Interviews with Li Xueqin: The Life of a Chinese Historian: Part Two

Early China ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 35 ◽  
pp. 36-55 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Graduate Student ◽  
African Studies ◽  
University Campus ◽  
The West ◽  
Tsinghua University ◽  
Academic Communities

The following interview with Li Xueqin took place at his home in the Tsinghua University campus on June 5, 2012. In the early 1980s, I was a graduate student at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London, and I first became acquainted with Li when he was on a visit to SOAS. My interview began with questions about Li's experiences travelling to the West soon after China first opened up and his contributions towards building a bridge between the Chinese and Western academic communities and his.

scholarly journals Modeling study of deep direct use geothermal on the West Virginia university campus-morgantown, WV

Geothermics ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 87 ◽  
pp. 101848
Author(s):  
Yingqi Zhang ◽  
Nagasree Garapati ◽  
Christine Doughty ◽  
Pierre Jeanne
Keyword(s):  
West Virginia ◽  
University Campus ◽  
West Virginia University ◽  
The West ◽  
Direct Use ◽  
Modeling Study

scholarly journals Laying the Groundwork for a New Library Service: Scholar-Practitioner & Graduate Student Attitudes Toward Altmetrics and the Curation of Online Profiles

2016 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 87 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kathleen Reed ◽  
Dana McFarland ◽  
Rosie Croft
Keyword(s):  
Graduate Students ◽  
Open Access ◽  
Graduate Student ◽  
Student Attitudes ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Library Service ◽  
Major Barrier ◽  
Academic Communities ◽  
Scholarly Identity ◽  
Online Reputation

Objective – In order to inform a library service related to creating and maintaining online scholarly profiles, we sought to assess the knowledge base and needs of our academic communities. Participants were queried about use, issues, and attitudes toward scholarly profile and altmetric tools, as well as the role librarians could play in assisting with the curation of online reputation. Methods – Semi-structured interviews with 18 scholar-practitioners and 5 graduate students from two mid-sized universities. Results – While all participants had Googled themselves, few were strategic about their online scholarly identity. Participants affirmed the perception that altmetrics can be of value in helping to craft a story of the value of their research and its diverse outputs. When participants had prior knowledge of altmetrics tools, it tended to be very narrow and deep, and perhaps field-specific. Participants identified time as the major barrier to use of scholarly profile and altmetrics tools. Conclusions – Librarians are well-placed to assist scholar-practitioners who wish to curate an online profile or use altmetrics tools. Areas of assistance include: personalized support, establishment of goals, orientation to specific tools, orientation to altmetrics and scholarly promotion landscape, preparing users for potential difficulties, discussing copyright implications, Open Access education, and guidance with packaging content for different venues and audiences.

African Studies in East Germany

1964 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 289-290
Author(s):  
Ralph A. Austen
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Federal Republic ◽  
East Germany ◽  
African Studies ◽  
German Federal Republic ◽  
World War ◽  
The West

Up to World War II, Germany was a major centre for the development of African studies, arising out of her colonial interests and general academic traditions. African studies were among the casualties of the Nazi catastrophe; and even the more recent revival of German interest in Africa is handicapped by the continued division of the country. Thus, while the West German Federal Republic has been the more active in building economic and cultural ties with the new African states, it is in East Germany that academics have given greater prominence to Africa.

Annual Meeting of the (American) African Studies Association

1964 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 117-118
Author(s):  
William A. Hance
Keyword(s):  
Annual Meeting ◽  
West Coast ◽  
Second Generation ◽  
African Studies ◽  
The West ◽  
Academic Society ◽  
American Academic

The sixth annual meeting of the African Studies Association, the leading American academic society of specialists on Africa, was the first to be held on the west coast. Although attendance could not be expected to match that at meetings in the east, a registration of over 250 testifies to the increasing strength of African studies in America. Quite a few of the founders of the Association were present, but the participation of many newcomers suggested that a second generation of American Africanists was bringing new vigour and insights to the field. Several visiting African scholars made notable contributions to the meeting.

Conference on Social Science Research in Liberia

1970 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 137-138
Author(s):  
L. P. Hartzler
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Social Science ◽  
Social Science Research ◽  
Science Research ◽  
The United States ◽  
West African ◽  
Turn Of The Century ◽  
African Studies ◽  
Social Scientists ◽  
The West

This two-day conference, sponsored by Stanford's Committee on African Studies, was possibly the first gathering of its kind outside Liberia since the American Colonisation Society ceased sending emigrants to the West African Republic at the turn of the century. It was organised by Dr Martin Lowenkopf, and was attended by over 40 social scientists, including six Liberians at present studying in the United States.

A “Vortex of Identities”: Freemasonry, Witchcraft, and Postcolonial Homophobia

2017 ◽  
Vol 60 (2) ◽  
pp. 7-35 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Geschiere
Keyword(s):  
Queer Studies ◽  
Moral Panic ◽  
African Studies ◽  
Same Sex ◽  
The West ◽  
Secret Societies ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Anal Penetration ◽  
Sex Practices

Abstract:The recent moral panic in Cameroon about a supposed proliferation of “homosexuality” is related to a special image of “the” homosexual as un Grand who submits younger persons, eager to get a job, to anal penetration, and are thus corrupting the nation. This image stems from the popular conviction that the national elite is deeply involved in secret societies like Freemasonry or Rosicrucianism. The tendency to thus relate the supposed proliferation of homosexuality in the postcolony to colonial impositions is balanced by other lines in its genealogy—for instance, the notion of “wealth medicine,” which Günther Tessmann, the German ethnographer of the Fang, linked already in 1913 to same-sex intercourse. This complex knot of ideas and practices coming from different backgrounds can help us explore the urgent challenges that same-sex practices raise to African studies in general. The Cameroonian examples confuse current Western notions about heteronormativity, GLBTQI+ identities, and the relation between gender and sex. Taking everyday assemblages emerging from African contexts as our starting point can help not only to queer African studies, but also to Africanize queer studies. It can also help to overcome unproductive tendencies to oppose Western/colonial and local/ traditional elements. Present-day notions and practices of homosexuality and homophobia are products of long and tortuous histories at the interface of Africa and the West.

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