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* Turkish American Association of California Republic Day Dinner Dance
* ARIT FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM 1998-1999*
* CONFERENCE: Silk Roads in Central Asia, UC Berkeley
* Demonstration for Eastern Turkestan in Florida
* Toronto presentation on Tatarstan
* Golden Horn Releases "Sufi Dreams" by Mercan Dede
* PUBLICATION: China and Central Asia's Volatile Mix
* Turkish American Association of California invites you to its
1997 Turkish Republic Day Dinner Dance
at
Cabana Hotel , Palo Alto
November 1, Saturday at 6:00 PM
4290 El Camino Real, Palo Alto CA 94306
Delicious menu: Full course dinner
Rich entertainment: Tune to the Turkish Cultural program for more details.
Call and make reservations with the Turkish American
Association of California immediately: 1-415-646-0946.
Turkish American Association of California has partially
underwritten today's program. TAAC is a non-profit charitable
organization established to promote better understanding
between Americans and Turks. If you have any questions about
Turks and Turkey, give them a call.
* ARIT FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM 1998-1999*
The fellowship program of the American Research Institute in
American Research in Turkey
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THE AMERICAN RESEARCH INSTITUTE IN TURKEY
ARIT FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM 1998-1999*
The American Research Institute in Turkey will offer a number of
fellowships for research in Turkey for the academic year 1998-1999.
Increased doctoral and post-doctoral fellowships will be available
in a range of tenures (two to twelve months) and amounts.
Scholars and advanced graduate students engaged in research on
ancient, medieval or modern times in Turkey, in any field of the
humanities and social sciences, are eligible. Applicants are
expected to be affiliates of educational institutions in the United
States or Canada. Research permission is required by the Turkish
government.
Application Deadline: November 15, 1997
*The fellowship program of the American Research Institute in
Turkey is supported in part by grants from the United States
Information Agency.
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ARIT-NEH FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM 1998-1999
The American Research Institute in Turkey takes pleasure in
inviting applications for two or three post-doctoral fellowships
made possible by support from the National Endowment for the
Humanities.
The fields of study cover all periods in the humanities including
prehistory, history, art, archaeology, literature, and
linguistics, as well as interdisciplinary aspects of cultural
history.
The fellowships may be held from four to twelve months. The
stipends range from $10,000 to $30,000.
Application Deadline: November 15, 1997
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KRESS-ARIT FELLOWSHIP IN HISTORY OF ART
AND ARCHAEOLOGY 1998-1999
The American Research Institute in Turkey is most pleased to
announce a new fellowship for 1998-1999 made possible by the
generous support of the Samuel H. Kress Foundation.
Candidates should be engaged in advanced dissertation research
that requires study in Turkey in the fields of history of art
and/or archaeology.
The fellowship offers support for up to one academic year in
the amount of $13,500. Awards for shorter periods of time are
also possible.
Application deadline: November 15, 1997
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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION AND APPLICATION MATERIALS
CONTACT:
American Research Institute in Turkey
c/o University of Pennsylvania Museum
33rd and Spruce Streets
Philadelphia PA 19104-6324
Telephone: (215) 898-3474
Fax: (215) 898-0657
E-mail: [leinwand at sas.upenn.edu]
PLEASE FEEL FREE TO COPY AND DISTRIBUTE OF THESE NOTICES
Nancy Leinwand, ARIT Administrator
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ARIT/WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY/BOSPHORUS UNIVERSITY
INTENSIVE TURKISH LANGUAGE STUDY
SUMMER 1998
Intensive summer program offers the equivalent of one year's
study in a Turkish language, at any level of proficiency,
spoken and reading, for students engaged in graduate study in
the U.S. or Canada. Fellowships cover air fare, tuition, room
and board, and stipend.
Application deadline: February 1998 (to be announced)
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION AND APPLICATION MATERIALS
CONTACT:
ARIT Summer Fellowship Program
Center for the Study of Islamic Societies and Civilizations
Washington University
Campus Box 1230
One Brookings Drive
Saint Louis MO 63130-4899
phone: (314) 935-5166
fax: (314) 935-7462
email: sandrew at artsci.wustl.edu
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Note two programs that also offer opportunities for research
in Turkey.
COUNCIL OF AMERICAN OVERSEAS RESEARCH CENTERS (CAORC)
FELLOWSHIPS FOR ADVANCED MULTI-COUNTRY RESEARCH
Twelve awards of up to $6,000 each, with an additional
$3,000 for travel. Open to scholars pursuing research
on broad questions of multi-country significance in the
fields of humanities, social sciences, and related natural
sciences in countries in the Near and Middle East and South
Asia. Doctoral candidates and established scholars with US
citizenship are eligible to apply as individuals or in teams.
Application deadline: December 1997. Pending funding.
For further information and application, write to:
Council of American Overseas Research Centers
Smithsonian Institution
IC 3123, MRC 705
1100 Jefferson Drive SW,
Washington DC 20560
phone: (202) 842-8636
fax: (202) 786-2430
email: caorc102 at sivm.si.edu
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SOCIAL SCIENCE RESEARCH COUNCIL FELLOWSHIPS FOR RESEARCH
AND TRAINING ON THE NEAR AND MIDDLE EAST
Pre-dissertation, dissertation, post-doctoral and advanced
fellowships in varying amounts and tenures in support of
research in the Near and Middle East, including North Africa
and Turkey. Open to U.S. citizens. Research must be
concerned with the period since the beginning of Islam.
Application deadline for pre-doctoral fellowships: November 1997.
Application deadline for post-doctoral fellowships: December 1997.
For further information and application, write to:
The Near and Middle East Program
The Social Science Research
810 Seventh Avenue, 31st Floor
New York NY 10019
phone: (212) 377-2700
fax:(212) 377-2727
henderso at ssrc.org
* CONFERENCE: Silk Roads in Central Asia, UC Berkeley
International Conference:
The Silk Roads in Central Asia: Recent Research
University of California at Berkeley
6 & 7 December, 1997
The Central Asia/Silk Road Working Group was founded in
1995, under the auspices of the Doreen B. Townsend Center
for the Humanities, University of California at Berkeley, to
promote the interdisciplinary study of Central Asia and the
Silk Roads. In its effort to "bring the Silk Road to
Berkeley", the Central Asia/Silk Road Working Group, in
cooperation with the Silkroad Foundation and the Department
of Near Eastern Studies, is extremely pleased to announce
its forthcoming international conference.
The conference "The Silk Roads in Central Asia: Recent
Research" will take place at:
December 6-7, 1997
9.00 am - 5.30 pm
155 Dwinelle Hall
University of California
Berkeley, CA 94720
The Conference will include the following speakers and titles:
Dr. Paul Bernard (Centre d'Archeologie, CNRS, Paris)
"Ai Khanum, Afrasiab: Certainties and uncertainties in the
chronology of the Hellenistic period in Central Asia"
Dr. Osmund Bopearachchi (Centre d'Archeologie, CNRS, Paris)
"Central Asia and Maritime Trade: Archaeological evidence from Sri
Lanka"
Dr. Jorinde Ebert (Lindelbach, Germany)
"Who were the Donors of the Kizil Cave Paintings?"
Dr. Frantz Grenet (Centre d'Archeologie, CNRS, Paris)
"The first century of Islamic rule at Samarkand, as shown by the
excavations of the French-Uzbek Archaeological Mission (1989-1996)"
Dr. Han Baoquan (Xi'an Cultural Relics Administration)
"A discussion of the influence of the Western Region's civilization
on the life of the nobility in the Tang Dynasty from the
perspective of the pottery figures from Princess Jinxing's Tomb"
Dr. Boris Litvinsky (Institute of Oriental Studies, Moscow)
"Buddhism and Buddhistic Culture in Central Asia and the Silk Road"
Dr. Tigran Mkrtychev (State Museum of Oriental Art, Moscow)
"Buddhism in Sogdiana"
Prof. Katsumi Tanabe (Kanazawa University, Kanazawa)
"A Kushano-Sasanian silver plate and tigers of the Oxus"
Prof. Haruko Tsuchiya (Dept. of Art History, Sophia University, Tokyo)
"Preliminary report of field research in Northern Pakistan"
Dr. Wang Binghua (Director, Xinjiang Institute of Archaeology, Urumchi)
"The realities of the Silk Roads: the past and the present"
Also presenting at the Conference will be:
Dr. Henri-Paul Francfort (CNRS, Paris)
Dr. Corinne Debaine-Francfort (CNRS, Paris)
Prof. Roderick Whitfield (School of Oriental and African Studies, London)
Dr. Susan Whitfield (International Dunhuang Project, The British Library,
London)
Prof. Fredrik Hiebert (Dept. of Anthropology, Univ. of Pennsylvania,
Philadelphia)
Dr. Marianne Yaldiz (Museum fur Indische Kunst, Berlin)
Panel discussants will include:
Dr. Prudence Harper (Curator, Ancient Near East, Metropolitan Museum of
Art, New York)
Dr. Martha Carter (Editor, Bulletin of the Asia Institute)
Dr. Audrey Spiro (La Jolla, CA)
Dr. Al Dien, Prof. Emer. (Stanford University, Palo Alto)
If you wish to attend the conference, please register in advance with the
Central Asia/Silk Road Working Group by returning the attached registration
form to its directors Sanjyot Mehendale or Bruce Williams at the email
numbers noted below. Programs for the conference will be available at the
door.
Central Asia/Silk Road Working Group
c/o Department of Near Eastern Studies
294 Barrows Hall
University of California at Berkeley
Berkeley, CA 94720
Tel: (510) 643-5265, (510) 642-3757
Fax: (510) 643-8430
email: sanjyotm at uclink4.berkeley.edu; or bwilliam at library.berkeley.edu
Registration Form
Name........................................................
Street................................... Apt.#.......
City......................... State.... Zip.........
Phone....................... Fax.........................
Email.......................................................
Number of people attending........
Sanjyot Mehendale
Dept. of Near Eastern Studies
University of California
250 Barrows Hall
Berkeley, CA 94720
* Demonstration for Eastern Turkestan in Florida
Thubten Jigme Norbu, Eldest brother of the Dalai Lama, will
attend a demonstration in support of Independence for Tibet,
Eastern Turkestan, Southern Mongolia, and Taiwan from
Chinese occupation at the Florida Splendid China theme park
on Sunday October 12 at 10:00 a.m.
Citizens Against Communist Chinese Propaganda Press Release
10-03-97
PRESS RELEASE
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: Jack Churchward
October 03, 1997
(813) 441-3982
Thubten Jigme Norbu, Eldest brother of the Dalai Lama, will
attend a demonstration in support of Independence for Tibet,
Eastern Turkestan, Southern Mongolia, and Taiwan from
Chinese occupation at the Florida Splendid China theme park
on Sunday October 12 at 10:00 a.m.
Thubten Jigme Norbu, retired professor of Tibetan Studies at
Indiana University, and former representative of the Tibetan
Government in Exile to North America and Japan will travel
to Kissimmee next week to attend a demonstration marking the
48th anniversary of the Communist Chinese takeover of
Eastern Turkestan. Professor Norbu hopes to discuss with
park officials his concerns about the park's historical
misrepresentations and their commercialization of sacred
Tibetan sites, including the Potala Palace.
Jack Churchward, coordinator of the event, doubts park
officials will speak with Professor Norbu. According to
documents recently retrieved from the Hong Kong government
prior to its reversion to Chinese rule, executives at China
Travel Services, the Hong Kong based company which owns
Florida Splendid China, are appointed by Premier Li Peng and
the State Council of the Chinese government.
"Local park officials would probably be sent to a Laogai
(Reform Through Labor) camp if they started a dialogue with
someone as controversial as Professor Norbu. Professor Norbu
and his brother the Dalai Lama are considered counter-
revolutionaries, in China that's a crime punishable by
death."
"They have not even responded to letters from Florida
citizens concerning the exhibits, it would be a major change
in policy and one that many would welcome. It would go a
long way towards solving some of the concerns of Florida
citizens that have accompanied their opening since Dec. of
1993."
Accompanying Professor Norbu will be representatives of
other ethnic minority groups who will call for the removal
of miniature displays which they claim falsify and distort
their history. Mr. Ablajan Baret, an ethnic Muslim Uighur
and formerly a Judge in the remote Northwest province of
Xinjiang (formerly Eastern Turkestan), will be on hand to
help commemorate the 48th anniversary of the Chinese
Communist takeover of his homeland. Mr. Baret is concerned
about the park's controversial depiction of renowned Uighur
shrines.
This demonstration is part of a larger nationwide Tibet
awareness campaign accompanying the release of the new film
"Seven Years in Tibet," starring Brad Pitt. Pitt stars as a
Western European mountaineer Heinrich Harrer who lived in
Tibet prior to the Chinese invasion and became close to the
Dalai Lama.
* Toronto presentation on Tatarstan
"The external relations of Tatarstan"
(Federal relations, trade and diplomatic activities of the
Republic of Tatarstan, implications for Russian federalism
and international relations theory and practice)
Speaker: Dr. John W. Slocum, Assistant Professor, Department
of Political Science, University of Oklahoma, and Visiting
Scholar, Centre for Russian and East European Studies,
University of Toronto
Time and place:
1:30 pm Thursday, October 9th
Centre for Russian and East European Studies
Frank Joseph Scheybal Board Room
Robarts Library, room 14352 (14th floor; elevators
accessible to the public from the second floor of the
library)
130 St. George St.
Toronto, Ontario
phone for informaion: (416) 978-3330
* Golden Horn Releases "Sufi Dreams" by Mercan Dede
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - 1 October 1997
GOLDEN HORN RELEASES
"SUFI DREAMS" BY MERCAN DEDE
Golden Horn Productions is very pleased to announce the release of Sufi
Dreams, by Montreal-based musician Mercan Dede.
This extraordinary album fuses the modern Western tradition of electronic
music-making with sacred Sufi music, representative of one of the most
important musical forms in the Eastern musical tradition. Mercan Dede,
drawing on both his classical training and extensive practical musical
experience, has effected a remarkable musical and cultural contrast by
virtue of this fusion of styles and traditions. Through the use of
electronic sounds, layered with natural ambient elements, he creates an
illusional sphere in which Eastern spiritualism meets and complements the
Western progressive new age era. The combination of these two types of
musical expression creates a new language of fusion music. The different
layers of electronic and natural ambient sounds float and merge with
excellent tracks featuring live-recorded performances of Eastern percussion
instruments, and are accompanied by chantings from authentic Sufi
ceremonies. Some of these tracks were recorded over a time period of
several months, and represent genuine Sufi ceremonial prayers and melodies
from centers in Turkey, Canada, Iran and the Balkan region of Europe. Sufi
Dreams blends the sounds of the human voice, using both musical instruments
and digital technology, in a magical way to create a new expressive variety
of fusion music which ultimately seeks to divest itself of limitations
imposed by national, geographical or racial boundaries.
Following the footsteps of Whirling Dervishes, from the first track to the
last, the album aims to establish a dialogue between melodies, prayers and
chants which make reference to significant Sufi saints and humanists like
Celaleddin Rumi, Ibn-i Arabi and Yunus Emre. Sufi Dreams, by virtue of its
authentic connection to Sufi culture and tradition as well as its unique
absorption of Western musical elements, is a fresh, powerful and respectful
album which will touch the world music audience as much as it will
followers of traditional spiritual music.
This CD features Mercan Dede playing instruments such as ney, bendir, frame
drum and zarp. Mercan Dede is joined by Toronto native Brena MacCrimmon and
Muhammed Shams on vocals, Kiril Mantchev on percussion and James Parker on
bass. Kristian Kostov plays the synthesizers and he is also the recording
engineer and contributor to some of the arrangements. Sufi Dreams is
produced by Arkin Ilicali.
GOLDEN HORN PRODUCTIONS is a Contemporary and Traditional World Music and
Jazz label established in 1995 and based in California.
Sufi Dreams is distributed nationwide in Canada by Festival Distribution
(1-800-633-8282, 1-604-253-2662, fax 1-604-253-2634). In the United
States, it is currently available from Backroads Music (1-800-767-4748,
1-415-924-4848, fax 1-415-924-0648).
For more information on Mercan Dede's CD Sufi Dreams, please contact :
GOLDEN HORN PRODUCTIONS, INC.
P.O. Box 5776 , Walnut Creek, California, 94596, U.S.A.
Phone (800) 969-9455, (510) 930-7184, Fax (510) 938-8447
e-mail : info at goldenhorn.com
* PUBLICATION: China and Central Asia's Volatile Mix
James P. Dorian, Brett H. Wigdortz, Dru C. Gladney
AsiaPacific Issues No. 31 May 1997
SUMMARY Reports of ethnic separatist violence in China are
focusing renewed attention on Xinjiang province, an area
famous as the site of the ancient "Silk Route." The recent
clashes result in part from efforts by China and the five
fledgling republics of Central Asia to promote economic and
political ties. Central Asia seeks a counterweight to
continuing Russian influence. China, whose northwestern
Xinjiang province borders Central Asia and contains large
numbers of Muslims, wants the assurance of Central Asian
leaders that they will not support separatist movements.
Both want markets for their exports, including vast, largely
undeveloped oil, gas, and coal reserves. China also seeks
new sources of energy. But increased investment and cross-
border trade are producing more than just economic
development: links between Muslims in Xinjiang and those in
Central Asia are being reestablished and, within Xinjiang,
the uneven benefits of development are aggravating rivalries
between local Muslims and the large Han population (China's
official majority nationality). The increasing political
unrest is threatening the region's promising energy and
economic development.
This study is available from the East-West Center for $2.50
plus shipping. For information or to order copies, please
contact the Publications Office, East-West Center, 1601
East-West Road, Burns Hall Rm. 1079, Honolulu, Hawaii 96848-
1601. Tel.: (808)944-7145; Fax: (808)944-7376
E-mail: ewcbooks at ewc.hawaii.edu
Series editor: Elisa W. Johnston
Source:
Dru C. Gladney
Senior Research Fellow
East-West Center
Burns Hall 2082
1601 East-West Road
Honolulu, HI 96848-1601
Tel.: 808-944-7367
Fax: 808-944-7070
E-mail: dru at hawaii.edu
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