Royal Society for Asian Affairs
Deadline: 28 October 2011

The Royal Society for Asian Affairs invites applications from individuals aged 18-25 for an award established in memory of Sir Peter Holmes MC (1932-2002), a long-standing member of the Society who besides becoming Chairman of the Royal Dutch Shell Group was a distinguished traveller, mountaineer, fisherman and photographer.

The aim of the award is to encourage purposeful travel in Asia by young people. Applicants should submit a plan of a project involving travel in a country or countries of Asia and relating to the geography, history, politics, environmental conservation, culture or art of the area to be visited. Any part of Asia, including the Middle East, may be chosen. Plans should be costed as far as possible and should state the duration of the travel involved and how the costs will be met. The award will be made on the basis of originality, coherence, evidence of background knowledge, and the degree to which the project is likely to add to general understanding of the area chosen and/or to benefit local people or the applicant. Preference will be given to projects that are not requirements in an academic or other course.

Applicants should provide their postal address and contact details for two referees. To avoid unnecessary expense, the aim is to make the award on the basis of written submissions, which should be *no more than two sides of A4 in length* and should, if possible, be sent both in electronic form and in hard copy. A one-page CV including date of birth would also be helpful, as would a statement how the applicant heard about the award. In the event that two or more submissions were deemed to be of equal worth, candidates would be called for interview in London. An acknowledgement of the application will be sent on its receipt.

The successful applicant will be expected to make a presentation to the Society about the project after its completion, and to provide a photographic or other pictorial record.

The present notice refers to travel in 2012. The award will consist of up to £1000 and two years’ gratis membership of the Society. The adjudicators have discretion to divide the award among more than one candidate if appropriate.

Applications should be sent by 28 October 2011 to:
The Secretary
RSAA
2 Belgrave Square
London SWlX 8PJ
email: sec@rsaa.org.uk

The Society will notify the successful candidate by 31 January 2012.

United Nations
Office of Legal Affairs
Location: New York, NY USA
Deadline: 13 August 2011

Organizational Setting and Reporting
The Office of Legal Affairs (OLA) is recruiting interns for its five divisions located in New York. We are seeking highly motivated graduate students who wish to gain professional experience in international law within an international organization in order to supplement their studies. This internship is practical educational experience and will provide interns the opportunity to work in a multicultural, intergovernmental organization. Under supervision, interns are assigned projects and tasks that are relevant to their educational background and interests and provide them with the opportunity to apply and further develop their theoretical knowledge.

* The duration of the OLA internships is between a minimum of 2 months to a maximum of 6 months depending on particular needs of the receiving programme.
* OLA internships are not paid. Travel costs, travel arrangements (including visas), and living accommodations are the responsibility of the intern or their sponsoring institution.
* OLA interns are not eligible to apply for, or be appointed to, any position in the professional or above categories, within the UN Secretariat for a period of six months following the end of their internship. Any employment with the UN at that point in time shall be subject to established recruitment and selection procedures.
* Internship positions are fulltime. For more information on terms and conditions of UN internship, please visit the UN internet site at: http://www.un.org/Depts/OHRM/sds/internsh/htm/documents.htm

Applications are sought for internship positions within: the Office of the Legal Counsel, the General Legal Division, the Codification Division, the Division for Ocean Affairs and the Law of the Sea, and the Treaty Section. For details on OLA’s mandate and the specific functions of its divisions, please visit our internet site at: http://untreaty.un.org/ola/Default.aspx.

Responsibilities
Responsibilities of the internship positions range widely, encompassing many aspects of OLA’s work. These responsibilities may include, but are not limited to:
• Assistance in conducting legal research on issues related to international law and other areas of specialization using multiple research resources;
• Assistance in the review of legal documents, instruments or other material;
• Assistance in drafting and preparing official and legal documents;
• Attending and taking notes at conferences and meetings;
• Assistance in servicing conferences and meetings;
• Working on website and/or presentation.

Competencies
Applicants must demonstrate a keen interest in the work of the United Nations and have a personal commitment to the ideals of the Charter of the United Nations; applicants must have ability to work effectively in a team with peers as well as with supervisors in a multicultural environment and to work collaboratively with colleagues and external counterparts; applicants must have good drafting and oral communication skills. Applicants must be computer literate in standard software applications.

Education
Applicants must be enrolled in a graduate degree programme in law.
Applicants must demonstrate their intention to study further or to work in a field relevant to the work of the Office of Legal Affairs.

Work Experience
Applicants are not required to have professional work experience for participation in the
programme. However, applicants are encouraged to list all relevant work experiences in their personal history profile.

Languages
English and French are the working languages of the United Nations Secretariat. For the internship advertised, fluency in oral and written English is required; knowledge of French is desirable. Knowledge of another official United Nations language (Arabic, Chinese, Russian and Spanish) is an advantage.

Assessment Method
Should there be a need for an intern that matches the applicant’s profile, the applicant will be contacted directly by the department. Please note that due to the large number of applicants, departments are not necessarily in a position to reply to each request and only short-listed applicants will be contacted for further consideration.

To Apply:
• Create and complete a personal history profile in the UN e-Recruitment system (careers.un.org). Incomplete applications will not be reviewed.

Applicants will also need to include a cover note on their PHP which should state the following:
* Title of the degree currently being pursued by the applicant and the specific subjects taken;
* Expected graduation date from the degree programme that the applicant is enrolled in;
* The applicant’s objectives for undertaking an internship with OLA and how the internship fits within the applicant’s education/career plan;
* A list of the top three divisions within OLA that the applicant is interested in (please select from: the Office of the Legal Counsel, the General Legal Division, the Codification Division, the Division for Ocean Affairs and the Law of the Sea, and the Treaty Section)
* An explanation why the applicant is a suitable candidate for that specific division(s);
* The applicant’s availability for the internship from July to December 2011.

United Nations Considerations
The United Nations shall place no restrictions on the eligibility of men and women to participate in any capacity and under conditions of equality in its principal and subsidiary organs. (Charter of the United Nations – Chapter 3, article 8). The United Nations Secretariat is a non-smoking environment.

Deadline: 1 August 2011

Due to a recent expansion of the Fulbright program with Indonesia, several new grant opportunities are available for U.S. scholars interested in visiting Indonesian universities during the 2012-2013 academic year.

As a special exception, U.S. scholars who have reached their lifetime limit on Fulbright scholar grants are eligible to apply for additional grants to Indonesia. The usual required waiting period of five years between grants has also been waived. These exemptions are valid for three years from 1 August 2010 through 1 August 2013. The American Indonesian Exchange Foundation (AMINEF) will be pleased to assist U.S. scholars who do not have prior experience in Indonesia in finding appropriate placements at Indonesian universities.

CORE PROGRAM

U.S. scholars in the fields of education, economics, religious studies, science, engineering, and mathematics will find especially interested Indonesian university hosts. However, applicants in all academic fields are encouraged to apply.

Scholars interested in a three- to 10-month grant in Indonesia must submit an application by 1 August 2011.

* Application Instructions
* Resource Center

Elizabeth Lyttleton (Assistant Director)- elyttleton@iie.org, (202) 686-4024
Hilary Watts (Program Officer)- hwatts@iie.org, (202) 686-7865

SPECIALIST PROGRAM

Qualified U.S. scholars or professionals interested in having their credentials reviewed for placement on the Fulbright Specialist Roster should contact fulspec@iie.org.

Please Note: If a project proposal submitted by an Indonesian host university calls for repeat visits by a U.S. Fulbright Specialist, a grantee may visit Indonesia up to three times under the same grant.
Margo Cunniffe (Assistant Director)- mcunniffe@iie.org, (202) 686-6243
Alicia Wagner (Program Associate)- awagner@iie.org, (202) 686-6253

Visit the Fulbright U.S. – Indonesia Initiative website

The Southeast Asian Press Alliance (SEAPA) is now accepting applications to its 2011 Journalism Fellowship Programme.
Deadline: 22 April 2011
Only those selected will be contacted.

The Programme is open to nationals of Southeast Asian countries who are interested in exploring and producing in-depth stories on cross-border or regional issues on the theme, ‘Gearing up for a Community in 2015: How Free is the Flow of Information in ASEAN?’

Now on its 10th year, SEAPA’s Fellowship Programme has provided journalists in the region the opportunity to learn as much about Southeast Asia and spend up to four weeks in a second country to investigate and write about subjects relevant to the region.

Since 2002, the Programme has had 80 fellows who have produced dozens of stories on a wide range of subjects including migration, disasters, refugees and stateless children, religion, terrorism, human rights, ICT and many more.f

For 2011, the Fellowship attempts to take a closer and analytical look at ASEAN’s plans for integration, in particular policies and regulations aimed at facilitating the free flow of information. To date, only two countries in the region – Thailand and Indonesia – have laws on access to information at the national level, but the media and the public have yet to fully benefit from these laws.

ASEAN is working towards becoming a community of close to 600 million people starting in 2015. The governments in the region are committed to establishing a rules-based community that is people-oriented and to building a common economic market.

The free flow of goods and services is envisioned under a common or single market in ASEAN. A free and open investment regime is also a goal.

What about the flow of information? Under the so-called ASEAN Road Map, member-states are encouraged to develop an institutional framework to facilitate free flow of information. But how serious are governments in wanting to promote freedom of information? How much information is accessible to the public?

While government officials and private sector leaders from the region are making plans towards an integrated community, most of the citizens of the 10-member regional bloc are largely unaware of these plans, much less of what ASEAN is all about.

As ASEAN gears toward building a community, it is imperative for people in the region to know, appreciate and familiarize themselves with regional interests and concerns, with the realities that are the source of both opportunities and challenges.

Beyond stories on border disputes, exploited undocumented workers, environmental degradation, human trafficking and other issues that have been written about and published, there is still a lot more of relevant cases to investigate, leads to follow, information to dig up, government records to unearth and timely stories to develop about ASEAN.

SEAPA is inviting Southeast Asian journalists to submit story proposals on any topic around the planned integration, especially the little known but equally important aspects of it. Applicants are encouraged to read up on recent developments in ASEAN, in particular the so-called road map for the ASEAN community, to help them contextualise story ideas and explore and frame questions for their proposals, such as:

* In a community, what are the mechanisms that will handle bilateral problems?

* Who gains and who benefits from a single market and production?

* What does the free flow of information mean in the context of a community?

* How can ASEAN prevent and/or address border disputes?

* How will the community deal with transnational crime like trafficking of persons and terrorism?

* Can integration lead to better access to information in individual ASEAN countries?

Who can apply?

Journalist nationals of Southeast Asian countries (Thailand, Indonesia, Philippines, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam, Burma, Cambodia, Laos, Brunei Darussalam and East Timor) with at least five years of experience in writing for print, broadcast or online media, either as staff or freelance writers.

Applicants should have some background or experience writing in-depth stories on social, political or economic issues in their countries.

Requirements:

* An essay in English of no more than 600 words introducing himself/herself and explaining the story proposal and how he/she will be carrying out research on the subject

* Brief resume with emphasis on current job

* Two samples of work published in 2010

* Two reference letters, one from the applicant’s immediate superior or editor.

* Filled-up application form

Programme

The Fellowship Programme is divided into three parts: 1) three-day Orientation, 2) three-week Fieldwork in a second country, 3) three-day de-briefing and editorial meeting.

SEAPA will cover travel, accommodations, food and all other expenses incurred throughout the entire Programme.

Dates and Venue: The Fellowship will run from June 13 to July 15, 2011. The Orientation and De-briefing will be held in Jakarta, Indonesia.

Output: Fellows are required to submit a draft of an in-depth story or feature article on the chosen topic at the end of the programme in mid-July.

Application form

Southeast Asia Resource Action Center
2011 Internship
Location: Washington, DC, USA
Deadline: 31 March 2011

Southeast Asia Resource Action Center (SEARAC) is a national organization that advances the interests of Cambodian, Laotian, and Vietnamese Americans by empowering communities through advocacy, leadership development, and capacity building to create a socially just and equitable society. SEARAC was founded in 1979 to facilitate the relocation of Southeast Asian refugees into American society and to foster the development of nonprofit organizations led by and for Southeast Asian Americans. We serve as a coalition builder and leader among diverse refugee communities; carry out action-oriented research projects; foster civic engagement among refugees; and represent refugee communities at the national level in Washington, DC and at the state level in California.

* Policy, research, and legislative advocacy in the areas of education, immigration, health, and aging
* Analytical writing
* Working in collaboration with other groups and organizations
* Database management
* Communications

Interns will receive substantive work but are also expected to support SEARAC’s programs and operations. Interns must also abide by office policies and procedures.

* Currently attend college/university or have recently graduated
* Be able to write reports, research papers, and professional letters
* Have superior communication skills
* Have knowledge of and interest in the Southeast Asian American community

* A résumé
* A statement of interest
* A short writing sample (10 pages maximum)
* 1 letter of recommendation (from a professor, employer, or mentor, etc.)

Applicants have the option of submitting these materials in 1 of 3 ways:

* Via FAX: 202-667-6449,
* Via E-MAIL: to fam@searac.org, or
* Via MAIL (Postmarked by Due Date)

To:
Southeast Asia Resource Action Center
Attn: Fam SaeChao, Operations Manager
1628 16th Street NW
Washington, DC 20009

* Summer internship applications for 2011 are due on March 31, 2011.
* Mailed applications must be postmarked by March 31.
* E-mailed applications and faxed materials must be received by 8pm EST / 5 pm PST on March 31.

For more information please contact Fam SaeChao at fam@searac.org, or (202) 667-4690.

See internship application here

Center for Strategic International Studies
Location: Washington, D. C. USA
Deadline for summer semester: 15 March 2011

CSIS offers full and part-time internships in the fall, spring and summer for undergraduates, advanced students, and recent graduates who are interested in gaining practical experience in public policy.

* Must be at least a college junior in good standing, an advanced student or a recent graduate.
* Must have at least a 3.0 GPA (on a 4.0 scale) or equivalent from a non-U.S. institution.
* Must be eligible to work in the United States.

* CSIS accepts incoming applications during the time frames listed below. You will not be able to access the online application system during periods of time that fall outside these established windows.

* CSIS only accepts applications sent electronically through the online system. We do not accept direct mailings or in-person paper submissions. For more information on the internship process please visit Internship FAQ. To apply for an internship, go to internship application.

* Many of our internships are unpaid, however, we do have some stipends that we award each semester based on an applicant’s demonstrated financial need. To be considered for a stipend, you must complete the financial aid questions listed on the application. Disclosure of this information is voluntary and will be kept strictly confidential.

In addition, interns will participate in programs offered by the Abshire-Inamori Leadership Academy (AILA), the in-house leadership development program at CSIS. The Academy’s programming supplements the substantive work of CSIS interns with practical discussions on leadership in international affairs and training in key policy skills. Unique among Washington think tanks, AILA helps CSIS to foster the next generation of foreign policy leaders.

Visit internship posting here.

Social Science Research Council (SSRC)
Location: Asilomar Conference Center
Pacific Grove, CA USA
Workshop dates: 5 – 9 June 2011
Deadline: 15 March 2011

The SSRC program on religion and the public sphere will convene twelve advanced graduate students and five distinguished professors for a five-day dissertation workshop on religion and international affairs. The workshop will provide participants with a unique opportunity to share their ongoing work and receive critical feedback from their peers as well as from a small group of distinguished faculty members. During the course of the workshop, students will lead discussions of their own projects and entertain critiques from both student and faculty participants on their fieldwork or research plans, writing strategies, and conceptual frameworks. Prior to the workshop, participants will prepare synthetic essays incorporating what they take to be the key methodological and thematic issues in each of the projects to be presented and discussed. These synthetic papers will themselves be presented at the workshop and will help to orient discussions.

In most cases, the SSRC will fully cover participants’ travel, lodging, and meal expenses for the duration of the workshop. Limited funds are available for participants traveling from outside the United States.

The SSRC Workshop on Religion and International Affairs is open to students from all fields in the social sciences and humanities whose research engages the study of international/world affairs, transnational politics and civil society, and global socioeconomic development, with a particular emphasis on religion. Specific thematic areas may include (but are not limited to): religion, conflict, and peacebuilding; religion and gender in international perspective; religion, development, and modernization; religion, pluralism, and human rights; and religion, secularism, and democratic politics in comparative international perspective. Students whose projects do not fall neatly into one or more of these categories but nonetheless engage substantially with religion and international affairs are encouraged to apply.

The SSRC welcomes applications from graduate students at US or Canadian institutions, regardless of citizenship, who are about to embark on their research or are currently working in the field (or the archive), as well as those in the process of writing their dissertations. Applicants must have an approved dissertation prospectus at the time of application but must not have submitted a final version of the dissertation for review.

In addition to the official application form, each applicant must submit (a) a 5-10 page narrative description of his/her thesis and (b) a letter of recommendation from his/her primary advisor.

Applications must be postmarked by 15 March 2011. Applicants will be notified of their status by 15 April 2011. Completed applications must be submitted by mail to:

Social Science Research Council
Religion and International Affairs Dissertation Workshop
One Pierrepont Plaza, 15th Floor
Brooklyn, NY 11201 USA

For clarification of instructions and eligibility, contact: religion@ssrc.org
View SSRC website here

The aim of this introductory course on Contemporary Asian Cinema is to acquaint students with significant films from the major countries in Asia and how these films reflect and comment on profound social, political, and historical changes that have occurred in recent decades. The course will investigate recent films from China, India, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, the Philippines, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Taiwan, and a Vietnam, including those made by the diaspora. These films will be approached through a variety of critical perspectives, including formalism, auteurism, and genre theory, watching art films, mainstream commercial films, and films that fall between these two categories. While examining universal themes embodying roles, customs, culture, relationships, identity, and such critical concerns as diaspora, hybridity, transnationalism, an attempt will be made to discern the effects of globalization on the Asian film industry and its changing relationship with Hollywood.

Course information: Summer Session II: 6 July – 13 Aug 2010, MWF 2:00-4:15pm, 3 credits

For information/override permission contact Asian Studies Office 956-6085

The course will cover art and architecture of tribal groups from island Southeast Asia. Topics include bronze age prehistory and indigenous cultures from Indonesia, Malaysia, Taiwan, and the Philippines.

Course information: Summer Session II: 6 July – 13 Aug 2010, M-F 10:30 – 11:45am, 3 credits

Jerome Feldman teaches art history at Hawaii Pacific University. His specialization is in the arts of tribal Southeast Asia and the Pacific Islands. He received his Ph.D. in tribal art history from Columbia University and has conducted field studies in remote islands of Indonesia and Polynesia. He has studied museum collections in Europe and America and has aided in several important exhibitions including The Eloquent Dead at the Fowler Museum at UCLA, Nias Tribal Treasures at the Volkenkundig Meumeu Nusantara in Delft, and Beyond the Java Sea a Smithsonian sponsored traveling exhibition. He has also written books and articles and lectured extensively on tribal Southeast Asian, Micronesian and Polynesian art and architecture. In fall 2004, he was the Slade Visiting Professor at Cambridge University, England. between distribution patterns of human knowledge of biodiversity and actual biodiversity.

ASAN 310 is a multidisciplinary examination of literature, philosophy, and religion shaping Asian beliefs and values. We use film, video, novels, short stories, lectures, discussion and student writing to access cultures, histories and peoples of selected societies in East, South and Southeast Asia. Students will read novels about Indonesia (by Pramoedya Ananta Toer), China (by Wang Shuo), and India) by Farahad Zamar). We will also engage shorter works by writers from the Philippines, Okinawa and other countries. Students will write short weekly papers. Semester activities include a field trip to the Honolulu Academy of Arts. ASAN 310 will be valuable for students in any major or professional field who wish to gain a deeper understanding of—and empathy with—a range of Asian cultures.

Course information: Summer Session I: 24 May – 2 July 2010, M-F 10:30 – 11:45am, 3 credits

Vincent K. Pollard earned his graduate degrees at The University of Chicago and the University of Hawai‘i-Manoa. He has also been affiliated with the former Kansai Gaidai Hawaii College, the University of the Philippines-Diliman, and East China Normal University. To learn more about Pollard’s teaching, research and other professional activities, visit his website.