From: "Frank Conlon" <conlon@U.WASHINGTON.EDU>
To: <H-ASIA@H-NET.MSU.EDU>
Sent: Wednesday, February 23, 2011 5:19 AM
Subject: H-ASIA: AIIS Dissertation into book workshop, Madison, Oct. 2011
> H-ASIA
> February 22, 2011
>
> South Asia Dissertation into Book Workshop, Madison, Wisconsin, October
> 19-20, 2011
>
> ************************************************************************
> Ed. note: Two years ago I had the opportunity to sit in on part of the
> first of these workshops--an impressive occasion for sharing scholarly
> insights and constructive suggestions for scholars passing through that
> transitional experience of converting a dissertation into a suitable
> book manuscript. Congratulations to Professor Wadley and her
> collaborators for their work in enabling this useful exercise. FFC
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> From: Susan S Wadley <sswadley@syr.edu>
>
> 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 to, and stays in 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