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H-ASIA Date: August 28, 1995 1)************************************************************** Subj:RE: Grant announcement (cross From: terje.gronning@thcave.bbs.no (TERJE GRONNING) From the OIC digest 80: OIC Digest 80 O>Date: Fri, 25 Aug 1995 17:21:13 -0400 GRANTS FOR COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH AND RESEARCH PLANNING: EAST ASIA The East Asia Regional Research Working Group (EARRWG) of the Social Science Research Council and the American Council of Learned Societies is soliciting proposals designed to advance comparative and transnational research on the East Asian region, with particular emphasis on China, Japan, Korea, Hong Kong and Taiwan. Projects need not be limited in their geographical scope to East Asia; cross-regional comparisons are also encouraged. The purpose of EARRWG is to illuminate issues which transcend the region, to promote the comparative study of political, social, economic, and cultural issues within the region, and to study interactions among parts of the region. We seek to encourage cooperation among researchers specializing in one or more countries of East Asia, or on one issue area relevant to East Asia, and to foster interdisciplinary scholarship on East Asia . Supported projects may be historical or contemporary, in the social sciences or humanities. The project seeks proposals in six broad areas. This list, however, is not meant to exclude proposals which do not fall into these categories: 1) Divergent views of self, society, and politics; shifting contours of cultural and intellectual life; social thought and cultural criticism; tradition and modernity; 2) Cultural integration of the region, including the diffusion of cultural forms, comparative analysis of the fine arts and popular culture, and the ideological or cultural construction of the region itself. This includes the social and cultural constructions of the individual, of gender, family, religion and race; 3) Social change -- industrialization, urbanization, nationalism, war, revolution -- that spans all or some of the countries in the region, or that compares one or more subregion, country, or sub-national unit in East Asia with such units outside the region; 4) Economic growth and institutional change, state intervention in the economy, external economic relations, land tenure and agricultural development, strategies of industrialization, issues of political economy; 5) International interactions in the region, including traditional political and diplomatic relations among states as well as the variety of transnational economic and social exchanges that have integrated or are integrating the region; 6) State formation, political institutions, political participation, social cleavages and interest articulation, mass and elite political behavior, policy formation O>The following topics provide examples of the types of projects that O>the committee has funded in the past: O>-East Asian Social Survey O>-Minority Entrepreneurs and Modern Nationalism O>-Security in the Asia-Pacific Region O>-Confucian Culture and Gender Relations in China, Japan and Korea O>(concluded) -Women in Confucian Cultures: A Comparative Analysis of O>Pre-Modern China, Korea and Japan O>- Sub-Regionalism in East and Southeast Asia O>-Gender and Work in East Asia O>-Rethinking and Reevaluating Tradition in East Asia O>Grants will typically support planning meetings to formulate a major O>long-term collaborative research O>project. Proposals for partial support of seminars or conferences O>focussed on important topical O>methodological or theoretical issues and designed to lead to the O>publication of a related volume will O>also be considered. O>Applicants must hold the Ph.D. or the terminal degree in their field, O>or have attained an equivalent O>level of professional experience. R O>Requests for guidelines and applications should be made in writing. O>Deadline for application is October 15, 1995. For guidelines and O>application forms please contact: O>Candice Howard O>Program Assistant O>East Asia Regional Research Working Group O>Social Science Research Council O>605 Third Avenue O>New York, N.Y. 10158 O>tel. (212) 661-0280 fax. (212) 370-7896 O>email: howardca@acfcluster.nyu.edu O>------------------------------ O>End of OIC Digest 80 Terje Gronning, assistant professor, Education in Society, Science and Technology (ESST), University of Oslo, Box 1108 Blindern, N-0317 Oslo, Norway. ================================================================= To post to H-ASIA simply send your message to H-ASIA@msu.edu For vacations send message to listserv@msu.edu on message line type set h-asia nomail upon return simply type set h-asia mail
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