of India - ed.]
URL http://www.saag.org/papers7/paper668.html
Internet Archive (www.archive.org) [the site was not archived at the time of this abstract.]
Link reported by: B. Raman (corde@vsnl.com)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Study
* Publisher [academic - business - government - library/museum - NGO - other]: NGO
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Useful
* External links to the resource [over 3,000 - under 3,000 - under 1,000 - under 300 - under 100 - under 30]: under 30

21 Apr 2003

Iraq: After Saddam, the Mullas & Imams
Institute For Topical Studies, Chennai, India
Supplied note: "The latest paper of the Institute For Topical Studies, A-2/3, Bharathi Dasan Colony, K.K.Nagar, Chennai---600078, India, (Tele.Fax.No. 44-4895235) on the above subject is now available at the Web site of the South Asia Analysis Group (SAAG), New Delhi, at [the URL below] - br."
Extract: "The letting loose of the religious fundamentalist genie by the US in its obsessive urge to destroy the Saddam regime could come to haunt the US and the rest of the world in the months to come. ... The plans of Ahmed Chalabi of the Iraqi National Congress for what he describes as the de-baathification of Iraq could pave the way for the Talibanisation of Iraq one day. - b.raman."
The author of the paper, Mr B. Raman, is Additional Secretary (retd), Cabinet Secretariat, Govt. of India - ed.]
URL http://www.saag.org/papers7/paper667.html
Internet Archive (www.archive.org) [the site was not archived at the time of this abstract.]
Link reported by: B. Raman (corde@vsnl.com)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Study
* Publisher [academic - business - government - library/museum - NGO - other]: NGO
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Useful
* External links to the resource [over 3,000 - under 3,000 - under 1,000 - under 300 - under 100 - under 30]: under 30

17 Apr 2003

AsiaPacifiQueer (APQ)
Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia
Supplied note: "AsiaPacifiQueer (APQ) ... an Australia-based group of academics and students researching queer peoples and cultures in the Asia-Pacific region, would like to encourage scholars working on queer topics and issues in the Asian region to participate in this event [ an interdisciplinary 'Queer Matters' conference: http://www.queermatters.org, Friday 28 May to Sunday 30 May 2004, King's College, London, in association with New York University's Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality - ed.] - pm."
Site contents: * AsiaPacifiQueer 1; AsiaPacifiQueer 1 Conference (16 February 2001, Sydney: Information and Report); Conference Organisers; Abstracts from Papers Presented; Special Issue of 'Intersections' featuring papers from the first APQ Conference; * AsiaPacifiQueer 2; AsiaPacifiQueer 2 Conference (3-4 December 2001, Brisbane); Abstracts; Conference Organisers; Special Guest Speakers: Richard Fung and Tony Ayres; Film Screenings; Conference Report; Related Sites and Events; * AsiaPacifiQueer 3; AsiaPacifiQueer 3 Conference (The University of Melbourne, 8 December 2002, Melbourne); Programme; Call For Papers; Conference Organisers; Report; * AsiaPacifiQueer at ICAS3 (Singapore, 2003); APQ at ICAS; * AsiaPacifiQueer at 'Queer Matters' Conference (Kings College, London, 28-30 May 2004); Call for Papers.
URL http://apq.anu.edu.au/
Internet Archive (www.archive.org) [the site was not archived at the time of this abstract.]
Link reported by: Peter Jackson (peterj@coombs.anu.edu.au), forwarded by h-asia@h-net.msu.edu
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate Info.
* Publisher [academic - business - government - library/museum - NGO - other]: Academic
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Useful
* External links to the resource [over 3,000 - under 3,000 - under 1,000 - under 300 - under 100 - under 30]: under 30

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