call for applications

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     Date:    Thu, 3 Jul 1997 21:01:18 -0700
     From:    Ken Nolley <knolley at willamette.edu>
     Subject: CF Applications: Asian Studies Regional Workshop
     
     CALL FOR APPLICATIONS:
     
     Asian Studies Development Program
             Southwest Regional Workshop --
                     China: Traditions in Transformation
     
     The ASDP Workshop series is designed to foster knowledge about Asian
     cultures among faculty who are not experts in Asian Studies and to 
     help infuse Asian content into undergraduate curricula throughout the 
     United States.
     
     Date: November 12-16, 1997
     
     Location: The Lodge, Cloudcroft, New Mexico: A scenic and historic
     mountain retreat high in the Sacramento Mountains, about a three-hour
     drive from El Paso, Texas.  Rental cars are available at the El Paso
     airport and a shuttle bus from The Lodge makes regular trips between 
     the airport and the hotel.
     
     Co-hosted by The University of Texas at El Paso and the Asian Studies
     Development Program of the University of Hawai'i and East-West Center
     
     Workshop Director: Dr. Roger T. Ames, Professor of Chinese Philosophy, 
     The University of Hawai'i
     
     Funded by a grant from the NEH.  FOUR DAYS' LODGING AND ALL MEALS WILL 
     BE PROVIDED FOR PARTICIPANTS FROM THE GRANT.  TRAVEL TO EL PASO WILL 
     BE THE RESPONSIBILITY OF THE INDIVIDUAL PARTICIPANTS OR THEIR 
     INSTITUTIONS.
     
     Workshop Program:
     
     
     The primary objectives of the workshop will be to give participants a
     framework for understanding the manner in which traditional Chinese
     culture has and continues to inform the transformation of the notion 
     of Chineseness.
     Both within the borders of mainland China and in the diasporic 
     communities of Chinese both in Asia and the West, the nature of being 
     Chinese is undergoing continual change. This workshop will explore the 
     development of traditional China as a complex interfusion of center 
     and periphery and will relate this process to transformations now 
     occurring in China, particularly in the areas of politics and popular 
     culture.  The success of the workshop will depend on providing 
     participants with a substantive basis for understanding Chinese 
     history, philosophy, art, religion, and aesthetics; and the 
     opportunity to use and discuss a variety of pedagogical resources for 
     teaching about China.   Throughout the workshop, participants will 
     interact with the humanities and social science scholars who are at 
     the workshop as presenters.  Participants will develop preliminary 
     written plans to infuse an informed understanding about China
     into their undergraduate courses.
     As background reading prior to the workshop, participants will be 
     given three texts: the Analects of Confucius (551-479 BC), the best 
     single source for the ideas of Confucius;  China in Transformation, a 
     collection of essays edited by Harvard professor, Tu Weiming, that 
     sheds invaluable light on the political, social, economic, 
     intellectual and cultural conditions that are informing China's 
     advance into the 21st century; and Mo Yan's novel, Red Sorghum, a 
     scathingly candid look at the dawn of the People's Republic and the 
     transformations it wrought in the Chinese understanding of their own 
     personal and social identities.
     
     Workshop Faculty:
     
     Roger T. Ames, Co-Director of ASDP
     Elizabeth Buck, Co-Director of ASDP
     Kenneth Hammond, Assistant Professor of Chinese History, New Mexico 
     State University
     Peter Hershock, Project Fellow of ASDP
     John Peterson, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, University of 
     Texas at El Paso
     Tu Weiming, Professor of Chinese History and Philosophy, Harvard 
     University
     
     Applications are welcome from full-time faculty of two and four-year
     colleges and universities; faculty from the Southwest region of the 
     U.S. and from minority-serving institutions are particularly 
     encouraged to apply.
     
     Application Deadline: September 25, 1997
     
     Send a current c.v., a brief (two-page) description of reasons for 
     wanting to attend the workshop, and a letter of reference from a 
     colleague or supervisor familiar with your teaching to:
     
             Thomas H. Schmid, Workshop Coordinator
             Department of English
             University of Texas at El Paso
             El Paso, Texas 79968
     
             Phone: 915-747-6248
             FAX:   915-747-6214
             Email: tschmid at mail.utep.edu
     
     Inquiries welcome.