Government Relations and Partnership Coordinator, Carnegie–Tsinghua Center for Global Policy

The Carnegie–Tsinghua Center for Global Policy, the Beijing Center of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, is seeking to hire a Government Relations and Partnership Coordinator. Responsibilities will include managing the partnership with Tsinghua University, acting as a communications liaison between Tsinghua scholars and center staff, and developing and maintaining a government relations outreach strategy. Position will also coordinate meeting arrangements with government officials, monitor legislation and government events, and manage the design and production process for the center’s marketing materials.

Position requires 1-4 years of experience, native or near-native Mandarin Chinese, and a strong proficiency in English. A bachelor’s degree is required, preferably in communications, international affairs, political science, or public policy. Knowledge of or interest in the functioning of the Chinese government and foreign policymaking bodies will be strongly considered, as will experience at a university, research institution, or joint venture company. Ideal candidate is a self-starter with excellent attention to detail who is extremely well-organized, capable of multitasking, and managing multiple deadlines. The ability to work well with others in a cross-cultural and professional office environment is essential. A high degree of interpersonal skills and the ability to engage government officials is a must.

This position will report to the Communications Manager of the Carnegie–Tsinghua Center. To apply, please submit your English resume/CV and a cover letter detailing your interest and experience to:https://carnegieendowment.applicantpro.com/jobs/139167.html.

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LRCCS Inaugural Post-Doctoral Fellowship

The Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies (LRCCS) at the University of Michigan (U-M) is pleased to announce the establishment of the LRCCS Postdoctoral Fellowships to support research in the study of China. This opportunity is open to scholars in the humanities or social sciences conducting well-designed research and writing projects. Two fellows are selected annually.

Eligibility:

  • Research topics can cover any historical period of China - including contemporary China - and involve any academic discipline in the humanities and social sciences.
  • Candidates must be able to provide evidence of successful completion of their PhD degree by June of the year of appointment and may not be more than five (5) years beyond receipt of the PhD.
  • Applicants who do not have native command of English must include the date and score of the most recent TOEFL examination or other evidence of proficiency in English (such as a degree from a US university or a letter from an academic advisor).
  • University of Michigan doctoral degree recipients are not eligible for this fellowship.
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Call for Papers - Erotic Literature: Adaptation and Translation in Europe and Asia

29-30 June 2015
University of Cambridge, Centre for Research in the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences (CRASSH)

Organizers: Johannes D. Kaminski, Rudolph Ng
Keynotes: Eva Illouz, Laura Moretti

This conference will address the semantic demarcations of erotic literature. Transgressive by nature, no genre of literature is more defined by the social and aesthetic conventions that it playfully disregards or unwillingly reproduces.

Leopold von Sacher Masoch’s Venus in Furs (1870) is an excellent example of an erotic novel that has prompted a multitude of adaptions. Its translations have resonated strongly in different socio-cultural settings, no doubt in part as a result of translators’ efforts to tailor the text to new audiences. Film adaptations cover a broad spectrum, from mainstream soft-core porn to acclaimed psychological dramas such as Roman Polanski’s latest feature film (2013).

Often enough, the cross-cultural transfer of erotic literature must negotiate incompatible concepts. When Franz Kuhn translated the 17th century Chinese text The Carnal Prayer Mat 肉蒲 團 into German for the first time (1959), he glossed over the finesse of its physiological detail. The anthropological conceptions that inform the text simply proved too inconsistent with contemporaneous Western notions of the body. At any rate, upon publication, Swiss authorities decided to place the translation on the index.

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Call for papers: Body and Sexuality in Context: East and West, Ancient and Modern, ACLA Seminar

Approaching the issue in a Foucauldian vein, this seminar operates on the assumption that body is more than a physical entity; rather, body should be considered as a cultural and social presence. Likewise, as a cultural construct, sexuality is constantly and often heavily contested in its respective social context. By bringing together a set of research papers from different genres, this seminar aims at exploring various literary expressions of and reflections on body and sexuality in different literatures. Attention will be directed to how social norms and discourses on body and sexuality are constructed, modified, de-constructed, and/or reconstructed.

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Call for proposals: Nature and Eco-consciousness ACLA panel

The following panel has been approved by 2015 ACLA annual conference secretariat. Those interested please contact xinning13[at]jlu[dot]edu[dot]cn:

The (Re)vision of Nature, Eco-consciousness, and Modern Chinese Literature

A vibrant and productive branch of modern literary theory, eco-criticism not only unsettles the old anthropocentric view of nature and humanity and fuels environmentalist activism, but contributes, directly or indirectly, to the (re)construction of national and ethnical identities, gender roles and cultural self-imaginations in different historical contexts.  Also a cosmopolitan movement that urges a collective response of human race to the environmental challenges in the modern world, eco-criticism nonetheless vehemently condemns the rapacious and hegemonic globalization through foregrounding the importance of locality and the attachment of human beings to their immediate living environments. By contrasting what Spivak terms as “planetarity” to capitalist globalization, eco-criticism promises a cultural pluralism based on mutual recognition and respect.

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Call for proposals: Association for Asian Performance

The Association for Asian Performance invites panel proposals and/or individual paper proposals for the Association of Theatre in Higher Education 2015 conference

Conference Dates and Location
July 30—August 2, 2015
Montréal, Québec, Canada
Fairmont The Queen Elizabeth Hotel

Conference Theme

Je me souviens [I Remember]: We invite you to continue to dream as we look towards our 2015 Conference in Montréal.  Quebec’s simple but provocative motto, which is not without controversy over interpretation, caught the imaginations of the members of your 2015 Conference Committee—both metaphorically and geographically.  For ATHE’s members, in the broadest sense, it invokes thoughts of remembering—remembering theatre at its best, when its immediacy and humanness is embraced, remembering our past and how it points to the future, and remembering our power to instigate change.

As most ATHE members will cross the national border of Canada and the provincial border of Quebec—which is recognized as a nation within Canada, and onto territory claimed by the First Nations Iroquois people, “Je me souviens” [I remember] can be defined by considerations of place as well. Issues of country/isolation/assimilation that began in Phoenix, as well as acts of revolt/revolution, quiet and otherwise, give rise to consideration of the silences, the unsaid, the gestures, the sub-text, the dangers, the misunderstandings, the non-discursive in the “in-between” terrain between cultures, countries, and constituencies in Canada and beyond.  Building on this, we can also embrace inter/trans-national and inter/trans-cultural exchanges in performance texts, process, or production.

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