Calls for Papers

2008 Rita S. Gallin Award for the Best Graduate Student Paper in Women and International Development

Deadline: Friday, December 12, 2008

Women and International Development (WID), a program of the Center for Gender in Global Context, invites you to submit a paper for its annual graduate student paper competition. The paper should have been written within the past year, should be approximately twenty double-spaced pages in length, and should focus on issues related to women, gender, international development, and globalization.

Papers will be reviewed by a faculty committee, and the award will be made at the annual GenCen Open House in January. The winning paper will be peer reviewed for publication in the WID Working Papers Series, and its author will receive a $200.00 prize.

Papers should be submitted to the GenCen office via e-mail (/in Word or WordPerfect/) or by mail (/both hard copy and on diskette/CD/). Please indicate you are submitting the paper for the Graduate Paper Competition and be sure to include a contact phone number and e-mail address.

For further information, see: http://www.gencen.msu.edu/competitions.htm

A Twenty Year Check-up on the State of the Field
A mini-conference with pre-circulated papers.
Hosted by the Institute of Comparative Culture at Sophia University, Tokyo

Proposal Deadline: December 15, 2008
Conference Date: May 31, 2009
Conference Location: Institute of Comparative Culture,Sophia University, Tokyo

It’s been twenty years since the contributors to Postwar Japan as History (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1993) first convened their discussion of the study of postwar Japan as a topic for historical inquiry. A great deal has happened since.

The organizers of this mini-conference invite emerging and established scholars to propose multi-disciplinary essays that engage the study of Japan since 1945 through historical sources, methods, or contexts. Selected participants will be asked to develop essays of not more than 8000 words.

Proposals will be accepted in Japanese or English, but the final essays should be written in (or translated into) English no later than four weeks before the conference date.

The conference will be organized into two or three sessions during which participants, invited commentators, and gallery audience will discuss essays that explore similar methodologies, issues, or themes. Essays will be distributed to the whole group via electronic file format four weeks prior to the conference. Participants will be asked to read each other’s essays and prepare remarks in advance of our meeting.

Funding for travel or research expenses is _not_ available and participants are encouraged to seek support on their own. Official letters of invitation will be provided upon request.

Proposals should contain the following information:

• Name
• Affiliation
• Title/Status
• Email Address
• Proposed Title
• Abstract of Proposed Essay (not more than 500 words)

Proposals should be submitted via email to:cg24@soas.ac.uk

Proposals must be submitted via email no later than December 15, 2008.

For inquiries, please contact:

Dr. Christopher Gerteis
Department of History Faculty of Liberal Arts
University of London
cg24@soas.ac.uk

Dr. Takehiro Watanabe
School of Oriental and African Studies
Sophia University
watan-ta@sophia.ac.jp">watan-ta@sophia.ac.jp

India Review

India Review is a quarterly refereed journal that publishes scholarly research on the issues central to Indian politics, economics and society. It combines theoretical rigor and substantive knowledge with policy relevance, and serves as a serious academic forum for understanding contemporary and historical developments in India.

Today’s critical intellectual, political, and social debates, including issues of security, social equality, economic and political development, and the role of historical relationships are all being contested in India and South Asia. The impact of how these issues are being addressed there is of vital interest to the world community.

In recent years, India Review has become an important medium for the exchange and dissemination of cross-disciplinary scholarly research on issues of importance to South Asia and the world community. In its sixth year of publication it is serving an important function as a forum for academic research in these areas, while maintaining accessibility across disciplines.

The editors of India Review encourage submission of articles to the journal for review and possible publication. Articles in past issues have examined India’s foreign relations, domestic politics, economic reforms, Kashmir, political theory, and the environment, to name just a few. Episodically, India Review publishes special issues. Recent special issues have addressed South Asia and nuclear deterrence as well as public anthropology and India.

We hope to expand the range of fields represented in the journal’s pages. To that end, we welcome articles with an India focus from disciplines as varied as public health, anthropology, sociology of religion, development economics, political and cultural history, and from perspectives that cross disciplinary boundaries as well.

More information on the journal can be found at its website, http://indiareview.org , where you will find abstracts of published articles as well as a page with guidelines for article submissions and a style sheet at http://indiareview.org/Submissions.htm.