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Fw: AWOL - The Ancient World Online

 
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AWOL - The Ancient World Online


Open Access Journal: Egypt Exploration Society

Posted: 01 Dec 2012 05:16 AM PST

[First posted in AWOL 12/2/09. Most recently updated 1 December 2012]

EES Newsletters

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The Society's paper newsletter is mailed to members three times a year, usually in March, July and October. The Society's events are announced here first and the newsletter also includes details of new publications, fundraising campaigns, sales of second-hand books on eBay, and governance related issues such as the election of Trustees etc.
News & Events Summer 2008 (540kb)
News & Events Autumn / Winter 2008 (272kb)
News & Events Spring 2009 (270kb)
News & Events Summer 2009 (776kb)
News & Events Autumn / Winter 2009 (777kb)
News & Events Spring / Summer 2010 (252kb)
News & Events Summer 2010 (590kb)
News & Events Autumn / Winter 2010-11 (399kb)
The EES Newsletter Issue 1 (Spring 2011) (1,773kb)
The EES Newsletter Issue 2 (Summer 2011) (1,936kb)
The EES Newsletter Issue 3 (Autumn/Winter 2011-12) (2.690kb)

The EES Newsletter Issue 4 (Spring 2012) (2109kb)
The EES Newsletter Issue 5 (Summer 2012) (2620kb)
The EES Newsletter Issue 6 (Autumn 2012) (3914kb)

e-newsletter

The Society's occasional e-newsletter is sent to approximately 2,000 members and other friends of the Society approximately three to four times each year. It includes various items of news relating to the Society's fieldwork and research, publications, events etc. and links to new content on the Society's website and other online pages at Flickr, Youtube, eBay etc. If you do not already receive the e-newsletter but would like to be added to the mailing list please contact the Society (anyone joining the Society through subscription (see here) is automatically added to the list).
e-newsletter #1 June 2008 (56kb)
e-newsletter #2 Sept 2008 (146kb)
e-newsletter #3 Feb 2009 (159kb)
e-newsletter #4 May 2009 (149kb)
e-newsletter #5 Sept 2009 (105kb)
e-newsletter #6 Dec 2009 (211kb)
e-newsletter #7 Apr 2010 (195kb)e-newsletter #8 Nov 2010 (299kb)
e-newsletter #9 Dec 2010 (146kb)
e-newsletter #10 Feb 2011 (138kb)
e-newsletter #11 May 2011 (307kb)
e-newsletter #12 Aug 2011 (446kb)
e-newsletter #13 Feb 2012 (328kb)

e-newsletter #14 June 2012 (1,178kb)

The EES Newsletter (1987-1990)

The Society circulated six issues of its original newsletter to members and friends between 1987 and 1990. The newsletter was the precursor to Egyptian Archaeology which superseded it in 1991. The newsletter contained short articles on the Society's fieldwork and related research and also a fascinating series on the Society's dig-houses, at Amarna (issue #1), Armant (#3), Qasr Ibrim (#4), and Sesebi and Amara (#5).
The EES Newsletter No 1 November 1987 (1,467kb)
The EES Newsletter No 2 March 1988 (1,619kb)
The EES Newsletter No 3 October 1988 (1,656kb)
The EES Newsletter No 4 March 1989 (1,160kb)
The EES Newsletter No 5 October 1989 (1,831kb)
The EES Newsletter No 6 October 1990 (2,469kb)

Tall el-Hammam Excavation Project

Posted: 30 Nov 2012 04:05 PM PST

Tall el-Hammam Excavation Project
A JOINT SCIENTIFIC ENDEAVOR OF THE College of Archaeology, Trinity Southwest University AND THE Department of Antiquities of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan


Welcome to the official website of the Tall el-Hammam Excavation Project (TeHEP). TeHEP is a joint scientific project between Trinity Southwest University's College of Archaeology & Biblical History (Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA) and the Department of Antiquities of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan. Our website is designed to be enjoyed by all those interested in archaeology, whether casually or professionally.

The site of Tall el-Hammam is located in the southern Jordan River Valley, about 14 kilometers northeast of the Dead Sea. Surveys and excavations thus far have revealed a long occupational history at Tall el-Hammam, including the Chalcolithic Period, the Early, Intermediate, and Middle Bronze Ages, and Iron Age 2. Minor Hellenistic, Roman, Byzantine and Islamic occupations are also in evidence.

Architecturally, the major contributors to the enormity of the site—spreading approximately one square kilometer—are the cities of the Early Bronze Age (3500-2350 BCE), Intermediate Bronze Age (2350-2000 BCE), and Middle Bronze Age (2000-1550 BCE). The massive 6-meter-thick EBA city wall rings the lower and upper talls to an elliptical diameter of 500x750 meters. The same fortifications were refurbished and re-used during the IBA, and were later swallowed up by the construction of massive MB2 fortifications up to 50 meters thick, including the city wall, outer rampart/glacis with multiple (interior) stone stabilizer walls, and monumental gateway complex.
 
The MBA fortifications also include mudbrick and packed-earth ramparts rising above the lower city to a height of 20 to 30 meters, contributing to the 450x300-meter elongated oval footprint of the upper tall, and creating its 35-degree slope. The upper tall is topped by ruins from Iron Age 2abc, which are surrounded by a 3-meter-thick city wall, with a chambered gateway flanked by monumental towers. 
 
By all comparisons, Tall el-Hammam must be considered the "Queen of the Southern Jordan Valley," and her excavation will continue to shed important light on the history of the region for decades to come.

Newly Online from the Oriental Institute's Backlist

Posted: 30 Nov 2012 02:40 PM PST

Seven more volumes of the series Oriental Institute Communications and one more volume of the series Assyriological Studies are Newly Online from the Oriental Institute's Backlist:
In the next few day I will incorporate these titles into the list of all Oriental Institute publications available online:

Fw: H-ASIA: TOC Virginia Review of Asian Studies 14:2

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> December 1, 2012
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> Table of contents Virginia Review of Asian Studies, 14:2
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> From: "Hua,Shiping" <shiping.hua@louisville.edu>
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>
> THE VIRGINIA REVIEW OF ASIAN STUDIES
>
> Volume 14, No. 2
> Fall 2012
>
> The Virginia Review of Asian Studies (VRAS) is an annual publication of
> the Dept. of Asian Studies at Mary Baldwin College and the Virginia
> Consortium of Asian Studies (VCAS). VRAS is designed to promote quality
> scholarship on Asia in Virginia and the Southeast. The editors of VRAS
> invite material on any aspect of Asian Studies for editorial review.
> Because VCAS especially encourages research and study on Asia in the
> classroom, work from graduate or advanced undergraduate students is very
> welcome. Faculty are also invited to submit high quality papers by
> advanced students. Scholars are especially encouraged to submit research
> or work in progress for the sake of eliciting comments from colleagues
> with the full understanding that improved versions of that work may be
> published elsewhere later.
>
> Editor: Daniel A. Metraux, Mary Baldwin College; Production Editor:
> Dustin Yoxall
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> Consulting Editors: Amy Miller and James Wolf Yoxall, Mary Baldwin
> College
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> Send all articles for consideration in the Spring 2013 edition of VRAS by
> 15 May 2013 and all other correspondence to Daniel Metraux at
> dmetraux@mbc.edu> and <dmetraux@hotmail.com>.
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> CONTENTS
>
> Interesting American Travelers to Meiji Japan
>
> E. Warren Clark: "Noted Traveler and Lecturer on Oriental Topics" 1
> Richard Candee
> Boston University
>
> Japonaiserie and Imagined Nirvana: Henry Adams' 1886 Sojourn with
> Henry Lafarge 49
> Daniel A. Metraux
> Mary Baldwin College
>
> Buddhism and Culture
>
> Women and Children Last? Buddhism, Children and the Naga-King's
> Daughter 60
> John M. Thompson, Victoria Kelly, Micaela Cook and Maggie
> Matthews , Christopher Newport College
> Hanna Mauk, Roanoke College
>
> Contemporary Japanese Culture
>
> Japanese Host Boys: Seeking Individuality, Gaining Social
> Isolation 82
> Jacklyn Stutts
> Mary Baldwin College
>
> The Path to Enlightenment: Japan's Cultural Crisis 112
> Dequana Mervin
> Mary Baldwin College
>
> The Military and Politics in Contemporary Pakistan
>
> The Upper Hand on Pakistani Politics: An Analysis of
> Seasonal Politics 117
> Nasreen Akhtar
> International Islamic University
>
> China in World Affairs
>
> Vietnam-China Relations: A Vietnamese Historical Perspective 137
> Jenn-Jaw Soong
> National Cheng-Kung University
> Nghia Khac Nguyen
> National Cheng-Kung University
>
> Thomas Jefferson's Incorporating Positive Elements from Chinese
> Civilization 143
> Dave Wang
> St. John's University
>
> A Review of Chinese Development, 1978-1992: Examining the Role of
> the Developmental Coalition in the Process of Development 158
> Patrick Hou
> National Quemoy University
>
> Japan and Nuclear Power
>
> Institutional Framing of the Fukushima Nuclear Disaster 187
> Daniel Hoshizaki
> Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Management
>
>
> Concerning Japanese Women
>
> Closing the Gap Across the Pacific: Gender Stratification of
> Japanese Women and African American Women 202
> Kemi Oyewolf
> Spelman College
>
> A Comparison of Roles of Women in Both Japanese + American
> Society 212
> Cheyene Boyce
> Spelman College
>
> Book Reviews 219
>
> Christopher de Bellaigue, _Patriot of Persia: Muhammad Mossadegh
> and a Tragic Anglo-American Coup.
>
> Jianying Zha, Tide Players: The Movers and Shakers of a Rising China.
>
> Fariba Nawa, Opium Nation: Child Brides, Drug Lords and One Woman's
> Journey Through Afghanistan
>
> Zheng Wang, Never Forget National Humiliation: Historical Memory in
> Chinese Politics and Foreign Relations.
>
> From the Editor's Desk 224
>
> One American College's Successful Effort to Develop a Student Exchange
> Program with East Asian Universities
>
> Panmunjeom: The Road to Hell and Back
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Fw: H-ASIA: Position Southeast Asian Studies (Religion), Natl Univ. of Singapore, Asst prof

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Subject: H-ASIA: Position Southeast Asian Studies (Religion), Natl Univ. of
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> Position: Southeast Asian Studies (Religion), Assistant Professor
> (tenure-track), National University of Singapore
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> National University of Singapore, Department of Southeast Asian Studies
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> Assistant Professor Southeast Asian Studies
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> Institution Type: College / University
> Location: Singapore
> Position: Assistant Professor
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> DEPARTMENT OF SOUTHEAST ASIAN STUDIES
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> Website: http://www.fas.nus.edu.sg/sea/
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> The Department of Southeast Asian Studies of the Faculty of Arts and
> Social Sciences, National University of Singapore, seeks applications from
> scholars specializing in Southeast Asian religion. Appointment will be at
> the assistant professor level (tenure track). Applicants should have a
> degree in anthropology with a specialization in Southeast Asian studies.
> The position requires a research focus in material culture; belief and
> ritual; anthropology of Christianity; ethnographic methods; and
> comparative world religion. Applicants should be committed to working and
> teaching in an interdisciplinary environment with an area studies
> perspective. We are particularly interested in applicants with in depth
> expertise on the Philippines but geographical expertise is open to island
> Southeast Asia. A Ph.D. is required at the time of application.
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> strong publication record. Fluency in one or more Southeast Asian
> languages is essential.
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> levels, including large introductory courses, and to supervise individual
> student research. She or he should also have demonstrable ability to
> relate to students from diverse backgrounds. In addition to teaching, the
> successful applicant will be responsible for supervising the overall
> summer school programme of the Department, including teaching a summer
> school module, and liaising with other departments within NUS as well as
> with foreign educational institutions involved in the Departments summer
> school.
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Fw: H-ASIA: CFP panel Eco-Aesthetics in Modern Chinese Lit. & Film, RMMLA conf., Vancouver, WA, Oct 10-12, 2013

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Subject: H-ASIA: CFP panel Eco-Aesthetics in Modern Chinese Lit. & Film,
RMMLA conf., Vancouver, WA, Oct 10-12, 2013


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> Call for papers: "Eco-Aesthetics in Modern Chinese Literature and Film",
> panel proposal for Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association, Vancouver,
> WA, October 10-12, 2013
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> RMMLA 2013 Call for Papers: Eco-Aesthetics in Modern Chinese Literature
> and Film
>
> Location: Washington, United States
> Call for Papers Date: 2013-10-10
> Date Submitted: 2012-11-28
> Announcement ID: 199126
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> RMMLA 2013 Call for Papers: Chinese Literature and Film Since 1900
> Please note the following call for papers for the RMMLA (Rocky Mountain
> Modern Language Association) Convention which will take place in
> Vancouver, WA on October 10-12, 2013. Please submit a proposal of 250
> words and a brief bio to Graldine Fiss (gfiss@usc.edu) by March 1, 2013.
> Notice of acceptance or rejection will be sent out on or before March 31,
> 2013. http://rmmla.wsu.edu/conferences
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> Eco-Aesthetics in Modern Chinese Literature and Film
>
> This panel explores the ways in which modern and contemporary Chinese
> literary texts and films address, explore and negotiate the complex, often
> ambiguous relationships between human beings and the environment. How do
> creative works from China and Taiwan present contradictory interactions
> between people and the natural world? How do literary and visual texts
> address environmental degradation amid radically transforming ecosystems?
> How are human relationships with the non-human negotiated symbolically in
> literature and film, and how have these changed over time? What is the
> connection and potential conflict between individual attitudes toward
> the environment, classical Chinese cultural ideals concerning the
> interaction between nature and man, and the exigencies of modern national
> development? What is the role of cultural translation and Chinas
> engagement with non-Chinese nations, ideas and texts in the evolution of
> thinking about environmental issues? What is the power of literary and
> cinematic stories in influencing peoples behavior, and what is uniquely
> powerful about the aesthetic strategies in Chinese fictional and cinematic
> texts?
>
> Building upon recent scholarship in the fields of Chinese eco-aesthetics
> and eco-cinema, this panel seeks theoretically informed papers that
> further our understanding of how Chinese thinkers, fiction writers and
> film-makers creatively address and engage these problems in a variety of
> literary and visual genres. Interdisciplinary and comparative approaches
> are welcome.
>
> Chair: Graldine Fiss, University of Southern California (gfiss@usc.edu)
> Alternate Chair: Hua Li, Montana State University (huali@montana.edu)
>
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> Geraldine Fiss
> East Asian Languages and Cultures
> University of Southern California
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Fw: Hindu blog

 
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Hindu blog


Anger transmuted into love becomes an energy powerful move the world – Swami Sivananda

Posted: 01 Dec 2012 01:33 PM PST

This body is an instrument or servant of the Soul, and not its prison… Divine will is all powerful. God wills, and everything comes into...

Today's Hindu Calendar – December 2, 2012 – Tithi, Vrat, Good Time, Nakshatra, Rashi and Festival

Posted: 01 Dec 2012 10:36 AM PST

Tithi in Hindu Calendar on December 2, 2012 – Krishna Paksha Chaturthi Tithi or the fourth day during the waning phase of moon in Hindu...

Fw: [sreevidya] File - Dash Maha Vidya Darshan

 
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Fw: Indian History and Architecture

 
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Indian History and Architecture


Galaganatha – The Southern Sparshalinga

Posted: 01 Dec 2012 07:43 AM PST

Introduction – Galaganatha is a small village in Haveri district of Karnataka. It is located on the west bank of Tungabhadra river, near the sangama of that river with another river, Varada. The town is referred as Hulluni or Pulluni in its inscriptions. The present name Galaganatha seems to have come after the construction of the temple was the god enshrined inside is referred as Galgeshvara. Galaganatha is famous for its Galgeshvara temple which enshrines a sparshalinga. A legend mentions that if you place an iron rod near the linga and worship lord Shiva then the iron will turn into...

Chaudadanpura – The Savior of the Lingayats

Posted: 25 Nov 2012 01:34 AM PST

 Introduction – Chaudadanpura would have been an important pilgrimage site in the medieval times however at present it is reduced just to a small village. It is located on the southern bank of the Tungabhadra which is a major river of Karnataka state. The place has been referred as Gope, Muktikshetra, Shivapura in inscriptions, Chaudadanpura seems to be a later appellation of the same. A local tradition assigns the present name, Chaudadanpura, to 12th century CE. As per the legend Shivadeva Wodeyar, who was living here, donated this place to Chaudayya who was a great devotee of Shiva and belonged...