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INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION ON HISTORIANS OF ASIA
Posted Date: 04 Nov 2007 Resource Type: Articles/Knowledge Sharing Category: General
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Posted By: Bala Member Level: Diamond
Rating:  Points: 5
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20TH INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION ON HISTORIANS OF ASIA
8-11 December 2008
Organised by
Zakir Husain Centre for Educational Studies
School of Social Sciences
Jawaharlal Nehru University
20th IAHA invites proposals for individual papers and panels for the following:
SUGGESTED THEMES
1. The Idea of Asia
2. Asian Historiography: Changes & Challenges
3. Asian History from Archaeological Perspectives
4. Trends in Merging Ancient and Modern History in Asian Regions
5. Asian Maritime History/Asian Trade Networks
6. Nation-Building in Asia
7. Literature and Art in Asian History
8. Religious Revivalism and Challenges of Modernity
9. Political Economy of Transition : From Colonial to Post-Colonial
10. History of Marginal Societies
11. Gender Discourse in Asian History: Imaging Feminity and Masculinity
12. Texts, Contexts & Interpretations
13. Culture, Boundaries and Identities
14. Popular Culture in Asia: Cinema, History and Society
15. Missionary Activities in Asia
16. Asian Diaspora
17. Labour Migrations & Labour Movements in Asia
18. Emergence of Knowledge Societies and Educational History
19. Changing Historiographies of the Sciences in Asia
20. Public Health & Medicine in Asian History
21. Landscapes, Climate and the Tropics
22. Livelihood, Sustainability and Environment
23. Agricultural Knowledge, Practices and Agrarian Movements in Asia
24. Crafting Traditions: Migrations, Mobility and Memories
25. Folk Culture and the Dominant Ideologies
Interested scholars are invited to make new thematic suggestions for more panels, if desired. This will be put on the website and papers will be invited.
Each panel will have a Chair/Organizer. Co-organizers would also be welcome. Their opinion would be solicited in the selection of papers. The panel Chairs/Organizers are expected to ensure certain quality and issue citation style guidelines. They would be encouraged to publish worthy papers in an edited volume or in suitable journals.
Submission of Papers Proposals
Individual paper presenters must submit a proposal containing (a) an abstract of at most 500 words, (b) a brief curriculum vitae, and (c) duly-filled registration form, showing institutional affiliation and mailing address, email address, telephone and fax numbers, etc.
Important Deadlines
10th March 2008 : Submission of Abstracts with registration form
10th May 2008 : Acceptance Notification
30th August 2008 : Last date for sending Registration Fee
30th Sept. 2008 : Submission of full papers
Registration Fees
International Participants : US$ 200
Accompanying Person : US$ 100
Indian Participants : Rs. 2000
Accompanying Person : Rs. 1000
Indian scholars should send the registration fee before 30th August 2008 through Bank Draft drawn in favour of the Finance Officer, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.
Please direct all correspondences and abstracts to
Professor Deepak Kumar
Convenor, 20th IAHA,
Zakir Husain Centre for Educational Studies,
School of Social Sciences,
Jawaharlal Nehru University,
New Delhi-110067.
(India)
E-mail: iaha2008jnu@yahoo.co.in
Website: http://www.jnu.ac.in/Conference/IAHA
Fax No.: 91-11-2670 4192
Tel. 91-11-26704416/ 26704535/ 26704459
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| Author: Bala 04 Nov 2007 | Member Level: Diamond Points : 5 | A SHORT HISTORY OF THE INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF HISTORIANS OF ASIA
The first Conference of the International Association of Historians of Asia (IAHA) was held at Manila in 1960 and since then it has been held regularly once in two years in different capitals/cities in Asia. Over the years IAHA has grown in membership, encouraged new themes and brought together scholars working on Asia from different parts of the world.
The first conference had set three main objectives:
1. To afford scholars in different countries an opportunity to come together for an exchange of views, ideas, and information regarding what was being done in their respective countries toward the extension, improvement, and refinement of historical knowledge relative to the national and regional needs of Asian peoples.
2. To find ways and means of solving common problems in research for fruitful information with a view to discard myths, fables, and stereotyped claims appearing in the guise of facts in history books.
3. To consider the possibility of organizing an association of historians living in this part of the world, having as its main objective the enhancement of the usefulness of written history as an instrument for the promotion of world peace, goodwill, and understanding.
The first conference of the International Association of Historians of Asia (IAHA) was envisioned primarily to give scholars from different countries an opportunity to come together and exchange ideas and information with regard to historical study and research in their respective countries. The second objective was to bring about goodwill, peace, and closer cultural relations among Asian countries through the writing of history. Some thirty-four scholars from Burma, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Macao, Pakistan, Ryukyus, Singapore, Thailand, the Philippines, and the United States attended this groundbreaking conference. To highlight the importance of the endeavor, President Garcia issued Proclamation No. 719, which declared the period of the conference, from 25 to 30 November 1960 as History Week.
The second IAHA conference was held on 6-11 October 1962 in Taipei, Taiwan, with fifty-four delegates from twelve countries, as well as more than a hundred delegates from various educational and cultural institutions in Taiwan. The papers presented covered topics such as new concepts of historiography, with emphasis on indigenous elements of culture, international relations among South East Asian countries, trade, religion, etc.
The third IAHA conference took place on 1-6 September 1964 in Hong Kong, attended by more than two hundred participants. In addition to the initial Asian countries represented, there were delegations from the United States, Australia, France, and Spain. The papers carried the following themes: American Policy in Southeast Asia, External Relations of China, South East Asia in the Period of European Territorial Expansion, Interpretations of Asian History, and Tradition and Change in Asian History, among others.
The fourth IAHA Conference was conducted in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, starting on 5 August 1968, with about 150 delegates from 25 countries. In general, the papers presented embraced a wider coverage of Asian problems, with the inclusion of more papers on East Asia and South Asia. Among the main issues raised were colonial administrations in various Asian countries and the rise of nationalism.
In May 1971, the IAHA returned to Manila for the fifth conference. Subsequent meetings made the rounds of Southeast Asia, with conferences held in Yogayakarta, Indonesia, in 1974; Bangkok, Thailand, in 1977; Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia in 1980; Manila in 1983; and Singapore in 1986. From here, the venues moved to Colombo, Sri Lanka, in 1988: Hong Kong in 1991; Tokyo, Japan, in 1994: Bangkok, Thailand, in 1996; and Jakarta, Indonesia, in 1998. The first conference of the new millennium was the sixteenth conference that took place in Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia. This was followed by the 2002 conference in Dhaka, Bangladesh, the 2004 conference in Taipei, Taiwan, and the 2006 conference in Manila.
Through the years, the IAHA has proven to be the cutting edge of historical scholarship in Asia. In more recent conferences, papers have focused on such timely and relevant topics as migration, technology, globalization, inter-religious dialogue, and new historical paradigms. Participants have ranged from the established experts in their fields to up and coming young scholars. Participants have included historians as well as scholars from other disciplines. The aspirations and ideals of the founding fathers of the first IAHA have thus borne fruit in this dynamic and learned gathering of historians and scholars of Asia. The twentieth IAHA conference scheduled for December 2008 at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, will continue the tradition of erudition and break new ground in the study of Asian culture and history.
Interest in Asian history has been part of our shared past and the anti-colonial movements which large parts of Asia witnessed. It has been part of India’s freedom struggle as well and it was because of this legacy that the first conference Pandit Nehru thought of immediately after independence was the Asian Relations Conference which was held in Delhi in 1947. Hopes of a resurgent Asia emerged but the challenges of development were enormous and daunting. Against this backdrop historians from South East Asia had started IAHA. Several Indian scholars have attended its different sessions. With a strong tradition of historical research and an annual professional meeting (the Indian History Congress) for more than six decades, Indian historians welcome IAHA in their midst.
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