SOAS University of London has recently published a digital archive dedicated to Batak language study and history. The archive is free and available to the public, and includes Dutch and German translations. For the complete archive, visit the SOAS Digital Archives.
Gender, Land, and the Right to Food in Southeast Asia
Coming up in Bangkok in July, 2019, is a new forum on economic issues in Southeast Asia. The name of the forum is Gender, Land, and the Right to Food in Southeast Asia, and is part of a six-year project organized by DEMETER (Droits et Egalité pour une Meilleure Economie de la Terre) and funded by the Swiss Development Cooperation. For more information click here.
Academic Visas
An important reminder in the Sydney Morning Herald for all academics and researchers in Indonesia to do proper diligence and make sure you are traveling with the correct visa!
Assistant Professor of Southeast Asian Studies
The Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies in the College of Liberal Arts at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities invites applications for a full-time, tenure-track position in Southeast Asian Studies at the rank of assistant professor beginning in fall 2020. The Department seeks candidates whose research focuses on moving image studies, media studies, sound studies, digital culture, visual culture, or related fields of Southeast Asia, defined as the region including Myanmar, Laos, Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan, the Philippines, Brunei, East Timor, and Indonesia. Click here for more information on the position and application procedures.
Rising Voices in Southeast Asian Studies
The Southeast Asia Council (SEAC) of the Association for Asian Studies (AAS) is seeking paper proposals from up-and-coming scholars to join a “Rising Voices” panel on the topic of “New Dimensions of Migration in Southeast Asia.” We seek to recruit early career scholars from Southeast Asian countries to form a panel for eventual inclusion in the 2020 Annual Conference of the Association for Asian Studies, to be held in Boston, Massachusetts from March 19-22, 2020. SEAC will provide partial financial assistance for presenters to attend the meetings. For more information visit the AAS website.
Toward a Musical History of the Indonesian Archipelago
Post-doctoral fellowship in ethnomusicology at the University of California, Davis, focusing on Indonesian music
Open date: June 1, 2019
Last review date: September 1, 2019
Applications received after this date will be reviewed by the search committee if the position has not yet been filled.
Final date: December 31, 2019
Applications will continue to be accepted until this date, but those received after the review date will only be considered if the position has not yet been filled.
Description:
The Department of Music at the University of California Davis invites applications for a full-time post-doctoral position in ethnomusicology. The appointment will be for one year with a potential start date of 1/1/2020.
The position is funded through the Henry Luce Foundation. The project, “Toward a music history of the Indonesian archipelago,” has two overall goals: (1) to consolidate and corroborate existing evidence about the musics of the Indonesia archipelago, and (2) to mine a hitherto underutilized resource: documentation, in assorted media, from Christian missions that took root in many parts of the East Indies in the colonial era.
The post-doctoral scholar(s) will (1) identify, procure, and examine mission archival data for information about musics in the Indonesian archipelago together with the project’s principal investigators, Anna Maria Busse Berger and Henry Spiller; (2) help organize and participate in one of two international conferences, to be held in Davis (October 2020 and October 2021) that will invite scholars to share research related to Christian missionaries’ musical activities in Indonesia; (3) pursue the post-doctoral scholar’s own research.
For a complete description of the position and information on application download the official announcement.
