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Following the success of the 2009 Melbourne Conference on China, The Asia Institute at the University of Melbourne is pleased to announce the 2010 Melbourne Conference on China, to be held at the University of Melbourne on Monday, 19 July 2010 and Tuesday, 20 July 2010.
We welcome researchers, specialists, policy makers, policy advisers and educators working in anywhere in the world and in any area of China studies to come to the southern hemisphere to meet in Melbourne, Australia, to explore the various questions posed by the ongoing and rapid changes that have affected Chinese elite groups and their rivals in the past, the present and, most importantly, in the future.
Please submit an abstract of up to 500 words, no later than Friday, 30 April 2010, to Conference-on-China@unimelb.edu.au.
Inspired by Dalhousie University's online launch of their Dinwiddie Archives, this conference aims to further international dialogue and scholarly exchange between those working on the history of science in Asia, Europe and North America by examining the global circulation of scientific knowledge from the Early Modern Period to today. CIRCULATING KNOWLEDGE, EAST AND WEST will culminate in a half-day facilitation workshop to plan for further Science Studies dialogue and exchange, "East" and "West", with future conferences in Bangalore and Singapore.
SPEAKERS INCLUDE: Fa-ti Fan, State University of New York at Binghamton Yves Gingras, l'Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM) Jan Golinski, University of New Hampshire Jahnavi Phalkey, Imperial College London Dhruv Raina, Jawaharlal Nehru University Kapil Raj, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales Sundar Sarukkai, Manipal University Jon Topham, University of Leeds.
CIRCULATING KNOWLEDGE, EAST AND WEST will be held at the University of King's College, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada from July 21-23. For further details - including information on registration and accommodations - please visit: WWW.SITUSCI.CA.
Sponsored by the Situating Science Knowledge Cluster, the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, the Shastri Indo-Canadian Institute and the Centre for Interdisciplinary Research (University of King's College)
The James Dinwiddie (1746–1815) papers were donated to the Dalhousie University Archives in 1999 and are now being prepared for online access. Dr. Dinwiddie (1746–1815) was the scientific attaché of the first British embassy to the 18th Century Chinese imperial court, and the first Professor of Mathematics, Natural Philosophy and Chemistry at the College of Fort William in Calcutta, India. One of the most important of the new itinerant Newtonian natural philosophers and lecturers of the Early Modern Period, the bulk of Dinwiddie's papers consist of his scientific observations, experiments, lecture notes, and journals with dates ranging from 1767 to 1815.
An international conference organised by Hans van de Ven, University of Cambridge and Zheng Yangwen, University of Manchester, to be held on 30-31 July 2010 in Singapore or Xiamen.
Some four hundred pieces of ceramics from the oldest shipwreck found in Southeast Asia were on display in Singapore in June 2005. The ceramics did not bear any resemblance to the familiar Ming or Qing wares. Neither did they look like the Song or Yuan wares. Made in a kiln in Changsha during the Tang dynasty, these were the long vanished 长沙窑or “Changsha ceramics”. The “Tang cargo”, as named by excavators and archaeologists, originated from Yangzhou, the Changsha ceramics in other words travelled a long way from South China to North China from where they were sent across the seas. They were re-packaged into large jars made in Vietnam and were destined for Arabia as the porcelains were painted with Arabic characters. The vessel bears the hallmarks of Arab shipping technology whereas the wood used to build it was from India.
This “Tang cargo” example lends force to the new perspective that this conference wishes to advance, namely the significance of water in shaping China’s history. Whereas the Great Wall is often used as a symbol of a closed-off China resisting engagement with the outside world, the Grand Canal, a comparable feat of engineering with probably a more profound social and cultural impact, is rarely pressed into service as a symbol of anything except for chronic mismanagement and corruption. Yet it illustrates that there was a ‘China on the Water’, not just a ‘Walled Kingdom’.
This conference aims to investigate how the water world shaped China. Islam and Christianity came via the water world; so did fragrances, tobacco and opium, maize, clocks, bicycles and ballet. We are interested in how waterways linked China with other parts of the world from the Tang dynasty onward. We are also interested in how water structured Chinese localities socio-culturally, religiously, materially, and architecturally, and the technologies that sustained China’s water-borne worlds, ranging from ships (junks), harbours, Custom Houses, warehouses, docks, and sluices to lighthouses and other aids to navigation, as well as structures to control rivers and canals. This conference seeks to bring the significance of waterways back into our historical perspectives; it aims at revising historical approaches that have dictated the study and research of China. For conference themes and the full Call for Papers, seehttp://www.ccs.humanities.manchester.ac.uk/research/conferences.html.
Inquiries and abstracts of no more than 250 words, plus 5 lines of biographical information, should be sent to David.Woodbridge@postgrad.manchester.ac.uk before 30 September 2009. Those accepted to present at the conference will be notified before the end of 30 December 2009. The organizers aim to publish selected conference papers in an edited volume/s. Accommodation and food will be provided during the conference but paper presenters must look for their own funding for travel.
August 2, 2010, Los Angeles, CA
The Association for Asian Performance (AAP) invites submissions for its 10th annual conference in Los Angeles, at the Hyatt Century Plaza Hotel, on
August 2, 2010. The AAP conference is a one-day event, preceding the annual ATHE (Association for Theatre in Higher Education) conference and held at the ATHE conference hotel. Proposals are invited for papers, panels, workshops and roundtable discussions. The deadline for proposals is March 15th, 2010.
- Proposals for individual papers should include a brief abstract. Individual presentations should be limited to 20 minutes so that there will be time left for questions and discussion. Visual materials (slides, video etc.) are strongly encouraged.
- Panels should be composed of three paper presenters and one discussant or four paper presenters. Proposals for panels should provide a brief statement that explains the session as a whole and the proposed subject of each paper.
- Roundtables offer an opportunity for participants to discuss a specific theme, issue or significant recent publication. A maximum of six active participants is recommended. While a roundtable proposal will not be as detailed as a panel proposal, it should explain fully the session’s purpose, themes or issues and scope.
- Proposals for workshops by performance practitioner(s) with expertise in specific Asian performance traditions are welcomed, particularly workshops that overlap with a panel theme or paper presentation. Workshop proposals should include an abstract explaining methods and goals. Workshops should be designed to run no longer than 80 minutes.
We encourage suggestions for innovative alternatives to the panels, individual papers and roundtables described above.
Proposals should include the following: (1). Title of panel, roundtable or paper; (2). Names of all the presenters, including chair and/or organizer and discussant (for panels and roundtables.) A few biographical sentences about each presenter; (3). Affiliation, specialization (field/region), mailing address, phone numbers and e-mail addresses of al participants; and (4). Explanation of the session (for panels, workshops and roundtables); abstract of each panel presentation or each paper.
Proposals should be emailed to the conference organizer, Claudia Orenstein, corenste@hunter.cuny.edu
If you need help locating other scholars to participate in a panel or roundtable, please submit a preliminary description of your proposal before February 1 so we can post it on the AAP website. Alternatively, you can post your suggestions for a panel there directly by logging on to the site at:
http://www.yavanika.org/aaponline/
All presenters are expected to join AAP. Membership is $40 per year ($25 for students) and includes a subscription to the Asian Theatre Journal.
The military and other security actors continue to play an important role in many Southeast Asian countries. Not only by defending the external borders of their respective states, but more so through their involvement in domestic affairs, i.e. through defending certain regimes against internal insurgencies, their influence on political affairs and sometimes even (both legally and illegally) through their business involvements. Recent incidents such as the military-led coup d’etat in Thailand, the revolt of ex-militaries in East Timor, the human rights violations and extrajudicial killings allegedly committed by security forces in the Philippines, and attacks on opposition-led demonstrations in Myanmar have all highlighted the poor status quo of Security Sector Reform (SSR) in many Southeast Asian countries.
With regard to the prominent position the security forces still occupy in different countries, it seems incumbent that they are managed by democratic principles, serve under the control of democratic institutions, and perform their functions in line with democratic norms and respect for human rights. SSR as a concept, that aims to transform the security architecture and its oversight institutions in post-conflict and transition states, is therefore increasingly regarded as a potential cornerstone of the reform agendas in Southeast Asian countries ranging from Thailand to East Timor. Donors have highlighted the importance of SSR for Southeast Asia time and again, yet there seems to be little ownership in Southeast Asia. In fact, and for reasons to be discussed on the panel, security agents have largely rejected reform attempts. Even in countries like Indonesia, that have shown remarkable success in reforming their own security sectors, the security forces have managed to preserve many of their authoritarian prerogatives. In this light, the panel tries to raise the question of “how to make sense of SSR in Southeast Asia?” In accordance with the broad range of issues connected to SSR, not only papers that deal with its policy aspects are welcome, but also contributions that focus on the evolution of the concept, SSR’s normative presumptions, and questions of adaptability to the Southeast Asian context.
Due to two recent cancellations, there is space for two more papers on the panel. Interested contributors are encouraged to email a short (1-2
pages) abstract of their paper asap to Felix Heiduk, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University, fheiduk@wcfia.harvard.edufheiduk@wcfia.harvard.edu.
Representations of Prostitution, Sex Work and Sex Trafficking between the 19th and 21st Centuries
The Women’s Library, London, September 9–10, 2010
Provisional Keynote Speakers:
Jane Arthurs, University of the West of England;
Marianne Hester, University of Bristol;
Russell Campbell, University of Wellington;
Kirsten Pullen, Texas A&M University.
The figure of the prostitute is a malleable cultural symbol, used to address social fears and desires (Matlock, 1994; O’Neill, 2001). Representations of prostitutes enable us to understand attitudes towards female mobility, sexuality, ethnicity, and emancipation that cross national divides and affect all gender identities. The global centrality of such representations is growing, as debates about sex work, tourism and trafficking recur in a variety of border-crossing forms. When considered from a global and historical perspective, portrayals of prostitution are many and varied, intersecting with different cultural and historical moments, in different forms and for different audiences, and functioning in dramatically different ways. Studies of the narratives of the prostitute, sex worker and sex trafficking within specific representational and key national contexts point to a need for further collaboration to understand the extent of their transnational nature, and the way in which representational forms may differ. This conference aims therefore to bring together studies of the representation of prostitution from a range of cultures, including Europe, North Africa, the US, Latin America, China, Japan, Korea, and India. In this transnational context we will examine how various representational forms inflect the figure differently since little attention has been paid to the evolution of the prostitute’s representation over the past two centuries from the novel and stage towards the globalized modes of film, television and the internet.
We would welcome proposals on any aspect of the conference theme, particularly in the light of the following questions:
1) Which features of the representation of prostitution cross a selection of different media and national contexts, and which do not?
2) How have new representational forms affected portrayals of prostitution? To what extent is there continuity between nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first century approaches?
3) What are the contentious issues around the representation of prostitution, and what strategies might one devise to negotiate them? How do different understandings of feminism inflect the way we interpret images of prostitution?
4) How do representations of prostitution overlap with other discourses about gender?
5) How can we develop a transdisciplinary methodological approach to the study of gender representation, in particular to the representation of prostitutes, by bringing medical history, philosophy, sociology, politics, and geography together with more traditional studies of representation?
Please send abstracts of 500 words to the organizers Danielle Hipkins and Kate Taylor at prostitutionconference@hotmail.com by February 28, 2010.
Beloit College is hosting a teaching colloquium on October 1 and 2, 2010, on Environment, Science, and Technology in Asia. The colloquium is intended both for scientists interested in incorporating Asia into undergraduate teaching and for Asian Studies.
The registration deadline for the colloquium is August 27.
The colloquium begins late Friday afternoon and continues through early afternoon on Saturday. Dinner Friday evening and lunch on Saturday will be provided. There is no registration fee. Small travel grants are available; individuals interested in these should contact Amy Dooley at dooleya@beloit.edu and put "Colloquium travel grant" in the subject line.
This panel is designed to appeal to a wide spectrum of approaches from scholars of modern Japan. Although conceived of as “area-focused”, the issue of the nature and timing of “the contemporary” in modern Japan resonates with debates on the nature of postmodernity in the West. Proposals for papers concerning the nature of “the contemporary” and/or of “modernity” and its relationship to “postmodernity” in Japan as it relates to literature, film or criticism are welcome.
The Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association conference takes place October 14-16, in Albuquerque, New Mexico. For information on the conference, please see
http://rmmla.wsu.edu/conferences/conf10Albuquerque/default.asp
In order to present their papers, all panel members must be members of the RMMLA by April 1, 2010. Please see http://rmmla.wsu.edu/member/join-renew.asp for details.
The deadline for proposal submissions is March 1, 2010. Please include the following in your proposal: name,
institutional affiliation,
area of study,
e-mail, paper title,
abstract of 250-500 words,
AV requirements.
Please e-mail proposals to: Peter Tillack,
Assistant Professor of Japanese,
Department of Modern Languages and Literatures,
Montana State University tillack@montana.edu.
“Acta Pekinensia: Western Historical Sources for the Kangxi Reign” is an International Symposium in Commemoration of 4th Centenary of the Death of Matteo Ricci, S.J. It is organized by The Macau Ricci Institute, to be held in Macau from 5 – 7 October, 2010.
The Macau Ricci Institute is conscious of the importance of contributing to better knowledge and use of historical materials of the Kangxi reign and we recognize that a comparatively neglected area are the Emperor and China’s relations with Europe and the European missionaries who were settled in China at the time. A few years ago our Institute therefore initiated a project of transcribing, translating and annotating the ‘Acta Pekinensia’ (Event of Peking), an eighteenth-century Latin manuscript of 1446 folios, written by the German Jesuit Kilian Stumpf (1655–1720) and kept in the Jesuit Roman Archives.
The basic motivation that underlies this ambitious project is a general belief that Western historical sources will play an important role in complementing Chinese sources. That double perspective enriches and enlightens both the publication of the ‘Acta Pekinensia’ and others existing sources. The double perspective situates the ‘Events of Peking’ in a new and broader light, which can be of great interest to Chinese and Western historians.
The purpose of the Symposium organized by the MRI is primarily to share with the scholarly community the results of the current research project to make this fascinating and important text widely known. In addition, the event aims to call or renew attention to the correspondence, reports and journals of missionaries residing at the court of the Kangxi Emperor, which constitute an invaluable source of information for the cultural, social, religious, and political history of this long reign.
Further information is available at http://www.riccimac.org/eng/symp2010/index.htm
Contact: symp2010@riccimac.org
“Sustainable Asia: Challenges and Opportunities”
October 22-24, 2010
Pennsylvania State University, State College, Pennsylvania
DEADLINE FOR PAPER SUBMISSIONS: MAY 1, 2010
To propose a panel or an individual paper, please send a completed proposal form along with a one-page abstract for each proposed paper by May 1, 2010 to David Kenley, the MAR/AAS 2010 Program Chair, as indicated below. Inquiries are also welcome.
Proposals may be submitted by mail, fax or e-mail (as an attachment). Acceptance notices will be sent to you by June 1, 2010. Further details and online applications are available on the conference website, http://www.maraas.org (click on “Conferences”).
In order to submit a proposal for the 2010 meeting, you should be a 2010 MAR/AAS member or submit a membership application to Executive Secretary, Dr. Diane Freedman, MAR/AAS, Department of Social Science W2-40, Community College of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA 19130. Annual membership is $10.00. To obtain MAR/AAS membership information, go to (www.maraas.org) or contact Dr. Diane Freedman (215-751-8547, dfreedman@ccp.edu).
The deadline for conference pre-registration for presenters will be June 20. Pre-registration by this date is necessary if you wish your name to appear in the program. The fees for pre-registration will be $50.00 for current members, $60 for non-members, $30 for current member students, and $35 for non-member students. When non-members pay the registration fee, the membership fee for 2011 will be complimentary. Information regarding registration, travel and lodging, and conference events will be available at the MAR/AAS website: http://www.maraas.org.
We welcome participation from faculty, graduate students, undergraduate students, independent scholars, and professionals, and especially encourage panels with innovative combinations of individuals and fields. Some travel assistance is available on a competitive basis for graduate students and international scholars. Include your request for travel funding with your paper proposal.
Program Chair: David Kenley, History Department, Elizabethtown College, One Alpha Drive, Elizabethtown, PA 17022; kenleyd@etown.edu; 717-361-1238 (o); 717-361-1390 (fax).
A three-day Conference, 11-13 November, followed by a two-day PhD course, 14-15 November 2010. Organized by ADI – Asian Dynamics Initiative, University of Copenhagen
The opening day of the conference is allocated to a big public event with invited keynote speakers. The following two days will be made up of 10-12 parallel panels and workshops under the common theme ‘Asian Diversity in a Global Context’. The goal is to generate deeper and fuller insights into the political, social, cultural and economic changes facing Asia in the 21st century. Finally, PhD students will have the opportunity to participate in an intensive PhD course over two days.
Call for papers: The conference welcomes papers relating to one of the themes of the conference’s panels and workshops. Instructions on submission of abstracts can be found on the individual panel/workshop subsites. PhD students are also invited to submit abstracts for the PhD course. Deadline for submission of abstracts: 1 March 2010
Detailed information on the conference’s panels, workshops, PhD course, submission of abstracts, venue and more can be found on the conference website: http://asiandynamics.ku.dk/asian_diversity_conference/
'Asian Diversity in a Global Context' is the third in the series of annual conferences initiated by ADI and the University of Copenhagen in 2008.
ADI - Asian Dynamics Initiative – is an interdisciplinary research priority area based in the Faculties of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Copenhagen. ADI aims at expanding research and teaching on Asia as well as strengthening the university's global networks in studies of Asia. http://asiandynamics.ku.dk/english
The Hong Kong Institute for Humanities and Social Sciences (HKIHSS) at the University of Hong Kong, the National University of Singapore (NUS), and the Social Science Research Council (SSRC) (the Organizers) are pleased to announce an open call for individual research paper submissions from researchers in any world region, to participate in a 3-day thematic workshop at an international conference, “Inter-Asian Connections II: Singapore.”
To be held in Singapore, December 8-10, 2010, the conference will host concurrent workshops, coordinated by individual directors and showcasing innovative research from across the social sciences and related disciplines. Workshops will focus on themes of particular relevance to Asia, reconceptualized as a dynamic and interconnected historical, geographical, and cultural formation stretching from the Middle East through Eurasia and South Asia, to East Asia.
The conference structure and schedule have been designed to enable intensive ‘working group’ interactions on a specific research theme, as well as broader interactions on topics of mutual interest and concern. Accordingly, there will be a public keynote and a plenary session in addition to closed workshop sessions. The concluding day of the conference will bring all the conference participants together for a public presentation and exchange of research agendas that have emerged over the course of the conference deliberations.
Individual paper submissions are invited from junior and senior scholars, whether graduate students or faculty, or researchers in NGOs or other research organizations, for the following five workshops:
- Regional Knowledge Hubs in Asia: the Social Sciences and Humanities in Science and Technology Human Capital (STHC)
Workshop Directors – V.V. Krishna (National University of Singapore) and Tim Turpin (University of Western Sydney)
- Inter-Asian temple and trust networks within and out of Southeast Asia
Workshop Director – Kenneth Dean (McGill University)
- How Asia Became Territorial
Workshop Directors – Itty Abraham (University of Texas at Austin) and See Seng Tan (S. Rajarantnam School of International Studies, Nanyang Technological University)
- Reproduction Migration in Asia
Workshop Directors – Biao Xiang (University of Oxford) and Mika Toyota (National University of Singapore)
- Old Histories, New Geographies: Contrapuntal Mobilities of Trade in Asia
Workshop Directors – Engseng Ho (Duke University) and Lakshmi Subramanian (Jamia Millia Islamia)
Descriptions of the individual workshops, including details on the workshop directors, and information on the application process are available at http://www.ssrc.org/pages/conference-on-inter-asian-connections-ii-singapore-december-8-10-2010/.
Application materials are due Monday, May 31, 2010. Please note that an individual cannot apply to more than one workshop. Selection decisions will be announced on June 25, 2010. Accepted participants are required to submit a 20-25 page research paper by October 15, 2010.
The Organizers will make every effort to ensure some level of funding for participants toward the travel/accommodation costs associated with attending the Inter-Asian Connections II conference. However, we are unable to guarantee any financial assistance at this point, and we encourage participants to seek funding from external agencies (such as their home institutions). We will be able to confirm details about funding availability after the selection process has been completed.
For additional inquiries, please contact the Organizers at interasia@ssrc.org.
This event is organized and co-sponsored by The Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences (HKIHSS) at the University of Hong Kong, the National University of Singapore (NUS), and the Social Science Research Council (SSRC).
The question of how people in Taiwan relate to the spaces which they inhabit has been one of the major issues in cultural discussions taking place there in the last 20 or 30 years. This conference will be multidisciplinary in focus, and participation by academic researchers working in any area related to the space and culture relationship and by those working in the arts and other domains of cultural activity is welcomed.
Conference dates: 9-10 December 2010
Conference location: Asia Institute, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Australia
Conference website: www.asiainstitute.unimelb.edu.au/taiwanconference
Please submit an abstract of approximately 300 words, no later than 31 August 2010, to taiwan-conference@unimelb.edu.au.
The National University of Educational Planning and Administration (NUEPA) is organizing first Global Conclave of Young Scholars of Indian Education on 27-29 January 2011 at New Delhi, India.
WHY A CONCLAVE ON INDIAN EDUCATION?
Indian education with its complexities and paradoxes has attracted the attention of young scholars all over the world. The canvas of research on Indian education stretches from the ideas of Tagore, Gandhi and Krishnamurthy, ethnographic studies of children in slums, econometric modeling of participation in schooling to politics of curricular content, privatization and external aid. Diverse disciplinary approaches, theoretical and ideological orientations, and methodologies have been adopted to paint this canvas. However, the majority of scholars researching Indian education in India and abroad seem to work largely independent of each other even though they may be examining similar issues. There is an urgent need to bridge this chasm between those researching Indian education in universities and research institutes in India and elsewhere in the world.
WHO IS THE CONCLAVE FOR?
The first Global Concave of Young Scholars of Indian Education to be held in New Delhi on 27-29, January 2011 presents a unique opportunity for young scholars (doctoral and post-doctoral researchers and early-career faculty) working on any aspect of Indian education in universities and research institutes in India and abroad to come together, to share and to showcase their research, to network and to publish across boundaries of nations and disciplines. Those under 35 years of age are particularly encouraged to apply.
HOW TO APPLY?
Given the wide canvas of research on Indian education, the theme for the conclave is open-ended. Papers are invited on any aspect of Indian education. The papers may explore theoretical and ideological orientations, empirical realities, issues of method, design and disciplinary boundaries. They could focus exclusively on Indian education or present comparisons with other countries. In the first instance, abstracts of 300-500 words (including statement of the problem, research strategy and findings) along with contact information, designation, institutional affiliation, disciplinary background and one page CV should be submitted by email to nuepa.conclave@nuepa.org and nuepa.conclave@gmail.com by 25 August 2010. Successful candidates shall be informed by 15 September 2010. Full research papers shall be solicited from the successful candidates by 15 November 2010. All abstract and paper submissions should be formatted in Times New Roman font, size 12, and spaced 1.5 lines. Both abstracts and papers shall be subject to a process of peer review. Papers that lend themselves to publication will be selected for submission as a special issue in an internationally reputed peer-reviewed journal.
FINANCIAL SUPPORT
A limited number of bursaries towards travel and accommodation expenses will also be provided. Those interested in availing of the bursaries are requested to apply for the same along with their full paper. Those being awarded bursaries shall be informed by 30 November 2010. However, all candidates are advised to explore alternate funding arrangements as it may not be possible to accommodate all the requests for bursaries.
WHOM TO CONTACT?
For information regarding registration and conclave organization, please visit http://www.nuepa.org/globalconclaveoneducation. For specific queries, please get in touch with Prof. R Govinda, Vice Chancellor, NUEPA and Chairperson, Conclave Organizing Committee (vc@nuepa.org), Dr. Sunita Chugh, Assistant Professor and Member, Conclave Organizing Committee (sunitachugh@nuepa.org) or Mr. Anugula N. Reddy, Assistant Professor and Member, Conclave Organizing Committee (anreddy@nuepa.org).
Hosted by the Asia-Europe Institute, University of Malaya, Malaysia. February 15-18, 2011.
The core emphasis of the conference is on understanding Asian perspectives on leadership and learning. Leadership and learning, like various other concepts, are often viewed/treated as global. As a response and reaction to the predominant presence of social theories rooted in the West, there is a growing recognition of and movement towards understanding theories through the wide range of diverse contextual and cultural perspectives available in the East. The significant role of culture is highlighted to an extent that some Asian researchers suggest that effective leadership in one culture may be counterproductive in another. It is in this connection that the conference is strategically an important initiative, as it aims at contributing to the knowledge on leadership and learning in Asia.
Thus, the questions that the conference intends to address are: Are the west-inspired theories on leadership and learning relevant for Asia in general and different contexts in Asia in particular? Is there a need to develop theories specific for Asia in general and different contexts in Asia in particular? Are there existing theories on leadership and learning with an Asian origin, which have not received much attention or have not been acknowledged so far?
THE SUBMISSION DEADLINE HAS BEEN EXTENDED TO JUNE 15, 2010.
Please visit also the Conference Website at http://ellta.org/ for more and continued information update about submissions, the journal Special Issues, members of the International Advisory Board etcetera.
Contact us via the following e-mail addresses: inquiries@ellta.org or ellta.conference@gmail.com.
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