[Discussion] Forum on Trauma, History, and "Asia"

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FELLOWSHIP- Forum on Trauma, History, and "Asia," Univ. of Washington 

Rockefeller Resident Fellowship 
http://www.einaudi.cornell.edu/southeastasia/resources/employment.asp?id)9 

Application Deadline: December 10, 2003 

Description 

Rockefeller Resident Fellowship, 2004 - 2005 

Project on Critical Asian Studies: Forum on Trauma, History, and "Asia" 
Simpson Center for the Humanities University of Washington 

How can traumatic injustices of the 20th century across "Asia" and its 
diasporas be narrated? What happens to the arts and humanities when mass 
injustice is deeply felt but seemingly inexpressible? Should scholars in the 
United States join the urgent intellectual project of inter-Asian efforts to 
rethink "Asia" in relation to trauma and just histories? 

Each year the Forum on Trauma, History, and "Asia" will host two 
intellectuals located in Asia broadly defined, whose projects engage these 
questions. Holding appointments as visiting scholars, the fellows will lead 
an investigation into the matter of how scholarship treats trauma, defined 
as unread or unspoken injustice. Together with the Faculty of Critical Asian 
Studies, the scholars selected will experiment with analytic and scholarly 
language capable of turning injustice into legible history. Each year the 
Project will also sponsor study groups and international workshops that 
examines how the objects of our study are being reconfigured in early 21st 
century economic and cultural transformation and what role the humanities 
ought to play in shaping our thinking about regional agendas and scholarly 
lexicons. 

Critical Asian Studies: Forum on Trauma, History, and "Asia" 

Critical Asian Studies in partnership with the Simpson Center for the 
Humanities at the University of Washington, invites applications to fill the 
2 fellowship positions for the 2004-05 academic year. 

Deadline for application is December 10, 2003. Fellows will be in residence 
for one academic year. Each fellow will receive a stipend of approximately 
$37,500, an office equipped with computer and Internet access, secretarial 
support and supplies, and a small stipend to offset travel expenses. 
Additionally, each fellow will be compensated for teaching one quarter-long 
graduate seminar offered through the Simpson Center. 

Applicants to the fellowship should send a five-page narrative proposal 
outlining a project that widens our understanding of the relation of trauma, 
history, and "Asia." Also include two letters of recommendation, an essay or 
chapter from a work in progress, a current curriculum vitae and a brief 
description of the seminar that you propose to teach. Electronic 
applications are welcome. 

Directors: Madeleine Dong, 2003-04 & 2005-06, Tani E. Barlow, 2002-03 & 2004-05 

Job Details 

Category: Academic 
Employer: University of Washington 

Contact Information 

Wai-keung Chung, Program Coordinator 
Critical Asian Studies 
Simpson Center for the Humanities University of Washington Communications 
Building 206 
Box 353710 
Seattle, WA 98195-3710 

Phone: (206) 616-2759 
Email: critasia@u.washington.edu