Location: Department of Art, Oklahoma State University

Website: http://art.okstate.edu/

Review begins: immediately

Details: A one-year Visiting Assistant Professor in South Asian art history is potentially available for the 2010-2011 academic year.  Teaching responsibilities will include upper division undergraduate courses in

Asian and Indian art history as well as lower division surveys. A Ph.D. is preferred, but ABD will be considered. This is a preliminary notice of the position; contact Louise Siddons, Assistant Professor in the department,  This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .

Dates: 13 - 18 September 2010

Venue: Vadodara, Gujarat

Website: http://www.curationtheory.com/

Abstract Deadline: 5 August 2010

Details: Association of Academics, Artists and Citizens for University Autonomy (ACUA), Vadodara, initiated by India Foundation for the Arts (IFA), Bangalore and funded by Sir Dorabji Tata Trust announces a series of five workshops on the theme of Curating Indian Visual Culture: Theory and Practice. The first in the series is scheduled at Vadodara, from 13 to 18 September 2010. Details available on the website above.

Parimaanam: Images, Embodiments and Contestations

Deadline for Abstracts: 31 August 2010

Dates of Conference: 12-14 May 2011

Location: University of Toronto

Website: www.tamilstudiesconference.ca

Details: The conference organizers invite papers and panel proposals on the ways in which

images, aesthetic representations and constructs of various kinds have played a

significant role in constructing and destabilising ways of being Tamil. The conference

organizers welcome papers and panels that discuss, from the perspectives offered by

different disciplines and fields, how notions of Tamil-ness have been imagined,

identified and embodied in historical, political, cultural and aesthetic practices that

engage intellectual perception and subjective response through a range of materials,

technologies, visions, models and movements which help fashion ways of being Tamil.

Website: http://euraseaa.userpage.fu-berlin.de/index.htm

Details: We are pleased to announce that the 13th International Conference of the European Association of Southeast Asian Archaeologists (EurASEAA) will be held in Berlin from the 27th of September until the 1st of October 2010, organized jointly by the Institute of Ancient Near Eastern Archaeology at the Free University of Berlin, the Ethnological Museum, and the German Archaeological Institute (DAI).

Submission deadline: 1 October 2010

Website: http://www.indiastudies.org/

Details: In order to promote scholarship in South Asian Studies, the American

Institute of Indian Studies (AIIS) announces the award of two prizes each

year for the best unpublished book manuscript on an Indian subject, one

in the humanities, "The Edward Cameron Dimock, Jr. Prize in the Indian

Humanities" and one in the social sciences, "The Joseph W. Elder Prize in

the Indian Social Sciences".

Website: http://www.rijksmuseum.nl/

Details: The Rijksmuseum is the curator of prominent Dutch art and historical collections going back as far as the Middle Ages, in addition to a range of collections of both European and Asian art. The museum’s aim is to study and enhance these collections and to present them to as broad a national and international audience as possible, so that the audience is inspired by and can develop their knowledge of the exceptional significance of the art and historical objects in this national treasure trove.