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Deadline for both calls is Nov. 5, 2011. Download the PDF below.
International Association of Asian Studies
The Getty Foundation has awarded CAA a generous one-time $100,000 grant to support the attendance and participation of international art historians at the100th Annual Conference and Centennial Celebration, taking place February 22–25, 2012, at the Los Angeles Convention Center in California. The goal of the Getty Foundation International Travel Grant Program is to increase international participation in CAA, to expand international networking and the exchange of ideas, and to familiarize international participants with the conference program, including the session participation process.
Grant recipients will be expected to attend the conference throughout its duration and participate in mentoring activities and other events planned in connection with the grant. Members of CAA’s International Committee have agreed to host the participants, and the National Committee for the History of Art will also lend support to the program.
Twenty applicants will be chosen by a jury. CAA will notify all applicants about their status by November 15, 2011. Applicants who are CAA members may also apply for the CAA International Member Conference Travel Grant but can only receive a single award; graduate students may not apply for the Getty grant. Applications should include:
Please send all application materials to Lauren Stark, CAA manager of programs. Deadline: September 23, 2011.
The American Institute of Indian Studies, the American Institute of Pakistan Studies, the American Institute of Bangladesh Studies and the University of Chicago South Asia Language and Area Center will hold an all-day workshop on Friday December 2, 2011 that will provide tools and resources for promoting the study of women in Islamic Society in South Asia. The focus would be to provide a complex and nuanced overview of women and the impacts of women’s political participation in South Asian Muslim societies. It will emphasize their pro-active efforts at community organizing, educational reform, anti-corruption, human rights, and public health.
Who is Eligible to Participate? Thirty faculty members will be selected to participate in the workshop. The workshop is targeted at faculty at community colleges, small liberal arts colleges, religious-affiliated colleges, minority-serving colleges, and small public colleges in the greater Chicago area and northern Illinois.
How to Apply? Please go to southasia.uchicago.edu/outreach/islam_workshop.shtml and fill out the simple application which will require a brief statement of purpose about your goals for attending the workshop and how you would like to use the tools and resources that will be discussed. The deadline for applications is October 15, 2011. All applicants will be informed about whether they have been selected no later than October 31, 2011.
Published by the National Institute of Pakistan Studies, Quaid-i-Azam University and Summer Institute of Linguistics, May 2011. Authors: Lars O. Dyrud, Carla F. Radloff. A Sociolinguistic Survey of Punjab, Pakistan is Volume 10 in the Studies in Languages of Northern Pakistan series published jointly by the National Institute of Pakistan Studies at Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan, and the Summer Institute of Linguistics.
Part 1 of this book presents the results of a sociolinguistic survey conducted in 2007 in Punjab province, Pakistan. Word lists were collected in the local language varieties in 18 locations, and 539 sociolinguistic questionnaires were administered in 17 locations. The results provide an overview of the current language situation in Punjab and answers questions such as 'How similar are language varieties in Punjab to each other and to Urdu?', 'What are speakers' perceptions about those varieties?', and 'What are their domains of use?'. Language varieties in the book include major varieties like Punjabi, Saraiki, Potohari, and Hindko, as well as lesser-known varieties. Part 2 consists of an annotated bibliography of sources related to the language varieties found in the province. Included are works in English as well as those written in local language varieties. It is hoped that this work will be used to inform language planning efforts and the development of education policy. ISBN 978-969-8023-33-1, 377 pages.
Some of the world’s most accomplished leaders from academia, business, public affairs, the humanities, and the arts have been elected members of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and joining them this year is UW-Madison professor Jonathan Mark Kenoyer.
The Linguistic Society of America (LSA) is accepting nominations for its
prestigious Leonard Bloomfield Book Award, given annually for the volume
which makes the most outstanding contribution to the development of our understanding
of language and linguistics.
Nominations may be made by publishers of linguistic works as well as LSA members.
With certain exceptions, all authors of nominated books must be current members
of the Society. Books should have been published after February 28, 2010 but
before May 31, 2011.
Four copies of any nominated volume should be sent by May 2, 2011 to the LSA
Secretariat:
Attn: Leonard Bloomfield Book Award Committee
Linguistic Society of America
1325 18th St NW., Suite 211
Washington, DC 20036-6502
We encourage you to consider nominating yourself, a colleague, or – if you are
a publisher – one of your linguistics titles for this award. Authors and publishers
of winning books are invited to be recognized at the Awards Ceremony held during
the LSA Annual Meeting.
More on the Leonard Bloomfield Book Award and the LSA’s other awards
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Learn more about Habib University, a planned Liberal Arts University in Pakistan, in this brochure.