viernes, 28 de abril de 2017

Please join us in celebrating the 2017 graduates!


Please join us in celebrating the Institute of Buddhist Studies' 2017 graduates!

This year, IBS will celebrate the accomplishments of six students completing both degree and certificate programs including the Master of Arts, the Buddhist Chaplaincy Certificate, the Kyoshi Certificate, as well as certificates in Theravada and Soto Zen Buddhist studies. We will also honor our visiting exchange students from Ryukoku University and Dharma Drum Institute of Liberal Arts.

Please come celebrate our graduates at two special events in May.

Alumni Association Graduate Reception
The Alumni Association of the Institute of Buddhist Studies is holding the first annual graduate reception on Thursday, May 18, 2017 from 5:00 PM to 8:00 PM at the Jodo Shinshu Center. The event will be an occasion to celebrate the graduates who will share short presentations on their work, followed by a message from IBS alum, Rev. Marvin Harada of the Orange County Buddhist Church. Light refreshments to follow.

2017 Graduation and Commencement

The commencement ceremony will be held on Friday, May 18, 2017 from 10:30 AM at the Jodo Shinshu Center. Our commencement speaker will be Ms. Chenxing Han, IBS Graduate class of 2014 and author of a forthcoming book on young adult Asian American Buddhists. Additionally, we will honor the recipient of the 2017 IBS President's Award, Mr. Hiroji Kariya, for his years of service to the Institute.

Congratulations to all our graduates, we look forward to seeing you in Berkeley!


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Por este medio les informamos sobre la próxima presentación en el Ciclo de Conferencias del CECHIMEX titulada:
"PROPUESTA Y EXPERIENCIA DE BAIC EN MEXICO" (en inglés)
e impartida por PATRICK YANG el miércoles 3 de mayo a las 10am.

El Sr. Patrick Yang es el Representante de Beijing Automotive Industry Corporation (BAIC), la cual es parte del Grupo BAIC.
El evento se llevará a cabo en el Aula Magna Jesús Silva Herzog, primer piso del Edificio Anexo de la Facultad de Economía, Ciudad Universitaria UNAM. 
Mayores informes al 56222195 y ver el mapa de ubicación.
El programa completo del Ciclo de Conferencias de este semestre.
La conferencia se transmitirá en vivo por Facebook y Twitter.

De igual forma nos permitimos informarles:
1. Invitamos a funcionarios, empresarios y académicos a participar en el curso "ENTENDIENDO A CHINA" que contará con la participación de distinguidos analistas sobre diversas temáticas de América Latina y el Caribe/México y su relación con China. Este esfuerzo entre El Colegio de México, la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México y la Universidad de Lenguas de Beijing ofrece a un grupo de participantes un viaje y estancia en China. Para detalles, véase: http://ceaa.colmex.mx/curso-especial-entendiendo-a-china.
2. Ya se encuentra disponible el ejemplar de los Cuadernos de Trabajo del Cechimex titulado "El contexto actual de China ante los escenarios de 2030" elaborado por parte de Ricardo Daniel Delgado Muñoz y José Ignacio Martínez Cortés.
Saludos, enrique dussel peters.


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miércoles, 26 de abril de 2017

Monday, 24 April 2017 | MYT 8:26 PM

North Korea university confirms US citizen detained amid tension


 
SEOUL: A foreign-funded university in North Korea has confirmed the arrest of a United States citizen who was lecturing there - the third American held in the country amid growing tensions between Pyongyang and Washington.
Kim Sang Duk, or Tony Kim, was arrested at the capital's airport on Saturday as he was about to leave after teaching at the Pyongyang University of Science and Technology (PUST) for several weeks, the school said.
The school - founded by evangelical Christians from overseas and opened in 2010 - is known to have a number of American faculty members. Students are generally the children of the country's elite.
The reason for Kim's arrest was unclear but was "not connected in any way with the work of PUST", the school said in a statement.
"We cannot comment on anything that Mr Kim may be alleged to have done that is not related to his teaching work and not on the PUST campus," it said.
The Swedish embassy in Pyongyang - which handles issues involving US citizens as Washington has no diplomatic ties with the North - is "actively involved" in talks, the school's external director Colin McCulloch said in a statement without elaborating.
The Swedish embassy and the South Korean government declined to comment.
Kim is a former professor at Yanbian University of Science and Technology in China, close to the Korean border. Its website lists his speciality as accounting.
The US State Department said it was aware of media reports over the case but gave no official confirmation.
South Korea's Yonhap news agency gave Kim's age as 55 and said he had been involved in relief activities for children in rural parts of North Korea. It cited a source familiar with the matter who described Kim as a "religiously devoted man".
"He has been involved in relief activities in the North for so long... I don't understand why he was suddenly arrested," the source was quoted as saying.
Two other US citizens - college student Otto Warmbier and Korean-American pastor Kim Dong Chul - are currently being held in the North after sentenced to long prison terms.
The pastor was sentenced last year to 10 years of hard labour for spying. Warmbier was sentenced to 15 years in 2016 for stealing a propaganda material and for "crimes against the state".
North Korea has arrested and jailed several US citizens in the past decade, often releasing them only after high-profile visits by current or former US officials or former US presidents.
Tension is running high on the peninsula amid possible signs of preparations in the isolated impoverished North for another nuclear test.
Chinese President Xi Jinping on Monday urged "restraint" during a phone call with US President Donald Trump as a powerful US aircraft carrier sails towards the peninsula in a show of force. - AFP


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martes, 25 de abril de 2017

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1. JOBS> H-Net Job Guide Weekly Report For H-Buddhism: 17 April - 24 April
2. CONFERENCE> Asian Studies in Israel, May 23-24, 2018
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JOBS> H-Net Job Guide Weekly Report For H-Buddhism: 17 April - 24 April
by Franz Metcalf
The following jobs were posted to the H-Net Job Guide from 17 April 2017 to 24 April 2017. These job postings are included here based on the categories selected by the list editors for H-Buddhism. See the H-Net Job Guide website at http://www.h-net.org/jobs/ for more information. To contact the Job Guide, write to jobguide@mail.h-net.msu.edu, or call +1-517-432-5134 between 9 am and 5 pm US Eastern time.

ANTHROPOLOGY
University of Amsterdam - Full Professor Social Anthropology
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=54864

University of Leeds - Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Japanese Studies, Japanese History/Religion/Anthropology
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=54875

University of Tokyo - Project Assistant Professor in Academic Writing
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=54865


ART AND ART HISTORY
Universitat Bremen - Ausschreibung Juniorprofessur Kunstwissenschaft und Asthetische Theorie
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=54876


ASIAN HISTORY / STUDIES
University of Tokyo - Project Assistant Professor in Academic Writing
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=54865


DIGITAL HUMANITIES
University of Tokyo - Project Assistant Professor in Academic Writing
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=54865


EAST ASIAN HISTORY / STUDIES
University of Tokyo - Project Assistant Professor in Academic Writing
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=54865


INTELLECTUAL HISTORY
University of Tokyo - Project Assistant Professor in Academic Writing
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=54865


JAPANESE HISTORY / STUDIES
University of Leeds - Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Japanese Studies, Japanese History/Religion/Anthropology
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=54875

University of Tokyo - Project Assistant Professor in Academic Writing
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=54865


RELIGIOUS STUDIES AND THEOLOGY
University of Leeds - Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Japanese Studies, Japanese History/Religion/Anthropology
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=54875

University of Tokyo - Project Assistant Professor in Academic Writing
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=54865


NONE
wikiHow - Part-Time Content Creators
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=54859

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CONFERENCE> Asian Studies in Israel, May 23-24, 2018
by Eviatar Shulman
Dear Friends and Colleagues,
I am happy to forward the invitation to net year's ASI conference, which will take place at the Hebrew Unviersity in Jerusalem. Scholars of Buddhism are eagerly encouraged to apply.
Best regards,
Eviatar Shulman
Call for Papers:The 14th Conference of Asian Studies in Israel  (ASI18)

Dear colleagues,
We are delighted to announce that the 14th Biennial Conference of Asian Studies in Israel (ASI18) will take place at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Mt. Scopus Campus, on Wed-Thu, May 23-24, 2018.
We invite proposals on Asian-related topics (Central, South, East and South-East Asia).  Priority will be given to thematic panels (3-4 papers + chair and/or discussant), but individual paper submissions are also welcome. The deadline for submitting proposals for either organized panels or individual papers is November 6, 2017.
The proposal should include the title of the panel or the individual paper together with a short abstract (150-200 words), as well as a short CV (1 page max) of the presenter/s. With the exception of roundtables, panel proposals should also include the title and abstract of each paper. Please indicate in your proposal what equipment, if any, will be required for your panel or lecture. The conference will be bi-lingual (Hebrew/English). Abstracts can be submitted in either English or Hebrew (preferably both).
Proposals for panels/papers, as well as all enquiries, should be submitted by email to the conference mail (asi18huji@gmail.com( with copies to the Frieberg Center (eacenter@mail.huji.ac.il) and to the conference's convener, Prof. Michal Biran (ercmongol@gmail.com).
Conference guests are welcome to stay at the Beit Maiersdorf Faculty Club, located at the conference venue. Priority will be given to foreign participants. The Frieberg Center for East Asian Studies at the Hebrew University will help in covering the accommodation costs of foreign participants but will not be able to participate in the cost of travel.
Please distribute this call for papers among your colleagues and networks. Both Hebrew and Non-Hebrew speakers are most welcome.
On behalf of the organizing committee,
Prof. Michal Biran, Convener, The Frieberg Center for East Asian Studies
Dr. Nissim Otmazgin, Department of Asian Studies, HUJI
Dr. Orna Naftali, Department of Asian Studies, HUJI
Dr. Eviatar Shulman, Department of Asian Studies, HUJI
Dr. Jooyeon Rhee, Department of Asian Studies, HUJI
The Department of Asian Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem is the oldest in Israel and is one of the biggest departments in the Faculty of Humanities, home to over 300 students specializing in Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Indian Studies. The department is characterized by its excellence in research and teaching, and it maintains an environment of cooperation between students and faculty in a wide array of extracurricular activities. To read more about the department, visit: http://asia.huji.ac.il/en.
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Viernes 12 de mayo, 9.30 horas
China: presencia en Eurasia y nuestra región
Seminario organizado por el Grupo de Trabajo sobre China del Comité de Asuntos Asiáticos

9.30 horas
  
Miguel Velloso   

9.45 horas
Panel I:

La Iniciativa de la Ruta de la Seda: infraestructura, inversiones e implicancias para nuestra región
Carola Ramón-Berjano   

La incidencia de la seguridad internacional en el desarrollo exitoso de la Iniciativa "One Belt, One Road"
Jorge E. Malena   

10.25 horas
Sesión de preguntas

10.40 horas
Intervalo

11.00 horas
Panel II:

Situación de los lazos de China con el Mercosur
Raúl Ochoa   

Estado de las inversiones chinas en América Latina, con énfasis en el Mercosur
Julio Sevares   
Karina Fiezzoni   

Situación de las relaciones políticas sino-argentinas
Erika Imhoff   

Estado de la seguridad alimentaria en China. Consecuencias para la Argentina
Gloria Báez   

12.00 horas
Sesión de preguntas

12.20 horas
Palabras de cierre
Miguel Velloso   

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lunes, 24 de abril de 2017



China's Xi urges restraint on North Korea issue on call with Trump



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The conversation came amid growing concerns that Pyongyang will conduct another nuclear or missile test to mark the 85th anniversary on Tuesday of the founding of its Korean People's Army.
"(China) hopes that the relevant parties can maintain restraint and avoid actions that would increase tensions in the Korean Peninsula," Xi said, according to a statement from the foreign ministry.
"The only way to realise denuclearisation in the Korean Peninsula and quickly resolve North Korea's nuclear problem is for each relevant party to fulfil its duties."
It was the second phone call between the two leaders since their summit at Trump's luxury resort in Florida early this month.



Speaking in Sydney on Saturday, US Vice President Mike Pence said the American aircraft carrier Carl Vinson would arrive in the Sea of Japan, bordering the Korean Peninsula, "in a matter of days".
The ship joined other warships for joint exercises with Japan in the Philippine Sea on Sunday.
Confusion has clouded the carrier group's whereabouts in recent days after President Donald Trump suggested the "armada" was steaming towards North Korea when in fact it was sent towards Australia.
Pence also renewed calls for Beijing -- Pyongyang's only major ally and largest trade partner -- to use its "unique" position to bring Pyongyang to heel.
"The steps we're seeing China take, in many ways unprecedented steps, bringing economic pressure to bear on North Korea are very welcome," Pence said.
"We do believe China can do more."
In February China announced it was halting all imports of coal from North Korea -- a crucial earner for Pyongyang -- for the rest of the year.
China also issued a stern warning earlier this month that a conflict over North Korea could break out "at any moment", as Pyongyang vowed a "merciless" response to any US military action.
The comments came ahead of a failed missile test coinciding with the 105th anniversary of the birth of North Korea's founder, Kim Il-Sung.
The North has ramped up its rhetoric in recent weeks, threatening to hit back against any provocation from the US and its regional allies, Japan and South Korea, which both host large American military contingents.
Before his latest conversation with Xi, Trump called Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, speaking to him about the joint drill between the Carl Vinson and Japan's Maritime Self-Defence Force.
"I told him that we highly appraise US words and actions that show all options are on the table," Abe told reporters following the call.
"We completely agreed that we strongly demand restraint by North Korea, which has repeatedly taken dangerous provocative actions."
Source: Agencies/rw