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DTSTART;TZID="Asia/Krasnoyarsk":20160101T080000
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SUMMARY:Call for Academic Exchange and/or Lecture tours
DESCRIPTION: \n  \nSource : http://shapesea.com/about-us/news/call-academic-exchange-lecture-tours/ \n
URL:https://seajunction.org/event/call-for-academic-exchange-andor-lecture-tours/
LOCATION:Southeast Asia
CATEGORIES:Opportunities
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SUMMARY:ASEASUK Projects and Grants
DESCRIPTION:ASEASUK is offering bursaries to members to support research and impact activities in Southeast Asian Studies. The awards are available for travel and related expenses for activities taking place between 1 July 2017 to 31 July 2018.\nPermissible activities include: \n\nfieldwork in SE Asia or key sites in the diaspora;\nresearch visits to important regional archives\, museums\, collections\, exhibitions or performances (concerning but not necessarily located in SE Asia);\na visit for collaborative writing or artistic practice with an academic or practitioner colleague from another institution in SE Asia;\ndelivery of a paper at a regional academic conference;\ndelivery of a paper to an academic or practitioner audience based on research previously conducted on/in the region.\n\nAwards available: \n\nThree Postgraduate Bursaries (PhD\, MPhil or MRes students)\, up to £1000 each\nOne Early Career Award\, up to £1500\nOne Senior Award\, up to £2500\n\nApplication deadline: 30 April 2017. Decisions will be made by ASEASUK’s Research Committee by 31 May 2017. The awards are open to all paid-up members of ASEASUK\, based in the UK or elsewhere. \nContact Dr Janet Cochrane (ASEASUK Secretary) for queries or application forms on aseasuk.memsec@gmail.com.\n \nSource: http://aseasuk.org.uk/4/a/projects-grants \n
URL:https://seajunction.org/event/aseasuk-projects-grants/
CATEGORIES:Opportunities
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SUMMARY:Fulbright Student Fellowships 2018-2019 Opened for Cambodian Applicants
DESCRIPTION:The Public Affairs Section of the U.S. Embassy is pleased to announce the opportunity to compete for 2018-2019 Fulbright Student Fellowships for graduate study in the United States leading to a Master’s or Doctoral degree. Fellowships are awarded on a competitive basis to qualified candidates under the auspices of the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Program\, subject to the availability of funding. \nDeadline: June 1\, 2017\nThe Fulbright Program was established in 1946 by the U.S. Congress as a means “to increase mutual understanding between the people of the United States and the people of other countries.” For more than sixty years the Fulbright Program has provided opportunities for foreign nationals to study\, teach\, and pursue research in the U.S.\nTo be eligible\, applicants must: \n\nHave a strong academic background and a record of excellence in previous studies;\nHave completed a Bachelor’s degree from a recognized college or university for those applying to study in the U.S. for a Master’s degree program\, or have a Master’s degree from a recognized college or university for those applying to study in the U.S. for a Doctoral program;\nBe proficient in English (a minimum score of 570 on TOEFL or TOEFL ITP\, or 230 on computer-based TOEFL\, or 88 on internet based TOEFL\, or 7.0 on IELTS);\nDemonstrate the ability to adapt readily to a foreign environment;\nBe in good health and able to undergo a rigorous study program; and\nNot have extensive experience living or studying in the United States.\n\nFulbright Student Fellowship grants provide round-trip transportation to the United States\, as well as tuition fees\, and living expenses for full-time graduate study. Grant provisions do not include financial support for dependents.\n \nSource: https://kh.usembassy.gov/fulbright-student-fellowships-2018-2019/\n  \n
URL:https://seajunction.org/event/fulbright-student-fellowships-2018-2019-opened-cambodian-applicants/
LOCATION:The United State of America\, United States
CATEGORIES:Opportunities
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20180414
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SUMMARY:2018 Asia Foundation Development Fellows: Accepting Applications
DESCRIPTION:The Asia Foundation is now accepting applications for the 2018 Asia Foundation Development Fellows: Emerging Leadership for Asia’s Future program. The 2018 Fellowship class will be the fifth cohort of this prestigious program\, launched in 2014 to engage and empower a dynamic community of emerging leaders from all over Asia. Applications will be accepted through Nov. 20\, 2017. \nThe Development Fellows program reflects The Asia Foundation’s six-decade tradition of investing in the region’s most promising future leaders. Each year\, the program brings together an accomplished group of emerging changemakers(under 40 years of age)—NGO and civil society leaders\, government officials and policymakers\, social entrepreneurs\, journalists\, environmentalists\, and academics—who are deeply committed to building an inclusive Asia. \nDrawing participants from across disciplines\, working environments\, cultures\, and country contexts\, the year-long Development Fellows program unlocks each Fellows’ potential\, developing their abilities to address Asia’s critical development challenges such as conflict\, inequality\, and other urgent issues. \n“Our Development Fellows are entrepreneurial\, creative\, and willing to take risks. These are individuals with the unique combination of leadership skills\, depth of substantive knowledge\, and technical expertise that empowers them to solve problems in their respective societies and across Asia\,” said Asia Foundation President David D. Arnold. \nThe 2018 program will consist of two intensive modules\, including two weeks in Asia and another two weeks in the United States\, allowing Fellows to stay in their current occupations during the Fellowship year. The program will commence in April with a Leadership Development Workshop in Korea presented in partnership with the Korea Development Institute\, and will continue in Sri Lanka where the Fellows will engage with various development practitioners to understand the mechanics of change on the ground. \nIn September\, the Fellows will visit San Francisco and Washington\, D.C.\, for a leadership dialogue and exchange. A flexible professional development award of US $5\,000 will also be provided to each Fellow to use throughout the Fellowship year. \nThe call for applications will close on Nov. 20\, 2017\, with selection results to be announced in January 2018. Learn more about the program and application guidelines here. \nThe Asia Foundation is a nonprofit international development organization committed to improving lives across a dynamic and developing Asia. Informed by six decades of experience and deep local expertise\, our work across the region addresses five overarching goals—strengthen governance\, empower women\, expand economic opportunity\, increase environmental resilience\, and promote regional cooperation. \n \nSource: http://asiafoundation.org/what-we-do/asia-foundation-development-fellows/apply/ \n
URL:https://seajunction.org/event/2018-asia-foundation-development-fellows-accepting-applications/
LOCATION:South Korea – Leadership Training Program; Sri Lanka – Workshop on Asian Development and USA – Leadership Dialogue and Exchange
CATEGORIES:Courses
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SUMMARY:Photo Exhibition Living amongst the Dead: Disparity in Manila North Cemetery by Eva Rapoport
DESCRIPTION:Brief Description \nOn 21 April at 5PM SEA Junction will address a somewhat “dark” topic giving a glimpse of the cemetery slums of Manila with the launch of a photo exhibition “Living amongst the dead: Disparity in Manila North Cemetary by photographer and researcher Eva Rapoport. The exhibition to last until 29 April at our location will expose photographs taken by the photographer in May 2017. \nMost of the Asian big cities represent some peculiar patchwork of luxury and extreme poverty\, but probably nowhere else the opposites are so vivid and so intertwined as in Manila North Cemetery. Vast burial ground with over a hundred years of history serves as a final resting place for several Philippines’ presidents and many historical figures\, yet it is also a home for over 2000 living people. So\, unique architecture\, stone carvings and crosses\, whipping angels and contemplating Madonnas are seen side-by-side with the most mundane goods and chattels: laundry dried over figured railings\, mattresses\, plastic bags and buckets and water basins. \nManila North Cemetery is not just a refuge for those who have nowhere else to live\, it is a vibrant community with most of the social and economic activities some regular neighborhood would have: public transportation (famous Philippine ‘jeepneys’) and private motorbike taxies\, numerous food stalls\, beauty parlors\, sports and entertainment: from basketball and gambling to billiard and internet-cafe. Kids play around the tombs\, fly kites\, climb trees – in a sense their leisure time seems happier and healthier than of many modern urban kids spending most of the time immersed into their electronic devices\, but what kind of future they might have without a school to attend? Many of the families inhabiting lavish mausoleums actually serve as their caretakers and have to vacate the cemetery on particular holidays when the rich families come to pay annual respects to their dead; other cemetery-dwellers offer their services as informal tour guides helping anyone interested to see the most remarkable tombs and retaining oral history of the area. \nAlthough most of the Filipinos\, from taxi drivers to university professors believe in ghosts and spirits and are eager to engage in a conversation about them\, the North Cemetery dwellers present a rare exception: for them dead are not a source of fear and danger but more of a reason they have at least some kind of roof over their heads and a chance to make a living. \nAt the opening\, renown sociologist Mary Racelis will give a talk on “”Dead or Alive\, the Poor Sustain the City!” on urban poverty and poor resistance\, which will serve to contextualize the visual documentation of life in the cemetery. The photographer will also provide some background information about her work and interests and we will show a short documentary on this subject.  \n  \nPhotographer \nEva Rapoport is a photographer\, journalist and researcher currently residing in Thailand. She focuses her attention on traditional performing arts and spirit possession practices and she has previously exhibited at SEA on Javanese trance dance kuda kepang. These photos\, taken on May part of a project about cemeteries around the world\, will be exhibited in the same location next April. \n  \nSpeaker \nDr. Mary Racelis is a Research Scientist at the Institute of Philippine Culture\, School of Social Sciences\, Ateneo de Manila University\, and its former Director. Her teaching activities as a social anthropologist include Senior Professorial Lecturer at the Ateneo’s Department of Sociology and Anthropology and the University of the Philippines Graduate School.   She serves on several NGO Boards\, mostly partner support groups to organized urban poor communities. Her research has focused on urbanization\, urban informal settlements and community organizing for onsite/incity relocation. In addition\, she has written on poverty\, gender\, children\, family\, reproductive health\, indigenous people\, human rights and socio-cultural change. From 1983-1992 she was the Nairobi-based UNICEF Regional Director\, Eastern and Southern Africa Regional Office after having served as the UNICEF Senior Policy Specialist for Family Welfare\, Women’s Development and Community Participation in New York 1979-83. She returned to the Philippines to become the Ford Foundation’s Country Director/Assistant Representative 1992-97. At the invitation of former Secretary-General Kofi Annan\, she became an active member in 2003—04 of his Panel of Eminent Persons on United Nations—Civil Society Relations. She is proudest of her five children\, 13 grandchildren and 1 great-grandchild. \n  \nAdditional References: \nhttps://www.theguardian.com/cities/2018/mar/21/cemetery-slums-life-manilas-graveyard-settlements-philippines \nhttps://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/25/world/asia/manila-north-cemetery-philippines.html \nhttps://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/may/23/philippines-cemetery-urban-poor-home \n \nSEA Junction events are free\, but donations are expected as they enable us to continue our activities.  \nFor reservation/information please contact us via email southeastasiajunction@gmail.com or phone/wa: +66970024140 \nAbout SEA Junction\, OUR Venue on Southeast Asia  \nSEA Junction aims to foster understanding and appreciation of Southeast Asia in all its socio-cultural dimensions –from arts and lifestyles to economy and development. Conveniently located at Room 408 of the Bangkok Arts and Culture Centre or BACC (across MBK\, BTS National Stadium) SEA junction facilitates public access to knowledge resources and exchanges among students\, practitioners and Southeast Asia lovers. For more information see www.seajunction.org and join the Facebook group https://www.facebook.com/groups/1693055870976440/ \n  \n
URL:https://seajunction.org/event/photo-exhibition-living-amongst-the-dead-disparity-in-manila-north-cemetery-by-eva-rapoport/
LOCATION:SEA Junction\, Room 408\, BACC\, 939 Rama 1 Rd\, Pathum Wan\, Khet Pathum Wan\, Krung Thep Maha Nakhon 10330 Bangkok\, Thailand\, Bangkok\, Thailand
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