Faculty Notes

Christopher Atwood (CEUS) published "The Mutual-Aid Co-operatives and the Animal Products Trade in Mongolia, 1913-1928," in Inner Asia 5 (2003), 65-91. He was invited to the Conference on the Current Situation and Objectives of Research Work on Archival Materials Related to the History of Mongolia at the National Archives of Mongolia, Ulaanbaatar, September 5, 2003, where he delivered a paper "American Archival Resources on Mongolia and the Mongols: Their Nature, Utility, and Availability." The conference was organized by Professor Hiroshi Futaki of Tokyo University of Foreign Studies and Khoroldoi Enkhtuvshin of the Mongolia's Central National Archives. He was also invited to the Symposium on Inner Asian Statecraft and Technologies of Governance sponsored by the Mongol and Inner Asian Studies Unit at Cambridge University, Cambridge, U.K., October 2, 2003, and he delivered the paper "Titles, Appanages, Marriages, and Officials: A Comparison of Political Forms in the Zunghar and Thirteenth-Century Mongol Empires."

Christopher Beckwith (CEUS) was invited to lecture at Columbia University. The lecture, given at the Columbia Early China Seminar on November 22, 2003, was entitled "The Japanese-Koguryoic Peoples and Early China."

Robert Campany (Religious Studies) received an Arts & Humanities research grant for the fall semester and just ended work on a book project tentatively titled The Making of Transcendents in China, 300 B.C.E.-320 C.E.: The Social Production of a Religious Role. He also received a 2004 summer faculty research fellowship for work on this project. His article "On the Very Idea of Religions (in the Modern West and in Early Medieval China)" was published in the May 2003 issue of the journal History of Religions.

Steve Raymer (Journalism) has returned to I.U.B. after a fall semester sabbatical that took him to Beijing, Hong Kong, Singapore, Bali, Kuala Lumpur, and New York. He was in Beijing for 10 days to learn more first-hand about the Chinese news media. He met with editors, reporters, photographers and broadcasters at more than a dozen publications, as well as spent a day at CCTV. Raymer also lectured to journalism students at Beijing Broadcast University and Tsinghua University, as well as to the All China Journalists Association. At a meeting of the Foreign Correspondents Club of Beijing, he met a number of old friends from his days as a National Geographic Magazine photographer and correspondent. With the assistance of U.S. Embassy staffers he met in Beijing, Raymer has arranged a one-hour live video "exchange" in February between his J414 International Newsgathering Systems class and young Chinese journalists from CCTV.

Mike Robinson (EALC) is developing a travel class to Korea for the first intensive summer term. The tentative title of the course is "Controlling Growth: City Planning in Korea." It is a joint offering of EALC and SPEA open to students by application from both departments. In the course, students will study the problems of urban planning in Seoul and Pusan. Three weeks of the course will be spent on campus in Bloomington, and 10 days will be spent traveling in Korea. While in Korea, students will visit the Seoul Planning Institute and Pusan Planning Institute, Seoul Metropolitian Transport District, and other key offices that have responsibility for planning.

Heidi Ross (School of Education) will be presenting papers at the Comparative and International Education Society and American Educational Research Association meetings in March and April. The topics include, "Ethnic Homogenization and Cultural Hybridization: Lessons in Educational Policy and Practice from Asia" and "Seeking the Ends of Education from the Best of Both Worlds: China-U.S. Dialogue on Knowledge, Discipline, and Creativity." In June Ross will travel to China to continue research on private universities with colleagues at the Ford Foundation. She will also work with colleagues on a Shaanxi Province program that provides primary school education for 1,000 girls. The "spring bud" project is supported by the San Francisco based 1990 Institute and the All China Women's Federation. Heidi Ross's most recent publication, "Rethinking Human Vulnerability, Security, and Connection through Relational Theorizing," can be found in Wayne Nelles (ed.) Comparative Education, Terrorism and Human Security: From Critical Pedagogy to Peace Building? (New York: Palgrave-Macmillan), pp. 33-46.

Richard Rubinger (EALC) gave a paper entitled, "Book Networking Among Peasants in Eighteenth Century Japan," on a panel organized by Phillip Brown of Ohio State at the Social Science History Annual Meeting in Baltimore in November 2003.

Natsuko Tsujimura (EALC & Linguistics) has been appointed an associate editor of Language, a journal issued by the Linguistic Society of America, the largest and oldest organization in the field of Linguistics.

Jeffrey Wasserstrom (EALC & History) has recently contributed book reviews to the international edition of Newsweek magazine (October 20, 2003) and the Hong Kong-based Asian Wall Street Journal (December 8, 2003), and in December gave a talk at Harvard called "A Tale of Two Revolutionaries: Mao and Che as Global Symbols." In addition, he organized and made a presentation during a forum called "Putting China's History on the Screen: The Long Bow Group's Documentary and Digital Experiments" held at the Library of Congress on January 9. This session, which was jointly sponsored by the Library's Kluge Center and the American Historical Association and moderated by Jonathan Spence, included a showing of excerpts from two Long Bow productions for which he served as a consultant: "The Gate of Heavenly Peace" (a Peabody Award-winning film dealing with the protests of 1989) and "Morning Sun" (a new documentary about the Cultural Revolution). Wasserstrom and filmmaker Richard Gordon also presented sample multi-media materials from a web-based interactive encyclopedia of modern China that the Long Bow Group is developing in collaboration with EASC and IU's Digital Library Program (see www.morningsun.org for a prototype).

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