Burma Study Abroad Website

Announcements

 

Contents of this Page

Mapping Asia Website Launched
Asian Studies WWW Monitor
Directory of Open Access Journals
Soas Bulletin of Burma Research
Burma Economic Watch Journal
Explorations in Southeast Asian Studies
Asian Development Bank- Japan Scholarship Program
Asia Pacific Scholarship Consortium (Deadline: December 1, 2009)
Myanmar Masters of Public Health Scholarship (Deadline: January 31, 2010)
Call for Papers for Burma Studies Conference July 6-10, 2010 (Deadline: 30 March 2010)


Online Job Search for Graduates from Asia

 

 

 

Mapping Asia Website Launched

 

Mapping Asia is a completely new web-based finding tool which provides support for research on Asia, Middle East and North Africa by gathering information about the existence, nature and availability of resources housed in UK libraries.

 

The site offers two searchable databases for resource discovery in all subject areas of the humanities and social sciences, covering 64 countries in Asia, Middle East and North Africa.

 

 

COLLECTION DESCRIPTIONS of resources held in UK libraries

 

Records include information on the content, history and development, strengths, subjects, languages and countries covered, collection material and size, as well as catalogue and collection management information. The descriptions, most of which have been specially created for Mapping Asia, allow researchers to find resources that have not been easily accessible before.

NEWSPAPERS published in Asia, Middle East and North Africa which are held in UK libraries. Records offer full bibliographic details for titles and information about libraries' holdings. The newspaper database is searchable by title, city, country, language, and other options.

 

The development of Mapping Asia has been led by the Bodleian Library, University of Oxford, in collaboration with 16 library partners across the UK. The partners, among them the British Library, Cambridge University Library, the Wellcome Library, and the Library of the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), as well as many other institutions, have contributed collection descriptions and newspaper holdings information to the databases. All contributors continue to have access to maintain and update their data in the future.

 

Mapping Asia, which has been funded by the Research Support Libraries Programme (RSLP), has taken two and a half years to create. After the development work finishes in October 2002, the web-site and databases will be maintained by the School of Oriental and African Studies Library.

 

Mapping Asia can be accessed at http://www.asiamap.ac.uk

 

 

 

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Asian Studies WWW Monitor

 

The e-journal [est. Apr 1994], a pioneering and the only publication of this kind in the world, provides free weekly abstracts and reviews of new/updated online resources of significance to research, teaching and communications dealing with the Asian Studies.

 

The email edition of this Journal now reaches over 3510 subscribers.

URL: http://coombs.anu.edu.au/regasia.html

 

 

 

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Directory of Open Access Journals

Free, full text, peer-reviewed and downloadable, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals available at:

http://www.doaj.org

 

 

 

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Soas Bulletin of Burma Research

 

The SOAS Bulletin of Burma Research offers current information on Burma research, activities, and resources at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, as well as information on international Burma Studies of relevance to Burma researchers in the

United Kingdom. The General Editor is Michael W. Charney (SOAS), and the Book Review Editor is William Womack (SOAS). The Bulleting is issued in pdf format with a small number of hard copies deposited in selected libraries. Information on current and forthcoming Burma research activities and other notices will be included.

 

http://web.soas.ac.uk/burma/bulletin.htm

 

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Burma Economic Watch Journal

 

Burma Economic Watch (BEW), a centre within the Economics Department at Macquarie University, has recently issued the latest edition of its journal. The journal, which is also called 'Burma Economic Watch', is a periodical that aims to provide up-to-date and reliable data, analysis and commentary on the economy of Burma. The latest installment, the first for 2004, has articles on Burma's growth performance vis-a-vis its peers (and the problems of measuring it), an update on Burma's banking crisis, and details of a major new survey the centre is conducting into the contributions of Burmese workers and refugees to the economy of Thailand.

The editors hope to have the journal on a website shortly, but in the meantime copies of BEW can be obtained by e-mailing Sean Turnell:

 

sturnell@efs.mq.edu.au

 

 

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Explorations in Southeast Asian Studies 

Explorations in Southeast Asian Studies (Graduate student journal)

Spring 2004 Issue, available now:

http://www.hawaii.edu/cseas/pubs/explorations.html

All previous issues of Explorations are on this website.

For submission or other information, contact seassa@hawaii.edu

 

 

 

 

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Fellowships at the Library of Congress, John W. Kluge Center

 

The Library of Congress invites qualified scholars to conduct research in the John W. Kluge Center using the Library of Congress collections and resources for a period of up to eleven months. The Kluge Center especially encourages humanistic and social science research that makes use of the Library's large and varied collections. Interdisciplinary, cross-cultural, or multi-lingual research is particularly welcome. Among the collections available to researchers are the world's largest law library and outstanding multi-lingual collections of books and periodicals. Special collections of manuscripts, maps, music, films, recorded sound, prints and photographs are also available. Visit the Web at http://www.loc.gov/kluge for more information.

 

Robert Saladini

Program Officer

John W. Kluge Center

The Library of Congress

Washington, D.C. 20540-4860

Email: rsal@loc.gov

OR

Tel: 202-707-2692

FAX: 202-707-3595

Email: scholarly@loc.gov

Visit the website at http://www.loc.gov/kluge

 

 

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Asian Development Bank-Japan Scholarship Program

The Asian Development Bank-Japan Scholarship Program (ADB-JSP) encompasses 18 universities in the Asia-Pacific region offering scholarships for students pursuing masters and doctorate degrees in economics, management, science and technology, and other development-related fields.

Candidates must apply directly to the university they are interested in attending, but for scholarship consideration must attach a completed information form that can be downloaded from the ADB’s website: http://www.adb.org.

Applicants must send the required documents and forms to the university at least six months before the planned intakes.

Members of the Asian Development Bank-Japan Scholarship Program (ADB-JSP)

Australia
National Centre for Development Studies/Australian National University:
www.ncdsnet.anu.edu.au
University of Melbourne: www.unimelb.edu.au
University of Sydney:
www.usyd.edu.au/su/io/scholarship

Hong Kong
University of Hong Kong:
www.hku.hk

India
Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi:
www.iitd.ernet.in

Japan
International University of Japan:
www.iuj.ac.jp
Graduate School of International Development, Nagoya University:
www.gsid.nagoya-u.ac.jp/index-en.html
National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies:
www.grips.ac.jp
Saitama University:
www.civil.saitama-u.ac.jp/fso/fso.html
University of Tokyo:
www.civil.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp/index-j.html
www.k.u-tokyo.ac.jp/e/index.html

New Zealand
University of Auckland:
www.auckland.ac.nz

Pakistan
Lahore University of Management Sciences:
www.lums.edu.pk

Philippines
Asian Institute of Management:
www.aim.edu.ph
International Rice Research Institute/ University of the Philippines in Los Banos:
www.cgiar.org/irri

Singapore
National University of Singapore:
www.nusbs.com/grad

Thailand
Asian Institute of Technology:
www.ait.ac.th
Thammasat University:
www.tu.ac.th/org/grad/grad/html

United States
East-West Centre:
www.eastwestcenter.org

 

 

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Asia Pacific Scholarship Consortium

The Asia Pacific Scholarship Consortium offers a fully-funded scholarship for individuals from Myanmar, Cambodia, and Lao PDR to pursue masters degrees from select top universities in the Asia Pacific region in the following subject areas. 

The 2010 applications are currently available, and the deadline is December 1, 2009.  For more information and to download applications, please go to: http://www.apsconsortium.org/home.html

To receive applications by email, please contact: apsconsortium@gmail.com

 

 

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Myanmar Masters of Public Health Scholarship

Program Description

This program was established to support medical practitioners from Myanmar to pursue Masters in Public Health or Masters in Health Social Science programs at universities within Thailand or the Philippines.

Eligibility

· Applicants must be Myanmar Nationals.

· Students are required to contribute part of the overall costs personally or from another source.

· Students must attend on a full time basis and agree to complete the program within its normal duration.

· Participants are required to maintain student status throughout the time of the grant and abide by all the terms and conditions as outlined in a contract letter to be signed by the grantee.

· Applicants must independently apply to, and be accepted by one of the following university programs:

Mahidol University Master of Public Health

To apply, please contact: http://www.ph.mahidol.ac.th/Webpages_MPH/

Application deadline: January 31, 2010

Master of Health Social Sciences Program

To apply. please contact: http://www.sh.mahidol.ac.th/hssip/

Application deadline: March 31, 2010

Thammasat University Masters of Public Health (Global Health)

To apply, please contact: http://fph.tu.ac.th/en/program.php?id=2

Application deadline: March 31st, 2010

University of the Philippines, Manila Master of Public Health Masters of Science in Public Health Program in * Biostatistics * Medical Microbiology * Parasitology * Nutrition * Epidemiology * Environmental Health *Masters of Hospital Administration *Masters of Arts in Health Policy Studies *Masters of Occupational Health *Masters of Science in Epidemiology *Masters of Rehabilitation Science *Masters of Health Professions Education

Information on any of the programs at UP Manila is available at the following site: http://www.upm.edu.ph/cph/Master_Degree_Program.htm

To request an application form, please email: mphmyanmar@gmail.com

Application deadline: February 28th, 2009

 Application Deadline

The deadline for mailing Myanmar Public Health Scholarship applications for the 2010/2011 academic year is: January 18th, 2010

Applicants are advised to apply both to the university and the scholarship program as early as possible. Applications sent after the appropriate deadline will be automatically disqualified.

Students should mail or email their applications and additional required materials to:

Ms. Tanya Polinsky P.O. Box 8 Mae Ping Post Office Chiang Mai 50301 THAILAND E-mail: mphmyanmar@gmail

Telephone: +66 (0) 81 993 2406

If you have any questions about the program please let us know.

 

Additional required information

Please include one copy of the following documents with your completed application. All official documents must be accompanied by an English translation:

1. A copy of the official letter of admission from the academic institution (if not available, explain why); 2. The official letter informing you of the details of the scholarship or financial aid award (if separate from the above); 3. Copies of your current and all additional academic transcripts (if not available, explain why); 4. Copy of the identifying pages of your passport, and Thai visa or other official I.D. (if no documents are available, please attach a short explanation); Two reference letters: one from someone who can comment on your academic ability and the other from a non-family member who is familiar with your work and potential. Please include in your application any additional information you feel may be helpful in the evaluation of your case.

NOTE: Omission of one or more of the documents mentioned above renders your application incomplete and will result in disqualification of the application. In the event that a document becomes available only after you submit your application, please indicate this on your application and send the missing document as soon as it becomes available.

 

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Call for Papers for Burma Studies Conference July 6-10, 2010

Burma in the Era of Globalization

Location: Marseille (France)
Dates: 6-10 July 2010
Deadline for submission of panel proposals: 1 December 2009
Deadline for paper proposals (titles and abstracts): 30 March 2010

The next International Burma Studies Conference will be held in France, at l’Institut de Recherche sur le Sud-Est Asiatique (IRSEA-CNRS), Université de Provence, Marseille, 6th-10th July, 2010.

We invite panel participants to focus their proposals on the theme of understanding Burma/Myanmar’s position vis-a-vis processes of globalization. How does globalization contribute to change – or not – in Burma and also to our perceptions of Burma? Such an overview should be consequent to a multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary approach by specialists in anthropology, sociology, linguistics, political science, economics, history and archaeology; as well as in religion, literature, art and architecture.

Interested participants are asked to organize and submit panel proposals with 500-word abstracts by  1 December 2009.

Individual papers, for which a 250 word abstract is requested, are also welcome and will be duly integrated into the conference sessions by the organizers. The deadline for the individual paper proposals is 30 March 2010.

In addition to the title and abstract of the proposed panels and papers, please include the contributors’ names and academic affiliations, mailing address, email address, and specify equipment needs for the presentations.

Contacts:
Please send the requested information to:


Burma Studies Conference, 2010
Université de Provence
IRSEA-CNRS
3, Place Victor Hugo
Marseille 13003, France

Email:
burmastudies2010@gmail.com

Organizing Committee:

Conference co-chairs:
Catherine Raymond, Director,
Centre for Burma Studies, Northern Illinois University,
DeKalb IL 60115 USA
craymond@niu.edu

François Robinne, Director
Institute of Research on South-East Asia at Marseille (France)
Francois.Robinne@univ-provence.fr

Co-conveners:
Bénédicte Brac de la Perrière,
Centre Asie du Sud-Est (CASE-CNRS), Paris
brac@vjf.cnrs.fr

Marie-Hélène Cardinaud
l’Institut Nationale des Languages et Civilisations Orientales (INaLCO), Paris
mhcardinaud@yahoo.fr

Jacques Leider, Ecole Française d’Extrême Orient (EFEO), Paris jacques.leider@education.lu

Alice Vittrant, Université de Provence, Marseille
Alice.Vittrant@univ-provence.fr

Chargés de mission:
Véronique André, Centre de Recherche et de Documentation sur l’Océanie (CREDO), Marseille
veronique.andre@univ-provence.fr

Louise Pichard-Bertaux, Maison Asie-Pacifique (MAP), Marseille
louise.bertaux-pichard@univ-provence.fr

For further information regarding the Conference, please visit our websites:
www.grad.niu.edu/burma

Sponsored by: Center for Burma Studies (CBS), Northern Illinois University, USA; Ecole Française d’Extrême-Orient (EFEO, Paris); Institut de Recherche sur le Sud-Est Asiatique (IRSEA-CNRS, Marseille); Maison Asie Pacifique (MAP, Marseille); Université de Provence (Aix-Marseille 1); Ville de Marseille.

Conference fee:
Euros 180 prior to April 30, 2010
Euros 220 thereafter
 

 

 

 

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Online Job Search for Graduates from Asia

 

AsiaJobSearch, a new service funded by the Freeman Foundation that will assist East and Southeast Asian graduates of US colleges and universities find jobs in Asia, is a web-based employment search service linking pre-screened and highly-qualified US-educated Asian grads with employers and recruiters in East and Southeast Asia.

Employers subscribing to AsiaJobSearch are multinational companies with offices in Asia and Asian-based companies, including corporations, foundations, governments, NGOs and other charitable organizations that are looking for high-caliber, multilingual, globally-minded U.S.-educated Asians.

This service is free to all U.S.-educated grads from South and East Asia who meet the eligibility requirements.

For more information about eligibility guidelines for job-seekers and how to post a resume or to subscribe as an employer, go to http://www.asiajobsearch.org or email asiajobsearch@iie.org

 

 

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