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The Asian Sphere offers a unique opportunity for outstanding candidates at the PhD level to enroll in an international multidisciplinary inter-university graduate program focusing on the Asian continent. The Asian Sphere is a joint Israeli program of the Hebrew University and the University of Haifa funded by the Humanities Fund of the Council for Higher Education in Israel and Yad Hanadiv. It is a structured graduate program of excellence that focuses on various aspects of the entire Asian continent as a continuous civilizational zone. It addresses cross-regional contacts and processes among Asian societies, cultures and states, as well as between Asia and other continents throughout history until present time. The program's courses are taught in English. Apart from a dynamic and exceptional environment of learning and research, the program offers scholarships for outstanding graduate students. The scholarships for PhD students are of the amount of 60,000 NIS per year for three years. The Asian Sphere accepts students from different disciplines in the humanities and social sciences,
Academia Goes East The 14th Conference of Asian Studies in Israel The Hebrew University of Jerusalem May 23-24, 2018 Panel organizer: Irina Lyan The Hebrew University of Jerusalem irina@lyan@mail.huji.ac.il With the rapid rise of East Asian economies and the increase in Asian students’ mobility since the 1990s, English-speaking universities have become the leading exporters of international education, bringing students from “education-starved” developing countries to the West. However, the shift in East Asian economies from developing countries to economic elites challenges a traditional unidirectional flow of academic knowledge from the West to the rest of the world. Since East Asia has improved its economic position from that of a backward region to a so-called rising “dragon,” “tiger,” or another economic miracle, its images have shifted: Asian students have come to be treated as a valuable asset worth competing for. This panel calls to challenge the existing focus on education economy by exploring the blurring boundary between the academy and corporation. By examining “going East”—a concept that originated in the international business environment and has penetrated educational institutions—the goal of this panel is to understand the expansion of education markets toward East Asia from interdisciplinary approach.
Asian Studies
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This issue of the journal Asian Studies will examine the cultural, social and intellectual legacies of the various Asian regions. Its geographical scope extends from China to Iran and from Afghanistan to Fujian. It examines different aspects of history, from classical and modern intellectual history to art, political and gender history. It clearly shows that the history of this vast and diverse region is complex.
The institutionalization of Asian Studies as a field in the Humanities and Social Sciences is greatly indebted to Western, especially North-Atlantic, traditions of thought, organized by the curiosity over regions and people historically connecting Europe and Asia. This ultimately led to distinct forms of compartmentalization of Western perception of alterity which was framed by patterns of Imperial curiosity and priorities of colonialism – especially until mid-20 th century, when European colonialism dwindled in most of Asia and Africa. The end of Second World War and the ensuing re-structuration of the world also affected models of knowledge production concerning different cultures, regions and populations. This is when imperial approaches gave way to " cultural " areas, a conceptualization boosted by the North-American area studies framework, which helped to reorganize international geopolitics in many aspects, including knowledge production. Area studies have both helped to develop capacities of scholars dedicated to the interdisciplinary study of specific spaces, whilst simultaneously isolated academics in compartmentalized frameworks, or " conceptual empires " – academic communities insulated into self-contained realities that, likewise, consecrated defined spaces to specific themes, methodological approaches, intellectual jargons, etc (van Schendel, 2002: 647-668). Another undesired effect of the area studies approach to international scholarship has been the concentration of expertise in regions of the Global South in Northern academies. The consequence is that postcolonial peripheries still suffer from the same and mutual isolation, blindness and ignorance that once affected them under colonialism. Asian, African and Latin American academies had very limited direct contact and are largely ignorant of one another´s intellectual agendas. It has even affected the geographical perception of these regions, sometimes reinforcing imperial boundaries drawn by colonialism. Correspondingly, international mainstream of Asian Studies is still deeply marked by the priorities (in terms of agenda, teaching and funding, for example) derived from North-Atlantic intellectual traditions largely overshadowing academic interests of Asia developed elsewhere in the world. How about the intellectual interest on Asia developed outside the North-Atlantic outline where area studies approach and confinement was not obligatorily resourced as a framework on Human Sciences?
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem is happy to host the 14th biennial Conference of Asian Studies in Israel. The conference will take place on May 23-24, 2018 @ Beit Maiersdorf, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Mount Scopus campus. We welcome you to take part in the largest event of this kind – with over 200 participants from all over the world, and 49 panels covering multiple fields – from China’s beauty industry to Jews in Central Asia, from Esoteric Buddhism to North Korean foreign policy from migration in Southeast Asia to the legacy of the Mongol Empire, from Japanese warrior culture to post-colonial India, contemporary China and much more… See http://asi18-huji.co.il/en/
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