 The 9th Steering Committee Meeting held in Surabaya, Indonesia
Date: January 24, 2014, 8:30 am
Venue: Conference Room in Faculty of Humanities at the University of Airlangga in Surabaya, Indonesia
Participants: Meaghan Morris, Grace Yee, Amie Parry, Wondam Paik, Sungkyung Kim, Wookyung Im, Xiaoming Luo, Manneke Budiman, Nur Wulan, Melani Budianta, Arum Budiastuti, Joongnam LEE (and Ashish Rajadhyaksha on Screen)
With the IACSS president Meaghan Morris as acting moderator, the CIACSI Steering Committee (SC) held its ninth meeting in Surabaya on 24th last month. The meeting was much obliged to the courtesy of Melani Budianta at the Univ. of Indonesia and Nur Wulan at the Univ. of Airlangga who are preparing to play host to the next biannual IACSS conference in Indonesia in 2015.
On the top of the agenda was the upcoming Summer School to be held in Hsinchu in July. The local organizer in charge, Chen Kuan-hsing presented a paper on its on-going preparatory works; for its tentative details, see the following section.
At the meeting, the committee agreed to recommend the applicant for new membership in the Consortium, Faculty of Humanities of Airlangga Uiv. to the 5th General Assembly to be held in July in Hsinchu. As to the English version Reader whose manuscripts had been submitted already to the publisher Orient Blackswan last year, the committee confirmed it would be published within this year. And, the yearly budget for 2013/2014 was confirmed as suggested.
A Summary of the 2014 IACSS Summer School in Preparation
Theme: “Introduction to Modern Asian Thought”
Period: July 1-15, 2014
Place: Hsinch, Taiwan The local organizers say they received 127 applications from 21 countries, and a committee to review the application has been setup to select 40 of them. A final list of acceptance will be made public both on the official website for the summer school (http://iics.ust.edu.tw/ss/index.htm) as well as the IACS Society website (http://culturalstudies.asia/) on February 15. They will give these students two months to make sure they are able to attend the Summer School, and a final list of students will be made public on April 15 on the same websites. In the meantime, local organizers are also planning to setup an online learning platform for enlisted students to read and hopefully discuss the readings before the summer school begins, so as to be more prepared for the very intensive course ahead of them.
Registration
Confirmed students shall pay a registration fee of US$ 200 for the entire program. Registration includes local hospitality, lunch on course days, dinners on special evenings, and course pack.
Scholarship
Scholarships are available for a limited number of students who need assistances, at the discretion of the organizers.
Host
International MA program in Inter-Asia Cultural Studies, International Institute for Cultural Studies, University System of Taiwan (IICS-UST)
Organizers
IICS-UST; Center for Asia-Pacific/Cultural Studies, National Chiao Tung U, Taiwan; Inter-Asia School; Graduate Institute for Social Research and Cultural Studies, National Chiao Tung U, Taiwan.
Co-organizer
Consortium of Inter-Asia Cultural Studies Institutions; Institute for East Asian Studies, Sungkonghoe University.
Course Coordinating Team: Kuan-Hsing CHEN, Tejaswini NIRANJANA, and Ashish RAJADHYAKSHA, Nishant SHAH
For in-detail information: http://iics.ust.edu.tw/ss/index.htm
To see Consortium members(LINK)
to see consortium members : http://culturalstudies.asia/ciacsi/members/ |
