28 Feb 2006

In Search of Middle Indonesia: A Netherlands-Indonesia research program
The KITLV/Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies, Leiden, the Netherlands
Self-description: "In Search of Middle Indonesia' is a new joint Netherlands-Indonesia research program. It will conduct social science research on intermediate classes (lower middle class), and particularly youth, in provincial towns in Indonesia [...]. It will run from 2006 to 2010. The program includes funding for two two-year postdoctoral fellowships and four PhD scholarships [...]. The advertisement (including requirements and deadlines) is available on the KITLV website at http://www.kitlv.nl/researchopportunities.html ."
Site contents: * Research program 'In Search of Middle Indonesia' ["a wide-ranging attempt to relocate the focus of the social science research agenda on Indonesia, away from the 'commanding heights' of society, the state and the economy, to the underestimated middle reaches." - ed.]; * PhD Project 1: Business, local politics and ethnicity among the intermediate classes in Pekalongan (Central Java); * PhD Project 2: Intermediate classes, ethnic segmentation, and the local state in Kupang (East Indonesia); * PhD Project 3: Youth Solidarities in Ternate (East Indonesia); * PhD Project 4: Youth and social renewal in an Indonesian industrial town (West Java); * Postdoc Project 6: Lifeworlds of youth in Middle Indonesia: education, employment, culture and citizenship; * Postdoc Project 7: Youth, Religiosity, and Aspirations in Middle Indonesia.
URL http://www.kitlv.nl/insearch.html
Internet Archive (web.archive.org) [the site was not archived at the time of this abstract]
Link reported by: Gerry van Klinken (gvanklinken--at--villagechief.com), forwarded by h-asia--at--h-net.msu.edu
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate Info.
* Publisher [academic - business - govt. - 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

28 Feb 2006

Reconciliation Between China and Japan: A Search for Solutions
www.china-japan-reconciliation.blogspot.com, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia
Self-description: "In August 2006, the Department of International Relations at Australian National University will host a workshop on reconciliation between Japan and China. Preparatory to the organization of that workshop, we invite you to brainstorm the topic electronically through this blog. [...] The purpose of this blog [est. 15 Jan 2006 - ed.] is to invite discussion and debate about the best ways to encourage reconciliation between Japan and China. Our objective is to produce concrete and realistic policy proposals for enhancing security cooperation between the two Asian powers, especially with respect to their participation in the Six Party Talks on the North Korean nuclear issue and in the potential East Asian Community. [...] This blog invites comments focused on how relations between Japan and China can be improved, bilateral conflicts resolved, and problems ameliorated. Some might say that reconciliation or not is exclusively a problem for Chinese and Japanese to sort out between themselves, but to the extent that the two countries fail to cooperate on East Asian issues, all countries in the region pay a price. So we all have a stake in encouraging reconciliation between Japan and China."
Site contents [recent posts]: China-Japan Ruling Parties Exchange Mechanism; Bibliography; A Note to Economists; "The East Timor Truth Commission Report shines"; Yomiuri chairman on Yasukuni's museum: "There's something strange"; Question; Welcome; One comparison; Thinking about Reconciliation: Unilateral Initiatives; Thinking about Reconciliation: Potential Linkages.
[The site is collaboratively edited by Peter Van Ness (Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, ANU), Amitav Acharya (Institute of Defence and Strategic Studies, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore), Mel Gurtov (Political Science and International Studies, Portland State University), and Richard Tanter (Nautilus Institute at Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology) - ed.]
URL http://www.china-japan-reconciliation.blogspot.com
Internet Archive (web.archive.org) [the site was not archived at the time of this abstract]
Link reported by: Peter Van Ness (pvan--at--coombs.anu.edu.au)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Study/News
* Publisher [academic - business - govt. - 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

21 Feb 2006

Microfilming of Indian Publications Project (MIPP)
Digital South Asia Library (DSAL), Chicago, IL, US
Self-description: "Microfilming of Indian Publications Project (MIPP) is preserving and making accessible all 55,992 books listed in The National Bibliography of Indian Literature: 1901-1953 (NBIL) together with the pre-1954 titles in the NBIL supplement. These are books in the twenty-two major languages of South Asia selected by a group of Indian scholars for their central importance to humanistic understanding of India As of April 2000, 22,000 titles have been microfilmed. More than 18,000 of these books are fully cataloged and can be searched through the NBIL search page [http://dsal.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/nbil.py] at DSAL or through the Center for Research Libraries' catalog."
[Warning: in mid Feb 2006 the NBIL search page, the heart of the NBIL online operations, was broken down - ed.]
URL http://dsal.uchicago.edu/bibliographic/nbil/aboutmipp.html
Internet Archive http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://dsal.uchicago.edu/bibliographic/nbil/aboutmipp.html
Link reported by: T. Matthew Ciolek (tmciolek--at--coombs.anu.edu.au)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate Info.
* Publisher [academic - business - govt. - 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 300

21 Feb 2006

Venetian Academy of Indian Studies (VAIS)
Associazione Italia-India di Venezia, Ca'Foscari U. of Venice, Venice, Italy.
Self-description: "L'organizzazione di convegni conferenze, mostre, spettacoli, missioni, soggiorni di studio, corsi di lingue dell'India e dell'Asia nonche la promozione di studi, ricerche e ogni altra iniziativa formativa e informativa di livello scientifico, culturale e umanitario per la diffusione della cultura indiana ed asiatica; [...] Dal 1999 la Venetian Academy of Indian Studies, per meglio attuare gli scopi statutari, si e trasformata in una onlus (organizzazione non lucrativa di utilita sociale)."
Site contents: * Presentazione; * Attivita; * Gruppi di Ricerca (Etnologia, Buddhismo tibetano); * Cooperazione; * Pubblicazioni (Atti del Convegno Internazionale di Udine - Luigi Pio Tessitori, Salute, malattia, morte - India ed Europa a confronto, India: Miniature e dipinti dal XVI al XIX secolo, The Shamanic Cosmos from India to the Pole Star, Kampilya - Quest for a Mahabharata city, Atti del Convegno Nazionale Mysterium Sanguinis, Atti First International Symposium on Kampilya Project, Il sangue nel mito); * Video (Kampilya Mission 2000, Guar di Regingtal: una cerimonia funebre dei Lanjia Saora dell'Orissa, Rampal: oracolo di villaggio dell'Uttar Pradesh, Esorcismo e guarigione presso i Lanjia Saora dell'Orissa, Un rito funebre presso la tribu Apatani dell'Arunachal Pradesh); * News [from the Association]; * Links [page under construction].
[A site chiefly in Italian - ed.]
URL http://www.vais.it/
Internet Archive http://web.archive.org/web/*/www.vais.it/
Link reported by: John Noyce (johnnoyce--at--hotmail.com)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate info
* Publisher [academic - business - govt. - 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 Feb 2006

Southeast Asia Microform Project (SEAM)
Center for Research Libraries (CRL), Chicago, IL, US
Self-description: "The Southeast Asia Microform Project (SEAM) is a cooperative endeavor established [in 1970 - ed.] to provide subscribing institutions with better coverage of research materials related to the study of Southeast Asia. SEAM will film or acquire films of such research materials and make them readily available to subscribers to the project. [...] SEAM holdings include more than 300 historic newspapers from every country in the region, in national, minority, and English or other colonial languages, similar numbers of historic journals and government serials and thousands of historic manuscripts. The materials are available for loan to member libraries without restriction; non member libraries may have limited access to SEAM materials."
Site contents: * News (Recent Meetings, Announcements, New Proposals, Proposals Guidelines); * Collections (Current Projects, Guide to Collections, Holdings List [SEAM Holdings list 2005; 653 pages; 2 MB PDF document]); * Membership information; * Related Projects.
URL http://www.crl.edu/areastudies/SEAM/index.htm
Internet Archive http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.crl.edu/areastudies/SEAM/index.htm
Link reported by: Raymond Lum (rlum--at--fas.harvard.edu)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate Info./Online Guide
* Publisher [academic - business - govt. - library/museum - NGO - other]: Academic
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Essential
* External links to the resource [over 3,000 - under 3,000 - under 1,000 - under 300 - under 100 - under 30]: under 100

17 Feb 2006

South Asia Microform Project (SAMP)
Center for Research Libraries (CRL), Chicago, IL, US
Self-description: "The South Asia Microform Project (SAMP) is a cooperative program that seeks to acquire and maintain a readily accessible collection of unique materials in microform related to the study of South Asia. Materials are collected both through the filming efforts of the project and through the purchase of positive copies of materials filmed by other groups, institutions and companies. SAMP strives to cooperate with libraries and archives worldwide in preserving unique or endangered materials for the study of South Asia. Created in 1967 and affiliated with the Association for Asian Studies [www.aasianst.org], the subscribing members of SAMP acquire and maintain materials from India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bhutan and the Maldives in microform. To provide convenient access to subscribers, the collection is housed and administered by the Center for Research Libraries (CRL). The Collection Since its inauguration [n 1967 - ed.] SAMP has acquired or filmed more than 23,000 scholarly publications, newspapers, and government documents. Cooperation with national archives and libraries such as the British Library (particularly the Oriental and India Office Collections from the former India Office Library), the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, and the Library of Congress Field Offices in South Asia has assisted in the collection of a diverse range of texts in microform including: reports from the British East India Company, journals from scholarly societies, personal papers of researchers, pamphlets, and posters. [...] In 1990 a special project began to microfilm the 55,000 books in the twenty-two languages found in the Sahitya Akademi's The National Bibliography of Indian Literature, 1901-1953 but rarely held by North American libraries."
Site contents: * News (Recent Meetings, Announcements, New Proposals, Proposals Guidelines); * Collections (Current Projects, Guide to Collections, Holdings List [All of SAMP's cataloged holdings are recorded in the OCLC database and in CRL online public access catalog); * Membership information; * Related Projects.
URL http://www.crl.edu/areastudies/SAMP/index.htm
Internet Archive http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.crl.edu/areastudies/SAMP/index.htm
Link reported by: Raymond Lum (rlum--at--fas.harvard.edu)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate Info./Online Guide
* Publisher [academic - business - govt. - library/museum - NGO - other]: Academic
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Essential
* External links to the resource [over 3,000 - under 3,000 - under 1,000 - under 300 - under 100 - under 30]: under 100

16 Feb 2006

South Asian Scholarship - a journal
Center for Culture and Development Research (CCDR), ?Dhaka, Bangladesh
Supplied note: "South Asian Scholarship is designed to promote multi-disciplinary research in South Asia. It aims to provide a forum for the exchange of ideas & views among scholars both inside and outside South Asia who are extensively working on South Asian issues and thinking about South Asian society, culture, economy, politics, regional affairs, security, development and so forth. South Asian Scholarship welomes both theoretical and empirical, but original, article pertaining to South Asian issues across disciplines. It is a peer-reviewed journal which is currently published two times a year (January & July) by Center for Culture and Development Research (CCDR) (http://www.freewebs.com/ccdrb/). [...] Contributors are requested to follow the 'Notes for the Guidance of Contributors of South Asian Scholarship'. - rnu."
Site contents: * Academics & Staff [a section under construction]; * Current Project [a section under construction]; * Journal and Publications [a section under construction]; * Notes for Contributors; * Contact.
[A site of a future scholarly journal - ed.]
URL http://www.freewebs.com/ccdrb/southasianscholarship.htm
Internet Archive (web.archive.org) [the site was not archived at the time of this abstract]
Link reported by: Rahman Nasir Uddin (ccdr_b--at--yahoo.com)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate Info.
* Publisher [academic - business - govt. - library/museum - NGO - other]: Academic
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Interesting
* External links to the resource [over 3,000 - under 3,000 - under 1,000 - under 300 - under 100 - under 30]: under 30

16 Feb 2006

Women Living Under Muslim Laws / Femmes Sous Lois Musulmanes (WLUML)
wluml.org, Nigeria/Pakistan/UK.
Self-description: "Women Living Under Muslim Laws is an international solidarity network [est. 1984 - ed.] that provides information, support and a collective space for women whose lives are shaped, conditioned or governed by laws and customs said to derive from Islam.
For more than two decades WLUML has linked individual women and organisations. It now extends to more than 70 countries ranging from South Africa to Uzbekistan, Senegal to Indonesia and Brazil to France. [...]
Our name challenges the myth of one, homogenous 'Muslim world'. This deliberately created myth fails to reflect that: a) laws said to be Muslim vary from one context to another and, b) the laws that determine our lives are from diverse sources: religious, customary, colonial and secular. We are governed simultaneously by many different laws: laws recognised by the state (codified and uncodified) and informal laws such as customary practices which vary according to the cultural, social and political context. [...]."
Site contents: *About WLUML; * Current Site Highlights; * News and Views; * Calls for Action; * Publications (# Country Compilations; # Dossiers [No.1 (1986) - No. 26 (2004)]; # Occasional Papers [14 papers]; # General Publications [Recognizing the Un-Recognized: Inter-Country Cases and Muslim Marriages & Divorces in Britain - Sohail Akbar Warraich & Cassandra Balchin (2006), Great Ancestors: Women Asserting Rights in Muslim Contexts - Farida Shaheed with Aisha L.F. Shaheed (2005), Warning Signs of Fundamentalisms - Edited by Ayesha Imam, Jenny Morgan & Nira Yuval-Davis (2004), Knowing Our Rights: Women, family, laws and customs in the Muslim world - WLUML (2003), Karo Kari, TorTora, Siyahkari, Kala Kali "There Is No Honour In Killing" National Seminar Report - WLUML (2001), Feminism in the Muslim World Leadership Institutes - Anissa Helie (2000), Building Civil Societies - A Guide for Social and Political Action - Homa Hoodfar and Nelofar Pazira (2000), Reaching Out, Changing Our Lives, Outreach Strategies and Women Living Under Muslim Laws - Muslim Women's Research and Action Forum and WLUML (1999), The Women's Movement in Iran: Women at the Crossroads of Secularisation and Islamization - WLUML (1999), Shadow Report on Algeria - To the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women - International Women's Human Rights Clinic and Women Living Under Muslim Laws (1999), Dhaka Plan of Action - WLUML (1999), Women in the Quran: Qur'anic Interpretation by Women Meeting: Information Kit - WLUML (1998), Shah Bano and the Muslim Women Act a Decade On: The Right of the Divorced Muslim Women to Mataa - Lucy Carroll (ed), WLUML (co-published WRAG-WLUML Bombay) (1998), For Ourselves - Women Reading the Qur'an WLUML (1998), Fatwas Against Women in Bangladesh WLUML (1996), Time to Speak Out: Illegal Abortion and Women's Reproductive Health in Pakistan WLUML (1996), Talaq-l-Tawfid: The Muslim Woman's Contractual Access to Divorce - WLUML (1996), Reconstructing Fundamentalism and Feminism: The Dynamics of Change in Iran - Shirkat Gah (1995), Assertions of Self: The Nascent Women's Movement in Central Asia - Shirkat Gah (1995), Women, Laws, Initiatives in the Muslim World - WLUML (1995), A Handbook on Family Law in Pakistan - WLUML (1994), Riffat Hassan: Selected Articles - Riffat Hassan (1994)], # Reprints and translations, # Sister Organisation Publications); * Links.
[A bilingual (EN, FR) site - ed.]
URL http://wluml.org/english/index.shtml
Internet Archive http://web.archive.org/web/*/wluml.org/english/index.shtml
Link reported by: John Noyce (johnnoyce--at--hotmail.com)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate info./Study
* Publisher [academic - business - govt. - library/museum - NGO - other]: NGO
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: V.Useful
* External links to the resource [over 3,000 - under 3,000 - under 1,000 - under 300 - under 100 - under 30]: under 100