Thank you to everyone who joined us for Bharatanatyam Week!

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Star Application for Scholarships 

Now open through May.
Please check out the many opportunities that are available. 
http://www.star.hawaii.edu/scholarship.

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Did you miss the CSAS Fall Gathering? 

You can still view the presentations done by our J. Watumull Scholarship awardees!
To view the presentations by Alia Jeraj and Kavya Bhagawatula visit our website

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FUNDING & OTHER OPPORTUNITIES

In order by upcoming deadlines.

The John Young Scholarship in the Arts – October 10 deadline is approaching.

Students may apply for the Spring 2024 scholarship award on STAR (search: The John Young Scholarship Endowment Fund).
The John Young Scholarship in the Arts is perhaps the most prestigious private scholarship in the UH System, open to both undergraduates and graduates.  Many of our alumni are “John Young Scholars.”  

2024 Cross-Border Reporting on Climate Change Workshop

The East-West Center is excited to announce a second cross-border journalism workshop and collaborative reporting series, January 7-13, 2024, in Kathmandu, Nepal for ten Pakistani and ten Indian journalists experienced in reporting on climate issues. 
Applications are due October 9, 2023.
More information: https://www.eastwestcenter.org/apply/2024-cross-border-reporting-climate-change-workshop

AAS Film Expo 2024 Call for Films

The Association for Asian studies (AAS) Annual Conference will take place March 14-17 in Seattle, Washington. We welcome the submission of films related to Asia produced by scholars and indeendent filmmakers. Criteria utilized in the selection process include, timeliness, broad apples to the scholarly community and quality of the filmmaking. In considering your submission, lease note that attendees viewing films may be seeking titles for reason, classroom use or for their institutional libraries. Approximately twenty to twenty-five films will be selected for screenings. 
For programming consideration in the 2024 Film Expo, please complete an ONLINE FILM SUBMISSION FORM. Our selection committee reviews films through Vimeo, YouTube and secured website links accessible in North America.
Film submission DEADLINE EXTENDED October 12, 2023.
For more information visit: https://ceaps.illinois.edu/news/2023-08-18/call-films-aas-film-expo-2024

American Institute for Sri Lankan Studies: 2023 Community College Curriculum Development Grant Competition

The American Institute for Sri Lankan Studies (AISLS) announces a new round in its Community College Curriculum Development Grants competition. AISLS seeks proposals for developing instructional materials that include coverage of Sri Lanka and which are suitable for use in introductory classes in American community colleges. Modules may also be used in introductory courses at four-year colleges and universities. AISLS will award grants for the creation of online teaching modules. The modules should provide resources enabling community college instructors to integrate material on a Sri Lanka topic into one or two classes in introductory courses taught widely at US community colleges. These classes include Sociology of the Family, World History, Cultural Anthropology, World Religions, Comparative Politics, World Geography, World Literature, and Environmental Studies.DEADLINE: October 15, 2023. Applicants will be notified of the outcome by October 31, 2023.
Proposals, and informal enquiries, should be submitted to the AISLS US Director, John Rogers, at us.director.aisls@gmail.com. 

Luce Scholars Program

The Luce Scholars Program offers early career leaders immersive, professional experiences in Asia. The Program aims to forge stronger, more informed, more compassionate relationships across geographic borders by creating opportunities for young Americans across diverse sectors and interests to deepen their ties and understanding of the countries, cultures, and people of Asia. To learn more about the Luce Scholars Program visit: https://www.hluce.org/programs/luce-scholars/
Deadline for submission: October 16, 2023 at 5:00pm Eastern Time.
More about application procedures at https://apply-lucescholars.smapply.io/res/p/ApplicationProcedures/.

Call for Papers: 18th Annual Himalayan Policy Research Conference (HPRC) 

To be held Date: Dec. 2 & 3, 2023, This event will be online. Zoominar from  6am – 11am MST We are accepting abstracts now: https://lnkd.in/gAjQK3YJ We also invite special panel proposals. Please reach out directly to Dr. Prakash Adhikari (adhik1p@cmich.edu) with your proposed panel theme, along with anticipated panelists. Meeting registration REQUIRED: https://lnkd.in/g7NGF6Ay
DEADLINE: October 20, 2023.

Call for Papers: Contested Monuments

Submissions are invited for an online workshop series and eventual inclusion in an edited volume on Contested Monuments. The workshop aim is to critically examine new approaches to monumentality and whether and how they challenge, re-imagine, and transform wider issues of social justice, representation, identities, nation-building, reinterpretation of contested monuments, temporary and artistic responses to (contested) monuments, etc.. 
300-word abstract deadline is October 20, 2023.
For more information please contact Paul Basu paul.basu@uni-bonn.de, University of Oxford and Global Heritage Lab, University of Bonn or Sophia Labadis.labadi@kent.ac.uk, University of Kent and Global Heritage Lab, University of Bonn.

2024 AAS-in-Asia Conference: “Global Asias: Latent Histories, Manifest Impacts”

The theme of the conference is “Global Asias” as a new historical, conceptual, and methodological lens for exploring the multiplicity, complexity, and dynamics of Asia in its manifest and hidden connections within the region and with the rest of the world from antiquity to the present. With the 2024 AAS-in-Asia being held in Indonesia, where pluralism lives in its history, constitution, culture, languages, religions, and physical geography, the city of Yogyakarta will be well suited for our intellectual and cultural exchange on Global Asias. We therefore welcome all disciplinary and thematic approaches to Global Asias: history, literature, religion, cinema, law, politics, labor, economics, gender, archaeology, linguistics, sociology, anthropology, media studies, social movements, public health (pandemic) and the environment.
For more information visit: https://www.asianstudies.org/conferences/aas-in-asia/call-for-proposals/

Submission Deadline: October 30, 2023

LUCK Lund Centre for the History of Knowledge

We award short-term fellowships to scholars to pursue research in the history of knowledge at our research environment at Lund. We are particularly dedicated to support the research of promising international postdoctoral/early career scholars with an ambition and a capacity to develop the history of knowledge. We invite scholars to join us at LUCK during a period of 1 to 2 weeks, between the 8th and 19th of April 2024 . The scholars will have the opportunity to present their ongoing research and interact with the historians of knowledge at Lund.

For more information: https://newhistoryofknowledge.com/visiting-fellowship-programme/
Deadline: November 1, 2023.

Call for Abstracts: The Third Volume of The Itihāsology Journal. 
The Itihāsology Journal in 2021, with the aim to provide a platform for aspiring academicians who wish to illuminate narratives from Indian history that captivate them. The Journal has released two digital and freely accessible editions, both of which have received appreciation and reviews from renowned historians. The editorial team of the Journal is led by Eric Chopra and Kudrat B. Singh. We look forward to receiving your submissions for the next volume of The Itihāsology Journal. 

The deadline for abstract submissions is 1st November, 2023.
Please send your abstracts to itihasjournal@gmail.com.

Call for Papers: Research Workshop on Gender, Youth, and Media in Asia

The proposed workshop will focus on interdisciplinary approaches to gender and sexuality research, and invites papers from scholars whose work connects to disciplines such as geography, linguistics, anthropology, communications, and media studies. In particular, the workshop will highlight research within three key streams (Media and Discourse, Youth and Society, and Borders and Boundaries), with a particular focus on Asia and explore how these streams might intersect. Only original and previously unpresented/unpublished submissions will be accepted.
Paper title, 350-words abstract and short biography (up to 150 words) are to be submitted to gsrc@nus.edu.sg. 
Deadline: November 3, 2023

Cultural Heritage Funding: New MEAP Grants Available (2023-24)

The Modern Endangered Archives Program (MEAP) is a UCLA Library granting program. We fund projects that document, digitize, and make accessible endangered archival materials from the 20th and 21st Centuries. Collections focus on history, society, culture, and politics, with an emphasis on social justice, human rights activism, cultural production, indigenous experiences, and under-documented communities. Materials may include print, photography, film, audio, ephemera, and digital objects.
Increased Grant Amounts for all documentation and digitization awards.Planning Grants can now budget up to $20,000 for organization and inventory work; Project Grants up to $70,000 for digitization and metadata creation.
New Grant Opportunity. Regional Grants should be used to create digital collections that include cultural heritage materials from three or more institutions, families, or archival repositories but related to one theme, community or historical event.
Join us in the essential work of ensuring access to cultural heritage and communal memory. 
All details available at https://meap.library.ucla.edu/applicants/how-to-apply
Preliminary Applications due November 13, 2023

Critical Language Scholarship (CLS) 

The Critical Language Scholarship (CLS) Program is an immersive summer opportunity for American college and university students to learn languages essential to America’s engagement with the world.The CLS Program provides opportunities for American college and university students to study languages and cultures essential to America’s engagement with the world. 
For more information visti: https://clscholarship.org/
Application Deadline: November 14, 2023 at 8pm EST.

Fung Global Fellows Program

During the 10-month academic year 2024-25, the program theme will be “Colonial Residues.” Colonialism is frequently evoked today as a root cause of global inequity or, in some jarring instances, nostalgic celebration. In both the “new” states and the “old” ones that reluctantly let them go, colonialism’s many impacts are ubiquitous—its traces often tangible and measurable, shaping political regimes and socioeconomic wellbeing while also determining whose stories are told and by whom; whose achievements are celebrated and how; and whose resources are used, removed, or polluted. Even when not immediately visible, colonial residues are arguably present, much like the microplastics that now pervade air, water, and earth.
For information on submission materials and to apply, please visit their website: https://funggfp.princeton.edu/applications,
Submission Deadline: November 15, 2023 (11:59 p.m. ET).

AIIS Fellowships

The American Institute of Indian Studies (AIIS) invites applications from scholars from all disciplines who wish to conduct their research in India. Junior fellowships are given to doctoral candidates at universities in the U.S. to conduct research for their dissertations in India for up to eleven months. Senior long-term (six to nine months) and short-term (four months or less) fellowships are available for scholars who hold the Ph.D. degree. Scholarly/Professional development fellowships are available to scholars and professionals who have not previously worked in India. Creative and Performing Arts fellowships are available to practitioners of the arts of India. Eligible applicants include 1) U.S. citizens; and 2) citizens of other countries who are students or faculty members at U.S. colleges and universities (this rule does not apply to U.S. citizens).
Applications can be downloaded from the web site www.indiastudies.org. For more information please contact the American Institute of Indian Studies  (773) 702-8638. Email: aiis@uchicago.edu. Web site: www.indiastudies.org. 

Application deadline: November 15, 2023.

Library Treasure Scholarships

The University of Hawaiʻi Library at Mānoa invites applications for the 2023-24 Library Treasures Scholarships. The scholarships promote the use of the Library’s collections, raise awareness about the educational values of our library’s unique holdings, and make use of the expertise of subject specialist librarians. Students in any discipline and at any level of study are invited to submit proposals of projects that involve the use of the UHM Library’s collections, and whose final outcome will result in the production of a research or creative piece.  One may compete individually or form a team. In the case of a team, the scholarship will be split evenly among the team members. Scholarship: $500 per proposal.
Proposal submission deadline: Friday, November 24, 2023 (by midnight). Notification to scholarship recipients: Friday, December 15, 2023. Further information here.

The Library of Congress Fellowship Applications

The Library of Congress has a number of fellowship applications open now! These range from summer opportunities for undergraduate and graduate students to post-doctoral research fellowships. 
For more information, visit: https://manoa.hawaii.edu/asianstudies/library-of-congress-fellowships-open/
Deadline: November 24, 2023

Robert H N Ho Family Foundation Program in Buddhist Studies

Launched in 2014, the Program in Buddhist Studies, administered by the American Council of Learned Societies, promotes the academic study of Buddhism and the dissemination of knowledge of Buddhism through support for dissertations, research, and writing, and by assisting institutions to establish new, tenure-track teaching positions.  Annual symposia foster networks and knowledge sharing amongst scholars. More Information | Deadline: November 30, 2023

Asia Health Policy Postdoctoral Fellowship

The Asia Health Policy Program at the Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center (Shorenstein APARC) promotes a comparative understanding of health and health policy in the Asia-Pacific region. From its inception, the program has been committed to fostering the next generation of Asia health policy researchers. Each year the program offers a postdoctoral fellowship position to a recent doctoral graduate.
Applicants should arrange for TWO (2) letters of recommendation to be emailed directly to Shorenstein APARC.
Submit all your application materials and arrange for two letters of recommendation to be emailed directly to Lisa Lee at llee888@stanford.edu.
For more information: https://aparc.fsi.stanford.edu/education/fellowship-and-training-opportunities/asia-health-policy-postdoctoral-fellowship
Deadline: December 1, 2023

Shorenstein Postdoctoral Fellowship on Contemporary Asia

Each year the Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center (Shorenstein APARC) offers two postdoctoral fellowship positions to junior scholars for research and writing on contemporary Asia. The primary research areas focus on political, economic, or social change in the Asia-Pacific region (including Northeast, Southeast, and South Asia), or on international relations and international political economy in the region. The fellowships are made possible through the generosity of APARC’s benefactor, Walter H. Shorenstein.
For more information visit: https://aparc.fsi.stanford.edu/education/fellowship-and-training-opportunities/shorenstein-postdoctoral-fellowship
The submission deadline is December 1, 2023.

Stanford Next Asia Policy Lab (SNAPL) Fellowships

Stanford Next Asia Policy Lab is offering one or two postdoctoral fellowships (two years in length) to begin in fall quarter 2024. Applications for these fellowships are due by December 1, 2023.

The Lab is also offering two visiting scholar positions to researchers from Asia. Applications for these positions close on March 1, 2024 More Information

CAORC Multi – Country Research Fellowship

The Multi-Country Research Fellowship is now accepting applications! This fellowship enables US scholars to carry out trans-regional and comparative research in countries across the network of Overseas Research Centers (ORCs), as well as other countries. The Multi-Country Research Fellowship has been running since 1993 and supports advanced research in the humanities, social sciences, and allied natural sciences for US doctoral candidates, who are ‘all but dissertation,’ and scholars who have earned their PhD or terminal degree. Scholars must carry out research in two or more countries outside the US, at least one of which must host a participating ORC. Applicants are eligible to apply as individuals or as teams and independent scholars are also eligble to apply. Twelve awards of $12,600 will be granted. 
Each year the highest ranking Multi-Country Fellowship applicant will receive an additional $1,000 toward travel expenses through the Mary Ellen Lane Multi-Country Travel Award. The award is named after CAORC’s founding director, Dr. Mary Ellen Lane. 

Minority scholars and scholars from Minority-Serving Institutions are encouraged to apply.
Deadline: December 6, 2023 | Apply here. | Questions: fellowships@caorc.org

Asia Health Policy Postdoctoral Fellowship

APARC invites applications for our 2024-25 Asia Health Policy Postdoctoral Fellowship. We welcome submissions from candidates studying evidence-based health or healthcare policy of high relevance to low- and middle-income countries in the Asia-Pacific region. Applications are due by December 1, 2023Deadline: December 31 | More info: https://tinyurl.com/yukay7cj

AIIS Summer 2024 and Academic Year 2024-2025 Language Programs 

The American Institute of Indian Studies welcomes applications for its summer 2024 and academic year 2024-2025 language programs. Programs to be offered include Hindi (Jaipur), Bengali (Kolkata), Punjabi (Chandigarh), Tamil (Madurai); Marathi (Pune), Urdu (Lucknow), Telugu (Hyderabad), Gujarati (Ahmedabad), Kannada (Mysore), Malayalam (Thiruvananthapuram), Mughal Persian (Lucknow), Sanskrit (Pune) and Pali/Prakrit (Pune). We will offer other Indian languages upon request.
For more information: https://www.indiastudies.org/language-programs/
Application Deadline: January 31, 2024. Applications can be downloaded from the AIIS web site atwww.indiastudies.org. For more information: https://www.indiastudies.org/language-programs/  Email: aiis@uchicago.edu.

Asian Development Bank Visiting Fellow Program

Our Visiting Fellow Program allows researchers and academics to share their ongoing or recently completed economic research at ADB headquarters in Manila. Women and applicants from ADB developing member countries are encouraged to apply. ROLLING DEADLINE. Learn more about the program: https://ow.ly/282A50Pymkt

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EVENTS

[In Person] 43rd Hawaii International Film Festival (HIFF)

October 12 – 22, 2023HIFF started as a project of the East-West Center, an educational and research institution created by U.S. Congress and located on the University of Hawai’i Manoa campus in Honolulu. Jeannette Paulson Hereniko was HIFF’s Founding Director, from 1981 to 1996. In 1981, HIFF’s inaugural year, the program consisted of seven films from six countries which were viewed by an audience of 5,000.
For more information and lineup of films and events, please visit https://hiff.org/

[Online] East-West Center (EWC) Funding & Education Programs Info Session

The East-West Center (EWC) provides funding for UH Mānoa graduate students from over 40 countries, Hawaiʻi, and across the U.S. Students become part of a diverse, international community committed to promoting better relations and understanding between the U.S., Asia, and the Pacific. 
When: October 18, 2023 | 3:00 – 4:00 PM HST
(Zoom details will be sent to registrants)
Register for event.

Pushpa Palanchoke Residency, October 31-November 1, 2023

The Center for South Asian Studies is pleased to host Pushpa Palanchoke from October 30-November 1, 2023 at the UH Mānoa campus.Pushpa Palanchoke is a charismatic vocalist and ethnomusicologist from Nepal who exhibits a dedication to community work, scholarship, history and revival. She grew up in a home in which music was part of a spiritual practice. In addition to her strong musicianship as a singer, Pushpa runs a community program called Folk Lok, where she creates collaborative modules which breathe new life into community music traditions. An applied ethnomusicologist, she uses her work to educate, support, and uplift other women within indigenous and traditional music spaces. Very few women are in her field and she is a standout as an activist and artist. Grounded in social awareness and community empowerment, Pushpa stands out as an activist and artist in fields with very few women leaders. Pushpa is inspirational in her dedication to promoting women in indigenous music, her depth of knowledge about traditional music, the way she draws inspiration from personal experiences and culture to compose new music, and her strong work with youth through Folk Lok.
For more information visit our website.

SCHEDULE OF EVENTS:

Tuesday, October 31, 12-1:30pm at Center for Korean Studies Auditorium (Livestream on CSAS YouTube Channel) Presentation: Folk Lok & the Dāphā Music Tradition.
Tuesday October 31, 6-7pm: at Orvis Auditorium Performance: Bhavanas from the Hills.
WednesdayNovember 1, 12-1:30pm: Singers’ Workshop: Dāphā Music & its Musicality.  Sign up for details at csas@hawaii.edu

[Online] 18th Tasveer Film Festival

Tasveer Film Festival (also known as Tasveer South Asian Film Festival -TSAFF), in its 18th year, scheduled from October 12 to 22 in Seattle. This year’s TSAFF is extra special as it attained the status of the only Oscar-qualifying South Asian film festival in the world.We would love to share some of these groundbreaking films from South Asia and its diaspora through our Virtual Film Fest, scheduled from Oct 16 to 22.Students and members receive discounted passes for our Film Festival. Check our Virtual Fest Pass and student discounts.
*Become a Tasveer Member and get an additional 25% off your pass price! Click here to Become a Tasveer Member

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JOBS

Positions open until filled unless otherwise noted.

UNDP Bhutan

UNDP Bhutan is hiring for International Consultant for final evaluation of NAP Readiness Project.
For more information visit: https://procurement-notices.undp.org/view_negotiation.cfm?nego_id=11767
Deadline: October 11.

Assistant Professorship in Islamicate South Asia, University of Chicago 

University of Chicago’s South Asian Languages and Civilizations department is advertising an Assistant Professorship in Islamicate South Asia. Details are available here: https://apply.interfolio.com/129027
Deadline: October 25, 2023

Asian and Asian American Studies – Assistant Professor

The Department of Asian and Asian American Studies at Loyola Marymount University invites applications for a tenure-track position at the rank of assistant professor beginning August 2024. For more information visit: https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=65858
Deadline: October 31, 2023

Professor in Hindi, University of Washington 

The Department of Asian Languages & Literature at the University of Washington seeks to appoint a full-time Assistant Teaching Professor in Hindi. More information can be found here:
Interfolio: http://apply.interfolio.com/130043
UW: https://ap.washington.edu/ahr/position-details/?job_id=121417
Priority Given to applications received before November 1.

Assistant Professor of History – South Asian History

The University of Oklahoma is advertising for a Professor of South Asian History. For more information visit: https://apply.interfolio.com/132509
DEADLINE: November 1, 2023.

Assistant Professor with expertise in Asian Refugee Literatures and Cultures

Simon Fraser University is advertising for a full-time tenure track position at the rank of Assistant Professor with expertise in Asian Refugee Literatures and Cultures, to be housed in the Department of World Languages and Literatures with 50% dedicated workload in the Global Asia Program. For more information visit: https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=65893
Deadline: December 5, 2023

History of Art – Assistant/Associate/Full Professor, South Asian Art and Architecture

Yale University is advertising for Assistant/Associate/Full Professor, South Asian Art and Architecture, History of Art. For more information visit: https://apply.interfolio.com/131370
Deadline: December 18, 2023

Assistant Professor of Asian History (Teaching Track)

Illinois Wesleyan University invites applications for the position of Assistant Professor of Asian History (Teaching Track).  For more information visit: https://www.iwu.edu/human-resources/job-openings/assist-prof-asian-history.html
Deadline: May 2024

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Assistance for Maui

 Our hearts go out to everyone affected by the fires on Maui.
The banyan tree in the background of the image above was a gift shipped from India 150 years ago, and is located in central Lahaina town. It still stands after the fires. 

Here are some verified ways to donate to relief funds:Hawaii Community Foundation MAUI STRONG FUND: https://www.hawaiicommunityfoundation.org/maui-strong

Hawaii Salvation Army: https://hawaii.salvationarmy.org/

Kakoo Maui Fund: https://www.memberplanet.com/campaign/cnhamembers/kakoomaui

Aloha United Way: https://www.auw.org/

Maui Mutual Aid: bit.ly/mauimutualaide      Maui Food Bank: https://mauifoodbank.org/

UH Foundation Urgent Student Relief: https://giving.uhfoundation.org/funds/12949504?appealCode=24AG6

UH Foundation Urgent Faculty & Staff Relief: https://giving.uhfoundation.org/funds/13035204?appealCode=24AG7Nearest Foodland:  https://foodland.com/store-locations/Hawaii Restaurant Association (assisting with evacuees on Ohau):https://hawaiirestaurant.org/

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