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Fw: [Y-Indology] Summer Sanskrit @ Harvard

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Hi there,

This is a great news. I would be interesting to know as to what would be the syllabus at Harvard for Sanskrit and what diversity enrolls.

Plsd to hear.

Rgds
Gajanan Karanjikar
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Subject: [Y-Indology] Summer Sanskrit @ Harvard

As over the past 20 years, Harvard will again offer an Introduction to Sanskrit, equivalent to 2 semesters.

Please see the background information for the Harvard Summer School at:
http://dceweb.harvard.edu/

Time: June 25- August 10.

Course info at:
http://dceweb.harvard.edu/prod/sswckce.taf?function=search&wgrp=SUM&_UserReference=0A33052646510B690FF2572BF35C4F218048

Please let your students/friends know...

Best wishes,
M.W.

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> Wales Prof. of Sanskrit &
> Director of Graduate Studies,
> Dept. of South Asian Studies, Harvard University
> 1 Bow Street,
> Cambridge MA 02138, USA
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Fw: H-ASIA: Siquieros visit to Beijing 1956 query

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> H-ASIA
> February 13, 2012
>
> Siquieros visit to Beijing 1956 query
> ************************************************************************
> From: Madeline Gent <gent.madeline@gmail.com>
>
> My name is Madeline Gent, and I am a Chinese Art History grad student at
> the University of Maryland. I'm currently working on a topic examining
> the artistic exchange between modern Mexican painters and Chinese
> painters during the late 1950s. Specifically, I am looking into
> exhibitions of modern Mexican prints and modern Mexican paintings in
> Beijing in 1956. The Mexican painter Siquieros also visited at this
> time. If anyone can help me - point me in a direction to find
> information on the show, anything, I would greatly appreciate it. Thank
> you.
>
> Madeline Gent
> University of Maryland
>
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Fw: H-ASIA: TOC Frontiers of History in China 7.1 (2012)

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> H-ASIA
> February 13, 2012
>
> TOC and abstracts, Frontiers of History in China 7.1 (2012)
> ************************************************************************
> From: Di Wang <di-wang@tamu.edu>
>
> Frontiers of History in China
>
> Volume 7 • Number 1 • March 2012
>
> Editors' Note 1
>
> Forum
>
> Helen Schneider 2
> The Introduction for the Forum "The Biology, Psychology, and Economics of
> Social Reproduction: Health, Wealth, and Happiness in the Modern Chinese
> Family"
>
> Nicole Richardson 4
> The Nation in Utero: Translating the Science of Fetal Education in
> Republican China
>
> As Chinese nationalists grappled with the political and military weakness
> of the young Republic of China, some sought to strengthen the Chinese race
> by advocating a return to the ancient practice of fetal education. Fetal
> education held that every sight, sound, and flavor that a pregnant mother
> took in through her senses, as well as her emotions and demeanor, directly
> affected her fetus. This paper examines how the text Taijiao, Song Jiazhao's
> 1914 Chinese translation of Shimoda Jirō's Japanese work Taikyō, presents
> a modern reformulation of fetal education that draws upon both modern
> Western science and East Asian medicine. As the text uses modern biology
> and psychology to explain and demonstrate the efficacy of fetal education,
> it also narrows the scope of fetal education to focus almost exclusively
> on the mother's psychological state. Similarly, as the text turns to
> instruct women on the practice of fetal education, it draws upon Edo and
> Qing gynecological principles to emphasize the importance of the pregnant
> mother's emotional self-control. Ultimately this text represents a
> neo-traditionalist response to modernity as it presents a Neo-Confucian
> vision of fetal education focused on a pregnant mother's moral
> self-cultivation and emotional self control.
>
> Margaret Tillman 32
> The Authority of Age: Institutions for Childhood Development in China,
> 1895–1910
>
> The structure of aged-based education and the science of childhood
> development were introduced to China in the last decades of the Qing
> dynasty. Drawing on period textbooks, journal articles, and school
> documents for women and children, this study argues that the theory of
> childhood development helped shape socialized play and citizenship
> training in new schools. These new institutions followed scientific
> insights about childhood development in terms of both physical and
> emotional growth. Educators hoped to found schools that would inculcate
> respect for political authority within the classroom, and administrators
> took unprecedented steps in documenting and regulating children. Schools
> not only became places for disseminating learning, but also centers for
> gathering information about children and their families, as well as about
> childhood itself. The production of knowledge and the institutionalization
> of schools for preschool children helped usher in new trends that
> denaturalized childrearing outside of the family domain.
>
> Charlotte Cowden 61
> Wedding Culture in 1930s Shanghai: Consumerism, Ritual, and the
> Municipality
>
> By the 1930s, a variety of forces were chipping away at the traditional
> Chinese wedding in urban centers like Shanghai. "New-style" weddings—with
> a bride in a white wedding dress—took place outside of the home and
> featured networks of friends, choice of one's spouse, autonomy from one's
> parents, and the promise of happiness and independence. With the
> publication of wedding portraits and detailed discussions of new-style
> wedding etiquette and its trappings, women's magazines further shaped the
> new-style bride as a consumer and an individual. Early reformers had
> envisioned the new-style ceremony as a streamlined and affordable
> alternative to traditional ceremonies, but for most city residents these
> weddings remained out of reach. After the Nationalist consolidation of
> power in 1928, Shanghai was deemed a crucial site for the promotion of
> ritual reform and economic restraint. Weddings were at the crux of this
> movement, which was buttressed by the Civil Code of 1931 allowing children
> to legally marry without parental consent. New Life Movement group
> weddings came next. These ceremonies co-opted urban wedding culture in an
> attempt to frame the new-style wedding as a ritual of politicized
> citizenship under the Nationalist government. The tension between the
> popular, commercial, new-style wedding and the Nationalists' Spartan
> political vision, as played out in the market, is examined below.
>
> Research Articles
>
> Scott Pearce 90
> A King's Two Bodies: The Northern Wei Emperor Wencheng and Representations
> of the Power of His Monarchy
>
> This article examines the various ways in which the Northern Wei emperor
> Wenchengdi (440–465; r. 452–465) was portrayed to his subjects. As is the
> case with many monarchs in many countries, he played different parts
> before different groups. For his soldiers, he was represented as a great
> hunter and marksman; to farmers in the lowlands, as a caring protector and
> benefactor; to potentially rebellious groups on the periphery, as a strong
> and steady observer of their actions. At the same time, it was in his
> reign that the Northern Wei court began efforts to use Buddhism as an
> overarching way to justify rule to all within the realm, by initiating
> construction of the famous cave-temples at Yungang, where "Buddhas became
> emperors and emperors Buddhas." The spectacles through which Wenchengdi
> was portrayed are contextualized by a parallel examination of the very
> difficult life of the person behind the pomp and circumstance.
>
> Guannan Li 106
> Reviving China: Urban Reconstruction in Nanchang and the Guomindang
> National Revival Movement, 1932–37
>
> This paper, the first examination of the urban reconstruction of Nanchang,
> headquarters of the New Life Movement during a period of "National
> Revival" from 1932–37, presents a fresh understanding of the Guomindang
> (GMD) New Life Movement. By framing the Nanchang urban reconstruction as
> an integral program of the New Life Movement, it challenges the
> established wisdom of the Movement's mere focus on disciplining Chinese
> population without any agenda to materially transform Chinese life. By
> examining GMD engineering efforts to construct public infrastructure, this
> essay testifies to the Movement's concrete impact on urban residents. In
> doing so, it offers a new conceptualization of the New Life Movement as a
> distinctive moment of Chinese modernity during a process of constructing
> new urban space in China's interior cities. This paper also brings to
> light the ignored connection between the New Life Movement and the
> historical and ideological context of the GMD National Revival Movement.
> As the GMD leaders believed, a "new Nanchang" would regenerate a stable
> national culture and identity as a critique of capitalist modernization.
> By calling attention to the logic of overcoming modernity, the paper
> resituates the New Life Movement into cultural revival movements
> worldwide.
>
> Lecture Note
>
> Zhaoguang Ge 136
> Costume, Ceremonial, and the East Asian Order: What the Annamese King Wore
> When Congratulating the Emperor Qianlong in Jehol in 1790
>
> Emperor Qianlong of the Qing dynasty celebrated his eightieth birthday in
> 1790, for which Vietnam, Korea, the Ryūkyū Islands, Burma, and Mongolia
> sent delegates to the imperial summer resort at Chengde to pay homage.
> Curiously, the Annamese (or, Vietnamese) king NguyễnQuangBình, who had
> just defeated the Qing army, offered to appear in Qing costume and kowtow
> to the Qing emperor. The unusual act pleased Emperor Qianlong and
> infuriated the Korean delegates. What did costume and ceremonial mean in
> the context of the East Asian political and cultural order? Why did the
> British embassy to China led by Lord Macartney three years later cause
> friction with regards to sartorial and ceremonial manners? This lecture
> will address these questions.
>
> Book Reviews
>
> Mark Gamsa 152
> Bergère, Marie-Claire, Shanghai: China's Gateway to Modernity
>
> Robert J. Antony 153
> Edgerton-Tarpley, Kathryn, Tears from Iron: Cultural Responses to Famine
> in Nineteenth-Century China
>
> Q. Edward Wang 156
> Ge Zhaoguang, Here Was China: Reconstructing the Historical Narratives
> about"China" (in Chinese)
>
> Huaiyu Chen 159
> Halbertsma, Tjalling H.F., Early Christian Remains of Inner Mongolia:
> Discovery, Reconstruction and Appropriation
>
> Xiaoqun Xu 161
> Jiang, Yonglin, The Mandate of Heaven and the Great Ming Code
>
> Qianyue Zhang 164
> Lu, Weijing, True to Her Word: The Faithful Maiden Cult in Late Imperial
> China
>
> Emily Hill 166
> Muscolino, Micah S., Fishing Wars and Environmental Change in Late
> Imperial China
>
> Aglaia De Angeli 168
> Xu, Guoqi, Strangers on the Western Front: Chinese Workers in the Great
> War
>
> Jana Cyrol 171
> Xu, Xiaoqun, Trial of Modernity: Judicial Reform in Early
> Twentieth-Century China, 1901–1937
>
> --
> Di Wang
> Professor and Co-editor of Frontiers of History in China
> Department of History
> Texas A&M University
> http://history.tamu.edu/faculty/wang.shtml
>
>
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Fw: H-ASIA: Exhibit “Samurai: The Warrior Transformed,” Washington

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Subject: H-ASIA: Exhibit "Samurai: The Warrior Transformed," Washington

> H-ASIA
> February 13, 2012
>
> Exhibit "Samurai: The Warrior Transformed," Washington
> ************************************************************************
> From: Constantine Vaporis <vaporis@umbc.edu>
>
> Dear H-Asia Members,
>
> I would like to bring to the attention of members of this listserv an
> upcoming exhibit at the National Geographic Museum in Washington, D.C.,
> "Samurai: The Warrior Transformed." It runs from March 7-September 3, 2012
> and is one of many events planned as part of the National Cherry Blossom
> Festival, which is celebrating the 100th anniversary of the Japanese gift
> of cherry trees to the U.S.
>
> Dr. Hilary Snow (Adjunct Lecturer at MICA and Johns Hopkins University)
> served as consultant on the exhibit and Dr. Constantine Vaporis (Professor
> of History and Asian Studies Program Director at UMBC) served as a
> consultant-writer.
>
> For more details, please go the the Museum's direct link:
> http://events.nationalgeographic.com/events/exhibits/2012/03/07/samurai/
>
> Constantine Vaporis
> U of Maryland, Baltimore County
>
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Fw: H-ASIA: Ethnic composition of imperial and colonial cities query (response)

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Subject: H-ASIA: Ethnic composition of imperial and colonial cities query
(response)

H-ASIA
Feb 13 2012

Ethnic composition of imperial and colonial cities query (response)
******************************************************
From: John Hennessey <john.hennessey@lnu.se>

Dear Professor Sand,

I wonder if a new book in the Manchester University Press Studies in
Imperialism series, *European Empires and the People* (2011, ed. John M.
Mackenzie), might be of some use to you. The book contains essays about
British, French, Dutch, Belgian, German, and Italian popular imperialism
and is interesting because of its comparative perspective.

While colonial populations in European capitals are not a primary focus of
the book, several chapters include some information about this topic for
countries other than Britain and France. For example, Bernhard Gissibl's
chapter on German popular imperialism mentions that "...with a presence of
several thousands of colonial migrants mainly from Cameroon, Berlin became
a centre for the organisation of anti-colonial resistance..." (p. 167) and
lists several sources about Africans in pre-World War II Germany. The book
also reveals certain differences between different European countries'
policies towards people from the colonies coming to work or study in the *
métropole*. For example, Congolese were forbidden to travel to Belgium, in
contrast with many other colonial powers' travel policies for their
colonial subjects (Matthew G. Standard's chapter, p. 129, 142).

I am also starting a comparative study of Japanese and Western imperialism
(albeit from a slightly different perspective) and think that your project
sounds most interesting. I hope you will post more information about it on
H-Asia when it is completed!

Cordially,

John Hennessey
Doctoral Student, Colonial History
Linnaeus University
john.hennessey@lnu.se

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Fw: H-ASIA: CFP Midwest Conference on British Studies

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> H-ASIA
> February 12, 2012
>
> CFP Midwest Conference on British Studies
> ************************************************************************
> From: Paradis, Lia <lia.paradis@sru.edu>
>
>
> The Midwest Conference on British Studies is proud to announce that its
> fifty-ninth annual meeting will be hosted by the University of Toronto in
> Ontario, Canada, October 12-14th, 2012.
>
> The keynote speaker will be John Gillis, Professor Emeritus, Rutgers
> University. The plenary address will be given by Ian Gentles, Professor of
> History, Tynedale University College and Seminary.
>
> The MWCBS seeks papers from scholars in all fields of British Studies,
> broadly defined to include those who study England, Scotland, Wales,
> Ireland, and Britain's Empire and the Commonwealth. We welcome scholars
> from the broad spectrum of disciplines, including but not limited to
> history, literature, political science, gender studies and art history.
> Proposals for complete sessions are preferred, although proposals for
> individual papers will be considered. We welcome roundtables (of four
> participants plus chair) and panels (of three participants plus
> chair/commentator) that:
>
> * offer cross-disciplinary perspectives on topics in British Studies
> * situate the arts, letters, and sciences in a British cultural context
> * examine representations of British and imperial/Commonwealth national
> identities
> * consider Anglo-American relations, past and present
> * examine new trends in British Studies
> * assess a major work or body of work by a scholar
> * explore new developments in digital humanities and/or research
> methodologies
>
> After a very positive response to last year's first teaching roundtable,
> we would particularly like to receive proposals for teaching roundtables
> that discuss collaborative or innovative learning techniques in the
> British Studies classroom.
>
> The MWCBS welcomes papers presented by advanced graduate students and will
> award the Walter L. Arnstein Prize for the best graduate student paper(s)
> given at the conference.
>
> Proposals must:
> - Include a 200-word abstract for each paper and a brief, 1-page
> c.v. for each participant, including chairs and commentators.
> - For full panels, include a brief 200-word preview of the panel as
> a whole.
>
> Please place the panel proposal, the accompanying paper proposals and
> vitas in one file and send it as a single attachment. Also identify within
> the email the contact person for the panel.
>
> All proposals should be submitted online by April 1, 2012, to the Program
> Committee Chair, Lia Paradis at lia.paradis@sru.edu.
>
> Program Committee: Phil Harling, University of Kentucky; Robin Hermann,
> University of Louisiana at Lafayette; Isaac Land, Indiana State
> University; Jennifer McNabb, Western Illinois University; Lia Paradis,
> Chair, Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania; Lisa Sigel, Depaul
> University.
>
> Visit the MWCBS website at <http://mwcbs.edublogs.org/
>
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Fw: Invitation for Maha Shivaratri and Sri Ramakrishna Birthday Celebrations.

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Sent: Monday, February 13, 2012 2:43 PM

Subject: Invitation for Maha Shivaratri and Sri Ramakrishna Birthday Celebrations.

Dear Devotee,

Maha Shivaratri will be celebrated at our Math on Monday, 20^th February, 2012 between 5.00pm to 5.15am as per the programme given below.

Also 177^th Birthday of Sri Ramakrishna will be celebrated at our Math on Thursday, 23^rd February, 2012 as per the programme given below.

You along with your family and friends are cordially invited to participate in the functions and receive the blessings of the Lord.

Yours in service,

Swami Veetabhayananda

Adhyaksha

MAHA SHIVARATRI PROGRAMME

05.00 p.m. Shivastuthi

07.30 p.m. Bhajans

09.00 p.m. Ist puja and Bhajans

10.00 p.m. Bhajans

11.00 p.m. IInd puja and Bhajans

12.00 a.m. Shiva Ashtottara Archana

12.30 a.m. Offering of Billva by Devotees

01.00 a.m. Visit to Someshwara Temple

02.00 a.m. III Puja and Bhajans

03.00 a.m. IV Puja and Bhajans

04.00 a.m. Homa

05.00 a.m. Mangalarati and Prasad distribution.

SRI RAMAKRISHNA BIRTHDAY PROGRAMME

05.00 a.m. Mangalarati & Ushakirtana

07.30 a.m. Special Puja

08.00 a.m. Sahasranama Parayana

09.30 a.m. Bhajans

10.30 a.m. Homa

11.45 a.m. Pushpanjali & Ashtottara

12.00 noon Discourse

12.35 p.m. Arati & Prasad distribution

05.30 p.m. Special Bhajans

06.45 p.m. Evening Arati & Bhajans

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Fw: H-ASIA: AJISS-Commentary No.142 on Math and Science Education by Kazuo Nishimura

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Frank Conlon" <conlon@U.WASHINGTON.EDU>
To: <H-ASIA@H-NET.MSU.EDU>
Sent: Saturday, February 11, 2012 4:25 AM
Subject: H-ASIA: AJISS-Commentary No.142 on Math and Science Education by
Kazuo Nishimura

> H-ASIA
> February 10, 2012
>
> AJISS-Commentary No.142 on Math and Science Education by Kazuo Nishimura
> **********************************************************************
> From: Japan Institute of International Affairs <e-commentary@jiia.or.jp>
>
> Editor: Akio Watanabe
> Editorial Board: Hideki Asari, Masashi Nishihara, and Taizo Yakushiji
> Online Publisher: Yoshiji Nogami
>
> AJISS-Commentary No.142
> "Revamp Math and Science Education" by Kazuo Nishimura
>
> [Kazuo Nishimura (nishimura@kier.kyoto-u.ac.jp) is Professor of
> Mathematical Economics at the Institute of Economic Research, Kyoto
> University. The views expressed in this piece are the author's own and
> should not be attributed to The Association of Japanese Institutes of
> Strategic Studies.]
>
> http://www.jiia.or.jp/en_commentary/201202/10-1.html
>
> Panasonic Shock
>
> In 1986, Panasonic Corporation made headlines by hiring four non-Japanese
> engineers. The number of foreign employees at this major Japanese
> electronics maker has steadily grown since then to reach 750 out of 1250
> newly employed in 2010. Panasonic again sent shock waves throughout
> Japanese industry and the job market by announcing that it would hire 1250
> foreigners overseas among 1390 new recruits in fiscal 2011. It added that
> the remaining 290 would be hired at home regardless of their
> nationalities, with foreign graduates also eligible.
>
> If Japanese engineers continue to decline both in number and quality, so
> will the country's global competitive edge. Japan was ranked the most
> competitive economy from 1989 through 1993, according to the Swiss-based
> International Institute for Management Development (IMD)'s World
> Competitiveness reports. However, its rank dropped to 17th in 2009, 27th
> in 2010, and 26th in 2011. In contrast, South Korea boosted its ranking
> from 29th to 23rd to 22nd, Taiwan from 23rd to eighth to sixth, and China
> from 20th to 18th to 19th during the same period. Japan has already been
> outpaced by other Asian countries in global competitiveness.
>
> Japan's economic stagnation is an undeniable fact. Yet on top of that, if
> the country is unable to provide proper math and science education and
> train skilled engineers, how can it ever restore its global
> competitiveness?
>
> There are more statistics showing how Japan is lagging behind other Asian
> countries. In 2009, four Asian cities/ countries - Shanghai, Singapore,
> Hong Kong and Taiwan - ranked among the top five in mathematics literacy
> measured by the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA), a
> triennial survey of the knowledge and skills of 15-year-olds conducted by
> the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). Japan
> was ranked eighth. In terms of math and science achievements at the eighth
> grade, the top four were Taiwan, South Korea, Hong Kong and Singapore,
> followed by Japan in fifth in 1999, 2003, and 2007, according to the
> quadrennial Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS)
> conducted by the International Education Center.
>
> What to Do about the Problems?
>
> The biggest factor behind the declining academic ability of young people
> is the government's successive attempts at educational reform. In response
> to criticism of rote-learning, the government eased public school
> curricula in stages, following educational guidelines issued in fiscal
> 1980, 1992 and 2002, to allow students more leeway to pursue their own
> interests. The new school curricula, called "yutori kyoiku" (relaxed
> education), were accompanied by the introduction of preliminary university
> entrance examinations administered by the government. The standardized
> exams, first introduced in 1979 and revised in 1990, in effect led to the
> reduction of the number of subjects students had to study in senior high
> school. Mathematics and science probably suffered most from the reform
> drive, with both teaching hours and content diminished.
>
> What should we do then? Problems abound but, to begin with, let's consider
> what we can do to improve science education in elementary, junior and
> senior high schools (which are attended to for six, three, and three years
> respectively).
>
> First of all, we should consider moving up the start of science classes
> from the current third grade to the first grade in elementary school. This
> will save the need for high school students to take a series of basic
> science classes such as "Basic Science," "Integrated Science," and
> "Science and Human Life," which used to be taught in junior high school.
>
> We should also consider pushing back the start of elective courses until
> the third year of high school just like it used to be. Currently, high
> school students begin taking elective subjects in their second year. This
> practice has driven students away from math and science early on to focus
> on the other seemingly easier subjects required for college entrance
> exams, contributing to the academic decline of university students.
> Delaying the start of elective courses may allow students to study
> advanced physics, chemistry and biology, which may provide them incentives
> to pursue physics - a subject from which students are currently shying
> away.
>
> There is a widely-held view in Japan that studying science and mathematics
> is unrewarding. However, our research on university graduates who entered
> university subsequent to the introduction of the first standardized test
> in 1979 found that those who included mathematics among their entrance
> exam subjects earned one million yen in annual salary more than those who
> did not (on average, math test takers earn 7.48 million yen compared to
> non-math test takers' 6.41 million yen). We also conducted a survey on
> those who majored in science and engineering, and found that those earning
> the highest incomes were those whose favorite science was physics,
> followed by chemistry, geoscience, and biology. These findings suggest
> that, for students with majors in the humanities, studying mathematics
> broadens their career options and stabilizes their income while, for
> students with science majors, studying physics - and ideally all the three
> basic science subjects - affects their lifetime incomes.
>
> Finally, we need to introduce an objective evaluation system. Currently,
> objective test scores only count as one-fourth of students' final grades.
> The remainder is determined by subjective scores calculated by teachers
> based on their observations of student interest, willingness, attitude and
> so on. If we leave the evaluation system as it is, students will have to
> keep worrying about how they are viewed by teachers. If Japan wants to
> improve the academic ability of university graduates on par with that of
> other Asian countries, we need to abolish our subjective evaluation system
> and replace it with a more objective one. That will motivate students to
> perform better on paper tests, including international tests administered
> by PISA.
>
>
> ****************
> AJISS-Commentary is an occasional op-ed type publication of The
> Association of Japanese Institutes of Strategic Studies (AJISS) consisting
> of three leading Japanese think tanks: Institute for International Policy
> Studies (IIPS), The Japan Institute of International Affairs (JIIA), and
> Research Institute for Peace and Security (RIPS).
>
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Frank Conlon" <conlon@U.WASHINGTON.EDU>
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Sent: Saturday, February 11, 2012 4:17 AM
Subject: H-ASIA: AIIS Book Prize

> H-ASIA
> February 10, 2012
>
> American Institute of Indian Studies (AIIS) Book Prize
> ***********************************************************************
> From: Susan S Wadley <sswadley@syr.edu>
>
> AIIS BOOK PRIZE
>
>
> In order to promote scholarship in South Asian Studies, the American
> Institute of Indian Studies (AIIS) announces the award of two prizes each
> year for the best unpublished book manuscript on an Indian subject, one in
> the humanities, "The Edward Cameron Dimock, Jr. Prize in the Indian
> Humanities" and one in the social sciences, "The Joseph W. Elder Prize in
> the Indian Social Sciences". Only junior scholars who have received
> the PhD within the last eight years (2005 and after) and been awarded
> an AIIS Fellowship or participated in an AIIS program (fellowship or
> language) are eligible. This must be the first book by the author.
>
> A prize committee will determine the yearly winners, though the committee
> may choose not to award prizes for any year in which worthy submissions
> are
> lacking. The prize will include a subvention of $2500 for the press
> publishing the manuscript. There is no designated press for publication.
> Authors are advised to submit their manuscript for publication at the most
> appropriate press; concurrent submission to multiple presses is
> recommended.
> Manuscripts under contract at the time of application are not eligible.
>
> Unrevised dissertations are not accepted. Applicants must demonstrate
> they have revised the original dissertation.
>
> Manuscripts are due October 1st, with an announcement of the awardees
> in the winter of 2013 . Send TWO copies of your manuscript, postmarked
> no later than October 1, 2012, to the Publications Committee Chair,
> Susan S. Wadley, Anthropology, 209 Maxwell, Syracuse University,
> Syracuse, NY 13244. Queries can be addressed to sswadley@syr.edu.
>
>
> Publications committee:
> Brian Hatcher, Tufts University
> Steve Wilkinson, Yale University
> Susan S. Wadley, Syracuse University
> Joyce Flueckiger,Emory University
> Pikh Ghosh, University of North Carolina
> Priti Ramamurthy, University of Washington
>
>
> Susan S. Wadley
> Ford Maxwell Professor of South Asian Studies, Maxwell School
> Professor of Anthropology
>
> Office: 327 Eggers, Syracuse University, Syracuse NY 13244
>
> Mailing address:
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> Syracuse University
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