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    Videos: Teaching Asia Beyond the Ivory Tower AAS Panel
    • Apr 9, 2019

    Videos: Teaching Asia Beyond the Ivory Tower AAS Panel

    CAORC sponsored the panel discussion, Teaching Asia Beyond the Ivory Tower: The American Overseas Research Centers and Broad Educational Engagement, at the 2019 Association for Asian Studies Annual Conference, held in Denver on March 23, 2019. The panel featured representatives from several overseas research centers—the American Institute of Indian Studies, Center for Khmer Studies, American Center for Mongolian Studies, and American Institute of Pakistan Studies—who discusse
    Teaching Asia Beyond the Ivory Tower: CAORC Sponsors AAS Conference Panel Session
    • Jan 29, 2019

    Teaching Asia Beyond the Ivory Tower: CAORC Sponsors AAS Conference Panel Session

    Teaching Asia Beyond the Ivory Tower: The American Overseas Research Centers and Broad Educational Engagement An Association for Asian Studies 2019 Conference Panel Session Saturday, March 23, 2019 | 9:00 – 10:45am Columbine, Tower Building, Terrace Level Sheraton Denver Downtown Hotel The American overseas research centers (ORCs) have long played a critical role in supporting American and international scholarly research within Asian area studies, offering a broad range of f
    Research Fellowships Available from American Overseas Research Centers
    • Nov 29, 2018

    Research Fellowships Available from American Overseas Research Centers

    It’s fellowship application season! In addition to providing our own fellowships for international research, CAORC supports fellowship and grant programs run by the network of American Overseas Research Centers (ORCs). As specialists in their respective world regions, ORCs provide a superb scholarly infrastructure to visiting researchers, with services including libraries and archives, assistance with research permits, housing, hosting of conferences and collaborations, and m
    Multi-Country Fellowships at 25: The Colonial Political Economy of Trans-Frontier Trade through Pesh
    • Aug 10, 2018

    Multi-Country Fellowships at 25: The Colonial Political Economy of Trans-Frontier Trade through Pesh

    This essay is Part Five in a series commemorating the 25th anniversary of CAORC's Multi-Country Research Fellowship Program. Read Part One: Explaining Countries’ Differential Success in Combating HIV/AIDS, by Rachel Sullivan Robinson Read Part Two: Long-Term Agricultural Sustainability in the Ancient Eastern Mediterranean, by John M. Marston Read Part Three: Incense Production in Ancient Southern Arabia, by Joy McCorriston Read Part Four: Fighting Malaria in the Mediterranean
    South Asia ORCs Organize Mumbai Conference on Colonialism and Globalization
    • Aug 17, 2017

    South Asia ORCs Organize Mumbai Conference on Colonialism and Globalization

    The cultural organization Jnanapravaha Mumbai hosted the conference “Mountstuart Elphinstone: Between Local and Global Forces” on April 20-21, 2017. Professor Shah Mahmoud Hanifi of James Madison University organized the conference, which was co-sponsored by the American Institutes of Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Indian, Pakistan, and Sri Lankan Studies, among other organizations. The conference brought together 28 scholars from Afghanistan, Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan, Si
    CAORC at MESA 2015 - Denver
    • Sep 10, 2015

    CAORC at MESA 2015 - Denver

    CAORC, and many of the ORCs, will again be attending the annual Middle East Studies Association (MESA) conference this November 21-24 in Denver, Colorado. Below is a list of panels associated with ORCs: The American Institute for Maghrib Studies (AIMS) is sponsoring, or has participants on, seven panels: - "Tunisia’s Progress Since the Revolution" (P4066) Saturday, 11/21, 5:30pm - "A Century of Women’s Rights in the MENA: Where Have the Men Gone?" (P4061) Sunday, 11/22, 11am

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