Global Asias Cyber Chat: Globalization and Circulation of Asian Popular Culture (15 Nov 2022)

The Center for Asian Studies at the University of Colorado Boulder, in collaboration with the Center for Humanities and the Arts, and the Global Asias Initiative, will present the public webinar, “Global Asias Cyber Chat: Globalization and Circulation of Asian Popular Culture" on Tuesday, November 15, at 12:00pm MST.

AIFIS Consortium Member, Carla Jones (University of Colorado Boulder), together with Candace Epps-Robertson (UNC Chapel Hill) and Anita Mannur (Miami University), will discuss how various forms of Asian popular culture have responded to or engaged with other forms of national and hemispheric popular cultures, such as those in Europe, the Americas, Africa, and the Pacific, how Asian American and Asian diaspora communities have drawn on Asian popular cultures, and the implications of homegrown Asian popular cultures circulating within and beyond Asia.

Click here for more information about the event as well as to stay tuned to upcoming events presented by the Center for Asian Studies at the University of Colorado Boulder.

“Rethinking the History of Indonesian Music,” a Conference made possible by the Henry Luce Foundation (5 Nov 2022)

Click on image above for a link to the live streamed event on November 5, 2022.

Time: November 5, 2022 - 9:00 am - 5:00 pm Pacific US

Location: Ann E. Pitzer Center, University of California, Davis

  • Free to attend—and lunch will be provided—for those that pre-register for the conference. Please submit your registration by Thursday, November 3rd.

  • For those unable to attend, we will livestream the conference beginning at 9:20 am. Please note that interaction is not possible over the livestream.

About the Conference

For the conference “Rethinking the History of Indonesian Music” eight scholars will present 30-minute papers, followed by 10-minute prepared responses from local respondents, on topics related to the broad subject of music history in the geographical area currently identified as the Indonesian archipelago. The conference is part of a broader Luce Foundation project titled “Toward a Music History of the Indonesian Archipelago,” which will take place over two years. With this open approach, the conference seeks to explore topics of indigeneity, colonialism, the evolving artistry of modern gamelan, and the rethinking of Indonesian history.

Preceding the conference, the Bay Area’s rock-gamelan fusion group Purnamasari will give a concert Friday, Nov. 4, at 7:00 pm in the Ann E. Pitzer Center.

Conference Schedule

9:00       Coffee and Registration

9:20       Introductions by
             ​ Profs. Anna Maria Busse Berger and Henry Spiller of UC Davis

9:30       Panel I – Chair Juan Diego Díaz (UC Davis)

9:30       Sandeep Ray (University of Nottingham, Malaysia)
              “Choral singing and the Japanese Occupation of Java”

10:10     Emilie Rook (University of Pittsburgh)
              “A Missional Legacy: Musik Inkulturasi and the Production
              of Localized Catholic Hymnals in
              Indonesia”                                                             

10:50     Coffee Break

11:15     Panel II – Chair Gillian Irwin (Gamelan Sekar Jaya)

11:15     Anna Maria Busse Berger (UC Davis)
              “Jaap Kunst and the German Missionaries in Nias”

11:55     Dustin Wiebe (UC Davis)
              “‘Divine’ Ethnomusicology: Jaap Kunst in Flores”

12:35     Lunch

2:00       Panel III – Chair Sarah Maxim (UC Berkeley)

2:00       Bernard Arps (Leiden University, Netherlands) 
              “The Issue of the Javanese Church Hymns”

2:40       Henry Spiller (UC Davis)
              “‘I am in no way surprised that the Javanese
              can listen to it all night long’: A 19th-century Dutch
              missionary on Javanese music”

2:50       Break

3:15       Panel IV – Chris Reynolds (UC Davis)

3:15       Sebastian Klotz (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)
              “Missionaries as phonographic mediators”

3:55       David A. Hollinger (UC Berkeley)
              “The Heathen in His Blindness? Missionaries,
              Empire, and Anti-Colonialism”

4:35       General discussion and concluding remarks.

CALL FOR APPLICATIONS Cultivating the Humanities and Social Sciences (CHSS) Research Grants for scholars from South and Southeast Asia

Submission Deadline: September 30, 2022

The Cultivating the Humanities and Social Sciences Research Grants are made possible thanks to the generous support of Sweden. This grant program is part of a new collaborative transnational project that aims at enhancing the research capabilities of scholars and local institutions, especially in post-conflict and conflict areas, while helping to reduce the social and economic vulnerabilities of South and Southeast Asian countries through policy-relevant research.

The project focuses on junior faculty, graduate students, senior and independent scholars, women and ethnic minority groups in particular. Cultivating the Humanities and Social Sciences (CHSS) Research Grants are available for short- (up to 2 months), medium (2-6 months), and long-term (12 months) research projects that advance the fields of the humanities and social sciences in South and Southeast Asia.

The Association for Asian Studies invites applications from low- and lower middle-income countries of Southeast Asia (e.g., Cambodia, Lao PDR, Myanmar, Timor-Leste, Indonesia, the Philippines, Thailand, and Vietnam) as well as from less economically advantaged countries and areas of South Asia (e.g., Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Pakistan, Nepal, Sri Lanka, and India).  When evaluating proposals from Indonesia, the Philippines, Thailand, Vietnam, and India, the review committee will prioritize applicants who come from regions and/or institutions with resource and infrastructure constraints. We also encourage collaborative projects, especially those that partner scholars from under-resourced institutions with colleagues at institutions that offer more resources and infrastructure to support their work.

Recipients of CHSS grants will be invited to submit a panel proposal at an AAS-in-Asia conference, where they will have the opportunity to share the results of their research projects, participate in skill-building workshops, and discuss publishing prospects with our partners based in Asia, Europe, and the U.S.

University of Delaware completes NSF Project on Linguistic Fieldwork and Documentation Training in Indonesia

AIFIS shares our congratulations to a global team of linguists on the recent completion of their project entitled, “Collaborative Approach to the Documentation of Endangered Languages in Linguistically Diverse Locales.” Funded by a grant from the Documenting Endangered Languages Program of the National Science Foundation (DEL) to the University of Delaware, the research team represented collaborators from the University of Delaware, Atma Jaya Catholic University of Indonesia, and the Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa (ILCAA), an affiliate of the Tokyo University of Foreign Studies (TUFS). The program tested out a new way to increase the involvement of young Indonesians in the documentation of their languages by creating teams of Indonesians (who are native speakers of these endangered languages) and American graduate students who hope to specialize in language documentation.

The project was directed by Peter Cole and Gabriella Hermon, from the University of Delaware.  It provided an opportunity for American graduate students in linguistics to gain training in linguistic fieldwork and documentary linguistics.  Students from the U.S. traveled to East Indonesia (specifically to Nusa Tengarra Timur) for a six week training program that started out in Kupang on West Timor island. The American graduate students were paired with local Indonesian students (undergraduates and recent graduates) who were interested in documenting their own languages. After an intensive six day training program in Kupang, trainees spent three to four weeks in the field on one of the islands of East Nusa Tengarra, before returning to Kupang for a final training session.

The languages documented during these workshops will be archived through the Pacific and Regional Archive for Digital Sources in Endangered Cultures (PARADISEC). Much of the project itself is documented on parallel sites hosted by the University of Delaware and Atma Jaya Catholic University.




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