From: "Andrew Field" <shanghaidrew@GMAIL.COM>
To: <H-ASIA@H-NET.MSU.EDU>
Sent: Wednesday, February 23, 2011 5:47 AM
Subject: Fwd: AIIS Dissertation into Book Workshop
> H-ASIA
> Feb 23 2011
>
> AIIS Dissertation into Book Workshop
> **********************
> Workshop: Transforming your dissertation into a book
> Sponsored by the American Institute of Indian Studies
> Madison, Oct. 19-20, 2011
>
> Sponsored by the several organizations devoted to the study of South
> Asia, this workshop aims to help a select number of recent PhDs re- vision
> their doctoral dissertations as books. Applications to participate are
> due by June 15, 2011, emailed to Susan S. Wadley, sswadley@syr.edu
> <mailto:sswadley@syr.edu>. Participants must arrange their own transport
> and stays to Madison, Wisconsin for the Annual Conference on South Asia
> in October. The workshop will begin at 7:30 pm Wednesday evening, Oct.
> 19 , and all participants are expected to be present at this time.
>
> For selection: Required is an email containing a current cv; the
> dissertation abstract, its table of contents, and its first chapter plus
> a not more than 5 page "book proposal" , as if you were submitting to a
> press (a three- to six-page description of the project, including its
> purpose, potential audience, scope, contribution to scholarship, and
> relations to existing literature, including a vision of the book as
> different from the dissertation). Email to
> sswadley@syr.edu<mailto:sswadley@syr.edu> by midnight on June 15, 2011.
>
> Susan S. Wadley (Anthropology, Syracuse), Convener, plus other more
> 'senior' scholars will be present in each concurrent session. Their role
> is to read the materials prior to the meeting and be prepared to
> intervene and comment, "in the background" primarily, though with key
> interventions as needed.
>
> Organization:
>
> Wednesday evening:
>
> 7-9 Introductions plus discussion by one or two recent successful authors
> of the transformation process.
>
> Thursday morning is divided into half-hour segments for discussion of
> each project. For each half-hour session, one participant will have been
> assigned to make a 5 minute presentation of someone else's
> project-preferably how that individual would revise the dissertation, and
> the key themes to be emphasized. During the remaining 25 minutes of that
> session, all of the other participants join in discussing the project --
> except the project's author, who is not allowed to speak. The author of
> the project under discussion can only listen, take notes, even record,
> how their project is being understood, mis- understood, stretched,
> queried, and critiqued by knowledgeable peers with closely related
> interests, but working in varying theoretical perspectives, disciplines,
> time periods, etc.
>
> On Thursday afternoon/evening, each participant is given an (approx.) 40
> minute time slot to respond to the more important queries, issues, and
> suggestions raised in the morning, and, most important, to seek feedback
> or further discussion of areas of their projects with which they
> recognize they are having difficulty.
>
> We may take an hour break for dinner Thursday evening before continuing
> the final discussions after dinner.
>
> Conversations can carry over into Friday and Saturday at the South Asia
> Conference!
>
> Susan S. Wadley
> Ford Maxwell Professor of South Asian Studies, Maxwell School
> Professor of Anthropology
>
> Office: 327 Eggers, Syracuse University, Syracuse NY 13244
>
> Mailing address:
> Anthroplogy, 209 Maxwell
> Syracuse University
> Syracuse NY 13244
>
> Phone: 315-443-4198 (email is way better than phone to reach me)
>
> ******************************************************************
> To post to H-ASIA simply send your message to:
> <H-ASIA@h-net.msu.edu>
> For holidays or short absences send post to:
> <listserv@h-net.msu.edu> with message:
> SET H-ASIA NOMAIL
> Upon return, send post with message SET H-ASIA MAIL
> H-ASIA WEB HOMEPAGE URL: http://h-net.msu.edu/~asia/
No comments:
Post a Comment